Chapter 618: It is easy to shake the mountain, but it is difficult to shake the Tang army
With the passage of time, such hand-to-hand battles began to develop in an increasingly brutal and bloody direction.
Of course, compared with the Tang army, which is extremely disciplined and organized, and is on the defensive, the number of casualties of the Qing army on the main attacking side is almost more than three times that of the Tang army.
The wounded, who had fallen in pools of blood and were not yet dead, were still wriggling on the ground, and the people behind them were already impatiently rushing forward, one after another with their feet in military boots, and trampling them under their feet until they were trampled into a thin human skin.
The irrational and ferocious primitive fighting, the extremely cruel and merciless battle, the entire trench is the Abi hell and the Shura battlefield. The terrible river of blood on the ground, converging with the rain, became thicker and thicker, and the shocking red color gradually did not reach the ankles, slippery and greasy, which made people frightened.
In the muddy and slippery pool of blood, the Qing army, which was in a chaotic formation, became more difficult to stand firmly, and many people stumbled and fell to the ground as soon as their feet slipped. At this moment, a sharp spear would be like a deadly chain in the hands of the god of death, flashing with cold light and roaring, piercing his heart quickly and accurately.
What is even more tragic is that if the fallen Qing army fails to stand up immediately, it will be trampled to death by the Qing army who frantically rushed behind them, just like those wounded.
The soldiers on both sides of the Tang and Qing dynasties fought desperately in the trenches, allowing the god of death to harvest their lives frantically, but the commanders of both sides were expressionless. Coldly with a clairvoyant mirror, looking at everything through the heavy rain.
Compassion is not in charge of the army, cold-blooded and fierce, ruthless and iron-blooded, which are the necessary qualities of every qualified general. These soldiers who fought for their lives were not human beings at all, they were just chips in exchange for the final victory, and they had to be used without hesitation when it was time to push them to the table.
The soldiers on the battlefield are the most despicable creatures in the world, and they are also the shortest-lived species, their lives are as cheap as grass and as light as a feather, as if they are not worth mentioning at all. The survival time of every soldier who fights selflessly in this Shura field can only be calculated in minutes and seconds. And they fight desperately on the bloody and cruel battlefield, constantly consuming the most precious lives, and their only value is only for the sake of the final victory.
Illusory victory, eternal death.
One will be a success!
Of course, compared with the battle losses of the Tang army, the losses of the Qing army far exceeded them. Seeing his own soldiers, like playing a game of stacking dead corpses, in front of the Tang Army's cold and terrifying shield, constantly stacked higher and higher, Shuotuo, who was watching the battle from a distance, was calm on the surface, but his heart was as painful as a knife.
Nearly 20,000 soldiers filled in, and nearly an hour passed in the hand-to-hand fighting in this narrow trench, and the imaginary victory, the imaginary collapse and escape of the Tang army, was still far away.
On the contrary, the Tang Army's gun and shield battle array, coupled with the cooperation of the Tang Army's heavy armor and rampant infantry on both sides like mecha monsters, is like a cruel and sophisticated killing machine. This terrible machine, which was running at full strength, was harvesting the lives of the Qing soldiers who rushed over like flies so quickly and efficiently. Shuo Tuo's visual observation showed that the ratio of battle losses of the two armies basically remained four for one, or even five for one.
You must know that although the Qing army is numerous, it is really difficult to withstand such an almost endless rapid attrition, not to mention that there seems to be no end in sight to such consumption.
And even if you worry about yourself, what's the point?
Military orders are difficult to disobey, and the battlefield is ruthless, and it is not possible to influence the will of individuals. What's more, the coach in this formation, Duoduo, has not received any new orders, and such a cruel meat grinding war will continue non-stop.
Shuo Tuo knew that Duoduo, like himself, was also gambling, betting that his army could hold out until the Tang army collapsed, and then come to harvest and clean up the battlefield. For this goal, even if it is worth paying a painful and heavy price.
It's just that, looking at the current stalemate of the battle, can your own side really hold out until this moment? ……
It is easy to shake the mountain, but it is difficult to shake the Tang army!
In fact, Shuotuo didn't know that at this moment, Duan Shidi, the mayor of Dingbei Town, Tang Jun, who was watching the battle on the wall of Zhenyuan Fort, was also depressed and heavy.
Seeing the spearmen, shield soldiers, and rampant team members who were fighting desperately but kept falling down in this trench, although Duan Shidi was extremely cold on the surface, his heart was like a knife.
These loyal and brave warriors, they followed themselves, in the cold and cold winter, from Xuanfu North Road Jintangcheng, all the way through the Mongolian steppe in the wind and snow, and finally fought hard to capture Zhenyuan Fort. Unexpectedly, after a few months of freezing in the fort, many of them would have to walk towards the end of their lives in such a blood-filled trench.
