Chapter 450: Another Rout
"Bang ......"
A twelve-pound shell fell into the Qing army's attack formation and suddenly exploded, what is surprising is that this shell did not burst into scorching flames, nor did it shoot out deadly shrapnel and iron beads, but emitted a thick green smoke, so that the surrounding more than ten Qing soldiers who had closed their eyes and waited for death couldn't help but be stunned, I don't know who suddenly shouted.
"Look, everyone...... Ming Gou's cannonball actually farts! ”
"Hahaha......"
In order to hide the panic in their hearts just now, many people pointed to the place where the shell exploded and laughed, but these people didn't notice that the smoke from the shell was spreading rapidly to the surroundings, and soon a pungent and choking and slightly metallic smell began to spread around.
At first, Qing Bing smelled the smell and smiled and explained that the dog's fart really stinks, but then no one said it again, but everyone who smelled it began to cough.
As the smoke inhaled more and more, the Qing soldiers who smelled this gas began to feel their eyes start to feel a little dizzy, and their heads began to ache, and then they were horrified to find that their breathing had become short, and even suffocated.
Those Qing soldiers who had inhaled the green smoke struggled to stretch out their hands, wanting to ask for help from the robes around them, but no matter how they opened their mouths, they found that they couldn't say anything, and they could only make a series of hehe sounds in their mouths with all their might, and then their whole bodies began to twitch violently.
As the green smoke continued to spread, the number of Qing soldiers who inhaled the green smoke was also increasing, and the green smoke soon made the Qing army begin to fear, and many people even blurred their vision after inhaling the green poisonous smoke.
In the face of these terrifying poisonous smokes, the coalition army composed of the Han Army Banner and the Mengba Banner on the right finally began to collapse, and many soldiers who inhaled the poisonous smoke vomited profusely while skewering everywhere, many of them even vomited dirt all over their bodies, and even some people began to flow black blood from their mouths and noses while running, which increased their fear.
"Tom...... Tong...... Tom Tom ......"
The artillery battalion located in the rear couldn't stop firing, and one after another poisonous smoke bombs whistled and fell into the camp of the Qing army.
These poisonous smoke bombs were obtained by Yang Feng from modern society overnight, and the poisonous smoke emitted by the explosion of these shells is what people often call chlorine.
As a poison gas that was used on a large scale during World War I, chlorine is undoubtedly a highly toxic gas that shows a yellow-green color at room temperature, and once a person inhales an excessive amount of gas, it will show symptoms such as weakness, coughing, tearing, sneezing, increased nasal secretions, and even vomiting and coughing up blood.
And the production of chlorine is not very difficult, as long as a certain disinfectant is mixed with toilet cleaning liquid (which brand is not to say), a lot of heat will be generated and chlorine will be emitted, what Yang Feng has to do is to crash these two liquids into two sealed jars respectively, and then put them into the shell, and then after the shell is fired, the two canisters are broken, and the liquid is mixed with each other, and then a large amount of chlorine gas begins to be produced, which is also one of Yang Feng's reliance on the Qing army.
As more and more soldiers fell, Tong Yang on the right flank and several Mongolian Taiji jumped to their feet, although they desperately led the guards to suppress it, but once the collapse spread, especially if they were able to stop it, the human fear of the unknown came from the bone marrow. Especially when the military discipline of the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Han Army Banners was obviously much worse than that of the Eight Banners, many Mongolian soldiers shouted that it was the poisonous smoke emitted by the devil, and at the same time desperately scurried backwards, and soon the entire right side collapsed.
The right side has collapsed, and the Qing army on the left is no better. Responsible for the left side is the white flag led by Dolgon and Azig, although the military minutes of the Manchu Eight Banners are much better than the Mengba Banner and the Han Army Banner, but in the face of this kind of inhaled and fallen poisonous smoke, their performance is not much better, looking at the green poisonous smoke everywhere, the companions all screamed and fell, and the surrounding Qing troops also became frightened, the originally neat offensive formation soon became scattered, and many people began to desperately avoid the poisonous smoke.
