372. Huguang hard battle

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To exchange or not to return, this is a question worth considering. Like the soliloquy of Hamlet, the vengeful prince of Inguley's "greatest dramatic genius" of the era, Shanahai is torn apart by the troubles that Bal Tiger has caused.

Shanahai was stunned, but the general on him did not have the distress after such a deep thought, and saw that he was like a bull teased by red cloth, and after listening to the proposal proposed by the envoy of Zheng Fan, Nertu said as quickly as possible: "Change, why don't you change, change it immediately!" ”

Thinking of the scene of the Manchurian nobles who lost their relatives and friends after the substitution, he was grateful to Dade, and Nertu fluttered.

But his dream had just begun, and Juduna and Ananda on the side shouted together. "(No) can't be replaced!"

Nertu looked at the two of them with a strange look, and it took a long time before asking, "Can't you change it, why?" ”

Ananda made a gesture of invitation to Zhu Duna, so Zhu Duna ignored the presence of the envoy of Zheng Fan and said directly: "The prince has to think clearly, the two are exchanging troops, if the prince does not ask for an order, he and the rebels have privately agreed to exchange prisoners of war, what will the hundred officials think of the prince, and what will the court think of the prince." ”

At first, Nertu felt that the reasons for Zhu Duna's opposition were a bit of a fuss, and he must know that even if a few people impeached themselves without opening their eyes, the foundation of the Qing Dynasty was Manchurian, as long as the Manchurians were satisfied, not to mention that he was out of public intentions this time, even if he really hooked up with the Zheng family, he was not afraid at all.

However, Nartu quickly chewed on the last sentence that Juduna repeated, and his heart could not help but be shocked. Yes, in exchange for the captured Manchurians, he has been praised, but what will Kangxi on the throne think, will he think that he has the intention of being disobedient, otherwise it will not make sense that he wants to act arrogantly and benefactor everyone.

Before Nertu could wake up from the sudden fear, Zhu Duna said again: "If the court is far from the court, but there are still near-term worries here, if the rebellion will protect his family after the rebellion, then how can we control the green camp, the prince, how many people are Manchu, how many Han talents, the reason why the court was able to enter China in the first place, is that it is reliable to kill people like cutting melons." ”

Nertu was a little restless, but Ananda still felt that Zhu Duna was not comprehensive, so he added: "Lord, what Lord Zhu said is very true, once the replacement is bound to shake the morale of the army, in addition, the prince thinks that if he changes people, the sea will be able to return it now?" ”

This is even more reasonable, obviously Zheng Kezhang is impossible to predict the prophet to take the previous captives with him, if the so-called replacement is not fake, it must be a delaying strategy, so Nertu, who pretended to be suddenly enlightened, asked humbly: "It turned out to be coaxing us, so bold, blast him out, let's not change." ”

"No!" Tong Gui on the side almost jumped up. "Lord Wang, the sea reversal has been loud before coming, everyone knows that the sea reversal is going to change people with the prince, if it is not replaced, spread out, what will the Beijing flag think, how will the garrison eight banners look! Could it be that the imperial court doesn't want us to be full! ”

Nartu felt that he was about to faint, and he would be unlucky if he promised to be replaced, and he would be unlucky if he didn't promise to be replaced, which really made him a little dilemma, and he was not a person inside and out. Speaking of which, the day in June was already hot, and now coupled with the rise of the false fire, it suddenly made the prince of Taiping feel a little breathless.

Seeing that Nertu was a little crumbling, and then looked at the envoy of Zheng Jun who was watching the monkey show, Shanahai gritted his teeth and said: "Go back and tell your master, people can be changed, but I don't want to come to him with me, so Lord Ben will take this group of rebels to Xuzhou now and ask the imperial court, if they are approved, they will be replaced by the Huai River!" ”

Zheng Fan's envoy has returned to his life, and he thinks that this answer can already meet Zheng Kezang's psychological expectations, but the Qing army still has a considerable tail to deal with: "Ordered all battalions, they should have driven these rebels to attack the city, but God has the virtue of a good life, so the general decided to exile them to Ningguta, if there are those who dare to follow suit, this is their experience!" ”

Ananda and the others breathed a sigh of relief, and this arrangement might be able to suppress the whole thing. But it is impossible to overpressure and not cause turmoil, so several people looked at the culprit who was looking for trouble with a calm face. Bal Hu, who was stared at by everyone, subconsciously shivered, and muttered in a low voice, which was about something like "When you went to arrest people, you didn't say anything". But he's smart, he just talks to himself, but he doesn't dare to say it out loud.

At this time, I heard Shanahai say with some emotion: "Zheng Shun can cause trouble in half of the world with a corner of the world, obviously it is not something that can be obstructed by some small means, since this is the case, it is better to fight a serious battle, this official doesn't believe it, we have such a force, we can't take the strange village in front of us"

Since they were determined to fight, the Qing army quickly made arrangements, but because of the waste of time before, the attack was placed in the afternoon when it was almost dusk. At this time, the weather is not as hot as at noon, and there is still nearly an hour of sunshine time to break through the city walls, and at worst, you can still fight at night, anyway, Shanahai is determined to capture the fortifications of the Zheng army in one fell swoop, regardless of casualties, and eliminate the living force of the Zheng army.

