Chapter 560: The Moment of Death
The Battle of Tashan, which was the focus of all parties in the Ming and Qing dynasties, came to an abrupt end when the climax of the cadenza was played like a magnificent symphony. Leave everyone stunned and overwhelmed.
As a direct subordinate unit of Li Shouhan, the commander of the Southern Guangdong Army, the Guards Brigade, like the Phoenix Battalion and the Dongfan Soldiers, is a unit belonging to the Li family system and is only loyal to Li Shouhan himself. And unlike those troops, the Guards Brigade was crazy and arrogant.
Crazy or arrogant, the Guards Brigade has his reasons. As the core of the entire Nanyue Army, whenever there is a big battle, when the battle is stalemate for a while and it is difficult to break through, or when there is a fleeting fighter on the battlefield, Shouhan will always take the Guards Brigade. Let them open the way to victory for the whole army.
There are so many such achievements, how can the Guards Brigade not be crazy? Not arrogant?
And equally arrogant are the four battalions of the naval division land battalion. The four battalions led by Shi Lang were very consistent with the fighting style of the Xuanwu Battalion back then, and their slogan was "If you don't enter, you will die!" "It's no wonder that these naval divisions and land battalions are either jumping gangs to engage in broadside battles or landing under enemy artillery fire, how can they retreat with a little timidity? As long as you retreat, you will be defeated.
Such two troops attacked from Hongluo Mountain, and the two white flags and four armor armor guards defending in the direction of Baitai Mountain were in danger!
Unlike the model brigade and the Guanning Army, which are copycat units that have learned some tricks, as the elite guards brigade and navy division and land battalion of the entire Nanyue Army, they are more proficient in the tactical use of the Nanyue Army and have stricter military discipline. The combination of weapons and troop tactics in the hands of man and troops has become more close, and the terrifying combat effectiveness has been brought into full play.
According to the traditional tactics of the Nanyue Army, the artillery first combed the ranks of the clothed soldiers with cannonballs, and after 100 shells unscrupulously rampage through the ranks of the clothed armor in the southernmost side. The naval division and land battalion began to take the large battalion as a unit, set up an offensive formation, and slowly stepped forward to use projectiles and bayonets to teach the coaters on the opposite side a lesson, telling them how to use firearms!
Nearly 100 people were killed on the spot by the dense shells, and 2 or 300 were wounded. The lead bullets of the naval division and the land battalion hit head-on.
According to the thousand-character text on the "Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Universe Flood Wilderness" in the order of the sailor Lu Ying, rushing to the front is the Tianzi Battalion. According to the firing formation, the large battalion of nearly 1,000 people lined up in two columns, almost following the ballistic trajectory of the shells, and ran towards the formation of the clothed soldiers.
Originally, there were dozens of heavy artillery pieces in the Baoyi soldiers, but the so-called heavy artillery in the mouth of the Liaodong anti-thieves was, of course, not the kind of Crane cannon that fired dozens of pounds of the Southern Guangdong Army, let alone a mortar that fired more than 100 pounds of heavy shells, but less than 12 pounds. Field guns with mostly eight-pounder guns. But even these artillery teams were transferred by the Duoduo to the front of the Tower Hill Line to reinforce the firepower there, leaving the Clothed soldiers with only small cannons such as six-pounder guns.
Without artillery to provide fire support for themselves, watching the authentic Nanyue army on the opposite side rush towards him like the waves of the sea, he couldn't help but make these already worried soldiers panic, if it weren't for the Manchurian masters next to them carrying sabers and leather whips woven from raw cowhide, desperately suppressing the position. I'm afraid that someone will re-display his housekeeping skills in the Ming army, turn around and run.
The frozen ground and smoke from the shells have not yet completely dissipated. Those Nanyue troops had already rushed to the front of the clothed soldiers.
"Raise your gun!"
Look at the fact that the Nanyue army is less than thirty steps away from him and has no intention of stopping, the two three Niu Lu Zhang Jing Guohan's eldest son Haiertu and Wei Qi's sons Zhuo Butai and Baha (these two guys are surnamed Guerjia, they are not very famous, but their eldest uncle Fei Yingdong is the earliest team to follow Nurhachi to raise an army. The two of them also have a brother, who is already known as the first Baturu in Manchuria at this time. I couldn't help but be overjoyed and exchanged glances with each other. Immediately ordered his subordinates to open a formation of ambush tigers and open mountains, ready to meet the enemy!
