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An hour's artillery fire caused the Anqing city wall to collapse, revealing a gap, although this situation had occurred in the previous several sieges of the Mawei army, but several generals of the Qing army still did not expect to befall their heads again. The sound of artillery outside the city has stopped, and at this time, the Qing troops in the cave of the hidden soldiers also suddenly woke up as if from a dream, rushed out one after another, howled for a long time, and gathered along the horse road to the southern city.

At this time, more than 10,000 horsetail troops had landed outside the city, and they had also assembled and stood by, slowly approaching the city wall. Zhao Guozuo immediately ordered the assembly of troops and prepared to annihilate this group of horsetail troops. After all, he had more than 50,000 troops, and the enemy army had more than 10,000 to land on the shore, and the odds of victory were very high.

Zhao Guozuo and other Qing troops also summed up the experience of many failures of the Qing army in the past, the Mawei army slowly approached the city wall, they resolutely did not come up, until the Mawei army approached the city wall only thirty or forty meters away, the Qing army hiding on the city wall quickly straightened up, under the personal command of Xia Jingmei, the deputy commander of the Qing army, bent the bow and arrows, and began to shoot arrows at the Mawei army.

"Shoot!" Xia Jingmei found that the Mawei army was already thirty meters outside the city wall, and her back was cold, so she immediately roared, and the Qing army's arrow rain flew out of the city, puffing like rain.

The Qing army's arrow rain was coming, and the Mawei army was immediately hit hard, and two or three hundred people were hit by arrows for a while, but then the Mawei soldiers also immediately raised their guns to suppress the Qing archers at the head of the city, due to the angle, the Qing archers were still behind the battlements, and many Qing troops were not damaged. At this time, the soldiers of the Mawei Army who led the army could also see many figures of the Qing army in the gap. It seems that they are also in the trench and ready for it.

Dong Biao, commander of the 1st Brigade and 1st Battalion of the 10th Division of the Forward Army, immediately shouted: "What about the grenades? Fry quickly. The grenade clears the way. Fuck it! ”

The fighters at the front immediately took off the three grenades on their bodies, pointed, thrown, boom! Point, throw, boom! Point, throw, bombard, the fighters of the 1st battalion of the strikers did not even raise their heads. kept throwing grenades into the gap, bursting into flames, and with a loud bang, the Qing troops in the gap were blown up screaming again and again, with heavy casualties;

A string of grenades were thrown down, the smoke billowed from the gap, shrapnel was one after another, and the troops hiding behind the Qing army suddenly suffered heavy casualties, but because this place was too important, it was also said that occasionally the Qing army kept coming to replenish. Shoot arrows to the outside in the same way. At this time, even the upper part of the city wall was also attacked by the grenades of the Mawei Army, and one by one the grenades were thrown to it by the soldiers of the Mawei Army. As soon as it was blown up, it was a piece, and after a while, the bows and arrows at the head of the city became sparse. However, the Qing army continued to replenish the city wall, that is, rushing up and falling down one by one, and the corpses soon accumulated into small low walls, which increased the height of the city wall.

The Mawei army was already close to the gap in the city wall, and Zhao Guozuo wanted to let the Qing army take the lead in breaking out of the gap to catch the Mawei army by surprise, and use the advantage of strength to crush the Mawei army and wipe it out by the river outside the city. As a result, the Qing troops began to constantly rush out of the gap in the smoke and kill the Mawei army that was close at hand. However, the Mawei army was guarding the twenty-meter-wide gap at this time, and did not want to fight the Qing army in close quarters like this, so it was better to suppress it with grenades and fire intensively with rifles.

In Dong Biao's continuous roar, the soldiers all found that the Qing army, which had been bombed and retreated one after another, took the initiative to rush up at this moment. The fighters of the 1st Pioneer Battalion kept throwing grenades, pointing, throwing, boom! Point, throw, boom! Point, throw, boom and so on, the inside and outside of the gap have been shrouded in gunsmoke, and under the gunsmoke children are piles of corpses of the Qing army.

There were more than 700 people left in the first battalion gathered within sixty or seventy meters of the gap, and the personnel were very dense. The soldiers of the second and third battalions scattered and threw grenades along the city walls, while the troops in the back went straight to the south gate, ready to blow open the gate with explosives packs, and then fight into the city.

