On the afternoon of the 26th, Chen Ming led a large army to attack Jinchuan Gate and marched into Nanjing City. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

For the people of Nanjing, this day is always worth remembering. The arrival of a large army of the Fu Han Army announced the complete elimination of the Manchu threat to Nanjing. Although there are still many people in this Nanjing city who remember the Manchu era, they also know that if Nanjing City is really broken by the Qing army, what awaits them is very, very unpleasant.

The news of the Battle of Danyang was sent to Nanjing at dusk. Chen Ming didn't expect that on the day he led his army to Nanjing, the Fu Han army and the Qing army also launched the first major collision between the two on land.

Huang Jie, with more than 10,000 troops, faced the attack of the 50,000 Qing troops of Fengsheng, and fought a hard-fought frontal battle without showing weakness.

The result ended with an active retreat of the abundant amount. The Fu Han army defeated the front army sent by Feng Sheng, but under the watchful eye of the Qing army's horse team, Huang Jie did not dare to let go and let the infantry charge. Feng Sheng's forehead immediately pulled down the rout of the former army troops, and then withdrew from the battlefield.

The heaviest losses of the Han army in this battle were the first battalion of the 1st Garrison Division, which stopped Duan Xiulin's flank breakthrough with the strength of one battalion, buying time for the infantry brigade of the next six battalions. But after the battle, the entire first battalion was also killed or wounded by nearly a third.

The Qing army left more than 2,000 corpses on the battlefield alone, many of which were killed by artillery, and some of the corpses were collected and brought back by them.

The artillery of the Fu Han Army played an absolute role in this battle, whether it was the counter-suppression of the artillery fire of the Qing army, or the bombardment of the infantry of the Qing army, the role of artillery + flowering shells in this war is undoubted.

"Your Highness, this is a report from the General Staff." The next day, Liu Wu took the report handed over by the staff and handed it to Chen Ming.

Chen Ming didn't read it, and asked Liu Wu to read it to him. The General Staff summed up a total of three points: First, flowering bullets are more suppressive than iron bullets. Especially when dealing with enemy artillery, the effect of concentrating fire and covering shooting is very obvious; Second, there was no qualitative improvement in the combat effectiveness of the Qing army; Third, in future operations, our army can completely bombard the enemy's positions and camps with artillery groups as the mainstay, forcing the other side to come out and take the initiative to attack our army's positions.

In the 'eyes' of the General Staff, if the Fu Han army was on the defensive and the Qing army took the initiative to attack, then they were completely sending them to death.

From the artillery bombardment four or five miles away, to the mortar artillery group within a mile, and then the flying thunder cannon, the tiger squat cannon, plus grenades and platoon guns, there is no need for any solid fortifications as cover, but this layer of firepower is an insurmountable 'Great Wall'!

Therefore, the troops should focus on the attack power of the artillery group, and their battle plan needs more and more powerful artillery.

"Your Highness, the General Staff also submitted a special bomb report, which was put forward by Gao Yanming." This report was so special, so sudden, so surprising and strange to Liu Wu. The report was very short, and this was an idea that Gao Yanming suddenly burst out - the tunnel defense against the Qing army!

Gao Yanming made a suggestion, which he was inspired by the 'poisonous fire bombs' in the history books, and he believed that the army could deploy some special bombs filled with chili powder, mustard and other spicy and pungent substances to deal with the hidden enemy in the tunnels.

This report seems to have been just a slap in the head, and it was submitted very solemnly and formally by the General Staff. Liu Wu took it one piece.

"Did this guy get spicy when he ate chili?" This was Chen Ming's first reaction after hearing Gao Yanming's proposal. But then he felt that this method was useless if he didn't try it. But shouldn't this kind of bizarre method be figured out by Chen Ming, a traverser? Why did Gao Yanming suddenly want to make poison gas bombs?

Chen Ming asked Liu Wu to call Gao Yanming.

"Your Highness." Gao Yanming, who was not wearing armor, was a head taller than Liu Wu, and his waist was straight, but as soon as he spoke, he was exposed. His voice ......

"What's wrong with your throat?"

"Yesterday I made a bet that I ate six chili peppers......"

"So you came up with this special bomb?"

"Lying in bed and not falling asleep, I accidentally thought of it. When I think about it, I think it's a good idea. ”

"Then you can take someone to make the special bullet yourself. The army stayed in Nanjing for only two days, and on the 29th, it left the city and rushed to the battlefield of Changzhou. After a big battle, the Qing army in Changzhou already knew that it was powerful, and completely retracted their heads, and they dug a dense tunnel line outside the city, if this special bomb can really be effective......"

