Dominate the Country

It was getting darker, and the winter sky looked even deeper and darker against the backdrop of the sad mood of the two Qing officials, Fu Seng'e and Fuerle, making people feel the loneliness and desolation unique to winter nights. A few stars were dancing in the distant sky, and the sky was as dark as if it was painted with ink.

An extremely sharp question was placed in front of the two people, how to fight the battle of Tianjin City tomorrow?

"Hailancha has sent troops across the canal, and they will attack Caozhuang tomorrow." So Hailancha asked them to hold on to Tianjin City.

After listening to Fu Seng'e's words, Fuerle shook his head sadly, "The morale of the army is very bad, and there is no fighting spirit. If Chen Ni attacks Tianjin with all his strength, I am afraid he can't even hold on for a day." Fuerle's face was full of bitterness, which was heavier than eating bitter melon.

"Can Hailancha conquer Caozhuang tomorrow and kill Chen Ni's ass?" Fuerle was very pessimistic during the battle. The rich monk was even more pessimistic about the battle situation, shaking his head, "As long as Chen Ni's shells (rocket bombs) are still there, they are invincible."

"Then send a letter to Hailancha. No matter what, he must move behind Chen Ni before noon tomorrow, otherwise Tianjin will be in danger."

"Also put the cavalry in the east of the city, just in case."

As the two biggest bosses of the Qing army in Tianjin, the two rich men's confidence has dropped to this level, how low is the morale of the entire Qing army? In the middle of the night, Chen Ming entered the west of Tianjin City, looked at Tianjin City, and found that the morale of the Qing army had become as illusory as steam, but was evaporating and dissipating all the time.

Chen Ming laughed and left the outside of Tianjin City. Tomorrow, he will definitely be able to step into Tianjin City. Chen Ming firmly believes in this. The guards and staff around him were encouraged by Chen Ming's loud laughter and were full of confidence in tomorrow's battle in Tianjin.

But in the middle of the night, Chen Ming was suddenly awakened by Liu Wu because an uninvited guest came to a place not far from the Fu Han Army.

"Your Highness, Hailancha personally led his troops into Haojiatai." Haojiatai is southwest of Sanchahekou, and Tianjin City is south of Sanchahekou, and the two are ten miles apart.

Chen Ming's hazy sleepiness disappeared instantly, "What about Caozhuang? How many people did Hailancha bring?"

"No news has been received from Caozhuang, but there was no big gunfire there. It should be blocked by the Qing army. Hailancha's troops have at least 5,000 infantry and cavalry."

"Hailancha didn't bring heavy artillery?" Chen Ming immediately heard Liu Wu's absolute answer, "No."

The sudden news is very disadvantageous to the Fu Han Army's actions tomorrow. If the Fu Han Army lets the Qing Army act tomorrow, he will transfer from Haojiatai to Houtai and can directly enter Tianjin City from the south of Tianjin City. The Fu Han Army relies on heavy firepower to fight, and it is very unfavorable for the Fu Han Army to fight in the area of ​​​​the interlaced water network in the south of Tianjin City. So Chen Ming first took over the Sancha River estuary, so that the team could not only attack Tianjin from the west, but also the north of Tianjin would be under the attack of the Fu Han Army.

"The combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners New Army under Hailancha is still good." Although the combat effectiveness and fighting spirit cannot be compared with the main force of the Fu Han Army, nor can they be compared with the Green Camp training army in Tianjin City, if an Eight Banners New Army is allowed in, the Tianjin Qing Army is very likely to have a backbone, and the result of one plus one is greater than two. Chen Ming's brows, which had not been frowned when he heard the news of the Russian intervention, twisted slightly at this time.

Dabei Temple, Chen Ming's command base, is also a very famous jungle temple in the north of Tianjin City. The abbot, Fan, did not fall asleep at all. He sat cross-legged on the cloud bed and silently turned the rosary in his hand. The room was dark, and the breathing of the monks in deep sleep could be clearly heard. Since Chen Ming settled in the Dabei Temple, the entire temple has been under martial law.

Lefan and more than 20 monks and samaneras were gathered in the four most remote rooms in the backyard.

