The time is approaching, the decisive battle of the sailors on the Luoshan battlefield is still continuing, and the mite Qingshui Division, which has always occupied the advantage of the number of ships and the combat power of the sailors, has unconsciously occupied a new upper hand - the soldier's physical strength!

The tactics of the Qing army's naval division were to move less and move more, using the elite soldiers and large ships, and striving to fight with the ships of the Wu army's naval divisions; Wu's naval division, on the other hand, used more movement to control less movement, attempting to use guerrilla tactics to give full play to the advantages of flexible and fast ships and powerful firearms, so as to make up for the weak with agility and make up for the lack with speed.

The two tactics have their own strengths and strengths, and it is indeed difficult to distinguish between the top and bottom in a short period of time, but after a long time, with the physical consumption of the oarsmen and sailors, the weakness of the Wu army's warship with a small number of troops has gradually been exposed, almost every soldier is exhausted, and almost every soldier has been sent to the most physically exhausted paddling post many times, repeatedly, there is little time for physical strength to rest and recover, and the speed naturally slows down - and the Wu army's warship has been flowing and shuttling to fight, The physical exertion of soldiers is naturally even greater.

On the contrary, the bulky but large number of troops of the Qing warship, after a long time, the soldiers exercised less, and the advantage of having time to rest and recover their physical strength, but gradually revealed, even the most bulky and sluggish sand boats, have gradually caught up with the light and flexible medium-sized warships of the Wu army in speed, and gradually narrowed the distance with the Wu army's warships.

"Du Hui'er, you are a pirate from a naval battle." Seeing that the self-army warships were gradually catching up with the speed of the Wu army's warships, Yang Jie's still handsome face couldn't help but show a cruel smile, and muttered: "So you forget, river warfare is not as good as sea warfare." On the sea, as long as the wind and currents are suitable, the ship is small and flexible, it is indeed necessary to take advantage of a lot, there is a lot of room for tossing and turning, and the sailors have time to take advantage of the wind to travel and rest, even if you can't win with similar tactics, you will never lose! But in the narrow river battlefield, hehe, your boat is all relying on manpower to paddle and shuttle quickly, you want to see how long your sailor recruits can last! ”

"Yang Jie, you're lucky." Du Hui, who also discovered this situation, also smiled bitterly, and sighed secretly: "If my warship can have twenty more ......, even if there are ten more, or my sailors have more experience and experience, and when they have enough physical strength before, they can destroy more full dog warships, this battle, it is not a dream to defeat the strong with the weak." But ......, hehe, success and failure, success and failure. ”

"Flag!" After observing the battlefield situation for a long time, Yang Jie stood up and ordered: "The ships are moving closer to the flagship, giving up the outer water surface to Wu Gou, and then giving Wu Gou a while, and when their physical strength is exhausted, it is not too late to clean them up!" ”

The flag was raised, and the well-trained ships of the Qing army began to converge on the flagship, compressing the activity space of the Wu army's warships in the battlefield, and ceding the relatively wide outer water surface to the Wu army. Seeing this scene, although Du Hui immediately understood Yang Jie's sinister intention to consume the physical strength of his soldiers faster, he was suffering from the lack of ships and weak soldiers, and the lack of heavy warships to break through the turtle formation of the Qing army, so he could only order the ships to continue to roam around the periphery and fight, and take the opportunity to think hard about how to break the enemy.

"Boom!" At this moment, an earth-shattering loud noise suddenly sounded in the Qing army's fleet, a Qing army's sand boat shook violently, and the side burst into flames, blowing up a big hole of more than three zhang, the river water surged into the cabin, quickly tilted, and the Qing soldiers on the ship did not even have time to react and adjust, they were already screaming and rolling into the water one after another, and the Qing army fleet was in chaos.

"When did Wu Dog's suicide sampan get in?" Yang Jie jumped up in shock, and hurriedly shouted: "Quickly pass the order, be careful of the Wu Dog Sampan boat, the Wu Dog boat in the middle of the fleet, all of them are sunk!" ”

"Boom!" Another loud bang sounded from under the bow of Yang Jie's flagship, the bow jumped up like an electric shock, Yang Jie seemed to be pushed violently, and suddenly stumbled and fell on his back, fortunately the soldiers hurriedly held it, but before Yang Jie and others could stand firm, the bow of the flagship had smashed into the river again, and the huge habitual surname took Yang Jie and his own soldiers to dive forward together, and all fell into a.

