Chapter 103: Survival
The rumbling cannons were earth-shattering, and the roars of the sea came from afar. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info the head of the Huimin Gate in the southwest of Nanchang City, Jin Shenghuan stood behind the battlement and looked into the distance. Although he couldn't see it clearly, he still couldn't take his eyes off it, as if he was afraid of missing an important part of it.
In the past half a month since Huguang Town arrived on the outskirts of Nanchang City, Jin Shenghuan has been paying close attention to the battle situation outside the city, and almost every battle has not fallen. And the development of the battle situation did not disappoint him, under the offensive of Huguang Town, the Qing army's western defense line shrank eastward day by day at a speed visible to the naked eye. After fierce battles, large and small, a series of strategic points on the west bank of the Ganjiang River have fallen into the hands of Huguang Town, and the red flags fluttering in the sky have greatly boosted the morale of the defenders at the head of the city.
"If nothing else, the siege can be completely lifted in two days, right?" After Wang Deren inspected some important areas, he also came to the head of Huimin Gate, and his tone was no longer as full of excitement as at the beginning, but with a faint sense of loss.
As soon as the siege of Nanchang City was lifted, he didn't have to worry about his life for the time being, but it also meant that the original purpose of raising troops against the Qing Dynasty was basically frustrated. And the serious damage to their strength will also greatly reduce their right to speak on the side of Daming, and what will happen in the future may only depend on Pang Yue's mood.
"If everything goes well, I'm afraid it won't take two days, and it's not impossible today." After Jin Shenghuan finished saying this, he turned his head to look at Wang Deren, and it was not difficult for him to hear the loss in Wang Deren's tone, "When Pang Yue enters the city, you don't have this face anymore." We are now the ones who look at the face, not the one who makes the face. ”
Wang Deren smiled smirkedly and said no more.
To the southwest, the sudden sound of earth-shattering cannons on the surface of the Ganjiang River interrupted Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren's train of thought, attracting them and the rest of the people in the city.
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The deafening sound of artillery came and went, the wide river surface was filled with gunsmoke, and huge columns of water wrapped in various debris rose from the surface of the river, and then turned into an overwhelming curtain of water and fell with a roar.
On the command ship of the Fubo battalion, battalion officer He Guoyuan watched the battle situation ahead, and from time to time passed down some orders, which were conveyed by the heralds to the ships participating in the battle through the flags on the mast.
In this battle, the opponent of the Fubo battalion was the Jiujiang Water Division Battalion of the Qing army. This water division already existed in the Hongguang Dynasty, and it was the Jiujiang water division of the Ming Dynasty at that time. When the Qing army went south, this naval division surrendered to the Qing without the slightest resistance. Later, when Jin Shenghuan raised troops in Nanchang to oppose the Qing Dynasty and return to the Ming Dynasty and sent Wang Deren to the north, the chief general of this naval division led his troops to surrender to Wang Deren. When Wang Deren returned to Nanchang after defeat, Tan Tai's army entered Jiangxi, and the commander of this naval division once again judged the situation and decisively surrendered to Tan Tai. Originally, Tan Tai was going to use a sacrificial knife for this kind of wall grass that surrendered and rebelled, but considering that there were not many sailors in the Qing army in the Southern Expedition, he had to pinch his nose and endure it first, and wait until the future to settle the account.
It will be the courage of an army, and with such a commander, the will to fight of the Jiujiang Water Division can be imagined. As for the weaponry and the quality of the soldiers, it cannot be compared with the Fubo battalion. Coupled with the fact that a series of forts on the west bank have now fallen into the hands of Huguang Town, under the influence of multiple factors, this battle has almost no suspense from the beginning.
Although the momentum was huge, the battle was not very fierce, and it did not take long for it to enter a one-sided situation. This made He Guoyuan, who wanted to fight a few tough battles and show his face in front of the Lu brothers, felt an inexplicable sense of loss.
"Since the Tartar sailors are not fighting, then I will end the battle as soon as possible and report to the commander." He Guoyuan said a silent sentence in his heart, and was about to use all his back hands to give the Jiujiang Naval Division the final blow, when the lookout post on the mast suddenly shouted excitedly: "My lord, white flag!" The Tartar sailors hoisted the white flag! ”
"Lose his mother's ......" He Guoyuan couldn't help but scold.
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After most of the previous half a month of fighting, the Qing army outside Nanchang City had gradually fallen behind on the battlefield situation on the West Road, and a series of important battlefield support points were seized by Huguang Town after fierce battles. Since then, Huguang Town has been able to enter Nanchang City unimpeded as long as it follows the waterway.
Huguang Town, which has both land and water advantages, has achieved a major breakthrough in the strategy of westward offensive. But Tan Tai still did not give up, mobilized most of the mobile forces at hand to throw into the west road, and made a last-ditch fight.
Fierce fighting continued for another day.
When the sun was setting in the west, the 1,000th Brigade of the Flying Tiger Battalion in Huguang Town struck away the last Qing army and arrived outside the Jinxian Gate in the south of the city. On the vast battlefield behind them, the various fortifications previously built by the Qing army were in ruins. In the smoke that has not yet dissipated, the army of Huguang Town is surging in a steady stream, like a red ocean current rushing forward......
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"Sinner General Jin Shenghuan, see Pang Shuai!"
"Sin General Wang Deren, see Pang Shuai!"
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In the urn city of Jinxianmen, Jin Shenghuan, Wang Deren and a number of generals of the Nanchang Army all showed their upper bodies, kneeling on the side of the road with a bundle of thorns on their backs and said loudly.
