The sky is not beautiful, just when Lu Fatzi decided to chase and fight the Jieshu team on the second day, and it is also the day of March 17 of the 14th year of the Great Tuesday and the 14th year of Kang Mazi, before dawn, it rained heavily in the border area of Jiangpu and Chuzhou, and it rained until close to noon. 【Reading.com】

"Thief God, are you finally willing to let go?" Looking at the sunlight that finally broke out of the clouds, Lu Fatzi, who had been waiting for a morning, scolded the injustice of the sky, why did it rain so heavily when he was preparing to enter the army to attack, adding so much trouble to himself? While scolding, Lu Fatzi quickly ordered the main army to pull out the camp and cross the river, so that he could attack the Liutang Mountain camp where Jieshu was entrenched.

The order was conveyed, and the main force of the Fat Army stationed on the south bank of Chushui immediately moved, pulling out the camp and starting the village, loading the grain and grass ordnance, and carrying the artillery, Wang Xu led an army to cross the river first, and set up a guard on the north bank of Chushui to prevent the Qing cavalry from raiding the ferry. In an orderly and busy manner, Lianfu, who was in charge of artillery, suddenly came to Lu Fatzi and saluted: "General Qiqi, the ground is muddy, and our army's heavy artillery cannot carry it." ”

"How is that possible?" Lu Fatzi waved his hand and ordered: "Call more helpers, and let Han Yuanren send five hundred people to carry the artillery." ”

"Back to the general, the last general has already borrowed 800 people from General Han Er, but the artillery says that it can't be moved, it can't be moved." Lianfu replied with a sad face.

Lu Fatzi was surprised when he heard this, and hurriedly led Yao Qisheng and Zhu Fangdan and others to the artillery team behind to inspect the situation, and saw that sure enough, each Hongyi cannon had at least twenty fat army soldiers pushing and pulling, but these soldiers shouted hoarse, and the Hongyi cannon weighing thousands of catties still crawled slowly like a snail, and he didn't go out of ten zhang away for a long time, but tired the fat army infantry. Lu Fatzi knew something was wrong, and when he jumped off the war horse and wanted to go over to check, he found that his fat feet had just stepped on the ground, and the sticky soil had already flooded the instep.

"Oh no, I've got Napoleon's shit luck." Lou cried bitterly, knowing that he had already encountered the bad luck that Napoleon had encountered at Waterloo, and the heavy rain had softened the earth, and the heavy artillery could not move, and the proud artillery tactics could not be used.

"General, don't let the soldiers waste their strength." Yao Qisheng suggested: "On such a ground, no matter how many people can't move the heavy artillery, we can only wait for the sun to dry the ground." Otherwise, our Hongyi artillery would not be able to cross the river, and the range of the sub-mother cannon would be too short, and it would not be able to shoot at the foot of the mountain at the top of Liutang Mountain. ”

"Then don't rush to cross the river, wait for the sun to dry the ground for a day." Fat Lu gave a helpless order.

Before, Lu Fatzi and Yao Qisheng and others had gone to the area of Liutang Mountain to survey the terrain, and found that Jieshu was extremely cunning to set up the Qing army camp on the top of Liutang Mountain, condescending to look down on the battlefield, there are many trees and trees on the mountain, and there are many streams and ponds under the mountain, which is extremely unfavorable to the development of the Fat Army's troops. Now that the Hongyi artillery can't participate in the war, it's a loss-making deal to use the infantry to storm the heavily guarded Qing army camp, and Lu Fatzi, who has always been careful in his calculations, naturally refuses to do anything.

At the same time, in the Liutang Mountain camp, after discovering that the fat army pulled out the camp, the Qing army had already begun to pull out the camp - don't look at Jieshu's hatred of Lu Fatzi, but Jieshu also killed Geng Jingzhong's North Road army in seconds in history, and the real military talent is far above Mazi's cousin. Therefore, after Jieshu comprehended the power of the Fat Army's artillery array, he immediately understood that the Liutang Mountain Battalion was completely vulnerable in front of the Fat Army's artillery array, and instead of wasting troops in this inevitable position, it was better to take advantage of the early departure and save the strength to the Chuzhou Mansion City to compete with the Fat Army, so that Yue Le's task of dragging the Fat Army's direct corps could be achieved, and it could increase many chances of victory and reduce a lot of losses.

