Chapter 119: Ambush
After seeing this scene, the Qing army sentry immediately returned to report the truth to the king.
After Wang Xuan listened, the doubts in his heart only understood a little, that is, the Fu Han army on the opposite side did not plan to attack Luo Xiao Mountain, but took advantage of the Qing army's main force to concentrate on Luo Xiao Mountain, and went to attack other places. This is also why the Fu Han army fired artillery all night, but did not send people to attack the mountain.
This suddenly made Wang Xuan, who didn't know soldiers, a little suspicious in his heart, could it be that the Fu Han army on the other side was playing an empty city plan for himself? He grew up listening to dramas when he was a child, and Sima Zhongda was scared away by Zhuge Liang's empty city plan, which became a once-in-a-lifetime joke, but now he feels that the current situation is somewhat similar.
Wang Xuan naturally didn't want to be treated as a big joke, and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the other party's division of troops to take advantage of it.
Thinking of this, Wang Xuan summoned all the generals in the camp and began to lead the troops and horses, so that more than 4,000 people launched an attack on the bottom of the mountain.
Like other green battalions, Wang Xuan's Yongzhou Town, there are also not many sub-mother cannons and Weiyuan cannons, and the bullets issued at this time are still solid bullets, and the range is also very limited.
It's just that in the eyes of Zheng Guangguo, who was stationed at this time, these attacking Qing soldiers were out of order, and they were simply the best targets, so he ordered the artillery to replace them with flowering shells, and waited until the Qing soldiers entered a distance of three hundred paces, and then ordered the artillery to be fired.
One by one, flowering bullets fell from the sky, creating a blood mist in the ranks of the Qing soldiers, killing dozens of people on the spot, and the remaining Qing soldiers began to scatter in all directions, but the more than 2,000 shotguns in Yongzhou Town did not retreat but advanced, thinking of using the muskets in their hands to suppress the flowering bullets of the Han army.
Zheng Guangguo did not waver in the slightest, waved his hand to let the men and horses of the second regiment meet him, and a full 2,000 musketeers lined up in three rows of horizontal formations towards the shotgunners of Yongzhou Town, the roar of artillery fire continued to sound, and clouds of smoke almost covered the entire world.
The newly appointed commander of the second regiment is named Xue Cheng, who was originally a student soldier from the Eagle Battalion, and his skills are very extraordinary, but he is not as famous as Dong Ce and Xu Chengliang's predecessors.
"Fire!" The soldiers of the Fu Han Army skillfully pulled the trigger, then took a step back, let the soldiers in the second row step forward, and continued to load the ammunition themselves, the whole process was smooth, making Zheng Guangguo fascinated.
On the other hand, at this time, the shotguns of the Qing army fell dozens of people at once, and the psychological impact on the Qing army was incomparable, and many Qing soldiers had begun to look at the road behind them, thinking about how to leave this tragic battlefield. They could barely fire when they entered seventy paces, and due to the lack of power, many of the bullets did not have the corresponding lethality at all after being fired.
In terms of formation, the Qing army and the Fu Han army are in three formations, but in terms of the consistency of shooting, the Qing army is far behind the Fu Han army, and now the Fu Han army can shoot about 12 volleys in a quarter of an hour, while the Qing army can only shoot six platoons, almost being pressed and beaten.
Wang Xuantie blushed, looking at the Qing army that was lying in ambush, but his heart was chilling, this Han army is really incredible, just such a moment's effort, his four thousand green battalion soldiers have already sent out more than 200 lives!
At this time, the Fu Han army suffered no more than ten casualties, and these people were carried down on stretchers by the Fu Han army, and they were not directly left alone like the Qing army, or more viciously made up for it - they were treated by the military doctors specially equipped by the Fu Han army, and some of them could still survive.
And for the Qing army, as long as they were hit by lead bullets, then there was no choice but to die. Their morale was not high enough, and now when they look at the actual situation on the battlefield, they almost collapsed, and there were some riots in the formation.
As the morale of the soldiers of the green battalion of the Qing army gradually declined, it was obvious that this battle was about to be unfought, and at this time, Xue Cheng also seized the opportunity of the low morale of the soldiers of the Qing army and gave the order loudly.
"Grenade ready!"
The grenadier battalion also rounded up from the side at this time, and they were all in strong shape, holding a grenade in one hand and a fire breaker in the other, and wearing fiery red military uniforms like a blazing sun.
Soon, with an order, the grenade was lit and thrown out, and smashed into the Qing army column on the opposite side, which was only seventy paces away, with a huge roar, a cloud of blood mist burst out, so that the whole world changed color, the Qing army could no longer bear this blow, spread its feet, and quickly ran towards the back of the mountain.
However, it was only a little more than an hour, and the 4,000 Qing troops were almost completely defeated, and the remaining 6,000 Qing troops on the mountain had no choice but to come to respond, but they were beaten to the ground by the artillery of the independent artillery regiment.
After a long time, after paying a huge sacrifice, the Qing army finally returned to the defense line on the mountain, and after an investigation, it was found that after a battle, the Qing army left at least more than 800 corpses at the bottom of the mountain, and more than 300 people disappeared.
This is an extremely frightening figure, because before modern wars, the casualty rate in wars was not so high, let alone so many casualties in just one hour. However, under the handwriting of the Fu Han Army today, with flintlock pistols and grenades, and thunder cannons, the Qing army was basically completely collapsed.
Wang Xuan looked at the almost intact Fu Han army at the foot of the mountain, and a mouthful of old blood was about to spurt out in his heart, how could this battle be fought? didn't care much at the moment, so he sent seven letters of help to Zhang Changen in a row, which can be called crying blood.
Of course, under Zheng Guangguo's arrangement, only four letters from Zhang Changen were intercepted, and the remaining three letters arrived in Yuezhou smoothly under the leadership of the envoy, and met Zhang Changen on the spot.
Zhang Changen naturally didn't feel strange about this situation, if Wang Xuan could hold it, it would make him feel puzzled, but Zhang Changen didn't want to send out this reinforcement. Because in Zhang Changen's view, if the Fuhan army comes to the city in the future, this 10,000 green battalion will be the hole card to save his life.
But at this moment, the news that the regiment led by Dong Ce occupied Chang'an and Taolin was also passed over, which made Zhang Changen a little flustered, the reason is very simple, if the regiment continues to attack, it will have the opportunity to completely block the back road of Yuezhou, and then I am afraid that something will be wrong.