Fortunately, under the command of our prince Zhang, there is also a former Guangzhou general Shu Shu who was forcibly transferred from the command of Le Erjin, who has been fighting side by side with Le Erjin since the twelfth year of Kang Mazi, and is very familiar with the situation of Le Erjin, and recognized at a glance that the messenger sent by Le Erjin for help is actually Le Erjin's henchman, and quickly stood up to testify, and the messenger explained that the situation was critical at that time, and Le Erjin, who was on the front line, could not write a letter, so he failed to bring Le Erjin's handwritten letter for help. [Full text reading]

To put it mildly, coupled with the persuasion of the Qing army generals, our prince Zhang reluctantly believed the words of the Leerjin messenger, waved his hand to let go of the unlucky messenger, and then asked: "When did Wu Gou start attacking the city?" When you came out to ask for help, how was the situation in Fanchang City? ”

"Back to the prince, as soon as it dawned today, Wu Gou began to attack the city." The messenger of Leerjin replied truthfully: "Wu Gou used more than 100 light and heavy artillery to bombard the east gate and south gate of Fanchang, the city wall of Fanchang fell into disrepair for a long time, and it was blasted out of a big hole in less than an hour, although our army made every effort to remedy the city wall, but the Wu dog artillery fire was too fierce, our army suffered heavy casualties, and the cavalry of our army who sent the city to attack the Wu Dog artillery array was also annihilated. As a last resort, Lord Belle sent a servant to ask the prince for help, and asked the prince to send rescue troops quickly, otherwise Fanchang would be in danger. ”

"Rubbish!" After listening to the messenger's introduction, our prince Zhang not only did not immediately send troops to rescue, but slapped the table and said angrily: "What is Le Erjin for?" Wu Gou has only been attacking the city for an hour, and he has sent people to ask for help? Rubbish! Big waste! ”

"Lord Wang, you can't blame Lord Belle!" The messenger of Leerjin screamed: "It is Wu Gou's artillery fire is too fierce, a flowering cannonball can blow up five or six of our brothers, and a solid cannonball can blast the city wall of Fanchang out of a big hole, Lord Belle really can't stand it, so I have to ask you for help." ”

"Lord Wang, forgive the servant for being blunt, please also experience the difficulty of obeying Lord Belle." Shu Shu stood up again, clenched his fists, and said cautiously: "Maybe the prince has never been to Fanchang City, I don't know the situation of Fanchang City Wall, Fanchang City Wall is only two zhang high, it is in disrepair, the city bricks are broken and falling off seriously, and the moat is basically dry, it is completely a shallow pit, unless it is rebuilt, no matter how much it is repaired and reinforced, it is vulnerable in front of Wu Gou's heavy artillery, and it will not be of much use." ”

"And." Shu Shu added cautiously, "When Lord Belle went out on the expedition before, in order to leave some seeds for our Qing army, he left most of the experienced main elites in Tongling, and only brought a small number of elites and second- and third-line troops to the expedition....... ”

"Don't make excuses for this king!" Our prince Zhang waved his hand and reprimanded righteously: "Zhuge Liang in Xinye, only a few thousand troops wiped out Xiahoudun's 100,000 army!" This king is in Chizhou, and he also defeated Wu Gou's 80,000 elites with only a few thousand troops! Leerjin has 20,000 troops in his hands, and there are sailors to respond, and he asked the king for help just over an hour after the start of the fight, isn't it a waste? ! ”

The generals of the Qing army were speechless, and they really had no confidence to refute in front of the meritorious Prince Zhang. Only Prince Zhang's henchmen dared to speak, and said to Prince Zhang: "Lord Wang, the slave thinks that if it is too early and too hasty to accept Lord Belle's request for help, the prince can not worry about it for the first time, but since Lord Belle sent a messenger to ask for help, we can't help but take action." The slave asked the order to lead an army to rescue Fanchang, and asked the prince for permission. ”

"The last general is willing to save Fanchang!" Ni Yahan and Shu Shu and other Qing army generals went out together, and hugged their fists together to ask for orders.

