Chapter 662: Thunder Rescue
At the most difficult time of Aobai, when it almost collapsed, the Tang army finally arrived in time.
Fate is sometimes so wonderful, when you are on the verge of despair, it gives you a new glimmer of life.
From this moment on, the situation of the enemy and the enemy changed in an instant.
Looking at the county seat of Fuxian in the distance, and looking at the Qing army in front of which was as dense as ants and had already begun to attack in a big way, Ma Xianglin, the commander of the Tang Army, wiped a handful of sweat on his face, took a long breath, and secretly congratulated himself in his heart that he had come in time.
It's so dangerous, the Qing army's offensive is so fierce, the county seat of Fuxian is in danger, if you come one step later, the county seat of Fuxian will inevitably fall into the hands of the Qing army outside the city, and the people of Aobai will inevitably be wiped out.
Ma Xianglin quickly judged the situation on the battlefield and immediately ordered in a deep voice.
"All the cavalry obey the order!"
"The subordinates are here!"
"This commander orders you to attack from the left and right flanks, and be sure to defeat the Qing army outside the southern city wall that has not yet crossed the moat in one fell swoop."
"Order!"
"Gunners obey orders!"
"The subordinates are here!"
"You line up in a firing formation, and after the cavalry crushes the Qing army outside the moat, immediately line up your guns to shoot at the Qing army under the city and defeat it."
"Order!"
"Spearmen and shieldmen obey orders!"
"After the firecrackers defeated the Qing army besieging the city, they quickly attacked outside the south gate, and the waiters rushed into the city to join the Aobai Department to help it defend against other Qing troops."
"Order!"
"The artillery team obeys the order!"
"The subordinates are here!"
"Divide into two parts, push to the moat, bombard the Qing army at the west and east and west walls from afar, try your best to kill their troops, hit their morale, and make it impossible for them to organize an attack smoothly!"
"Order!"
……
Ma Xianglin's order was given, and the Tang army quickly began to move.
As the vanguard of the Tang cavalry, on the left is the flying harrier, on the right is the Xuanhu heavy cavalry, the two cavalry respectively form a wedge-shaped sharp formation, everyone slammed the horse's belly, the gun pointed at the knife, screamed loudly, and rushed to the Qing army that was desperately attacking the city.
Originally, at the head of the city, the defenders who were struggling to resist and struggle, suddenly saw the southern horizon, suddenly horses' hooves shook the ground, smoke and dust billowed on the ground, and several Tang character military flags were rushing towards themselves, everyone was stunned at first, and then they all fell into a state of extreme ecstasy in an instant.
The arrival of the Tang Army at such a critical moment is really comparable to timely rain.
"Tang Jun is here! We're saved! ”
The shouts of excitement and the continuous cheers, like rolling spring thunder, immediately burst out from the southern city wall, and the faces of each of the defenders who had been struggling to hold on were full of joy and excitement of escaping death.
Yang Shan, who was in charge of guarding the south gate, had been wounded in many places, he struggled to slash and kill a Qing soldier who rushed over, wiped a handful of blood foam on his face, and looked at the Tang army that was rushing towards him like two black sharp blades, and the joy on his face was more excited than any soldier.
Okay, at the critical moment when the city was broken, the Tang army finally arrived, Fuxian was saved, and he was finally saved!
He clearly saw that the two Tang armies that rushed quickly, with extremely skillful coordination, as if they had already negotiated, outflanked the Qing army outside the moat, pointed their guns and swords, and rumbled horses' hooves, and quickly inserted themselves into the Qing army's formation that had not yet crossed the river.
Seeing this sudden change, the formation of more than 3,000 Qing troops who had not yet crossed the river was in a mess, and they were instantly pierced by the wedge-shaped military formation of the Tang cavalry as if they had been stabbed with butter by a hot knife.
The two Tang cavalry of the Flying Harrier and the Xuanhu Heavy Cavalry, like two unstoppable sharp black long swords, rushed and killed the Qing army in front, and the two cavalry respectively walked out of the Qing army's formation, mercilessly wading out of a wide and straight bloody road.
On this terrible bloody road, a large number of Qing soldiers were killed or wounded, screaming again and again, and the remains of broken arms were thrown to the ground, and the situation was unbearable.
The already chaotic Qing army formation collapsed on the spot, and the Tang cavalry pursued them like autumn wind sweeping leaves, continuing to deal heavy and sharp blows to them.
Seeing that the Qing army was defeated by the Tang army with one blow, there were immediately continuous cheers at the southern city wall. The defenders were extremely excited, and everyone was fighting bravely to be the first, which was completely different from the previous decadent momentum.
