scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 257
"An embankment full of dogs? How is it possible? How is it possible?!"

Hearing Fatty Lu's speculation, the traitor Wu's first reaction was impossible, and his second reaction was still impossible-how could Man Gou blow up the embankment by himself?Even if Mangou can ignore the people's life and death, but if the embankment is blown up, where will the Mangou army in Jingzhou city go?
"The explosives from Mangou?" Wang Shirong also found it inconceivable. Judging from the loudness of the explosion, the gunpowder that exploded the embankment was undoubtedly Wu Jun's three-good explosives-but the three-good explosives from Mangou?
"How do I know?" Fatty Lu yelled, "Grandfather, now is not the time to think so much. Our army should move to the high ground immediately, and then send another army to Wanwan Dike to see if we can hold the dike temporarily!"

"Yes." The old traitor Wu finally calmed down from the shock, and hurriedly shouted: "Yifeng, you and Gao Dejie lead the troops of the headquarters to Wanwandi, and the others, all return to the camp, take the luggage and move to the high ground!"

"Dangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdang!" The order was conveyed, and the gong for emergency withdrawal sounded. The well-trained troops of the Wu army retreated in an emergency, and rushed to the camp on the west side of Taibai Lake to transfer the food and grass—thanks to the Wu army. The infantry has stopped attacking the fortification just now, otherwise, none of the soldiers of the Wu army who attacked the city wall would have come back from under the city wall.Fatty Lu and Gao Dejie galloped on their horses, led Gao Dejie's [-] elite cavalry, and rushed to the west of Wandi with torches.

Not to mention the retreat of the main force of the Wu army under the personal command of the old traitor Wu, but only to say that when Fatty Lu and Gao Dejie led their troops all the way to the Ten Thousand Causeway, they were still more than a mile away from the Ten Thousand Causeway, and the flood on the ground had already submerged The instep, and the current is very fast, and the rising momentum is extremely fast. Gao Hongchen and other generals were worried that the flood would be ruthless and sweep away their entire army, so they persuaded Fatty Lu and Gao Dejie to withdraw their troops and retreat to the high ground.Gao Dejie hesitated, but Fatty Lu shouted: "We can't withdraw, as long as there is any hope, we have to work hard! Otherwise, our main force will be finished, and so will the prince!"

Needless to say, Gao Dejie, who once captured Emperor Yongli alive for the old traitor Wu, was loyal to the old traitor Wu. Hearing Fatty Lu's words, Gao Dejie gritted his teeth, drew his knife and shouted: "Go on!" Charge, those who take a step back will be cut immediately!" Wu Jun's cavalry dared not refuse to listen, so they had to bite the bullet and continue to charge against the rapid flood, rushing towards the Ten Thousand People's Bank.

When they finally rushed to the bottom of the Ten Thousand People's Dike, the flood had already reached the belly of the horse, and on the Ten Thousand People's Dike, there was a rush of water and people's voices, and they could vaguely hear "digging quickly", "digging quickly" and "digging bigger" Such shouting sounds, the sky is too dark, Wu Jun and everyone can't see the situation on the embankment clearly, so they can only charge towards the embankment with the last ray of hope.When they rushed to the top of the Wanwan embankment, Fatty Lu and Gao Dejie were furious. A group of about 500 Qing soldiers dressed in ordinary people's clothes surrounded the gaps in the two embankments where water gushed out. Digging dikes like crazy!
"Brothers, kill!" Gao Dejie yelled with red eyes, "Go up, kill all the dogs for me, don't let any one stay! Don't take any prisoners!"

"Kill!" The furious Wu Jun cavalry swooped forward, swiping their knives and slashing and killing the group of inhumane mite soldiers.Fatty Lu grabbed Xiao Erlang, and shouted with red eyes: "Go and report to the prince immediately, the Wandi is still worth saving, please send the infantry up with tools immediately!"

"Decree!" Without saying a word, Xiao Erlang rushed down the embankment again with a few soldiers.Fatty Lu turned to Hong Xiguan, Fang Shiyu and others next to him and shouted: "Give me all, full of dogs, no one will be left!" Fatty Lu's personal troops also did not say a word, all pulled out their waist knives, and rushed towards him with blood red eyes. Those Qing soldiers.

