Chapter 404: If you can't stand it, you're dead
"Fooled ......."
It was not Ortai who made this exclamation, but Yao Rucheng, the chief soldier of Zhenyuan Town, who was guarding Guiyang at this time, because Guiyang was empty, and the eastward advance of the Fu Han army was irresistible, so he rushed to Guiyang from the suppression, and half of the 6,000 men and horses under his hand were also transferred and rushed to Anshun.
However, when the three divisions of the Fu Han army broke through Longli together, Yao Rucheng also got the news that nearly 30,000 Fu Han troops actually appeared in the east instead of Anshun, which means that Anshun is not the real main direction of attack of the Fu Han army, and it also means that the governor of Ziyungui and all of them have been tricked.
As soon as he thought of this, Yao Rucheng's heart was cold, he would not be so confident that he thought that he could resist the menacing 30,000 Han army with 3,000 people, and he could do this, Yao Rucheng didn't know if other people could do it, and he himself was obviously not this material......
"Quickly report to Lord Duxian, and say that 30,000 Chu rebels have broken through Longli, and they are willing to die for the country and swear to defend Guiyang....... I also hope that Lord Governor Xian will come to help quickly. ”
Yao Rucheng swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and finally let out a long sigh, maybe he himself knew that this move was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, but since he had eaten the food of the imperial court, he naturally wanted to be a ghost of the imperial court......
On the tenth day of the seventh month, 30,000 Fu Han troops arrived at the city of Guiyang, and then launched a fierce attack, in front of more than 200 artillery, Yao Rucheng's 3,000 people did not resist for too long, just half a day's effort, Guiyang City fell, Yao Rucheng died in battle.
When the city of Guiyang fell, Ortai was leading the army to rush back, and when he just arrived in Anshun, he got the news of Yao Rucheng, and the whole person instantly aged a lot, although he had already noticed it, but still did not expect the speed of the Han army to be so fast.
At the same time, Yue Lingfeng's Twelfth Division was advancing unhurriedly in the direction of Xingyi Mansion, which was not very fast, and mainly played a role in responding to the war in the southwest.
The fall of Guiyang has become a foregone conclusion, if it was placed before, Ortai may not have cared so much, but he was a little frightened about the current situation, after all, he knew that Yue Zhongqi was going to attack Yichang from the direction of Shizhouwei.......
And now the Sichuan war situation has withstanded, but the Guizhou war situation has a big problem, if the Fu Han army directly north along the way to Chengdu Mansion, then the whole situation will completely collapse, whether it is he Ortai or Yue Zhongqi, almost all of them will be killed......
"Immediately send someone to report to Governor Yue...... Guiyang has fallen, and Chu Wei may be transferred to Chengdu Prefecture....."
Ortai's face was pale, he closed his eyes, let out a long sigh, and then said firmly: "Order all armies to attack Guiyang, taking advantage of Chu Rey has not yet completely gained a foothold..... Take Guiyang ..... Fast! ”
The issuance of this order is actually that Ortai wants to fill this hole with human lives, even if many people die, they must fill it, otherwise more people will die.....
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Kuizhou Mansion, as the gateway to Sichuan, has always been a battleground for soldiers, and for Ning Chu, it is also a key place in the battle of Sichuan.
"Boom—"
This kind of artillery roar has been going on for some time, and the defenders in Fengjie City are already a little numb, and although many people die under the fire every day, the defenders still have no way to counteract.
Fengjie is not a fortified city, the artillery on it has long been destroyed, and the night attacks organized by the Han army have also been defeated, except for filling it with human lives every day, they have no confidence, and even their morale has dropped to a bottom.
Zhang Guangsi, as the governor of Sichuan, although he has also arrived in Fengjie City, he has no good way, he can only rely on Yue Zhongqi's tactics to work, so although he will also patrol the city wall every day, he is more still waiting for news from Yue Zhongqi.
However, the current Fu Han army has also lost patience, and Ning Zhongyi, the king of Changshan, does not want to stay under Fengjie City for too long, otherwise the tens of thousands of Fu Han troops led by Cheng Ming may enter Chengdu one step earlier than him.
If this really becomes the case, then he Ning Zhongyi will have no face, after all, the real main force at the moment is still the road he leads, with five divisions and a brigade of nearly 60,000 troops.