Most of the firearms equipped by these clothed soldiers were made by Chen Banda in the style of the Nanyue military guns captured by Dolgon, with black and thick pipes and flint hair. The same patina was used as the propellant. In addition to the lack of springs and the high rate of mute fire, it is almost the same as the fire guns of the Southern Yue Army. (Because Chen Banda's elaborate flintlock fire gun has no spring as a help, the mute fire rate is basically maintained at about 8 or 9 percent, while the authentic Nanyue military gun has a mute fire rate of only 23 percent.) οΌ
With Haiertu's command, the six or seven hundred firecrackers of the three Niu Lu strictly followed the formation change of the Fuhu Mountain Formation, and pulled the trigger to fire one after another, and the gunpowder burning smoke quickly diffused and condensed into a similar solid above their heads, and the sound of guns rose and fell in all directions, so that they themselves could not hear their own guns. I felt that there was a little scarlet fire flickering in the smoke from time to time, and then I heard the muffled snort and the sound of people falling to the ground from the ranks of the Nanyue army opposite.
Rao is Zhuo Butai was born in the Guarjia clan, and he is conceited and brave under the influence of his brother Aobai on weekdays, but at this time, he can't do it under the enemy's dense rain of bullets against the projectiles flying around.
Finally, the sound of neat and heavy footsteps stopped, and from the queue came the sound of an incomprehensible password from Haiertu and Zhuo Butai, and the dense firecrackers were lifted by the soldiers of the naval division and land battalion, and the dense firecrackers, as well as the three-edged sleeve spurs that had been put on the guns, and the eight-petaled hats and iron-tipped helmets of the firecrackers sparkled in the rising sun.
"Fire!"
With the command that Haiertu and the others could understand, nearly a thousand firearms from the two columns of firecrackers opened fire at the same time, and a smoke that was several times stronger than the few shots fired by the clothed soldiers suddenly rose above the Tianzi Battalion queue.
Unlike the Fuhu Mountain Formation, which took turns to shoot and make the firepower endless, the Southern Guangdong Army's queue to concentrate fire and shoot was to cause the greatest lethality in the shortest possible time. Only a row of guns had passed, and within a distance of more than twenty paces, six or seven small phalanxes had formed into a small phalanx, and the clothed soldiers, who had come forward like spinning wheels, rolled all over the ground, and let out a howl of pain that only a wild beast could utter when it was dying.
In the flames of the gun. In the neatly lined up formation, the ground was littered with corpses and wounded, the hot blood melted the snow beneath him, and the original yellow weeds and sand were dyed a pool of blood-red.
Haiertu, who followed him after entering the customs, participated in the defeat of the peasant army He Zhen. Breaking through the battle of Yuan Tao's department, he became the commander of the Han army with the blue banner, Melle Ezhen, and the squire of the household department, and was immediately promoted to the successor of the Manchurian nobles of Gushan Ezhen in this banner, and was also hit in the face by several rushing lead bullets, shattering his head. The Haiertu, who inherited the third-class marquis in history and followed the Dingxi general Beile Dong E to conquer the army of the Northwest King and Fuchen, died in this way. He never died in the military camp of Yungui and Wu Sangui, but he died on the battlefield of Liaodong decades earlier.
Dolgon, who was driven to madness by Xia Shu's fierce attack behind him and the Ming army in front of him beating Duoduo fiercely, received a series of bad news in Tower Hill Fort.
"Bao Yi Jia La, the fifth Niu Lu Zhang, Jing Hai Ertu died in battle!"
"Baoyi Ninth Niu Lu Zhang, Jingzhuo Butai, Zhongjun was seriously injured and fell from his horse!"
"The whole army of the Tenth Niu Lu Baha is gone! Bahazhangjing is seriously injured and in a coma! β
"Bao Yi Jia Lazhang Jing Ai Xing Ah Zhong Gong is dead! The second Kala was completely gone. Only a few dozen people fled back! β
The news of the death and serious injuries of many young Manchurian nobles flew like snowflakes in front of Dolgon, and he was so angry that he flew up and kicked the table over. In particular, the death of the second coat armor, Lazhang Jing Aixing, made him even more annoyed. This guy who was born in the Yellow Banner of Manchuria was also sent by Huang Taiji to mix sand. He is not good at his own ability, but he has a good ancestor, who is the grandson of Yanguli. He was also a powerful and deep-rooted figure among the Manchurian aristocracy. Now it has been beaten into a mess of minced meat under the attack of the Nanyue Army!
"Who's in command over there right now?"
"If you go back to the prince, it's me who is the white flag of Jialazhang Jing Zhuoluo!"
