scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 331

It took the doctor more than half an hour to wake up Tuhai. However, after Tuhai regained consciousness, he kept staring blankly at the roof in a daze, as if his soul had gone out of his body. No matter how much Niyahan and the others shouted with tears in their eyes, they remained silent all the time, as if they were completely discouraged and lazy.

After waiting for a long time to see that Tu Hai looked like this, Cao Yin and Li Xu, who had been on the road day and night for seven days, couldn't bear it any longer. They said that they would come to visit Mr. Tu tomorrow, and then they both went to Jin Fu. The room we arranged to rest, Zhangtai was alone and Ligu did not dare to be alone with Shangshan and others, so he quickly found an excuse to patrol the city and escaped from Tuhai's ward, leaving behind Shangshan, Jin Fu, and Niyahan The four treacherous ministers of the Qing Dynasty and Ghent Baturu took care of the even bigger traitor Tu Hai.

It was also at this time that Tu Hai, who had been silent all this time, came back to his senses as if he had just woken up from a big dream, grabbed Shang Shan's hand, and said in a low voice: "Master Baylor, hurry up, send someone Go get in touch with Xia Guo, tell him what happened in Anqing City, let him take care of himself, and stop following the original plan."

"Why?" Shang Shan was a little confused.It was only then that Tu Hai remembered that he hadn't had time to introduce the results of negotiations with Xia Guoxiang to Shang Shan and others after he came back. At that moment, Tu Hai quickly lowered his voice, introduced the agreement reached between himself and Xia Guoxiang in detail, and said in a low voice: "Shang Shan Baylor, Lord Jin, the two generals, for the sake of the long-term, we must not completely anger Xia Guoxiang's bastard, we must immediately introduce the situation to him, tell him that there has been a change in the plan, and let him take care of himself."

"So that's the case." Niyahan nodded, and said in a low voice: "Master Tu, please don't worry, I will send someone out of the city immediately in the middle of the night to tell Wu Gou that there has been a change in the plan, so that he can take care of himself."

"General Ni, wait a minute." Shang Shan hurriedly stopped, and said in a low voice: "Lord Tu, I don't think we need to inform Xia Guoxiang's dog thief. First, we and Xia Guoxiang's dog thief are just using each other and have no friendship. It is impossible to cooperate with this dog thief again, and it is nothing to offend him. Second, if the news leaks out, Cao Yin and Li Xu, those two idiots, will know that we are contacting Xia Guoxiang's dog thief again, and the complaint has arrived Where the master is, we have to walk around without food."

"There is a third." Shang Shan paused for a moment, and then added: "In Tutang, you only reached an agreement with Xia Guoxiang in the evening, and within a few hours, you said that the agreement was invalidated. If you don't understand, what should he do if he became angry and launched a strong attack on Anqing City? You have also seen the situation of Wu Gou's attack on the city these few times. He is very willing to die, and Wu Gou has an airship to help out, so Wu Gou is really anxious, and he is determined to fight with us to the death, even if we can finally defend this Anqing City, I am afraid that there will be heavy casualties and huge losses."

"Yes." Jin Fu echoed: "If Wu Gou is not lying, their food and grass are about to run out, so we don't know for the time being that Xia Guoxiang's dog thief will let him go back and forth to Chizhou for nothing, and use up his food and grass. Also hurry up and repair the city defenses, dredge the moat again, and Anqing City will be as stable as Mount Tai."

"Then it's up to you." Tuhai was indeed discouraged, laying his head on the pillow, and sighed with depression: "As a slave, I have done my best for the master, and I don't care if I break my promise." Yu Wugou."

Seeing Tu Hai's appearance, Shang Shan, Jin Fu, Niyahan and others felt extremely uncomfortable, Shang Shan hurriedly comforted him: "Tu Tang, in fact, you don't need to be so discouraged, you have already convinced Xia Guoxiang The dog thief bypassed Anqing and went straight to the south of the Yangtze River. Xia Guoxiang, the dog thief will cross the river to the south bank of the Yangtze River and go straight east. After finding out that he has been fooled, maybe he will follow the example of Lu Yifeng. That way, our goal can also be achieved.”

