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Chapter 799: Heavenly Fire in the Huangpu River

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    "I am Li Huabao! The Li Ermanzi you call me! Your fame and wealth all belong to me! Come and get it if you have the guts!" In the open space between the business area and the Qing army's front line, Li Huabao wore a white horse and a red robe.  With a golden crown, you can ride like a king.  Dozens of cavalry guards behind him, holding his recognition flag and military flag in their hands, followed closely.  The horse is a celestial horse of the same color, with bright coats, tall body, and bright saddle and bits. Even the metal ornaments shine with lovely light in the setting sun. They must be made of gold.  They are strong men. Although in the eyes of the Eight Banners of the Qing Army, these people's riding skills are average and they can at most complete basic actions such as controlling horses, driving, and avoiding obstacles on the battlefield. However, there is one advantage, and that is the formation.  Excellent guarantee!  From the time they first came out of the formation to after running back and forth for several laps, the formation was still compact and not scattered or chaotic.  At this point, even the Eight Banners Manchuria, which has always relied on the art of riding and shooting as its foundation, felt inferior.  Dozens of horsemen were on the battlefield scattered with corpses, broken vehicles, burning military flags, and scattered weapons, showing off their hatred.  More than a hundred steps beside him was the formation of the Qing Army's Green Flag Soldiers.  Tens of thousands of people stood here together.  The crowd was commotion one after another, but no one dared to step forward.  The soldiers and civilians defending the city in the business area were excited by Li Huabao's shouts.  Some people shouted to the rhythm of Li Huabao. Gradually, the soldiers, civilians, officials and businessmen in the city shouted loudly, "All your fame and wealth are here, just come and get them if you have the courage!" Dozens of gentry in the city who had not moved away, listened.  Listening to Li Huabao's shouts outside the city, they couldn't help but twirling their beards in joy. From Li Huabao's very arrogant self-proclaimed words, they got the information they wanted.  They made the right bet by staying in the business area and advancing and retreating together with Li Huabao!  From then on, he could claim that he had the qualifications to "overcome the difficulties together with the two young masters in the dangerous city of Shanghai".  With this fate of being together in the smoke of gunfire, they can do many things. They can use this, just like the mother's body transports nutrients to the fetus through the umbilical cord and promotes blood circulation, to complete their attack on Li Huabao, the most likely member of the Hongwu Army.  The transformation of the future lord who succeeded the throne made him meet their standards of a saintly lord.  According to the patriarchal system and inheritance system, Li Huabao is the eldest son born to Li Shouhan¡¯s first wife, Yan Meier.  Although he is ranked second, he is the legitimate son after all.  The eldest son Li Huayu has been killed in battle, so Li Huabao is the true eldest son.  Whether it is to establish a direct descendant or an elder, Li Huabao is a well-deserved candidate.  What is lacking is military merit.  Therefore, these officials, gentry and merchants who stayed in the Shanghai business district and never escaped must work together to help Li Huabao defend the business district.  Firstly for his own wealth, and secondly for Li Huabao to add a significant mark to the Li family's credit book.  They are all people who are familiar with history books and know how much profit can be gained from supporting a king.  Not to mention the distant Lu Buwei, the closer Yuan Taizu Temujin and Banjuni Lake Water Alliance. Anyone who went through that difficult time with him, who was not the founding father of the Yuan Dynasty?  Not to mention the heroes of the Zhu family and his son.  It was his Li family. Among all the families who followed Li Shouhan all the way from the garrison mansion, which one did not rise from a bumpkin in a remote place to a wealthy family?  They all became people who turned the clouds upside down and stirred up the storm.  There are so many senior role models, they can do it, why can¡¯t we?  !  "Get ready, fire gunners! When Li Ermanzi passes by us again, you will fire with hundreds of fire guns at once!" Someone in the Qing army finally couldn't hold it back any longer.  The commander-in-chief, Zhao Shouzhen, called the leader of his own soldiers and asked him to make arrangements.  With the cover of the crowd and flags, his two hundred gun soldiers hurriedly loaded their guns with medicine, waiting for Li Huabao to gallop past again.  "Come forward!" "Fire!" Seeing Li Huabao's recognition of the flag coming closer and closer, Zhao Shouzhen couldn't help laughing wildly. He roared and ordered his fire rifle soldiers to come up from behind the queue and fire at Li Huabao.  Suddenly, bursts of firecrackers sounded among the Qing army.  This sudden fire shot shocked both the Qing army and the Hongwu army.  There was a commotion among the Qing army. Some troops took a few steps forward, preparing to attack, while others retreated.  "Damn it! Which bastard gave the order to fire the gun?!" In the main formation of the Chinese army, General Luck Dehun was also taken aback.  