And those Qing troops who were suddenly attacked, were rushed by the Tang army, and their morale was greatly reduced, whether it was above or below the city, the Qing army that had already crossed the moat was panicked and did not know what to do next.
And just when the Qing army outside the south gate was like a mess of ants without a clue, thousands of Tang army's firecrackers were already running quickly.
When they were about to reach the moat, they quickly lined up in a straight line formation on the upper and lower floors, and with a shout, nearly 3,000 flint relumicans rang out in unison.
The smoke was heavy, the white mist was flying, the muzzles of the two rows of black holes in the upper and lower rows, the bright red afterburners spewed out in unison, like the upper and lower layers of red silk flying, and thousands of small lead bullets weighing three coins, like a dense swarm of death bees, let out a slight and cheerful howl, and rushed towards the chaotic Qing army under the city.
Almost instantly, the Qing soldiers under the city, many of them were like tricks, and suddenly blood flowers bloomed, and they danced and fell down with convulsions, and a large number of corpses were quickly piled up outside the entire southern city wall.
Soon, before the terrified Qing army had time to regroup, the second round of fire from the musketeers began.
It was a large number of Qing troops, screaming and falling, and there was no way to dodge.
There are moats separated by them, and in a hurry, the Qing army cannot organize a counterattack at all, and can only be beaten passively in vain, which is called a grievance and a nest.
This is not really a battle, but a massacre.
After three volleys, the Qing army under the city collapsed.
They cried out loudly, abandoned their swords and weapons, and scurried around like headless flies, and many of them rushed into the moat and drowned before they could cross the pontoon.
The Qing army, which was lucky enough to escape the pontoon bridge, immediately had to face the gun and shield battle array of the Tang army's rapid rush, and before they could take the next step of escape, they fully experienced an efficient and cruel, as ruthless as a machine.
The sharp spear that stabbed quickly from behind the big shield, like a poisonous snake spitting out the core, stabbed at the Qing army that rushed across the pontoon bridge, and the spear stabbed straight to the vital point, and the Qing army who was pierced was killed instantly.
At the big shield in front, a long line of corpses of Qing soldiers was immediately piled up.
In the face of such a brutal massacre that was almost one-sided, the Qing troops under the southern city wall had no way to escape, and they knelt down and begged for their lives. In the face of the huge terror, the Qing army who had already climbed to the top of the city began to urgently climb down the siege ladder to escape, and they also knelt down and begged for surrender like the Qing army under the city.
The Qing army on the city wall, seeing that the general situation was not good, knew that it would be difficult for him to escape for his life, so like the Qing army under the city, he immediately abandoned his weapons and knelt on the ground to beg for mercy in order to save his life.
Seeing the Qing army begging in the south, the commander of the Tang army, Ma Xianglin, issued an order to stop the killing in time, and the Qing army begging to surrender under the city, the Tang army auxiliaries who followed and rushed over, quickly tied into a string of sugar gourd-like shapes with a strong rope, and could no longer move.
On the city wall, because of the urgency of the situation, the defenders had no time to clean up the battlefield, they were like red-eyed beasts, cutting and slaughtering the begging Qing army without mercy, fully venting their inner anger and hatred. They roared and slashed and slaughtered, like machetes cutting vegetables, and slaughtered all the remnants of the Qing army in the city.
The collapse of the Qing army in the south immediately brought about a chain reaction, and the Qing army on the other three city walls quickly learned the news of the defeat of the south city wall, and they were all terrified.
Their morale quickly weakened, and they did not know whether to continue the attack or immediately break out of their positions and flee.
The morale of the Qing army fell sharply and panicked, while the defenders rose and fell, and the momentum was greatly boosted, and the cheers and shouts at the head of the city resounded in one piece, without stopping. The people who were in a desperate situation aroused infinite courage and energy, and fought more and more desperately against the Qing army that attacked the city.
And the main general of the defenders, after learning the news that the Tang army had arrived and the Qing army in the south had collapsed, his blood-spattered face was even more excited to ecstasy, and the machete in his hand, which was already dripping with blood, slashed towards the panicked Qing army more and more hard.
"Sons, the Tang army has arrived, the enemy army in the south has been defeated, our army has won the victory, everyone is fighting hard to kill the enemy with this commander!"
The roar of worship like thunder reverberated at the head of the city, and all the defenders were like chicken blood, slashing and killing the Qing army in the city, like a group of beasts that had been completely activated, without any slackness or fear.
At this time, Shuotuo, the commander of the Qing army, who had seen the current situation clearly with a clairvoyant mirror from a distance, felt angry and aggrieved in his heart, which was difficult to describe in words.
No, at this critical moment of siege, at this time of failure, there will be reinforcements from the Tang Army, and my luck is inevitably extremely bad.