Chen Ming's eyes glanced at Gao Yanming's military rank, "I'll give you a new one!" ”

"This thing will definitely be useful." Gao Yanming's eyes were shining, and the whole person seemed to be glowing, took the note written by Chen Ming, and left happily.

Chen Ming waited in Nanjing for two days, sent the 17th Brigade of the Fourth Division to Yangzhou, did not take the time to meet with the civil officials in Nanjing, nor did he meet the gentry in Nanjing, Zhenzhen rested for two days, early in the morning of the 29th, the mighty fleet from Nanjing to Zhenjiang, and then turned to the canal, Chen Ming only spent one night in Zhenjiang City, and the army flew down the canal to Changzhou.

At this time, the Qing army in Changzhou had gathered 780,000 people, and 78 out of 10 Qing soldiers and civilians on the ground in the south of the Yangtze River converged here.

But as the main general, Feng Sheng's forehead did not have a score at all, and the soldiers and horses that arrived in Suzhou and Songjiang in the past few days brought him forty or fifty cannons, and Yin Jishan even sent him 500,000 taels of silver and a large amount of grain and baggage.

A lot of silver was sprinkled, and the wine, meat, rice, and grain were rewarded to the whole army, which could make the Qing soldiers in Changzhou sprout brave fighting spirit, but this silver and wine and meat couldn't stop Chen Wei's artillery?

As long as he thought of the overwhelming artillery of the Fu Han Army a few days ago, Feng Sheng's forehead trembled. He regretted why he had to pinch Huang Jie, and he took away a lot of the morale of his subordinates at once. The 50,000 Qing army couldn't defeat Huang Jie, who had more than 10,000 people, and now the more prestigious Chen Ming rushed to Changzhou with a large army, what chance did the Qing army have?

If Feng Sheng's amount is in charge, he will not fight this decisive battle, he will retreat! Lose Changzhou, lose Suzhou, lose Songjiang......

The team kept retreating, stretching the Fu Han army, and harassing their logistics line with horse teams, until the Fu Han army's front was dulled, and it was not too late to fight another decisive battle.

But he is not the emperor, and he can't fight this battle. Long live the Lord of Beijing City can't lose Jiangnan, and even Feng Sheng'er himself knows that if he really fights this battle according to his own calculations, Jiangnan will be over. Daqingguo can't lose Jiangnan.

As a result, the main force of 70,000 or 80,000 Qing troops gathered in Changzhou. Fengsheng ushered in this decisive battle. Unless Chen Ming turned a blind eye to Changzhou and waited for the waterway to divide the victory and defeat, if the Qing army lost Jiangyin, then the Qing army soldiers who naturally gathered in Changzhou would be dispersed to Suzhou, Taicang and even Songjiang to defend it.

Chen Ming responded to the battle. Such a great opportunity, he will not let it go. Of the 50,000 Fu Han troops in the east, except for a 17th Brigade that arrived in Yangzhou, Jiangbei, Chen Ming did not leave any troops in Nanjing, and all his forces were concentrated in Changzhou.

Dong Wei galloped on the Desheng River in the northwest of Changzhou, a slight breeze blew on his face, and a pair of eagle-eyed eyes were always looking at the villages not far away, as well as the abandoned teahouses and restaurants on the left and right roads. Dong Wei was followed by twenty or thirty horsemen, all of whom were like Dong Wei, always vigilant of the surrounding environment. Sabers were placed in their hands, and several of them had long weapons such as spears and spears on their saddles.

They were the reconnaissance squad of the cavalry regiment of the Fu Han Army, wearing only cuirasses, and their fiery red uniforms made them look like a ball of flame from a distance. The cavalry regiment has expanded to more than 2,000 men, and there are more than 1,000 reserve cavalry. There are men on horseback in Henan, Anhui, and Han, but the Fu Han army lacks horses, especially qualified war horses, and there are no qualified war horse reserves, so they were left in Hubei by Chen Ming.

Dong Wei and a group of men on horseback, from Hubei to the south of the Yangtze River by boat, thousands of miles, Nanjing just slowed down for two days, and then took a boat to this Changzhou, yesterday afternoon when Dong Wei got off the boat, the five feet five still facing up big man, legs are soft.

Boats and water are really not the food of their cavalry. The endless flat land in front of them is their beloved.

The endless smooth road was allowed to gallop to them, and the people and horses who ran straight were sweating profusely, and the body bones that had been 'wronged' for several days seemed to move again, and Dong Wei felt a refreshing rush from his heart!

Since the Dong family suffered a catastrophe and was raided by the government, and the fame above his head was also removed, Dong Wei never touched the scriptures again. The well-known Dong family in Shangqiu County has fallen into disarray, and the government will send donations below, who would dare not obey?

