Chapter 31 The bloody battle on the banks of the Xiaozhang River
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It was also when the Tartar Gunners fired, at this distance, the Tartar soldiers' bows could also exert a certain power, and the Tartar archers who were both frightened and angry saw the people around them being knocked to the ground one after another, neither dared to retreat, nor dared to run, their generals' knives would definitely wave at them mercilessly, so the Tartar archers who were forced to be a little crazy knew that they were not running left and right, so they simply burst out of their madness, screaming and simply running forward, On the one hand, almost without aiming, he threw arrows at the Xingtian army formation on the opposite bank, and a rain of arrows suddenly swayed towards the Xingtian soldiers on the opposite side of the stone bridge, which also caused damage to Li Fusheng's soldiers, and the soldiers did not wear armor in order to reduce the load, and Li Fusheng wanted to kill more tartars, so he put the soldiers in danger, and the arrows also roared and fell into the ranks of the soldiers, and the heavy arrows instantly tore their cotton clothes and nailed into the bodies of the soldiers, and after a while, more than 30 soldiers were hit by arrows and lost their combat effectiveness. fell in the queue, and even Li Fusheng, who was standing in front of the formation, was hit by an arrow in his shoulder armor, but Li Fusheng continued to roar and ordered the soldiers to step forward in a row and fire.
More and more Tartar soldiers were defeated, but more and more Tartar soldiers continued to rush towards the bridge under the urging of their share of Paishku, or Niu Lu Zhangjing and Jia Lazhangjing, Yue Tuo had an order, no matter how much they paid, they must seize the stone bridge, otherwise they would only have to wait for the butcher's knife of the Baya soldiers to turn back, so they did not dare to stay, nor did they dare to escape, they could only choose to face the bullets of the Xingtian Army and continue to move forward.
As a result, more and more Tartar soldiers began to crowd near the east side of the stone bridge, although the guns of the soldiers were powerful, but when the number of enemies exceeded the speed of their shooting, they could no longer stop the advance of the Tartar soldiers.
More and more arrows also began to fall in the west of the bridge, and gradually the soldiers were a little panicked, seeing that one by one the arrows in the robe fell to their side, more and more Tartars rushed to the bridge, people will be nervous, some of the soldiers have not killed anyone, so they panicked.
It was only at this time that Huang Shengqiang yelled: "Open the cannon!" The herald who followed him immediately waved the small red flag held high in the air.
I saw that the artillery array next to the car camp immediately rose up with clouds of flames and smoke, and the three-pounder guns collectively began to roar at this time.
Just in an instant, dozens of three-pounder cannon shells fell one after another in the crowd of Tartar soldiers east of the bridge, this round of shells fired very fiercely, but the accuracy seems to be limited, some fell in the Tartar soldiers, some fell around them, and even a few shells fell directly in the Xiaozhang River, but even so, the frozen hard ground still helped these shells a lot, as soon as the shells landed, they jumped up and continued to fly forward, as long as they fell into the crowd of Tartar soldiers, The cannonballs immediately opened a bloody alley in the crowd of Tartar soldiers, although only a dozen shells were falling in the crowd of Tartar soldiers, but they still killed and injured many Tartar soldiers, and the formation of the Tartar soldiers was even more chaotic, and some Tartar soldiers were already choked by fear and began to stop rushing forward.
Seeing that the infantry soldiers under his command suffered heavy casualties, but they still couldn't attack the stone bridge, and the cannons that the other party had not fired finally rang out, and the cannonballs were scattered around the bridgehead one after another, and the soil on the frozen ground flew around, Haoge immediately glared and shouted: "Can't hesitate, and then send troops to press up, the cannons of the thief army are all small cannons, and they can't hit far, at most they can hit the bridge, send more archers to the river, shoot the fire guns of those thieves, and you can attack the bridge!" Can't hesitate anymore! Otherwise, it will be too late! ”
Yue Tuo looked at the car array of the Xingtian Army on the other side, and knew that there must be a lot of good things in the car camp of the Xingtian Army, and he also saw that the Xingtian Army's fire was powerful, and he really wanted to take a batch back, so that they would not have to be beaten so badly by others in the future, although he was still a little worried about the cannons of the Xingtian Army, but after observing it, he found that the artillery of the Xingtian Army was not very accurate, and the shells were basically not far from the end of the stone bridge. Still following Hauge's advice, with a wave of his hand, he sent a large number of infantry soldiers up again to support these infantry soldiers to attack the stone bridge, and he also looked at the two wings with concern, hoping to see his cavalry bypassing from both sides, so that they could attack the Xingtian army on the opposite bank on three sides.
It is a pity that the sappers and soldiers who stayed here worked very hard and chiseled the surface of the river for a long distance, so that the Tartar cavalry still did not find a place to cross the river for a while, and did not dare to easily urge the horses to step on the ice, so they could only continue to search for the place to cross the river in the distance, and they could not help this side for a while.
A large number of Tartar soldiers began to act, and quickly rushed to the east bank of the Xiaozhang River, and at this time Li Fusheng also found that this way of fighting, his own army losses were too great, although he took advantage of such a fight, but he could not fight the Tartar soldiers, so he began to order to fight and retreat, and at the same time beckoned people to rescue the subordinates who were wounded by arrows back to the car camp for treatment, avoiding the bows and arrows of the Tartar soldiers, and concentrating firepower to block the stone bridge.
