scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 343 Enhanced Qing God of War

"Shoot! Shoot arrows! Throw grenades! Smash sheep's head stones! Throw kerosene! Throw torches and gunpowder packs! Cannonballs! Throw all the cannonballs down!"

Amidst the hoarse roar of Qin Yong, Fatty Lu's cousin, hundreds of Fatty Army guards on the tower of Jubao Gate started to fight back in a frantic manner, firing arrows at the Qing soldiers in Urn City with bows and muskets in their hands. Those who didn't have time to carry their weapons picked up all the materials that could be used on the city wall, whether it was stone tiles or shells and grenades, and smashed them into the urn, but the quantity was sparse and did not cause great casualties to the Qing soldiers.

Although the defensive preparations of the Fatty Army were obviously insufficient and the counterattack was very disorganized, the [-] Qing army cavalry was silted up in the narrow urn city and it was difficult to avoid the blow from the top of the head, and there were still a lot of casualties.However, the cavalry of the Qing army were not completely passively beaten. Those carrying bows and arrows drew bows and shot arrows to kill the fat soldiers on the city wall. The muskets they carried were confiscated because of the gunpowder, so they simply built human ladders to climb up, and used human ladders to attack Nanjing. city ​​walls.

At this stage in the war, the weakness of the Fatty Army's insufficient defenders has been completely exposed. Although they have perfect fortifications and sufficient supplies for defending the city, they suffer from insufficient manpower to perform, and even cannot destroy the Qing army's fragile human ladder attack. The tactics of the city had to take into account the long walls of the three urns at the same time, and the manpower was even more stretched. He lost sight of the other, and even let more than 20 soldiers of the Qing army climb up the city wall through the ladder. However, the soldiers of the Qing army quickly approached each other and seized two sections of the city wall.

At the critical moment, the first batch of about two hundred reinforcements led by General Cao Guoxing of the Fatty Army finally arrived and rushed to the city wall to help defend the city. At the same time, the neighboring Sanshan Gate and Tongji Gate also squeezed out from the pitifully weak defenders. Gathered some troops, rushed along the city wall to rescue.Qin Yong heaved a sigh of relief, and hurriedly organized some men to rush to the Qing soldiers who had climbed the wall. While throwing grenades to prevent the Qing army from continuing to climb the city, they fought desperately with the Qing soldiers who had already climbed the wall.

"Boom, boom!" Smaller explosions came one after another, and the original black powder and grenades collected and used intensively by the Qing army exploded at the last gate of the city.However, what our prince of Zhangtai County cursed was that the explosive power of the original black powder is too small, and the explosive power is greatly reduced in the open air. Although the explosive power of the grenade with three good explosives inside is great, it is impossible to pull hundreds of grenades at the same time. Huan Zhuo and the soldiers of the Qing army were not proficient in blasting techniques, so they could only try their best to bundle together and blast the middle bundle of grenades. As a result, the middle bundle of grenades exploded with the black powder, but the shock wave sent The rest of the grenades flew all over the sky, scattered the explosions, and the impact on the city gate was greatly reduced again, not to mention, they also killed and injured many Qing soldiers in the urn city.

Finally, when the gunpowder smoke cleared, the prince of Zhangtai County started to curse again. It turned out that after all the gunpowder and grenades were wasted, the Qing army’s explosion this time only blew up some cracks and a big hole in the last city gate. , but the whole is basically safe and sound, still blocking the progress of the Qing army.

"Axeman, come on! Cleave the city gate!" Zhu Man was afraid of being whipped by the prince of Zhangtai County again, so he quickly ordered the axeman in the team to step forward and slash the city gate with an axe. It turned out that this The trick was indeed quite effective. The gate of Nanjing, which was blasted by grenades and black powder, was constantly shattered in front of the Qing army's big axe, and the gate opening gradually expanded.Seeing this scene, the prince of Zhangtai County finally didn't get angry on the spot, but kept yelling in the safe city gate corridor, "Quick! Quick! We must rush to open the gate before Wugou's reinforcements arrive!"