After Dong Wei buried his father, who died of illness in prison, he left Shangqiu with his mother, wife and children, and his younger brother, who was still an adult, and left Guide. No one knew that this suave Dong Gongzi had gone to seek refuge with Chen Han, and he was not a civil official, but a fighting man who fought on horseback.

Dong Wei is both civil and military, can bow horses, knows scriptures, and his life goal has never been Zhang Tingyu and Liu Tongxun, but the general Nian Qianyao. Scholars lead the army, win on the battlefield, and become famous all over the world, what a happy life is that? For Dong Wei, who was born rich and rich, has never had a hard life, this is more attractive than being a civil official.

He defected to the Fu Han Army, and according to his identity as a person, as long as he mixed in the cadre school for a few months, he would not be an adjutant of six or seven grades if he came out to be a magistrate. But Dong Wei simply threw himself into the army that was still a cavalry battalion at that time. His education is indeed very high, and the bow horse is really good, but without combat achievements, Dong Wei is only a platoon leader at most.

There are at least six or seven adjutants in the government, and the cavalry unit has been fighting for more than half a year but is still a platoon leader, and the advantages and differences of the two different lives are obvious. Dong Wei never regretted his choice.

"Calling ......"

A sound of Le Ma sounded by the Desheng River, one red and one white, and the two teams confronted each other across the Anxi Stone Bridge.

This is a stone bridge one zhang wide, thirteen or fourteen zhang long, when the Yin Hong of the Fu Han army appeared on the side of the bridge, a horse team with white flags of the Qing army also appeared on the other side of the bridge. They had thirty or forty people, a little more than Dong Wei and the others.

"Dong Tou, do you want to do it?"

Dong Wei's face was full of murderous energy, he was the flag man who destroyed the Dong family and let his father die of illness in prison.

"Of course. Let's see Lao Tzu teach them a lesson first! The hard bow that had been held in his hand for a long time was raised violently, and a sharp arrow was shot out at a rapid pace.

"Bang Bang Bang ......" The bowstring was opened three times by Dong Wei in a row, and the sharp arrows in his fingers were shot out again and again, and the three people in the Qing army horse team on the opposite side fell down screaming, and the time was in an instant, and the fast upper arrow pulled the string, so fast that the subordinates next to him couldn't see clearly. Three shots and three hits, it seemed that two of them were already dead and could not die anymore, and only one dodged half of his body, but the sharp arrow pierced his shoulder.

"Kill......" Dong Wei drew his saber, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and accelerated the horse. It's a man, just kill it with me......" The Fuhan army and horse team behind him shouted in unison: "Tiger-"

When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins! At this time, no strategy will come in handy, and the fight is who is stronger, who is braver, whose knife is faster and sharper!

The Qing soldiers and horses did not flee, the distance between the two sides was too close, if they fled, there would not even be a gap for the horses to turn around, and the knives of the Fu Han army fell directly on their necks.

The neighing of men and horses was just a fight of dozens of cavalry, but because of the war horses, this collision was particularly tragic.

The black body of the horse had changed color at this moment, and it was dyed a dazzling purple by a puff of blood, while the red military uniform on Dong Wei's body was red and black because of blood. In just a short burst of swords, the blood-soaked clothes have already been killed.

"Hiss......" the war horse chirped in mourning.

The remnants of the Qing army's white-flag-inlaid horsemen crossed directly from the Anxi stone bridge, and ran in the direction of the Han army camp without looking back. But in fact, the gap in the middle is too large and too big, and one or twenty horsemen can cross the Desheng River from another section of the river as long as they make a small circle.

Dong Wei let his men take over the wounded soldiers of the Qing army, and they also paid for the dead and wounded, but their results were stronger and greater, and they also captured more than a dozen intact war horses, Dong Wei felt that his road to the team officer had been cleared!

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The battle at the Anxi Stone Bridge was just one of the countless small collisions before the start of the war, but because of the particularity of the troops, Dong Wei's name appeared in Chen Ming's eyes for the first time. Seeing that Dong Wei was famous and from a wealthy family, this person was immediately marked with a small red dot by Chen Ming.

Liu Wu, who was standing aside, knew in his heart that as long as this person did not die on the battlefield, as long as he could make military achievements, his future would be guaranteed. Thinking that the person mentioned on the resume also has an old mother, wife and children and a minor younger brother in Baofeng, Liu Wu felt that he needed to add a pen to his next letter to his eldest brother [Liu Wen].

The cadre school has entered the countdown, and Liu Wen's whereabouts have also been settled, and he was arranged by Chen Ming to the Ministry of Culture and Education. This is the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites of the Chen Han regime. The first batch of applicants for the upcoming Wenzheng University and Military Academy, according to the meaning of King Han, must take care of the families of military martyrs and the children of Chen Han officials. (To be continued.) )