In view of the relative narrowness of the passages, the main target of the Qing army was the earthen wall between the Mamian Fort, and the two heavy guns of the Xi'an Banner Battalion Firearms Battalion also shifted their artillery positions. However, what the Qing army did not expect was that the reason why Zheng Jun allowed the Qing army's artillery fire to be rampant was not because the range of the three-inch guns equipped by his own side was not as good as the two heavy guns of the Qing army, but because the firing range of several Mamian Fort was not enough to cover the Qing army's artillery positions.

"Put!" Zheng Jun's artillery on several adjacent Mamian forts opened fire in one direction. "Come again!"

The sharp friction caused the iron shells to ignite one after another, but the Eight Banners gunners a few miles away thought that the result would be the same as the previous days, so they ignored it. But they miscalculated, and the first shot of Zheng Jun smashed on an artillery truck, and the four thousand pounds of Shenwei Invincible General Cannon was blown away. As for the rest, although they didn't hit, the bouncing round bullets still caused some casualties, causing the Eight Banners to flee while screaming. Zheng Jun didn't care about the ugliness of the flag army, but just smashed it at the Qing artillery position one after another, and I don't know how much it smashed, a shock wave spread in all directions, but it was Zheng Jun who hit the powder keg of the Qing army, which caused a terrifying explosion.

Balin was very distressed, he only had thirty-two two-type guns in his hands, arranged in four positions, and now one of them exploded, and he didn't know how many guns would survive, so the rest said that he had to save everything, and for him he immediately ordered to move the artillery backwards. It's just that in this way, the cannon was saved, but except for a few Wucheng Yonggu generals, the cannon was barely able to reach the water barrier and the earthen wall, and the rest became loud firecrackers.

After forcing the Qing artillery to move, the Zheng army hurriedly transferred the artillery fire to the Qing army, which had already rushed closer. Of course, the first batch had already broken through the minimum firing range and could not be stopped, and all the gunners could do was to keep more follow-up enemy troops out of the line of fire.

In this way, the shield carts that the Qing army had worked so hard to build were destroyed one by one, and the Qing troops who followed the shield carts were either beaten by shotguns or interrupted by flying chain bullets. Blood was sprinkled in the air along with human organs, stumps and severed arms, reflecting in the bloody sunset, a scene of Shura hell.

Faced with this kind of killing scene that cannot be resisted by manpower, the follow-up Green Battalion soldiers naturally collapsed, they either stumbled backwards like walking corpses, or ran wildly like fire, no matter what, they didn't want to stay any longer, even if there was a team of warlords with butcher knives waiting for them behind them.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Zheng army's artillery fire to deal with the flag army firearms battalion, the Qing soldiers who broke through the line of fire of the Zheng army did not know what was behind them, only to see these green flag soldiers who were flying like flying push the shield cart and ran wildly, until they reached the tofu scum project caused by themselves, they dropped the shield cart, held the ladder with one foot high and one foot low, and went straight to the earth wall and the horse face fort through the section where there was still stagnant water.

Zheng Jun had been waiting for them to arrive with all his attention, and as soon as the Qing army broke through the distance of fifty paces, the infantry men fired a volley, and the rampage of lead bombs wantonly destroyed the bodies of the unfortunate, leaving them to die in agony. However, the dead are still suffering, and a few of them will survive to the end, and the rest will die from excessive blood loss and high fever caused by lead poisoning.

Of course, the Qing army also resisted, and the bird-gunners who fought back at close range also caused casualties to individual Zheng troops. At the same time, taking advantage of the smoke caused by the shooting of both sides, the Qing army still erected ladders in some areas, and then groups of Qing troops tried to climb along the ladders to Mamian Fort and the earthen wall. Of course, all those who tried to climb the Mamian Fort failed, and the Zheng army, who had been prepared, appeared in front of the anti-artillery wall, or pushed to the ladder together, or the white soldiers waited on the ladder and stabbed randomly, and the Qing army was full of casualties but was never able to attack the top of the fort.

The Qing army who climbed the earthen wall succeeded, but ended up putting themselves in an even more dangerous situation - the bare earthen wall was completely exposed to the direct fire of the watchtower. The Qing army can also choose to jump off the earthen wall to attack the inside, but the earthen wall is almost two zhang high, basically not a martial arts master does not dare to jump directly from the top down, not to mention, there are densely inserted sharpened wooden stakes below, and the result of jumping down can only be a dead end.

The Qing army could also choose to attack the two wings of the Mamian Fort, but there was not only a height difference of nearly one zhang between the top of the Mamian Fort and the earthen wall, but also the side of the Mamian Fort was three feet wider than the earthen wall. The Qing troops who climbed the earthen wall could neither jump onto the horse path at the back of the Mamian Fort, nor could they directly climb to the top, so they could only find a way to continue climbing, but they fell into the trap of sniping on three sides

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