Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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According to Yue Le's order, all the eleven Gushan Mountains discarded excess luggage, and each person only carried seven days' rations, and then formed a field column. Finally, the front team became the rear team, and the rear team became the front team. Break out in the direction of Xiangyang!Two assembly points, Mianyang City and Qianjiang County, were also specified.

In addition, Yue Le also ordered each Gu Shan (excluding Yue Le's own Gu Shan and Fei Yanggu's Gu Shan) to draw out at least one infantry soldier to maintain the current front line.

In the end, Yue Le also ordered all the artillerymen to fire shells in the three directions of east, south, and west... to shoot out all the shells, and then crucify the fire door. After completing the task, all the artillerymen evacuated by horse or carriage.

After setting up the retreat, Yue Le immediately got on his horse with his staff and royal guards, and galloped to his old subordinate, Zhengbai Banner New Army's right road Gushan Fei Yanggu's army.

The Zhengbai Banner belongs to the Upper Three Banners, and Fei Yanggu is a very important general in Kangxi, so the Gushan he leads is quite powerful.

In addition, Yue Le didn't dare to place the troops of the Three Banners in the front position, so Fei Yanggu's Gu Shan was in a relatively rear position, and now he turned around and was the vanguard running away!

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"Boom boom boom..."

When the artillery suddenly exploded on the battlefield, "Heavenly Soldier Fang Shiyu" was still hanging in mid-air!At this time, he was quite high-spirited, and he felt that he was already an unworldly famous general who could look down on the world!

No, he is even more powerful than those famous generals!

Because those famous generals have to analyze and figure out the enemy's intentions based on the fragmented battlefield information.For example, why are there so many cannons from the Qing army now?Is it to launch a counterattack?

But "Heavenly Soldier Fang Shiyu" didn't need to guess at all, just took out a binoculars and looked down to know - only a small number of Qing troops were left at the front, and they were still fighting the Ming army on the opposite side in a daze.It is estimated that they do not know that their brigade has been reorganized into a leader-level column, and some of them have already started to run away!

However, the artillery of the Qing army was very lively. At least a hundred general artillery were firing indiscriminately. They didn't hit anything, but the rumble of the artillery sounded very imposing.

Obviously, the Qing army left a small number of imperial troops to give away their heads, and at the same time let the artillerymen randomly fire cannons to cheer up these unlucky people who gave their heads, and by the way, they also attracted the attention of the Ming army, making the Ming army think that the Qing army was about to counterattack.

It's a pity that the arrangement of the Qing army couldn't hide from the eyes of "Heavenly Soldier Fang Shiyu"... He didn't need to count or guess, he knew everything with his eyes and binoculars!

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"Admiral, the Qing army is about to withdraw!"

Qiu Hu also made an accurate judgment at the first time - this is too easy, there are four hot air balloons in the sky with "Heavenly Soldiers" hanging on them and using binoculars to help him see!

And the Qing army below are all Eight Banners soldiers, wearing gaudy cloth visors and flying various flags, don't look too clear from the condescension.It's just that there is a bit of smog in some areas, but for the heavenly soldiers who are at a high altitude and can see the whole situation, that smog is nothing at all.

"What? Want to run away?"

Yu Xiaoqian was riding a horse at this time, and with his staff, he found a place quite close to the front line, holding up his binoculars and pretending to observe the situation on the front line.

Of course the situation on the front line is good!

The three towns that defeated the Qing army in Gushan, a Zhenglan Banner, are besieging a few Qing army leaders who were alone. When the Ming army was chasing the defeated soldier in Gushan, the Zhenglan Banner, those leaders suddenly rushed up to block the gunholes. (In fact, they didn't expect Yue Le's army to be defeated so quickly), and after being bitten by the Ming army, they set up three hollow phalanxes to defend.

However, the Ming army did not immediately line up to shoot, but brought dozens of five-jin long guns to shoot shotguns outside the effective range of the muskets.Now the hollow phalanx of the three Qing troops was about to disintegrate. The ground was full of lying corpses. The Qing soldiers who had not been killed did not dare to stand up. Shoot back indiscriminately.

On the two wings of the Qing army, the four towns of the Ming army suspended the infantry attack, and brought in artillery to shoot at the Qing army. Because the Qing army's cannons opened fire suddenly, the Ming army thought they were going to fight back, so Cannons were also brought in to shoot at the Qing army.

If there were no heavenly soldiers watching from above, Yu Xiaoqian and Qiu Hu would probably have been deceived by Yue Le.

Yu Xiaoqian put down the binoculars, stopped looking at it, and turned to ask Qiu Hu, "Ahu boy, what do you think? How much should we eat?"

"Let's eat one-third first." Qiu Hu said, "Don't be too dark...First, we have to save some spare energy to deal with Wu Zhou; If he eats it, he might not want Xiangyang; three, we can send troops to chase after eating this third."