Suddenly, they heard a noise outside, and then saw lights on in the rooms outside. Lefan's mind moved slightly, and then he turned the beads silently. If it weren't for his fingers moving the rosary, the whole person would be like a clay sculpture.

Several monks in the room must have been awakened, but Lefan didn't move, and no one moved, just pretending that the outside was a fantasy.

The sky turned gray, and the noise outside was louder. When the blue-gray color gradually faded, a neat sound of footsteps shook the ground, and along with the footsteps came a loud military song.

Not long after, the door was knocked from outside, and then a bucket of hot water and two small buckets of food were brought in. One bucket was filled with rotten rice porridge, the lower half of the other bucket was cabbage, radish, pickles, and the upper half was more than a dozen steamed buns.

The old monk opened his eyes at this time and saluted the two Fu Han soldiers who delivered the food. "Thank you for your help, benefactor."

The two soldiers who delivered the meal were both guards around Chen Ming. "Master, don't worry. It was only yesterday and one night. Today, our army can enter Tianjin City." Then, of course, there is no need to occupy the Dabei Temple anymore.

Lefan watched the two soldiers leave, and said silently in his heart: "The Qing Dynasty is over..." The "natural" confidence of the Fu Han Army is really strong in the Western Paradise. Then, as if he thought of something, he smiled faintly and said to the monks on his left and right: "Let's eat." Who cares whether the Qing Dynasty will perish or not? Monks, cut off the worldly ties, and end the worldly ties!

And Hailancha, who didn't sleep all night like Lefan, was also holding a telescope to observe the Fu Han Army not far away. Chen Ming sent Lu Long with the brigade headquarters and a regiment of the 14th Brigade to press directly towards Haojiatai. The team also did not carry heavy artillery, but it definitely had rocket troops.

Hailancha would not stand still and be bombed.

Hailancha found that the Fu Han army was coming aggressively, so he asked the troops to give up some unnecessary things and move to the south of Tianjin. On the other hand, he concentrated all the rifle shooters in his hands to delay the speed of the Fu Han army in the form of skirmishers. At the same time, he left a cavalry as a backup for the skirmishers.

Hailancha himself also led a cavalry of three or four hundred people to the northwest of the Fu Han army, tying down the energy of the Fu Han army.

Unlike the impending war in Tianjin, in Yangliuqing Town, a large number of Eight Banners New Army were rushing south. They were divided into two groups, one directly across the floating bridge on the river, and the other dragged heavy cannons and rushed south to cross the canal from the southern stone bridge.

At the critical moment when Tianjin was really dangerous, Hailancha gave up the plan to capture Yangliuqing and Caozhuang, but left a part of the troops to guard, and the main force gradually turned to the outside of Tianjin. At this moment, outside Yangliuqing, just like outside Caozhuang, Hailancha left two or three thousand people.

He had no intention of poking the Fu Han army in the ass, but wanted to rush the troops into Tianjin City first, at least to ensure that Tianjin would not be lost. Even the most brainless person could imagine the shocking impact on Beijing if Tianjin was lost. Besides, wasn't the Fu Han army's plan to capture Tianjin, then Dagu, and open up the sea route?

Outside the north gate of Tianjin, Shi Meng held up a monocular telescope and carefully looked at the Qing army's deployment. There didn't seem to be many Qing troops on the top of the city, and except for the muzzle in the corner tower, there was no cannon between the battlements.

"We now have about 800 rockets and rocket shells of all kinds." The number in Shi Meng's mouth was the number after deducting the reserve. Those reserve were the confidence of Chen Ming to fight all the way back to Cangzhou. Unless he was at the end of his rope, he could only watch and not move.

"More than 800 may seem like a lot, but in fact they are pitifully few. With the speed of rocket launchers, 15 rocket launchers can fire 90 rockets at a time!" Shi Meng's eyes swept across the faces of the regiment commanders and deputy regiment commanders on the left and right. After Gao Jinghui and Lu Long were left in Yangliuqing and Caozhuang respectively, Shi Meng, the only remaining brigade commander, was the front-line commander promoted by Chen Ming to unify the command of the attacking forces.

"My opinion is to go all out, without dragging your feet, launch a saturation attack at one time, blow up the courage of the Tartars, and then resolve the battle with bayonets." Shi Meng, who is already in his forties, still has a "miner" in his personality. He clearly remembered what Chen Ming said, that the Qing army in Tianjin City had become as timid as chickens.

