The Sun Never Sets Great China

The anxious Dahari gathered all the troops and pulled back the artillery in a hurry. He commanded the army to march back to Yangzhou City, and continued to build a pontoon bridge not far from the canal, and sent [-] soldiers to guard it. , Desperately rushing on the road, finally the Manchu army was less than four miles away from Yangzhou City before the next day.

Dahari stood outside the city and heard that there was no movement in the city, but the flag of the Chinese Revolutionary Army had been hung on Yangzhou City, the four gates were closed but there was no patrolman on the city wall, Dahari was secretly happy, it seems that the Chinese Revolutionary Army It must be because the army has not completely controlled the city, and the troops are still entangled, but he is not very clear why there is no movement. Could it be that the two sides in the battle have temporarily stopped fighting and rested?In any case, Yangzhou City had to be recaptured, and he believed that the Chinese Revolutionary Army did not expect him to return to aid so quickly, so he immediately sent a siege death squad composed of a thousand Han people to quickly advance to the moat.

Yangzhou is located in the Jiangnan water network area, where the rivers are crisscrossed, and the moat of Yangzhou is nearly ten feet wide. Although it is not as wide as the moat of Xiangyang, it is still an obstacle to prevent Dahari's troops from attacking the city. Looking at Yangzhou with a high city and wide rivers Dahari smiled wryly, this was originally the city he guarded.

In order to recapture Yangzhou smoothly, Dahari ordered his subordinates to use the siege ladder to tie five strong long ladders, and spread wooden planks on them. Several large sealed wooden boxes were placed, so that five simple pontoon bridges were erected.

A thin and thin soldier from the Green Battalion of the Qing Dynasty was the first to step onto the pontoon bridge. He spread his legs tremblingly and moved forward on the swaying pontoon bridge, followed by five soldiers. On their shoulders, they carried a ladder. After they crossed the river, they would erect this ladder under the city wall so that the soldiers following them could climb up the city wall.The same scene was also staged on other pontoon bridges. The first thing to cross the river was the ladder.

On the pitch-black moat, the Manchu soldiers walked cautiously, trying to maintain their balance, the surrounding was eerily quiet, only the rushing sound of the river water hitting the pontoon bridge reached their ears.

The thin man Qing Green Army soldier moved forward while looking up to see if the opponent's soldiers would suddenly appear on the top of the wall, and threw the rolling wood and rocks down.What made him feel relieved was that until now the top of the city was still quiet, he was secretly happy and continued to move forward.

After finally crossing the river, the six people in front of them quickly erected the first ladder, and with a soft "pop", the ladder landed on the city wall.Then a soldier of the Manchu Qing army who followed them slowly climbed up with a knife in his right hand and a ladder in his left hand.Seeing that he was about to reach the top of the city, suddenly, there was a scream of "ah", and the knife in the hand of the soldier of the Qing army fell off and stuck in the soil beside the city wall, and his men also fell down. He came down and smashed down the soldiers who were climbing the ladder behind him.

It turned out that among the "refugees", there were about thousands of militia fighters of the Chinese Revolutionary Army as internal responders, plus Liu Xiaoliu's soldiers who were instigated to rebel in the green battalion defending the city as internal responders. With the cooperation of a large number of internal responders, the army led by Zhang Huahan only used The city of Yangzhou was taken in two hours, and only a thousand Manchu and Eight Banners soldiers resisted. Under the attack of tens of thousands of troops, 1000 people were killed before a fierce battle, and the remaining soldiers of the Manchu Green Army surrendered one after another.

In order to prevent the Manchu army from coming back to attack the city, Zhang Huahan sent [-] cavalry early today to prepare for the report of the Manchu army's return to aid and seize the city. They wrapped the horseshoes with cloth and wore black clothes. They were divided into four groups and hid separately. In the four directions of the city, they are specially responsible for night surveillance. Once they find the enemy army, they will immediately ride to the distance and report to the city according to the signal agreed in advance. If the enemy appears in the east, he will hold a torch. Just hold two torches, three torches when they appear in the west, and four torches when they appear in the south.

