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If Lin Fengxiang is to arrange the main force of the Taiping Army on the east bank of the canal, then this battle still has to be fought, Lin Fengxiang only needs to launch a charge at any cost like Li Kaifang, and win the opportunity to fight hand-to-hand with Wu Jun Lianyong, then in the case that Wu Jun Lianyong is ninety percent of the recruits, the Taiping Army has hope of winning no matter what, even if it is really defeated in the end, at least it can force Wu Chaoyue to fight a crushing victory, and consume a large number of troops and ammunition that Wu Chaoyue cannot replenish.

However, it is a pity, because he knew that Wu Chaoyue's army was fighting in array, and he was afraid in his heart, Lin Fengxiang chose the wrong tactics from the beginning, too scattered troops and too dependent on favorable terrain, and the overly complex tactics not only did not have a surprising winning effect, but also gave Wu Chaoyue the opportunity to break the Taiping Army's various divisions, and missed the only opportunity to defeat Wu Chaoyue in vain, and when Lin Fengxiang found out about this, it was already too late.

It was indeed too late, repelled the Taiping army Wang Yi from the lower reaches of the Henghe River, and defeated the Taiping Army sailor raid team from the upstream, Wu Jun Lianyong had begun to calmly cross the Henghe River north, first crossed the river with a battalion out of the formation at the ferry, the second battalion calmly stepped on the bridge to cross the river, and strengthened the troops on the north bank, and then the artillery battalion escorted eight artillery pieces and ammunition trucks across the river, and the courageous Qing soldiers also took the initiative to help, Wu Chaoyue personally led the last battalion to protect the pontoon bridge, Lin Fengxiang wanted to bring the main force to the east bank of the canal and fight a decisive battle with Wu Jun Lianyong, but it was too late no matter what.

Unwilling to give up, Lin Fengxiang gritted his teeth and ordered the general Chen Yamo to lead the only 1,000 troops on the east bank of the canal to attack, and led the main force to seize the time to cross the Jiangyin Canal eastward, and at the same time ordered Wang Yizhong, who had already retreated, to attack again and attack Wu Jun Lian Yong during the half-crossing period at any cost.

But it didn't do much. The courage has been timid, how did Chen Yamo and Wang Yizhong and the second general unswervingly carry out the order, and lead the army to charge, but the soldiers under their command can no longer beat the military morale of the past, the pace of the charge and raid is slow, and no matter how loud the slogan is, there is no indomitable spirit like before. There was no danger in front of Wu Jun Lian Yong, who was fighting in array, even if he barely rushed to the front, he was quickly beaten by Wu Jun Lian Yong's three-stage shot, and fled in embarrassment, Chen Yamo and Wang Yizhong no matter how much they instigated and persecuted, during which Chen Yamo was also killed by the cold gun of the Wu army's sniper, and the Taiping soldiers who were driven by him to launch the charge also took the opportunity to scatter and fled everywhere.

When Lin Fengxiang personally led the main force of the Taiping Army to cross the Jiangyin Canal, Wu Jun Lianyong had already been helped by the Qing army. The heavy artillery and ammunition trucks were transported across the Henghe River first, and Wu Junlianyong, who was left behind in the last battalion of the ferry on the south bank, had also begun to calmly cross the river - Wu Chaoyue also led the pro-soldier team to walk at the end - although the pro-soldiers beside Wu Chaoyue were very water-friendly, and they could take Wu Chaoyue to jump into the Henghe River only more than ten meters wide at any time to escape, but Wu Chaoyue did walk at the end, and it also greatly encouraged the morale of Wu Junlianyong's military morale.

