Dominate the Country

The rain in Wuchang finally stopped, but it was getting dark. There was no renewed fighting between the two sides.

It was getting dark, and Wuchang City was once again shrouded in darkness. The streets were deserted. You could see one or two lanterns swaying in the wind, but there was no one under them. For most ordinary soldiers and civilians, although the days of fear are coming, the heavy rain has stopped at least, and it is time to have a good rest at night.

Compared with the total darkness in the city, Wuchang's city tops were filled with torches, illuminating all four city heads in the east, west, south and north as brightly as day. Teams of sergeants were still patrolling back and forth. The slightest disturbance outside the city would cause a commotion at the top of the city. The commotion would not stop until it was determined that nothing happened.

The large area outside the city that had been leveled was in darkness. Like a shadow hidden under the light, no one knows how many people inside are on guard with bright eyes.

At Zhonghe Gate, Qiu Jiashan, the chief coach of the Wuchang Militia Corps, personally led a team to patrol the city. There were Fuhan soldiers not far outside. Compared with the Qing soldiers on other city walls, the Qing soldiers here were more nervous. The soldiers on night duty had reported wrong military information several times in succession, but fortunately, it was all a false alarm in the end.

Approaching the corner of the city gate tower, a burst of footsteps could be heard. A soldier beside Qiu Jiashan quickly asked: "Who is it?"

Zhong Wannian walked out of the corner with a yellowed wind lantern: "It's me."

Seeing that it was Zhong Wannian, the soldier immediately stepped forward to say hello. In the past few days, he had followed Qiu Jiashan to Zhong Wannian Restaurant for banquets, so he was naturally familiar with Zhong Wannian. He quickly said: "Sir, it's Mr. Zhong." Qiu Jiashan, a martial arts scholar, is now on guard.

Qiu Jiashan came forward and said, "So it's brother Zhong. Why are you here at this time?" Regardless of whether Zhong Wannian's feelings for him were true or false, Qiu Jiashan was quite surprised to see him at this time.

"Brother has been working hard these past two days. My younger brother has prepared some food and wine and is here to treat him to a drink. Let him calm down his shock!"

Qiu Jiashan was silent for a while, trying to suppress his shock. He was really shocked at this moment. Shuangfeng Mountain is still lost, can Wuchang still hold on? If it hadn't rained for several days in a row, Wuchang might have been lost. "Okay, good brother, come on, come this way." Under great pressure, one always has to act wildly. Qiu Jiashan is now working as a monk for one day and clocking the clock for one day. His entire family is in Wuchang and cannot escape.

"Let's have a drink with big brother today!" Zhong Wannian smiled as richly as the Maitreya Buddha in the temple. He felt that the words "Complete the Mission" were getting closer and closer to him. After speaking, he shouted to the back: "You two, hurry up and bring your things over."

"Yes, sir."

Someone responded from behind. The two servants each held two cages in their hands. The cages were tightly wrapped in cloth, but the fragrant smell of meat could still be smelled.

"Gudong, Gudong" sounded several times, but several soldiers around Qiu Jiashan swallowed several times. Qiu Jiashan is a master himself, so he can guarantee his food. But the soldiers around him were much more pitiful. They only had the food of ordinary soldiers.

Behind Zhong Wannian were not just two people, but four people. There were two other people, one carrying wine and the other carrying two vegetable cages. These two vegetable cages were prepared for Qiu Jiashan's soldiers.

When they first started drinking, Qiu Jiashan was still talking and laughing with Zhong Wannian. However, after drinking for three rounds, Qiu Jiashan's words gradually became less and less, his brows also showed a sad look, and he sighed long and short from time to time.

"Brother is worried about the situation of the war?"

"Don't you believe it, brothers? The Fuhan Army's knife is right at our necks."

Qiu Jiashan put down the wine glass in his hand and half of the wine was spilled. "Shuangfeng Mountain is lost, and the Dadong Gate cannot be saved at all. As you have seen when you came to the city today, the soldiers have no fighting spirit, and all their strength and courage have been lost in Hongshan.

The next step is death! "

Qiu Jiashan completely lost confidence in victory. He was also involved in the Battle of Hongshan. The militia with thousands of people under his command lost 30% in one night. It was completely ruined. Now I'm just pretending to be on top of the city. The martial arts training in Hubei and Hunan in Wuchang City are all the same, especially in Green Camp. Although Zhong Wannian knew that the Qing army was killed in Hongshan and became bloody gourds, he did not know the details. After listening to Qiu Jiashan's story, he was sweating coldly. He was secretly glad that he was wise and defected to the Fuhan army early.

