scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 338 Battle of Chushui
The drizzle is like silk, the banners are like forests, and the Qing army team wearing red-tasseled bamboo hats has already formed a tight formation on the north bank of the Chushui River. , the muzzle of the black hole was aimed at the bank of the Chushui River, and also aimed at the south bank of the Chushui River, which was a vast expanse of whiteness.From the commander of the Qing army, Prince Kang Jieshu, down to the ordinary soldiers, they all remained silent, anxiously waiting for the fat army to take the initiative to attack.

The white color on the south bank of the Chushui River is covered by the white felt hats of the soldiers of the Fat Man Army. The main force of the Fat Man Army, composed of more than 150 soldiers, has already set up an offensive formation on the South Bank of the Chushui River. More than [-] red barbarian cannons and The [-] cannons have also aimed at the artillery team of the Qing army on the opposite bank. The two generals Hu Tongchun and An Jiarong, who are in charge of the crossing mission, are gearing up with their team. The fat army engineers under the command of Han Yuan have already prepared a large number The materials for erecting the pontoon bridge are all waiting for Fatty Lu to give an order, and he will immediately rush up to initiate a rush to cross, and lay the pontoon bridge to allow the main force to cross the river and attack.

This is the second official confrontation between Fatty Army and Jieshu after they took control of Jiangnan. The first time was in the first ten days of May of the first year of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the 13th year of Kang Mazi.At that time, the Fatty Army that had just entered the south of the Yangtze River was not stable, and had to divide its forces to snatch the elite sites such as Yangzhou, Suzhou, Changzhou, and Zhenjiang. Only Wang Xu and Li Jiyang's lone army could face Jie Shu, and the Fatty Army's firearms at that time It has been exhausted, and the newly established Xuanwu Lake Arsenal has not yet started production, so that battle was fought very hard, and only Taiping City, an isolated city left in the entire Taiping Mansion, was not captured by Jie Shu.

In the end, although the Fatty Army relied on Ma Bao's help to encircle Wei and save Zhao, forced Jieshu to return to Luzhou, defended Taiping Mansion and protected the hinterland of Jiangnan, but it also paid a heavy price. The land was completely plundered by the Qing army, a large number of people were forcibly relocated by the Qing army, and farmland, mines, and water conservancy facilities were also destroyed. As a result, Taiping Mansion, which was also a grain-producing area, has not recovered to this day. rear support.It was also from that time that the Fatty Army once again forged a mortal feud with the Jieshu Army, and everyone hated this brutal and vicious beast army who took advantage of the fire.

It is also because of the last Taiping Mansion War that Jieshu's team can be said to be the only Qing army team on the Western Front that is not afraid of the Fatty Army. It can even be said that they have a bit of contempt for the Fatty Army. But that's all-although they also knew very well that most of the soldiers of the Fat Man Army killed in Taiping Mansion last time were recruits or surrendered soldiers.Furthermore, because the Fatty Army of the Taiping Mansion ran out of firearms in the last battle, they could only use them sporadically, so they thought that the firearms of the Fatty Army were nothing special. Although they were powerful, their numbers were pitifully small. Will affect the overall situation of the battlefield.

The contempt for the enemy and self-confidence led to the Luzhou Qing army's several active provocations against the Fatty Army, and even went deep into the Chuzhou Fucheng surrounded by mountains, directly threatening Nanjing City, the home of the Fatty Army.After taking the initiative to retreat under the order of Fatty Lu during the whole festival, and after scouting the situation that the Fatty Army's direct corps had already crossed the river to the north, the complacent Luzhou Qing Army did not choose to retreat to the natural danger of Chuzhou, but unanimously demanded to go south and join the Fatty Army In the decisive battle in the field, Jie Shu, who hated Fatty Lu deeply and knew nothing about the current strength of Fatty's army, did not hold back. He decisively ordered the army to go out of the mountains and fight Fatty Lu to the death by the open Chushui Bank.

