Chapter 289: The Decisive Battle in Northern Jiangxi (Central)

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When the sun rose to the middle of the sky, the second main battlefield between the Wu army in northern Gan and the Qing army in northern Gan and the Qing army in northern Gan and the only way to Meijiazhou in Nankangfu City, on the land of Dagutang, the partial army led by Gao Dejie and the Qing army in Nanchang led by Zhao Guozuo, the veteran general of Miqing, met head-on. On this open battlefield, a life-and-death battle and a victory or defeat!

This is a duel between evil and justice. As a loyal lackey and a die-hard accomplice of the old traitor Wu, Gao Dejie was not only the vanguard of the old traitor Wu's team entering Myanmar, the executor of capturing Emperor Yongli alive, but also the capable accomplice of the old traitor Wu's resistance to national integration, the executioner of the brutally massacred Madame Shexiang's descendants, and the sinner who destroyed cultural dissemination for the past. The reason why the film and television field in later generations failed to invest in popular historical dramas such as "Shetusi Guiyang Private Visit" or "She'an Datusi" is undoubtedly one of the culprits!

However, as a justice side, the old general of Zhao Guozuo of the Qing Dynasty was famous for his outstanding military achievements and had been famous throughout the ages. As early as the Tiancong period of the Qing Dynasty, he had followed the Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty to fight in the east and west, and the south and north. After the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, the old general of Zhao participated in the famous 10-day bandit suppression battle in Yangzhou, the three-dang rebel battle in Jiading and the Yijian Jiangyin pacified the bandit battle. He accumulated merits and reached the second-class Adahahafan, and the Han army in the Inlaid White Banner Gushan Ezhen! Later, the old general of Zhao of our Qing Dynasty successfully defeated the harassment and destruction of the rebel Zheng Chenggong on the southeast coast of our Qing Dynasty, and even smashed the ambition of Zheng Chenggong's rebel traitors' ambition to occupy the important town of Nanjing in the Qing Dynasty, maintain the harmonious and stable Qing Dynasty, and established great merits for our Qing Dynasty! He was awarded the title of Jiangxi Admiral of the Qing Dynasty, which is well deserved!

The troops of both sides were as good as the Wu army, with 10,000 infantry, 5,000 cavalry, and about 6,000 infantry. The Wu army had a certain advantage, but it was not very obvious. Therefore, after initially exploring the enemy situation, Gao Dejie quickly made tactical arrangements, asking his deputy Wu Yonghua, Gao Qi and Li Xiongfei to lead the Wu army infantry to form a mid-range, and 800 three-good rockets lined up in front of the formation to block north to attack the Qing army. He and his clan brother Gao Hongchen divided the 5,000 cavalry into two, arranged on both wings of the infantry, and were ready to launch a flank raid at any time.

At the same time, Zhao Guozuo also quickly made a tactical choice. Given that the scouts found that the war had begun in the Meijiazhou ferry in the north, Zhao Guozuo decisively gave up his plan to break through the Wu army's blockade and decided to implement the second tactics assigned to him by Hirgen, that is, to entangle the main combat soldiers of Gao Dejie to relieve pressure on other battlefields. Therefore, Zhao Guozuo decisively ordered the Qing army to stop in a wide area about five miles away from the Wu army, and arranged a circular formation that was conducive to persistence, with swords, spears and soldiers outside, archers and muskets inside, and cavalry hid in the center of the circular formation, as if a poisonous snake was rising up, ready to spit out deadly venom at any time.

At the beginning of noon, the two armies had just finished their formation. Gao Dejie, who liked to raid, took the lead in launching an offensive. Gao Hongchen, who waved the flag to order the left wing, took the lead in attacking, rushing around the huge circle of the Qing army, and constantly shooting the Qing soldiers with bows, arrows and muskets, patiently looking for the flaws in the Qing army's formation. The Qing soldiers calmly suppressed their positions under the command of Zhao Guozuo, and fought back desperately with bows, arrows and muskets. They also kept shooting the Wu cavalry that entered the range. Arrows and lead bullets in the air came and shot like locusts, and soldiers who were shot in the arrows and horses screamed and neighed.

