But as long as there is the slightest way, the prince of the devil Liugong will never go too far with the Eight Banners Manchu people who took the initiative to vote from the capital, not only pretending not to know that the Qing soldiers and soldiers snatched the life rations of these Manchus of the same clan, but also let his guards use force to force these Eight Banners Manchus to stay away from his temporary palace, and for this reason, several lives were caused, but there was no way, the devil six could only do this.

The key reason for forcing the devil to this point is, of course, grain, the land around Tianjin is mostly saline-alkali land, the grain output is very pitiful, and self-sufficiency is seriously insufficient, not to mention feeding more than half of the main force of the Qing army in Zhili, and the supply of grain and grass can only be completely dependent on external supplies. The situation was better before, Liangguang and part of the land in Fujian were still in the hands of the Qing army, so they could still send some grain to the north by sea, and most of them were sent to the northeast to feed the Manchu court, and at the same time, they could also allocate some food to raise soldiers and settle the people for the devil six, and the devil six could barely fool the past. However, after the Qing army governors of Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangzhou surrendered to the Wu army one after another, the devil six was completely blind, and he didn't know how to live this day.

Fortunately, there is still some grain in Tianjin City, and the devil can still support it for a period of time, and at the same time, Ci'an and Cixi also sent people to send a good letter, saying that they adopted Luo Bingzhang's suggestion to call on the people of the Central Plains to move to the Northeast in large numbers, and unexpectedly found that the black soil outside the gate was unusually fertile, and the grain output was very gratifying.

Therefore, Ci'an and Cixi clearly asked Guizi Liu to work hard to support Tianjin, strive to keep Tianjin, the gateway port connecting with Western countries, and continue to nail it to the throat of Wu's sea, not to give Wu Chaoyue the opportunity to supply the North China Wu army with food, grass and ammunition by sea, and eliminate the danger of the North China Wu army advancing to the northeast.

The strict order was in front, and his friend Baojun also promised to find a way to send some food from the Jiaodong Peninsula to Tianjin, so Devil Six gritted his teeth and chose to continue to stiffen in Tianjin. But if you want Devil Six to give hardcore crops to the Manchus like before, Devil Six can't do it anyway, and the only thing Devil Six can do is to give these Manchus of the same clan two bowls of so-called rice porridge a day that is so clear that they can show the shadow of the people when the war is coming, so as not to completely lose the hearts of the Manchu people and completely force the Manchus of the same clan to the side of the Wu army.

It's still okay, probably because he was too hungry, the thin gruel that Prince Gong gave to the devil six Kai En not only won the voice of many Manchu people in the Eight Banners to thank Dade, but also led to the defection of some Manchus who were ready to participate in the rebellion, in order to receive an extra bowl of gruel, they ran to the Manchu officials who gave soup porridge to inform, saying that someone in the city was instigating the Eight Banners Manchu to rebel and respond to the Wu army to seize Tianjin, and also betrayed two Manchu leaders who gathered people to rebel.

The situation was soon reported to the face of Devil Six, and Devil Six also attached great importance to this, and immediately sent someone to arrest these two unlucky Manchus who were unfortunately betrayed by traitors of the same clan and tortured them, as a result, these two unlucky Manchus were also soft bones, and they confessed like pouring beans on a bamboo tube after being whipped, not only confessed many accomplices, but also confessed that Shiqing had secretly sneaked back to the capital with letters to contact Wu Jun. The devil was furious when he heard the report, and immediately ordered an all-out investigation, and soon caught many Eight Banners Manchu who were preparing to rebel, and also arrested Shiqing's eldest son who stayed in the city as a hostage and imprisoned him, and Shiqing's accomplices in Tianjin City were almost empty.

