"Wu Sangui old thief! You shameless old thing! The old fox who never dies! I'm your eighteen-generation ancestors' eighteen-generation ancestors-! ”

After reading the letter of Wu Jun brought into Jingzhou City by the Qing prisoners of war, our Prince Rabula of Heshuo Jianchun almost collapsed on the ground, tearing up Wu Laohan's letter to shreds with three strokes and two blows, and scolding with a beating of his chest, "Old thing that doesn't die!" Shameless old slippery head! A traitor who deserves death! Dog thief! There will come a day when this king will cut you with a thousand knives! A thousand cuts! ”

"The prince is angry, Lord Jane, please calm his anger first." Tuhai and Shang Shan grabbed Prince Jian together, and asked nervously: "Lord Wang, what did Wu Gou say in the letter?" ”

"You won't see it yourself?" King Jian handed over the letter in his hand like thunder, and then found that the letter had already been torn to pieces by himself in anger, and he had no choice but to introduce: "Wu Gou informed our army in the letter, saying that the embankment was seriously damaged by Xu Zhidu, and they were unable to repair it, and it was expected that the embankment would collapse on the eighth day of the lunar month. ”

"The 10,000-person embankment was seriously damaged by Xu Zhidu? Wu Dog can't afford to repair it? Is it expected to collapse on the eighth day of the lunar month? The Qing generals such as Tuhai, Chani, Shang Shan, and Zhun Da who were present were all dumbfounded, and they couldn't imagine that there was such a shameless excuse for digging embankments in the world, obviously the Wu army planned to dig the embankment and flood the city, and even put all the blame on the Qing army, and insisted that it was the result of the Qing army? Immediately afterwards, Tu Hai, Chani and others naturally had no choice but to scold, and scolded Wu Laohan to the point that he was bloody, and his body was incomplete.

No matter how much he scolded, it was useless, Wu Laohan couldn't hear it, and it was impossible to scold Wu Laohan off a single hair, so after scolding his throat dry, the commanders of the Qing army such as Rabu and Tuhai soon began to stare at each other again, and there was only one thought left in his mind - will the despicable, shameless and frenzied Wu Laohan Zhan really dig up the embankment of 10,000 people and flood the Qing army in Jingzhou and the Han people in Jingzhou? If Wu Laohan really digs the embankment, what should we do?

"Uncle, let's break through quickly." Shang Shan, who was the least courageous, was the first to collapse, and first proposed: "While there is still some time, let's break through quickly, otherwise, we will have nowhere to run if we want to." ”

"Can't break through!" Tu Hai objected again, "Wu Gou sent prisoners to send letters into the city, clearly trying to force us to break through, so that they could take the opportunity to kill us all in the field." ”

"Then shall we stay in Jingzhou City and wait for death?" Shang Shan, who had long seen that Tuhai was not pleasing to the eye, finally couldn't bear to roar, and roared with red eyes: "Wu Gou has directly explained that he is going to dig the embankment, and you still don't let you break through, you want to kill the 60,000 troops in Jingzhou City?!" ”

"Brother Shang, please calm down." Chani, who has an extremely good relationship with Tuhai, grabbed Shang Shan and said: "The little brother thinks that Tuzhongtang is reasonable, if Wu Gou really plans to dig the embankment, just dig it directly, so why bother doing it?" Deliberately report to us to give us a chance to break through and escape for our lives? Therefore, the younger brother thinks that there are still suspicious things about Wu Gou's digging of the embankment. ”

"Lord La, do you think the situation will be like this?" Bei Zi Zhunda who had the lowest title present opened his mouth and said insightfully: "Could it be that Wu Sangui's old thief didn't want to dig the embankment at will, and he didn't want to pay heavy losses in the battle, so he deliberately threatened to dig the embankment?" If our army is forced to break through and abandon Jingzhou because of the fear of floods, then the old thief Wu Sangui can not only get Jingzhou, but also take the opportunity to inflict heavy losses on our army in the field. If our army refuses to break through, then on the eighth day of the lunar month, Wu Gou will really dig the embankment, so that the barbarian people in Jingzhou City will die with us. ”

"Quasi-Beizi is right, this may be the biggest." Rabu nodded quickly and agreed: "The old thief Wu Sangui not only wants to annihilate our army, but also is afraid of the notoriety of destroying the embankment and harming the people, so he deliberately released a rumor to intimidate our army. If our army does not break through, then Wu Sangui's old thief can say that he is benevolent and righteous, digging embankments and flooding the city to annihilate our army, and then blame Xu Zhidu, and insist that it is Xu Zhidu's that collapsed. ”

"That's right, Zhun Beizi is right, Wu Gou must be this plan." Chani nodded in agreement.

