Chapter 470: The Game of Life and Death in Armageddon
Since Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, almost all his energy has been put into rectifying armaments and training new troops, but this thing is not something that he can do if he attaches importance to it, especially the current artillery technology of the Qing army, which has not been greatly improved, whether it is quality or speed, it is the same old way of maintaining.
Under this model, the technological level of the Qing army's artillery casting lagged behind that of the Fu Han army for a long time, and the amount of casting could not keep up for a long time, so at present, in addition to the main force of the Qing army's new army, the artillery power of the green battalion is still the same.
Luo Qi's conscience naturally understands these things quite well, and it can be said that if the fight continues like this, whether the Qing army loses or wins, the casualties will be several times more than that of the Fu Han army, because in front of the naval artillery of the Fu Han army, human lives are almost just numbers.
With the gradual roar of artillery, the Qing army's formation was almost swept by projectiles, a large number of stumps and broken arms mixed with bloody and blurred bodies, exuding a strong smell of blood, and when mixed with gunsmoke, it made people feel that the air was disgusting, and there were more Qing soldiers lying on the ground......
Even so, there were still many Qing troops who rushed to the front of the Fu Han army that landed on the shore, and the soldiers of the Fu Han army barely discharged a few horizontal formations, and then under the leadership of the company commander and the officers of each team, they fired a salvo, and rows of projectiles hit the charging Qing soldiers, as if splashing blood flowers.
As the commander of the first battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 10th Division, He Shijie, who was the first to land, was hit by a projectile in his arm, oozing a large amount of blood, and he did not choose to retreat, but asked the medical soldiers to bandage it urgently, then pulled out the command knife on his waist, and insisted on standing at the front to give orders.
"Prepare the grenades!"
The soldiers of the first battalion were equipped with four grenades because they were facing the attack of the Qing army, after all, there was no chance to use them, and after hearing He Shijie's order, everyone untied the grenades from their waists, holding the grenades in one hand and the fire fold in the other.
"Throw!"
With the end of the word, one by one grenades were thrown into the crowd of Qing soldiers, followed by continuous explosions, knocking more Qing soldiers to the ground, and the counterattack of the Qing army's mother cannon also caused many Fu Han soldiers to be knocked to the ground, and the grenades in their hands also exploded in the crowd.
The most brutal scene on both sides is to see who can carry it better, the rounds of grenade attacks also caused a large number of casualties, and the Qing soldiers were also under the leadership of their respective thousand generals and generals, and the Fu Han army had direct contact, and the poofs made when bayonets and spears pierced into the human body resounded for a while, like the sound of hell.
He Shijie's chest was stabbed by a spear, and his chest was stained red, and he held the command knife in one hand and raised the handcuff in the other, and killed the other party with a single shot, and couldn't help but let out a slight sigh.
"It's a pity...... I can't go home at all......"
After He Shijie fell, the two sides were also on the narrow beach, completely caught in hand-to-hand combat, bayonets, spears, waist knives and butts have become weapons for both sides to fight, and even later, fists and teeth have become weapons, just to kill each other.
Everyone huddled together, and reinforcements from both sides continued to join in, and they used the most brutal means to strangle each other's lives, regardless of the severity of their injuries, and even later, both sides fought together as if they were in the same place, holding each other's bodies and dying on the beach together.
Qian Ying looked at the scene in front of him, his face remained calm all the time, it was impossible for him to order the soldiers on the beach to withdraw, because it was impossible to retreat, and there was no other way than to repel the attack of the Qing army.
According to the calculations of the General Staff, based on the current casualty exchange ratio between the two sides, by tomorrow morning at the latest, the Qing army will no longer be able to have any new forces join, and the victory of the Fu Han army will be unstoppable, of course, in order to get this result, the central army will need to pay about 1,000 lives.
The life and death of a thousand people, behind them may involve a thousand families, thousands of people's joys and sorrows, but in this war, it is only an insignificant number, perhaps the future history books will record a sentence: landed in Tanggu, suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and broke the Qing army.
But these things are destined to have nothing to do with these people at the moment, and the only thing they can really do now is to try to stab the bayonet into the chest of the Qing soldiers, and then try to live.
Cheng Qi, as the commander of the third battalion, finally took his brothers from the boat and stepped on land, although his head was still a little dizzy, but he understood that the brothers in front needed his support more.
