In the fierce battle, from time to time, there will be shells from the Wu army that hit the city wall and bounce back, accidentally injuring these auxiliary soldiers who opened the way for the main force, and occasionally one or two flowering shells and even bitter acid shells also lost their accuracy, bombarded the side of the pontoon bridge, accidentally injured and killed more soldiers of the auxiliary army of the Wu army.

Fortunately, the cannon of the Wu army was just right when the light was well, and the gunners were also strictly trained, and the accidental injury rate of the shells was not high; At the same time, Hu Huaizhao sent someone over to promise a heavy reward, promising that as long as the four pontoon bridges were built, the reward would be 1,000 taels of silver, and the compensation for the wounded and killed would be doubled, so more than 200 Wu army sappers were also completely out of the way, even if they were injured by the muskets of the Qing army, they refused to retreat, insisted on carrying ropes to swim across the river, pulled the iron ropes and nailed them to the opposite bank, laid thick wooden planks to fix them on the iron cables, gritted their teeth and desperately built the bridge, and finally after paying more than 60 casualties, they successfully built the four pontoon bridges that Hu Huaizhao needed. Four roads were opened for the soldiers of the Wu army to reach the city of Jinan. At the same time, the Wu army, which was transporting soil and filling the river, was only a little more than half of the workload.

"Chang Liang, whether you can take Jinan or not depends on you! The first charge, you must rush into the gap for me, and plant our military flag in the gap! Can't do it, military law engaged! ”

"I can't do it, and I'm not coming back!"

After answering confidently and loudly, Chang Liang, the general of the Wu army who was appointed as the vanguard, did not hesitate, and immediately led the two ordinary battalions under his command to charge, carrying the flying ladder that did not even have time to peel off the bark and rushed to the gap in the city wall.

The Qing army's reaction was also very fast, the Wu army had just finished the shelling, and immediately after the arrow stacks on the city wall, many guns poked out, and shot desperately at the Wu army commandos who were shouting and killing, and they were also very cunning to shoot at the bridge deck of the Wu army's pontoon bridge. But fortunately, the rear team of the Qing army has not had time to go to the city to help the battle, the defenders of the city have been heavily damaged by the Wu army in the artillery battle, and the hand is a special stab to load the rifle, the firepower is relatively sparse, the frequency of shooting is not high, can not achieve the effect of a thorough Wu army charge, the Wu army commando roared like thunder, seized this precious fighter plane and charged on the bridge, desperately crossed the river, and successfully crossed the wide and deep Jinan moat.

Then came the real test, although the Jinan city wall at the gap collapsed closely, it was still five or six meters high, and the Wu army commandos still had to rely on flying ladders to rush to the top of the gap. But it's still okay, unlike the Taiping army that will only attack the city through tunnels and the Qing army that trembles even when attacking the city through tunnels, the Wu army, which has changeable tactics, is very experienced in fighting ants and attached wars, and finds a good angle to skillfully put the flying ladder on the city wall, and immediately steps on the ladder to attack the city, the gap is not wide enough to erect so many flying ladders, it doesn't matter, directly put the long enough flying ladder on the city head, and directly attack the top of the city wall, not only to share the pressure on the main battlefield of the gap, but also to strive to rush directly to the city, and kill two birds with one stone.

At the same time, the rear team of the Qing army had also rushed to the head of the city and entered the post, and the firepower on the city suddenly began to intensify, but the speed of the Qing army was fast, and the speed of the Wu army commando was even faster. The rebels directly paved a way for us to go down to the city, and we could rush directly into the city! ”

It turned out that in order to quickly plug the gap, the Qing army piled up a lot of earth, stone and sandbags on the ruins of the collapsed city wall to pave the road that could directly climb the gap, and then because the Wu army's artillery fire was too fierce, it was almost difficult for the Qing soldiers to climb the gap to repair the city wall, and the road they paved also became the steps of the Wu army commando at this moment, so that the Wu soldiers did not have to risk being injured and jumped from a height, You can rush into the city directly.

Bang bang bang, the rapid gunfire quickly put down this greedy Wu army warrior, but it couldn't stop more Wu army warriors from rushing up to the gap one after another and rushing into the city, and at the same time, the first Wu army flag was also successfully inserted into the gap, sending out a signal that the ants had taken the gap, and the Wu army soldiers were also suddenly thunderous, and the faster they rushed, the more fierce they became.