"I agree with that, too." Shang Shan nodded vigorously, and urged: "Lord La, come up with an idea, when will you break through?" I'm afraid it's too late! ”

"Not necessarily!" Tu Hai vetoed it again, and said categorically: "In my opinion, on the eighth day of the lunar month, Wu Gou may not really dare to dig the embankment, and Jingzhou still has the value of sticking to it!" ”

"Then you defend yourself, we will break through!" Shang Shan roared again, "You take your headquarters to defend Jingzhou, and we will break through by ourselves to see who is wiped out and who retains the vitality for the Qing Dynasty!" ”

Tu Hai didn't dare to say anything, first, Shang Shan's title and bloodline were something he couldn't provoke, and second, he only had less than 10,000 defeated Huguang soldiers in his hands, and he held Jingzhou alone, basically waiting for the wolf-like Wu army to kill his entire army. Fortunately, Prince Rabu Jianchun, who had the highest title and official position in the audience, was quite calm, and persuaded in time: "Shang Belle, if you have something to say, don't miss our army's plan for the sake of momentary anger." ”

"Uncle, it's not that the little nephew wants to fight with him, the little nephew is also thinking about the Qing Dynasty!" Shang Shan shouted angrily: "Now Huguang is only our last army, if these 60,000 troops are lost in Jingzhou again, the entire Huguang will be finished!" Huguang is finished again, Wu Gou takes the opportunity to go north, and our main force in Shaanxi and Gansu will be sandwiched by Wu Gou! There are also Henan, Shanxi and Anhui, which are also exposed to the iron hooves of Wu dogs everywhere! ”

Rabu was silent, and after thinking nervously for a long time, Rabu gritted his teeth and said: "For the sake of the Jiangshan Society of the Qing Dynasty, we have to prepare with both hands. From now on, the three of you will begin to prepare for the breakout, and the army will prepare for ten days' worth of dry rations, and the granary arsenal will be piled with firewood and oil. Waiting for the king's order, the whole army immediately broke through the siege, burned the granary and arsenal, and left no grain and grass for Wu Gou! ”

"Pierce." Shang Shan, Chani and Zhun Da agreed to call a thousand together, and Tu Hai exclaimed: "Lord Wang, you can't, Wu Gou may not dare to dig the embankment!" There are still ...... in Jingzhou. ”

"Tuzhongtang, you listen to this king's words." Rabu interrupted Tuhai's exclamation, and said in a deep voice: "This king has the second preparation, it is now the noon of the fifth day of the lunar month, this king will give you two days, before the noon of the seventh day of the lunar month, no matter what means you use, you have to confirm to this king whether Wu Gou really intends to dig the embankment!" If you can prove that Wu Gou really didn't dare to dig the embankment, this king will naturally not give up Jingzhou at will, but if you can't prove it, then this king can only order a breakthrough for the sake of the surnames of the soldiers of the 60,000 army. ”

"Let me prove if Wu Gou really intends to dig the embankment?" Tu Hai was a little dumbfounded, and said in his heart that I can't ask Wu Sangui the old thief in person, and ask him if he can dig the embankment, right? But Rabu had already said it to this point, and Tu Hai could only bite the bullet and say: "The slave did his best, but the slave felt that the possibility of Wu Gou digging the embankment and flooding the city was really small. ”

"I don't want you to think, I just want your evidence!" Rabu replied coldly: "If this king listens to your opinion, and turns out that your opinion is wrong, then this king has a hundred heads, and it is not enough for the master to cut it off." ”

"Pierce." Tuhai reluctantly agreed. After a moment of nervous consideration, Tu Hai suggested: "Lord La, then the servants suggest that our army should send more scouts out of the city and investigate the various situations around Jingzhou at any cost. In addition, an elite army was sent to the 10,000-person embankment to investigate the situation at the scene. ”

"Yes." Rabu nodded and ordered: "The scout king will immediately send elite soldiers to the ten thousand embankments to investigate the situation at the scene, and draw them from your Huguang army, and you can arrange it yourself." ”

"Pierce." Tuhai had no choice but to agree again, and asked his deputy Chani to go to the Huguang army to select 2,000 elite cavalry, led by Mu Zhan, a fierce general he rescued from the Anshun battlefield, to go to the 10,000-person embankment to reconnoiter the scene by force. At the same time, for the sake of prudence, Tu Hai decided to personally go to the 10,000 embankment to investigate, but Tu Hai had already broken a thigh, so the Qing cavalry could only be handed over to Mu Zhan to command the battle.

