Chapter 324: Dissenting Hearts

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Faced with the pressure of the enemy breaking through the defensive line and the troops were already stretched, Liu Liangzuo turned white overnight.

Hurriedly summoned Brother Zhu back to discuss, Feng Wuyu could not be summoned back, because the front line was still fighting, and the pressure was not ordinarily great, as Shang Kexi's fire soldiers joined the battle, as Hong Chengchou pulled the remaining 200 cannons that had not been destroyed and damaged to the edge of the front line, they were placed in front of the first trench and arranged.

At a distance of only more than 600 meters, the artillery suppressed the artillery behind the second trench, and the artillery could not exert greater power, only the artillery in the tunbao on the second line of defense could exert its power, fighting against the enemy, destroying the enemy's artillery at the same time, and also being destroyed by the enemy's artillery.

Although a lot of artillery of the Huaxia Army is arranged here, the artillery at the head of the city can only be said to be able to hit the enemy three miles away, and it cannot be said that it can be said to be destroyed, but it is only a harassing nature, but the enemy's artillery can hit the three-pounder cannon and the six-pounder cannon at a distance of only 600 meters, and even the nine-pounder cannon that is only two miles away from the city can be hit, and the Huaxia Army has no absolute advantage in the artillery battle.

These small cannons are arranged in the front line only to suppress the enemy's infantry and musketeers, but they are powerless against the enemy's artillery, especially the two-thousand-pound overweight red-coated cannons, and the twelve-pounder guns in the tunpu that shoot at these red-coated cannons can only ensure the limited destruction of the enemy's artillery, but cannot destroy all of them, because even the Huaxia army artillery with gun mounts is very heavy, it is inconvenient to move, and the tunpu cannot take into account a long distance, once the tunpu artillery in this area is destroyed by the enemy, Then the enemy in this area is numerous, inferior in quality, and inferior to the artillery of the Huaxia Army, which can play a role in sabotaging and suppressing the second line of defense.

And the soldiers on the defensive line could only pray for good fortune not to be hit by enemy shells.

The actual reason for such a predicament is simply that the enemy has too many troops, and the disparity between the forces of the two sides is too great. The enemy's resources are too many.

The war has been fought so far, and the Huaxia army has been unable to cope with it, because the casualties are too great, even the militia and people who have been trained by the war are almost exhausted, and those who did not die have become seriously wounded and sent to the capital city of Raozhou, where women and old people who are still strong are mobilized to do some tasks of cooking, transporting, and transporting the wounded.

Up to now, the 30,000 regular soldiers of the Huaxia Army have suffered more than 8,000 casualties, not only the new recruits and the militia that have been transferred to the militia, but also the soldiers of the garrison units that cannot be transferred.

Now the soldiers who had withdrawn from other directions were piled up at the north gate of the front of the second line of defense, and the other directions, especially the second direction of the south gate, had become useless, only the cantonment and observation soldiers were retained, and even the artillery had been withdrawn into the first line of defense, in the breastwork bunker behind the first line of trenches.

It is only about 200 meters away from the city gate, and it is directly protected by the elite soldiers of the 7th Field Brigade of the Huaxia Army on the city wall.

The guards and generals in these places are all garrisoned, not Brother Zhu and Liu Liangzuo.

In the darkness of the night, Shang Kexi's 30,000 soldiers stormed the remaining tunpu that could not be withdrawn from the first line of defense, and at the same time attacked in the second direction, their soldiers were fighting in the corners of the east and west with the Qing army's green camp and the Han army flag, while Kong Youde's soldiers attacked the second line of defense at the north gate head-on.

With the attack of the Green Battalion and the Han Army Banner soldiers in front of them, regardless of casualties, the second line of defense also became precarious.

Even the cannon hit the barrel red, and it kept bursting.

Soon, the Huaxia Army had to cover the 9-pounder guns and the 12-pounder and 9-pounder guns in the cantonment to retreat to the first line of defense first, and the firepower plummeted.

There was a battalion of arquebuses of 100 men in each mile of the Huaxia Army to counterattack the enemy, but they were hit by the artillery pulled up by Shang Kexi and Kong Youde and the attack of thousands of musketeers.

In the early hours of the morning, the soldiers of the second line of defense in the other three directions were withdrawn to guard the first line of defense.

When the sun rose, the second line of defense was lost, and all the artillery except for those that were blown up and broken was withdrawn into the city, and the archers and baggage soldiers were withdrawn into the first line of defense.

The hand-to-hand soldiers fought fiercely with the enemy, the musketeers covered the wounded and retreated to the first line of defense, and at noon, all the forts fell or were abandoned.

The enemy reached the first line of defense below the city walls.

The two sides are in a truce, because no one is in the mood to attack anymore.

The nearly 40,000 strength of the Huaxia army has been reduced to 13,000 troops, and there are nearly 10,000 wounded lying in the city, and the lightly wounded who can fight have been replenished to the first trench in the other three directions, and the Chinese regular army on the city wall sent 2,000 men and horses down to the first line of defense to assist in the defense.

When Shang Kexi met Kong Youde, Kong Youde was muttering to himself in a cantonment on the second line of defense looking at the 12-pounder guns of the Huaxia Army that had been blown up.

Shang Kexi is one of the people who know firearms, he checked the muzzle and the barrel of the cannon, and sighed: "This was blown up by the Huaxia Army on its own initiative, look at the iron essence of this leaking gun breech, good steel, I think it can fire at least 2,000 shells, compared to our cannon that can only fire 300 shells, it is much better." ”

"yes, it would be nice if we had such a good cannon." Kong Youde sighed.

