Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

On the official road from Jiande to Xiangkou Town, a brigade of cavalry is galloping.The knights on horseback were all sweaty and covered with dust.Ma Yaozi Wang Fuchen was in the middle of the team, his face was as sinking as water, and he showed no expression at all. He just gritted his teeth and hurried on, whipping the walking horse under him non-stop.

After Wang Fuchen made up his mind to fight Zhu Heqi to the death early this morning, he went all out to fight.So he handed over all the infantry of the Zhengbai Banner New Army to Fei Yanggu, and led the cavalry to march in a hurry!

It is a total of fifty or sixty miles from Jiande to Xiangkou Town. If the infantry marched with artillery, it would take half a day to go faster.When we get to the place, we have to make arrangements, or we may have to fight night battles.

Wang Fuchen is not sure that Zhao Liangdong can carry it until then!

So he led the [-] elite cavalry of the Zhengbai Banner New Army ahead, and he had already reached the intersection south of Xiangkou Town.

At the intersection, the cavalry under Wang Fuchen's command reined in their horses one after another, and Wang Fuchen himself stopped the horses under his crotch.

At this time, Ye Bushou, a team of forwards, led a horse with a "man in yellow" on its back, looking for Wang Fuchen's flag.

At first, one of the assistant leaders was an old subordinate of Wang Fuchen, and he reported loudly from a distance: "Lord Zhongtang, I found a wounded servant dressed in a yellow flag who crawled out of Xiangkou Town, and said that there is an important military report!"

"What important military situation?" Wang Fuchen asked while jumping off his horse.

"It is an important military situation related to the third grandson of the white robe!"

Chapter 376 The emperor is overjoyed, the third grandson of Zhu is surrounded!

"Zhongtang, Lord Zhongtang, the younger one is Zheng Ding Yan of the Han Army with the Yellow Banner, Yan Baoyi..."

The person who was carried to Wang Fuchen was none other than Yan Baoyi whose ass was hit by shrapnel from the grenade hammer.

This guy is also a good slave. In order to report to the reinforcements, he endured the severe pain in his buttocks and crawled out from the battlefield where there was a lot of bullets... He crawled from early morning to noon before he was sent out by Wang Fuchen. I took it.

When he was "received", he was about to die!The buttocks were bloody and swollen—this was inflammation, a bacterial infection!If the shrapnel cannot be removed by surgery in time, then use allicin to anti-inflammatory and sterilize.That's the end!Oh, and amputation is possible!Before the advent of antibiotics, this was the most effective way of resuscitating the wounded from musket wounds.

But Yan Baoyi was shot in the butt... Can amputation cut off the butt?It seems a bit difficult!

"Are you Qiding or Baoyi?" Wang Fuchen was a little confused, but when he looked at Yan Baoyi's butt, he didn't go any further. This is about to die, why don't people have a dream of raising the flag?

"Tell me about the third grandson in white robes!" Wang Fuchen said, "If you make it clear, I will send you to Jiande County and let the medical officer in the army show you... There is a lot of meat on the buttocks, maybe cutting off a little bit will save you!"

"Thank you sir!"

As soon as Yan Baoyi heard that he was rescued, Baoyi felt warm in his heart, nodded quickly and said, "I told you... the third grandson of Zhu, the traitor, has indeed arrived in Xiangkou Town! He led thousands of cavalry, and he was wearing a White robes, ride a white horse, take the lead!"

Wang Fuchen was stunned for a moment, and said to himself: "The white horse and the white robe... are quite recognizable! This is easy to handle. There are sharpshooters in the army, and they carry high-quality shotguns that are particularly accurate. Find them all. Get them all back and shoot the black gun of the third grandson in white robe!"

"Are they accompanied by infantry?" Wang Fuchen asked again.

"No," Yan Baoyi said, "They are all cavalry, not infantry."

"That's good..." Wang Fuchen thought in his heart: "There will definitely not be many hypocritical cavalry. If there are two or three thousand horses, it will be enough. It seems that there is a real chance to kill this scourge!"

As soon as he thought of this, Wang Fuchen sent Yan Baoyi away.He found a quick stone on the side of the road and sat down. He also took out a wine jug, bit off the stopper, and took a sip for himself.

After taking a few sips of wine, Wang Fuchen suddenly heard the sound of warning horns and a burst of gunfire, and then several of his Goshhas shouted.

"Enemy attack...cavalry, the number exceeds 1000, and they also carry self-generating muskets!"

"Zhongtang, we found an enemy general in white robe!"

"Zhongtang, get on your horse... The traitor's cavalry has already repelled our sentinel cavalry!"

Found the white-robed enemy general?Wang Fuchen thought to himself: "Does this third grandson of Zhu belong to Cao Cao? Why don't you come here?"