In the end, when Lin Fengxiang's subordinate Ou Zhencai rushed to the front of the ferry with the assault team, Wu Chaoyue himself had already stepped on the pontoon bridge, and at the same time, Wu Jun Lian Yong, who was on the north bank of the Hengjiang River, also concentrated his firepower and fired all kinds of guns. The Taiping army led by Ou Zhencai was beaten to the ground and did not dare to raise his head, while Wu Chaoyue quickly rushed across the Henghe with a smile on his face. Set foot on the land of the North Shore. At the end, Wu Chaoyue turned around and waved to the soldiers of the Taiping Army and shouted, "Thank you, thank you for your warm welcome, see you another day, see you on the battlefield another day!" ”

In the thunderous cheers of the Qing army. At the same time, in the angry roar of the Taiping soldiers, two thousand Wu soldiers lined up to enter Jiangyin City, Wu Chaoyue still walked at the end of the line, and the last one entered the city, and finally at the end of the city gate. I saw Yang Wending, the governor of Jiangsu who once fought to the death with him, and now he has become his fiancée's grandfather.

What made Wu Chaoyue quietly relieved was that although Yang Wending's character was a little sorry, his appearance was quite passable, he looked like he had good facial features and a feeling of kindness, and his genetics were obviously good. So Wu Chaoyue didn't hesitate, he went up to beat a thousand and bowed down first, and after getting up, he bowed down again and said respectfully: "Son-in-law Wu Chaoyue, I have seen my grandfather." ”

Wu Chaoyue quietly breathed a sigh of relief, but Yang Wending was quietly a little disappointed, secretly saying that this kid and his grandfather looked so similar yesterday, both of them were sharp-beaked monkeys with cheeks and a treacherous face? Although there is money in the family, the appearance is too wronged by the granddaughter of the old man, right? But disappointment is disappointment, the wood has been completed, Yang Wending just stubbornly picked up Wu Chaoyue, forced a smile and said: "Virtuous grandson-in-law, please hurry up, the old man who will take over the wind and wash the dust for you has already been arranged, hurry up and go to the table with the old man, the old man will have a good talk with you today!" ”

"Thank you grandfather, but don't be in a hurry, wait until your grandson-in-law arranges the stationing of the army first."

Wu Chaoyue thanked him, and then without waiting for Yang Wending to agree, he immediately turned to his own army to practice Yong, and ordered loudly: "The whole army listens to the order, during the period of stationing in the city, it is strictly forbidden to disturb the people and harm the people. Rape, robbery and murder will be put to death! Do you understand? ”

"Understood!"

Wu Jun Lian Yong replied neatly, his voice was as neat as if a spring thunder had suddenly sounded, Wu Chaoyue nodded with satisfaction, and then ordered Lian Yong to line up and camp in the camp designated by Yang Wending. As a result, at this time, a few cannons suddenly rang out outside the north gate of Jiangyin, which startled Yang Wending, Tai Wenying, Mo Zai and other Qing army civil and military officials, but Wu Chaoyue only frowned slightly, and asked clearly that the sound of artillery came from the Huangshan Fort outside the city, Wu Chaoyue did not hesitate, and immediately instructed Meng Yu: "Meng Yingguan, within tomorrow, give me the long hair to the fort!" ”

Hearing this, Yang Wending, Tai Wenying and others were of course dumbfounded, but Meng Wei did not hesitate to clench his fists and sing a promise, and then said: "Wu Dashuai, the sky is dark, the fire is obvious, if Changmao continues to bombard the city, the last general can use the clock method to accurately measure the distance, and the last general immediately asks for the order to go to the city now to prepare for tomorrow's artillery battle!" ”

Wu Chaoyue nodded, and asked Yang Wending to send someone to lead Meng Yu and other technical soldiers to the city to measure the distance, and then personally led Wu Jun Lian Yong to the camp to station. Leaving Yang Wending, Tai Wenying and others looking at each other on the ground, they all said in their hearts: "This Shanghai group practice." How is it completely different from the last Shanghai group exercise? ”

The so-called clock method, in fact, is to measure the specific time when the sound reaches the Jiangyin city wall after the artillery fire is lit, and then calculate the distance at the sound propagation speed of 300 meters per second. As a result, the soldiers of the Taiping Army, who failed to intercept them, vented their anger, and continued to bombard Jiangyin City for most of the night. However, their position was exposed in front of the Wu gunners, and after repeatedly measuring and determining the location and distance of the Taiping Army battery, Meng Wei not only determined that the rear loading guns of the self-army could easily hit the Taiping Army batteries, but also adjusted the gun positions of the Qing army's red-coated cannons early, just waiting for the next day to concentrate firepower to completely cover the Taiping Army batteries.

