At present, Xu Jiji, the minister of Shanxi Youth League Training, who is currently holding the title of political envoy, always feels that there is something wrong, but he can't imagine that there is something wrong. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Xu Jiji's sixth sense is very strong, because of the fact that foreigners were allowed to live in Fuzhou City, and Lin Zexu, who lived at home, had a conflict, but it was Xu Jiji, who was the acting governor of Fujian and Zhejiang at that time, who was impeached by the imperial history, Xu Jiji immediately felt very wrong, uncomfortable, and always felt that something big was going to happen.

Then it was not surprising that it didn't take long for Lin Zexu to make a comeback, and he was appointed as the minister of the Qin Mission to suppress the Taiping Army, and Xu Jiji, a first-class member of the two provinces of Xinjiang, was demoted to the Shaoqing of the Taifu Temple of the Fourth Rank in a daze. Then he was settled by the imperial historian who stood on Lin Zexu's side, and he couldn't even keep his idle job in Sipin, and was directly driven back to his hometown in Wutai Mountain to farm.

If the matter with Lin Zexu is just the officialdom experience that makes Xu Jiji smell the danger, then Xu Jiji's reaction when the Taiping army entered Shanxi is completely intuitive, when Li Kaifang and Ji Wenyuan led the Taiping army to besiege Huaiqing Mansion for many days, and the Qing army led by Sheng Bao surrounded the Taiping army from the east, west, and north, Shanxi officials all believed that the province could sit back and relax, but Xu Jiji found that the situation was not right by virtue of intuition, and quickly used his prestige to pull up a team training team, Prepare to defend your hometown and assist the Qing army in the war.

Then, as Xu Jiji expected, after fighting for more than 50 days and failing to defeat Huaiqing Fucheng, the Taiping army really took the road to Yuanqu and suddenly entered Shanxi. Xu Jiji, who took precautions to start the group exercise, immediately became a sweetheart, and was regarded as a guest by Shen Jiefen, the governor of Shanxi at that time, and Xu Jiji, who fell into the dust, also made a comeback with this move, and quickly became a pivotal and important figure in Shanxi's military and politics, and then there is today.

At the critical moment of the confrontation across the river with Liu Kun of the Wu army, this nasty feeling came to torment Xu Jiji again, and several times Xu Jiji woke up in the middle of the night, his whole body trembled and his heart beat wildly, and it always made Xu Jiji suspect that something big was going to happen, and he was extremely worried that the seemingly impregnable Qing army's Yellow River defense line might not be so strong and reliable, and it might not be able to stop Liu Kun's army, which did not have many main soldiers.

Only the collected enemy information on the south bank made Xu Jiji a little reassured, limited by the insufficient number of ships, Liu Kun's army could only temporarily rush to use the rafts, but in order to hurry up and catch up with the quantity, most of the rafts built by the Wu army were simple and rough, not strong enough, and it was difficult to bear the heavy responsibility of transporting soldiers and military supplies back and forth many times, so as long as the Shanxi regimental training and the Qing army gritted their teeth and withstood the first wave of the Wu army's attack, the next battle would be much better.

There are also sailors and boatmen, which also makes Xu Jiji more reassured, and the intelligence collected by Shanxi Xizuo shows that there are not too many sailors and boatmen in the Wu army, and in order to cross the river by boat, Liu Kunyi has to recruit sailors from the people at a high price. Although these temporarily recruited Yellow River sailors are also familiar with the water, after all, they have never fought on the battlefield in a water war, let alone have the combat experience of manipulating the beach and landing in a complex water environment full of soldiers and materials, even if they are greedy for money and food to work hard for the Wu army, they can only drive the Wu army to and from the slow flow of the ferry at most, and as long as the Qing army's shore artillery fire densely covers the water surface, many of these temporary workers will definitely be able to drive the boat to the water dragon king and use the money and grain of the Wu army to help the Qing army kill the Wu army's traitors!

The situation seems to be quite optimistic, but Xu Jiji still does not dare to take it lightly, because Xu Jiji is very aware of the elite combat effectiveness of the main force of the Wu army, and he has not saved the Qing army on the south bank several times, and he also knows that the Shanxi regimental training, which lacks large-scale actual combat experience, will definitely not be able to defeat the main force of the Wu army, and does not want the Shanxi regimental training that has been trained hard to die in vain. Therefore, Xu Jiji was not afraid of anything, he was afraid that a sufficient number of Wu army's main force would suddenly rush across the Yellow River and seize the position on the north bank to cover the rear army to cross the river, and once the Qing army in Shanxi could not quickly annihilate the Wu army on the north bank, the entire Yellow River defense line would be complete.

