scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 289 The Great Victory
For the Fatty Army, the most difficult thing is the water battlefield north of the Jiujiang Water Gate, because the strength of the Fatty Army Navy and the Qing Army Navy is too great.

The navy of the Qing army has more than 200 large warships and thousands of light boats, most of which are newly built fast boats. They are well-equipped and well-drilled, with more than ten thousand soldiers; The navy led by the treacherous Li Guodong only has more than 4000 warships of different models, new and old, of which [-] are old-fashioned warships brought by the traitor Li Guodong when he donated Yuezhou to the old traitor Wu. He is almost at the age of Fatty Lu, and there are only about [-] soldiers, two-thirds of which are composed of surrendered troops from the Qing army and infantry soldiers from the Wu army. The experience, training and morale are naturally conceivable. Got it.

Therefore, even though Han Daren, Li Tianzhi and other generals had already lured a large number of Qing army warships to the water gate to attack with infantry under the ingenious arrangement of Lu Fatty, sinking and capturing many Qing army warships, Line Yuer The artillery team of the Wu army under the command also sank and damaged some of the Qing army's warships, but the strength of the remaining navy of the Qing army was still higher than that of the Wu army's navy commanded by Li Guodong.So even when the decisive battle in northern Jiangxi came to an end, the Fatty Army had already secured its victory, and the Fatty Army Navy under the command of traitor Li Guodong was still helpless with the remaining Qing Army Navy, let alone wiped out the enemy. If you can avoid big losses in the water battle, you are already Amitabha.

Although there is a great disparity in power, Li Guodong's reputation as a traitor is not in vain, and even his descendants will follow Shi Dakai to fight against the Qing Dynasty. Leading the Wu Jun navy into the Daqingshui Division brigade, and started a hand-to-hand battle with the Daqingshui Division. While killing the officers and men of the Daqingshui Division frantically, he sent his son Li Jiyang to contact the Jiujiang Fort to let the Wu Jun artillery continue to fire and continue to bombard the already The Daqingshui division who got into a mess with Wu Jun's navy!

The self-army is already mixed with the enemy, and the self-army artillery is still firing at the battlefield. Li Guodong's tactics are so crazy that even Lin Yu'er was taken aback. She opened her beautiful big eyes and shouted at Li Guodong's son Li Jiyang : "Is your father crazy? Our fleet is mixed with the fleet of Mangou, and I still want to continue firing? What if we hit our own warship?!"

"Miss Line, please rest assured, my father is ready to die for the country." Li Jiyang replied with his chest out: "Mangou still has more than 100 warships, including sixty or seventy gunboats. There are only fifty or so variegated warships, most of them are old warships, with few troops and slow speed, they are not the opponents of Mangou Navy! Mangou has been paying attention to guarding against our suicide sampans, thousands of them The boats are entangled with our light boats, and the suicide sampans cannot be dispatched at all. If the fight continues like this, our navy will undoubtedly lose. The only way to turn defeat into victory is to cover the battlefield with artillery fire, completely destroying the morale and fighting spirit of the Mangou sailors. We sailors have a chance!"

Line Yu'er continued to be dumbfounded. After watching for a long time, she found that Li Jiyang didn't seem to be joking, so she shook her head and refused, "No, I can't do that. I can't let the artillery hit my own people."

"Miss Line, if you fire the cannon, my father and the last general may not be able to come back, but there is still hope. If you don't fire the cannon, my father and the last general are no match for Man Dog, and they will never come back." Li Jiyang replied in a deep voice. , took out a piece of letter paper written in blood from his bosom, held it in front of Line Yu'er with both hands, and said solemnly: "Miss Line, this is my father's suicide note written with his own blood, and it is for the prince. If my father and the general return home If you don’t come, please ask Miss Line to forward it to the prince on behalf of my father.”

Looking at Li Guodong's bloody letter, Line Yu'er's lips trembled, and she nodded after a long while. She tremblingly took Li Guodong's suicide note and put it away solemnly. Putting down the fort by himself, jumping on the self-armed warship waiting by the river, set sail, and rushed to the fierce battle on the water without hesitation.Line Yu'er issued an order tremblingly, "Order the forts everywhere, aim at the battlefield on the water, and fire!" Before he finished speaking, Line Yu'er was already in tears.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Wu Jun's fort, which had been silent for a while, roared again, pouring row after row of blooming shells onto the distant river battlefield, and onto the naval battlefield where the enemy and us were intertwined like hemp. The flying closeboard warships bombarded the bows of the naval warships of the Wu army and the Qing army, and immediately exploded everywhere on the battlefield, with fire and water splashing into the sky, broken masts of flags flying all over the sky, and screams and screams everywhere.

