275.Battle of Fuzhou (2)
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Speaking of which, the first person to discover the problem in Fuzhou should be Zhang Yunyi, the commander of the Fujian Army Division, who was sitting in the direction of Zheng Jun in the direction of Fuqing's blockade of the Haitan -- according to the usual practice, Zhang Yunyi had to communicate the military situation to the Fuzhou side every day, and with the distance between Fuqing and Fuzhou, such a communication would definitely be able to fight back and forth within two days, but since 14 May, the news from Fuzhou has been cut off, and even the messenger sent to Fuzhou by Fuqing has not returned. He mobilized the Xinghua City Shouxiezuo Battalion, Changfu Battalion, and Raised Biaohou Battalion under his command to investigate to the north respectively, and found that the shuttle on the Wulong River was actually Zheng Jun's soft sailing gunboats. (The fastest update speed is on the Aishang Novel Network biquge.info)
At the same time, in view of the siege of Fuzhou and the poor sea routes, he made a detour to Shaowu to ask for help from Jiangxi and Beijing; at the same time, he mobilized more than 13,000 people from the eight battalions directly under the Biao Battalion, the Left Battalion, the Right Battalion, the Front Battalion, the Rear Battalion, and the Changfu Battalion, as well as the left battalion of the Zhenbiao Left Battalion of Jianning Town, the Left Battalion of Yanping City Shouxie, and the Left Battalion of Shaowu City Shou Camp of Tingzhou Town, to prepare to return north to rescue Fuzhou, leaving only the left and right battalions of Xinghua City Shouxie to keep an eye on the direction of Haitan.
However, Zhang Yunyi's army had not yet been dispatched, and the Zheng army suddenly increased its troops on the front line of Haitan and shelled Xinghua Bay, forcing Zhang Yunyi to consider the possibility of being attacked by Zheng Jun's front and back, and he had no choice but to strengthen the defense along Xinghua Bay and Fuqing Bay on the one hand, and on the other hand, repeatedly urged Zhangquan and Guangdong and Jiangxi to send reinforcements.
But even Zhang Yunyi himself knows how slim the hope of rescuing Fuzhou is in this way, and he must know that even if all the soldiers and horses set off immediately after receiving the report, it will take about half a month to arrive from the nearest line of Zhangquan, which is still the fastest speed under the condition that Zheng Jun does not send troops to contain it, but will Zheng Jun not send troops? Even if Zheng Jun has done his best to attack Fuzhou, will Fuzhou remain in the hands of the Qing Dynasty in half a month?
Together with his father General Jing and Gansu Governor Daniel Zhang, Zhang Yunyi, who was stained with the blood of the Ming army, the Dashun army, the Daxi army, the Zhou army and other anti-Qing people's armies, was already ironclad to the pillar of shame of traitors, if he was abandoned by his own master again? Zhang Yunyi didn't dare to imagine his fate after the fall of Fuzhou.
In order to avoid the end of his end up in a situation where he is not a person inside and outside, Zhang Yunyi locked himself in the study and meditated all night, and the next morning, he was disillusioned and immediately gathered the heads of the various battalions, and put forward a battle plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao, preparing to storm the Longgao Peninsula with a force of nearly 10,000 people at the head of six battalions, even if they could not expel the Zheng army from the land, they would force them to no longer obstruct the rest of the Qing army to march to Fuzhou.
For Zhang Yunyi's plan, the generals looked at each other, but the military order was like a mountain, and they could only break away from the sealed defense line that had been painstakingly operated for many years, change the original defensive situation, and turn around and kill Zheng Jun's control area.
However, the Qing army's attack did surprise the Zheng army who was preparing for the attack, fortunately, at this moment, the Zheng army's main attack force had not yet been launched, so it naturally avoided the possibility of being flanked by the Qing army, but Zhang Yunyi fought steadily and steadily, blocking the Yangmen Pass with a large army, so that although the Zheng army contained the main force of Zhang Yunyi's army, it could not prevent the Qing army from aiding the north in Zhangquan and other places
"Whoosh! Rumble! At this distance, the artillery of the Qing army was helpless to get on the bayonet side, and the bird guns that ventured to poke their heads out and shoot down could not reach them, so they could only let Zheng Jun's unilateral abuse.
After the loud roar, the bricks of the ancient city wall cracked and turned into a pile of abandoned rubble scattered at the foot of the city, but the thick layer of rammed earth then absorbed the kinetic energy of the cannonballs, although it looked terrifying, but in fact it formed a shallow crater at most, and did not cause much damage.
Looking at the results of their own shooting, the helpless Zheng gunners had to shout slogans to reset the artillery, then clear the chamber, reload, and finally refire, the monotonous and boring process consumed too much body of the artillerymen, and they were indifferent to the results of their peers. Speaking of which, although the Zheng army adopted the tactics of gathering fire to attack the same section of the city wall, because the results of the artillery bombardment at this time were still an uncontrollable process, it was also shit luck to occasionally hit the adjacent position with two shells, and it would take at least two to three days to really break this section of the city wall, during which it would take at least two to three days, during which it would also have to guard against night attacks and strong attacks by the Qing army. Fortunately, the Qing army did not know how to deal with the trenches at all, so every time they attacked, they left corpses in one place, and after a few fights, the Qing army learned to be obedient and no longer came out to interfere in the long and seemingly "ineffective" artillery game of the Zheng army.