"Military Gate, Military Gate!" Several Qing soldiers pounced on him, trying to pick up Yang Jie, but Yang Jie didn't care about his chin and scratched a large piece of oily skin on the deck, but just shouted frantically: "Quickly give the order, give the order, sink all the Wu dog sampans!" Sink all the Wu dog sampans! ”

"Boom! Bang! Bang! Although all the Wu army sampan boats on the battlefield were taken care of by the Qing army's warships, the terrifying sound of violent explosions still sounded one after another in the Qing army's fleet, and several Qing army warships were damaged and blown up at the same time.

"It was our own ship that blew it up!" Finally, a Qing soldier saw the situation clearly and shouted: "I saw it, it was our sampan that blew up, and our flag was planted on the boat that exploded just now!" It's our ship, not Wu Dog's boat! ”

When the news finally reached Yang Jie, Yang Jie had already given up the period when he was seriously injured by the explosion and moved to a Qing army bird boat next to him. And when he heard the news, Yang Jie's face turned white all of a sudden, and he shouted: "I've won the plan!" Wu Gou's suicide ship must have been disguised, disguised as our ship, and blended into our fleet! Quick, quick, and beware of all boats and sampans! ”

Such a complicated and first encounter with the order, the flag bearer naturally could not use the flag to convey to the Qing army ships, and could only send small boats to ship to ship to deliver orders, but in this way, the speed of order transmission was naturally greatly limited, but the Wu army Huitian sampan disguised as the Qing army sampan was merciless, or fought separately, or two as a group, taking advantage of the opportunity of the explosion and chaos of the Qing army's fleet, looking at the target and mixing next to the Qing army's big ship, or directly hit the Qing army's warship on the side of the ignition and diving, or threw a hook to hook the Qing army's warship, ignition and diving, Then the violent explosion naturally happened next to the waterline of the Qing warship, do not completely touch, just the shock wave can completely smash the side of the Qing warship, so that it is seriously flooded, completely incapacitated.

The Qing army's sand boat with a large load at the front end is the favorite of the Wu army's sampan to turn back, drill under the bow and detonate, a small sampan can pull a Qing army sand boat with a load of nearly 1,000 tons to accompany the burial, even if it can't be directly blown up and sunk, it will turn it into a waste floating on the river, except for slowly sinking, there is no combat value. The Qing army fleet exploded continuously, large ships and small boats collided with each other, soldiers ran for their lives, screams and cries for help were endless, and it was completely chaotic.

With such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, how could Du Hui, the commander of the Wu Army's naval division, miss it? After an order was given, the remnants of the Wu army warships rushed into the chaotic Qing army fleet together, frantically threw the last incendiary bombs and grenades, killing people everywhere and setting fires, the Qing army fleet was even more chaotic, Yang Jie was completely unable to command and restrain it, countless Qing army ships and small ships turned around and ran, and the Wu army warships took the opportunity to attack together, ignited seven or eight Qing army warships in one breath, surrounded two Qing army thunder ships, jumped on the deck to kill people and seize ships. The Qing army's naval divisions completely lost their fighting spirit, including Yang Jie, all turned around and fled, and the Wu army fleet pursued them with all their might.

Seeing such a situation, Wu Laohan immediately ordered the civilian ships to attack and replenish Du Hui's fleet with weapons and ammunition, so that Wu's naval division could continue to expand the results of the battle. And Tuhai was crying on the north bank, regardless of the persuasion of the generals, broke through the barrier and jumped into the Yangtze River to commit suicide, and was rescued by the Qing soldiers and dragged up to the embankment, Tuhai cried again: "Don't save me, save me again, you are harming me!" The Yangtze River defense line was broken through by Wu Gou, the master will not spare me, I don't want to be escorted back to the capital with a thousand cuts, it is better to die clean now! ”

"Tu Zhongtang, I can't blame you for this, I can't blame you!" Countless Qing army generals howled and cried, "It was our army that was transferred, and our main force was transferred to Fujian, and the Yangtze River was broken through by Wu Dog!" If our main force is still there, no matter how powerful Wu Dog is, he won't be able to break through our Yangtze River defense line! ”

"Generals, you must not say that." When Tuhai, who has been selfish all his life, knew that he was going to die, he also said a few words of sincerity and cried: "You remember, when you report the Yangtze River war to the master, you must not say that the Yangtze River was broken through by Wu Gou, because the master transferred our main force. You can only say that it was Wu Gou's shamelessness and successful sneak attack, or that I made a mistake in command and planning, but it must not be said that it was because the master transferred our main ....... ”

"Otherwise, all of you will die like me, without a place to bury!"