Thinking of this, Wang Fuchen hastily asked someone to bring his horse - he had been riding on the horse before, just to save strength for the horse, in case the enemy suddenly attacked when he was resting and accumulating horsepower.

The cavalry led by him were all one man and two horses. Now that they had been warned, they got on their horses one after another, and then began to form a formation with Zuo Ling as a unit.

However, Wang Fuchen did not rashly lead his exhausted men to fight just because of the appearance of the third grandson in white robes—although their horses did not carry people along the way, they still carried rations, horse feed and armor, and also He ran for dozens of miles steadily.

Now it is best to let them rest for an hour or two, and then eat and drink before they can have the strength to fight!

Of course, unnecessary fighting should be avoided.As long as the third grandson in white robe didn't plan to break out and escape, Wang Fuchen didn't plan to fight him.Because he knew that the Ming army had a grenade hammer that could be thrown without needing to be ignited, and the cavalry could also use it very conveniently-although the Ming army had a small number of cavalry, they were armored grenadier cavalry that were difficult to deal with!

Wang Fuchen didn't want to steal the chicken and lose the rice. If he put himself in and was killed by Zhu Heqi, it would be a big loss.

So as long as Zhu and Qi don't run away, Wang Fuchen is willing to wait for his infantry to arrive before fighting.

Thinking of this, Wang Fuchen didn't want to fight, so he immediately turned around and retreated to the mountains and forests to the south. While retreating, he turned his head and looked back.Sure enough, he saw a white-robed knight surrounded by more than a hundred red-robed knights, standing in front of the cavalry of the Ming army, and there was a yellow flag behind him.

At this time, he saw the knight in white suddenly rein in his horse, raised his carbine again, and waved it.The yellow flag behind the knight swayed left and right a few times, and thousands of cavalrymen of the Ming army stopped their horses one after another and stopped chasing them.

There is no doubt that this person is the third grandson of Zhu!

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"Auntie, why don't you chase after me?"

Zhu Hechi rode up to his "aunt in white robe" Daboling, and asked questions a little puzzled.

Da Boling pointed the spear in her hand towards the sky in the east, "A Pao, look over there..."

Zhu Heqi turned his head and saw that the sky was covered with overcast clouds, as if a storm was about to come.But what Da Boling wants to show Zhu and Qi is not the weather, but the smoke and dust in the sky!

This is the dust raised by the march of the infantry and cavalry of the battalion!

"There are more than ten thousand people!"

"Jianguo," Zhao Desheng, the commander-in-chief of the cavalry under Zhu Heqi, also came up, "The Qingyao cavalry that we chased away just now were all wearing white armor, and they should be the cavalry of the Zhengbai Banner New Army... they are coming now Most of them are the infantry of Zhengbaiqi!"

Zhu Heqi frowned: "The information is wrong!"

"Jianguo," Zhao Desheng said, "you might as well retreat to Madang first... The minister and 1000 people are enough to hold Xiangkou Town."

Zhu Heqi waved his hands and said with a smile: "Zongrong Zhao, if you can defend Xiangkou with 1000 people, why did the lonely family retreat to Madang? Besides, Zhuge's army division is attacking Xinzibao, and it will definitely be broken in a day or two. If so, we will be able to break through tonight, and then our main force will be able to come up.

In addition, the terrain of the mountain side road is easy to set up an ambush, and there are many soldiers. If there are only 1000 people, it will be unimaginable if they are ambushed. "

As soon as Zhu Heqi mentioned "Zhong Fu", Zhao Desheng didn't dare to say anything.

"Aunt," Zhu Heqi said to Da Boling again at this time, "I'll listen to you this time...Go back to Xiangkou Town, I'm a little tired, I'll go to bed after I go back to wash up. Aunt, are you tired?"

"I'm a little tired too..." As soon as Da Boling said the words, she immediately thought of what Zhu Heqi meant, and her face under the mask turned red immediately.

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"Your Majesty, Your Majesty... Great joy!"

On the evening of May [-]th, in a big golden tent outside Liuzhang Town, Chuzhou, I suddenly remembered Xiong Cilu's voice full of surprise.

Emperor Kangxi was still in Qingliuguan early this morning, but because the good news came from the beacon tower, in order to learn the details of the good news as soon as possible, he brought hundreds of yellow jackets and two Qianqibing moved to Liuzhang Town, which is closer to Anqing, before settling down. The good news came!

"What?" Kangxi looked at Xiong Cilu, "Did you kill Zhu Heqi?"

"Not yet," Xiong Cilu knelt on the ground and said, "but it's coming soon... Zhuobutai and Zhao Liangdong have surrounded Zhu and Qi in Xiangkou Town!"

"Already surrounded?" Kangxi's face was full of surprise, "How did you get surrounded?"

