Section 18 Mouse Playing Cat (Chapter 18)
Standing at the place of a captured fortress, Bolo no longer had the same mood as last night. Faced with the last fortress that he detonated, he finally understood that in order to conquer the Han people, he must kill all their bloody men! Otherwise, the Qing people will not be restless for a day on this land, and in the end, they will inevitably go back in disgrace, and if they are not careful, they will be in danger of extinction.
After a night of fighting, Bolo was really tired. He walked down from the fortress, stretched his waist, and then instructed his own soldiers: "Pass my general's order, the rear army will change to chariots and continue to advance, and the front army does not have to camp, bury pots and cook on the spot, and rest." ”
As he gave the order, Bolo glanced at the embers of the battlefield again, and the sigh in his heart became so heavy that he thought he needed to rest.
Turning his face and instructing his soldiers, he said, "I'll also go and rest, if something wakes me up, this night, it's really ......." ”
At this moment, a general came to his side and reported urgently: "General, news has come back from the front, saying that our army is more than 20 miles away from here, and the main force of the enemy's 'Shengwu Army' has suffered heavy casualties, and the leading generals have been killed, so please send reinforcements to ...... quickly." ”
"So fast!"
Bolo's heart shuddered, and he turned back to see that the Ming prisoners of Helian were pushing the "Great General Cannon" up the slope with great difficulty, and they were shouting trumpets. However, the narrow wheels of the heavy general's artillery wagons sometimes sink into the mud that has been blown up by the shells.
In this way, it will be difficult to cross all the cannons across the river at noon. Bolo rolled his eyes, the experience of the previous night had taught him how vulnerable a chariot was without artillery. Even with the superiority of artillery fire last night, nearly 200 combat vehicles were still lost, and the artillery fire of the Ming army was ......
"Huh! By the way, isn't there a cannon here in the Ming army! Thinking of this, he turned his head and asked the staff on the side: "Have you checked the Ming army materials obtained last night?" ”
"General Hui, last night we captured more than 5,000 pieces of firearms from the enemy's large and small firearms areas, including more than 50 hand-held firearms called revolvers, more than 100 muskets, more than 4,000 guns, more than 110 tiger squat cannons, more than 50 general cannons, and Franco...... Among them, the shells of the Tiger Squat Cannon ......"
"Hmm!" Bolo unhappily interrupted the report of his subordinates, "Pass my general's order, except for the revolver and the repeating gun, no one is allowed to use it, and the rest of the firearms will be immediately assigned to the front army, and they will be asked to take it as soon as possible and immediately march to the city of Suzhou, and if they encounter the enemy along the way, they will take advantage of the situation to surround and annihilate them, trying not to miss the enemy." ”
"Order!" His generals were ordered to leave.
If you can look down from the world at this moment, you will find that something terrible has happened in the soft Jiangnan water town.
Thousands of chariots almost covered the ground, driving on the ground that was frozen and stiffened in winter. The heavy body and wide wheels made ruts on the frozen ground. The chariots of the Qing army, organized into two assault directions, were like two giant pythons that were constantly twisting their bodies, and in front of the armored torrent was the defense line that had been crippled by the "Shengwu Army", and then it was the chariot cluster of the "Shengwu Army" under the command of Li Xingbang.
"Humph! The Tartars are jumping over the wall, so let's have fun with them. Li Xingbang rubbed his hands, giving people the feeling that he was playing a deck of thirteen, and he was almost about to tie the cards.
"There are teams from one to ten, along the south of Suzhou City, in a sniper formation, and the enemy's striker, but don't get too deeply entangled with the enemy, and fight and retreat, and immediately send someone to send our ideas to Hou Ye to know, please Hou Ye decide."
Suzhou City, bordered by mountains in the west, Taihu Lake outside the mountain, and Yangcheng Lake in the east, is an indispensable gateway to the south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, the breakthrough of the "Suzhou Defense Line" was expected by the "Military Advisory Group of the Shenzhou Army", and a corresponding plan was formulated according to this situation. That is, the Qing army's attacking troops were attracted to the city of Suzhou, sandwiched between the two lakes, and then the main force of the Shengwu army from the east of Yangcheng Lake to bypass the enemy's flank, so as to eliminate the invading Qing army under the city of Suzhou.
The Qing army's chariots formed a torrent, and the target in front was Suzhou City, which was the early reward for this battle. The leading generals of the two Qing army teams were full of strength and urged their men to move forward quickly, but their road was not smooth.
"Boom...... Boom ......" In the other party's seemingly sparse camp, large puffs of smoke continued to erupt into the sky on top of the chariots. Accompanied by thick smoke, shells whistled and fell on the advancing ranks of the Qing army.
Constant destruction of Qing chariots and clouds of smoke were ignited. After the soldiers abandoned the car and fled, it was not their turn to use the "chain fire oil bomb", and they were often immediately killed by the flying crossbow arrows, or fell under the grenades fired by the "slingshot grenade launcher".
When the Qing army could not bear the interference caused by this bombardment. Braving the enemy's artillery fire to set up a formation, set up a cannon, and ignite the "Bolo rocket" with the intention of fighting the opponent for a long time, the opponent will quickly retreat while their formation is not in order, and throw down the Qing troops who have already set up the formation as if they themselves were stupid and stopped.
When the generals of the Qing army finally put their ranks together and continued to move forward, they will find that they could not go two miles and there was another enemy chariot formation in front of them, and the "tiger squat artillery" with a range of 300 meters seemed to be crazy, and it seemed that countless shells were scattered on the incoming Qing chariots.
"Rush, rush over for me......" The Qing army general had red eyes, he had almost two thousand chariots, and if he was stopped by them, it would not be a joke.
Whether it was within reach or not, the "Bolo Rocket" seemed to want to ignite the sky at all, and scattered pieces of rockets into the air.
The artillery trucks of the "Shengwu Army" were farther than theirs, and in the blink of an eye, at least nearly twenty combat vehicles equipped with "Bolo rockets" were damaged by shells, or were ignited by the explosion of gunpowder, and the "rockets" on board burned themselves into a ball of fire.
The desperate offensive of the Qing generals obviously played a role. The front row of the "Shengwu Army" played the role of a defensive line, and several chariots equipped with the "Xiaofei Divine Crossbow" were hit, and the thick black smoke that rose formed columns of smoke in the air with the cold wind.
Li Xingbang was on the chariot behind, holding a telescope to look at the battle ahead, and shouted loudly: "Fuck let the second team withdraw Lao Tzu, tell them the captain, disobey the order and turn him back and hand him over to Hou Ye, Lao Tzu doesn't want it yet." ”
The Qing army's chariots rushed forward under rapid artillery fire, and they also discovered the advantage of such a charge, that is, the opponent's artillery was not easy to hit their chariots while moving.
As a result, soon the soldiers of both sides met.