Zuo Menggeng is the eldest son of Zuo Liangyu. He has practiced martial arts since he was a child and is proficient in bow and horse. Zuo Liangyu is illiterate, but he has put a lot of effort into his son's education. When he was three years old, he was sent to a private school to study the Four Books and Five Classics.
Zuo Menggeng didn't like poetry and songs, but was very interested in military writings and strategies. He was a man of both civil and military skills. Zuo Liangyu's subordinates all called him Young Marshal.
Zuo Menggeng brought dozens of warships across the Yangtze River to Hanyang, and went straight to the local garrison camp. Here were stationed the 20,000 infantrymen of Lu Guangzu and Li Guoying from the left. When they saw the young marshal arriving, the two generals quickly asked what was happening on the other side.
Even though these two people were Zuo Liangyu's confidants, Zuo Mengeng didn't dare to tell the truth. He kept it secret and only said that He Renlong rebelled and his father led the Chuangzi camp to resist at the shipyard.
He led the ship to the rescue. General Lu and Li were convinced. He quickly beat the drums to gather the soldiers and gathered the soldiers to board the ship. However, these soldiers were not well-trained elite soldiers. It took half an hour to gather and pick up weapons.
Even though he was slow to put on the armor, Zuo Mengeng was so angry that he shook his hands. He finally gathered five thousand soldiers. As soon as he boarded the ship, a big explosion occurred on the other side. Zuo Mengeng knew that something was wrong. As expected, not much
After meeting Li Guo, he escaped and told him that the shipyard had been lost.
Li came over, but Zuo Liangyu was nowhere to be seen. Lu Guangzu and Li Guoying suddenly became suspicious, because Zuo Mengeng and Li Guo had a good relationship and belonged to the young faction of the Zuo Army. They were as senior as He Renlong. Zuo Meng
Geng's statement about congratulating Renlong for his rebellion was only one-sided. Who can guarantee that it wasn't Zuo Menggeng and Li Guo who joined forces to rebel against his father? Even his own son may not be trustworthy these days.
After the second general hesitated for a moment, Zuo Mengeng saw the clue.
He did not stop, beheaded Lu and Li on the spot, gathered the troops, and frightened the others with his iron-blooded methods. They obeyed his orders with fear and fear. Zuo Mengeng had many warships with strong maneuverability and could
He chose to land anywhere on the other side, but he would have to face enemy cavalry after landing, so he decided to attack and recapture the shipyard first.
The Zuo Army Navy is worthy of being the most powerful force in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The giant crossbows launched by the Fireball Ship are extremely powerful. Fortunately, Zuo Mengeng still wanted to keep the equipment in the shipyard, so he did not launch the rockets. Otherwise, the shipyard would have been a sea of fire, but the death camp would not be able to survive.
The ten artillery pieces were not incompetent. Every shell accurately hit the enemy ship. After a wooden ship transporting troops was hit by a solid cannonball, the shells ricocheted randomly in the cabin, killing hundreds of people on the spot, with blood and flesh flying everywhere.
, the left army was so frightened that they did not dare to get too close.
Zuo's army was superior because of the large number of men and ships. After a period of observation, Zuo Mengeng discovered that the opponent only had ten artillery pieces, so he divided his troops into three groups and continued bombarding the shipyard to attract firepower. The other two groups landed on the left and right sides of the shipyard respectively.
At this time, on the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuchang, He Tengjiao, He Renlong, Hou Xun and others were holding telescopes to observe the battle situation. They were shocked by the number of left army warships. He Renlong saw the left army navy divided into three groups.
, one of the fleets, which was obviously a troop transport, sailed towards the open space between the shipyard and Wuchang City. Knowing that something was wrong, he immediately told the two adults: "The left army is about to land, and we must send troops to resist it." He Tengjiao.
He is a sensible person and will not interfere in military affairs by pointing fingers. He said calmly: "General He can do his own thing without reporting everything when the enemy is in front of us."
