Chapter 321: The Ming Army Collapses
The situation of the Miyun army was much better than that of the Shandong army, but it also ate four or five thousand shells. Tang Tong, the chief soldier of Miyun, saw that the situation was not good, and immediately ordered to run away.
Liu Zeqing has been injured by artillery fire, and the war horses have been replaced by two, but fortunately, his legs and feet are fine, and he can still run. In fact, there is no need for the officers' orders, the Shandong army has collapsed, and the soldiers have begun to rush towards the road where they came. Those Shandong soldiers who were injured but not killed, and were still wailing on the ground, were simply ignored.
All the artillery of the Tiance Army began to turn, and together with the 125-mm smoothbore guns of eight tanks, they rained shells on the large array of the Ming army.
This became the last straw that crushed the Ming army, and in just over a minute, the artillery and tanks of the Tiance Army fired more than 10,000 shells at the Ming army, and the Ming army collapsed.
The most striking blow of the artillery bombardment was the tank gun, and the power of the explosion of the 125-millimeter high-explosive bomb was unimaginable to the Ming army. Moreover, the ballistics of the tank guns tended to be horizontal, and every time it was fired, it was like eight hammers smashed into the Ming army, and each explosion took away a large number of people.
Wang Yue did not use the recoilless cannon, what he wanted was not slaughter, what he wanted was the collapse of the Ming army.
The first to flee was Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, followed by Wang Zhong, the chief soldier of Shanxi, and it was the heart of the prison army Wang who proposed to escape, so they were also acting on orders. As for Lu Xiangsheng, he is still supervising the formation in front, so it's not something they should worry about.
"Duke, the rear army is about to run away, how should our army respond, hurry up and get an idea." Yang Tinglin indignantly reminded Lu Xiangsheng, who had been paying attention to the battle situation ahead.
"What?" Lu Xiangsheng's already blood-red eyes turned his head and looked back, didn't he? The rear army was already in disarray and retreated.
Yang Tinglin said sadly: "Governor, don't do anything. ”
In fact, what Yang Tinglin's words meant was that this battle could not be fought, and we should also withdraw.
Yang Tinglin has been fighting with Lu Xiangsheng for many years, and has participated in thousands of large and small wars, and he is not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death. But in the face of the Tiance army, he couldn't see any chance of victory for the Ming army.
The range, power, and rate of fire of the Tiance Army's weapons completely subverted his cognition. The same firearms, the firearms of the Tiance Army in these three parameters, each of which exceeds the traditional firearms by dozens or even hundreds of times, and the combat efficiency must be doubled again.
In the face of such an army, the Ming army was of course powerless to fight back.
Lu Xiangsheng sighed and said, "Order, withdraw the troops!" ”
The starting point city was not the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and before this battle, Lu Xiangsheng and Wang Yue did not have a deep hatred, and he was also acting on orders. Therefore, the relationship between the Ming army and the Tiance army did not reach the point of endless death.
After all, the Tianxiong army suffered heavy casualties in this battle, and more than 4,000 people had been killed in the short time between the 20,000 Tianxiong army and the Tiance army, and the wounded were not counted.
This is the army built by Lu Xiangsheng single-handedly, and it is painstaking and emotional, so he is heartbroken. But for the starting point city and Wang Yue, his hatred is not as heavy as he imagined, this is a war, and he wants to fight the door.
Now he knows how inadequate he is, and now he knows why the Qing army has been repeatedly defeated by the Tiance army.
The Ming army collapsed, the army wavered, and the rear army wanted to run, all of which were under the monitoring of several drones of the Tiance Army.
"It's easy to come, but it's not easy to run, order all departments to close the net." The corners of Wang Yue's mouth curled, and he ordered.
The 2nd Regiment and the 1st Battalion had already arrived at their designated positions, and immediately set out to attack the rear of the Ming army after receiving the order from the headquarters.
Wang Zhixin and Wang Pu and others led the rear army to panic and retreat in the direction of Fuchengmen, according to the meaning of Wang Zhixin, they wanted to retreat into the Beijing division and defend the city. Wang Pu's original intention was to run thousands of miles away, and it was best to run back to Datong. But Wang Zhixin was a prisoner, so he had to run with him to Fuchengmen.
The rear team of the Ming army changed to the front team, and as soon as they ran out, they ran into the Tiance army that was coming over.
Mortars, recoilless guns, vehicle-mounted machine guns, automatic rifles, the Tiance army used all weapons to hit the Ming army fiercely.
The Ming army had already lost their fighting spirit, and they had been frightened by the ferocious firepower of the Tiance army, so the formation they could maintain just now immediately dispersed, and the soldiers lost their armor and fled in all directions.
In addition to those who took armored vehicles, most of the Tiance troops from Tongzhou and Miyun were buses and trucks, so these Tiance troops were all mobile corps.
The two-legged and four-legged Ming army could not outrun the four wheels of the Tiance army, and the range of the Tiance army's weapons also made them desperate.
"Da Da Da!" "All of them!"
The sound of gunfire was like a life-urging charm, and the Ming army was like a frightened bird, and the companions around them were shot and fell to the ground, which intensified their panic.
Many Ming soldiers who ran on two legs threw away their weapons and collapsed on the ground, kowtowing and begging for mercy.
Most of the bullets of the Tiance army were running for the war horses, and the Ming army had to flee on foot after losing the war horses.
The Ming army collapsed, and the four main forces of Tiance in front of it also quickly pressed on and surrounded the Ming army.
Leading the way were the remaining sixty fire trucks, which quickly caught up with the Ming army and sacrificed their high-pressure water cannons, their big killers. All the Ming troops within the range of the water cannon were swept down.
The fire truck door is not in love, they wield water cannons as they advance, spraying jets of water wherever there are many people.
After the Baoding Army and Wanping Regiment trained and solved the Guanning Army, they continued to solve the Shandong Army and the Miyun Army. After the collapse of the Ming army, the rest was handed over to Wanping for training, and the Baoding army all pounced on most of the Ming army.
The fire trucks on both wings still had water in place, and they also attacked the Ming army from both wings.
From the beginning of the war to the defeat of the Ming army's 100,000 troops, it took less than an hour, which is unimaginable in the history of ancient warfare. Counting the Guanning Army and the Tianxiong Army, the Shandong Army and the Baoding Army, the number of casualties and prisoners of the Ming Army has reached more than 20,000.
The Baoding troops who rushed towards most of the Ming army were glad, and they were glad that their commanders were too wise, otherwise they would have to be like these Ming troops.
Now the Baoding army is the victor's side, so they are jubilant one by one, scrambling to pounce on the fleeing Ming army. The Baoding army is so active, and it cannot but be said that it is the silver that gave them strength.
Dong Yongwen, the chief soldier of Baoding, rode on a tall horse and scolded with a smile: "These rabbit cubs, I have never seen them so desperate in a war before!" ”
Adjutant General Chen Deyong complimented: "This is all because the chief soldier has found a good way out for everyone." Such a big battle, but don't want them to work hard, and have money to take, can they not be active? ”
Dong Yongwen likes to listen to this, and the rebellion against the imperial court is a little bad in name, so what he is most willing to hear is the opinion of the people below after returning to the starting point city.
He smiled and said to Chen Deyong: "I seemed to see Zu Dabi being taken by us just now?" ”