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Outside the Hushu Pass.

In the Suzhou militia camp taken by the Fu Han army at night, the ground was wet and slippery. Jiang Kui stepped on it, slipped away, and almost fell. This is to blame for the light rain that fell in the middle of the night, just before the fighting, and after the fighting in this camp ended, the rain stopped.

Jiang Kui was also transferred out of the tank battalion, and he is now a platoon commander.

Chen Ming commanded the army to break Jiangyin City this time, and then the Fu Han army swept half of the south of the Yangtze River, and the Changzhou Fu Han army, which was supported by a new barracks, also launched a counterattack on Suzhou, pushing the battle line outside Hushu Pass in one fell swoop.

Jiang Kui was wearing iron armor, which made him look clumsy, he laboriously walked through the corpses, in fact, many of them did not die, from yesterday morning to night, the commander of the officer pushed the battle line to Hushu Pass in one fell swoop, they were cool, but the soldiers below were tired. After the battle in the camp of the Qing army and militia, many soldiers were exhausted, and many simply took advantage of the gap after the war to lie down in the pile of corpses and take a nap, and the only thing that could distinguish them from the corpses was the undulating chests and snoring.

Jiang Kui sat on a corpse with his tired buttocks, and when he leaned his back against the fence, he couldn't help but let out a painful and comfortable moan. He was so tired that his bones were falling apart. But he had to find all his soldiers before the officers asked for a specific casualty report.

At the same time, on the wall of the Hushu Guanqing military camp, Wu Xiongguang held the battlement with his fingers, the blood vessels between his neck were exposed, and his eyes were like a raging fire, glaring angrily at the camp outside the gate. A fierce attack at night by the Fu Han army despite fatigue made him finally win over the 2,000 people who had been gathered in the past few days, and only six or seven hundred people fled back to Guanzhong in embarrassment. And more importantly, his father was also left behind.

The situation is terrible.

The Fu Han army fought unexpectedly, especially the people and horses in Changzhou attacking Suzhou, who did not carry artillery at all, and could not see a few musketeers, but used flying thunder cannons, armor and grenades, and the Suzhou side was defeated.

Because since the climate entered the rainy season, the Qing army's logistical mistakes and the failure of its own soldiers' military literacy have turned many shotguns in the army into ornaments, with gunpowder damp, arquebuses damp, and barrels flooded, and they just can't hit anyway. The Fu Han army had not attacked before, and the Suzhou side got a wrong 'self-opinion', feeling that the Fu Han army had encountered the same trouble as them. Moreover, in the rainy season, the artillery is inconvenient to move, and the Fu Han army does not have its own most powerful artillery, so the Fu Han army can only shrink in this case. But he didn't expect that when the main force of the Fu Han army attacked Jiangyin and pointed at Songjiang, a partial division also came out of Changzhou City, with a force of more than 2,000 troops, pushed all the way, and captured Wuxi in one day, and then continued to go south non-stop, and arrived outside Hushu Pass yesterday evening to fight another night attack.

Wu Xiongguang was not sleeping at night, he took some people to patrol the camp to check whether the people on duty everywhere were lazy. But when the Fu Han army arrived, the explosive bag was thrown under the earthen fence of the camp, and he was still defeated without any defense.

Wu Xiongguang can't blame Fu Liang, the deputy commander of Jingkou who sits in Hushuguan Castle, for not saving him when he sees death, and when the Fu Han army comes, it is Wu Xiongguang himself who proposes to block the northern front for a while, in order to improve the morale of the Qing army in Suzhou. Otherwise, the army will completely shrink into the town of Hushuguan on both sides of the canal, which will be too demoralizing.

So, Wu Xiongguang has lost his father now, and he can't blame Fu Liang. Fu Liang was already conscientious, and the adventure of the big night opened the door to let Wu Xiongguang's remnants enter the castle. Otherwise, Wu Xiongguang himself will not die under the city, and his team will be completely destroyed.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, Hushu Pass was not a city pass in people's traditional cognition, it was more of a tax office, a large town market, and a pass stuck on the Grand Canal, rather than a pass stuck on the land passage. During the Manchu Dynasty, there was no garrison here, and the castle in the former Ming Dynasty became the location of the yamen, and there were three inspection divisions under the jurisdiction of the territory, which was also unique in the whole world.

