"Hit the mark! The real target of Wu's rebel thief army is Jinan, not Changqing! The Changqing division was sent not to give their main force a front station, but to contain us and not give us the opportunity to send troops to reinforce Jinan! ”

It's too late to understand the plan, the most capable and reliable Fu Zhenbang headquarters on the battlefield in Jinan has been foolishly brought into Changqing City by Fu Zhenbang himself, and there is only one way to return to Jinan, rush out and fight a field decisive battle with Wu Jun's division, and fight a bloody way back to help the south!

At the critical moment, Bao Jun's words of advice when he was leaving surfaced in Fu Zhenbang's mind in time, allowing Fu Zhenbang to calm down temporarily and think about whether he should risk going out of the city to fight a night battle with the Wu army. But it's a pity that Detong next to him is a hot-tempered man, and he can't wait to yell: "Old man, we were fooled, you can't stay in Changqing City, I will send troops to cover your withdrawal to Jinan for reinforcements, Jinan is our provincial capital in Shandong, and we must not lose it!" ”

Fu Zhenbang was still a little hesitant, and Detong hurriedly asked, "Old Fu, are you going back?" If you want to go back, you have to take it early, otherwise, when the Wu rebel thief army has relieved this breath and recovered its strength, it will not be as easy as it is now if you want to rush back. ”

Considering that the Wu army came at a long gallop, it was the time when the people were sleepy and the horses were tired and their physical strength was seriously reduced, and it was still early in the morning, and it was still early to go back in time to enter the city after dark, Fu Zhenbang gritted his teeth, and still nodded and said: "Lao De, then trouble you, first arrange some regimental exercises to wait at the north gate, and when I am ready, let your regimental training under your hand first go out of the city from the north gate to attract the attention of the thief army, I will take the opportunity to go out of the city from the east gate, as long as your regimental training can slightly contain the Wu rebel thief army for a period of time, I can be much easier." ”

Detong agreed, and hurriedly sent someone to give an order, and arranged two battalions of local regimental training to assemble at the north gate of Changqing, preparing to launch a feint to cover Fu Zhenbang's withdrawal from the city to Jinan - in order to share the pressure of Fu Zhenbang's reinforcements as much as possible, Detong also specially arranged the local regimental training with the best equipment and the strongest combat effectiveness. Fu Zhenbang hurriedly returned to the headquarters camp and asked his direct team to immediately prepare to retreat back to Jinan.

In the early morning, he just came to Changqing, and before noon, he had to withdraw to Jinan, so he had to complain and complain no matter if he was replaced by the Qing army, but Fu Zhenbang's headquarters was completely different, one by one, like a single-celled organism, they would only unconditionally carry out the order, and after hurriedly packing up the ammunition and weapons brought by the army, they didn't even have time to prepare the dry food they ate on the road, and Fu Zhenbang's department was directly assembled in the east gate of Changqing. At the same time, Detong Yeguoduan, who had already visited the north gate of the city, ordered the city gate to be opened, so that the two battalions of Changqing regimental training rushed out to attract the attention of the Wu army outside the city.

Not to mention, the Qing army's hand really worked in one fell swoop, just saw the Qing army out of the city, and the Wu army's partial division, which was standing in the northeast outside the Changqing city, immediately divided a battalion to meet the battle, but the speed of the march was not fast, and it was obviously not as if they wanted to block the Qing army in the city. Detong saw an opportunity in the city, and hurriedly ordered the Changqing regiment to step up and assemble on the other side of the moat, so as to effectively contain the partial division of the Wu army and Hu Huaizhao's division with a strict formation.

The Wu army fought very calmly, trotted to a distance from the Qing army, and then stopped the whole team, only a few Wu soldiers ran forward to approach the dense horizontal line of the Qing army, Detong was naturally confused when he saw it in the city, and said in confusion: "What is the Wu rebel army doing?" Why did you send so many people forward? Want to talk to us? But why didn't you fly the white flag? ”

After advancing about 200 meters away from the Qing army's phalanx, several Wu soldiers suddenly showed two grenadiers to tell Detong the accurate answer, the two grenadiers fired one after another, and bombarded one after another the grenadier shells into the dense phalanx practiced by the Qing army.

