It is also deserving of the poor Henan governor Yinglanpo is unlucky, the Qing Dynasty traitor Wu Chaoyue has already set his sights on Henan, and is sharpening his knife Huo Huo to pigs and sheep, poor Yinglanpo Yingfutai even took the initiative to provoke Wu Chaoyue, and gave Wu Chaoyue an excuse to send troops to him in the name of righteousness. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Yinglanpo's method of provoking Wu Chaoyue is very absurd, so absurd that even Wu Chaoyue himself can't believe it - Yinglanpo actually sent a martial arts master to assassinate Wu Chaoyue, and wanted to use the method of assassinating the royal bureaucracy to get rid of Wu Chaoyue for the Manchu court!

In fact, it is not ridiculous, although the late Qing Dynasty revolutionaries are good at stunt assassination tactics have not yet become popular, but the method of assassination and elimination of harm has existed since ancient times, plus during the Northern Expedition of the Taiping Army, the Qing Army in Henan Province once did the beautiful thing of disguised and mixed into the Taiping Army to detonate the Taiping Army's gunpowder ship, and had similar successful experience, so the Yingfutai, who was loyal to the Manchu court, had considered using assassination to kill Wu Chaoyue more than once when he could not defeat Wu Chaoyue, but he was struggling to find a suitable candidate and opportunity to give up.

What prompted Yinglanpo to make up his mind was a proud disciple of Liu Xiaolan, a master of Xingyi Boxing in the late Qing Dynasty, named Wang Sisi, Zhang Xiaolan was both a martial arts master and a successful businessman, and most of the apprentices he received were also his business assistants, often escorting goods for him to be sold far away, Wang Sisi was one of them.

Wang Si Si should not be in Zhang Xiaolan to Kaifeng when showing off his martial arts, when he was playing with the dart master of the Henan Dart Bureau, Wang Si Si was itchy for a while, and performed in public to get Zhang Xiaolan's six or seven points of true transmission of the eagle catch, slowly in the green bricks to perform martial arts, the footsteps were silent, but the green bricks under the feet were broken and cracked, won the applause of the house, and also happened to be seen by a staff master of Yinglanpo.

The staff should not have talked about this to Yinglanpo, and suggested that Yinglanpo invite Wang Sisi to teach martial arts in the Fubiao Camp in Henan, reminding Yinglanpo that he could buy this martial arts master to assassinate Wu Chaoyue. As a result, after being invited into the Henan Governor's Mansion by Yinglanpo, the flattered Wang Sisi should not forget the master's teaching not to provoke right and wrong, and after being dizzy with Yinglanpo with ecstasy soup, he promised to eliminate harm for the country, and also put into practical action with the help of the spies of the Qing army in Henan.

Of course, if Wang Sisi is determined to die with Wu Chaoyue, it is not absolutely impossible to have a chance - Wu Chaoyue, who likes to show off his hypocrisy mask as a pro-people, often appears in public, and never sits in a sedan chair but only rides a horse.

With the help of the Qing army in Henan, the opportunity appeared in front of Wang Siren, Wu Chaoyue, who likes to train the successor of the traitor comprador, really appeared at the opening ceremony of Wuhan Hope School, giving a lecture to a large group of children from poor families, and Wang Sisi also secretly mixed into the crowd watching the excitement. However, at the critical moment, Wang Sisi's legs were weak - Wu Chaoyue was not difficult to kill, but Wu Chaoyue's group of personal soldiers were all equipped with revolvers, or two each!

Fighting with his bare hands, Wang Sisi has the confidence to single-handedly challenge Wu Chaoyue's pro-soldier team, but Wu Chaoyue's waste dim sum pro-soldiers only need to hit Wang Siren's one shot, which is enough to bury Wang's Si for more than 20 years of hard training.

The matter was not over, after returning to the secret stronghold, when Wang Sisi was accepting the complaints of the Qing army in Henan, disaster fell from the sky, and a group of Wu soldiers suddenly surrounded the courtyard under the guidance of the agents of the Hubei Intelligence Bureau, demanding that everyone in the courtyard lay down their arms and surrender. - This is to blame Wang for four years, even if he assassinated Wu Chaoyue and retreated, he still looked abnormal in the crowd, and from time to time secretly touched the sharp knife hidden in his waist, and the Hubei spies who were lurking in the crowd and secretly protecting Wu Chaoyue really wanted not to find out that something was wrong with him, and then quietly followed up and observed, if they couldn't find out that Wang had bad intentions in the past four years, the Hubei spies would be too sorry for the high salary that Wu Chaoyue gave them.