"May my crow's beak not be fulfilled this time, for the bad will not be good spirits."

The more afraid he became, the more he saw the hell, and the scouts of the Qing army suddenly came to report that the Wu army fleet, which was originally all assembled in the Zanglong River, suddenly split part of its westward march and drove in the direction of Lingbao, which was also currently controlled by the Wu army. When Xu Jiji heard the report, he did not dare to slack off in the slightest, and hurriedly ordered the scouts to closely monitor the whereabouts of this fleet, and at the same time asked the scouts to make every effort to count the number of rafts of this Wu army fleet in order to estimate the possible number of troops.

In the evening of the same day, the scouts sent an accurate report, saying that the Wu army fleet had arrived at Lingbao City and anchored on the east bank of the Hongnong River, and the number of ships was more than 120 military sampans, 25 ferry cargo ships, and some fishing boats and rafts, and the overall number of troops was estimated to be about 1,500 people. - Of course, under normal circumstances, it is impossible for the Wu army to put all these troops on the ship to assault a ferry, and it must be put into use in batches.

"What the hell is Wu Gou doing? How can the fleet be used separately? Chen Huchen, the leader of the Shanxi regiment training who is currently serving as Xu Jiji's assistant, was very puzzled, and said in confusion: "Does the Wu dog thief army want to cross the river at Modi?" Then they don't transfer all the fleets? What is the use of dividing the fleet? ”

"Liu Kunyi may have two purposes for doing this." Xu Jiqi frowned and replied: "One is the Cloth Ecstasy Array, so that we can't judge their real crossing location. Second, the troops rushed to cross the border at the same time by two routes, lengthening our battle line and diluting our defensive forces, so as to gain more opportunities. ”

"That's most likely the purpose?" Chen Huchen hurriedly asked.

"There's no need to guess, just divide the troops and go to Modi Town to help in the battle." Xu Jiji replied: "Our troops are quite sufficient, so we don't need to be stingy to put into the battlefield, no matter whether the Wu thief army is in Lingbao or in the area of Shaanzhou, we only need to guard to the death, don't think about any opportunistic shortcuts, that will only expose flaws, and give the Wu thief army the opportunity to smuggle across the Yellow River in vain." ”

After that, Xu Jiji, who was cautious by nature, immediately drew an army from the main force and rushed to the ferry port of Modi Town, which was relatively far away, overnight to help defend it, and at the same time ordered Bailangdu, which was even more farther away, to strengthen surveillance to prevent the Wu army from rushing to cross.

The Wu army's tricks were not finished, and early the next morning, the Qing army scouts found that the Wu army had divided the number of about three battalions of troops to the west, and they were also rushing to the direction of Lingbao. After hearing the report, Xu Jiqi hurriedly asked about the flag and weapons and equipment of the Wu army, and the scout of the Qing army replied helplessly: "My lord, the army of Wu thieves did not play any banners, and the muskets they carried were all wrapped in sackcloth, so the little ones could not judge that they were the army of Wu thieves." The only thing that can be confirmed is that they did not have artillery with them. ”

Xu Jiji was silent for a long time before waving his hand to let the scout go down and continue to scout closely, and then said to himself: "No matter what tricks you play, I just respond to all changes with the same!" ”

It must be explained that if the fleet of the Wu army on Lingbao's side is anchored on the bank of the Yellow River east of Lingbao and downstream of the ferry in Modi Town, then with Xu Jiji's cleverness, he will definitely suspect that the Wu army may implement the tactics of beach-grabbing and landing. However, the Wu army deliberately drove the fleet to the Hongnong River upstream of the Modi Town ferry, although it had to pass through a section of the river covered by the Qing army's firepower in Modi Town in the next operation, but it successfully concealed the true tactical intentions of the Wu army, so that Xu Jiji and other Qing army civilians and soldiers looked like the Wu army wanted to attack the Modi Town ferry.

Another day passed quickly, at noon the next day, the Wu army troop transport fleet in the Zanglong River finally poured out and turned into the Yellow River to sail to the surface of Maojindu, and at the same time, the main force of the Wu army also rushed east by land to the direction of Maojindu, and arranged the illusion of preparing to cross the river in Maojindu, as a result, after the Qing army scouts clearly saw that the Wu army dispatched a large number of artillery, Xu Jiqi was immediately fooled, and hurriedly led the main force east to Maojindu.

