Chapter 314 Late News in the Country

"Let's go, brother!"

In the early days of May, Lake Erie had just thawed, and the wind blowing from the north was still chilling, and Detroit, which had just captured more than 2,000 militia guards, Yang Dongfang received a bad news from the country, which was concealed for half a month before it arrived. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Being in a foreign country, his mind was a little restless, Yang Dongfang said to Dou Dongdong, 'Yin', 'Yan', 'Ba', 'Night' and other eight doors and sixteen guards: "Are you homesick?" ”

Everyone first shook their heads, then nodded, silently, because they knew that an important event had occurred in the country, and Liu Tiancheng, the commander of the fourth column of the eastward advance, had died in battle.

And died a little unjustly.

He died in the assassination of his subordinates Wang Yifu, Huang Yingxiang, and Yang Weifan, who were besieged in Chongren County that day, knowing that there was no way out, and surrendered to the Qing army after being promised a high official by the Qing court.

and lured Liu Tiancheng into Chongren County, and then killed Commander Liu and his 5,000 generals with the Qing army.

This move shocked the various units of the New People's Army.

The first time the commander was killed in battle, and all 5,000 people were booby-trapped by traitors and died heroically, which was an unprecedented casualty and defeat since the formation of the army, especially the blow to the fourth column was very large.

The strength of the fourth column was greatly damaged, from 40,000 to less than 20,000 at once, and then Liu Tiancheng's nephew Liu Aer led the commander to launch an attack on Chongren County to avenge his uncle, but he was also injured by an arrow, but fortunately he saved his life.

The generals Jin Gangan and Li Gaojiao had no choice but to lead the soldiers back to the front line of Jiajiang County and Jishui County.

So Tie 13 and Jiang Yifeng, Li He, and Yang Daliu, the commander of the third column, all made the same decision, first caught the three traitors and beheaded them to report to him, so they concentrated their forces to storm Fuzhou, and three days later the Qing army was defeated, and Liu Kunyi led the remnants of the army to retreat all the way to Quzhou, Zhejiang, and entered the territory of the Chu army.

The third column and the fourth column pursued and finally broke through Quzhou and Jinhua, which were defended by the Chu army, suffered as many as 20,000 casualties, defeated the famous generals of the Chu army, Huang Shaochun and Liu Dian, and controlled Quzhou Mansion, Jinhua Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion.

In the end, Wang Yifu, Huang Yingxiang, and Yang Weifan were killed in Chun'an County, and only then did they tell him the news of Liu Tiancheng's death.

However, Liu Kunyi fled to Ningguo and failed to be caught, and the fourth column basically existed in name only.

"Shoot! Let's pay tribute to Commander Liu with this American fire! ”

Although Yang Dongfang has only met Liu Tiancheng once, and the leader of the rebel army is not his descendant, his contribution is still worthy of recognition.

The Fourth Column was also a unit that fought bloody battles in Guizhou.

Spilling a glass of thin wine, more than 3,000 people marched together and raised their guns.

"Bang bang..!"

Chekiang! Quzhou capital city!

"Great Commander! The fourth column will be changed to the 22nd Division from today, and the division commander Liu A'er will all return to Guizhou for rest and replenishment, and will temporarily be controlled by Dai Rufeng, commander of the Guizhou Military Region, to welcome and send home all the ashes of the martyrs of Guizhou. ”

"Ah Er, don't worry about going back, the marshal has not forgotten our merits, you see he still gave the fourth column a division."

"Uncle Six, in fact, I would prefer to stay in Zhejiang and continue to fight, the rest of our fourth column are elites, and they have more combat experience, we..."

"Don't say it, two! As long as the seeds are still there, your 22nd Division will soon get up, and after you go back, you will have to go to the martial arts hall to study for further study, otherwise you will really have no battle in the future, and the fourth column will be really finished. Yang Daliu said bitterly:

"Now Jiang 1 west and Hu 1 south have been gnawed down by us, and then as soon as the battle of Zhejiang 1 Jiang is over, it will be a war against the north, don't talk about you, that is, we all have to rest, our several columns are not suitable for fighting on the plains, and then our third column and the second column will be reorganized into divisions. Don't worry, study hard, train well, the marshal said, the world is so big, we always have a place that can't be finished, the outside world is very big, you should have seen the globe, the Burma, the Three Kingdoms, and the South Seas. ”

Nanchang!

