Halfway through the morning of March 18, the damn heavy rain finally stopped, and Brother Sun, who had been bullied by Sister Wuyun for a long time, finally got out of the clouds and bloomed with a warm and bright smile, and as time went by, the gray-black rain clouds were gradually blown away by the mountain wind, revealing the blue sky and white clouds that had not been seen for a long time, which also showed that this afternoon must be a rare good weather. 【Reading.com】

"Oh no, why did the rain stop so fast?" Seeing such weather, thanks to the help of the climate, the Qing army in Luzhou, which temporarily blocked the attack of the Fat Army, complained one by one, and the commander Jie Shu complained even more, understanding that as long as the weather was sunny for a day or two, the heavy artillery of the Fat Army could get rid of the trouble of the muddy ground, arrive at the foot of the Liutang Mountain, and bomb the Qing army, a large battalion that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, into ruins.

"Order all armies to be ready to move at any time, give priority to the transfer of grain, grass and gunpowder, and give up the rest of the baggage." In desperation, Jie Shu had to prepare for the worst, and captured his right-hand man Wang Zhiding, and instructed him: "From now on, you are in charge of our army's scouts, and you must closely monitor every move of Wu Gou's main force, and once you find Wu Gou's heavy artillery crossing the river, report to me immediately." ”

"Cover." Wang Zhiding respectfully agreed, and was about to go down to make arrangements, but a Qing army scout hurriedly came up from the bottom of the mountain, and almost rushed into the Qing army camp. Seeing his anxious appearance, Jie Shu, Wang Zhiding, and Jue Luo Balkan inevitably had a heartbeat, and a bad premonition rose together.

"Lord, lord, something is wrong! Big things are wrong! Sure enough, the scout stumbled to the front and back of Jie Shu, and before he could salute, he pale and screamed: "Lord Wang, we must go back to Chuzhou on the east mountain, and somehow a Wu dog army has appeared!" has seized the Dongshantou Heights, condescendingly choked the official road in Chuzhou, and is already starting to cut down trees and push stones to block the official road! ”

"Wu Gou's army has seized Dongshantou?" Jieshu jumped up, his eyes widened, and he exclaimed in disbelief, "How is it possible? Did Wu Dog fly over? If you want to go to Dongshantou, you must pass through the road under the mountain of my Liutang Mountain camp, didn't you set up scouts on the official road last night? ”

"Back to the prince, the scout is the minion in charge, and the minion is arranged." Wang Zhiding replied with an incredible face: "The minions not only arranged scouts, but also arranged secret sentinels, what I am afraid of is that Wu Dog sneaked into the back of our army and cut off the retreat of our army. ”

"Then how did Wu Dog infiltrate our rear?" Jie Shu slapped the table and shouted: "Do you know that when we withdraw our troops back to Chuzhou, there is only this official road to go, and if this official road is cut off by Wu Gou, we will be the turtle in the urn!" ”

"Could it be that Wu Gou detoured from the path to Dongshantou?" Military Counselor Jiertabu interjected: "But last night the rain was so heavy that I couldn't see my five fingers, and it was impossible for Wu Gou's army to take the mountain path around the east mountain?" ”

"Possibly!" Wang Zhiding finally came to his senses and screamed: "We have all forgotten a big thing, Wu Gou's elite soldiers are all Yungui soldiers and Guangxi soldiers, and what they are best at is walking mountain roads!" Especially the sinister soldiers in Wu Gou's team, going over the mountains and taking the trail is the same as flying! It must have been Lu Yifeng's dog thieves who specially selected such mountain soldiers, organized them to take advantage of the rainy night cover, and took the path to go around our backs and cut off our way back! ”

"Fuck Lu Yifeng dog thief!" Jie Shu scolded, slapped the table and shouted: "Hurry up and pull out the camp and go down the mountain, take advantage of the fact that the main force of Wu Gou has not caught up, hurry up and recapture the Dongshantou Heights and open the official road, otherwise, we will be all finished!" ”

Jieshu's order was given a little too late—but then again, it was too late. Almost at the same time that the Qing army found that the mountain special forces of the Fat Army had descended to their rear, Wang Xu, the general of the Fat Army, had already led 10,000 infantry to cross the river and preemptively kill towards Liutang Mountain, and after receiving this news, Jie Shu and Wang Zhiding and other Qing army generals were inevitably even more pale, understanding that the army had fallen into a dilemma. But if you don't withdraw your troops, when the heavy artillery of the Fat Army is transported across the river, you can still smash the Qing army camp!

Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if the fat army doesn't have to bombard the battalion with heavy artillery, the Qing army whose grain route is cut off will be starved to death! Under the dilemma, Jie Shu is quite military-minded, Wang Zhiding and Ji Ertabu are also resourceful, and they feel helpless for a while and don't know how to deal with it.

"Lord Wang, we only have two choices." After repeated calculations, Jiertabu suggested to Jieshu: "First, immediately go down the mountain to break through, send an elite army to the palace, break through the Wugou blockade at any cost, and kill back to Chuzhou." The second is to give up the heavy grain and grass, take the small road and withdraw to Chuzhou, bypassing the interception of Wu Gou. ”

"There will be heavy casualties on both roads." Jieshu was a little hesitant, but now is obviously not the time to hesitate, a slight delay may lead to the consequences of disaster, so Jieshu quickly made up his mind and clapped again: "Go down the mountain to break through, Wang Zhiding will open the way for the forward, and Jue Luo Balkan will be behind the palace, so the grain, grass and gunpowder must be taken away, and we can no longer afford the loss of money and food!" ”

As soon as the order was given, the camp of the Qing army immediately became lively, and the troops of each battalion began to assemble urgently, carrying all the valuable baggage that could be taken away, and Wang Zhiding, who was responsible for opening the road, also urgently gathered 3,000 elite soldiers to rush down the mountain first, so as not to be blocked by Wang Xu's army on the mountain. However, although the Qing army's action is fast, the fat army's action is faster, Wang Zhiding's army has just come out of the camp, the banner of the fat army brigade has appeared in the south of the official road, Wang Zhiding is in a hurry, and hurriedly urges the army to hurry, but his army has just descended to the mountainside, two miles away from the fat army has blasted out more than 100 good rockets, the rockets roared overwhelmingly and smashed to the mountainside and exploded, and the Qing soldiers who hurried down the mountain cried wolf howl, and there was a big chaos. The fat army did not give up, and blasted out several waves of three-good rockets in one breath, only to blow up the ground and shake the mountain, the trees broke and the branches flew, the soil and rocks collapsed, the Qing soldiers could not bear the abuse, and they turned around and fled up the mountain, Wang Zhiding could not stop it, and had to flee back to the camp on the top of the mountain.

At this time, the Fat Army Brigade led by Wang Xu had also arrived at the foot of Liutang Mountain, quickly seized several low mountains and set up rocket launchers, aimed at the main road of the Qing army down the mountain, and the main force set up a position under Liutang Mountain, cutting down trees to build blocking fortifications. Seeing this scene, the Qing army was at a loss, Jie Shu was also like earth, knowing that the defeat was a foregone conclusion, over there Ji Ertabu and Jue Luo Balkan persuaded Jie Shu to abandon the grain and take the path to break through, but Jie Shu felt sorry for the poor and precious military food of the Qing army, and did not dare to adopt it, but just sent another army down the mountain as if gambling, trying to kill Wang Xu and retreat with food.

This time the breakthrough vanguard was selected by Jieshu is the deputy capital commander Ehena, but this Ehena is obviously more unlucky than Wang Zhiding, although the three thousand infantry he led rushed to the mountainside was not attacked by rockets, but when he was about to rush to the foot of the mountain, he was attacked by the three-dimensional attack of the fat army, the rocket bombarded the middle and rear team of Ehena, the firing pin gun bombarded the front team of the Qing army, the front and middle teams of the Qing army were in chaos together, and they scattered and fled for their lives. Either fled back to the camp or went into the deep mountains and old forests, and many of them directly laid down their weapons and surrendered to the Fat Army, and Jieshu's second breakthrough operation failed again.

Things came to this point, Jie Shu also completely lost the hope of retreating, and reluctantly accepted the advice of his subordinates, ready to give up the grain and grass and take the path to escape, but considering that the infantry of the Fat Army was good at taking mountain roads, and taking the small road during the day to break through would inevitably be pursued and killed by the Fat Army, and the losses would be extremely heavy, so Jie Shu had to choose to break through in the evening, so that the soldiers could hurry up and prepare the dry food torches for the breakthrough, and the grain and grass that could not be taken away were all gathered together, and the fire was set on fire when the fire oil was poured on the fire to prepare for the breakthrough.

