Outside Nanchang City, Liu Quansi looked at the gunpowder smoke after the launch of the field artillery group and the bullet impact point in the direction of Nanchang City, several shells happened to explode on the east gate tower, and in the smoke column of gunsmoke mixed with the stumps and broken arms of Qing soldiers, a triangular blue and white flag fell under the city.

Liu Quansi slowly put down the binoculars, he knew that the only one defending the east gate in Nanchang was the Manchurian flag battalion with white flags, which should theoretically be the strongest force in Nanchang City.

Liu Quansi summoned his subordinates Xu Renda, commander of the 9th Division, Li Jiang, commander of the 10th Division, Wang Daodun, commander of the 11th Division, Huang Shengzhi, commander of the 12th Division, and all the operational staff officers of the regiment, and held a pre-war meeting in Nanchang City.

Attacking the Qing army with backward equipment, if it is a field encounter, Liu Quansi has more than a dozen combat plans that can beat the Qing army to the point that even his mother does not know him, but now he is facing a tough battle in the city, Liu Quansi does not have enough caliber heavy artillery to destroy the city wall, even if the city wall is destroyed and the breakthrough is opened, he is not willing to let his troops fall into a more tragic street battle.

Through the accumulation of intelligence in recent days, Liu Quansi can almost conclude that the Qing army is trying to make up for the fatal gap between the two sides in individual firepower through street fighting, Liu Quansi knows very well that his troops have been fighting a tailwind battle, once entering a city like Nanchang with narrow streets and scattered houses, in many environments, after a rifle is fired once, it will be directly involved in white-knuckle battles, bayonets against broadswords? How many advantages are there over the prick? Will your own recruits be able to withstand the test of death?

In order to break through Nanchang as soon as possible, he could only choose to attack the fortified position in an all-round way, pinning his hopes on the lack of will to resist the Qing army surrounded on three sides.

For the large-scale use of incendiary bombs for nearly 200,000 people in the city, Liu Quansi knew that unless he went crazy, it was something that would be difficult to do even if he was crazy, and the casualties of hundreds of thousands of people and a ruin full of charred corpses and rubble, his career Liu Quansi was estimated to be at the end, and the first one who could not let him go was probably the head of state himself.

Therefore, in Liu Quansi's general attack plan, the incendiary bomb was included in the scope of the prohibited ammunition, Liu Quansi can only hope that the units of the Second Army under his command can grow up rapidly through this battle, the essence of war is cruel, as a senior general, he is very clear, but Liu Quansi also knows that the army he commands is not easy to train, which is also the main reason why he is slow to make up his mind to attack the city and use street fighting to destroy the enemy.

But now that he has made up his mind to fight, Liu Quansi naturally has to show all his strength, he wants to chase back all the backwardness in Nanchang, and he also wants to sing a good show for Lin Haijiang.

At the same time, in the governor's yamen in Nanchang City, the depressed Liangjiang Governor Fan Shuli and the governor Zeng Qinghou got together like a pair of difficult brothers, the original Governor's Yamen target was too big, the tiger head outside the city had fallen into the hands of the enemy, and the water and land wharves of the Ganjiang River had long been lost, it can be said that the four fortress cities on the periphery of Nanchang and the two fortress cities on the other side of the Ganjiang River had been occupied by the other party one by one, and now there is only one Nanchang City full of people in the hands.

Two days ago, the artillery of the Chinese Empire transported the cannon to the tiger's head, and from that day on, Fan Shuli, the governor of Liangjiang, fled from the governor's yamen and ran to the governor's yamen to share the hardships with the governor Zeng Qinghou! Although his subordinates had sworn an oath to witness Lin Rei's bandit army carrying artillery to the top of the mountain, in the past few days, except in the direction of the barracks, no other place had been shelled by the Second Army of the Imperial Chinese Army?

