In the first year of Zhaowu of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the 14th year of the 14th year of the Fat Man, the main force of the Fat Army's westward expedition led by Lu Fatzi arrived at the foot of Fanchang City, and led an army of 20,000 mites stationed here to Shuncheng Belle Jin knew that the Fat Army was good at field warfare and was in full swing, so he decisively rejected the suggestion of his deputy Garhan to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Fat Army and go out of the city to fight against the water, and gathered all the soldiers and horses back to the city, preparing to use the ruined city of Fanchang to contend with the powerful Fat Army, and strive to complete the task of dragging the main force of the Fat Army assigned by Prince Zhangtai Zhang- Although Le Erjin knew very well that Zhangtai's order was a typical chaotic order that did not care about reality. 【Reading.com】

The area from Fanchang to Wuhu has always been the main battlefield of the tug-of-war between the Fat Army and the Qing Army, for more than a year, Fanchang City has changed hands several times, whether it is the Qing Army or the Fat Army have captured this city several times, and then they have given up several times because there is no oil and water to fish and stay away from the rear. After such repeated tossing, there are basically no intact houses in Fanchang City, the people have suffered many casualties in the war, and the people in the city have fled seriously, and the people in the city are already less than 100 people, and although the Leer Jinzhi army is not as strict as Aobai and Yue Le, it has not yet fallen to the share of Eza, Tuhai and Zhou Peigong, so after returning to Fanchang City this time, Leer Jinsuo surnamed let these remnants of the people go out of the city in advance, so as not to be affected by the war.

When defending the city, there is no manpower support from the people may not have much impact, the most worrying thing is the city defense of Fanchang, several tug-of-war battles, the Fanchang city wall of the brick and rammed earth structure is seriously damaged, many sections of the city wall have collapsed, and it has not been repaired and rebuilt, and it can only be filled with straw bags and sacks, which can be washed away by a heavy rain; And the moat is even more mixed, so blocked by earth and rocks that even a child can't be drowned, and it is impossible to stop the advance of the fat army.

There is no way, limited to the strict orders of the prince Zhang, no matter how dissatisfied Le Erjin, who has a strong sense of responsibility, can only follow the order, honestly make every effort to strengthen the city defense, repair the city wall, dig deep moats, and prepare more sacks, stones and sassal wood and other materials to defend the city. It's just that what didn't make Le Erjin expect that the advance speed of the Fat Army was so fast, starting from Taiping Mansion on the morning of May 14, more than 120 miles away, on the evening of May 15, the forward team of the Fat Army led by Han Daren had already arrived at the outskirts of Fanchang, and then on the day of May 16, the main force of the Fat Army also arrived in Fanchang, leaving little time for Le Erjin to prepare.

The only thing that makes Le Erjin more relieved is that judging from the fact that the main force of the Fat Army has arrived at Fanchang City in more than two days, the Fat Army should not have carried too much grain and grass this time - otherwise the marching speed will definitely not be so fast, so as long as the Fanchang Qing Army can carry it for more than ten days, even if there is no divine oil from Prince Zhang's rescue, the main force of the Fat Army should be forced to retreat. At the same time, there is another point that is slightly beneficial to the Qing army, that is, because of the boat against the current, the fat army sailor has just arrived in Sanshan Port, and there is still a distance from the Qing army sailor stationed in Ogigang, and there will be no unfavorable situation of water and land at the same time for the time being.

In order to cut off the connection between Leerjin and Ghent Baturu, Han Daren, who had changed his ways, personally commanded the cavalry of the Fat Army to encircle and suppress the Qing scouts, and divided the two thousand Fat Army cavalry into 20 teams, 15 teams around Fanchang City to carry out a strict search and hunt, and the other five teams kept the mobile team, and immediately dispatched when they saw the fireworks signal to assist the friendly troops to strangle the Qing army scouts, and a Qing army scout refused to let go. Le Erjin knew that the Fat Army's intention to cut off his connection with Ghent Baturu must have no good intentions, so he organized the elite cavalry to go out of the city to fight the strangulation, and at the same time sent a letter to Ghent Baturu, asking Ghent Baturu to strictly guard the port of Di, and not to see his own handwritten letter, and not to land to rescue Fanchang City, so as not to let the Fat Army sailors take advantage of it.

