Chapter 188: The General Offensive Begins
"Boom!" ……
A total of ninety new cannons fired a salvo, and the raindrops of flowering shells continued to fall, enough to ravage the entire Tartar battalion.
More than half of the camp buildings have been disfigured beyond recognition by the powerful flowering bombs, and there are not many buildings in this huge military camp that are intact.
Barracks, towers, batteries, school grounds...... Whether it is strong or not, whether it is new or old, whether there is anyone in it or not, it is now mostly a mess and miserable.
Waves of flowering bullets raged relentlessly in the barracks, and no one knew where they would fall, even hiding behind the walls of houses.
For a time, in this Tartar camp, most of them, whether they were clothed minions or Tartar soldiers, were holding their heads, or hiding in the corner of the cellar wall, or lying on the ground......
They closed their eyes, covered their ears, shivered, and trembled.
In front of the flowering bullets that covered the ground, countless Tartars and coated minions screamed.
When the big bang broke out everywhere, life was so fragile, how could these people have had such a terrible experience?
After about a stick of incense, ten rounds of flowering shells were fired, and the roar of the bombing stopped.
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"Well played!"
Lu Xiangsheng did not hesitate to praise the officers and men of the artillery brigade.
From the binoculars, he could clearly see that the Tartar camp in front of him was full of enemy corpses and wounded, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood.
The Tartars and traitors who are within the range of artillery bombardment can only ask for more blessings.
No matter which direction they run, no matter what dodging measures they take, they may end up being killed or blown off by the explosion.
After all, the range of this new cannon is enough to cover the entire battalion.
"Stop shooting!"
Finding that the Tartars and traitors on the opposite side had been beaten to pieces, and there were not many enemy troops standing at all, Tang Huai, the brigade commander of the artillery brigade, decisively ordered to stop the shelling.
The rest of the enemy will be handed over to the other soldiers of the Blue Dragon Legion to deal with.
These continuously fired cannons also need time to cool down, otherwise, if they exceed the limit, they will still be easy to blow up.
After the cannon fire stopped, the entire Tartar camp outside the city of Gushan Fort was full of groaning enemies.
Some were lying in pools of blood, struggling desperately, while others stretched out their hands with difficulty, hoping that their living companions would come up and pull them.
It's a pity that those living companions didn't come to the rescue at all, and everyone was still in a daze, and they were a little confused by this unheard of and unseen bombardment.
The smoke of gunpowder gradually dissipated, and the tragic battlefield was clearly displayed in front of both the enemy and us.
In this huge Tartar barracks, at least thirty percent of the total number of clothed minions and Tartar soldiers lay down.
Among them were those who were killed, those who were injured, and those who were injured.
The land, which was originally very dry, had become a little soft after being soaked in a large amount of blood, as if it had rained blood.
At this time, it happened to be the turn of spring and summer, and the air was a little hot and humid in the middle of the year, and those who had been beaten up by the rebels were lying on the ground, illuminated by the warm spring sun, and constantly moaning in pain.
However, none of the soldiers of the Blue Dragon Legion had the slightest sympathy for them.
Even, the soldiers who were already preparing to launch a charge were all eager, and they couldn't wait to start falling into the well and beating the water dogs.
betraying their own ethnic group, betraying their own country, betraying their ancestors, these scumbags, all of them are innocent.
In this huge barracks, there were such large casualties all at once, and all the Han army banner soldiers and clothed minions were demoralized.
They looked at their companions in horror, and they fell to the ground groaning, and they just didn't dare to come to the rescue.
Some people have begun to regret why they should take refuge in the Tartars.
originally thought that by taking refuge in the Tartars, they could rely on the powerful combat power of the Tartars to seek benefits for themselves, but now the result is that it is very likely that they will bury their lives here.
Everyone knows that after taking refuge in the Tartars, they have to give their lives to the Tartars, and war is inevitable.
Before August last year, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was not very good, and almost all of those officers and men were crushed at the touch of a button.
These clothed minions are still very confident in defeating the Ming army on the border and in the interior.
