In the words of Lu Fatzi's crow, it is indeed a blessing for Wu Jun's mighty general Han Daren to meet such a superb enemy as Zhangtai Bei Ziye, which not only helped Han Daren get rid of Lu Fatzi's despicable frame-up, but also allowed Han Daren's frustrated ambition to finally be displayed, and also re-saw the glimmer of hope to knock down Lu Fatzi, the unqualified general of Wu Jun's expedition to the east, and replace him - after all, even if it was replaced by an evil villain like Lu Fatzi, he didn't have the courage to guarantee that he could break through a fortified city like Jiujiang within the Sitong Drum.

Han Daren was lucky, hoping that the surviving defenders of the Qing army in Jiujiang were completely vomiting blood, and now the siege infantry of the Wu army had just climbed the city wall, and their foothold was not very stable. Although the morale of the Qing army is low and the morale of the army is weak, a considerable part of the generals and soldiers still have fighting spirit, and the strength is quite sufficient.

But in such a good situation, I just saw the siege infantry of the Wu army rushing to the city wall, and the vanguard banner of the Wu army had just been planted on the city wall. Countless grassroots generals and soldiers threw their weapons into the ground, shouting with red eyes, "Don't fight!" Don't fight! The officials have already run first, what else do we have to fight? Surrender! Lao Tzu surrenders! ”

"Zhangtai Xiao'er, I'm your mother's eighteenth generation ancestor!" Zhao Dengju and Zhang Sheguang and other backbone generals of the Qing army also scolded with red eyes, completely ignoring that the eighteenth-generation ancestor of Zhangtai was the eighteenth-generation ancestor of Kang Mazi, "You stupid pig!" Jiujiang has fallen, you are the first sinner! ”

"The full dog coach is gone! Surrender or kill! The coach of the full dog ran away, surrender and don't kill! Han Daren had the courage to compete with Lu Fatzi for the position of commander of the East Route Army of the Wu Army, and he still had some ability, and when he found that Zhangtai had abandoned the crowd and fled, he immediately ordered the whole army to shout slogans, shake the morale of the Qing army, and boost the morale of the army. When the Qing soldiers and generals heard such a slogan, and saw that Zhangtai's handsome banner had indeed disappeared from the city tower, the army's morale collapsed, and they either surrendered or retreated and fled.

"Boom!" Without the interference of the Qing army's defenders' bows and arrows, the Wu army took the opportunity to cut the suspension bridge sling, the suspension bridge fell to the ground, the Wu army shouted and swarmed up, the city car slammed into the city gate, and the city gate creaked and crumbled, the Qing soldiers in the city gate were frightened, and they gave up resistance and fled into the city.

At this time, the follow-up troops of the Wu army led by Hu Tongchun and Quanjie of the Wu army have also been killed under the city, and directly entered the city along the open city gate, and the Qing army reserve behind the city wall saw that the situation was not good, and also turned around and fled to the depths of the city. There were also several armies that went up the stairs separately and attacked the remnants of the Qing army on the city walls with the friendly troops who climbed the city. The city was full of fires, and the sound of killing and crying shook the sky, almost like Shura hell.

The battle reached this point, even if Dong Weiguo returned to Jiujiang City, he would definitely have no power to return to heaven, and in desperation, Zhao Dengju and Zhang Sheguang and other generals had to hurriedly organize the remnants of the defeated troops around them, and rushed all the way along the city wall to the North Water Gate Wharf to flee for their lives, and many troops fled from the east gate of Jiujiang where the Wu army deliberately did not arrange troops to intercept them. The four gates of the east, west, north and south were all shouting and neighing for a while, and there were few generals who organized the defenders to start street battles, all of them rushed out of the city to flee for their lives, and the situation collapsed beyond collapse.

At the same time, on the battlefield of the Yangtze River, the Qing army sailor led by Yang Jie struggled to swim upstream, and finally saw the shadow of Li Guodong, the commander of the Wu army, and the news of the destruction of Jiujiang City came from the rear. Unbelievable the speed of the Wu army's breakthrough of the city, Yang Jie also died and offered the Wu army the idea of the Qing Dynasty annihilating Li Guodong in Yuezhou to fight to the death, and shouted and ordered: "Raise the flag, turn around and retreat to the water gate, go to the dock, and save as many brothers as you can!" ”

The flag was raised, and the Qing fleet quickly turned around and quickly retreated to the way it came. Seeing this scene, the generals at all levels of the Wu Army's naval division rushed to Li Guodong to ask for battle, asking the whole army to attack and beat the water dogs, but Li Guodong replied with a cruel smile: "Don't worry, wait." Don't forget the operational principle given to us by General Lu, if the Mangou Sailor Division does not move, we will not move; The full dog sailor took the initiative to attack, and we guarded; The full dog sailors fled, and when they were full of dog defeated soldiers, they fought again! The generals of the Wu Army, who had been completely damaged by Lu Fatzi, laughed together, and each returned to the ship and waited patiently.