Of course, as a personal experiencer of the battles of Anshun and Bajiang, Jie Shu is also very aware of the power of the Fatty Army's firearms, and understands that as long as the Fatty Army's firearms are sufficient, the self-army will not only win, but even if they want to retreat completely. Difficult.Therefore, Jie Shu, who is quite military-minded, resolutely rejected the suggestion of his subordinates to cross the Chushui River for a decisive battle, and chose to line up on the north bank of the Chushui River, forcing the fat army to cross the river to attack. In this way, not only can the fat army's rocket power be greatly limited Even if the battle is unfavorable, the Luzhou Qing army will have enough time to escape, flee back to Chuzhou to defend against danger, and complete the task assigned by Yue Le to contain the Fatty Army's immediate corps in Chuzhou.

The only thing that surprised Jieshu was that, knowing that the Qing army had already occupied favorable terrain, the Fatty Army not only did not stop, but also did not mobilize the navy to detour to Liuhe to rush to the battlefield to support and cover the army to cross the river. Instead, they chose to collect them on the spot. The ferry attacks.For Fatty Lu, who has always been known for his invincibility, the only explanation for his tactics being so overbearing, besides underestimating the enemy's arrogance, is full of self-confidence.

At noon, the fat man's army was ready to cross the river to attack, but Lu Fatty did not launch an attack immediately, but sent an envoy to cross the Chushui River in a small boat whose bridge was completely destroyed by the Qing army, and came to the front of the Qing army with a white flag. Shouted, "The Great Zhou Commander ordered the Great Zhou Conquer the East. There is a great disparity between the strength and the weak. The Han people surrendered and did not kill them. The Mite people only killed the four surnames of Aixinjueluo, Hesheli, Niu Colu, and Tong Jia. The rest will not die!"

"Let the arrows!" Jie Shu ordered coldly, waving the flag, and the Qing army fired arrows in disorder. The fat army's envoy had been prepared, turned his horse's head and ran away, but the Qing army had too many bows and arrows, and the fat man's army envoy fled. Although he was fast, he was hit by two arrows in a row, and almost died on the spot. Finally, he fled back to the river bank with the arrows, and jumped into the boat to cross the river to escape for his life.Seeing this scene, the fat man's army naturally roared like thunder, and hated Jieshu's army even more.

"Even killing the envoys, Man Gou is really getting more and more depraved." After a cold snort, Fatty Lu waved his hand, called Hu Tongchun and An Jiarong who had volunteered to be forwards, and ordered: "As soon as the drums sound, cross the river immediately , rushed into the full dog Chinese army formation and let go of hand killing, buying time for the main force of our army to cross the river."

"Decree!" Hu Tongchun and An Jiarong clasped their fists together and agreed.Fatty Lu warned again, "An Jiarong, don't rush to the front, wait for Hu Tongchun's shield hand to cover you and rush closer, and then use you as the blade."

"Uncle, please look after me. My nephew's villager has been hungry and thirsty for a long time." An Jiarong pulled out half of the villager from his hand, licked the blade and agreed with a grinning grin.Fatty Lu smiled, and waved An Jiarong and Hu Tongchun to form a team to wait for orders, and arranged for Li Kuang to be the second team to cross the river. Then he waved his fat hand decisively, and shouted: "Beat the drums, rush to cross! Artillery team, Watch out for cover!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!" One hundred cowhide drums sounded rhythmically. Under the leadership of Hu Tongchun and An Jiarong, who were the most capable of fighting tough battles in the team, they trotted towards the ferry two miles away.At the same time, the Qing army also waved their flags, and thirty red barbarian cannons roared at the same time, ejecting thirty black cannonballs, roaring and falling on the front and back of the Chushui Ferry, blasting the water on the river, breaking the side of the ship, and Hit several fat soldiers.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The artillery team of the Fatty Army also began to show their power. This time, Qin Yong took over the command of the artillery team of the Fatty Army. The strange old man, surnamed Jie Mingxuan, is very proficient in mathematics, calculating the shooting range is almost as smooth as flowing water, fast and accurate, and he has created the best record of the fat army gunner who hit eight targets out of ten shots on the shooting range. Fatty Lu is overjoyed Appointing him as the instructor of the artillery team's scale operation, the old man Jiexuan did not refuse, nor did he accept the reward from Fatty Lu, but silently devoted himself to the training of the gunners of the Fatty Army, and soon helped the gunners of the Fatty Army to improve their accuracy a lot. It once again strengthened the strength of the fat army's artillery team, which is already unparalleled in the world.