Ever since, a strange battle unfolded that was hard to see even in the era of cold weapons. The few fat soldiers on the city wall desperately smashed everything that could hurt people, whether it was bricks, tiles or grain bag braziers , Throwing something into the urn, under the city wall, the soldiers of the Qing army swung their axes and slashed at the thick city gate. Before they tried their best to climb the city, the shouts of killing resounded like thunder. Although the scale of the battle was small, the degree of intensity and tension was far better than any battle of the same scale.

Here I have to thank Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and Shen Wansan again (the reason for the name of Jubao Gate is that Shen Wansan buried his cornucopia in the foundation when he built the gate). Modern firearms are also very difficult to destroy, with a height of more than 20 meters. Therefore, no matter how few fat army guards are, it is very difficult for Qing army soldiers to climb the city. The number of soldiers who can climb the city wall is always limited. And the counterattack has won precious time.

When the last city gate was cut into a hole the size of a washbasin by the Qing army's knives and axes, Xie Dong, who was already wearing a pair of trousers with Fatty Lu, led more than [-] people from the yamen servants and family members, rushed up the city wall and threw themselves into the battlefield; The people of Nanjing were also organized to push trolleys and carriages into the corridors of the city gates, and throw all movable debris into the corridors of the city gates, blocking the last gate of the city that was already in danger.

When the last gate of the city was cut with a knife and axe by the Qing army, Rong Yuer, who had just given birth to his son, led his servants and soldiers to the city wall. It was to order the soldiers to go to support Qin Yong, and personally led the servants to rush into the city tower to bring the rockets hidden in the city tower, aim at the inside of the urn city and ignite and launch it. The densely packed Qing army soldiers brought great chaos, forcing the Qing army soldiers to continuously retreat to the two forward urns, which effectively relieved the pressure on the last city gate.

"The city gate is open!" At the same time, the Qing army's sword and axe had entered the city gate from the hole cut by the axe, and broke the door bolt inside the city gate. Passed through the last city gate that blocked our progress.However, before the cheers of the soldiers of the Qing army settled down, they were stunned to see that countless carriages, carts and various sundries had been stuffed into the long corridors of the city gate, such as sacks, grain bags, vegetable loaders, There are vegetable baskets, wooden boxes, wine jars, buckets, quilts, and furniture. There are even a few coffins that have not been carried from there. Black smoke, flashes of flame.

"Fuck your mother, Wu Gou, you're too shameless!" Seeing how shameless the fat man's army's tactics are, our Zhangtai County prince naturally yelled at him, and had no choice but to order quickly, "Move quickly! Move quickly! Open the road! Human ladder Continue to climb the city, must rush to the city wall!"

"Move quickly!" The soldiers of the Qing army who had just cut down the door became porters again, and rushed into the corridor to carry the sundries that blocked the passage. The fire became more and more intense, and gradually formed a sea of ​​flames. Under the overwhelming heat, the porters of the Qing army could not get close at all, let alone carry the burning sundries, but the soldiers and civilians in Nanjing continued to go to the tunnel. Throwing flammable objects in the fire, and using bamboo poles and spears to keep pushing them to the front of the fire, the city was kept in flames all the time. The Qing army cavalry, who were seriously lacking in tools, had great skills, and they couldn't even think about breaking through the sea of ​​​​fire immediately.

"Kill!" At this time, a new cry of killing sounded, and Wang Shaobo, Fatty Lu's effective staff, organized about a thousand defenders from other city gates to rush forward. Under his personal command, he aimed the Miyoshi rockets he brought with him at the city gate corridor and ignited them. Amidst the whistling sound, more than [-] Mihao rockets rushed into the sea of ​​flames and exploded. The Sanhao rockets fired went through the sea of ​​flames into the urn city and exploded, killing and injuring countless Qing army cavalry, forcing the Qing army cavalry to continue to retreat two urn cities forward, and the pressure on the last city gate was greatly reduced.