Tuhai nodded slightly and did not speak, but Niyahan suddenly said something, and said in a low voice: "Generals, how about we just encourage Zhangtai to defend Chizhou? It is likely that the emperor suddenly sent to supervise the army. Ninth, it’s the ghost of this idiot. Tomorrow Xia Guoxiang will move his troops to cross the river. We must send troops to reinforce Chizhou. Instead of letting others guard Chizhou City, it is better to let Zhangtai guard Chizhou. All the anger will be directed at the Chizhou army. Then even if that idiot Zhang Tai comes back alive, he will be accused of losing the city and land, hehe..."

"Good idea!" Shang Shan clenched his fist and said through gritted teeth, "As soon as Wu Dog starts crossing the river tomorrow, we will join forces immediately to instigate and instigate the Zhangtai dog thief to guard Chizhou alone!"

"Okay, let's do it like this!" Without batting an eyelid, Jin Fu and Ghent Batulu agreed to send Zhangtai to Chizhou to die. From this we can see that there is indeed a little bit of our Zhangtai Beizi's life. fail.And Tu Hai just moved his eyelids, nodded quickly, and gritted his teeth viciously.

After some discussion, Shangshan, Niyahan and others bid farewell and left one after another, returning to their own residences to rest, but none of these people thought that the person involved, the Admiral of the Anqing Navy, Ghent Baturu, even more did not expect that, He had just returned to his room, but he suddenly found that the supervisors Cao Yin and Li Xu sent by Kang Mazi, as well as Zhangtai Beizi, had been waiting for him for a long time—by the way, let me recall for everyone, that time When the decision-makers of the Qing army in Anqing finalized the water release strategy, Ghent Baturu was the only one who did not strongly express his support, but chose to follow the crowd and listen to the big guys...

"The emperor's secret decree, Guarja Ghent Baturu kneels to receive it." Cao Yin directly showed a Kang Mazi secret decree to Ghent Baturu, made Ghent Baturu kneel down, and read in a low voice: " Blessed by heaven, the emperor ordered: The third-class baron and the inlaid yellow banner are all in charge of Guerjia. Ghent Batulu, your father Ninu, and your brother Nitanga, since they surrendered to the Emperor Taizu of the Qing Dynasty, they will all be appointed as assistant leaders. The world has received the grace of the country, and you, Zigetu, have also been granted the title of Cavalry Captain and first-class Yunqi Captain..."

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The long day finally passed, and in the early morning of the next day, which was also the early morning of the 14th day of the first lunar month of the [-]th year of Qingkang Mazi in the second year of the lunar new year, Xia Guoxiang's army, who had been unable to attack the city many times, set up their camps. The main force of the division crossed the south of the Yangtze River under cover.Seeing Wu Jun's retreat, most of the soldiers and people in Anqing City who didn't know the truth couldn't help cheering loudly, celebrating this hard-won victory. Although the crisis may have been resolved, the next time the Wu army makes a comeback, the Anqing army and civilians will have to bear the wrath of the Wu army's soldiers alone.

In the evening, nearly [-] Wu troops crossed the Yangtze River across the board and camped again at the old Huangshiji camp. At this time, Shang Shan, Niyahan and others hurriedly used the excuse that they needed more troops to support Chizhou City downstream to prevent Xia Guoxiang imitated Fatty Lu from the south bank to go straight to the south of the Yangtze River by land, and jointly encouraged and instigated Zhangtai Beizi, who was familiar with military books and profound strategy, to guard Chizhou City. For a moment, he completely forgot how many catties and taels he had, and he was so happy that he wanted to die, and agreed to lead an army of [-] to defend Chizhou, blocking the eastward path of the main Wu army.

Of course, Zhangtai Beizi, who is familiar with military books and has a deep understanding of strategy, is not a person who underestimates the enemy casually. Although he agreed to defend Chizhou, he put forward three conditions for sending troops. One is that the Anqing navy led by Ghent Baturu must accompany the army The expedition went to the Yangtze River in the north of Chizhou to meet and cover; second, Zhangtai Beizi had to take away a large amount of supplies such as kerosene and gunpowder, so that he could stick to Chizhou City for a long time; third, Anqing City had to send a The elite soldiers stationed at Changfengling in the upper reaches of Chizhou in order to respond to the Chizhou defenders at any time.