To the great surprise of Jieshu, Wang Zhiding and others, Tanma suddenly came to report again, saying that the main force of the fat army had stopped crossing the river and chose to rest and wait in place. Hearing this news, Jie Shu was inevitably a little confused, and said in his heart that Wu Gou was doing something famous, they defeated our army in Chushui yesterday, and their morale was high, it was a good time to take advantage of the victory to pursue, Lu Yifeng, that dog thief was more slippery than a loach on the battlefield, how could he make such a big mistake? Could it be that this dog thief is engaged in some kind of conspiracy again?

"I see!" Wang Zhiding suddenly came to his senses and shouted with a fist: "It must be because of the weather!" It rained heavily for most of the day today, not only did the water of the Chuhe River rise sharply, but the ground must have been soft and muddy, and Wu Gou's thousands of pounds of Hongyi cannons could not be carried, so Lu Yifeng's dog thieves had to postpone crossing the river, without the cover of Hongyi cannons, relying on the strong attack of the infantry alone, he was a Wu Dog white hat soldier who died tens of thousands, and he was not sure to take this dangerous Liutang Mountain camp! ”

"Makes sense!" Jie Shu also came to his senses, slapped his thigh and said happily: "Wu Gou's sub-mother cannon has too close range, and it can't hit the top of Liutang Mountain from the foot of the mountain, and the Sanhao rocket can only shoot directly but not eject, and it still can't threaten my Liutang Mountain camp, as long as Wu Gou's Hongyi cannon can't cross the river, we are completely sure to hold Liutang Mountain!" ”

"Lord Wang, the minions think that our army should postpone the camp." Wang Zhiding hurriedly suggested: "Although the sun is out of the sky now, if it doesn't take a day or two, Wu Gou doesn't want to move the Hongyi cannon to the foot of Liutang Mountain, and our army is holding this mountain, which can not only more effectively contain Wu Gou's Jiangning Corps, but also make Wu Gou in a dilemma, even if he receives other battlefield warnings, it is difficult to draw out a large number of troops to rescue quickly." ”

"It makes sense, postpone the camp and continue to station!" Jie Shu gave a decisive order, raised his head again, looked at the dark clouds on the edge of the sky, and prayed loudly, "Ancestors of the Great Qing Dynasty, you must bless us loyal ministers and warriors of the Great Qing Dynasty!" Let's rain again, the bigger the better, and the longer the better! ”

It is probably whether it is extremely Tailai, it is also possible that the wild boar skin and the yellow stewed chicken heard the prayers of the children and grandchildren, and it is more likely that the fat man Lu who has been lucky for nearly a year should take some memorization, and when it comes to Shen Shi in the afternoon, the hot sun father-in-law was bullied by the vicious and vicious sister Wuyun, and the thick dark clouds filled the sky again, and regardless of how the evil Lu fat man prayed to God and prayed sincerely, when it came to the three quarters of the Shen hour, the raindrops of beans were still sparsely falling, forced the fat army to camp again on the south bank of Chushui to avoid the rain, not to mention, and never stopped.

In such a situation, the Qing army generals such as Jieshu and Wang Zhiding, who had already decided to abandon Liutang Mountain, were of course smiling and praising God's blessing, but the fat army generals such as Lu Fatzi and Yao Qisheng could only sigh in vain. In desperation, Lu Fatzi could only carry forward the spirit of Ah Q and comfort himself: "It's okay, as long as it rains so much in the south of the Yangtze River these days, our Gaoyou defenders can also be relaxed, and the muskets, cannons and bows and arrows full of dogs can't be used (the bowstring will become soft when it encounters water), and Tian Dazhuang will be much more sure of guarding Gaoyou City." ”

"Not necessarily, the general forgot the two sentences of rain in the east and ten miles of different days in the west?" Yao Qisheng shook his head, and said worriedly: "General, the students think that it is better for you to send more messengers to contact the battlefields everywhere to understand and grasp the specific situation, and the students always have a hunch that this three-front war, our army is afraid that it will not be so easy." ”

…………………… According to Yao Qisheng's crow's words, this heavy rain did only affect Jiangning, Zhenjiang, Taiping Mansion and the southern part of Yangzhou, but only a light drizzle fell near Gaoyou City, which was located in the central part of Yangzhou, which did not affect the siege of Yue Le's army at all. Just when Lu Fatzi lamented in the heavy rain that the sky was not helping him, the offensive and defensive battle between Yue Le's army and Gaoyou's fatzi army was already in full swing, and it was completely turned into a white heat.