At this point in the battle, the surprise attack troops of the Qing army who missed the opportunity to break through the city because of the exhaustion of explosives had actually lost the possibility of breaking through Nanjing.At the same time, the Nanjing People's Brigade, who were afraid that the Qing army would slaughter the city and harm the people after the Qing army broke the city, also moved the defense materials to the city under the organization of the city officials to help the fat army eliminate the Qing army cavalry in the Wengcheng. What the army cavalry faced was not the sparse grenade shells, but the raindrops and hailstones.It was time for the Fatty Army to rush to the city with a large number of explosive weapons urgently transported from Xuanwu Lake. The cavalry of the Qing army basically had no place to stay in the urn. They retreated one after another, and were gradually expelled from Nanjing Wengcheng, and were forced to withdraw outside the city.

"It's so dangerous!" It wasn't until the last Qing army cavalry retreated from the Wengcheng that the fat man's army broke out in cold sweat, and they all called it a fluke—if the Qing army's explosives hadn't just run out in front of the last city gate, the last A city gate was also blasted by the Qing army, so these Qing army cavalry rushed into the city of Nanjing. Even if the main force of the Fatty Army came back to retake the city, Nanjing, the largest home of the Fatty Army, would suffer heavy losses, and it might even turn into a sea of ​​flames !
The Fatty Army was lucky in Nanjing, but the prince of Zhangtai County was furious outside Nanjing. He just whipped Zhuman and other soldiers of the Qing army who were responsible for the blasting before him with a horsewhip, and scolded Zhuman and other wastes for being incompetent and ignorant of economy. The use of explosives caused the ingenious plan he copied from "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to fail, and he failed, and missed the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attack Nanjing.Zhuman and other Qing army engineers were extremely aggrieved, and they all thought that we can blame this. It’s not that you, Prince Bao, made a fool of yourself. You didn’t tell us that there are three urns and four gates in Nanjing, otherwise we would make mistakes these bugs?
The grievances are grievances. Zhuman and other Qing army officers and soldiers are actually as regretful as the prince of Zhangtai County. The battle just now has clearly proved that the current Nanjing city defenders are indeed surprisingly empty. I never dreamed that the Qing army cavalry would choose to make a surprise attack. It can even be said that the city of Nanjing was completely unprepared. If the number of gates in Nanjing hadn’t been considered in advance, the Qing army’s attack on Nanjing this time was basically a sure thing. Very angry.

"My lord, please go back and punish the servants, okay?" In order not to be beaten to death by the lord of Zhangtai County, Zhuman had no choice but to remind him quickly: "My lord, now is not the time to be sorry, we don't have siege weapons, and it is impossible to break through the city of Nanjing Now, the main force of Wu Gou in the surrounding area is definitely rushing to reinforce us, we have to retreat immediately, otherwise, Wu Gou will make dumplings."

"Hurry up?! Let me think about a good strategy to break the city!" The prince of Zhangtai County roared, jumped off his horse and sat on the ground, took out the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" he carried with him, and searched for ways to use cavalry to break through the fortified city.The cavalry of the Qing army also got off their horses to rest one after another, and some soldiers searched for the parcels, luggage and vehicles abandoned by the people, and found a lot of valuables and made small gains.

On the second year of the second year, on March 14th in the [-]th year of Kang Mazi, this day is undoubtedly the most humiliating day for the Fat Man Army since its founding. I read historical novels everywhere, but none of the Fatty Army went out of the city. They could only block the city gates desperately, while watching the enemy run amok outside the city. They were so angry that there was nothing they could do—too few troops to defend the city. That's right, if it's unfavorable to go out of the city to fight in the field, then everything will be over.