"Brothers, prepare grenades! We'll blow it all the way up! ”
Hundreds of soldiers of the Fu Han Army dressed in red struggled to stand firm, and then untied the grenade at their waists, with a fire fold in their mouths, and their eyes resolutely looked at the crowd of people fighting in front of them.
The soldiers of the Qing army concentrated on the Hell Fu Han army to fight, they did not find this new force, and when they reached the front line of the battle, Cheng Qi let out an angry roar, although the sound was almost covered by the sound of fighting on the battlefield, but it still made the other soldiers understand.
One by one, the grenades were thrown to the rear of the Qing army by the soldiers of the Fu Han army, of course, some were thrown into the connection between the two sides of the battle, and the fragments that exploded swept across the soldiers standing like a rain of bullets, and a large number of Qing soldiers and some soldiers of the Fu Han army were blown to the ground.
"Rush!"
After several rounds of grenades, a passage was finally blown out between the Fu Han army and the Qing army, and the soldiers of the Fu Han army leveled their bayonets, stepped on the ground composed of corpses, and slowly advanced forward, and the Qing army finally could no longer hold on under such an attack and broke towards the rear.
On the battlefield, it has always relied on a breath of energy, and only by holding this breath can we persist in fighting, but once we relax, then failure becomes a matter of time.
At present, when the Qing army's morale was relaxed, they completely broke and fled, and they could no longer organize any effective offensive, and after the Fu Han army won the landing battle, it also meant that it had completely gained a firm foothold, as long as it waited for the other divisions to land, Tianjin would be at their fingertips.
"Half of this battle has been completed, and after Tianjin is taken, I'm afraid Yongzheng will no longer be able to sit still."
Qian Ying had a smile on his face, for the current Fu Han army, if you want to take down the Beijing Division, you must take Baoding or Tianjin, and now Yongzheng led the army to Baoding, but Tianjin's arrow outside the sky, what did he use to block it?
Not to mention, in addition to these two directions, it is almost time for the Praetorian Guard Division to land in Jinzhou, and then Yongzheng will completely become a bird in a cage, no matter how much he flutters, he will not be able to flutter any tricks after all.
Seeing that the Fu Han army has completely gained a firm foothold, Luo Qiliang also understands that the opportunity to block the break has completely disappeared, and now facing the tens of thousands of troops of the Fu Han army, even if Song Ke, the governor of Zhili, comes in, it is useless, and this matter has to be reported to the emperor in the end, and the emperor's own army can only be blocked.
Therefore, after Luo Qiliang organized the rout to retreat to Tianjin on the one hand, on the other hand, he wrote an excerpt for help overnight, and directly wrote to Yongzheng through the secret box channel, with only one purpose, to quickly send the Eight Banners New Army to block the Fuhan army in the direction of Tianjin.
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At the end of October, the weather gradually became cold, and the state of the Fu Han army in Zhili did not have any effect, and the successive victories made everyone very happy, even Ning Yu himself thought that it was no longer a problem to win the Beijing division before the Chinese New Year, let alone a flag.
How do you lose a flying dragon riding face? Just ask you, how do you lose the flying dragon riding face?
Ning Yu has no talent for poisonous milk, but in the current situation, the war is going too smoothly, the First Group Army and the Second Group Army are advancing to Baoding, and the Central Group Army is landing in Tianjin, and the Praetorian Division is about to land in Jinzhou, and the reason for the Qing army to return to the pass will be completely blocked.
To put it simply, at this point, the Qing army was like a worm trapped in a cicada net, and the more it struggled, the tighter it was bound until it completely collapsed.
Ning Yu was wrapped in a big coat, he looked at the positions of the divisions on the map, thought slightly in his heart, and said softly: "There are times when the dog is anxious to jump off the wall, Yongzheng has a heavy army, I am afraid that he will choose to break the net......"
Ning Zhongyi had been following Ning Yu's side, so he had already had some thoughts in his heart, and muttered: "The most important place for the Qing army now is not Baoding, but Tianjin and Tongzhou...... That's where his back road lies. ”
"Oh, that is to say, when Yongzheng learned the news of the fall of Tanggu, he was probably the first thing he thought about returning to Tianjin...... Maybe this is our chance. ”
Uzhijing took over the conversation, he and Ning Zhongyi made a lot of hypothetical plans for this battle plan, among which the possibility of a decisive battle in Tianjin or even Tongzhou was the biggest in the eyes of the two, the reason was that the Qing army still had a place to retreat in front, and after Tongzhou was the Beijing division, the Qing army would completely retreat.