Shang Shan, Niyahan and the others know better than anyone else how much master Zhangtai Beizi has. Shangshan and Niyahan not only agreed to all the conditions, but also made an extremely generous decision. Eight thousand elite soldiers were sent to garrison in Changfengling, and enough ferries were prepared to cross the river to meet the Chizhou defenders at any time.At present, Master Beizi Zhangtai did not talk much, and made preparations for the expedition overnight. Early the next morning, he led [-] elite soldiers and a large amount of supplies to defend the city. Take the water to Chizhou City for reinforcements.

Naturally, the big moves of the Qing army could not be hidden from the eyes of the Wu army scouts. Just as Xia Guoxiang, Ma Bao and others were discussing whether to pursue and intercept this Qing army team, the Qing army envoy sent by Tuhai came to the Wu army camp again. Among them, it was explained that the Qing army went south to reinforce Chizhou on the surface, but in fact it was sending food to Chizhou, because in order to prevent any emergency, most of the food stored in Chizhou city was transferred to Anqing City, where the city is strong and the defenders are elite. However, the amount of grain stored in Chizhou City was already less than [-] shi, so in order to fulfill his promise, Tutang decided to send reinforcements to make up for the amount of [-] shi.

Because they found that there were indeed a large number of cargo ships in the Qing army, Xia Guoxiang, Ma Bao, Du Hui and others who had completely believed in Tuhai naturally did not doubt him, so they hurriedly rewarded him and asked the envoy to convey to Tuhai Thank you, sent the Qing army envoys back to the city, and then Xia Guoping and others also gave up the plan to intercept the Qing army fleet, commanded the army to pull out the camp, and take the land to take Chizhou City.At the same time, as a precautionary measure, Du Hui's navy was temporarily left in Huangshiji to monitor the Anqing Qing army and protect the rear. They would only wait for Xia Guo and others to take Chizhou before heading east to rendezvous.

Of course, marching by land is not as fast as traveling by water, especially when carrying a large amount of food and supplies and five airships, the marching speed of Xia Guoxiang's army is naturally not as fast as that of Lu Fatty's light army. After walking for two full days, it was already the evening of the 110st of the first lunar month when we arrived at the city of Chizhou.

When the army arrived at the destination, it was getting late. Xia Guoxiang planned to stay outside the city for one night before entering the city the next day, but Tu Hai's envoy had already come to Xia Guoxiang on his own initiative, telling Xia Guoxiang that the Qing army in the city was ready to retreat Prepare, the grain and grass have also been put into the warehouse in the city. The Wu army can attack the city at any time, and the Qing army can also retreat at any time. At the same time, a list of grain and grass and a map of the city are attached so that Xia Guoxiang's army can take over the treasury immediately after entering the city. It is to tell Xia Guoxiang that the people in the city have been expelled from the city in advance, and the houses have been vacated for the Wu army to rest and station.Xia Guoxiang was of course overjoyed when he heard the words, he praised Tu Hai for his trustworthiness and was extremely careful, he quickly rewarded and thanked the envoys of the Qing army, and ordered the army to attack the city overnight.

The drums were beating, and the Wu army, who was looking forward to entering the city to rest overnight, invested a large number of main forces to attack the city from the very beginning, shouting and rushing towards the west gate of Chizhou like a tide, and the Qing army defenders on the city of Chizhou did not say a word, and immediately rushed to the city. Abandoning the city defense and fleeing northward, he even took the initiative to lower the suspension bridge to facilitate the Wu army's entry into the city.At the same time, Wu Jun's scouts reported that the north gate of Chizhou had also been opened by the defenders, and the Qing army began to retreat out of the city in an organized way, fleeing for their lives to the north of Chikou Town Wharf.Xia Guoxiang was overjoyed when he heard the news, and hurriedly ordered the Wu army not to pursue the defeated Qing army, and only went into the city to take over the city defense with all his strength.

The city gate without the defenders was easily smashed open by Wu Jun. When Wu Jun entered the city, the city of Chizhou was basically an empty city. Even the people in the city had escaped cleanly. Xia Guoxiang hurriedly sent a team to take over the mansion. Ku, while commanding the Wu army to station in the city.And the soldiers of the Wu army were so hungry that their chests were stuck to their backs after running for a day. Seeing that there were no defenders or people in the city, and there were empty houses and houses everywhere, they rushed into the houses of the people one after another to make fire and cook, and they formed a chaotic scene in the dark night. group.Xia Guoxiang couldn't restrain himself for a while and didn't bother to restrain him. He just sent troops to the city to take over the city wall, and then he and Ma Bao led the troops to the magistrate's yamen to stay and rest.