Tu Hai was so sincere and concerned about the words, the Qing army generals listened to it, and it was inevitable that they were even more moved to cry, among which Mu Zhan pulled Tu Hai's sleeve and cried and said: "Tu Zhongtang, since Wu Gou's breakthrough of the Yangtze River is a foregone conclusion, then we don't want to waste our precious troops in vain, take advantage of Wu Gou's still chasing and killing our sailors, and quickly retreat to Jingzhou, where there are more than 20,000 troops of Prince Jian, as well as Yiling (Yiling, now Yichang) Xu Zhengzhi's water division, which is in the upper reaches, as long as we hold there, Wu Gou will not dare to go all out into the Central Plains." , Sichuan's Wu Dog and Huguang's Wu Dog can't be connected in a line, and the master also has time to react and adjust, and when our main force returns to the division, there is still hope for re-blockading the Yangtze River. ”

"What about Hanyang?" Tuhai cried and asked, "If we don't rescue Hanyang, what will we do if Hanyang is lost again?" ”

"Tuzhongtang, do we still have the strength to rescue Hanyang now?" Mu Zhan cried and said: "Our sailor division has been defeated miserably, and there is no way to transport troops by water, and when it passes by land, Wu Gou's army will have already rushed to Hanyang by water." According to the opinion of the last general, Hanyang should also give up, let's keep our army first, stay in the green mountains, and don't be afraid of no firewood! ”

Tu Hai was silent, and after a long while, Tu Hai gritted his teeth and struggled to stand up, choked up and said: "The left and right are all destroyed, for the sake of the Qing Dynasty, for the emperor, I will bear all the sins." The order was given to the whole army to abandon Luoshan and withdraw to Jingzhou by land! Then give Yang Jie an order to withdraw to Jiujiang Poyang Lake to join Dong Weiguo! Let him give Cai Yurong an order again, so that Cai Yurong can hold Hanyang and defend it, and if he can't hold it, he will give up Hanyang and retreat to Macheng, blocking the road for Wu Gou to go north to the grain-producing area of Anhui. ”

The Qing army cried together and agreed, and after a while, the Qing army brigade stationed in Luoshan abandoned its position and fled northward, while the sailors retreated downstream to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the Wu army took the opportunity to cross the river and seize the Qing army's Luoshan camp, announcing the victory of the Luoshan War, and also announcing that the Qing army's Yangtze River defense line was completely broken through by the Wu army, and the Yangtze River was in danger, and it was no longer possible to stop the southwestern athletes from going north!

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At about the same time, the attack and defense of Hanyang in the north of Wuchang had also been in full swing under the personal command of Lu Fatzi, Cai Yurong's army was dying and struggling in the city of Hanyang, which was high and deep, and was waiting for help, while Lu Fatzi unceremoniously used an artillery array, and carried all the light artillery on the Wuchang Fort of the Wu army across the river, and bombarded indiscriminately at the west gate of Hanyang.

At the beginning of the Shen period, the Wu army finally stopped the shelling, the Wu army generals Liu Zhifu and Xu Hongren each led their headquarters out of the battle, towards the west gate of Hanyang that had been blown out of countless gaps and all the city towers collapsed to launch a charge, the Qing army that went down to the city to avoid the artillery hurriedly went to the city to meet the battle, but the city fortifications were seriously destroyed by the Wu army's artillery fire, and the morale of the generals and soldiers also collapsed, not to mention effectively blocking the Wu army's offensive, even the arrows and bullets shot on the city wall were sparse, and they were unable to resist the footsteps of the Wu army.

