Gong Changyu said that Prince Sangge's troops were old-fashioned, which made Sangge very unhappy: "Boy, this king has been in the grassland for decades, invincible, and has never been defeated, are you here to teach this king a lesson, or scold this king for ignorance?" ”

"Yo yo yo, this general is here to watch the battle, if the prince is willing to be a frog at the bottom of the well, listen to it." Gong Changyu raised his eyebrows and looked at those officers who were several grades higher than him.

"Gong Jichang, where were you when I defeated the fleet of the Fan army in Tianjinwei?" Prince Seng said with a smile.

"Lord Wang, the Tianjin Weifan Army did not fail, it just retreated. killed and wounded more than 400 soldiers, do you think it's a lot? Gong Changyu didn't admire the domineering Prince of Monk, "Dagukou Fort, your record is mediocre, two losses and one win." On land, the advantage of the Fan army will be immediate. ”

"I'm too lazy to quarrel with you, you have the ability, you can also fight a decent battle to show this king." Prince Sangha was puffing.

"As long as you give me military command, I have my own way to deal with them, such as the Bali Bridge, I will send an earthen battalion to blow it up and lay a thunderstorm on the river beach. When the army crossed the river, we attacked and caught them by surprise. Gong Changyu pointed the Lock Dragon Sword on the "Bali Bridge".

Bali Bridge has a history of more than 400 years and has witnessed the changes of the times. The bridge body is 50 zhang long from east to west, it is the three coupons of the waterway, the coupon and the flat-bottomed stone are all interactive, the iron is used to tie, the water dividing stone is protected by the iron pillar, when it rushes, the north and south of the bridge are two hundred feet long, both sides are with the stone as the railing, the small stone lion carved at the top of each pillar is particularly exquisite, and the stone railing is embedded with the lotus leaf relief stone railing of the treasure bottle between the columns. Table 2 square, the title is Yongtong Bridge, cover the name given by (Tianshun Emperor Zhu Qizhen), and set up a temple to worship the river god.

Gong Changyu proposed to blow up the Bali Bridge and block the Fan army, like a thunderbolt, and the generals of the Qinghe Army present were stunned: Boy, you can also think of this bad idea?

Prince Seng Ge thought that blowing up the Bali Bridge was cutting off the retreat of his own army, which was too dangerous, and immediately rejected Gong Changyu's "crazy plan". However, Gong Changyu proposed a plan to dig trenches, and Prince Seng Ge still accepted it, and he ordered the soldiers to dig trenches and build earthen ramparts in the bushes around Bali Bridge.

"Monk King, the Bali Bridge can be repaired again if it is blown up, if the army is lost, Kyoto will not be able to hold it. I implore the monk to think twice. Gong Changyu insisted on his ideas and was uncompromising.

"Don't say it. This king has his own measure, who is right and who is wrong, the battlefield will be clear! The monk left a sentence and walked away.

"Monk King-" Gong Changyu wanted to say something, but all the generals left, and suddenly the camp was empty.

After walking out of the camp, Zhang Weijun and Liu Dawei walked up: "General, did they take your advice?" ”

Gong Changyu, who was dejected, shook his head and didn't say a word, because he knew that these stubborn regular army generals of the imperial court were all proud of their high merits, and no matter how much they said, it would be in vain.

"General, let's go, we are not needed here." Zhang Weijun said.

"That's right, let's go to the Dune Palace and bring the brothers back to Jingbei Camp." Liu Dawei seconded.

Gong Changyu still shook his head......

The first day of the eighth month of the tenth year of Xiantong (September 18).

The Eagle-French coalition army rushed straight to Kyoto along the North Canal, and met the Qinghe defenders who were waiting for it in Zhangjiawan.

At that time, the Mongolian Iron Cavalry European Expedition left a deep impression on the Ouxi people, and the original offensive Fan army formation became a defender, concentrated artillery bombardment of the Mongolian Le cavalry, and also specially deployed the Tianzhu cavalry, using Tianzhu indigenous rockets, with hundreds of Conglev rockets to salvo the Mongolian cavalry.