That's a long way off, let's get down to business, as the artillery battles of the two sides started, relying on the advantages of quantity and quality, the artillery team of the fat army quickly overwhelmed the artillery formation of the Qing army. The firing speed of the gunpowder was much higher than that of the Qing Army artillery team, and each shot was more accurate than the next shot. In the first round of salvo, more than ten Qing Army artillery pieces were killed, and after two rounds of salvo, the Qing Army artillery team There was almost no movement. Even the artillery of the Qing army that was not hit by the fat army's shells had to quickly shift positions, firing a cannon to change places, and it was impossible to stop the fat army infantry from crossing the river.The artillery of the Fat Man Army fired again, bombarding the front of the Qing Army formation continuously, causing the Qing Army archers and shield hands who were waiting for the battle to cry and howl like ghosts and wolves, and there was chaos. To the north bank of Chushui.

"Hold the ground! Hold the ground!" Seeing the chaos in front of the team, Jie Shu was so angry that his eyes almost burst into flames, waving his right arm missing a thumb, and just shouted: "Let the Hongyi Cannon fire quickly, here we go!" This king bombards the Wugou ferry!"

"Da Zhou! Kill all the dogs!" The speed of the fat man's army fleet rushed over, far exceeding the imagination of Jie Shu and every soldier of the Qing army. In the blink of an eye, the fat man's army fleet had already rushed After crossing the Chushui River, which is more than 100 meters wide, they shouted and jumped onto the river bank and jumped into the shallow water. They quickly assembled into an army and rushed directly to the front of the Qing army's formation. Soaring into the sky, the fat man army ferry boat behind quickly turned around and crossed the river to meet Han Daren's rush to build a pontoon bridge team to cross the river.

"Archer team, musketeer team, get ready!" Jie Shu shouted and ordered, "The right-wing cavalry rushed out, seized the ferry, and prevented the Wu dog from crossing the river by building a bridge. Let me eat the Wu dog who crossed the river first!"

The order was issued, and the archers and musketeers of the Qing army hurriedly prepared. The Qing army led by the right-wing cavalry all realized that Luo Balkan also led the army to rush out, and went straight to the ferry of the Fat Army to block the passage of the second wave of the Fat Army. , Buying time for the fat army forwards whose main force has eaten less than 2000 people.But soon, Jie Shu and the generals of the Qing army found out in despair that they didn't bite the fat this time, but the bones.

"Da Zhou! Da Zhou! Da Zhou!" Amidst the crazily roaring, the forward infantry of the Fat Man Army, with less than 2000 soldiers, sprinted forward almost at the same speed as galloping horses, and in less than a moment they rushed to the range of the Qing Army's bow and arrow muskets. Within a short period of time, the Qing army quickly shot and fired arrows, but it only had a subtle blocking effect. The infantry of the Fat Man Army charged while protecting their vital points with shields. They rushed forward stepping on their corpses, and rushed to the front before the Qing army fired a second shot. Immediately afterwards, a bloody close hand-to-hand combat began.

"Kill!" As the shieldmen of the fat man's army moved away, only more than 700 soldiers in the fat man's army rushed to the front of the formation. An Jiarong, who was holding the village sword, took the lead. All the soldiers in the back seemed to be insane. They slashed and slashed at the soldiers of the Qing army. The knives were all attacks, and the knives were all attacks. They ignored the Qing soldiers' swords and guns The sword and halberd kept on greeting the vital points of the soldiers of the Qing army, so fierce and crazy that it was almost unbelievable.