"Wu thief's fast-fire foreign cannon! Command the flag, let our regimental training launch a charge, and rush up to entangle the Wu rebel thief army! ”

After understanding the truth of the matter in an instant, Detong, who was also an old military officer, immediately made the right choice and decisively ordered the regimental training outside the city to charge, in a vain attempt to entangle Wu Jun at close quarters and continue to share the pressure on Fu Zhenbang's side. But it's a pity that although Detong's reaction was very fast and the tactics were very correct, the Changqing regimental training that carried out the order could not achieve such combat quality, after seeing the charging flag waved, only one of the two Changqing training officers reacted in time and launched a charge with the army, but the other training officer came back to his senses after several minutes and hurriedly led the army to charge.

Lian Guan's performance is still like this, Lian Yong's performance is naturally even more unsightly, the chaotic queue between the charge is extremely chaotic, and after being smashed by Wu Jun with two more grenadiers, it directly turned into a mass of loose sand, shouting and screaming Before rushing to a hundred steps outside the Wu army's position, he couldn't wait to shoot, wasting gunpowder in vain and barely hitting a Wu soldier. Then, when the Wu army fired platoon guns with the line tactics that have now become the mainstream on the battlefield, just after two waves of round firing, the Changqing regimental training of the two battalions completely collapsed, screaming and fleeing everywhere.

With a bang, Detong slammed his fist on the female wall full of snow particles, first scolded his team for being incompetent, and then looked at the east with great worry, and said in his heart: "Old man, I'm sorry, I can't help you much, I just hope that the situation on your side can be better." ”

Let's take a look at the situation on Fu Zhenbang's side, in fact, just when he heard the faint sound of explosions coming from the north gate, Fu Zhenbang couldn't wait to order the city gate to be opened and strode out of the city with his two thousand headquarters. And like the North Gate, because it was not clear about the enemy situation from the east gate, the Wu army only sent a battalion to prepare to intercept, which gave Fu Zhenbang's army the opportunity and time to assemble and line up, and also only set up two grenadiers to bombard the queue of Fu Zhenbang's army from a distance, and reconnoitred the strength of Fu Zhenbang's army.

The performance of the elite of the Qing army on the front line was of course completely different from the regimental training, and after being caught off guard by the grenadier of the Wu army, Fu Zhenbang's army immediately made a correct response, and when he saw the Wu army's grenadier shells smashing, he immediately fell to the ground to avoid the artillery, dodging most of the shrapnel, and immediately got up and moved forward after the explosion, maintaining a tight formation and quickly avoiding the Wu army's position at an astonishing speed. The Wu military battalion responsible for intercepting Fu Zhenbang's army was unable to suppress Fu Zhenbang's army's cluster charge because it only had two grenadiers and limited ammunition, and was soon bullied close by Fu Zhenbang's army, and was forced to raise a mini gun and flintlock pistol to compete with Fu Zhenbang's army and line up to be shot, and then was killed and wounded heavily by Fu Zhenbang's army's Lizhi rifle, which was difficult to parry. - After all, the Lizhi rifle is a relatively advanced main battle rifle in this era, the front loading flint is rifled, the shooting accuracy is guaranteed, and the conical warhead is the most technologically advanced warhead in the world at present, and at the same time, Fu Zhenbang's army has both numerical superiority and strict training, and the shooting speed is extremely fast, and the ordinary battalion of the Wu army with Minnie guns and flintlock pistols in their hands is naturally not an opponent.

The battle situation was favorable, of course Fu Zhenbang was secretly happy, and what made Fu Zhenbang even happier was that after discovering his strength, the Wu army still only sent one battalion to intercept it, and directly rushed to the rear of the comrades who had gone into battle before, intending to deal with Fu Zhenbang's army, which had four battalions alone, and it was very rash not to join forces with the front army. Fu Zhenbang was overjoyed when he saw it, and hurriedly shouted: "Speed up!" Kill the opposing thief army first, and then deal with the thief army behind! ”

Fu Zhenbang was wasting saliva and strength to shout out this sentence, just saw the reinforcements behind them lined up, and the Wu army, a battalion that had been in battle before, immediately fled to the south, and took the initiative to give up the position space, Fu Zhenbang was even more overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered the army to continue to move forward, wanting to kill the Wu army of the battalion behind in one go. However, at this time, Fu Zhenbang's pupils suddenly contracted violently............