The soldiers of the 10th Division were inseparable from the Qing army, and the troops of the 11th and 12th Divisions were also catching up in a steady stream. Hundreds of Mawei Army warships, mainly the warships of the former Qing Army's naval divisions, acted as troop carriers at the moment, constantly transporting Mawei Army soldiers across the river. Originally, Geng Jingzhong was going to arrange for the artillery division of the old army and the team of the fifth division to be responsible for attacking Anqing Fucheng, and the three divisions went to attack other county towns in Anqing, but the commanders of the 10th, 11th, and 12th divisions worked together to quarrel with the two commanders of the artillery division of the old army and the fifth division.

The sound of explosions was everywhere in the gap and the thousands of meters long city wall, and this time the grenades of the Mawei Army were consumed quickly, and in less than a quarter of an hour, nearly 20,000 grenades were used, and Geng Jingzhong, who was on the battleship behind, snorted at the loser. These things are all money, one is five taels of silver, and 20,000 consumes 100,000 taels.

But this is not without benefits, at least the Qing army on the city wall suffered very heavy casualties, they did not expect the Mawei army to have such a hand, originally many Qing troops were also ready to use bricks and stone wood mines to smash down, but the Mawei army approached a little bit, not to mention a grenade thrown on the city wall, after a booming explosion, the Qing army at the head of the city could not stand up, let alone continue to throw bricks and stone wood mines under the city.

The Mawei army dispersed, and after throwing a few rounds of grenades, they should shoot the Qing army at the head of the city with a rifle, which was close range, and the number of Mawei troops was also dense, and the gunfire was intensive, and the Qing army at the head of the city did not dare to take the head at all, and as soon as they appeared, they would be found by bullets, burrowed into the body, and were either killed or wounded.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! There was a violent explosion, and the south gate was also bombed open. Originally, this gap was less than 300 meters away from the gate of the southern city, and the troops on both sides seemed to have made an appointment, and at the same time they rushed towards the city. At this time, it was still easy to use grenades, so I continued to use grenades to open the way, and while advancing, I threw a dozen grenades to the front, regardless of whether the Qing army blocked them. Not to mention that this method is very useful, there are Qing troops in front of them who are also frightened by this continuous explosion. Immediately after, the dense rifles in the back opened fire, and bullets flew. The Qing army suddenly turned on their backs again.

Under such a brutal blow. The Qing army, which had been demoralized because the city wall was broken, finally collapsed. Regardless of the presence of the Overseer team behind him, he was not afraid of the killing of the Overseer, so he just screamed and fled.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

The horsetail army outside the city roared, and their morale was like a rainbow, and they rushed into the city on a large scale, chasing the defeated Qing army and killing them. It's like chopping melons and vegetables, and it's very happy.

"Take prisoners, take prisoners. Captain Zhao. Don't kill," Dong Biao yelled.

Burst! Zhao Liang, the squadron leader of the first battalion, stabbed the bayonet on the rifle into the back of a Qing soldier: "Battalion commander, don't stop!" ”

"Lao Zhao, you son of a bitch, you don't plan to stop at all, forget it, forget it, kill!" Dong Biao yelled while chasing and killing, at this time. To hell with this thing of sanity. The number of Qing troops is very large, and he can't control it at this time.

Geng Jingzhong and Bai Xianzhong, who had already gone ashore outside the city, watched the south gate being blown open, and the Mawei army surging in from the gap and the city gate, cheering like a tide, and they were also slightly relieved. Although it was expected, I was still very relieved when the victory came.

"Congratulations to the Grand Duke, Anqing also belongs to my Mawei Army!"

Geng Jingzhong smiled and said: "Don't be in a hurry, wait for the situation in the city to stabilize, then it can be regarded as our territory, otherwise it can only be regarded as a military occupation." Go back and quickly report to me the accurate number of enemies destroyed and captured in this battle, plus the number of our losses and losses! ”

Bai Xianzhong was slightly stunned when he heard this, knowing that Geng Jingzhong hated that kind of empty talk the most, so he quickly replied: "Don't worry, the Metropolitan Governor, by tomorrow morning at the latest, there will be detailed statistics." ”

"That's good! Pay attention to the other counties, and once the war reports from other places arrive, hand them over to me as soon as possible! ”

"Yes!"