After a while, Xia Guoxiang and Ma Bao successfully entered the Chizhou magistrate's yamen, but the prefect's yamen, where the two were full of will, had just sat hot, and Zhang Guozhu, the general of the Wu army who was ordered to take over the treasury, rushed in scrambling. After entering the door, he shouted: "General, General Ma, the situation is wrong, we seem to have been fooled!"

"What happened?" Xia Guoxiang stood up abruptly.

"The warehouse in Chizhou Mansion is full of grain bags!" Zhang Guozhu screamed in dismay, "But the grain bags are full of firewood and soil!"

"What?!" Xia Guoxiang and Ma Bao jumped up at the same time, and exclaimed in unison: "It's all firewood and mud?!"

"It's on fire!" Before Zhang Guozhu had time to answer, there was already a loud shout from outside the yamen, "It's on fire, the south city is on fire! The north city is on fire too—!"

"Could it be a trick?" Xia Guoxiang and Ma Bao turned pale with fright, and rushed to the government office to look outside, only to see that not only the south city and the north city were on fire in Chizhou city, but the west city and east city were also rising at the same time. There were more than one fires, and it happened that the wind was strong at night, and it burned into a piece in a short time, reflecting half of the sky red.Soldiers of the Wu army cried and howled in the raging fire, running around, trampling each other, countless dead, screams, wailing and crackling of the fire merged into one, straight into the sky, and the sound spread for ten miles.

"Tuhai boy, I'll fuck your mother's eighteen generations of ancestors!" Xia Guoxiang roared hysterically, "Get out of the city, get out of the city immediately! We've been tricked! We've been tricked——!"

Xia Guoxiang's order was conveyed too soon, and the beams of every house in the streets and alleys of Chizhou City were already full of kerosene altars, firewood, sulfur, gunpowder and other fire starters, and there were more than three hundred A group of two Qing army soldiers wearing Wu Bing's uniform set fires everywhere in disorder, and with the raging night wind, even if a fire started in one place, it would spread instantly. The bigger the burn, the more intense the burn.By the time Xia Guoxiang, Ma Bao and other Wu army generals rode their horses, the city of Chizhou was already covered in flames. What was even more outrageous was that the fire from the Qing army was lucky enough to burn part of the firearms brought by the Wu army. On the car, hundreds of Miyoshi rockets were ignited by the flames, roaring and flying out, exploding, and expanding the fire several times at once.

"Kill!" At the same time, outside the city of Chizhou, the Qing army team that had fled to the wharf of Chikou Town turned around and headed back towards the chaotic Wu army rear team outside the city.In addition, the navy of the Qing army led by Ghent Baturu also took the opportunity to fire artillery, violently bombarding the chaotic city of Chizhou, and continued to expand the turmoil. They fled with their heads in their arms, ran around to escape for their lives, and countless people were trampled to death and burned to death.

"Kill Wu Gou! Kill Wu Gou!" Amidst the crazily roaring, Anqing Qingjun, who had been tortured by the Fatty Army before, was full of anger and aggrieved, and rushed into the rear of Wu Jun like a wolf. In the middle of the war, people killed people and set fire to the Wu army's luggage everywhere.Since ancient times, the heavy soldiers have always been rookie soldiers with fleshy feet. Seeing the main soldiers trapped in the sea of ​​​​fire, they naturally became a mess up and down. It happened that the Qing army brought to Chizhou by Zhangtai Beizi was also the Anqing Qing army. The absolute main force, the fighting power is no small matter, this will not be blocked by Wu Jun's firearms, and the close hand-to-hand combat will be smooth, and for the first time, he will catch a good opportunity to beat the dog in the water. Naturally, he will be extraordinarily hard-working and aggressive when rushing to kill, killing Wu Jun's heavy team. , Also took the opportunity to grab a lot of Wu Jun's new firearms.

