Chapter 170 It’s raining
When this unexpected news came, Fu Youde behaved very calmly.
"My lord, the second young master is dying. He wants to see you." The person who spoke was an old man next to Fu Zheng. He was very affectionate towards Fu Zheng and was unmoved when he saw Fu Youde. The heart is as solid as stone. He couldn't help but say.
Fu Youde was still calm and said, "I know. If he has something to tell me, he can write it down on paper, or tell you and let you relay it to me."
Then he waved his hand and let him go down.
What this person wanted to say was stopped by the guards around him.
Fu Youde's heart was not as indifferent as he imagined.
Fu Youde only has three sons. The eldest son has died, and now the second son is also going to die. The third son was kept as a hostage in the capital and stayed in the Wei Palace. Also the youngest one. Fu Youde never counted on his younger son.
As for the grandchildren, they are still too young.
Can't see anything yet?
That is to say, no matter what the future holds, at this point, the future of the Fu family is probably that of relatives, and there is no need for influence in the military.
After all, everything depends on people to support it.
If Fu Zhong is still alive, the future Fu family can inherit his current position. If Fu Zheng does not die, the Fu family will probably become an important lineage in the army after his death, but now Fu Zheng is no longer there. Fu Youde suddenly thought of Tang He.
Tang He is dead, and no one in the Tang family cares about him now. It's because the Tang family only has one or two young men who have just grown up. How can they support the situation?
The Fu family will probably be like this in the future.
Just rich and idle people.
It's just that no matter how hurt Fu Youde's heart is, he really has nothing to do at this moment and goes to see his son for the last time. Because every minute now determines victory.
Ye Chen can drag it on, but he can't drag it on anymore.
Fu Youde adjusted his mind and returned to the original Gujing Wubo mentality, and followed the army slowly advancing northward. Recently, he could see the military doctor's tent on one side, but he did not stop or ask which tent his second son was in.
"Boom, boom, boom." An explosion sounded several miles away.
It was obvious that the forward had collided with the second direction of the Northern Army.
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From Fu Youde's counterattack to now. Take a quick word. No one expected that Fu Youde performed a magic trick almost overnight. The troops that had been confronting the Northern Army on various fronts suddenly gathered together.
He even abandoned his two wings and rear.
None of this would allow the Northern Army time to react.
Once Ye Chen is given a day, the situation will be completely different.
No matter how many people die, we cannot stop.
Fu Youde wants to be fast, but Ye Chen needs to be slow.
This was the reason why Ye Shen sent cavalry to counterattack, not to rescue the first line of defense, but to build a second line of defense.
Drag it down.
Therefore, the second line of defense was established in a village.
Various buildings and ravines outside the village were used as defenses to resist the attack of the Southern Army. In addition to this, there are some artillery pieces.
This place is no stranger to the Confederate Army, because it was here that the Confederate Army retreated little by little.
Because the two sides were in a stalemate, the Confederate army slowly retreated. Everything here is familiar to the Confederates. The artillery could not keep up with the speed of the army's advance. There were not enough artillery on the first line of defense. Given the surging strength of the Southern Army, some artillery could not play a sufficient role.
However, the second line of defense is different.
With this small village named Qinzhuang as the core, more than a hundred artillery pieces were deployed.
The Confederate army had almost no artillery. Without him, for the sake of speed, it would be impossible for many artillery pieces to follow the army here.
Fu Youde used a telescope to look at the frontline positions and immediately began to attack
, however, the focus of this attack is not Qinzhuang, but both sides of Qinzhuang.
Before this, the battle lines of both sides were relatively separated. Essentially, when the two sides were confronting each other, they found that a strong attack would cause too many casualties and cause too many problems, so they took detours left and right, and the other side would do the same, so the front lines between the two sides became longer and longer.
Fu Youde broke out at the beginning and broke the first line of defense. Just as a gap was opened in the Northern Army's defense line, Ye Chen urgently formed a second line of defense to ensure that the Southern Army could not directly attack Guangwu Town.
What troops can be mobilized?
It is the closest force to withdraw the troops on both sides. Because of the distance, the troops on both sides of the gap were the first to withdraw. As a result, a gap was formed between the army in the distance and the second line of defense.
Fu Youde naturally knew that it was impossible to reach Guangwu Town by using two wings.
After all, Ye Chen had to be on guard against this. But attacking the two wings is to divide the entire Northern Army into three sections, and to block the troops who have withdrawn from the periphery for a while, so that they cannot join the main army in time.
Give Fu Youde more time.
The others were just like before, attacking Qinzhuang at all costs.
Qinzhuang's defense is not too strict. After all, before today, the Northern Army had never thought of having a fierce battle here. Therefore, there was no time to repair the offensive. But the problem is that Qinzhuang has a certain foundation. Some houses can block the fortifications, and fire guns cannot penetrate the rammed earth.
The Confederate offensive was fought very hard.
But at the same time, just as Fu Youde expected, the two wings also cut off the contraction of the Northern Army on both sides.
Both sides were engaged in fierce fighting from three directions.
At this time, the intentions of the representatives of both parties were already clear.
Everyone knows what the other person is going to do.
All that's left is just fighting.
At this time, a new situation occurred.
That means it's raining.
When the heavy rain hit Fu Youde, Fu Youde was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said: "Your Majesty is protected by God, this is God's will. Send the order, the whole army attacks, let the whole army know this."
Although, He Xi gave a lot of advice on the development of firearms. But the problem is that the firearms used now are still black powder. Although the flint is not a match rope and seems to be unaffected by the weather and can continue to fight in the rain, the problem is that many things are probabilistic.
In fact, the ignition rate of flintlock guns is never 100%. Generally speaking, a score of 89 or 9 is considered qualified. After all, whether it started or not, I felt it. If it doesn't start, just give it a few more shots. But in the rain, this probability increases a lot.
More importantly, the Northern Army never thought of fighting here. The gunpowder reserves were not much, not much. There was no time to drain the water. Many are piled in the open air.
Of course, the gunpowder itself is waterproof, and many are wrapped in oil paper.
But how effective is this kind of waterproofing in heavy rain? It's hard to say yet.
Although the Southern Army also faced the same problem, as mentioned before, Fu Youde actually wanted to fight hand-to-hand combat, because in hand-to-hand combat, the Southern Army's local numerical advantage could be maximized, instead of being limited by firepower, which is useless in large numbers. .
Heavy rain cannot completely offset the firepower advantage. But it's enough.
For Fu Youde, isn't this a blessing from God?
Following Fu Youde's order, the morale of the Confederate army increased significantly. Moreover, the heavy rain also reduced visibility, giving the Confederate soldiers more cover when they charged forward. A lot of casualties were reduced.
Suddenly the pressure on Qinzhuang increased greatly.
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Ye Chen looked at the heavy rain outside the window and listened to the sound of artillery not far away.
The sound of this artillery piece is much rarer.
Although the artillery can be fired in the rain, it still requires a lot of extra steps. Ye Chen also understood how detrimental this heavy rain was to them.
In fact, Ye Chen also knew that it was normal to rain nowadays.
On the Yellow River
It rains all the time, the Yellow River is swollen, and the flood season has arrived. Raining in the Yellow River Basin is normal, and not raining is abnormal. But this heavy rain came at the wrong time.
A few days earlier and a few days later, the situation is very different.
This made Ye Chen have to have a special thought, that is, he felt that he was far inferior to Fu Youde in some places, such as predicting the weather. Did Fu Youde have predicted the arrival of the heavy rain in advance and chose this time? ?