"Kill!" Amidst the roar, the cavalry of the Wu army swept up, and the soldiers of the Qing army yelled to call the police, while holding up hoes and shovels and other embankment tools to resist. However, what they encountered were not only the most elite of the Wu army. The ace cavalry is still a furious division whose eyes are completely red with anger, and the result is naturally conceivable.

"Kill!" Almost at the first moment when the two armies collided, the leading dozen soldiers of the Qing army were chopped into pieces by the Wu army cavalry facing them, and the Wu army cavalry behind them surged up like a tide, their sharp sabers were like a storm. One after another, blood and brains splattered everywhere, and severed heads and limbs flew all over the sky in the crowd. The soldiers of the Qing army who were stabbed into the air screamed like killing pigs, but they couldn't scream three times, and they were killed by the Wu army again. The cavalry's sabers were cut into dozens or hundreds of pieces, and more Qing soldiers were knocked down directly, and then trampled into meat paste by countless horseshoes. The Qing army team composed of four to five hundred people was almost in the blink of an eye. It was washed into a piece of loose sand by the cavalry of the Wu army, without the slightest resistance.

"Wu Dog is powerful, run!" Someone shouted, and the soldiers of the Qing army threw down their hoes and ran away. He shouted: "Brother Dajie, you take half of the brothers to hunt down Mangou, and leave the rest to me to plug the gap, as much as you can block!"

Gao Dejie readily agreed, and hurriedly ordered the rear army to stop and give it to Fatty Lu to command, and then led the front army to continue chasing and killing Qing soldiers. Fatty Lu jumped off his horse and rushed to the gap in the embankment blown out by the Qing army to observe, and let Fatty Lu relax. The sigh is that the Qing army is obviously not proficient in blasting explosives, and the amount of explosives is not too large. The blasting and excavation only blasted two gaps less than two meters wide at the top of the embankment. The gap is still expanding under the erosion of the current, but the situation still has a chance to recover.

"My lord, be careful." Hong Xiguan was afraid that Fatty Lu would fall into the water, so he hurriedly grabbed Fatty Lu's fat hand.Fatty Lu ignored it, but turned around and shouted: "Collect the tools immediately, move all the corpses of the soldiers who are full of dogs, tie them together with ropes, stuff them into the water inlet, dig and fill them! Quick! Quick! Quick!"

Amidst a series of shouts and urging sounds, the cavalrymen of the Wu army quickly moved together to collect the hoes and shovel tools dropped by the soldiers of the Qing army, and collected the corpses of the soldiers of the Qing army on the scene, tied them into balls with belts and horse bridles, and put them in a ball under Fatty Lu. Under the command of the general, they moved bundles of corpses of Qing soldiers and stuffed them into the water mouth that had rapidly expanded to more than ten feet. As soon as the body was stuffed into the water hole, it was washed out and rolled down the embankment.Seeing this scene, Fatty Lu became even more anxious, and shouted: "Take the reins of the horse, tie up the living people, and jump into the water to plug the gap!"

The long strip of horse reins was quickly delivered, and Fatty Lu grabbed it and tied it around his waist, intending to dive himself into the water to plug the gap. The Wu Jun soldiers next to him were both moved and panicked, and rushed up to hold Fatty Lu down. Among them, dozens of the strongest cavalrymen of the Wu army quickly tied the reins around their waists, handed the other end to their companions, and jumped into the water hand in hand, trying to withstand the impact of the water to block the gap. Then they quickly carried the corpses of Qing soldiers and stuffed them into the water.But this time, because Wu soldiers had already blocked the water flow, the corpses were finally not washed away, but just floating in the water. Hurry up and move the rocks, spent a lot of effort, and finally barely blocked a gap!
After sending out a special army to continue to strengthen the temporary construction, Fatty Lu led Wu Jun's team to another gap more than [-] feet away. However, due to the time delay, the gap has been brushed by the current to more than two feet wide and nearly one foot wide. Deep, even if the soldiers of the Wu army dived into the water, they couldn't stop the current. Fatty Lu was so anxious that he had no choice but to shout: "Brothers, for the sake of the lord, for our main force! Bring more men who are not afraid of death, tie a rope and go down." Jump, no matter how much you jump, you have to plug the gap for me! For those who sacrificed, I invite the prince to give three times the pension to his family!"

