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Chapter 272: Battle of Jiujiang

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    The drums sounded, and under the city of Jiujiang, which was reflected in the morning sun, thousands of generals and soldiers of the Wu army wore white felt hats that were different from those of the Qing army.  Attacking against the towering city walls of Jiujiang, the attacking queue was as turbulent as white sea waves, endlessly, and the loud shouts and footsteps made the hard ground vibrate slightly.

    Just as Han Daren muttered behind his back, Fatty Lu is indeed an incompetent character with a strong outside but capable in the middle. In terms of offensive strategy on the northern Jiangxi battlefield, Fatty Lu chose to go straight to the middle palace in an extremely arrogant manner, and he insisted that Jiangxi, which is mutually horned with Jiujiang,  The northern cities of Nanchang and Anqing did not dare to send reinforcements, at least they did not dare to send reinforcements immediately. They were so daring that even Wu Jun himself was frightened.

    But when it comes to tactical layout, Fatty Lu is as timid as a frightened rabbit. On the premise that the morale of the defenders has been severely damaged one after another, he still chooses an extremely conservative siege tactic, first bombarding Jiujiang with superior artillery  The fortifications of the city wall further reduced the morale and fighting spirit of the defenders; and then dispatched a convoy of archers, archers, and musketeers forward. Arrow-proof and bullet-proof chariots formed movable fortresses under the city wall, where archers and musketeers hid  Shooting arrows from the back of the car suppressed the bows and muskets of the defenders on the city; finally, the infantry team was sent to charge towards the city wall.

    "Da Zhou! Da Zhou! Da Zhou! Da Zhou!" Han Daren has a bad temper, but he does have his own way of training the army. The 8,000 siege infantry led by him first went to the west gate of Jiujiang and the south.  Two thousand troops were invested in each of the two battlefields, shouting neat slogans rhythmically, pushing ladder carts, iron-wrapped carts, and cloud platform carts, carrying flying ladders and sacks and sandbags, first trotting forward, then gradually speeding up, and finally  Charged up, the tide generally rushed to the city wall of Jiujiang.  Han Daren's younger brother Han Yuanren personally led the supervising team to keep up with the axe, shouting murderously, "Whoever takes a step back, cut! Whoever takes a step back, cut!"

    "Cannons! Cannons! Cannons, let's fire!" Seeing that the Wu army's siege team had rushed to the vicinity, but the artillery on the city wall hadn't fired yet, Master Beizi Zhangtai was so anxious that he almost cried, and kept yelling to urge the cannons to fire, "  Where are the gunners? All our gunners are dead? Why haven't we fired yet?"

    "I want to report to Bei Zi, Wu Dog bombarded our army's city wall just now, and our fort has been almost blown up!" Itanbu, Zhang Tai Bei Zi's only confidant in the Jiujiang garrison, replied helplessly: "Even if Wu Gou is not  Most of the cannons blown up by the dogs were also shaken away from the emplacements, and they couldn¡¯t fire without being on emplacements.¡±

    "Then why don't you move the artillery back to the gun position immediately?" Master Zhangtai Beizi shouted with red eyes.

    "Master Bei, you didn't issue such an order." Itanbu replied even more helplessly: "After Wu Gou stopped shelling, you didn't order to quickly rearrange the artillery array. The soldiers thought that there was no need to fire, so they didn't prepare  .¡±

    "Fuck!" Beizi Zhangtai's nose almost turned out of anger, and he almost wanted to order to cut off all those damn artillerymen, but considering the big enemy now, Beizi Zhangtai tried his best to swallow his breath back,  With red eyes, he shouted: "Send someone to pass the order, quickly put the artillery back on the gun position, aim at Wu Gou's siege team, and fire hard!"