"Okay, let's do it!"

Chapter 616 The Celestial Soldiers Are Here, Run, Don't Want The Mantissa!

With Qiu Hu's words, the fate of the three Qing soldiers Gushan was decided!

The reason why there are three instead of four is because Yue Le still left behind some troops in the rear, all of them add up to about one-third.

Of course, the exact number still has to be decided by the heavenly soldiers in the sky!

Qiu Hu's order was tied to a rope and hung on the hot air balloon. When the heavenly soldiers on the hot air balloon felt that it was almost done, they directly lit a smoke grenade.Qiu Hu down below saw that the four hot air balloons in the sky were all smoking, so he would order the rocket artillery to fire the signal rocket.

The Lingzong army and the general soldiers of the ten towns below saw it, and they would immediately order the troops to attack!

Among them, Ling Zongjun led two towns to launch an assault on the running Qing army, first "cut off" their tails, and put this part of the Qing army monks who were still resisting into the encirclement.Then the two towns will hand over the battle line to other troops, and they will engage in the pursuit of the Qing army.But you can't chase too hard... If you chase too hard, you may be afraid that the Qing army will jump over the wall in a hurry. You just need to nibble away the Qing army's first army in small bites, and accumulate small victories into big victories.

Even if they ran to Xiangyang, there was still Zhuge's army waiting for them!

And seven of the remaining eight towns can be used for encirclement and annihilation operations!The total number of Ming troops in these seven towns was more than 8.However, the Qing army in the encirclement was only [-] at most, and its firepower was at an absolute disadvantage. The entire army would be wiped out within a day or two at most!

As long as these [-] Qing troops are gone, Ling Zong's army can drive Yue Le's people away again.Then Daming will accept the Jiangling, Jingmen, and Yuezhou lands.

Although Zhu Heqi did not think of killing Wu Yingxiong and Wu Guogui immediately, they would not be allowed to stay in Hubei.Although Wu Zhou's current military strength has been reduced to the bottom of the three kingdoms in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, he can still pull out a field army of more than 10 people and keep them by his side. No tens of thousands of people are watching, and no one can sleep Not stable.

So while encircling and annihilating more than 3 people from the Qing army, Yu Xiaoqian and Qiu Hu also left a town to guard against Wu Guogui——Yu Xiaoqian and Qiu Hu just got the report, and this guy has already led an army of [-] It's coming to Honghu Lake in a mighty way...

In fact, Wu Guogui didn't come to help anyone, but to collect the "mantissa"!If you don't bring more brothers, what will Zhu and Qi do if they want to renege on their debts? One million silver dollars!Wouldn't Zhu Heqi feel heartbroken?If he wants to rely on it, Wu Guogui will not agree.

As the saying goes, my son-in-law should also settle accounts clearly!

But what Wu Guogui didn't expect was that the army he led was defeated and fled to the Qing army when it arrived at the Changxia River on the west bank of Honghu Lake in the early morning of August [-]th.

The Qing army fled along the north bank of the Changxia River, while Wu Guogui's [-] troops stopped on the south bank of the Changxia River.Although there is a wooden arch bridge on the river, but the wooden arch bridge is very narrow, and few people can pass through it.

Wu Guogui learned that the Qing army was coming here, so he quickly led a group of staff and servants to board the wooden bridge, and immediately looked east from a high place. What he saw was a scene of the army being defeated and fleeing. .

Looking east from his position, he could only see the wide battlefield on the north bank of the Changxia River, full of high and low smoke columns from the Ming army's rockets, and there was a long tail flame in the air, sending out "Jie Jie!" "Jie" rockets flew by in groups!

This scene is really scary to look at!

And what frightened Wu Guogui even more was the defeated Qing army from the north bank of the Changxia River. There were large groups of them. Judging by their uniforms, they barely maintained the establishment of each leader.But the formation is no longer good, there is no column or horizontal line, only groups of infantry and cavalry are left mixed together, fleeing with their heads covered.I can't see any banners, and there don't seem to be any baggage vehicles or artillery carriages... This is clearly the appearance of a defeated army!

"Sir, General, is the Qing army defeated? Isn't this too fast? It's only been a few days?"

It was his counselor Xue Zhang who was talking to Wu Guogui.Although Xue Zhang doesn't know much about military affairs, he knows that Yue Le has an army of 12... This is not 12 pigs, but 12 New Eight Banners!How could it be defeated so quickly?

According to Xue Zhang's knowledge, they only left the camp of Fenyan by the Changxia River the evening before yesterday, and it would take at least half a day to march to the Wulin camp of the Ming army.In other words, Yue Le's army should have launched a decisive battle with the Ming army yesterday morning.How could he have escaped so quickly?Could it be that the majestic Daqing Eight Banners soldiers were defeated by the Ming army?