Before starting the close hand-to-hand combat, the traitor Li Guodong had already notified the ships of his own army of his decision, so the generals of the Wu army had already been mentally prepared for this, and they just rushed madly, jumping on the enemy's warship to kill and seize the ship. , Throw alcohol incendiary bombs and burn enemy ships.The Qing army was in complete chaos. Countless soldiers and generals of the Qing army shouted hysterically, "Wu Gou is crazy! Wu Gou is crazy! Wu Gou's fortress is crazy!"

"Is Wu Gou crazy?" Ghent Batulu, who has taken over E Nai's command of the Qing army's naval fleet, was also stunned, and shouted in disbelief: "The people on the Wugou Fort are crazy? Didn't you see Wu Gou?" The warship is already mixed with us, and they are still firing at the battlefield? Are they not afraid of hitting their own warship?"

Even if the coach is like this, let alone ordinary Qing army generals and Qing army soldiers. Amidst the sound of rumbling gunfire, the Qing army warships and Wu army warships caught fire one after another. The masts collapsed, the decks cracked, and the soldiers were killed There are countless people who are smashed to pieces and bloody, and the soldiers of the Wu army, who attack the strong with the weak, are not afraid, and they just try their best to kill the enemy. One after another, they jumped ship to flee for their lives, and countless Qing soldiers knelt down and surrendered, and many warships turned their bows and fled downstream in disregard of the strict order of Ghent Baturu. , The stalemate naval battlefield situation also suddenly developed in a direction beneficial to the Wu army.

During the fierce battle, a loud "bang" sounded from the flagship of the Qing army, and a shell fell on the flagship deck and exploded, taking the lives of three or four soldiers of the Qing army, breaking the mast of the flagship of the Qing army, and blasting Degente Batulu yelled, "Fuck you! This battle is impossible! Shameless and shameless Wugou!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The cannons continued, and the warships of the Qing army and the Wu army were constantly being hit. It is the same to die under the enemy's knife; the Qing army's navy, which still has an overwhelming numerical advantage, has completely lost its fighting spirit. The warships started to smear the soles of their feet with oil, scrambling to leave the battlefield, and the speed was getting faster and faster.

"Kill!" Amidst the roar, at an unknown time, a warship of the Wu army approached the flagship of the Qing army during the scuffle. The soldiers of the Qing army on the flagship were in chaos, and they rushed forward to fight, and the soldiers also hurriedly carried the yelling Ghent Baturu to the distance. It happened that another shell fell on the side of the ship and exploded, causing water waves to splash. Ghent Baturu was all over his body, which made Ghent Baturu even more angry, so he had to shout: "Show the flag, the whole army retreats downstream! Rita mother, go to the place where there is no Wugou artillery, and fight with Wugou again!" Battle of the Dog Fleet!"

The torches played the flag in the dark night, and the Qing army's large and small ships, which had not had the slightest fighting spirit for a long time, rushed to retreat downstream as if they had been amnesty, and the team was in chaos. Wu Jun's suicide sampan, which was too immobile, also took the opportunity to dispatch. Under the cover of night and chaos, it rushed towards the Qing army's large ship like a poisonous snake. Once it hit it, it would ignite and dive, and then the earth-shattering explosion sounded near the waterline of the Qing army's warship. , and then the warship began to sink gradually, completely losing its escape efforts and combat effectiveness. The soldiers of the Qing army on the ship either cried and jumped into the water to escape, or simply climbed onto the Wu army warship and surrendered. The losses were extremely heavy.

On the night of March 13th, 25th year of Kang Mazi in the Qing Dynasty, the Jiangnan Navy of the Great Qing Dynasty and the Wu Ni East Route Army Navy fought in the Jiujiang section of the Yangtze River. There are countless soldiers of the Daqingshui Division and the generals of the Wu Rebel Army. My deputy admiral of the Daqingshui Division, General Ghent Batulu, was merciful. The traitor Li Guodong took revenge and took advantage of the chaos to massacre the soldiers of our Daqingshui Army. As a result, our Daqingshui Division had only 69 warships and more than [-] soldiers withdrew from the battlefield. The casualties of the entire army were almost three-quarters! ——Surreptitiously described by a descendant Yan Mou in later generations.

