Chapter 506: Combined Operations on Land and Sea

At the city wall of the west gate, when the Tang and Qing dynasties were fighting to the death like a meat grinder, Abatai was leading a partial division of 10,000 soldiers of his department to bypass the north and south sides of Vladivostok Fort, and went all the way, preparing to attack the east gate of Vladivostok Fort.

However, to the great surprise of all the Qing troops, their march was very smooth compared to the western city wall, which was being slaughtered with blood.

Abatai was very happy in his heart, he secretly thought, okay, Dolgon's guy is in front, fighting with the main force of the Tang Army, but he just let himself pick up a leak, such a good thing, it is really lucky that it can fall into his own hands.

Thinking that if he was a partial teacher and could successfully take this Vladivostok Fort, Huang Taiji would give him a first credit, and the joy on Abatai's face was overflowing.

Abatai casually and subconsciously sighed and thought of the tragic experience of being captured by Li Xiao in North Korea back then, thinking that he had been tied to the stone pillar, humiliated and scolded, and could not even think of committing suicide, and was fed by Li Xiaojun with cattle plugs to survive.

Hmph, Li Xiao, who entered the dog, Lao Tzu is now going to take your Vladivostok Fort and slaughter all the soldiers in your fort, so as to avenge the humiliation suffered by Ben Baylor in North Korea back then!

Thinking of this, Abatai wiped a handful of snowflakes on his face, and ordered loudly: "The whole army listens to the order, and while the Tang army is fighting with all its strength at the city wall of the West Gate, and is unable to take care of it, our army quickly passes through both sides and directly attacks the east gate of Vladivostok Fort!" Listening to the order of the commander, the Qing army under his command shouted in unison like beasts, pushed the huge crash car, rolled out clear and huge rollers on the snow, and slowly advanced from the north and south respectively, and the ultimate goal of the attack was naturally the East Gate city wall, which seemed to be weakly guarded.

Abatai, who led the advance of 10,000 elite soldiers, of course, would not know that the reason why his advance would be so smooth was not that the Tang Army was really negligent in guarding against him, so that he could take advantage of a loophole.

In fact, his smooth progress was the result of the Tang Army's intentions. He didn't notice that when he proudly led the army to pass, in fact, the Tang army had already made preparations, and the crossbowmen on the city wall, as well as the naval guns on the sea, were already aiming at them, but in order to completely encircle and annihilate the troops and horses of Abatai, the Tang army deliberately let them pass smoothly.

Originally, when they passed through like this, the Tang army could still snipe along the way and kill and wound them without interruption, but in order not to startle the snakes, so that these guys turned around and fled when they saw that the momentum was not right, the Tang army was still very patient, waiting for them to pass all the way, and did not take any interference and attack actions.

When the Abatai Department went all the way unimpeded, bypassing the corner of Vladivostok Fort, and was about to meet at the east gate, as a series of piercing conch horns sounded, the flags on the city wall moved, and the Tang army, which had been lurking like poisonous snakes for a long time, finally began to act.

In fact, when they saw that the Qing army despised themselves so much and walked all the way through with a big grin, the crossbowmen of the Tang Army guarding the city wall were all secretly ruthless in their hearts.

The Qing captives who entered the dog, you still dare to swagger all the way without knowing whether you are alive or dead, let you have a good taste of our army's crossbow and poisonous arrows!

Especially Zu Kuan, the deputy general who was appointed by Li Dingguo with full authority to deal with the Abatai Ministry, his face was full of cruelty.

On his broad face, his eyes were hideous, and his flesh was trembling slightly. When all the Qing troops of the Abatai Department were approaching the boundary of the East Gate, Zu Kuan saw the Qing army coming from the north and south, and the last part of it had basically reached the corner of the eastern city wall.

Zu Kuan pressed down the snow-covered helmet on his head with his hand, and shouted loudly: "All crossbowmen pay attention, get ready." The crossbows were held firmly in the hands of the Tang crossbowmen, and the squeaky strings came and went, and the crossbowmen aimed at their respective targets.

"Put!"

"Bang Bang Bang! ……”

"Whoosh! ......" In the continuous sound of bangbang strings, continuous crossbow arrows were fired from one after another divine machine crossbows, and under the snow, the highly poisonous crossbow arrows formed a dense web of death.