The current is too strong, it looks like a giant white dragon under the light of the torches, and it gallops like a fierce horse. Jumping into such a current is basically looking for death, but there are still hundreds of men from Yunnan and Guizhou standing out among the soldiers of the Wu army. Silently tied the reins of the horses, clasped hands and jumped into the water one after another, shouting, "Long live the prince!"

"Reverse Qing and Fu Ming!"

"Brothers, avenge me! Kill all the dogs!"

"Father! Mother! The child is unfilial—!"

"Hua'er, avenge your father!"

Amidst the heroic shouts that made everyone present burst into tears, one team after another of Wu Jun soldiers jumped down the torrent with their hands clasped. They didn't hold back, and a few soldiers who refused to abandon their companions were also taken into the water and swept away. The third team fell into the water and was washed away. Although they still failed to gain a firm foothold in the freezing water, they The fourth team was given a chance to dive into the Wu army, and then the fifth team jumped off. The sixth, seventh and eighth teams, who had run out of horse reins, jumped off, hand in hand in the cold and flood. Stand firm and use your flesh and blood to block the torrent that is about to wipe out the main force of the Wu army.

"Don't you say no clothes? I'm in the same robe as my son. The king Yu Xingshi repaired my spear. I have the same hatred as my son.

Do you say no clothes?Same with Zi.Wang Yu Xingshi, repair my spear and halberd.Work with your son.

Do you say no clothes?Wear the same clothes as your son.Wang Yuxing division, repair my armor soldiers.Walk with the child. "

Witnessing this tragic scene, the tearful Fatty Lu couldn't help but chanted the song "Qin Feng" with tears in his voice. The soldiers of the Wu army were all crying, but they still jumped into the torrent with their arms hooked one after another. Stepping on the companions in advance, one layer after another was quickly stacked to block the momentum of the torrent, while the remaining Wu army soldiers wiped their tears while carrying the corpses and stones of the Qing army soldiers, and threw them into the gap to block the resistance.There are not enough corpses and no more stones. With Fatty Lu's order, Wu Jun soldiers killed their horses without hesitation, twisted their clothes into ropes, tied the horse corpses together, and stuffed the horse corpses into the gap one by one. , to prevent the leak from continuing to expand.

Finally, a team of Wu army infantry arrived with tools. Seeing the Wu army cavalry blocking the gap with their bodies, Xu Hongren, the leader of the team, ordered the soldiers to jump down the gap to block the torrent without saying anything. Rush forward to fill the gap.At the same time, Gao Dejie had already rushed back with Xu Zhidu's head in his hand. Seeing that his direct descendants had suffered so many casualties in order to save the gap, Gao Dejie cried out on the spot, and quickly ordered his subordinates to move the stone corpse to plug the leak. The Wu Jun navy from the opposite bank had also arrived after hearing the news, and under the order of Fatty Lu, another warship was scuttled at the gap, and the sunken ship blocked the gap. Only then did the second gap be barely blocked, and the main force won a victory. Transfer and reaction time.

It is really the luck of the main force of the Wu army. Two key reasons saved the lives of the main force of the Wu army. One is that it is now the dry season in winter, and the water volume of the Yangtze River is relatively small. I don't understand the terrifying power of Wu Jun's three good explosives. The explosives were buried shallow and only exerted a small part of their power. The combination of the two coincidences gave Wu Jun the opportunity to make amends and transfer in time.When the sky was clear, the main force of the Wu army not only moved to an absolutely safe high ground, but also made up for the two gaps blown up by the Qing army.

Having said that, in the early morning of the next day, when the old traitor Wu personally led the army to the Wandi to inspect the situation, after seeing the heavy casualties of the elite Wu army in order to rescue the emergency, he saw those who still kept their arms hooked until their death. Behind the dead soldiers of the Wu army in the arms posture, the old traitor Wu's eyes turned red, and then his face turned livid again. He stared at the corpses of the sacrificed soldiers, and did not say a word for a full stick of incense.The surrounding generals of the Wu army were also silent, and the atmosphere was so frozen that it was almost suffocating.

