"Fuck you! The lives of your soldiers are lives, but the lives of our soldiers are not lives?! You cherish the warship, but we don't cherish the warship? The elite main force of the Wu rebel army gathered on the south bank, and the focus of defense was the estuary! Not only did you not consider avoiding the Wu thief estuary position, but you even asked us to knock the estuary head-on alone, and you want us to die in vain?! ”

After a long period of anger, on the flagship of the Tsarist Russian Combined Fleet, Wu Quanmei, who was known for his steady personality, turned into a mad lion, yelling at the Russian generals headed by Novosilsky with red eyes, angrily accusing the Tsarist army of not caring about the casualties of the Qing army's naval divisions at all, and deliberately causing heavy losses to the Qing army's naval divisions in order to reduce the casualties of the Russian army, and strongly demanding that the Tsarist Russian army change its tactics and take into account the situation of the Qing army's naval divisions. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The interpreter sent by the Manchu court did not dare to translate Wu Quanmei's swear words at all, but only carefully translated Wu Quanmei's questions and demands, while Novosilsky and other Tsarist generals all smiled, watching Wu Quanmei show his teeth and claws in front of them like monkeys, and from time to time he made vicious mocking sounds.

In the end, it was only when Wu Quanmei was tired of yelling and his voice was hoarse, Novosilsky sneered and chattered a goose language to the interpreter, who nodded and bowed, and then said to Wu Quanmei: "Wu Junmen, Mr. General wants me to ask you, have you seen the agreement of the Qing Dynasty to borrow troops from our Great Russia?" ”

"I haven't seen it." Wu Quanmei gasped and replied.

Interpreter and translator, Novosilsky and other Tsarist generals laughed loudly together, and then asked the interpreter to say to Wu Quanmei: "It turns out that you haven't even read the treaty of borrowing troops, go and ask you the Wenzhongtang of the Qing court, is it clearly written on the agreement of Prince Gong of your Qing court to borrow troops from our Russian Empire?" ”

"Those two?" Wu Quanmei asked vigilantly.

Under Novosilsky's recitation, the interpreter replied: "First, during the joint operation, all battles must be carried out by the Qing naval division as the vanguard, and the Great Russian fleet decides at its own time and how to join the battle, and the Qing personnel have no right to interfere and demand, only the right to suggest. ”

"Article 2: During the joint operation, all the demands put forward by the commander-in-chief of the armed forces participating in the war of Great Russia and all the battle plans drawn up must be unconditionally accepted by the Qing army and immediately put into practice."

Before the interpreter finished speaking, Wu Quanmei had already turned his angry gaze to Wen Xiang, Wen Xiang was a little furious by Wu Quanmei's fierce gaze, and hurriedly said: "The agreement on borrowing troops was signed by Prince Gong and the Russian minister, and the old man only learned about these two items later. ”

Wu Quanmei closed his eyes in despair, but Novosilsky and other Tsarist generals laughed out loud, and asked the interpreter to say to Wu Quanmei: "Go back, hurry up and prepare for war, and the heavy responsibility of attacking the estuary the day after tomorrow will be handed over to you." Remember, your rebels have deployed a huge secret weapon in the estuary, and you must force the rebels to use that secret weapon. ”

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When he returned to the flagship of the army in despair, the generals of the Qing army, who were looking forward to it, immediately greeted him to inquire about the situation, but he did not open his mouth, just seeing Wu Quanmei's desperate and depressed expression, the generals of the Qing army already knew that the situation was not good. But I still couldn't help but ask: "Junmen, what do you say?" ”

"You ask Wen Zhongtang what kind of loan agreement the imperial court has signed with the Rakshasas." Wu Quanmei replied weakly.

"Junmen, Wen Zhongtang left, and went directly back to his boat."

still had to be told by the soldiers, Wu Quanmei found out that Wen Xiang had already smeared oil on the soles of his feet, and he was so angry that he gritted his teeth even more, and scolded, "Dog offal!" ”

In the end, in the cabin of the flagship, Wu Quanmei still told the two overlord agreements to the generals of the Qing army, and as a result, none of the generals of the Qing army were not thunderous when they heard it, roaring angrily, and some people directly greeted the mother of Devil Six. Wu Quanmei kept shaking his head and sighing bitterly, and said weakly: "Okay, pay attention to proportion, it is Prince Gong who signed this agreement, the younger brother of the former emperor and the uncle of the current emperor." ”

was seriously brainwashed by the Manchu slavery policy, and the generals of the Qing army stopped one after another, and then Chen Guotai, who was most trusted by Wu Quanmei, asked again: "Junmen, what should I do?" Prince Gong signed an agreement to give us to the Rakshasas as cattle and horse slaves, do we really want to send them all to death in vain? ”

