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Chapter 342

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    At half past three in the morning on March 18th, the damn heavy rain finally stopped. Brother Sun, who had been bullied by Sister Wuyun for a long time, finally got out of the clouds, showing a warm and bright smile, and as time went by, the gray-black rain  The clouds were gradually blown away by the mountain wind, revealing the blue sky and white clouds that had not been seen for a long time, which also showed that this afternoon must be a rare good weather.

    "Oops, why did the rain stop so quickly?" Seeing the weather like this, the Qing army in Luzhou, which temporarily blocked the Fatty Army's attack thanks to the help of the weather, all complained, and the coach Jie Shu complained even more, knowing that it was so sunny  As long as the weather is sunny for a day or two, the heavy artillery of the Fat Man Army can get rid of the muddy ground, reach the foot of Liutang Mountain, and blast the Qing army's easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack camp into ruins.

    "Order all the armies to be ready to move at any time, give priority to the transfer of food, grass and gunpowder, and give up the rest of the luggage." In desperation, Jie Shu had to make the worst preparations, and grabbed his right-hand assistant Wang Zhiding,  He told him: "From now on, you will be in charge of our army's scouts. You must closely monitor every move of Wugou's main force. Once you find Wugou's heavy artillery crossing the river, report to me immediately."

    "Cover." Wang Zhiding respectfully agreed, and when he was about to go down to make arrangements, a Qing army scout hurried up from the foot of the mountain, and rushed into the Qing army camp almost rolling and crawling.  Seeing his anxious appearance, Jie Shu, Wang Zhiding, and Jue Luo Bal couldn't help but their hearts jumped, and they all had a bad premonition.

    "My lord, my lord, something's wrong! Something's wrong!" Sure enough, the scout stumbled to the front and back of Jie Shu, and before he had time to salute, he paled and screamed: "My lord, we must go through the road on the way back to Chuzhou.  Somehow, a Wugou army appeared on the top of Ludong Mountain! It has seized the highland of Dongshan, condescendingly strangled the Chuzhou official road, and is already cutting down trees and pushing stones to block the official road!"

    "Wu Dog's army seized Dongshantou?" Jie Shu jumped up, his eyes widened, and he exclaimed in disbelief: "How is it possible? Wugou flew over? To go to Dongshantou, you must pass by my willow."  The road below Tangshan Daying, didn¡¯t you set up scouts on the official road last night?¡±

    "Return to the lord, the scouts are in charge of the servants, and the servants have arranged them." Wang Zhiding replied with an incredulous face: "The servants not only arranged the scouts, but also sent out secret sentries. The fear is that Wu Dog will sneak into our army's back and cut off our army's retreat.  Last night, the servant braved the heavy rain to patrol twice, and found nothing unusual."

    "Then how did Wu Gou infiltrate behind us?" Jie Shu slapped the table and roared, "Do you know that when we withdrew our troops back to Chuzhou, there was only one official road to go, if this official road was cut off by Wu Gou  Now, we are the turtles in the urn!"

    "Could it be that Wu Gou detoured to the top of Dongshan by a small path?" Military Counselor Ji Ertabu interjected, "But it rained so heavily last night that you couldn't see your fingers. It is impossible for Wu Gou's army to go around the top of Dongshan by a small path.  ?¡±

    "It's possible!" Wang Zhiding finally came to his senses, and screamed, "We all forgot one important thing. Wugou's elite soldiers are all Yunnan-Guizhou soldiers and Guangxi soldiers, and they are best at walking the mountain path! Especially the Wugou in Wugou's team.  Soldiers, crossing mountains and walking trails is the same as flying! It must be Lu Yifeng's dog thief who specially selected such mountain soldiers, organized them to take cover on rainy nights, walked behind us by trails, and cut off our way back!  "

    "Fucking Lu Yifeng's bastard!" Jie Shu yelled, slapped the table and shouted, "Hurry up and go down the mountain, before the main force of the Wu dog can catch up, quickly take back the highland at the top of Dongshan and open the official road, otherwise  , we're all done!"

    Jie Shu's order was given a little late-but then again, it was too late to give it early.  Almost at the same time that the Qing army discovered that the mountain special forces of the fat army had descended from the sky, Wang Xu, the general of the fat army, had already led 10,000 infantry across the river and rushed towards Liutang Mountain first. After receiving the news, Jie  Qing army generals such as Shu and Wang Zhiding inevitably paled, knowing that their own army had fallen into a dilemma. At this time, they pulled out their camps and retreated. There were obstacles before them and pursuers after them.  But if you don't withdraw your troops, you can still smash the Qing army's camp to pieces when the fat army's heavy artillery is transported across the river!

    Ten thousand steps back, even if the fat army didn't have to bombard the battalion heavily, the Qing army whose food road was cut off would starve to death!  Facing a dilemma, Jie Shu was quite military-minded, and Wang Zhiding and Ji Ertab were also resourceful. They also felt helpless for a while and didn't know how to deal with it.