Wu Guogui couldn't answer Xue Zhang's question either, but he could send someone to ask.Under his command, a group of servants rushed down the bridge and lined up on the official road beside the Changxia River, everyone with their guns in hand.The defeated Qing army of the brigade fled in a rout and was stopped by them.Several officers of the Zhenglan Banner New Army on horseback came out of the crowd and asked Wu Guogui's servants in shock.

"Who are you? Why are you blocking our way?"

"We are the servants of General Wu of the Great Zhou Kingdom. The general asked us to ask, what's going on with you?"

"Defeated...the rebels have heavenly soldiers, and they all went to heaven!"

"They're still invulnerable! Our guns can't pierce their armor!"

"It's over, it's over..."

"The Qing Dynasty is coming to an end, so run away quickly, you can't beat them!"

"Yeah, they are heavenly soldiers, we can't beat them..."

The words of these Qing soldiers shocked Wu Guogui and Xue Zhang who were on the wooden bridge immediately.

Why is there such a thing as "going to heaven" and "invulnerability"?

Why does it sound like someone is pretending to be a ghost?

But the Qing army is indeed defeated... Looking around, there are large groups of defeated soldiers. They were blocked on the official road by the Changxia River, but other places continued to flee to the northwest.The rockets of the Ming army fell from time to time, whether they hit these rout soldiers or not, they could cause a panic cry.

"The Heavenly Soldiers are here, the Heavenly Soldiers are here..."

When Wu Guogui heard these Qing soldiers call the Ming army "heavenly soldiers", he almost fell off his horse in shock.

Shouldn't they call the Ming army "rebels"?They should call themselves "Heavenly Soldiers"!How can anyone call the enemy "Heavenly Soldiers"?Is this still a joke?

"General, Heavenly Soldiers..."

Xue Zhang suddenly stuttered and spoke.

Wu Guogui frowned, "Senior, what did you say?"

"There are heavenly soldiers!"

"You mean the army?"

"General, there are heavenly soldiers in the sky!"

What?heaven?

Wu Guogui was taken aback for a moment, and subconsciously looked up at the sky, and found that there were actually two huge spheres floating in the sky, and there were still baskets hanging under the spheres!He hurriedly raised his binoculars to take a look, only to find that there were indeed several officers and soldiers of the Ming army in the basket!

It really went to heaven... Isn't this a heavenly soldier?

"This, this...how did it go to heaven?" Wu Guogui was so shocked that he couldn't speak!

Xue Zhang is not surprised at all. Starting from the earliest "Zhuge Tianlei" and "Kongming's Secret Empty City Plan", Zhu and Qi have always been able to do many strange things, and it is no surprise to the heavens.

However, he still has a suggestion to make, "General...retire!"

"Retire?" Wu Guogui was taken aback, "Consultant, I still haven't received the 100 million mantissa!"

Xue Zhang shook his head: "General, the most important thing now is to preserve our strength... As long as we have strength, we are not afraid of running out of money! If the elite soldiers on hand are eaten by Zhu Heqi, no amount of money will be of any use."

"But..." Wu Guogui still had a look of reluctance.

Seeing his expression, Xue Zhang had no choice but to say to Wu Guogui: "General, you lead the troops to Jiangling first, and protect the emperor to go to Sichuan. I will go to the Ming army camp on Chibi Mountain for you. If Zhu Heqi If he is willing to give you the money, the officer will ask for it for you. If he is not willing... the officer will also explore his hole cards for you to see what he wants us to do?"

Chapter 617 Ancestor, I'm sorry, we're going to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!

On the north bank of Neijing River, Guodi Bay.

You can tell from the name that this is a low-lying depression, and it is still a good place surrounded by groups.

The three Qing troops Gushan abandoned by Yue Le's cruel uncle of the Qing Emperor, Prince An, plus some scattered troops, about 8 people, are now surrounded by more than [-] Ming troops. A small town named Guodiwan and its surrounding area.

Ammunition will be exhausted, food will be exhausted, and people will perish!

And the leader of the more than [-] desperate Qing troops is Duoduo's third son, Gushan Baylor Dong'e, the new right-wing army of the Zhenglan Banner.It was the Dong E who almost died of starvation after being besieged by Wu Yingqi for several days on Xianglu Mountain in Jingmen Prefecture.After Kangxi lost Huguang, this Dong E became a scapegoat, dismissed from his post, handed over to the Ministry for discussion, and was escorted back to Beijing to be locked up.

Originally, Kangxi planned to severely punish this unlucky guy, but later Kangxi himself was even more unlucky, "lost" his head for a while, and was almost regarded as a fake Kangxi, which made him so embarrassed that he naturally couldn't care about punishing Dong E.But no one let Dong E go, so they kept him in the Shangfangyuan of the Ministry of Internal Affairs...until he was forced to escape from prison!

