Chapter 241: Zhang Yuliang

Danshi Liu Chang made up his mind the next moment, and he patted Lu Ziyun's shoulder: "Okay, this time Lishui is attacking the city, and your Niudao battalion will fight the main force!" ”

Lu Ziyun couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and the officers present also reached a consensus, and they gave a military salute to Liu Chang neatly: "Resolutely obey the order!" ”

Liu Chang couldn't find fault with this disposition, after all, after capturing Lishui City, the Niudao Battalion gained the most benefits, it turned out that Liu Chang was preparing to let the Niudao Battalion cover the flank in this battle in view of the fact that the Niudao Battalion had suffered a lot of losses in the previous battle to annihilate Rao Tingxuan's Qing army.

The change in the form of danshi made Lu Ziyun decide: "Check, let's let us be the first to board Lishui City!" ”

Liu Chang said calmly: "Don't worry, how can Lishui also be a city, let's take our time, don't cause too many casualties because of impatience!" ”

He set the tone for the entire Lishui battle, and as soon as Lu Ziyun returned to the Niudao Battalion, he preached to the cadres in the battalion: "Our comrades-in-arms of the Niudao Battalion, now is the turn of our Niudao Battalion to gnaw hard bones, the last time we beat the Qing army selected by Rao Ting, our Niudao Battalion performed very well, so this time to attack Lishui City, the inspection point specially ordered the generals of our Niudao Battalion, and our Niudao Battalion is the main attack!" ”

"Please remember one fact, our Oxknife Battalion is the oldest company of the Rainbow Army, and when it was expanded into a battalion, it created a history of a company expanded into two battalions, and now the entire Rainbow Army is looking at us and watching how we perform in Lishui City!"

This is not a fact, the soldiers of the Danshi cadres rose up all of a sudden, and everyone cheered: "Our Ox Knife Battalion should be the first main battalion of the Rainbow Army!" ”

"That's right, we're going to outperform the Dragonlance Battalion!"

"Whether it's the Dragon Lance Battalion or the Rock Battalion, our Ox Knife Battalion will overpower them!"

In such an atmosphere, Lu Ziyun quickly issued an order: "Which company, the first to board Lishui City, the inspection point will give the honorary title of Lishui Company!" ”

That's more cheers.

In other infantry battalions, simple pre-war mobilization is also carried out, for example, the slogan of the Nanxi battalion is: "This time the inspection ordered our Nanxi battalion to be responsible for assisting, danshi, have you seen when the Nanxi battalion gave someone a hand?" Our Nanxi battalion wants to turn assists into the main attack, and we are the main attack battalion! ”

Half an hour later, Liu Chang's subordinates immediately began to attack.

The first to fire was the longest-range Mini rifle, and often one or two officers had binoculars in their hands, while several infantry companies were tightly around him, and the officers quickly found the target with the telescope, and then the marksman began to look for the target in the crosshairs.

At first, the defenders of the city did not pay much attention to this kind of shooting, they knew exactly how many ranges the shotgun had, and it was useless to fire at such a distance, let alone hit the birds, even the living people who were standing.

Danshi quickly, the cruel truth told them that it was absolutely a play to beat people, watching from time to time there were officers and artillerymen who fell to the ground with a thud, the Qing army Yijing panicked, and shouted repeatedly: "What a powerful foreign gun, this foreign gun is so powerful, it can fight a few miles away!" ”

This panic soon spread to the entire city, and now except for a few officers who stretched out their small heads and looked at the battlement wall, Yijing could not find half a person in the whole city, and then, the Hongjun began to erect improvised pontoon bridges along the Jiacheng River.

In the hearts of the defenders of the city, there was no need to pay attention to such a bridge, how could a pontoon bridge be so easy to erect, they only occasionally fired a shot at the moat below the city, and then fled back behind the battlement wall.

It's just that in less than two quarters of an hour, Yijing, the general of the defending army at the head of the city, felt his scalp exploded at the six pontoon bridges erected under the city, and it was less than two quarters of an hour! The Red Thief actually erected six pontoon bridges on the moat, and each bridge could be two people together, and then, the Red Thief's artillery began to bombard the city with solid shells. …,

The defenders at the head of the city were still cowering in the Tibetan soldier cave, they really didn't want to be shot coldly, and the civil and military officials below the Danshi Heng prefect, Yijing, drove them out of the Tibetan soldier cave: "The red thief brigade is up, the red thief brigade is up, be careful!" ”

Not only did the red thieves come up, but Yijing dragged the artillery to the edge of the moat, and the troops who crossed the river built simple fortifications, which could shoot at the defenders at the head of the city at any time, everything was in order, and the ladder could be erected at any time.

"Ascend to the city!"

The first to attack the city was Lu Ziyun's Ox Knife Battalion, accompanied by an order, the two carefully selected Ascending City groups Yijing ran over with ladders, put the ladders to the city, and then the infantry climbed up vigorously, and the officers and soldiers below cheered loudly to the warriors: "Hurry up, hurry up, we are the Cattle Knife Battalion, and it's just a flock of chickens on it!" ”

It was not a group, but dozens and hundreds of soldiers, and they only boarded up six or seven people, and dozens of hundreds of soldiers drove out of the cave in Tibet, trying to expel this rainbow army.

