scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 259 Resolution Breakthrough
"Wu Sangui old thief! You shameless old bastard! Immortal old fox! I'll fuck your eighteen generations of ancestors——!"

After reading the letters of the Wu army brought by the Qing army prisoners of war into Jingzhou City, our Prince Heshuo Jianchun, Prince Labra, almost collapsed on the ground, tearing up the letters of the traitor Wu old traitor three times, while beating his chest and swearing, "Immortal old thing! Shameless old slick! A traitor who deserves death! Thief! One day, this king will definitely cut you into pieces! Cut into pieces—!"

"My lord, please calm down, my lord, please calm my anger first." Tu Hai and Shang Shan held Prince Jian together, and asked nervously, "My lord, what exactly did Wu Gou say in the letter?"

"You don't know how to read it yourself?" Prince Jian handed over the letter furiously, only to realize that the letter had been torn into pieces in his anger, so he had no choice but to introduce: "Wu Gou informed our army in the letter, It is said that the Wanwan embankment was severely damaged by Xu Zhidu, and they were unable to rush to repair it. It is expected that the embankment will collapse on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. They informed our army out of compassion and let us prepare and find our own way out. "

"The Wandi was seriously damaged by Xu Zhidu? Wugou is unable to rush to repair it? It is expected to collapse on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month?" Tu Hai, Chani, Shang Shan and Zhun Da and other generals of the Mite Qing who were present were all stunned and said. Who would have imagined that there would be such a shameless excuse for digging dikes in the world. It was obviously Wu Jun who planned to dig dikes and flood the city, but he even pushed all the responsibility on the Qing army, insisting that it was the result of the Qing army?Immediately afterwards, Tuhai, Chani and the others naturally had to yell, scolding old traitor Wu until his head was bloody and his body was bruised.

No matter how much you scold, it's useless. The old traitor Wu can't hear it, and it's even more impossible to scold the old traitor Wu. So after cursing his voice dry, the Qing army coaches such as Labu and Tuhai quickly started His eyes widened and his eyes widened, and there was only one thought left in his mind—whether the despicable, shameless and insane old traitor Wu would really dig up the embankment of thousands of people and flood the Qing army in Jingzhou and the Han people in the whole city of Jingzhou? ?What should we do if the old traitor Wu really digs the embankment?
"Uncle, let's break through quickly." Shang Shan, who was the least courageous, was the first to break down, and first proposed: "There is still some time, let's break through quickly, otherwise, we will have no place to run."

"Can't break through!" Tu Hai objected again, "Wu Gou sent prisoners to send a letter into the city, making it clear that he wanted to force us to break through, so they could take the opportunity to kill us all in the field."

"Then shall we stay in Jingzhou City and wait to die?" Shang Shan, who had been displeased with Tu Hai for a long time, finally yelled unbearably, and roared with red eyes: "Wu Gou has directly stated that he is going to dig a dike, why don't you Don't let you break through, you want to kill the [-] troops in Jingzhou City?!"

"Brother Shang, please calm down." Chani, who has a very good friendship with Tu Hai, pulled Shang Shan back and said, "My little brother thinks what Tu Hai said is reasonable. If Wu Gou really plans to dig a dike, just dig it, why bother?" What a waste of time? Deliberately report to us, so that we have a chance to break out and escape? So my younger brother thinks that there is something suspicious about Wu Gou digging the embankment."

"My lord, do you think the situation is like this?" Bei Zi Zhunda, who had the lowest title present, said with great insight: "Could it be that the old thief Wu Sangui didn't want to dig dikes at will, and didn't want to pay a lot of money in the battle?" Loss, that's why you deliberately threatened to dig dikes? If our army is forced to break out of Jingzhou because of fear of floods, then the old thief Wu Sangui can not only get Jingzhou, but also take the opportunity to severely damage our army in the field. If our army refuses to break through, then the twelfth lunar month On the eighth day of the lunar new year, Wu Gou really dug the embankment, and let the barbarians in Jingzhou City die with us."

"Zhun Beizi is right, this is the biggest possibility." La Bu nodded quickly, and agreed: "The old thief Wu Sangui wanted to annihilate our army, but also feared that he would get the bad name of destroying embankments and harming the people, so he deliberately released rumors to intimidate our army. If our army gives up Jingzhou to break through, he will naturally fulfill his wish. If our army does not break through, then the old thief Wu Sangui can say that he is benevolent and righteous, dig dikes and flood the city to wipe out our army, and then blame Xu Zhidu. It must be the levee that Xu Zhidu blew up and collapsed."