Xiong Cilu sealed a memorial with both hands, "Your Majesty, Zhuobutai said in Zhuobutai's paper that Zhu Heqi underestimated the enemy and rushed forward. He personally led [-] cavalry around the mountain to the outside of Xiangkou Town. Going out of Xiangkou Town, they lured Zhu and Qi into it, while guarding the passage along the river. Zhuobutai mobilized the Zhengbai Banner’s new army and navy with the beacon fire. Advance both land and water, and encircle Xiangkou Town!"

Emperor Kangxi couldn't believe his ears. He took the memorial and looked it up. After confirming that the content inside was similar to what Xiong Cilu said, he breathed a sigh of relief: "It's really a blessing from the ancestors! I really am not a sinner of the Qing Dynasty... ..."

Chapter 377 Shoot the third grandson!

"Rumble..."

"Crash..."

"Long live the Qing Dynasty, long live the emperor..."

The sound of thunder, guns, wind and rain, and cheers, the sound of which hits the ears, interweaves into the most magnificent symphony of the battlefield.

The summer's heavy rain had already poured down on the battlefield around Xiangkou Town, the gateway to the west of Anqing Prefecture, and it was muddy everywhere.But the heavy rain and muddy ground couldn't stop the Qing monsters' fighting enthusiasm!

On the outskirts of Xiangkou Town, the Zhengbai Banner Qing army commanded by Wang Fuchen and Fei Yanggu braved the rain and advanced against the firepower of the Ming army.Because the Ming army relied on fortifications for defense, they were able to build defensive shacks behind the low parapet, so that their muskets could barely fire.As a result, many servants of the Qing Yao Zhengbai Banner New Army have fallen into the muddy water.But the rest of the people are still struggling forward, and the people in the front have rushed through the ditch filled with corpses and rushed to the front of the dilapidated wooden fence.

At this moment, Wang Fuchen is very sinisterly leading twenty sharpshooters equipped with "Flintlocks", walking behind the attacking infantry, waiting for the appearance of the "Three Great Grandsons in White Robes"!

The level of firearms production in the Qing Dynasty during the Kangxi period was actually not bad-Kang Mazi himself was a man of science and technology, a bit like Peter the Great next door. Although he couldn't do it himself, he knew good and bad, and he knew the world trend.Under his personal supervision, the standard of the Qing Dynasty's "Eight Banners Firearms" is still acceptable.The "Eight Banners Firearms" not only have various Western-style artillery, but also very well-made flintlock guns.

However, because the flintlock firing device in this era was very unreliable (it was a problem in the world at the time), Emperor Kangxi did not let his craftsmen mass-produce flintlock guns to equip the troops, but regarded these flintlock guns as a way to shoot rabbits himself. toys.

A flintlock gun that can be used as a shotgun, of course, has good accuracy-don't think that the accuracy of a smoothbore gun must be a tragedy. In fact, a well-made musket and a well-trained musketeer can still shoot A goal a hundred paces away!

And Wang Fuchen, who was born as an imperial guard and had been a "porter minister" for a while, of course knew that these "personal collections" of Emperor Kangxi were very good.Therefore, when forming the new army of Zhengbai Banner, I asked Kangxi to give me a batch of "Royal Spears", and I also selected a group of sharpshooters from the army for strict training to form this "Sharp Gun Team".

Of course, the purpose of Wang Fuchen's sharpshooter team was not to assassinate Zhu Heqi, but to deal with the small mortars of the Ming army and Zhou army (Wu Sangui)-these small mortars are not big in size and very light in weight. Both cavalry and infantry can carry it, and it can also launch a super-caliber flowering hammer with quite good power.Let the Qing army suffer so much!

Although Emperor Kangxi also had people imitate similar small mortars, but because there was always a bottleneck in the supply of white sugar in the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi did not dare to develop too many "sugar medicine weapons", so he did not equip troops.

Wang Fuchen also had to train sharpshooters to deal with the small mortars of the Ming army... But what people did not expect was that these sharpshooters did not find a chance to fire mortars, but they had the opportunity to assassinate the "Three Grandsons in White Robes"!

Although there is an opportunity, it is not easy to plot success.

From the early morning of May [-]th, when the Qing army besieged Xiangkou Town, Wang Fuchen, wearing a bamboo hat and coir raincoat, and with twenty sharpshooters under his command, followed the attacking infantry and searched for the white-robed three at the front of the Ming army time and time again. Taisun's figure... I have found it many times, but either the distance is too far, or the other party gallops across the battlefield at such a fast speed that there is no chance to take aim at it.Although it barely hit a few volleys, they missed the target.

At the same time, the situation on the battlefield began to become unfavorable to the Qing army!

On the one hand, the battle to besiege Xiangkou Town was extremely difficult!

Although the land and water troops of the Qing army arrived one after another on the night of May [-]th and the morning of May [-]th.

And a summer rainstorm also arrived as expected, drenching the entire battlefield!