The bloody outpost battle lasted for the whole day of June 16, the cavalry of the Qing army who were good at cavalry and archery and the cavalry of the fat army who had been tempered by thousands of hammers exchanged guns and arrows in the wilderness and hills, and there were many fierce battles, the cavalry of the Qing army was slightly superior to the fat army in terms of bows and arrows, and the cavalry of the fat army defeated the Qing army in terms of weapons and equipment, and the sound of horse hooves, bows and arrows breaking through the air, muskets and grenades in the suburbs of Fanchang did not stop, and hundreds of fat soldiers and Qing cavalry stained the battlefield with blood. It wasn't until it was getting dark that the Fat Army dispatched a large group of infantry to join the scout battlefield, and the Qing cavalry was forced to collect their troops and return to the city, but Le Erjin's letter to Ghent Baturu was also extremely fortunate to break through the Fat Army's resistance and was successfully delivered to the Ghent Baturu Army.

When it was dark, countless torches were lit at the head of Fanchang City, and bonfires and torches as dense as stars were also lit in the camp of the Fat Army ten miles away, reflecting half of the sky in red, and the clanging sound of rushing to build siege weapons could be heard clearly even at the head of Fanchang City. Feeling the murderous aura that rushed to the sky, Leerjin, who was commanding the Qing infantry on the city wall to strengthen the city defense overnight, was inevitably even more worried, knowing that this time it must be a tragic and unprecedented decisive battle, and it is likely that it will be his last battle.

"Lord Belle, it's almost the second shift, let's go and rest for a while." Garhan came up and kindly persuaded: "Wu Gou may be about to attack the city at dawn, Lord Belle, you can only lead us to repel Wu Gou's attack if you have rested well and raised your spirits enough, tonight, let the minions be on duty for you." ”

Le Erjin didn't seem to hear it, and after a while, Le Erjin sighed, turned back to Gaerhan and said: "It's okay, I can't sleep when I go back anyway, or I'm on duty all night, you go to rest first, I'll be tired for a while, and I'll find a place to take a nap." ”

"Lord Belle, you haven't had a good rest for three days and three nights, you can't go on like this." Garhan pleaded: "The servants beg you on behalf of the whole army, you should hurry up and rest for a while." ”

"I can't sleep." Le Erjin insisted on shaking his head, and then looked back at the fat army camp eight miles west of Fanchang, and Le Erjin suddenly said: "Garhan, if I can't go back, I asked you for what I asked you last time, please do it." Then tell my son Leerbe, let him learn the Chinese dialect and the Han language, and then quietly prepare the identity of the Han people, maybe he will be able to use it in the future. ”

"Lord Belle, how can you say that?" Garhan was taken aback, "The situation in our Great Qing Dynasty is not critical to that point, is it?" ”

"The master has already been personally recruited, and he is not in danger to that point?" Le Erjin smiled bitterly, and said quietly: "Our master, I know better than anyone else, playing tricks may be invincible in the world, on the battlefield - to put it mildly, in fact, it is not much stronger than the idiot of Zhangtai, and I just ran into a Han hero like Lu Yifeng. But looking at the posture, I should be ahead of this master. ”

Garhan stopped talking, knowing that what Le Erjin said was all the truth - to be able to appoint a fool like Zhangtai as the commander of the Western Front, it is naturally conceivable how 'profound' Kang Mazi's military attainments are. With a wry smile, Garhan could only comfort in a low voice: "Lord Belle must not think so, if the war is unfavorable, we can also give up the ground-breaking enclosure of Fanchang, break through and retreat to Tongling, and then fight Wu Gou there." ”

"It's not that simple." Le Erjin continued to shake his head and said in a low voice: "The order that Zhangtai straw bales are not allowed to retreat has been issued to me, and anyone with Fanchang's 20,000 troops can break through, but I can't break through, otherwise, once the Western Front is defeated, all the black cauldrons will have to be carried by me alone." Our prince Zhang's ability to shirk responsibility is hundreds of times stronger than his ability to fight. ”

"There is a prison army sent by the master in Anqing City, Lord Belle, you can ask the prison army to come forward to testify for you, the order under Zhangtai's straw bag is simply a mess!" Garhan hurriedly said.