If you encounter a powerful Ming border army, or other elite Ming army, the Tartars will basically fight in person, at most as cannon fodder, nothing to worry about.
Therefore, these white flag soldiers of the Han army are not very afraid of the combat mission after defecting to the Tartars.
Before August last year, the Liaodong Frontier Army was already the most elite army of the Ming Empire, and in the eyes of these clothed minions, they also had no combat effectiveness.
Unexpectedly, at the beginning of this year, they were here, and they would encounter such a ruthless Ming New Army, and they were beating them at the beginning of the war.
These new Ming troops are much more powerful than the previous Ming troops in the nine-sided towns.
In a big bombing, they lost tens of thousands of Han soldiers with blue flags and clothed minions here, and I don't know how many more people will die in the next battle.
"This Lu Xiangsheng doesn't seem to be simple."
Huang Chengyong, the banner owner with the blue flag who had just escaped the catastrophe, had just come out of the cellar, and he was lukewarm.
"Quick! Assemble now! Daming's new army is about to invade! ”
Riding a war horse and brandishing a sword, he ordered to immediately rearm for battle.
At this moment, his face became very fierce, and he didn't even have a way out
Since they took refuge in the Tartars, they have embarked on a path of no return, either to survive or to climb in one step.
Now if you want to retreat, if you want to regret it, if you want to throw yourself back into the Ming Dynasty, it is absolutely impossible.
"Brothers, cheer up!"
"For every enemy killed, you will be rewarded with ten taels of silver! Whoever kills the enemy's general will be promoted to one level on the spot! ”
In order to let his subordinates continue to work hard, Huang Chengyong also let go, as long as he can save his life, he is ready to hemorrhage.
For these traitors and slaves, what is for the country and the people, what is loyal to the country, etc., it is all fake.
Only money, status, and women can stimulate them to fight to the death.
Sure enough, under his constant stimulation, the morale of the soldiers with blue flags who had gradually gathered recovered slightly.
Huang Chengyong believes that the huge loss just now is only because they were too careless.
They didn't expect these Ming New Army to come from afar and carry so many cannons.
Moreover, those cannons fired unheard of, explosive high-power flowering shells.
Now, he had to readjust his combat deployment to avoid the bombardment of these cannons.
According to his speculation, whether it is digging trenches or digging tunnels, the damage caused by those powerful flowering shells can be greatly reduced.
Moreover, the enemy will immediately attack from different directions, and those cannons will definitely not fire again, because they will blow up their own people, and the firepower will definitely be greatly reduced.
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"Each division and regiment, with the brigade as a unit, attack separately!"
"All the soldiers, except for the soldiers of the two cavalry brigades, are responsible for keeping an eye on the Tartar army in the lonely mountain fort, and the rest of the troops, at the same time, in a line shape, push this Tartar battalion horizontally!"
As soon as the artillery fire stopped, Lu Xiangsheng gave the order for a general attack, "Remember! Bulldoze all this Tartar camp for me! ”
Lu Xiangsheng finished arranging and shouted menacingly.
His strategy is simple, to push all the way sideways.
The soldiers of the Blue Dragon Legion crushed the advance, crushing all the resistance they encountered along the way, crushing them all into slag with the momentum of Mount Tai!
The combat effectiveness of his own Blue Dragon Legion is not at all something that these Han army soldiers with blue flags and clothed minions can stop.
Even if you want to kill, you must quickly take down the enemy camp in front of you and clean it up.
Otherwise, the main force of the Tartars in the lonely mountain fort next to them is basically undamaged, and they will take advantage of the chaos to launch a counterattack, or they will easily escape.
And neither result is what Lu Xiangsheng wants.
What he wants is to destroy the Tartars and more than 100,000 traitor slaves here in a battle, even if they can't be completely annihilated, they will suffer heavy losses and collapse.
With Lu Xiangsheng's military order, the three divisions of the Qinglong Legion, with brigades as units, were distributed in a fan shape, and began to launch a general attack on the Tartar battalion in a semi-encircled formation.