Chapter 210 Surrounded on All Sides
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With the general attack order issued, the battle entered a full-scale white-hot stage. The Qing army no longer rushed and collided like the Outer Mongolian cavalry. Instead, it took advantage of the cover of vehicles to attack step by step and steadily. Hundreds of red cannons will also arrive at the artillery position one after another to provide effective fire support.
There was a loud "bang!"
A shell landed about a trough of a red cannon, and the people and horses overturned several times on the spot. The jumper hit the wheel of the cannon truck, and the cannon overturned and crushed two to death.
"Damn it!"
Turge saw it clearly, but after a moment, another ball of fire broke out in his eyes, and a piece of fire broke out on the side, which obviously detonated the ammunition, and then a red cannon was hit!
"Hiss~~"
The Zuoreng Hamin, beside him, sucked: "How can the thief's artillery be fired so accurately? It's still so far away. Sir, don't you have all the artillery before it has been pushed to the position."
"What do you think should you do?"
Turge was very upset and turned around and asked.
"This...why do you return the artillery and attack the cavalry?"
Hamin is not very confident.
Turge smiled coldly. This was really a joke. He organized a cavalry charge and fired another ten thousand guns. There was no need to fight this battle again. Until this time, the scene and power of the row of guns still made it difficult for him to calm down. He never knew how to write the word "Fear". Today, he felt scared under Linqing City. Instead, this step-by-step attack seemed to have some effect.
As for the issue of the continuous destruction of artillery, in addition to shock and not understanding why the artillery of the bandit army can be shot accurately and far, he did not dare to order the artillery to retreat, because the artillery is the backing of the entire army and the Dinghai Sword Needle. If the artillery position moves backward, it is equivalent to removing the support of the soldiers in front, which will have an unpredictable impact on the morale of the army.
Especially since the Outer Mongolian cavalry had just experienced a crushing defeat, he dared not gamble. He would rather be destroyed one after another than move back half a minute. After all, he still had expectations for the Manchu soldiers!
Even if this expectation is bloody, he will not give up until the final despair.
On the battlefield, it was extremely tragic. The artillery was forcibly unfolded, and the artillery fire of the storm army was counterattacked and fired heavily. The Qing army did not get the order to retreat. No one dared to retreat. He forced himself to fill the trenches with his life and rushed into the storm army's formation. They once thought that with their natural ferocity and invincible confidence, the storm army was enough to crush the storm army in hand-to-hand combat, but the storm army was not inferior to them when fighting, not to mention that there was a vanguard battalion dedicated to attacking the storm!
The Forward Battalion finally returned to its main business. Hundreds of soldiers with wide arms and round waists were wearing thick armor and fighting with axes. Wherever they passed, they brought a bloody storm and suffered heavy casualties.
A vanguard battalion soldier with broken legs sat cross-legged on the ground, holding the blood-dripping axe tightly, staring at the horse's hooves in front of him, ignored the sabre swung by the Manchu cavalry. When a chill around his neck was about to rise, he suddenly swung his axe!
"Chew!"
A bloodline spurted out, and a head flew into the sky, but at the same time, the horse neighed in pain, and its front calf was cut off. The whole horse suddenly lost its balance and hit the warrior's headless body. It rushed out several feet against the ground. The Manchu knight was also thrown away, his head hit the ground, and his cervical spine was broken!
Not far away, a vanguard battalion soldier with both arms was bleeding. He looked at Bai Zhuyao who was about to run away, and rushed with his body, his legs tightly wrapped around him, and both of them fell down!
"Let go, let go quickly, bang bang~~ ah!"
Bai Zhuangya was the elite among the Eight Banners. He was suddenly hugged and stimulated his fierceness. He beat the warrior who was entangled with force, and the blood was sprayed out, but he couldn't get rid of it. Then he was stepped on by the horse's hooves behind him, and the screams stopped abruptly!
Li Xin looked at all this indifferently. As a commander, his heart must be as cold as iron on the battlefield!
Gradually, the sun sets in the west and the battle continues. Turge asked himself that in his decades of war, he had never encountered such a tenacious enemy as the bandit army. He started fighting from the early morning until the evening.
Although September is the time for the clear and cool autumn, everyone on the battlefield is sweating and exhausted.
Li Xin never believed in qualifications. Although qualifications can gradually accumulate experience, there are several famous generals in history who have gained their status by relying on qualifications. For example, Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, Yue Fei and other ethnic British peoples, all shine when they are young.
To put it in opposing human words, factors such as humans, IQ, ability, etc. are born different. Talent cannot be compensated for by nature, nor can it be ignored if everyone is born equal. As long as they know people and use them well, young people can also take the lead. His army is dominated by young and strong sects, and the bandit army is also a very young army. Usually, older and conservative style are all taken to carry out logistics. Front-line combat requires passionate and energetic young people.