The work of eradicating internal traitors, the Tianjin Qing army did a very good job, but on the battlefield outside Tianjin, the performance of the Tianjin Qing army was not so good. With the help and cooperation of some of Zeng Guoquan's army, after Wu Jun Jiang Zhongji sent troops from the capital, it only took more than five days to break through the Langfang defense line that the Qing army in Tianjin had worked hard to build, and approached Yang Cunwu, the defensive support point of the Qing army in Tianjin. The Wu army quickly established an artillery position outside the Qing army camp and set up artillery to bombard the Qing army's Yang village camp, although he was not willing to use breech guns and picric acid shells, but the solid shells and black powder shells continued to bombard day and night, and Zhang Desheng's department still felt that it was difficult to parry, and had to quickly send people to Tianjin for help.

I don't know much about military affairs, after receiving Zhang Desheng's letter of help, Devil Six of course convened Chen Guorui, Dechun and Ha Feng'a and other army generals to discuss countermeasures at the first time, but there was a huge disagreement at the meeting, Chen Guorui, who was already a veteran of the Qing army, resolutely opposed directly sending troops to rescue Yang Cunwu, and advocated increasing troops to Beicang south of Yang Cunwu, pretending to rescue Yang Cunwu to properly contain the Wu army, and sharing some pressure on Zhang Desheng, and waiting for Zhang Desheng's defeated troops to withdraw to Beicang, and then stick to Beicang, Resist the offensive of the Wu army layer by layer, and strive to survive until the Wu army is exhausted and retreat on its own.

Diametrically opposed to the conservative Chen Guorui, the two banner generals, Dechun and Hafeng'a, firmly advocated directly sending troops to save Yang Cunwu, and unanimously agreed that the Yang Cunwu camp was strong, and Zhang Desheng's troops were strong enough to contain the main force of the Wu army, and as long as the Qing army sent another army to kill from behind, and Zhang Desheng should cooperate with the outside to attack the front and back, they would inevitably be victorious, and even hope to directly repel the Wu army's attack on Tianjin.

In addition, Dechun, a young general of the banner man who had high hopes for the old fox's official documents, also listed the battle situation of the Wu army that he had personally collected, proving that there were not many picric acid weapons in the hands of the Wu army, and the number of field weapons in Jiang Zhongji's army was not much, and there was no way to even equip a battalion with a single battalion with a firing needle gun. Therefore, Dechun not only believed that the self-army and Wu Junjiang Zhongji had the strength to fight, but also said directly: "Lord Wang, take 10,000 steps back, even if our reinforcements are really not the opponent of Wu's rebel thief army, they will still be killed and retreated by Wu thieves, but our reinforcements can consume a lot of Wu thief's fast gun bullets, demon artillery shells and demon fire palm thunder, Wu thieves were forced by us to use up these weapons and ammunition that they can't supply, even if they can still take Yang Cunwu, they can't come to Beicang again, let alone fight Tianjin City, which is heavily guarded by our troops, can only obediently withdraw from the army! ”

Feeling that the words of the general Dechun of the same clan were quite reasonable, the devil six made up his mind after thinking for a while, and said: "Just fight according to General De's method, and ask Wei Jun to take his headquarters to save Yang Village!" ”

"Lord Wang, there are only three battalions under Wei Jun's command, and this number of troops is probably not enough." Dechun is much kinder than Devil Six in terms of character, and took the initiative to say: "Let the last general also take the five battalions of the headquarters to help Wei Jun, and let Wei Jun know that we didn't mean to let him die in vain." ”

Devil Ziliu hesitated for a moment, then nodded and agreed to Dechun's request, and said in his heart: "It can't be too explicit, if it can really consume the foreign guns and ammunition of the Wu thieves as Dechun expected, so that the Wu rebel thief army will not be able to fight Tianjin again if they defeat Yang Village, and it will be worth losing the main force of our banner people." ”

Not to mention, because of the underestimation of the Qing army's determination to rescue Yang Cunwu, when Dechun and Wei Jun suddenly appeared on the battlefield of Yang Cunwu with the Qing army in Tianjin, which numbered about 4,000 people, the Wu army Jiang Zhongji Division, which was attacking the fortification with all its might, was really caught off guard and had to stop the shelling and divide forces to intercept the Qing army reinforcements. Then, to Jiang Zhongji's surprise, after receiving the letter sent by Dechun, Zhang Desheng's Qing army in the Yang village camp also opened the camp gate and took the initiative to attack, cooperating with the reinforcements to flank the Wu army before and after.

