"Report ——! Gong Wangye, Tianjin Dongcheng is on fire! The people rumored that someone deliberately set fire to the city in Dongcheng to meet the siege of Wu's rebel army! ”

Staying in the city of Tianjin, Devil Six was of course the first to receive the report of the fire in the city, and he was so frightened that Devil Six took three steps and two steps to rush out of the lobby, and after seeing with his own eyes that smoke had indeed risen on the other side of Dongcheng, Devil Six remembered that Goshha, who had always reported the news, yelled and asked, "Who set the fire?" Did you find it? ”

"What about Tu Lingtu? He's in charge of the streets east of the city, and someone is setting fire there, why doesn't he care?! Jing Lian, the right-hand man of Devil Six, asked more carefully and shouted: "Also, why are there rumors from the people? Why didn't Tu Ling send someone to report the situation? ”

"Back to the prince, back to Lord Jing, it's all messed up in Dongcheng, and I don't know the specific situation." Goshha, who had come to report the news, replied with a sad face.

"Rubbish! Why don't you go and continue to explore again, send more people to Dongcheng, and quickly contact Tu Ling for this king! ”

Devil Six was so angry that he kicked on Na Goshha, shouting loudly and sending someone to Dongcheng to learn the details, Devil Six also had an ominous premonition in his heart, and said secretly: "Won't it?" Could it be that we set fire to the Eight Banners again? ”

The worry soon became a fact, and after a period of time, Tu Ling, the leader of the forward battalion on duty in the streets of Dongcheng, finally sent someone to send an urgent report, which proved that the conjecture of the devil six was true, and the people who set fire to the chaos were indeed all from the capital! And the reason why Tu Ling sent someone to report at this time was because there was a leader in the forward battalion of the Manchu forbidden army who led the people to mutiny, in a vain attempt to capture and kill Tu Ling to ask for merit from Wu Jun, Tu Ling's residence was set on fire by the rebels, and he was also injured by a stray bullet in the chaos.

"Leader mutiny? The leader of the forward battalion took the lead in the mutiny? The forward battalion leader who has eaten our Qing Dynasty for generations can actually rebel? These bastards who eat inside and out! ”

While being shocked and scolding, Devil Six also regretted that he had not been able to leave a reliable Han army in Tianjin City to help him suppress the rebellion of his fellow clan. But it was too late to regret it, and soon, not only the fire on the side of the East City was getting bigger and bigger, and the noise was getting more and more intense, but the fire also rose in the direction of the West City, and the sound of muskets was heard.

I haven't had time to get in touch with Chen Guorui, I don't know that the war outside the city is actually very beneficial to the Qing army, in the face of the successive rebellions in the city, the devil who doesn't understand military affairs is of course as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and when he asked his subordinates, the Ministry of Works, who also doesn't know how to fight, came up with a bad idea, and said: "Lord Wang, you should immediately ask Chen Guorui and Chen Junmen for help, and ask him to immediately send a reliable army back to help us suppress the rebellion and kill those rebels and traitors." ”

No matter how he doesn't know how to fight, Devil Six also understands the importance of some military morale, and is a little worried that this will affect the morale of the forward army, but considering that there has been such a big movement in Tianjin, no matter what, it can't hide the importance of the front-line army and the stability in Tianjin. Devil Six quickly made up his mind, and shouted at the case: "Come on, immediately send someone to Chen Guorui and contact, and ask him to send a reliable army back to quell the rebellion!" Remember, be sure to have a reliable army! ”

When the problem was sent to Chen Guorui, the front-line commander of the Qing army, he found that the battalions of the Qing army that were on fire in the city had been more or less affected, and several Qing army camps with high morale had unconsciously slowed down the offensive, and the Wu army, which was once overwhelmed by the Qing army, took the opportunity to re-stabilize its position and effectively blocked the Qing army's attack. However, it has not been effective.

Under such circumstances, when the order of the sixth devil asked Chen Guorui to divide his troops to return to the battlefield in Tianjin City was sent to him, Chen Guorui of course complained bitterly, and snorted miserably: "Lord Gong, you want the life of the last general, the morale of the army here has been affected, and it is strange that the army will not be chaotic at this time!" ”

After wailing, Chen Guorui tried to force himself to calm down, and asked the herald sent to Devil Six, "How many traitors are there in the city?" Will it threaten the safety of Prince Gong's Mansion? ”

"Back to Chen Junmen, I don't know how many traitors there are in the city." The herald's happy answer made Chen Guorui angry, and said: "But there is already a big chaos in the city, and the prince asks the military gate to send an absolutely reliable army back as soon as possible, otherwise Tianjin City will be in danger!" ”