The precious time passed by every minute and every second, but the prince of Zhangtai County never found a clever plan to break through Nanjing in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but the cavalry of the Qing army found a lot of good things on the trucks abandoned by the people of Nanjing. The fine tea leaves just picked include fine raw silk, satin, and cloth, as well as some live pigs and chickens, grain, and fine porcelain. At the same time, the scouts of the Qing army also flew to report to the prince of Zhangtai County that it was the tea on the river at the Nanjing Ferry. , Fatty Army Ferry has appeared.In desperation, the prince of Zhangtai County had no choice but to put away "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" solemnly and carefully, and then ordered dejectedly: "Retreat."

"Retreat, retreat, get on your horses." Zhu Man and other Qing army generals quickly ordered the troops to assemble, and the cavalry mounted their horses to prepare to retreat.The prince of Zhangtai County shouted again, and shouted: "Wait a minute, take all those Wu Gou's vehicles with you, we can't make this trip in vain!"

"My lord, that will slow down our speed!" Zhuman screamed, once again stunned by the astonishing decision of the prince of Zhangtai County.

"Don't be so wordy! This king just made a trip back for nothing, why don't Niyahan and Tuhai's slaves laugh their ass off?" the prince of Zhangtai County shouted viciously.

"I can't help it. I really can't wait for Wu Dog to catch up before throwing away these trucks." Zhu Man had no choice but to think in his heart, and even more helplessly ordered the soldiers of the Qing army to collect the vehicles abandoned by the people in Nanjing and retreat with the army, but it was okay. The soldiers of the Qing army who died in the Wengcheng vacated a lot of horses, and these vehicles were also dragged by horses.

Not to mention, when he was about to retreat, the prince of Zhangtai County seemed to be afraid that he would not further anger the fat army, so he rode his horse and ran to the gate of Nanjing City, pointing his saber at the city wall and yelling, "Tell Lu Yifeng the dog thief!" This time, my lord will spare his dog's life for the time being! Next time, Wang Zhangtai of this county must cut off his head and use it as a chamber pot! Remove the leg bones and use them as drum hammers!" Until the fat army on the wall roared like thunder. Arrows and guns were fired in unison, and the prince of Zhangtai County walked away.

At the second quarter of the unitary hour, the prince of Zhangtai County withdrew his troops and returned to Anqing. At the third quarter of the unitary hour, the fat army led by Fatty Lu rushed into Nanjing City from the Jinchuan Gate. When he saw that everything in the city was safe and sound, Fatty Lu, who had been nervous for a long time, sat down on the ground and finally heaved a sigh of relief. He couldn't stand up for a long time, and he just muttered, "It's dangerous! It's dangerous! It's dangerous! If the city of Nanjing is destroyed That's it, the Xuanwu Lake Arsenal is over, and the millions of shi of the military rations I have hoarded with great difficulty are also over..."

"Cousin, I'm sorry for you!" Qin Yong came to plead guilty, knelt down on Fatty Lu and kowtowed, crying loudly and said: "Just a little bit, just a little bit, Nanjing City was lost in my hands, and it caused harm to the people of Nanjing. I have suffered countless losses, cousin, hit me, even if you cut me off, I will never complain."

"Get up, it's not your fault." Fatty Lu, who has a small family, hurriedly helped his cousin, and comforted him: "I am the most responsible for today's matter. I didn't expect that Mangou's real goal would be Nanjing. You were sent to Ma'anshan to ambush and turned Nanjing into an empty city, and you are still able to defend Nanjing in such a critical situation, which is already very remarkable."

Speaking of this, Fatty Lu asked curiously again: "By the way, Xiaoyong, is it that Man Gou who came to attack Nanjing City today? This Man Gou can actually see through my ambush in Taiping Mansion and find out my real lack of strength." His weakness, what a motherfucker, amazing! Since I debuted, this is the first time I have encountered such an enemy."

"It's Zhangtai's full dog!" Qin Yong replied, wiping away his tears.

"Zhangtai? How is it possible?!" Fatty Lu exclaimed, "How can Zhangtai's full dog have such a great ability? Why didn't I find out before? Did you admit it wrong?"