    "My lord, we have only two options." After repeated calculations, Ji Ertab suggested to Jieshu: "One is to immediately go down the mountain to break through, send an elite army to the rear, break through Wu Dog's block at any cost, and return to Chuzhou. Two  It is to abandon the supply of food and grass, and retreat to Chuzhou by small roads, bypassing Wu Dog's interception."

    "Both roads cost casualties.Therefore, even though there were very few fat soldiers on the city wall, the prince of Zhangtai County had to break through the first urn city, but he had to break through three gates before he could really enter Nanjing City!  Fortunately, the soldiers of the Fat Man Army had already closed the last three city gates in time, forcing the prince of Zhangtai County to blow up one city gate after another. With such a little precious time, he was completely caught off guard.  The soldiers of the Fat Man Army finally made the correct adjustments. While quickly summoning the troops in the city to go to the city for rescue, they frantically launched a counterattack, frantically throwing grenades to blow up the Qing cavalry in the Urn City.

    "Boom!" There was another loud noise, the second city gate was blown to pieces by the Qing army, and the Qing army rushed into the second urn city. Qin Yong, who came to his senses, quickly ordered to block the passageway of the urn city with sacks of boulders, but in a hurry  And how can you find so many sacks of boulders?  While he was at a loss what to do, a fat soldier had an idea, and quickly pointed to the truck in the second urn and shouted: "General, push the truck into the corridor of the city gate, light it on fire, and it will block the dogs!"

    "Yes! Yes!" Qin Yong finally came to his senses, and hurriedly sent soldiers to push the trucks abandoned by the people, pushed them into the city gate corridors, blocked them, and then set them on fire.  But at this time, the gate of the third Urn City was also blown open by the Qing army. The Qing army cavalry shot arrows one after another when they saw the Fatty Army pushing trucks blocking the road. The soldiers of the Fatty Army in the Urn City suffered heavy casualties.  It was broken through by the cavalry of the Qing army, and the third city gate was also broken through, and the Qing army rushed into the third urn city.

    "If the last city gate can't be defended, Nanjing will be finished!" Seeing this scene, Qin Yong was so nervous that he could hardly breathe, and closed his eyes almost in despair.

    "Hurry up, there is only the last city gate left!" The prince of Zhangtai County, who had been to Nanjing, swung his knife and shouted fiercely, "Quick! Blast this last city gate, and all the beautiful women in Nanjing will be ours!  Ah, what are you still doing?"

    "My lord, we are out of explosives." Zhu Man next to him stammered.

    "What? No more explosives?" The prince of Zhangtai County almost couldn't believe his ears, and shouted: "The two thousand catties of explosives we brought are all used up?"

    "It's all used up." Zhu Man said with a sad face: "Brothers didn't expect that there would be so many gates in Nanjing City. When the three gates were bombed just now, they were all used up."

    "Bastard!" The prince of Zhangtai County was also impatient, and slapped Zhuman's face hard, and shouted with red eyes: "Didn't this prince tell you that every gate of Nanjing City has three urns and four gates?"  Dao City Gate?"

    "My lord, when did you tell the servant?" Zhuman replied with a very aggrieved face covering his face.

    "Really?" The prince of Zhangtai County looked blank. When he recalled carefully, he realized that he had never told his confidant Zhuman who mastered explosives that there were three urns and four gates in Nanjing City.  But our prince of Zhangtai County came back to his senses very quickly, raised the whip and lashed at Zhuman, cursing at the same time, "You dog slave! Even if this prince didn't tell you, you should save it! You should  Just ask my lord! You used up two thousand catties of explosives in no time! How do we fight next? How do we fight?"

    "My lord, I have never been to Nanjing, and I never knew that there are so many city gates in Nanjing!" Zhuman replied aggrievedly: "I have been working in a small place before, and I have never seen any city gate with three urns.  , I thought that Nanjing City, like Anqing City, has only one urn and two gates! And the slaves are already very economical, if the slaves hadn¡¯t saved a little, we wouldn¡¯t even be able to blow up the third gate!¡±

    "Dog slave, are you still stubborn?" The prince of Zhangtai County was almost mad, knowing that there was only the last gate left, and as long as the last gate was blown up, the job would be done, but there was no explosives.  Isn't this frustrating to death?

    "My lord, we still have a chance!" In order not to be beaten to death by the lord of Zhangtai County, Zhuman hurriedly shouted: "We still have some gunpowder for muskets and grenades captured from Wugou in our team, collect them all  , should be able to blow up this last city gate!"

    "Then why are you still in a daze? Why don't you hurry up?" the prince of Zhangtai County roared.

    Zhuman nodded and bowed in agreement, and quickly asked the soldiers to take out the black powder and grenades and pile them up at the last city gate.  It was also at this time that Qin Yong finally came back to his senses, and hurriedly shouted: "The explosives full of dogs are used up! Quick, quick! Go to two people and organize the people to block the city gate. Others, blow me up hard!"  Full of dogs! No matter what kind of firearms, they are all open! Throw all the gunpowder packs for cannons!"  Recommendation tickets, monthly tickets, your support is my biggest motivation.) (Remember this site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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