Chapter 320: Encirclement and Annihilation 2 - Slaughter
Ten thousand cannons fired in unison, the scene was quite spectacular, and for Duoduo it was not so comfortable, his 100,000 people crowded in the middle of a narrow hillside in a narrow area three miles long and two miles wide, the Qing army fell to the ground one after another, and the flesh and blood passages were hit open by the cannonballs, and after hitting them hard for two hundred meters, the momentum of the cannonballs stopped, and before he could react, the second round of artillery came over.
These were small guns, mostly six-pounder and three-pounder, the first round of guns over 9 pounder, fired from a distance, but careful the guns were fired from two hundred to five hundred meters in front of them.
A dozen large slices are scattered bombs, also known as grapeshot bombs.
They were confronted by the desperate charge of the enemy cavalry, and the cavalry fell in large numbers, but there were still the lucky ones who were not afraid of death, but they were greeted by a volley of 10,000 musketeers and archers crouching at the side of the musketeers.
One thousand, two thousand, three thousand, the cavalry of the Qing army that assaulted in detachments fell in pieces, and the war horses also fell one after another, and none of the war horses could rush to the front and cause damage to the Huaxia army.
Because the density of firepower is no longer something that flesh and blood can resist.
After a few rounds of salvo fire, the carefully loaded artillery was fired again, and the infantry who rushed forward in front of the enemy fell a large piece again, and the careful artillery was fired, and the large artillery began to fire again, this time, it directly penetrated the enemy's military formation, and the enemy's 100,000 army was in chaos, and several Qing generals who could not contain it also angrily chopped the Qing army who wanted to escape.
But in exchange for the resistance of some green battalion soldiers who didn't want to die, chaos began.
By the time Duoduo finally reacted and sent troops to suppress it, it was already too late, many Qing generals had already been killed, and many teams were already in chaos.
The green battalion soldiers in the back had already rushed to the rear in pieces, where there were only a few thousand people, but it was much less than the tens of thousands of Huaxia troops in the front.
But they were still greeted by artillery, musket fire. There were also the shots of the archers and crossbowmen of the two brigades that pressed up, as well as the muskets of the cavalry, the attacks of bows and arrows.
"Surrender, we surrender." Whether it was the green battalion soldiers or the Han army banner soldiers who lost their fighting spirit, they all surrendered to the Huaxia army behind.
The population in front is too dense, the troops are too chaotic, but there is a lot of space in the back, so the Huaxia army has a chance to hear clearly, tens of thousands of people in front are fighting each other, who can know what you think, shoot first and then talk about it.
It's different later, the cavalry is killing repeatedly, and many people have fallen into the encirclement of the cavalry.
"Throw away your weapons and run to both sides." Soon Mi Lin and Xuanyuan Longfei made the same choice.
Duoduo was already in chaos, he only paid attention to the front, but forgot the back, the army behind surrendered to the Huaxia army in the chaos, many of them were Qing troops under the banner of the Han army, this was a loyal soldier dedicated to the Qing Dynasty, at this time they also had to accept the reality, surrender first and then speak.
While accepting the surrender, while closing the siege, Bai Wenxuan took a look, okay, although the two Huaxia armies accepted the surrender, they didn't have time to screen the prisoners, so they immediately led the troops out of the city, and met with the thousands of soldiers in the city, and then quickly accepted the prisoners, tied one by one, tied one and let the soldiers take them to the rear.
He soon found that he had captured 20,000 Qing soldiers, plus 40,000 prisoners in the city.
And now there are only 40,000 Qing troops who can fight outside.
The Qing army, which had already been attacked by them before, was the first to surrender.
And Zhang Qiang is still killing in front.
The artillery and the roar stopped, but the muskets were still firing, the archers were still firing, and the Qing army was like locusts that were not afraid of death, dreaming of storming the enemy's positions with their numerical superiority, as long as they rushed in, in their opinion, the enemy could only be slaughtered.
All the cavalry could do now was to go around the battlefield and keep the enemy from escaping, and now that Dordor was besieged on all sides, it was impossible to escape.
He Jin looked at Zhang Qiang, he had received Zhang Qiang's order, and quickly arrived with the 11th Field Brigade with a light load.
In this battle to destroy the enemy, the main force is almost his Chuzhou army, the 8th, 9th, and 10th field brigades are all his troops, and the 8th field brigade is still in Jianning Province, but the 9th and 10th field brigades participated in this battle, plus the 1st Guards Brigade, the 5th Field Brigade, two cavalry brigades, and a temporary cavalry brigade composed of cavalry from each brigade, the provisional 18th Field Brigade led by Bai Wenxuan, the total strength no longer belongs to the enemy, and one-third of it is his deployment.
