Chapter 366: Success, Discord

Small accidents, there are always such and such small accidents in life, things that seem to be developing normally, because these accidents have changed.

The same is true on the battlefield......

The ammunition in the chamber has been tamped, the shells have been put into the chamber, and the artilleryman who operates the cannon is waiting for orders there with the tools for ignition.

Chen Liuliu shouted loudly, and the artilleryman of the twelve-pound cannon in the middle trembled, I don't know if it was nervous or what's going on, his hand trembled, and the red-hot iron chisel moved downward, and accidentally inserted it into the cannon hole, the soldier's reaction was not slow, and he shouted at the people around him:

"The cannon is lit, dodge!"

The people around the cannon all took two steps back, and the soldier also drew his iron hammer, so that people did not have to worry about being hurt, but the twelve-pounder cannon was the first to be fired.

"Boom", the people around were frightened, at this time the city gate facing the inner wall was already open, He Yilong, Liu Xiyao, Wei Xiaobei's team was lined up, they also had cannons and guns in their hands, but in the face of the superior range of the Jiaozhou battalion, there was no need to take it out.

Ma Shouying and Lin Chengcheng had already ridden to the front of the formation, and when the battle was about to take, the capital of the first army was to watch the formation and array on the opposite side, and the soldiers on this side were also driven to the front of the formation, and around Yingshang City, it could also accommodate a horizontal row of between one hundred and two hundred people at most.

The backbone of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left did not need to be in such a charge until it was absolutely necessary, so most of the forward arrays in front of them were cannon fodder, and the cannon fodder also knew that they were cannon fodder, and they also knew that they were in the first few rows, and they were afraid that they would die the fastest, but they were forced to use knives. There are also people who promise all kinds of benefits, but they only go to the front.

"If you rush now, this officer's artillery can hit three rounds, and if you get close to the firecracker, it will be almost four."

Lin Yangcheng stared at the fortifications opposite, and said in a deep voice, the horse guard on the side should control the mount not to be restless, nodded and said:

"I'm willing to die in this team, the key is to produce a result. There are more of us than the officers and soldiers, and we can attack both inside and outside, as long as we can open an opening, rush in......"

Having said this, Ma Shouying did not continue, according to the ability of the officers and soldiers encountered on the way, even if they rushed in, there would be a hard battle.

Ma Shouying's face sank like water, and Lin Chengcheng hesitated and said:

"Brother Ma. There are a lot of losses along the way, and it is estimated that if we fight this place, we will also leave a lot of brothers behind, so why should we hang here, just leave if we can! ”

The fortified position by the river was already particularly difficult to gnaw on that day. Looking at the position fortifications in front, the scale is much larger than at that time, and looking at it makes people's scalps tingle, Lin Chengcheng understands in his heart. Such a difficult opponent, even if they are cleared, how much they have to lose, it is really not worth it.

If he had said this a few days ago, Ma Shouying would have refused categorically, but now he didn't know what to say, and when he was hesitating, he heard a muffled "boom" on the other side. Then there was a whistling sound in midair.

The initial velocity of the cannonballs in this era was not large, the whistling sound was heard, and the cannonballs arrived, and Ma Shouying, who had not yet spoken, heard the sound of stones thrown into the mud around him, and there was no scream.

But his hands and face were dink, and when he turned his head to look, he heard a heart-rending scream, and Ma Shouying turned his head to look around. But I saw that the forward formation that was still lined up behind him had already been opened a passage. On this passage, there are all stumps and severed arms.

in the passage. Some of them had already been beaten, and on both sides of the passage, many of them had lost their arms and legs and fell to the ground screaming.

Ma Shouying's face immediately changed greatly, he scolded, turned the horse's body, and ran towards the back of the formation, Lin Chengdi moved a step faster, he was already running, and he was already driven to the front, and the reluctant forward cannon fodder were also scattered, and they ran away.

The commander ran backwards, the striker ran backwards, and the rear formation couldn't react for a while, and they all retreated backwards, because of the sudden panic and retreated, which could easily cause the collapse of the entire army. This sudden push.

The whole military camp was in an uproar, and they began to run uncontrollably, and they ran towards the back together, Ma Shouying and Lin Chengcheng were startled by the cannon shot, ran a few steps, and looked at the appearance of the entire army about to collapse, and suddenly knew that it was not good, and hurriedly gathered their own soldiers to gather the troops.