Seeing that the ladders were mounted on the head of Hanyang City one after another, and the soldiers of the Wu Army poured up the Hanyang City Wall like a tide, Wu Yingqi was so happy that he patted Lu Fatzi on the shoulder and laughed: "Virtuous nephew, there is a set, first cover it densely with artillery fire, blow up all the dog's guts, and then attack the city, which is more effective than directly attacking the city." Well, this time the siege battle, we have won! In the future, if you encounter a strong city full of dogs, you can use this method to attack the city. ”

"Uncle has won the prize, this hand is effective, but the ammunition consumption is too great. If it weren't for Hanyang being too important, the nephew really didn't want to use this trick. Lu Fatzi said quietly: "So in the future, when we encounter a strong city, it is best to use some other methods to break the city, otherwise, every city is like this, our logistics cannot afford it at all, and the firearms battalion will not be able to make so much ammunition." ”

"That's a special cost of silver." Wu Yingqi nodded his head and agreed with Lu Fatzi's opinion.

"Uncle, nephew and nephew will give you another credit." Lu Fatzi suddenly lowered his voice and said in a low voice: "Now the west of Hanyang City is being attacked by us, the east is blocked by the warships we captured, and the south is the Yangtze River, and Mangou can't escape if he wants to, so his nephew concluded that if Mangou breaks through and escapes, he will inevitably go out of the north gate to flee to the upper reaches of the Han River, and his nephew will give 3,000 cavalry to your uncle, as for what to do, I believe there is no need for my nephew to say, right?" ”

"Understood." Wu Yingqi smiled evilly and said, "Don't worry, nephew and son-in-law, you are here to command the siege, and when the dog breaks through and escapes, my uncle will definitely entertain them on the road." ”

"In that case, then please." Lu Fatzi arched his hand and reminded in a low voice: "Uncle, also, according to our detailed report, there is still Prince Gong Changning, the brother of Emperor Mangou, in Hanyang City, if Mangou breaks through, he will definitely be in the middle of the team, if Uncle can capture him alive, I believe that my grandfather will be very happy." Wu Yingqi laughed and agreed, and immediately went down to draw the cavalry, and rushed to the Qing army to break through and escape in advance to ambush on the way, while Lu Fatzi commanded the main force to step up the siege without mentioning.

Just as soon as the infantry attacked the city, they arranged an ambush in advance, Lu Fatzi was not arrogant, mainly because Lu Fatzi knew too much about the surname of Cai Yurong, the Hanyang guard general of the Qing army, when he was in Yuezhou, Cai Yurong was the first to take the lead in escaping, and later in Wuchang, Cai Yurong left the whole city of soldiers and civilians to cross the river and flee alone, greedy for life and afraid of death so far, how much more determination to fight to the death? And this is exactly the case, with the development of the siege battle of the Wu army, Cai Yurong and his son inevitably had the intention of breaking through to save their lives, but they were afraid that once Hanyang was lost, Kang Mazi would definitely not spare himself, so Cai Yurong and his son were inevitably a little hesitant, and they would not be able to make up their minds for a while.

Governor Cai was given a chance by Kang Mazi's younger brother Prince Gong Changning, seeing the Wu army kill on the West Gate city wall, Prince Gong, who was afraid of being captured and cut off his thumb, almost rushed to Governor Cai, pulled Cai Yurong's sleeve and asked with a crying voice: "Cai Butang, can Hanyang hold it?" Can it be held? Wu Dog has already killed the city wall of the West Gate! ”

"Lord Wang, please rest assured, although Wu Dog is powerful, his firearms are also sharp." Governor Cai replied impassionedly: "But the slave, as a courtier of the Qing Dynasty, naturally swears to live and die together in Hanyang, even if it is fought to the last soldier, as long as the slave still has a breath, Wu Gou will not want to step into Hanyang City half a step!" ”

"So what should I do?" Chang Ning almost didn't roar, and said with a sad face: "What about the king? Will Wu Gou spare this king? ”

"This ......." Cai Yurong originally wanted to say that you can also commit suicide and martyrdom, but after thinking about it, Cai Yurong changed his words again: "Then Prince Gong, what should you do if you say a slave?" ”

"Let's break through." Chang Ning couldn't wait to say: "I asked just now, Wu Gou didn't arrange troops at the North Gate, and we have time to break through from the North Gate now." ”