In the face of the Qing soldiers who were killed before and after, Jiang Zhongji's army, which was seriously lacking in fast-firing needle guns, not only failed to seize the opportunity to inflict heavy losses on the enemy in the field battle, but on the contrary, it was also killed and wounded by the Qing army, which was basically the same as the weaponry, with more and more popular linear tactics, and was forced to fight with the Qing army and line up to be shot, and the casualties were basically similar and they never had the upper hand.

In the end, there was no way, in order to reduce the casualties of the soldiers, and not to give the Qing army a chance to rendezvous, Jiang Zhongji could only use the picric acid weapons that are currently difficult to supply, smashed more than 200 grenadier shells, and was forced to consume a lot of firing pin gun ammunition and picric grenades, which successfully defeated the Qing army reinforcements, and also took the opportunity to weaken the strength of the Qing army's Zhang Desheng Department in the field battle, and then took the opportunity to attack Yang Cunwu again.

Then, what Jiang Zhongji and Li Hongzhang didn't expect was that after Dechun and Wei Jun cleaned up the defeated army a little, they quickly turned around and attacked the back of the Wu army again, besieging Wei to save Zhao in a vain attempt to bear the pressure on Zhang Desheng's part, Jiang Zhongji was furious, and decisively used the picric acid weapon again, using the weapon advantage to defeat Dechun and Wei Jun again. At the same time, in order not to give Dechun and Wei Jun the opportunity to continue to entangle, Jiang Zhongji's army used a large number of bitter acid grenades while storming Yang Cunwu, relying on hard work and a certain amount of luck, finally successfully won Yangcun affairs, Zhang Desheng led the defeated army to break through and flee south, Jiang Zhongji's army waved his division to chase and kill, but Dechun and Wei Jun The two Qing armies ignored their heavy casualties, decisively responded to the palace, and after paying a certain price of casualties, they still successfully rescued Zhang Desheng's army, and withdrew to the Qing army's Beicang camp together.

After the battle of Yangcun, although the defeated Jiang Zhongji army was determined to take revenge, and immediately after cleaning up the battlefield in a hurry, he went south to attack Beicang, while the three armies of Dechun, Wei Jun, and Zhang Desheng joined forces with Pu Chengyao, the defender of Beicang, and desperately resisted the attack of the Wu army with the battalion fortifications.

In the end, after five days of repeated hard fighting, although Jiang Zhongji's army finally took the Qing army's Beicang camp, and killed Dechun and Zhang Desheng in the fierce battle, the two Qing army generals, they still failed to completely annihilate the Qing army's Beicang defenders, and at the same time, the Wu army's picric acid weapons were also exhausted, including the Li Chendian army that cooperated with the battle, more than 16,000 Wu troops actually had only more than 300 grenades and more than 200 grenadier shells, and less than 200 picric acid shells left in the breech guns. Not to mention continuing to storm Tianjin City, this weapon is a little insufficient to fight the Dagukou Fort without the protection of the city wall.

Picric acid weapons are in short supply to this point, if it is replaced by the elite corps of the Wu army led by Cao Yanzhong, Huang Yuanbao, Qian Wei, Wang Fu and others, I am afraid that the consequences of continuing to attack Tianjin Jiancheng will have to be weighed anyway, but the Wu army Jiang Zhongji Corps does not particularly care about this - anyway, picric acid weapons have never been sufficient, more are also fights, less are also fights, Jiang Zhongji's army really does not care very much about whether there are enough picric acid weapons available. On the contrary, it was the combat effectiveness and fighting will shown by the Qing army in Tianjin that made Jiang Zhongji and the Jiang brothers quite scruples, and they were very worried that they would not be able to take Tianjin Jiancheng and pay a heavy price in the hard battle.

