scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 287

Fatty Lu made things simpler, and felt that it would be difficult for Hu Tongchun to withdraw from the battlefield in time to make room for the Wu army to use other tactics, so he sent 3000 infantry soldiers into the battlefield with a full quarter rate, intending to take Hu Tongchun's team out However, what made Fatty Lu miscalculate was that the soldiers of the Wu Army and the Qing Army on the battlefield at Meijiazhou Wharf had already become red-hot, and the battle had already entered a fever pitch. , The [-] people brought in were completely trapped.

It can't be blamed for the lack of resolute execution of the order in the whole festival. The main reason is that the two armies of the Qing army, Sanger and Yalai, who were landing, saw the reinforcements of the Wu army, and thought that the Wu army was trying to drive them into Poyang Lake to drown and fight against the water. In order to survive, the soldiers and generals naturally erupted with the most powerful combat power, one after another, group after group, howling like chicken blood, charging towards the land, joining the already extremely fierce dock battlefield.The entire battlefield is as messy as a pot of boiling rice porridge. The pot of rice porridge is composed of soldiers from the Wu army wearing white felt hats and soldiers from the Qing army wearing red weft hats. Every soldier and every general is fighting on their own. The comparison is whose knife is faster and whose ax is crueler. Soldiers from both sides are covered in blood and wrestling everywhere. The entire army rushes into such a battlefield. , Don't say that the support of the friendly army has left the battle. If you have a little timidity and retreat, you will immediately become a dead soul under the knife.In desperation, the entire army could only show the determination to die or live, and started a bloody fight with the enemy with red eyes, and was soon completely forgotten by the purpose of joining the battle group.

Seeing such a battle through the binoculars, Fatty Lu was inevitably both worried and fortunate. He was naturally worried that Hutongchun and Quanjie’s team suffered heavy casualties, but he was fortunate that he had never underestimated the enemy tactically. Although this Qing army has been hiding in Anqing City, which is far away from the main battlefield, its combat effectiveness and morale are no less than any Qing army that Wu Jun has encountered before. The army behind the palace led by Oboi himself can be compared with the current Qing army.Fortunately, Wu Jun lured this Qing army out of the decisive battle of Anqing Jiancheng. If this Qing army is allowed to defend against the city, the fat man wants to capture Anqing city. How much the price should be paid is what Fatty Lu can't do. imagined.

"Uncle, let me go too." An Jiarong, the nephew of Fatty Lu's Yi nationality who was wrapped in a white cloth on his head, ran over and begged impatiently, "Uncle, let my nephew bring the soldiers up to break the deadlock for you." , teach this gang of dogs a lesson!"

"No hurry." Fatty Lu shook his head, and said in a deep voice, "Nephew, although your 猓猓 soldiers are the strongest in our army in terms of infantry combat, they are full of morale now, and you will only fall into the trap if you charge up." On the battlefield, wait patiently, when the time comes, you will be my trump card to break the stalemate on the battlefield." An Jiarong nodded with a half-understanding, barely holding back his fighting spirit and retreated.

At the same time, on the east bank of Poyang Lake, Hilgen also discovered the reinforcements of the Wu army on the wharf battlefield. However, limited by the viewing angle, Hilgen didn't know that Fatty Lu's army originally wanted to take over his own army and withdraw from the battlefield. He was forced to fall into the battlefield fiercely, and he also said that Fatty Lu was also using refueling tactics, intending to disturb the Qing army's landing army, so that his superior navy would not dare to fire at the pier, so Hilgen quickly showed a happy smile, He smiled and said, "Lu Yifeng's son, he's a genius in strategy, but he's a bit young in tactics."

"Report—!" A messenger flew to the Qing army's flag formation, knelt down on one knee in front of Hilgen, and clapped his hands and said: "General Zhao Guozuo has given up his tactics and attacked with cavalry. Gou Gao Dejie launched a counterattack, and the infantry of Wu Gou's brigade was dispatched to charge the infantry brigade of old General Zhao Guozuo, and the battle was extremely fierce!"

"This Zhao Guozuo, what is he up to?" Master Zhang Taibei snorted shamelessly, "The general asked him to bite Gao Dejie Wu dog, but he gave up his defense and took the counterattack. Didn't he read military books?"

