"Defeated! Defeated, the Great Qing is defeated! ”

On the battlefield on the north bank of Suishui, a huge shout like a tsunami suddenly sounded, panicked and noisy, heartbreaking, all the way through Suishui, and reached the ears of the Eight Banners soldiers in Fuli Jicheng!

And from the three brothers who had followed the three brothers Dorgon, Duoduo, and Azig to the east and west, and experienced the last wave of the battle of extinguishing the Ming and destroying the Shun, the deputy head of the Jiangxi battalion in the Qing Dynasty. Old man Gusteig's eyes looked out, and what he saw was a suffocating despair.

At this time, he was standing on the city wall north of Fuliji, looking to the left is Fuliji City, although the Ming army has firmly occupied the huge gap, the head is wrapped in a red scarf, holding a spear and a Pu knife The Huaixi warriors are pouring in like a tide, but the Eight Banners in the city are still trying to resist.

And to the right, it is the scene of the collapse of the whole army that shocked Geste!

How this collapse happened, Geste still hasn't figured it out, anyway, just as he was about to go down to the city to organize the troops to resist, a Goshha next to him suddenly told him that a burst of green battalions outside the city of Mu Governor had collapsed.

Shocked when he heard this, Geste hurriedly turned his head to look, and at first glance, it was as if he had been immobilized, motionless, and then he witnessed several Qing army formations that were still good and "collapsed when they saw the thieves" one after another.

What surprised Geste even more was that after the collapse of this green battalion phalanx, those green battalion soldiers did not scatter and flee, but lost their weapons and ran towards several Ming cavalry groups against them, and then most of them were taken prisoner.

Fleeing at the sight of a thief becomes surrendering at the sight of a thief!

And the other four phalanxes composed of the flag army and the green battalion soldiers of the Jiangdong battalion not only did not send troops to stop the phalanx of the green battalion soldiers from defecting, but also began to flee north at the same time as they defected!

Seeing this scene, the young man joined the army, and Gusted, who had experienced dozens of battles, was born. Not to mention that this kind of thing has never happened in the Qing army, even the Ming army that was destroyed before has not happened. At least Gustai didn't know.

No matter how much the Ming army pulled his crotch back then, at most it was to run away or. Surrender to the enemy.

Now the Qing soldiers actually surrendered to the enemy and fled at the same time!

What's going on?

How did those who threw themselves into the enemy flee and those who fled fled?

Could it be that Xuzhou was attacked by Wang Datou's people? Or was Xi'an broken by Wu Sangui's people, and the little emperor was martyred? Or even Beijing has been broken by Wu Sangui's Northern Expeditionary Army?

The more Gustai thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he just stood there. However, he did not freeze for long, because a large number of Ming troops with flintlock pistols with bayonets had rushed to the wall of Fuliji, and the Qing army guarding the wall was defeated and retreated. Seeing that the Ming musketeers who were stabbing people with bayonets for a while and "hurting people with secret guns" were about to rush to Geste, Goshha of Gestey hurriedly carried him and ran under the city wall.

And when Geste was escorted by his men to the outside of his temporary office, the place was already in a desperate situation. His official office is located in the center of Fuliji, outside is a crossroads (the whole Fuliji is two streets), he arrived with his front feet, before he had time to enter the official office to catch his breath and drink a bowl of ginseng soup to raise his spirits, the defeated Qing army from the west gate, the north gate, the south gate three directions, the crowd rolled down.

These Eight Banners soldiers are really useless, and they let out the loudest cries while running away!

"The city is broken, the city is broken"

"The traitor is powerful, run away!"

"There are too many rebels, run!"

I'm speechless when I run away, these Eight Banners have been trained for two or three years, why are they still like this? Still running? What to run? The horses have all been eaten, and they can still run? Can you outrun someone on two legs on four legs? Alas, even if those Huaixi thieves don't ride horses, the children of the Eight Banners from Beijing City can't compete with others! There is often a lot of water here in Huaixi, and those who run slowly are drowned, and everyone who can survive until now can run!

