Chapter 273: The Battle in Front of the Battalion

"Brethren! This is all of my Dong Weiguo's net worth! There are those saved by the ancestors, those who are rewarded by the masters, and those who are saved by myself! There are also house deeds, title deeds, and land deeds! Together, it is worth more than 100,000 taels of silver! ”

"Brothers, I Dong Weiguo don't want to say more, you should have heard about the grievances I have suffered and the wrongs I have suffered! I have no other way to clear up, so I can only ask you now, use my blood and your blood to wash away the shame for the Qing Dynasty and the grievances for my Dong Weiguo! ”

"Wu Dog has the KitKat silver skills of the red-haired foreign ghost, and we have bow horse riding and archery in the Qing Dynasty, and our bow horse riding and archery are not afraid of Wu Dog's KitKat silver skills! Rush up, stir up there with Wu Gou, and the victory will be ours! ”

"Brothers, Dong Weiguo will not let you die in vain! Cut off the head of Lu Yifeng's dog thief, not counting the court to you, all my silver belongs to you! ”

"Kill! Long live the Qing Dynasty! ”

After making an exciting pre-war speech to the 5,000 descendants of the army who urgently went out of the city to assemble, Dong Weiguo took the horse with his sword, roared and took the lead in the battle, and the 5,000 Jiujiang Qing troops under the city roared like thunder, followed behind Dong Weiguo, and quickly killed the fat army camp in the northwest. The soldiers of the Qing army on the city wall behind them also shouted and shook the sky, beating drums frantically to cheer for this trapped army and for the governor they respected and loved. Only our Zhangtai Bei Ziye sneered again and again, and sneered at the meaty performance of Governor Dong, who was suspected of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country.

You can't blame Governor Dong for being nervous and impulsive, and you can't blame Governor Dong for gambling with 5,000 lives for himself, the key is that Fat Lu's tricks are too immoral, so that Governor Dong is suspicious, and the timing is extremely appropriate, so that the enemy will not dare to take it lightly even if he feels that something is wrong - otherwise, if it were changed to normal times, Governor Dong would be temporarily suspended, waiting for the Qing Dynasty to send another official to check and expose the truth.

However, now that Wu Junbing is in the city, Jiujiang City is in danger, but Dong Weiguo is burdened with such a suspicion and such a crime, not to mention Zhangtai Beizi, even Kang Mazi is in person, and the old witch of Xiaozhuang is in Jiujiang, she will definitely not dare to take it lightly, and will only choose to temporarily detain Governor Dong and temporarily deprive him of all powers, and Governor Dong's henchmen in the army will definitely be unlucky-no one can afford the consequences of Governor Dong's faction defecting. So there is no way, Governor Dong only has two ways to go, the first way is to obediently tie his hands and take him to the capital to wait for a slow investigation, and the second way is to find a way to prove his innocence immediately and maintain his current position of power.

If the Qing army commander of Jiujiang City is replaced by someone else, such as Yue Le, Tuhai or Rabu, Governor Dong is probably likely to choose the first path, because the military power of Jiujiang completely falls into the hands of these people, even if it still can't defeat the Wu army in the field battle, there is still great hope for holding Jiujiang Jiancheng, but to completely hand over such an important Jiujiang City to Zhangtai Beiziye, who is familiar with military books and has a deep understanding of Taoxue, does Governor Dong have the courage? When Jiujiang fell, the communication between the two major towns of Nanchang and Anqing was cut off by the Wu army, and they fell into the dilemma of fighting their own battles. Maybe Governor Dong won't even have time to be escorted to the capital at that time, and Jiujiang City, which is demoralized and weak, has already been broken by the Wu army, and Governor Dong will not want to have a chance to be innocent and live.

Since choosing the first way is not to die, or to go to the prison to be with Yue Le, Tu Hai, and Cai Yurong, who are unlucky people, it is better to choose the second way to gamble, and lead an army that dares to die and fight to the death with the Wu army. Even if this goal cannot be achieved, as long as a victory can be achieved and the Wu army can pay a certain price, Lu Fatzi's vicious divisive trick will be self-defeating, so Governor Dong's decision seems to be impulsive and brainless, but in fact, it is the only correct decision that has been weighed repeatedly and takes into account the interests of all parties.