"It's also fortunate that General Zhao is not as familiar with military books as Master Bei, and has a deep understanding of strategy. Otherwise, this battle will be even more difficult to fight." Hilgen sneered coldly, and then waved to the orderly and ordered: " Ask the scouts to continue to closely monitor the situation in Dagutang, and report immediately if there is any situation."

The messenger led the order away, and Hilgen stood up again, and called the captain of the personal army to him, and ordered: "Send the fast boat to order Hargaqi, let him march at full speed, attack the water gate of Jiujiang, and break the deadlock on the battlefield Let Wu Gou completely collapse! Then send an order to Jue Luo Babur and Yi Erduqi to get them ready to board the ship. Our troop transport ship will return to the Hukou wharf and immediately board the ship to cross the lake. The main force of this Wu dog bites it thoroughly! Don't let go if you bite to death!"

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Just as the scouts of the Qing army reported to Hilgen, on the Dagutang battlefield at this moment, the battle between the Gao Dejie Department of the Wu Army and the Zhao Guozuo Department of the Qing Army has also entered the most intense heat, except for the more than 2000 soldiers led by the left wing Gao Hongchen. The cavalry of the Wu army did not move according to the order, but the battle on the right wing and the frontal battlefield of the central army was already in full swing.

Let's first look at the frontal battlefield of the infantry on both sides. After the infantry of the Wu army advanced within two miles of the front of the Qing army brigade, three hundred Sanhao rockets were shot together, roaring and smashing into the Qing army brigade.The soldiers and generals of the Qing army in Nanchang who were drawing their bows, setting up arrows, loading ammunition and preparing to attack the Wu army, this was the first time they had seen such a spectacular sight, and it was also the first time they had seen such a terrifying weapon. They only saw streaks of white smoke shooting into themselves In the army, and then there was a deafening and terrifying explosion sound in his own team. One by one, the soldiers of the self-army were smashed to pieces on the spot, and one after another flew into the air, falling to their deaths on the spot, Qing who was knocked down by the shock wave There were countless soldiers in the army, and it made countless soldiers of the Qing army look ashen, screaming in despair, demoralized, and the team was in chaos.

"Oh my god!" Also exclaiming in shock was the old general Zhao Guozuo. Although this old traitor had long heard of the reputation of Sanhao Rockets for annihilating more than 2 Qing cavalry within a quarter of an hour, it was the first time he was on the battlefield. When he really saw such a weapon, such a fierce firepower coverage and such a terrifying gunpowder and beacon fire, Zhao Guozuo, who is definitely well-informed, was so shocked that his face paled and his soul was scattered. There was only one thought left in his mind, "Ao Zhongtang, you lost!" No injustice!"

"Shhhhhhhhhhh!" Another wave of Wu army rockets struck, although the density was not as great as before, but where the arrow pointed, the Qing army team that was gearing up to fight just now collapsed, and countless Qing troops The soldiers of the army threw down their weapons and ran away. The screams, screams and wailing rang out together, but Wu Jun's rockets still mercilessly smashed into the crowd and exploded, splashing waves of blood and flesh. Leaving one after another blood sprays on the brownish-yellow land, it is particularly eye-catching.

"Come on!" Gao Qi, who commanded the Wu army's infantry, roared and waved his flag fiercely. The Wu army's infantry rushed forward together, shouting and killing the Qing army's tortoise formation, which was already in complete chaos. The Wu army's rocket team commanded by Li Xiongfei also pushed forward. The car charged forward, while loading the last [-] rockets into the car, the blade pointed directly at the Qing army's flag array that had lost the protection of the infantry. Li Xiongfei continued to yell, "Pay attention to the order flag! Pay attention to the order flag! No order, no fire is allowed! The last Rocket, give it to Mangou coach!"

"Cavalry attack!" At the same time, in the Qing army's flag formation, it was discovered that Wu Jun was charging at full speed, and he saw that the front line of defense was already in chaos. He waved his hand and ordered his second son, Zhao Hui, to lead the last thousand cavalry to attack to stop the Wu army's charge and buy time for the Qing army's infantry to regroup.

"Great Qing——!" Amidst the roar of raising his sword, Zhao Hui pinched the horse with his legs and pulled the horse's rein with his left hand. He rushed out like an arrow off the string, followed by the Qing cavalry behind him, rushing like a tide. The infantry of the Wu army charged in an all-round way. Although they trampled to death, knocked down and injured many of their own infantry during the full sprint, they couldn't care less - the strength of the Qing army under Zhao Guozuo's department was not as good as that of the Wu army. In the battle, the only thing left is to be slaughtered wantonly by Wu Jun with more beatings and less.

