Chapter 693: The Battle of the Yangtze River: What a big pit

"Feng Wife and Meng Zi, right now! Rush up! ”

Early in the morning, Zhao Junliang personally escorted the battle and led the men and horses to fight again. ** Yesterday he attacked the gap twice with the bayonet battalion, but was repulsed by the high-spirited redcoats. Although the battle situation is no longer as ugly as before, the "palm thunder" of the red-clothed soldiers is becoming more and more experienced, and the more people on their side, the more they suffer.

Today, the deployment was readjusted, and Xibao also launched a feint attack in other directions, and Zhao Junliang was confident that he would break into the city in one fell swoop.

The shouts spread, and the surrounding officers and soldiers responded mechanically, for them, the future was too far away, and this battle was as long as the torture of the eighteen layers of hell in the underworld, whether it was life or death, it was better to be relieved as soon as possible.

"The gun is good! Hold your breath! Has the silver that the emperor fed you all turned into and pulled it off!? ”

Seeing the lifeless numbness of his subordinates, Zhao Hongliang snatched the whip of the Chinese army and slashed his head and face. The soldier did not dodge or dodge, and he was not called by the whip, like a switch in the middle of a button, the whole person suddenly cheered up, whether it was physical or mental energy, the state suddenly improved.

"*** is cheap! 不cō不ζ₯εŠ›......"

Zhao Hongliang scolded secretly, but with a hint of pride. There are hundreds of thousands of green battalions under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, more than 100,000 and eight banners, in terms of combat strength and loyalty, and only they, the Han military camp of the Xishan battalion, can fight with the Nanban Red Clothes, and even fight head-on! This kind of battle, even the full army camp of the Xishan Battalion, must be frightened. Thinking of this, he has a kind of joy to turn the tide and save the Qing Dynasty from fire and water.

Yongzheng built the Xishan camp, at first, these generals were taught by the Spaniards, and then they led thousands of foreign commissions and other grass-roots military generals to train, and then recruited troops into battalions, and one battalion after another. Soldiers are generally trained for two or three years, while these high-ranking generals have been trained for six or seven years.

The way of training troops in the Xishan camp is a combination of local and foreign. The local is Qi Jiguang's military training method, and the foreign is the experience of the Spaniards, and there are many differences between the two.

Qi Jiguang emphasized that simple children should be selected in the selection of soldiers, and the Spaniards did not care. Qi Jiguang said that leading troops requires a combination of grace and might, and all of them are indispensable. The Spaniards, on the other hand, emphasized that the whip could produce a strong soldier, and only the whip could make the soldier react intuitively, and this was also the greatest favor to the soldier.

Zhang Chaowu and other training generals combined the experience of the two sides to select troops using Qi Jiguang's method, the soldiers of the Han military camp came from the countryside of Zhili provinces, and most of them were from Shanxi and Shandong. The training uses the experience of the Spaniards, and I heard that it is also the way of training soldiers in the Southern Barbarians, and after a few years of practice, I gradually grasped the heat, and the effect is really good.

But this is not the most critical, Zhang Chaowu boasted of being Su Wu, and felt that the "integrity" of an army was the most important, and the integrity determined the army's fighting spirit, and how did the integrity come about? Nature is kindness.

As a result, a group of Confucian students were active in the Han military camp, preaching the Three Principles and Five Constants every day, and the great righteousness was awakened. In the past few years, the emperor's grace and the righteousness of the Manchu Han Dynasty have been like molten iron, condensing the brains of the soldiers.

It's not enough to just talk, there has to be benefits. It is not good to touch other green battalions, Yongzheng did not set another salary, but gave subsidies to the Han military camp in terms of vegetables and silver, and at the same time, the generals at all levels were slightly restrained, and the action of deducting military salaries did not dare to be too big, and the atmosphere of the Han military camp was not much different from other green battalions and even flag battalions, which made the Han military camp have the spirit of fighting hard with the Nanban red clothes.

"Up to the emperor, down to myself, how much effort has it taken to condense such a strong army, but in terms of fighting spirit, it still can't overshadow those red clothes adapted from the guards. I heard that they also came out of the Green Camp at the earliest, what did Nanban rely on to hold the hearts of these people? ”

Watching his subordinates rush to the gap, Zhao Junliang still sighed with emotion, but unfortunately, this question is the same as why Pei Mingji has the heart to fight to the death, and if he doesn't have a heart, there is no answer at all. ..., "Burst in!" The Southern Barbarians were defeated, and there were not many people guarding the gap at all! ”

The subordinates cheered, Zhao Junliang jΔ«ng God was greatly inspired, great!