Not to mention, when it really came to the time when he had to fight hard, Wang Sisi really killed two Wu soldiers, but it was still a pity, the times were completely different, no matter how good Wang Siren's martial arts were, he couldn't stop the Wu soldiers' foreign gun volleys, and after falling down with several shots, Wang Sisi, who was seriously wounded, became a prisoner of the Wu army, and Henan Xiaozuo, who was affected by him, was basically captured alive. And after the warm reception of the Hubei Intelligence Bureau from the former Ming East Factory, the true face of Yinglanpo, the mastermind behind the scenes, was soon exposed.

"It seems that Lao Tzu has to strengthen the guard force again, otherwise even if he doesn't become Lincoln and Kennedy, he will be depressed enough to become Reagan."

After kicking the messenger with more bodyguards to Wu Dadao and Zhang Dejian to arrange, Wu Chaoyue quickly found that this was actually an opportunity, if it was operated well, it could cover the real purpose of sending troops to the north to the greatest extent, and greatly reduce the resistance to directly attack Luoyang and force Shanxi. So Wu Chaoyue didn't hesitate, and immediately called Zhao Liewen, Yan Jingming, Guo Songtao and other accomplices and lackeys for a meeting to discuss, and soon worked out a disguised sneak attack tactic that was hidden from the world!

"Extra! Extra! The governor of the Henan rebellious party, Yinglanpo, sent assassins to assassinate the generalissimo and failed! The generalissimo was furious and swore revenge! This is the public propaganda of Wu Jun's mouthpiece, Hubei People's Daily.

"Brothers, the Yinglanpo dog mongrel dared to send someone to assassinate our Wu Dashuai, we must avenge this revenge! Go to Kaifeng, capture Yinglanpo alive, and set foot in Kaifeng City! "- This is public propaganda in the ranks of the Wu army.

"Have you heard? Wu Dashuai is about to send troops to open the seal, and he wants to arrest Yinglanpo, the governor of Henan, to Hubei, and cut Yinglanpo to death with a knife in public! At least Wu Chaoyue's brother-in-law Nie Shicheng has personally led the main force of the Wu army's northern front to Xiangyang, preparing to send troops to the north with great fanfare, and directly shouted the slogan of smashing the city.

Shu Bao, the general of the Wu army, who still hated the monk and the prince to the bone, had just received an order from Nie Shicheng, the commander-in-chief of the front line of the Wu army, to send troops, and Shu Bao, who had long been eager to launch the Northern Expedition, immediately led the army north in person, and killed Ye County violently, and once again personally fired the first shot of the Wu Army's Northern Expedition to Henan, and fought a battle with the Qing army at the Baoan Post (now Baoan Town) in the southern suburbs of Ye County, and successfully captured the Baoan Post to establish an advance base for the Wu Army's Northern Expedition.

At the same time, the officials of Henan and the Qing generals led by Tuo Minga also accused Yinglanpo of absurd behavior, and he dreamed of relying on an assassin to kill the number one traitor of the Qing Dynasty, which is a fool's dream! - Well, now that Wu Chaoyue didn't succeed, he recruited the wolf-like soldiers of the Wu army.

No matter how much you regret and condemn, it is useless, the wood is already in the boat, and there is no other choice, the Henan Qing army can only desperately strengthen the defense of Xuzhou and Yexian, mobilize heavy troops to prepare to defend the provincial capital, and at the same time use 600 li to urgently ask the Manchu court for help, asking the coup group to send reinforcements to Henan as soon as possible to resist the sudden northward movement of the Wu army.

When the news reached the capital, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Qing court, of course, all scolded Yinglanpo's head for being in the water, and he had nothing to provoke, which provoked Wu Chaoyue, who had only concentrated on using troops in the southwest. But Devil Six felt a little strange and said, "Wu Chaoyue rebel wants to open the seal?" This is unlikely, his money and food have already been thrown into the mess of Yungui, and it is difficult to have the extra strength to go north in a big way? ”

"If he just fights to Kaifeng, his money and food will definitely be enough." Gui Liang pointed out: "Don't forget, Huguang and Guangxi provinces are both major grain-producing provinces, and in recent years, there has been no burden of grain, and there has been no flood, drought and locust plague, there must be a lot of grain stockpiled, and it should not be a big problem for the thief army who supported him to conquer Kaifeng." ”

"Then how will he keep it?" Devil Six raised the most critical question, and said: "The eastern part of Henan has long been broken by the bandits, and the tax on the money and grain produced will never be able to sustain his deployment of heavy troops in Kaifeng, does he still want to take another mess, continue to smash the money and grain into Henan, and specialize in losing money?" ”

"This ......." Gui Liang hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Maybe the Wu thief just wants to take revenge on Yinglanpo after opening Kaifeng, and then grab a handful and run, and continue to throw the mess of Henan to us." ”

Devil Six can't deny this possibility, but Devil Six always feels that this doesn't seem to be Wu Chaoyue's treacherous character, and he will make a big deal for such a big or small thing, and waste a lot of money and food to avenge it. Although Cixi didn't understand military affairs, she also doubted that Wu Chaoyue would fight so far when she was dragged down by Yungui, and before she could pull one leg out of the Yunnan-Guizhou quagmire, she took the initiative to step the other leg into the rotten quagmire of Henan.

