Chapter 352: The Bloody Battle of Yangzhou

"Baoguo Gong attacked the east city all the way, Dingguo Gong attacked the west city all the way, and the marshal sat in the middle army, mainly attacking the north city, Zhenyuan Hou was the main general of the forward army, An Yuanhou was sitting in the rear army, and the rest of you performed their duties to strive for Yangzhou to destroy the main force of the southern army in a war."

"Commanded..."

Gu Huan is also older, but at this time, when the country is in trouble, there are strong captives outside the customs and chaos inside, as a veteran lord who shares the glory and disgrace with the country, he naturally wants to rest with the country.

"Master Hou..."

The pioneer general, the deputy general of the military section rode a horse to Gu Huan's side for three years: "Master Hou, according to the report from Yangzhou Xizuo, Zhang Gaoping vomited blood in the city. ”

Gu Huan was overjoyed: "Really? ”

Duan Sannian nodded solemnly: "It's true, I heard that Du Wenhuan under the command of Yang He, the governor of the five provinces, led a partial division to break through Yizhen and burned the grain and grass of the Yangzhou defenders, and then Zhang Gaoping sent the general Ding Wenqing to rescue Yizhen, and Ding Wenqing was defeated by Du Wenhuan in Yizhen. ”

"Good..."

Gu Huan shook his horsewhip, and then said: "This news will be reported to Chengguo Gong quickly, and the order will be sent down, and an attack on Yangzhou will be launched in half an hour." ”

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Zhang Gaoping waved Lang Zhong away, then looked at the generals in the tent, and said sternly: "All of you here are from the Fuwang Mansion, and the situation is not much different from that of this duke, and now the imperial court is at a critical time of peril, you must work together to fight the battle of Yangzhou." ”

"Guogong, I heard that General Ding Bing..."

"Ahem..."

When this kind of news is spoken, it is easy to affect the morale of the military, and naturally there are smart people who will stop it.

Zhang Gaoping glared at the man who spoke, and then said in a deep voice: "The Northern Army of 560,000 people is coming with all their might, and we also have 350,000 in Yangzhou City. ”

This is also what I said, how did the 800,000 army of Fu Jian, the king of Qin, come about when he was annihilated by the 50,000 people of the Jin army?

Morale...

"Yin Dongsheng..."

"The last will be..."

"Under the siege of the northern army on three sides, it is to disturb the hearts of our army, but Zhu Chunchen underestimated the determination of this prince to defend Yangzhou, after the start of the war, you led the troops and horses of your headquarters from Xicheng, cooperated with the defending troops, and made a detour to attack Zhu Yanrong's department first."

"The last general commands..."

"Song Changfu..."

"The last will be..."

"You... Be prepared to fight..."

Song Changfu took a deep breath: "The last general has put life and death aside, and in order to repay the great favor of the king, he will definitely live up to the trust of the national government." ”

Dare to fight means to die, there must be dead soldiers, hundreds of thousands of people in a big battle, the slightest carelessness is the defeat of the whole army, in this case, the death squad is the key to determine the situation of the war.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the survival of the imperial court is here, and this duke should move forward, if this duke takes a step back, you will behead me first."

"Dare not die..."

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"Fire..."

"Fire..."

'Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock...'

'Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock...'

'Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock...'

The violent cannon sound covered the entire Yangzhou city, the pervasive gunpowder smoke drifted over the city, the attacking and defending sides launched a fierce artillery battle, Ningyuan cannon and Shenwu cannon each spewed fire, pushing out various types of shells in the cannon chamber.

Casualties inevitably increased.

Gu Huan put down the clairvoyant mirror and muttered: "The ancestor An Yuanhou is a good hand at firearms, and now we are just stained with the light of the Duke of Baoguo." ”

Duan Nian sat as the general of the forward army, and was commanding the operation in the artillery array at the moment, but the flying flower shells and various types of real bullets made his artillery suffer.

"Who dares to retreat?" Duan Sannian scolded sharply: "How many casualties do we have, the southern army defending the city will not be low at all, quickly, take water to cool down..."

The herald arrived in front of Gu Huan: "Marquis Zhenyuan, the marshal has an order, and the forward army must attack Yangzhou in half an hour." ”

The so-called offense is hand-to-hand combat.

But at this moment, both the offensive and defensive sides used artillery battles, and if they attacked rashly, the opponent would definitely have muskets to defend the city.

Although the three thousand flintlock infantry behind him looked like a lot, Gu Huan believed that the Yangzhou defenders also had such equipment.

"Tell Cheng Guogong, and say that Ben Hou knows."

At the head of Beicheng, Zhang Gaoping's confidant Li Mingyuan was directing the artillery battle, and suddenly saw that there seemed to be movement in the gunsmoke, so he raised the clairvoyant mirror to check, and then roared loudly: "The northern army has attacked, ready to fight... Musket preparation..."

Li Mingyuan didn't know how to get the flintlock pistols of the Liang Domain, but he at least knew that the defenders of Yangzhou were equipped with 30,000 flintlock pistols, and the city was enough, which was also the confidence of Zhang Gaoping to dare to defend Yangzhou without moving.

'Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang...'

'Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang...'

'Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang...'

The northern army besieging the city approached the northern city wall under the cover of the chariot and caught Li Mingyuan's defenders by surprise.

"There's an iron sheet..."

One of the musketeers shouted in horror after firing a shot.