The Mawei army that rushed into the city was still chasing and killing the Qing troops, Zhao Guozuo and other Qing generals did not expect things to be like this, according to them, even if they were defeated, they could retreat calmly, but the scene in front of them was that the army was defeated, the whole army was all in chaos, the soldiers could not find the generals, the soldiers could not see the soldiers, and there was a chaotic scene. Zhao Guozuo had no choice but to take the complete 20,000 troops that had not been used and went straight to the north gate and fled in the direction of Huaining County in the north.

The Mawei army continued to annihilate the remnants of the enemy in the city, when Zhao Guozuo fled with 20,000 people, the Qing army in the city learned that there was no morale, the Mawei army asked to surrender everywhere he went, and the weapons were thrown all over the ground, until ten o'clock in the evening, the city was quiet, and there was no shouting to kill, more than 30,000 troops of the Qing army were killed more than 7,000, more than 4,000 were seriously wounded, and all the others surrendered, and more than 20,000 troops were surrendered. In terms of seizure, the weapons and armor of the Qing army were not eye-catching, but a lot of grain and grass were hoarded in the city, which saved the Mawei army a lot of trouble

The Mawei Army attacked head-on with less than 20,000 men, and Anqing held out for less than a day. When the news reached Suizhou, Yue Leru was struck by lightning.

Now that the Mawei Army has also blossomed in full bloom and taken Anqing, then the next step is to attack the entire Anhui, Jiangsu has been under the control of the Mawei Army, and if Anhui is obtained, the Mawei Army will not be weaker than any side in the control area. And there is a Dabie Mountain Range between Anhui and Hubei and Henan, and it will be a good buffer for both them and Wu Jun in the future. If he guessed correctly, the goal of the Mawei Army is not only that, he has always maintained an offensive posture, maybe he still has to take Shandong together, after all, Tianjin is already under the control of the Mawei Army.

Now the Mawei Army can continue to advance northward along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and control the various cities on both sides of the canal one by one by infiltration; Jining was next to Xuzhou, and the Qing army was extremely weak in that part; Once the Mawei Army consolidated Anhui and Jiangsu was captured, then the Shandong area east of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal would be cut off by the Mawei Army on both sides of the canal, and Shandong would be completely out of control at that time.

The Mawei Army's combat strength is too strong, and they all underestimate the Mawei Army. has always regarded the Wu army as the biggest enemy, but he didn't expect it to come, and he actually found that the Mawei army was the real enemy. The Mawei Army also has the advantages of firearms and sailors, and it is very likely that Geng Jingzhong will use Neiying to stir up the wind and rain in the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

Now Yue Le can already think that in case Shandong also gets out of control, then the Qing Dynasty will go to the general trend, Shandong is connected to the sea route, and it can easily attack the Liaodong Peninsula, plus now that the Wu army is pressing step by step, two big iron tongs have been formed on both sides, cutting off the North Zhili and the Central Plains

"Do you really want to withdraw your troops?" Yue Le thought helplessly. At this time, he was exhausted, he was really tired after two or three years, and now the situation is getting worse, if he does not withdraw his troops in time to consolidate the northern Shanxi and Zhili, especially the Shandong region, then it is useless for them to fight with Wu Sangui here. Shandong is to drop 100,000 soldiers and horses, and it is not necessarily the opponent of the Mawei army, so the last 300,000 troops of the Qing army must be retained, and the troops can no longer be divided like this, otherwise they will only be slowly eaten.

"Lord Wang, are we going to give up Suizhou? It's a pity that Han Xiang has to rush here, so it's a pity to give up a lot? ”

"No, not a lot of it. Let Ah Ling's forehead defend Suizhou, and the large army of Wu will also be pressing step by step, I will leave him an army of 50,000, and there should be no problem in holding Suizhou for half a year. It is a time to be able to hold off the Wu army, and the king is ready to go to Shandong to intercept the Mawei army and fight a decisive battle with the Mawei army. The first thing we did when we went back was to pull out the Mawei Army defenders in Tianjin, and the ministers in the capital were already asking His Majesty to move the capital! ”

"This last general has also heard that those ministers are blind, don't they know that asking for the relocation of the capital at this time has greatly reduced the morale of the soldiers? And what can you do if you move to the outside of the gate, when the Qing Dynasty arrives at this time, you must fight to the death, win everything is easy to say, and if you lose, our Manchu people will be wiped out! Whether it is Geng Shun or Wu Sangui, they will not let go of the Qing Dynasty, they will inevitably be wiped out, do we still have to continue to move west like the Mongols, and move to the bitter cold land of the far west? (To be continued......)