Chapter 177: The Glory of Sorrow
The mountain collapsed and the ground cracked, thick smoke billowed out, and 52 field guns and 20 guns without conscience suddenly let out an angry roar, and the shells were overwhelming, falling towards the Qing army's position.
The violent explosion brought up a cloud of dust, and in a short time, the Qing army's position was shrouded in dust, except for the flashing fire, five meters away, there was no human figure at all, only trees and human corpses that were lifted by shells from time to time, and heart-rending screams.
Even if the Qing army's position had been bombed to the bottom, the Liaodong artillery did not stop, and their order was to bombard the Qing army's position for 15 minutes.
"Release", the artillery commander once again waved the red flag in his right hand vigorously.
Boom Boom Boom ...... The field artillery again emitted orange-red fire and smoke, and once again sent shells to the Qing positions.
Feng Guozhang, like Liu Jun, has a creed, that is, he can spend more steel, and he is not willing to let the soldiers shed more blood and sacrifice, the steel is gone, it can be made, this person will be killed if he is killed, and he will not come back.
Feng Guozhang knew that for the paper-paste Qing army's position, it didn't take fifteen minutes to plow the ground, and it would take five minutes to reach the sky, but in order to kill more Qing troops, or put pressure on the Qing army, it would be worth it.
Rumble. The last round of artillery shelling fell into the positions of the Qing troops.
The battlefield was silent for a moment, but only for a moment, with only a dozen seconds of rest.
"Kill" There was an earth-shattering shout of killing, and tens of thousands of Liaodong troops climbed out of the trenches at once.
Cavalrymen, infantrymen, all wielded their sabers or rifles with bayonets. From all directions, like the tide of the flood, it rushed out of the city.
"Brothers. Capture Rong Lu alive. Luo Dacheng was born in a cavalry, how could he miss this kind of big scene, regardless of Feng Guozhang's opposition, Luo Dacheng personally jumped on the war horse, took the original Dengzhou horse camp, shouted and waved the saber and rushed up.
The front line of the Qing army, which had already been bombed, had not yet reacted, and when it heard the howl of killing and shaking the sky. The Qing army's face turned green.
"Hell, hurry up and get into position." A garrison kicked a Qing soldier in the ass and howled loudly.
The Qing army had just entered the position and was aiming its guns at the coming Liaodong Army. Before they could react, the Qing army found that a lot of iron bumps had exploded again.
The Qing army was stunned, what is this, a piece of wood, the top is black, and there is smoke behind the wood.
Rumble. The smoking thing exploded all at once, and the Qing soldiers who were watching there suddenly fell down five or six.
"What the hell is this bomb," the Qing army finally reacted.
It was late, and the successive explosions hit the Qing army, which was already suffering, again, and when it reacted, the Liaodong cavalry had already waved their sabers and laid them out.
With a pop, the head of a Qing soldier was shaved off by a speeding saber. Blood spurted out of his neck like a bloody collapse......
The last nerve of the Qing army was crushed.
With a bang, no longer obeying the officer's command, these Qing soldiers immediately threw down everything in their hands, turned over and ran back. I can't wait to have two more legs. Flee far away.
Qing army camp. Rong Lu anxiously walked back and forth in the camp. He stopped, and the front-line positions were under attack by the Liaodong Army.
"Report ...... The front-line positions were lost. The soldiers are retreating from the second line. ”
"Resist, resist me." Rong Lu shouted with a distorted face.
Twenty minutes later.
"Report, the second-line position is lost, and the Liaodong Army is less than two kilometers away from me." The guards sent another terrifying bomb.
"Let the right battalion go up, and you will definitely resist me." Rong Lu was no longer in the sixth area of his face, and his face was pale at twenty.
When I saw the guards go out, I looked at the officers who were sitting in the tent like ants in a hot pot. He wanted to hear everyone's opinions.
In fact, there is nothing good to hear, and I have already made up my mind to run. It's just that he doesn't want to say it, and when the time comes, he will carry this black pot when he goes back. His let the people below speak up.
Sure enough, a short and fat officer stood up all of a sudden: "Commander, withdraw, if you don't withdraw, my tens of thousands of troops will be wiped out." ”
Although he was very satisfied in his heart, Rong Lu still bowed his head, and after a while, he pretended to be embarrassed, with a sad look, and waved his hand helplessly: "The back team is the front team." Remove. ”
The generals who had already turned pale suddenly stood up and gladly accepted the order.