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The navy battlefield with huge disparity in power was actually won. When the news reached Meijiazhou's main battlefield, Fatty Lu couldn't believe his ears. It wasn't until he learned about the decisive battle that Fatty Lu's eyes narrowed. Looking up to the sky with tears, he shouted, "God bless Huaxia! God bless Huaxia! My Huaxia boy, my spine will never stop—!"

"Order all the armies to tell every soldier the news that our navy has defeated the strong with the weak and won a great victory! Long live the Great Zhou! Long live the Great Zhou Navy!"

"Long live the Great Week!" After the good news spread across the battlefield, every soldier in the Wu army cheered frantically, and they worked even harder during the final battle.On the Qing side, more than half of the casualties had been caused by Wu Jun's rocket bombardment, and their morale had completely collapsed. This meeting caught up with the Wu Jun's morale boost, and they couldn't stand it anymore. They were killed by Wu Jun soldiers who were like lunatics Fucking, rolling and crawling, howling ghosts and wolves, anxious like a bereaved dog, wishing that the parents would have two more legs, each of them scurrying about lifelessly, trampling on each other, spilling armor and weapons all over the field, falling into the water and dying tens of thousands, the corpses of people and horses on Poyang Lake Floating, rising and sinking with the waves, like geese riding the tide.

After receiving the news of the disastrous defeat on the Jiangmian battlefield, Hillgen, who was organizing the sixth wave of troops to cross the lake, vomited blood and fainted on the spot. With tears in his eyes, Gen said: "Order, don't cross the lake. All soldiers who have already boarded the ship will disembark. The troop carrier will go across the lake empty. Only as many ships can be saved as can be saved."

"General, I'm afraid it's too late." Military Counselor Ibahan choked up and said, "Wu Dog has already rushed to the pier. Our troop transport ship is crossing the lake. The soldiers have no time...to board the ship."

"Do your best." Hilgen said vigorously, "Send an order to Zhang Simu, who is in command of the troop carrier fleet, and ask him to tell our soldiers on the other side that if they really can't withdraw, let them put down their weapons and surrender."

"Great General..." Ibahan cried out. He never thought that there would be a day when Xiergen, who had led the army to fight in the Qi years before tomorrow, would order the soldiers to surrender.

"Go pass the order. Although Lu Yifeng is a despicable dog thief, he doesn't kill innocent people casually." Hilgen forced a smile, before he finished speaking, Hilgen spurted another mouthful of blood, and fell straight on his back. Passed out again.

What Ibahan said is correct. The Qing army brigade that had already crossed the lake and landed had no way to get back on board. Without even having a chance to land, the officers and men of the Wu army even rushed onto the Qing troop transport ships that were closer to the shore, killing the sailors and civilian husbands recruited by the Qing army from the people and seizing the ships from the escorting Qing soldiers. Zhang Simu, who had no combat power, had no choice but to command the soldiers to shout from a distance on the lake, "The general has orders, resistance is meaningless, put down your weapons and surrender!"

"Brothers, we have nothing to do, and the general has nothing to do. Surrender! Brothers of Wu Jun, you have said that you will not kill those who surrender, you must keep your promise!"

When the news reached Fatty Lu, Fatty Lu, who knew that the victory was decided, did not want the soldiers to die in vain. He quickly ordered the whole army to shout slogans of surrender and not to kill, recruiting the desperate Qing soldiers and generals, and the demoralized Qing army remnants. The army did not want to die in vain, and threw down their weapons and knelt down to surrender. Only a small number of mite Qing soldiers refused to surrender, or they resisted stubbornly, or swam across the lake to escape. Those who died were dismembered by tens of times the number of Wu soldiers, and died even more miserable.

