After resting in Nanjing for two days, on May 25, Lu Fatzi once again personally led the main force of the Fat Army to Zhenjiang City, where Li Guodong's water division was located. [No pop-up novel network]

Unlike the Western Expedition, which only dispatched 20,000 troops, this time the Fat Army's army alone set out from Nanjing, with a strength of more than 60,000 in one go (including some of the troops brought by Lu Fatzi from Taiping Mansion when he finished his Western Expedition), and Han Daren's 20,000 troops (including the newly recruited prisoners) who were already on the way to the east, plus 15,000 Li Guodong's naval division, and 26,000 Gao Dejie's troops in Yangzhou City, the army that the Fat Army was ready to put into the Yangzhou battlefield this time accounted for two-thirds of the strength of the Fat Army in Jiangnan. A staggering 120,000 or more! It can be said that the elite is exhausted, betting on the desperate fight of Lu Fatzi's fat luck!

With such a large-scale troop mobilization of the Fat Army, it is naturally impossible to hide it from the eyes of the Qing Army's meticulous work - even if the Qing Army's meticulous work is like a certain nine-stream online writer called a wolf in later generations, he is a super short-sighted eye, and he can also see that the huge Fat Army team is like the white torrent, slowly flowing along the official road in the south of the Yangtze River, slowly but firmly passing through the villages, towns, farmlands, streams and forests in the south of the Yangtze River, dyeing the troubled land of the south of the Yangtze River into a snow-white patch.

On the wide surface of the Yangtze River, the large and small ships carrying the fat man's military rations and grass and flying white flags are like carp crossing the river, densely covering the river surface, and also dyeing the crystal clear Yangtze River surface into a snow-white patch.

When he set off, Lu Fatzi gave a speech to the 60,000 Fat Men on the Nanjing campus, and told the Fat Men soldiers without subtlety and disharmony, "Soldiers, we are not fighting for plundering land, money and grain, let alone fighting for promotion and personal interests, we are fighting for revenge!" Thirty years ago, the Mangou invaded Jiangnan, turning Jiangnan into a sea of corpses and blood, a hell on earth, and bullying millions of our Han sisters! Tens of millions of our Jiangnan compatriots were killed! Hundreds of millions of people who have taken away the fat and ointment of our Han people! ”

"Today, Mangou is here again, or the Mangou Emperor is here in person! The foreign devils who also hooked up with the red-haired country and the rakshasa country are here! It's time to kill our compatriots again, it's coming to humiliate our sisters, wives and daughters, it's coming to rob us of our land, money and food, and it's coming to turn our Jiangnan Heaven into a hell of sincerity! Jiangnan is very dangerous, and we are also dangerous, but danger and opportunity coexist, because in this battle, our opponent is the Emperor Mangou, the Emperor of the Pockmarked Mangou whose hands are stained with the blood of our Han compatriots! If we can or not, we will definitely be able to capture him alive, and we will be able to survive the danger, and the spirits of tens of millions of our compatriots in the south of the Yangtze River and tens of thousands of Han compatriots across the country can be blinded to the spirits in the sky! ”

"Kill the dog emperor alive and avenge my Chinese compatriots! Take revenge, China will win! Revenge, the Han people will win! Take revenge, Da Zhou will win! ”

In the drizzle, 60,000 fat soldiers raised their swords and guns at the same time, as if a steel wall had risen in the land south of the Yangtze River, and the neat and rhythmic shouts also resounded in the sky, "Revenge, China will win!" Revenge, the Han people will win! Take revenge, Da Zhou will win! Take revenge, China will win! Revenge, the Han people will win! Take revenge, Da Zhou will win! Revenge————! ”

"Soldiers, look at the heavy filial piety on your body, you can remember the blood that the dog brought to us in Jiangnan!"

"Soldiers, look at your heavy filial piety, you can remember the suffering that the dog has brought to us in China!"

"Soldiers, look at the heavy filial piety on you, you can remember that this time you are not only fighting for yourself, but also for your compatriots in Jiangnan! Or fight for the common people of the world in China! Fight for all the descendants of Yan and Huang——! ”

In the hoarse shouts of Lu Fatzi, the slogans of revenge and hatred also sounded over and over again in the Nanjing school field and the land south of the Yangtze River. Hearing this angry and neat slogan, and seeing the fat soldiers of the Fat Army who were so excited that their blood was boiling, the frightened mite Qingqing was naturally the first to send the news to the mite Qing army as quickly as possible; In the places where the fat army passed along the way, the Qing army lurking in these places was naturally the first time, and sent the snowflake-like emergency documents to the mite Qing army at the fastest speed, to Yue Le, the commander of the Yangzhou battlefield of the mite Qing army, and to Kang Mazi, who was actually still lurking in the Xiba camp north of the Yellow River.

