"I have no choice but to risk going north to Weichuan to change equipment. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

This is the unanimous conclusion reached by the civil and military bosses of the Qing army in Xuzhou, Tuo Ming'a and Shen Baozhen, who are helpless, and what is even more tragic is that in order to avoid startling the snake, and at the same time lacking confidence in the combat effectiveness of the Qing army in Henan, Tuo Ming'a and Shen Baozhen had to rack their brains to come up with a three-pronged method that would not arouse the vigilance of the Wu army, ensure that a sufficient number of troops could go north to change their weapons, and at the same time ensure that the important town of Xuzhou would not be attacked by the Wu army.

Fortunately, the army under the command of Tomin Ah is abandoned, the number is quite sufficient, there are more than 6,000 green battalion soldiers plus regimental training, and there are more than 4,000 cavalry cavalry in Yuncheng Qing Army, which can be transferred north at any time, and most of the main force will go north to change clothes, and the other part will be a little sure of the regimental training to stick to Xuzhou for a few days with the perfect fortifications, and the deployment of troops will not be overstretched.

In view of these circumstances, Shen Baozhen carefully designed an ingenious plan for Tuo Ming'a to go north to change his clothes, first deliberately transferred the Qing cavalry from Yuncheng to the north to pretend to return to Xuzhou, and then the Wu army would definitely send troops to intercept it, and then Tuo Ming'a took the opportunity to lead the main force of the Qing army who was ready to change clothes out of the city, pretending to receive the Yuncheng cavalry, and after being intercepted again, Tuo Ming'a deliberately deceived and fled north with the Yuncheng cavalry to Weichuan to change clothes.

"There are three benefits to doing this."

Shen Baozhen explained his plan to Tuo Ming'a and said: "The first is that it is reasonable for our main force to go north to Weichuan, even if Zeng Guoquan is the reincarnation of Zhuge Kongming, he will never guess that we are defeating the north in order to change weapons for the main force, not only will we not go all out to chase and kill to the end, but we will definitely feel that it will be easier to attack Xuzhou." ”

"The second is to take the opportunity to test the weaponry and combat effectiveness of the Zeng Guoquan Bandit Army, so that we can have a clear idea when we launch a counterattack after changing our outfits."

"The third is to lure Zeng Guoquan's rebel thieves to take the opportunity to attack Xuzhou City with all their might, and use the strong fortifications of Xuzhou City to consume his weapons, ammunition and troops, although this is also a little risky for us, but as long as our main force moves quickly, changes the equipment and immediately goes south to help Xuzhou City, then not only Xuzhou City will continue to be safe and sound, but our main force after changing clothes can also surprise Wu thieves on the battlefield."

After pondering for a long time, he really couldn't think of a more reliable idea than Shen Baozhen's method, and Tuo Ming'a, who didn't have much confidence in Shen Baozhen's tricks, had no choice but to give Shen Baozhen one last chance. However, just when Tominga and Shen Baozhen were discussing arranging for those troops to go north to change their clothes and what troops to leave to guard Xuzhou City, a scout suddenly rushed in from outside the door, and before he could salute, he shouted happily: "Yujunmen, great joy!" The Wu thief army is pulling out the camp and there are signs of retreat! ”

"What? Wu thief wants to retreat?! ”

Tuo Ming'a and Shen Baozhen were so surprised that they couldn't believe their ears, and blurted out together, "Have you found out?" Wu thief is really pulling out the camp and retreating?! ”

"It's true!" The scout who reported the news replied happily: "The little one saw with his own eyes in the distance that the Wu thief army in Wu Lou was reloading the grain and grass baggage, and did not continue to attack our stronghold outside the city, and the Wu thief army on the other side of Songzhuang was the same, and the rebel thief Shu Bao had already personally led the cavalry out of the camp to assemble and prepare to set off. ”

I never thought that our luck could be so good, and the overjoyed Tuo Ming'a and Shen Baozhen of course rushed to the south gate of Xuzhou at the first time, raised their binoculars and looked south. Not to mention, thanks to the open terrain, Tuo Ming'a and Shen Baozhen really immediately saw that the white hats in the open space around Wu Lou were dense, and a large number of baggage vehicles appeared, obviously the Wu army Zeng Guoquan who had just given up the camp and was assembling.