In the roar and whistling, in the Wu army formation of that battalion, twenty or thirty grenadier shells flew out in one breath, and smashed into Fu Zhenbang's army, although the Fu soldiers reacted quickly and immediately fell to the ground to avoid bullets without the order of the grassroots generals, but the number of grenadier shells that could not withstand the Wu army was too much, and they were still blown up and splashed with flesh and blood, and the casualties increased greatly. Fu Zhenbang himself couldn't help but exclaim loudly, "My God! How come there are so many fast-firing small foreign cannons?! ”

The new Wu army in this battalion not only had powerful firepower to the point of outrageousness, but also the tactics were cunning to the point of despicability, and after seeing the Fu soldiers lying on the ground to avoid bombs, they did not rush to continue firing the artillery, or after the Fu soldiers got up and moved forward again, they violently blasted out a wave of grenadier shells, killing and wounding many Fu soldiers who were a little slower to react, and the Fu soldiers screamed continuously, although the formation was still kept intact by strict training in peacetime, but the morale of the army was frustrated together, and they no longer dared to bully the ordinary battalion of the Wu army with full confidence as before.

"Oops! This must be the real elite of the Wu thief that Yin Qing said! ”

In addition to complaining, Fu Zhenbang refused to give up and urged the soldiers to trot forward, and when he encountered the bombardment of the Wu army's grenadiers, he only half-crouched to avoid the artillery, and approached the base of the elite battalion of the Wu army at any cost. As a result, relying on strict training and good military discipline in peacetime, Fu Zhenbang's orders were strictly enforced, but after finally approaching within 100 steps of the elite battalion of the Wu army, Fu Zhenbang was even more dumbfounded to see that the soldiers of the elite battalion of the Wu army on the opposite side were all lying on the ground!

"Get down?! You can shoot when you lie down, but how do you reload your ammunition?! ”

When Fu Zhenbang exclaimed again, the two Fu army battalions who served as the vanguard thought that they had encountered rookies on the battlefield, and they couldn't wait to launch a charge, wanting to fight in close combat with a volley of Wu troops. And then, these unlucky Fu soldiers soon saw a miracle in the world, the Wu soldiers who lay down and fired did not do any action to get up and reload after the sentry team fired a wave of rounds, and directly continued to shoot on their stomachs! - This is also the key reason why the rear-loading gun throws the front-loading gun into the historical garbage heap!

Bang bang! In the continuous gunfire as dense as bursting beans, one after another Fu soldiers screamed and fell to the ground, falling to the snow with blood on their chests, and the Wu soldiers who were shooting on their stomachs were not affected by any rate of fire, and their shooting accuracy was no different from that of squatting and standing shooting, as if they were slaughtering the lives of Fu soldiers in rows, and the bullets fired by Fu soldiers standing and squatting completely lost their usual accuracy, and there was basically no way to accurately hit the Wu soldiers who were shooting in a lying position, plus the Lizhi rifle was loaded with ammunition and had to take a standing position, When the ammunition was replaced, it directly became a live target for the Wu soldiers, and one by one they were killed by the Wu army's muskets, and the corpses were soon covered with snow.

collapsed, the Qing army's famous general Fu Zhenbang personally trained the descendant battalion for the first time directly collapsed, it was really unable to parry the dense firepower and shameless lying shooting tactics of the elite battalion of the Wu army, and the two Fu army battalions that played the vanguard were forced to break up and flee, and fled in a mess to avoid the guns and bullets of the Wu army. The Wu army took the opportunity to blast grenadiers and shells one after another, wantonly slaughtered the strong soldiers of the Qing army, and constantly overturned and killed the soldiers of Fu who would definitely cause great trouble to the self-army in the defense of the city, desperately weakening the only elite force of the Qing army.