"Save Fanchang? Easy to say! Prince Zhang suddenly started a fire again, and also expressed a rare and insightful opinion, "From Huangchi Town to Fanchang nearly a hundred miles, when our army runs there, whether it is cavalry or infantry, they are almost tired, and send them to the door to give Wu Gou a place to work?" ”

"What the prince said makes sense." Zhu Man hesitated for a moment, and then hurriedly asked, "Lord Wang, then what should we do?" ”

"Immediately send troops to attack Taiping Mansion City!" Prince Zhang threw out his long-brewing plan, and said confidently: "Wu Gou's main force is attacking Fanchang City, and this king will go to fight their Taiping City, Fanchang is just a dispensable small county town, and Taiping City is the west gate of Wu Dog in the south of the Yangtze River. By the way, he took the siege of Wei to save Zhao, and he could also lift the siege of Fanchang. ”

Prince Zhang's tactics were quite normal, and none of the generals of the Qing army objected to find themselves unhappy, only Niyahan raised a question and asked, "Lord Wang, are we sure to take Taiping City?" Once we can't attack the city, or the siege war is delayed for a long time, Wu Dog breaks through Fanchang and then calmly returns to the army, and the defenders of Taiping City are attacked inside and outside, our trouble is big. ”

"Will this king do something that he is not sure of?" Prince Zhang was even more proud, and said more confidently: "This king has already sent scouts and fine workers to carefully investigate, Wu Gou has planted large and small military flags on Taiping City, and requisitioned a large number of people to go to the city to help in the war, what is this for?" It's clear that it's an empty city plan! Wu Gou is in Taiping City, and there are actually not many defenders! ”

"Wu Gou is playing an empty city plan?" The generals of the Qing army looked at each other, and they all said when did Lu Yifeng's dog thief fight with "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" all day long?

"What are you doing?" Prince Zhang slapped the table again and shouted: "Have you forgotten the truth that the soldiers are fast? Immediately pull out the camp of the whole army and send troops to the north to attack Taiping City! If you miss this precious fighter, this king's military law is waiting! ”

"Cover." The generals of the Qing army agreed while clasping their fists, while muttering dissatisfaction in their hearts, "The person who delayed the fighter plane seems to be you, Lord Zhang, right?" It's been two days and one night since you arrived in Huangchi Town, and you didn't send troops no matter how much we asked, and now you're blaming us for delaying the fighter plane. ”

So, under the wise decision of our Zhang Wangye, the main force of the Qing army on the Western Front, which was stationed in Huangchi Town for two days and one night during the war, finally moved, and the 40,000 troops pulled out the camp together, and under the personal leadership of our Zhang Wangye, they drove north overnight, and marched at full speed to the important town of Taiping Mansion, the west gate of the Fat Army. During this period, our prince Zhang had to send Leerjin's personal soldiers back to Fanchang, and brought a death order to Leerjin, requiring Leerjin to continue to hold on to Fanchang City at all costs and buy time for the main force of the Qing army to attack Taiping City.

Naturally, it is impossible for the order of Prince Zhang to be sent to Leerjin, who has been killed in battle, and it is even impossible to send it to the Qing army in the brigade, because at this time, the Fanchang Qing army has been completely defeated by the fat army, and the Qing army that escaped from Fanchang City has completely collapsed, and was wantonly pursued and slaughtered by the fat army; The remnants of the Qing army trapped in Fanchang City could not even break out of the city, and there were countless descendants, only the backbone of the Garhan led the four surnamed mites and a small number of remnants to fight in the Fanchang City, and fought to the death with the fat army in the alley, and the fat army did not launch a general attack on the remnants of the Garhan army for the time being because it was dark and unfavorable for street fighting, but only tightly sealed the city wall gate, and waited for the sky to be bright before starting to destroy the enemy.

There is also the Ogigang battlefield, the fat army and sailor division who are determined to annihilate the Anqing Navy Division have attacked and rushed at all costs from the beginning, even in the case of absolute superiority in artillery fire, the fat army sailor division has also decisively launched a close battle that is destined to increase the casualties of the self-army, in order to prevent the last Qing army sailor in the upper reaches of the self-army from running away with a boat and a soldier. At the same time, Lu Fatzi also urgently dispatched Wang Xu, who was able to fight water warfare, to lead the army to reinforce the Ogigang battlefield, replenishing the near-board combat forces for Li Jiyang's naval division, and was determined to eliminate the last hidden danger in the upper reaches of his territory.