"God help me! God help me! Tuo Ming'a laughed wildly, "I didn't expect the Wu thief to take the initiative to retreat, and now the army will have nothing to worry about." ”

"How could the Wu thief suddenly retreat? Is something suddenly wrong in the rear? Or is it playing some tricks again? ”

Shen Baozhen was puzzled by the sudden abandonment of the camp and retreat of the Wu army, but considering the ample space and time left for the army after the sudden retreat of the Wu army, Shen Baozhen still smiled like Tuo Ming'a, and said with a smile: "But it doesn't matter, just give us a little more time, just give us a little more time." ”

Reluctant to miss the wonderful scene of witnessing the sudden retreat of the Wu army, of course Tuo Ming'a and Shen Baozhen stayed on the city wall to continue to watch, but looking at it, Tuo Ming'a and Shen Baozhen gradually found that something was wrong - after gathering into an army, Zeng Guoquan's army did not directly retreat south, but chose to go east to Songzhuang to join Shubao.

Vaguely feeling that something was wrong, Tuo Ming'a and Shen Baozhen naturally marched eastward along the city wall, following the footsteps of the Wu army's team to continue to observe, and then soon, Tuo Ming'a and Shen Baozhen gradually turned a little pale - after joining forces with Shu Baojun, Wu Jun actually took Shu Baojun as the pioneer, bypassed the southeast corner of Xuzhou City and went north, and directly rushed to the direction of the Yinghe crossing. And after confirming this with their own eyes, Shen Baozhen and Tuo Ming'a also roared in unison, "That bastard just said that Wu rebel army abandoned the camp and was preparing to retreat south?!" ”

"Zeng Guoquan is a rebel and a thief crazy? What is he doing bypassing Xuzhou City and going north directly? Ready to open the seal? Isn't he afraid that we will cut off his bread? ”

Chen Zhaoyong, the governor of Xuzhou, also exclaimed loudly, not understanding why Zeng Guoquan suddenly chose to go deep alone, but Chen Zhaoyong was right in this sentence - Zeng Guoquan was indeed not afraid that the Qing army in Xuzhou would cut off his grain route, because the goal of Zeng Guoquan's army going north was not Kaifeng City, an important town in the Central Plains that was far away and definitely difficult to fight, but a small county-level city that no one in the Wu army and the Qing army cared about before the war............

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"Quick! Fast! Fast! Speed up! We have received accurate news that the military salary and silver sent by the rebellious party in the capital to the army of the rebellious party in Xuzhou are now in the city of Weichuan, and they will go north to defeat Weichuan and rob the rebellious party's military salary! There's a reward for everyone! Brethren, the opportunity to make a fortune has come, hurry up! ”

Chen Zhaoyong also said something wrong, it was not that Zeng Guoquan was crazy, but that Zeng Guoquan's army was already crazy, and even the Wu army Shubao who was hiding many two or five boys was striding north like crazy, and hurried to Weichuan to rob the Qing army's 'salary'. So much so that when carrying heavy equipment to cross Yingshui in the north, Zeng Guoquan and Shubao, with a total strength of more than 6,000 people, together with the army and civilians, all crossed Yingshui in just one hour, and then marched north without hesitation.

Of course, there are also some more calm and rational Wu soldiers who can't believe that the self-army will have such good luck, and can inadvertently block the Qing army's arrears of military salaries and New Year's rewards for several months on the road, and have reservations about whether there is really a Qing army's salary and silver in the city of Weichuan. However, when the news suddenly came out of the rear that Tomina personally led the army out of the city and went north, these calm and rational generals and soldiers of the Wu army also began to go crazy......

"You can't go wrong! The rebellious party baggage team that was blocked in the city of Weichuan was definitely escorted by the rebellious party's salary! Otherwise, Tomina's shrunken turtle would never be in such a hurry! Brothers, come quickly, your chance to get rich! ”

Under the temptation of robbing the Qing army's salary, the soldiers of the new Hunan army, which were mainly infantry, ran out of about the same speed as the cavalry with red eyes, and the Hunan army Ni Guibu who was ordered to the palace gritted his teeth and beat the Qing cavalry with arquebuses at the Yingshui ferry so that he did not dare to raise his head, forcing the Qing cavalry to run to the ferry far downstream to cross the river, and then reluctantly set foot on the land on the north bank.