The words are far away, to get back to the point, the Qing army team led by Dong Weiguo personally went out of the city to assemble, and it was naturally impossible for such a big move to hide from the eyes of the fat army scouts. And when the scout sent the news into the big tent of the Chinese army of the fat army, the generals of the Wu army, who had been skeptical of Lu Fatzi's prediction, were inevitably taken aback, and Han Daren, who had a gambling contract with Lu Fatzi, couldn't believe his ears, and asked the scout several times whether he had reported an error, until he repeatedly confirmed that there was no mistake, and Han Daren blurted out: "Is Jiujiang full of dogs crazy?" ”

"General Han, you are finally right this time, Mangou is indeed crazy." Lu Fatzi took over the conversation and said to the generals in the tent: "Generals, this officer has concluded that Mangou must have taken the initiative to attack this time, and must have come with the determination to come back, so this battle must be very cruel and bloody, please be mentally prepared for all the generals, and let the soldiers be psychologically prepared, you must not think about the previous field advantages of our army, take the Mangou division lightly, and give Mangou a chance to take advantage of, understand?" ”

"The last general and others should remember the general's teachings!" Most of the generals of the Fat Army agreed with their fists from the bottom of their hearts, and although Gao Dejie, Han Daren and Gao Hongchen and other generals of the Wu Army were not completely convinced by Lu Fatzi, they also admired Lu Fatzi's clever calculations, and they all agreed with their fists.

"Lord Lu, the last general, please give the order to fight!" Wang Xu, who had not had the opportunity to participate in the Ruichang War before, was the first to ask for battle, and said with a fist: "The last general is willing to lead 3,000 troops out of the camp to meet the battle, if he can't win, the last general is willing to lead the army." ”

"No, not out of the camp." Lu Fatzi shook his head and said in a deep voice: "The sky is already dark, and our army has not yet figured out the enemy's strength and composition of troops. Therefore, the safest way is to rely on the camp and defend it, first consume the enemy's physical strength and morale, and then wait for the opportunity to break the enemy. ”

"Then I will be ordered to guard the camp gate!" Wang Xu changed his words.

"Yes, with your 6,000 troops, bring muskets, bows and arrows and spears, go to the front gate and hold on, the enemy is killed, just kill the enemy with muskets and bows and arrows." Lu Fatzi was still very cautious in his use of soldiers, and ordered: "Qin Yong obeyed the order, took your 1,000-shot needle gun team, and went to the camp gate to help General Wang Xu defend the village, listen to General Wang Xu's dispatch, and use the three-stage shooting technique I taught you to kill the enemy." ”

Wang Xu and Lu Fatzi's cousin Qin Yong agreed together, and Wang Xu asked again: "Lord Lu, then do we use rockets and artillery to fight?" ”

"Our Great Zhou army attacked from multiple directions, and it was difficult to supply logistics, and it was difficult to supply rockets and flowering shells, and it was difficult to supply them." Lu Fatzi groaned and said: "In the field battle at night, the vision is not clear, it is difficult for rockets and artillery to exert their full power, and there are many dogs and cavalry in Anqing, so don't waste it here, understand?" ”

Wang Xu didn't speak, as soon as he gave up his hand, he hurriedly went out of the account with Qin Yong to make arrangements, and Lu Fatzi turned to the other generals and ordered: "Li Tianzhi and Kong Fanlin listen to the order, you two will each lead two thousand infantry to wait in the Chinese army, and stay until the old man of the Mangou division is tired, and after receiving my order, immediately kill the gate of the village and launch a counterattack against the Mangou!" ”

The second general agreed, and Fat Lu turned to Gao Dejie and said with a smile: "Brother Gao, please gather three thousand cavalry to the back door of the camp to wait for orders, and when the opportunity comes, you will go out of the camp from the back door and go back to the back of the dog, and then what should I do, Brother Gao shouldn't need to be emphasized by the younger brother, right?" ”

"Of course." Gao Dejie smiled and agreed. Lu Fatzi instructed the generals again: "The rest of the generals should guard their respective camps, and if the dogs attack our army's camp from other places, they should only shoot with bows and arrows, and they must not leave the camp without an order." ”

The rest of the Wu generals agreed together, and Han Daren added, "General, what about the last general?" Will there be an errand at the end? ”

"If you say, take your headquarters and rest for a good life." Fat Lu replied with a smile: "When we defeat this team of Mangou who went out of the city to die, our army will take advantage of the situation to attack the city, and at that time, General Han, you must abide by the gambling contract." The generals of the Wu army laughed together, Han Daren was so embarrassed that he no longer agreed, and Lu Fatzi led a team of personal soldiers to climb the lookout outside the big tent and condescendingly observe the battlefield situation, so as to issue orders at any time.

