"Failed! Defeated and the Qing Dynasty was defeated!"
On the battlefield on the north bank of Suishui River, a huge shouting sound like a mountain roaring and a tsunami suddenly sounded. It was panic-stricken and heartbreaking. It swept across Suishui River and reached the ears of the Eight Banners soldiers in Fuliji City!
Guarjia Ges, the deputy general manager of the Jiangxi camp of the Qing Dynasty, who once followed the three brothers Dorgon, Duduo, and Azig on their expeditions to the east and west, and personally experienced the last wave of battles to destroy the Ming Dynasty and the Shun Dynasty. When Mr. Tiger looked out, what he saw was suffocating despair.
He was standing on the city wall to the north of Fuliji at this time. Looking to the left was the inside of Fuliji City. Although the Ming army had firmly occupied the huge gap, there were Huaixi warriors wrapped in red scarves and holding long spears and simple knives. They are pouring in like a tide, but the Eight Banners soldiers in the city are still trying to resist.
Looking to the right, it was a scene of the entire army collapsing that shocked Gerstad!
How this collapse happened, Gestei still hasn't figured it out yet. Anyway, just when he was about to go down to the city to organize troops to resist, a Goshiha next to him suddenly told him that a group of green battalion soldiers led by General Mu outside the city collapsed. .
Gerstad was shocked when he heard this, and quickly turned his head to look. At first glance, it was as if he had been hit by a immobilization spell, motionless. Then he saw several Qing army formations that were still in good condition and "seeing thieves" one after another. And collapsed". Yes, it means "seeing the thieves collapse." Before the rebels on the north bank of Suishui River outside the city even launched a charge, a green camp phalanx of three to four thousand people collapsed inexplicably!
What surprised Geste even more was that after the Green Camp phalanx collapsed, the Green Camp soldiers did not flee in all directions. Instead, they lost their weapons and ran towards the several Ming Army cavalry groups that were facing them. Then most of them Became a prisoner.
Running away when you see a thief becomes surrendering when you see a thief!
The other four phalanxes composed of the flag troops and green camp soldiers from Jiangdong Camp not only did not send troops to prevent the phalanx of green camp soldiers from defecting, but they also began to flee northward at the same time as they defected!
Seeing this scene, Geste, who had been in the army since he was young and had experienced dozens of battles, was confused. Not to mention that this kind of thing had never happened in the Qing army, not even in the Ming army that was destroyed before. At least Gestei didn't know about it.
No matter how hard the Ming army tried in those days, the most they could do was run away or surrender to the enemy.
Now the Qing soldiers actually surrendered and fled at the same time!
In the end what happened?
Why did those who surrendered to the enemy surrender and those who fled ran away?
Could it be that Xuzhou was conquered by Wang Datou? Or was Xi'an broken by Wu Sangui's men, and the little emperor died for his country? Has Beijing even been broken by Wu Sangui’s Northern Expedition?
The more Gerste thought about it, the more frightened he became. He was numb with fright and just stood there frozen. However, he did not stand still for too long, because a large number of Ming troops carrying flintlock guns with bayonets had already rushed to Fuliji's city wall, and beat the Qing troops guarding the city wall to retreat. Seeing that the Ming Army musketeers, who were stabbing people with bayonets and "wounding people with hidden guns", were about to rush to Gestei, Gestei's Goshha quickly carried him and ran under the city wall.
And when Gerstad was escorted by his men and ran outside his temporary official office, the place was already in a dangerous and tragic situation. His official office is located in the center of Fuliji, with a crossroads just outside (there are only two streets in Fuliji). He arrived in front of him, but before he could enter the official office to take a breath and drink a bowl of ginseng soup to cheer him up, he was defeated. The Qing army retreated in waves of people from three directions: the west gate, the north gate, and the south gate.
These Eight Banners soldiers were really hopeless, crying as loudly as they could while running away!
"The city is broken, the city is broken"
"The traitor is powerful, run away quickly!"