With the threat of the Fu Han army to Suzhou, the Qing army did not dare to garrison more troops in Wuxi, Hushu Pass became the nearest barrier in Suzhou, the troops stationed in Suzhou were more and more, a large number of Qing soldiers and militia groups were camped in the towns on both sides of the Grand Canal, anyway, the current Hushu Pass shops, restaurants, and hotels are all closed. Wu Xiongguang's troops were stationed further north, while Fu Liang was stationed at the castle with a part of the banner soldiers and the green battalion.

"Write a letter to your son obediently, let him lead people anyway, cooperate with our army to attack Hushu Pass, I will spare your father and son from dying!" Jiang Tianfang stared viciously at Father Wu in front of him, who was dressed as an outsider, this person was just a showman, and he was just a waste of food with his son in the militia group, Jiang Tianfang felt that Father Wu would not remain calm under his own forced gaze. When he was fighting Nanjing, he was slashed on the face, leaving a big scar, and the scar of the red bud was hanging on his face, which made his face much more vicious, and his eyes became very fierce and sharp.

But Father Wu was one of the few people who were not moved by Jiang Tianfang's ferocity, he just turned his face slightly, with a disdainful smile on his face. Jiang Tianfang seemed to be enraged by the other party's behavior, he suddenly tore open Wu's father's robe, revealing his white chest without a trace of muscle, and pulled out a dagger against the other party's heart.

"Turtle grandson, be tough with Lao Tzu, believe it or not, I killed you alive!"

"That's it!" Wei Xiuzhi stopped Jiang Tianfang with a drink: "These are useless to him." Come, take him down. "The little tricks are not useful, it is better to spend some effort on how to take down the Hushu Pass is serious!

Wei Xiuzhi, as the deputy of the logistics unit of the expeditionary force, was not the commander-in-chief of the Fu Han Army attacking Suzhou, so Chen Ming would not take a person in charge of logistics materials and money to lead the troops to fight. Wei Xiuzhi went to Changzhou and brought two months of recruits and two battalions of prisoners.

The Fu Han army defeated Gao Jin and Rong Bao for a while, but they captured some green battalions and people, and in a month in Nanjing, these people were sorted out into new captive soldiers, but they did not get the recognition of the Fu Han army, nor did they get Chen Ming's trust, this time they came to Changzhou, and the battle of Suzhou was their vote.

"You're cheap!" Jiang Tian put the dagger back into his waist in a huff, and after the soldiers took down Father Wu, the anger subsided, Jiang Tianfang turned to Wei Xiuzhi and said, "Hushu Pass is not easy to take. Here the Tartars also have soldiers to train no less than 5,000 brave. It is also very close to Suzhou City, and with our manpower, we will be caught off guard by the Qing army. "Jiang Tianfang's subordinates originally had a battalion leader, and they were a 'sentry post' in Changzhou. Now that Wei Xiuzhi has arrived with 2,000 people, the total strength is only 25,600 people, and Changzhou has to lead some people to defend it.

"It's better to let me rush back with the people. If not, we won't fight. Jiang Tian said. Anyway, the role of their men and horses is to contain Suzhou, in order to prevent the Qing soldiers in Suzhou from attacking the rear of the Fu Han army when the overall situation of the Fu Han army attacks Songjiang. Now he can be said to have successfully completed his mission. It was very powerful to contain the Qing army in Suzhou.

Wei Xiuzhi looked at the sky: "Then do you want to wait for dawn?" Do you rush now, or do you rush again when it dawns? ”

"I can't rush when it's dawn."

Jiang Tianfang also had a team of soldiers in his headquarters, and the day before, they were just on the road and did not go into battle. There was also a battalion of captive soldiers who were treated the same as this team, and now they could come in handy.

I don't know how much time has passed, Jiang Kui was awakened from his sleep by the earth-shattering shouts of killing, he opened his eyes and found that the sky was already bright, and in the direction of Hushu Pass, several red flags were waving, and a Fu Han army was launching a fierce attack on the fortress of the Qing army.

A shot pierced the chest of a flag soldier, and Jiang Tian didn't even look at the Qing soldier who was sure to die. Throwing away the gun in his hand, he pulled out his waist knife and slashed at the Qing soldiers who were killed on the opposite side.

"Ahh

With a terrible scream, the Qing soldier who was cut off half of his arm by Jiang Tianfang with a knife, his face twisted with pain, stretched out his finger to Jiang Tianfang, and wanted to say something, but Jiang Tianfang had already crossed the knife and slashed through the man's throat. Blood poured out of his neck, muffling the sound.