The two sides immediately launched tactics, first of all, the officers and soldiers of the Hong Army raised their flintlock pistols and firing guns to start a bombardment, and the two sides suffered casualties on each other, and then saw that the Qing army was very numerous, and immediately shouted loudly, raised their bayonets and killed them.

The vanguard of the Qing army did not come to such a brave red thief, and immediately collapsed, and then a Qing general shouted: "With my Bo Batian here, why worry about the red thief not retreating!" ”

He slashed and killed two Qing soldiers who retreated without authorization, and as soon as the remaining Qing soldiers saw this situation, they immediately killed Huilai again: "Boba Tian is coming, everyone kill Huilai quickly!" ”

It's just that after such a delay, more officers and soldiers of the Niudao Battalion were soon killed, and the two sides launched a shootout at the narrow head of the city.

But the Hong army killed only more than 20 officers and soldiers, although they fought back to back in formation, the Qing army pressed over from all directions in all directions wave after wave, and there was a wave of Qing troops driven down by the sky to rush up again, and immediately there were Hong officers and soldiers shouting: "Kill that official!" ”

More than a dozen flintlock pistols and firing pistols were concentrated on the body of the wave of tyrants, only to hear a volley of guns bombarding by, this Qing army's tiger general Yijing was knocked to the ground, and the morale of the Qing army suddenly dropped.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

Taking advantage of this moment, more than 20 officers and soldiers of the Ox Knife Battalion rushed up with rifles, but at this time, everyone found that the Green Battalion officer Bo Ba, who was knocked to the ground at first, was not dead, and was covered in blood again and drove the Qing soldiers to press up, and someone immediately shouted: "This Qing demon is too hateful, kill it!" ”

At this time, some lead was blasted from both flanks of the left and right flanks, which was the Qing army's mountain-splitting cannon that caused a lot of casualties to the Hong army, and the Hong army soon grabbed a mountain-splitting cannon, and the officers shouted: "Kill that Bo Batian, kill that Bo Batian!" ”

The mountain splitting cannon was loaded with double lead and gunpowder, and with a roar, the Qing army's brave general Bo Batian Yijing was swept by hundreds of leads, covered in blood.

As soon as he died, the Qing army was frightened, and immediately retreated dozens of steps, and the Hong officers and soldiers of the brigade Yijing climbed up from the ladder, but they attacked further, but they still encountered resistance from the Qing army.

At this time, another group of Qing soldiers shouted: "Rob the corpse of Bobatian, brothers, we have to be worthy of our conscience!" ”

And such a shout, it triggered another small-scale white soldier battle between the two sides, and the Qing army was quickly defeated, at this time, some officers and soldiers found that although this Bo Batian was hit by dozens or hundreds of leads, he still did not hang, and immediately said angrily: "Stab this dog thief!" ”

Poke! Poke! Poke! It's okay to do anything, but all the Hong officers and soldiers who passed by stabbed a bayonet in Bo Ba's body, and then shouted in relief: "If you don't surrender again, this is the end!" ”…,

Bo Ba could still struggle once or twice at first, but Danshi's bayonets of the officers and soldiers stabbed everywhere, and he couldn't speak, only to see many Qing soldiers on the opposite side were so frightened by the scene that they knelt on the ground and surrendered: "We have surrendered!" ”

The battle of Danshi Lishui City is not over, after all, this is the location of a prefecture city, there are many brave soldiers, the Qing Dynasty Yijing has been operating here for more than two hundred years, and there are often some unexpected casualties.

After fighting for half an hour, the exact news finally came: "The Qing Demon has broken through to the west!" ”

As soon as Liu Chang heard the news, he also relaxed: "There is Camp Commander Zhou's horse team there, and the Qing Demon is looking for death when he goes west!" ”

The battle to sweep away the remnants of the enemy lasted for half an afternoon, and finally found out five or six hundred brave and Qing soldiers who took off their coats and hid in civilian houses, but this battle was also an attack battle, and after the first battle, at least more than 100 casualties were killed and wounded in each infantry battalion.

In this case, Liu Chang could only wait quietly for Zhou Xiuying's battle report, and when it was evening, good news came: "The seven hundred Qing demons who broke through the siege were intercepted and beaten by the Zhou battalion commander, and more than two-thirds of the enemy were annihilated, among which the killed were the Heng Governor of Chuzhou, the Lishui County Commander, the acting general soldier of Chuzhou Town, and others......"

This can be regarded as a successful ending, Liu Chang nodded, and gave an order: "The troops will rest in the state capital for one night, and they will return to Jinhua tomorrow morning!" ”

This time was a bit rushed, and the loot was too late to be sorted out, but Lu Ziyun Yijing made a guarantee in front of the various battalion commanders that no matter how much gold and silver was found afterwards, it would be disposed of by the inspection point in a unified manner.

His only request was that the seized grain be temporarily disposed of by him, and that the Cattle Knife Battalion and the Independent Battalion were indispensable if they wanted to develop and survive in the state.

Liu Chang agreed, and early the next morning, the troops marched directly to the north, but the troops had only been gone for a morning, and a good news came from Sun Huzi: "The general who came to the aid of the Jiangnan battalion was not Zhang Guoliang, Yijing figured it out, it was Zhang Yuliang!" ”

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