"Fuck you, full of dogs!" Li Xiongfei, who was in charge of the Qing army's cavalry and commanded the Wu army's rocket array, rebelled and cursed. He regretted that he missed the great opportunity to completely blow up the Qing army's flag array, but he could only wave the flag helplessly. Shouting, "Light it on fire, and send my dog ​​cavalry to heaven!"

"Shhh! Shhhh! Shhhhhhhh!" Amid the continuous sound of piercing through the air, the last [-] rockets of the Czech army whizzed out, carrying twisted and thick white smoke, grinning grinningly. The cavalry of the Qing army who rushed to seek their own death, the last thousand cavalry of the Qing army of Zhao Guozuo's department...

Not far away, on the right-wing battlefield where the sound of hooves was thundering and the sky was covered with dust and smoke, although the cavalry of the Wu army led by Gao Dejie was quite exhausted before participating in the battle, after entering the battle, the cavalry of the Wu army still let Zhao Yue and Chang Jinggong learn from them. After a while, what is the invincible iron cavalry that survived a hundred battles, and Zhao Yue cavalry, who was used to bullying the Ming army cavalry and Taiwanese cavalry, saw what the real iron hooves are.

On the battlefield, the cavalry of the Wu army used Gao Dejie as the tip of their swords to form a surprise attack cone, rampaging in the dusty forest of knives, mountains and spears, invincible. It still takes advantage of a certain amount of physical strength and horsepower, but it still can't do anything to this Wu army cavalry. It was rushed by the Wu army cavalry and was out of formation. Hoarse and exhausted, less than half an hour had already shown signs of decline.

What made Zhao Yue, Chang Jinggong and other generals of the Qing army even more terrified was that the Wu army's left-wing cavalry led by Gao Dejie's brother Gao Hongchen had been standing still all the time, as if they hadn't noticed that the right wing was already fighting in full swing and blood was flowing like a river. generally.Obviously, Gao Hongchen was definitely not timid and afraid of fighting, but was waiting for an opportunity, until the Qing army showed its flaws, and then launched a fatal blow to the Qing army's cavalry or infantry brigade...

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Scouts from both sides kept sending the battle situation of Dagutang to the Wu army coach Fatty Lu and the Qing army coach Hilgen. When they heard that the Dagutang battlefield was intensified, they looked at the Mei family who fought more fiercely and fiercely. On the European battlefield, Fatty Lu and Hilgen couldn't help muttering in unison, "The key depends on the third battlefield. Whoever wins the third battlefield can break the balance of power in the decisive battle in northern Jiangxi and win the decisive battle." final victory!"

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When the application time is approaching, when the Meijiazhou battlefield and the Dagutang battlefield have reached a temporary stalemate, the Qing army navy with absolute strength and numbers finally approached the Shuimen Wharf at the north gate of Jiujiang. More than 200 giant ships Giant ships and thousands of small boats and light boats form a "diamond" formation on the river. The battle flags are like a forest, the swords and guns are like the sea, and the big and small ships are as dense as reeds, which are so dense that they almost completely cover the water surface of the Yangtze River.And the Wu Jun navy who received the scout report also all left the port, and there were a pitifully few fifty-odd variegated warships and more than 200 sampans lined up on the river, posing-a stance of fleeing for their lives!

"The Wugou Navy has finally left the port!" Seeing such a scene, the admiral of the Qing Army's Jiangnan Navy, Baylor E Nai, laughed triumphantly, and shouted: "Show the flag, the whole army charges, rush up and kill Wugou's navy !"

"Lord Belle, please be careful." Qing army deputy commander Hal Gaqi, who was authorized by Shirgen to command the third battlefield, quickly pulled E Nai and reminded: "Don't forget the warning from Yang Jie and Yang Junmen. A tactic called suicide sampan, using a light sampan driven by two people to fill it with new gunpowder, collide with our big ship and detonate, and perish with our warship, a sampan can exchange us for a sand-washing boat!"

"Fucking Wugou, shameless!" Obele cursed, and changed his words: "Show the flag, the whole army maintains formation and continues to move forward. The gunboat suppresses Wugou's navy with artillery first, and the small boat steps forward to cover! Send people to order the ships to be careful of Wu Gou's suicide sampan, if Wu Gou's sampan approaches, sink it first."