After the preparations were completed, the noon was about to expire, and the west gate of Jingzhou, which had been closed for a long time, was finally opened, and Tu Hai and Mu Zhan led two thousand elite cavalry out of the city at the same time, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Wu army's lack of time to react, they rushed to the ten thousand embankments to reconnoiter by force, and at the same time, the scout team personally arranged by Rabu also took the opportunity to go out of the city, and quickly dispersed with a team of ten people, and rushed to the villages and towns around the Jingjiang River to reconnoiter the situation.

Because the Wu army's camp had been relocated to Duijintai, which was far away from Jingzhou City, and only a small number of troops were retained outside the city to monitor the situation in the city, Tuhai and Mu Zhan's cavalry did not spend much effort to break through the Wu army's blockade and killed them at a gallop under the 10,000-person embankment dam eight miles away. However, what made Tuhai and Mu Zhan angry was that the Wu army seemed to have expected that there would be a Qing army attacking the 10,000-person embankment, and had already deployed two elite cavalry on the embankment of the 10,000-person embankment, and the Qing cavalry had just approached the 10,000-person embankment, and the Wu cavalry Gao Dejie and Tao Jizhi on the embankment were halfway up the embankment, with a total of 6,000 cavalry, immediately dispatched to kill the Qing cavalry and make every effort to block the Qing cavalry from going up the embankment.

This is the most authentic cavalry battle, the general of the Qing army Mu Zhan and the generals of the Wu army Gao Dejie and Tao Jizhi are all first-class cavalry fighters in the world, and they collided head-on under the open terrain of 10,000 people, and naturally an earth-shattering cavalry battle broke out. Gao Dejie, who was good at charging, formed a conical formation and charged directly, and with red eyes, he went straight to the middle of the front of the Qing cavalry team, intending to cut the Qing army team directly in two. Tao Jizhi was extremely cunning and commanded his team to circle around the Qing army, constantly shooting the peripheral cavalry of the Qing army with bows and arrows and muskets, and inducing the Qing army to divide its troops. However, Mu Zhan knew that his army was small, and once he divided his troops to meet the attack, it was tantamount to seeking his own death, so he strictly ordered the Qing cavalry not to disperse, and formed a group to fight back at Wu Jun Tao Jizhi with bows and arrows and muskets, and on the other hand to block Gao Dejie's charging momentum with a saber dense formation, the battlefield was covered with snow and dust, and the sound of horses' hooves, shouts of killing, arrows breaking through the air and muskets reflected each other, deafening.

From ancient times to the present, among the various armies attacking from the south to the north, only Wu Lao Han's Yunnan-Guizhou army cavalry is the most sophisticated, which has two important reasons, one is that the Wu army had the supply of war horses from the Qing Dynasty before, and Yungui and Sichuan both produced war horses, and at the same time, Wu Lao Han had an excellent relationship with the Fifth Harmony Lama in Tibetan Province, and could obtain Tibetan horses from the hands of the Fifth Harmony Lama through trade means, plus the secret supply of Wang Fuchen, who controlled the Shaanxi and Gansu horse-producing areas, Therefore, the main force of the Wu army is quite abundant in terms of war horse equipment.

The second is to control the soldiers of the war horse, Wu Lao Han Zhan himself is the first-class cavalry general in the former Ming army, and the cavalry generals brought from Liaodong can not be counted with both hands and feet, and the cavalry trained by hand is naturally almost there, and finally the Wu army has been conquest of Shuixi every year to train the descendants of the extravagant incense, and the combat experience is even above the current Qing army Eight Banners cavalry, so on the cavalry battlefield, the Wu cavalry not only does not suffer a loss in the face of the Qing cavalry, but can even be said to have a little advantage.

The words are far away, back to the point, the battlefield under the embankment is full of swords and swords, bows, arrows, guns and bullets are coming and going, shouting and killing and the sound of horses' hooves are shaking the ground slightly, but Tuhai, who was surrounded by his own soldiers in the middle of the Qing army, has no time to take care of the battlefield situation at all, a pair of eagle-like sharp eyes through the high-grade clairvoyant mirror of Western tribute, just quickly and carefully scanned the various situations on the embankment, patiently looking for all kinds of clues, in order to judge whether the Wu army really intends to dig the embankment.