Since ancient times, soldiers died in battle, and generals have never died immediately, although the old saying goes, but seeing so many fresh and brave lives disappearing in front of him one after another, the heaviness and pain in the heart of Coach Duan Shidi are difficult to express in words.
Although the battle loss ratio of the existing side is now only about a quarter of that of the Qing army, these loyal, tenacious and battle-hardened Tang Army soldiers, they could have a better and more meaningful future, and if they could all live well, how good would it be......
It's just that there is no sympathy on the battlefield, there is no benevolence on the battlefield, the battlefield only believes in life and death, the battlefield only believes in courage, blood and perseverance, and only the side that fights to the end and perseveres to the end is the ultimate victor.
Perhaps, this is fate, the fate of these soldiers, the moment they go to the battlefield, is actually doomed. And the only thing that can comfort these heroic soldiers who died in the end is the generous compensation and reward of the Tang Army, which can more or less eliminate the lingering grief of their families.
In addition, the Don Army will be constantly replenished with a steady stream of recruits, carrying on their legacy, inheriting their spirit, and continuing to fight valiantly against all the enemies of the Don Army. The newly joined soldiers, together with their surviving comrades, avenge them and fight for them, so that their heroic souls can truly rest in heaven......
At this point in the battle, both Tang and Qing sides had no way to retreat, and the only thing was to see who could hold out to the end.
It's just that when the two armies were fighting for nearly two hours, a variable quietly happened.
That is, from the early morning to now, it has been raining heavily for most of the day, and after the two armies have been fighting for nearly two hours, it has gradually begun to get smaller.
The spring rain is changeable, the will of heaven is unpredictable, no one will have eternal good luck, and no one will have eternal favor.
When the heavy rain began to turn into a drizzle, and the dark clouds began to gradually retreat towards the sky, Deputy Marshal Shuotuo's face suddenly became very solemn.
In the Qing army's main formation, Duoduo, who had been watching the battle with a gloomy face, also had a panic on his face that could not be concealed.
Both he and Shuotuo knew what kind of adverse changes this continuous rain would bring to the battle situation if it became as small as it is now.
That is, with the rapid reduction of the amount of rain, the Tang Army's firecrackers, as well as individual hand thunder, can finally come in handy!
This brutal cold weapon battle has finally begun to have the biggest variable. The firearms unit of the Tang Army, which had been silent all along, was about to show its hideous, ferocious and terrifying face.
At this moment, seeing that the weather suddenly changed in such a favorable way, the expression on the face of Tang Army Coach Duan Shidi can be described as ecstasy.
God help me!
If you don't take advantage of such a God-given opportunity, wouldn't you be stupid and stupid, wouldn't you be tyrannical and ruined!
"Listen to the firecrackers! Immediately concentrate on the trench and shoot the Qing army on the other side of the trench! ”
"Order!"
"The auxiliaries obey orders! Immediately prepare to throw thunder with one hand, grow the platoon to stand behind the firecracker, and vigorously throw hand throwing thunder at the Qing army on the opposite side of the trench, and blow up all these damn bastards to Lao Tzu! ”
"Order!"
"All the cavalry obey the order! The whole army gathered in the open area on the right, and when the Qing army outside the trench began to be chaotic, the whole army immediately assaulted, first eliminated the Qing cavalry outside the formation, and then pursued and killed the Qing army all the way! ”
"Order!"
"Zu Dashou Hong Chengchou listens to the order! This commander orders you, after the Qing army outside the trench broke and fled, immediately encircled from both sides, jumped into the trench, and wiped out the remnants of the Qing army in the trench, both inside and outside! “
"Order! Our troops and horses will not live up to the trust of Mayor Duan! ”
Duan Shi's arrangements were set, and these Tang Army reserve soldiers and horses, who were originally hidden, immediately began to dispatch urgently.
More than 2,000 musketeers, swift as monkeys and swift as deer, quickly rushed out of the fort at the far end of the town, lined up in an arc along the trench where the fighting was most fierce, and immediately began to load the gunpowder and prepare to fire.
"Ready!"
More than 2,000 rods of stainless steel are made of flint and reluctance, and they are lifted in a flush pin.
"Put!"
"Bang bang bang! ……”
Dense gunshots rang out one after another, large clouds of white smoke rose into the air, and the muzzles of the guns flew like a row of bright red and dazzling tongues of fire, which was very beautiful and attractive. More than 1,800 of the more than 2,000 flintlock muskets were fired, and more than 1,800 lead bullets weighing three coins roared towards the Qing army standing on the opposite side of the trench.
As if by magic, blood flowers burst out from the bodies of those Qing soldiers, and they screamed and fell down like a noodle bag that had been hit one by one.
In the first volley, seven or eight hundred people were killed or wounded in the Qing army's formation, and the entire Qing army's formation began to be chaotic in an instant.