So the Tartar soldiers finally began to squeeze to the head of the stone bridge, and began to try to squeeze onto the stone bridge, rushing to the west of the stone bridge, but just as soon as some Tartars stepped on the stone bridge, they immediately screamed and jumped up, and the sappers on the stone bridge scattered a lot of sharp thistles, and when they stepped on them, they naturally pierced the soles of their feet, and they jumped around, and as a result, the more they stepped on the iron thistles, the more iron thistles they stepped on, so some of the Tartars rolled over on the stone bridge on the spot, and as a result, more iron thistles pierced into their bodies, Some of the Tartars were in pain, and they climbed over the bridge and tumbled into the icy river, and the broken ice was immediately smashed open by them, and soon they sank into the Xiaozhang River, and only a mass of red blood remained on the surface of the river.
And a large number of Tartar soldiers gathered on the east bank of the Xiaozhang River, the archers raised their hard bows and kept firing arrows towards the west of the river, trying to suppress the Xingtian army gunners in the Hexi array, but at this time, Li Fusheng had already led his troops to retreat one step in advance, retreating from the range of the Tartar soldiers' bows and arrows, so that the bows and arrows shot by a large number of Tartars fell in front of them and became untargeted.
But the stone bridge is just such a one, the Tartar soldiers can only reach the west bank of the river through the stone bridge, hundreds of soldiers and firecrackers set fire to the stone bridge, but also makes the density of the guns on the stone bridge greatly increased, the Tartar soldiers are almost squeezed on the stone bridge and a group is knocked down a batch, whether they take the shield or not, the result is almost the same, just a moment of effort, the stone bridge is full of Tartar soldiers' corpses, the Tartar blood has merged into a small river, trickling down from the stone bridge, some of the dirty blood slowly flows into the river along the stone cracks of the stone bridge, Dyeed a large area of the Xiaozhang River, and because of the unusually cold weather, some dirty blood was quickly frozen on the stone bridge, making the stone bridge deck slippery, and the Tartar soldiers may fall down when they step on it, waiting for them is those sharp thistles on the ground, and the end is naturally very miserable, one by one is pierced like a hedgehog, even the cotton armor on the body can't stop it.
At this time, Huang Shengqiang's smile on the corner of his mouth was a little stronger, and he saw that a large number of Tartars began to pour into the range of his artillery array, turned his head and commanded the herald, and the herald also ran back to the artillery position with a wicked smile, and ran back after a while, nodded to Huang Shengqiang, and ordered the standard-bearer to raise a small red flag.
As the little red flag was ordered to be commanded by the standard-bearer, the entire artillery array roared like a volcano, and almost all the cannons, including the six-pounder cannon that had not fired just now, roared into the air and sprayed flames and gunsmoke.
A large number of cannonballs began to roar and smashed into the opposite side of the Xiaozhang River, falling among the Tartar soldiers crowded on the east bank of the river, and suddenly the stumps and broken arms and broken flesh and blood foam rose to the sky, a broken Tartar corpse was lifted up, and fell heavily to the ground, countless Tartars began to scream in horror, a Tartar soldier held a broken leg, the rotten flesh at the broken leg turned over, revealing the white bones inside, he screamed to the woman and twisted his head back and forth to try to find his leg, but at this moment there were broken limbs everywhere, He couldn't find the leg he had been knocked off, and a large amount of blood spurted out of the arteries that had been severed from his wounds, and his screams grew weak until he fainted completely, lying headlong on the bloody ground......
Yue Tuo closed his eyes in pain, he had never fought such a battle since he began to ride a horse to participate in the war, in front of the Xingtian Army, everything that their Tartar soldiers were proud of seemed to be vulnerable, a small Xiaozhang River actually became the grave of their Qing army, a large number of subordinates screamed and cried in the enemy's artillery fire, this can no longer be regarded as a war, this is simply a one-sided massacre, how many strong men are there in their Jianzhou Jurchens, But in an instant, they were killed in pieces by the nameless river.
And Hauge, who went out with the army, also opened his mouth wide, everything exceeded his expectations, he didn't expect that the artillery fire of the Xingtian Army was so fierce, and it was far from what he just thought, not far, it was because of his wrong judgment that Yue Tuo filled a large number of soldiers and horses to the east bank of the Xiaozhang River, but now he has become a victim of the artillery of the Xingtian Army, looking at those Qing soldiers who fell in pieces, even if they are not warriors with yellow flags and yellow flags, but they are also Jianzhou Jurchen sons, Now they are slaughtering like chickens and dogs, but they have no power to fight back.
"Can't fight, withdraw! Hurry up and get the soldiers down! The loss is too great! Hauge shouted at Yueto.
Yue Tuo's painful heart seemed to be grasped, and he waved his hand and ordered to retreat, Xiao Shiqiao saw that he couldn't fight for it, if he continued to fight like this, he would be tantamount to letting his warriors be the meat of others and be slaughtered.
(Today, I would like to thank Brother Dream Watch and HYH62 for their tips!) )