The deployment of troops on the Wu army's side has just been completed, and the 5,000 Qing troops led by Dong Weiguo himself have already slaughtered near the Wu army's camp. At this time, Lu Fatzi's previous conservative choice had an effect, the Wu army camp located in the official card sandwich high ground was short in front and back, the middle section was high, and there was the Yangtze River arch guard in the north, the Qing army could only choose to attack the camp from the front door or back door of the Wu army camp, and it was obviously unwise to attack the camp at the back door located further west, and Lu Fatzi was extremely scoundrel and chose to rely on the camp to stick to the tactics, and refused to send troops out of the camp to fight. Dong Weiguo, who was in the middle of his fighting spirit, was so angry that he couldn't help it, so he could only order the 5,000 Qing troops to be divided into four teams, each with more than 1,200 people, and take turns to charge at the main gate of the Wu army camp.

After arranging the rounds, the war drums sounded, and the first team of Qing army monsters screamed and charged at the gate of the Wu army camp, and the tide generally poured towards the main gate of the Wu army camp, and the Wu army soldiers who were hiding behind the antlers were very calm, including Qin Yong, who was not too rich in battlefield experience, repeatedly asked the soldiers to shoot at will, and they had to wait for the Qing army to enter the effective firing range before they could shoot according to the signal, and waited patiently with bated breath.

On the one hand, relying on the fortifications as stable as a rock, on the other hand, the all-out charge quickly closed the distance, the Qing army team quickly rushed to the range of the Wu army archers without any hindrance, Wang Xu ordered to beat the war drums, and the well-prepared Wu army soldiers immediately fired guns and arrows and crossbows, and the Qin Yong team in the center of the position also immediately pulled the firing pin gun, and the first team immediately retreated and reloaded, and replaced the second team and the third team to shoot, so that the fire density was always maintained. In the sound of guns, slingshots and arrows breaking through the air, the Qing soldiers who charged up lay down like cutting wheat, and the Qing soldiers behind did not dare to retreat, screaming just to charge, desperately shooting arrows and shooting the Wu defenders behind the fortifications.

This is an almost unilateral slaughter of the battle, the Wu soldiers who were already well-trained and armed to take advantage of the worries relied on the strong camp to defend, in order to save the baggage and did not even use artillery, hiding behind the relatively safe fence just shooting arrows, desperately shooting the Qing soldiers who rushed over, the Qing soldiers were killed and wounded in the face of the dense firepower of the Wu army, screaming in front of the Wu army's bullets and bullets and falling in teams, either killed on the spot or injured and fell, and then trampled to death by the companions behind them. Especially in front of the gate guarded by Qin Yongjun, Lu Fatzi was definitely descending, and the extremely fast firing pin gun plus three shots, the bullets were even denser like torrential rain, and almost none of the Qing soldiers rushing in this direction could rush to within fifty steps of the camp gate.

"Kill!" After all, the power of muskets and bows and arrows in this era was still relatively small, and the power of muskets was further weakened by the influence of night on vision, and it was still difficult for the Wu army to shoot thousands of Qing soldiers on the road. After paying heavy casualties, more than half of the Qing soldiers still rushed to the fence. However, just when these lucky Qing soldiers were struggling among the antlers and trenches, there was a loud bang in the Wu army's village, and countless spears suddenly stabbed out from behind the fence, stabbing at the Qing soldiers indiscriminately, and immediately stabbed hundreds of Qing soldiers into bloody people. At the same time, the spearmen threw countless grenades from their backs, crossed the fence along the parabola, fell into the ranks of the Qing army, and exploded, shrapnel flew indiscriminately, and one after another the Qing soldiers screamed and fell in a pool of blood, and the team was also in chaos.

"Kill Wu Dog!" A new shout came, the second Qing army charged, sprinting with all their strength to the bloody Wu barracks door, the Wu army musketeers and archers also once again exerted their might, with arrows and bullets to greet the Qing soldiers who were stimulated by the bounty and silver to their eyes, desperately trying to shoot the enemy as much as possible, the musketeers did not change their spears until the Qing army rushed to the front of the wall, and stabbed the enemy across the fence, while the archers retreated and threw and continued to shoot the Qing army. The sound of killing in front of the camp gate was loud, and the arrows came and went like locusts, and the fighting was extremely fierce.

Speaking from the heart, Dong Weiguo, the governor of Jiangxi in the Qing Dynasty, who was still defending Jiangxi under the attack of the Wu army and the Geng army on both sides, was indeed very good at tactical arrangement and command, and saw that the Wu army relied on danger and defended and had sharp firearms, so he used two rounds of infantry charges to consume the ammunition and arrows of the Wu army, and killed the Wu army in hand-to-hand combat in front of the fence, so that the Wu army could not continue to use the most powerful muskets, and created a safe space for the Qing cavalry to charge - this hand, if replaced by our Zhangtai Bei Ziye, That's something you can't figure out or think of anyway.