Willing to invest naturally there is a harvest, in the near side battle, the fat army sailor first killed the Qing army flagship, but unfortunately the Qing army sailor commander Gente Baturu is very cunning, seeing that the situation is not good, he transferred to other ships, played the handsome flag to continue to command the Qing army sailors, and also decisively ordered to break through upstream, and Li Jiyang was also open, in order not to let the Qing army break through successfully, in the case of dominance, he still sacrificed the fat army sailor's magic weapon back to the sky sampan gold finger, and sank more than a dozen Qing army warships in one go, blocked the escape road of the Qing army's sailors, made the Qing army's sailors cry wolf, and also blew up Ghent Baturu and scolded, "Fuck your mother's Wu dog!" With such a big advantage and a suicide boat, do you want to be fucking shameless? ”

At the time of the second watch, Wang Xu led two thousand Fat Army infantry to Ogi Port, boarded the Fat Army Navy Naval Division warship and the Qing Army warship captured in the melee battle, and rushed into the melee battlefield to join the battle. By the time of the third watch, there were only seven or eight warships left in the Qing army's naval division, which was composed of 43 warships, and it was surrounded by more than 80 warships.

At this time, the Fat Army Sailor suddenly stopped attacking, and the sound of surrender without killing sounded in the fleet, and Ghent Baturu, whose surname was Yehnara, hesitated again and again, but still sent a messenger to board the flagship of the Fat Army and put forward surrender conditions to Li Jiyang - the remaining mites surnamed Aixin Jueluo, Hesheri, Tong Jia and Niu Colu in the Qing Army's sailor team must be forgiven. Li Jiyang, the son of Li Guodong, the son of Li Guodong, who inherited his father's business, coldly told the Qing army envoy, "Dream! It's okay to surrender, but all four evil slaves must be put to death! ”

The envoy reported back to Ghent Baturu, and Ghent Baturu hesitated again, until Li Jiyang gave only half a cup of tea time to consider, and then Ghent Baturu ordered the remnants of the fleet of more than 30 mites with the surname of four to be captured on the flagship, and told them with tears in his eyes, "For the sake of the remaining more than 300 brothers and their parents, wives and children, I have wronged you, you can rest assured, I will accompany you to the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty to ask for sin." ”

After that, Ghent Baturu waved his hand painfully and ordered all the thirty or so four surnamed mites to be beheaded, and then Ghent Baturu himself also killed himself with a knife, and before he died, Ghent Baturu instructed the remnants of the Qing army who wept bitterly: "Go and surrender, Lu Yifeng's dog thief is still a talker, you can live." The soldiers of the Qing army wept bitterly, solemnly gathered the body of Ghent Baturu, and then raised a white flag to surrender to the Fat Army.

When the sky was light, Garhan, who was also surnamed Yehnara, also sent an envoy out of the city with a white flag, and put forward the condition that Lu Fatzi must forgive the four surnamed mites before he could surrender, and Lu Fatzi also pointed to the heavy filial piety on his body and coldly told the Garhan envoy, "Do you see the filial piety we wear?" If I forgive the four surnamed Mangou today and let them go, I'm sorry for the filial piety clothes on my body, and I'm sorry for our Chinese compatriots who were brutally slaughtered by Mangou! I'm even more sorry for our children and grandchildren! ”

Lu Fatzi replied resolutely and sent back to Fanchang City, the remaining nearly 1,000 Qing soldiers in Fanchang City suddenly cried to the sky, and Garhan was also in tears, not only hating Lu Fatzi's cruelty and viciousness, not understanding human feelings, but also regretting what the mite fathers did when they entered the customs - the they pulled back then is now finally going to be swallowed by the mites themselves.