"That's right, Zhun Beizi is right, Wu Gou must have this plan." Chani also nodded in agreement with this point of view.

"I also agree with this view." Shang Shan nodded vigorously, and urged: "My lord, make up your mind, when will you break through? I'm afraid it will be too late!"

"Not necessarily!" Tu Hai vetoed it again, and said decisively: "In my opinion, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Wu Gou may not really dare to dig dikes. Jingzhou still has the value of sticking to it!"

"Then you defend yourself, and we break through!" Shang Shan yelled again, "You take your headquarters to defend Jingzhou, and we break through by ourselves, and see who is wiped out and who keeps the vitality for the Qing Dynasty!"

Tu Hai didn't dare to say anything. First, Shang Shan's title and bloodline were beyond his reach. Second, he only had less than [-] Huguang defeated soldiers in his hands. He stood alone in Jingzhou, basically waiting for the wolf-like Wu Jun. Killed his entire army.Fortunately, Prince Jian Chun, who had the highest title and official position present, was quite calm, and advised in time: "Chambelle, you have something to say, don't miss our army's plan for a moment of anger."

"Uncle, it's not that my nephew wants to fight against him, but my nephew is also thinking about the Qing Dynasty!" Shangshan shouted angrily: "Now there is only our last army in Huguang. If the [-] army is here again If Jingzhou is lost, the whole of Huguang will be over! If Huguang is over again, Wugou will take the opportunity to go north, and our main force in Shaanxi and Gansu will be caught by Wugou! And Henan, Shanxi and Anhui will also be exposed to Wugou's iron hooves everywhere It's down!"

La Bu kept silent, and after a long time of nervous calculation, La Bu gritted his teeth and said, "For the sake of the country and society of the Qing Dynasty, we have to make two-handed preparations. Shangbeile, Zabel and Zhunbeizi, you three, start to arrange the layout from now on." To prepare for the breakout, the army prepared dry food for ten days, stacked firewood in the granary and arsenal, and prepared kerosene. When the king gave an order, the whole army immediately broke through, burned the granary and arsenal, and left no food, grass, and luggage for Wu Dog! "

"Zha." Shang Shan, Chani and Zhun Da agreed together, while Tu Hai exclaimed, "My lord, I can't, Wu Gou may not dare to dig dikes! Jingzhou still has..."

"Tutang, listen to what I have to say." La Bu interrupted Tuhai's exclamation, and said in a deep voice, "I still have a second preparation. It's noon on the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month. I will give you two One day, before noon on the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, no matter what method you use, you have to confirm to the king whether Wu Gou really intends to dig the embankment! If you can prove that Wu Gou really did not dare to dig the embankment, the king will naturally not do it at will. Abandon Jingzhou, but if you can't prove it, then this king can only order to break through for the sake of the lives of the soldiers of the [-] army."

"Let me prove whether Wu Dog really intends to dig the embankment?" Tu Hai was a little dumbfounded, thinking that I couldn't ask the old thief Wu Sangui personally whether he would dig the embankment or not, right?But La Bu had already spoken to this point, and Tu Hai could only bite the bullet and said: "The slave will do his best, but the slave feels that the possibility of Wu Dog digging the embankment and flooding the city is really very small."

"I don't want your opinion, I just want your evidence!" Rabu replied coldly: "If the king listens to your opinion, but your opinion turns out to be wrong, then even if the king has a hundred heads, he will not be able to prove it." Not enough for the master to chop off."

"Zha." Tuhai agreed helplessly.After a moment of nervous calculation, Tuhai suggested: "My lord, then I suggest that our army should send more scouts out of the city to investigate the situation around Jingzhou at any cost. In addition, send another elite soldier to Wanwandi to investigate the scene Condition."

"Yes." La Bu nodded, and ordered: "The scout king will immediately send elite soldiers to Wandi to investigate the situation on the scene. They will be drawn from your Huguang army. You can arrange it yourself."