After a long time, the old traitor Wu took off his helmet and bowed deeply to the corpses of the gathered Wu army officers and soldiers. All the Wu army officers followed suit and took off their hats and bowed, saluting the soldiers who sacrificed to protect the main force.After a long time, the old traitor Wu straightened his body, and ordered in a hoarse voice: "Command, all the soldiers who died in order to block the mouth last night will be sympathized!"

"Decree!" Wu Jun and all the generals clasped their fists together and agreed.The traitor Wu looked back at the hastily patched gap in the embankment, with a gritted expression on his face, almost wanting to order the embankment to be dug again, flooding the Qing army full of dogs still surrounded in Jingzhou City.But at this moment, a messenger rushed up to the embankment, and played in front of the old traitor Wu: "Report to the lord, Jingzhou Mangou sent an envoy to see him, saying that he was explaining the reason for the explosion of the embankment last night."

"The reason for the embankment explosion?" Old Man Wu gave a sinister smile, and shouted, "Bring it up, I want to hear what farts a dog can do?"

The messenger led the order and went away. A moment later, the envoy of the Qing army was escorted in front of the old traitor Wu. As soon as they met, the envoy of the Qing army knelt down on his knees and kowtowed, and said tremblingly: "The envoy is under the order of Prince Jian. Kowtowing to Prince Pingxi, Prince Jian ordered the envoy to kneel down to report to Prince Pingxi. The explosion of the embankment last night has nothing to do with our soldiers and civilians in Jingzhou. The lives of the soldiers and civilians in the city of Jingzhou. Prince Jian was very grateful, and the special envoy came to present gifts to thank you, and informed your army that Prince Jian will soon report to the court, asking the Qing court to behead Xu Zhidu’s family who dug the embankment without authorization. , Zhu Lian Nine Clans!"

As he said that, the envoy of the Qing army tremblingly held up a gift box, and all the generals of the Wu army were full of anger, but the old traitor Wu hadn't spoken yet and dared not speak. The old traitor Wu smiled lightly and said: "It's been a long time So it turned out that Xu Zhidu blew up the embankment without authorization last night?"

"That's true." The Qing army envoy kowtowed, and said flatteringly: "Prince Jian and the others really didn't know about this in advance, so after Xu Zhidu blew up the embankment last night, our Qing army didn't take the opportunity to attack. Your army misunderstood."

"Let go of your mother's [-]th-generation shit!" The old traitor Wu finally got mad, raised his leg and kicked the messenger to the ground, and shouted: "You treat me like a three-year-old child? I'm afraid I'll misunderstand you. Take the opportunity to attack, if you hadn’t known that Xu Zhi had blown the embankment, you would have been hiding in the city and not coming out?”

"My lord, spare my life, my lord, spare my life!" The emissary was so frightened that he kowtowed and screamed, "I don't know anything, I don't know anything!"

"Drag it, cut it off!" The old traitor Wu was also completely crazy, and shouted: "Send this head full of dogs, together with the gift of Man Gou, back to Jingzhou City! By the way, tell Man Gou in the city, On the day the city was destroyed, the whole city was full of dogs, and no one would be spared! Let me kill all of them, and no one will be spared!"

"Kill all the dogs! Take revenge on your brothers!" Fatty Lu raised his arms and shouted. All the generals of the Wu army responded together, waving their arms and shouting in unison, "Kill all the dogs! Take revenge on your brothers!"

"Kill all the dogs! Avenge my brothers!" Countless soldiers of the Wu army raised their weapons and shouted with red eyes, "Kill all the dogs! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill——!"

"Kill all the dogs--! Kill--!" The angry and orderly roars merged into one stream, soaring into the sky, echoing endlessly on the surface of the Yangtze River. One can hear clearly.Hearing this roar, the Qing army couldn't help but have a thought, a frightening and desperate thought.

(End of this chapter)