He is not worried about anything else. He is just worried that once Li Huabao is hit by a fire gun, how will he face the Hongwu Army's crazy counterattack and revenge?  The defenders in the business area all fell down suddenly.  The first marshal Li Huayu fought with the Qing army and was shot to death. If the second marshal Li Huabao is also unfortunate today, how should we treat the master and explain to the world?  However, when the sound of firecrackers subsided, people were surprised to find that Li HuabaoThe hair is not damaged.  In order to announce to the people on both sides of the enemy and us, he snatched the military flag from the hands of the flag officer behind him, swung it from side to side in his hand, and shouted loudly.  "Second Marshal, please obey the destiny, God bless you!" "The Hongwu army obeys the heaven and obeys the people, God bless you!" "Lord, may the heaven be blessed with great blessings!" The soldiers and civilians in the city, if they have quick brains, they should shout out new slogans loudly.  , causing the whole city's soldiers and civilians to cheer.  For a time, the morale of the military and civilians in the commercial area reached an unprecedented height.  On the contrary, the morale of the Qing army was extremely low.  Originally!  When people hit us, someone would always fall down wherever the gunfire sounded.  But we have gathered 200 firecrackers here, and not a single pellet has touched the hem of Mr. Li's clothes!  "The southern barbarian merchants all say that Li Shouhan was chosen by the Emperor of Heaven. Wouldn't that mean he is the True Dragon Emperor? His son is naturally also in the heavens and the stars. How can this hurt him?" Some people in the Qing army gradually began to whisper.  .  There was a big battle yesterday and the Qing army was defeated.  Luck Dehun used the Eight Banners soldiers and horses to detain the armies in Huaibei, and used the armies in Huaibei to accommodate the troops surrendering from Huainan and Jiangnan.  It was not easy to gather the defeated troops.  Fortunately, Li Huabao was determined to defend the city and did not send out troops to pursue him. Otherwise, Luck Dehun would have been humiliated.  As soon as he came out of the battle today, without saying a word, Luck Dehun first tied hundreds of officers of all levels from various towns and battalions of the Green Flag Soldiers who had retreated yesterday to the backs of their horses, and ordered the cavalry to gallop and drag them to the ground.  Their screams and moans resounded in front of the entire Qing army array.  Everyone can hear the screams gradually disappearing from high to low.  After that, more than 2,000 deserters who were the first to retreat were pulled out. Each battalion and town were assigned dozens or hundreds of them, and they were beheaded in front of their own queues. Their heads were picked up with the tips of spears and placed in front of the array.  Patrol back and forth so that everyone can see it.  "This is what happens when you run away and cower before the battle!" On one side is the gold, silver, wealth, and wealth that can be obtained by desperately moving forward. On the other side, after escaping back, there are swords and axes, screams and groans, and even family members are thrown into military prostitute camps.  , the eyes of the Green Flag Soldiers began to turn red.  "I also fought against this group of Nanbarbarians in Liaodong! They were the famous Jingying Model Brigade in the former Ming Army! They were also soldiers and horses from the Nanbaran line! However, I tell you! I defeated them.  !" Yue Le also rode in front of the army to speak out and encourage the soldiers.  "Spread out the formation! The more spread out, the better! The Nanman's artillery and guns can't hit you!" "Charge up one by one! Don't be too far apart! Don't give the Nanman time to reload the cannons!" "  The sword and shield soldiers are in front, and the spear soldiers are behind! The sword and shield soldiers rush into the trench to fight hand to hand with the southern barbarians. I know that these barbarians have sharp weapons and fierce thrusts! However, they all rely on forming a formation to fight!  They can't form a formation! If you rush into the trench, you'll touch the mountains of gold and silver in the trade area!" Yue Le kept shouting, using the experience of fighting with the Model Brigade and the Qing army's experience in the Tashan defense.  They poured it all out and told the officers of the Green Flag Soldiers.  Soon, an attacking wave line appeared in front of the business area.  And Yue Le himself was once again sent to the rear team by Luck Dehun to do battlefield security.  On the way from the front formation to his own formation, Yue Le heard the sound of killing like a mountain roaring and a tsunami coming from behind.  The rumbling sound of artillery, the dense firecrackers as dense as exploding beans mixed with the explosion of grenades, the sound of curses, the cheers of rushing into the trenches, and the sounds of repeated fighting with swords and guns in the trenches.  "Hmph! The general is so stingy! It was our master's idea, but he asked him to go back and drink the northwest wind! Bah!" Several soldiers complained angrily. They saw that the Qing army followed the instructions of the Qing army.  The tactical move proposed by Yue Le opened up a very wide and sparse front line and rushed towards the business district, and the artillery fire and blunderbuss that Hongwu Army was proud of instantly lost their effectiveness.  