"There are too many traitors, run away!"
I was speechless when I ran into Geste. These Eight Banners soldiers have been training for two or three years. Why are they still like this? Still running? What are you running for? The horse has been eaten, can it still run? Can you run better with two legs than someone with four? Alas, even if the Huaixi rebels don't ride horses, the Eight Banners disciples from Beijing can't compete with them in running! There are frequent floods here in Huaixi, and even those who run slowly are drowned, but anyone who can survive to this day can still run!
Moreover, the four gates of Fuliji's southeast, northwest and north had been blocked. The Ming army used artillery to open a gap before rushing in. How could the Eight Banners soldiers in the city escape? Leaving the city? Or jump directly from the two-foot-high city wall? Aren't you afraid of breaking your leg?
Thinking of this, Geste quickly shouted: "Don't run and fight with them! Come on, stop them!"
No one agreed!
Geste looked around and realized that his Goshiha had already run away!
He had no choice but to rush into his office to shake people off, but when he rushed in, he found that there was no one inside. The Goshiha and the secretaries, and even his own Sula slaves, all ran away. Gone, he is now a bare leader!
Gerstad had no choice but to find a piece of cloth-covered iron armor and put it on him casually. He picked up a simple knife and rushed out of the official office alone. As soon as he went out, he saw a group of "red scarf" men holding knives and guns. "Army" was chasing a few Eight Banners soldiers who had probably suffered gunshot wounds and their clothes and armor were stained red with blood. They were shouting while chasing.
"Hurry up and hand over your head!"
"You can't run away, just accept death!"
"I only want your heads."
This head can be exchanged for "New Daming Option"! As many Tatar heads are cut off as many "options" will be issued. When the Restoration Conference is over and the New Ming Dynasty officially opens, the "options" will be turned into shares, and the children and grandchildren will have a good life.
Seeing his subordinates being bullied like this, Geste couldn't bear it any longer. He waved his sword and shouted, "Here is Geste!" and pounced on him like an old tiger.
His yelling immediately got him into trouble. When several "Red Scarf Army" men saw his demeanor, they knew he was a high-ranking official - the head of a high-ranking official is worth a lot of money! So they turned around and charged at him, slapping three or four spears at him and stabbing at him. There were two others carrying simple knives who were looking for an opportunity to make a dirty move. With so many people bullying an old man, he really has no martial ethics!
The old Tatar Gestei is really old. His strength and reflexes are not as good as when he was young. When he was besieged by five or six people, he had no power to fight back. He blocked it, and without paying attention, someone slashed him on the shoulder. Although the blade was blocked by the cloth-covered iron armor, the heavy blow still made his shoulder sore and painful, and he lost all strength for a moment. Now he couldn't resist the three or four spears. One of them flew down and hit him squarely on the forehead wearing a gun helmet. His vision went dark and he lost consciousness and of course his head!
A "Red Scarf Army" took advantage of his unconsciousness and chopped off his head with an axe!
At the same time that Gestei was beheaded alive, the Eight Banners soldiers in Fuliji City were completely defeated. Under the impact of the overwhelming number of Ming troops, they completely lost their organization and fell into panic, like headless flies. They were driven to the east gate of Fuliji. Because the east gate had long been blocked and they couldn't get out, they had no choice but to rush up the city wall and jump down again.
A city wall two feet high!
It’s equivalent to standing on a three-story building and jumping down! Although there is relatively soft mud below, but at this height, if there is no good one, it will completely become a military achievement "to be picked up"!
Even if the jump is completed, there is not much chance to escape, because there is a camp head from Dingyuan County outside the city. They are all composed of children surnamed Xu, Qi, and Li. It is said that they are all descendants of heroes of the Ming Dynasty anyway. Today we are blessed by our ancestors, and there is smoke coming out of our ancestors’ graves!
The credit actually fell from the city wall more than two feet high, so what are you waiting for? If we don't grab this, the ancestors below will be anxious to death, but they are anxious to survive!