The current governor Zeng Qinghou can be said to almost hate the idiot Fan Shuli, if it weren't for Fan Shuli's insistence on doing something to clear the wilderness and concentrate all his strength to stick to Nanchang, they should now go to Jiujiang via Jingdezhen, it is no secret that the two rivers cannot be defended, the difference between the governor Zeng Qinghou and Fan Shuli, the governor of Liangjiang, is that his family is in Jiujiang, and Fan Shuli's whole family is in Yanjing, so Fan Shuli screamed loudly one by one to live and die with the city!

Fan Shuli planned to use the narrow and complex streets in the city to fight street battles with Lin Rebellious's bandit army, so at the beginning, in order to ensure that more troops were invested in the defense of Nanchang, Fan Shuli, the governor of Liangjiang, almost gave up the defense of Ji'an and Fuzhou, morale was low, people's morale was weak, and tens of thousands of people were crowded in the city, which became a true portrayal of the Qing army in Nanchang now.

In order to worry about the fierce artillery fire of the Lin rebel bandit army, Fan Shuli, the governor of Liangjiang, even ordered that the people were not allowed to go out of the city for refuge, and most of the important places used the people as human flesh shelters, so Liu Quansi's department was very worried about throwing rats, so the city defense facilities in Nanchang City were still relatively intact.

However, as long as you know a little about guns, you can understand that the five hundred pounds of copper cannon at the head of the city is absolutely impossible to suppress the breech fast cannon of the Lin rebel bandit army, and the only unlucky thing in the past few days is those death squads deployed under the city, and the death squads who took the silver and blood wine were originally desperate to work, they hid in the hiding hole under the city wall, once the enemy attacked, they would fight to the death with the enemy with their backs against the city wall, and their main purpose was to destroy the enemy's climbing equipment as much as possible.

However, Fan Shuli's arrangement obviously could not let these death squads play any role, because the attacks of Liu Quansi's Second Army Corps were extremely short but extremely fast feints, and the infantry never reached the root of the city wall at all.

These daredevils who had taken the money of the Anjia family, drank the talisman wine, and slept with the women were suddenly blown up all over the field, and the 2,000 people barely fired a few shots, and the earth cave under the city where they were hiding was turned upside down, and the broken bodies and flowing internal organs and the blood stains that were slowly turning black made these daredevils of the Qing court realize that their flesh and blood seemed to be unable to resist the guns at all, which had nothing to do with drinking a few large bowls of wine.

Liu Quansi also had a hard time understanding the so-called tactics of the Qing army? Dig a series of holes in the earth outside your walls and cover them with wooden planks? Is this an ambush? Waiting for their own attacking troops to arrive at the head of the city, and the defenders at the head of the city are pouring out? What era is this method of warfare?

In particular, the soil that had been dug was still piled up not far away, just like the artillery target indications, and I felt that I would be sorry for them if I didn't bomb him a few times.

The 12th Division, as the general reserve of the campaign, set up an ambush at Xuji, 20 miles west of the vacated city, and the remaining three divisions also destroyed the city gate of Nanchang with the most heavy artillery fire.

After completing the blasting, the troops quickly occupied the city wall, put pressure on the city, and forced the Qing army to take the initiative to counterattack, and after killing and injuring a large number of Qing troops, the infantry carried out oppressive clearing operations into the city, forcing the Qing army to abandon the city!

Liu Quansi knew very well that the plan of the campaign was one thing, but the actual organization was another, so Liu Quansi always insisted on personally arriving at the front line to observe the progress of the battle.

When the short rapid fire of the artillery group accompanied by the sharp whistling sound that shook the sky and pierced the clouds, the Qing army at the head of the city suddenly became a mess, with a few gunshots, several Qing soldiers who tried to escape from the city tower fell in a pool of blood, a hideous Qing army Qian always waved the revolver in his hand and shouted: "Fuck give Lao Tzu a spirit, now running is to surrender to the enemy, to punish the nine clans!" Lin rebel bandit army broke the city, it was going to slaughter the city for ten days, think about your father and mother! All of them are stuck against the wall! ”

Rumble! Rumble! Boom Boom! A dense rain of bullets fell, and the battalion soldiers of the Governor's Mansion who were in charge of the formation turned into blood gourds, but no one in the trembling Qing army dared to run, because there were still a few Gatling cannons on the streets of the city, but those who dared to withdraw were suddenly attacked by their own people.