Chen Liu was stunned when he looked at all this, thinking why he fired a cannon here, and the other party's whole army retreated, and the troops of Yingshang City He Yilong and Liu Xiyao were already in formation, waiting for both sides to launch at the same time, and jointly attack the officers and soldiers, but the person in charge of the lookout at the head of the city also saw the sudden collapse of the troops of Lao Hui and the King of Reincarnation.

How dare you continue to fight outside, the city head issued a stack of orders, and those displaced soldiers outside the city rushed into the city.

Because the artillery of the officers and men has begun to turn around, the distance between the inner wall and the moat, that is, a little farther than the range of the artillery of the officers and men, if they run slowly, they will be hit by artillery.

Originally, he was about to start a big fight, but this situation suddenly became like this, General Chen Liu called the artillery who had fired in advance to him, opened his mouth to scold, but he didn't know what to scold him, waved his hand helplessly, and rushed him back into the array.

The leaders in Yingshang City all know that the officers and soldiers outside have general artillery, and in a small city like Yingshang, if you use the general's artillery bombardment, it is not a problem to open the city wall, but it is surrounded by the method of building two walls inside and outside, which is really weird, and when things come to this point, anyone must feel that something is wrong.

But it's one thing to feel that something is wrong, these people in the city are besieged to death, and no one can escape, even if they want to send a letter out, there is no way.

The two battalions of Lao Hui Hui and Reincarnated King, who almost collapsed, did not regroup until it was almost dark, and the location chosen to camp was far enough away from the position of the Huaiyang army, for fear of being bombarded by the artillery again.

The twelve-pounder gun is also a new thing for the artillery of the Jiaozhou battalion, and when it is used, there are many ground parameters that are unpredictable. If you want to find out, the firing range is about the same, but how far the ricochet can land on the ground is still a very rough figure, and the shell that killed and injured dozens of people in the 5th Battalion of the Left Wing today is the ricochet of the 12-pounder gun after it landed.

These two battalions of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution Zuo could not leave, and if they did, the troops of Lu Jiude, the eunuch guarding Nanjing, would definitely not come. What's the point of such a toss.

As a result, Ma Shouying was indecisive and trembling in the camp, and Chen Liu's side did not move at all, and he did not move at all.

The next day, the infantry squad was pulled out of the fortifications directly and lined up in front of the fortifications. But after yesterday's experience.

The top and bottom of the 5th Battalion of the Left Wing of the Revolution all felt that if they were so hard-hitting, this officer and soldier must have something strange......

Staff General Chen Liu consulted with his subordinate officers at all levels, and judging from the performance of the other party, the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left did not dare to break through the encirclement. The outside does not dare to attack, such a stalemate, within three days, the other party will definitely run.

After half the night. Chen Liu made a decision here, and before dawn, a messenger on a fast horse set off from this side and rushed along the other side of the river towards the upper reaches of Yingshui.

Huaiyang Jun's deputy Gao Kedi's camp was less than thirty miles away from the camp of Lao Hui Hui and the King of Reincarnation, and the next afternoon, Ma Shouying and Lin Yangyang also made up their minds after a night of deliberation and waited for another day. If there is no turnaround, he will directly pull out the camp and go north to join the king of Henan.

It is better to go to the camp with a lower status than to go to the king alone without a return for money, but after delaying this day, everything is different.

In the upper reaches, Gaoke received Chen Liu's order, and the five battalions in the upper reaches left the camp directly at noon and headed south along the river with dry rations.

The 5th Battalion of the Left Left left the troops to be contained. I want to come forward and intercept it. However, these non-main forces in the displaced areas could not compete head-on with the troops of the Jiaozhou battalion at all, and the 20,000 people did not last long in the battle. It was directly defeated by the officers and soldiers of these five battalions, and it did not have the slightest effect of blocking.

On the third day, when the two battalions of Lao Huihui and the King of Reincarnation wanted to pull out the camp and go north, they found that on the way to leave here, there were already five battalions of officers and soldiers blocking there.

Now the only place that the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution can go is to the west, but to the west is the Dabie Mountains, and the troops in this state at present will be scattered if they enter the mountains, and there is nothing to eat in the mountains to support such a large army of displaced people.

They can also see that the five battalions of officers and soldiers are lightly armed, and there are no heavy weapons such as artillery, Ma Shouying and Lin Chengcheng are willing to pay for this time, and they have invested a large number of men and horses in this direction to attack, hoping to open a gap, and this time the battle is very fierce.

The superior strength of the displaced soldiers, bows and arrows, and fire guns were all blocked out of range by the Jiaozhou camp firearms, but the carts and small cannons could play a role after all.