"It's not enough to die in vain." Wu Quanmei shook his head weakly and said: "No matter how tightly the Wu thieves guard the estuary, it is impossible to sink all our red single boats, as long as we hold on until the Rakshasa fleet participates in the battle, we will have hope." ”

"What's the difference between that and dying for nothing?" Li Delin, who was second only to Wu Quanmei in the water division, opened his mouth and said with a gloomy face: "Even if we can return with some warships and sailors left, our Great Clear Water Division will be completely finished, even if it is a long-haired Poyang Lake Water Division, it can easily wipe out our remnants." ”

Wu Quanmei was speechless, and his heart was like a knife, and he didn't dare to imagine what a heavy price he would pay to attack the main position of the Wu army head-on, and the eight thousand sailor warriors at the time of the expedition could come back alive.

At this time, Ye Changchun, the most treacherous of the generals of the Qing army's naval divisions (historical characters and characters), suddenly opened his mouth and said gloomily: "Junmen, if you want to keep our Da Qingshui Division and our brothers, then we are not helpless. ”

"What's the solution?" Wu Quanmei asked.

"I couldn't defeat the Wu thief and was forced to retreat." Ye Changchun lowered his voice and said viciously: "After arriving at the mouth of the river, we deliberately only fired artillery on Jiangxin Island on Shazhou, where there was no garrison of Wu thieves, I expected that Wu Chaoyue traitors would definitely understand what we meant, and they would definitely only fire at the river, after a few perfunctory blows, we turned around and ran, and when we came back, we said that Wu thieves were tightly guarded, and the artillery fire was fierce, and they were not Wu thieves' opponents, so they were forced to retreat." ”

"Brilliant plan!" Li Delin applauded, and suggested: "We can also deliberately let one or two warships that have no maintenance value be sunk by Wu thieves, and we will have more explanations when we come back." ”

"If Wen Zhongtang asks, you will say that the military gate will not be able to restrain the fleet, and you will not be able to find the ship that will take the lead in escaping." Ye Changchun said again: "If Wen Zhongtang has anything to say, you want him, the prison army, to also go to the front line to supervise the battle, I don't expect him to have the guts!" ”

When the generals of the Qing army heard this, Wu Quanmei hesitated and couldn't make up his mind, and Li Delin said in a low voice: "Dashuai, this is the only way to keep our Daqing Water Division, maybe this can force the Rakshasa people to change their tactics, and even force the Rakshasa fleet to be the vanguard themselves, and then we will fight hard, and we will not disappoint the court's grace to us." ”

Wu Quanmei was still silent, but there was a glint in his eyes............

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After more than a day of preparation, in the early morning of the third day, in accordance with the requirements of the Tsarist fleet, the Qing army's naval divisions set out and marched upstream under the leadership of Wu Quanmei. Wen Xiang took his ship to hide in the Tsarist fleet as usual, and slowly moved west with the Tsarist fleet, patiently waiting for the main force of the Qing army's naval division to fight the Wu army at the mouth of the source first.

When the news reached the mouth of the source, the most elite direct corps of the Wu army and the first corps immediately entered a state of operation, and all the naval divisions of the Wu army also left the port, sailed up the south channel of the sandbank, and went to the open water in the upper reaches of the sandbank, waiting for orders in a favorable position with a smooth wind. After confirming that it was still the Qing army's naval division as the vanguard, Wu Chaoyue immediately ordered all the batteries, demanding that no orders be given to the artillery and that no artillery should be fired, and that he should try his best to avoid fighting a war of attrition with the Qing army's naval division first.

