Chapter 361: War Breaks Out

"Fuck your full dog! Hongyi cannon, aiming at the artillery position full of dogs, give Lao Tzu a hard bang! ”

"Cannon and mother cannon, pause firing! One mile forward! ”

With the vicious shout of the commander of the Fat Man Army Firearms Team, the order was quickly conveyed, and the Fat Army artillery array, which had been roaring for more than half an hour, quieted down one after another, and the Hongyi artillery quickly adjusted the firing angle under the command of the old Qing Dynasty Destroyer Jiexuan, aiming at the Qing Army battery that was exposed when the cannon was fired just now, and the sub-mother artillery team all moved forward, went to the near part of the city wall, and used the close firing to exert the greater destructive power of the solid cannonball on the city wall. [No pop-up novel network]

"Wu Gou's artillery has stopped! Hurry up and repair the walls! At the same time, on the city wall of Fanchang, Le Erjin also jumped up and roared loudly: "Wu Gou's artillery is moving forward, quickly repair the city wall, otherwise there will be no chance!" Fast! Fast! Hongyi cannon, transfer immediately! ”

"Transfer the Hongyi cannon! Fast! Come and help! The Qing gunners also knew that they had exposed their targets, so they hurriedly beckoned their companions to turn around and push together to transfer to other batteries, as well as the last ammunition that was also left. But the thousands of pounds of Hongyi cannon is not said to be transferred, when the Qing soldiers just pulled the Hongyi cannon back to the open part of the city wall, just turned the cannon body, the fat army in the distance of the city wall Hongyi cannon has already let out a roar, rumbling explosion, thirty shells divided into two groups, roaring overwhelmingly smashed towards the Qing army's fort.

"Protect the Hongyi Cannon!" I don't know who took the lead in shouting, and several Qing soldiers rushed to the Hongyi cannon, using their flesh and blood to protect the steel giant beast, so as not to destroy the last two Hongyi cannons of the Leer Jin Army by the cannon fire of the Fat Army. But the shells of the Fat Army still fell overwhelmingly, and in the rumbling explosion, the Qing soldiers in the area covered by the artillery fire were either killed or injured, countless people were shattered, and the two Hongyi cannons were instantly stained red by flesh and blood.

"Boom! Bang! Bang! The Fat Army shells came one after another, and the Qing soldiers who tried to come forward to rescue the artillery also fell in a pool of blood one after another, and the Qing soldiers behind also completely lost the courage to rescue the Hongyi cannons, and could only watch their last two Hongyi cannons gradually deform in the artillery fire, the frame gradually fell apart, and completely lost the ability to fire again, and several grassroots generals of the Qing army shed tears, but they could not do anything.

"Boom! Boom Rumbleβ€”β€”! "The sound of new continuous artillery bombardment came, and the fat army cannon weighing only 180 kilograms soon arrived at the new position, and all of them were replaced with solid shells that caused the greatest damage to the city wall, and successively re-fired at the Fanchang city wall, and the solid iron shells weighing more than 20 catties bombarded the city wall, although the casualties caused to the Qing soldiers were far less huge than the flowering shells, but for the dilapidated Fanchang city wall, it was the most fatal blow. Basically, a cannon is a big pit, the bricks of the city wall are shattered, the rammed earth is cracked and broken, and it falls in clusters together, peeling off layer by layer.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to survive today's day." Seeing this scene, Le Erjin also completely lost the confidence to stick to the prosperity, grabbed a personal soldier with his hand, and shouted wildly in his ear: "You, take ten cavalry to ride out of the city on fast horses!" Go chase the prince! Tell him that it is impossible for Fanchang to hold out for a long time, and let him send reinforcements back immediately! I will do my best to hold back the main force of Wu Dog! ”

"Cover! Cover! Minions understand! Because the sound of the cannon was so fierce, Leerjin's own soldiers could only tear their throats and shout in agreement.

"Remember! It's asking for help from Prince Zhang, not Ghent Baturu, don't be wrong! Le Erjin yelled uneasily, and it wasn't until the soldier yelled that he heard it clearly, and then Leer Jin let go and let him go out of the city.

