Section 183 Frog Jumping Battle - Bloody Battle in Ningbo (4)
"Cast"
With an order, the soldiers at the head of the city picked up a bundle of bombing grenades and threw them into the crowd below.
A series of explosions were heard far away. The sky seemed to be shocked by the tragic battle on earth, and the last curtain of the night was opened in the fog, and the day dawned.
The Qing army that attacked for the first time was defeated. There were more than 1,000 people on both sides of the city wall, and only more than 300 came back intact, and the remaining 100 were dragged and carried or jumped back on their own. Niu Guerrilla watched coldly as these wounded soldiers returned to the rear camp, holding binoculars in his hands, thinking bitterly in his heart, how to attack.
He can see through it, and he can't attack the piece of house that passes through the city gate without taking it. From a distance, the obvious contrast between the two houses is very strange.
On one side, the walls and bamboo fences in the house were cleaned. The house and the inside of the house could clearly see the firearms sticking out, and the figures running back and forth.
On the other hand, everything seems to be untouched, and if it weren't for the dense sound of gunfire and the puffs of smoke rising inside, you wouldn't believe that there was anyone hiding there.
Under the shaking of the banner, the Qing army on the opposite side received the order, "The guerrilla general ordered us to attack the houses 70 zhang away. 500 brothers rushed to attack the east gate, and the rest of the brothers rushed into the house with me" The Qing army general who said this way threw off his hat and took off his shirt, "Brothers, charge with me, kill ......" Under a shout, finally nearly 5,000 Qing soldiers divided into four roads, two roads and 1,000 people rushed to attack the east gate, and the rest of the soldiers rushed to the house with their swords and guns shouted in unison.
Under the rising sun, the soldiers of the Qing army tied their hair around their necks one by one, biting the tips of their hair in their mouths and rushing towards the dwelling. The action of the two crowds of people quickly provoked a reaction from the houses on both sides.
A series of gunshots rang out louder and louder, but the most vicious was the Rumi guns in the city. There are dozens of leads, which can kill and injure a large area. Grenades flew from the two houses, bursting in the crowd, but fortunately, the formation was relatively sparse at the time of the charge. So there weren't a lot of people who were shot, and when they rushed into the relatively intact houses, there were about three or four hundred casualties left on the road, and the road was completely blocked from the position by the explosion of the spider mine.
One by one, the chariots rushed into the water, and while the enemy troops in the city were busy engaging the Shenzhou army at the east gate, the chariots that had been replaced began to cross the river.
Xu Liejun shouted in the car, one by one, the word "fast", he was always worried that his battalion would not be able to hold on.
At this time, the defense of the city gate cave was also crumbling.
After all, the number of soldiers guarding the city gate cave was small, only sixty, but they were facing the Eight Banners Qing soldiers who were not afraid of death, and they didn't even have time to change their magazines. More than 60 people were forced to retreat outside the city gate, and the commander shouted in a hoarse voice: "Grenades...... Cast ......" The entire city gate cave was suddenly filled with gunpowder smoke and lime.
When the commander gave the command to "prepare for hand-to-hand combat" again, all the people drew their dogleg knives. "Ready" With the sound of chaotic footsteps coming from the other side of the city gate, the commander was just about to give the order to charge, "give way, give way, our chariots are coming." ”
There was a shout from the head of the city, and the bluestone pavement in the outer gate emitted the "rolling" sound of the big wide wheel that was used to hearing when it passed by.
"Retreat, retreat," Hao Fang, the deputy company commander commanding here, gave the order.
The co-pilot of the chariot that rushed into the city gate cave carried a big black face, isn't it the head of the iron tower! The flying crossbow above his head began to fire in succession, blocking the gate hole. Hao Fang ran up.
"What about the casualties?"
"Report, fifteen wounded, three killed."
"Damn, what's the matter, are there any of us in the cave in front of you?"
"Report, no."
"That's good" Xu Liejun ignored Hao Fang's military salute, got into the car, and the chariot accelerated towards the city gate.
After a while, there was a scalp-numbing howl of ghosts and wolves. Hao Fang felt that it was too miserable, and it only took a few minutes to drag out those Qing army wounded. But when I think about it, I can't complain that the regiment commander is anxious, and the troops in the city are still fighting.
Zhao Fan, nicknamed Shi Dangdang, evacuated their stronghold with his platoon, and more than half of the more than 1,000 Qing troops who rushed over were knocked down by them on the road. But the rest of the men howled and burst into position. At this moment, the Qing army was already red-eyed, as if human life was worthless, and they didn't pay attention to their defeated companions one by one, and only ran forward with a shout.
Although Zhao Fan's platoon withdrew from the stronghold, it formed an echelon formation with the help of the smoke removed by the lime grenade, covering each other and retreating to the predetermined stronghold. During the retreat, three people in Zhao Fan's platoon were hit, but fortunately, they were only injured.
After retreating to the second line, Chen Tianliang's defensive position was successfully defended, and the 1,500 Qing troops attacking the position suffered more than 1,000 casualties, 15 of their own casualties, and nearly 50 wounded.
Besides, Lin Ziming's position, when the soldiers of the Qing army paid more than 400 casualties, when they came to the front, the most infuriating thing was that they did not enter with him. And those seemingly unguarded bamboo fences do not allow people to move. As soon as you touch it, a jar will jump up and blow up a large area.
Someone was in a hurry to climb over the wall and enter, but he didn't know that the courtyard that had just hit the "Woo Woo" was empty. When I went to open the door of the courtyard and wanted to welcome the brothers outside the courtyard, who knew that as soon as the door was opened, the big porcelain bowl resting on the door head exploded with a "boom", and the door opened stupidly, and the brothers outside the door lay on the ground in a pool of blood.
Lin Ziming's position is lively enough, there was a bang in the east, and there was a burst of gunfire in the west, and the dizzy Qing army really couldn't stand this way of fighting, and they were summoned out in a horn sound, but they were greeted by a few chariots, and Lin Ziming's casualties in this battle were the smallest, no one was killed, and three people were injured.
There was nothing to say about the rest of the battle, and the remaining Qing soldiers surrendered in the afternoon under the sweep of chariots.
Only a few people in the city ran away, and they met just outside the city. One is Qin Shizhen, who brought his family, out of the city under the escort of a small group of cavalry, and the other is Sun Xiuzhi, who has been prepared for a long time, and when the two saw each other, they only nodded awkwardly and went to Hangzhou together.
One more thing worth saying. Chen Tianliang and Lin Ziming's post-war summary of the comments were exactly the same, both of them wrote "two stupid", at first the two did not understand this comment very well, and then the two accidentally talked about it and suddenly realized at the same time.