Moreover, the four gates of Fu Liji, the southeast, northwest and northwest have been blocked, and the Ming army rushed in only after opening a gap with artillery, how did the Eight Banners soldiers in the city run? Out of the city? Or do you jump straight down from the two-zhang high wall? Not afraid of breaking your leg?

Thinking of this, Geste hurriedly shouted: "Don't run and fight with them!" Quick, stop them! ”

No one promised!

Geste looked left and right, and then realized that his Goshha had already run away!

He had no choice but to rush into his office first to shake people, but after rushing in, he found that it was already empty, those Goshha and the master of the curtain friends, and even his own Su Lajia slaves, all ran away, and now he has become a bare pole commander!

Geste had no choice but to find a cloth iron armor to put on his body a so-so set, and picked up a simple knife, and a person rushed out of the official office, only as soon as he went out, he saw a group of "red turban soldiers" holding knives and guns were chasing a few Eight Banner soldiers who were probably wounded by gunshot wounds, and their clothes and armor were stained red with blood.

"Hand over your head!"

"You can't run, just die!"

"I only need your heads."

This head. It can be exchanged for "New Daming Options"! When the Restoration Conference is over and the new Ming Dynasty is officially opened, the "options" will become shares, and the children and grandchildren will have a good life.

Seeing his subordinates being bullied like this, he couldn't bear it anymore, brandished his sword and shouted: "Geste is here!" "It pounced like an old tiger.

When he shouted, he immediately caused trouble for himself, and when a few "Red Turban Army" saw his style, they knew that he was a big official - the head of a big official was worth it! So he turned around and rushed at him, and three or four spears slammed at him together, and there were two people on the side who were carrying Pu knives looking for an opportunity to make a black hand. So many people bullied him as an old man, there is really no martial virtue!

Geste, the old Tartar, is really old, his strength and reaction are not as good as when he was young, he was besieged by five or six people and had no power to fight back, a simple knife in his hand blocked the left and right, so he was not embarrassed, so he didn't block it, one was not careful, and he was slashed on the shoulder, although the blade was blocked by the cloth iron armor, but this heavy blow still made his shoulder sore and painful, and he lost his strength for a while. Now he couldn't resist the three or four spears, and one of them fell in the air and smashed it on his head wearing a gun and helmet impartially, and as soon as his eyes were dark, he lost consciousness and of course his head!

A "Red Turban Army" took advantage of his coma and cut off his head with an axe!

At the same time that Geste was cut off alive, the Eight Banners in Fuliji City had also been completely defeated, completely lost their organization under the overwhelming number of Ming troops, fell into a panic, and were driven to the east gate of Fuliji like headless flies, because the east gate had long been blocked, and they couldn't get out at all, so they had to rush up to the city wall and jump down again

Two-foot high walls!

It's the equivalent of standing on three floors and jumping down! Although there is a relatively soft mud ground below, but this height is placed there, and there is no good one, so it will completely become a military feat "to be picked up"!

Even if you jump well, there is not much chance to escape, because there is a battalion head from Dingyuan County outside the city, all of which are composed of children surnamed Xu, Qi, and Li, and it is said that they are all descendants of the heroes of the Ming Dynasty Anyway, today is blessed by the ancestors, and the ancestral tomb is smoking!

The credit actually fell from the wall more than two feet high, so what are you waiting for? If you don't rob this, the ancestors below will die in a hurry, they are in a hurry!

These more than 1,000 Huai soldiers were like more than 1,000 evil tigers, who pounced on them and cut off people's heads.

And the Huai army in Fuli Jicheng was also anxious, how could he jump off the wall and commit suicide? Even if you want to commit suicide, you jump inside, jump out, and your head will be cut off by the people outside.