This is not officially invincible, it is a tie. This is a complete defeat and loss.

"Chen Ni's combat power is so strong. Then Jiangnan..., didn't the court say..."

"That's bullshit. It's a trick. Otherwise, the Gan and Yunnan soldiers heading south would have arrived long ago. How could he be just a newly recruited Hunan soldier..."

Zhong Wannian's face was filled with shock, "This is Wuchang, no, it's the Qing Dynasty. Isn't it dangerous?"

Qiu Jiashan's face was filled with sadness. He didn't answer and just drank. It was not his little regimental commander's turn to worry about the major events in the world. Qiu Jiashan only hoped that when the Fuhan army entered the city, they would not uproot the Qiu family.

Qiu Jiashan still doesn't think that the Fuhan Army can achieve great things. If Chen Ming has been spending time in Jiangnan, there is still a 30% to 40% chance. After all, they are Han people, and they have really shown their majesty. Qiu Jiashan is still willing to join them. But Chen Ming let go of Jiangnan and returned to Hubei. For Qiu Jiashan, this is naturally a bad move. Otherwise, how could he be in such a situation?

Zhong Wannian secretly shouted that the time had come, so he tried to say: "Brother, since Wuchang, no, the Qing Dynasty is in danger, how about surrendering to the Fuhan Army?"

"Surrender to the Fuhan Army..." Qiu Jiashan didn't know whether he was repeating this sentence or speaking his own words in a confused tone.

"So, big brother agreed?"

Zhong Wannian was so surprised that he was overwhelmed. He thought Qiu Jiashan was willing to surrender to the Fu Han Army, and hurriedly said.

"Agree? What did I agree to?" Qiu Jiashan's cheeks twitched, and he looked straight at Zhong Wannian, "Brother Zhong, don't talk nonsense?"

"Big brother, I'm not talking nonsense. Now Wuchang is no longer safe. If you want to live, if you want the Qiu family to avoid genocide, then you have no choice but to surrender to the Fu Han Army." Zhong Wannian's face was pale, but he still insisted on saying this.

Qiu Jiashan looked at Zhong Wannian in surprise, and the wine turned into cold sweat. He could see that Zhong Wannian was not talking nonsense, but was really trying to persuade him to rebel.

"You..., are you from the secret camp?" Qiu Jiashan looked at Zhong Wannian vigilantly, and his left hand unconsciously dropped to his waist.

Zhong Wannian picked up the wine glass and drank it all, with a bitter smile on his face, "Brother, I don't want to join either. But when I found out, it was too late to get off the boat." At this point, he simply confessed his identity.

"Brother, brother, I am just a small follower, but I know that there are more than one or two people in Wuchang who are the insiders." A loud drum does not need a heavy hammer, Qiu Jiashan should know what this means.

"Aren't you afraid that I will shout and let you die without a burial place!?" Qiu Jiashan said coldly. Zhong Wannian shook his head, "No. If I die, what good will it do to you, brother? What good will it do to the Qiu family? That will be recorded by the Fu Han Army. Will people who are recorded by the Fu Han Army be good?

Besides, I have been friends with you for these days, and I know that you are a man who values ​​friendship, and you will not bear to let me die."

It has only been a few days, and now Zhong Wannian can say "these days" without blushing, this face is enough.

Qiu Jiashan's face is very ugly. But what he said was... the truth.

"What are you going to do?" Qiu Jiashan slammed the wine glass on the table.

Zhong Wannian did not answer immediately. He stood up and filled a glass of wine for Qiu Jiashan and himself, and raised the wine glass with a pleasant face and said: "Brother, have a drink first."

Qiu Jiashan raised his head and drank it, and the suffocation was also half released. Qiu Jiashan put down the wine glass and said dejectedly: "Tell me, what do you want me to do."

"Brother, this is very simple." Zhong Wannian whispered a few words to Qiu Jiashan's ear. Qiu Jiashan's face changed several times and nodded heavily: "Okay, that's it. I don't ask for any wealth, just to keep my Qiu family safe and healthy."

"Of course, of course..."

