Chapter 1637: The Three Battlefields of the North and the South (1)

What Lu Zhiyu brought was actually Wu Songwei's entire artillery regiment.

It can be seen from the order from Wu Zheng that Wu Zheng does not care at this time, whether he can recover Haizhou immediately.

What he needed was to turn Haizhou into a quagmire, a quagmire that the Qing court would be tired of, so that Wu Zheng could use surprise troops in the direction of Sizhou.

At this time, the Qing army stationed in Haizhou, after Shen Zhiyuan returned to Ziyang with the new army, lost the artillery support of the new army, and the two banners led by Ji Xiha and Lan Baisuo and their own personal guards were mostly cavalry, although they were also equipped with firearms, but those firearms, in front of the Wusong Guard Artillery Regiment, were a joke.

Of course, Ji Xiha and Lan Bai can still refer to the previous battle with Qian Qiaogong and send cavalry out of the city to fight.

But the problem is that with the support of heavy artillery, the Wind and Thunder Battalion can completely match with the enemy cavalry.

It was precisely because of this calculation that Lu Zhiyu dared to lead the heavy artillery regiment to join Qian Qiaogong first, and deployed the follow-up troops on the front line of the ladder pass.

The recruits who were replenished by the artillery regiment were getting more and more comfortable with the artillery.

But the enemy army in the city is sad this day.

Although the casualties are not large, after all, it is not the artillery of later generations, if you really want to hide, you can hide everywhere in the city, and you can feel at ease if you get into a private house.

Anyway, the people who can move in the city have been killed before, and I'm afraid that there will be nowhere to hide?

But who can guarantee that the next moment, the shells smashed from outside the city will not tear over the roofs of ordinary houses?

The city of Haizhou is so small that if the artillery is fired near the city gate, the shells can be crossed across the north and south gates.

Every time he thought of this, the Qing army, who had just been a little sleepy, would wake up.

This day and two days are fine, but in five or seven days, it will really kill the Qing army.

So, the Qing soldiers began to connect and ask Jixiha and Lanbai to fight together, and they all said that instead of being trapped in the city and dying under the enemy's artillery sooner or later, it was better to go out of the city and fight to the death.

This is also true, indeed, the Northern Expeditionary Army outside the city could not ride more than three or four thousand people, and the previous defeat was nothing more than the carelessness of Ji Xiha and Lan Bai, and the Qing cavalry had no shortage of strength in a frontal decisive battle.

Of course, Ji Xiha and Lan Bai will never admit their mistakes, and their explanation to the soldiers is that they only blame Qian Qiaogong for the southern barbarian who voted for Wu Zheng, which made all the spearmen who originally only had their own side appear in the opponent's camp.

But having said that, Jishiha and Lanbai had already been terrified by the previous battle.

So what is a cavalry duel?

It's clearly a massacre!

Thinking that thousands of cavalry were wantonly harvested by the other party with muskets like sickles, Jixiha and Lan Bai no longer had the slightest intention of going out of the city to fight.

That's right, the battle report has been sent to the north, the credit for the robbery has been received, and the excerpt for asking for help should now be placed on the dragon case in front of the emperor.

As long as the two of them hold Haizhou, and when the imperial court reinforcements arrive, they can be rewarded for their merits, and this reward is double, in addition to one from Yanzhou Dolbo, and one from the imperial court...... Tsk, it's beautiful to think about.

But if you follow the wishes of the soldiers and go out of the city to face the battle, in case there is a mistake...... No, no, there is a high probability that there will be a mistake, that is, he threw back the credit he had received, and then gave his net worth and his life...... It's too uneconomical, and the gains and losses are completely disproportionate.

Ji Xiha and Lan Bai then pressed their subordinates, constantly promising that as long as they held the city, they would be rewarded when they went back, and they would be rewarded!

It was even more foolish to the soldiers, saying that the Ming army outside the city was a long-distance attack, so many artillery, there must not be many shells, and if you shoot non-stop like this, it is very likely that the next moment, there will be no shells.

Only then did the floating military spirit be calmed down.

The two of them let out a long breath, but they didn't expect that they would be slapped in the face.

Almost every hour, Wu Songwei would launch a round of artillery bombardment into the city.

Moreover, it is a salvo of group artillery, the "rumble" sound of the direct shot cannon, and the "through" sound of the tiger squat cannon, once fired, it will be connected into a piece, and a dozen will be half an hour, that thing is not something that ordinary psychology can bear.

If it weren't for Ji Xiha and Lan Bai ordering the city gate to be blocked, the southern city would have been bombarded to pieces.

It's just that the city wall of Haizhou is really thick, unless a huge amount of gunpowder is buried in the corner of the city, it can't be penetrated by artillery.

The deterrent and intimidating power of salvo artillery is incomparable.

So, just after midnight on the sixth day of the shelling, a long-planned military admonition took place in the city of Haizhou.

The Qing army did not oppose the court or the heir Prince Dolbo, they just wanted to go out of the city and fight happily, rather than nesting in the city and waiting for death.

The number of people participating in the military admonition was not large, only more than 100 people, and the original number of people could not get close to the temporary movement of Ji Xiha and Lan Bai.

But the problem is that these more than 100 people are from the Chinese military camp of the two.

The fortress is always breached from the inside, and it is said that it is difficult to defend against thieves.

Who would have thought that the Chinese military camp, which has the best treatment and loyalty, would launch a military admonition.

Fortunately, there is still a distance between the Chinese army and the temporary army after all, and the time of the military admonition is not right, they have mastered the time for the change of guards in the pro-guard battalion, but they can't grasp the nightlife time of Jixiha and Lanbai.

That night, Ji Xiha and Lan Bai got together, pushing cups and changing lamps, drinking and having fun.

When the soldiers admonished, they were alerted by the two of them when they were in chaos.

The two immediately mobilized dozens of guards around them, and at the gate of the temporary line, they fired a volley of dense muskets to block the "rebels".

The sound of gunfire first alarmed the personal guard battalions of Jishiha and Rambai, and a "rebellion" was put down.

But the question arises, what to do with the dozens of "rebels" who did not die?

Kill or release, or use the excuse that the first evil has been punished, and the rest will not be prosecuted?

Obviously, Ji Xiha and Lan Bai are far from being so generous, they were angry that the Chinese military camp actually "rebelled", and then ordered in unison that they would not be pardoned!

Many times, a small thing can lead to a big mess.

Jixiha and Lanbai definitely belong to the Manchurian people who have no brains.

It stands to reason that in this kind of defensive warfare that is being pressed and fought, it is better to have more than one thing to do, and after quelling the "rebellion," it is necessary to turn the big things into small ones, and the small things to turn into small ones, and then talk about them after the difficulties.

At the very least, we have to wait for reinforcements to arrive, and then come to liquidate these "rebels", when the overall situation is decided, even if there are dissidents, there will be no waves.

Unfortunately, these two people must not have thought of this, they thought that the "rebellion" had subsided, and the situation was already under their control, so they were stunned in the early hours of the morning, in front of many Chinese army camp soldiers, and killed these dozens of "rebels".

At that time, there was silence in the execution ground, but anger and resentment had begun to gather.

In countless eyes, there was a flame of resentment, which ignited at a moment.

Their allegiances were Dolgon, now Dolbo, Zishiha, Rambai, what a fart?