Chapter 18 - The Battle of Nanjing
After several days of preparation, Zhang Yuan finally moved all the ordinary people in Nanjing. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The next step was to make various war preparations in Nanjing, and it is worth mentioning that Zhang Yun transmitted all the planes and 155 cannons back to modern time and space.
Although he had already won a big victory over the Hunan army, Zhang Yun was still worried that there would be traitors under his subordinates.
You must know that people who want to be slaves and don't want to be masters have a lot of them.
So did not dare to place the plane and 155 guns outside the city
, but these two weapons are not easy to move into the city, so they have to teleport away.
On the contrary, it was 105 artillery, and Zhang Yun brought in a lot of secret troops.
At the same time, the reconnaissance team was ordered to be more than 100 kilometers away from Nanjing.
Build airfields and be prepared to send planes to bomb if the war goes badly.
Although Zhang Yun felt that this kind of preparation was redundant, in the face of Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and others.
If you want to compare your brains with them, Zhang Yun feels that he will definitely bring humiliation on himself.
Their IQ should be a few streets away from themselves.
But war is not a place for brains, at least not purely for brains.
And Zhang Yun has nearly a hundred years ahead of them, weapons and experience as well as ideas.
The next thing is to demolish the house to make a position in Nanjing, anyway, there is no one in Nanjing City, even if it is to destroy all the Nanjing City.
Zhang Yun won't be heartbroken, anyway, he won't return here for at least a few years.
In particular, the 105 artillery positions of several military dependents must be arranged.
Zhang Yun hurriedly returned to modern time and space, and teleported over a million grenades.
As a defender of the city, this thing has a grenade, which is really cheap.
When Zhang Yun prepared all the medicines, food, and ammunition.
July, the sixth day of the first lunar month.
Li Hongzhang was the first, with 50,000 Huai troops, and arrived outside Nanjing.
Immediately afterwards, Zeng Guofan and Seng Lingqin were two. With the miscellaneous army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there were probably more than 100,000 or so. Also arrived in Nanjing City.
in a tent outside the city. The Manchu was the leader of the army. Meetings are being held to study how to storm the city.
Originally, according to Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guopan's intentions.
They are not ready to forcibly attack the city, and they plan to trap the bandits in Nanjing City.
However, the Qing court had no choice but to urge it again and again, and almost gave a death order.
They must be allowed to exterminate the bandits in the city of Nanking by August.
Why is the Qing court in such a hurry! Of course, Zhang Yun did it.
In fact, on Li Xiucheng's way to Shandong. Zhang Yun placed him at least 100,000 mini-guns with bayonets and 1,000 rounds of ammunition for each gun.
At first, Li Xiucheng didn't believe it very much. But when he sent his henchmen.
Go to the treasure location given by Zhang Yun and check it out.
found that what Zhang Yun said was right, so he immediately changed the route of the march.
Retreat along the route given by Zhang Yun to Shandong, and along the way, Zhang Yun placed many hidden treasures for him.
Rifle. Food, medicine, you name it. Enough to support, 200,000 troops, half a year.
When Li Xiucheng retreated, Zhang Yun thought about it and couldn't let him go back to his hometown in Guangxi.
Which is the territory he will take, only let him go to Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu and other places to develop.
Li Xiucheng, who held more than 100,000 mini guns, set his base camp in Shandong.
Zhang Yun thought that Tongzhi's children's faces must be very exciting.
Because he was afraid that Li Xiucheng would not go to Shandong honestly, Zhang Yuncai did not give Li Xiucheng weapons and ammunition at one time.
Rather, it is divided into at least a dozen places, treasure hiding places. Placed on the way from Nanjing to Shandong.
In this way, even if Li Xiucheng sees it, this is a conspiracy. He's going to have to jump hard, too.
It was precisely because the Qing court discovered Li Xiucheng's power that it became bigger and bigger.
And gradually coming in the direction of Shandong, about to join the Twist Army.
Therefore, the children of Tongzhi, as well as the old witch of Cixi, will give nervous orders,
Li Hongzhang, Zeng Guopan, two. Capture the city of Nanjing as soon as possible.
Of course, Zhang Yun knew about these changes, because he also had the Security Division, the people of the reconnaissance team,
Activities around the city of Nanjing, as well as within the Qing court.
It was precisely because they knew that Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang were in a hurry to come to him for a decisive battle.
He was not in a hurry, one was to gather all of them.
The second is to make the two of them anxious and not expect them to make mistakes in their busyness.
Because this is an unrealistic question, the two of them, who can be called a generation of famous generals, will never make such a low-level mistake.
But Zhang Yun doesn't care! It's to make them anxious and look at these minions.
I couldn't wait to find myself for a decisive battle, and invited to fight under the city of Nanjing every day.
Zhang Yun was overjoyed, just enough to satisfy a certain bad taste in his heart.
Aren't you addicted to being a slave? I can't even be a human being.
As a human being, I obviously don't care about the thoughts and face of a minion.
Therefore, Zhang Yun has always ignored the many invitations of the Qing army outside the city.
Sit firmly on the hooked fish table. And intensify the internal clean-up, ordering middle and senior officers to patrol the barracks every night.
Don't give Zeng and Li the opportunity to rebel. Zhang Yun guessed that inside his army.
Especially the lower-level officers who are not firm in their minds, there must still be people who want to surrender to the Manchus as slaves.
Because it's glorious to be a slave! You can also glorify your ancestors.
Especially under the city, surrounded by Qing troops of about 200,000 people.
This kind of person, the usual careful thinking must not be suppressed at this time.
However, Zhang Yun had no choice but to step up his defense.
According to the report of the reconnaissance team, there are people in the city every day who use arrows to shoot surrender books into the city.
