This morning's Yangzhou is no different from the past. As soon as the sky was bright, Aunt Liu of the bun shop opened the door of the store very early as always, and was cleaning the street in front of the store with a broom.

After a while, the door of the rice shop across the street also opened, and Mr. Zhang, the bookkeeper, walked out yawning as usual.

"Mr. Zhang, it's early." Aunt Liu said hello.

"Mr. Zhang, have you heard? There is going to be a war, and yesterday I saw many generals coming out of the angel's house. Aunt Liu took two steps towards Mr. Zhang and whispered.

"Now it's the Guogong Mansion, Luo Angel has been named the Duke of Weiguo by the emperor, and now he is the Governor of Huaiyang." Mr. Zhang said with a smile, not seeming to be worried about the war.

"Really? That's great, there is an angel as the governor, where do the Tartars dare to come? Aunt Liu was a little excited.

"I hope the Metropolitan Governor can drive the Tartars away, so that we can have a good life." The little owner of the teahouse came out early in the morning with a small teapot and answered.

"I heard that the Yangzhou army has been marching to the north early in the morning, and it is going to fight the Tartars." The little boss didn't know where to get the news.

"Really? Ouch, the Bodhisattva blesses the Yangzhou army and must win! When Aunt Liu heard this, she put down the broom, put her hands together and prayed.

Luo Jian Lema stood on a high slope on the side of the road leading to Yangshou Town, next to him was Shi Kefa, Zhao Quan reluctantly followed behind the two with a rifle on his back, and behind him were fifty-six guards, which was only two miles away from Xu Dingguo's camp.

According to the arrangement, Shi Kefa was sitting in Yangzhou, but the old gentleman called Ren Minyu over last night and confessed, and he rode a horse early in the morning to catch up with Luo Jian, saying that he was not at ease staying at home.

Luo Jian raised the binoculars and looked in the direction of Xu Ding's state-owned village, it was gray, the sky was not yet bright, and it was not clear to see.

A zizi voice came from the walkie-talkie, and after a while, Liu Zhaoji's voice came out, "Report to the Metropolitan Governor, I am Liu Zhaoji, and the first division is all in place." ”

After a while, Li Chengdong's voice came: "Report to the Metropolitan Governor, I am Li Chengdong, and the Xuzhou Army is all in place." Li Chengdong listened to Liu Zhaoji's report and hurriedly learned from it.

Luo Jian raised his hand and looked at his watch, nodded at Shi Kefa, picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Start attacking, you must not let Xu Dingguo go." ”

Ever since Xu Dingguo was sent to Yangshou Town by Duoduo to garrison, he felt that his eyelids had been jumping. Before coming to Yangshou, he specially carried a box of silver to Geng Jimao's Tianyou army, saying that if the Yangzhou army attacked, please be sure to pull his brother.

This time he came to Yangshou Town, and before he started camping, Xu Dingguo asked his subordinates to dig a trench first, which was taught to him by Kong Youde, saying that digging a trench could prevent the strange car. When all the trenches were dug around the camp, the subordinates began to set up camp.

When he slept at night, Xu Dingguo felt his eyelids jump again, and he tossed in bed for half a night before he fell asleep in a daze, and he didn't know how long he slept before he heard someone outside the tent shouting, "The Yangzhou army is coming!" He was so startled that he sat up on the bed, and got up too violently, making him dizzy for a while, after all, he was already in his fifties, and the "Xu Qianjin" of the year was no longer there.

The soldiers rushed into the tent and helped Xu Dingguo up from the bed, and told him that the Yangzhou army was coming, and before the words fell, there was a gunshot, which Xu Dingguo was very familiar with, and it was shot out of the gun like a fire gun in the strange car.

When Xu Dingguo came out of the camp tent with his helmet and armor, there were already people shouting and neighing outside, making a mess. Xu Dingguo asked his soldiers to stand out and shouted: "The chief soldier is here, don't panic." After shouting several times, the panic was slightly better.

