scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 370

The military situation was on fire, limited to the harsh situation on the third-line battlefield. After two days of rest in Nanjing, on May 25, Fatty Lu personally led the main force of the Fatty Army to set off again, heading for Zhenjiang City where Li Guodong, the General Reserve of the Fatty Army, was located.

Unlike the 5000 troops that were dispatched during the Western Expedition, this time the Fatty Army’s troops set out from Nanjing alone exceeded 6000 troops (including some troops that Fatty Lu brought from Taiping Mansion when the Western Expedition ended). In addition, there are Han Daren's 12 troops (including the newly recruited captives) who are already on the way to the east, plus Li Guodong's navy [-] people, the Gaode Jie army in Yangzhou City has [-] people, and the Fatty Army This time, the army preparing to enter the Yangzhou battlefield accounted for two-thirds of the Jiangnan Fatty Army's strength, reaching an astonishing [-] or more!It can be said to be the best of the best, betting on Fatty Lu's fat luck to fight to the death!
Such a large-scale mobilization of the Fat Army's troops is naturally impossible to hide from the eyes of the Qing army's meticulous eyes—even if the Qing army's meticulous staff is like a certain nine-stream Internet writer called a wolf in later generations, he is super near-sighted, It can be seen that the huge fat army team is like the white torrent, slowly flowing along the official road in the south of the Yangtze River, slowly but firmly passing through the villages, farmland, streams and woods in the south of the Yangtze River, dyeing the troubled Jiangnan land A piece of white.

On the wide surface of the Yangtze River, the large and small ships carrying fat military supplies and hanging white flags are like crucian carp crossing the river, densely packed almost covering the surface of the river, and also dyeing the crystal clear surface of the Yangtze River into a piece of snow white.

At the time of departure, Fatty Lu gave a speech to the 30 Fatty Army soldiers on the Nanjing campus, and told the Fatty Army soldiers in an unambiguous and discordant manner, "Soldiers, our expedition this time is not to plunder land, money and food. , let alone fighting for promotion, wealth and personal interests, we are fighting for revenge! [-] years ago, Manchu invaded Jiangnan, turning Jiangnan into a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, a hell on earth, and the Han sisters who bullied us died with hundreds of Tens of thousands! Kill our compatriots in the south of the Yangtze River in tens of millions! The people who plundered our Han people are in the hundreds of millions!"

"Today, Man Gou is here again, and the Emperor Man Gou is here in person! The foreign devils who have hooked up with the Red Hair Country and the Raksha Country are here! They are coming to kill our compatriots again, and they are coming to humiliate our sisters, wives and daughters It's time to come again to steal our land, money and food, and to turn our Jiangnan paradise into a hell on earth! Jiangnan is dangerous, and we are also very dangerous, but danger and opportunity coexist, because in this battle, our opponent is The Mangou Emperor is the pockmarked Mangou Emperor whose hands are stained with the blood of our Han compatriots! If we can, if not, we will definitely be able to capture him alive, and we will be able to survive the danger. Our tens of millions of Jiangnan The souls of our compatriots and tens of millions of Han compatriots all over the country can rest in peace!"

"The emperor is full of dogs, avenge my Chinese compatriots! Take revenge, and China will win! Take revenge, and the Han people will win! Take revenge, and Great Zhou will win!"

In the drizzle, [-] fat soldiers raised their swords and guns at the same time, as if a steel wall had risen from the land in the south of the Yangtze River, and the orderly and rhythmic shouts also resounded in the sky, "Revenge and hatred, China will win! Revenge and hatred, Han people To avenge and hate, the Great Zhou must win! To avenge and hate, China must win! To avenge and hate, the Han people must win! To avenge and hate, the Great Zhou must win! To avenge and hate———!”

"Soldiers, look at the filial piety on your body, and you will be able to remember the blood that Mangou brought us to Jiangnan!"

"Soldiers, look at the filial piety on your body, and you will be able to remember the suffering that Mangou brought us to China!"

"Soldiers, look at the filial piety on your body, and you can remember that this time you are not only fighting for yourself, but also for the compatriots in the south of the Yangtze River! You are also fighting for the common people of China! Fighting for all the descendants of Yan and Huang— —!”

