scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 363
Fortunately, under the command of Prince Zhang, there is also a former Guangzhou general Shu Shu who was forcibly transferred from Leerjin. He has fought side by side with Leerjin since Kang Mazi was 12 years old, and he is very familiar with Leerjin's situation. At a glance, he recognized the messenger sent by Le Erjin, who was actually Le Erjin's confidant, and hurriedly stood up to testify. Unable to write a letter with a pen, I failed to bring Le Erjin's personal letter of appeal for help.

No matter what you say, coupled with the persuasion of all the generals of the Qing army, our Lord Zhang reluctantly believed the words of the messenger Le Erjin, waved his hand to let the soldiers let go of the unfortunate messenger, and then asked: "When did Wu Dog start attacking?" City? When you came out to ask for help, how was the situation in Fanchang City?"

"My lord, Wugou started attacking the city at dawn today." The messenger Leerjin replied truthfully: "Wugou bombarded the east gate and south gate of Fanchang with more than 100 light and heavy artillery pieces. The city wall of Fanchang has been in disrepair for a long time. In less than an hour, a big hole was blown out. Although our army tried its best to rescue the city wall, the Wugou artillery fire was too fierce, and our army suffered heavy casualties. The cavalry of our army sent out of the city to attack the Wugou artillery formation was also wiped out. It was a last resort. , Lord Belle sent his servants to ask the prince for help, please send the troops quickly, otherwise Fanchang will be in danger."

"Trash!" After listening to the messenger's introduction, not only did our Lord Zhang not immediately send troops to rescue, but instead he slapped the table and angrily said, "What does Le Erjin do? It took only an hour for Wugou to attack the city, and he sent someone here." Call for help? Waste! Big waste!"

"My lord, you can't blame Shuncheng Baylor!" Le Erjin's messenger screamed: "It's Wu Dog's artillery fire is too fierce, one burst cannonball can blow up five or six of our brothers, one solid cannonball , can blow the Fanchang city wall out of a big hole, Lord Baylor really can't stand it, so I have to ask you for help."

"My lord, please forgive me for speaking bluntly, please also experience the difficulty of accepting Lord Baylor." Shu Shu stood up again, clasped his fists together, and said cautiously: "Maybe my lord has never been to Fanchang City, and I don't know the situation of Fanchang City Wall. , the Fanchang city wall is only two feet high, and it has been in disrepair for a long time. The city bricks are seriously broken and falling off, and the moat is basically dry. Vulnerable and of little use.”

"Also." Shu Shu added carefully, "When Lord Belle went out before, in order to leave some seeds for our Qing army, he left most of the experienced main force elite in Tongling, and only brought a small amount of elite and If the second- and third-line armies go out to fight without the protection of the city walls or fortifications, and fight in the open air, I'm afraid..."

"Don't make excuses for this king!" Our Lord Zhang waved his hand and scolded righteously: "Zhuge Liang was in Xinye, and he wiped out Xiahou Dun's [-] troops with only a few thousand troops! This king also only used a few thousand troops in Chizhou. A few thousand troops defeated Wu Gou's [-] elite! Le Erjin has [-] troops in his hands, and a navy to support him, and he asked the king for help after only more than an hour since the start of the battle. Isn't it trash?!"

The generals of the Qing army were speechless, and they really didn't have the confidence to refute in front of the outstanding Lord Zhang.Only Prince Zhang’s confidant, Tong Zhuman, dared to open his mouth, and cupped his hands to Prince Zhang and said, “My lord, this servant thinks whether it’s too early or too hasty to ask for help from Lord Belle, you can ignore it for now, but since Lord Belle sent a messenger to ask for help , we have to take some action. The slave please lead an army to rescue Fanchang, and ask the prince for permission."

"The last general is also willing to save Fanchang!" Niyahan, Shushu and other generals of the Qing army came out together, clasping their fists together to beg for orders.

"Save Fanchang? It's easy to say!" Prince Zhang suddenly became angry again, and he also expressed a rare insightful opinion, "It's nearly a hundred miles from Huangchi Town to Fanchang. When our army runs there, no matter what Is it the cavalry or the infantry who are almost exhausted, and send them to the door to give Wu Gou a rest?"