Bang! Bang! Two powder kegs suddenly exploded at the gap, and the soldiers of the Wu army who had just rushed to the gap were caught off guard, and they were immediately killed and wounded, but it was very good, the flag of the Wu army was not blown down, and it was still tightly inserted in the cracks in the city wall. The generals of the Wu army in the back also shouted loudly and ordered, "Keep rushing!" Keep rushing! Rush up and go straight into town! ”

"Kill——!"

As long as the soldiers of the Wu army climbed to the top of the gap, they immediately rushed into the city with a rolling belt, so although the Qing army threw powder kegs one after another to block the gap, it still could not stop the Wu soldiers from entering the city one after another, and the members of the Wu army commando who were promised a heavy reward sacrificed their lives, and constantly took advantage of the interval between the explosions of the powder kegs of the Qing army, as far as possible from the middle of the gap to the top of the gap, and hurriedly rushed into the city with the corpses of their fallen companions, and gradually gathered a certain number of troops in the city.

Seeing this, many friends in the city must have asked, where did the Qing army behind the city wall go? Can Fuxin be so stupid that he doesn't leave a little backyard to protect the gap behind the city wall? The answer is that the Qing army general Fuxin did leave a battalion directly under his own Qing army protection gap, and the defeated soldiers left by Qu Suken were also left in the city by Fuxin, and some Jinan regimental exercises were also on the scene. However......

However, these Qing troops can hardly be counted as existing, except for the first few Wu soldiers who rushed into the city first were besieged by them, and after the Wu soldiers who rushed behind threw grenades at them in time, these ordinary Qing soldiers who were pinned on by Bao Jun and Rong Lu panicked, and before the Wu army commandos threw more grenades, they had already shouted and fled in all directions, "Palm thunder!" The palm thunder of the thief army is coming! Run! ”

At least the battalion officer of the battalion directly under Fuxin tried to force the soldiers of the self-army to charge, and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Wu army commando, which was at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, but after seeing the Qing army brigade rushing in, the Wu army commando team immediately threw out two grenades, and the Qing army immediately cried wolf and howled with their heads and rats, and fled faster than the other. After all, these Qing troops can only compete with the Taiping army, whose combat effectiveness has seriously degenerated, and they encounter the genuine Wu army with better equipment and experience in a hundred battles, and they have no condescending geographical advantage, so naturally they will only be left with the life of being trampled on and tyrannical.

More and more soldiers of the Wu army rushed into the city, and they also brought a grenadier canister, and two shells smashed into the camp flag of the Qing army, and the camp flag of the Qing army disappeared into the night. At the same time, the Wu army soldiers who launched an ant-attached attack directly to the city also made a breakthrough, and began to rush to the city wall to fight, the Qing army in the city was in chaos, and the Wu army commando took the opportunity to rush into the city with an inexhaustible stream of gaps, Hu Huaizhao also couldn't wait to send three battalions, including an elite battalion, to reinforce the troops, and directly ordered: "Tell the battalion officers of the three battalions, no matter how much the price is paid, you must rush into the city for me, who dares to retreat with the army, there will be no mercy!" ”

Hu Huaizhao actually didn't need to be so anxious and nervous, because before the three battalions rushed to the bottom of the city wall, the soldiers of the Wu army who had already entered the city had already fought with the follow-up reinforcements of the Qing army, and they quickly drew the Qing troops from other city gates to the ground, crying and screaming.

"Run, Wu thief's palm thunder is here again!"

"Shoot a small foreign cannon! Look at the Wu thief's fast-firing small foreign cannon! Oh my God, so fast? Don't hit us! ”

"Oops! Wu Thief's gun has a demon method, how can it be so accurate when it is so far away? ”

Drive dogs and sheep and fight tigers and leopards! Unfortunately, in Liu Rong's crow's words, the performance of the Qing army reinforcements drawn from other city gates when they fought with the Wu army can indeed only be described as dogs, sheep and tigers and leopards, and they did not dare to fight hand-to-hand combat with the Wu army at all, but only dared to shoot far away, and fought a long-range combat battle with the least threat to the Wu army. Then because Wu Jun had grenades and grenadiers, he had rich shooting experience and good marksmanship, and he was also abused by Wu Jun in long-range shooting. It was completely like a herd of earth dogs and lambs, only daring to bark its teeth and bark a few times in the distance, and the tiger and hungry wolf would immediately run away with their tails between their legs as long as they made the slightest movement.