Soon, Tu Hai's heart was in his throat, the signs of Wu Jun's preparation to blow up the embankment and flood the city were too obvious, the middle and upper part of the 10,000-person embankment was full of freshly dug fresh soil, and there were hoe tools for digging embankments and dams, as well as mountains of gunpowder barrels that were tightly protected by the Wu army's infantry, and there were even more than 20 large water tanks, Tu Hai was a smart person, so he naturally immediately understood the purpose of these water tanks - put explosives into the tanks, bury them in the embankment and detonate them!

"Don't be afraid, Wu Gou will definitely not dare to blow up the embankment, definitely not dare." Secretly comforting himself, Tu Hai put down the clairvoyant mirror, rubbed his eyes that were already a little dazzling, and cheered himself up again, and then raised the clairvoyant mirror to observe the scene on the embankment. Soon, the banner of the commander of the infantry of the Wu army on the embankment fell into Tu Hai's eyes again, and when he inadvertently glanced at the big characters on the flag, Tu Hai's heart fell again, but instead of falling back into his stomach, he fell into the bottomless abyss, because on that big banner - it was the word 'Lu'!

"Lu Yifeng?!" Tu Hai's scarred face turned white, and the broken leg that had already healed began to ache faintly, and there was only one thought left in his heart, "Wu Gou is definitely going to blow up the embankment!" This shameless fat man Lu has a heart that is a hundred times more vicious than Wu Sangui's old thief! With his vicious and shameless surname, he will never miss the opportunity to annihilate all our Qing army! ”

"Tuzhongtang, there are reinforcements from the Wu Dog Battalion!" The frantic screams of the soldiers pulled Tu Hai back from the loss of his soul, Tu Hai put down the clairvoyant mirror and looked to the north, and saw that the Wu army camp really killed a black and oppressive army, and on the battlefield under the embankment, although Mu Zhan's cavalry could still support it, there were hundreds of corpses on the snowy land, and the casualties were not small. Tu Hai immediately made a decision, and immediately shouted: "Go and give Mu Zhan an order, don't rush to the embankment, the whole army will return to the city, don't give Wu Gou a chance to surround us!" ”

The order was conveyed, the Qing cavalry who could not rush to the embankment quickly turned around, surrounded Tuhai and retreated back to the city with all their might, Gao Dejie and Tao Jizhi The two cavalry were in hot pursuit, desperately slashing and shooting the lone Qing cavalry, and the Wu army team that came from the north was divided into two roads, all the way to the south to block the return of the Qing cavalry, and all the way to the east, to the Qing cavalry back to the city must be lined up to block the attack. The cavalry of the Qing army led by Mu Zhan had no intention of responding to the battle, but just relied on their horses to retreat desperately, competing with the infantry of the Wu army from the north.

The four legs of the war horse were still faster than the two legs of the man, and the two interception teams of the Wu infantry only attacked the flank of the Qing cavalry, and failed to arrive in time to block the Qing cavalry's way back to the city, and the cavalry of Mu Zhan and Tuhai finally retreated to the artillery cover of the defenders of Jingzhou City before the Wu army closed the siege, forcing the Wu army, which was not fully prepared, to stop the pursuit. Rao is like this, Tu Hai and Mu Zhan brought out of Jingzhou City, but less than two-thirds of the soldiers fled back to Jingzhou City, and the rest were all killed, even if they knelt on the ground and surrendered, they were hacked to death by the Wu army, leaving no prisoners.

Fleeing back to Jingzhou City, he was just helped off his horse by his own soldiers, and before the panting Tuhai could relieve his breath, Rabu, Chani and Zhunda came up and couldn't wait to ask, "How is the situation on the embankment?" Does Wu Gou have any plans to destroy the embankment? ”

Tu Hai was silent, just gasping for breath, until Rabu asked again and again, and Tu Hai said in a hoarse voice: "Wu Gou is at least eighty percent likely to blow up the embankment." ”

"Why?" Rabu asked without giving up, "Why is Tuzhongtang so sure?" ”

"Because on the 10,000-person embankment, the Wu dog general who commanded the explosion of the embankment is the Lu Yifeng and Lu fat man who caused my family to be ruined." Tu Hai said in an extremely bitter voice: "This Wu dog's heart is a hundred times more vicious than Wu Sangui's old thief, he only seeks the end when he does things, and never uses unscrupulous means - the slave even dares to bet with his head, the first Wu dog who proposed to Wu Sangui's old thief to blow up the embankment and flood the city is definitely this Lu Yifeng with a heart like a snake and scorpion jackal!" ”

This time, it was finally Labu and Chani's turn not to speak, but Zhun Da, who had never suffered a loss, was extremely surprised, and couldn't help asking: "Tuzhongtang, Lord La, Chabele, why are you all so afraid of this Lu Yifeng barbarian?" When I was in the capital, didn't I hear that he had a nickname called Lu Sanhao? What do you say good things and do good deeds with good intentions, why do you still describe him like that? ”