    Master Zhangtai Beizi¡¯s recovery was obviously a bit late. Without the destruction and interference of the artillery on the city, the infantry of the Wu army had already rushed within the bow and arrow range of the Jiujiang city wall.  The Qing army defenders had already fired arrows, and the Wu army infantry began to gradually fall under the cover of locust-like arrowhead projectiles.  However, the well-trained infantry of the Wu army kept charging, shouting desperately forward, or throwing sacks of sandbags into the moat, or putting flying ladders on the moat to form a simple bridge across the river.  The cloud platform, the ladder car and the iron-wrapped car took the opportunity to keep up.

    "Dong dong dong dong!" Amidst the increasingly violent beating of war drums, hundreds of people carried the ladders to the top of Jiujiang City first, and then the large ladder cars also climbed to the city walls. Wu Jun soldiers shouted and climbed the ladders  On the top of the city wall, climbing towards the city wall, the huge stones and logs rolled down like rain on the city wall, smashing Wu soldiers one by one down the ladder, and at the same time hundreds of rockets flew out, all aimed at defending the city.  Wu Jun's ladder car and cloud platform car that hurt the army the most - this is definitely not an instruction from our Zhangtai Beizi master, it is completely the instinctive reaction of the Jiujiang Qing army trained by Dong Weiguo himself.

    At this time, Wu Jun's first drum with three hundred and thirty hammers had been beaten, and the first drum that Fatty Lu handed over to Han Daren was basically completed, and Wu Jun's siege infantry successfully attached the city; after a short pause, the second drum continued.  When the sound was sounded, Han Daren, who had no way out, had no other choice. He immediately sent another 2,000 infantry to the east gate of Jiujiang, which was most severely destroyed by the Wu army's artillery. He chose the west gate of Jiujiang as the main battlefield and the first breakthrough point, and attacked the city at the south gate.  The army continued to contain, disperse the defenders' strength andDuring the crazy secretion, five or six soldiers of the Qing army were shaken by Li Mao, unable to stand steadily.  The soldiers of the Wu army behind took the opportunity to pounce on them with red eyes, chopping up the few Qing soldiers with knives and axes, and joined hands with Li Mao to control a small space for climbing the city.

    "Even if I die, I have to pull my back!" Chen Raoyuan was unlucky. He was cut on his left shoulder by a steel knife as soon as he rushed up the city wall, and his left arm was almost cut off.  With a temper, he would not dodge or dodge the other steel knives and spears that were slashing and stabbing. He swung his right arm wildly and killed the Qing soldier in front of him.  With the knife up and down, he chopped down the two stunned Qing soldiers twice in succession, with blood spurting wildly from his mouth, but he was still laughing, "Come on, come on, kill one back, kill two and earn one!"  , Man dogs, come on!"

    Seeing Chen Raoyuan's lower abdomen pierced by two spears but still killing fiercely, all the soldiers of the Qing army around were scared out of their wits.  Seeing Chen Raoyuan spitting blood and turning his gaze to himself, a soldier of the Qing army was so frightened that he cried out on the spot, threw down his weapon and ran away, and the rest of the soldiers of the Qing army were all so frightened that their hands and feet were so weak, they were rushed up from behind Chen Raoyuan  The soldiers of the Wu army on the city wall chopped down one after another, while Chen Raoyuan, whose left arm was dangling on his chest, laughed and staggered towards the other soldiers of the Qing army, "Brothers, go! If you enter Jiujiang City, all the beauties in the city will be killed."  It's ours!"

    Encouraged by these two dutiful generals of the Wu army, the morale of the already exhausted soldiers of the Wu army was boosted again.  There are more and more black banners erected on the city walls.  Seeing this scene, the Qing army naturally began to shake and tremble, while Han Daren in the distance was ecstatic, jumped up impatiently, raised his knife and shouted at the last siege reserve team in his hand, "Brothers!  We are here! The general has an order to take down the city wall of Jiujiang, and everyone will be rewarded with three taels of silver! Kill, the opportunity to make a fortune has come!"