At that time, he really couldn’t do without escaping from prison. Burni broke into Beijing, and the Yuan Dynasty was restored.

So Dong E had to climb over the wall and escape from the Shangfang Courtyard, and ran to Bada Hutong to find the Empress Dowager Bumbutai who had committed a crime.

Although he is not very useful, he has been a general after all, and he is also the son of Duoduo, with many servants under his sect.Therefore, Bumbutai made the decision for Kangxi, pardoned his sins, and asked him to summon Baoyi to defend the Eight Great Alleys.

Later, Burni ran away, the inner city of Beijing was recovered, and Kangxi returned to the court, so he was embarrassed to punish Dong E again.Not only can they not be punished, but they have to be rewarded for their merits——the meritorious service of defending the Eight Great Hutongs is also meritorious service!

Moreover, in order to defend the Eight Great Hutongs, Dong E also gathered a group of old house slaves of Duoduo and Dorgon, which can be regarded as a bit powerful.

So Kangxi restored Dong E's Baylor and asked him to lead the organization of the right-wing Gushan of the Zhenglan Banner New Army.After the team froze, he followed Yue Le all the time.Although there is no credit, it is also diligent.Unexpectedly, this time he was abandoned by the cruel Yue Le, and surrounded by the Ming army together with a Gushan with a red flag and a Gushan with a white flag.After several failed attempts to break through the siege, Dong E, together with Gu Shan E Zhenmang Yitu from the left wing of the Xiangbai Banner New Army, and Gu Shan E Zhen Shuncheng County King Le Erjin from the Zhenghong Banner New Army, all joined forces. Besieged in Guodi Bay.

The three of them also knew that they were doomed... not only they themselves were doomed, but the entire Qing Dynasty was probably doomed as well!

There are heavenly soldiers who can fly in the sky, and there are heavenly soldiers who are invulnerable to weapons and guns on the ground.Feeling desperate, the three of them didn't intend to try to break through any more.He just set up his defense hastily, and then found a room that hadn't been burned down and got in, drank his sorrows with wine, and lived for a while.They didn't even care about the Ming army's bombardment—after the Ming army surrounded them, they didn't immediately launch a general attack. Instead, they mobilized more than 100 five-jin cannons and ten-jin cannons to start the bombardment.

The bombardment started on the afternoon of the second day they were besieged, and continued to bombard them at noon on the third day after they were besieged, rumbling and arguing endlessly.

When the bombardment stopped, the three of them were drinking one sip at a time. Just as they thought they could calm down for a while, there was a commotion outside. I don't know how many people shouted: "Heavenly soldiers, spare me! Heavenly soldiers, stop fighting!"

The three of them looked at each other and became nervous.

Is it the hour?

Although the three of them were all ready to die for the Qing Dynasty...but the only death in the ages is difficult!

Dong E, who had already had two close escapes, was still a little unwilling, so he stood up first, glanced at Le Erjin and Mang Yitu, and then gritted his teeth: "Go, go out and have a look!"

Leerjin and Mang Yitu didn't speak, but they all stood up, followed Dong E out of the house, and after going out, they found that the open space outside was full of people kneeling with the three banners of Zhenglan, Zhenghong and Bordered White. The officers and soldiers of the new army, but these officers and soldiers are not bowing down to the three of them, but praying to the sky.

Because there are heavenly soldiers in the sky!

The three looked up and saw that four huge "celestial spheres" were carrying heavenly soldiers floating in the sky above their heads!

The celestial soldiers on these celestial spheres were still throwing papers down one after another, only to see stacks of white paper falling down like snowflakes.One of the papers also "slapped" Dong E's face. Dong E reached out and grabbed the paper, and then held it in front of his eyes. There were Chinese characters printed on it.

Le Erjin, who was standing beside him, had sharp eyes, saw the words on it, and read it out: "Surrender is not to die, stubborn resistance is to perish; the general attack is imminent, save your life as soon as possible!"

As soon as his voice fell, Qing soldiers around him shouted: "Heavenly soldiers, spare me, I will surrender!"

Hearing their shouts, Dong E, Le Erjin and Mang Yitu knew that the time was coming... They looked around and saw that they were almost all young and strong soldiers!

This is even more desperate!

Because the troops of the three of them belong to the Lower Five Banners, there are not many old Eight Banners strong men, so the "full capacity" of the new troops supporting the Three Banners are white-haired men and young men...

"Dong Er, what should I do? I can't fight anymore..."

"My lord, what else can I do? Die for the country..."

"Woooooooo..."

"My lord, don't cry, isn't it just a death! You are so ashamed of your ancestors!"

Dong E was still there in a daze, and the great-grandson of Da Bei Le Daishan, King Le Erjin of Shuncheng County, burst into tears.Mang Yitu is much braver, so where else can he speak up!