When the main force of the Qing army's naval division, which had already been covered in bruises, came to the vicinity of the mouth of the Yuanyuan, the first thing that caught the eyes of Wu Quanmei and other Qing army generals was two huge banners hanging high on both sides of the strait, one of which read, 'Brother Da Qingshui, don't block the cannonballs for the Rakshasas', and the other said, 'Let the Rakshasa people go first, and we will accompany them to the end'. As a result, Wu Quanmei couldn't help but smile bitterly when he saw it, and said: "It's really in touch with us." ”

Ye Changchun, who was appointed to serve as the front team and was the most slippery among the generals of the Qing army, cautiously approached the Wu army's position with more than a dozen warships and a seriously injured red single boat, Ye Changchun also kept beating the drum in his heart, for fear that Wu Chaoyue would misunderstand the intention of the Qing army's sailors to fire first. Fortunately, Ye Changchun's troops have entered the range of the Wu army's main position at the mouth of the river, and the Wu army's position on the shore is still silent. ”

The moment the flag was raised, Ye Changchun suddenly remembered a big event, and hurriedly wanted to stop the herald but it was too late, his fleet had already fired at the Shazhou Jiangxin Island, where the Wu army was not stationed. Ye Changchun also suddenly complained, so he had to pray to the sky: "Don't misunderstand, don't misunderstand, don't fire without seeing where we hit clearly." ”

Not to mention, when the cannon of the Qing army's naval division warship sounded, Wu Chaoyue's heart really sank, and he almost thought that he was forced to fight a decisive battle with the Qing army's naval division first. Fortunately, Wu Chaoyue was still a little patient, and he didn't rush to order the artillery to fire back, and then when he saw that all the shells of the Qing army hit Jiangxin Island, where Wu troops were not stationed, Wu Chaoyue suddenly laughed out loud and laughed: "It is worthy of the Great Qingshui Master who has followed Xiang Rong for many years, and Xiang Rong's perfunctory methods are really slippery." ”

Then, Ye Changchun, the number one slippery head of the Qing army's naval division, expected that Wu Chaoyue only had a little calculation, and immediately ordered the Hekou Fort to shoot solid shells at the boatless place on the river, and at the same time ordered the other batteries to continue to remain silent, and absolutely not to fire artillery without an order. Seeing this scene, Ye Changchun, who was overjoyed, hurriedly transferred the sailors, vacated the soldiers of the red single boat that had no maintenance value brought by the army, and then immediately took the lead in turning around and fleeing for their lives.

Originally, Wu Quanmei wanted to send another fleet to perfunctory, but the result was also a wish, but at this time, the north wind suddenly blew on the river, and the fleets of the Qing army's naval divisions that were attacking against the wind fell to the west and collided with each other. Wu Quanmei saw that he called out to God to help me, and even more unceremoniously ordered to retreat immediately, and fled downstream with the main force of the Qing army's naval division to hand over to Wenxiang.

After withdrawing to the area of Gaowan Village to join the Tsarist Russian fleet, Wu Quanmei and other sailor generals were of course scolded by Wen Xiang, who was like thunder, and Wu Quanmei was full of confidence, and he insisted that it was the Wu army's fierce artillery fire, and the self-army could not resist the defeat and retreat, and pushed the reason for the retreat of the main force to the weather. Wen Xiang was so angry that he smoked, but he was helpless.

If a friend wants to ask Wen Xiang why he doesn't know that the Qing army's naval division warship is firing at no one's land, then he must not understand what it means to hide from the top and not hide from the bottom, and he doesn't want to die in vain, who of the Qing army's sailors and soldiers who fired cannons at the sandbar is nowhere to be stupid enough to run to Wen Xiang to take the initiative to tell the truth?

Wen Xiang was even more angry and trembling in the back, and was scolded by Wen Xiang so much that Wu Quanmei also said to Wen Xiang: "Wen Zhongtang, since you think that we are not effective in fighting and are afraid of the enemy, then you are the supervising army, why don't you go to the front line with us, and see that the ship is afraid of the enemy, you can ask the king to cut off the pipe belt of the ship." ”

"Wu Bishan, you dare to talk like this to this official?!"