"Kill! Kill Wu Dog——! Amidst the thunderous shouts, thousands of Qing infantry lined up in a dense queue, carrying more than 300 flying ladders, and strode towards the Gaoyou city wall with red eyes, rushing to the Gaoyou city wall that had been stained dark red with blood.

At the same time, dense flying ladders have been erected on the Gaoyou city wall, and countless Qing infantry have climbed the wall, turning the Gaoyou city wall into a sugar cube crawling with ants. The scene on the city wall is even more miserable, the moat connecting the water of Gaoyou Lake has been completely filled with the corpses of Qing soldiers and earth, stone and sand bags, and the cloud ladder and cloud platform that was blown up and burned by the fat army are emitting black smoke and flames, burning fiercely, emitting bursts of unpleasant smell of burnt human flesh and human oil, and people want to vomit.

"The full dog is up again! Throw a grenade! Splash gold juice! Fast!! Tian Dazhuang, who had been killed covered in blood, commanded the soldiers of the Fat Army to throw down the grenades emitting green smoke, poured boiling gold juice, and poured out arrows as dense as raindrops, while leading a team of elite soldiers to go around to put out fires and make up for leaks, and frantically slash and kill the Qing soldiers who climbed the city wall.

Under the stubborn resistance of the Gaoyou soldiers and civilians, the Qing soldiers continued to fall from the city wall to the ground, making a miserable scream, and the Qing soldiers under the city wall were also falling in pieces, either blown up by grenades and flesh and blood, or burned by gold juice to cry wolves, but whether they were dead or alive, these Qing soldiers were difficult to even fall, but they were pushed forward by dense companions and friendly troops, advancing and advancing.

"Pour fire oil! Throw torches! Seeing that the fresh force of the Qing army rushed to the front of the battle, Tian Dazhuang, who was almost exhausted, decisively ordered to pour oil and ignite the fire, and threw out cans of tung oil mixed with sulfur and cans with oil, and threw down one torch after another, and soon dyed the sky-high fire under the city wall, countless Qing soldiers rolled and screamed in the sea of fire, eyebrows, braids and clothes caught fire together, and the smell of burnt human flesh rose to the sky, making countless Gaoyou soldiers and civilians vomit out stomach juice and yellow bile, but neither the fat soldiers nor the people in Gaoyou City flinched, just splashed fire oil one after another, threw out torches, and used the sea of fire to temporarily block the Qing army's siege footsteps, and strive for time for the self-army to adjust.

In addition to the West Gate, which is protected by Gaoyou Lake, the battles at the three gates in the southeast and north of Gaoyou are also fierce, since March 11, Yuele's army has come to the city, in just six days, there are only 4,000 defenders of the Gaoyou Fat Army, this is the fourth large-scale siege against the Qing army. In the previous three offensive and defensive battles, the Fat Army has sacrificed more than 1,500 soldiers and sacrificed more than 2,000 people to help the war, and consumed more than sixty percent of the city's defense materials, although it finally resisted the Qing army's offensive and also caused more than three times the casualties to the Qing army, but it was basically to the end of the crossbow, all kinds of city defense materials were basically exhausted, whether it could block the Qing army's next siege, and even whether it could support until the sky was dark, not to say that the Fat Army soldiers didn't know, Even Tian Dazhuang, the fat soldier of the Gaoyou guard, didn't know it.

"Bell, bell, bell!" The sudden sound of Mingjin made the Gaoyou soldiers and civilians were pleasantly surprised, and they all thought that the Qing army was about to break the city and suddenly withdrew its troops, and it must be their own reinforcements that had arrived.

Only Tian Dazhuang sighed quietly, because Tian Dazhuang knew very well that there would be no reinforcements coming, and the messenger given to him by Gao Dejie was to defend Gaoyou City, the city was in the people, and the city was dead, and the surnames of the soldiers and civilians in the city were used as a bet to drag Yue Le's 120,000 army and protect the cities of Yangzhou in the south, so as to provide an opportunity for the next strategy of the Fat Army and gain time. Therefore, Gao Dejie will not have reinforcements to Gaoyou, nor will there be reinforcements to Tian Dazhuang, the fat army who was still a Wu army sentry commander before entering Jiangnan.