Amidst Fatty Lu's hoarse shouts, the slogan of revenge was also heard over and over again in the Nanjing school grounds and the land in the south of the Yangtze River.Hearing the angry and neat slogans, and seeing the fat army soldiers who were excited and excited, the frightened Mi Qing was naturally the first to send news to the Mi Qing army as quickly as possible. The places where the fat army passed along the way, the secret agents of the Qing army lurking in these places were naturally the first to send the snowflake-like emergency documents to the Qing army and to the commander of the Yangzhou battlefield of the Qing army at the fastest speed In front of Yue Le, it was sent to Kang Mazi who was actually still lurking in the Xiba camp north of the Yellow River.

Relying on the advantage of the distance, Yue Le, the coach of the Southern Expedition of the Qing Army stationed outside Yangzhou City, naturally received the news that Lu Fatzi led the main force of the Fatty Army to the Yangzhou battlefield before Kang Mazi. Yue Le, who had been wiped out of intelligence by the Qing army, read this extremely urgent emergency document, his face was ashen, and he didn't say a word for a while. Tu Hai, Jie Shu, Shang Shan, Dong Weiguo and Lai Ta in the handsome tent Everyone who waited was silent, so quiet that even a needle dropped on the ground could be heard clearly.

"It's finally here." After a long time, Yue Le gave a wry smile, and finally sighed: "This king thought that Lu Yifeng, a slick thief, was planning to spend time on us who are about to run out of food and wages. Let us not fight." Since he retired, he never thought that this dog thief not only came at the last moment, but also went out to fight in filial piety, playing the banner of avenging the Han people, and posing as if he would fight us to the death."

"It was the master's false lure that lured him here." Tu Hai said slowly: "In the current situation, if Lu Yifeng's dog thief wins the Jiangnan battlefield, he will lose the world battlefield, so he has been raising his own self-esteem before. , completely ignored us. But the master’s fake car made this barbarian dog thief who has a crazy hatred for our Qing Dynasty forget the world’s battlefield, forget his ambition, and come to a decisive battle with our master at all costs.”

"We have no chance of winning." Dong Weiguo said the truth, "Although in the past few months, our newly formed army has received enhanced training, gained some exercise, accumulated some experience, and increased its combat effectiveness. But This time, Wu Gou made the best of his main force, his troops were almost equal to ours, and his combat power and weapons and equipment were far superior to ours. When the army meets Lu Yifeng's dog thief, they will only suffer a disastrous defeat."

"It would be great if our main force on the western front was here." Shang Shan also sighed: "In fact, the western front army on the Jiangnan battlefield is the real main force of our Qing army. Dogs caused huge casualties and won fighters for our follow-up army. Unfortunately, they were ruined by that traitor Zhangtai."

"What are you talking about with such useless nonsense?" Jie Shu said coldly: "If you have time to talk such nonsense, why don't you discuss how to fight Wu Gou earlier, and see if there is any clever strategy to defeat the strong with the weak."

Yue Le nodded silently, acknowledging that Jie Shu's words were justified, and the matter had reached this point, it was useless to say any more regrets, so Yue Le could only turn his attention to Tu Hai, his hand-picked think tank, and ask him for help .And Tu Hai didn't disappoint Yue Le, and immediately said: "There are only two hopes, one is to take Yangzhou City before Wugou's main force arrives, use Yangzhou City to solve our money and food problems, and use Yangzhou's city defense and The main force of Wu Dog is resisting. The second hope, Gaojiayan, will lure the main force of Wu Dog to Gaojiayan at all costs."

Jie Shu, Shang Shan and others frowned together, and some people snorted coldly, and said to Tu Hai, what the hell can you say besides Gao Jiayan?You are not tired of talking, our ears are tired of hearing it!Fuck you, blow up Gaojiayan and flood Wugou, what about the soldiers of our Qing army?
"Perhaps you will think that I, Tuhai, are too nagging and incompetent, and I only talk about Gaojiayan all day long." Tuhai saw the disdain of the generals of the Qing army, and said coldly: "But I also work for the Qing Dynasty. Jiangshan, for the sake of the Qing court, Gaojiayan is the only hope for our Qing court to regain Jiangnan, and it is also the only chance for our Qing Eight Banners to wipe out Lu Yifeng's dog thief and his main lackeys. If we don't seize this opportunity, everything will be over. "

Speaking of this, Tuhai paused, and added: "Master Zhou persuaded the master to cross the river with a fake luan, saying that it was to boost the morale of our army and increase the chance of winning Yangzhou, but this is actually just an excuse. His real purpose is the same. It is to lure the main force of Lu Yifeng's dog bandits to go north, and then use Gaojiayan's power of heaven and earth to annihilate this main force of Wu dogs that we can never defeat on the frontal battlefield."