Pang Yue turned over and dismounted, came to the crowd who were "guilty of Jing Plea", first helped Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren, personally untied the thorn strip for them, and said with a smile: "Two generals, what are you doing here?" The two of them were in the camp but still thought of the Ming Dynasty, regardless of their own safety, and rose up to oppose the Qing Dynasty and return to the Ming Dynasty, which was loyal; Fighting the Tartars for several months, indomitable, and keeping Nanchang from losing, this is brave. Loyalty and courage are rewarded, what is the crime? And the rest of the generals, get up quickly, it's winter now, don't catch a cold. ”
The generals of Huguang Town, who followed behind Pang Yue, also stepped forward one after another, helped the rest of the people who were kneeling on the ground one by one, and untied the thorns on their backs.
"Pang Shuai is magnanimous, but the guilty generals are guilty." Jin Shenghuan's face was ashamed, "Although the criminal general has the slightest merit of raising troops to return to the Ming, he is arrogant and arrogant, and he arbitrarily confers official titles, which is arrogance and disrespect......
Pang Yue interrupted him with a smile: "The general doesn't have to be like this, those previous measures were indeed very inappropriate, but the situation at that time was special, and it was excusable. The saint is also reasonable, and he specially explained this when Pang went on the expedition, so that the two generals don't have to worry about it. Knowing that mistakes can be corrected, good is great! ”
These words made Jin Shenghuan and the others relax a lot on their faces.
"Thank you, Holy Ron!" Jin Shenghuan bowed in the direction of Hengzhou, the capital of Xingdu, and solemnly saluted Pang Yue, "Thank you Pang Shuai for raising troops thousands of miles away to rescue." If Pang Shuai hadn't come in time, I'm afraid we would have become Tan Tai's ghosts. The grace of saving lives cannot be reciprocated! In the future, Pang Shuai will be supplied, even if he goes to the soup and fire, if Jin someone frowns, he will not be raised by his parents! ”
"Pang Shuai's life-saving grace, I can't wait for it to be unforgettable! In the future, but there will be a sending, and Wang will not hesitate! ”
"Don't thank you for your kindness, in the future, you will be driven by Pang Shuai for more than 100 catties!"
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Wang Deren and the rest of the generals of the Nanchang Army also saluted and thanked them.
"You're serious!" Pang Yue said with a smile, "If it weren't for the fact that you fought the Tartars and held on to Nanchang for several months, Pang Mou would have been afraid that it would be too late even if he led the army to Nanchang." This battle can break the blockade of the Tartars and relieve the siege of Nanchang, firstly, it is the heroic combat merit of all the soldiers, and secondly, it is also the blessing of God, and it will not disappoint all the loyal ministers and righteous men like you who think of the Ming Dynasty! Pang Mou just did it according to the will of God, the so-called life-saving grace Yunyun, there is no need to mention it in the future! ”
At this time, an officer from the Flying Tiger Battalion led a team to escort a prisoner over, walked up to Pang Yue and whispered.
Pang Yue was surprised when he heard this, and then motioned for him to push the captives in front of Jin Shenghuan and the others, and said to Jin, Wang and the others: "General Jin, General Wang, do you still know this person?" ”
The captive was so frightened that his legs went limp, and he collapsed on the ground and curled up in a ball. The soldier from Huguang Town next to him grabbed the pigtail at the back of his head and pulled his face towards Jin Shenghuan and the others.
Jin Shenghuan only glanced at it and shouted: "Liu Tongchun! ”
This person is the original Qing Jiangxi Governor Liu Tongchun, who abandoned his family after Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren raised troops and fled to Nanjing to report the news, a hardcore loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty. Later, Tan Tai led the army south, and Liu Tongchun also followed the Jiangnan Green Camp back to Nanchang, because there were many old ones in the city, so Tan Tai arranged a task to persuade him to surrender. Every now and then they shouted to the city, or wrote some letters and shot into the city. made Jin Shenghuan hate itchy, but there was nothing he could do. Later, Huguang Town arrived at the outskirts of Nanchang, and the first priority of the Qing army outside the city changed from attacking the city to fighting Huguang Town, but Tan Tai seemed to have forgotten that Liu Tongchun was such a small person, and did not move him in time. And today, the blockade line of the Qing army on the west road was completely defeated by Huguang Town, and the Qing army on the west road did not care about such a small person when they retreated, so Liu Tongchun became a prisoner of Huguang Town in a daze.
Pang Yue remembered that in the original time and space, in the end, the Qing army broke through Nanchang and captured Wang Deren, and Liu Tongchun also participated in the interrogation of Wang Deren. He asked Wang Deren: Why did you kill my family? Wang Deren replied: This is something that should be killed, I heard that you went to invite soldiers, so I killed it. But in this time and space, the situation of the two has fallen.
"I'll fuck you!" Seeing that it was Liu Tongchun, Wang Deren was furious, kicked over, and was stopped by Jin Shenghuan after kicking.
"I killed all your family, and the day after you ran to report to the Tartars, you killed all of them, from old to young, and left no one behind. As for you, I didn't catch you, so I shouldn't kill you. Jin Shenghuan stared at Liu Tongchun and said coldly, and then said to Pang Yue, "This person is a loyal dog of the Tartars, and it is not too much to die a hundred times." But the person was caught by Pang Yue, or should Pang Shuai deal with it. ”
Although Liu Tongchun had long expected the fate of his family, he was confirmed from Jin Shenghuan's mouth at this time, and then thought about his situation, he was still sad and cried.
Pang Yue didn't bother to look at the hateful face of this traitor, waved his hand and asked people to press him to the side of the road, and cut him down in front of all the generals of the Nanchang Army.