"Boom!" The messenger sent to ask for help from Prince Zhang had just left the city wall, and another section of the wall also collapsed, and the fat army cheered again, and the Qing soldiers carried sandbags and rushed to the gap under artillery fire, racing against time to repair the city wall. But it didn't take long for the southeast section of the Fanchang city wall to come from two loud noises, the two sections of the city wall could not withstand the destruction of artillery fire, and collapsed one after another, one of the gaps even collapsed from the middle of the city wall more than two zhang high, the Qing army was colorless, and quickly rushed up to repair the city wall.

"Boom!" I don't know when, the Fat Army's sub-mother artillery team suddenly replaced with flowering shells, covering the top and rear of the city wall with artillery fire, and in the rumbling explosion, the Qing generals and soldiers who rushed to repair the city wall suffered heavy casualties, and countless people were broken into bones and directly blown into meat sauce. At the same time, the infantry team of the Fat Man Army, which had been holding on for a long time, finally made a move, carrying a flying ladder and carrying a sandbag to push the anti-arrow cart forward, trotting close to the east gate of Fanchang - Lu Fatzi really wanted to use artillery to completely collapse the Fanchang city wall and then attack the city, but considering the productivity of this era, Lu Fatzi had to give up this plan and try his best to save some valuable ammunition.

"Wu Gou is ready to go to the city! Archers, musketeers, all ready! Leerjin roared, and the Qing army's archers and musketeers rushed to their places, but the artillery of the fat army was still roaring, frantically tilting the flowering cannonballs that were the most lethal to the Qing soldiers, and the ground shook above and in front of the Fanchang city wall, and blood and flesh were splashed.

"Brethren! Do you see it? In Fanchang City, there are all murderers and butchers who killed countless of our compatriots back then, full of dogs and beasts! Li Kuang, who served as the siege vanguard of the Fat Army, wore a filial piety belt on his head, and took the lead, and yelled at the soldiers of the Fat Army who were also wearing filial piety clothes: "Treat these beasts!" What are we going to do? ”

"Kill!" The Fat Army soldiers roared in unison.

"Well said, kill!" Li Kuang nodded vigorously, turned his head to look, and found that the army had advanced to within two miles of the Fanchang City Wall, so he raised his saber and roared: "Rush!" Kill all the dogsβ€”β€”! ”

"Kill all the dogs!" In the thunderous roar, the three thousand infantry of the Fat Army followed Li Kuang and rushed wildly, rushing to the Fanchang City Wall that was still covered by artillery fire without hesitation, and at the same time, the artillery team of the Fat Army also gradually adjusted the firing height, trying their best to pour the artillery fire into the rear of the Fanchang City Wall, killing and injuring the Qing soldiers and Qing reinforcements behind the city wall.

"Brothers, Wu Dog is here!" Le Erjin was also doing the final military mobilization, and shouted with red eyes: "If you say more, Ben Belle won't say anything, if you want to live, kill Wu Dog for me, otherwise, no one will be able to escape!" The Qing soldiers shouted and agreed, trying their best to cheer up their companions, and also to cheer themselves up.

"Kill all the dogs!" Even the loud cannon roar could not be concealed, the Fat Army infantry rushed to the near place at a flying speed, threw the sandbags and straw bags on their shoulders into the moat, and set up a cart to form a temporary anti-arrow fortress, the Qing soldiers on the city wall desperately shot and released arrows, and the Fat Army artillery array in the distance continued to dump shells at the rear of the city wall, and the huge sound of shelling, explosions, shooting, shouts and roars were mixed together, shaking the mountains and forests.

In the fierce offensive, the first flying ladder set up the city wall of Fanchang, and then a flying ladder followed, scrambling to set up the city wall, a fat soldier with red eyes roared and climbed up quickly, the Qing soldiers frantically smashed out the sheep's head stone, poured out the boiling hot gold juice boiled by tung oil dung, and the guns, shells and arrows in the sky came and went like locusts, so spectacular that it was almost impossible to describe with pen and ink. And after Li Kuang, the second wave of siege infantry of the Fat Army has also rushed in stride.

The infantry siege battle entered the white-hot from the beginning, and the well-prepared Fat Army infantry did not take much time to fill in a large section of the moat, hundreds of flying ladders set up the Fanchang city wall, and hundreds of Fat Army warriors also rushed to the Fanchang city wall, and even killed into the Fanchang city from the gap. However, the smooth start also came to an abrupt end in this link, the cohesive Leer Jin Army quickly adjusted after the initial panic, and began a bloody hand-to-hand fight with the Fat Army, fighting for the city's head position inch by inch.