He Renlong hurried downstairs and sent a general to lead a thousand cavalry out of the city. When he encountered the left army who had just landed ashore, the team was not even lined up. The cavalry charged with their sabers and overwhelmed the landing troops. Two
With a thousand cavalry against more than a thousand lightly equipped infantry, the battle is basically no suspense.
Seeing the infantry on the beach being massacred by He Renlong's cavalry, Zuo Mengeng took back his telescope and said expressionlessly: "Send the order, continue to march towards Tujiadun." Flags were waved, and ten more troop transport ships moved towards the corpse.
Tujiadun, which is everywhere in the country, is driving away.
When He Jun's cavalry saw another enemy coming to die, they immediately felt underestimating the enemy. They retreated a few hundred steps back, leaving a distance for their horses to attack, and waited for the enemy to land. Sure enough, hundreds more leftists came ashore.
The left army jumped from the ship with a red tassel gun and landed in a serious manner. The left army pressed forward with a big bang. Unexpectedly, the opponent actually fell down, revealing the murderous crossbows on the troop carrier. Countless crossbow arrows were fired at the swarming cavalry.
Shooting, harvesting the lives of horses and knights, Zuo Mengeng is very good at using soldiers. This trick of playing hard to get is really clever. He Renlong on the city wall was seen beating his chest and stamping his feet. The cavalry were his thorns in the side, so many were lost today.
, how could he not feel distressed? It felt distressing, and wars had to be fought. He Renlong put on armor and personally led his troops out of the city to fight.
The Tujiadun landing was originally a false move. The real landing operation was carried out on a beach on the left side of the shipyard. Zuo Jun expected that the shipyard did not have enough troops to resist the landing, so he was relieved to invest 4,000 people here, and the death camp was far away.
Shots were fired on the shipyard wall, but the bullets had lost their lethality when they flew here, and they could only watch as the left army troops boarded the river bank.
Liu Ziguang had never experienced such a complicated battle, and he felt a little bit unable to use it. The opponent was very strategic, had many troops, and was highly mobile. He could choose the initiative in the battle. However, he only had 300 troops, which was not enough to defend the shipyard.
He Renlong led the cavalry to attack, but stopped three miles away from the beach. He only had 1,500 cavalry in hand. Facing the left army with crossbows, he did not dare to charge rashly. He only had a total of 1,500 cavalry in hand.
Five thousand people had already lost more than a thousand today. They still had to defend the city and keep it as political capital in the future. How could he be willing to overwhelm it so easily? He Renlong was not stupid either. He knew that Liu Ziguang's weapons were sharp.
, you can hold on without relying on his rescue, so why waste your own men.
Zuo Mengeng also guessed that it was not He Renlong's troops who occupied the shipyard, but most likely the vanguard sent by the imperial court. Since this would be easy to handle, He Jun would definitely not try his best to rescue him, so he safely ordered the infantry
Move in and attack the shipyard.
This is a typical medieval siege battle. The left army carries ladders, archers protect the two wings, the generals stand behind the formation, and the soldiers advance steadily to the beat of war drums. The weather in Wuchang is very hot, and many of them are
He didn't wear any armor, so he put on an iron helmet and rushed over with a sword and a gun.
On the wall of the shipyard, Liu Ziguang looked angrily at He Renlong's tribe in the distance. It seemed that this guy had made up his mind to sit on the mountain and watch the fight between tigers and tigers. He's tribe was an uprising force and had no clear reporting relationship with him.
Even if he doesn't come to the rescue, there is no choice. Now he can only rely on himself.
The ten artillery pieces were originally bombarding the Zuo Army's warships from the front. Now Liu Ziguang brought in four cannons to deal with the infantry. The shipyard's city wall did not have a sloping horse path like the regular city wall. There were only very steep stairs, which were difficult to pull up by manpower.