At this moment, Yang Xiuqing, who has been in love with Wu Chaoyue for many years, finally directly helped Wu Chaoyue, without knowing Wu Chaoyue's true purpose, Yang Xiuqing still ordered Zhang Lexing and Su Tianfu to return to the Henan-Anhui border to strengthen the strength of the Twist Army there, and at the same time ordered Lin Fengxiang, who was loyal to himself, to draw troops and horses from Anhui to the north, cooperate with the Twist Army to attack Xiayi, enter Shangqiu, and share the pressure for the Wu army to attack the north and open the seal.

In addition, Yang Xiuqing secretly sent half of the grenade bombs given to him by Wu Chaoyue to Shi Da's army, and asked Shi Da to open a method to lure the enemy to attack, surprise the Shandong Qing army with grenade bullets, and continue to exert pressure on the Shandong Qing army. At the same time, Yang Xiuqing also asked the more obedient Ji Wenyuan to obey Shi Dakai's command, and he must not resist Shi Dakai's order because of Shi Dakai's previous fiasco.

"Also, let Shi Dakai make a big noise, and say that this king personally led the army north to crusade against the old demon Luo Bingzhang." Yang Xiuqing added such a sentence to the order, and in his mind, which had not yet been consumed by the wine, he had more than once calculated personally leading the troops to the north to save the situation on the northern front, and at the same time, he also warned those Taiping generals who were becoming more and more disobedient in the field - Shi Dakai was weakened, but Lao Tzu's direct main force was still there!

As the atmosphere of the war became tense again, the Manchu court, which had just breathed a sigh of relief, did not dare to take Wu Chaoyue's purpose of sending troops lightly, so it could only quickly transfer the garrison on the front line of the Yellow River to the east and transfer it to the Kaifeng area to strengthen the defense. Naturally, the Qing troops stationed in Luoyang and Huaiqing, where the situation is relatively stable, have also been transferred.

At the same time, with the assistance of his former partner Shao Yanhong, Nie Shicheng also crossed the Hubei border with more than 12,000 Wu soldiers and entered the territory of Nanyang Mansion in Henan, and went north under the banner of smashing Kaifeng. First met with his old subordinate Liu Shengxiu, and then sent Liu Shengxiu to lead his headquarters to attack Nanzhao County, which had not surrendered so far, and led the main force north to Ye County, and joined forces with Shubao, creating a false impression of attacking Kaifeng on the route of the army.

In this way, of course, Ju Dianhua, the Qing army guard in Ye County, was already not as equipped as the Wu army, and even the total number of troops was already inferior to the Wu army. What's worse is that in order to cover the real goal of the army, and for the safety of the grain route in the future, the Wu army also included Yexian in the northward target this time, so the main force of the Wu army led by Nie Shicheng had just arrived at the Yexian battlefield, and the soldiers of the Wu army immediately launched a strong attack on Yexian.

The cannon rumbled, the rockets roared, and the main force of the Wu army on the northern front, which had been gathering momentum for many years, took out all its strength from the beginning, using more than 70 light and heavy artillery pieces to bombard the small town of Yexian County, and supplemented by Shao Yanhong's own improved Congreve rocket, it only took half a day to turn the city of Yexian into a sea of fire. At the same time, the snipers of Nie Shicheng's department also beat the Qing soldiers on the city wall so that they didn't dare to raise their heads at all, and only dared to lie on the wall to defend the city - the snipers were piled up with thousands of bullets, which was not something that any army could equip in this era.

After completely suppressing the defenders of Yexian County with long-range artillery fire, the soldiers of the Wu army launched an attack on Yexian unhurriedly, although the Qing army also learned the previous lesson, and dredged and deepened the moat of Yexian County early, filling the river with water, and did not give the Wu army the opportunity to attack the city through tunnels. However, it is a pity that the soldiers of the Wu army did not bother to learn from the Taiping army as marmots, and directly crossed the river with a trench bridge car, and then under the protection of the pointed wooden donkey, they directly dug pits and buried explosives in the city wall.