Attacking from the front was Ma Yingkui's regiment, Wang Qiang followed Ma Yingkui with five riflemen, and the other five riflemen were led by Wang Zecheng, followed by Lou Ting's cavalry brigade from the southwest to Geng Jimao's department and Xu Dingguo's department.

Ma Yingkui and Wang Qiang were now blocked in front of a trench a mile away from the camp, and the soil dug out of the ditch was built into an earthen wall by the Qing soldiers, and behind the earthen wall were many Xu Dingguo's archers and musketeers.

Wang Qiang made a move, and the five riflemen lay down about fifty meters away from the trench, and the shield bearer behind immediately held the shield in front of him. Seeing this, Ma Yingkui also made a move, and fifty bombardiers followed closely behind several gunners and lay on the ground, the grenade had already pulled off the pull ring and was holding it tightly in his hand.

A gunshot rang out, and a Qing army general who was directing behind the earthen wall opposite fell down, and Wang Qiang fired the first shot of the battle.

As the not too dense gunshots rang out, there was a panic behind the earthen wall opposite, and the guns of the Qing soldiers also crackled, but they didn't know where they went, and the dense arrows flew over the heads of Wang Qiang and several people.

After Wang Qiang knocked out the Qing generals with one shot, he adjusted the gun to the burst position, and fired at the firecrackers and archers who showed their heads on the opposite side, and suddenly four or five more fell on the opposite side.

Several other gunners also learned from Wang Qiang's use of burst strafing, and suddenly there were no more firearms behind a large section of the earthen wall, and no arrows were fired.

Fifty bombardiers immediately got up and rushed towards the trench, and when they were only twenty or thirty meters away from the trench, they threw their grenades behind the earthen wall.

When Ma Yingkui saw it, he waved again, and the soldiers carrying sacks and planks behind him immediately followed, and a large section of the trench was filled in in an instant.

Ma Yingkui shouted, "Rush!" He first rushed forward with a long knife and a horse, and a group of soldiers raised their knives and guns and shouted and followed Ma Yingkui towards Xu Dingguo's camp.

There were rifles and grenades to open the way, and the Qing soldiers who came to block were blown up by the grenades and cried for their fathers and mothers, and fled to both sides. Ma Yingkui rushed almost unhindered all the way to the outside of the camp and stopped, running too fast to wait for Wang Qiang and them to come up.

After waiting for a while, Wang Qiang arrived with five gunners, and under the cover of the shield men, a large section of the firecrackers and archers behind the camp were quickly cleared.

Wang Qiang saw that Ma Yingkui was going to let people go up and tear down the fence, so he yelled "all stand down", took out a grenade from his pocket, pulled the ring and threw it over, and the fence, which was not too strong, was immediately blown up. Wang Qiang beckoned, and the bombardiers threw their grenades towards the fence.

Ma Yingkui slapped his horse forward and pushed away the fence that fell to the ground, and said "What a loser" in his mouth, and rushed over the fence.

Standing in front of the trench, Liu Zhaoji saw that the attack of a regiment was unusually smooth, and beckoned a personal soldier and said, "Order the other regiments to hurry up and attack and advance."

The other three regiments, although not covered by rifles, quickly passed through the trench and were advancing towards the camp attack.

Hand-to-hand combat took place almost none, and the 50 bombardiers at the front of each regiment basically settled the battle with grenades, and there were many Qing soldiers kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy on the roadside where each regiment attacked.

Xu Dingguo's camp was already in chaos, and a deputy chief soldier pulled a horse and finally found Xu Dingguo from the chaos, "General soldier, guard, can't hold it." The deputy general was already trembling with nervousness.

By this time, Xu Dingguo had already calmed down, and asked the deputy commander-in-chief, "What about the north?" Can you withdraw from the north to Qinlan Town? ”

"The cavalry of the Yangzhou army has appeared in the north, and it is impossible to retreat." The deputy chief soldier said with a sad face.

"Gather your men and run west." Xu Dingguo made up his mind.

"To the north is Li Chengdong's Xuzhou army, which has also been attacked." A pro-soldier stepped forward to report.

"Then we have to break through from the west, we are not afraid of the Xuzhou army." Xu Dingguo gritted his teeth, knowing that the Xuzhou army was his mortal enemy, but in order to escape for his life, he could only break through from there.