Although Zhang Yun had already ordered, his subordinates opened fire on the Qing troops near the city wall.
And he collected and destroyed some of the surrender books that had been shot into the city.
It's still hard to avoid this completely.
Mainly, it was too dark at night to shoot, and there was basically no accurate head.
As a result, the Qing army outside the city became more and more emboldened.
In the last few nights, someone dared to approach the city wall and shout for surrender.
Seeing that this situation is getting worse and worse, the Qing army has no intention of attacking at present.
It seems that he is trying in vain to make Zhang Yun mess with himself.
This situation continues to happen, and Zhang Yun can't take care of the leakage problem.
Immediately traveled to the modern time and space, and bought ten flashlights for the four walls, strong lights.
It is issued to officers at the battalion level and above and stipulates that whoever loses a flashlight must pay with one hand.
In addition, Zhang Yun went to check the problem with the flashlight every day to see if there was any omission.
In short, do everything possible to avoid leaks.
Since Zhang Yun began to equip his subordinates with flashlights, every night, the Qing army who came to the foot of the city wall to make ghosts.
After paying the price of hundreds of corpses, it finally stopped.
Zhang Yun did not think that it was a manifestation of the Qing army's intention to retreat, and this situation occurred.
It should be Li Hongzhang and others who can't make Zhang Yun's subordinates mess up.
It's time to start preparing for the assault.
On July 26, the red-coated artillery of the Qing army had all moved to the city of Nanjing.
Li Hongzhang said to Zeng Guofan, and it seemed that the morale of the bandits in the city was still strong.
I am afraid that the mere siege of the city with a large army will not bring them to their knees.
Zeng Guofan sighed, pity the good men of the Hunan army under the command of the old man.
Li Hongzhang persuaded him, if it weren't for the repeated urging of the imperial court, we wouldn't need to be so urgent.
The price to be paid by the besieging party is too great, and this Nanjing city will probably be piled up, the corpses of our Xianghuai army,
Monk Greenqin said beside him, Li Xiucheng, the thief, has now arrived in Shandong.
I am afraid that the emperor and the queen mother will not be able to sleep at night, so she will urge us to end the Nanjing war as soon as possible.
Li Hongzhang said Yes, Nanjing City is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and it was not easy to drive out the Taiping thieves.
If this wave of bandits of unknown origin is allowed to occupy this city.
That's clear to me. It's just too bad.
Zeng Guofan said, the state affairs have been difficult in recent years, there are always so many thieves who want to steal the evidence, and I am orthodox.
Those of us who are courtiers must be loyal to the emperor and the queen mother!
Zhang Yun looked outside the city, the Manchu minions always dragged their feet and did not come to attack the city.
Finally, I can't hold back that you have time to besiege the city, and I don't have time to play here with you.
On the evening of July 29, Zhang Yun ordered the troops to blow up the nearby city wall of the Taiping Gate, which had just been repaired, again.
Suddenly send a regiment of soldiers to make a tentative attack.
Li Hongzhang, Zeng Guofan, when he heard the loud bang of the wall, he said badly, did the thief army want to break through?
Li Hongzhang hurried up without wearing all his pants and recruited the main force of the Huai army.
Towards the city wall near the Taiping Gate, be sure to block the breakthrough route of the thief army.
After a night of fierce fighting, Zhang Yun ordered his troops to retreat within the city walls.
Li Hongzhang saw that about 100 meters of the city wall was blown down by gunpowder. I don't see thieves in the city repairing it.
He was a little confused, could it be that this group of bandits was determined to break through?
But you don't have to repair the city walls!
Because he couldn't figure out the intentions of the bandits in the city, Li Hongzhang pressed the whole army down again.
Zhang Yun took a look, and this could not attract the Qing army to attack the city.
Very helpless, he wanted to break through and encircle the Qing army on the road to annihilate them, but the artillery could not be taken away.
Thinking about it, there is no good way Zhang Yun was ruthless in his heart, this was forced by you.
Outside the Shence Gate, it is found that there are 50,000 Huai troops, which should be the main force of the Huai army.
Zhang Yun hit their mind, and that night he left the city of Nanjing in a hot air balloon without a sound.
In one day, he found the temporary field airfield he built outside Nanjing.
Travel back to modern times to fill the plane, and the mustard gas bomb travels back to the time and space of the Qing Dynasty.
ruthlessly, he flew over the 50,000 main military camp of the Huai Army that night.
Dozens of tons of mustard gas bombs were thrown into their camp
After that, Zhang Yun returned to Nanjing City in the same way, but fortunately the journey went smoothly and there were no accidents.
There was a complete mess outside Nanjing, and Li Hongzhang vomited blood and fainted.
The elite of the 50,000 Huai Army that he spent his hard work to build was all gone in such a night.
In the afternoon of the same day, Li Hongzhang woke up from a coma and immediately found Zeng Guofan, Monk Greenqin and others.
Yan Dao immediately attacked Nanjing City, and Zeng Guopan and others were not lightly stimulated when they saw Li Hongzhang.
He didn't dare to provoke him any more, so he immediately got out of his military tent and immediately ordered the whole army to attack the city of Nanjing.
The red-clothed cannons rang non-stop, and the Manchu minions shouted and brandished steel knives and bravely climbed the city wall of Nanjing.
Zhang Yun saw the Qing army outside the city, and finally took the initiative to attack the city, and his face was full of smiles.
This gas bomb can be thrown! The effect was not bad, which made Li Hongzhang dizzy.
The soldiers of the Patriotic Army in the city vividly taught the Qing army outside the city a lesson with grenades and rifles,
Now the era of playing with knives has long passed, and it is already the world of playing with guns