"Kill!" Jiang Tian roared loudly, swung his sword at the nearest Qing soldier, and cut him down before the other party could react, he shouted loudly as he slashed and slashed, guiding his soldiers towards the Qing army.

"Aim, aim for me, hit ......" Wu Xiongguang led people to stick to the city tower. He shouted to the shotgunners beside him.

Jiang Tianfang ignored the camp that was easy to attack, and pointed his troops at the castle, and gnawed the bones first if he wanted to eat meat, and the Qing army that was attacked was also quite panicked, and many people threw down their weapons and fled in a hurry. If you only look at the current scene, this time you attack, Jiang Tianfang is really likely to gnaw this bone.

But......

"Bang bang bang ......" With the sound of gunshots, puffs of gunpowder smoke came out from the second floor of the city tower. The brave Jiang Tian let go and fell to the ground with a puff.

"Rubbish, a bunch of rubbish!"

In the camp of the Fu Han Army, Wei Xiuzhi looked at the defeated soldiers in front of him with red eyes, and smashed his fist on the table: "Abandon the commander on the battlefield and flee, arrest all these miscreants, beat a hundred whips, and insert arrows into the camp!" "He wanted to cut them down, but it would take the gendarmerie to get going. Wei Xiuzhi was not surprised by the failure of this attack, but Jiang Tianfang himself was trapped in the castle, which was a great shame for the Fu Han army, even if he was already a corpse.

Wei Xiuzhi's order was quickly and resolutely carried out, and there was a muffled sound of a leather whip whipping flesh and a cry in front of the formation. But these can't undo the impact of Jiang Tianfang's 'miss'.

"Tell the Tartars in the city, Wu Xiongguang and his father are in our hands, and Lao Tzu will exchange one of them for another." Whether Jiang Tianfang is dead or alive now. As long as the Qing soldiers are willing to change, Wei Xiuzhi will change. I think Qing Bing shouldn't know Jiang Tianfang's identity yet.

At this moment, a scout quickly ran to Wei Xiuzhi's side and said, "Director Wei, some of the Qing soldiers are taking a boat from Taihu Hall and preparing to go around to Wuxi. "Wuxi has also reached the northernmost point of Taihu Lake.

"What?" Wei Xiuzhi was stunned for a moment, and asked sharply: "This matter is serious, how many men and horses did the Qing soldiers dispatch?" ”

"About three thousand people. One or two hundred ships were requisitioned, and dozens of ships were transported. ”

Wei Xiuzhi's heart was heavy, and he waved the scout away, he immediately sent someone to deliver a letter to Chen Ming, and on the other hand, he asked someone to invite the four battalion officers of the recruit battalion and the captured soldiers. This situation must be made known to them, and the current situation must be supported by them.

Chen Ming didn't feel the slightest problem in the direction of Suzhou at this time, and he had already marched to Jiading. The famous 'Jiading Three Massacres' took place in this place one hundred and twenty years ago, but Chen Ming had already sent troops to the south of the Yangtze River, and now the people have much hope for the anti-Qing will. In the month or two after the Fu Han army conquered Nanjing, I didn't see them close the market and not sell grain, food, medicinal materials, etc., and I didn't see how many Jiangyin people came to Nanjing to join the Fu Han army, although there were indeed some Jiangyin people who came to join the Fu Han army, but compared with the population of two or three hundred thousand in Jiangyin, those people were too few and too few.

There was also Yangzhou, which was killed for ten days, and then Jiading, which was slaughtered three times, and there were not many locals who defected to the Fu Han army, but there were many boatmen and sailors along the Grand Canal, and some of them even set up boats.

Chen Ming's bug is not a battlefield radar, which can scan all places, he is now in Jiading, and the high morale of the Fu Han army in front of him can still be felt, but where he can't see outside, on the battlefield where he can't see, what the Fu Han army looks like, then the ghost knows.

Chen Ming's goal now is to sweep Puxi, west of the Huangpu River, and not to the east. Pudong has a certain geographical advantage, but at the moment it is a poor countryside. Pudong in the middle of Qianlong was not Pudong after the great development of the 21st century, and the area west of the Huangpu River is now the poorest place in the whole of southern Jiangsu. Moreover, there are retreating Fujian and Zhejiang water and land green battalions, and the current battle line of the Fu Han army has dragged on too long, and a single naval battalion is not enough to protect the safety of hundreds of miles along the river. The Qing army had no small advantage on the water.

These are Manchu foreign warships, equipped with cannons, the quality of the warships is good, and the waters of this generation are open, which is suitable for larger foreign warships to display their 'skills'. The current back road of the Fu Han army may be attacked by the Qing army's naval division at any time.