More than 100 catties of bitter acid explosives easily blew down a section of the Yexian city wall, the Wu army swarmed into the city, and the Qing army defending the city started a street battle, although Ju Dianhua led the army to resist desperately, but still could not parry the grenade attack technique of the Wu army, the position space in the city was quickly opened by the Wu army, and finally Ju Dianhua had no choice but to abandon the city with the army that could still be commanded, and the Wu army easily took the small city of Yexian County, Zhang Bang Anmin, and reorganized the city defense in order to control it for a long time.

A day later, when he received the news that Liu Shengxiu had also successfully taken Nanzhao, Nie Shicheng had a showdown with Shu Bao, a man of the Wu army, and said that the goal of the self-army to go north this time was not Kaifeng but Luoyang, and at the same time asked Shu Bao to continue to serve as the vanguard of the self-army, pretending to attack Xiangcheng and cover the real action of the main force of the self-army.

"Brother Nie, I'm a Manchurian, aren't you afraid that I will sell you?" Shu Bao asked Nie Shicheng very frankly: "If I tell the news to Tuo Ming'a secretly, I'm afraid your plan to attack Luoyang this time will be ruined." ”

"Brother Shu, I've been dealing with you for so many years, I don't know what kind of person you are?" Nie Shicheng replied more frankly, and said: "I won't hide it from you, in fact, my brother-in-law Wu Dashuai also explained, saying that the real plan of our army does not need to be hidden from you, he can trust you." ”

Shu Bao's eyes flashed with tears, and he said after a while: "Brother Nie, don't worry, even if it is my most trusted Mulaqi, I won't tell him." ”

"Please." Nie Shicheng patted Shu Bao on the shoulder, first explained the plan to let Shu Baojun take charge of the feint mission, and then said: "After the real target of our army is discovered by the rebel army, the chaotic army will definitely counterattack with all its might, you bear the brunt, be careful." If the situation is not right, withdraw to Ye County immediately. ”

"No!" Shu Bao flatly refused, and said: "I won't go back to Ye County, I have a lot of cavalry, I fight guerrillas, harass the grain routes of the disrupted party army, so that they don't dare to fight back against Ye County and Nanyang with all their might." ”

Nie Shicheng smiled innocently, patted Shu Bao's shoulder again, and said, "My brother-in-law will never treat you badly." ”

Under the leadership of Shu Bao, after the Wu army went north to Xiangcheng, they did not hesitate to launch an attack on the Qing army stronghold outside the city, and successfully posed a false impression of sweeping the peripheral strongholds to open the way for the main force of the Wu army to attack Xiangcheng. At the same time, several Shubao soldiers who were bribed by the Qing army also reported to the enemy, saying that the task of the self-army was to open the way for Nie Shicheng's main force, and to inquire about the reality of the Qing army in Xuzhou for the Wu army, which completely deceived the Qing army in Henan.

Deceived Tuo Ming'a really gathered troops in the important town of Xuzhou, and at the same time built a large number of fortifications outside the city to prepare for the attack of the Wu army, and the Qing army in Kaifeng did not dare to move, and also made every effort to dig deep trenches and build walls, and also repaired the sheep and horse walls to protect the city walls according to the siege characteristics of the Wu army. At the same time, Nie Shicheng sent a partial division all the way west without a trace to cooperate with Liu Shengxiu to attack Lushan.

Lushan County, which was not paid enough attention by the Qing army, was quickly conquered by the Wu army, and the result was not as expected by Yan Jingming. Nie Shicheng did not hesitate when he heard the news, and while ordering Liu Shengxiu to continue attacking Baofeng, he secretly divided his troops at night, and sent a support army to Liu Shengxiu, striving to quickly take Baofeng.

After receiving the news of Baofeng's emergency, Tuo Ming'a, who was waiting in Xuzhou, sniffed a trace of peculiar smell, and said to himself very strangely: "Why is Baofeng also in an emergency?" What the hell is the Wu Rebel Thief Army doing? ”

At the critical moment, luck stood on the side of the honest man Nie Shicheng, and Hui Cheng, who was very trusted by Tuo Ming'a, said categorically: "Sound the west and attack the east!" The Ming attack on Baofeng is just to lure us to divide our troops on the western front, if we are successful, the main force of the thief army will definitely continue to come to Xuzhou! Or even take the opportunity to fight with us in the field! We must not be fooled! ”

After analyzing it, Tuo Ming'a, who had already been scared by the Wu army in the field battle, recognized Hui Cheng's analysis, nodded, and said: "You can't be fooled, Wu thieves like to fight those small counties, so let them fight, and let the defenders of those small counties consume more thief ammunition for us." ”