"My lord is right, and it makes sense." Zhu Man hesitated for a moment, then hurriedly asked again: "My lord, what should we do then?"

"Send troops immediately to attack Taipingfu City!" Prince Zhang threw out his long-planned plan, and said confidently: "Wu Dog's main force is to attack Fanchang City, and this king will attack their Taiping City. It is a small county town, but Taiping City is the west gate of Wugou in the south of the Yangtze River, and tightly restricts Wugou's grain road and escape route, each fighting his own way, to see who is more anxious. By the way, the siege of Wei and Zhao can be lifted, and the siege of Fanchang can be lifted."

Prince Zhang’s tactic was quite normal, and none of the generals in the Qing army objected to making trouble for themselves. Only Niyahan raised a question and asked, “My lord, are we sure we can take Taiping City? The high pool is deep, and the city is far stronger than Fanchang City. If we cannot attack the city, or if the siege battle is delayed for a long time, Wu Gou breaks through Fanchang and then calmly returns to the army, and the Taiping City defenders attack inside and outside, we will be in big trouble. "

"Will this king do such unsure things?" Prince Zhang was even more proud, and said more confidently: "This king has sent scouts and secret agents to investigate carefully. The military flag, and recruited a large number of civilians to help the battle, what is this for? It is clear that it is playing an empty city plan! Wu Gou actually does not have many defenders in Taiping City!"

"Wu Dog is playing an empty city plan?" The generals of the Qing army looked at each other, saying when Lu Yifeng's dog thief was fighting with "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" all day long?

"What are you still doing?" Prince Zhang slapped the table again, and shouted, "You have forgotten the truth that soldiers are precious and fast? Immediately pull out the entire army, send troops northward, and attack Taiping City! If you miss this precious opportunity, I will take care of you in military law." !"

"Cover." The generals of the Qing army clasped their fists in agreement, while muttering dissatisfiedly in their hearts, "The person who delays the battle seems to be you, Prince Zhang, right? You have been stationed here in Huangchi Town for two days and one night, no matter how much we ask. If you don’t send troops, now it’s time to blame us for delaying the battle.”

Ever since, under the wise decision of our Lord Zhang, the main force of the Qing army on the western front, which had been stationed in Huangchi Town for two days and one night during the war, finally mobilized. Under the same night, they set off to the north and marched at full speed towards the important town of Taiping Mansion, the west gate of the fat man's army.During this period, our Lord Zhang had to send Le Erjin's soldiers back to Fanchang, and brought a death order to Le Erjin, asking Le Erjin to continue to stick to Fanchang City at all costs, so as to buy time for the main force of the Qing army to attack Taiping City .

It is naturally impossible for Prince Zhang’s order to be delivered to Le Erjin who has already died in battle, or even to the Qing army in the brigade, because at this time, the Fanchang Qing army has been completely defeated by the Fatty Army. , the Qing army that escaped from Fanchang City collapsed completely, and was chased and massacred wantonly by the fat army; the remnants of the Qing army trapped in Fanchang City were unable to even break out of the city. Han led the mite people of the four surnames and a few remnants to fight against the beasts in the city of Fanchang, fighting to the death with the fat army. Because the sky was dark and not suitable for street fighting, the fat army did not launch a general attack on the remnant army of Karhan for the time being, but sealed it tightly The city walls and gates, wait for the sky to clear before killing the enemy.

There is also the Digang battlefield. The Fatty Army Navy, determined to annihilate the Anqing Navy, launched a fierce attack at all costs from the very beginning. Even when the artillery fire had an absolute advantage, the Fatty Army Navy decisively launched In order to prevent the last Qing army navy from the upper reaches of the own army from running away with a boat and a soldier.At the same time, Fatty Lu hastily mobilized Wang Xu, who is capable of water warfare, to lead an army to reinforce the Digang battlefield, and to supplement Li Jiyang's naval forces for close-board warfare, determined to eliminate the last hidden danger in the upper reaches of his own territory.