When the Qing army sailors led by Yang Jie retreated to the Watergate Wharf at a gallop, they happened to see the handsome flag of Zhangtai Bei Ziye also appear on the wharf. As soon as the flagship landed, Zhangtai Bei Ziye couldn't wait to jump on the flagship, covering his chest and gasping for breath with a blank face, Yang Jie hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and asked in surprise: "Bei Ziye, how did Wu Gou break through the city wall?" How did we lose so quickly? ”

"Wu ......, Wu Dog is powerful." It took a lot of effort for Zhangtai Beizi to reply: "It took them less than four drums to rush to the city wall, and our army could not continue to hold on. ”

"In order to save the lives of the army and soldiers, he was forced to lead the army to break through?" Yang Jie was a little confused, turned his head to look at the situation in Jiujiang City inside the Water Gate, and found that the city was already in complete chaos, the Qing soldiers who had lost their armor and the people of Jiujiang were running around in a mess, crowding into a group at the Water Gate where they could escape, trampling on each other, crying and screaming. Yang Jie couldn't help but wonder in his heart, "This is also called leading the army to break through?" Why don't I see anything like an organized breakout? ”

"General Yang, don't be scared, start the boat, start the boat!" Zhangtai Bei Ziye shouted with a crying voice, "Wu Dog is about to be killed, and it will be too late if you don't start the boat!" ”

"Don't worry, Master Pei, there will only be arrangements in the end." In a hurry, Yang Jie didn't have time to think about it, but quickly ordered: "Each ship docks to load soldiers, try to maintain order, and each ship must not be overloaded by fifty percent." Also, let Ji Chaozuo lead ten warships, and after the palace, he must not load the defeated soldiers of our army, and he must prevent Wu Gou Sailor from chasing and killing! ”

In the hastily arranged, the defeated soldiers of the Qing army have begun to flock to board the boat, you fight for each other and push each other, fall into the water and fall into the boat countless times, the Qing soldiers floating on the river are as dense as porridge, and the screams and cries for help are endless. Seeing such a scene, Yang Jie, who had already suffered a similar loss on the battlefield of Wuchang, was like a knife, tears were like rain, and he knew that it would be another fiasco, but Zhangtai Bei Ziye kept urging, "Yang Junmen, General Yang, can't delay any longer, hurry up, start the boat!" Yang Jie was furious, but he just pretended not to hear.

After another moment, Zhao Dengju and Zhang Sheguang and other backbone generals of the Qing army had also fled to Watergate, met with Yang Jie, and whispered about the Wu army's breakthrough of Jiujiang City Defense, Yang Jie, who had always had a good temper, finally couldn't bear to roar at Zhangtai Bei Ziye, "Bei Ziye, I heard that you were the first to abandon the city and flee for your life, is it true?" Do you know how much impact you, as the commander of the whole army, will have if you take the lead in abandoning the city and fleeing, and how much damage will be caused to our morale? ”

Zhangtai Bei Ziye lowered his head and kept silent, his face showed some shame, but Yang Jie was so angry that he almost strangled him to death on the spot, and after trying to swallow this evil breath, Yang Jie said hoarsely with a blue face: "Bei Ziye, the last general is also for your sake, I will give you another suggestion, listen to it or not, it's up to you - now that Wu Gou has entered Jiujiang City, we don't have so many ships to meet all the brothers to break through, and we must break through some of the men and horses from the east gate by land." ”

"Therefore, the last general can organize an army for you to return to the city, and you don't want to reorganize the army to recapture Jiujiang, as long as you organize a part of the defeated army to break through to the east gate, and keep some Qing troops for the preservation of the Qing Dynasty, you will have an explanation in front of the master. Otherwise, even the last general will not know how you will explain in front of your master in the future. ”

Hearing Yang Jie's heart-to-heart words, Zhangtai Bei Ziye's body was shocked, but his head hung lower, and he just muttered in his heart, just returned to the capital, it was great that he was handed over to the Zongren Mansion by his cousin Kangxi Master and imprisoned forever, but if he returned to the city, in case he was cut down by Wu Gou, he would not even have the chance to be imprisoned by the Zongren Mansion for life.