After finally escaping from the coverage of the Wu army's grenadiers, only one of the two battalion officers of the Fu army battalion ran back to Fu Zhenbang with his wounds and pleaded guilty in tears, while the other battalion officer had closed his eyes forever in the battle, and only the body was carried in front of Fu Zhenbang by his own soldiers. Seeing the body of Aijiang, Fu Zhenbang, who has always been strong, couldn't help but burst into tears, choked up and said: "I don't blame you, you have done your best, the Wu thief on the other side is too powerful, and you have not lost unjustly." ”

"Brother Fu, what should we do next?" The battalion officer who came back with his wounds asked, and then suggested: "Why don't you bypass the Wu thief position of this battalion and take another road back to Jinan?" ”

"Is that easy? Wu thief is not a fool, can watch us bypass their position in a roundabout way? ”

Fu Zhenbang smiled bitterly with tears, and after wiping away a handful of sad tears, Fu Zhenbang said in his heart: "What should I do?" A detour, with our mobility and familiarity with the road, it is unlikely that we will be stopped head-on by the elite of the Wu thieves, but the Wu thieves will definitely bite our tail and weaken us little by little, and when we return to Jinan City after walking thirty miles, the army in my hands will be at least half exhausted, even if it is impossible to be exhausted. If the Wu thieves who took the road of the fried rice shop rushed to Jinan before us, they would definitely send troops to intercept us, and when the time came, the Wu thieves would be caught in front and back, even if the friendly troops in Jinan City ventured out of the city to meet them, I would definitely have to suffer another heavy blow. ”

Thinking about this, Fu Zhenbang quickly made up his mind, gritted his teeth and said: "Go back to Changqing City, and wait until the evening." ”

When the order was issued, the well-trained soldiers of the Fu army of course immediately turned around and rushed back to the east gate of Changqing City with the two battalions that had not been in battle before. Of course, the Wu army refused to let go of this God-given opportunity to beat the water dogs, and the elite battalion behind immediately launched a pursuit, and the ordinary battalion of the Wu army that had retreated to the south immediately rushed back and stormed the flank of the Fu army to avenge the shame, although the Fu army fought and retreated and tried to keep the formation not chaotic, but the Wu army's grenadier firepower was too fierce, and the Fu army still lost more than 100 soldiers during the retreat, and paid a heavy price before reluctantly relying on the fire cover of the Changqing defenders to withdraw to Changqing City. The four battalions went out of the city and went around, and only two and a half battalions were left alive to return to the city.

"Yin Qingxian's nephew is not wrong, we have no hope of winning in a field battle with the elite of Wu thieves, and if we want to return to Jinan for reinforcements, we can only wait until it is dark at night and then find another way. If nothing else, Wu Thief's side must have expected this, and it will be difficult for me to make this idea tonight, so I can only wait for a day or two. ”

These are Fu Zhenbang's original words after seeing his friend Detong again, and his tone was still full of helplessness, but Fu Zhenbang quickly cheered himself up: "But fortunately, Jinan is a provincial capital after all, the city is high and deep, and the garrison is also very tight, so it will definitely not be much of a problem to hold on for a few days." ”

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The strength of the Wu army's partial division Hu Huaizhao is impossible to break through the famous city of Jinan in a short period of time, which is not only Fu Zhenbang's opinion, but also many Wu army soldiers are also such a view, especially after successfully breaking through the fried rice shop camp of the Qing army in Jinan, after the front team of the Wu army's partial division advanced to the city of Jinan, even if there is no need to immediately launch a frontal attack, just to see the wide and deep moat of Jinan City, as well as the high and thick city wall, countless Wu soldiers are worried, I can't imagine how the self-army can take such a thousand-year-old city.

With the exception of a very small number of people, when the main force of the Wu army carrying heavy weapons arrived in the suburbs of Jinan in the evening, Hu Huaizhao, who insisted on launching this northern expedition against public opinion, had just seen Cheng Jiaxie, who was the vanguard, and immediately asked with a face: "How is it?" Did you find it? ”

"Found it." Cheng Jiaxie replied honestly: "I am afraid that the rebellious captives we caught will play tricks, so the last general will send someone to find some locals to confirm the place you are looking for, Brother Hu." ”

"It's good to find it." Hu Huaizhao breathed a sigh of relief, and said to himself: "Whether you can take Jinan City this time depends on whether the historical allusion that Mr. Boyuan told me is true." ”

"Historical allusions?" Cheng Jiaxie, who was not highly educated like Hu Huaizhao, was confused, and couldn't help but interject and ask: "Brother Hu, what historical allusions?" ”

"Of course, it's a historical allusion related to Jinan." Hu Huaizhao replied angrily, and said: "If that historical allusion is not nonsense in the history books, then we are at least eighty percent sure that we can quickly take Jinan City this time." ”