    "Kill!" Raising his sword and yelling, Han Daren personally led the third wave of siege troops to charge towards the crumbling West Gate of Jiujiang. Seeing that the Wu army soldiers who were hopeful of breaking the city were all brave and eager to be the first, they roared and ran faster than each other.  Soon, the tide rushed towards the city wall of Jiujiang, and the offensive was extremely fierce.

    "Han Daren has hope." Seeing this scene through the binoculars, Fatty Lu smiled, turned to Xiao Erlang next to him and said, "Erlang, let Xiaoyong put those things away, we don't need them in this Jiujiang war."  Tighten it up, don't expose it, save it for the next attack."

    Xiao Erlang agreed, and hurried down to pass the order. The generals of the Wu army looked at each other in blank dismay. Among them, Gao Dejie, who had already cleaned up the official badge battlefield and came to watch the battle, asked curiously: "Brother Lu, what are you talking about?"

    "A new siege weapon I designed." Fatty Lu replied casually: "I originally wanted to use Han Daren at the last moment, but Han Daren is still a good fighter, and he is expected to break the city.  No more."

    "A newly designed siege weapon? Then why don't you use it?" Gao Dejie asked in surprise: "If it works, our army can also avoid excessive casualties?"

    "Wrong, my newly designed siege weapon is effective, but it will only cause greater casualties to our army, not smaller." Fatty Lu replied with a smile: "So, before the critical moment, you must not use it casually.  .¡±

    "What kind of new weapon is that?" Gao Dejie asked more curiously.

    "Temporary confidentiality." Fatty Lu said with a smile: "In short, it is a dangerous weapon that must not be used indiscriminately until the last moment. You will definitely have the opportunity to see it in the future."

    "By the way, I specially designed this weapon for Han Daren." Fatty Lu added with a sinister smile, "In the future, whoever learns from Han Daren and interferes with my tactical arrangement by pretending to understand, I will let whoever uses it first  , understand?"

    Seeing Fatty Lu's smirk and triumphant expression, all Wu Jun generals, including Gao Dejie, shuddered, and murmured together in their hearts: "This weapon must be very dangerous, please don't let me use it."

    While speaking, there was a huge commotion from the direction of the city wall, and thousands of generals of the Wu army began to cheer. It turned out that the third wave of siege troops led by Han Daren had already rushed to the west gate of Jiujiang with only one charge.  Not only did Han Daren's General Yang Wei's flag be planted on the Jiujiang City Wall, Zhangtai's Mangou Dingyuan General Jingkou's flag also disappeared from the city wall.  Seeing such a scene, even Fatty Lu was extremely surprised, and said in amazement: "Han Daren charged so hard, and cut down the handsome flag full of dogs so quickly?"

    "No, Man Gou took it down by himself." Li Tianzhi saw the previous situation with sharp eyes, and introduced: "After Man Gou took down the handsome flag, he retreated to the city."

    "Fuck! Han Daren's luck is so damn good! He ran into such a cowardly and useless man dog!" Fatty Lu cursed, then immediately turned to the generals next to him and said: "Every army is ready, Manchu  The dog is likely to abandon the city to break through the siege, and we must be prepared to intercept and chase. Hutongchun, Quanjie, you two, each lead 2,000 infantry, help Han Daren fight in the street, and drive Mangou out of Jiujiang City as soon as possible  !" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.) (Remember the website URL: www.hlnovel  .com); "Fuck! This guy Han Daren's luck is really fucking good! He ran into such a cowardly and useless man dog!" Fatty Lu cursed, then immediately turned to the generals next to him and said: "Every army prepares,  Man Gou is likely to abandon the city to break through, and we must be prepared for interception and pursuit. Hutongchun, Quanjie, you two, each lead 2,000 infantry, help Han Daren fight in the street, and drive Man Gou out of Jiujiang as soon as possible  City!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.) (Remember the website URL: www.  hlnovel.com
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