These more than a thousand Huai soldiers were as brave as more than a thousand evil tigers, rushing to chop off people's heads.
And the Huai army in Fuliji City was also anxious for credit. How could they commit suicide by jumping over the wall? Even if you want to commit suicide, if you jump in or out, your heads will be cut off by people outside.
At the thought of their heads running away, this group of Huaixi soldiers also started beating and charging like crazy! Some people also found long ladders and attacked the city from the inside. Some shotgun soldiers even ignored the arrows fired by the Qing soldiers and went directly to the bottom of the city wall to shoot!
The bloody battle continued like this for two or three hours, until there was no more headed Eight Banners soldiers inside or outside Fuliji City. In the battle of Fuliji, nearly 10,000 people were beheaded!
While the bloody battle in Fuliji was going on, a pursuit battle in which you chased me away was also going on on the north bank of Suishui River.
Mu Zhan's reaction was quite quick, and he immediately issued the order to disband the phalanx and retreat the entire army. Because he knew that there was no hope for this battle!
Xuzhou is lost!
Defected in front of the Xuzhou Green Camp!
Fuliji was surrounded by groups, and there was Suishui between Mu Zhan's headquarters and Fuliji. The two armies could see but couldn't reach them, so they had no choice but to retreat.
But even if we retreat, only God knows how many will survive in the end!
Because most of Mu Zhan's troops were infantry without horses, while thousands of the enemies around them were cavalry with horses. The infantry who broke up and fled were prey to these cavalry.
Of course, even if you don’t run, it won’t work. Because of the defection of Xuzhou Green Camp, others also knew that Xuzhou had lost its way back, and the number of enemies was large, as well as a large number of cavalry. Judging from their bombardment of Fuliji, there were also many artillery pieces, so there should be some that could still fight. A red cannon with twelve kilograms of projectiles!
If you don't run away quickly, your entire army will be wiped out!
And how many can be lost by running?
At this time, Mu Zhan, who was riding on a horse, was protected by a group of officers and soldiers who fled on horseback without his subordinates. Goshha quickly evacuated the battlefield. Mu Zhan's heart felt like death.
The Qing Dynasty is coming to an end!
Nanjing, Dongwangfu.
The Eastern King Geng Jingzhong has also realized that he is going to win and win the battle to defend Nanjing!
Because the Qing army's attacks outside the city had become weaker and weaker during this period, they had given up attacking Yuhuatai and Xiaolingwei a few days ago. After many days of fierce fighting, the city of Nanjing suddenly became very quiet.
However, Geng Jingzhong's mood did not improve because victory was in sight. He was worried about winning!
Can you not worry?
Can he win the battle to defend Nanjing this time? It seems impossible, right? Although he has always led troops to guard the walls of Nanjing's inner city, the battles of Yuhuatai and Xiaolingwei were fought by Lu Sanhao's army.
In addition, Chen Yonghua's navy also fought several good battles on the Yangtze River waterway north of Nanjing, sinking and capturing hundreds of Shi Lang's warships.
The greatest victory came from Wang Datou's Northern Expedition!
The Northern Expeditionary Army captured Xuzhou, surrounded Gestei's 18,000-banner cavalry in Fuliji, and put under surveillance more than 20,000 people in Mu Zhan. The military report had already been sent to Nanjing.
Once Xuzhou was lost, water transportation between the north and the south was cut off, and Mu Zhan and Gestei's troops were the main force of Yue Le's Jiangdong camp. Yue Le could no longer fight, and he could not even fight in Jiangnan and Jiangdong. Jiangbei has established a foothold! Unless he can turn himself into a Han Chinese and be second to Zhang Shicheng who lives in Jiangnan. And this is obviously impossible!
Once Yue Le leaves, who will own the southeast?
Now the most powerful person in the southeast is definitely Geng Jingzhong himself. Geng Jingzhong owns the Wannan Prefecture in Anhui and several prefectures in eastern Fujian, including the provincial capital Fuzhou. He is also the largest "lord" in Nanjing, and he is also the Eastern King of the Ming Dynasty!