Shang Kexi said: "I grabbed ten 300-pound tiger squat guns, tried to fire a few shells, obediently and easily hit a distance of three or five hundred meters, even if it is a scatter bomb, it can also hit a hundred and fifty meters away, and there are three 500 to 600 pound Franc machine guns, one cannon down, it is not a problem to hit 500 to 800 meters, and the scattered bomb is also more than 200 meters away, no wonder my men died so much, at this distance, although our small cannon surpasses them in firing speed, it can't hit so far." ”

Kong Youde continued his words and said: "There is also a cannon of more than 800 catties, which can hit 750 meters to 1,500 meters away, and increase the potion to hit 1,800 meters away without blowing up the chamber, but unfortunately I don't dare to try to add some more potions, for fear that the only one will be blown up." ”

Shang Kexi frowned, "It is said that there are many enemies of these cannons, we have tried our best to capture only a dozen or so, and the larger the cannon, the more difficult it is to capture, I did not capture eight hundred catties of cannons, look at the cannon in front of me I am afraid that there is not a thousand catties, compared to our red-coated cannon The largest artillery is much lighter, according to this calculation, at least two thousand meters away, or even farther, that is more than five miles, I saw a seriously damaged cannon in a tun fort, heavier than this, It's almost fifteen or six hundred, and you say it's not really a cannon that can hit more than 2,000 to 3,000 meters? ”

Kong Youde said: "I also saw it, but there are very few such cannons, only this kind of fort has one to three, it seems that the other two cannons have been pulled away, and the enemy has not left us." This one had to be thrown away because it was unfortunately hit by our red-coated cannon. ”

Shang Kexi glanced at the soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield outside, and asked quietly: "Can our craftsmen imitate such a cannon, otherwise we will suffer a lot from the Shanghua Army in the future...... was captured or died, and the Huaxia army completely annihilated the Liangguang Qing army of Bei Leye, which was an army of 200,000. ”

"Ah," the fragments of the twelve-pound cannon that Kong Youde pinched in his hand fell to his feet and smashed into Kong Youde's toes, and he jumped around holding his feet in pain, so startled that the nearby Han soldiers drew their swords and rushed to him to protect them.

But Kong Youde shouted loudly: "Stay away from here, everyone should withdraw from the fort, no one is allowed to approach within fifty meters, and violators will be killed." After speaking, he endured the pain, regardless of the soldiers running away, pulling Shang Kexi and said, "King Jingnan, what you said is true?" ”

Shang Kexi leaned into his ear and whispered: "It's true, I just listened to the report of the scout cavalry who was lurking behind me in the tent to reconnoiter the enemy's movements, Fujian is over, the Duoduo army is over, the enemy's main army is coming, the original prince Fu Hong asked our ambushed Huaxia army to outflank the enemy's rear road, but I didn't expect to be lured by the enemy to Tingzhou Mansion to be completely annihilated." ”

Kong Youde swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and asked with a pale face: "That's an army of 200,000, even if 200,000 pigs are caught by them, they won't be able to catch them in half a month, and they are invincible, not to mention that the Huaxia Army does not have enough soldiers and horses to fight Duoduo's 200,000 army, how did they do it?" ”

Shang Kexi said: "I don't know, but the reality is that they did it, my scout cavalry followed the Huaxia army who escorted the captives and saw that the captive team that was discharged for several miles included the Guangxi Ming army that had surrendered, the Ming army in Tingzhou Mansion, the Guangxi Qing army, the Guangdong Qing army, and the Mongols, the Jurchen Manchurians, really, I dare to use the head of Xiang Shangshang to guarantee that the news is true." ”

Kong Youde sat on the ground, holding on to the fort wall of Tunbao, and the monk glanced at each other, "How many troops did you lose last night?" ”

Shang Kexi said lightly: "On both sides of the Huaxia Army are some soldiers with bows and arrows and broadswords, only a small number of firearms, and a small number of cannons, or the kind of three-hundred-pound tiger squat cannon small cannon, other cannons because of the range or can not be adjusted, can not hit my people, so, my casualties are not big, two thousand green battalions, five hundred Han army flags, one hundred firecrackers, more than a dozen artillery killed because of the explosion, and the other casualties are the green battalion and Han army flags from Jinling, who fought hand-to-hand with the Huaxia army, their casualties are greater, I estimate that there are about 10,000." ”

Kong Youde lowered his head, Shang Kexi didn't ask, he was more shrewd than Kong Youde, Kong Youde himself reported it, "My men suffered more than 5,000 casualties, the rest of the cannons blew up three guns, 15 were destroyed, more than 2,000 musketeers were killed, a total of more than 7,000 casualties, and the Qing army in Jinling and Boluo who attacked head-on suffered more than 30,000 casualties. It can be said that all the green battalions from Jinling have been wiped out, and more than half of the Han army flags have been killed or wounded. ”

Shang Ke was taken aback and jumped up, "Check, doesn't this mean that our 400,000 army has lost more than 150,000?" ”

Kong Youde smiled bitterly: "This is not counted, the key is the impact of morale, I am afraid that the remaining green battalion troops are about to bomb the camp now, and the Han army flag is about the same, Hong Chengchou, an old thief, does not take the lives of our Han people as his life at all, we are just a dispensable sacrifice in his merit book." ”