At the same time, Wang Xu, the general of the Fat Army, who served as the second attack task at the south gate of Fanchang, also blasted out a hole more than two zhang wide in the southwest section of the Fanchang city wall through the tactics of concentrating artillery fire to bombard a little, and decisively ordered a strong attack to share the pressure on the main battlefield, but after attacking the south gate city wall, it was also resisted by the Qing army's Garhan department, and the battle was the same as the east gate city wall, and it also fell into a stalemate.

The inevitable two strong attacks have fallen into a stalemate, which is not only expected by Lu Fatzi, but also quite unexpected by Lu Fatzi - I didn't expect that Le Erjin's team could resist so tenaciously after being repeatedly covered and bombarded by the Fat Man's artillery, without showing any signs of rout. But the more this is the case, the more relieved Lu Fatzi feels, and he even can't help but rejoice: "Thank God, fortunately, Kang Mazi handed over the Western Front Mangou to the command of Prince Zhang, if it is handed over to Le Erjin, Lao Tzu's western expedition will have to be fought." ”

"General, how about letting the last general lead the army to attack the north gate?" Han Daren suggested: "The Mangou cavalry just now came out of the city from the north gate, which proves that the city gate there must not be sealed by the Mangou, let the last general storm the north gate, blow up the city gate with explosives, and break the deadlock on the battlefield." ”

"No!" Lu Fatzi categorically vetoed and explained: "If nothing else, the north gate of Fanchang should be the life gate left by Leerjin to the Mangou team, ready to retreat when the war is unfavorable, if you attack the north gate again and cut off the last way of life for Mangou, Mangou will only resist to the end, which is very unfavorable to our army." ”

"So how do we break the deadlock?" Han Daren asked again.

"Not for the time being, the only way, fight!" Lu Fatzi waved his hand and ordered: "If you can't be idle, take five thousand infantry up and storm the east gate of Fanchang with all your might, and force Mangou to abandon the position at the head of the city." ”

Han Daren didn't say a word, turned around and left as soon as he hugged his fists, and went down to organize the team to attack the city. After a while, the five thousand elite soldiers were assembled, and before leaving, the quite resourceful Han Daren first gave a speech to the soldiers of the Fat Army, and shouted and asked: "Soldiers, let me ask you, who is the heavy filial piety on your body worn for?" ”

"For fellow citizens!" Five thousand Fat Men replied neatly.

"Yes, for our Han compatriots!" Han Daren yelled: "Although you all already know, I still have to repeat it again, the heavy filial piety on our body is for the Chinese compatriots who were brutally slaughtered by the dogs thirty years ago!" Thirty years ago, full of dogs entered the customs and killed our Chinese compatriots, tens of thousands! In Yangzhou alone, there are 800,000 Chinese compatriots who were slaughtered by dogs! How many are 800,000 compatriots? Hand in hand, you can pull two back and forth from Yangzhou to Yanjing! ”

Roaring at this, Han Daren paused, then pointed to Fanchang City, where the fierce battle was raging in the distance, and said in a calm tone: "Brothers, have you seen that Fanchang City?" Now in this Fanchang city, there are 20,000 descendants of Mangou who slaughtered our compatriots, the purpose of our westward expedition to Fanchang is to capture this Fanchang city, eliminate the 20,000 Mangou descendants in Fanchang City, our former brothers attacked the city wall, but were blocked by Mangou, now it is up to us. ”

"Brothers, I want you to remember that this battle is the first battle in which the main force of our Great Zhou Jiangnan army is dispatched, and we can only win, not lose!"

