Chapter 133: Driving Hauge crazy
The soldiers, who had finished their breakfast in the tunnel, hid in the three-sized pit very continuously, then lowered the water curtain, opened their mouths and quietly waited for the bombardment to come.
The people in the bunker didn't have such trouble, because the fortress made of big cement and stone didn't have to worry about such an inaccessible attack from the red-coated cannons, they only needed to avoid the small window and observe secretly.
Hauge, of course, did not disappoint the people in the staff at all, the artillery fire was expected, four or five hundred shells fell into the tunnel like raindrops, and the new army also responded, a dozen shells blew up more than twenty red-coated cannons, not that they didn't want to dispose of all the artillery positions of the Qing army, but that Dolgon was too cunning, and used those big guys to protect them like family heirlooms.
With such a huge and heavy red-coated cannon, Dolgon actually came up with the idea of using more than 20 oxen to pull it away, and also specially built the strongest carriage to carry it. Such a bold idea was really awe-inspiring, and one could imagine how much time and effort he had spent studying Shen Xing's tactics and corresponding countermeasures.
"Back to the general, the prince of Haoge has used the shield army to cover the advance, but the enemy's barbed wire is extremely strong, and it is difficult to destroy it on a large scale!" Dorgon stood in front of the map, looking back and forth, and Dozer followed him with the lamp in his hand. "Fourteenth brother, if you bypass Gaoyou, the army will have to travel for at least five more days, and there will be many fortified cities along the way! In this way, our plan to quickly take Jiangnan will ......"
Dolgon's eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had thought of something, and he quickly ran outside the big tent and stared at the mountains in the distance, and after a while, he excitedly shouted to Dolze, "Go and get someone to cut down the trees, crush the iron net for me, and let Haug do whatever it takes to fill the trap tonight!" Duoze was also overjoyed when he heard such a plan, he didn't expect the headache of the iron mesh array to be solved so easily.
The dawn sun finally rose, and the dense iron net was full of logs, and the cavalry drove slowly and leisurely like crossing the bridge, and thousands of corpses lay on the position of the horse pit, but tens of thousands of pits were also dug so-so.
"Battalion commander, is the enemy coming up?" A recruit's mouth trembled a little and asked, the battalion commander, as a veteran who had seen a large formation on the battlefield of Zhulu, was very calm, he touched the new spear in his hand, and sorted out the iron helmet for the recruit and said, "The first time I fought, my heart was scared, do you know how I was the first time?" Almost threw your hand at your feet? If it weren't for the old squad leader's quick hand, I wouldn't be here today, I'm afraid it doesn't matter, but don't panic, this person can't do anything well in a panic, don't treat the Tartar as a person, just treat him as a beast, the beast screams scary, where is our opponent when you really start to move. ”
The soldiers were amused by the words of the battalion commander, and they were suddenly relieved from the tense atmosphere, and the conversation box was opened.
"Battalion commander, I heard that the Tartars are tall and tall, and our small body is very good!" "Why can't you beat it, Hou Ye's body bones are worse than ours, but Tartar said that he is like a mouse seeing a cat! Does the prince know? Let Mrs. Hou be captured alive, and our current red handsome is said to be powerful! ”
The red-coated cannon and the stone-throwing truck sounded again, and the horn on the watchtower also sounded rapidly, and the battalion commander reacted first, pulling everyone to quickly hide in the hole, and the heat wave in the pit roasted by the burning fire oil was bursting, but fortunately, the soldiers carried small shovels with them, and raised the sand and buried them vigorously.
"Listen to the artillery fire, it's time for us to play, brothers, hold the gun in my hand steadily, and look carefully!" The soldiers in the trenches drilled out of their holes one by one and quickly set up their spears. The mortar squad launched an attack on the tens of thousands of cavalry rushing towards them.
Thousands of shells flew down in the air, and Haoge almost fell off his horse, he barely stabilized his emotions, and in a moment more than half of the more than 20,000 people in the first wave of death squads were killed and wounded, he gritted his teeth and silently prayed in his heart that the rest of the people could attack the tunnel.
But when the dense gunfire rang out, he couldn't help but close his eyes, no matter how the cavalry changed formations and dispersed, the bullets drilled into the bodies of their warriors like eyes. Such an overwhelming battle was completely testing the general's mental defense, and Hauge was undoubtedly an excellent commander, and he was not intimidated.
Then in the second round of attacks to adjust the strategy, change the infantry against the shield sword and arrow scattered forward, the effect of this way of marching is very obvious, the mortar attack is greatly weakened, but the combat mode on the battlefield is incomprehensible, no matter how you change your tactics, it is difficult to escape the fate of your equipment backward to be beaten. The KPA, for its part, watched as the shooting was held off by shields.
The commander of the division decisively ordered to stop the attack, but the soldiers took out the retainer bullets from their waists one by one, unscrewed the lids, and quietly waited for their arrival. "Boys, wait until you pull out the lead and count three numbers before throwing it, do you hear clearly!"