Fortunately, Li Hongzhang only used a few words to make the Jiang brothers firm up their determination - Li Hongzhang said very directly: "Second generals, generals, the battle has reached this point, if we give up again, it is equivalent to giving up all our previous achievements, rather than giving up like this, it is better to grit our teeth and fight again, if we can take Tianjin City, it is easy to say anything, if we really can't take it, it is not too late for us to retreat back to the capital." ”

After pondering for a while, Jiang Zhongji, Jiang Zhongyi, and others also made up their minds, hurriedly cleaned up the battlefield and continued to go south with the army to fight Tianjin, and at the same time, in view of the fact that there was the protection of the Haihe River in the north of Tianjin, Jiang Zhongji's army was also mentally prepared to cross the Haihe River by force, and at the same time sent a large number of scout posts to explore the upper reaches of the Haihe River to find the weak points of the Qing army's defense, so that after the failure of the crossing, they would make a detour upstream to rush across the Haihe River and set up camp in the southern suburbs of Tianjin, the only place where they could storm the city head-on.

A day later, the Wu army was on the north bank of the Haihe River, and as Jiang Zhongji, Li Hongzhang and others expected, the Qing army in Tianjin, in addition to burning the Haihe River bridge early, sent heavy troops to guard various ferries outside the city, intending to use the Haihe River to resist the Wu army's offensive. Jiang Zhongji and the others, who had already been mentally prepared, were not in a hurry, and they just calmly prepared to rush to the ferry in an orderly manner. However, at this time, an accident happened, and the area around Chengxia Town in the south of Tianjin suddenly burst into flames, and the noise was loud, and countless ragged people could be vaguely seen running around in the streets outside the city to set fires, creating chaos.

Seeing this scene, the Qing army guarding the south bank of the Haihe River was of course demoralized and panicked, but the old sparrow Jiang Zhongji on the battlefield did not hesitate to order an attack, and the artillery that had just been in place immediately opened fire, and the Wu army commando team also immediately drove a boat to attack the opposite bank, but the Qing army was panicked and the counterattack was seriously insufficient, and Chen Guorui, the general of the Qing army who commanded the troops guarding the south bank of the Haihe River, was also both panicked and angry, and kept yelling, "What's wrong?" Why is the street outside the city suddenly chaotic? Who did it? Who did it? ”

It was done by the people of Eight Banners! It was the Eight Banners who had not been able to get into the city before, and these days they have all relied on the gruel given by the Qing army to satisfy their hunger!

Knowing this answer, Chen Guorui couldn't believe his ears at all, and yelled again: "Eight Banners are full of people? How can it be? It's ridiculous! We tied our heads to the waistband of our trousers and worked hard with the Wu thieves to protect their eight banners, why did they still help the Wu thieves beat us? Can't they tell who is a friend and who is an enemy?! ”

In the original historical level, this era was when the Qing army in the north and the armies of the Western powers fought fiercely on the North China Plain, fighting to the death, and the Qing army in the south fought together with the Western army on the southeast coast to resist the attack of the Taiping army.

At this historical level, which was changed by Wu Chaoyue, in order to escape the revenge of the Chinese people, the Manchus in the south changed their Han surnames one after another, scrambling to conceal their Manchu identity, and in order to make themselves look more like Han people, they also forced Manchu girls who were already eleven or twelve years old to bind their feet. However, in order to continue to live, the Manchus in the north took up homemade rudimentary weapons one after another, fought side by side with the relatively humane Wu soldiers, and joined forces to attack the Qing army loyal to the Manchu court. Therefore, it is not that the Eight Banners in Tianjin Chengxia Town are full of absurdity, but that this era is too absurd.

"Gentlemen, burn! Ignite the fire! Help Zhennan King fight Tianjin! Settle accounts with the dogs who robbed us of our food! Find that bullshit prince who doesn't care if we live or die to settle accounts! ”

"Dog things, robbed us of everything, only gave us two bowls of rice soup a day to drink, and we still want to thank you?! Burn! Kill! Help the king of Zhennan fight Tianjin! ”

These angry roars were the key reason why the Eight Banners outside Tianjin resolutely stood on the side of the Wu army.