However, this time the five battalions did not defend, but took the initiative to attack, but each battalion was besieged by the superior strength of the fifth battalion of the left battalion.

Gao Ke, the deputy general of the Huaiyang Army, was in the melee, the handles of his axes and guns were already broken, and the troops of the five battalions stubbornly resisted in front of the enemy who was nearly twenty times their size.

The two battalions of the five battalions did not dare to ignore the troops of the five thousand men and went straight over, and these five battalions were like an awl, stabbing into their flesh and blood.

Three days after the accidental firing of the cannon, the Huaiyang army under Yingshang City withdrew from the long siege and moved to the same front as the five battalions led by Gao Ke by water.

When Chen Liu, the general of the Huaiyang Army, saw Gaoke, the losses of these five battalions could already be described as heavy, but the main force of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution did not go north at all.

At this time, Ma Shouying and Lin Chengcheng finally realized what kind of strong army they were in front of, although the officers and soldiers were only 15,000 at this time, and their own side was ten times the enemy, but they could not advance an inch, if the other party pressed over, I am afraid that they would not be able to defeat them.

But the officers and soldiers who have gained the advantage are building fortifications, and they are actually putting on a posture that if you don't do it, I won't fight, just block it.

This kind of unreasonable behavior did not make the troops of the 5th Battalion of the Revolutionary Left who had returned to the division not happy at all, and everyone felt as if they were going crazy, and they had no idea what the other party was going to do.

But the current situation does not allow them to think about anything, the officers and soldiers stationed in Shouzhou. Under the leadership of Lu Jiude, the eunuch of Nanjing, the vanguard has already been to Zhengyang Town, and the troops of the general soldier Huang Degongdi have already fought with the vigilance troops of the 5th Battalion of the Revolution, and for the 5th Battalion of the Revolution, the current way out can only rely on Yingshangcheng and fight with the real swords and guns of the officers and soldiers, and the strange soldiers and horses of the Huaiyang Army will definitely not be able to defeat them.

But there is still hope for the officers and soldiers led by the eunuch Lu Jiude to defeat, defeat this army of officers and soldiers, and see if they can turn to Luzhou Mansion and return to Huguang. Or enter the heart of Nanzhili, in short, Fengyang Mansion doesn't dare to stay here, it's too weird, everything is unreasonable, when have you seen such a good officer and soldier, when have you seen such a strange use of soldiers.

Anyone can see it now. What kind of situation is it in Nanzhili, the 20,000 Qingzhou army led by Ma Gang, the general of the Qingzhou Mansion, plus the Huaiyang Army left behind, and the troops of nearly 26,000 people, can already run rampant between the state capitals of Nanzhili.

There were no troops in the local area that could restrain them, and this Shandong army had only been quiet for a few days. It started to move again, and returned to the battlefield between Shanyang City and Baoying County, ready to enter the battlefield of Fengyang Mansion through the waterway transportation of Hongze Lake and Huaishui.

The people of the world are not all fools, under the advice of the Nanjing Military Department and the Nanjing Garrison. Jingshi issued an urgent order to change the arrangement of Nanzhili.

Gao Guangdoudi, the governor of Caoyun, was dismissed from his post and replaced with Ma Shiying, and the soldiers and horses of the three guards around Fengyang Mansion and the Jiangbei provinces in the south and Zhili were strictly guarded. The relatives and nobles of the Xu family and the soldiers at all levels who were guarding Nanjing shrank all the generals who were ready to rush to the aid of Nanzhili back to Nanjing City to ensure that nothing went wrong.

Meantime. In Zhenjiang, a sub-garrison was set up to recruit troops on the spot to ensure that the Yangtze River hub was not lost, and for a time, in Nanzhili, officers and soldiers and thieves, officers and soldiers in Nanzhili and officers and soldiers from Shandong, were intertwined with each other, and the situation was complicated. Every side of the forces is on guard.

In July, the city of Kaifeng was lifeless every day. Kaifeng, which is backed by the Yellow River, has completely become an isolated city at this time, and not everyone knows that Guide can send reinforcements upstream. Not everyone knows that Li and Luo's million-strong army is still very afraid of the soldiers and horses in Shandong and does not dare to act rashly.

In Kaifeng City, the guards of the Zhou Palace's Mansion found that there were occasional strange people around the mansion recently, and they didn't know what the road was.

King Zhou's reputation in the interior of Kaifeng City is still good, and there is no idea of an eyeless thief to fight the palace, the guards of the palace and the officers and soldiers in the city are not vegetarians, the king of Zhou has repeatedly paid for the army, and these soldiers and horses led by Chen Yongfu are strictly the king of Zhou is paying for support, so he naturally knows how to serve.