At the same time, the generals of the Taiping Army, such as Lin Fengxiang and Wu Ruxiao, who had not received a good education, of course did not know that their batteries were in danger, but on the contrary, they were discussing the next battle plan overnight. And in view of the strong firepower of Wu Junlianyong, Lin Fengxiang and Wu Ruxiao also completely died of the heart of directly attacking Jiangyin City, and decided to take advantage of Wu Chaoyue's weakness of insufficient ammunition and inability to replenish. Fight a war of attrition with Wu Chaoyue, fight a long-term war, and use time to completely kill Wu Chaoyue!

If you want to kill Wu Chaoyue, first of all, the first point is, of course, you must cut off the connection between Wu Jun Lianyong and the outside world, fortunately, Wu Chaoyue has no water army, and Jiangyin is surrounded by water on three sides, so it is not difficult to do this, the difficulty is how to block the land route of Jiangyin's east gate. After repeated discussions and research, Lin and Wu finally found a way. It was decided to move the main force of land and water to the foot of Xiangshan, leaving only a small number of troops to monitor and contain on the west bank of the Jiangyin Canal. Set up a camp together, dig deep trenches, cut off Wu Junlianyong's way out of the city, and persuade Wu Chaoyue to take the initiative to go out of the city to fight, consuming Wu Junlianyong to fight one less bullet.

In addition, Lin Fengxiang and Wu Ruxiao also decided to build a water barrier in the lower reaches of the Henghe River to cut off the Henghe channel. Not giving Wu Chaoyue the opportunity to replenish food and ammunition through the Henghe, he ordered Xie Changsha, the division commander guarding Wuxi, to also build a water fence at the southern entrance of the Jiangyin Canal to cut off Wu Chaoyue's connection with Changzhou and Suzhou through the Jiangyin Canal. At the same time, for the sake of insurance, Lin Fengxiang and Wu Ruxiao also allowed Xie Changsha to use earth and rocks to completely block the Jiangyin Canal if necessary. Gain time for the main force of the Taiping Army Naval Division led by Wu Ruxiao to reinforce Wuxi.

As for the Yangtze River waterway, Lin Fengxiang and Wu Ruxiao were not at all worried - unless Xiang Rong sent the main force of the Qing army's naval division from Jiangning to save Jiangyin, the strength of the Taiping army's naval division in Wu Ruxiao's hands alone was definitely more than enough to deal with the Qing army's naval division that came from downstream to reinforce Wu Chaoyue.

Of course, Lin Fengxiang and Wu Ruxiao also knew very well that their siege tactics were also very dangerous for the Taiping army that was alone in the depths, but fortunately, Jiangyin was not too far from the battlefield of Ningzhen, and it was convenient for waterways, so Lin and Wu wrote down the specific situation and the tactics of the army into a letter and sent someone back to Jiangning, reporting the matter to Yang Xiuqing, and asking Yang Xiuqing to provide full help, be sure to entangle the main force of the Qing army on the battlefield of Ningzhen, and not give them the opportunity to reinforce Jiangyin!