Therefore, the artillery fire of the Han army on this day was much more fierce than in the past, and the bombardment lasted for more than an hour, but many of the cannon barrels were reddened.
And Zhang Guangsi also expected one thing through the artillery bombardment of the Fu Han army, that is, the Fu Han army was going to launch a real large-scale siege.......
From the previous battles, he had deeply felt the strength of the Fu Han army, so he did not dare to take it lightly, and he did not care about the threat brought by artillery, and hurriedly led people to observe the movements of the Fu Han army at the head of the city.
Before the artillery fire stopped, Hao Zhao, deputy commander of the Second Division and commander of the First Regiment, was already standing in front of many soldiers of the Fu Han Army, his right eye was covered with a black cloth, and he held a long knife in his hand, and his whole person looked high-spirited.
In the second division, the deputy division commander Hao Zhao can be called a real legend, he was not born in the Eagle Battalion and the Lecture Martial Arts Hall, nor is he a descendant of the Ning, Cheng and other families, he is purely the deputy division commander who climbed up from the grassroots level, for which he paid not only his right eye, but also more than a dozen scars on his body.
Even in the nascent Fu Han Army, there are not many soldiers like Hao Zhao who really climb up from the bottom, and more people still hold positions at the battalion and company level, especially after the Jiangwutang is restructured into an officer academy, this phenomenon may be difficult to appear again.
In the roar of artillery fire, Hao Zhao looked deeply at everyone in front of him with his only eye, as if he wanted to remember everyone in front of him.
And all the soldiers below were also looking at Hao Zhao, looking at this man who made them feel proud from the bottom of their hearts.
"Brothers, the war won't last a few years, the Battle of the Southwest is over, and there will be a Northern Expedition behind!"
Hao Zhao sighed in a very strange tone: "We didn't expect that this clear dog would be so useless, and many brothers have not yet made the merit of being able to seal their wives and sons......."
"However, this also means that our country will usher in peace, and you no longer have to wear a braid to be a dog for the Eight Banners, you will all have food, clothing, mother-in-law, and children in the future......."
"But the premise is that we have to win this battle, and you have to live!"
At this point, everyone's hearts seemed to be filled with something, and their faces were flushed, and their hands trembled a little, which was the feeling that could be expressed when excitement and excitement were mixed together.
Hao Zhao pulled out his long knife and pointed at Fengjie City from afar, roaring loudly in his mouth.
"Get on the bayonet and stab Fengjie City!"
"Get on the bayonet and stab Fengjie City!"
All the soldiers shouted in unison, and they took the bayonet from their waists and hung it on the muzzle of their guns, emitting a dazzling cold light.
Soldiers, just be as imposing as a rainbow, as heroic as a thousand clouds!
King Changshan looked at the picture of the oath of the second division, and couldn't help but have a faint smile on his face, and the commander of the second division, Ujijing, who was beside him, saw it, but laughed softly: "These rabbit cubs....... Hao Zhao is a talent, and I can rest assured that the second division will be handed over to him in the future. ”
"yes, he's a talent...... Li Shihu went to the Eighth Division, Xu Chengliang went to the new Sixteenth Division, you also have to go to the General Staff to be the minister, and now the old man is short of people, fortunately, Hao Zhao is good......"
Changshan Wang Ning Zhongyi sighed softly, the expansion of the army is fast, and the speed of personnel flow is also fast, but fortunately, the talent selection mechanism of the Han Army is quite perfect, but there is no situation of lack of success.
Just as Ning Zhongyi and Uzhi Jing were sighing, the sound of artillery fire stopped, and the charge of the first regiment of the second division was also launched, they would charge in multiple waves, and Hao Zhao led the second wave of soldiers to attack, more than hundreds of people in a slightly scattered formation, holding siege ladders, began to prepare to ascend first.
As the first wave of the charge is the first battalion, the battalion commander Song Yan was originally a captain and officer who graduated from the lecture martial arts, although he looked extremely polite on the surface, but he was the same way as Hao Zhao when he started the battle, and all of them took the lead in the charge, so the colleagues who were admired by the brothers in the battalion also had a temper with Hao Zhao.
The soldiers of the first battalion did not have the slightest hesitation or fear on their faces, although the guns had begun to sound on the top of the city at this time, and the archers were firing a volley downward, but for the soldiers of the first battalion at the moment, there was no way back but to advance.