As soon as they thought of running their heads, these Huaixi soldiers also rushed like crazy! Some people also found a long ladder and attacked the city from the inside, and some shotgunmen even ignored the clusters of arrows shot by the Qing soldiers, and went directly to the bottom of the city wall to shoot up!

The bloody battle lasted like this for two or three hours, until there was no more headless Eight Banners soldiers inside and outside the Fuli Ji City. Fu Liji battled, beheading nearly 10,000 levels!

At the same time as the bloody battle of Fuliji was going on, on the north bank of Suishui, a pursuit battle was also staged.

Mu Zhan's reaction was quite fast, and he immediately issued an order to dissolve the phalanx and retreat the whole army. Because he knows that there is no hope for this battle!

Xuzhou is lost!

Defection in front of the Xuzhou Green Battalion!

Fu Liji was surrounded by regiments, and there was still a water between Mu Zhan's headquarters and Fu Liji, and the two armies could see but could not reach it, so there was no other way but to retreat.

But even if you retreat, only God knows how many you will survive in the end!

Because most of Mu Zhan's troops were horseless foot soldiers, and the enemy around them had thousands of horse-based cavalry. The fleeing infantry was a prey for these cavalrymen.

Of course, you can't run either. Because of the defection of the Xuzhou Green Battalion, others also know that Xuzhou has lost the back road, and the number of enemies is large, and there are a large number of cavalry, looking at their bombardment of Fu Liji, there are also a lot of artillery, and there should be a red-coat cannon that can hit twelve catties of projectiles!

If you don't run away, you will be wiped out!

And how many can you run away?

At this time, riding on a horse, a group of officers and personal soldiers who had lost their men and fled on horseback were kept by Goshha who quickly evacuated from the battlefield, and Mu Zhan's heart was also as dead silent.

The Qing Dynasty is coming to an end!

Nanjing, Dongwangfu.

Geng Jingzhong, the king of the east, has also realized that he is going to win and win the victory in the defense of Nanjing!

Because the attack of the Qing army outside the city has become weaker and weaker during this time, they have already given up the attack on Yuhuatai and Xiaolingwei since a few days ago. After many days of fierce fighting, the outside of Nanjing suddenly became very quiet.

However, Geng Jingzhong's mood did not get better because victory was in sight, and he was worried!

Can you not be worried?

Can he win the Battle of Nanjing this time? Doesn't think it can't? Although he has always led his troops to guard the walls of the inner city of Nanjing. But the battles of Yuhuatai and Xiaolingwei were fought by Lu Sanhao's army.

In addition, on the Yangtze River waterway north of Nanjing, Chen Yonghua's sailors also fought several beautiful battles, sinking and capturing hundreds of Shi Lang's warships.

And the biggest victory came from Wang Datou's Northern Expeditionary Army!

The Northern Expeditionary Army captured Xuzhou, surrounded the 10,000 Eight Banners of Geste at Fuliji, and monitored more than 20,000 people in Mu Zhan.

As soon as Xuzhou was lost, the transportation between the north and the south was cut off, and Mu Zhan and Gestei were the main force of Yue Le's Jiangdong battalion. Yue Le can't fight anymore, and he can't even gain a foothold in Jiangnan and Jiangbei anymore! Unless he can turn himself into a Han and be the second Zhang Shicheng who is entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River. And this is obviously impossible!

This Yue Le is gone. Who will own the southeast?

Now the most powerful in the southeast must be Geng Jingzhong himself, Geng Jingzhong owns the southern Anhui Prefecture in Anhui, several provinces in eastern Fujian, including the provincial capital Fuzhou, and is the largest "lord" in Nanjing, and he is also the king of the east of the Ming Dynasty!

However, Wang Datou is rising very quickly now, and his strength is constantly expanding, which should not be underestimated!