Although Fan Shuli, the governor of Liangjiang, did not have any tricks in his administration, he had a lot of crooked ideas at critical moments, such as letting the two battalion leaders who had been trained by the Yongmin Regiment who had a festival monitor each other when they were fighting, and using their family members as security guards, etc., which can be described as many means, so that the tens of thousands of Qing troops defending the city in the city became irreversible, and almost everyone was looking forward to the reinforcements that the governor had seen with his own eyes.

After the general attack began, Liu Quansi looked at his watch habitually, and Zeng Qinghou, the governor in the governor's yamen, trembled unconsciously, to say that the previous governor Zeng Qinghou was able to share the same hatred with the governor Fan Shuli, and work together to protect the two rivers, it was completely for the sake of his own face, and a very important point was that Fan Shuli swore to him that the imperial court would come to the aid of the army, but now the two lakes are difficult to protect themselves, where are the reinforcements? By the time reinforcements arrive, their corpses will probably rot away.

Governor Zeng Qinghou has already regretted participating in this matter very much, with his protégé relationship with Prince Gong, even if Liangjiang is lost and trapped, he will not lose his official position at most and will not die!

As soon as he remembered that he had only been a pillow once in ten days, and the concubine in the seventh room was as tender as a lotus root, Governor Zeng Qinghou felt an inexplicable colic in his heart, and it was not the first time that his son of a loser had picked up his own ashes, and he was really worried that the concubine in Jiujiang would be harmed by his own son who didn't know the depths.

The more Governor Zeng Qinghou looked at Fan Shuli at the moment, the more unpleasant he became, hesitated, got up to greet his guard family and was about to leave, but Fan Shuli suddenly said: "Brother Zeng can't leave!" The war is imminent, and you must be panicked in Nanchang City, and this city is broken! Moreover, Lin rebel bandit army surrounded three and put one, which is an obvious trap. ”

Zeng Qinghou glanced at Fan Shuli coldly and said: "Don't bother with it, this is a place of death, if you want to die, don't drag all of us to die with you, your wife and children are all under the roots of Yanjing City, you want to die, you want to be loyal to you, you want to be honored and crowned in the future, no one will pull you, why do you pull all of us on your back?" In the big fart in the city, how many people will die when a flowering bullet falls into the Lin rebel bandit army? Don't talk about eating food when soldiers, what about the common people? What do you have in mind when you keep not letting people out of the city? ”

The more Zeng Qinghou spoke, the more excited he became, the more he spoke, the more the cannon outside seemed to become urgent, and the Nanchang staff general Hu Mingke stood outside the hall with dozens of busy officials in gunsmoke, you must know that these officials and Hu Mingke are either from Nanchang, or their families are in the city, what Governor Zeng Qinghou said is too shocking for them!

At this moment, Zeng Qinghou no longer had any scruples, because Hu Mingke, the general he had promoted before, had already arrived at the patio, and he didn't believe that Fan Shuli dared to take him down.

Bang! After a gunshot, Zeng Qinghou looked at the still smoking pistol in Fan Shuli's hand with extremely incredible eyes, looked at his chest, fell to the ground with a thud, and moved a few times!

Almost everyone, including Hu Mingke, was dumbfounded, the Qing Dynasty has never had a precedent for the governor to kill the governor, you must know that the governor and the governor are both feudal officials directly appointed by the emperor, the governor has the power to supervise the locality, and the governor also has the authority to supervise and supervise the governor, and the power structure of the two overlaps a large part.