Complete the trail through western Mongolia. Rong Lu, who had finally withdrawn, was now sitting on his horse with a sad face, and looked back at the spiritless soldiers behind him. Rong Lu closed his eyes in pain.
In less than an hour, his 25,000 men were attacked by Jinzhou at once, and he lost at least 6,000 people.
In his heart, he couldn't figure out whether these Liaodong troops were human beings. The cavalry was interspersed, and the infantry attacked head-on, and they simply divided the troops into pieces and then ate them piece by piece.
Several times, I could hear the cry of the Liaodong Army: "Capture Ronglu alive." ”
If it weren't for his guards desperately resisting and letting himself retreat, I'm afraid he would have fallen into the hands of the Liaodong Army a long time ago.
He swore that in this life, he didn't want to be the enemy of the Liaodong Army,
Hey, after three hours of running, it should be safe.
"Herald." Rong Lu touched his stomach, he felt a little hungry.
"Here," a soldier with a dark face picked up a small flag and hurried over.
"Order, troops ...... on the spot"
There was a bang. A violent explosion immediately interrupted Rong Lu's words
With a bang, after a cloud of smoke, the soldiers in his own queue were reimbursed several at once.
brush, Rong Lu's first reaction was that he was ambushed.
Rong Lu guessed correctly, he was indeed ambushed, and the ambush was the Fifth Division that came down from Shengjing. After the Fifth Division arrived near Jinzhou, Feng Guozhang concluded that if the Qing army was to withdraw, it would go west to Liaoxi, so he ordered the Fifth Division to go to the place where the Qing army was going to go and ambush it, and then wait. When the Qing army is halfway through, immediately attack.
"Defense, defense." Rong Lu jumped off his horse with a pale face, and ran behind a huge rock to avoid the cannonballs under the pull of the guards.
Ah, the heart-rending scream made Rong Lu, who was hiding behind the stones, tremble, looking at the soldiers who were carried up to the sky from time to time, Rong Lu closed his eyes in pain, he knew that it was impossible to break through.
"Report, blocked by the Liaodong Army."
"Report, the Liaodong cavalry is less than three miles away from our army."
A series of terrifying news came to Rong Lu's ears from time to time.
"Report, there are about 3,000 Liaodong troops in the south of our army, less than ten miles away from our army."
There are Liaodong troops in all directions, and Rong Lu can't stand such a blow, his eyes are black, and he kicks his legs, and Rong Lu faints alive.
The Qing army had no command and was in chaos all of a sudden.
"Killing" the Liaodong Army that surrounded them from all directions and began to compress the position......
Lushun, although Liu Jun did not go to Japan, but at the same time, he was also glad that he did not go, otherwise, others really don't know what to do about this Liaodong war.
Standing in front of the map, Liu Jun quickly drew a straight line in Jinzhou: turned around and asked Zhong Lin on the side: "Has Feng Guozhang launched an attack?" ”
No wonder Liu Jun is not in a hurry, today I received a telegram from Duan Qirui that Changshun's cavalry had set off, and the Mongolian cavalry had also begun to push towards the Shengjing area. About three days later, the Mongol soldiers and Changshun's horse infantry will advance to Shengjing.
Liu Jun also wanted to block outside the city, but now Duan Qirui had so many troops in his hands that he couldn't organize troops to go outside the city at all, so he could only be inside the city, although he mobilized a large army to reinforce him, but he couldn't reach it so quickly.
"Head, Feng Guozhang called, the attack has begun in the morning." Zhong Lin immediately replied.
In the morning, Liu Jun raised his head and looked at the time when it was hanging on the wall.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, it should be about the same, Liu Jun thought in his heart.
"What about the Sixth Army? Did the Sixth Army depart? Liu Jun pointed at Fushun.
"The Sixth Army has been assembled on the Fushun border according to your order, and as long as you give the order, they will enter Jilin immediately." Zhong Lin stroked his finger and drew a circle.
"Okay" Liu Jun pointed at Jilin fiercely: "Wait for Feng Guozhang to end, Lao Tzu will kill you." ”