The rear team of the Wu army of three battalions rushed to the city one after another, although it was still possible to rush up the gap into the city by stepping on the flying ladder, but because the Wu army ant attached to the army had formed a strong containment of the Qing army in the city, and the reason that the gunpowder barrel of the Qing army had been exhausted and did not have time to replenish it, the first battalion still rushed into the city of Jinan almost intact, and after the Wu army battalion team rushed into the city of Jinan, it was equivalent to directly sounding the death knell of the Qing army in Jinan, and completely ruined the dream of the Qing army in Jinan to plug the gap again.

"Report ——! Wu thieves have already rushed into the city! ”

"Lord Futai, Wu rebel thieves rushed to the city wall, General Fuxin asked for help, please send reinforcements quickly!"

"Report! Our reinforcements have already exchanged fire with the Wu rebel thieves, but the battle is unfavorable, and they can't get close to the gap, so they can't stop the Wu thieves from entering the city! ”

"Lord Futai, it's not good! Oh no! There are more and more Wu rebel thieves entering the city, and our army is almost overwhelmed! ”

Bad news continued to be sent to Bao Jun and others, and Bao Jun was furious at first, scolding his subordinates for their incompetence, and even a few Wu soldiers who ventured into the city could not withstand it, Rong Lu also had expectations, feeling that the next report was likely to be good news, and the Qing army in Jinan would definitely be able to kill the Wu army that had difficulty in replenishing the troops. However, as time went on and the situation deteriorated, Bao Jun, who had been roaring like thunder, gradually began to have no strength to shout and roar, and finally simply sat on the chair motionless, as if he had been completely paralyzed and speechless. Rong Lu's heart gradually began to despair, and in the end, although he was unwilling, Rong Lu still had to admit in his heart that Liu Rong was right, and the army should abandon the east of the city as soon as possible, retreat to Jiaodong to save strength, and wait for a slim miracle to appear.

"Lord Futai, it's still too late to leave." Liu Rong opened her mouth to break the silence in the hall, and said in a deep voice: "The loss of Jinan is a foregone conclusion, take advantage of the fact that we still have some troops in our hands now, and quickly withdraw to Yidu to keep the hope for the future." ”

After hesitating for a long time, Bao Jun trembled and said, "But Jinan is a provincial capital?" Also, I am the governor of Shandong, and I am responsible for defending the territory, and even if I can escape back if I lose the provincial capital, it will definitely be a dead end. ”

"With Lord Futai's relationship in the imperial court, even if you lose the provincial capital, there should be no danger of losing your head." Liu Rong said calmly: "Also, although Jinan is the capital of Shandong Province, the city is dead, and the people are alive. But if you have any mistakes, Shandong will be completely leaderless. ”

After hesitating for a long time, when the herald came to report that the battle was critical, Bao Jun finally made up his mind, slapped the table and said, "Okay, just listen to Mr. Meng Rong, take advantage of the opportunity now, hurry up!" ”

"It's okay to go, but the food has to be burned!" Rong Lu said viciously: "Go to the provincial treasury and set a fire to the treasury, burn all the grain, and don't give Wu thieves a chance to get grain on the spot!" ”

"Zhonghua, I don't object to you doing this, but have you considered the consequences of your doing this?" Liu Rong asked quietly, and said: "When the thief Wu saw that the grain was burned, in a rage, will he chase you and Lord Futai to the end?" From Jinan to Yidu in the west, the nearest Zhangqiu is also more than a hundred miles away from here, can you guarantee that you will be able to get rid of the pursuit of Wu thieves? Can you guarantee that the Wu thief will not continue to besiege Zhangqiu in order to take revenge? ”

"Besides." Liu Rong added another sentence and said, "You burned the grain in the warehouse, how much effect can it have?" Jinan is a provincial capital, and the people have a lot of grain in storage, so can't the Wu thief buy grain on the spot and collect grain, survive this winter, and wait until the rear to send grain and grass, how difficult can it be? ”