For the Qing court, Kang Mazi's March 13, 25th year was undoubtedly the darkest day. In just one day, the main force of the Qing army in northern Jiangxi was almost wiped out. Nearly 16 troops participated in the decisive battle. Less than [-] remnant soldiers fled back to Nankang City, and less than [-] navy and army troops fled back to the east bank of Poyang Lake. The rest were either wiped out or captured.Killed, captured, and missing [-] generals at the level of vice-dutong and above, more than [-] generals at the general level, deputy general of Dingnan and minister of rites, Hargaqi, killed in battle, Jiangxi admiral Zhao Guozuo, and Jiangnan navy admiral Belle E Nai Killed in battle, Irduqi, the commander of the guard army, was killed in battle, Shi Jiabao, the governor of Jiangnan, was missing, Sanger was missing, Yalai was killed in battle, Zhao Hui was killed in battle, Chang Jinggong was killed in battle, Chuoketuo was captured, and Omu died in battle ………………

Behind this series of lists are naturally the endless tears of sorrow from the families of the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, the proud laughter of the soldiers of the Wu Army, and the smug grin on Fatty Lu's benevolent and fat face. On the battlefield, there were cheerful smiles and resonant military songs of Wu Jun soldiers everywhere. Countless Wu Jun soldiers jumped and sang to celebrate this hard-won victory, complete victory!The name of Fatty Lu's God of War resounded through the land of China again, scaring away the courage of the Eight Banners!
In the early morning of March 26, when the generals of the Wu army were still cleaning the battlefield and taking in prisoners of war, Fatty Lu, who has always been stingy and stingy, had already ordered the three armies to be rewarded. The generals of the Wu army let go of their stomachs to eat, and naturally thunderous cheers resounded on the battlefield.The generals of the Wu army also came to the temporary camp on the Meijiazhou battlefield to celebrate the victory with Fatty Lu.

Just after a big victory, they wiped out the main force of the Qing army in northern Jiangxi, completely reversing the balance of power between the enemy and ourselves on the battlefield in northern Jiangxi. The gathering of the senior generals of the fat army was immersed in joy. Everyone was full of smiles, and everyone was beaming with joy. Even the brothers from the Gao family who had never dealt with each other met with the brothers from the Han family. Li Guodong and his son, who fired artillery on their own fleet, also received the common respect of Wu Jun's generals, and praised the treacherous father and son for taking death as home, and risking their lives for victory.

After celebrating for a long time, the messenger came to report that the captives had been counted. After the three battles yesterday, the Wu army captured more than 200 generals and soldiers of the Qing army, of which more than [-] were officers above the guerrilla level. People, Fatty Lu just thought about it for a while, and ordered the prisoners of war to be dealt with according to the previous method. All Han soldiers who are willing to join the self-armed army will be recruited. Those who don't want to join will give their companions a vote first, and the rest will cut off their thumbs and enter the prisoner-of-war camp, waiting to be escorted to Wuchang to offer prisoners.

"General, what about that Itanbu?" Seeing Fatty Lu's handling of the captive issue, Han Daren suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said: "According to the general's order, the general did not kill that Itanbu, but locked him up." up."

"Bring him here." Fatty Lu finally remembered this, first asked Han Daren to send someone to escort Yitanbu, and then told Gao Hongchen: "General Hongchen, please, take you away that day Brothers who cheated on gambling, call them all."

Han Daren and Gao Hongchen agreed together, and each went down to make arrangements. A few moments later, several Wu Jun veterans who Gao Hongchen brought to swindle the bet came first, and after a while, Yitanbu, whose hands were tied behind his back, was also escorted to Lu In front of the fat man.As soon as they met, the unlucky Itanbu knelt down on his knees and kowtowed, crying and begging for Fatty Lu's life. Fatty Lu was so angry and funny, he first asked Yitanbu to lift him up, and then took out Xiao Erlang's With a steel knife on his waist, he walked up to Itanbu himself with the knife.

"General, please forgive me—!" Seeing Fatty Lu approaching with a knife, Itanbu was frightened out of his wits, struggled and kowtowed to beg for mercy, but what he didn't expect was that not only did Fatty Lu not take his sacrificial knife himself , Instead, he cut the rope on his body with a knife.In this way, not to mention that Yitanbu was stunned with his mouth wide open, even the generals of the Wu army were extremely surprised, and asked one after another: "General, this guy is crawling all over the place, surrendered to our army and served as an internal response to the dog. He deserves death, why did he let him go again?"

"You can't blame him." Fatty Lu shook his head, and beckoned to the front of several Wu Jun veterans brought by Gao Hongchen, pointing to these veterans and asked Itanbu: "Itanbu, do you know that this general Why not kill you?"