Tonight, the soldiers guarding the city of the Chinese Revolutionary Army saw a torch appearing in the southeast of the city, knowing that the enemy had appeared in the east, so they quickly reported it to Zhang Huahan.Zhang Huahan smiled, and immediately ordered the whole army to gather to prepare to face the Manchu army. At the same time, he ordered the other defenders to closely monitor the west, north, and south directions outside the city to see if there were any enemy troops coming.

Since there was no signal from other directions, Zhang Huahan dispatched most of the troops to the east with confidence.Soldiers of the Chinese Revolutionary Army quietly climbed up the city wall and crouched under the battlements. There were several soldiers almost every ten feet. The enemy came to attack.

After Dahari saw the Manchu Qing army soldier being bayoneted to death on the top of the city wall, he knew that things were worse than he imagined. He wondered how the Chinese Revolutionary Army took Yangzhou so quickly. There is not even a little blood and black ashes from artillery fire. Could it be that the Chinese Revolutionary Army can take down Yangzhou City, which they have painstakingly managed, without bloodshed?Seeing that his actions had been detected by the Chinese Revolutionary Army, he immediately ordered the infantry to withdraw, and at the same time ordered the artillery to fire and bombard the city wall, so the night attack turned into a storm, and the sound of guns suddenly rang out.

After the soldier of the Chinese Revolutionary Army stabbed the soldiers of the Manchu and Qing Army who had climbed up to the top of the city, he immediately raised his quick gun and fired at the bottom of the city wall. As his gunshot sounded, other soldiers of the Chinese Revolutionary Army also stood up one after another. , fired violently at the enemy troops under the city wall and on the other side of the moat, and threw some grenades across the moat, blowing up the enemy troops on the other side of the river. He was not killed in the revolutionary army barracks, but he died under the city of Yangzhou.

This time, the Chinese Revolutionary Army brought a total of [-] fast guns and [-] new pistols to the north, of which [-] fast guns were used by the infantry and [-] pistols were equipped for the cavalry.

The rest of the soldiers of the Chinese Revolutionary Army also held weapons such as ordinary muskets and bird guns in their hands. At this time, almost everyone in the defenders of the Chinese Revolutionary Army had muskets and fire guns, showing their powerful firepower to the city. When one person finishes firing the gun, turns around and reloads, someone else will immediately stand in his position and continue to fire.

Under this continuous fierce firepower, Dahari's troops were suddenly in chaos, and the formation was immediately disorganized. Some of the veterans who passed the battle saw that the momentum was wrong, turned around and ran away, and the rest of the recruits He also ran backwards behind them, so Dahari's retreat order was implemented without waiting for the orderer to pass it down.

However, Dahari's soldiers of the Manchu Qing army were quickly stopped by the supervising team, especially the Green Army. The Manchu Qing army had stricter punishments for these Han soldiers who escaped. Everyone is on guard against each other. Of course, if they escape or surrender, the whole battalion will flee or surrender.

Under the obstruction of the supervising team, and after avoiding a certain distance from the city wall, the soldiers of the Manchu and Qing army turned to wait and see. At this time, the artillery of the Manchu and Qing army was already firing.With the deafening "bang" sound, solid bullets made of cast iron flew towards the top of the city continuously.

Solid bullets pose little threat to personnel, but are extremely destructive to city walls.Since Dahari mounted the cannons on the nearest high slope to the city, which he found outside the city, and that high slope was only one mile away from the city wall, the cannons fired extremely accurately. Five shells hit the city wall and smashed the bricks outside the city wall, exposing the rammed earth inside. The other shells that did not hit the city wall flew over the top of the city wall and landed in the city, destroying the houses of the residents.

Zhang Huahan was overjoyed to see Dahari's artillery firing and exposed the artillery positions. He immediately ordered the artillery of the Chinese Revolutionary Army to fire back. He must destroy Dahari's red cannons in the shortest possible time. Even with three heads and six arms, it is impossible to break through Yangzhou City, which was easily occupied by the Chinese Revolutionary Army.