"Innocent!" Le Erjin scolded with a wry smile, and said in a low voice: "Let's not say that those two straw bag overseers are wearing the same pants as Zhangtai, even if they report truthfully, the master will not spare me!" Do you know why I haven't been reinstated since I was stripped of my lordship? In terms of combat achievements alone, am I really worse than Jieshu and Yue Le, who were re-crowned kings? In fact, the reason is very simple, it can be explained in one sentence - after Emperor Taizong fell ill back then, my Amal Kedehun supported the succession of Dolgon, the prince of Rui! It is also because of this that my Amma, whose military exploits are not under Dolgon and Duoduo, left me the title of a county king! ”

Garhan was even more silent, and he was even more sympathetic to Le Erjin, who patted Galhan on the shoulder and said in a low voice: "If it doesn't work, I will arrange for you to withdraw first, what I said, please." Garhan nodded silently, his eyes already full of tears.

Unlike Le Erjin, who was almost completely desperate, in the tent of the fat man army commander at the same time, Lu Fatzi was full of spring breeze pride, and declared to the fat army generals with a red face: "One day! Break the groundbreaking fence of Fanchang for me in one day! Three days! Annihilation of the city in three days, full of dogs! ”

The fat army generals agreed neatly, and Lu Fatzi pointed at Gao Hongchen and Hu Tongchun again, and shouted: "At dawn tomorrow, Gao Hongchen, you will lead 4,000 cavalry to the northwest of Fanchang to ambush, ready to rob and kill the full dog rescuers in Digang at any time!" Hutongchun, you take 5,000 infantry to Huanghu Town to intercept and kill the defeated soldiers of Fanchang who fled to Tongling! ”

"Order!" Gao Hongchen, who was almost useless during the siege of the city, agreed, but Hu Tongchun protested: "General, can you go to Huanghu Town with another person?" I'm the best at fighting this kind of tough battle, so you should keep me here, right? ”

"You can change it if you want to, but if you have too many casualties, when it comes to the decisive battle with the Mangou Emperor in the future, you don't want to grab any more fat." Fat Lu said with a sneer.

"Then the general will go to Huanghu Town." Hu Tongchun hurriedly replied, and a happy chuckle sounded in the handsome tent.

"The rest of the generals, hurry up and prepare, and attack the city immediately as soon as it dawns tomorrow!" Fat Lu stood up and shouted: "The main attack on the east gate of Fanchang, the feint attack on the south gate, leaving the west gate and the north gate for the dog to escape, shaking the heart of the dog army!" This battle is the first battle of the main force of our army in the decisive battle in Jiangnan, and the generals must take the lead, take the lead, and annihilate the Leer Jinman dog in one battle! ”

"Obey the general's orders!" The Fat Army General replied unusually neatly.

…………………… The night passed quickly, just after Yinshi, when the sky was light, the fat army that had eaten a full meal poured out of the camp, Gao Hongchen and Hutong Chun two generals each led the army and horses to the preset battlefield, Lu Fatzi personally led the main force to the east gate of Fanchang, and set up a formation five miles away from Fanchang, one hundred and twenty light and heavy artillery pieces lined up, loaded and filled with ammunition and medicine aimed at the east gate of Fanchang, and at the same time sent Wang Xu to lead an army of 6,000 and carry 30 artillery pieces to move to the south gate of Fanchang, and also set up an attack formation outside the south gate of Fanchang.

At the same time, the alarm gong on Fanchang City has sounded, the Qing army generals and soldiers rushed to the city, Le Erjin also quickly made adjustment arrangements, ordered the powerful deputy Garhan to lead an army of 4,000 to guard the south gate, the deputy general Hu Shiying led 1,500 troops to guard the west gate, the forward staff leader Gualcha led an army of 2,500 to guard the north gate, and ordered the capital commander Yi Libu to lead an army of 4,000 for the general reserve of the whole army, responsible for making food and water, carrying the materials for defending the city, and Le Erjin himself led the remaining 8,000 troops to guard the east gate of the main battlefield. At the same time, he also ordered to block the east, west and south gates, so as not to blow up the city gate again with Lu Fatzi's old tricks, leaving only the north gate unblocked, just in case.