Relying on the advantage of the distance, Yue Le, the commander of the Southern Expedition of the Qing Army stationed outside Yangzhou City, naturally received the news that the main force of the Fat Army led by Lu Fatzi to go to the battlefield in Yangzhou in person before Kang Mazi received the news that Lu Fatzi personally led the main force of the Fat Army to go to the battlefield in Yangzhou, and Yue Le, who had already received the information on the annihilation of the Qing Army on the Western Front, read this 100,000 urgent emergency document, Tie Qing's face was full of a pillar of incense and did not say a word for a while, and the people in the handsome tent Tuhai, Jieshu, Shang Shan, Dong Weiguo and Laita were also silent, so quiet that they could even hear a needle falling on the ground clearly.

"It's finally here." After a long time, Yue Le smiled bitterly, and finally sighed: "This king still thinks that Lu Yifeng, a slippery dog thief, is planning to use time to consume us who are about to run out of food, so that we can retreat without a fight, and I didn't expect that this dog thief not only came at the last moment, but also went out on the expedition with filial piety, played the banner of revenge for the Han people, and put on a posture of fighting to the death with us." ”

"It was the master's fake luan driver who lured him in." Tu Hai said slowly: "In the current situation, Lu Yifeng's dog thief will lose the battlefield in the world if he wins the Jiangnan battlefield, so he has been raising thieves with self-respect before, and he simply ignores us. But the master's fake luan drove made this barbarian dog thief who has a crazy hatred for our Qing Dynasty forget the battlefield in the world, forget his ambition, and do whatever it takes to come to a decisive battle with our master. ”

"We don't have the slightest chance of winning." Dong Weiguo said the truth, "Although in the past few months, our newly formed army has been strengthened in training, tempered to a certain extent, accumulated some experience, and increased its combat effectiveness. But Wu Gou this time is the main force of the elite to the fullest, the strength has been almost equal to ours, combat effectiveness and weapons and equipment are far superior to ours, and played the banner of revenge for the Han people to boost morale, hanging filial piety and mourning soldiers to go to the battle, this army in our hands and Lu Yifeng dog thieves encountered, only the life of a fiasco. ”

"It would be nice if our main forces on the Western Front were here." Shang Shan also sighed: "In fact, the Western Front Army in the Jiangnan Battlefield is the real main elite of our Qing army, even if it can't defeat Wu Gou, at least it can cause huge casualties to Wu Gou and win fighters for our follow-up army." It's a pity that he was ruined by that traitor in Zhangtai. ”

"What are you doing with all this useless nonsense?" Jie Shu said coldly: "If you have time to talk about this nonsense, it is better to discuss how to face Wu Gou earlier, and see if there is any clever plan to defeat the strong with the weak." ”

Yue Le nodded silently, admitting that Jie Shu was reasonable, things had come to this point, and it was useless to say how much remorse he had, so Yue Le could only turn his gaze to Tuhai, the think tank he had handpicked, and ask him for help. And Tuhai did not disappoint Yue Le, and immediately said: "There are only two hopes, one is to take Yangzhou City before the arrival of Wu Gou's main force, use Yangzhou City to solve our money and food problem, and also use Yangzhou's city defense to confront Wu Gou's main force." The second hope, Gaojiayan, lured the main force of Wu Dog to Gaojiayan at all costs. ”

Jieshu and Shang Shan and the others frowned together, and some people snorted coldly, saying together Tuhai, what the hell can you say besides Gao Jiayan? You're not tired of talking, our ears are tired of hearing it! Fuck you, you blew up Gaojiayan and flooded Wu Dog, so what should we do with the soldiers of the Qing Army?