The Tatar cavalry, who swore to fight to the death, braved the rain of bullets, used counter-charge tactics, and repelled the attacks of the Eagle and French coalition forces with their flesh and blood. At each sortie, many cavalry were killed, but when they attacked again, not a single one flinched. Under the city of Zhangjiawan, the smoke of gunpowder is foggy, the sound of cannons is rumbling, the bullets and arrows are flying horizontally, and the sound of killing is shocking.

In the face of the Qing and defenders who fought desperately, the Eagle and French coalition forces also suffered many casualties and were at a loss. By noon, the battlefield was already in a stalemate, and it was difficult to distinguish between them.

Seeing that the cavalry were scarred and exhausted, the prince ordered the cavalry to withdraw from their positions and be taken over by infantry soldiers. When the cavalry was rapidly retreating, it collided with the infantry brigade that was rushing to change the defense, so that they trampled on each other, and the formation was in chaos.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Prince Seng immediately led his troops to retreat, left the infantry alone in Zhangjiawan, and retreated with the cavalry to the area of the military fortress Bali Bridge. This accidental mistake in command led to a sudden change in the tide of the war. The commander of the Eagle-French coalition army, Varisi, found out about this situation and immediately ordered to concentrate artillery fire on the positions of the Qinghe army.

The generals of the Zhangjiawan infantry army who went into battle in a hurry did not understand the tactics of field in-depth defense, did not adjust the troops, and evacuated the soldiers in time, on the contrary, they blindly ordered all the officers and men to launch a counter-charge against the positions of the Ouxi, and were blown to pieces by the artillery fire of the Fan army, and became cannon fodder in vain, and more than 1,000 people were martyred. The position of the Qinghe Army was suddenly broken through, the whole line collapsed, and Zhangjiawan fell into the hands of the enemy.

A few days later, the follow-up troops of the Eagle and French coalition army arrived, and the commander Vasily ordered the army to dig trenches one after another in the field, this trick was the first to be used by Zeng Fan, the commander of the Jingnan army, but he did not expect the prince of Seng Ge to scoff at this and disdain to use it.

Frightened by the artillery fire of the coalition forces, Prince Seng Ge did not seize the opportunity and took a sneak attack to annihilate the vanguard of this army with superior forces. Gong Changyu suggested many times that the troops should be divided into parts, implement guerrilla tactics, surround the enemy, and fight them at close range, but Prince Seng Ge did not listen to it at all, and said that the king did not need to be instructed by others to fight.

At 7 o'clock on the fourth day of August (September 21), the Battle of Bali Bridge began. The Qing army had about 30,000 infantry and Mongol cavalry, and was mainly armed with broadswords, spears, bows and arrows, and a pitiful amount of artillery. The 24,000-strong army of the Eagle-French coalition was mainly armed with muskets and artillery. In terms of numbers, the army was slightly smaller, and in terms of equipment, the army was much better than the Qing army, and the Qing army was thrown ten streets.

The army attacked from the east, south, and west, with each line lined up, with artillery in the center and cavalry and infantry on the flanks. Shengbao and Ruilin led their troops to resist the enemy on the south and east roads, and they led the cavalry of their headquarters to attack the enemy on the west road from the front.

The dragon flag waved on the bridge. Although they were not covered by no artillery fire, these elite cavalry of the Qing and Empire, dressed in gorgeous clothes, braved the dense artillery fire of the fanjun army, and launched a frontal attack in wave after wave. This was the last large-scale collective charge of the Qing Peace Army, and the tragedy was tragically staged on this centuries-old bridge.

The Qinghe army horse team was blocked by the dense fire of the allied infantry fighting in the trench and the bombardment of the enemy's artillery grenade shotgun and suffered a large number of casualties, the war horse was frightened and rampaged, almost unable to form an army, forced to retreat under the enemy's firepower, the artillery was still roaring, the 3,000 cavalry of the Qinghe army fought only seven people, and the Qinghe army cavalry, which was still high-spirited in the morning, disappeared without a trace under the fierce artillery attack.