"General Tian, someone over there is a white flag coming out!" A fat soldier shouted, Tian Dazhuang looked in the direction of his finger, and saw that a cavalry squad with a white flag had come out of the ranks of the Qing army, and it seemed that a prisoner was still being held. When Tian Dazhuang raised the binoculars again to take a closer look, his face immediately turned pale, and it turned out that the prisoner who was escorted by the Qing cavalry was the Yangzhou Tongzhi personally appointed by Lu Fatzi - the former Jiangyin Xiucai Sha Zhangbai.

"It's Lord Sha, it's Lord Sha!" Li Peimao, the governor of Gaoyou next to him, also recognized the prisoner who was escorted by the Qing army, and screamed with a pale face: "How could Lord Sha be captured by Mangou?" He is the messenger who went to General Gao for help on behalf of our Gaoyou military and civilians, did he send the news of the request for help to Yangzhou? ”

Hearing Li Peimao's shout, the soldiers and civilians of Gaoyou next to him were all worried, discussing a lot, and their morale was greatly discouraged. Tian Dazhuang's face was even paler, because Tian Dazhuang knew very well that Sha Zhangbai's so-called request for help from Yangzhou was just a means and strategy to encourage the morale of Gaoyou's military and civilians to resist, and Sha Zhangbai, who also knew Gao Dejie's secret order, never thought of being able to ask for reinforcements, but just planned to pretend to go out of the city for a turn, and then come back to say that reinforcements were coming. The only thing that Tian Dazhuang didn't expect was that Sha Zhangbai would be captured by the Qing army after leaving the city, and he would be escorted to this Gaoyou City - what did this powerless poor scholar plan to do? If he doesn't have reinforcements, Gaoyou City will be broken!

Under the fearful waiting, under the watchful eyes of everyone, Sha Zhangbai was escorted to the corpse-strewn Gaoyou City, and a Qing army general who was closely protected by Qing soldiers with shields raised his head and shouted, "The Gaoyou people and the Great Zhou soldiers in the city listen, this official is Tuhai, the squire of the Qing Army Department and the governor of Jiangning!" Here, this official has to praise you, you really fought very well, thousands of troops blocked the six-day attack of our 120,000 Qing army, and also killed more than 10,000 of our Qing soldiers, which is commendable! ”

"But what I want to tell you is that you have all been deceived! Lu Yifeng and Gao Dejie, the two dog thieves, regarded you as outcasts from the beginning, and they didn't want to give you reinforcements at all, but just wanted you and some of our Qing soldiers to die together, so as to buy time for their main force to survive! ”

There was a stir on the city wall, and countless Gaoyou soldiers and civilians all turned their suspicious eyes on Tian Dazhuang, Tian Dazhuang's face turned blue and white for a while, knowing that Sha Zhangbai finally betrayed himself and Gao Dejie, and explained the truth to the Qing army - but fortunately, Tian Dazhuang's face was already full of blood and smoke, and his pale face could not be seen even if he was close.

"The people of Gaoyou in the Qing Dynasty, the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty who were deceived by Wu Gou, you can all see it clearly." Sure enough, Tu Hai pointed at Sha Zhangbai and shouted, "This is Sha Zhangbai, the anti-thief of Yangzhou Tongzhi of the pseudo-Zhou Xiao Imperial Court, he went to Yangzhou to ask for help from the Gaodejie dog thief on your behalf, and after being rejected by the Gaodejie dog thief, when he returned to Gaoyou City to report to you, he was captured by the soldiers of our Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty!" Now, let him tell you if he has sent you a reinforcement for the Goudejie dog thief?! ”

After that, Tu Hai raised his intact right leg, kicked Sha Zhangbai's back, and said in a low voice: "Mr. Sha, it's up to you, after persuading Gaoyou City to open the city and surrender, you will be the prefect of Yangzhou, and you will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver, and the beauties in Gaoyou City can be picked." If you dare to play tricks, hum. ”

"Don't worry, Lord Tu." Sha Zhangbai smiled slightly, raised his head, and shouted at the city wall: "Gaoyou's Great Zhou soldiers, Gaoyou's people, you are all optimistic, I am Sha Zhangbai sent by General Tian Dazhuang to ask General Gao Dejie for help, and Sha Zhangbai of Yangzhou in Dazhou!" ”

