Chapter 863: Lost the Ideals and the Original Intention of Fighting
The fierce artillery fire and the rain of solid bullets made the Qing army cowering in the county town chickens and dogs jump, the war horses neighed, the gravel flew wildly, the dead and wounded, and everything lost its rationality.
Before the artillery was finished, the Qing army dropped its guns and ammunition, artillery, and fled to the coastal prefecture city, the soldiers of the Baghyalu Corps lined up in a loose straggler formation, wearing bright blue combat uniforms, holding guns, just walking, walking, casually firing a few shots, and the Qing soldiers who knelt on the ground, just trained and did not have time to enjoy the war, 100,000 Shaanxi and Gansu youths were blown up and killed, their own people trampled to death, fought with each other and died, more than 10,000 people died, and the others were captured by the second team of the punishment brigade that caught up behind.
In the face of the elite Bagyalu Regiment, which has fought for more than ten years and has only 10,000 soldiers, these young men from Shaanxi and Gansu who have just been trained for less than a month are simply a blank sheet of paper, watching them tremble, kneeling there, waiting for others to decide their fate, some soldiers who have just come out of the new barracks and have just been assigned to the Bagyalu Regiment are thoughtful, or look at them silently.
Less than 10,000 people were able to escape back, and more than 10,000 people were killed by artillery, so there were more than 70,000 prisoners.
The elite militia brigades are cleaning up the battlefield, the garrison brigades are maintaining order on the battlefield and preparing for enemy attacks, and the field army is resting or sending a small force to pursue the enemy.
After a week of preparation and two days of advancement, the battle ended in three hours, and all the periphery of the coastal province was cleared, and it was only a dozen miles from here to the coastal province.
Looking at the busy soldiers, the city wall of the county town destroyed by artillery fire, and the houses in the county town, Baghyalu held a deer hoof wine bag, pulled out the cork, and poured a strong mouthful of burning knife wine on his head. ”
Ba Ghyalu said: "Yes, yes, and there are a lot, but looking at their situation at the moment, even the nearly 300,000 troops in the coastal prefecture city can't fight against our Huaxia army, well-equipped, and the soldiers are all veterans of a hundred battles, even if there are many second-generation young people of the Huaxia Kingdom who have grown up now, and have occupied many middle and lower-level officers of the Huaxia army, but our combat effectiveness is still strong, and it can only be said that it is stronger, so I think that the Kangxi Emperor of Yanjing can't stop us from seizing Yanjing." ”
Keyi is actually in his forties and nearly fifty years old, the young man who came to join the Jinhua Righteous Army from the north is now also a cavalry brigade general, and he has been fighting and living in Shaanxi and Gansu for several months, so that although he is wearing a satin smooth and bright cavalry officer uniform, his hair is a little messy, his face is full of beard, and the part of his face is wrinkled by the cold wind of Saibei, only his eyes are still bright and resolute, but after he said this, his eyes became a little confused. It's like a layer of mist.
After Bagyarau finished speaking, he heard a silence behind him, turned his head, saw Keyi's silent expression and eyes, and hurriedly asked with concern: "What's the matter, Master Ke?" Are you not in good health? We have to bear more, and soon we will be able to eliminate Yao Qisheng and their Qing soldiers, and then you will be able to transfer back to rest, Shaanxi and Gansu Prefecture will be taken over by the 1st and 3rd Guards Divisions, and in the future, there will be garrison brigades in various places to take over, and I will continue to serve as the commander here, and you old people who have fought for many years of war will retire or go to the boot training camp or military academy to retire. ”
"My lord, what do you think we are doing this for?" Koichi asked.
Baghyalu didn't think about it and said: "Of course, it is to recover our Han people and expel the alien race." ”
Koichi asked again, "What about expelling it?" Didn't they just put Nanshan and go back to their respective homes? We don't need our armies anymore? Is it just like the Ming Dynasty, where various officials fight to the death in the officialdom, which eventually leads to the death of the Ming Dynasty at the hands of foreign races? ”
Bagyalu said with a smile: "This, I really can't answer you, I just serve the adults wholeheartedly, and I think about Your Majesty, anyway, Your Majesty will not treat me badly, now I have sons, grandchildren have been born, and I also have a large family, although the kingdom is not like the Ming Dynasty or other previous dynasties to seal some hereditary titles, but I think Your Majesty will not treat us and our descendants badly, I will be content, Your Majesty will let me do whatever I want, I don't want more." ”
He glanced at Keyi suddenly, "Don't think about it, don't lose yourself, otherwise, your end will be miserable, Your Majesty will not be merciful to those who have cranky thoughts, that means that you will betray Your Majesty, betray the kingdom, what else can the kingdom not satisfy you?" You don't need to pay a penny for food and clothing, Your Majesty has prepared it for you, at least your son's generation will definitely not starve, as for your grandson, your children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, don't think too much. ”
Zhang Qiang did not give some rewards to those who followed him to fight the world, they just served as their own officials in their official positions, but they did not like other dynasties, after achieving great causes, they were crowned kings, fiefdoms, and added officials to the knighthood to ensure their eternal peace, Zhang Qiang didn't want to do that, because if that happened, the descendants of these people would soon become the second generation of officials and the second generation of rich.
Zhang Qiang is an ordinary civilian, he hates these people the most, they occupy a high position, occupy all resources, many people at the bottom can not get ahead, if you want to come out, you have to go out of the ordinary, either collusion with foreign countries, or collusion with bandits, collusion with criminals, crazy destruction of the upper class and digging up the wall, so that the descendants of the original founder of the world and those low-level civilians have formed a considerable class contradiction, making the kingdom stormy.
Keyi may be a pure soldier, but in the face of the imminent unification of the kingdom, the defeat of the Qing Dynasty, and the restoration of the glory of the previous Ming Dynasty, the Han Dynasty can't help but worry, pure soldiers will have no place, they will be unemployed, fierce personnel struggles, and interest struggles will begin.
On the eve of success, some people who know how to drill camps have squeezed out those heroes who have paid their lives and blood for honest wars, and they are both hateful and helpless about these people, which is his worry.
He didn't know what their struggle and struggle were for falling to the ground in such a situation?
But he couldn't figure it out, Zhang Qiang couldn't figure it out, and there was no way to explain it to him, the world was very complicated, even in the seventeenth century at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, when the productive forces were underdeveloped.
The battle in the coastal province was still going on, the artillery of the corps pushed the cannon to the vicinity of the coastal province three miles, and the surrounding cavalry had already formed a battle with the enemy cavalry, firing at each other with muskets and slashing with sabers, and countless soldiers in blue uniforms on the fields and hills stepped on the snow, with their hands shivering from the cold, and raised their guns, one shot, not a single shot at random at any enemy cavalry who wanted to run in front of them.
(End of chapter)