Immediately, the Tang gunners, who had succeeded in the first blow, had already begun to clear their chambers, apply medicine, and reload their ammunition, and re-prepare for the second round of shooting.
At this moment, the long row of Tang Army auxiliaries behind the firecrackers were already ready, they lit the sizzling fire rope, and quickly ignited the wooden handle hand thunder fuse in their hands, one by one the small and strong leads, flashing little by little sizzling dazzling blue light.
"Cast!"
Nearly 300 single-handed thunderbolts were thrown almost at the same time, and except for a few in the air, which were wet and annihilated by the drizzle, about 260 of them exploded smoothly.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
……
The deafening explosion immediately sounded on the other side of the trench, and the dazzling yellow light was so dazzling that it was like a devil's flower that suddenly bloomed on the dark green grass, blooming in the Qing army's array.
At the place of the explosion, the surging and rushing air waves blew up the densely standing Qing army in the air, and threw it in all directions in a perfect circle, and the grass-green ground was immediately blown out of a shocking brown-yellow crater, and for a time the flesh and blood flew sideways, and the corpses were like rain.
Countless sharp fragments flying in the sky, with a sharp whistling sound, like the sharp teeth and claws of the god of death, frantically sucking blood and harvesting life, the terrifying and terrible screams of the Qing army instantly resounded throughout the entire trench bank.
Even several heavy iron trucks were completely overturned and blown apart by the powerful explosive force of Tang Jun's hand-thrown mines. There was also an iron car, which was blown up into the air, crossed a short arc, flew straight into the trench, and smashed dozens of Qing soldiers who were unprepared into meat pies.
At least 1,000 Qing soldiers were blown up on the spot, or seriously wounded with incomplete limbs and dying.
And after this earth-shattering explosion, just when the Qing army hurriedly dispersed into chaos, the second round of flintlock muskets of the Tang army began again.
"Bang bang bang! ……”
The small lead bullet weighing three coins let out a cheerful scream, and for the second time, it pounced on the Qing army on the opposite side, which was already in chaos, and hundreds of Qing soldiers fell screaming.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
……
At the same time, the second round of hand-thrown thunder salvos began, and the sound of explosions that broke the eardrums rang out in all directions, and the Qing army, which had already dispersed in a hurry, was slightly prepared, but hundreds of people were killed and wounded.
"Withdraw! Evacuate! The whole army quickly retreated to the main position! ”
Seeing his own soldiers, under the fierce firearms of the Tang army, they were slaughtered almost without any power to fight back, Shuotuo's heart was like a knife.
No, the Tang army has quickly gained the upper hand, and if it continues to fight, it will have no chance of winning, and it will only increase casualties in vain.
With blood-red eyes, he knew that the situation of the Qing army was dangerous, and the whole army was on the verge of collapse. Therefore, he made a quick decision, and without waiting for the order of Duoduo to come, he immediately made his own decision and gave the order for the whole army to retreat.
The Qing army, which was like headless flies, heard this order, and if they encountered an amnesty, they immediately turned around and fled.
The cavalry of the Qing army, which originally served as the wing, took the lead and turned around and fled, and then the Qing army standing outside the trench howled and fled regardless of their heads, and finally the Tang army, which was originally fighting desperately with the Tang army in the trench, also changed the rear team into the front team, scrambling to crawl out of the trench and fleeing wildly.
Looking down from the sky, the frantically withdrawn Qing army was like a nest of ants scattered all over the mountains, surging and retreating, without order.
It's not that easy to escape now!
The cavalry of the Tang Army, who had long held their breath, whether it was the Xuanhu heavy cavalry or the light cavalry flying harrier, chased after each other.
The iron flow was rolling, the horses' hooves were rumbling, and the Tang cavalry were chasing after each other, like the god of death reaping life, and they quickly caught up with the wailing and retreating Qing infantry, slashing and stabbing their guns, killing them one by one skillfully and accurately.
The cavalry of the Tang army slashed and killed all the way to their heart's content, and the Tang infantry who fought bloody battles in the trenches were also all brave, all of them were vying for the first, and they were surrounded by the Qing army that had not yet climbed out of the trenches, whether it was shield soldiers, spearmen or rampant soldiers, all of them fought hard to give a fierce and fatal blow to the Qing army that had been in chaos.
In such a sweeping battle that happily picked the fruits of victory, Zu Dashou and Hong Chengchou's original surrender to the Qing army naturally would not miss such an excellent opportunity to perform.
Armed with knives and guns, they shouted loudly, and came from outside the trench with bread, firmly blocking the retreat of the remaining Qing troops in the trench, and completely formed a trend of closing the door and beating the dogs.
Surrounded by all sides, the Qing army in the trench, which had no possibility of escaping, was already broken and had no fighting spirit. They wailed and threw down their weapons, and fell to their knees and begged to surrender.
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