Not to mention his family's strength in Guangdong, this time he fought very well when he sent troops to Jiangbei, not only won most of Huaixi, but also won Xuzhou! Although Huaixi and Xuzhou were shared by him and the king of the north. But Liu Jinzhong doesn't seem to be able to play him, Huaixi now only knows that there is Li Zhongtang, but I don't know that there is Liu Beiwang

"King Dong, my sister-in-law wrote to me, saying that King Liu Bei is not Wang Datou's personality at all, and those group training leaders in Huaixi don't listen to him, so he is ready to ask Wang Datou for Xuzhou as his home, and he doesn't want the plates in Huaidong and Huaixi!"

It was Shang Zhixin who was talking to Geng Jingzhong, and he looked even more anxious than Geng Jingzhong.

Geng Jingzhong is not a big deal without a way out, and he retreats to Fujian to be the king of the east of the separatist side.

And he Shang Zhixin is not so lucky, he is not the prince of the Ming Dynasty. He also did not have a place to stand on his own, although he and his two brothers had several thousand Shang family troops, but the Shang family army's military salary was to be paid by Lu Sanhao, the head of the household department of the Nanjing court.

Originally, his sister-in-law Shang Shuying married Liu Jinzhong, and Liu Jinzhong became the king of the north, so he could support him with Geng Jingzhong. But this Liu Beiwang wants to go to Xuzhou now, and he doesn't care about Nanjing in the future.

If Geng Jingzhong is also gone, what will he do? How can he get his revenge?

Geng Jingzhong glanced at his "good big brother" Shang Zhixin, "I answer the father, what do you think?" ”

Shang Zhixin said: "First of all, we can't let Wang Datou come back!" If he wants to come back, he will definitely take the Huai Army Brigade with him, and when the time comes, do you still want you to speak in Nanjing? I'm afraid you'll have to leave like Liu Jinzhong. But Liu Jinzhong was originally a general town, but now he has a king of the north and makes a lot of money. But you turned out to be the prince."

Geng Jingzhong snorted: "The Son of Heaven has more than one future for me!" ”

"That's right! You can't be a little king! Shang Zhixin said, "So you can't let Wang Datou go back to Nanjing, you have to let him stay in Huaixi temporarily." ”

"How do you keep this?" Geng Jingzhong asked.

"You can show the king to the prison country, the king, the king!"

"A king?" Geng Jingzhong frowned, "Seal him the King of Huai?" ”

"No," Shang Zhixin said, "the King of Huai is too big, and it is easy for the Huai people to misunderstand him as the lord of the two Huai." His father already has two Guang, if he has two more Huai, I'm afraid that the son of heaven will be afraid."

"What kind of king is that?"

"The King!" Geng Jingzhong said, "Seal him a king!" ”

"The King?" Geng Jingzhong was stunned, "Why did you crown the king of Ying?" ”

"Because Britain is in Huainan!"

"Britain in Huainan?" Geng Jingzhong scratched his head, his geography is not bad, but how can he remember that Britain is not in Huainan, but somewhere in the west.

"Historical Records. Xia Benji said: Emperor Yu stood up and raised Gao Tao to recommend it, and was subject to the government, and Gao Tao died, and after sealing Gao Tao, Yu Ying, six. The 'Ying' in this is the United Kingdom, the British were later destroyed by the Chu State, and its place is now called Yingshan County, and the historical Jiujiang King Yingbu is a British-born Chu person. Now the homeland of Britain is controlled by the Jiangxi camp of the Qing court, if Wang Datou becomes the king of England, then he must break the Jiangxi camp and recover the land of Britain!

In addition, if the king becomes the king of England, it will be difficult for him to compete with his brother for the position of the prince of the south again! ”

"I see!" Geng Jingzhong nodded, "Then it makes sense to be the first British king." ”

"Secondly, we have to send troops to break the Jiangnan camp and the Jiangdong camp as soon as possible!" Shang Zhixin said word by word, "Otherwise, this credit has been established by Wang Datou, how can you be the doppelganger of this son of heaven, king?" ”

(End of chapter)