At this time, the artillery shells used by the Chinese Revolutionary Army were all new blasting shells made by the Jiangnan headquarters. The fuzes of the shells were still old-fashioned ignition fuzes, but their killing power was far greater than that of solid shells, which was enough to suppress the artillery firepower of the Manchu Qing army.Although the number of artillery shells was small, only more than [-], due to the haste, the artillery fired them out without hesitation, in order to suppress them before the Manchu and Qing enemies adjusted their artillery positions.One after another, the blasting shells with tails on the shells flew out of the barrel, and flew towards the artillery positions of the Qing army with the hissing and burning fuses on the warheads. It exploded at a height of several feet and became an air-burst bomb.

After the first round of artillery fire from the Chinese Revolutionary Army, there was a sea of ​​flames on the artillery positions of the Manchu Qing Bureau. Some gunpowder baskets were ignited. Although they did not explode, they burned violently. This made the artillerymen of the Chinese Revolutionary Army With more obvious targets, their positioning is more accurate.

Following the order of the artillery commander of the Chinese Revolutionary Army, the second round of salvo began, and 35 cannons let out an earth-shattering roar. Come.In this round of salvo, a shell accurately hit a pile of gunpowder baskets on the high slope, and the pile of gunpowder baskets quickly burst into flames, and after a while, it became a big fire. It was no longer possible to protect the gunpowder inside. There was a loud noise, and the fire quickly turned into a big fireball. Immediately afterwards, a series of landmines buried in the soil exploded, and the entire high platform was blown up. , More than 1000 soldiers of the Manchu Qing army and artillerymen of the Manchu Qing army guarding there flew into the air with their cannons.

Seeing this scene, all the fighting parties fell silent. They stared blankly at the human body fragments flying in the air and the barrel of the cannon. No one cheered or celebrated. They were all overwhelmed by this tragic scene. Deterred.

When the explosion happened, Dahari was riding on a horse and directing the infantry of the Qing army to rearrange. A heat wave hit him and almost knocked him to the ground.He leaned on the horse and stared at the flames soaring into the sky with his mouth open. He couldn't believe his eyes. In a blink of an eye, more than 1000 people disappeared, and among them was the only artillery he had.

Seeing the opportunity, Zhang Huahan immediately issued an order to personally lead Chen Zilong's guard regiment to attack together with the second, third and fourth brigades led by Chen Zilong, leaving the first brigade to defend the city. A cavalryman left the city from the north gate and gave the order to attack Chen Mingming's troops who were in ambush.

The suspension bridge at the west gate was quickly lowered, and more than 2 soldiers of the Chinese Revolutionary Army rushed out of Yangzhou City quickly, led by Zhang Huahan with a thousand elite Guards soldiers, and formed a battle formation by the moat.The remaining troops and artillery on the top of the city continued to fire to cover the formation of the Chinese Revolutionary Army below the city.

Zhang Huahan was galloping fast, Xiaoyue followed closely behind him, and a thousand cavalry soldiers guarded the two of them with new-style pistols.The troops of the Chinese Revolutionary Army quickly lined up, and when the formation was formed, Zhang Huahan, who was riding on a horse, immediately ordered the whole army to attack.The sonorous drums sounded, and the troops of the Chinese Revolutionary Army lined up neatly, stepping on the drums and rushing towards the troops of the Manchu Qing army a mile away.

When he saw the Chinese Revolutionary Army go out to fight in the city, Dahari, who didn't have a few thousand Eight Banners soldiers in his hand, couldn't bear to let them be cannon fodder for the charge. Before his troops rushed to the edge of the moat, half of them were disintegrated under the fierce firepower of the cannons on the top of the city, and the other half were beaten by continuous volleys of guns as soon as they came into contact with the Chinese Revolutionary Army. back.The current Chinese Revolutionary Army does not look like it has been hungry for a few days.Perhaps it was the shock wave of the explosion that cleared Dahari's head a little. He realized that everything from beginning to end might be a scam by the other party. Even the gunpowder buried on the high ground was the other party's conspiracy. Seeing that the opponent's leader was a handsome young man, he immediately understood that the opponent's leader was Zhang Huahan, the deputy commander of the Chinese Revolutionary Army. Thinking of this and seeing everything, he immediately broke out in cold sweat and was completely confused, but now he Some still don't believe that all of this is Zhang Huahan's arrangement. In that case, this person has completely figured out his own thoughts, which would be too terrifying. He comforted himself and said that all of this was an accident. The gunpowder was probably used by the Chinese Revolutionary Army unintentionally when it was preparing to attack Yangzhou City. As for the artillery that happened to be used to blow up its own, that was an accident within an accident.

