Chapter 217: The Decisive Battle of Liantan Town (10)
Ning Yu put away Ujijing's letter, his face was slightly solemn, "Ordered the second division of the garrison and told Ujijing that the key to winning this battle is on him, before I take the North Kip Pass, I must hold Liantan Town, remember to remember." ”
"Yes."
Dong Ce got the order, and then sent several messengers, carrying the encrypted information, and went to Liantan Town in disguise. This method of encrypting intelligence has become a common practice of the Fu Han army, which can ensure that the Qing army gets the information and there will be no leakage of secrets.
Ning Yu turned over the horse, touched the sweat flowing from the horse, roughly estimated the distance, and sighed softly, this horse has been with him for a long time, and it can be regarded as seeing life and death together, but now that the road is finished, I am afraid that I will be tired to death.
"The herald army set off immediately, and must arrive in Xiang'an at night, let's rest a little more now, and one more brother on the front line will die!"
After the order was passed on, the soldiers of the Fu Han Army, who were resting, hurriedly stood up, although most of them were already quite physically exhausted, they were still trying their best to support. All they want is one thing, and that is victory, and they don't want anything but victory.
The sunset is obliquely shining, the afterglow of the setting sun, the faint golden light is sprinkled on the body of this army team, looking at this scene from a distance, but it seems to come out of the picture scroll.
In Anqing City, Yue Zhongqi looked at the Fu Han army under the city, with a slightly bitter smile on his face, in the case of the main force of the Fu Han army all withdrawn, what was left was only a force of less than 8,000 people, but it still surrounded the entire Anqing City solidly, and it did not leak.
Since getting the news of Kangxi's southward movement, Yue Zhongqi thought about defeating the Fuhan army outside the city, and then going to fight Kangxi's army, but what he never expected was that although the Fuhan army under the city did not have the main elite of the withdrawal, it was still not the object that the Qing army could deal with.
Yue Zhongqi sent people to organize several attacks out of the city, all of which were directly sent back to the city, and at the critical moment, they were almost broken through by the Fu Han army - those Fu Han army did not have any powerful artillery, but the number of small cannons was extremely large, and the rate of fire was also fast, every time the Qing army went out of the city to attack, those small cannons fired many bullets, causing very tragic damage to the Qing army.
If it was just that, it would be fine, but the combat strength of the Qing army in Anqing City was originally very low, and in the face of a large number of casualties, one by one, wolves and rats scurried, but they couldn't think of counterattacking at all, and they didn't have the determination to rush out regardless of it, so these attacks were ultimately in vain.
Yue Zhongqi couldn't wait to cut down all these routs, but he couldn't bear it, after all, if he killed all these people, the low green battalion would probably rebel, and then the entire Anqing City would be no different from losing it, which Yue Zhongqi couldn't accept.
"Junmen, now the Fuhan army under the city has dug deep trenches at the edge of the city, and it seems that it is going to trap our army in Anqing City, if our army goes out of the city, it will be bombarded with artillery, and now we can only watch them dig ....."
Yue Shan's face was a little ugly, when he went out of the city to test it, he led 2,000 people to the Fu Han army in the east of the city, but he was bombarded by several waves of artillery one after another on the way, and finally took advantage of the gap when the artillery stopped, Yue Shan drove the remaining green battalion soldiers to continue the attack, and before he had formal contact with the Fu Han army, he was beaten back by several rounds of guns and grenades.
When it came to the inventory, the 2,000 Green Battalion soldiers were killed, wounded, fled or captured, and lost more than 700 people in total, and the remaining 1,000 people were too frightened to dare to fight again, but their morale was even lower.
Seeing that the strength of the green battalion soldiers under his command was not good, and there were no heavy weapons such as artillery, Yue Zhongqi was also very helpless, and completely dispelled the idea of breaking through from Anqing City, but in this way, the plan to turn with the Kangxi army was also shattered, but Yue Zhongqi saw that the Fuhan army did not have a plan to take the initiative to attack, so he ordered the whole army to prepare and wait for the result in the direction of Liantan Town, but after this toss, there were less than 15,000 green battalion soldiers left under Yue Zhongqi.
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At present, the Qing army's artillery only has about 100 honest sub-mother cannons and mountain-splitting guns, and as for the general's artillery, there are only seven or eight cannons, and the range and power are not satisfactory, and the second garrison division of Liantan Town was specially strengthened before Ningyu left, and the artillery regiment of the main force of the first division was temporarily transferred, so the number of thunder-type artillery has reached more than 130.
Among the more than 130 pieces of artillery, more than half of them are six-pound guns, and the rest are twelve-pound guns.
Because of this, after the Qing army launched the attack, it was simply impossible to effectively approach the position of the Fu Han army, in the artillery battle, the Qing army's artillery firing distance was too close, so it had to attack closely, and then it was locked by the Fu Han army, destroyed one by one with artillery, and in just two hours, the Qing army's artillery lost about half.
Not to mention the unfavorable artillery battle, the eight banners of the Qing army's Beijing camp are now open, and they are almost filled in with their lives. However, in the face of the powerful firepower of the Fu Han army, they often needed to bear huge casualties before they could approach the position of the Fu Han army, and then in front of the mortar cannons and grenades, they were completely suppressed from advancing, and a large number of Qing troops fell directly to the ground, dyeing this piece of land red.
Kangxi has touched enough nails on the iron hedgehog in Liantan Town, and his mouth is full of blood, in just a few days, the entire Qing army has fallen more than 5,000 people in front of Liantan Town, and the injured and fleeing Qing soldiers are as many as 10,000 people, this kind of tragic casualties are almost unprecedented in the Qing army, if it were not for Emperor Kangxi personally leading the army, I am afraid that the entire military camp will mutiny.
At present, almost all of the green battalion soldiers have been put into another book, they are dead, they have fled, and those who have not had time to leave have been put into the coolie battalion, and the daily attack is to use them to play the vanguard, and use their corpses to pave the road for the attack of the Eight Banners Army, but in this way, the entire 50,000 green battalions, now there are less than 30,000 people left, and their hearts are full of complaints.
Blood and fire are staged on this battlefield, for the Qing army, these days they are almost like hell, the attack is no longer a symbol of glory, but has become synonymous with death, more and more people have begun to think, when can they completely escape from this hell.