"Da Zhou!" Hu Tongchun, who has been fighting with An Jiarong's partner for many years, is not weak. He habitually goes into battle with his arms bare, carrying two axes as fiercely as a tiger descending a mountain. The defense was completely covered by the shield hands of the two soldiers around them, and they cooperated extremely skillfully. There was hardly a single general in front of them. The countless soldiers of the Qing army had just raised their knives and straightened their guns, and Hu Tongchun's broad ax had already When he slashed his head, his brains were split apart and his skull was shattered. Among thousands of troops, he felt as if he had entered the land of no one.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" New sounds of explosions and shelling came, and as soon as they discovered the Qing cavalry's intention to seize the ferry, the Fat Man artillery team immediately turned their guns and began to bombard the Qing cavalry. At the same time, while Li Kuang commanded the army to cross the river, he commanded the soldiers to shoot rockets at the Qing cavalry on the other side.Amidst the rumbling explosions, the cavalrymen of the Qing army were smashed to pieces one by one, and the flesh and blood of the horses and men were splashed one after another. River ferry, buy time for the engineers behind to build a pontoon bridge.

This was a very fierce and spectacular battle. Amidst the crazily roaring of artillery fire from both sides, the fat army's trapped troops fought bloody battles with the main forces of the Qing army three miles away from the north bank. At the shore ferry, the infantry led by General Li Kuang of the Fat Army quickly formed a phalanx while blocking the impact of the Qing cavalry, while fighting back with single rockets and rockets; behind Li Kuang's team was the Fat Army Han Yuan carrying a cable across the river As a team, he concentrated on connecting the pontoons and boats prepared in advance into a string, and laid wooden planks on top to build a pontoon bridge. The Qing cavalry raided and destroyed several times, but Li Kuang led the army to repel them.

The fighting power of the Fat Man Army was so powerful, which naturally surprised the Qing army. As a last resort, Jie Shu had to dispatch the reserve cavalry on the left wing in advance, and let this cavalry also join in the raid on the ferry. The soldiers sent a message to Zhu Lachan, the general of the left-wing cavalry, and told Zhu Lachan straightforwardly that within half an hour, if he could not break through the infantry phalanx of the Fat Army, and could not destroy the floating bridge of the Fat Army that was being built, military law should be followed!

"Warriors of the Qing Dynasty, look at us!" Zhu Lachan raised his sword and roared, leading the soldiers to rush out from the left wing, but they hadn't run half a mile before the bombardment of the Fat Man Army was overwhelming.It turned out that Fatty Lu didn't delay at all after seeing Zhu Lachan's dispatch, and directly ordered the artillery team of the Fatty Army to turn their muzzles, replace them with expensive and rare high-precision shells, and concentrate their firepower to bombard the cavalry of the new force of the Qing army.

Since then, the cavalry of the Qing army who are used to collective charge have suffered a lot. The blooming shells in the sky are densely packed like hail and raindrops. The people in the film turned on their backs, blood spattering.In just one volley, more than 200 cavalrymen of the Qing army were killed by the vicious cannons of the fat army. Countless wounded soldiers and horses were injured, and the dead horses tripped countless companions.

"Why is Wu Gou's artillery so powerful?" While crying secretly, Zhu Lachan could only command the cavalry to charge in a roundabout way, avoiding the artillery cover of the fat army and choose to go south, and then charge along the river bank to the ferry. The army cavalry was also exposed to the edge of the fat army's Sanhao rocket magic knife. The fat army rocket team in mobile combat fired at random arrows, blasting three or four hundred Sanhao rockets at the Qing army cavalry, and bombed the Qing army cavalry again. It must be ghosts crying and wolves howling, people turned on their backs, and forced to change the charge route again.However, after such a delay, more than a thousand infantrymen of the Fat Man Army, led by Yao Qisheng's eldest son Yao Yi, crossed the Chushui River, which was less than a hundred meters wide, and entered the battlefield on the north bank.

At the same time, Hu Tongchun and An Jiarong's team has also been surrounded by Qing infantry, surrounded by enemies on all sides, and they are full of enemies in all directions. Unfortunately, Hu Tongchun and An Jiarong, two unlucky guys, have never been together since they worked for Fatty Lu. The drudgery of being trapped in the battle has long been familiar to this situation. Not only is he not afraid of the enemies that are constantly coming in like a tide, but he is even more excited and crazy. There were so many enemies that the Qing army retreated steadily, and Jie Shu was so angry that he stomped his feet and shouted wildly, constantly urging the Qing army to encircle and kill this lone army, but he still couldn't do what he wanted, and even paid a lot of brave generals.

