Ming Zhengzhi, I am Zheng Kezang

372. Hard Battle in Huguang

To exchange or not to return, this is a question worth considering. [ ] Just like the monologue of Hamlet, the vengeful prince written by "the greatest dramatic genius of mankind" (Note: This is Marx's evaluation of William Shakespeare) in England in this era, Shanahai caused trouble because of Barhu But the headache was splitting, and he was indecisive.

Shanahai was stunned, but the doughty general above him did not have such deliberate distress. He was like a bull being teased by a red cloth strip. Tubian spoke at the fastest speed and said: "Change, why not change, change immediately!"

Thinking of the scene where Manchurian Zonggui, who had lost his relatives and friends, was grateful to him after the replacement, Naertu felt ecstatic.

But his sweet dream had just begun, when Juduna and Ananda beside him shouted like-mindedly. "(Impossible) can't be changed!"

Naertu looked at the two with strange eyes, and asked for a long time: "Can't change, why?"

Ananda made a gesture of invitation to Zhuduna, so Zhuduna ignored Zheng Fan's envoy and said directly: "My lord, please think clearly. The two are fighting. We negotiated a private exchange of prisoners with the rebels, what will the officials think of the prince, and what will the imperial court think of the prince.”

At the beginning, Naertu felt that Zhuduna’s objection was a bit of a fuss. You must know that even if some unscrupulous people impeached him, the foundation of the Qing Dynasty was the Manchus. As long as the Manchus were satisfied, let alone him This is out of publicity, even if he really flirts with the Zheng family, he is not afraid at all.

However, Naertu quickly chewed on the last repeated sentence of Juduna, and couldn't help but feel terrified.Yes, in exchange for the captured Manchus, I have been praised, but what will Kangxi on the throne think, will he think that he has the intention of disobedience, otherwise it will be impossible to say that he will act arbitrarily and be kind everyone.

Before Naertu woke up from the sudden fear, Zhuduna said again: "If the imperial court has long-term concerns, but there are immediate worries here. If Haini will protect his family after the rebellion, Then how do we control the green battalion, my lord, how many Manchu talents are there, how many Han talents are there, the reason why the imperial court was able to rule China at the beginning is that killing people is like chopping melons.[ ]”

Naertu was a little restless, but Ananda still felt that Zhu Duna's words were not comprehensive, so he added: "My lord, what Master Zhu said is very true. Once the replacement is bound to shake the morale of the army. Can the inverse be paid back now?"

These words are even more reasonable. Obviously, it is impossible for Zheng Kezang to bring all the previous captives with him. If the so-called substitution is true, it must be a way to slow down the army. So Naertu, who pretended to be enlightened, asked humbly : "It turned out to be coaxing us, so bold, throw him out, we won't change."

"No!" Tong Gui on the side almost jumped up. "My lord, Hai Ni has made a big announcement before he came. Everyone knows that Hai Ni is going to change people with the prince. If it is not changed, spread the word, what will the Beijing flag think, what will the eight banners look like! Could it be that the imperial court doesn't want us? It's full!"

Naertu felt that he was about to faint. He would be unlucky if he agreed to the substitution, and he would also be unlucky if he didn't agree to the substitution.Speaking of which, the weather in June was already hot, and now that the virtual fire was rising, this Prince Taiping suddenly felt a little suffocated.

Seeing Naertu's precarious look, and looking at Zheng Jun's envoy who was watching a monkey show, Shanahai gritted his teeth and said, "Go back and tell your master that you can change people, but he didn't bring them with you if you want to come. In this way, My lord will take this group of rebels to Xuzhou now and ask the imperial court, if it is allowed, I will change people by the Huaihe River!"

The envoy of Zheng Fan has since returned, and this answer can satisfy Zheng Kezang's psychological expectations, but the Qing army still needs to deal with it: "Order the battalions to drive away the ants and attack City, but God has the virtue of good life, so the general decided to exile them and others in Ninggu Pagoda, if anyone dares to follow suit, this will be a lesson for them!"

Ananda and the others breathed a sigh of relief, this arrangement might be able to suppress the whole thing. [ ] However, it is impossible to overpress and not cause turmoil, so several people looked at the culprit with a sullen face.Baerhu, who was stared at by everyone, shivered subconsciously, and muttered in a low voice, probably something like "When you went to arrest people, you didn't say anything".However, he is quite smart, he just talks to himself, but he dare not say it out loud.

At this time, I heard Shanahai say with some emotion: "Zheng Ni's ability to disrupt half of the world with a corner of the world is obviously not something that can be stopped by some small tricks. If so, let's fight a serious battle. I don't believe it." Yes, we have such a force that we can't take down that strange stronghold in front of us."

Now that they were determined to fight, the Qing army quickly made dispatches, but due to wasting time before, the attack was put in the afternoon when it was almost sunset.At this time, the weather was not as hot as it was at noon, and there was still nearly an hour of sunshine to break through the city wall, or even light up the night battle. Anyway, Shanahai made up his mind to take down Zheng Jun's fortifications in one fell swoop, regardless of casualties. Zheng Jun's vital force.