Chen Ming led the team to sweep half of Suzhou Mansion, swept Taicang Prefecture, and captured the essence area of Songjiang Mansion, the seizure was extremely rich, these things need to be transported back to Nanjing by water, Chen Ming will not attack Pudong at this time, to provoke the sensitive nerves of the Qing soldiers.

The light rain outside Hushu Pass in Suzhou started to fall again, and the light rain in Jiading was also dripping and pulling, and it never stopped.

In this drizzle, Qin Dacheng, the champion of the 28th year of Qianlong, was taken to Chen Ming's foothold. The army attacked the land of Puxi, Chen Ming was not ready to take action himself, he sat in Jiading to guard against the surprise attack of the Qing army's water division.

But precautions are precautions, and Chen Ming will not throw himself into the battle with all his heart. Now he is no longer the same as he was at the beginning, and he has experienced more wars, and his bearing is different.

The most straightforward analogy is that a novice who has just gotten a driver's license to drive on the road is different from an old driver who has been driving for more than ten years. The former will be eager to lie on the steering wheel, staring ahead without blinking, engrossed; And what about the old drivers? It's like resting at home.

Chen Ming is now an old driver, and this Qin Da achievement was brought by him to talk about it.

As the top champion, he did not go to the officialdom, but had no intention of pursuing an early career, resigned and returned to his hometown to teach and educate people, and serve his mother. Qin Dacheng has been perfect since filial piety. He lost his father when he was a child, and was raised by his mother, and he was very filial to his mother. Chen Ming would not kill such a person. And Qin Dacheng also stayed in the old house of Zhang Ma Lane in Jiading City this time because his mother was sick and couldn't move, and no one in the family ran away.

"Why don't you run? Aren't you afraid that Pontus will kill you, or tie you up, and tell the public that you will surrender to my Han army? ”

"Chen Jun started in the Central Plains, rampant to the south of the Yangtze River, thousands of miles of journey, the students heard that your army was violent, and also heard that your army was greedy for money, but they never heard that your army had a cruelty to the people.

Before the student resigned and returned to his hometown to serve his mother, everyone in Jiangnan was well known. Now the old mother is sick and needs to recuperate, if the old mother is in danger because of your army, the only blood of the student's life is brave, and he dares to spare his life. Qin Dacheng, who was fifty years younger, humbly called himself a student in front of Chen Ming, who was younger than his son, but he spoke very hard.

Chen Ming understood what he meant.

Qin Dacheng is famous in Jiangnan for his filial piety, which is more respected by traditional Chinese universal values than his learning, and his influence in the land of Jiangnan is also very great. If Qin Dacheng's mother and son were killed because of the Fu Han Army, the reputation of the Fu Han Army would have an extra layer of real stain.

As for why the Fu Han Army was able to make his seriously ill old lady 'in danger', it was obviously to say that if the Fu Han Army 'robbed' Qin Dacheng, his old lady would use her death to solve her son's worries. Before Qin Dacheng was brought in, the personal soldier who went to bring Qin Dacheng, the champion of the Yuanlang, also reported something to Chen Ming, about Qin Dacheng's seriously ill mother.

The old lady has a very strong personality.

For some scholars of this era, the name festival is important, if not important. The Qing Dynasty has not yet shown a little bit of collapse, although the Fu Han army is getting bigger and bigger, and countless people are not optimistic about the Fu Han army or not the Fu Han army. If Qin Dacheng is a thief, in the eyes of his wife, it is really a more harmful thing than the death of a household register, and it will be infamous endlessly, leaving a stench for thousands of years, and the stigma will be left in the history books.

"Haha, you can rest assured on this. Pontus admired your mother. "A woman's family, widowed at an early age, poor family, how difficult it is to imagine how difficult it is for a person to pull a child, and to bring out a champion, this is completely an outstanding representative of ancient Chinese women.

Although Qin's mother will not be famous at all in China in the future. When it comes to mothers in China in later generations, they are all Meng's mothers and mothers-in-law.

"The old lady has a very strong personality, presumably you, a dutiful son, will not disobey her mother's wishes. Pontus will not embarrass you. I came to you today to see what a champion is. I also want to hear from you, what is the current Fu Han General's Mansion like in the hearts of you readers?

Is it hateful, deviant, and without any merit?

Do you really think that my Chen family doesn't have the slightest possibility of sitting on the country? (To be continued.) )