Ning Yu looked at the location of Tongzhou on the map, and a familiar place name appeared in front of him - Bali Bridge, which made Ning Yu have a very strong premonition, maybe the battle that happened more than a hundred years later will be staged in advance?
However, due to the special nature of this battle at present, there must be a big difference between it and the battle of Bali Bridge that occurred in later generations, not to mention anything else, just the armies of both sides participating in the battle are completely different, after all, both sides are hundreds of thousands of troops, but it is not comparable to the original Battle of Bali Bridge.
It's just that Ning Yu's thoughts in his heart will naturally not be known to outsiders, he nodded slightly, "This battle must leave the main force of the Qing army, our purpose will not change, but there is no need to force the Qing army too much, the decisive battle in advance will be too big for us, we still have to plan a lot." ”
"Yes, Your Majesty."
The Privy Council has prepared a lot of tactics in essence for this big war, and it will naturally take this into account, so Ning Zhongyi and the others also answered very simply.
After everyone went down to give orders according to the plan, Ning Yu looked at Yutu in a quiet daze, after several years of hard work and hard work, and several years of overcoming obstacles, it was finally the final moment of decision. After this battle, there will be a conclusion about the ownership of the world.
However, Ning Yu was not very excited in his heart, or the arrival of all this was originally so natural, because years of hard work were not an accident, but an inevitable result.
On the surface, the war was the result of a contest between the combat effectiveness and command level of the two armies, but in essence, it was a contest of national strength, and in this regard, Ning Chu's advantage over the Qing court was even greater than the military advantage.
From the tax revenue of the imperial court, to the output of grain, iron and military supplies, Ning Chu maintained a crushing state against the Qing court, so the war was actually over long ago, and it ended in this comparison of hard power.
Ning Yu touched the short mustache on his lips, and couldn't help but smile slightly, Yongzheng may never have the same fame and achievements as in his previous life, but I don't know if I can see him in this battle?
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In the barracks outside Baoding, the Qing army generals gathered together, and the atmosphere became very solemn, and everyone lowered their heads, not daring to look directly at Emperor Yongzheng who was sitting on the top.
The reason is very simple, Tanggu is lost! As a result, Tianjin is also in a dangerous situation, once Tianjin is also lost, the Fu Han army can directly attack the Beijing division through Wuqing and Tongzhou, and at this point, their 150,000 people will be completely cut off from the back road.
At this point, everything Zhang Tingyu said gradually became a reality, and it was really a dead end for the Qing army to stay in the pass!
Yongzheng's face was extremely calm, he held Song Kejin and Luo Qiliang's presentation reports in his hands, and the whole person fell into a kind of madness and loss, these reports have been read by Yongzheng several times, but he still can't believe that tens of thousands of Han troops appeared in Tianjin.
"Tell me, where is the way out for me now?"
Yongzheng's voice was very stiff and cold, and every word seemed to be squeezed out, making people feel that there was a cold wind behind them.
Xu Yuanmeng let out a long sigh and said in a low voice: "If you go back to the emperor, in the opinion of a slave, now the opportunity for the decisive battle is unknown, and you should take the preservation of the Jingshi as the key, after all, the place where the emperor's mausoleum is located must not be neglected." ”
What is more than the mausoleum of the first emperor? It can be said that the belongings of the Qing Dynasty for so many years, as well as his Yongzheng's harem and children, and some of them are in Beijing, only a small part of them were transported to Shengjing.
Yongzheng also has such a plan in his heart, but he is still a little hesitant, there are two ways from Baoding at the moment, one is to go directly to Tianjin, and the other is to return to Beijing, from the surface, going directly to Tianjin is the best choice.
"What if our army goes to Xin'an and Xiongxian and goes directly to Tianjin? If you return to Jingshi like this, it seems that something is inappropriate. ”
To put it bluntly, Yongzheng still considered the problem of face, after all, the current battle was to fight a decisive battle with the Fu Han army in Baoding, but now he was returning to the Beijing division in a gray manner, no matter how he looked at it, he was a little embarrassed.