The tactics were correct, but what caught Dong Weiguo off guard was that at the main gate of the Wu army camp in the middle of the position, there was a team of Wu army musketeers whose muskets were far more powerful than he imagined, and no matter how desperate the Qing infantry was, they could never rush to the front of this Wu army musket team and entangle them. Moreover, the speed of this Wu army musketeers was so fast that it could only be described as terrifying, almost continuous, never stopped, one after another Qing soldiers charged at them, no matter how they went forward, the corpses were already piled up in front of them, and they could not rush to within fifty paces of them, so that the Wu army always maintained a fairly wide firepower dump on the position, so that the Qing cavalry could never find a chance to charge in an all-round way.

Time passed minute by minute, the fierce battle at the fence of the Wu army's camp became more and more intense, the corpses of the Qing soldiers with high morale had already filled in several large sections of trenches, and most of the horse and deer antlers were also destroyed by the Qing army, but there was still no Qing army that could break through the Wu army's fence defense line and enter the Wu army camp, which was always firmly blocked by the well-trained Wu army outside the camp, and it was difficult to advance an inch with heavy casualties. As the casualties of the Qing army became larger and larger, Dong Weiguo began to lose his breath, and had no choice but to order the third group of troops composed of cavalry to charge and kill the Wu army camp gate with all his might.

"Rumble!" Even if it was too dark to see the situation in the distance, just hearing the dense sound of horses' hooves, Lu Fatzi understood that the commander of the Qing army couldn't hold his breath and was forced to join the main cavalry. At that moment, Lu Fatzi did not hesitate, and immediately issued three orders, one was that the Gao Dejie cavalry assembled in the rear camp went out of the camp from the back door and went back to copy the back of the Qing army; the second is to order the deputy general Wu Yonghua to lead 800 archers to reinforce the Zhaimen, and suppress the Qing cavalry charge with bows and arrows; The third is to order Wang Xu to hold the fence at all costs and never let the Qing soldiers storm the camp.

When Wu Yonghua's archery team rushed to the battlefield, the Qing cavalry team had rushed to within a hundred steps of the camp, although Qin Yong's musket team was desperately suppressed, but the Qing cavalry was too many, and it couldn't kill so much for a while. Over there, Wang Xu also roared like thunder, commanding the Wu spearmen to desperately stab and kill the Qing soldiers outside the fence, and even threw a large number of grenades to blow up the rear of the Qing army's infantry, using continuous explosions to block the momentum of the Qing cavalry's charge -- now the horse rejection antlers outside the fence have almost been destroyed by the Qing infantry, if the Qing cavalry's charge is not slowed down quickly, the fence of the Wu army camp, which has already begun to crumble, will be swept down by the Qing cavalry.

"Master, although this Lu Yifeng dog thief has a despicable character, he is really a master of tactics." Observing the defensive tactics of the Wu army through the clairvoyant mirror, Dong Weiguo was disappointed and desperate, and inevitably sighed again, "No wonder Wu Sangui old thief appointed him as the coach of Wu Dog East Road, this Wu dog barbarian Lu Yifeng really has a fucking set." The soldiers are not frightened at night, and they will be at night without chaos, this Wu dog is really a strong enemy of our Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty. ”

"Your Excellency Governor Qiqi, the Wu Dog Cavalry has come out of the back door of the camp and is rushing towards our side in a roundabout way!" At this time, the scouts of the Qing army had already sent the news of the roundabout killing of the cavalry of the Wu army to Dong Weiguo. Hearing this news, several Qing army generals next to Dong Weiguo inevitably began to panic, and Dong Weiguo scolded Wu Gou for being cunning, and yelled: "Brothers, don't panic, even if Wu Gou kills from behind, he won't be able to get there for a while, and the whole army will charge!" Even if he dies, he has to rush into the gate of Wu Gou's camp and pull a group of Wu Dogs to bury us! ”

"Beat the drums, charge the whole army!" Dong Weiguo didn't give the generals a chance to refute, so he directly issued an order for the general attack of the whole army, and drew his sword and shouted: "Rush with Lao Tzu!" Those who take a step back, slash! If you don't break the Wu dog camp, you swear not to collect the troops! ”

"Kill!" Hearing the urging of the war drums, the last group of infantry of the Qing army also began to charge in an all-out way - they did not have time to know that the cavalry of the Wu army was killing in a roundabout way, and several Qing army generals who knew about it next to Dong Weiguo secretly scolded Dong Weiguo for not caring about the life and death of the soldiers for himself, but did not dare to disobey the military order, so they could only charge with the army and kill at the main gate of the Wu army's camp.