The generals of the Qing army saw that the other side was very hot, and after being happy, he quickly asked the archers to stand up and shoot and speed up the pace of attack, but in this way, tragedy happened again, although there were only two machine guns on the front line, and they were very rough and needed three or four people to fire, but his power could not be underestimated. The archers, who had escaped the protection of their shields, were instantly beaten into a sieve.
Seeing this brutal way of fighting, the Qing commander's patience was worn out, and he took the lead and shouted that the whole army would attack, and the knights on the horse ran as fast as they reached the ground, and they almost saw the iron pot on the enemy's head shining in the sun. But at this moment, they also understood what Prince Azig and Prince Abatai had said before, and the bullets fell like raindrops.
The explosions rang out one after another for about 10 seconds, and some people who were lucky enough to lie on the ground to avoid the explosion were inexplicably stabbed in the chest by sharp bayonets before they could stand up, and in just over a minute, tens of thousands of soldiers who rushed out of the trenches completed a inhumane massacre. Some of them were bloodied and trembling as they ran back into the tunnel.
"Battalion commander, I killed someone, and it was a child who was killed, and his eyes looked at me like this! The battalion commander ...... "Sanwa, that's not a child, that's a man-eating wolf cub, look at our dead brothers, if you don't kill them today, they will rush over and kill you, understand?" Sanwa shook her head and opened her eyes, and saw the corpses that were constantly being carried down in the pit in the distance, and the wounded people lying on the stretcher with broken hands and feet.
"Look at them, look at them, these are the children you said you said did it, this is the war without children, without women, have you forgotten what was taught in the military school? As long as they have weapons in their hands, they are enemies, and mercy to enemies is cruelty to yourself! The battalion commander said and pulled Sanwa's head into his arms, staring at the comrades who had lost their lives forever.
The fifty thousand horses were all over without making a sound, and Hauge's tense nerves finally collapsed, and he pounded his chest with his hair and roared angrily. "Why do you admit defeat like this!" Dolgon didn't know when he walked in front of him, Hauge raised his head and stared at Dolgon with bloodshot eyes, and after a while, the whole person fell to his knees, "You kill me, I can't take Gaoyou in two days." ”
Dolgon watched Hauge, who had completely lost his will to fight, kick him hard, although Hauge did not fall down, but he did not hold a mouthful of blood in his mouth and spit it out, some princes around hurriedly stepped forward to stop Dolgon for fear that he would do it again, but he didn't expect Dolgon to bend down and help Hauge up. "A small failure, you are just this virtue, do you still love the descendants of the Xinjueluo family? Come back to the big tent with me and tell me about the battle in detail! ”
After listening to Hauge's narration, everyone in the big tent was silent, and the 50,000 people were exhausted in just one day, not because of a mistake in command, nor because the soldiers were not brave in battle, but because the opponent was the first to take advantage of everything, and they were always suppressed with sophisticated firearms. Such a battle is not something that a mortal person can fight at all, and any further fight will only increase casualties.
War-weariness and war timidity gradually spread in the army, and the more than 1,000 wounded soldiers who were lucky enough to be disabled and picked up their lives became the biggest hidden danger in the army, because their injuries were really helpless with the military doctors, listening to their wails of crying out for heaven and earth, everyone felt the same way, death is not terrible, what is terrible is that life is better than death.
With more than 10 years of military career, Dolgon knew that morale is the soul of an army, once lost, it is like a lamb to the slaughter, he first calmed the minds of the generals, and then personally went to the wounded barracks, and repeatedly confirmed that there was no cure, so he immediately decided to secretly instruct the doctor to poison with medicine to avoid greater impact. At the same time, they steamed sheep and slaughtered cattle to reward the three armies, and vigorously promoted the illusion of inflicting heavy losses on the enemy.
After this series of measures, the morale of the army gradually stabilized, and at midnight, when the enemy's Kong Ming lantern was raised again, he mobilized more than 1,000 marksmen to take the trouble to shoot them down one by one. When he was at a loss for what to do with the whole army, he saw hundreds of thousands of horses grazing quietly on the playground, and his heart suddenly brightened. A good strategy to break the enemy came into being, and at this time, Shi Kefa and a cadre of generals in Gaoyou City were summarizing the small discussions after the war.
"Report to the general, the enemy camp is brightly lit, and the sentry observes that they are gathering a large number of war horses, and it seems that there is something big about it!" When Shi Kefa heard this, he hurriedly led the staff officers to the head of the city to check nervously. "This Dorgon is really a difficult opponent, he is still restless after such a big defeat during the day, what kind of fame does he want to make!" Shi Kefa was talking to himself while holding up the clairvoyant mirror and kept looking around, only to see the enemy camp in the distance galloping with thousands of horses and crowds, as if he was really about to launch a big attack.