However, while the heavy rain limited the power of sugar medicine weapons, it also limited the offensive and firepower of the Qing army.

Now the Ming army retreating into Xiangkou Town can rely on the parapet to build shacks, and rely on the shelter of the shacks to fire guns—the cavalry brought by Zhu Heqi are "multi-purpose cavalry", which can not only charge into battle, shoot arrows, throw grenades, It can launch Tekken rockets and is also equipped with flintlock guns produced in Foshan, Guangdong.

Although this kind of flintlock often fails to fire, it can still be used, and the accuracy is not bad.

In addition, the sugar bombs are not as "afraid of water" as the Qing monsters imagined... Although the sugar medicine is more likely to get wet in heavy rain, Zhu Heqi's army has occupied a town.There are many houses that can shelter from the rain, so they can brew sugar medicine indoors and use it now.Even before the sugar medicine had cooled completely, it was already thrown out to kill people!

So Wang Fuchen and Fei Yanggu's Zhengbai Banner new army fought desperately for two days, filling in one assistant leader after another. Now more than a dozen assistant leaders have been abolished, but they still can't move Xiangkou Town!

At the same time, the two towns of the Ming army came around from the south of Taiboze!

Wang Fuchen and Fei Yanggu had to divide thousands of people to resist steadily in the narrow area south of Taibo Lake to delay the attack of the Ming army-the terrain in the south of Taibo Lake is relatively narrow, with swamps on one side and mountains on the other.It is indeed a good place to fight a blocking battle!

However, Wang Fuchen and Fei Yanggu's Zhengbai Banner new army spent a lot of effort, and they were unable to stop Zhuge Zhengyang and Zhao Hongkui's advance, and could only delay their progress.

So there is not much time left for Wang Fuchen and Fei Yanggu.It seems that it is impossible to take down Xiangkou Town and then kill Zhu Heqi.

Of course, the Qing army was not without a chance of winning.

First of all, Tuhai and Shi Lang's naval forces have already reached the river near Xiangkou!The large gunships among them all have gun bays—it is said to be large, but in fact they are not very big. A ship can only hold a thousand-jin general gun, which is installed in the gun bay at the bow.

Tu Hai and Shi Lang built more than [-] gunboats like this, and now they are all crowded on the Yangtze River outside Xiangkou Town, with their bows facing Xiangkou Town, firing cannons endlessly!

Although these shells did not kill many Ming soldiers, they destroyed many houses, which dealt a certain blow to the morale of the defenders in Xiangkou Town.

Secondly, Shi Lang and Tuhai's sailors also sent a Gushan from Anqing to the Xinzibao on the riverside road, which had long been beaten into a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

Temporarily helped the dying Zhao Liangdong maintain the situation.

And the third one is the one that makes Wang Fuchen and Fei Yanggu feel the most hopeful chance of winning... It is an imperial decree, a yellow dragon flag and five hundred yellow jackets sent to Wang Fuchen and Fei Yanggu's army last night!

Now this yellow dragon flag appeared on the battlefield south of Xiangkou Town, surrounded by [-] cavalry in yellow jackets to protect it from the rain!

And on the battlefield around Xiangkou Town, the cheers of the demons also sounded.

"Long live the Qing Dynasty, long live the emperor..."

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"Long live the Ming Dynasty! Long live the sage who supervises the country..."

On the Ming army's position in the south of Xiangkou Town, someone also shouted at the top of their voices!

There were few of them, so their shouts were naturally light, but Wang Fuchen, who had been waiting all morning with his ears pricked up, heard them quickly.

He quickly took out his binoculars and looked forward, and he saw the flag of "Daming Jianguo", "under the flag of the prison", and a yellow canopy. Under the canopy, there was a knight in white clothes and a white horse. Although this knight was wearing a big visor, looking at the knights wearing coir raincoats and bamboo hats surrounding "him", Wang Fuchen knew that this person must be the third grandson!

Now is the best, and probably the last chance!

Wang Fuchen stopped hesitating, and roared: "Beat the drums, march into the army... sharpshooters, give me a bit of a goddamn spirit, whether it is wealth and glory, or shrouded in horse leather, it depends on the present!"

As he spoke, he also took over a flintlock musket wrapped in oilcloth and loaded with ammunition—it turned out that he himself was also a sharpshooter!

Chapter 378 Dead, all dead!

Zhu Hexi was as excited as Wang Fuchen at this time!

Because there was a whole night of "fireworks" at Daogengzi Fort by the river last night... of course there was a reason why the fireworks were set off all night in such a heavy wind and rain.

There is only one message that Zhuge Sanhe wants to convey—the Daming Yangtze River Navy led by Liu Guoxuan has arrived at the front line!

The key to the battle to the south of the Yangtze River is actually to eliminate Shi Lang and Tu Hai's Yangtze River Navy!