Seeing that the battle array was about to collapse, the young Dolgon was also shocked and angry, and he asked Azig in some panic: "Brother Twelve, what the hell is this, why did our warriors fall to the ground one after another as soon as they smell those green smokes?" ”
Azig looked at the poisonous smoke rising with the explosion in front of him with a sinking forehead, and thought for a while before he said slowly: "This should be poisonous smoke, but this is the first time I have seen such a vicious poisonous smoke." ”
In fact, the release of poison gas on the battlefield is not a new thing, the earliest poison gas attacks as early as the fourth century BC, in the early works of the Mohists, there is a record of the use of bellows to release gases from the mustard burning in the furnace and enter the enemy tunnels in the city.
For example, the earliest "dung bomb" is the prototype of the poison gas bomb, and the "flying sand bomb", which is a tube of gunpowder placed in a clay pot, the composition of the gunpowder is quicklime, rosin, and ethanol extracted from poisonous plants, and this weapon is put down from the city wall, and then exploded, and the deadly poison is scattered.
After arriving in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army even put arsenic and poisonous substances into the flowering bombs, and also put quicklime into the shells to launch them, and the forest varied, but this kind of gas bomb did not become the mainstream of the war because of the high cost and the actual combat effect was not too good, and now the Jiangning army suddenly came out like this, which made the Qing army become chaotic.
"Brother Twelve, the Tong Yang side on the right side has collapsed, what should we do now? Go on the offensive or temporarily retreat? Looking at the poisonous smoke everywhere, Dorgon also became a little flustered.
"We ...... Let's withdraw first! Azig let out a long sigh, and in the face of this kind of poisonous smoke that he had never seen before, he could only choose to retreat helplessly.
"Your Majesty, both the left and right sides have retreated."
In the Chinese army camp in the rear, Huang Taiji looked at the two wings that had fallen into chaos, although his face remained calm, but no one knew that no one saw that his hands behind his back were clasped together. Looking from his position, the large puffs of smoke that rose from the shells that kept falling on the Qing army's position after the explosion filled all over the position, especially the miserable green smoke was particularly dazzling under the scorching sun, which made people feel so uncomfortable.
Although the attack of the gas bomb was not as bloody and stump as when it hit a person, the chaos it caused was no less than that of the latter, and it also made the faces of the Manchu generals who saw the power of the gas bomb for the first time change.
Haoge, who was standing next to Huang Taiji, suddenly pointed to the grass in the distance and shouted, "Father, look at those grass and woods!" ”
As they looked in the direction known to Hauge, they found a lot of dense grass and some woods where there was a sudden commotion, and countless hares, roe deer, and even wild deer and other animals jumped out of the grass and woods, and these animals, which were originally afraid of people, were now running towards the rear as if they were crazy, and some even saw tigers and leopards in these animals.
"What the hell are these things, and why are they so vicious?"
Seeing such an abrupt scene, Huang Taiji could no longer maintain a strong and calm attitude, and his face began to change, this poisonous smoke even forced out the animals in the woods and grass, how vicious it was.
In fact, not only the Qing army was panicked, but even Jiang Ningjun himself was frightened by the amazing power of the gas bomb, many sergeants looked at the front and fell to the ground and screamed Qing Jun, only to feel a chill in their backs, and even Geng Bingyi scolded in a low voice: "Damn, these things are too ruthless, it's just that people and animals don't stay." ”
Just when Geng Bingyi was surprised, Yang Feng's new order came from the walkie-talkie, and he didn't dare to slack off and hurriedly shouted: "The first battalion obeys the order, everyone puts on gas masks, and advances!" ”
"Forward!"
"Second Battalion, forward!"
"Three battalions, forward!"
The voices of officers at all levels of the Jiangning Army resounded throughout the battlefield, and the sergeants put on newly issued gas masks and slowly approached the Qing army in a neat formation. From the sky, the Jiangning army, which only had 15,000 people, actually attacked the Qing army, which was ten times their number, such a scene seemed very strange, but in fact it happened so really, the Jiangning army, which was only one-tenth of the number of the opponent, was pressing towards the Qing army step by step.
"It's too arrogant, it's too arrogant!"
From Huang Taiji to the princes and generals of the Manchu Dynasty, they were all inexplicably angry at Jiang Ningjun's actions, and Yang Feng simply despised the Qing army to the point of emergency.