The days are short in winter, after Xu Jiji's army rushed to Maojindu to prepare for the battle, the sky was already slightly dark, standing on the high ground on the north bank and looking at it, the bonfires of the Wu army on the south bank of the Yellow River were dense, and there were Wu army soldiers who were busy preparing for war everywhere. Seeing this scene, Xu Jiji also immediately guessed the time of Wu Jun's move, and said: "It's tomorrow, whether we can hold the Yellow River defense line depends on tomorrow." ”

Xu Jiji did not guess the time of Wu Jun's move, but completely misjudged the direction of Wu Jun's main attack, it was the fifth watch of the night, under the personal leadership of Liu Kunyi, more than 1,200 carefully selected elite soldiers of the Wu Army carried sophisticated equipment and boarded the ferry at the Hongnong River Wharf next to Lingbao City. Although the Qing army stationed at the ferry port of Modi Town soon discovered this movement and immediately sent someone to report the situation to Xu Jiji, because of the distance, they could not report the situation to Xu Jiji in the first time.

When the sky was light, the Wu army commando on Lingbao's side began to move, and the ferry cargo ship full of ammunition and weapons, under the protection of the military sampan, was pushed by the water flow of the Hongnong River, and successively rushed out of the Hongnong River and turned into the Yellow River, and quickly assembled an army on the surface of the Yellow River. The defenders of Modi did not dare to slack off, and immediately lit the beacon to release wolf smoke, telling them that the downstream Lingbao Wu army had begun to rush to cross.

The spread speed of wolf smoke was naturally fast, and after ten minutes, Xu Jiji had already learned the news of Modi's emergency on the battlefield of Maojindu, but Xu Jiji once again mistakenly betrayed the criticality of the situation, and said coldly: "Don't worry, Modi is well guarded, although the army of Wu thieves over there may be the main force, but there is no heavy artillery cover, even if it is really the main force of the soldiers to capture Modidu, it is not so easy." ”

In fact, the Qing army on the side of Modi Town also thinks so, and is still gearing up to wait for the Wu army troop transport fleet to storm the ferry in batches, the artillery on the highland batteries has been charged, the birds and guns after the fortifications are also looking at the delay, and the mines secretly buried under the ferry are also ready to ignite at any time, ready to surprise the soldiers of the Wu army who are lucky enough to land on the north bank. However......

However, the Qing army of Modidu was soon dumbfounded, and the huge fleet of Wu troops actually launched a collective charge, driven by the rapid Yellow River rapids, rushing towards the lower reaches of the Yellow River, as if they wanted to storm Modidu at any cost and seize the ferry.

The shock was followed by ecstasy, and the Qing army laughed wildly, and the Wu army did not understand water warfare, but they were even more gearing up, just waiting for the Wu army to start fighting when the shore was chaotic. However, the Qing army of Modidu soon discovered that the fleet of the Wu army was not only skilled in driving boats, but still comfortable in the complex flow of the Yellow River, and it did not seem to be rushing to seize the route of the Modi Ferry, but cleverly turned along the south bank at the corner of the Yellow River in front of the Modi Ferry, and continued to fight downstream.

"The Wu thief army is going downstream! Hurry up and fire the cannons, you can't let them pass smoothly! ”

The heart-rending roar finally reminded the Qing gunners, and they quickly adjusted the gun positions originally used to cross fire to block the ferry, and bombarded the barely accessible Wu fleet in the distance, but after the Qing gunners worked hard to move the heavy artillery and adjust the gun position, before they could hit a few shots, the Wu army fleet had already rushed out of their range and rushed towards the lower reaches of the Yellow River with rows and oars. The Qing artillery that opened fire in a hurry only hit the Wu ships twice, sinking and wounding two Wu sampans.

It was also at this time that after seeing with his own eyes the skilled boating skills of the soldiers of the Wu army, Li Zhongjie, the not too stupid general of the Qing army, also suddenly woke up and screamed: "Not good! This fleet may have gone downstream to grab stalls! Hurry, go, chase! Wu thieves must not be allowed to go ashore, Wu thieves must not be allowed to go ashore! ”

It was useless to guess, the speed of the naval division was originally better than the infantry, and the commando team of the naval division of the Wu army was going down the river again, and the speed was naturally faster, and the fleet of the Wu army only took more than half an hour to rush to the area of Xuejiatan, which was more than 20 miles west of Pinglu County, and did not hesitate to rush to the shoal, land and open up the position on the north shore, and cover the rear army to carry dry food and ammunition to get off the ship and land.