But in the Jinji Mountain section, the Zheng army did not carry out the forced relocation of the city wall, with the right height of the oblique artillery position, the Zheng army with a huge angle of fire will be solid bullets, shotguns and other orders hit the city wall, not only ignited the enemy tower on the Yansheng Gate, but also hit the Qing army in the city and the city under the city.
Taking advantage of the fact that the Qing army was blocked by three-and-a-half-inch (12-pounder) guns, the Zheng army quickly built several pontoon bridges over the moat, and then several wheels covered in wet quilts and raw cowhide were pushed across the river and then pasted to the city wall. A few Kunlun slaves, who were in the hub, were digging under the walls with pickaxes, steel shovels, and manpower drills. Although some Qing soldiers who stayed behind risked their lives to drop stones and gold juice to destroy a few of them, most of them still dug a few shallow pits with concave holes.
At this time, a new batch of hubs also crossed the river, and the middle posts that crossed the river carried thousands of pounds of gunpowder. Perhaps seeing Zheng's intentions, the Qing army took the risk of opening the city gate in an attempt to send troops to kill and break the Zheng army's operation, but the three-inch guns of the regimental artillery posts blocked the way for the Qing army to leave the province with dense shells
The fuse was ignited, and dozens of Kunlun slaves ran back quickly regardless of the Qing army exposed to the city behind them, and finally boarded the pontoon bridge, but the shock wave had already caught up, and the Kunlun slaves who were unstable immediately became gourds rolling all over the ground, and some of them fell into the water and died.
When the splash of the flying rammed earth blocks calmed down, Zheng Jun, who was about to attack, looked around, only to see that the original shallow hole entrance had now become dark, as if the hole had been opened up inside and outside the city, but the power of black powder was really insufficient, and the number of thousands of catties was just a radial crack formed on the outside of the hole.
If the first time is unsuccessful, the second time, Zheng Jun, who can produce saltpeter and sulfur by himself, has not many others, and the most is all kinds of gunpowder. I saw that the Shangguan gave an order, and dozens of Kunlun slave soldiers once again pushed the simple hub to the big hole caused by the first blasting at the risk of their own artillery fire.
The Qing army seemed to understand that the last moment had come, and immediately poured hundreds of soldiers from under the city, some of whom were torn apart by artillery fire as soon as they arrived at the horse, some of whom held out a little longer, and were only shot with an arrow and their heads were lifted open by the flying lead, and even worse, the gunpowder they carried was ignited by the scorching projectiles, and they suddenly became burning men. However, the Qing army was a little crazy and did not dodge, and the thousand generals fell, and the garrison division rushed up to command, and the garrison division was wounded, and the guerrillas and staff generals also personally went into battle with bows and guns
Under the cover of their own artillery fire, the Kunlun Nu, who advanced against the bullets fired by the Qing army, left half of their companions, and finally stuck to the black hole, 100 catties, 200 catties, 500 catties, 800 catties, 1,000 catties, 1,500 catties, and piled all the gunpowder into the black hole Kunlun Nu quickly ignited the wire, and then staged a life-threatening run again.
In the loud roar of the Qing army in the city, the lead gradually burned to the end, and then a dull explosion sounded, and the city wall in the northeast of Fuzhou slowly and firmly collapsed after a while, and finally smashed on the relatively solid ground with a group of Qing officers and soldiers who had stood on the city wall.
The artillery of the Zheng army, which had long been waiting for the pillow, quickly fired a series of solid bullets and shotguns at the collapsed city wall, and at the same time, thousands of officers and soldiers, including Xuanfeng and Jumping Two Sentinels, jumped up silently, and rushed across the pontoon bridge like a whirlwind against the scattered sand and dust, all the way to the breakthrough. At this time, the Qing army woke up from the shock, and the reinforcements that had been transferred long ago rushed to the collapse, but before they could split their heads with Zheng Jun, they ushered in a metal storm.
The officers and soldiers who released the ammunition in the three-eyed gun in their hands and jumped the two sentinels threw away their useless weapons, drew out long knives and sharp axes to meet the dazed Qing army, of course, some people were reluctant to drop the heavy three-eyed guns, and directly picked it up and used it as a bone (hammer).
The sound of killing instantly sounded inside and outside the city of Fuzhou, the Zheng army in the armor and the Qing army in the cotton armor fought against each other, at first the Qing army suppressed the Zheng army with the advantage of numbers, but with the input of the sentry posts in the formation, the Qing army that was swept by the platoon was forced to retreat step by step, so that the Yan Shengmen on the side also fell into the hands of the Zheng army.
Following the change of hands of Yan Shengmen, more Zheng troops poured into the city of Fuzhou, some Zheng troops fought with the Qing reinforcements on the ground, and another part of the Zheng army quickly climbed to the top of the city to support their own attack with rifles. After clearing the right battalion of the governor and the middle battalion of the city guard association near the Yansheng Gate, the Zheng army immediately seized the commanding heights of Fuzhou along the city wall and the Wanghai Tower, and further rushed to the north gate of the bereaved gate. Because there are Pingshan Mountain and West Lake shielding on the side, there is only one part of the right battalion of the Qing army Fubiao on the front line of Yiaimen, and the Zheng army that swept away cannot be stopped at all, so it can only escape to the city.
After the Gate of Relics was opened, another division of the Zheng army was able to pour into the city, just in time to block a counterattack by the garrison of the Eight Banners.
As more and more Zheng troops poured into the city, the Qing army defending the city understood that the general trend had gone, and many newly recruited brave soldiers such as Guan Wu and Fan Erbao took off their uniforms and sneaked home as long as they did not die
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