"The slave is not..., but the general is merciful and has a bodhisattva's heart." Itanbu replied incoherently.

"Wrong." Fatty Lu shook his head and said with a smile: "It was my arrangement that they swindled you for money that day. It is also my arrangement for the dog to be the internal response. Although you are guilty of being the internal response of the dog, more than half of it is out of helplessness, and then you have made a great contribution by luring the army of the full dog out of the nest. So, not only will I not kill you , and reward you."

"General, I dare not dare." Itanbu quickly knelt down.

"Get up, get up, in our army, you are not allowed to call yourself a slave—that is an insulting name for a dog, you are a human, not a dog." Fatty Lu helped Itanbu himself, and said with a smile: "Well, Didn’t they cheat you of 500 taels of silver? Now I won’t let them pay you back, I will reward you with another 1000 taels of silver and promote you to lieutenant general, can you forgive them for bullying you that day?”

After finishing speaking, Fatty Lu turned to the veterans of the Wu army headed by Li Ya, and said with a smile: "You guys bullied General Itanbu badly that day, so apologize to him today, don't do this in the future, and do a good job Do you understand, friend?"

Li Ya waited for Wu Jun's veterans to agree, and they bowed their hands together to apologize to Itanbu, and Gao Hongchen also came up and bowed his hands, apologizing to Yitanbu, and Yitanbu was so excited that he cried bitterly, struggling to kneel to Fatty Lu again. Kneeling down, hugging Fatty Lu's fat legs, wept loudly: "General, slave..., no, the last general! The last general's life is yours, and the last general dares to do something wrong to you in the future. I'm sorry, big brother!" What happened to Zhou's army, called the last general to be bombarded with five thunders, and he died without a place to die! From today on, the last general is no longer a bannerman. The last general is your sword and your gun. Who do you call the last general to kill? I will kill someone for you——!"

"Okay, okay, I believe you." Fatty Lu nodded again and again, helped Yitanbu up, turned to Han Daren and said: "General Han, go and prepare a pair of deputy armor for General Yitanbu, let him put it on, Then ask him to help recruit prisoners of war."

Han Daren secretly admired Fatty Lu's insidiousness, he quickly agreed, and led Itanbu down to change his armor. The generals of the Wu army next to him also suddenly realized that they were all smiling, and the old man of the Wu army headed by Li Ya was even more joking. , and invited Yitanbu to start the game after receiving the reward, but of course Yitanbu refused to agree to anything, and only said that after he received the reward, he would definitely invite Li Ya to wait for Wu Jun to drink, so he shook his head desperately. The nervous look of refusing to gamble again naturally made everyone laugh.

"General, if there is nothing wrong, then I will leave." Seeing Han Daren leading Itanbu away, Li Ya, who was very winking, hurriedly led a few Wu Jun veterans to leave. Fatty Lu nodded in agreement first, Then suddenly his heart moved, and he shouted: "Wait."

The veterans of the Wu army were stunned, and hurriedly stopped. Fatty Lu smiled and said, "Leave Li Ya, the others go down and wait for the reward." Ya waited inexplicably in place.

"Li Ya, if I remember correctly, last time I asked Brother Dajie to find a clever person to punish Kong Sizhen, it seems to be you?" Fatty Lu asked.

Li Ya nodded to admit it, and Gao Hongchen next to him interrupted with a smile: "The general remembers correctly, this kid is as smart as a crystal monkey, so the last time he cheated Kong Sizhen, and this time he cheated Yitanbu, he was not missing."

"Very good. I'm just worried that I can't find a smart and capable person to help me with a big event." Fatty Lu was overjoyed, and he lifted the felt hat on Li Ya's head himself, and found that his hair was quite long, tied with a False braids are definitely not a problem, and I couldn't help but feel even more happy, so I asked, "Li Ya, this general has an errand for you that requires brainstorming, it's dangerous, do you dare to go?"

"Major general, please give me orders, the villain dare not obey." Li Ya agreed loudly, and then asked tentatively: "General, what kind of errand would make you say it's dangerous?"

"I have a friend. I saved his life, but I just don't know if he still misses me." Fatty Lu replied, "So I want to send a shrewd person to deliver a letter to him." Believe me, try him out."

(End of this chapter)