"Zha." Tu Hai had no choice but to agree again, and asked his deputy Chani to go to the Huguang army to select [-] elite cavalry, led by Mu Zhan, the fierce general he rescued from the Anshun battlefield, to go to the Wandi to reconnaissance the scene by force.At the same time, for the sake of caution, Tu Hai decided to go to Wandi to investigate in person, but Tu Hai had already broken a thigh, so the cavalry of the Qing army could only be handed over to Mu Zhan to command the battle.

After the preparations were completed, it was about noon, and the west gate of Jingzhou, which had been closed for a long time, finally opened. Tu Hai and Mu Zhan led two thousand elite cavalry out of the city at the same time. The scout team personally arranged by Labu also took the opportunity to leave the city, quickly dispersed in a team of ten people, and rushed to the villages and towns around Jingjiang to scout the situation.

Because the camp of the Wu Army has been moved to Duijintai, which is far away from Jingzhou City, and there are only a small number of troops outside the city to monitor the situation in the city, the cavalry of Tu Hai and Mu Zhan broke through the blocking of the Wu Army without much effort, and they flew away. Generally, they were killed under the Wandi Dam eight miles away.However, what made Tuhai and Mu Zhan angry was that Wu Jun seemed to have expected that the Qing army would attack the Wanwan Dike, and had already deployed two elite cavalry on the Wanwan Dike, and the Qing cavalry had just approached Wan Wan A total of [-] cavalrymen from Gao Dejie and Tao Jizhi of the Wu army on the half-waist of the embankment and the embankment immediately dispatched to attack the Qing army cavalry condescendingly, and tried their best to prevent the Qing army cavalry from going up the embankment.

This is the most authentic cavalry battle. General Mu Zhan of the Qing army and generals Gao Dejie and Tao Jizhi of the Wu army are both world-class cavalry fighters. When they collided head-on under the open embankment of thousands of people, they naturally broke out. An earth-shattering cavalry battle.Gao Dejie, who is good at charging, made his headquarters form a conical formation to charge directly. With red eyes, he inserted straight into the middle of the front of the Qing army's cavalry team, intending to cut the Qing army's team in two.Tao Jizhi commanded his team to circle around the Qing army extremely cunningly, and kept shooting the outer cavalry of the Qing army with bows, arrows and muskets, inducing the Qing army to divide its troops.However, Mu Zhan knew very well that his own army had few soldiers, and that if he divided his troops to meet him, he would be seeking his own death, so he strictly ordered the Qing army cavalry not to disperse. As a group, they used bows, arrows and muskets to attack Wu Jun Tao Jizhi's troops, and at the same time blocked them with a dense array of sabers. Gao Dejie's charging momentum, the snow and dust covered the sky on the battlefield, the sound of horseshoes, shouts of killing, the sound of arrows piercing the air and the sound of muskets complement each other, which is deafening.

From ancient times to the present, among the armies attacking from south to north, probably only the traitor Wu’s Yunnan-Guizhou army has the most cavalry. There are two important reasons for this. One is that the Wu army already had war horses from the Qing court Supply, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan both produce war horses. At the same time, the old traitor Wu has a very good relationship with the Fifth Harmonious Lama of Tibet. He can obtain Tibetan horses from the Fifth Harmonious Lama through trade means, and control the horses produced in Shaanxi and Gansu. Because of the secret supply of Wang Fuchen in the district, the main force of the Wu army is actually quite abundant in horse equipment.

The second is the soldiers who control the horses. The old traitor Wu himself was a first-class cavalry general in the Ming army. Naturally, it was almost there, and finally, the military training of the descendants of the Wu army who conquered Shuixi Nashexiang every year, and their combat experience is even higher than that of the current Eight Banners cavalry of the Qing army. Not suffering the slightest loss, it can even be said to have a little advantage.

The talk is far away, let’s get down to business, on the battlefield under the dike, there are swords, lights and swords, bows and bullets come and go like locusts, and the sound of shouts and horseshoes makes the ground tremble slightly, but Tu Hai, who is surrounded by the Qing army in the middle of the army, has no time to take care of it. In the situation on the battlefield, a pair of sharp small eyes like eagles and falcons just quickly and carefully scanned the various situations on the Wanwan embankment through the high-grade telescope of the Western Tribute, patiently looking for various clues, so as to judge whether the Wu army Really going to dig a dike.