If you are willing to invest, you will naturally gain. In the close-board battle, the fat man's navy first killed the Qing army's flagship. Unfortunately, the admiral of the Qing navy, Ghent Baturu, was very cunning. Shuai Qi continued to command the Qing army's navy, and also decisively ordered to break through upstream, and Li Jiyang also went all out. In order to prevent the Qing army from breaking through successfully, he still sacrificed the magic weapon of the fat man's navy even though he had the upper hand Goldfinger, the sampan back to the sky, sank more than a dozen Qing warships in one breath, blocked the escape route of the Qing navy sailors, made the Qing navy sailors howl, and Ghent Batulu yelled, " Fuck you, Wu Gou! Taking such a big advantage and launching a suicide ship, how the hell are you going to be ashamed?"

At the second watch, Wang Xu led two thousand Fatty Army infantry to Digang, boarded the Fatty Army navy warship and the Qing Army warship captured in the near-board battle, and rushed into the melee battlefield to join the battle. The teacher couldn't bear it anymore, and was defeated by the fat man's army. He screamed and wailed endlessly. His corpse floated all over the Yangtze River, and the river was dyed red with blood.By the middle of the night, only seven or eight warships were left in the Qing army navy composed of 43 warships, and it was surrounded by fat army navy groups with more than [-] warships. Door.

At this time, the fat man's navy suddenly stopped attacking, and there was a voice of surrender in the fleet. Ghent Baturu, whose surname was Yehenara, hesitated again and again, and still sent envoys to board the ship. The flagship of the Fat Man Army proposed a surrender condition to Li Jiyang-the surviving members of the Qing army's navy must be forgiven.Li Jiyang, the son of the traitor Li Guodong who inherited his father's career, told the Qing army envoy coldly, "Dream! It's okay to surrender, but all the evil slaves of the four surnames must be executed!"

The envoy reported back to Ghent Baturu, and Ghent Baturu hesitated again. It was not until Li Jiyang gave the consideration time that there was only half a cup of tea left, and Ghent Baturu ordered to send the remaining 300 or so ships out of the fleet. All the four surnames grabbed the flagship and told them with tears, "For the sake of the remaining [-] brothers and their parents, wives and children, I have wronged you. Don't worry, I will accompany you to plead guilty to the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty. "

After all, Ghent Baturu waved his hand in pain, and ordered the beheading of all the thirty or so people with the four surnames. The remaining soldiers of the Qing army ordered: "Go and surrender, Lu Yifeng's dog thief still keeps his word, you can live." All the soldiers of the Qing army cried bitterly, restrained the body of Ghent Baturu solemnly, and then waved a white flag Surrendering to the Fatty Army, the Digang War finally ended with the victory that the Fatty Army expected to wipe out the Qing army's navy.

Batulu in Ghent was not the only one who proposed the same condition. When it was getting dark, Garhan, who also had the same surname Yehenara, also sent envoys to fly out of the city with a white flag, and proposed to Fatty Lu that he must forgive the four surnames before he could surrender. Fatty Lu He also pointed to the heavy filial piety on his body and told the Karhan envoy coldly, "Did you see the filial piety we wear? If I forgive the four surnames Man Gou today and let them go, I am sorry for the filial piety I am wearing, and I am sorry that we are full of filial piety. The Chinese compatriots who were brutally slaughtered by dogs! I am even more sorry for our descendants!"

Fatty Lu replied resolutely and sent him back to Fanchang City. Nearly a thousand remaining Qing soldiers in Fanchang City burst into tears, and Garhan also burst into tears. What they did when they entered the customs back then-the shit they shit back then is finally swallowed by the mites themselves.

With nothing to do, Garhan could only hurry up and hold a decision-making meeting with the participation of all remaining soldiers of the Qing army before the deadline given by Fatty Lu, and introduced the results of negotiations with Fatty Lu to the soldiers of the Qing army in Chinese and mite language. , and then asked the Qing soldiers to raise their hands to choose whether to surrender or not to surrender?However, when the soldiers of the Qing army expressed their views, all the soldiers of the Qing army fell silent again. Garhan urged them repeatedly, and countless soldiers of the Qing army cried loudly, but they refused to raise their hands or express their views.