The night passed quickly, and in the early morning of the next day, when the Taiping army had just begun to move the camp and move, the Wu army artillery battalion led by Meng Qi had already begun a counterattack on the Taiping army battery, four rear-loading rifled guns and fifteen red-coated cannons opened fire together, covering the solid cannonballs and flowering cannonballs on the Huangshan battery, the Taiping soldiers on the fort were caught off guard, and were immediately bombarded by the sudden Qing artillery fire that was hit with heavy casualties, and the fortifications and the artillery that had been hard to move to the fort suffered a lot of blows. And when the soldiers of the Taiping Army mustered up the courage to fire back, the earth-shattering Jiangyin artillery battle also began.

Under their manipulation, the Jiangyin artillery, which had previously been virtually useless, showed its full power, and the solid shells continued to bombard the Huangshan Fort, blasting the fort to the ground, and the shells bounced and killed and injured the Taiping gunners one after another. And the most terrible is the cannonball filled with picric acid, every time a cannon goes out, there will be a terrifying violent explosion on the Taiping army's battery, the picric acid flame quickly ignited all the combustibles on and near the battery, and also caused the Taiping army's artillery to explode twice, killing and wounding more Taiping soldiers.

The courage and fighting spirit of the officers and men of the Taiping Army are always worthy of Wu Chaoyue's admiration, and in the case of absolute inferiority in firepower and technology, the officers and men of the Taiping Army are still one after another, risking their lives to keep charging and reloading, and doing their best to fire back with artillery. But it's a pity. In the face of the professionally trained Wu gunners and technologically advanced bitter acid shells, the officers and men of the Taiping Army were doomed to sacrifice and bleed in vain, and even if the shells they fired with experience hit the city wall of Jiangyin's north gate, they could only injure people through direct hits or bounces, and could neither ignite the combustibles on the city wall, nor produce a powerful terrorist explosion like picric acid cannonballs. So it's noon. When the flames enveloped and surrounded the Taiping Army Fort, the Taiping Army soldiers with dark faces could no longer see the situation on the Jiangyin City Wall through the smoke of the fire, and the Wu Army Lian Yong casualties on the Jiangyin City Wall were still few, and the artillery on the city wall was still roaring, accurately bombarding the Taiping Army Batteries one after another.

In the Jiangyin artillery battle, Wu Chaoyue just led Zhao Liewen to go down to the city and leave after shaking around the north gate wall, the reason was not that Wu Chaoyue was greedy for life and afraid of death, and was afraid of being hit by the Taiping army's shells, but that the Jiangyin defenders had discovered the Taiping army's move to camp. The report arrived in front of Wu Chaoyue, so Wu Chaoyue hurriedly led Zhao Liewen to the city wall of the east gate of Jiangyin to observe the enemy's movements.

When Wu Chaoyue arrived at the east gate, the Taiping army and the land and water army of the Taiping army had already begun to meet at the foot of Xiangshan Mountain, and looked at it with binoculars, the Taiping soldiers wrapped in red turbans looked like ants, and they couldn't wait to start building camps and cutting down trees to establish camps. At first, Wu Chaoyue was unimpressed, but after receiving the news that the Taiping army was building a water barrier in the lower reaches of the Henghe River. Wu Chaoyue's face suddenly changed a little, and he hurriedly asked Zhao Liewen next to him, "Huifu." Changmao is moving to Xiangshan again, and is building a water gate in the lower reaches of the Henghe River, what does this want to do? Are you trying to trap me? ”

"It's possible." Zhao Liewen replied: "Our army is far away from the rear, and there is no water advantage, so it is difficult to supply food, grass and ammunition. Although the long hairs are also far from the rear, they have the support of the people. It is easy to collect grain on the spot, and if they take Wuxi City, they can get the help of Wuxi's grain and grass, and the long-term confrontation and consumption will obviously be more beneficial to them. ”

Blinked, blinked. Wu Chaoyue did not hesitate, and immediately led Zhao Liewen back to the city to find Yang Wending and ask him about the grain and grass in Jiangyin City, but Yang Wending's answer made Wu Chaoyue and Zhao Liewen dumbfounded on the spot - the food in the city is only enough to eat for a month, and it can't include the Lian Yong brought by Wu Chaoxin!