The Qing army in Shanxi also had troops stationed on the bank of the Yellow River in the Xuejiatan area - a total of more than 30 beacon defenders, seeing the Wu army rushing to land in the Xuejiatan area, these Qing soldiers were also quite conscientious, did not immediately flee for their lives, immediately sounded the gong to the north not far from the Changle Town regimental training for help, Changle Town's more than 600 regimental training also rushed to the river with a very rare and astonishing speed to prevent the Wu army from grabbing the beach.

However, it is a pity that the conscientious Changle Town Tuanlian soon found that they had done the biggest stupid thing in their lives, and what appeared in front of them was not the small force of the Wu Army that they imagined, but the Wu Army soldiers who were far above them, or the main elite of the Wu Army who were armed to the teeth with the most advanced weapons in the world!

Bang bang, Liu Kun's army, which is the most amunit-saving in the main force of the Wu army, didn't bother to use a firing pin gun to shoot, and directly used a Minny gun to snipe remotely, and the gunners rang out, and the Changle Town group practice was also shot one after another at a distance they never dreamed of and fell to the ground, and the dying screams and frightened roars quickly resounded through the sandy land of the Yellow River in the area of Xuejiatan, "The musket of the white-hat thief has a ghost!" Ghosts! How can you hit so far and so accurate?! ”

At the same time as suppressing the enemy with the accurate shooting of the Mini gun, the soldiers of the Wu army had already carried the ammunition of the ferry boat ashore with all hands and feet, stacked it on the dry ground and distributed it, including the main general Liu Kunyi, everyone carried about 50 catties of ammunition and dry food, and quickly prepared it, and then abandoned the sampan ferry boat that had basically run aground, and lined up to kill in the direction of Pinglu Maojin Ferry in the east, and was too lazy to look at the Changle Town group practice that was screaming by the Mini gun in the distance.

Traveling a few miles along the north shore, the Pinglu Qing army that received the news was killed head-on, Liu Kun gave an order one by one, and the officers and men of the Wu army immediately lined up in a dense horizontal line, striding directly to kill the Pinglu Qing army, which was more than twice the number of their own army, but the Pinglu Qing army, who had heard of this tactic, was frightened and opened fire one after another, and the Wu army officers and soldiers ignored it and just continued to march in formation, and advanced to the Qing army's position sixty meters before firing together, and only used two waves of rounds to beat the Pinglu Qing army to pieces, scattered and fled, The Wu army didn't have the time and mind to pursue and expand the results of the battle, and continued along the main road just to Pinglu County.

At this moment, Pinglu County made Sun Chun have the heart to die head-on, knowing that the Wu army must have gone to Maojindu to meet the brigade to cross the river, and should send troops to stop it, but the Qing army arranged outside the city in advance has been easily defeated by the Wu army, and even if the soldiers in the city are sent out, they will definitely end up in the same way, on the contrary, it may lead to the loss of the county. In desperation, Sun Chun had no choice but to grit his teeth and choose to close the city and defend himself, and did not dare to send troops to intercept it when he saw the Wu army approaching Pinglu, and at the same time sent someone to report to Xu Jiji, so that Xu Jiji, who was in charge of the Yellow River defense line, could decide for himself how to deal with it.

After receiving the urgent report from the upstream, Xu Jiji's face was colorless on the spot, and he wanted to immediately send troops to the west to block it, but once the troops were divided again, if they were defeated by the Wu army on the way, and then when the Wu army commando team reached the north bank of Maojindu, it would not only be more difficult for the Shanxi Qing army to block the Wu army's surprise attack, but also have to face the flanking attack of the Wu army brigade on the opposite bank at the same time, and the situation would naturally be more dangerous.

The snowflakes fell quietly, but the sweat was dripping down Xu Jiji's forehead, after hesitating again and again, Xu Jiji finally made up his mind, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Establish a defensive position on the spot, order all the surrounding army regiments to train to Maojindu for reinforcements, and fight to the death with the Wu thief army in Maojindu!" ”

After roaring, Xu Jiji also comforted himself in his heart: "It's okay, it's okay, there is still hope, there are not many Wu thieves' army crossing the river, how can the ammunition run out, as long as we can support the Wu thieves until the ammunition is exhausted, there is hope to hold the Yellow River and annihilate the Wu thief army on the north bank." ”

In this way, although Xu Jiji was extremely reluctant and unprepared in advance, when the Wu army commando was striding towards Maojindu, and the surrounding Qing troops rushed to Maojindu for reinforcements after receiving the order, the situation of the decisive battle of Maojindu was still destined to take shape. If the Wu army wins, the defense line of the Yellow River painstakingly built by the Qing army in Shanxi will collapse, and if the Qing army wins, the soldiers of the Wu army who crossed the Yellow River first are destined to be spared.