Seeing that the time limit was up, Garhan had no choice but to say: "Well, those who are willing to surrender stay in the city and go to surrender to Wu Gou by themselves, and those who are not willing to surrender stand up and fight to the death with me , Of course it’s best to be able to rush out, but if we can’t, we can also bring some Wu Gou soldiers to be buried with us, it’s better than being slaughtered by Wu Gou.”

About half of the soldiers of the Qing army stood up and expressed their willingness to break out of the siege with Garhan. The remaining half were mostly green battalion soldiers and a small number of other people with the surname mite. Ignoring these people, he quickly counted the Qing soldiers who were willing to break through the siege, and found that there were about [-] soldiers who were still capable of fighting. Garhan rekindled a glimmer of hope, and made a sacrifice for the [-] or so Qing soldiers. He cheered up and said: "Brothers, don't say too much, if you want to survive, just rush with me! Even if you can't rush out, you have to pull a few Wu Goubing to back me up!"

After all, Garhan immediately led the [-] soldiers of the Qing army to charge towards the north gate, shouting slogans to kill Wu Gou, and rushed at full speed to the only open Fanchang North Gate.However, it is a pity that the Fatty Army did not even give these soldiers of the Qing army who were determined to die. As soon as Garhan's team rushed into the corridor of the city gate, the Musketeers of the Fatty Army outside the city gate had already A volley of guns was fired, and amidst the sound of bang bang guns, Garhan who rushed to the front was shot and killed by more than a dozen shots on the spot, and the Qing soldiers behind also fell down in pieces like cutting wheat.

Amidst the continuous sound of gunfire like popping beans, the soldiers of the Qing army continued to charge forward one after another, while the fat gunmen of the fat army fired in turn with three shots in an orderly manner, easily slaughtering the soldiers of the Qing army who were flying moths into the flames. The corpses piled up like mountains and the pools of blood flowed. No Qing soldier could rush out of the city gate corridor, and no Qing soldier could rush to the front of the fat man's formation until there was no Qing soldier left standing in the city gate corridor. The soldiers of the Fat Man Army just finished shooting and went forward to clean up the battlefield. All the soldiers of the Qing Army who found that they were still breathing were stabbed into the heart, which was inhumane to the extreme.

So far, the Fanchang War has basically ended. The 6000 Qing army and the 3000 Qing navy navy were wiped out. More than [-] people surrendered to the Fatty Army, and the rest were basically wiped out. Only a few hundred lucky ones escaped from the Fatty Army's encirclement , Fleeing back to Tongling City in the west to report, all of Leerjin's military equipment also fell into the hands of the Fatty Army, and the Fatty Army's casualties were close to [-].But fortunately, the casualties of the Fatty Army were mainly concentrated in the Navy and the Taipingfu Corps. Apart from the large ammunition consumption of the direct corps, the real casualties were not very large, and the impact on the overall strength of the Fatty Army was extremely limited.

It was planned to use three days to annihilate the Leer Jin army, but it took only a little more than a day to achieve the goal. Fatty Lu's fat face was naturally smiling, and at this time, Prince Zhang went north to attack Taiping Mansion with all his strength. The news was also sent to Fatty Lu through the scout's fast horse.Hearing this news, Fatty Lu, who had a fat face and a smile on his face, naturally couldn't stop laughing from ear to ear, and said repeatedly: "Okay, okay, Prince Zhang is really a good prince, it is better to attack Taiping City more violently." .When the Mangou elites are tired and disabled, it will be much easier for us to annihilate the Mangou main force."

"General, I'm afraid the situation is not so optimistic." Yao Qisheng reminded: "When the news of our army's annihilation of Fanchang Mangou reaches Taiping Mansion, the main force of Mangou will immediately understand that they are already a lone army, and they have already been defeated by our Nanjing army. The garrison, the garrison of Taiping Mansion, the garrison of Wuhu, and our main force are encircling, no matter how stupid Man Gou is, he will choose to retreat to Ningguo Mansion immediately, and break out of the encirclement before we close the siege, and escape."