The flag was raised, the light boats of the Qing army stepped forward to cover, and the giant warships moved up behind them, approaching the Wu army's navy in a battle formation. The shells fell overwhelmingly near Wu Jun's navy, causing waves to splash on the river, and the water sprayed into the sky.Seeing that there was no room to take advantage of, Li Guodong, the commander of the Wu Jun Navy, the famous traitor Li Guodong, honestly carried out Fatty Lu's tactics, and ordered the banner to be raised, and the whole army to flee for their lives! ——If you don't escape, you can't do it, the power gap is too far.

When the flag was raised, the ships of the Wu army hoisted their sails and fled towards the upper reaches of the Yangtze River by taking advantage of the strong southeast wind that was constantly blowing at the turn of spring and summer.Seeing such a scene, the Qing army fleet naturally burst into laughter, booing and cursing, and E Nai was very proud, and shouted: "Send an order to Ghent Baturu, let him lead fifty A warship, three hundred light boats, and go all out to hunt down the Wugou fleet!"

"Tell General Ghent that you can only chase for thirty miles, and don't pursue too deep!" Hargaqi added cautiously, and the messenger happily agreed loudly, and jumped on the small boat excitedly to deliver the order.E Nai and Hargaqi continued to command the Qing army's navy to advance westward, and lined up in front of the water gate to the north of Jiujiang, ready to launch a siege war at any time.

At the beginning of Shenshi, in view of Hilgen's repeated urging of the navy to attack the city and relieve the pressure on the land battlefield, Hargaqi and E Nai decided to approach the water gate with gunboats and bombard the four forts on the Jiujiang water gate with the artillery on board. Suppress the Wu army's artillery fire, wait until Han Daren's inner chamber should start, open the water gate, and then take the opportunity to enter the city.

The plan was determined, the flag was played, and more than 100 Qing army warships equipped with artillery immediately lowered their sails and waved, and slowly approached the water gate of Jiujiang by manpower. Other ships lined up.Let me explain the situation here, because in this era, only Fatty Lu has mastered the iron mold casting method that can quickly cast cannons. The Qing court, which only relied on mud molds, was far behind the speed of shipbuilding in terms of casting speed. Mu Tianyan gave An Qing The more than 65 warships built by the Qing army were too late to be equipped with artillery, so although there were many warships in the Qing army, less than half of the warships were actually equipped with artillery. Ships, the gun boats in E Nai's hands, there are only [-] of them.

That's a long way off, but let's get down to business. When this huge Qing army fleet had just entered the three-mile range of the most powerful artillery of the Wu army's defenders, before the Qing army's warship turned its hull and aimed its muzzle at Jiujiang Water Gate, the four ships on Jiujiang Water Gate The fortress of the Wu army was already making loud noises, and it was the first to launch an artillery attack.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Amidst the continuous sound of artillery, rows of black cannonballs were ejected from the Wu army's fort, and they hit the Qing army's fleet with a whistling sound. More than half of the shells fell into the water and exploded, splashing several feet of water, but nearly half of the shells fell on the heads of the Qing army fleet, blowing up the masts of the Qing army's warships, sending sawdust flying into the sky, and even making the Qing soldiers on the deck cry like ghosts and howl like wolves. , blood sprayed like waves.

At this time, the warships of the Qing army that had turned their heads had also begun to fire their cannons, launching a confrontation with the forts of the Wu army. All kinds of flowering shells and solid shells came and went in an endless stream. Blossoms bloom everywhere on the pier and inside and outside the city wall, gunpowder smoke fills the air everywhere, and the water splashes soaring into the sky that you can’t see anything clearly from a few feet away. The sound of intense explosions and gunfire mingles together, shaking the eardrums of the soldiers on both sides. , almost deaf.

The magnificent artillery battle is still going on, and the Qing army gunboats have a numerical advantage. Each of the 65 gunboats is equipped with ten cannons, two on the deck, and four on each side of the ship's side, even if the artillery on the other side of the ship cannot be put into battle , the six guns per ship is about 380 guns - of course, the guns have different specifications, types and ranges, there are original Francophones, Dutch guns bought from the West, and some made by the Qing army themselves Cannons and Hongyi cannons have reduced some of their firepower.Although Wu Jun only has more than [-] cannons, more than [-] of them are copper mother cannons or bronze cannons that are not easy to explode-including more than [-] cannons given by Zhangtai Beizi when he abandoned Jiujiang City. Fatty Lu's artillery, generally speaking, has an extremely fast rate of fire and is protected by a solid turret, so it doesn't fall behind for a while.