Fortunately, the shipyard had pulleys and strong cables, and the soldiers in the death battalion were many skilled engineers. They easily hoisted the cannon up with a few pulleys.
The four cannons were loaded with anti-personnel shotshells, and the soldiers were also loaded with bullets. They squatted by the crenels and aimed at the approaching enemy troops.
The soldiers of the Death Battalion were experts at using the crossbow arrows. They also used bricks to raise the front end of the crossbow to form a shooting angle. The soldiers were all calm and humming, as if they were not paying attention to the crossbows in front of them.
It’s no wonder that these four thousand men and horses are taken seriously. When they were defending Jinan, they faced hundreds of thousands of Qing troops. They defeated them in such difficult circumstances, so what enemy could they let go?
In my eyes.
The troops of the Zuo Army are as sparse as sheep shit, and even the ranks are not neatly arranged. It seems that the military appearance is extremely uneven. In fact, this is Zuo Mengeng's special arrangement. As a technical young general, he knows that dense troops are easy to deal with.
If you are heavily killed by the opponent, it is better to form a skirmish line like this.
The Zuo Army drove forward one mile away from the shipyard and began to move forward cautiously. However, what puzzled them was that the other party did not react at all. Except for the intermittently firing of artillery on the side near the river, there was silence and no movement on the city.
Not a single figure could be seen, not even a flag. There were many veterans in the left army, and they knew that the quieter it was, the greater the danger. They all raised their shields in unison and put them on their heads. The distance was getting closer and closer, and finally
The leading Baihu shouted: "Brothers, come on!" The first wave of hundreds of soldiers rushed forward in a swarm.
The death battalion remained calm. They were also veterans. They understood that the closer the distance, the greater the lethality of weapons. That is to say, they had to put the enemy close to fight so that they could fight effectively. As the left army began to attack, the walls of the city wall
Various weapons also began to show their power.
The four artillery pieces fired at the same time, and the shells shot out in a fan-shaped pattern. The left army's forwards were swept down by wind and clouds, and then there was the sound of firecrackers shooting like exploding beans. The distance was so close that more than 200 firecrackers almost missed the target.
, the left army holding up the shield was in vain, and there were heavy casualties on the spot. The Baihu who led the team was also hit by a bullet in the forehead and died. The soldiers behind threw the ladder, turned around and ran away.
"Come on! Anyone who dares to retreat will be shot to death!" Zuo Mengeng had already landed. He stood on a high place with a sword in his hand and ordered through gritted teeth.
"I don't believe that your weapons can't be finished." Zuo Mengeng stared at the shipyard in the distance and muttered to himself. Although he didn't know what force the other party used to launch such a powerful shell, he knew one thing.
There will always be a time when everything you plant is finished. The troops sent here now are not your direct line troops. It doesn't matter if you finish them off. It just consumes the opponent's ammunition.
The retreating left army was beheaded by the supervising team and attacked the shipyard again. This time they were greeted by a rain of arrows. Another defeat. The soldiers complained and there seemed to be signs of mutiny. Zuo Meng
Seeing that it was nothing, Geng ordered to remove the planks of the ship and let them carry it on their heads as they moved forward. He said that this would be able to withstand arrows. So three or five soldiers from the left army went forward and attacked with a plank of the ship on their heads. This crude method did not work.
It was effective, and the casualty rate dropped immediately. The death battalion fired all the artillery shells before annihilating this group of people under the city.
As the sound of artillery became sparse, Zuo Mengeng said to the generals: "The enemy does not have many bases left. At this time, the shipyard will be captured with a surge of air pressure." All the generals believed this. They organized their elite troops and prepared to launch the final attack.
attack.
"Commander, the cannonballs are finished!"
"Commander, there are no bullets on the left wing!"
"Commander, there are no more bullets on the right wing!"
At the top of the shipyard, the soldiers of the death battalion reported to Liu Ziguang one after another. He just snorted coldly, and his determined voice rang out: "The death battalion, fix your bayonets!"