"Military gate, you can't divide the troops!" Chen Shizhong, a trusted general, was in a hurry, ignoring the people of the devil six, and said directly at the scene: "At this time, the morale of our army will definitely be more affected, not only will there be no hope of defeating the Wu thief head-on, maybe it will also give the Wu thief a chance to take advantage of the situation to counterattack!" ”

Chen Guorui's face sank like water, thinking about it and making up his mind for a long time, the herald sent by the devil six over there was also in a hurry, and hurriedly urged: "Chen Junmen, this is the decree of Prince Gong, Tianjin City cannot afford to miss the slightest!" ”

Chen Guorui closed his eyes in pain, sighed for a while, opened his eyes and instructed Chen Shizhong: "Shizhong, take your headquarters back." ”

"Junmen, it's ...... at this time."

"I know." Chen Guorui interrupted the argument of his subordinates and said weakly: "But Tianjin City is more important, and the safety of Prince Gong is more important, go quickly, this is a military order, and you must not disobey it." ”

"Alas! All the work has been wasted! ”

Waving the horsewhip and yelling, Chen Shizhong still obediently took the four battalions of the headquarters to turn around and go back to the city in a hurry, but when he saw the Chinese army returning to the city, the battalions on the front line of the Qing army, which were already demoralized, were of course in an uproar, and kept looking back in the direction of Tianjin, wondering in his heart, and secretly said: "What happened in the city?" Another fire and a division of troops to go back? Is there a rebellion, or is there a surprise army of Wu thieves to take the opportunity to attack the city? Can Tianjin City be saved? What should I do if Tianjin City can't be saved? ”

Husband fighter, courage also. One blow of strength, then decline, three and exhaustion. Originally, morale and fighting spirit prevailed, and the situation was quite favorable, and the Qing army in Tianjin basically won this battle; However, seeing the sudden fire in the city of Tianjin, the morale of the Qing army in Tianjin was immediately frustrated and it was already in a state of decline; This will see the main force of the Chinese army returning to the city in battle, and it will be really unreasonable for Tianjin's morale and fighting spirit to fall in a straight line.

Because of this, the balance of victory soon fell to the side of the Wu army, the demoralized Qing army in Tianjin quickly developed in the direction of weakness, and the Wu army, which gradually eased up, took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, and soon in turn defeated a battalion of the Qing army's formation, the morale of the Qing army was even more affected, and the positions of the battalions were loosened one after another, although deserters did not begin to appear immediately, but they no longer dared to hold out the hope of victory.

"God help me! Speed up the attack, quick! Fast! Let's rescue the fifth brother first! ”

He was already mentally prepared to suffer defeat, but he never expected that the situation would have such a big reversal, and Jiang Zhongji, who was ecstatic, was still able to maintain a certain level of calm while dancing, and did not directly fight indiscriminately, but pointed the target of the attack at the Qing army camp that surrounded Jiang Zhongshu. As a result, relying on the unremitting efforts of the soldiers of the Wu army, whose morale had risen, and the help of the Eight Banners Manchurian who were making trouble in the city, after a fierce battle for more than half an hour, the Wu army finally broke up the Qing army that surrounded Jiang Zhongshu and successfully rescued Jiang Zhongshu, who had already suffered more than half of the casualties. Then Jiang Zhongji still did not rush to a full-scale counterattack, except for withdrawing Jiang Zhongshu's headquarters, which had suffered heavy casualties, he only ordered the battalions on the front line to try to entangle the enemy in front of him, but the enemy calmly contracted the opportunity to patiently wait for the situation to further reverse.

In the case of basically the same weapons and equipment, morale and fighting spirit do determine the outcome of this battle, although the situation is not too ugly, but the Qing army can no longer play the previous fearless momentum, the left and right flanks that have been maintaining the offensive soon turned to attack and defend, and the Wu army is pressing step by step, firmly biting the two wings of the Qing army, so that the enemy can not quickly retreat. Chen Guorui saw that something was wrong, but he didn't have the courage to urge the Chinese army to step forward and try to break the situation, so he could only rub his hands and frown and try to calculate countermeasures.

At this time, the Qing army itself showed a flaw, the morale of the four battalions attacking from the left flank was low, and the formation was chaotic between the retreats, and the Wu army attacked from the right flank, Li Chendian, a fierce general of the Wu army, was keenly aware of the appearance of the fighters, and decisively waved the division to charge, and took the lead in the front of the soldiers, the morale of the Wu army was encouraged again, and the two battalions of the Qing army could not parry, and quickly collapsed and left, and the Qing army of the two battalions behind was frightened, and retreated before the battle, and the formation was more chaotic, and Li Chendian took advantage of the situation to chase and kill, expelled the defeated soldiers of the Qing army as the vanguard and rushed straight to the enemy position!