He circled around the Qing army round formation for more than a dozen circles. Given that the Qing army's bows, arrows and muskets were too dense, the Wu cavalry led by Gao Hongchen could not find an ideal breakthrough, and gradually he could not calm down. He sent someone to fly Gao Dejie to request a strong attack to raid the Qing army's battle formation and open the charge road for the rear army. Gao Dejie refused decisively and ordered: "Our cavalry is precious and should not be wasted at will. Return to the left wing to reorganize the team and replenish the ammunition bows and arrows."

The order was conveyed, Gao Hongchen's army retreated to the left wing of the self-government formation. The Qing army was cheering and thunderous. Zhao Yue, the son of Zhao Guozuo, ran to Zhao Guozuo with his beloved general Chang Jinggong, and asked Zhao Guozuo to allow the self-government cavalry to attack and chase Gao Hongchen's retreat team. Zhao Guozuo refused decisively and shouted: "No! Didn't you see the giant arrows in front of the Wu Gou formation? According to the Wu Gou soldiers who were captured in our army before, they were called rockets. The more than 20,000 cavalry in Aozhongtang that was in front of these rockets, they died in less than a moment! Our cavalry attacked would only kill them for nothing!"

"Master-in-law, what should I do?" Zhao Yue asked worriedly.

"Wait patiently." Zhao Guozuo said seriously: "In the previous few Jiujiang Battles, Wu Gou was not willing to use this powerful field firearm. It can be seen that the rockets in Wu Gou's hands were either small in number or difficult to supply, so Wu Gou has been using them for ease. Now it is laid in front of the formation, obviously it is intended to be used to destroy our cavalry. Once the cavalry is severely damaged, the infantry will not be protected by cavalry in this open area without cavalry protection, and it will be destroyed for a period of time. So we can only wait patiently. When Wu Gou can't hold back and use these new firearms, our cavalry will have a place to use it."

At this time, the cavalry led by Gao Hongchen had retreated to the left wing of the Wu army. As soon as he held the position, Gao Dejie had personally led the right-wing Wu army cavalry to attack, adopting the previous tactics, circled counterclockwise around the Qing army round formation, and continued to shoot the Qing soldiers outside with bows, arrows and muskets. When the Qing soldiers fought back desperately, the two hundred cavalry behind the Wu army suddenly left the brigade, and took big steps to narrow the distance from the Qing army round formation. The Qing soldiers who had just finished shooting quickly loaded the bullets. The two hundred Wu army cavalry suddenly threw more than one hundred grenades sideways and ran away quickly and rejoined into the brigade. The grenades into the Qing army exploded, and the Qing infantry howled and blood flew everywhere. The positions at a long distance were also in chaos.

"Damn it! There is this trick!" Zhao Guozuo cursed and shouted quickly: "The bow and arrow muskets should be kept dense, don't stop, never stop!"

The order was conveyed, the Qing army's bows, arrows, and muskets were fired even more frequently, but the Wu army only used the grenade tactics just now and was no longer wasted. They just continued to harass the Qing army's battle formation with the original bows, arrows, and muskets, and continued to patiently find the gaps in the Qing army's formation. At the same time, the Qing army's arrowheads and muskets and ammunition reserves were rapidly decreasing without realizing it, and the speed was getting faster and faster - this was a plain, and the Qing army's ammunition and arrows had no place to replenish.

After surrounding the Qing army for more than a dozen circles, the gap in the Qing army's turtle formation was still not found. The Wu cavalry, who had exhausted arrows and ammunition, had to withdraw his right wing to rest and replenish. Seeing Gao Dejie's flag disappearing into the horse's hooves, Zhao Yue spat heavily and sneered: "People say they are tall and brave, and they are extremely brave. But that's the case. They don't even have the courage to rush to the large formation of our army. They are also considered brave generals?"

"What tricks are Gao Dejie playing in Wu Gou?" Zhao Guozuo was also confused and said to himself: "I heard that this Wu Gou is Wu Sangui's favorite general. Since joining the Wu Gou army, he has never lost a battle. How could he be so timid and timid, using such a passive and conservative tactic?"

"Military Gate, Military Gate." Xu Zhen, the general in charge of the periphery, ran up quickly and bowed and said, "Report to the military Gate, our infantry, arrows and ammunition are not left. Please transfer them to the military gate in order to fight again!"