At two o'clock, the two sides were arranged, and Lu Fatzi sent an envoy to Fanchang City to surrender under the white flag as usual, and by the way, he publicized the four killing orders of the Fat Army, and Leer Jin, who was literate in Bijie Shu, did not order the killing of the envoy, but just coldly replied to the Fat Army envoy: "Go back and tell Lu Yifeng that Lao Tzu's surname is Aixin Jueluo, and if you want Lao Tzu's head to come, you want Lao Tzu to surrender and dream!" ”

The envoy of the fat army did not answer, turned around and left, while Le Erjin turned to his subordinates and shouted: "Pay attention to concealment, Wu Gou's artillery is coming!" All the people in the broken city tower came out, and there was no way to hide from the cannons, they would only be buried alive! Prepare sacks and wooden fences, and once the city wall is collapsed by Wu Dog artillery, it will be remedied immediately! ”

"Cover." The generals of the Qing army agreed together, and the deputy commander of the subordinate general, Baka, asked again: "Lord Belle, we also have two Hongyi cannons, do you want to fire back?" Suppress the Wu dog artillery array? ”

"Two cannons want to suppress more than a hundred Wu dog artillery? I'm afraid that as soon as the location is exposed, it will be bombarded into scrap metal by Wu Gou's artillery, right? Le Erjin smiled bitterly and ordered: "Don't waste it, let the gunner protect the ammunition, carefully search for the location of Wu Gou's flag array, and find the traces of Lu Yifeng's dog thief, no need to ask for instructions, just take aim!" If he is lucky enough to kill Lu Yifeng's dog thief, Ben Beile not only asks the court for credit for him, but also rewards him with half of his family property! ”

Baka agreed, just after the order was conveyed, an earth-shattering roar had erupted in the artillery array of the fat army lined up outside the city, and rows of cannonballs burst out, overwhelmingly smashing into the disrepaired Fanchang city wall, Le Erjin was not afraid of losing face, and without saying a word, he hid behind the arrow stack, and shouted: "Hidden!" Take cover! ”

"Boom!" The first flowering cannonball exploded on the Fanchang city wall, and then, more flowering cannonballs and solid cannonballs bombarded the Fanchang city wall, the tattered Fanchang city wall suddenly splashed earth and stones, the ground shook the mountain, and the Leer Jin who was hiding behind the arrow buttress also seemed to be pushed by someone, and sat on the city wall with a butt, and then quickly got up, a cannonball also happened to hit the arrow buttress in front of him, and the arrow buttress of the brick and earth structure was suddenly shattered, and the dust and gravel were sprinkled all over Leerjin's body, and it was also scared that Leerjin's personal soldiers shouted, Hurriedly pulled Le Erjin behind another arrow stack.

"It's okay, it's not a flowering bomb." The situation was thrilling, but Le Erjin, who had already made up his mind to die, not only did not panic at all, but smiled extremely easily: "If it was a flowering bomb just now, Lu Yifeng's fat face would definitely be laughing." ”

Le Erjin, who was free and easy, for the first time to understand the power of the Fat Army's artillery array, soon discovered that the person who underestimated the enemy and was blindly optimistic in this war was not the arrogant and domineering Lu Fatzi, but the already cautious Le Erjin himself! The power of the salvo of one hundred and fifty artillery pieces is simply ten times the psychological preparation before Leerjin, only the first round of salvo down, the Fanchang city wall is already full of craters, when the fat army artillery array continues to fire, the Fanchang city wall is quickly and gradually full of holes, and the Qing soldiers on the Fanchang city wall are like being in the iron fire hell, pressed by the dense cannonballs can not raise their heads at all, can only climb on the city wall with a face like earth, trembling and praying, occasionally a few flowering cannonballs fell on the top of the city wall, and suddenly splashed countless waves of blood.

"Boom! Bang! "The artillery of the Fat People's Army is almost in a continuous posture constantly knocking on the city wall, and the city wall is also constantly spewing out earth and stone dust and mist, and the city wall repaired with sacks is a big hole, and the soil bag at the top keeps flying up and down, and it is cut off more than half a zhang high in a moment. Seeing that the situation was not good, Leerjin hurriedly ordered the Qing soldiers to make every effort to repair it.

I have to admit that Le Erjin, who was called an annoying fly by Lu Fatzi, is indeed far superior to the Qing Dynasty God of War in terms of commanding the army and governing the army, although the artillery of the Fat Army has broken the courage of the Qing soldiers, but the Qing soldiers still rushed to the gap with the sacks, and threw the sacks into the gap in the city wall to repair the blockage. At the same time, the few gunners of the Qing army also tried to keep their eyes open despite the dust and smoke, nervously looking for the headquarters of the Fat Army's flag array, and also looking for the Qing army's only hope for victory.