"Brothers, I want you to remember that in this battle, the Mangou Emperor is watching, our Great Zhou Lord is watching, our General Lu is watching, the Chinese compatriots in the entire Jiangnan are watching, and tens of millions of Chinese compatriots are also watching in the spirit of heaven! If we can't take this prosperous city, the Mangou Emperor will laugh off his big teeth, the Great Zhou Prince and General Lu will be disappointed, and our Jiangnan compatriots will also feel that it is not worth it for them to pay taxes and grain to feed us! Our Chinese ancestors will also feel that we are not worthy of being their descendants! ”

"Brothers, I want you to remember that in this battle, we are not fighting for our own promotion and wealth! It's about fighting for our thousands of Chinese compatriots! Fight for our compatriots who have been slaughtered and tortured by dogs! ”

"Brothers, if you still have eggs, follow me, follow behind my banner, and go together to fight for our Chinese compatriots! Fight for the honor of our Great Zhou Army! No one is allowed to retreat, only to die in battle, not to retreat! ”

"Fight for the Chinese compatriots!" Countless Fat Army soldiers raised their swords and guns and roared, more Fat Army soldiers roared wildly, and 5,000 Fat Army soldiers roared together, "Fight for the Chinese compatriots!" Fight for the Chinese compatriots! Fight for the Chinese compatriots! ”

"Come with me! Kill all the dogs! Han Daren yelled, turned around and strode towards the Fanchang City Wall, and the five thousand fat soldiers behind him strode forward together, constantly roaring, "Kill!" Kill! Kill all the dogs! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill all the dogs! ”

Striding forward turned into a quick trot, and a quick trot turned into a full-speed charge, five miles away, Han Daren's team rushed to Fanchang City in just half a tea time, Han Daren waved his knife and roared, hundreds of flying ladders flew up the city wall, and the fat soldiers in white filial piety clothes stepped on the ladder with red eyes and charged up wildly, just like the white surging tide, which surged onto the city wall of Fanchang in an instant. When the Qing soldiers shouted and charged to block, they were stunned to find that they had completely encountered a group of madmen this time, their steel knives had just been cut out, and the madmen on the opposite side had already slashed at their heads at a faster speed, and their spears had just been poked out, and the spears of the madmen on the opposite side had already stabbed into their chests at a faster speed.

"Kill all the dogs! Kill β€”β€”! As the commander of the Fat Army who has always cherished his surname, Han Daren took the lead in rushing to the city wall of Fanchang for the first time this time, and the Qing soldiers saw that the armor on his body knew that he was a heavy general of the Fat Army, and rushed up to encircle and suppress the fighting, but Han Daren was like crazy and chopped and chopped, and his power was unparalleled, and he cut down three or four Qing soldiers in one breath in the blink of an eye. The soldiers of Han Daren's team behind him are also more crazy than the other, the steel knife and spear are brandished fiercely and fast, desperately injured and killed, and the Qing soldiers are also buried together, and the grenades on their bodies are thrown to the dense places of the Qing soldiers, holding the Qing soldiers rolling to the ground and scuffling, stabbing their teeth and biting their fists with knives and guns, and rolling down the city wall with the Qing soldiers and ending up.

"Kill all the dogs!" More and more fat soldiers rushed to the city wall, Leer Jin saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly ordered the city reserves to go to the city to rescue at the same time, and personally led the fire team to come to fill the gap, in a vain attempt to drive the fat army off the city wall again, and under the two phases of killing, the military generals who have not appeared for thousands of years have not appeared heads-up picture, and finally reappeared again on the Fanchang city wall where the fat army and the Qing army fought for life and death.

"It's a big dog!" In the melee, when he saw the armor on Le Erjin's body, Han Daren, who was already red-eyed, had his eyes lit up, and he rushed up frantically with a roar, slashing his head obliquely.

"He's a big thief!" Seeing the armor on Han Daren's body, Le Erjin's eyes lit up, and he subconsciously strode forward and slashed Han Daren's neck with a knife, but as soon as the saber was cut halfway, Le Erjin was screaming in his heart, and subconsciously crooked his neck to dodge............ "Bang!" Sure enough, between the two knives, the thumbs of both hands were cut off and lost eighty percent of the grip of the Leer Jin steel knife immediately flew into the air, Han Daren's saber was castrated, a knife slashed on Le Erjin's left shoulder, cut off a large piece of Le Erjin's left shoulder, and along with the cut off Le Erjin's left ear and a large piece of flesh on his face, blood suddenly flowed all over Le Erjin's face and half of his body.