Zoro is also a powerful subordinate who has followed Dolgon's northern and southern campaigns for many years. It is also a figure who once fought with Li Shouhan head-on in Jinan.
Zhuo Luo, a native of the White Flag of Manchuria. Rita Rita also. Zhuo Luo attacked the third-class deputy general, and concurrently served as Niu Lu Ezhen. In the third year of Chongde, from the Ming Dynasty, Bo Mingdu, and the Ming eunuch Yang Yongsheng went to war, and Zhuo Luo defeated him with 300 people. Then he moved into Shandong. In the siege of Jinzhou, he made a lot of contributions in many battles with the Ming army under Hong Chengchou, and was promoted to Jialazhangjing by Dolgon.
In history, after entering the customs, as a white banner Melle Zhangjing, he followed the general Shuncheng County King Le Kede Hun to defeat Li Zicheng's department. After that, he reinforced Gongshun Wang Kong Youde to go south to Hunan, defeated King Gui's generals Wang Jincai, Xu Songjie and other troops, and conquered Changsha. forced King Gui to go south to Guilin. Later, he fought with Zhang Xianzhong's remnants Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Bai Wenxuan and others in Jingzhou and Arjin, from Lizhou and Changde to Chenzhou, and beat Sun Kewang to burn the boat and escape at night, and led his troops to cross the river to attack it, and then Kechenzhou. It is expected that Changsha will fall, and Zhang Dingguo, Bai Wenxuan, etc. will enter Yunnan from King Gui of the Ming Dynasty.
This is a figure who fought from Liaodong to Burma and captured King Gui together with Wu Sangui and defeated the last Ming army in the southwest region.
"You go and sue that minion of SΓΉ Zhuoluo! The king has now promoted him to Mel Zhangjing and to lead the rest of the men! Be sure to block the Nanyue army to this king! β
At least after Cao Zhenyan, who cleaned up Xia Shu's Ming army in the north, came back! Dolgon was secretly uneasy in his heart, he didn't know if Zoro would be able to withstand the onslaught of Li Huamei's most elite troops.
In fact, Drow's life was many times sadder than Dorgon had imagined!
Since the naval division and the land battalion began to attack, with the assistance of artillery, they have always taken the lead with a round of artillery shotguns, and after a period of fierce bombardment towards the Qing army's array, when the smoke of the artillery fire has not completely disappeared, the blood mist mixed with minced meat is splashed everywhere, and the smoke and fire flicker freely in front of people's eyes, the troops of the Xuanzi battalion, the yellow character battalion, and the Yuzi battalion have rushed to the front one after another.
The damage caused by the shells to the Qing army did not completely stop, and the guns quickly took over. Before the Clothed Soldiers could line up in formation, they had to meet the lead bullets fired at close range.
"Kill!"
After a round of close shooting, the already good spur found its target again. The coated soldiers, who were constantly being hit by the renovation of tricks, were defeated one after another in the face of such pressure. In the blink of an eye, the two Jiala's troops became corpses lying on the road from Hongluo Mountain to Baitai Mountain.
Although these soldiers from the Ming army, although they became the Qing army's coats, they had much stricter training and discipline than the Ming army, and the food supply far exceeded that of the Ming army, and they were also divided into fields and houses. If you have excellent results during training, you will also be rewarded. Their combat effectiveness and will to fight far exceeded those of the Ming army, but their courage, will, and discipline had not yet reached the level of being able to shoot firearms at the enemy at a distance of twenty paces.
In particular, the two armor lamas in front of them were defeated under one face, and seventy or eighty percent of the men and horses were beaten into a sieve by projectiles and guns, which made the army's spirit float, and some people's hands holding fire guns were already trembling.
Now. The troops rushing on the opposite side were even more ferocious, and it was the Guards Brigade, known as the crown of the Southern Guangdong Army.
At this time, Lu Yunsheng, who commanded the entire army of the Guards Brigade instead of Mo Yu, briefly explained a few words to Shi Lang, and then ordered the infantry to get out of the way, and asked the brothers of the sailor to go down to rest and protect the eldest lady.
"Brothers, the brothers of the sailors have done a good job before us! We can't lose face! That's Fort Tower Hill, the nest of the slave chief Dorgon! Follow Lao Tzu to kill this group of dogs in the way! Fight to Fort Tower Hill and capture Dolgon alive! β
"Fight to Fort Tower Hill and capture Dorgon alive!"
Unlike the battalion phalanx of the land battalion of the sailor. The three men and horses of the Guards Brigade were all scattered, scattering an extremely wide front, faintly sandwiching the remaining less than three armor-clothed soldiers from the three breads.