The super-large-scale marathon race began, relying on the advantage of starting in advance, the main force of the Wu army kept rushing in front, and the cavalry of the Qing army relied on the power of the war horse, and the fast horse whip chased after it, gradually narrowing the distance between the Wu army, and the front and back were all straight to Weichuan, competing for the opportunity to cross the Wei River first.

After all, it was cavalry, no matter how fast the infantry of the Wu army was, it was impossible for them to outrun the horses, and when they were about to arrive at Dongcun Town, the cavalry of the Qing army finally caught up with the tail of the Wu army. But fortunately, Zeng Guoquan still had a relatively reliable cavalry friendly army, and when he found that the situation was not good, Shu Bao, who rushed to the front, immediately turned around and killed the Wu cavalry, and attacked the Qing cavalry led by Tomin A and Hui Cheng.

As a result, when it was time to start fighting, Shu Bao was stunned to find that he had inadvertently ushered in the opportunity he had dreamed of - a decisive battle with the main cavalry of the Tuo Ming Asuo Division, which seriously threatened the supply line of the Wu army in Henan! Then what made Shu Bao smile even more was that because he had to keep pace with the Wu army's infantry, the Wu army's cavalry had not advanced at full speed before, and both the horses and soldiers still had plenty of room to spare. However, the cavalry of the Qing army has maintained a high-speed charge for dozens of miles, and the manpower and horsepower have been seriously reduced, and the combat state is far less ideal than that of the Wu cavalry. So ......, so Tomina, who has a good relationship with the monk and the prince, was once again pulled by Shu Bao all over the ground to find teeth.

Facing each other, the two armies used arquebuses to shoot each other, each with its own casualties, but when it came to the hand-to-hand encounter, the cavalry of the Shu Bao army, which had already exchanged for Wu Yueyue's large amount of ammunition supply, immediately occupied the absolute upper hand, and the cavalry of Shu Bao's own team, equipped with Smith's pistol, opened the bow left and right, and constantly accurately shot the Qing cavalry within a few meters and more than ten meters, and beat the Qing cavalry who were about to pick up the knife to turn people on their backs, and the ghost cried wolf. Although the rest of the Wu cavalry, who were not qualified to be equipped with revolvers, had a large number of insiders, they still did not dare to have the slightest softness on the life-and-death battlefield of fighting for their lives, and brandished their sabers to cut the Qing cavalry that had been shot by the pistols to the flesh and blood, and fell to the ground.

Finding that the situation was not good, Tomina once tried to get rid of Shu Bao's entanglement and went north, but limited by the decline in the physical strength of the horses, the Qing cavalry was never able to do this, and the Wu cavalry, who had the upper hand in physical strength, had been in constant conflict in the cavalry brigade of the Qing army, stirring up the queue of the Qing cavalry into a big mess, and kept staring at Tomin'a's handsome flag, and the roar of capturing Tomina alive also began to appear.

At the same time, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Wu cavalry to hold the Qing army's pursuers, the Wu army's infantry brigade had already rushed to the Weihe River crossing next to the city of Weichuan, and although the wooden bridge on the river had been ignited by the panicked Weichuan Qing army, the Wu army officers and soldiers still rushed directly onto the bridge in the smoke and fire, and shot while extinguishing the fire and seizing the bridge.

After all, it was the local Qing army with the militia regiment training as the main force, and in less than half an hour of fierce fighting, the infantry of the Wu army successfully captured the slow flow of the Wei River crossing, and barely kept the wooden bridge on the river, and then immediately built a pontoon bridge while crossing the river to transport the baggage across the river. At this moment, it was just evening.

The power of silver is indeed not small, although the Wu infantry brigade has crossed the river and the sky is already dark, and the Qing cavalry led by Tomin A was also defeated by Shu Bao and fled, the Wu soldiers could rest for a night before attacking the city. However, after receiving the urgent report of the military situation sent by Ni Gui, and knowing that the Qing infantry brigade in Xuzhou was also rushing to Weichuan at full speed, the Hunan army bandits led by Zeng Guoquan still did not hesitate at all, regardless of the fatigue of the army, and immediately launched a fierce attack on the south gate of the small city of Weichuan, and unceremoniously used artillery to attack the city.