Soon, Tu Hai's heart was in his throat. It was too obvious that Wu Jun was going to blow up the embankment and flood the city. Hoe tools, as well as the gunpowder barrels piled up into mountains that were closely guarded by Wu army infantry, and there are even more than [-] large water tanks. Tu Hai is a smart person, so naturally he immediately understood the purpose of these water tanks——put the explosives Put it in a cylinder, bury it in the embankment and detonate it!

"Don't be afraid, Wu Gou will definitely not dare to blow up the embankment, definitely not." Consoling himself secretly, Tu Hai put down the binoculars, rubbed his dizzy eyes, and cheered himself up again, then raised the binoculars again Use the mirror to observe the scene on the embankment.Soon, the flag of the infantry commander of the Wu army on the embankment fell into Tu Hai's eyes again. When he accidentally glanced at the big characters on the flag, Tu Hai's heart fell in his throat, but it didn't fall back into his stomach. , but fell into the bottomless abyss, because on that big flag - there is a word 'Lu'!

"Lu Yifeng?!" Tuhai's face, which still had scars, turned pale, and his broken leg, which had already healed, began to ache faintly, and there was only one thought left in his mind, "Wu Gou must be going to blow up the embankment! This shameless Fatty Lu has a heart that is a hundred times more vicious than the old thief Wu Sangui! With his vicious and shameless character, he will never miss the opportunity to wipe out our Qing army!"

"Tutang, reinforcements are coming from the Wugou camp!" The frenzied screams of the soldiers pulled Tuhai back from his despair. Tuhai put down the binoculars and looked north. A black army was killed, and on the battlefield under the dike, although Mu Zhan's cavalry could still hold on, there were hundreds of corpses lying on the snow-capped land, and the casualties were not small.Tu Hai made a decisive decision and immediately shouted: "Go and send an order to Mu Zhan, don't rush to the embankment, the whole army returns to the city, don't give Wu Dog a chance to surround us!"

The order was conveyed, and the cavalry of the Qing army who could not reach the embankment turned around quickly, surrounded Tu Hai and retreated back to the city with all their strength, while the two cavalry of Gao Dejie and Tao Jizhi pursued closely, desperately hacking and shooting the Qing army cavalry who were alone, The troops of the Wu army coming from the north were divided into two groups, going south all the way to block the return of the Qing army cavalry, and all the way turned to the east, forming an array on the road that the Qing army cavalry must pass back to the city.The cavalry of the Qing army led by Mu Zhan had no intention of fighting, but retreated desperately on horseback, competing with the infantry of the Wu army from the north.

The four legs of a war horse can still run faster than the two legs of a human. The two intercepting teams of the Wu army's infantry only attacked the flanks of the Qing army's cavalry, but failed to reach the front in time to block the Qing army's way back to the city. Zhan and Tuhai's cavalry finally retreated to the artillery cover of Jingzhou city defenders before the Wu army encircled them, forcing the unprepared Wu army to stop their pursuit.Even so, less than two-thirds of the [-] cavalry that Tu Hai and Mu Zhan brought out of Jingzhou City fled back to Jingzhou City, and the rest were all killed. Hacked to death without leaving a single prisoner.

Fleeing back to Jingzhou City, he had just been helped off his horse by his own soldiers, and before Tuhai, who was out of breath, could catch his breath, Labu, Chani, and Zhunda greeted him, and they couldn't wait to ask : "How is the situation on the Wanwan Dike? Does Wu Gou have any plans to destroy the embankment?"

Tu Hai was silent, just panting continuously, until La Bu asked again and again, Tu Hai said in a hoarse voice: "Wu Gou is at least [-]% likely to blow up the embankment."

"Why?" Labu asked persistently, "Why is Tutang so confident?"

"Because the general Wugou who commanded the bombing of the embankment was the same Lu Yifeng and Fatty Lu who ruined my family." Tuhai said in an extremely bitter voice, "This Wugou's heart is far more vicious than Wu Sangui's." The old thief is a hundredfold, he only seeks the end in doing things, and never uses any means - the servant even dares to bet his head that the first Wu dog who proposed to the old thief Wu Sangui to blow up the embankment and flood the city is definitely this Lu Yifeng with a heart like a snake, a scorpion and a jackal! "

This time it was finally Labu and Chani's turn to stop talking, but Zhunda, who had never been fooled before, was extremely surprised and couldn't help asking: "Tutang, Lord La, Zabeile, why are you all so afraid of this?" Lu Yifeng barbarian? When I was in the capital, didn’t I hear that he had a nickname called Lu San? Why do you say good things and do good deeds with good intentions? Why do you still describe him like that?”