"Take off, take off quickly!" Seeing the Qing army attacking nearby by night, Wu Jun's airship, which was mixed in the baggage train, also panicked, and hurriedly yelled and threw sandbags in the ballast to take off.But perhaps God was destined to let Master Zhangtai Beizi make great achievements for the Qing court. The two Wu army airships collided with each other when they took off because they were too close, and they all had a meal at the same time. Go up and hold down the cabin of the airship, and press the two airships to the ground. The Wu army's airship soldiers rushed to meet the enemy. Hundreds of Qing army soldiers rushed forward, hacking to death a dozen or so Wu army airships who were alone and alone. soldiers, captured two of them, and seized two Wu army airships for the first time.

The news of the airship's arrival spread, and the morale of the Qing army was greatly boosted. They roared and charged even more violently. The soldiers of the Wu army's rear were scattered, unable to resist. Due to the siege, it was impossible to organize a team to go out of the city to rescue. In addition, the west gate of Chizhou, which was closest to the supply team, was also blocked by the Wu army's supply vehicles that were entering and leaving the city, making it impossible to pass through, let alone rescue the supply team that was attacked by the Qing army. The blocked three gates of Chizhou, north, south and east escaped for their lives, and Xia Guoxiang had to flee to the south gate of Chizhou to leave the city.

Fortunately, Xia Guoxiang chose the south gate to break through. As we all know, there is a Qingxi River outside the east gate of the ancient Chizhou City, and the water for the moat is also drawn from this Qingxi River.And when a large number of soldiers of the Wu Army rushed out of the east gate of Chizhou with smoke and fire, they had to rush to the shallow water of Qingxi River to wash their faces and drink water, and even extinguished the flames on their bodies. When the sound came, the torrential river was like galloping horses, and like a herd of elephants galloping. The flood came to the sky, and immediately swept away countless soldiers of the Wu army who had no time to escape.At the same time, a thousand elite soldiers of the Qing army ambushing upstream also went down the river, screaming and killing the defeated Wu army who was in complete chaos. The defeated Wu army had no intention of fighting and just ran for their lives. .

When the news of the East Gate reached Xia Guoxiang, Xia Guoxiang couldn't cry anymore. He could only yell at Tuhai for being shameless and treacherous, and even copied "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in an ambush, while he hurriedly organized defeated troops to rescue the supply and food team. Ma Bao led an army to rectify the defeated Wu army outside the north gate, lest they lose their organization and be massacred by the Qing army.

In fact, in all fairness, the Qing army's arrangement of this ambush in Chizhou is not clever at all, and there are countless flaws and loopholes. It was an empty city, so the army directly entered the city without carefully scouting the situation in the city, let alone sending scouts to the upper reaches of the Qingxi River to scout the situation, which gave the Qing army an opportunity to ambush.

In addition, when the strategy was launched, the luck of the Qing army was extremely good. As soon as Wu Jun entered the city, the night wind suddenly blew up. The army was also rushing to enter the city to rest. A large number of heavy vehicles blocked the road gate near the west gate of Chizhou, and cut their own army in two.Finally, there is another point that the rear army of the Wu army is commanded by Guo Zhuangmou, an official of the Wu army who is a military division. He is not good at fighting tough battles and the quality of the soldiers is relatively poor. There is no reason for it.

By the way, there is another important reason, that is, the mob under General Ma Baobai's command depends on the large number of people, and they will be completely chaotic when they encounter unfavorable situations. It blocked the action path of the friendly army, and invisibly helped the Qing army a lot.All kinds of mistakes made Wu Jun's defeat, and also made the new generation of the Qing Dynasty God of War——Zhangtai Beizi's world-famous name!
The Qing army was out of luck, but Xia Guoxiang vomited blood and was attacked by fire and water with a strategy completely copied from "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". After being burned, the loss of food, firearms, and luggage was also hundreds of thousands of vehicles. In addition, two flying skyships, the treasure of the Wu army, were also boarded. up.

Under the combination of shame and anger, Xia Guoxiang just organized an army, and immediately rushed to the west gate of Chizhou with red eyes, fighting to the death with the Qing army's sneak attack there, and finally bought time for a part of the Wu army's heavy transport team to transfer.At the same time, the well-trained main force of the Wu army gradually restored order after escaping from the city of fire. Under the organization of generals at all levels, they re-formed into the army. , and Ma Bao also organized a defeated army at the north gate and rushed to the west gate to join the battle. After a fierce battle, he finally killed the Qing army outside the west gate, but the Wu army's food carts had also been robbed and burned down. Mostly.