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"Dying throes!" Hearing the sound of war drums and shouts of killing from the Qing army's charge, Lu Fatzi first sneered, and then said with a cruel smile: "Since you have come to give a big gift, if the general doesn't accept it, it will be too sorry." Erlang, give the order, let the artillery team led by Yu'er dispatch twenty sub-mother cannons, aim at the outside of the main gate camp, and hit me hard! ”

First of all, all the 5,000 Qing troops were killed in front of the Wu army camp, and launched a wave of oppressive charges towards the crumbling Wu army's wall, and then the Wu army's sub-mother artillery began to roar, smashing one after another flowering shells on the heads of the densely populated Qing army, and exploded one after another in the Qing army's ranks, blowing up waves of flesh and blood. However, the Qing army team, which had already sworn not to withdraw troops without breaking the Wu camp, did not flinch, and only pressed towards the Wu barracks fence, as if they wanted to retreat the Wu barracks barracks.

"Kill!" In order to boost morale, Dong Weiguo almost personally rushed to the front line, brandishing his saber and just yelling, "If you don't break the thief camp, you swear not to withdraw the troops!" Everyone, shout to me - break through the Wu Dog camp, and each person will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver! ”

"Break through the thief camp and reward a hundred taels of silver!" Countless Qing soldiers followed Dong Weiguo and shouted, hearing such a roaring sound, the Qing soldiers who had already killed the red eyes fell into a state of madness, while desperately stabbing the Wu soldiers behind the fence, while desperately pushing forward the fence, companions and even the corpses of companions. One man is desperate, ten men are unstoppable, under the Qing army's team so desperately rushing, Wang Xu's team also began to gradually become chaotic and timid, several sections of fences were inferred by the Qing army, and they could only rely on soldiers to block the Qing army's charging momentum.

Seeing this scene, Wang Xu was anxious and did not ask for help from Lu Fatzi, but after thinking for a moment, he stood up, took off his upper body armor, and shouted at the last eight hundred reserves beside him with a bare sword: "Brothers, tell me, our brothers in Yungui, do you have any seeds? ”

"Nope!" Eight hundred reserves shouted in agreement.

"It's good if you don't have it!" Wang Xu raised his knife and shouted, "If not, let Mangou see if our Yungui brother is a man or a bad seed!" Follow Lao Tzu, Da Zhou! ”

"Da Zhou!" The reserve of the 800 Wu army roared, drew their swords and followed Wang Xu's back, and rushed towards a place that had been washed down by the Qing army.

"Kill! Da Zhou! In the roar, Wang Xu ignored the danger of being hit by the artillery shells of the self-army, and took the lead in launching a counter-charge against the Qing army from the collapsed fence, rushing into the ranks of the Qing army and slashing and killing. Infected by friendly forces, the Wu army's defense line of the Zhaizha, which had been crumbling before, not only stabilized again, but several teams of the Wu army also followed Wang Xu's example and killed them from the collapsed fence and launched a counter-charge towards the Qing army.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the cavalry of the Wu army led by Gao Dejie himself has also detoured back to the back of the Qing army and launched a strong attack on the back of the Qing army, and the battle has reached this point, Dong Weiguo has no matter how much money he has, he can't re-boost his morale, the Qing army gradually began to break up, and he can still maintain the formation of the same way to flee, and the stragglers who have no formation are either scattered and fleeing for their lives, or throwing down their weapons and kneeling to surrender - anyway, the Qing army prisoners in the Ruichang War have already spread the prisoner policy of the fat army, as long as they surrender, they can save their lives, Even if you don't want to join the Wu army, you can still get 20 yuan to go home, which is far better than working hard for Dong Weiguo's untouchable silver.

At this time, Lu Fatzi finally sent a counterattack signal, and the Fat Men Li Tianzhi and Kong Fanlin teams, who had been waiting behind Wang Xu's team for a long time, rushed up with a shout, opened the gate of the fortress and directly killed the exhausted and demoralized Qing army. As a result, the soldiers and generals of the Qing army also completely lost all their fighting spirit and courage, completely collapsed, the soldiers ran for their lives, the generals pulled Dong Weiguo's horse reins and begged Dong Weiguo to break through, Dong Weiguo held on for a moment and saw that the general trend had gone, crying three times, and could only reluctantly order: "Break through, don't let the soldiers bury me." ”

(To be continued)