In order to make up for the mistake of decision-making before the battle, Seng Ge commanded the horse team to intersperse between the enemy's south road and the west road while fighting the enemy on the south road in the first part of the Shengbao Division, in an attempt to divide the enemy, and then used the infantry team to cooperate with the Shengbao Department to surround the enemy on the south road and annihilate the enemy's main force.

Due to the deputy capital commander Shengbao was shot in the leg and his troops were defeated, the battle intention of the monk was not realized, so he fought a heroic and fierce battle with the Li army of the Western Road Eagle Attack, and suffered heavy casualties. After defeating the most ferocious cavalry of the Qinghe Army, the Eagle and French Coalition Army began to use large-caliber artillery to bombard the Qinghe Army infantry who were desperately defending the Jiuli Bridge.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the Eagle Attack Li army divided into two routes, one part continued to confront the monks, and the other attacked Yujiawei, in an attempt to copy the back road of the monks. Monk Lingqin was unable to divide his troops and faced the danger of being attacked by the enemy on his belly and back. As the commander of the Qinghe Army, Prince Seng Ge fought hard to command the whole army with the spirit of heroic and tenacious resistance to foreign invaders. At the last moment of the decisive battle on the Bali Bridge, he stepped forward and stood in the middle of the bridge on a war horse to supervise the battle.

In the middle of the bridge, Prince Sangha stood in front on horseback, waving a yellow flag in challenge, and although the rumbling of cannons overshadowed everything and bullets flew overhead, he still shouted: "Rush, kill all my troops—"

Around Prince Sangge, the marble blocks of the bridge railing were scattered and scattered, and the shells of the Fan army caused a lot of casualties to the Qinghe army. Death did not stop for a moment, but it did not intimidate these inflexible but brave fighters, who did not retreat an inch. Both sides of the canal and the bridge were littered with corpses mutilated by the horrific killings.

At the head of the bridge stood an extremely tall Tatar, who was the standard-bearer of the Qing Peace Army, holding a large yellow flag with black letters written on it, and pointing it in all directions from time to time. This is the banner of the monk king, and the eyes of all the officers are on it, because it is giving orders to the entire Qinghe army. At this moment, the enemy had retreated, and the bridge on the battlefield, which had been defended by the elite of the army, was already full of corpses, but the Tatar, despite being alone, was still standing there, carrying the last order of the monk to fight.

Bullets and shells whirred and whistled around the Qinghe standard-bearer, but he remained still. Several soldiers rushed forward, trying to capture him alive. At this moment, the Fanjun artilleryman, who had not fired for half an hour, fired a shell, but it hit him and knocked him to the ground. Then the banner fell to the side, and with its pole came a spasmodic hand that clung to it......

The Bali Bridge was lost, and the Tatar cavalry, which the Qing and Empire were proud of, was completely finished. Gong Changyu and his entourage Zhang Weijun and Li Dawei hid in the depths of the woods, watching the Eagle and French coalition troops push their artillery from the bloody stone bridge majestically and proudly, and then their horses and infantry also followed, and the gate to Kyoto was wide open......

Because of the stupidity and clumsy command of the monks, the Qing army was completely defeated, and they achieved an "impressive record" of killing 5 enemy soldiers, while their own side paid a heavy price of 25,000 men. Prince Seng fled to Kyoto with the remnants of his defeated army, where there were still 150,000 troops and perhaps a last stand.

Along the way, Prince Seng Ge burst into tears: "The Qinghe country is in danger, and Kyoto is in danger...... At this moment, he regretted not adopting the straggler tactics and guerrilla tactics that Gong Changyu proposed to him, and his excessive confidence buried the royal elite, as the saying goes-ignorance limits your imagination.