Chapter 618: Bali Bridge
Bali Bridge.
"That's perfect!"
Yang Feng was on his chariot, looking at the cavalry that was surging from this famous ancient bridge, and he could say with satisfaction.
The arrival of the Mongolian cavalry, finally realized his desire to fight the Bali Bridge, in fact, this is also the inevitable choice of Daoguang, once the Ming army crossed the Bali Bridge is a decisive battle under the city of Beijing, and there is a barrier of the Tonghui River in front of the Chaoyang Gate, if the Ming army can not be blocked at the Bali Bridge, then the hardcore crops in Beijing will have to suffer shells. The words show that the range of the army's artillery is already known to everyone at this time, the moat and the city wall can't stop the cannonballs, and a large number of palaces and the most important grain depots behind the Chaoyang Gate are all within the coverage of the Ming army's cannons, and those princes don't want their exquisite gardens to be blown into ruins by cannonballs. What's more, there are still grains in those warehouses that are vital to Daoguang, once the Ming army besieges the city, hundreds of thousands of hardcore crops in the city will have to rely on these grains to support, if they are blown up or even burned by shells, then he ......
Then he really has to play his good tradition of thrift and thrift.
Then the new arrivals, who were not very aware of the ferocity of the Ming army, became their last struggle.
"Your Majesty, Yijing attacks Tianjin!"
Xu Hui, who was guarding the telegram next to Yang Feng, said.
"Well, he still has the guts!"
Yang Feng couldn't help but wonder.
Of course, this kind of trivial matter is not worth mentioning, Yijing is also forced to attack Tianjin, he can't sit back and watch the Ming army hit Beijing! Anyway, Tianjin is the rear base of the Ming army, and his attack on Tianjin can be regarded as besieging Wei to save Zhao to fool Daoguang enough, if Beijing can hold on, and he captures Tianjin, it can be said that it is enough to save the Qing Dynasty.
Since he is willing to hit hundreds of cannons and twenty-six machine guns, more than 10,000 guns of various types with a time span of three hundred years, what ......
Then let him be!
"Fearless to the ignorant!"
Emperor Yang looked at the Mongolian cavalry that were swarming towards the Ming army formation and sighed.
Not only from the Bali Bridge, but also from the direction of Fengtai, in addition to behind him there is actually a green battalion that pursued, a total of more than 10,000 banners, Mongolia, the green battalion cavalry is attacking from three directions, and the back to Tongzhou City, in fact, there are only three battalions of the first brigade, it is lined up in a hollow phalanx with a missing edge, and the missing side is the chariot of the God Emperor.
And in the middle of this hollow phalanx, a cannon with a raised elevation angle continued to fire, but the target was all focused on the Eight Banners coming from the direction of Fengtai, and in the flames of the explosion, those Eight Banners athletes were like frightened ducks, and as for the Green Battalion cavalry that accompanied from Hexiwu on the other side, they were shooting indiscriminately nearly a mile away, and they were shooting immediately. And a battalion of the Ming army occasionally fired three or five bullets in response, the constant sound of gunfire and the smoke of gunpowder looked very lively, it was simply a fierce battle, but in fact, everyone tacitly knew that the bullets of the green battalion would definitely not hit the Ming army, and the Ming soldiers did not aim at all, and the bullets did not know where to fly.
The Mongol cavalry, which had assaulted head-on, rushed across the Bali Bridge and began to line up.
These are not actually cavalry.
In addition to Chengde Prefecture, there are two alliances of Zhao Wuda and Zhuotusuo, two hundred years of domestication, which have long turned the steppe herdsmen into sheep, in addition to a resounding name, these Mongolian herders who once roamed Eurasia are stronger than the Eight Banners only because they are poorer.
Anyway, they didn't even have muskets.
Four thousand archers dressed in shabby leather robes and carrying bows that would definitely not have the level of their ancestors, riding short war horses, lined up in chaos at the southern end of the Bali Bridge, accompanied by a guy in a yellow coat in the middle, pointed forward with a knife in his hand, and immediately rushed towards the Ming army in a goose wing formation. These guys let out all kinds of weird roars in the wild run, surging forward like a garbage belt washed up by a flood, thousands of war horses galloped wildly and stepped on the dust, and the spectacular war scene of the Cold Weapon Age was staged like this, but ......
This is no longer the era of cold weapons.
"Fire!"
In the line of the Ming army, Huang Ming's white-gloved saber pointed forward and shouted loudly.
As depicted in many war movies that show humiliating scenes in modern history, a famous machine gunner beside him turned the handle of the machine gun, and with the rotation of the barrel, the bullets of the brass shell in the magazine continued to fall, and the flame at the front began to spray, accompanied by the not-so-loud sudden sound, and the storm of bullets began to pour down on the cavalry. In the dust splashes of bullets hitting the ground, the galloping Mongol cavalry fell for a moment, because the cavalry behind the inertia was still moving forward, and their superb riding skills allowed their horses to pass over their fallen companions, and then they also fell to the yellow sand with splashes of blood. The machine guns still sing, like a magnificent opera, they are the protagonists of this stage of war, and they sing the elegy of the end of the cavalry era with the blood and death of the slaughter.