"No." Qin Yong quickly shook his head, and replied: "When Zhangtai Mangou was about to leave, he reported himself under the city of Nanjing, and threatened to kill his cousin next time."

Fatty Lu's mung bean eyes widened. No matter what he said, he never thought that Zhang Tai, who was played like a monkey by him back then, would have such great abilities? !

"Master, it is indeed Zhangtai Mangou." Wang Shaobo said: "We captured a few Mangou prisoners who were stunned by the explosion in Wengcheng, and they confessed that they were indeed soldiers brought by Zhangtai from Anqing, and that they It was planned to attack Taiping City before, but when it was time to set off, Zhangtai suddenly changed his mind and made a temporary decision to attack Nanjing."

"Why did Zhangtai change his mind temporarily?" Fatty Lu asked.

Wang Shaobo shook his head with a wry smile, but Xie Dong interjected, "Maybe the Mangou prisoner lied to me. One prisoner told me that he had heard rumors from Mangou's generals that Zhangtai Mangou had read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and imitated Zhuge Liang It was a clever plan to attack Sima Yi's camp, so he decided to attack Nanjing on the spur of the moment."

"Follow Zhuge Liang's trick?" Fatty Lu's mung bean eyes widened.

"I don't believe it either. How could there be such a fool in the world who copied the strategies in books to fight?" Xie Dong spread his hands, and quickly reminded: "Brother San, Zhangtai Mangou just left for a quarter of an hour and took away the people." If you send troops to pursue the large amount of civilian goods that they left outside the city, you will definitely be able to catch up."

"As for General Gao Hongchen, General Li Maozhu and General Han Daren, you can send fast horses to pass orders to them to send troops to intercept and kill them!" Wang Shaobo also suggested.

Fatty Lu didn't answer, but was nervously calculating, "Copy the strategy from "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"? It seems that last time that idiot Zhangtai defeated Xia Guoxiang in Chizhou, he also used the strategy from "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"?"

Thinking up to this point, Fatty Lu stomped his feet and ordered decisively: "Prepare three messengers for me immediately, and quickly send orders to Gao Hongchen, Li Maozhu and Han Daren, and let them..."

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Here is an introduction to the reaction of the surrounding Fatty Army. The reason why Fatty Lu was able to quickly return to the army from the Chushui River is that the distance is relatively short. Except for a Yangtze River blocking the road, the straight-line distance from Nanjing is actually only about [-] miles. In addition, the Fatty Army and the Nanjing garrison had agreed to have a beacon signal for the alarm, so when the Jinchuan Gate in the south of Nanjing lit the beacon, the Fatty Army guards at the Jiangpu Ferry on the opposite side of the Yangtze River immediately reported to Fatty Lu with a fast horse. Only then was it possible to lead the army back to Nanjing for reinforcements that day, and to make timely military adjustments on the front line.

On the Ma'anshan side, although Qin Yong sent a fast horse to ask for help from Gao Hongchen at the first time, the distance was more than 70 miles. Basically, Gao Hongchen received the attack on Nanjing when the army of the prince of Zhangtai County was forced to withdraw from Nanjing City. News, when he rushed to return to Nanjing for rescue, it was too late to say anything—but fortunately, it happened to block the way back to Anqing for the Prince of Zhangtai County!
"My lord, I beg you to be a slave, give up these luggage!" When we arrived at Jiangning Town, seeing that the sky was getting darker and darker, but the self-army team was walking slower and slower. Kneeling down, he repeatedly begged: "Your Majesty, give up these luggage. No matter how valuable these luggage are, lifeless flowers are useless! Throw away these luggage and free up all the horses, so that we can hope to get rid of Wu Gou's siege and interception, and come back victorious." To Anqing."

"Don't talk nonsense!" Zhangtai County Prince shouted: "Wu Gou dares to catch up, we will fight! We are all cavalry, why are we afraid of Wu Gou?"