After bombarding each other for a while, the navy of the Qing army gradually felt that it was a bit difficult, because the original artillery shells of the Wu army had already been replaced with new-style flowering shells containing three good explosives, which were far more powerful than the original flowering shells of the Qing army containing black powder. And the more primitive solid shells, basically as long as they cannonball the warships of the Qing army, unless there is a dud, it will definitely blow up a big hole. If it falls on the deck, the flying shrapnel can harvest countless Qing troops. soldiers' lives.So after nearly half an hour of confrontation, nine warships of the Qing army were sunk and more than [-] warships were damaged. , but still fired continuously, it is difficult to judge the specific losses caused by the Qing army's shelling to the Wu army's artillery.

Seeing such a result, Lord E Nai Belle finally understood Hilgen's previous painstaking efforts. The reason why Hilgen insisted on preventing his navy from attacking the water gate of the Wu army was not because he was afraid of being rewarded for his meritorious service, but because he was protecting Myself, in front of such powerful Wu Jun artillery shells, the possibility of directly breaking through the water gate of Jiujiang by shelling water battles alone is really not very great.

E Nai suddenly realized here, but Mr. Harga Qiha was jumping anxiously beside him, scolding Han Daren for his ineffectiveness. If the forts are bombarded, even if the water gate can be broken, it will inevitably suffer heavy losses, which is not conducive to the next tactical action that the Anqing Qing army is looking forward to - counterattack Wuchang!
"Huh? Why does one of Wugou's forts seem to have stopped?!" When he was extremely nervous, Halgaqi was surprised to find that a fort on the right side of Jiujiang Water Gate seemed to be misfired and stopped firing.Immediately afterwards, another fort on the right also misfired, and then the two forts on the left also misfired one after another, and stopped pouring the terrible flowering shells at the Qing army fleet.

"Stop! Stop! Stop!" Lord E Nai Belle also realized that the situation was wrong, and quickly shouted orders, "Stop firing, Wu Gou's artillery has stopped! It seems that our internal response has succeeded!"

The flag was played for a long time, and the Qing army fleet, which was completely covered by gunpowder smoke, managed to stop the artillery fire one after another. Soon, the gunpowder smoke on the water gate of Jiujiang gradually dissipated in the river wind, and Han Daren's Korean character banner appeared. Above the water gate tower, there is also the Jiujiang Water Gate, which has been closed for a long time, and finally rises slowly among the rebel soldiers of the Wu army.Immediately afterwards, Han Daren waved his flag, and earth-shattering shouts erupted on the city wall of Shuimen, "Long live the Qing Dynasty! Long live! Long live!"

"Succeeded! Finally succeeded!" Hargaqi wept with joy, and hurriedly shouted: "Hurry up and call the flag, the troop carrier will enter the city and land, reinforce General Han Daren, and kill the remnants of the Wugou army in the city!"

"Master Ha, let's go too!" E Nai roared with dances and dances: "The flagship is moving forward, and Ben Bele will be the first to enter Jiujiang City in person to avenge my empress and prince of the Qing Dynasty!"

"Long live the Qing Dynasty! Long live! Long live!" Amidst the neat and loud shouts of the soldiers of the Qing army and the rebel soldiers of the Wu army, the flagship of the navy of the Qing army, which was personally seated by Lord E Nai Belle and Master Ha, took the lead, rowing and paddling Speeding towards the water gate of Jiujiang, the warships of the Qing army carrying thousands of elite soldiers are also urging each other, scrambling to rush to the water gate of Jiujiang. Land, screaming and rushing into Jiujiang City...

On March 13th, 25th year of Kang Mazi in the Qing Dynasty, when you are approaching in the afternoon, after a day of fierce and bloody battles, our main navy in the north of Jiangxi in the Qing Dynasty, under the support of Han Daren, the general of the Wu rebel army who returned anyway, made a surprise attack on Jiujiang The water gate succeeded, and successfully entered Jiujiang City, breaking the stalemate in the decisive battle in northern Jiangxi in one fell swoop! ——The author can swear that the stalemate in the decisive battle in northern Jiangxi was indeed broken in one fell swoop!

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