The military rules of the Fu Han army are strict, and if you choose to retreat for no reason during the charge, you should be killed no matter what the reason. That is to say, either the commander does not give the order to charge, or he rushes forward with all his might, and there is no other way to go.
It is precisely this kind of strict military discipline, coupled with high rewards, that makes the Xiandeng battalion always have extremely high morale and combat ability.
Of course, as the first to enter the battalion, it is also the fastest way to get promoted and make a fortune, such as the battalion company commander must be selected from the first battalion, and those who do not have the first experience will be directly disqualified.
In Ning Yu's words, the regimental level considers more the courage of the soldiers than the wisdom.
After all, a soldier without courage can hardly withstand the cruelty of modern warfare, and there is no way to achieve victory on the battlefield.
"Quick, follow me!"
Song Yan's face was extremely solemn, he knew that it was the most dangerous before he ascended first, and after he really arrived at the city wall, he could fight in formation, but the danger was not so high, and now he could only look at luck to avoid the attack of the Qing army.
No matter how talented you are, when you go first, a buckshot, an arrow, or even a stone will put your life in danger, so in addition to courage, there is also luck.
The Qing soldiers were ready, they held birds, bows and arrows and long knives in their hands, and there was boiling oil and boiling water on the city, the purpose was to drive all the soldiers of the Fu Han army off the city wall.
Soon, after the Fu Han army paid a certain amount of casualties, the cloud ladder was finally erected, and some people began to climb towards it, and the second wave of soldiers led by Hao Zhao also began to run all the way, as for the third road and even the other soldiers of the Fu Han army behind, they were also looking at the head of Fengjie City with blazing eyes.
"Kill!"
The shouts of killing all over the sky seemed to deter the Qing army, and when they looked at the boundless Fu Han army under the city, the hand holding the musket trembled slightly, although they would also light the fuse together and shoot together, but there were not many Fu Han soldiers who really fell each time, so some people even began to gradually retreat.
"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”
The soldiers of the Fu Han Army were very experienced, and they very decisively grasped the cowardice that the Qing army was currently showing, and climbed to the top of the city wall with the smoke and flames, and launched the bloodiest hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army.
The corpses that kept falling down, and the blood that seeped out almost the entire city wall stained, looked terrifying and pathetic.
When some of the soldiers of the Fu Han Army finally gained a foothold in the city, they began to change their tactics, lit the grenades in their hands, and then threw them into the crowd of Qing soldiers, and those ignited grenades were like the horn of the devil, harvesting the lives of the Qing soldiers.
Seeing the heavy casualties of the Qing army, a gloomy look also appeared on Zhang Guangsi's face, if it weren't for the current situation, how could he let the brothers be consumed on it in vain?
"Be sure to send someone to resist ......"
Zhang Guangsi earnestly instructed the soldiers who were about to go to the city wall, but he himself was now thinking about a way out, after all, no matter what aspect, when the Fu Han army stood firm on the city wall, the Qing army was destined to have no chance.
The sound of fighting on the city wall became more and more intense, but Zhang Guangsi's expression became more and more solemn, because he knew that now was the most critical time, and he even had the idea of going into battle by himself.
If you resist it, you can live.
I can't stand it, I can only die.
The Qing army is very tenacious, and even has never been so tenacious, but the huge gap in the combat power of the two sides makes this tenacity meaningless, and the vast majority of those who fell were Qing soldiers, and there were more and more people standing on the head of the city wall, and the small position on the head of the city had almost no chance to deal with it.
"I didn't expect it to be so soon, we have to continue to help...... Expand the positions on the city walls, preferably to be able to take them completely today. ”
A hint of excitement flashed in Ning Zhongyi's eyes, he neither expected Hao Zhao's might, nor did he expect the Qing army to become so incomprehensible...... It's not even as good as the Qing soldiers who fought in the past.
In fact, Ning Zhongyi's thinking point is also a problem that everyone else has thought of, and the reason is very simple, that is, there are fewer and fewer veterans of the Qing army, and almost all the experienced veterans are lost in the previous battles, and the growth rate of new recruits cannot be so fast, so that it essentially causes the Qing army's combat effectiveness to be low.
On the contrary, the Fu Han army will win every battle, and the veterans do not have too many losses, and the veterans who have participated in two or even more than three battles are almost a big handful, and the existence of these people constitutes the cornerstone of the stability of the Fu Han army at present.
"It seems that we can take the Kuizhou Mansion in advance."