"Maybe you will think that I Tuhai is too nagging and incompetent, and I will only talk about Gaojiayan all day long." Tu Hai saw the disdain of the generals of the Qing army, so he said coldly: "But I am also for the sake of the Qing Dynasty, for the sake of the Qing Dynasty, Gaojiayan is the only hope for our Qing Dynasty to recover Jiangnan, and it is also the only chance for our Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty to annihilate Lu Yifeng's dog thieves and his lackeys, if we don't seize this opportunity, everything will be over." ”

Speaking of this, Tu Hai paused, and added: "Lord Shilang Zhou persuaded the master to cross the river with a fake luan, saying that it was to boost the morale of our army and increase the chances of winning the battle against Yangzhou, but this is actually just an excuse, his real purpose is also to lure Lu Yifeng's main force of dog thieves to the north, and then borrow the power of heaven and earth in Gaojiayan to annihilate this main force of Wu Dog that we cannot defeat on the frontal battlefield." ”

"And I have discussed it with Zhou Shilang, after I succeed, there will be someone between me and him who will stand up and bear this charge, Zhou Shilang said that he is willing to carry it, I didn't agree, he is still young, has an unlimited future, and has an old mother, wife and children to raise, I am already old, and I am a crippled and lame man, and I have been ruined by Lu Yifeng's dog thieves, and I am the only one left, so I will carry this crime."

After listening to Tuhai's righteous and awe-inspiring words, all the generals of the Qing army were silent, and they were also quite moved in their hearts. Yue Le didn't say a word, and after a long time, Yue Le patted the table lightly and said lightly: "At the same time, prepare with both hands, the army will immediately attack Yangzhou City with all its might, and strive to break Yangzhou before the main force of Wu Dog arrives in Yangzhou." The second plan is arranged and arranged by you, but do not implement it unless you have to. ”

"Cover." The generals of the Qing army hugged their fists together and agreed, and went out of the account to prepare for the siege of the city according to Yue Le's instructions.

Tu Hai didn't move, a pair of cloudy old eyes full of wrinkles at the corners of his eyes stared at the gray sky outside the tent, and also stared at the direction where Lu Fat Man was about to kill, and muttered to himself in his heart, "Lu Yifeng, you dog thief is finally here, I know that you are here to ask for the head of our master of the Qing Dynasty." But you probably never dreamed that our master is still on the north bank of the Yellow River, even if we blow up Gaojiayan and die with you, we won't be able to hurt a single hair of our master in the Qing Dynasty. ”

Thinking of this, Tu Haimeng jumped up on one leg and yelled at Yue Le: "Lord Wang, please give me 3,000 troops, I will go to Gaojiayan immediately, and I will leave you to the Yangzhou battlefield!" ”

"Why?" Yue Le asked suspiciously.

"Lu Yifeng's dog thief's deceitful and vicious is far above you and me, we can fight Gaojiayan's idea, and Lu Yifeng's dog thief will definitely fight Gaojiayan's idea!" Tu Hai shouted: "Now that the master's fake Luan is driving under this Yangzhou city, Lu Yifeng's dog thieves are likely to blow up Gaojiayan first and use the flood to cut off our way back!" Then he had the greatest certainty and caught the turtle in the master's urn! ”

Yue Le's face turned white, and after thinking for a while, Yue Le immediately turned to his only adult son, Seleng, and shouted: "Seleng, you take three thousand troops to escort Tuzhongtang to Gaojiayan, and strictly guard Gaojiayan, and all Han people who dare to approach Gaojiayan, no matter who it is, will be killed!" ”

Tuhai and Seleng went north with the army, and the main force of the Qing army launched an all-out attack on the city of Yangzhou at any cost, and the main battlefield of the siege was also very clever to choose the northwest corner of Yangzhou that was bombarded by the Qing army's long-range Hongyi artillery, but at this time, the Qing army's Hongyi cannon numerical advantage was gone, and it was replaced by the fat army's cannons and grenades.

In the earth-shattering war drums, the Qing army siege team with an absolute advantage in strength continued to pounce on the Yangzhou city wall like a flood, attacking Yangzhou from the west and north at the same time, but the fat army was not the demoralized Southern Ming army thirty years ago, and Gao Dejie, who captured the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, was not Shi Kefa, the Qing siege team just entered the Yangzhou city wall within three miles, and the sixty sub-cannons that had been aggrieved for a long time on the Yangzhou city wall opened fire together, and the flowering shells were desperately poured on the head of the Qing army. The explosion caused the corpses of the Qing army to be strewn all over the field, blood and flesh were splashed, and the Qing soldiers fell in pieces.