Jieshu's decision saved countless Qing soldiers, and also saved his grain and grass, and when the time of Shen was about to pass in the afternoon, the elite infantry of the Fat Army, who had already returned from the small road to Dongshantou to block the formation, suddenly gave up their positions and went south to Liutang Mountain to meet Wang Xu's brigade. Immediately afterwards, the Fat Army Brigade led by Wang Xu also gave up the blocking position that had been set up with temporary fortifications, and began to retreat to the south in an orderly manner, and the speed was extraordinarily fast.

"What's wrong? Why did Wu Gou suddenly withdraw his troops? Seeing this scene, Jie Shu and the others were inevitably happy and surprised, and said in surprise together: "Wu Gou is obviously already sure of his chances?" Why did you suddenly withdraw your troops again? Could it be that it is a deception to lure the enemy? ”

Surprised, Jie Shu and others naturally had to quickly send scouts to reconnoiter the situation, and when the sky was about to get dark, the scouts came back happily to report, saying that the fat army was definitely not a fraudulent retreat, not only more than 20,000 troops all withdrew from Chushui, smashed the Chushui pontoon bridge that was finally built, but also separated an army and retreated towards Nanjing at the fastest speed.

"Could it be that something happened to Wu Gou's rear? Or has Zhangtai's straw bale already succeeded? Jie Shu was even more surprised and puzzled, "But that little idiot in Zhangtai should be attacking the Taiping Mansion?" Even if he succeeds in the sneak attack, it should be Han Daren who urgently withdraws his troops? How could it become Lu Yifeng's dog thief who urgently withdrew his troops? ”

…………………… The reason for Lu Fatzi's urgent withdrawal of troops must be clear to everyone, but let's take a look at the specific process. On March 17, when it was just dark, our prince of Zhangtai County had a whim, and temporarily decided to give up the plan of a surprise attack on the Taiping Mansion, following Zhuge Liang's clever plan to sneak attack the camp of Sima Lao's thief, and waved the strange soldiers to smash the old nest of the fat man Lu Nanjing, although the Qing army generals tried their best to oppose it, but our Zhangtai County prince 205 temper attack, insisted on his own opinion and threatened to have another opponent to behead, insisted on going to Nanjing, the Qing army generals could not twist their thin arms and thighs, plus the mite Qing court for many years of slave education and brainwashing, and finally accepted the order, led 5,000 elite cavalry to escort the prince of Zhangtai County, and made a detour to Xuedian Town in the south of Ma'anshan to Nanjing!

Temporarily went crazy to fight Nanjing, and inadvertently avoided the net arranged by the fat army in Taiping Mansion, our prince of Zhangtai County is really amazingly lucky, but our prince of Zhangtai County is more than a little lucky. In order to lure the army of the prince of Zhangtai County to take the bait, the two fat armies in the neighborhood, Li Maozhu did not send scouts to the south in order to avoid startling the snake and leaking the rumors, and Gao Hongchen in order to avoid Han Daren's army from monopolizing the war exploits, all the reconnaissance forces were placed in the southwest of Taiping Mansion, and the Xuedian Town that the prince of Zhangtai County detoured was located in the southeast of Taiping City. Miraculously infiltrated the territory of Nanjing.

Here I have to praise the sworn enemy of the Chinese nationalities, the Qing cavalry, the two highest records of the cavalry marching speed in the era of cold weapons are held by them, one is the Dolgon cavalry who has just entered the pass, marching more than 300 miles a day, and the other is the Qing cavalry of the Shunzhi period, which has created an amazing record of marching 360 miles for five consecutive days. In this era, although the Mites Qing cavalry has degenerated, but after several years of bloody battles, the beast surname in the blood of the Mites Qing cavalry has basically been completely restored, and the combat effectiveness has basically recovered to more than eighty percent of the heyday, and the five thousand Mites led by the prince of Zhangtai County are basically composed of the remnants of the main force of the Mites Qing Jiangnan, so its marching speed is so fast that it has almost caught up with the Dolgon cavalry of the year.