The Xuzhou army paid a lot of money to attack the trench. Li Chengdong immediately saw that the south side of Xu Dingguo's camp had already been killed, and it was obvious that the first division had broken through the camp, so he was so anxious that he kept urging his subordinates to hurry up. Mrs. Xing held a saber in her hand and wanted to rush forward desperately, but was stopped by her own soldiers.

The swarming Qing soldiers rushed towards the Xuzhou army, obviously having no way to escape, and regarded this place as the only breakthrough. Li Chengdong held a long knife in his hand, and rushed forward as soon as he slapped his horse, and the two armies immediately fought together.

Luo Jian and Shi Kefa stood on a high place and watched the entire battlefield, Shi Kefa saw that he had broken through Xu Dingguo's camp, and the regiments advanced smoothly, and said happily to Luo Jian: "Xinghua, this battle has been won. ”

Luo Jian held a telescope and carefully observed the battlefield, and saw a team of thousands of people running towards the direction of the Xuzhou Army with several generals, and several regiments of the first division were chasing closely behind, and it was estimated that Xu Dingguo was among them.

picked up the walkie-talkie and called Wang Qiang, and ordered him to quickly bring people to support Li Chengdong, and he must not let Xu Dingguo go.

As soon as he heard Luo Jian's order, Wang Qiang ran towards the back of the trench with five riflemen and dozens of bombardiers, regardless of the shield hand, and found his horse and galloped towards the west.

As thousands of people, including Xu Dingguo's own soldiers, rushed towards the Xuzhou army, the battle in the west became more and more intense. Li Chengdong was already covered in blood, slashing left and right with a big knife, and he didn't know how many Qing soldiers he had killed.

Xu Dingguo ran desperately under the protection of dozens of personal soldiers, and saw that he was about to break through the interception of the Xuzhou army, but he saw dozens of horsemen rushing in front of him to block the way, and it was Wang Qiang who arrived with riflemen and bombardiers.

Xu Dingguo pulled the reins and was about to flee in the northwest direction, but he saw Li Chengdong standing in front with a long knife on his horse, and looked around, but saw that the Xuzhou soldiers had surrounded him from behind.

Wang Qiang saw that he had stopped Xu Dingguo, laughed, and shouted at Li Chengdong: "General Li Bing, if you want to die, you still have to live." ”

"If you want to live, I'm going to kill him alive!" Before Li Chengdong could speak, Mrs. Xing had already rushed forward and shouted.

Wang Qiang raised a gun on the horse and shot at Xu Dingguo's horse, the war horse screamed and fell to the ground, throwing Xu Dingguo far away, a pro-soldier slapped the horse to save him, Wang Qiang raised his hand and shot again, the pro-soldier rolled off the horse directly, and the rest of the pro-soldiers did not dare to move on the horse.

Mrs. Xing beckoned, "Come on, catch him for me." The soldiers around him rushed up and lifted Xu Dingguo up from the ground, and Mrs. Xing stepped forward with a horsewhip and whipped Xu Dingguo's face, and suddenly there was a blood mark.

Mrs. Xing glared at Xu Dingguo, her silver teeth almost crushed, "Old thief, you also have today!" ”

Wang Qiang took out the walkie-talkie and reported to Luo Jian: "Chief, Xu Dingguo has been arrested." ”

Shi Kefa also heard it, and he didn't believe his ears a little, and said to Luo Jian: "Xinghua, Xu Dingguo's 8,000 men and horses were wiped out like this?" No wonder Shi Kefa didn't believe it, it was only half an hour from the attack of a group to Wang Qiang's report that he had captured Xu Dingguo.

"Brother Xian, there will be many such victories in the future!" Luo Jian said with a smile at Shi Kefa.