Helpless, Garhan could only seize the time and convene a decision-making meeting with the participation of all the remaining Qing soldiers before the deadline given by Lu Fatzi, and introduced the results of negotiations with Lu Fatzi to the Qing soldiers in Chinese and mite language, and then asked the Qing soldiers to raise their hands to choose, whether to surrender or not to surrender? However, when the Qing soldiers made a statement, all the Qing soldiers stopped talking, and Garhan urged again and again, and countless Qing soldiers howled and cried, but they just refused to raise their hands or express their positions.

Seeing that the deadline had arrived, Gal Han had no choice but to say: "In this way, those who are willing to surrender will stay in the city, and go to surrender to Wu Gou by themselves, and those who are not willing to surrender will stand up and break through with me. ”

About half of the Qing soldiers stood up, expressing their willingness to break through with Garhan, and the remaining half were mostly green battalion soldiers and a small number of people surnamed mites, who did not move, and planned to break through to the fat army on their own, Garhan did not pay attention to these people, but quickly counted the Qing soldiers who were willing to break through, and found that about 600 people still had the strength to fight, and Garhan rekindled a glimmer of hope, cheering for these 600 Qing soldiers: "Brothers, don't say much, if you want to live, rush with me!" Even if you can't rush out, you have to pull a few Wu dog soldiers on my back! ”

After that, Garhan immediately led the 600 Qing soldiers to charge towards the north gate, constantly shouting the slogan of killing Wu Gou, and rushed at full speed to the only open north gate of Fanchang. However, it is a pity that the fat army did not even give these Qing soldiers who were determined to die even a chance to get close, and as soon as the team of Galhan rushed into the city gate, the fat musketeers outside the city gate were already in a row of guns, and in the sound of banging guns, the Galhan who rushed to the front was killed on the spot by more than a dozen shots, and the Qing soldiers in the back also fell down in pieces like cutting wheat.

In the continuous sound of muskets like popping beans, the Qing soldiers continued to charge one after another, and the fat musketeers took turns to shoot in three shots in an orderly manner, easily slaughtering these moths to the Qing soldiers who put out the fire, the corpses in front of the city gate were like a mountain, and the blood was pouring down, no Qing soldier could rush out of the city gate and the road, and no Qing soldier could rush to the front of the fat army, until there was no Qing soldier left in the city gate and the Qing soldier who could stand, the fat soldier ended the shooting, and stepped forward to clean up the battlefield, all of them were stabbed into the heart, and the extermination of people's surnames was extreme.

At this point, the Fanchang War was basically over, 20,000 Qing troops and 6,000 Qing army sailors were annihilated, more than 6,000 people surrendered to the Fat Army, and the rest were basically annihilated, only a few hundred lucky people escaped from the encirclement of the Fat Army, and fled back to Tongling City in the west to report the news, and the baggage of the Le Erjin army also fell into the hands of the Fat Army, and the casualties of the Fat Army were close to 3,000 people. But fortunately, the casualties of the Fat Army were mainly concentrated in the Water Division and the Taiping Mansion Corps, and the direct corps was not very casualties except for the large consumption of ammunition, and the impact on the overall strength of the Fat Army was extremely limited.

planned to annihilate the Leer Jin army in three days, but it only took more than a day to achieve the goal, and Lu Fatzi's fat face naturally smiled, and at this time, the news that Prince Zhang went north to attack Taiping Mansion was also transmitted through the scout's fast horse and sent it to Lu Fatzi. Hearing this news, Fat Lu, who was already smiling with a fat face, naturally laughed from ear to ear, and said in a loud voice: "Okay, good, Prince Zhang is really a good prince, it's better to storm Taiping City more fiercely." When the Mangou elite is tired and disabled, it will be much easier for us to annihilate the main force of Mangou. ”

"General, I'm afraid the situation is not so optimistic." Yao Qisheng reminded: "When the news of our army's annihilation of Fanchang Mangou reaches Taiping Mansion, the main force of Mangou will immediately understand that they are already a lone army, and they have been surrounded by our Nanjing garrison, Taiping Mansion garrison, Wuhu garrison and our main force. ”

"It's okay, we can immediately return to the division, and General Li Mao will attack inside and outside, and break the main force of the dogs." Zhu Fangdan suggested.