Either they beat Nanban to the cold yesterday, or the feints from other directions worked! Zhao Junliang knows that it is the credit of Neiying to be able to break the wall of Luling, and if there is Neiying, if you can break it here, you can break it elsewhere.

"Beware of ...... of deception"

Standing at the gap to observe, I saw that the smoke and dust were filled, the rubble was dense, and all the houses around the gap had collapsed.

"Express Marshal and Mr. Zhang, say that I, Zhao Junliang, have ......"

After watching it for a while, there was no problem, Zhao Junliang was excited, he really broke the city!

Before he finished speaking, the heavens and the earth suddenly blurred, and the roar came from all directions, almost crushing the soul that had been out of the body.

In the early morning of April 24, the explosion on the north and west side of Luling City was far stronger than the Qing army's explosion that collapsed the city wall, shaking more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians inside and outside the city to the ground.

"If you dare to blow up Lao Tzu's city wall, Lao Tzu will bury you all!"

In the distance of the gap, Pei Mingji got up from the ground in a daze, and scolded as soon as he opened his mouth, regardless of the wet nostrils.

The Qing soldiers have fire, he has more in his hands, and if the Qing soldiers make explosives, he will engage in more fierce battles!

This is the countermeasure he urgently set after fighting with the Qing soldiers bayonet team yesterday. Although the bayonet team was repulsed, the loss of the red clothes was also extremely heavy, and even the division commander Tong Jing went into battle with a gun and was seriously wounded. Pei Mingji felt that it was too much to draw on the gap with the Qing soldiers, and the rubble and dense houses at the gap gave him inspiration.

The smoke and dust were still thick, and the red-clothed soldiers carefully searched in a group, but they didn't see anyone for a long time. The feet gradually rose up, and all the rubble was over, and when they came to the vicinity of the gap, the circle of red clothes all stopped, and the hissing sound of cō cool air came and went.

Pei Mingji came over, stepped on a pile of rubble more than a foot high, and looked forward, and couldn't help but breathe a cool sigh.

"Horse deaf! Do you think we're opening a pond!? ”

He shouted loudly, the quartermaster of the Governor's Mansion was surnamed Ma, an artilleryman, and his hearing was almost gone. The explosion was presided over by Ma Deaf, and thousands of catties of fire were buried under this piece of rubble and houses, and the effect was really extraordinary.

Looking through the smoke and dust, you can vaguely see that the gap area that should have been a private house and alley has been transformed into a series of large pits. It is one or two zhang deep, and the diameter varies from two or three zhang to five or six zhang. He had seen the moon in an astronomical telescope, and it was like a potholed moon.

The subordinates reported and said, "No one was found...... One or two thousand people came in......"

It's a miracle that there are still living people, thinking of the scene when it exploded, Pei Mingji himself was terrified. The sky is falling, the rubble is flying, not to mention the living, the dead are hard to see, and they are all buried.

Pei Mingji wanted to laugh loudly, one or two thousand people, it is estimated that the bayonet team of the Qing soldiers is all reimbursed here. Not only that, but if it is blown up like this, as long as a circle of defense is arranged on the edge of the rubble, and no matter how the soldiers break through, it will be full of pits.

"There are living people here!"

A miracle still appeared, and there were dozens of Qing generals lying near the gap in the city wall, most of them were broken and breathless, and a few lucky ones were still alive.

"There's a big official here!"

Then there was another discovery, and the dizzy big official was brought over, although his face was full of dust, Pei Mingji still recognized it, "Zhao Junliang ......"

Zhao Junliang groaned and shouted: "Bei Mouse, I really didn't expect that you not only have courage, but also brains. ”

Acquaintances meet and become enemies. Sealing his wife and Meng Zi, the dream of covering the dynasty was shattered, Zhao Junliang was discouraged, closed his eyes and said: "You are really daring, kill me now." ”

Pei Mingji sneered: "Dealing with people like you is a matter of the above, and I have no grudge against you, what are you doing to kill you?" Pei Mingji, who had not been seen for ten years, made Zhao Junliang feel extremely unfamiliar, and the things in these words made Zhao Junliang even more puzzled, and he couldn't help but ask curiously: "Old Bei, ten years ago, why did you vote for Nanban?" ”

Pei Mingji was very helpless, why did everyone ask him about this?