"Xinghua, hurry up and send someone back to Yangzhou to report the good news, so that everyone will be happy." Shi Kefa said, seeing Luo Jian nodding, he beckoned a personal soldier in his hand, "Hurry back to Yangzhou to report the news, annihilate 8,000 people from Xu Dingguo's department, and capture Xu Dingguo alive." ”

Luo Jian picked up the walkie-talkie and said: "All departments pay attention, seize the time to clear the remnants of the enemy, clean up the battlefield, escort the prisoners and send them back, bring back all the light and serious wounded, not to pull a single person, and the remains of the sacrificed soldiers must all be carried back." In this battle, merit will not be recorded by the head, and all departments are not allowed to cut the head again. ”

When Li Chengdong heard this, he muttered, "How can you count merit if you don't cut off your head?" As soon as he finished speaking, he heard "Liu Zhaoji received", and quickly picked up the walkie-talkie and said: "Li Chengdong received".

Ruan Dacheng and Li Zhan also got up early, and after getting up, they came to the East Gate Tower with a group of guards to guard, waiting for the news to come from the front.

"Ruan Shangshu, do you think you can win this battle today?" Li Zhan asked worriedly, if the Yangzhou army was defeated again, he didn't know where to run.

"Luo Xinghua has deployed this battle so carefully, how can there be a reason why he can't win the battle, but Xu Dingguo has 8,000 men and horses, Qin Lan and Geng Jimao's Tianyou army, I'm afraid the results of this battle won't come until the afternoon." Ruan Dacheng was very relieved of Luo Jian.

"Ruan Shangshu, the results will come in the afternoon, what are we waiting here for now?" Li Zhan was a little strange.

"Well, I can't stay in the house." Before Ruan Dacheng finished speaking, an escort stepped forward to report that there seemed to be cavalry coming in front.

When the two of them heard this, they stood up and looked north.

Aunt Liu from Dongdajie kept looking at the direction of Dongdaemun while handing buns to the guests, and someone asked her, "Aunt Liu, what are you looking at?" ”

"Don't you know? The Yangzhou army went to fight the Qing soldiers early this morning. Aunt Liu said with some concern. As soon as the guest heard this, he grabbed the bun in his hand and ran towards the east gate, and when he ran to the gate, he saw that there were already many people gathered here.

The two war horses were sweating profusely, and the two riders were still fifty or sixty meters away from the city gate when they opened their throats and shouted: "Great victory, completely annihilate 8,000 people of Xu Dingguo, and capture Xu Dingguo alive!" By the time they reached the city gate, their voices were a little hoarse.

"Won? So fast? Li Zhan didn't believe his ears.

Ruan Dacheng said something, Li Zhan didn't hear it clearly, Ruan Dacheng's voice was drowned out by the cheers of the people under the east gate.

The guest who still had half a bun in his hand just turned around and ran back as soon as he heard it, shouting "great victory" and "capturing Xu Dingguo alive" while running.

The arrival of the two messengers suddenly turned Yangzhou into a sea of joy in the early morning.

Luo Jian and Shi Kefa stood in front of Xu Dingguo's tent, and Liu Zhaoji and Li Chengdong stood in front of them, their faces full of excitement.

"What are the casualties in your units?" Luo Jian asked.

"The first division suffered more than 30 casualties, and five were killed in battle." Liu Zhaoji replied.

Li Chengdong looked at Liu Zhaoji with some surprise, this number made him unbelievable.

"The Xuzhou army suffered more than 400 casualties and 280 casualties." Li Chengdong drooped his head and said a little frustratedly.

"Your unit is not equipped with grenades, the casualties are too great, and it is my fault. Division Commander Liu, transfer half of your grenadiers to the Xuzhou Army first, and then return to the army after the war. Luo Jian was reviewing, he didn't expect that the casualties of the Xuzhou army would be so large.

"Thank you, Governor!" Li Chengdong said gratefully, he didn't expect Luo Jian to admit his mistake at all.

"I watched the whole battle process, the Xuzhou army suffered heavy casualties, on the one hand, it was not equipped with grenades, on the other hand, the training was also very insufficient, and there was still a big gap in tactical coordination compared with the first division, it seems that the reorganization and training of the Xuzhou army must be stepped up." Shi Kefa said beside him.

"Is there any movement in Geng Jimao's Heavenly Blessing Army?" Luo Jian asked Liu Zhaoji.

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