Both the Wuhan Iron and Steel Car and the Buckle are the products of the former Song Dynasty, but the Wuhan Iron and Steel Carts are even better, but the iron-covered Buck Carts are also enough to block the flying lead bullets under the blessing of the thick cypress, and even the solid heart bullets can be able to block a wave of offensives.

"There are smart people in the Northern Army, and they actually use a chariot to cover," Li Mingyuan immediately calmed down after panicking, and then implemented it according to Zhang Gaoping's tactics: "Hmph, the chariot is moving slowly, immediately mobilize fierce fire oil to come up, let's roast the northern pig..."

As soon as the burst fire oil spreads, the burning area immediately increases, and even the iron cover cannot change the essence of the large wood on the front.

After being contaminated with fierce fire oil, the chariot immediately burned violently, and the northern army blocking behind the chariot could only withdraw from the cover of the chariot, followed by violent gunfire.

"Fight back... Fight back..."

A commander was shot and fell to the ground, and the sergeant behind him immediately ran away...

Li Mingyuan was overjoyed when he saw this, and the defense of the city would naturally be rewarded with a rich head under the condition of absolute superiority, and the fleeing northern army was the best witness.

However, it didn't take long for him to rejoice, and the sound of the cannon sounded again, apparently this time the cannon was fired to cover the advance of the car.

Sure enough, the previously defeated Northern Army reappeared from the smoke of gunpowder, although the previous fire burned most of the carts, but this time Li Mingyuan clearly saw that the carts were full of buckets of water.

"These people are really unwilling, ready to..."

Duan Sannian rode his horse to Gu Huan's side and arched his hand: "Master Hou, our army has arrived under the city of Yangzhou under the cover of the chariot, but it was repelled once by the southern army with fierce fire oil. ”

"Don't panic, be patient, after all, Zhang Gaoping has run out of food."

Gu Huan learned the style of his ancestors in war, and acted steadily, although he read a lot of military books, but there was still a big difference compared with the actual situation on the battlefield.

The main attack in Xicheng is Zhu Yanrong, the Duke of Baoguo, although he and his reluctance to go south this time, but the nobles of the dynasty in Beijing except for the British Duke who stayed in the capital, the rest of the rest are all dispatched, and he naturally can't shirk it.

"Grandpa, the Marquis of Baoding sent someone to ask when the attack will be launched?"

"Is Meng Si panicked? Or does he want to take the lead? ”

In Jingxun, it is impossible for Zhu Yanrong not to know, and his son is the same, otherwise he would not have come with his sick body in this campaign, and this battle is related to the survival of the Northern Dynasty, he can only win and not lose, so he does not dare to be sloppy at all.

"Go and tell Meng Si that without the order of his father, if he dares to launch an attack without authorization, he will be dealt with by military law."

It is also Zhu Chunchen's consideration to place a group of marquis under the duke, otherwise chaos will happen from time to time, and under this big war, it is decided that there can be no sloppiness.

Xu Xilian was a little eager to try, but he never received an order, so he didn't dare to make a mistake, if this battle was lost because of his mistakes, he was worried that according to Chongzhen's urine, he would cut his title of Duke of Dingguo not necessarily.

Yangwu Marquis Xue Lian is young, he is not a direct line, when Xue Xian had no children, the title of Yangwu Marquis once failed, and the side family members rushed to grab it, Jiajing selected the side line Xue Han, and when he passed the knight to Xue Lian, he was only twelve years old, and the second year of the Apocalypse was the second year of the Emperor, and now Xue Lian is just twenty.

"Guogong, let's just wait."

"Wait?" Xu Xilian's eyes widened angrily: "You stinky boy, now Zhang Gaoping is a turtle in the urn, and the sound and lust of the dogs and horses in Beijing have made you wait for no blood?" ”

The three top dukes of Dingguo, Chengguo, and England are in charge of the three major battalions in the capital, hereditary for many years, and have been passed down to the present, there are martial arts professors in the family, although Xu Xilian is domineering, but he also knows the proportion, and now Zhang Gaoping has cut off the grain road, as long as he uses his life, he can capture Yangzhou.

"Defeat Yangzhou, destroy Zhang Gaoping, destroy the main force of the Southern Army, and let those civil officials in the imperial court who don't understand Lao Shizi see that the lord of our dynasty is not a person who eats rotten food."

Donglin Qingliu said that the lord was a moth for a day or two, and now, the lord who went south had to prove one thing to them, that is, they were not waste people raised by the country.

"Went up... went up..."

Gu Huan was a little excited, in the clairvoyant mirror, he clearly saw the army climbing the city, and the two sides even shot each other with muskets under the city: "In the third year of the herald period, all the front troops attacked..."

From time to time, Gu Huan's personal soldiers went to the Chinese army to inform Zhu Chunchen of the news that the vanguard army had attacked the city of Yangzhou.

"Good..."

Zhu Chunchen was worried that Gu Huan would not be able to do the job at that time, but now that he thinks about it, he still underestimated him: "Send artillery over to suppress the formation, and we will press the enemy to fight." ”

Squeak...

There was a loud sound, which made the musketeers who were loading under the city walls dazed.

The originally closed north gate suddenly opened from the inside, and the musketeers of the northern army, who were hiding in the city gate hole and reloading, turned their heads, and suddenly their souls were furious: "Run..."

'Knock knock...'

Several explosions rang out one after another, and the musketeer in front of him suddenly became a human pulp.

Li Mingyuan mobilized 300 tiger squat cannons, preparing to go out of the city to kill all the musketeers of the Northern Army who had caused them huge casualties under the city head, and burn their chariots placed under the city gate by the way.