"Doctor Zhu, it's not that easy." Yao Qisheng said solemnly: "Our army has just experienced a big battle, the soldiers are very tired, at this time immediately return to the Taiping Mansion, more than 120 miles down, no matter how elite the soldiers will be tired down, when the time comes, don't say that it is to annihilate the main force of the dog, whether it can withstand the counterattack of the main force of the dog, I am afraid it is a big problem." ”

"That's going to be hard." Zhu Fangdan scratched his head and said: "At this time, go back to the division to fight the main force of the dog, the physical strength of the soldiers will not be able to bear it, rest for a day or two and then calmly return to the division, the main force of the dog will slip away to the south again, we can't go south to attack Ning Guofu again, right?" ”

"We have to think of a way to drag the main force of the dog under Taiping City." Fat Lu said with a deep groan.

"Find a way to drag the main force of the dog under Taiping City?" Yao Qisheng paused, then said with a wry smile: "General, how is this possible?" No matter how stupid Zhangtai is, it is impossible for him to stay stupidly under the dangerous Taiping Mansion City, and wait for us to calmly return to the division to kill them all, right? ”

"I think there's hope." Lu Fatzi said quite confidently: "Emperor Mangou asked Prince Zhang to lead the main force of the Western Front to the east, the purpose is to drag our direct corps and the Taiping Mansion Corps, and win time for other battlefields, if Zhangtai escapes to Ningguo Mansion, he may be able to keep the main force of Mangou, but the envoy handed over to him by Emperor Mangou will definitely be in vain - our Prince Zhang, will Emperor Mangou be disappointed in him?" ”

"That makes sense, so what should we do?" Yao Qisheng asked again.

"Let me think about it." Fat Lu sat back on the chair, knocked on Erlang's leg and shook it, and after a long time, Fat Lu suddenly stopped shaking his fat legs, raised his head and said happily: "I thought of a method, maybe it can work." ”

"What's the method?" Yao Qisheng and Zhu Fangdan hurriedly asked together. However, when Lu Fatzi finished saying his idea, Yao Qisheng and Zhu Fangdan screamed together, "General, what are you kidding?" Will this work? ”

"It's not nice to say." Yao Qisheng added unceremoniously and said: "This kind of method, unless you have the kind of second goods with your head in water, you will never be fooled!" ”

"But the problem is that our Prince Zhang is such a person, and for him, other clever plans may not work like this." Fat Lu smiled, waved his fat hand again, and said arbitrarily: "No matter what, you have to give it a try, and immediately send a clipper to Li Mao to give him an order, so that he can follow the plan." If it doesn't work, we'll think of another idea. ”

……………… Turning his head to take a look at the situation of the Xiba camp in Mites Qing, because of the distance and the blockade of the road, at about the same time, Kang Mazi, who had been waiting for a long time in the Xiba camp, finally received the news that Lu Fatzi had personally led the army to the west, and this news was brought back by Zhou Peigong from the Yangzhou battlefield to Kang Mazi.

"Lu Yifeng! Dog thief——! ”

Hearing the news of Lu Fatzi's westward expedition, we are wise and martial, handsome in the sky, Yue Li Shenghong, actuarial, calligraphy and painting, able to astronomy, fluent in foreign languages, cultivating politics, dredging river transportation, Wenluo martial arts directly chasing Jin Hui Yuanshun, opening up territory far beyond Qinwei Jingtang, and bragging about all the skills of the Mazi Tartar Emperor, who was suddenly so angry that his face turned blue, and he roared with a shot of the pseudo-dragon case: "Lu Yifeng! Dog thief! How dare you despise me like this? I have already conquered Qinghe in person, and he even dares to send troops to the Western Front, and he doesn't take me seriously at all! ”

"Master, in view of the fact that Lu Yifeng's dog thieves have sent troops to the Western Front, the slave has a matter to play." Zhou Peigong kowtowed, and said something that made Kang Mazi overjoyed, and also made the mite Qing civil and military officials next to him scatter - Zhou Peigong said so, "The slave dares to think that it is time for the master to cross the Yellow River and come to the battlefield in Yangzhou." ”

(To be continued)