After more than half an hour of bombardment, the Fanchang city wall that had been in disrepair for a long time suddenly "boomed" with a loud bang, unable to withstand the artillery salvo of the fat army, the northeast corner was the first to collapse, and was blasted out of a mouth more than one zhang wide, the fat army thundered with joy, and the Qing army was bold, only Leerjin remained silent, just grabbed Baka and shouted: "Take someone to make up for the mouth, from now on, you are responsible for repairing the city wall!" ”

"Cover!" Baka said yes and led his troops to gallop away. The subordinate next to him, De Ye Lize, shouted: "Lord Belle, Wu Gou's artillery fire is too fierce!" If it doesn't go on like this, please let the minions lead the cavalry to attack and destroy the Wu Dog artillery array! ”

"Wu Gou's three-good rocket is so powerful, aren't you afraid?" Le Erjin asked rhetorically.

"The minion's surname is Niu Colu, defending is also death, attacking is also death, and the slave is willing to gamble!" Deye replied solemnly.

"Go, give you a thousand cavalry." Leer Jin waved his hand, "Go out of the city through the north gate." ”

Deye Li hit Le Erjin with a thousand, and without speaking, he immediately rushed down to the city. After a while, De Ye Li really led a thousand cavalry out of the city from the north gate, and killed the east gate in a roundabout way, the fat army here had already prepared, and the twenty sub-mother cannons in the northeast turned around and fired at the cavalry of De Yeli, and the three good rocket teams that were useless in the siege also took the opportunity to blast out five or six hundred three good rockets in one go.

"Brothers, rush!" Deye Li personally held the military flag and rushed to the front, roaring with red eyes, "Rush! Rush! Fight with Wu Dog! The cavalry of the Qing army, who was determined to go out of the city with the determination to die, also roared like thunder and charged forward without fear.

Courage could not make up for the huge gap between the weapons, in the continuous explosions, the Qing cavalry was shattered one after another, one after another people turned on their backs, and most of them fell in the blink of an eye, and only a few lucky ones escaped the first round of salvos of artillery and rockets of the Fat Army. But these lucky people did not continue to be lucky, when the fat army artillery fired rockets again, more than ninety percent of the cavalry of the Qing army fell to the ground, and the corpses of people and horses were piled up on the battlefield filled with gunsmoke, and the shattered flesh and bones seemed to spread a layer of blood carpet on the earth.

"Kill! Kill! Kill Wu Dog! Although he was deaf in both ears and didn't know how many soldiers were left behind him, he still yelled and rushed towards the Fat Army artillery team. However, when he rushed closer, the musket team of the fat army guarding in line had already fired muskets, and the people of Deye Lilian led the horses to shoot more than ten shots, and the war horse people fell to the ground, and Deye Li fell to the ground, breaking his leg, but he was still crawling forward, and his mouth kept moaning, "Kill, kill Wu...... Dog....... And behind De Yeli, there was no longer a Qing soldier who could stand.

In a short period of time, thousands of Qing cavalry were wiped out, and the Qing soldiers who saw this scene in Fanchang City were naturally frightened, and Le Erjin was also in tears, and on the side of the fat army, Lu Fatzi couldn't help but sigh, sighing: "There are also warriors over there in Mangou, knowing that it is a moth to fight the fire, but still fighting hard, it is indeed worthy of admiration." It is a pity that it is the enemy of our Chinese nation. ”

"Itambu." After sighing, Lu Fatzi called the famous Qing Annihilation Itambu to the front again, and ordered: "Take a hundred people to clean up the cavalry battlefield just now, except for the four slave surnames, the rest, bring back all those who still have a breath, let the military doctor do his best to rescue, I am still useful." ”

"Order!" Itanbu clenched his fists in agreement. But before the words fell, a shell suddenly fell twenty paces in front of Lu Fatzi and exploded, overturning two unlucky Fat Army soldiers. Luckily, my luck hasn't gotten to my father-in-law's. (referring to Wu Guogui, during the Great War in history, Wu Guogui was about to order a general attack, but was suddenly killed by a cannon bombardment by the Qing army, resulting in the defeat of the Wu army) "Young master, don't be complacent, the dog artillery has discovered our flag array!" ”

Xiao Erlang screamed and rushed up, leading a few personal soldiers to pick up Lu Fatzi and leave, as the commander of the whole army, Lu Fatzi was about to pretend to lose his temper for the sake of face, but another cannonball fell on the right side, and then from Xiao Erlang and others carrying Lu Fatman away, it became Lu Fatman dragging Xiao Erlang away.

"Fuck it! Let the Gang Fu concentrate his firepower and take out the dog-filled artillery! Push the sub-mother cannon forward a mile and concentrate the firepower on Lao Tzu! ”

(To be continued)