"Now I am the governor of Jiangxi, with tens of thousands of troops in charge, and I am also awarded the title of General Wuwei, why don't you say I don't go south?"

had no intention of talking to this guy, Pei Mingji perfunctory with the words that the other party could understand best.

These words couldn't coax Zhao Junliang, and he replied with a sneer: "Lao Bei, we have been together for many years, I don't know what kind of person you are?" If you really want to fight for wealth and wealth, the situation is so lΓ n that day, you should lead the troops in Jiangxi to fight against the Nanban. How did Tian Wenjing get up? Isn't it just a gamble in times of crisis? Now he is the king of Jiangxi, the minister of military aircraft! ”

Pei Mingji shrugged his shoulders and said: "People will change, and their vision is also different. ”

Zhao Junliang couldn't help but scolded: "Yes, you are still a human, but you have become inferior to a beast, and you can't even stand the least loyalty!" ”

"Haha...... Loyalty? ”

Originally, he had no intention of bickering, and Pei Mingji was also angry with JΔ«.

"I haven't finished talking about it yet, people will change, but you shouldn't forget your roots! That's right, ten years ago, I thought that Ganzhou was no longer difficult to hold, and even people like Yue Chaolong had a black cauldron, I had no background, and the end was even worse. It's better to vote for Yinghua and protect yourself. But in the past ten years, I am more and more glad that I made the original choice, I did not change from a human to a beast, but from a beast to a human. ”

Pei Mingji looked at Zhao Junliang with pity: "You Han people with pigtails on the back of your heads, and you still have the face to scold us?" The Han army in your Xishan camp is indeed fierce, but it is also the fierceness of beasts. Although people are afraid of beasts for a while, they will never be in the company of beasts, and there is always a way to clean up the beasts. ”

He pointed to his subordinates around him: "Look at my soldiers, they are not authentic red clothes, they only changed from the guards, that is, the former green battalion to red clothes half a year ago. But why can they be like those old red clothes, fighting you to the death? Just because they know you and know the true face of the court above you, they will never bow to the court of beasts! ”

Pei Mingji pointed to the north again: "You took the two counties of Xiajiang and Fenyi, why did the people all run this way?" Isn't it because the common people know that you are not human, but on our side, you are raising your head as a human being? ”

The subordinates raised their heads and looked at Zhao Junliang with superiority, and this really spoke to their hearts.

For these young people ranging from eighteen to twenty years old, the country of Yinghua has been inseparable from their lives since they became sensible, and their court has always been by their side, at least the officials in the townships and towns can be seen from time to time. Home, studying, serving, and begging for a living, all of which are guided by the imperial court and the government, plus the comparison between the two dynasties constantly mentioned by the elders, their sense of identity with this country is unforgettable.

Even if the conduct of many officials and masters is not very good, the court is not satisfactory everywhere, but compared with the court where the Manchurians in the north are pressing the Han people, the men are dragging the tail of the rat on the back of their heads, and the officials and masters are grandly pressed on the heads of the people, and they are not even allowed to say a word.

Most of them come from villages and small towns, they don't read much, what kind of heavenly way, Huayi's distinction is still ignorant, but they all have a simple understanding, this court, this country, is their own court, their own country, is the country of people, and the country of the Tartars in the north is fundamentally different, how can these Tartars occupy their hometowns again, and turn themselves into beasts.

Another question that Zhao Junliang had in his heart before was also answered, but he was full of disbelief and was unwilling to admit defeat.

"The hearts of the people? Can your court win the hearts of the people? Hehe...... How did this wall collapse? Isn't it still the news given by the people of Luling? ”

The corners of Pei Mingji's mouth twitched slightly: "There are everywhere in the inner jiān, our country is particularly tolerant of people, and it is not surprising that there are some beasts in the crowd." Aren't these people the ones who led the Tartars to occupy the Central Plains that day? Don't worry, since there are pits waiting for you here, there will naturally be pits waiting for them elsewhere. ”

As he spoke, he heard explosions and gunshots, not the explosions here, of course, but the sound of grenades, and fighting was going on elsewhere.

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