Rong Lu's expression began to be depressed, and Bao Jun was also frightened by Liu Rong's words, and hurriedly said: "Mr. Meng Rong's words make sense, even if we burn the grain, it will not affect the Wu thief to control Jinan." Now that the famine in Shandong is so serious, burning grain is too contrary to the principles of heaven, so let's leave the granary alone. ”

In this way, after confirming that the self-army was not the opponent of the Wu army after losing the protection of the city wall, Baojun and Ronglu finally accepted Liu Rong's proposal to abandon the city again, and hurriedly took the army that could still be commanded to flee from the city from Lishanmen, and at the same time, because of the fear of the Wu army's pursuit and revenge, Baojun didn't even dare to listen to Ronglu's suggestion to burn grain, and left the grain that was finally transported from Jiaodong to the Wu army.

Liu Rong also went out of the city with Baojun and others, but after leaving the city, Liu Rong casually found an excuse to sneak out of the Qing army with her younger brother Liu Fan, and forcibly pulled her younger brother in front of the soldiers of the Wu army, and took the initiative to express his willingness to surrender. However, when he saw Hu Huaizhao and He Qinghan and other high-level Wu Jun's divisions, Liu Rong categorically rejected Hu Huaizhao and He Qinghan's invitation to join the office, and just gave up his hand and said: "General Hu, Mr. Boyuan, the student has become disheartened with his career and does not want to enter the office anymore, so please see that for the sake of my persuasion Baojun to give up burning grain, let me and my brother return to my hometown in Hunan to study and cultivate the fields, so that we can live in the countryside for the rest of our lives." ”

After receiving the news of the collapse of the Jinan city wall, Fu Zhenbang insisted on taking his army out of the city overnight and rushed back to Jinan for reinforcements, despite the repeated dissuasion of his friend Detong. But it's a pity that the four battalions of the Wu Army, which is responsible for monitoring the Changqing Qing Army, have also received the news that the main force of the Changqing Army has broken the city, and knows that the Changqing Qing Army is likely to send troops back to Jinan to help, so Fu Zhenbang has been ready for a night battle early, so Fu Zhenbang failed to sneak away under the cover of night, and was forced to fight a field battle with the Wu Army in the suburbs.

At first, it was okay, thanks to the blessing of the poor vision in the dark, Fu Zhenbang's army, who was familiar with the terrain and roads, successfully bypassed the Wu army's blocking position, but then Fu Zhenbang's army finally returned to Jinan under the pursuit of the Wu army, but Baojun's side had abandoned the city, and the Wu army only used a part of the troops to capture the city, and the rest of the army was able to free up their hands to deal with Fu Zhenbang. As a result, after a big battle, the elite and strong army under Fu Zhenbang completely disappeared, and Fu Zhenbang himself was hit by stray bullets in the fierce battle, and died heroically, unfortunately in the hands of the Wu army team that had many things in common with his own army.

"Mr. Boyuan, you said that after the good news was delivered to the King of Zhennan, what kind of reward would the King of Zhennan give me this time?" Hu Huaizhao quietly asked his right-hand man He Qinghan.

"General Hu forgives the guilt, not long after the student joined the rebel army, he didn't know the rules of the Zhennan King's reward, so he couldn't speculate."

He Qinghan shook his head, raised his voice a little more, and said, "But I'm sure it's definitely not light!" General, you have made meritorious contributions to the division, captured nearly 30 cities in two months, won Xuzhou and Yangzhou in one fell swoop, captured the two important military towns of Yanzhou and Tai'an, and miraculously won the rebellious army to guard Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province, so the reward of the king of Zhennan will not be light! And in the history books in the future, General Hu will definitely have a place and go down in history! ”

Hu Huaizhao, who looked a little thief-eyed, laughed so much that his mouth was about to crack to the root of his ears, and he said squirmingly: "Mr. Boyuan is too much, I, Hu Huaizhao, am a cowherd baby who has only studied private school for half a year, so what kind of history is it worthy of?" But Mr. Bo Yuan, can you please do me a favor with something? ”

"General Hu has something to say, please say."

"Please give me a table and a name, so that in the future, I will only be able to record my name in the history books, so that future generations will think that I am just a small person."