Looking at today's scene, the officials below felt that Fan Shuli seemed to be deliberately hiding all of them, because he turned his face with Zeng Qinghou before the killer killed him, Hu Mingke glanced at the pale Fan Shuli with cold eyes, took off his helmet and threw it on the ground with a bang: "Fan Shuli, what is the reason for you to kill the governor?" ”

As soon as Fan Shuli heard that Hu Ming could commit a crime, he actually called his name directly, and said angrily: "Hu Ming, do you want to rebel?" I will naturally explain the matter of Zeng Qinghou to the court in the future, don't work for you as a small general, you have to be careful yourself, if Nanchang is lost, I want your dog's head! ”

"Hahaha! Ha ha! Hu Mingke laughed and said: "What is the problem of wanting to add crimes? At this time, do you still dare to scare Lao Tzu? Lao Tzu, I am not a fool who grew up playing with pee, you can scare if you say scare, Lao Tzu is gone! How can you do that? ”

Fan Shuli pointed the muzzle of the gun at Hu Mingke, glared at him and said, "You dare!" ”

Hu Mingke slapped his face, hundreds of soldiers with waist knives and smoothbore guns rushed into the governor's yamen, the twelve governor's mansions at the door Goshha were restrained on the spot, and the rest of the Fubiao stood on the ground expressionless like bystanders, Fan Shuli suddenly remembered this time that this was Zeng Qinghou's governor's yamen, not his own governor's yamen.

Hu Ming could see that Fan Shuli slowly put down the pistol, so he snorted coldly and turned around and left, and the officials who were playing the role of accounting books and discipline in the governor's yamen also dispersed in a hurry, and the governor's yamen, which had just returned to the people, became a deathly silence at this moment, with discarded objects everywhere, a few pieces of torn paper were blowing in the wind, and even the Goshha of the governor's palace outside the door was running out.

Fan Shuli, who seemed to be falling into the ground, never expected that his impulse would lead to such a consequence, and the stories of the means of immediate disposal that the military aircraft bosses said in the past seemed to be just to say that Tu Yile was happy, and he actually took it seriously? Under the betrayal of relatives, the gunshots, cannons, and shouts of killing outside became one, and Fan Shuli felt infinite sadness in despair.

He really wanted to know if Hu Mingke would splash dirty water on himself if he survived? Will it reverse right and wrong? The only thing Fan Shuli knows is that he can't be caught alive, and he can't leave Nanchang City alive, dying in the city is a battle to death, even if he is splashed with dirty water, the court will say at most that he is mediocre and misguided the country, but his loyalty can be demonstrated, but if he wants to get out of Nanchang alive, I am afraid that his family in Yanjing will be in danger.

originally thought that Zeng Qinghou would at least be able to defend life and death with him for a month, even if it was an explanation to abandon the city at that time, but he didn't expect that as soon as Lin rebel's bandit army attacked the city, Zeng Qinghou ran away, but he was in a hurry, and originally wanted to take out the pistol given by the two palaces to scare Zeng Qinghou, but the gun actually went off?

What surprised Fan Shuli the most was that Lin Wei's bandit army attacked from three sides on the first day, and this seemingly impregnable Nanchang City was about to break the city? He knew that it would not take a meal to spare, and the news that the governor had killed the governor and the general and fled would spread throughout the city, and then it would be the time when the defense of Nanchang City completely collapsed.

Fan Shuli slowly put the gun on his head, and slowly pulled the trigger with a trembling hand little by little!

In the Ganzhou Frontier General Headquarters, Li Anmin constantly updated the situation of the enemy and us on the sand table, Lin Haijiang looked at the distribution of the enemy and the enemy almost a week ago and was very entangled, the construction corps has done its best, the speed of laying telegraph lines can not be compared with the speed of the troops, and the telegraph lines that have just been laid cannot be put into direct use at all, and it is necessary to carry out repeated tests and find breakpoints and need to connect, which are beyond Lin Haijiang's expectations.

It can be said that the previous plan was perfect, and there were corresponding countermeasures for all kinds of possible accidents on the sand table, but in practice, can various countermeasures take effect? The result? For example, Zhang Wei's artillery unit, the latest 75 mm Krupp mountain gun with oil-pressed recoiler, the plan is that the artillery will be able to pass through most areas of the two lakes and two rivers during the Spring Festival, but in fact, the artillery carriage is 200 kilograms heavier than designed, and the marching speed on the muddy road is even less than 2 kilometers per hour, far behind the advance speed of the main army.

(To be continued)