Huang Taiji closed his eyes slightly, and only opened them after a while, and then he said in a cold voice: "Ordering Yue Tuo not to retreat, immediately go up and mix with the Jiang Ning army, as long as they can get close to the Jiang Ning army, their poisonous smoke will be useless, and we will consume them to death at that time!" Then tell Tong Yanghe and Dolgon and Azig that I will give them a stick of incense, and if they can't attack again, I will punish them with military law! ”
"Father............ But ......" Hauge on the side wanted to say something, but when he saw Huang Taiji's cold gaze, he was forced to swallow back the words that came to his mouth.
"Before this is the military formation, I don't want anyone to question my decision, do you understand?" Huang Taiji's tone became extremely stern, staring at Hauge and saying word by word.
"Huh...... Erchen understands! Hauge only felt his heart beat faster, and cold sweat seeped out of his back unconsciously.
And the princes and ministers on the side and many generals are not surprised by Huang Taiji's order, everyone is used to fighting old people, naturally clear like today's situation, Huang Taiji led more than 100,000 troops to fight, it can be said that the strength of the country to deal with the 20,000 horses of the Jiangning army, if in this case is still repelled by the Jiangning army, then the blow to the morale of the Qing Dynasty is too great, from now on the entire Qing army will no longer have the courage to fight with the Jiangning army, this result will be devastating for the Qing Dynasty, This is something that Huang Taiji and the entire Qing Dynasty cannot tolerate.
"What? Your Majesty told us not to retreat, let us launch a counteroffensive? Yue Tuo, who was commanding the troops to resist hard, was stunned at first when he heard Huang Taiji's order, and then as if he thought of something, he took a deep breath and nodded slowly, "Please go back and report to Your Majesty, just say that Yue Tuo will do his best to kill the enemy to repay the emperor's kindness!" ”
And Tong Yangxing, who was leading hundreds of guards to shout loudly about the defeated Han army banner and strive to maintain order, immediately understood that this was Huang Taiji's ultimatum to himself after receiving Huang Taiji's order, if Huang Taiji was disappointed again, I am afraid it would not be as simple as a few words of reprimand, and if it was not good, it would be the end of demotion and dismissal.
Now Tong Yang was really anxious, red-eyed, he took out the long knife on his waist, and shouted to the guards around him: "Your Majesty has a will, today's battle has no retreat, and those who dare to retreat will be killed, and now everyone will attack...... Offensive! ”
Subsequently, Tong Yangxing organized a team of thousands of people and assigned them to the following, but those who dared to retreat were killed, and after killing hundreds of people in a row, the original rout was stopped, and under the pressure of bows and arrows, knives and guns, the remaining more than 10,000 people had to rush towards the Jiangning army again.
After Dolgon and Azig, who were on the left, received Huang Taiji's order, the two brothers glanced at each other, and could only smile bitterly and ordered the army to stop retreating and continue to attack the Jiangning army.
In fact, Huang Taiji thought well, once the Qing army was defeated this time, the impact on the morale of the entire Qing Kingdom would be disastrous, but he had a very poor understanding of the poisonous gas that appeared in this time and space for the first time, thinking that with harsh military laws and killing, the troops could regain their combat effectiveness, but the facts proved one thing, in this world, there are some things more terrifying than death.
With the continuous explosion of poison gas bombs, the scope of chlorine gas spread on the battlefield is also expanding, and more and more Qing troops inhaled chlorine gas, and a large number of Qing troops continue to fall to the ground holding their necks and convulsing continuously, this gas 1.5 times heavier than air will soon suffocate to death after being inhaled.
At the beginning, the number of Qing soldiers who died was only tens or hundreds, but as the scope of poison gas continued to expand, the number of Qing soldiers who died also increased exponentially, and in less than two quarters of an hour, the death toll reached tens of thousands, including the Mengbaqi, the Han army banner and the Manchurian Baqi.
The entire battlefield was huddled up everywhere, and most of these dead people had black blood flowing from their mouths and noses, and because they were particularly painful when they died, most of these people showed a painful and hideous look on their faces when they died.
In addition to the muffled sound of the explosion of the poison gas bomb on the entire battlefield, there was only the sound of the Jiang Ning army firing while advancing, as for the shouts of the Qing army...... I'm sorry, but the person who dared to pant loudly in the poison gas is dead.
And in this case, the Qing army at the front line was once again defeated, and this time even the gods could not stop it......