In total, nearly 10,000 poisonous crossbow arrows roared out, and they shot towards the Qing infantry of the Abatai Division, who were not at all defenseless and still marched towards the east gate of Vladivostok Fort step by step.

"Puff puff puff ......" With the faint muffled sound of crossbow arrows shooting into the human body, a scream that does not seem to be like a human voice rises continuously, making people feel palpitations.

In the heavy snowfall, the Tang army fired a dense salvo this time, and these Qing soldiers who came all the way were shot to death by the Tang army almost instantly!

This number is much more than the total number of Qing troops killed in the original two salvos! The reason why such a great result was achieved was that the crossbowmen guarding the city wall were located on the three city walls in the southeast, south and north, respectively, and the number of crossbowmen was nearly 3,000 more than the crossbowmen who were originally only guarding one side of the west gate city wall, so they could naturally achieve greater results.

In the heavy snowfall, because of the heavy snowflakes, the Qing army's vision was blocked, and because they were concentrating on the march, they were completely caught off guard, and it was extremely difficult to avoid the Tang army's fast and urgent crossbow arrows.

In the face of such an almost absolute cruel death, seeing the companion who was hit by the crossbow arrow blackened and screamed to death, the Qing army's will to fight was instantly severely hit, I don't know who made a shout, at this moment, many Qing soldiers who were beaten out of the ground let out a wail, lost the attack weapon, and the wolf rushed to quickly turn around and flee, disappearing into the snow.

Seeing this sudden situation, Abatai was so angry that he shouted at the fleeing soldiers, "Don't run away!" Keep giving Benbel the siege! However, in this time of great confusion, how could the soldiers who had been beaten and blinded listen to him, and they continued to flee in all directions, like a flock of scattered birds, flying away in all directions, and there was no order at all.

"Don't run! Lao Tzu told you not to run away! Seeing that the soldiers of the whole army, only under the combined attack of the Tang army's crossbow arrows, they collapsed to the point of being out of control, Abatai was so angry that a trace of hideous color immediately flashed on his face, and then he drew his knife and shouted: "Pass my military order, anyone who retreats from the battle will be killed!" ”

"Whew, the minion obeys!" When Abatai's guards heard this cruel order from their master, they immediately rushed forward with a howl and slashed at the soldiers and horses who were fleeing in a cried manner.

The sound of screams, blood splattering, the porphyry sound of sharp knives cutting bones and the dull popping sound of knives and guns piercing into the human body sounded, and the fleeing Qing army was finally defeated by Abatai and his entourage, and the entire formation began to recover again.

But at this moment, another round of crossbow fire volleys from the Tang army had already begun to fire again.

"Bang Bang Bang! ……

"Whoosh! ......" another round of crossbow arrows whistled out, like the cruel scythe of death, and swung towards the Qing soldiers who were unsuspecting and panicking.

"Puff puff puff ......" screamed again, and the Qing soldiers under the city were originally shot by this round of crossbowmen, and at least more than 1,000 people were killed.

This is still thanks to the fact that the Qing military has already fled, and the formation is no longer dense, which has reduced their death toll by so much.

At this time, the Qing army could no longer bear such continuous and tragic casualties, and they wailed and retreated to the original road.

At this time, the naval ships that had been silent for a long time, the naval guns on the side had already fired.

In the dense and choking white smoke, more than 150 solid iron bullets formed a terrifying rain of death, and pounced on the panicked Qing army formation.

In fact, the real lethality of the solid iron bullet is much smaller than the crossbow arrow that kills in the vicious poison, but because of the absolute death and flesh and blood it brings, it has a great blow to the morale of the Qing army.

In fact, bombarding shore targets with naval artillery has long been a very handy tactic used by the Tang army, and when the Tang army attacked the Amami Oshima Island of the Shimazu family, it used naval artillery to bombard the elite troops of the Shimazu family to pieces, and they fled in defeat, allowing the Tang army to successfully capture Amami Oshima Island and make a key contribution.

Later, in the attack on the city of Lushun in Jinzhou, the Tang army repeated the old plan again, using the gunwales of hundreds of ships to bombard the nearly 4,000 cavalry led by the Manchurian general Ai Xing A, killing and wounding a lot, and finally let the Qing cavalry only a few hundred cavalry flee back, and the Qing army's deputy general Ai Xing A was also captured alive by the Tang army and became a prisoner.