Seeing the army of the Chinese Revolutionary Army rushing towards him, Dahari couldn't care less about attacking the city anymore. Even if he wanted to continue attacking, he couldn't attack because the artillery was gone. How could it be possible to take Yangzhou with those infantry alone?Besides, they couldn't even block a blow from the Chinese Revolutionary Army.Seeing the troops of the Chinese Revolutionary Army getting closer, he immediately ordered to abandon the luggage, and the whole army retreated to the east bank of the canal. When he was in a panic, he did not find that Zhang Huahan and the Thousand Guards on the opposite side had already galloped to the east bank of the canal. Gone far.

Just when Dahari led the troops to find out that they had been deceived and returned and crossed the canal to advance quickly to Yangzhou City, there was a fleet of small boats sailing north on the canal. A part of the naval force.

Before receiving Zhang Huahan's letter, Hai Dafu led the First Fleet, with the cooperation of more than 4 soldiers led by Li Dingguo on land, and defeated the Manchu Qing army and navy in Tuhai. It was turned into ruins by a large number of cannons, and the three steel cables were burned by the fire boat. Tuhai led the remaining ships of the Manchu and Qing navy to flee along the canal to the Yellow River. All discarded.

After the battle, Hai Dafu soon received a letter from Zhang Huahan. He immediately sent the deputy commander of the navy to lead the fleet north to support Zhang Huahan. Because the canal was shallow, there were only small boats. Fortunately, there were many in Hai Dafu's navy. The small boats were obtained from Nanming, so it took little effort to form a fleet of small boats.After arriving at the predetermined location, they stopped the boat and waited for the people sent by Zhang Huahan.

When Zhang Huahan led a thousand soldiers of the guard regiment and arrived here on horseback, the command of the fleet was handed over to Zhang Huahan.Zhang Huahan ordered the fleet to sail northward, and sent several cavalry to reconnaissance northward along the east bank of the canal, and learned that the Manchu Qing army had erected a pontoon bridge on the river.So the fleet stopped fifteen miles south of the floating bridge, quietly waiting for the opportunity.

When he heard the sound of guns from the direction of Yangzhou getting closer, Zhang Huahan knew that the battle had come, so he ordered the fleet to sail northward at full speed to seize the pontoon bridge and cut off the retreat of the Manchu army.

There were [-] soldiers of the Manchu Qing army guarding the pontoon bridge. They were all startled when they heard the gunfire from the direction of Yangzhou becoming more and more intensive. When the more violent explosion occurred, the entire sky was reflected. Half of it turned red, everyone was dumbfounded, and their hearts were filled with surprise.

Just as they were speculating about the cause of the big explosion, they found that the sound of guns was getting closer and closer. Obviously, the battlefield was shifting to them, but they didn't find a fleet quietly approaching under the cover of darkness. come over.

Following Zhang Huahan's order, all the ships speeded up, and the ship in the front smashed the pontoon bridge across the canal into two sections, and then the two sides of the ships in the fleet made flashes and loud noises. Rain of projectiles flew towards the still-shocked soldiers of the Manchu Qing army. Almost at the same time as the Fulang machine guns on the ship fired, the guards soldiers lying on the deck of the ship also slammed into the darkness with their fast guns. shooting.

Although it was dark all around, only a few bonfires were still burning for warmth, and it was impossible to aim accurately, but the soldiers of the Manchu and Qing soldiers were quickly startled by the fierce firepower. Without even looking at the wreckage, they ran away one after another. The soldiers guarding the east bank of the canal fled eastward, while the soldiers guarding the west bank ran westward under the leadership of the lieutenant general.

Seeing that all the enemy troops had fled, Zhang Huahan ordered his subordinates to pour kerosene and cotton wool on the wreckage of the two pontoon bridges, and burn them completely. Prevent the opponent from building another new bridge.

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