"Just enough for a month?" Wu Chaoyue almost didn't roar, and shouted: "Jiangyin, such an important Jiangfang fortress, why did you hoard such a little grain and grass?" ”

"Son-in-law, you can't blame me for this." Yang Wending replied with a sad old face: "Before the old man led the army to Zhenjiang to help the war, he didn't order to mobilize grain and grass from places like Suzhou and Changzhou to Jiangyin to hoard. But the old man just left, the back foot of the new Liangjiang Governor Yiliang took office, the first thing he did was to take over the provincial treasury and the treasury of Liangjiang, transport grain and grass to supply the battlefield of Ningzhen, as a result, the matter of hoarding grain in Jiangyin was temporarily stopped, the old man still withdrew to Jiangyin to know, after I left, Yi Zhitai he did not transfer even a grain to Jiangyin! ”

After that, Yang Wending hurriedly added: "Also, after I withdrew to Jiangyin, I immediately ordered the transfer of grain from Suzhou, but I had just arrived in Jiangyin on my front foot, and Changmao immediately followed, controlling the Jiangyin Canal outside the city, so the grain from Suzhou could not be delivered." ”

Wu Chaoyue and Zhao Liewen were completely speechless, originally on the way here, Wu Chaoyue and Zhao Liewen had already carefully discussed the strategy of retreating from the enemy, at that time, in view of the serious shortage of weapons and ammunition, Wu Chaoyue also planned to enter the city and stick to it, try to save weapons and ammunition, and rely on the advantages of city defense to retreat the Taiping army that was lone and deep. But what Wu Chaoyue never expected was that the food in Jiangyin City would be so small, and the Taiping army that accidentally took Wuxi City actually had an advantage in food, and Wu Chaoyue's wishful thinking of counting on the retreat of the Taiping army naturally failed.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhao Liewen hurriedly asked: "Lord Futai, who else knows about the grain storage in Jiangyin City besides you?" ”

"Only the Taiwan staff general and Mo County let them know." Yang Wending was barely competent, and replied: "When Changmao first arrived in Jiangyin, the old man had already ordered to block the news about the grain storage in the city in order to stabilize the people's hearts, and also asked the Taiwan staff general to send a reliable army to take over the granary, and let the grain station Zhao Dezhen personally take charge of the accounts, and the grain storage situation was only reported to the old man, and no outsiders were allowed to be informed. ”

Zhao Liewen's face slowed down slightly, and he hurriedly said to Wu Chaoyue: "Weiting, don't worry too much about food, as long as Changmao doesn't know how much food we have, he will not dare to spend it with us for a long time." ”

Wu Chaoyue nodded, but he was not very relieved, but Yang Wending didn't care much, and said: "Weiting, your Lian Yong is so capable of fighting, why don't you just go out of the city and beat Changmao away?" When you were in Jiangning, you could kill tens of thousands of longhairs in a battalion, but now you have 2,000 people in Lianyong, and you can't beat the more than 10,000 longhairs outside the city? ”

Glancing at Yang Wending, Wu Chaoyue said expressionlessly: "Grandfather, when my grandson-in-law was in Jiangning, there were 680 firing pin guns in 500 Lian Yong, and each gun had an average of 223 bullets. But when I came to Jiangyin this time, my 2,000 Lian Yong only had 1,500 fifteen pin guns in total, and the average bullet per gun was less than 30. In yesterday's battle into the city, my practice used an average of more than three bullets per firing gun. ”

"What does this mean ......?" Yang Wending, who didn't understand modern warfare, asked suspiciously.

"I mean." Wu Chaoyue replied: "In a battle of the scale of the Jiangning Breakout Battle, I can only fight once, and then there will be no bullets available. Therefore, if I can't defeat Changmao in one battle, I can only stay in Jiangyin City and starve to death with you. ”

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