"It doesn't matter, we can return to the division immediately, and Li Mao will attack the general inside and outside, and smash the main force of the dog." Zhu Fangdan suggested.

"Master Zhu, things are not that easy." Yao Qisheng said solemnly: "Our army has just gone through a big battle, and the soldiers are very tired. At this time, they will immediately return to the Taiping Mansion. After walking down more than 120 miles, no matter how elite soldiers will Tired and lying down, let alone wipe out the main force of Man Gou, whether it can withstand the counterattack of Man Gou's main force is probably a big question."

"That's going to be difficult." Zhu Fangdan scratched his head and said, "At this time, if you go back to the division to fight the main force of the dog, the soldiers' physical strength will not be able to bear it. If you rest for a day or two and then return to the division calmly, the main force of the full dog will slip south again. We can't go south to attack Ningguo Mansion, can we?"

"We must find a way to drag the main force of the dog under the city of Taiping." Fatty Lu said in a deep voice.

"Think of a way to drag the main force of Mangou under Taiping City?" Yao Qisheng was stunned, and then said with a wry smile: "General, how is this possible? No matter how stupid Zhang Tai is, it is impossible for him to stay in the dangerous Taiping City like a fool, waiting for us to calm down." Go back to the teacher and kill them all?"

"I think there is hope." Fatty Lu said quite confidently: "Emperor Mangou asked Prince Zhang to lead the main force on the western front to march east. Fleeing to the Ningguo Mansion may save the main force of the Man Dog, but the mission entrusted to him by the Man Dog Emperor will definitely be ruined——will our Prince Zhang disappoint the Man Dog Emperor?"

"That makes sense, so what should we do?" Yao Qisheng asked again.

"Let me think about it." Fatty Lu sat back on the chair, kicked his legs and swayed to calculate, after a long time, Fatty Lu suddenly stopped shaking his fat legs, raised his head and said happily: "I thought of a way, maybe it will work .”

"What method?" Yao Qisheng and Zhu Fangdan hurriedly asked together.But when Fatty Lu finished his idea, Yao Qisheng and Zhu Fangdan screamed again, "General, what are you kidding? Can this method work?"

"It's hard to say." Yao Qisheng added unceremoniously, saying: "With this method, unless you are the kind of bastard with water in your head, you will never be fooled!"

"But the problem is, our Lord Zhang is such a person. For him, other tricks may not work like this." Fatty Lu smiled, waved his fat hand again, and said decisively: "No matter what you do, you have to do it." Give it a try, and immediately send the Clippers to Li Mao to pass orders to let him follow the plan. If it really doesn’t work, we’ll think about it.”

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Turning around to look at the situation at the Xiba camp in Miqing, because of the distance and the road blockade, at almost the same time, Kang Mazi, who had been waiting for a long time in the Xiba camp, finally received a message from Fatty Lu. The news that he has personally led the army to the west, and this news was brought back to Kang Mazi by Zhou Peigong from the Yangzhou battlefield.

"Lu Yifeng! Dog thief——!"

Hearing the news of Fatty Lu's expedition to the west, we are wise and powerful, handsome in appearance, Yue Lishenghong, actuarial arithmetic, calligraphy and painting, astronomy, foreign languages, politics, dredging rivers, and literary and martial arts. Tuo Tu far surpassed Qin Wei Jingtang, the Pockmarked Emperor who was bragging about all his skills, was so angry that his face turned blue, and he slapped the fake dragon case and shouted: "Lu Yifeng! You thief! How dare you despise me so much? I have already conquered Qinghe by myself, yet he dares to send troops to the western front, and he doesn't take me seriously at all!"

"Master, since Lu Yifeng's thieves have already sent troops to the west, this slave has something to say." Zhou Peigong kowtowed, and said something that made Kang Mazi overjoyed, and also made all the civil and military officials next to him go out of their wits— —This is what Zhou Peigong said, "The slave boldly believes that it is time for the master to cross the Yellow River and visit the battlefield of Yangzhou in person."

(End of this chapter)