Wen Xiang pointed at Wu Quanmei's nose and yelled, but Wu Quanmei was not afraid and said, "Wen Zhongtang, how do you want to speak?" What's wrong with the words of the last general? You are the prison army, and the generals who retreat are not at your disposal, but by whom? ”

In the end, it was the envoy sent by the Tsarist fleet to stop Wen Xiang and Wu Quanmei from deepening the conflict, and after Wen Xiang was picked up by the Russian envoy to scold Novosilsky, Li Delin and Ye Changchun and other Qing generals also immediately surrounded Wu Quanmei and said: "Junmen, the Rakshasa people must want Wenxiang to force us to fight the source again, what should we do?" ”

"The old way definitely won't work, we have to think of another way." Wu Quanmei pondered and said, "Do you have any good ideas?" ”

"Junmen, I don't know if you still remember Qi Shan, the commander of the Jiangbei battalion?" It was Ye Changchun who had a bad idea and said: "At that time, every time Xiang Rong urged Qi Shan to take the main force of the Jiangbei battalion south to assist Jiangning Zhenjiang, Qi Shan said every time that he was seriously ill and could not supervise the army to kill the enemy, and Xiang Rong also scolded him every time he was an old slippery head. ”

When he was on the battlefield in Ningzhenyang, Wu Quanmei despised Qi Shan, the commander of the Jiangbei battalion, who had slipped to the extreme, but at this moment, Wu Quanmei suddenly understood Qi Shan's good intentions - when he encountered Xiang Rong's kind of hard and vicious battle, others fought, and all the credit went to his own boss, Qi Shan's stealing and sliding was actually not only for himself, but also for the soldiers of the Jiangbei battalion whose strength was not as good as the Jiangnan battalion. Therefore, Wu Quanmei quickly beckoned a confidant to the front and whispered in his ear: "Go find some croton ......." ”

After being expected by the generals of the Qing army and being scolded in front of Novosilsky, when Wen Xiang returned to the ranks of the Qing army's naval division, the first thing he did was to force the Qing army's naval division to continue the offensive the next day. Then in the evening, Wen Xiang was invited by Wu Quanmei to the flagship of the Qing army, and saw Wu Quanmei who was vomiting and leaking......

"Bishan, why did you suddenly become so sick?"

"I don't know, probably because of overwork, I suddenly fell ill. Wen Zhongtang, the last general invited you to come over late at night, it was the last general who knew that he would definitely not be able to go to the battlefield tomorrow, but the military situation was like fire, and the last general wanted to hand over the military power to you temporarily, please personally lead the troops into battle to attack the estuary, I don't know what Wen Zhongtang wants to do? ”

Of course, Wen Xiang Wen Zhongtang, who was born with a noble life, did not have the courage to lead the army into battle in person - there was a rain of bullets on the battlefield, in case any stray shrapnel hit Wen Zhongtang, Wen Zhongtang's eight-room concubine in the capital must not be widowed? So there was no choice, Wen Xiang could only convene the generals of the Qing army's naval division overnight at the flagship and ask if anyone could temporarily replace Wu Quanmei to command the whole army and lead the army to attack the Wu army's defense line at the source of the mouth the next day?

There was only Wu Quanmei's dying moans in the flagship, and all the generals of the Qing army maintained a silent posture of watching their noses and noses, no matter how much Wen Xiang promised to reward them, no one was willing to stand up and take on this burden. In the end, Wen Xiang had no choice, so he simply pointed at Li Delin and shouted: "General Li, you are Bishan's deputy, Bishan suddenly fell ill, and of course you are the temporary commander ......." ”

Before Wen Xiang's words were finished, Li Delin had already knelt down on his knees and said loudly: "Wen Zhongtang forgives the sin, not the last general's resignation, but the last general's virtue is not as good as Wu Junmen's case, and the acting commander is only afraid that the soldiers of the three armies will refuse to obey his orders and delay the major affairs of the court, so he really doesn't dare to take on this heavy burden." Only by inviting Zhongtang to come to the front line and take command can he order and prohibit and defeat the enemy. ”

"Please come to the front line in person! Take command and defeat the enemy! ”

The generals of the Qing army knelt down neatly, and asked Wen Xiang to temporarily act as the commander in unison, and secretly looked at Wen Xiang's eyes full of malice, and said in their hearts: "You go to the front line, Lao Tzu will immediately send someone to tell the truth, let Wu thief know that you are on that boat!" ”

"Even if the old man knows a little bit about military affairs, he doesn't need to beg you! The old man doesn't even know how to distinguish the waterway, so how can I lead the troops into battle? Wen Xiang yelled helplessly.

"Wen Zhongtang, please calm your anger, or do it, or wait, and wait until the last general is sick and then lead the army into battle. Or ask Wen Zhongtang to talk to the Rakshasa people, let them fight the main force, and we will assist in the battle, so that General Li and General Ye will temporarily serve as the last generals, but it will not be too much of a problem. Wu Quanmei moaned and pleaded.