"General, do you want to send another army to meet Hu Tongchun and An Jiarong?" Looking through the binoculars at the northern battlefield, Yao Qisheng reminded Fatty Lu worriedly: "Both of them are your love, General. Will, if something goes wrong...?"

"No, Hu Tongchun and An Jiarong can handle it. They are not white-collar workers who pay twice as much as other infantry." Fatty Lu refused indifferently, but ordered: "Send someone to send an order to the fifth wave of infantry crossing the river. Let them bring more rockets, use rockets to bombard the dog cavalry, defend the ferry, and buy time for Han Yuanren to build a pontoon bridge."

Fatty Lu's personal soldiers, who were in charge of delivering the order, led away. At this time, another fast horse bearing the flag of Fatty's army rushed to the south, dismounted outside the flag formation and accepted the identity verification. Kneeling down on one knee in front of him, he presented to Fatty Lu a military intelligence report with a chicken feather on it representing the urgency. Fatty Lu put down his binoculars and opened it. After just a few glances, Fatty Lu showed a helpless wry smile on his fat face.

"General, whose pond newspaper is it? Why do you have such a weird expression?" Yao Qisheng asked curiously.

"Who else? Boy Han Daren." Fatty Lu said with a wry smile, "I heard that Le Erjin came to the door to die again, and Han Daren committed his old problem again, using the excuse that he couldn't let Le Erjin have too many children." Destroying the fields of the people in Taiping Prefecture and affecting the autumn harvest, he informed me that he decided to lead the Taiping Prefecture Corps to the west of Wuhu to fight, and swore that he would never let Le Erjin slip away this time."

"General Han Daren, everything is fine, but I am a little overjoyed." Yao Qisheng also smiled wryly.

"Fortunately, this guy at least made a notification this time. It's better than the last time he didn't notify Taiping City and sent troops without permission." Fatty Lu sighed again, and he was helpless with Han Daren's bold and adventurous character.But just after he finished sighing, Fatty Lu suddenly felt shocked again, and hurriedly asked: "Mr. Yao, what did I say in the last sentence?"

"General, can't you? You forgot what you just said?" Yao Qisheng also cried bitterly, "The last sentence you said just now was: General Han Daren is better than last time. Last time, he didn't report and he didn't care about peace. The city will send troops privately!"

"Don't care about Taiping City?" Fatty Lu murmured again, and the previous doubts flashed through his mind like lightning and flint—in just three days, he received three emergency calls, and Yue Le took the risk to send troops when he was obviously unsure. The battlefield and the various soldiers and horses cooperated seamlessly even when the information could not be conveyed quickly, and they were arranged extremely carefully for no reason, forcing their four major legions to enter the battlefield at the same time, and could not free up excess troops for maneuvering in a short period of time. …………

"I finally understand." Thinking of this, Fatty Lu nodded, gritted his teeth and muttered: "Han Daren's character weakness must have been expected by Man Gou, and Man Gou's real breakthrough point is not in the north. Line, but the Western Front!"

"Miraculous Doctor Zhu, draw up two orders for me!" After thinking up to this point, Fatty Lu ignored the raging Chushui battlefield, grabbed Zhu Fangdan and ordered: "The first order is for Han Daren, tell him You can take the initiative to go to Wuhu to fight, but you must leave [-] troops in Taiping City to defend the city! Also, the flags on the city wall are not allowed to display a real number of troops, you must fight less, the less the better."

"The second order is for Gao Hongchen to lead [-] troops to ambush in Ma'anshan. When Mangou is found attacking Taiping City, he will attack immediately. He will attack back and forth with the defenders of Taiping Mansion and severely punish the team of Mangou attacking Taiping Mansion. Nanjing City The defense is temporarily handed over to Xiaoyong and Shaobo."

(End of this chapter)