Seeing that the Qing army was already engaged in hand-to-hand combat with Hongwu's army in the trenches, and they were expected to share the gold and silver with large bowls of wine, large pieces of meat, and big scales, but he had to accompany his master to the rear to hold down the position and serve as a battlefield guard. Naturally,  I am full of complaints.  "If you talk nonsense again, be careful of my family law!" Although Yue Le is not old, he has strict family rules and military disciplines. Now that he said this, everyone had no choice but to walk forward in anger.  I never dare to say what I just said in advance.  However, his ears were bent to listen to the faint movement on the battlefield in the distance.  Waves of cheers sounded like thunderstorms, "We're in! We're in!" "This must be the first trench that has been taken down." People were thinking to themselves on their horses.  "We've got it! We've got it!" There was another killing cry for a while.After the sound of weapons and swords and guns clashing, another burst of joyful shouts came.  "The business district is indeed extraordinary. After all, it was built by Mr. Li Guogong." Returning to his flag formation, Yue Le used the help of binoculars to carefully observe the progress on the battlefield in the distance.  After several trenches were successively conquered by the Qing soldiers who were good at fighting alone, taking advantage of the narrow terrain, the forwards had already rushed under the wall. Some were waiting for the follow-up people to move the ladders, and some were chopping hard with their axes.  Excavating the wall, trying to carve out a way to climb up.  Some people also moved wooden planks, deer posts and other objects in the trenches to one place, threw straw bags on them, and planned to use these to climb the wall.  The perforations on the wall, the bunkers and ditches unknown somewhere under the wall were spraying projectiles outwards. On the city wall, from time to time, bombardiers would throw grenades into densely populated areas, causing the Qing soldiers who had just been cheering and running to instantly  Turned into dead people and wounded soldiers holding their wounds and crying.  "Damn! These dogs! They are so crazy!" The officers and soldiers of the Hongwu Army hurriedly fought with the Qing soldiers with muskets and swords. From time to time, someone was stabbed by the Qing soldiers' swords and spears, and fell down from the wall with a scream.  In the blink of an eye, they were surrounded and devoured by the Qing army.  "What should we do! Should we go back and hold the barricade?! Rely on the fortifications in the city to deal with them?!" "Go back and hold the barricade, but these gang thieves have come in, and we will be in even more trouble!" "It's better to bite the bullet first!  Hold on! If the Second Marshal doesn't give the order, we will be decapitated if we withdraw without permission!" Several battalion officers and sentry officers were a little flustered in the face of the tidal wave of frantically attacking Qing soldiers, and they kept waving their hands.  Waist knife, slashing, slashing and stabbing.  "Let's just hold on! No matter what, we have to wait until there is a message from the eldest lady!" According to the combat deployment, the business area must firmly attract the Qing army's land troops and horses, and must wait until Li Huamei has eliminated the Qing army's navy  , and then counterattack after returning to the army.  "Pour it in! Pour it in!" Several generals who had been recruited from the poles to become the Ming army, and then suddenly became the Qing army, lost their temper. With one hand holding the flag and the other hand raising the sword, they led a group of tough henchmen to fight towards the wall.  Suddenly, the defenders in the commercial area were overwhelmed, and crises occurred frequently.  "Young men! Work harder! There is a lot of money, and the beautiful young lady is right in front of you! Kill!" The morale of the Hongwu Army here is exhausted, but the Qing Army is gaining momentum over there.  .  Since the beginning of the war today, they have given full play to their advantages in strength and quality of soldiers (good at fighting alone), and have succeeded repeatedly, so that those who were originally pushed forward will be rewarded with gold and silver, and those who retreat will die. Not only themselves  The huge contrast of dying without a burial place and involving family members made the Qing army even more energetic with red eyes.  "Master General! Master General! These Nanbarbarians are so fierce! No matter how we attack, the people on the wall fall down one row after another, but our brothers just can't attack them!" "Captain!  These braided soldiers are all red-eyed mad dogs! No matter how we attack with guns and bayonets, we just surround and attack hard and refuse to take a step back!" The mid-level officers on both sides were complaining to their superiors, and the answers they often received were:  A slap or a kick, "Stop talking nonsense! Stop talking! Get up here!" Finally, the Qing army outside the wall couldn't hold it anymore.  Under the double pressure of the huge temptation of wealth and the tragic casualties, some methods that were originally reluctant to part were also used.  "Light the torch! Throw it in for me! Set fire!" "Set fire! Burn! Burn these southern barbarians!" Outside the outer wall, there were broken wooden boards, ladders, and various offensive equipment. The Qing soldiers greeted each other with swords and axes, and it was very  He quickly turned these into piles of firewood, dipped the broken military flags in grease, and wrapped them in the firewood to create ready-made torches.  "Pile the firewood in the corner for me! Set it on fire!" The hill-like pile of firewood was carried back and forth by the Qing soldiers against the pellets and cannons on the wall. People were constantly hit by the flying pellets and fell to the ground.  Bundles of firewood were piled in the corner, and torches were thrown up. Green smoke rose and flames burst into flames.  Qing soldiers kept throwing firewood onto the fire, and some with long arms and strong arms threw torches over the wall.  "Burn! Burn it for me! Not only burn the wall, but also the house inside! It doesn't belong to me now anyway, so I won't feel bad if it is burned!" This fire has its own characteristics: in an instant, it crackles.  , flames flying, vigorous, bursts of sparks.  But in the mid-air, fire crows were flying noisily; all over the mountain, fire horses were galloping.  Two pairs of red rats, one pair of fire dragons.  Two pairs of red rats breathed out fierce flames, turning thousands of miles red; opposite fire dragons breathed thick smoke, turning all directions black.  The train rolls out and the fire gourd spreads.  The fire flag wavers and the sky glows, and the fire stick stirs and burns the ground.  What is said about Ningqi whipping an ox, and winning against the strong???lang Chibi.  After a while, several walls showed signs of collapse. The green flag soldiers outside the wall were even more arrogant. With a cry and several loud bangs, they pushed down several sections of the wall, revealing long sections of the wall.  A gap of dozens of feet!  "Kill!" "Kill in!" Thousands of Qing soldiers shouted in unison and rushed forward without waiting for the general's order.  Seeing this scene, the Hongwu officers and soldiers in the city retreated one after another.  For a time, the situation was in danger!  "I am Li Huabao! Come with me!" On the street in the city, someone shouted like a thunderstorm. While recognizing the flag, it was Li Huabao whose face was ashen and murderous. He was holding a long knife tightly in his hand, but he was holding a long knife in his hand.  An iron steel sword made in the style of a Nodachi.  "Don't think that Li Huayu is the only one in my family. Li Huabao is here now!" The hundreds of guards behind him were all orphans he took in from the Miao Yaoxidong tribe when he was in Guangxi. They were selected to be strong and strong, although they were thin and small.  But he has a strong physique and can walk across mountains and ridges as if he were walking on flat ground.  What's even more advantageous is that most of these people have been taught some martial arts skills by Taoist Master Liu Guidan.  In terms of personal fighting skills, Li Huabao's Guards Battalion should have the highest average level among the entire Hongwu Army system.  "Li Huabao is here! Come with me!" These hundreds of guards roared in unison, and their momentum was even more shocking.  With his sword raised and lowered, Li Huabao cut a fleeing Hongwu Army soldier into two pieces.  "I didn't even run away. You ran away!" "Second brother went into battle in person!" "Second brother went into battle in person!" On the street, many junior and mid-level officers cheered loudly, turned around and started to kill on the road.  "Damn it! Second brother's life is much more valuable than ours. He went into battle personally. We are afraid of a bird!" These people are all orphans adopted by Yanmei'er over the years. They are from all ethnic groups and all over the country. However, they are all in  He grew up under the care of Yanmei'er and had no worries about food and clothing.  Now he is serving as an officer in the Hongwu Army, settling down in various places in Nanzhong, marrying a wife and having children.  Although there are superiors and subordinates in the army in accordance with military orders, privately they all call Li Huabao the second brother.  Because they are all regarded as Yan Meier's adopted sons.  "Damn it! If the second brother makes a mistake, let's not talk about military law when we go back. We will be embarrassed if my mother is alone!" "Yes! When the time comes, my mother will say, where is your second brother? We must not be so ashamed.  Drown yourself in urine? ¡± ¡°Damn it! Brothers, come with me! Get these short-tailed dogs out of here!¡±  The army's retreating crowd became the spearhead of the counterattack.  Behind the ranks of officers and soldiers, there are groups of young men in mixed colors, with various weapons in their hands, some with armor and some without armor.  However, as a sign of identification between friend and foe, each person's left arm has two big characters written in yellow silk and cinnabar, "Yiyong!" These are the fleeing businessmen, the gentry who surrendered, and the servants of the officials' families in the Shanghai business district.  , a team composed of servants and disciples.  They knew very well that no matter whether the Qing army came in or something happened to Li Huabao, they would not have a good life.  Shanghai Business District, Li Huabao, no mistakes can be made, no problems can occur!  Those who have the same desire from above and below, and the same mind from left to right, win!  This is the reason why Li Huabao, wearing a white horse and a red robe, led dozens of cavalry guards to the Qing army's formation to fight in the sunset.  The fire blunderbuss fired just now did not hurt him at all, and it also boosted the morale of the Hongwu army.
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