Unlike the few soldiers who were over thirty years old in the bandit army, the Qing army began to fight since the Nurhaci era. Many people fought for more than ten years, and were in their thirties or forties. They lost their spirits and their physical strength was no longer the same. Moreover, the natural environment in Manchuria was harsh, the mortality rate of infants and young children was extremely high, and the loss of population was difficult to effectively replenish. Many times, middle-aged people were on the front line of the battlefield.
Before entering the pass, the population of the Qing Dynasty was always hovering around hundreds of thousands. The Qing army in history was not how strong he was, but how bad the Ming army was. Li Zicheng was eager for success and was blinded by victory. With the unstable foundation in the rear, he rushed into Beijing with only tens of thousands of troops. Without making long-term plans, he pointed to the winning bid to return to Xi'an to become the emperor. Can he be defeated?
During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Hu people failed to cross the Yangtze River for hundreds of years. After more than 20 years of anti-Mongolia, they were succeeded by Mongolia due to economic collapse. However, the Southern Ming collapsed after only one year. An army that lost its vitality created the greatest military deification in Chinese history.
The high-ranking officials of the Qing Dynasty, such as Turge, have been gradually rising from decades of military career, and are nearly 50 years old. This stage is a stage where people's physical strength and energy decline significantly.
Turge supervised the battle all day long, and many negative emotions such as nervousness, worry, and anxiety were intertwined and fermented. He felt that there was a tendon in his head that kept beating. Every time he beat, it brought unbearable pain. He longed to take a hot bath and take a nap in his head, but judging from the current situation, it was already a luxury.
"Sir, drink a bowl of ginseng soup."
A personal soldier brought a bowl of hot ginseng soup over.
"Yeah~~"
Turge took the bowl and picked it up and drank it. The essence of ginseng entered his throat, as if it had brought him plenty of energy and energy, and he couldn't help but feel energetic. But at this moment, he suddenly noticed that there were shadows of sails in the upper reaches of the Yellow River and couldn't help but look over.
That was one battleship after another!
"not good!"
Turge screamed in vain, and the bowl in his hand fell to the ground. At this moment, his face was pale and his whole body couldn't help but tremble!
After all the calculations, the fleet of the bandits was missed!
This fleet did not appear from the canal, but came from the upper reaches of the Yellow River, which means that the bandits had been driving the fleet into the Yellow River for some days. Turge secretly regretted that he was too arrogant and did not explore the situation in the upper and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and even fell into a desperate situation of being attacked from both sides!
At the same time, he understood why Li Xin had chosen to fight with him in Linqing. Linqing was surrounded by the canal, the Yellow River and the Majia River on the east and west sides. Only by walking south could he break out. However, the positions of the bandits and the Linqing city lie across the south, which was equivalent to the bandits using three rivers and the Linqing city to lay an encirclement circle, which was difficult to fly out even if they had wings.
Turge seemed to have seen a dead end, but he was still unwilling to give up and shouted shrillly: "Call the cannons back, and the cannons back!"
The personal soldiers on both sides looked at each other!
After a whole day of fierce fighting, hundreds of red cannons were not used at all. At least thousands of shells were shot into the positions of the Bandit Army. However, the Bandit Army's artillery was long and accurate. Their artillery usually was not transferred in time after firing one shot, and they would be besieged by several artillery pieces.
In terms of the number of artillery, the bandit army was not as good as the Qing army, but had the advantage of long range and accurate head-first. The 117 completely relaxed its range and could reach two miles, while the Red Yi had only one miles of effective range.
Don’t underestimate that the range is only one mile different. The 117 itself was born in the Napoleon era more than a hundred years later, and it was technically crushed. The prototype of the original rapid-fire cannon was based on rapid-fire and slow-fire, and hundreds of meters were enough to determine life and death.
Moreover, 117 and 093 are field artillery, what is field war?
Easy to move.
The essence of the Red Cannon is a naval artillery, which was unloaded from the Spanish warships salvaged in the Ming Dynasty. In order to offset the influence of recoil, the base was heavy and strong, and there was no matching wheel designed. It did not pay attention to mobility, required a long range and great power, so it was used when used, and no improvement was made. The Qing army was the same. Therefore, the bulky shortcomings have not been improved. Before firing, it had to be unveiled, which took several minutes, and this became a living target!
The Napoleon gun mount is much lighter. In terms of design, it is similar to the shaft, and can be moved by pulling it up. The huge and sturdy wheels are enough to offset a considerable recoil force. When it is transmitted to the gun mount, it is not much enough to withstand it.
Turge also noticed that the destruction of the Red Barbarian cannons on his side was destroyed, and there were only less than a hundred remaining. He was completely at a disadvantage in terms of firepower. Moreover, once the cannons were moved back, even if the impact on the morale of the army was not considered, in fact, they could not take into account the artillery of the bandit army. The artillery of the bandit army would inevitably move forward, and it was impossible to find an opportunity to fire on the warships on the Yellow River.
Suddenly, Turge's eyes turned black and his body shook twice!
"Sir, Sir!"
The left and right guards hurriedly supported them.
Chapter completed!