Then the artillery sounded again. Since the passages were relatively narrow, the main target of the Qing army was the earthen wall between the Mamian Forts. The two types of heavy artillery from the Xi'an Qiying Firearms Battalion also shifted their positions.However, what the Qing army did not expect was that the reason why Zheng Jun let the Qing army's artillery fire was not because the range of the three-inch artillery equipped by himself was not as good as the Qing army's two types of heavy artillery, but because the shooting range of several horse-faced forts was not enough to cover the Qing army. Army artillery position, now that the Qing army showed its own butt, Zheng Jun of course kicked it up unceremoniously.

"Let go!" Zheng Jun's cannons on several adjacent horse-faced forts fired at one direction in sequence. "Come again!"

The rapid friction caused the iron shells to be ignited one after another, but the Eight Banners gunners a few miles away thought the result would be the same as the previous few days, so they turned a blind eye.But they miscalculated, Zheng Jun's first shot hit a cannon carriage, and the Shenwei Invincible General Cannon, which weighed four thousand catties, was thrown into the air.As for the remaining few bullets, although they missed, the bouncing round bullets still caused some casualties, which made the Eight Banners soldiers run away while shouting.Zheng Jun didn't care about the ugliness of the Banner Army, he just slammed one after another at the artillery positions of the Qing Army. The gunpowder kegs of the Qing army caused a terrifying explosion.

Balin was very distressed. He always only had 32 two-type cannons in his hands, and they were arranged in four positions. Now that one of them exploded, it is not known how many cannons survived, so the rest should be kept safe. Come down, move the gun back for his instant rush of orders.Only in this way, the cannon was kept, but except for a few generals Wu Chengyonggu who could barely reach the water barrier and the earth wall, the rest turned into loud firecrackers.

After forcing the Qing army's artillery to move, Zheng Jun hastily transferred the artillery fire to the Qing army that had already rushed close.Of course, the first batch has broken through the minimum shooting range and is unstoppable. All the gunners can do is to block more follow-up enemy troops from the line of fire.

In this way, the shield chariots that the Qing army worked so hard to build were smashed one by one, and the Qing army following the shield chariots were either beaten to death by shotgun bullets, or interrupted by flying chain bullets.Blood accompanied by human organs, stumps and broken arms flew in the air, reflected in the bloody sunset, creating a scene of Shura hell.

Faced with such a killing scene that cannot be overcome by manpower, the follow-up green battalion soldiers collapsed as a matter of course. They either stumbled and fled backward like walking corpses, or ran wildly like a fire. No matter what, they didn't want to stay any longer, even if Behind him was a team of supervisors holding butcher knives waiting for him.

Taking advantage of Zheng Jun's artillery fire to deal with the Banner Army's firearm battalion, the Qing soldiers who broke through Zheng Jun's line of fire didn't know what happened behind them. They saw these green banner soldiers pushing their shield carts and running wildly until they reached the ground they created. In front of the bean curd dregs project, he left the shield car, held the ladder with one foot high and the other low, and walked through the area where there was still water to the earth wall and the horse-faced fort.

Zheng Jun had long been engrossed in waiting for them to arrive. As soon as these Qing troops broke through the distance of fifty steps, the riflemen fired in unison. The rampant lead bullets wantonly destroyed the bodies of the unfortunate, making them miserable. die in.However, the dead are still lucky. Those with severed arms and legs are still suffering. A few of them can survive to the end, and the rest will struggle to death due to excessive blood loss and high fever caused by lead poisoning.

Of course, the Qing army also resisted, and the gunmen who fought back at close range also caused some Zheng army casualties.At the same time, taking advantage of the cover of the gunpowder smoke caused by the shooting from both sides, the Qing army still set up ladders in some areas. Afterwards, hordes of Qing troops tried to climb the horse-faced fort and the earthen wall along the ladders.Of course, those who tried to climb the horse-faced fort failed. Zheng Jun, who had been prepared for a long time, appeared in front of the anti-battery wall, or pushed them to the ladder together, or the white soldiers waited on the ladder and stabbed randomly. Unable to reach the top of the fort.

The Qing army who climbed the earth wall succeeded, but in the end they put themselves in a more dangerous situation-the bare earth wall had no shelter, and was completely exposed to the direct firepower of the sentry tower.The Qing army could also choose to jump off the earthen wall to attack the interior, but the earthen wall is almost two feet high, and basically no martial arts master would dare to jump directly from the top, not to mention, there are densely packed sharpened wooden stakes underneath, The result of jumping down can only be a dead end.

The Qing army could also choose to attack the horse-faced fort on the two wings, but there is not only a height difference of nearly one foot between the top of the horse-faced fort and the earth wall, but also the side of the horse-faced fort is three feet wider than the earth wall.The Qing army who climbed the earthen wall could neither jump to the horse-faced fort's backside, nor climb directly to the top. The Shaoqing army was squeezed off the earth wall by the swarming latecomers, and was stabbed to death by sharp wooden stakes

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