Under the hopeful gaze of the Qing army and the worried gaze of the Gaoyou army and civilians, Sha Zhangbai, who was so weak that it seemed that even a gust of wind could blow it down, suddenly raised his voice and shouted out the strongest voice in his life, "Don't listen to the nonsense of the dogs!" General Gao Dejie's reinforcements are already on the way, and they are about to arrive! Hang on! Hang on! ”

"Reinforcements are coming!" There was an earth-shattering cheer in Gaoyou City, and Tian Dazhuang suddenly opened his quietly closed eyes, and looked at Sha Zhangbai below in surprise, just as Sha Zhangbai also looked up and saw Tian Dazhuang, and after a bright smile, Sha Zhangbai shouted again, "Great Zhou soldiers, Gaoyou's Han people, insist!" Hang on! Reinforcements are coming! ”

"Dog brute!" Tu Hai was so angry that he almost went crazy, and when he lifted the horsewhip, he whipped it on Sha Zhangbai's head and face, Sha Zhangbai didn't dodge or dodge, but kept shouting, "Soldiers! Han people! Hang on! Anti-Qing and regain sight! Anti-Qing Restoration ——! ”

"Chop off both hands and feet!" Tuhai roared wildly, and the Qing soldiers next to him pounced like wolves, grabbed Sha Zhangbai's hands and feet and slashed with knives, blood splashed, Sha Zhangbai laughed, and kept shouting, "Anti-Qing and Ming!" Anti-Qing and regain sight! Anti-Qing and regain sight! ”

"Anti-Qing and Restoration of Sight! Anti-Qing and regain sight! Anti-Qing and regain sight! A rhythmic shout also sounded on Gaoyou City, making hundreds of thousands of Qing soldiers completely desperate. Immediately afterwards, the arrows on the city wall were fired in unison, overwhelmingly falling on the heads of Tuhai's team, and the soldiers were wrapped in Tuhai and fled frantically, and Sha Zhangbai, whose hands and feet had been cut off, was still dying in a pool of blood and shouted, "Anti-Qing Restoration of Sight, Anti-Qing Restoration of Sight, Anti-Qing ......." ”

"Avenge Lord Sha! Avenge Lord Sha! In the angry slogan, in the earth-shattering drums of the charge, the gate of Gaoyou City, which had been closed for a long time, suddenly opened, and the only one hundred and ten fat cavalry in Gaoyou City charged out, holding high the banner of the Great Zhou, and rushed to the Qing army team in the distance without hesitation, rushing to the enemy team that was a thousand times his own, waving a saber with red eyes, chopping and chopping, frantically slashing and killing the Han Annihilation, Mangou and Mengzhen infantry knights, until they were completely submerged by the tide of the Qing army............ "A big road leads to my house, My family lives at the foot of Yoliang Mountain, the soil under the mountain is fertile, the land is five acres, five acres of fertile land and what do you plant, who will remember my appearance? Who will remember the ...... I suffered? ”

I don't know who took the lead in singing the military song of the Fat Army, more and more Fat Army soldiers sang along, and the same was true of the people in Gaoyou City, while watching with tears as they only had more than 100 cavalry galloping and charging in the Qing army like sea water, fighting bravely to kill the enemy, while singing in unison with tears in their eyes, "...... A big river leads to my house, there are wives and children, the house is big, the chickens are fat, the geese are fat, the cows are strong, the beans are planted, the rice is grown, the rape flowers are ....... ”

“…… I cut my gaze with my sword, and I couldn't stop my homesickness! A big road leads to my home, my family lives at the foot of Yoliang Mountain, the soil is fertile under the mountain, five acres of fertile land, five acres of fertile land, and ...... rape flowers. ”

Over and over again, after singing and singing again, and when the whole city of Gaoyou is echoing with this neat and loud singing, more than 100 cavalry of the Fat Army have been completely swallowed up by the Qing army brigade, and the soldiers and civilians on Gaoyou City have completely lost sight of the warriors, only the flag of the Fat Army with black characters on a white background is still in the Qing army team like the ocean, fluttering in the wind in the misty drizzle, standing ............ "Wu dog of the gods——! Hearing this neat and loud singing, and seeing the banner of the Great Zhou that has always stood tall, Yue Le roared wildly and pulled out his knife and cut a few, cutting the handsome case in front of him into two with a knife, and then threw down the saber and sat back on the handsome chair, covering his face with both hands, and lamenting in despair, "If the Han people in the world are like this, all of us will die without a place to bury!" ”

(To be continued)