"And Zhou Shilang and I have already discussed it. After we succeed, there will be someone between me and him who will stand up and take the charge. Zhou Shilang said he was willing to take the charge, but I didn't agree. He is still young and has a bright future. My old mother, wife and children need to be raised, I am already old, I am a crippled man, and my family has been ruined by Lu Yifeng's thief, I am the only one left, so I will bear this charge."

After hearing Tu Hai's righteous words, all the generals of the Qing army were silent, and they were quite moved.Yue Le didn't say a word, after a long time, Yue Le patted the table lightly, and said lightly: "At the same time, make preparations with both hands, the army will immediately attack Yangzhou City with all its strength, and strive to break through Yangzhou before Wu Dog's main force arrives in Yangzhou. Master Tu, you are responsible for the arrangement and layout of the second plan, but it should not be implemented unless it is absolutely necessary."

"Cover." All the generals of the Qing army clasped their fists together and agreed, and went out of the tent to prepare for the siege according to Yue Le's instructions.

Tu Hai didn't move, and a pair of cloudy old eyes with wrinkled eyes stared at the gray sky outside the tent, and also stared at the direction where Fatty Lu was about to kill, muttering in his heart, "Lu Yifeng, you dog thief finally came!" I know that you are here to take the head of our Qing master. But you probably never imagined that our master is still on the north bank of the Yellow River. Even if we blow up Gaojiayan and die with you, we will not be able to hurt our Qing master. A hair."

Thinking of this, Tu Hai suddenly jumped up on one leg, and shouted at Yue Le: "My lord, please give me three thousand troops. I want to go to Gaojiayan right away. I'm counting on you for the Yangzhou battlefield!"

"Why?" Yue Le asked suspiciously.

"Lu Yifeng's thieves are treacherous and vicious, far above you and me. If we can attack Gao Jiayan, Lu Yifeng's thieves will definitely attack Gao Jiayan!" Tu Hai shouted: "Now the master's The fake Luanjia is right under the city of Yangzhou, Lu Yifeng's dog thief is likely to blow open the Gaojiayan first, and use the flood to cut off our way back! Then he will have the greatest confidence and catch the master in the urn!"

Yue Le's face turned pale, and after thinking for a while, Yue Le immediately turned to his only adult son, Sai Leng'er, and shouted: "Sai Leng'er, take three thousand troops to escort Tutang to Gaojiayan, and guard Gaojiayan closely. Anyone who dares to approach Gaojiayan, no matter who they are, will be shot to death!"

Tu Hai and Sai Leng'e led the army to go north. The main force of the Qing army launched an all-out attack on the city of Yangzhou at any cost. The northwestern corner of Yangzhou was bombed and collapsed in many places, but by this time, the Qing army's advantage in the number of Hongyi cannons disappeared, and it was replaced by the fat army's mother-in-law cannons and grenades.

Amidst the sound of war drums, the siege troops of the Qing army, which had an absolute advantage in strength, rushed towards the city wall of Yangzhou like a flood, attacking Yangzhou from the west and north at the same time, but the fat man army was not as demoralized as it was 30 years ago. It was not Shi Kefa who personally captured Gao Dejie of Emperor Yongli of the Southern Ming Dynasty. As soon as the Qing army's siege team entered within three miles of the Yangzhou city wall, the sixty cannons that had been held back by the Yangzhou city wall for a long time opened fire together. Explosive shells poured desperately on the heads of the Qing army, blowing up the Qing army's corpses all over the field, blood and flesh splattered, and the Qing soldiers fell down in pieces.

The soldiers of the Qing army rushed to the vicinity of the moat at any cost, and the muskets, bows and arrows of the fat army on the city wall shot like raindrops, and the grenades, giant wooden ash bottles, and sheep's head stones also hit the soldiers of the Qing army like hailstones. The army soldiers lined up in rows like harvesting wheat, screaming and crying all over the sky, and the fat army soldiers roared with anger, "Full of bastards, come! Come! Han grandpas have plenty of good things to entertain you." ! Treat you bastards!"