In addition, there are two important factors, which also contributed to the miracle of the prince of Zhangtai County, one is that the rain in Taiping Mansion is far less than the rain in the Chushui area where the Fat Army's direct army is located, and the other is because of the brutal destruction of Jieshu, the population of Taiping Mansion has decreased sharply, a large amount of land has been wasted, and the southern fields far away from Taiping Mansion City are overgrown with weeds and shrubs, and they are not very muddy after being rained, so that the cavalry of the prince of Zhangtai County is almost advancing in a straight line, and the marching distance has been greatly reduced, and the marching speed has been greatly increased.

Under the misfortune of various factors, in this way, the five thousand cavalry of our prince of Zhangtai County rushed into Jiangsu and rushed into Nanjing Mansion in the middle of the night, and took a short rest in the area of Zhumen Village, the only sparsely populated village in the southwest of Nanjing Prefecture, and fed enough concentrate feed to the war horses, and the Mites Qing cavalry also smoked enough refreshing Eight Banners Fushou Ointment. When the sky was just dawning, the prince of Zhangtai County set off again, and boarded the official road of Nanjing in the area of Jiangning Town, and galloped along the wide and flat official road.

It was also at this time that the luck of the prince of Zhangtai County broke out again, and the rain in the area of Nanjing stopped before Chushui, so that the team of the prince of Zhangtai County could march and raid at a faster speed.

Noon was approaching, the strange soldiers of the prince of Zhangtai County arrived in the suburbs of Nanjing, and when he saw the team of the prince of Zhangtai County coming, Qin Yong, the cousin of Lu Fatzi, who stayed in Nanjing, almost couldn't believe his eyes, and hurriedly closed the city gate, and a large number of ordinary people were also locked outside the city of Nanjing. When Wang Shaobo, Xie Dong and others in Nanjing heard the news, they thought that the messenger was joking, but it was not until the alarm gong sounded throughout the city that Wang Shaobo and Xie Dong finally understood that this was not a joke!

Then Wang Shaobo, Xie Dong and others also turned pale all of a sudden, although Lu Fatzi left 7,000 defenders in Nanjing, but later in order to ambush the Qing army soldiers who attacked Taiping City, Gao Hongchen took away another 4,000 troops, which means that in Nanjing, in fact, there are only 3,000 fat army guards left!

At the same time, in front of the Jubaomen of the West Gate of Nanjing, our prince of Zhangtai County took the lead, regardless of the bow and arrow musket on the city wall of Nanjing, the first rushed to the Jubaomen suspension bridge that was slowly rising, waved the saber and slashed the bowl of thick suspension bridge sling, only three knives, the sling was slammed, and the prince of Zhangtai County behind also cut another sling, the Jubaomen Suspension Bridge fell to the ground, and the Qing cavalry team behind also resounded with earth-shattering cheers, "The prince Chitose Chitose Chitose!" ”

"Demolition team! Above! "At this moment, our prince of Zhangtai County may really be possessed by the ancestor of wild boar skin, and with a wave of his knife, he almost subconsciously shouted the most correct order! Infected by the prince of Zhangtai County, the cavalry of the Qing army also rushed forward desperately, piled up the explosives package that had been prepared in advance under the gate of Jubaomen, and then lit a fire............ "Boom!" In the explosion of the landslide, the city gate of Jubaomen was directly blown into a state of sawdust, and the soldiers of the Fat Army who were scrambling on the city wall were also shocked and stunned. The cavalry of the Qing army shouted and charged at full speed, following the banner of the prince of Zhangtai County into the city of Nanjing.

The perverted Nanjing city wall built by Zhu Yuanzhang and Shen Wansan saved the life of the fat army, after the treasure gate was blown open, there were still three urn cities and three city gates inside, so although the fat army soldiers on the city wall were pitiful, although the prince of Zhangtai County rushed into the first urn city, he still had to break through the three city gates to really enter Nanjing City! And fortunately, the soldiers of the Fat Army have closed the last three city gates in time, forcing the prince of Zhangtai County to bomb one city gate at a time, and it is also by relying on such a little bit of precious time, the soldiers of the Fat Army who were completely caught off guard finally made the correct adjustment, while quickly summoning the team in the city to go to the city to rescue, while hurriedly launching a counterattack, frantically throwing grenades to blow up the Qing cavalry in the urn city.