Thieves outside the city, this possibility is not very large, Kaifeng City is so heavily guarded, unless you can fly, you can enter the city, and after entering the city, the governor's office and the general soldier's yamen are more valuable.

The shopkeeper of Lingshan Commercial Bank in the interior of Kaifeng City was worried, and an order came from above to say that he wanted to find a way to transfer the whole family of Zhou Wangfu to the outside of the city.

But in Kaifeng City, Shandong can only use a total of 100 people, and no matter how you observe it, it will be difficult for the palace to attack it......

On the north bank of the Yellow River, the governor Hou Sui and the chief soldier of Shanxi, Xu Dingguo, were training troops on the spot, and went to Shanxi and Shaanxi to collect the border soldiers.

Several gates of Kaifeng City, except for the north gate occasionally open the door to let people out, cross the river and contact with the other bank and the Beijing division, the rest of the city gates are closed, especially the west gate.

But at the end of the seventh month, a man was dropped from the city, and after he got out of the city, he did not run to the relative safety of the north and east, but ran directly to the camp of the displaced people, about thirty miles from the city.

Although after the battle of Zhuxian Town, Li Zicheng had begun to dispatch troops and horses to Kaifeng Mansion, Henan Mansion, Nanyang Mansion and other places to garrison respectively.

But Luo Rucai's troops were unwilling to do this, saying that the big husband should be rampant in the world, why should he stick to one prefecture and one county, and he has always been stationed, and even rejected those better prefectures and counties.

In the area of thirty miles away from Kaifeng City, there are still hundreds of thousands of people stationed, as if it is a city, but this city is clearly distinguished, on one side is the army of King Chuang, on the other side is Cao Cao's camp, and it is not mixed.

This person who came from Kaifeng City, I don't know if his brain is bad or too bold, after entering the defense area of the exile army, although he is pretending to hide and hide, but in the eyes of the sentinels, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is swaggering, it is too conspicuous.

The sentries patrolling the camp found this person, and his appearance was too suspicious, and within a radius of dozens of miles, he was discovered by the cavalry who broke into the camp, and he couldn't run.

What is really surprising is that after this person was caught, his expression was strange and secretive, and for such a person, experienced soldiers who broke into the camp rarely had to search for it.

This search is unstoppable, but found a letter from the body, recruited a literate document to see, this letter is a letter written by the king of Zhou to Cao Cao Luo Rucai, saying that if Cao Cao Luo Rucai repented at this time and accepted the court's recruitment, the king of Zhou was willing to vouch for his own prince, and the Ming court was willing to reward the marquis, and said that being a thief at this time was a shame for the ancestors, and there was no face to see people under Jiuquan, only in the court under the high-ranking officials, enjoying wealth and nobility is the right way.

If you abandon the darkness and turn to the light, the future will not be under the thief Zuo Liangyu, etc......

If this letter had been in the hands of Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, or had been sent to Cao Cao and Luo Rucai, both sides would probably laugh it off, and now that it has reached such a point, who would think of Zhao'an.

But this letter was first known by the soldiers below, the officers and soldiers who broke into the camp looked at the rampant lawlessness of Cao Cao's camp, and it was very unpleasant to be arrogant and lascivious.

There are also some well-intentioned people among the generals who broke into the camp, which made the news spread even more powerfully, and even some of the battalions have already made a posture of alert mobilization.

Cao Cao Luo Rucai's troops are not fools, they also have their own eyes and ears in the camp, there are some contradictions between the two sides, as soon as they see the other party making a posture of alert mobilization, Yang Chengzu directly called the horse team together, full vigilance, a posture of preparing for fire.

By the time King Chuang Li Zicheng learned the news, Li Shuangxi had already finished putting on the throne, and he was waiting for King Chuang to give an order to kill him.

Before Li Zicheng made any decision, Luo Rucai first sent someone to send a letter, saying that there was no food in the camp, and now the situation is very big, and it is not easy for King Chuang to operate, Cao Cao's camp is unwilling to involve everyone, and wants to go to Huguang to raise food and grass from the area, and asks King Chuang to agree.

Li Zicheng thought about this letter for a long time, and Liu Zongmin and Niu Jinxing hurried to the tent.

The people who came from Kaifeng City were arrested in the morning, and in the evening, a large amount of grain from the camp was sent to Cao Cao's operation, and the tense atmosphere between the two sides was relaxed.

It's just that in the middle of the night, there are several times more guards on both sides than usual......