"Are the arrows and ammunition almost used up?" Zhao Guozuo was stunned at first and asked in surprise: "Why is it used so quickly? I remember that when we set off, each of our infantry archers carried two pots of arrows, totaling sixty arrows, and each musketeer carried two hu of gunpowder and could fire more than twenty guns. Why did it be used up so quickly?"

"There is no choice. In order not to let Wu Gou get close to throwing grenades, our army had to suppress it with a large number of bows and muskets, so it was used very quickly." Xu Zhen answered helplessly and added aggrievedly, "Also, it is the order you gave to the military gate, and the bows and muskets cannot be stopped."

"How many arrows and gunpowder do our army have?" Looking at the white and dense arrows falling on the battlefield in the distance, Zhao Guozuo suddenly remembered a big event.

"Return to the father-in-chief, it is not considered to be carried by the cavalry." Zhao Yue pointed to the baggage truck in the distance and replied: "There are still two thousand eight hundred pots of arrows and one thousand six hundred pots of gunpowder left, just enough for the archers in our army to supply two pots of arrows, and each musketeer provides two pots of gunpowder."

Sweat was seeping from Zhao Guozuo's forehead, and finally understood Gaodejie's tactical purpose. Gaodejie's cavalry flew around and consumed little bows and arrows and ammunition. The Qing army used bows and arrows and muskets to suppress the Wu cavalry's raids to prevent Wu cavalry from dropping bombs. The consumption of arrows and ammunition was naturally amazing. Now the army is far away from the rear and has nowhere to supply. When the bows and arrows and gunpowder are exhausted, what else can I use to resist Gaodejie's cavalry assault?

Thinking of this, Zhao Guozuo suddenly remembered a big event. In the previous Jianchang Battle, the huge amount of supplies he brought from Nanchang was burned by Gao Dejie himself. Although some transportation supplies were made from Nanchang and some support from Hukou friendly forces, the reserve situation was far from returning to its peak state when he set out from Nanchang. In other words, before the war started, Gao Dejie probably had already predicted that his long-range weapons would not be sufficient!

"Master-in-law, this is not a solution." Zhao Yue also woke up and said hurriedly: "Our army will hold on in a passive and passive manner. When the arrows and ammunition are used up, there will be no way to stop Wu Gou's cavalry from raiding! We must take the initiative to break Wu Gou's wishful thinking."

"There is no choice but to do so." Zhao Guozuo had no choice but to point to the right wing of the Wu army and shouted: "Yue'er, Jinggong, you two lead 3,000 cavalry out to attack Wu Gou's right wing. Gao Dejie's son just retreated from the battlefield. The war horses and soldiers were very tired. It was an opportunity! But remember, you can only encircle and not attack the front of the Wu Gou formation!"

Zhao Yue and Chang Jinggong took the order and organized cavalry to attack. The Qing army's round formation also opened the gap, released the cavalry from the army, and then quickly closed it and re-entered the group. Seeing this scene, Gao Dejie couldn't help but smile and said, "The turtle formation of the dog has finally moved. After passing the order, Gao Hongchen's left-wing cavalry continued to wait for the fighter planes. The infantry formation advanced forward, and used rockets to open the turtle formation of the dogs, and stirred up the dogs! Fight the dogs with more and more, and chopped the dogs with hard!"

"General, is it a waste to fill the dog infantry with rockets? "Guo Yingfu, the deputy general of the Wu cavalry, was stunned and hurriedly reminded: "Our army's habit is that precious rockets are used to blow up the dog cavalry."

"That's because everyone else is afraid of cavalry fighting, but do I have to be afraid?" Gao Dejie, who can definitely be ranked in the third place among the Wu army, sneered loudly and said, "Zhao Guozuo's old cavalry has only four thousand, and my cavalry has five thousand. He has to use rockets for more to fight less. If it is transmitted, it will make others laugh out loud?"

Guo Yingfu suddenly realized, quickly flattered a few horses and sent someone to send orders to the Pegasus. After a while, the Qing cavalry detoured to the right wing of the Wu army. Gao Dejie ignored the fatigue of the soldiers and the war horses and shouted, "My sons, I am tired of bullying me! Resist the charge and let them see if we kill the dogs, will our Yunnan-Guizhou cavalry be tired!"

