Chapter 96: Victory (First Update, Asking for a Monthly Pass)
We won!
Almost at the moment when the Qing army's horse team fell into artillery fire, Zhu Mingzhong's originally resolute face grinned with an extremely bright smile.
Win!
When he watched the red waves drown towards the Qing army's main formation, Zhu Mingzhong laughed loudly, although the laughter was even worse than crying, but after a burst of wild laughter, his armor had been stained red with blood, and he struggled to raise the horse chopping knife in his hand.
"Loyalty!"
"Kill!"
Again, the deafening roar sounded on the battlefield, and tens of thousands of exhausted soldiers howled again to attack the Qing army.
The determination that was born out of despair turned into a desire for victory at this time, and the soldiers, who had long been exhausted by blood, howled and killed the enemy as if they had regained their strength, and there was nothing else to worry about. It's just that the Qing army who did not hesitate to kill the Qing army that blocked their footsteps, whether it was a man or a horse, would be cut by them under the knife, and for a while, the Qing army, which seemed to have a large number of soldiers, could not even resist their impact. Even Omai, who had rushed to the front and took the lead, was involuntarily retreated backwards by the desperate fight of these Han people, and beside him, more Qing troops had even turned around and fled regardless of him.
The fighting that lasted for several hours had exhausted the morale of the Qing army, although most of these Qing troops were only in their thirties, and they were in the prime of life and still retained the martial arts when they entered the customs for more than ten years, but the parasite-like comfort of more than ten years inadvertently soaked away their bravery, and the previous bravery was only temporary. Now, in the face of these Han people who are far more courageous than them, they are afraid, and their nostalgia for life makes them choose to flee one after another.
"Hold them off, block them......"
Although Emai shouted this, when the soldiers around him continued to flee, he could only retreat, and just as he turned around and wanted to flee, the iron bullet that fell beside him directly blew up this first-class Manchurian guard into the sky.
The shells from the Yellow River have not stopped, and they are even more dense than before!
At a position less than 50 zhang from the shore, the bow of dozens of centipede ships faced the shore, and at the bow, the gunners operated a Hongyi cannon, which included both newly cast 12-kilogram guns and 10-kilogram cannons captured from Nanjing, and there was also a large multi-oared boat in the middle of the river, its side facing the shore, and behind the gun window on the side side, the gunners who had just finished loading their ammunition pushed the gun carriage out of the gun window.
"Ready...... Fire! ”
Again, with the order of Li Chengqian, who was in the stern rudder, a ball of cannon flames erupted from the side of the multi-oared ship, and the entire ship was swallowed up by gunpowder smoke in an instant.
This multi-oared ship is a multi-oared warship just built by Qinghe Shipyard, and the ordinary river ship can not be equipped with artillery on the side of the gun, in its two sides there are as many as 8 8-kilogram guns, in the bow of the cylindrical turret, there are four 12-kilogram guns, its firepower is so powerful, at least in the domestic rivers unparalleled.
This kind of multi-oared boat, which borrowed from the structure of the Calessee ship, was more suitable for inland navigation because of the flat bottom, and although it was time-consuming to build with Western-style ribs, it was built before the war under the day and night work of the Qinghe Shipyard, and this was the first time it was put into the battlefield.
And Shi Si, as the designer, also came to the ship, although the situation on the shore could not be seen from here, but on the river dam, there were flag bearers with flags to mark the direction, and even there was a distance, before today, Shi Si had never thought that artillery could be used in this way, and this kind of indirect shooting was the invention of Jing Liu.
However, in Shi Si's opinion, such an artillery bombardment has no accuracy at all. After all, at such a distance, the shells themselves are not accurate.
But sometimes, you don't need to be on the right head at all!
The power of artillery lies in deterrence!
Just like at this time, although the cannonballs from the Yellow River were almost inaccurate, and sometimes even landed in the ranks of the loyal and righteous officers and soldiers, the constantly flying cannonballs and the loyal and righteous troops flanked like a flood succeeded in causing the Qing army to fall into panic.
When the Green Battalion, which was covering the left flank of the Qing army, completely collapsed under the flood of pikemen of the Loyal Army, after the initial consternation had passed, Dasu's reaction was much calmer than that of many of his colleagues. Almost as soon as he noticed that someone around him was beginning to flee, he immediately drew his knife, first slashed at the two deserters who were trying to escape, and then raised his bloody waist knife and shouted at the loyal soldiers who were killing from the flank.
"Dalan, bring a battalion of soldiers, stop Fu Jinzhong and them, let them hold on! Mu Xing, blow the horn and let the cavalry go to their aid immediately! ”
Although the sudden change caught Dasu off guard, as a veteran of the battlefield, he knew very well that now, if he escaped, the Annan army would be completely finished.
"Dashuai, now that the thieves are strong, let's let the green battalion soldiers stand on top first, let's withdraw first......"
Without waiting for the striker next to him to finish speaking, Dasu cut off his head with a knife, and Dasu, who was sprayed with blood, looked at the people around him and roared sharply.
"Withdraw, whoever dares to say withdraw, there will be no forgiveness for killing!"
It is simply impossible to retreat now, once his Chinese army withdraws, when the time comes, when the Han people pursue, it will become a big rout, and when the time comes, let alone withdraw to the camp, whether or not they can escape the Grand Canal is a problem!
"Iltu, you go, be sure to resist the Han people, those who dare to retreat will be killed! As long as the team is reorganized, we will win this battle! ”
Victory is not necessarily, but as long as you can regroup, you can safely withdraw to Suqian City.
"Yes!" The named leader of the Blue Banner Protector Army, Iletu, immediately responded loudly, he is a fierce person on weekdays, this will be regarded as a good person, let him lead the remaining hundreds of strong soldiers to kill as a whole, but he can also temporarily save the scene, leading hundreds of soldiers wearing double heavy armor Iltu immediately lined up a denser small phalanx in front of the Chinese army, and then shouted to kill the front, but they did not kill the loyal army, but to the Qing army that collapsed.
"Those who dare to retreat will be killed!"
Those who dare to retreat will be killed!
While slashing and killing the retreating Eight Banners, Iletu ordered people to shout loudly with him, while fighting towards the battle, and thousands of Eight Banners soldiers who were constantly retreating were regrouped under Iletu's slashing.
"Okay, good, Iltu, if you win this battle, this marshal will personally ask the emperor for credit!"
The scene in front of him finally made Dasu breathe a sigh of relief, and his voice was very loud, as if he was saying it to the people around him.
"If you win this battle, you will take credit for you!"