"Lord Wang, don't you dare to give this order." Cai Yurong hurriedly shook his head and said: "Although the troops in the hands of the minions are not even thirty percent of Wu Gou's, Wu Gou has already collapsed half of the wall of Hanyang's West Gate, and it is only a matter of time before Hanyang is broken, but the minions are sent by the emperor and entrusted by the master, so they can only coexist and die with Hanyang City, the city is in the minions, and the minions are in the city, and the minions are dead, so this order, the minions must not be given, if they are down, the minions will not be able to explain to the emperor." ”

"I'll give you an explanation!" Prince Gong stomped his feet and said: "Governor Cai, you are still a veteran of military affairs for a long time, why don't you even understand the truth that you can't stick to the gains and losses of one city and one place?" Now that the middle section of Huguang is your army, if all of them are lost in Hanyang City, what else can you do to stop Wu Gou's army from going north? ”

"This ......." Governor Cai pretended to mutter, "The words of the prince, of course, are the most good and reasonable, but the master ...... there." ”

"I've already said it, I'll explain it for you!" Chang Ning stomped his feet even more, and said anxiously: "Don't you even believe the words of this king?" Do you want this king to write a recital for you in front of you? It shows that you gave up Hanyang in order to protect me from breaking through, and I will bear all the blame! I don't believe it, the third brother would want my younger brother to be like Jieshu and Le Erjin, who was captured by Wu Gou and cut his fingers, and he couldn't even pick up a pair of chopsticks! ”

"Just have your words." Cai Yurong was happy in his heart, but he said hesitantly on his face: "Of course the prince is reasonable, but ....... ”

"I knew you were afraid to take on this responsibility!" Chang Ning shouted helplessly: "Bring paper and pen, this king will give Cai Butang ink and paper, proving that the retreat order was given by this king." ”

Saying that, Prince Gong really wrote a handwritten warrant to Cai Yurong, ordering Cai Yurong to give up Hanyang to protect himself to break through, and then forced it into Cai Yurong's hand, and got this warrant, Cai Yurong was completely relieved, plus the Wu army's attack was really urgent, and it was a foregone conclusion that the Qing army was defeated and retreated to break the city, Cai Yurong soon issued an order, "Come on, gather all the troops, and escort Prince Gong to break through to the north city, and go to the upper reaches of the Han River to find a ferry to cross the river." ”

After a while, Cai Yurong hurriedly gathered the last more than 2,000 troops, and regardless of the soldiers of the self-army who were still fighting the wall of the West Gate, he surrounded Changning and broke through to the North Gate. The news reached the West Gate, the defenders of the West Gate of the Qing Army all scolded, threw down their weapons and surrendered to the Wu army, the Wu army took the opportunity to rush into the city, captured this important fortress of the Yangtze River, and hoarded in the city to prepare to pay the Wu army to exchange prisoners of war The military salaries, grain and grass were also returned to the original owner, and a lot fell into the hands of the Wu army.

Cai Yurong's army that successfully broke through was not happy for long, their team did not escape thirty miles north along the Han River, they were ambushed by Wu Yingqi's cavalry who had been waiting here for a long time, after a fierce battle, the morale of the three thousand Qing troops completely collapsed was annihilated, nearly half of them were annihilated, and the rest all surrendered, Cai Yurong and his eldest son Cai Lin and the second son Cai Xun escaped from the Han River by swimming in the water with a log, and Cai Ji and the other three sons died tragically in the chaos, and were trampled into meat sauce by the Wu army's iron cavalry.

As for our Prince Gong, because his identity is too noble, he has been stared at by the Wu army, and he has no courage to jump into the water to escape, and in the end, he still held the idea that it is better to lose his fingers than to lose his head, and raised his hand to surrender to the Wu army, becoming the most important prisoner captured by the Wu army in the battle of crossing the river.

At this point, the battle of crossing the river suddenly launched by the Wu army ended in a complete victory, the Qing army's defense line from Dongting Lake to Hanyang was broken through by the Wu army, the main force of the naval division was almost completely annihilated, the infantry cavalry suffered heavy losses, and less than half of the army fled to Jingzhou, Huangzhou and Jiujiang and other places to survive, and the important town of Hanyang on the Yangtze River was lost, becoming the advance base of the Wu army's Northern Expedition. The northern state capital of Huguang, Henan, Anhui and Shaanxi are also like beauties stripped naked, completely exposed in front of the insatiable pervert of Pingxi Wangfu! In the land of the Central Plains, the mite is already clear, and there is no danger to defend!

(To be continued)