In the distance, the Eight Banners were already fleeing, and the green battalions that were acting stopped acting, watching from afar how the four thousand Mongol cavalry struggled and sank in the hell made of sixteen machine guns.
After only a minute, the Mongol cavalry began to flee, after all, they were not stupid, they were already beaten all over the field before they could rush a mile away, and the infantry of the Ming army did not even shoot, what is the difference between that and suicide? These Mongol cavalry were indeed more heroic than the other Qing troops, but their loyalty to the Qing was also limited, and all the Mongol cavalry turned around in confusion and tried to flee amid the roar of machine-gun bullets, only to realize that their tragedy had just begun......
Behind them is a bridge.
A bridge that was less than three zhang wide at its narrowest point, and below it was a bridge large enough to drown the horses.
The Mongol cavalry, who understood this, rushed to the Bali Bridge desperately, crowding each other to try to pass through this chokepoint, and they were densely blocked at the narrow bridgehead, like a flock of sheep slaughtered.
And two miles behind them, two machine guns raised their muzzles at the same time, and the two machine gunners glanced at each other, and then turned the handle at the same time, and the bullets fell like cannonballs, and in the blink of an eye, they fell on the Bali Bridge, which was crowded with cavalry, and almost instantly the dead bodies were piling up at the bridgehead. With a rate of fire of 300 rounds per minute, the entire Bali Bridge turned into a mountain of corpses in less than a minute, and the dead bodies of men and horses piled up on the arc-shaped bridge, and even fell into the river over the exquisite guardrails on both sides, their blood flowing to the bridgehead on the smooth stone slabs below, and then flowing into the Tonghui River like a small river.
At this time, the remnants of the Mongol cavalry also completely collapsed, and less than 2,000 of the 4,000 men remained, rushing and fleeing on both sides of the south bank of the Tonghui River, but they still kept falling under the whistling of machine-gun bullets.
It doesn't matter how much they can escape.
The important thing is that Daoguang's last struggle also ended in the sound of Ming machine gun fire, and nothing could stop the Ming army from approaching Beijing.
The cavalry of the Green Battalion in the distance silently turned back and left.
Obviously, they no longer consider what military law issues, this Qing Dynasty is like this, basically they can't control the green battalion, from the previous tacit acting with the Ming army, it can be seen that those green battalion generals have begun to preserve their strength, after all, with the ferocity of the Ming army, it is really difficult to say whether this Beijing can be kept, the south has been disrupted, if this Beijing is taken by the Ming army, Zhili will also fall into the war, and the Qing Dynasty has basically begun to enter the troubled times.
What is most important in troubled times?
It's the guns that matter.
As for whether Beijing will be captured by bandits, the Guan Green Battalion, they are all reinforcements from all over the country, and they have no property and relatives in Beijing, those Green Battalion generals and the gentry behind them are no longer interested in the life and death of the pipe light at this time, and the most important thing is to fight against the Ming army after retaining their strength.
In fact, the local officials and gentry at this time have begun to reminisce, it is obvious that the fiasco of the imperial court is not entirely a bad thing for them, from the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang hugging Victoria's thigh, we know that they have begun to adapt to the new environment, you must know that they are holding a large group training at the same time, but the money and food to the court are interrupted in various ways or covertly. The Eight Banners stationed in Hangzhou before were as honest as rabbits in front of the Zhejiang gentry, and the Jingzhou general on the Hunan battlefield looked like a subordinate in front of the governor of Huguang, and even because of military discipline problems, he was accused by the governor of Huguang in public and did not dare to respond. If it is said that the gentry in the Kangqian era were attached to the Qing Dynasty, and the White Lotus Sect was basically on an equal footing after that, and now at least the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River have become the gentry who have the final say, and the imperial court is just a shelf, a shelf that integrates the gentry together to the greatest extent, but it is a joke to say that those gentry are still in awe of the imperial court.
On the battlefield in Hunan, the Eight Banners have to often rely on regimental training to save lives!
Obviously, from this point on, the north will also become like this.
At the same time as the green battalion retreated, the Eight Banners cavalry who were in the chaos of the artillery bombardment also left in tears, they did not run, but returned to Beijing directly from Yongding Gate, preparing to meet the bandits in Beijing next, after all, they have nowhere else to run, their families and property are in the city of Beijing, where can they run? Since the field war can no longer stop the bandits, for the sake of their own property and family, they can only prepare to defend Beijing and wait for the righteous teacher of the king of Qin.
It is clear that they do not realize the magnitude of the problem.
After the Ming army came to Beijing to tear off the last fig leaf of the Qing Dynasty, it was probably not so easy for this Qinwang Yishi to wait......
"This person's heart is scattered, and the team is not easy to lead!"
The God Emperor said as he looked at the Green Battalion cavalry who had disappeared from his sight.
Then he turned around.
"Forward, warriors of the Empire, target Beijing!"
He waved his golden arm and said with the golden glow of the rising sun.