"Lu Sanhao? Bah! Bullshit! Rabu, Chani and Tuhai spat in unison, Tuhai pointed to his broken leg, and said with red eyes: "Quasi-Beizi, look, the broken leg of the slave was broken by that Lu Yifeng!" The slave hadn't recruited him before that and provoked him, he even fabricated perjury, and forcibly harmed the slave, my family was ruined, and his wife was separated! ”

"Our Wuchang City and Hanyang City were all taken by that Wu dog who gave Wu Sangui an old thief bad idea!" Chani also roared angrily: "That shameless dog barbarian, he actually let Wu Dog Elite pretend to be our prisoner of war to attack Hanyang City, he can figure out such a shameless trick, and you still say that he is Lu Sanhao?!" ”

"The battle in which our Qing elite suffered the greatest loss was the Battle of Bajiang in Guizhou." Rabu said hatefully: "That time, it was this ruthless Lu Yifeng dog barbarian who pretended to be the defeated soldier of our army, and attacked Bajiang City successfully, cutting off the road of our main force of the Qing Dynasty, and the Eight Banners athletes who died directly in his hands and indirectly in his hands, tens of thousands!" Prince Kang, King Shunjun, Prince An and King Pingnan, there is no one who does not hate him to the bone! ”

Zhun Da was dumbfounded, and only said after a while: "So, the old thief Wu Sangui sent him to the 10,000-person embankment, is he determined to blow up the embankment and flood the city?" ”

Tuhai, Rabu, and Chani did not speak, and only nodded together after a while, indicating that they agreed with this view.

Although Lu Fatzi himself did not expect that because of his appearance on the 10,000-person embankment, the commanders of the Qing army would unanimously believe that the Wu army would blow up the embankment and flood the city, but in the end, what made the decision-makers of the Qing army decide to abandon Jingzhou was the return of the scouts sent by the Qing army to reconnoiter the situation - after paying a heavy price under the all-out interception and killing of the Wu army, the Qing army scouts found that the Wu army had sent a large number of cavalry to scatter to the Shashi, Jiaodian, Haoxuekou and Longwan areas around Jingzhou City, and ordered the local people to move to the high ground. Take shelter from the impending monstrous floods. And when things got to this point, even the most deceitful and cunning Tu Haidu no longer insisted on continuing to hold Jingzhou, but instead supported the search for opportunities to break through and preserve the vitality of the main force of the Qing army.

Without Tuhai's opposition, the proposal to abandon the city and break through was finally unanimously passed in the decision-making level of the Qing army, but when choosing the time to break out, Tuhai and the opinions of everyone were at odds, and the Rabu monk Shangshan and others were inclined to break through on the night of the seventh day of the lunar month, on the grounds that the Wu army was about to blow up the embankment and would definitely transfer all the troops to the high ground. However, Tuhai is the opposite, tending to break through overnight on the night of the sixth day of the lunar month.

"Lord La, please think about it." In order to convince Rabu, Tu Hai patiently analyzed: "If you are Wu Sangui's old thief, what do you think is the most likely time for us to break through?" It must be the night of the seventh day of the lunar month! Because Wu Gou stated in advance that he would blow up the embankment on the eighth day of the lunar month, according to common sense, we will have the greatest possibility of breaking through on the last night, so on the seventh night of the lunar month, Wu Gou's side must be strictly guarded and ready for battle, once it is found that our army will break through the siege, it will inevitably immediately send troops to block it, only on the night of the sixth day of the lunar month, because there is still a day and a night in time, Wu Gou expects that our army will inevitably have to do a dying struggle, even if it is prepared, it will not be very sufficient, so the breakthrough on the sixth night of the lunar month is the most beneficial for our army. ”

Tu Hai's analysis is very reasonable, including Shang Shan, who is not in harmony with Tu Hai, did not object, and Rabu also nodded quickly, and said: "Then tomorrow night, the night of the sixth day of the lunar month, break through, but in that direction do we break through?" The Jingmen gate in the north has been dedicated to Wu Gou by Yang Jintai's dog thieves, and there is a Huya Pass that is dangerously blocked, and we must not go, are we breaking through to Yiling City due to the west? Or break through to Anlu Mansion in the northeast? ”

"The Yi Tomb due west!" Tuhai was the first to reply.

"Anlu in the northeast!" Chani, Shang Shan, and Zhun Da replied in unison.

"Why are there disagreements again?" Rabra had a long face.

(To be continued)