The work of the Fu Han Army to infiltrate Wuchang is not only against the Zhao family, but also Qiu Jiashan and other people. All of these people are families whose family property is all in Wuchang City. The Fu Han army held a knife in one hand and a glass of wine in the other. It was up to them whether they would accept the toast or the penalty.

Zhong Wannian's face was full of smiles. After this glass of wine, Qiu Jiashan was completely on his side.

At dawn, the Fu Han army launched a fierce attack on Wuchang City. One hundred and fifty-five cannons completely surrounded the Dadong Gate. The Sheshan Fort was completely covered by a hail of bullets. The morale of Wuchang City, which was already low, was about to collapse completely.

In the afternoon, the Fu Han army launched a tentative attack on Wuchang City. More than a thousand people from Qiu Jiashan and the Zhao family counterattacked at Zhonghe Gate and Tongxiang Gate, and the entire Wuchang City's defense was immediately broken. The more than 10,000 Qing soldiers and braves left in the city were defeated and completely collapsed. Min Eyuan was killed in the chaos, Gong Zhaolin was captured, Aligun committed suicide by taking drugs in the Huguang Governor's Office, more than 10,000 Qing soldiers surrendered on the spot, and more than 10,000 of them were thrown everywhere. Many people from the two lakes and Hubei Qing soldiers who took off their clothes and mixed into the refugees were cleared out one after another in the following days. More than 2,000 people, and the rest were never found again.

After further interrogation, it was found that Enpu, the deputy general of Aligun's command, who had fought in Hongshan before, was no longer in Hongshan.

The entire Wuchang battle took so long for the foreplay, and there were so many uninvited guests in the middle, including Henan, Sichuan, and Hunan. But after the Fu Han Army captured Shuangfeng Mountain, minus the heavy rain in those days, there was a feeling of being done in one go. It was found that the battle against the Fu Han Army in Wuchang was really safe and there was no surprise.

"It took more than a month from Huangzhou to Wuchang. Although the intensity of the battle was average, the morale of the soldiers has dropped after such a long time, and they may still have some complaints. Everyone should give more guidance after returning. We have now taken Wuchang, and we can say that half of Hubei is in our hands. Now the Hunan soldiers are in Banzhou Bay, and Ma Mingxun's Sichuan soldiers are in Hanchuan."

"Yangtze River, Han River--" Chen Ming tapped the Hubei map behind him with a pointer. He was now in the Governor's Office of Huguang. This map was made by the Qing court.

"These two Qing armies, 40,000 people, are right at our doorstep."

"Isn't that a lot of people? But everyone should pay attention to their heavy firepower. They don't have a decent cannon."

"The Sichuan Army's cannons were all lost in Huangpi, and the Hunan Army's cannons are still in Yueyang. This is a godsend!"

Chen Ming felt a torrent surging in his heart. The 40,000 Qing troops were really tempting. And they were not even worth a bone.

If the Fu Han army wanted to fight them, they would not need to use cannons, but mortars, thunder cannons and muskets, and they would not need many soldiers to sweep them away. If the Qing army in Xiaogan did not have several thousand cavalry, Agui would also be a big meat bun.

"These two groups of Qing soldiers are two super big meat buns. Their resistance is like the skin of the meat buns. If we bite through this skin, we can eat the meat filling inside."

Chen Ming's description is exaggerated. But these two groups of Qing soldiers don't even have a decent cannon. Chen Ming can't look up to them even if he wants to. Can American soldiers look up to Iraqi soldiers? Can Chinese look up to the Golden Sun Empire and the Universe Kingdom?

Long before the night battle of attacking Wuchang began, Chen Ming said that these Qing soldiers looked aggressive, but in fact they were not a concern. The reason lies in this point. Without the gunpowder crisis, the Qing army wanted to restrain the Fu Han army, either with dense barriers and crisscrossing ditches; or with cavalry galloping. Of course, if they were equipped with one or two hundred cannons, they would also be considered a fighting force.

Sichuan soldiers and Hunan soldiers did not have any of these points. Then they were big meat buns with thin skin and big fillings.

The most beautiful thing is that these two teams were still parked by the river. The Hunan Xiang soldiers were accompanied by a navy that lacked artillery. Chen Ming ordered Chen Qi and Gao Qiao to eat up the two Qing soldiers separately, and let the navy concentrated on the Wuhan River focus on eating up the Xiang Army navy. Before the army was dispatched, Chen Ming had already had a beautiful dream - it would be great if all the Qing warships were seized.