"Good opportunity! Beat the drums, the general attack! ”

Jiang Zhongji, who sensed that the opportunity was coming, decisively ordered the whole army to attack, and the battalions of the Wu army marched in a neat queue and marched straight to the front of the Qing army. Helplessly, the morale of the Qing army has been frustrated, and there is no courage to compete with the Wu army at close range and line up to shoot, just see the Wu army into the firing range and shoot in a panic, the hit rate is very low and at the same time waste the precious first round of salvo, the Wu army strides forward, until the Qing army is within 50 steps of the position of the Qing army before firing neatly firing, relying on the salvo advantage to quickly overturn many Qing troops, and the number of grenadiers and shells has been less than 100, the front team of the Qing army quickly chaos, the Wu army to the whole chaos, completely gain the upper hand.

"I could have won! I could have won! ”

At the same time, in order to keep the army as much as possible, Chen Guorui could only command the army and fight and retreat, and slowly retreat to the way he came, but relying on the hard training over the years, as well as many years of experience in actual combat, the Qing army was barely defeated but not chaotic, and there was no major rout, but under the full pursuit of the Wu army, several battalions behind the palace and Wei Jun, the Qing army who retreated last, suffered heavy casualties in the retreat, and was killed and wounded by the Wu army.

There is also a bad thing, on the way to the retreat of the Qing army, the four battalions of the Wu army, which had been sent by Jiang Zhongji to set up camp on the north bank of the Haihe River, had also crossed the river to come to reinforcements, and caught the Qing army Wei Jun from the flank, and the front and back were flanked down, Wei Jun's department was completely defeated, and after the surrender, Wei Jun, the general of the Qing army, who had been loyal to the Manchu court, was also killed by stray bullets in the fierce battle, and the right wing of the Qing army collapsed, and the Wu army quickly strode forward and surrounded the main force of the Qing army from three directions.

At this time, Chen Shizhong sent news and reported to Chen Guorui the fact that the scale of the rebellion in Tianjin was actually not large, but it was too late and too late, the Qing army on both wings had already collapsed, and the main force of the Chinese army was demoralized, and it was sandwiched by the Wu army. Therefore, Chen Guorui had no choice but to let Chen Shizhong quickly enter the city and prepare to use artillery and muskets to cover his army's return to the city, while wiping the corners of his eyes and choking, "The sky is going to kill me!" I can't imagine that a battle that must be won will be lost because of the rebellion of the Manchurians of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty! ”

In the end, after paying a very heavy price, Chen Guorui's army was very embarrassed and withdrew to the city of Tianjin, and at the same time, the rebellion in the city of Tianjin had been completely extinguished, but all this was useless, the Qing army in Tianjin had suffered heavy casualties in the field battle, and was no longer able to compete head-on with Wu Jun Jiang Zhongji, at most it could barely close the city. So when he re-met with Devil Liu, Chen Guorui, who was a tough guy, shed tears on the spot, crying and said: "The prince forgives the sin, the general lost this battle again, and the general at the end of the battle of Tianjin asked himself that he was no longer sure, so he only asked the prince to surrender his guilt severely, and also asked the prince to choose another merit and use another person as a general." ”

"General Chen, how can you say that? Victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, so what's the matter if you lose a battle? Wu rebels and thieves army clown jumping off the beam, even if it is rampant, sooner or later it will be destroyed by heaven and earth, my Qing court has the blessing of heaven, and sooner or later I will be able to find this justice. ”

comforted Chen Guorui for a long time, and after finally getting Chen Guorui to stop crying, Devil Six asked cautiously: "Chen Junmen, what else can we do next?" Can you go out of the city again and fight with Wu thieves? ”

Hearing this question, Chen Guorui almost cried again, and after squeezing out a little smile with great difficulty, Chen Guorui replied: "Lord Wang, go out of the city again and fight, we don't have to think about it now." After thinking about it, he felt that now we had only two choices. ”

"Those two choices?" Devil Six hurriedly asked.

"First, take advantage of the fact that the Wu thieves haven't had time to divert water to besiege the city, quickly abandon the city and break through, and see if there is any hope of escaping to Yongping Mansion and withdrawing to the northeast." Chen Guorui replied: "Second, the waterway is still unblocked, Lord Wang, you hurry up and take a boat back to the Northeast, and the last general will stay in Tianjin with the army and wait for your reinforcements to come to the rescue." ”

The devil opened his mouth and stammered, and only after a while did he mutter, "The situation has come to this point?" There is no other way for us to do it than these two options? ”

Chen Guorui smiled hard again and nodded solemnly.