However, Wang Datou is rising rapidly now, and his strength continues to expand, so he should not be underestimated!
Not to mention his family's strength in Guangdong, this time he sent troops to Jiangbei and fought very well. Not only did he capture most of Huaixi, but also Xuzhou! Although Huaixi and Xuzhou were shared by him and the Northern King. But Liu Jinzhong seems to be unable to defeat him. Huaixi now only knows Li Zhongtang, not Liu Beiwang
"Dong Wang, my sister wrote a letter saying that King Liu Bei is not at all like Wang Datou. The leaders of the regiments in Huaixi didn't listen to him, so he is going to ask Wang Datou for Xuzhou as his home, Huaidong and Huaixi plates. He doesn’t want it anymore!”
The person talking to Geng Jingzhong was Shang Zhixin, who looked even more anxious than Geng Jingzhong.
It is not that Geng Jingzhong has no way out. The worst he can do is to return to Fujian and become the Eastern King of a separatist regime.
Shang Zhixin was not so lucky. He was not a prince of the Ming Dynasty. He also had no territory to stand on his own. Although he and his two brothers had thousands of Shang Jiajun, the pay of the Shang Jiajun was higher than that of the Nanjing court. Lu Sanhao, Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, came out.
Originally, his sister Shang Shuying married Liu Jinzhong, and Liu Jinzhong became the King of the North, so he could support him with Geng Jingzhong. But this King Liu Bei wants to go to Xuzhou now and will not care about Nanjing in the future.
If Geng Jingzhong also leaves, what will he do? How to avenge his great revenge?
Geng Jingzhong glanced at his "good big brother" Shang Zhixin and said, "I'll tell you, what do you think?"
Shang Zhixin said: "First of all, we can't let Wang Datou come back! If he comes back, he will definitely bring the Huai Army Brigade. Will Nanjing still want you to speak to him? I'm afraid you will have to leave like Liu Jinzhong. But Liu Jinzhong was originally We have a general town, and now we have a Northern King, making a lot of money. But you are the prince."
Geng Jingzhong snorted: "I have more than one king in my future!"
"Yes! You can't just be a little king with peace of mind!" Shang Zhixin said, "So you can't let Wang Datou go back to Nanjing. You have to let him stay in Huaixi temporarily."
"How can I keep this?" Geng Jingzhong asked.
"You can report to the prison country that the king is the first king!"
"A king?" Geng Jingzhong frowned, "Make him the King of Huai?"
"No need," Shang Zhixin said, "The King of Huai is too big, and it is easy for the Huai people to misunderstand him and think of him as the lord of the two Huais. His father already has two Huais. If he has two more Huais, the emperor will be afraid."
"What kind of king can you make?"
"King of England!" Geng Jingzhong said, "make him a King of England!"
"King of England?" Geng Jingzhong was stunned, "Why are you crowned King of England?"
"Because Britain is in Huainan!"
"The British are in Huainan?" Geng Jingzhong scratched his head. His geography was not bad, but he remembered that the British were not in Huainan, but somewhere to the west.
""Historical Records. was destroyed, and the area is now called Yingshan County. Historically, Wang Yingbu of Jiujiang was a British Chu native. Now the British homeland is controlled by the Jiangxi camp of the Qing court. If Wang Datou becomes the king of England, then he We must break the Jiangxi camp and regain the British land!
In addition, if Prince Datou becomes the King of England, it will be difficult for him to compete with his elder brother for the throne of the Southern Prince! "
"I see!" Geng Jingzhong nodded, "Then it makes sense for a British king to be the king."
"Secondly, we must send troops to break the Jiangnan Camp and Jiangdong Camp as soon as possible!" Shang Zhixin said every word, "Otherwise, Wang Datou will take all the credit for this, so how can you, Your Majesty, be considered the Emperor's clone?"
(End of chapter)