The battle was not completely one-sided. After paying the price of more than [-] Han people's lives, the Qing army had filled up the moat of Yangzhou City with sandstone sacks and the corpses of the people, and opened the siege directly to the city of Yangzhou. On the road, when the countless ladders and flying ladders built by the Qing army in the past few days climbed up the city wall of Yangzhou, and they climbed up the city wall of Yangzhou by stepping on the ladders and flying ladders, casualties also began to appear in the fat man's army.

At the same time, the mite-clearing flag soldiers and the raped soldiers also had their advantages in bows and arrows. They hid behind the arrow-proof carts and kept shooting arrows, like huge torrents of metal going upstream, throwing them all over Yangzhou. On the city, desperately suppressing the Fatty Army defenders on the city wall also caused the most serious casualties to the Fatty Army soldiers.

In addition, the musketeers borrowed by Kang Mazi from Russia were also used by Yue Le in the siege battle for the first time - the price was that after Yue Le agreed to break through Yangzhou, these Russian musketeers could each choose two beauties as slaves.These Russian musketeers are all equipped with the most advanced front-loading flintlock muskets of this era, with a maximum range of 300 meters, far exceeding the original muskets generally equipped by the fat army with a range of less than [-] meters, and also surpassing the only direct line of the fat army. The Corps was equipped with a large number of firing needle guns, hiding behind the car and constantly firing cold shots, sniping and killing the generals and outstanding soldiers of the Fat Army, which also caused huge troubles for the Fat Army.

What is even more terrifying is the rifled gun. The Danish army in Europe in this era has been the first to be equipped with rifled guns. Although the Russian army has not yet equipped a large number of equipment, it has also been introduced sporadically. It is also equipped with eight such front-loading rifles with super long range and high precision. They hide in the distance and specialize in sniping and killing fat generals. Fatty Army General Gao Dejie scared the entire Yangzhou Fatty Army into a cold sweat.

The most ruthless trick is yet to come. When the Qing army's siege army is firmly blocked by the heroic fat man army, even the northwest corner of Yangzhou, which has collapsed in many places, cannot be attacked. The team commander Han Daren found Yue Le again and suggested that Yue Le follow the example of the famous Qing traitor Li Guodong and use the Qing army's red cannons to bombard the city wall battlefield, indiscriminately killing the fat army and Qing soldiers.And Yue Le also understands that there is not much time left for him in the Yangzhou battlefield, and he also understands that once the main force of the Fatty Army arrives in the Yangzhou battlefield, no matter how much it costs, he will never have the slightest chance of breaking through Yangzhou, so Yue Le gritted his teeth and stomped his feet , and finally roared: "Boom!"

Yue Le made up his mind, and the Qing army's Hongyi cannon, which had just fired at the Yangzhou city before, quickly adjusted its firing angle under Dai Zi's personal calibration, and bombarded the Yangzhou city wall where the Qing army soldiers and fat soldiers were extremely dense. Amidst the sound of rumbling artillery fire, the original black gunpowder flowering shells and solid iron bullets kept hitting the city wall of Yangzhou, causing the soldiers of the Fat Man Army and the Qing Army to howl like ghosts and run away with their heads in their arms.

Seeing the soldiers of the Qing army fleeing for their lives under the cover of their own artillery fire, the Qing army supervisor team led by Shang Shan kept shooting arrows and slashing people with knives, forcing the soldiers of the Qing army to go back to the battlefield and continue to attack the city of Yangzhou, and kept yelling, "Long live the emperor, watch from behind, and those who escape before the battle will be executed! Break through Yangzhou and enjoy ten days!"

"Full of bastards, I'll fuck your mother's eighteen generations of ancestors!" Seeing the indiscriminate bombardment of the Qing army's red barbarian cannons, Gao Dejie, the fat army guard, naturally cursed, and because he learned about the Qing army's artillery from the Qing army's captives, Because of the team's situation, Gao Dejie, who was already at odds with Han Daren, took the opportunity to curse, "Han Daren dog! When I catch you, I must cut off your flesh piece by piece, hello!" Mangy dog!"

——Afterwards, the fat general Han Daren, who was also shot while lying down, was also very depressed when he learned about this situation, and cursed, "Han Daren, who dares to have the same name and surname as me, is a traitor. When I catch you, you must force him!" You have changed the names of eighteen generations of your ancestors! You are not allowed to be surnamed Han, but give me the surname Gou!" This is a postscript, so I will skip it for the time being.