The soldiers of the Qing army rushed to the vicinity of the moat at any cost, and the muskets, bows and arrows of the fat army on the city wall were shot like raindrops, and the grenades and giant ash bottles and sheep's head stones were also smashed on the heads of the Qing soldiers like hail, and the Qing soldiers were like cutting wheat in rows, screaming and crying all over the sky, mixed with the angry roar of the fat soldiers, "Full of dog mongrels, come!" Come on! Han grandfathers have good things to entertain you! Treat you dog-full mongrels! ”

The battle is not completely one-sided, before paying more than 20,000 Han people for the cost of their lives, the Qing army has filled the moat of Yangzhou City with sand and stone sacks and people's corpses, and opened the siege road directly under Yangzhou City.

At the same time, the advantages of the mite Qing banner soldiers and the Mongolian soldiers who are good at bows and arrows have also been brought into play, hiding behind the anti-arrow car and constantly releasing arrows, as if a huge torrent of metal is swimming upstream, overwhelmingly projectile onto Yangzhou City, desperately suppressing the Fat Army defenders on the city wall, and also causing the most serious casualties to the Fat Army soldiers.

In addition, there were also musketeers borrowed from Russia by Kang Mazi, who were also put into siege warfare by Yue Le for the first time - the price was that Yue Le promised that after Yue Le broke through Yangzhou, these Russian musketeers could each choose two beautiful women as slaves. These Russian musketeers are all equipped with the most advanced front-loading flintlock smoothbore guns in this era, with a maximum firing range of up to 300 meters, far exceeding the primitive muskets with a range of less than 100 meters commonly equipped by the Fat Army, and also exceeding the pin guns that the Fat Army is only equipped with in large quantities by direct corps.

What's more terrifying is rifled guns, the Danish army in Europe in this era has taken the lead in equipping rifled guns, although the Russian army has not yet been equipped with a large number of equipment, but there are also sporadic introductions, Tolbuzin and Cupun led the team of eight hundred Russian musketeers, also equipped with eight of these ultra-long-range, high-precision front-loading rifled guns, hiding in the distance to snipe the generals of the Fat Army, and successively killed more than a dozen generals at the level of the fat man battalion officer or above, and even almost hit the Fat Army General Gao Dejie, scared the Yangzhou Fat Army out of a cold sweat.

The most ruthless trick is still to come, when he saw that the Qing army's siege army was firmly blocked under the city by the heroic and abnormal fat army, even if it could not even attack the northwest corner of Yangzhou, which collapsed in many places, Han Daren, the commander of the Qing army's Hongyi artillery team, found Yue Le again, and suggested that Yue Le follow the example of the famous Qing annihilation Li Guodong, and use the Qing army's Hongyi cannon to bombard the city wall battlefield, indiscriminately killing and injuring the fat army and Qing soldiers. And Yue Le also understood that there was not much time left for him in the Yangzhou battlefield, and he also understood that once the main force of the Fat Army arrived at the Yangzhou battlefield, no matter how much he didn't care about it, he didn't want to have the slightest chance to break through Yangzhou, so Yue Le gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and finally shouted: "Boom!" ”

Yue Le's determination, the Qing army Hongyi cannon that had only fired at Yangzhou City before quickly adjusted the firing angle under Dai Zi's personal calibration, and re-bombarded the Yangzhou city wall where the Qing soldiers and the fat army soldiers were extremely dense.

Seeing that the Qing soldiers were fleeing for their lives under the cover of their own artillery fire, the Qing army supervision team led by Shang Shan kept shooting and firing arrows, wielding knives and slashing people, forcing the Qing soldiers to return to the battlefield and continue to attack the city of Yangzhou, and kept shouting, "Long live the emperor is watching from behind, and those who escape from the battle will be executed!" Break through Yangzhou and get away for ten days! ”

"Full of dog mongrels, I'm fucking your mother's eighteenth generation ancestor!" Seeing the indiscriminate bombardment of the Qing army's Hongyi artillery, Gao Dejie, the guard general of the fat army, naturally scolded, and because he learned about the situation of the Qing army's artillery team from the Qing army's prisoners, Gao Dejie, who was already at odds with Han Daren, took the opportunity to scold, "Han Daren dog!" When Lao Tzu catches you, you must cut off the meat on your body piece by piece and feed it to the leper dog! ”