"Protect Lord Belle!" Several of the soldiers of the Fat Army who were entangled in the soldiers of the Le Erjin were shot in the back, and they pounced on Han Daren with their bodies to block Han Daren's next knife, and the Qing soldiers behind were also frightened, dragging Le Erjin and running back, Han Daren stepped forward to chase and kill, and was immediately stopped by the Qing soldiers who came up to the rescue like a tide, and watched Le Erjin disappear into the depths of the chaotic army by the Qing soldiers. Han Daren couldn't help but regret it and scolded, "The grass is full of dogs!" Luck with the lackeys! ”

Although Han Daren missed the golden opportunity to capture the thief and capture the king first, but this is enough, seeing the soldiers of the Fat Army rushing to kill so fiercely and crazy, and seeing the banner of Le Erjin that has always been charging in front and retreating in the back took the lead in withdrawing the city wall, the Qing army team that was completely supported by one breath suddenly collapsed, and the deadlock at the head of the city was immediately broken, the soldiers of the Fat Army howled and rushed up the city wall like a tide, and the Qing soldiers rushed down the city wall like a tide, and the Fat Army captured the east gate city wall almost in the blink of an eye.

The east gate was lost, the morale of the Qing army in Fanchang City was suddenly hit hard, and the Qing army defenders at the south gate were also greatly affected. Lu Fatzi also quickly sent someone to send a large number of Sanhao rockets to the East Gate City Wall, so that the soldiers of the Fat Man Army bombarded the Qing army team in Fanchang City, and the Fat Man Army's sub-mother artillery team also stepped forward again, using flowering bullets to shoot at the inner center of Fanchang County, and joined forces with Sanhao rockets to bombard the Qing soldiers inside the city wall.

When Le Erjin was rescued from the city wall, the blood had already dyed half of his body red, and the person was almost unconscious because of excessive blood loss...... Queen. With that, Le Erjin suddenly fell unconscious.

Although the fat army occupying the position at the head of the city has not yet had time to enter the city in large numbers, it is enough to disrupt the assembly organization of the Qing army with the condescending bombardment and artillery coverage of the three good rockets. At the same time, because of the loss of the unified command and coordination of Leerjin, the Qing army also fell into chaos, Iribu led the reserve to the east gate to the countercharge, in a vain attempt to recapture the east gate city wall position, the west gate guard Hu Shiying also personally led the army to come to the rescue, the north gate guard Guercha was greedy for life and afraid of death, opened the city gate and fled for his life, driving a large number of Qing soldiers out of the city to flee, the Qing army in Fanchang City was completely chaotic, crowded and trampled on each other, and countless people died.

At the same time, under the formation of the fat man's military flag, Lu Fatzi's fat face was also about to bloom, saying that he didn't expect that Han Daren, this kid, would have a good hand in fighting tough battles, and he won the city wall position with just one charge. Overjoyed, Lu Fatzi hurriedly arranged and adjusted, and ordered: "Let Wang Xu's team continue to storm the south gate, within an hour, we must drive all the dogs on the south gate city wall off the city wall, and condescendingly bombard me with three good rockets!" ”

The herald rushed away, and Lu Fatzi called Yao Qisheng's eldest son Yao Yi to the front and ordered: "Take 3,000 soldiers and 1,000 Mihao rockets to the north gate of Fanchang, and after estimating that the full dogs in the city have escaped seven or eight thousand people, they will immediately block the way out of the north gate of Fanchang, and catch turtles in the urn to annihilate the remnants of the full dogs in the city." ”

Yao Yi took the order and left, and Lu Fatzi grabbed another personal soldier, stuffed an arrow into his hand, and ordered: "Ride the fastest horse, go to the south bank of the mud mouth to see Li Jiyang, and tell him that the Mangou of Digang is likely to send troops to rescue Fanchang City, and immediately attack to the west." If the Mangou Sailor Division does not send troops to rescue Fanchang, don't be busy attacking Ogi Port, seize the upstream first, and then send troops to fight me after the defeated soldiers of Mangou board the ship! ”

……………… Lu Fatzi was proud of the Fanchang battlefield where he had an absolute advantage, but he didn't know that at this moment, the fourth-line battlefield in the entire south of the Yangtze River was already in flames. On the Eastern Front, the Dutch fleet consisting of eight ironclad warships, under the leadership of the Qing Army's Ningbo Naval Division, joined forces to kill near Chongming Island. Although Mao Yougui, the deputy general of the Fat Army Naval Division, and Han Yuanren, the guard general of Liuhe Port, resisted with all their might, the Dutch double-decker fort and three-masted warships were far more advanced than the Fat Army Bird Ships, and their firepower was much fiercer, and the Fat Army Naval Division suffered a lot of losses.

