Chapter 72: Xiangyang and Nanjing XIII

The cannon roared, and there was no distinction between friend and foe.

The Qing army was also stunned for a while, not to mention the Zheng army, and it can even be said that the number of Zheng soldiers who died under artillery fire was more than that of the Qing army.

Zhou Quanbin's move suddenly caused a counterattack by the Qing army's artillery.

However, the counterattack of the Qing army's artillery was also indiscriminate to some extent, and as for the artillery combat and counter-battery combat that everyone thought, it was more by luck than anything else at this time. The artillery of both sides roared for a while, dominating all the movements of the entire battlefield.

"Boom." There was a loud bang, but it was not the sound of artillery bombardment, and the sound carried a "crisp" meaning, not anything else, but an artillery explosion.

I don't know, it's because the continuous firing time is too long, or in the panic, the gunpowder is too much.

This time, there were not many people killed, only two adjacent artillery groups, about a dozen people were killed, and some people nearby were injured by the fragments of the explosion. But the biggest loss is morale.

The army has collapsed, and it can be said that from the Qing army to the Zheng army's artillery position, there are almost no troops left.

Now they are still desperately firing cannons, many cannons are being fired continuously, the temperature is already very high, and as soon as the wet towel is placed on it, it will make a squeaky sound and white smoke will come out.

The further back you go, the higher the chance of exploding.

What's more, Zhou Quanbin knew that he had just come out suddenly, but he was just caught off guard by the Qing army.

The Qing army did not expect that Zheng Jun's artillery would even hit its own people, plus Zheng Jun had collapsed. The Qing army's victory was imminent, and he became more precious for his life.

After all, human life is not a leek, and it can be regenerated after cutting.

They naturally want to slow down, but this situation will never last long, and if they don't see it at the moment, they will accept it, which is to fight to the death for the army.

Although Zhou Quanbin was promoted by Zheng Chenggong, he had no intention of dying for Zheng Chenggong, seeing that the hearts of the people below were shaken by the explosion, and seeing that the Qing army seemed to have some movement, he did not dare to delay, and immediately said: "Withdraw." ”

Zhou Quanbin retreated, and was not reconciled, leaving these dozens of cannons to the Qing army, simply stuffing all the gunpowder into the barrel, leaving the lead, and leaving after ignition. They did not dare to flee due north, but turned around and fled in the direction of the Purple Mountain.

Although the Purple Mountain is not too steep, it can also limit the pursuit of the Qing cavalry.

"Boom, boom, boom-----" with Zhou Quanbin's retreat. All the cannons left behind exploded as if they were a cannon battle. shook the entire battlefield, and was also seen by Zheng Chenggong.

Zheng Chenggong secretly said in his heart: "I hope Zhou Quanbin can escape." ”

Zhou Quanbin's final counterattack helped Zheng Chenggong a lot.

That is, Zhou Quanbin bought Zheng Chenggong the last bit of time, so that Zheng Chenggong brought the guards around him and many generals in the army onto the ship.

Although this kind of abandonment of the army and running away is disgraceful, at this time, I can't think too much about it. Although many people say that life is priceless, human life is actually valuable, at least in Zheng Chenggong's view, the value of these generals in the army is far more than that of these big soldiers.

As long as these generals are here, it will only take a few months, or more than a year, to rebuild a large army, maybe the combat power is not as good as this, but the most basic frame can still be built.

However, even so, Zheng Chenggong's losses were great, and in the chaos, not every general had good luck to be brought on board, and more were mixed in the rout, rushing towards the temporary dock like a tide.

This temporary wharf is the place where Zheng's sailors dock, there is this long trestle bridge, and there are ships docked directly on both sides of the trestle, warships, merchant ships, and transport ships. It can be said that it is dense, but now, all these ships have left the dock.

Only at the end of the plank road, there is a ship docked.

But the soldiers of the Zheng family who can pass through the trestle can escape onto the boat.