In the end, Aixing, who forced Emperor Yongli to death in history, was executed on the spot by Li Xiao in the cruel way of shelling the living, which dealt a heavy blow to the morale and determination of the Lushun defenders.

"it, the Tang army actually attacked by sea and land, and our army is finished!" Abatai was horrified and saddened to see that a large number of his soldiers were smashed into a blur of flesh and blood by these large and small black iron bullets shot from these ships on the seashore, and the stumps were splashed, blood and internal organs burst out in all directions, and the whole scene of shelling was very terrifying and disgusting.

What made him even more frightened was that a whistling cannonball hit a horse guard next to him in one fell swoop, smashing people and horses together, and turning them into a disgusting ball of flesh and blood.

At this moment, Abatai was so frightened that he almost became incontinent. This new and tragic new combat method of joint sea and land attack greatly exceeded Abatai's expectations, and he suddenly found that he did not have any plans or countermeasures for this combat method, and could only watch and be beaten passively.

Now that he is in the city, the Tang army, which has fallen into the city, is jointly attacked by the sailors by the sea, and is under the fire net of absolute death, and this battle cannot be fought at all.

The crossbow arrows on the city wall killed people, the naval guns on the sea were fierce, and the extremely terrifying and fierce huge blows overlapped between these two phases, so that the Qing army, which was already terrified, could no longer bear it, and immediately collapsed completely.

The Qing army was so frightened that some people knelt down on the spot and begged for mercy from the Tang army at the head of the city.

"The whole army obeys the order, throw away the siege equipment, and retreat as soon as possible!" Abatai shouted angrily at the chaotic Qing army, and then took the lead in pulling out the horse's head, turning around and fleeing.

Seeing that the main general was the first to flee, the remnants of the army had no desire to fight, they ran and fled, and no one could stop them from fleeing for their lives at this time.

And even so, the crossbowmen of the Tang Army on the city wall pursued and sniped them all the way, killing them so much that they lost their armor along the way, and they were extremely embarrassed.

And the gunwales of the Tang Army's naval divisions have also been firing non-stop, chasing and killing all the way on the back of the Qing army, and the cannonballs that roared away one after another, like the laughter of death, crushed all the Qing troops who caught up into a blur of flesh and blood.

In the end, the Abatai Division, with only more than 4,000 people left, was able to escape from the crossbow arrows of the Tang army, and they fled back to the Qing army several miles away like a flock of frightened rabbits.

Abatai, who had lost his helmet, his hair was unkempt, and he was dressed in mountain-patterned armor stained with blood and mud, knelt in front of the gloomy Huang Taiji, his face was full of shame and embarrassment, and he fell to the ground and pleaded loudly.

"Your Majesty, Weichen is incompetent, the defeated army has lost its generals, and only more than 4,000 people have fled back, and all the equipment has been lost, please punish the emperor!" After listening to Abatai's words, although Huang Taiji tried to remain calm on his face, it was like a knife cut in his heart.

What a hate! Abatai's incompetent, light enemy rash advance, lured into the pocket by the Tang army, closed the door and beat the dogs, so that nearly 6,000 elites were all lost so quickly outside the city of Vladivostok Fort, the siege army of 10,000 people, without even touching the east gate, was defeated and retreated.

This Abatai has really lost the face of the Qing Dynasty! A murderous intent flashed across Huang Taiji's face, but there was a trace of hesitation in his heart.

Do you really want to kill Abatai just like that? This is a big taboo in the army to kill the general. Besides, Abatai, the general of the unified army, was chosen by himself, and he did not expect that when the Tang army was fighting with the Dolgon Department in the West Gate City Wall, he actually made many plans to lure and annihilate the Abatai Department, which was really beyond his expectations.

What's more, the Tang Army had a joint operation of sea and land, a new and cruel combat method, which not only Abatai did not expect, but also did not expect this situation at all.

Then, since the Abatai tribe has been defeated, then, the only hope for him to take this Vladivostok Fort is to take the wall of the West Gate, which has been bloodied and bloody.

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji snorted coldly: "Abatai, you have lost your army and lost your general, and I should have dealt with you severely, but considering that the Tang army is a joint attack by sea and land, this situation is unexpected, so I will spare your life for the time being." Now, I'll give you another chance to make up for it, would you? ”8910