Just as Hailancha was circling Lu Long, and just as the sporadic gunfire from Haojiatai continued to ring, suddenly there was a huge roar from the direction of Tianjin, and Hailancha stared at the people of Tianjin in a daze. Such a violent explosion, such a fierce bombardment, this is much more violent than Yangliuqing.

"Boom..." A rocket that fell into the room exploded suddenly, and the whole building was like a balloon that was blown up. In an instant, smoke and dust overflowed from the windows and doors, and then the bulging walls, broken beams, wooden pillars, countless bricks and wood fragments splashed, and the whole house collapsed.

Rockets fell into Tianjin City without continuity, and then rocket artillery quickly moved towards Tianjin. When rocket artillery shells fell into Tianjin North City, the explosions were more dense and rapid than heavy rain.

The explosion of each rocket was soul-stirring, and houses collapsed and damaged. The corpses of Qing soldiers and panicked people were scattered.

In the ruins of the explosion, the injured were pressed under bricks and wood, groaning and screaming. The dead were bloody and mutilated.

A few minutes later, the inner part of Tianjin North City was also covered by the artillery fire of the Fu Han Army. That was the busiest place in Tianjin. Powerful rockets fell one after another, and most of the houses nearby were blown up or collapsed. A fire broke out in the north city. The dead were scattered everywhere, and blood dyed Tianjin red.

But not all the people fled their homes before the war. The fire at the city gate affected the innocent people. While the Qing army guarding the north city cried for their parents, the blood of the people was also spilled on the ground. But who cares about the two warring parties?

The whole world was shaking and shaking violently.

More than 800 rockets of various types were destroyed in just a quarter of an hour. The tank battalion was the first to rush into the smoke-filled Tianjin City.

Fu Seng'e and Fuller blocked the city gate with sandbags and stone slabs, but it was useless. The city wall of Tianjin City had been soaked by floods, and it had long been reduced from 35 feet to 24 feet. However, the city foundation was 32 feet wide, which was the only one in the country.

More than 40 years have passed since the construction in the third year of Yongzheng's reign. Many parts of the city are in ruins, and soldiers and messengers walk over the battlements as if they were walking on flat ground.

The soldiers of the tank battalion climbed up the city wall with a simple long ladder. Standing on the city wall, they could not see the situation in Tianjin, because the smoke and dust had not yet dissipated. The Qing soldiers who had not yet woken up saw the tall and strong tank battalion soldiers wearing iron armor rushing down. They either raised their hands to surrender or ran away in panic. There was not even one person in ten who dared to take up arms to resist.

"Charge..."

"Kill..." The wolf-like shouts of the Fu Han Army resounded throughout Tianjin.

"Run..."

"Escape, escape. Chen Ni is killing his way into the city..." These were the cries of the Qing soldiers.

Some soldiers quickly stepped forward to blow up the north gate, and then carried the sandbags and stones that blocked the gate. A large number of Fu Han soldiers climbed up the city wall with long ladders, and then rushed down the city wall fearlessly with bayonets raised, and rushed into Tianjin City.

Chen Ming saw that the morale of the Qing army in Tianjin quickly became scattered and messy from the beginning of "light smoke", and the "light smoke" quickly dissipated over Tianjin like the morning mist illuminated by the sun.

"Oh my!" So rough, so... sharp!

Chen Ming was also a little stunned. He really couldn't find a suitable word to describe the scene in front of him, because Chen Ming himself didn't dare to "go all out" like this. But looking at the result, such a simple and rough blow just took the life of the Qing army in Tianjin.

"General, let's go quickly." Fu Seng'e's Goshha persuaded Fu Seng'e, who was a little discouraged. The shouts of the Fu Han army were heard at the door, but Fu Seng'e still looked like "nothing to live for". The last middle-aged military officer with a red opaque glass and a single-eye flower feather hat hugged the rich monk and shouted, "Hurry up and carry the adults away!"

When danger comes, the first moment is the most terrifying. So the Qing army in the north of the city was completely dispersed, and the Qing army that was rolled back by the Qing army in the north of the city was also dispersed. However, the Qing army cavalry deployed in the east of the city rushed out of the city in a panic, and then a team was separated to follow Fuller's order to attack the Fu Han army outside the north of the city. As a result, after being hit by more than a hundred rockets, they fled in a panic.