"But our army's scouts have just discovered that Wugou's messenger has rushed to the front..." Zhuman wanted to persuade him again, but suddenly horseshoes shook the sky on the official road ahead, and the flames shot up into the sky, and an army of cavalry came to kill him.Seeing this scene, the prince of Zhangtai County, who was full of confidence just now, suddenly turned pale, and exclaimed: "Where are there so many cavalry? Are they ours or Wu Gou's?"

"My lord, this is Nanjing Mansion, how could our cavalry come here?" Zhu Man and other Qing army generals almost cried out.

"Quick, quick, give up the luggage!" The prince of Zhangtai County also panicked, and quickly ordered: "Get out the horses, retreat the way of travel, and don't take the official road."

"My lord, is it too late?" Zhuman almost didn't cry out.

"It's Prince Zhang's army!" At this moment, a miracle happened. When the fat cavalry rushed to see the banner of Prince Zhangtai County, they were all scared out of their wits. They quickly stopped their horses and turned their heads. Shouted: "Brothers, run quickly! It's Prince Zhang Taizhang, the war god of the Qing Dynasty! Run quickly, or we will die!"

"It's Lord Zhang! It's Lord Zhang! Run!"

"It's the Great Qing God of War, Prince Zhang! Brothers, run! We're doomed—!"

"Help! It's Prince Zhang——!"

Amidst the hoarse screams, the fat cavalrymen who came to kill them turned their horses one after another, and fled to the south where there was no one else. , leaving the cavalry of the Qing army who were already preparing to flee for their lives stunned, so surprised that they could hardly believe their eyes, let alone their ears—when did our Prince Zhang become so famous? ?

"Haha, Wu Gou is frightened by this king's reputation!" The prince of Zhangtai County suddenly realized, and laughed triumphantly: "This king just said, when he sees this king's banner, does Wu Dog have any reason not to run away? Team Wugou is smart, if he really dares to offend this king, Hu Wei, this king will definitely kill them all!"

"We are not dreaming, are we?" Zhu Man and other Qing army generals and soldiers looked at each other, saying nothing, never thought that we, Prince Zhang Taizhang, who fought with "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" all day long, would have such a prominent reputation, and even reach the To the point where the Fatty Army was frightened!
What shocked the soldiers of the Qing army was still behind. When the prince of Zhangtai County returned to Tongling with a large amount of luggage and passed through Taipingfu City, the fat army in Taiping City did not dare to go out of the city to intercept it. Prince Zhang, the war god of the Qing Dynasty, came and closed the city gate tightly, not daring to fire a single shot, and let the prince of Zhangtai County lead the army to pass under Taiping City swaggeringly.

When we arrived near Wuhu, Han Daren, who had already beaten Le Erjin all over the floor in Fanchang, sent troops to intercept him, but it was probably because Han Daren's army had suffered a lot of losses before. He was defeated in World War I and was forced to flee back to Wuhu County and stand behind closed doors.Moreover, a supply team of Han Daren was inadvertently blocked by the team of the prince of Zhangtai County. The fat soldiers screamed that the prince of Zhang was coming and escaped cleanly. Zhang Wangye's hand.At this point, Han Daren still didn't dare to send troops to rescue the grain and grass, and could only watch helplessly as our Prince Zhang drove away with the grain cart and returned to Ningguo Mansion, which was controlled by the Qing army.

After the battle, the name of the Lord of Zhangtai County as the God of War in the Qing Dynasty resounded throughout the world again, frightening the courage of the rebels from all walks of life, and letting Yue Le, Tu Hai, Jie Shu, Le Erjin, Dong Weiguo, Shang Shan, and Lai Ta fight against each other. Waiting for the face of the so-called famous generals of the Qing Dynasty to be disgraced, they lamented together, "The sky has no eyes!"

"My Zhao Zilong! My pillar of the Qing Dynasty!" Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty commented on Prince Zhang so excitedly!
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