At the moment, the organization is chaotic, and I don't dare to see who is who, and after the ship is full, there will be a ship to replace it. Try to meet the brigade as much as possible and get on the boat immediately.

But if Duoduo let Zheng Chenggong calmly straighten out the people, he would not be Duoduo.

As ripples rippled above the water, it was as if the banks of the river were trembling.

It was not the banks of the river that trembled, but the presence of a large number of horses, which shook the ground.

Immediately, a large number of cries as if the sky was falling came from afar, and there was the roar of cannons, but it sounded more like small cannons. However, it was the Qing army that approached the rout, and almost used the Francophone cannon to shoot at the back of the rout.

The shots were also shotshots, and under the situation of people being attacked and crowded, the scattered bullets hit one after another, and immediately overturned more than a dozen people, or even dozens of people, but some people died on the spot, and some people were just injured. For a while, I can't die.

For a moment, these defeated soldiers rushed forward desperately like frightened horses.

The crowd of people will push into the Yangtze River without knowing how many people, and there are no railings on both sides of the trestle bridge, under this crowding, both sides of the trestle bridge are like dumplings, and a person puffs and puffs all down.

This is not the most terrifying, what is even more terrifying is that a ship parked on the trestle, countless people rushed in, and it was not filled with a chance to leave at all. They stuffed the ship into it like a bottomless pit.

As long as you can stay on the boat, even if it's just by holding on to the side of the boat.

But thinking too much like this, it made such an incredible situation, a lucky boat, was forced to sink on one side, and the whole lucky boat was like a child's toy, plopping upside down on the Yangtze River.

As for the people in the boat, in this kind of situation where people are crowded, I am afraid that only a few people on the periphery can survive, and the innermost soldiers, no matter how good the water is, the space inside is probably not even able to stretch out, if they can swim out.

Under such a situation, the Zheng sailors will naturally not dock for the sake of their own lives.

However, Zheng Jun is mostly from Fujian and generally swims. Since these boats were no longer docking, these people jumped into the Yangtze River with a puff. In the middle of the Yangtze River, he desperately swam to the sailor's boat.

Naturally, the sailors' people would not be left unsaved, and generally swam to the side of the boat, and someone put a small rope to pull them in.

It's just that very few people can do it.

It's not that these people can't swim well, on the contrary, there are too many generals in the Zheng army who have been transferred by the Zheng Army's sailors, such as Gan Hui, who is also a pirate. The first to fight was a water war. Coupled with the geographical reasons of Fujian, the water nature of these people is not bad.

But no matter how good it is, in the water like squeezing cans, they also don't know how to swim, and even countless people want to press their heads and desperately rush out of the water to breathe, as for the soldiers who are pressed down so much, what kind of fate will be, they don't think much about it.

This situation is bad enough. However, the Qing army did not hesitate to slaughter with artillery, bows, arrows, and swords on the shore, and there was no living mouth in the place where they passed.

There are naturally soft bones in the Zheng family, and they surrender in order to survive.

But the Qing army was not surrendered.

The reason is very simple, if it is surrendered at this time, it will delay time.

In order to kill and injure Zheng Jun's living force as much as possible, Duoduo ordered the people below to deal with it as soon as possible.

As for how to deal with it, a cut in the neck is the quickest way to deal with it.

Of course, when it comes to life, nothing will be taken lightly. Zheng Jun naturally has people who resist, but Zheng Jun's establishment is chaotic, and it has long been scattered. Each rebel fights independently, with the help of a few friends at most.

This kind of resistance, under the butcher's knife of the Qing army, is simply not worth mentioning.

And the Qing army did not all have to do it themselves, they desperately drove these soldiers, let them all fall into the Yangtze River one by one, and then lined up large and small artillery on the south bank of the Yangtze River, as if fishing, bombarding the river full of dense crowds.

Because of the incompressibility of water, even if a solid cannonball hits the water, it will have a near-miss effect, so the power of this cannon seems to be more powerful than that on land. With the shell landing point as the center, not a single person within a few zhang of the shell will survive.