Chapter 17 - Into the City
June 28 night
The fire outside the city soared into the sky, reflecting half of the sky on which side of the Taiping Gate,
In the city, Li Xiucheng took the young master and was busy arranging the breakthrough task.
Yes, the detectives told Li Xiucheng that on the night of the 28th,
Their commander will command the army, to the Qing army outside the Taiping Gate,
launched a fierce attack to break through the Taiping army and blow up a way out,
Originally, Li Xiucheng didn't believe it, but the fact that 10,000 bunny guns were airdropped is here.
Li Xiucheng couldn't refuse the kind reminders of the scouts, and he made some preparations a few days in advance.
But tonight's movement outside the Taiping Gate is too big, almost earth-shattering,
made him rise again to make the whole breakout successful,
In the early morning of the 29th,
More than 10,000 soldiers and their families of the Taiping Army who had not slept all night had gathered near the Taiping Gate.
Then the scouts detonated tens of thousands of catties of explosives buried by the Qing army under the city wall.
With a loud bang, the Taiping Gate collapsed nearly sixty meters into a gap.
Two or three hundred scouts under Zhang Yun in the city took the lead in rushing out of the city.
Behind him was a dense crowd of Taiping soldiers who rushed out,
Because Zeng Guoquan, the commander of the Hunan army, was killed last night, the Hunan army was leaderless.
made a mess, although he desperately wanted to drive the Taiping army back to the city, but he couldn't do anything.
At the same time, nearly 30 kilometers away from the Taiping Gate of Nanjing,
On the long-range artillery positions of the Patriotic Army, more than 100 155 howitzers are ready to fire.
With Zhang Yun's order, the artillery of Zhuyuan had already been marked,
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The mountains shook in an instant, and the shells flew across the Yangtze River and landed on the sniper position of the Hunan army outside the Taiping Gate.
Zhang Yun used long-range artillery to blast a way out for the Taiping army that helped the old and the young.
On the morning of the 29th,
All the soldiers of the Taiping Army and their families successfully broke through the siege, and all the soldiers of the more than 1,000 reconnaissance regiments were responsible for the breakoff with 5,000 soldiers of the Taiping Army.
The Hunan army was in hot pursuit, and even let the city of Nanjing, where the city gate was open, not to,
Chased more than ten kilometers from the city, was sniped by anti-infantry mines placed by the reconnaissance regiment,
When the tens of thousands of main forces of the Hunan army emptied the mines with their lives and prepared to continue the pursuit,
The Taiping army has gone far away, and the five armies of the Patriotic Army have surrounded them.
The 105 light pomegranate of the military family, the first to speak, followed by the 155 pomegranate also joined the chorus,
The shelling stopped for a whole hour, and just as the Hunan troops were glad that they were not dead,
Zhang Yun came on a plane, and there was a bombardment.
The main forces of the Patriotic Army also attacked, and the young Patriotic soldiers,
Shouting the charge to rush towards the Hunan army, the sound of bolt rifles came and went,
The vanguard of the Hunan army has already fought bayonets,
The soldiers in the rear were not slow, and soon rushed up, and the Hunan army, which was backward in weaponry, was defeated and retreated, and the entire battlefield was full of shouts of killing.
The arrogant Hunan army tasted defeat for the first time, and it was, which kind of defeat was like a mountain,
After a day of hard fighting, Zhang Yunkai flew a plane to cooperate with tens of thousands of people in the Patriotic Army.
A total of nearly 100,000 Hunan troops were wiped out, and the main force of the Hunan army was basically wiped out.
Then the Patriotic Army entered the city of Nanjing, searching for the remnants of the enemy around Nanjing.
Zhang Yun didn't enter the city, but just ordered the commander of the five armies who entered the city to take the huge property left by the Taiping army.
are all sorted out, for the sake of this batch of treasures, Zhang Yuncai supported Li Xiucheng to break through,
As for the fear that they will all take away, how much can they take away, not to mention,
The scouts told Li Xiucheng not to set fire to it before breaking through, so as not to startle the snake.
Li Xiucheng thought so, which led to the basic survival of Nanjing City.
A small number of riots were put out by soldiers who entered the city.
Thinking of this huge treasure that was originally swallowed by Zeng Guoquan, it is about to return to us,
Zhang Yun is very happy, the three great joys of life, being promoted to get rich and killing his wife!!
My wife Mu You, don't think about it for the time being, the first two are almost realized now!
After the occupation of Nanjing, Zhang Yun ordered the collection of all belongings and stipulated that they must be handed over.
He also ordered the reconnaissance team to attack everywhere, although the Hunan army had been disabled, but the Huai army was still active in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.
This time, if Zhang Yun does not cripple the Huai army, he will not collect the troops back.
Nanjing was the land of the four wars, and Zhang Yun had no intention of developing here.
Zhang Yun wanted to gather all the Huai army so that he could eliminate them at once.
However, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces are very large, and Zhang Yun didn't expect it, so he quickly gathered them.
Now the priority is to bring the refugees around Nanjing.
Retreat to Chenzhou Mansion in Hunan in an organized manner, because after this battle, Zhang Yun wanted to expand his troops to three or four hundred thousand people.
Of the five provinces in the southwest, Zhang Yun is going to decide.
When Zhang Yun was about to evacuate the refugees, Chen Lin came to the door.
He couldn't figure it out, since he occupied Nanjing, why did he retreat?