The sound of gunfire and artillery was deafening, and in the fierce battle, although the experienced old men of the Hunan army soon found that the enemy's firepower seemed to be a little too strong, but thinking of the countless 'salaries' currently hoarded in the city, the people of the Hunan army did not have any surprise, on the contrary, they also rushed to kill more violently and resolutely, even if the city gate and the road had been hurriedly blocked by the Qing army in Weichuan, resulting in the failure of the tactics of directly blowing up the city gate, they did not give up the siege, and continued to use guns and cannons to cover the sappers to dig pits and bury medicine directly on the city wall.

Finally, after some hard work to throw his head and spill blood, the picric acid explosives were finally buried in the newly dug cave on the city wall, and after the ignition was detonated, the old city wall of Weichuan, which had not been paid much attention to by the Qing army in Henan before, also collapsed, revealing a large mouth five or six zhang wide. The Hunan soldiers cheered and charged into the city, and Zeng Guoquan and Jiang Yili and other Hunan army bandits also cheered and hugged together, "Get rich!" Now I've made a fortune! ”

The desperate Tomin Ah did not completely give up, and still launched a desperate charge at the Wei River ferry controlled by the Wu army, but unfortunately, Tomin soon discovered that the Wu army's quick-fire musket that he was most afraid of did indeed appear in Zeng Guoquan's army, and also appeared on the battlefield of the ferry that intercepted him. In front of the world's largest firing pin gun, the Qing cavalry that rushed into the river and struggled to advance became a live target, but in the end they still failed to cross the Wei River, and killed and wounded more Qing cavalry who posed the greatest threat to the supply lines of the Wu army.

"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, the slave is guilty! Minions are incompetent! Minions are useless! You worked so hard to send so many foreigner arms to the minions, and the minions didn't even see it, so they let the Wu rebel army snatch it away! Damn the minions! The slave deserves death! ”

When Tomin was crying in despair on the south bank of the Wei River, Zeng Guoquan also saw the real goods hidden under the horse material package of the Qing army's baggage team with a strange face, and looked at Jiang Yili and Zhang Shiri and other Hunan army bandits, Zeng Guoquan also gritted his teeth and asked his beloved general Li Chendian: "Xiangyun, when you were in Xuzhou, what did you say that the gambling party baggage team transported military salaries?" ”

"In this ......, the last general is guilty, the last general guessed wrong, nonsense." Li Chendian pleaded guilty with embarrassment, and then pointed to the arms and said: "But General Nine, we didn't work hard in vain, you see that we have robbed so many arms, we are not working in vain today." And these foreign guns and foreign bullets are all good things, and there is a kind of foreign gun that even Wu Dashuai doesn't have. ”

"But how can I explain to the soldiers?!" Zeng Guoquan roared: "I promised the whole army that today I will rob the rebellious party salary from Weichuan, and each person will be rewarded with at least ten taels of silver!" The bounty of the battalion that entered the city first was doubled, and the pension factor for the wounded and killed today was also doubled! Who's going to pay for this?! ”

"This ......, the last general doesn't know." Li Chendian replied with a sad face, and came up with a very genius idea, saying: "Nine Marshal, otherwise, send someone to ask the rebel army to see if they are willing to spend money to redeem this batch of arms." You see that the rebel army is in such a hurry today, they can definitely pay a high price! ”

"Fuck your stinking fart! Hurry up and take your people, search and kill those rebels and thieves in the capital who ran away with foreign guns, and be sure to chase back the foreign guns they took away, especially since we have never seen this new foreign gun! One less, the silver promised to reward the brothers today, Lao Tzu told you to go out alone! ”

After kicking Li Chendian out to chase and kill the remnants of the enemy, Zeng Guoquan turned around again, picked up a Russian main battle rifle that was not even equipped with the main force of the Wu army, and looked at it, with a complicated expression on his face. It's not bad, Li Chendian, a little pervert, doesn't talk so nonsense, Lao Tzu's subordinates really won't work so hard, and Lao Tzu won't make up his mind to temporarily come to this small ruined city in Weichuan and rob this batch of foreigner arms that can't be bought with silver. ”

It is worth mentioning that after the war, after knowing what happened through the traitors in the Shu Bao army, Tomina vomited blood on the spot and screamed heartbreakingly again, "If I knew that you were going to rob the silver, I would give you the silver!" I don't want money, I just want arms! As long as the arms --- ! ”