"Lu Sanhao? Bah! Shit!" Labu, Chani and Tuhai all spat at the same time. Tuhai pointed to his broken leg and said with red eyes, "Look, my son, this broken leg of the slave The leg was broken by that Lu Yifeng! The slave had never provoked him before that, and he even fabricated perjury, so that the slave, my family was ruined, and my wife and children were separated!"

"Our Wuchang city and Hanyang city were all taken by that Wu dog who gave the old thief Wu Sangui a bad idea!" Chani also roared angrily: "That shameless barbarian let the Wu dog elite pretend to be ours!" He can figure out such a shameless trick for a prisoner of war to attack Hanyang City, and you still call him Lu Sanhao?!"

"The biggest loss for our Qing elite was the Bajiang War in Guizhou." Labu said bitterly, "That time, it was this cruel Lu Yifeng dog barbarian who pretended to be our defeated army and succeeded in attacking Bajiang City and cut off the battle. There are tens of thousands of Eight Banners athletes who died directly or indirectly in his hands on the road of the main force of the Qing Dynasty! Prince Kang, Prince Shun, Prince An, and Prince Pingnan, none of them did not hate him to the bone! "

Zhun Da was dumbfounded, and he said after a while: "So, the old thief Wu Sangui sent him to Wanwan Dike, is he determined to blow up the embankment and flood the city?"

Tuhai, Labu and Tsani did not speak, and nodded together after a long while, expressing their agreement with this point of view.

Although Fatty Lu himself did not expect that because of his appearance on the embankment of thousands of people, the commanders of the Qing army would unanimously believe that the Wu army would blow up the embankment and flood the city in all likelihood, but in the end, the decision-makers of the Qing army made up their minds to abandon Jingzhou. , or the return of the scouts sent by the Qing army to scout the surrounding area-after the Qing army scouts paid a heavy price after the Wu army intercepted and killed them with all their strength, they discovered that the Wu army had sent a large number of cavalry to Shashi, Jiaodian, Haoxuekou and Jingzhou City. In the Longwan area, the local people were ordered to move to high ground to avoid the coming torrential flood.But when things got to this point, even the most treacherous and cunning Tuhai no longer insisted on continuing to stick to Jingzhou, but instead supported looking for opportunities to break through and preserve vitality for the main force of the Qing army.

Without Tu Hai's objection, the proposal to abandon the city and break through the encirclement was finally passed unanimously by the decision-makers of the Qing army. However, when choosing the breakout time, Tu Hai disagreed with everyone's opinions. Breaking out on the night of the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the reason was that the Wu army was about to blow up the embankment and would definitely transfer all the troops to the high ground. At this time, the breakout of the siege avoided the Wu army's blocking as much as possible and minimized the loss of the army.However, Tuhai is the opposite, tending to break through overnight on the sixth night of the twelfth lunar month.

"My lord, please think about it carefully." In order to persuade La Bu, Tu Hai analyzed patiently: "If you are Wu Sangui's old thief, when do you think we are most likely to break through? It must be the night of the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month! Because Wu Gou had declared in advance that he would blow up the embankment on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, it is logically inferred that we will have the greatest chance of breaking through on the last night, so on the seventh night of the twelfth lunar month, Wu Gou must be on strict precautions and be ready. When our army breaks through the encirclement, we must immediately send troops to stop it. Only on the night of the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, because there is still one day and one night left, Wu Gou expected that our army would have to make a desperate struggle. It is most beneficial for our army to break through at night."

Tu Hai's analysis is very reasonable, including Shang Shan, who is at odds with Tu Hai, did not express any objection, and La Bu quickly nodded, saying: "Then break out tomorrow night, the night of the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, but we will break out in that direction What? The Jingmen in the north has been sacrificed to Wu Gou by Yang Jintai, and there is also the natural danger of Huya Pass, so we must not go there. Should we go to Yiling City in the west? Or go to Anlu Mansion in the northeast? "

"Yi Mausoleum in the west!" Tu Hai was the first to answer.

"Anlu in the northeast!" Chani, Shang Shan and Zhun Da replied in unison.

"Why is there another disagreement?" Labra's expression grew.

(End of this chapter)