In a rage, Xia Guoxiang led his army to the wharf of Chikou Town to hunt down the retreating Qing army. Unexpectedly, another Qing army came from the west. The [-] Qing troops in Changfengling, after receiving the order from Master Zhangtai Beizi in the evening, the deputy commander-in-chief Akani, who led the Qing army, bit the bullet and led the army across the river according to the order. Immediately crossing the river again to the north bank to flee for his life, he never thought that just after the [-] troops crossed the Yangtze River, they saw the fire in Chizhou City thirty miles away. The victorious retreating troops.Under the attack from both sides, Xia Guoxiang, who had no more weapons in his hands, suffered a big loss again. He was defeated by Akani and Zhangtai Beizi, and was forced to retreat south, watching the Qing army board the warship to cross the river, He fled to the north bank of the Yangtze River and abducted two Wu Jun airships by the way.

At twilight, the land battle of the Chizhou War basically ended. Zhangtai Beizi, who commanded the war, won the victory with less than ever before. After paying the price of more than a thousand troops and a city of Chizhou, he won a big victory. The Wu army had more than [-] soldiers, captured two airships, and countless grenades, rockets, and three good explosives.The Wu army suffered heavy casualties. Half of the food, grass and supplies were burned and destroyed, and more than [-]% of the firearms were lost.

At noon, the navy of the Wu army led by Du Hui arrived at the battlefield, but Master Beizi Zhangtai had already led the victorious army to escort the luggage deep into the land, beyond the reach of the warships of the Wu army. There were non-stop rushes here, and the remaining strength of the Qing army navy was also watching the tiger on the river, robbing and killing the Wu army crossing the river at any time.No matter how angry Xia Guoxiang vomited blood, he couldn't cross the river to pursue him. He could only gather up the defeated soldiers and prepare to retreat. Fortunately, there was still some food and grass left with the army. Going east to Jiangnan is definitely not enough.

In the Chizhou War, Zhangtai Beizi, who won more with less, not only became famous in the first battle, but also gave Qing troops everywhere a booster. The glasses shocked the jaws of countless people!The first to bear the brunt is the generals of the Anqing Qing army who have never been optimistic about Zhangtai Beizi before. When he saw Zhangtai Beizi holding a genuine copy of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and holding countless firearms and two Wujun airships, he smiled. When they appeared in front of them full of pride, Shang Shan, Niyahan and Jin Fu fell directly from their horses to the ground, and there was only one thought left in their hearts, and they almost wanted to roar...

"It's unreasonable! How did the tree planted in the picture let this idiot take advantage of the shade?!"

"We didn't win the Chizhou battle. The one who really won was Lu Yifeng's thief." Tu Hai commented.

"Too bad, my life will be even more difficult in the future." Yue Le lamented after hearing the news, knowing that the day the news reached the capital was the day when Kang Mazi urged him to march south.

"Decree, Zhangtai was granted the title of Baylor! No, the king of the county! The king of Baojun!" Kang Mazi's first reaction to the news was incoherent, and he yelled hysterically while patting the pseudo-dragon case, "Who said that we are the Qing army? Is Wu Gou inferior in field battles? Who said that Wu Gou’s firearms are invincible in the world? Zhangtai! My cousin! My Qing God of War! Didn’t he win a big battle in the field? I should have appointed Zhangtai as the Commander of the Army on the Western Front!"

There is also Fatty Lu, after hearing that Master Zhangtai Beizi defeated Xia Guoxiang in Chizhou, Fatty Lu's jaw was dislocated on the spot, and after Zhu Fangdan connected his jaw joint, the first thing that Fatty Lu did was to catch Xiao Erlang, and he was very pleasantly surprised He asked: "Erlang, is our old Lu's family related to Master Zhangtai Beizi? Helping me once or twice is not counted, but you have helped me so many times?"

"No?" Xiao Erlang scratched his head in doubt and said: "If I remember correctly, your father, my father, and my father, the housekeeper of your family, didn't you say that your Lu family has relatives in the capital? "

(End of this chapter)