Seeing Zhangtai's expression, Yang Jie, Zhao Dengju and Zhang Sheguang and other generals all wanted to cry without tears, and in desperation, Zhao Dengju had to say to Yang Jie: "Yang Junmen, let's go, give me some soldiers and horses, I will go into the city to organize the brothers to break through, the army in Jiujiang is all the hard work of Lord Dong, and you can keep as much as you can." ”

"Then I'll give you a thousand sailors, and you can organize some of the brothers on the dock." Yang Jie said helplessly: "After leaving the city, I tried my best to break through to Nanchang, but I couldn't break through the encirclement of Wu Gou, so I crossed to the mouth of Poyang Lake, I sent this group of brothers to Hukou County, and I will come back to meet you immediately." ”

"Then please Yang Junmen!" Zhao Dengju arched his hand to Yang Jie, and spit a mouthful of phlegm at Zhangtai's feet in anger, and then jumped off the warship and returned to the dock to organize the army to break through from the land. Zhangtai Bei Ziye hated secretly in his heart, but he didn't dare to attack.

Zhao Dengju's loyalty to the master of the mite Qing is quite sufficient, but it is a pity that he met this time is more slippery than a loach, more vicious than a jackal Lu Fat Lu Sanhao, as early as when the Wu army captured the city wall of the west gate of Jiujiang, Lu Fatzi had already expected that the Qing army would break through to the east gate, and had already arranged for his henchman Li Tianzhi to lead an army to ambush on the road leading to Nanchang at the east gate of Jiujiang, and also equipped Li Tian with the Wu army's ace of infantry - this army of only more than 800 people. It was personally led by An Jiarong, the eldest son of Lu Fatzi's brother Zhanyi Tusi An Shixian, and his combat effectiveness was not trivial.

Therefore, when Zhao Dengju finally rushed back to Jiujiang City, and finally organized a team of men and horses to break through from Jiumen, which was not intercepted by the Wu army, he was attacked head-on by Li Tianzhi and An Jiarong, two descendants of Lu Fatzi, before he went far. At the same time, further south of this road, Dong Weiguo and Zhao Dengkui, who had hastily retreated from Jiujiang City to Nanchang, also stepped into the ambush circle of the Wu cavalry Gao Hongchen's troops near Tongyuan, and were flanked by the Wu cavalry on both sides, and had to break through in the direction of Poyang Lake in the east deliberately conceded by Gao Hongchen's troops.

So far, the Jiujiang battlefield has actually been divided into four reading battlefields, the battlefield of the sailors on the water surface of the Yangtze River, the battlefield of street battles in Jiujiang City, the blocking battlefield outside the east gate of Jiujiang, and the ambush battlefield directly south of Jiujiang. However, for the generals and soldiers of the Qing army, they were at an absolute disadvantage no matter which battlefield they were in, and they were at an absolute disadvantage no matter which battlefield they were in, and they were facing an absolute crisis of annihilation. The victory of the Wu army has been decided, and the only difference is the number of enemy killed and captured, and the number of casualties and losses of the own army.

At noon, news came from the battlefield on the river, and Yang Jie's fleet, which was full of fleeing Qing troops, left the port, escorted by ten lightly armed warships, escorting the Qing soldiers who could no longer be loaded to flee downstream, and Li Guodong, the commander of the Fat Army's naval division, had sent troops to chase and kill. Lu Fatzi thought for a while, and quickly issued two orders to Li Guodong, one is not to chase and kill the Pengze River, so as not to encounter the Anqing rescue troops of the Qing army, and the other is to allow the Qing army warships to surrender, as long as the Qing army is willing to surrender, no matter who it is, even if it is a full dog flag person, he can be spared.

After another moment of fighting, Li Tianzhi's department sent good news, and the Qing army Zhao Dengju's department, which could not break through the Wu army's blockade, had been forced to change the direction of the breakthrough and fled towards the Hukou ferry of Poyang Lake.

After noon, Han Daren returned to Lu Fatzi with a smile and a smile on his head, and happily saluted Lu Fatzi: "The general of the Eastern Army, the last general Han Daren was ordered to attack the city, and he has taken Jiujiang City, the first important town in northern Jiangbei, and he has killed the enemy, capturing more than 6,000 soldiers and dozens of civil and military officials. The granaries, arsenals, and stables in Jiujiang City were intact, and they all fell into the hands of our army, and countless horses and money and grain were captured! ”

"Good work." Lu Fatzi said quietly: "Jiujiang is the first center of the northern defense line of Mangou, General Han won the battle in less than half a day, it is really the first merit of our army, and I will write a performance of the battle situation in a while and send someone to send someone to the prince to ask for credit for General Han!" ”

"General Xie cultivates!" Han Daren happily agreed, and Jun, who had been aggrieved for a long time, finally returned to his usual smug and arrogant look.