Our patriotic army can completely develop to the surrounding areas on the basis of Nanjing.
Zhang Yun did not answer his question directly. But after two days, all the other five army commanders were found. Even the division commander, the regimental commander was called back.
It just so happened that everyone was interested in Zhang Yun's retreat and return to Chenzhou Mansion.
Expressing his puzzlement, Zhang Yun saw that he couldn't be fooled, so he had to stand up.
In the city of Nanjing, a high-level meeting was held for all officers at and above the regimental level.
All the participants were absent, and everyone had doubts about the retreat.
At the meeting, Zhang Yun explained to everyone the strategic development direction in the next few years.
He also repeatedly stated that it is not impossible to defeat the Qing Dynasty if he raises troops now.
Rather, the civil war that we are going to fight, probably, five years? Decade.
This kind of war is not what I, Zhang Yun, want. And in such a war.
We are at war with the Qing Dynasty for a few years, and we will destroy the whole country.
Those who died were people from our country and our nation. In that case, why don't we retreat?
First conquer the five southwestern provinces, and slowly develop for a few years. developed, an army capable of sweeping away the whole country in a matter of months.
With grassroots officials who can immediately follow behind the army and take over the turf.
All this will take time, and how many of us are literate in our entire army now!
Except for the squad leader level and above, the rest of the big-headed soldiers, I'm afraid there are not a few who know a lot of words!
In this case, if we forcibly unleash a civil war. It will bring great disasters to the common people.
Because we are now just like Li Zicheng in the past, there are basically few scholars under him.
I can't govern the country, you must know that it is easy to fight the country, but it is difficult to govern the country.
In order not to follow Li Zicheng's back path. We have to raise our troops at the same time.
It has the ability to take over all the government in the country.
But now it is obvious that we do not have such ability, and I hope that you can calm down like me.
Don't be impatient, let's retreat to Chenzhou Mansion after crippled the Huai army.
After the expansion of the army, we marched to the southwest, in fact, now we are already pulling the flag and rebelling.
It's just that he hasn't pulled out this chess piece yet, leaving a fig leaf for the Qing court.
Zhang Yun repeatedly did work for his subordinates, hoping that they could focus on the overall situation.
Zhang Yun did not do this, for himself, but to give the Qing court a step.
lest their high-ranking officials bite the patriotic army to the death.
It's not that he's afraid of them, Zhang Yun is just afraid of fighting them. The protracted war caused great damage to the Central Plains.
After the meeting, Zhang Yun got a report from the reconnaissance group.
The distribution map of the paramilitary in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces has been presented on Zhang Yun's desk.
Zhang Yun ordered the whole army to be dispatched, except for Hu Xionghui, who left one army.
Responsible for transporting treasures and returning to Chenzhou with refugees around Nanjing.
The other four armies were divided into two groups, one to Jiangsu and the other to Zhejiang.
At the same time, Zhang Yun also flew a plane and took off from Nanjing to reconnoiter the movements of the Huai army.
At the same time, Li Hongzhang also got the change of the Battle of Nanjing.
The Qing court also received a change in the Battle of Nanjing, and almost ordered Li Hongzhang to march to the city of Nanjing.
After the reconnaissance team detected this news, Zhang Yun hurriedly ordered the four troops who had been killed to retreat.
In Nanjing, the city was defended, waiting for the Huai army, the Hunan army, and other miscellaneous Qing court troops.
All of them surrounded Nanjing and started a war, the battle was early, and Zhang Yun was afraid of scaring them away.
Now Zhang Yun is guarding the city of Nanjing, waiting for Li Hongzhang, Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, and Monk Greenqin. After they're all there.
Zhang Yun wants to give them a lesson that they will never forget, as for the question of whether they will come or not.
Zhang Yun was not worried at all, according to the inside line of the reconnaissance group. On the Qing court's side, the four of them have already given death orders to put down everything in their hands.
Go all out to the city of Nanjing. It is necessary to exterminate as soon as possible the bandits of the patriotic army that are defending the city.
In Zhang Yun's opinion, the loyalty of the four of them to the Qing court is very dog-legged.
As long as the master ordered them to bite someone, except for their foreign adults, Zhang Yun estimated that they would definitely let go of everything in their hands.
Give priority to completing the work ordered by the master, for their kind of servile appearance.
Zhang Yun didn't know what to say, after all, this phenomenon is even a modern time and space one or two hundred years later.
It is still impossible to put an end to it, to paraphrase a fashionable saying, the forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds.
This was true, but Zhang Yun found a problem that made him very depressed.
That is, it seems that there is a small group of people in the early stages of each era, regardless of ancient and modern.
Every time they climb to a high position, they always implement the national policy of the outer saint and the inner king.
Just like in the Ming Dynasty, North Korea took 100 taels of silver to worship.
The Ming Dynasty must send them 1,000 taels of silver back, as if otherwise, it will not show the bearing of the Heavenly Empire.
Every time he thought of these depressing questions, Zhang Yun felt that the egg hurt incomparably.
But this time, fate played a joke on himself, and Zhang Yun, who had the golden finger of jade.
It seems that he has climbed to this country, among the highest-level small group of people.
What kind of national policy will you implement when you climb to that point!
Thinking that Seng Lingqin's subordinates were cavalry, Zhang Yun ordered that the soldiers be outside the city wall of Nanjing.
Dig a few traps, not expecting to be able to stop them for long.
Just give the soldiers standing on the walls to defend a few more shots.