"Our Nanyue Army has always been known for fighting with firearms, and this group of dog thieves actually dares to sell Analects in front of the saints, and they don't know what is dead or alive!"
Lu Yunsheng cursed in his mouth, the enemy army in front of him was already densely packed under the command of Zhuo Luo. Gave up the way of playing the formation of Fuhu and opening the mountain, and the whole army contracted. The firebolt was mixed with three-pounder cannons and six-pounder cannons, like a huge porcupine with spikes spread.
Smoke and fire flickered from time to time, and the sound of artillery was loud. In a duel, the artillery of both sides is also caught in the middle of the formation, using shotguns to bombard each other's infantry formations.
Lu Yunsheng mobilized more than 100 artillery pieces. Divided into four artillery groups, they took turns bombarding the positions of the Qing army. Zhuo Luo over there was also ruthless, ignoring the possible accidents of continuous artillery firing, and ordered the soldiers to constantly rub up the snow and muddy water on the ground. Cool down the barrel.
The two sides fired artillery at a distance of less than 200 paces to bombard, and kept bombarding and stabbing hand-to-hand combat with the cattle and battalions as units between the artillery stops. At this distance, the gun basically does not need to adjust the angle of the barrel, just align the direction of the muzzle, and then reload the shell and bombard!
In terms of the coordination of starting artillery, in the entire civilized world at this time, I am afraid that no unit can use the connection between artillery and infantry as well as the Nanyue Army. After several rounds of artillery bombardment, Zhuo Luo was a little unable to support it.
Beside him, Duerde and Axixi, who acted as Jialazhangjing, each wielded their swords and fought desperately, and together with those white-armored soldiers, drove the somewhat timid and wavering firecrackers back to the front. However, in the face of the dense artillery fire and huge casualties, more and more firecrackers wavered, which made these two Jia Lazhangjing feel a little powerless.
Suddenly, a cannonball flew by, and landed squarely next to Ah Xixi, who was also from the Guarjia clan with a Manchurian red flag, and the heavy solid bullet jumped rapidly on the hard ground, and the huge impact force suddenly hit one of A Xixi's thighs so that he didn't know where to go. Where the blood gushed out, Ah Xixi let out a short scream and immediately fell down.
Seeing Ah Xixi's tragic situation, the dozens of clothed soldiers around him exclaimed in surprise and wanted to flee! But he was rushed up by Duerde, and cut off the head of the nearest clothed soldier with a knife in his hand, and let the blood spurted from his neck spill his head and face, his face was covered with blood, and Duerde, who could hardly distinguish his facial features, looked hideous, and shouted sharply: "If you dare to retreat, cut it immediately!" β
To retreat is to die, and to die here may not be to die immediately. Under the panic, the faces of the clothed soldiers were distorted, and when they were cornered, they burst out with strong morale.
"Kill the dog!"
"Prince Rui has an order! Those who kill the officers and above of the Southern Barbarian army will be raised to two white flags Manchuria! Rise to Strength! β
Seeing that the coated soldiers were fighting with the soldiers and horses of the Guards Brigade with their spurs, Durde simply poured out the courage to give the coated soldiers a heavy reward again, as for whether they can be cashed out, it depends on whether he and this group of coated soldiers can survive until after the war!
However, this immoral trick of Anferyangu's grandson also inspired the greed and cruelty in the blood of those clothed soldiers, and they desperately attacked with stabs, guns, waist knives, artillery and guards brigades.
In their team, under Duoduo, he served as the director of Baya Lama Zhangjing, accompanied Duoduo to fight Shaanzhou and Potong Pass, chased Fu King Zhu Yousong to Wuhu, from Boluoding Zhejiang, Ping Fujian, Kaibaya Lama Zhangjing Azigni Kan attacked Tingzhou, and broke the Tang Dynasty King Yujian's Duerde, but also led more than 100 white-armored soldiers to act as the main force in hand-to-hand combat, fighting with the spear halberd tiger tooth knife and long-handled fine iron sickle with the spurs of the Guards Brigade, exchanging human lives for time.
"Master Zhuoluo! Lang Zhangjing died in battle! β
Zhuo Luo had just exchanged the long knife in the hand of an officer who had died in battle into his own hand, but he heard the news that another officer had been killed in battle. The death was the defense of the left flank of Niu Lu Zhang Jinglang Tingzuo, his one Niu Lu, responsible for guarding the road to Tashan Fort, this person's death, indicating that the road to Tashan has been opened by the Ming army!
Cheers began to ring out in the ranks of the Ming army!
A huge banner began to move in this direction! (To be continued......)