"Report to the Commander! Jiang Yifeng has just captured Jingdezhen! Raozhou Mansion is under the control of our army, and he is currently marching towards Huizhou Mansion in Anhui Province, and will soon be able to break through Weizhou. ”

"Report to the Commander! The Sanjiang Water Division and the second column have taken Jiujiang and are heading down to Pengze County. ”

"Li and this guy are fast? There are fortress guns and a large number of American ships given by the marshal, the Sanjiang Naval Division is getting stronger and stronger, and it is convenient to occupy the Yangtze River waterway, and everything good will come to him first, why didn't the marshal come to Nanchang to sit and sit before, and it is really difficult to get ammunition supplies. Tie Thirteen was in a good mood, nodding frequently, he was really bored after returning, it was not his personality to sit in Nanchang, and he yelled at his own soldiers:

"Take the big knife, I'm going to play a trick, I don't know when the big handsome will come back? Miss Mu doesn't know if she is doing well in Guangzhou! ”

Huzhou City!

The New People's Army is launching the Battle of Huzhou!

"Boom!"

A cannonball came from outside the city and hit the city wall of Huzhou City, killing a large number of Qing soldiers wearing Yongzi uniforms.

Then more shells rained down, and under the walls, there was a cloud of gunsmoke, sand and gravel flew sideways, and one by one the Qing soldiers who had no experience in dodging broke their heads and broke their arms and legs.

"King! The artillery of the New People's Army is too fierce, we have suffered heavy casualties, we can't stop it, their artillery caliber is even more powerful than that of the red-haired adult, and the brothers can't hold it. ”

"If you can't hold it, you have to hold it, am I still the king of Huzhou without Huzhou?" Yang Changjun was carrying a knife, his face was hideous, and he ordered the department to continue to the front line, he was in a very bad mood, and he angrily spit out a mouthful of phlegm and asked a cronie:

"Is the man from the left mule here?"

"King! Zuo Zongtang did not send a single soldier, just like the new bandits captured Jiaxing. ”

Yang Changjun roared extremely unwillingly: "What does this mule want to do, why doesn't he support us, why don't he attack the New People's Army from Zeyi, what does he want to do." ”

"The king is not good, the walls have collapsed, the musketeers of the new bandits have attacked, their guns have gone too far, the loading speed is too fast, the projectiles are too dense, and the brothers do not raise their heads at all."

Four hours later! In the city of Hangzhou, the headquarters of the Chu army, Zuo Zongtang and Shen Baozhen sat together, drinking tea and listening to the news sent from the front.

"Zuo Shuai! The New People's Army had already broken through Huzhou, and the King of Huzhou was defeated and fled to Xuancheng, and the artillery used by the new bandits was larger than the last attack on Jiaxing, but the rate of fire was much slower. ”

"Stand down!" Shen Baozhen waved his hand, and then said to Zuo Zongtang: "Zuo Shuai, the combat effectiveness of the new bandits is sharper than before, although there is no shadow of Yang Dongfang for several months, but the soldiers and horses he left in Shanghai and Nanjing have become stronger, and the New People's Army has mobilized a lot of materials, and now the hearts of the people along the Taihu Lake are all attached to him." Are we really going to go that far? ”

"Brother Hanyu, if the general trend changes today, the New People's Army is unstoppable, we are the descendants of China, the New People's Army is not a Cantonese bandit, the world is also reassuring to hand over to them, if Yang Dongfang does not do well, then the country will be ruined, we will kill back, if he is really a saint Mingjun, he will naturally recruit talents, please go ashore, it is not too late to vote at that time."

Zuo Zongtang's eyes were resolute, and there was some melancholy in his heart: "How can Taiwan be conceded lightly to foreigners, this land has belonged to us since ancient times, and Jiaozhi was lost to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, this Taiwan can't be occupied by red-haired ghosts, otherwise we are sinners through the ages, and the Manchurians can lose their families and don't want Taiwan, and we Han people can't do without it." ”

"Brother Ji Gao is good and hardworking, and Han Yu is from the scene, so let's go to the island in advance before the red-haired ghost arrives."

"Okay, then we will inform the New People's Army by the way that Yang Fan will be seven days later, so that no one will take the opportunity to make trouble and plunder the people." (To be continued.) )