"General Han, in fact, what you should thank the most is not Brother Lu." Gao Dejie, who was at odds with Han Daren, sneered: "General Han should be most thanked, it should be the dog-filled Dingyuan Jingkou General Zhangtai, if it weren't for his help, General Han would not have been able to take this first credit, I'm afraid it would not be so easy." ”

"General Gao, what do you mean by this?" Han Daren raised his eyebrows, and also sneered: "General Gao wants to say that the reason why Han was able to successfully capture Jiujiang was all due to luck, and there was no effort in size?" ”

"Everybody has eyes, and they all see clearly." Gao Dejie continued to sneer, "If it weren't for Brother Lu's clever tricks to force away Dong Weiguo, the pillar of the sky full of dogs in Jiujiang-General Han, you ask yourself, can you take Jiujiang City so easily?" In my opinion, the first merit of the siege should be credited to Brother Lu! ”

"The general's merits, of course the last general will not dare to take it." Han Daren sneered: "If General Gao thinks that the last general should only take one second merit, then the second merit is better, than some people who have not made an inch!" ”

"What did you say?" Gao Dejie was furious.

"Alright, alright, two generals, don't fight." Fat Lu was busy playing the round, and said with a smile: "Brother Dajie, you don't need to worry, there are still two important towns of Nanchang and Anqing on the battlefield in northern Jiangxi, Brother Dajie wants to make meritorious contributions, and there is still an opportunity." Besides, such a thing as luck is actually a kind of ability, and if it is replaced by someone else, maybe there is really no such luck, as soon as he rushed to the city wall, the enemy commander was so frightened that he abandoned the city and fled. For example, like me, the first time I led my troops into battle, I could encounter the unfortunate thing of being attacked by hundreds of thousands of dogs in front and back, can I have such luck? ”

Gao Dejie finally closed his mouth, and Han Daren secretly hated in his heart, understanding that Lu Fatzi also felt that he could successfully capture Jiujiang, and most of the reason was that he was too lucky, and maybe he didn't feel that he had too much real talent.

At this time, Gao Hongchen's army has also sent a battle report, and the cavalry led by Gao Hongchen successfully ambushed Dong Wei [***] near Tongyuan, forcing Dong Weiguo to lead the army to flee to the area of Poyang Lake, but seeing that the Wu army defeated Dong Weiguo's remnants of the army and forced them to have no way to go to the sky and no way to go to the ground, and was about to annihilate Dong Wei [***] on the shore of Poyang Lake, but two Qing warships came out of Poyang Lake without knowing where to get out of there, and Dong Weiguo and Zhao Yingkui and others were picked up on the ship, causing Gao Hongchen's troops to fall short and failed to achieve the complete annihilation of Dong Wei [***] tactical purposes.

"Dong Weiguo ran away?" Fat Lu frowned, and hurriedly asked the messenger, "Is that the full dog warship coming?" Did you see the flag clearly? Could it be a dog-filled warship in Raozhou or Hukou? ”

"General Hui, judging from the flag, it should be a dog-filled warship in Jiujiang." The messenger replied respectfully.

"That's good." Fat Lu breathed a sigh of relief, patted his chest and said, "Since it is a warship full of dogs in Jiujiang, then I don't have to worry about Dong Weiguo being sent to Nanchang." ”

"Brother Lu, why are you so sure?" Gao Dejie asked worriedly.

"It's very simple, Dong Weiguo's suspicion of collaborating with the enemy has not been cleared up yet." Lu Fatzi replied: "So Yang Jie has a hundred guts, and he doesn't dare to send Dong Weiguo to Nanchang, Jiangxi, but will only send him to Anqing, Anhui, otherwise once the Mangou Imperial Court is investigated, it will be difficult for Yang Jie not to be implicated by Dong Weiguo." ”

"Makes sense." Gao Dejie nodded, and asked curiously: "Brother Lu, then the next step, do you plan to fight there first, Nanchang first, or Anqing first?" ”

"This is the next step, the enemy situation is constantly changing, and it is better for us to improvise." Fat Lu shook his head, smiled again and said, "What I am most concerned about now is whether Zhangtai, a full dog, can break through our encirclement, and whether there is any hope of a comeback." ”

"Young Master, why do you care about this?" Even Xiao Erlang couldn't help but interject and ask.

"Stupid, a good enemy like Zhangtai, of course I hope that he will live a long life, the more the officials will become, and the more soldiers will be led." Fat Lu replied with a smile. After thinking for a while, Fat Lu beckoned Xiao Erlang to the front again, and whispered in his ear: "After Han Daren gathers the captives in a while, you will take a few people to look for them in the captives, and see if you can find a few of Zhangtai's pro-henchmen or soldiers, if you find them, don't be in a hurry to cut their braids, first treat them with wine and food, and then when I am free, I will arrange for someone to bring them to see me." ”

(To be continued)