It's like God is messing around with you.
And what is even more tragic is that it was not until after the collapse of the Qing army in the south that he discovered the arrival of the Tang army. And the Tang army's offensive was so fierce, and his own subordinates were so vulnerable in the Tang army's surprise attack, and the Qing army in the south was defeated by a blow and had no power to fight back, which shows the elite and courage of the Tang army.
What to do? Now that the Qing army in the south has collapsed, do you want to order your men to retreat immediately?
This order is really difficult to make.
To spit out this piece of fat that can almost be swallowed in the stomach is as uncomfortable as a knife, and it is simply indescribable.
After all, his own strength is nearly ten times that of Aobai, and even if there is a city wall to block it, it is not difficult to take one out of ten. Although the Tang army arrived in time, although the Qing army in the south has been defeated, if you are lucky enough to take down the other three city walls, then even if you lose the Qing army in the south, you will definitely be able to take the county seat of Fuxian, so this victory can be said to be reasonable......
Moreover, if he can't take this small county seat of Fuxian with these tens of thousands of troops, how will the vicious and narrow-minded Dolgon punish himself is chilling to think about.
Shuoto swallowed hard, not knowing how to make this difficult decision.
However, soon Tang Jun helped him make a decision.
When the south gate was opened violently and a large number of Tang army spearmen and shield soldiers poured into the city like a tide, dozens of heavy dragon guns of the Tang army had also advanced to the outside of the city walls on the east and west sides.
When a loud roar came, Shuoto's heart trembled.
At the end of the battle, even if the Tang army's artillery array sounded, even if it did not cause a large number of casualties, such a concentrated bombardment was really a devastating blow to the morale of its own army.
From the clairvoyant mirror, he could see from a distance those huge black cannonballs, like long eyes, straight into the Qing army formations on both sides, ploughing out a straight line of blood from between them, where they touched, the arms and legs were broken, and the flesh and blood were blurred, which could be called an irresistible force like absolute death.
If you hold on strongly, it is foreseeable that with the continuous artillery bombardment of the Tang Army, then your own tens of thousands of soldiers will eventually lose their morale to zero until they are defeated alive.
And the odious thing is that the Tang army opened fire across the river and was in an invincible position, and there were other branches of the military next to it to protect each other, and it was impossible for them to counterattack if they wanted to.
The situation of sitting and waiting for death was not what Shuoto wanted to see, and he did not hesitate anymore and immediately gave the order to withdraw his troops. At the same time, the order was given that the cavalry troops, who had been watching the battle, rushed forward to cover the retreat of their own troops.
There is no point in holding on to this battle without any chance of winning.
The sound of gold was loud, and the Qing army, which was originally struggling on the eastern, western, and northern city walls, kept retreating like a tide in the event of an amnesty.
They were fortunate that the Qing troops who withdrew from under these three city walls, except for the Tang cavalry, who symbolically pursued and retreated immediately when they were about to make contact with the Qing cavalry, the rest of the infantry and the defenders of the city did not send troops to pursue.
Therefore, except for a small number of unlucky ghosts, most of the rest of the Qing army were able to retreat smoothly.
Looking at the Qing army that collapsed back to the formation like a tide, Shuotuo's heart suddenly became infinitely sad.
Sadly, tens of thousands of troops, besieging the small Fuxian garrisoned by 3,000 soldiers and horses, but when they were about to succeed, they were suddenly snatched by the Tang army and snatched the fruits of victory from their own hands.
After the Qing army retreated to the main formation, Shuotuo took a deep look back at the county seat of Fuxian, which was close in front of him and far away in the sky, and ordered the squad to return to Shengjing.
The Qing army left all the way, the flag rolled up and the sword hung down, and there was an atmosphere of decadence, compared with the arrogance of their previous pursuit, it was like two worlds.
Shuotuo's side is infinitely sad, but the defenders over there and the Tang army who came to the aid are everyone excited and happy.
Among the defenders at the head of the city, everyone's face was full of joy for the rest of their lives, and they roared hoarsely and cheered for victory, warmly welcoming the Tang army that was marching into the city in a neat line.
"Ao Bai Commander, Yang Shan Ezhen, this is the commander of the Tang Army's Ma Xianglin."
Soon, it was the generals who accompanied him personally, Xiang Ao Bai and Yang Shan, and introduced Ma Xianglin, the commander of the Tang Army, who was embraced into the city by his subordinates.
Ao Bai and Yang Shan glanced at each other, and immediately lifted the hem of their armor and bowed down to Ma Xianglin, who was walking quickly.
"The guilty minister Ao Bai (Yang Shan), knock to see Coach Ma!"