With batches of Fu Han troops entering the city, the northern city of Tianjin gradually stabilized.

The Tianjin people who were scared to death by rockets shouted, ran, and ran around in the streets and alleys. Some people who were frightened ran out of the house, ran into the house, and ran out again, running around in a panic, as if there was an arrow chasing him from behind, and he would die if he didn't run.

Until they calm down or are caught by the Fu Han Army.

War is painful and miserable for every civilian. In places that Chen Ming cannot see, countless civilians fell in pools of blood, and countless women and children were also caught in it. The whistling rockets dragged long rays of light across the sky, brilliant and gorgeous, but they brought extremely real death.

The northern city of Tianjin was full of smoke and chaos. Carriages and artillery carts were entangled, and cattle, horses, livestock, cats and dogs were all startled and panicked. One foot trampled on the injured, just to make themselves faster for a second. There were painful groans everywhere. Even many people were scared to death. When the sound of explosions faded, when the shouting and killing cooled down, the noise in Tianjin City was still there.

A mother fell in a pool of blood, with her husband and eldest son beside her, and a baby without a head in her arms. There were three small packages scattered around the family of four, pieces of clothes scattered in the pool of blood, and a few black and yellow grain cakes...

Tianjin City was easily captured by the Fu Han Army. A large number of Qing troops chose to surrender, and the remaining people ran to the East Gate and the Junliang City. After the cavalry under Fuller suffered a defeat in the east, they did not interfere with the Fu Han Army outside the north city. They supported the defeated soldiers in the city and retreated to the Junliang City.

The Fu Han Army soldiers turned to clean up the chaos in the city.

"Bang..." A man with untidy clothes burst out a blood flower on his vest and fell to the ground.

In a small courtyard not far from this man, a father and son, one big and one small, fell in a pool of blood in the yard, and through the open door, you can see a female corpse with torn clothes on the Eight Immortals Table at the door.

"Qin Daqizi, you are not worthy of a beating..."

In another two-story house, a tough man was forced to kneel on the ground by two Fu Han soldiers. At this moment, the man looked up at a person not far away, his eyes full of viciousness. In this small courtyard, there were five or six people kneeling, and another four people fell in a pool of blood.

Qin Jingwen smiled coldly, "I am not good enough, not a good friend? Bah. Look at you guys, you bastards. You took advantage of the chaos to rob and kill people, and raped women and children. If we don't kill you, our Fu Han army will have no law!"

"Fuck you. Qin Daqizi, you two-faced man, what did you say when you used my brothers? Let bygones be bygones. Now you go back on your word? You Fu Han soldiers have robbed and made enough, and you don't want me to have a sip of soup after eating meat..." The man was obviously not convinced.

"Dog meat is not something that can be put on the table." Qin Jingwen was too lazy to waste words with this man, and reached out to pull out the knife from his waist, "You can only take what we give you, and you can't touch a cent of what we don't give you, no matter how good it is."

"Who do you think you are?"

"Remember this sentence well, reincarnate in the next life and be a new person, don't be so stupid, Bei'er." The knife flashed, and blood spit on his trouser legs.

"This, this, and these two, all solved. The rest will be thrown into the labor camp." Qin Jingwen pointed at the four people with fresh blood on their hands in the remaining crowd, and his face was full of vigor.

Tianjin was "liberated", and he could stand out openly and take a breath.

Stunned, Hailancha retreated to the south of Tianjin. Tianjin City was lost so easily. From the time the Fu Han Army started the bombardment to the occupation of the entire Tianjin City, it took an hour?

"Fu Seng'e, Fule..." Hailancha repeated these two names in his mind as he rode his horse southward. If they were in front of him at this moment, Hailancha could strangle them to death.

The Tianjin city in the distance was still filled with smoke, and the Fu Han army of Haojiatai was still fighting with the rifle shooters of the Qing army, but the war was over. Hailancha was really miserable.

"Your Highness, the naval landing force has entered Qilihai. Should we let them attack Junliangcheng?"

"No. Let them come to Tianjin quickly."