After saying that, Gao Dejie raised his sword and waved his sword, and personally led the right-wing cavalry to launch a counter-charge towards the Qing cavalry. The Wu cavalry behind him also roared like thunder, followed Gao Dejie's flag and rushed towards the Qing cavalry like a tide. At the same time, Gao Qi and Li Xiongfei, who were commanding the Wu infantry formation, also waved the order flags and urged the Wu infantry formation, pushing the light and simple rocket launcher, shouting the slogans of the Zhou Dynasty rhythmically, and jogging towards Zhao Guozuo's turtle formation, slowly and firmly forcing the Qing army brigade.

"Put the ground firmly, prepare the bow, arrow, and rocket!" Zhao Guozuo did not expect that Gao Dejie would urge the precious Rockets to attack his turtle formation. He caught him off guard and could only yell, "Cabinets are ready, Wu Gou's rockets are used up, and attack immediately!"

"Swish-!Swish-!Swish-!" When the Wu army infantry rushed into the Qing army brigade, Li Xiongfei, the general of the Wu army who was commanding the rocket formation, waved the flag, and the three hundred three good rockets installed on the rocket cart, and a fire broke through the sharp sound of breaking through the air, the three hundred rockets, carrying white smoke, roared straight towards the Qing army's turtle formation...

"Kill--!" At the same time, the Wu cavalry led by Gao Dejie had already collided head-on with the Qing cavalry. Suddenly, a fierce sound of gold and iron collisions broke out, and a loud and neighing sound of people and horses. The most authentic cavalry sabre battle was also completely launched on the battlefield of Dagutang.........

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At the same time, on the battlefield of Meijiazhou, the Wu army infantry led by Hu Tongchun had already been completely mixed with the Qing army infantry led by Shi Jiabao, and a earth-shaking bloody battle broke out. The infantry on both sides were like crazy, holding axes and sabers to fight on their own, slashing and slashing at the enemy wildly. The blood blades sounded even more screams of numbness, the sound of gold and iron collisions and dying screams. Some were cut off their hands and feet, some were cut off from the sky spirit cover, blood splashed like rain, broken limbs and broken arms were flying all over the sky, corpses were everywhere on the ground, blood flowed down to the dock, dyeing the water near the dock pink.

At this time, the second wave of Qing army's troops transport fleet had already approached the dock. The Qing soldiers on the transport ship jumped off the dock, jumped into shallow water, rushed to the land with red eyes, and joined the battle group. The Wu army's children and mother artillery team also opened fire again, pouring flowering artillery shells onto the head of the Qing army's troops transport fleet, and crazily bombarding the Qing army ships and the Qing soldiers who were preparing to land on the deck. The Qing soldiers fell from the river while they were dodging. The sound of ships collided, explosions, shouts of killing, slogans, screams of falling into the water and dying screams gathered into a stream, echoing for ten miles. Even in the Qing army camp on the east bank of Poyang Lake, it could still be heard clearly.

"General, General!" At this time, Kong Fanlin, the scout leader of the Fat Sect, personally slapped his horse and rushed back to the Wu army flag formation, knelt down on one knee in front of Fat Sect, clasped his fists and said: "Report to General, the escort fleet of Mangou Navy suddenly headed north, met with the main force of Mangou Navy in Xiazhongshan area, went upstream and headed towards Jiujiang City! The last general suspected that the Mangou Navy might have planned that the main force of our army had left the city and launched an attack on Jiujiang Water Gate!"

"Don't care about them, continue to monitor." Fatty Lu waved his hand and turned to Quanjie and ordered: "General Quan, Hu Tongchun has been completely mixed with Mangou, and Mingjin is difficult to withdraw. He leads three thousand infantry to bring Hu Tongchun's team back. More than 10,000 Mangou have already climbed to the west coast. No matter how generous the old fox Hilgen is, he has no courage to leave it alone."

"Get orders!" All the lords agreed with fists and hurried down to organize the army to attack.

"Brother Lu... General." Kong Fanlin, who did not leave immediately, hesitated for a moment, then clasped his fists and said, "General, the scout in charge of the last general also found that some of the dog warships had a deep draft, which seemed to carry troops. Will they attack the east and west? They feinted the Meijiazhou Wharf and actually attacked Jiujiang Water Gate, and they also wanted to eat our navy?"
Chapter completed!