It's all about scolding, but Han Daren's imitation of Li Guodong is indeed vicious. Now the news of the main force of the Fatty Army has been sent to the Yangzhou Fatty Army. The soldiers of the Yangzhou Fatty Army know that victory in the Yangzhou battlefield is in sight, so they are naturally unwilling At the last moment before the victory, the morale and fighting spirit declined, and seeing the Qing army's heavy artillery bombarding the city wall battlefield, indiscriminately killing and injuring both the enemy and the fighting soldiers, the morale of the soldiers of the fat army was inevitably shaken, and they were killed several times. The soldiers of the Qing army rushed up the city wall. Fortunately, the Fatty Army's defenders were quite sufficient. Gao Dejie commanded the reserve team to make up for the leak in time, which prevented the Qing army from taking the opportunity to expand the results of the battle.

In desperation, Gao Dejie had to dispatch the Fatty Army Supervision Team, led by his right-hand deputy Wu Yonghua, to urge the soldiers of the Fatty Army to fight the enemy bravely and prevent the soldiers from fleeing.This also became the biggest shame of the Fatty Army on the Yangzhou battlefield, and became the laughing stock of the Han brothers who laughed at the Gao family brothers behind their backs. On the road, no supervisor team was dispatched.

What is dangerous is the northwest corner of Yangzhou City. In the past half a month, this place has been the focus of the Qing army's Hongyi cannon bombardment. The city wall collapsed in many places, thanks to the soldiers of the fat army who used sandbags and sacks to repair it. It completely collapsed, and during the siege battle, soldiers of the Qing army with sufficient siege weapons kept rushing up this section of the city wall, destroying the sandbags and sacks piled up by the fat army. The soldiers of the army were naturally struggling, and the temporary city wall repaired by the fire line was constantly weakened, forcing the Fatty Army to invest heavily in this position.Moreover, after the Qing army discovered this, the Hongyi cannons also began to concentrate bombardment on this position, and the casualties of the soldiers of the fat army naturally increased rapidly.

The offensive and defensive battle was extremely fierce and cruel. The blood of the soldiers on both sides almost dyed the west and north walls of Yangzhou red. The land from 500 meters away from the city wall to the ground below the city was full of corpses. The situation under the city wall was even more horrible and incomplete The corpses of both sides were piled on top of each other, more than one meter high, and the blood pooled into a stream and pooled into a blood puddle, which could be stepped on and flooded to the calf.

In any case, the Qing army, which was inferior in weapons and in a disadvantaged terrain, suffered much more casualties than the Fat Man Army, almost four to one or even five to one. The knives were curled and cut so hard that even the hands were weak. The deserters of the Qing army almost piled up into a wall of corpses in front of the supervising team.Seeing this cruel scene, the huge casualties and the tragic death battle, even those treacherous princes who had been hiding in the back before were all pale, only then did they realize that they had been ridiculed by them as cowardly fighters before. The beloved Prince An, Yue Le, has such a ruthless side.

Yue Le didn't care about whether he was fooled by those idiots. With a straight face, he just kept dispatching troops to attack the city, and continued to throw teams of Qing soldiers whose legs had already softened from fright into the battlefield of Yangzhou City Wall, into the huge and The terrifying meat grinder, and the rotation of the supervisory team, let the supervisory team move forward, forcing the Qing soldiers to move forward, closer to the road that has little hope of breaking through the city wall of Yangzhou, and shouted from time to time, "Come on, here we go!" This king rushes! Anyone who takes a step back, no matter who they are, even if they are relatives of the emperor or the sons of Baylor, they will all be cut off by this king!"

"Let's charge, charge hard." Between commanding the battle, Yue Le would also tell himself in his heart to persist in being cruel and vicious, "It is of course best to capture Yangzhou City and defend it according to the city. If you really can't attack it, My army suffered heavy casualties, Wugou's main force arrived at the Yangzhou battlefield, and it would be logical for my army to retreat northward. No matter how cunning and treacherous Lu Yifeng's dog thief is, I'm afraid he would never have imagined that I would be so willing to pay the price now Siege - just to lure him into chasing me to the floodplain!"

(End of this chapter)