In the end, the fat army had to sacrifice the sampan tactic again, under the cover of night, blew up a Dutch warship, and injured two Dutch warships, which reluctantly took away the Qing-Dutch coalition army, but also paid a very heavy price, in addition to the people in Chongming County, the rest of the people were slaughtered by the Qing army and Dutch soldiers, and Mao Yougui's fleet lost more than half. As a last resort, Mao Yougui and Han Yuanren could only hurriedly send messengers to ask for help from Li Guodong, the general reserve of the Fat People's Army sitting in Zhenjiang.

On the southern front, Geng Jingzhong, who was completely enraged by Wu Laohan's arrogant attitude, was also moved in the face of the conditions proposed by the Qing court to cede the entire territory of Zhejiang, and dispatched a large army to join forces with the Zhejiang Qing army to attack Huzhou Mansion, the southernmost part of the territory controlled by the Fat Army, and divided an army to attack Yixing, and the Fat Army Guo Yingfu and Huang Ming fell into a bitter battle at the same time. The Zheng Jing team in Hangzhou was dissatisfied with Wu Laohan's usurpation of the emperor and temporarily terminated the alliance with the Fat Army, the second was that the strength was not good, and the third was that they also wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and did not provide strong support for the Fat Army from behind.

Huzhou is a strategic buffer zone preset by the Fat Army, no matter how bad the fight is, it will not have much impact, and the real danger is Yangzhou Mansion on the northern front. As Han Daren expected, the Yangzhou Fat Army, which only had 20 Hongyi cannons, suffered a great loss in the long-range artillery battle with the Qing army, which had an absolute numerical advantage, and at the same time, the power of the Fat Army's advanced artillery shells was also managed to restrain by the Qing army, resulting in the Fat Army's Hongyi artillery not only It was difficult to completely destroy the Qing army's artillery array, but it was bombarded by the Qing army's original artillery shells, and the city wall was in danger several times.

Still had no choice but to ask for help from the rear of the Fat Army, please transfer Hongyi artillery to reinforce the Yangzhou battlefield, and send troops to attack the Qing army's artillery array. However, Yue Le, who had a sufficient number of cannon fodder, was also determined to consume Gao Dejie, Gao Dejie went out of the city for 1,000, Yue Le sent 3,000 troops, Gao Dejie sent 3,000 troops, Yue Le sent 10,000 troops, Gao Dejie sent 10,000 troops, Yue Le sent all the Mongolian cavalry cannon fodder out, and made up his mind to exchange three for one or even four for one, and desperately consumed the precious strength of the fat army.

In addition, Zhou Peigong, who went to the Yangzhou battlefield on behalf of Kang Mazi to inspect the battle situation, also gave Yue Le a bad idea, that is, once Gao Dejie's army left the city in large numbers, the Qing army, which had absolute superiority in strength, would attack another city gate and force Gao Dejie to return to the division to rescue. There was also the desperate digging of horse traps and the construction of horse defense walls to limit Gao Dejie's most skilled cavalry raid tactics.

"Actually, there's another way." Zhou Peigong also suggested to Yue Le: "In the territory of Yangzhou Prefecture, there are many Han rebels who have the audacity to cut their braids and plot rebellion, Lord Wang, you can arrest these thieves in large numbers, and then tell them that if they can fill the moat in Yangzhou for us, they will be allowed to shave their hair and braids again, otherwise, they will be all beheaded for the crime of treason." ”

"What? Wu Gou doesn't care about the lives of the people? Thirty years ago, when we entered the Qing Dynasty, the only one who did not slaughter the city for our Qing Dynasty was the army of Wu Sangui old thief, and now Wu Sangui old thief has ascended the throne and called the emperor, so naturally he dare not kill the people casually. Besides, even if Wu Gou is ruthless enough to shoot at the people, wouldn't it be good to consume Wu Gou's ammunition? Now that Jiangnan Wugou is fighting on the fourth front, how many firearms can be supplied by just relying on a Xuan weapon firearms battalion? ”

(To be continued)