"Boom!" There was another loud bang, the second city gate was blown up by the Qing army, and the Qing army brigade entered the second urn city, and Qin Yong, who had come to his senses, hurriedly ordered to block the urn city with sacks and stones, but how could he find so many sacks and boulders in a hurry? Just when he was helpless, a fat soldier had an idea, and hurriedly pointed to the truck in the second urn city and shouted: "General, push the truck into the city gate and corridor, light the fire, and you can block the full dog!" ”

"That's right! Right! Qin Yong finally came to his senses, and hurriedly sent soldiers to push the wagons that were abandoned by the people, pushed the city gate and blocked the road, and then set fire to it. But at this time, the gate of the third urn city has also been blown open by the Qing army, the Qing cavalry saw the fat army pushing the truck to block the road and released arrows, the fat army soldiers in the urn city suffered heavy casualties, and they were broken through by the Qing cavalry before they had time to ignite the fire, and the third city gate was also broken through, and the Qing army rushed into the third urn city.

"If the last city gate can't be guarded, Nanjing will be finished!" Seeing this scene, Qin Yong was so nervous that he could barely breathe, and he closed his eyes in despair.

"Quick, there's only one last gate left!" The prince of Zhangtai County, who had been to Nanjing, waved his knife and roared, "Quick! Blow open this last city gate, and all the silver beauties in Nanjing City will be ours! Come on, what are you doing? ”

"Wang ...... Lord, we have no explosives. Zhuman next to him stammered and replied.

"What? Out of explosives? The prince of Zhangtai County almost couldn't believe his ears, and shouted: "The two thousand catties of explosives we brought, all used up?" ”

"It's all gone." Zhu Man said with a sad face: "The brothers didn't expect that there would be so many gates in this Nanjing city, and when the three gates were blown up just now, they were all used up. ”

"Bastard!" The prince of Zhangtai County was also angry, slapped Zhu Man in the face, and shouted with red eyes: "Didn't this prince tell you that every gate in Nanjing City has three urn cities and four city gates?" ”

"Lord Wang, when did you tell the minions?" Zhu Man covered his face and replied aggrievedly.

"Really?" The prince of Zhangtai County had a blank expression, and when he recalled carefully, he realized that he had indeed not told the henchman who had mastered the explosives, that Nanjing City had three urn cities and four city gates. However, our prince of Zhangtai County quickly came back to his senses, lifted the horsewhip and whipped at Zhu Man, scolding while smoking, "Dog minion! Even if this prince didn't tell you, you should use it sparingly! You should also ask this prince! Two thousand pounds of explosives, you used up all at once! How are we going to fight next? How to fight? ”

"Lord Wang, the slave has never been to Nanjing, and he never knew that there were so many city gates in Nanjing!" Zhu Man replied aggrievedly: "The slave has been working as an errand in a small place before, and I have never seen any city gate with three urn cities, and I thought that this Nanjing City, like Anqing City, has only one urn city and two city gates!" And the minions are already very economical, if it weren't for the minions to keep a little bit, we wouldn't even be able to blow up the third city gate! ”

"Dog minion, are you still stubborn?" The prince of Zhangtai County was almost mad, knowing that there was only the last city gate left, as long as he blew up this last city gate, it would be done, but there was no explosives, didn't this make people suffocate to death?

"Lord Wang, we still have a chance!" In order not to be sucked to death by the prince of Zhangtai County, Zhu Man hurriedly shouted: "We still have some gunpowder for muskets and grenades seized from Wu Dog in our team, all of them should be able to blow up this last city gate!" ”

"What are you doing then? Not hurry? The prince of Zhangtai County yelled.

Zhu Man nodded and agreed, and quickly asked all the soldiers to take out black powder and grenades, and pile them up at the last city gate. It was also at this time that Qin Yong finally came back to his senses, and hurriedly shouted: "The dog's explosives are all gone!" Hurry, hurry! Go to two people to organize the people to block the city gates, and the rest of the people, blow up the dogs for me! No matter what kind of firearms, they are all open to use! I threw all the gunpowder bags for the cannons at me! ”

(To be continued)