- Afterwards, after Han Daren, the general of the fat army who was also shot while lying down, learned about this situation, he was also extremely depressed and scolded, "Han Daren, who dares to have the same name and surname as Lao Tzu, is a dog and a man, and when Lao Tzu catches you, I must force you to change the names of your ancestors for the eighteenth generation!" You are not allowed to have the surname Han, but you are not allowed to go to Lao Tzu with the surname Dog! This is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

Scolding and scolding, but Han Daren is really vicious following Li Guodong's hand, and now the news of the main force of the Fat Army has also been sent to the ranks of the Yangzhou Fat Army, the soldiers of the Yangzhou Fat Army understand that the victory of the Yangzhou battlefield is in sight, and they are naturally not very willing to fall at the last moment before this victory, morale and fighting spirit have declined, and they saw the heavy artillery of the Qing army bombarding the battlefield of the city wall, indiscriminately killing and wounding the warring soldiers on both sides, the morale of the soldiers of the Fat Army was inevitably shaken, and the Qing soldiers who were killed several times rushed to the city wall, Fortunately, the defenders of the Fat Army were also quite sufficient, and Gao Dejie commanded the reserves in time to fill the gaps, which did not allow the Qing army to take the opportunity to expand the results.

Forced to desperation, Gao Dejie also had to dispatch the Fat Army Supervision Team, led by Wu Yonghua, a powerful deputy, to specifically urge the Fat Army soldiers to kill the enemy bravely and prevent the soldiers from escaping. This has also become the biggest shame of the Fat Boy Army on the battlefield in Yangzhou, and has become the laughing stock of the Han brothers laughing at the Gao brothers behind their backs - before that, the Fat Boy Army did not dispatch a supervising team even on the battlefields of major battles like Jiujiang, Chushui, Gaoyou and Maoershan.

The danger is the northwest corner of Yangzhou City, in the past half a month, it has been the focus of the Qing army's Hongyi artillery bombardment, the city wall collapsed in many places, thanks to the fat soldiers with sandbags and sacks to repair the soil, this did not completely collapse, this will be in the siege battle, the Qing soldiers with sufficient siege weapons continue to rush up this section of the city wall, smashing the sandbags and sacks piled up by the fat army, the fat army has to repair the city wall and guard against killing the red-eyed Qing soldiers, naturally it is very difficult, and the temporary city wall of the line of fire is constantly weakened, forced the Fat Army to throw heavy troops into this position. Moreover, after the Qing army discovered this, the Hongyi artillery also began to bombard this position, and the casualties of the officers and men of the Fat Army naturally increased rapidly.

The offensive and defensive battle is extremely fierce and cruel, the blood of the soldiers on both sides almost dyes the west and north walls of Yangzhou red, from the city wall 500 meters away to the land under the city is full of corpses, the situation under the city wall is even more miserable, the incomplete corpses of both sides are stacked layer upon layer, piled up more than one meter high, the blood and water converge into a stream, accumulate into a blood puddle, step on it and drown the calf.

In any case, the Qing army, which was inferior in weapons and at a terrain disadvantage, suffered much greater casualties than the fat army, almost reaching the point of four to one or even five to one. Seeing this cruel scene, huge casualties and tragic deaths, even the princes who had been hiding in the rear before were as pale as dirt, and only then did they know that Prince An Yue Le, who had been ridiculed by himself as a cowardly and cowardly before, still had such a ruthless side.

Whether or not he was impressed by those straw bales, Yue Le didn't care anymore, he just kept sending siege troops with a straight face, and continued to throw a team of Qing soldiers who had been frightened into the battlefield of Yangzhou City Wall, and put in the huge and terrifying meat grinder, and also rotated the supervision team, let the supervision team move forward, forcing the Qing soldiers to move forward, closer to the road that had little hope of breaking through the Yangzhou city wall, and shouted from time to time, "Rush, rush to this king!" Those who take a step back, no matter who it is, even if it is a relative of the emperor, Belle Beizi, will all be cut by this king! ”

"Rush, rush hard." In between commanding the battle, Yue Le would also tell himself in his heart to insist on being ruthless, "It is of course best to be able to capture Yangzhou City and defend it according to the city." It was really impossible to attack, my army suffered heavy casualties, and the main force of Wu Gou arrived at the Yangzhou battlefield, and it was logical for my army to retreat north. Lu Yifeng, that dog thief, no matter how cunning and deceitful he is, I am afraid he would never have thought that I am now attacking the city at such a cost-just to lure him to chase me to the floodplain! ”

(To be continued)