This is also since he followed Zhang Qiang to fight a few years ago, he led the troops to the battlefield once, originally thought that he had no chance to make a contribution, but he didn't expect to encounter an opportunity to make a contribution, although he is also a commander, but he is actually an idle admiral.
The situation is the same as Liu Liangzuo.
However, he is better with Liu Liangzuo, and his trust is much higher than Liu Liangzuo, he manages the army, and guards the state capital, and there is not much credit, but there are some, Liu Liangzuo has been in Quzhou Mansion for several years, and he has not made an inch, he has already sat firmly as the general commander of the feudal territory, and Liu Liangzuo can only be monitored in Quzhou Mansion many times and borrow wine to drown his sorrows.
The same is the same once dominant, a headache for the Ming Dynasty, because he surrendered early, more obedient, without much evil, so he got some reuse, assisted You Haibo to manage the state capital, as the core area of the state capital development is rapid, many of the original Ming army officials are thinking of him to do things, many Ming army officials are arranged by him, and Zhang Qiang did not suspect him of misconduct, but valued him very much, but he also wanted to make achievements in military merit, after all, he fought more than the time to be an official.
"Governor, it's better to stop and persuade to surrender, I see that the enemy's morale has been lost, if we continue to fight like this, we are wasting ammunition, and the enemy is increasing casualties, it is better to pull it back and throw it into the prisoner camp for transformation, so as to contribute to the construction of Fujian in the future, okay?"
He Jin really couldn't stand it, although he had done a lot of slaughter, but such a tragic slaughter, he had seen it for the first time, the Qing army had so many cavalry and brave Manchu warriors, but they could only charge to the death, and could not cause the slightest casualties to the enemy.
The casualties of the Huaxia army that have attacked head-on so far, except for some casualties among the cavalry, except for those who were in a hurry, loaded the wrong ammunition and caused the musket to explode, or were not so lucky to be wounded by the enemy's flying arrows, the casualties of the Huaxia army were very small, less than 500 people, which would not hurt the muscles and bones for the Huaxia army with more than 30,000 troops, and I believe that when the Qing army attacked as a whole, the Huaxia army could still bear a certain proportion of casualties.
"Persuade to surrender, don't think about it, those who want to surrender have already surrendered themselves, and those who want to surrender have no choice but to say that they are unlucky, kill, kill them all." Zhang Qiang said coldly to He Jin.
'They are all my Han people, the cornerstone of China, they have been moved to our feet, they are our cornerstone, why bother destroying them? The Huaxia army is now a province with a population of only 10 million, Fujian has repeatedly suffered wars, Longwu Nanming can not resist the erosion of the Qing army, so that the population loss is serious, these populations are enough to enrich the population of a county, can generate a lot of taxes for us, my lord, persuade it. ”
Zhang Qiang shook his head, "It can't be changed, we want to hurt the Qing army this time, and we want the Qing army to know that attacking us will pay a heavy price, so before provoking us, we must weigh it, even if the Qing army department weighs it, then the Han army flag and the green battalion troops they carry must also be weighed, so that the morale of the troops they attack again will not be too high, and they will scatter and flee at the slightest disturbance." ”
He turned to He Jin and said, "In this way, it will be easy for us to fight in the future, won't we?" ”
He Jin was still a little unwilling in his heart, but he couldn't change the facts, and as Zhang Qiang raised his hand again, the muzzles of many cannons were lowered.
"Load loose bombs, load loose bombs, at a distance of three hundred meters, prepare, fire-" A series of commands were conveyed, and in the roar, the Qing troops who rushed forward fell one after another.
The thick Qing defense line has been thinned by a layer, and many people have been snake and rat at both ends, timid, no longer as rigid as before, they hope that the above will quickly issue an order to surrender, otherwise if this continues, under the continuous artillery and continuous fire on the opposite side, they will soon be slaughtered like piglets.
Duoduo's hand has trembled, his tears flowed out uncontrollably, 200,000 Qing troops, once fought Yongli Nanming ran away like a rabbit, once a large army passed over, the county town of Nanming looked at the wind and fell to this thousand, they slaughtered more than 10,000 Han people, now, tens of thousands of Manchu and Mongolian soldiers are being slaughtered by the enemy, and the enemy is also not merciless to the Han army flag and the green camp that follow them.
Do you want to be slaughtered like Azig?
"Lord Belle, surrender, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of running out of firewood, this sentence of the Han people is very appropriate," a Manchu general persuaded.
"No, Lord Belle, we can all surrender, but you can't," one of the generals said.
'Are you going to force him to die?' 'Dordor was not as wise and strong as Dorgon.
In fact, Duoduo was also hesitating in his heart, the fight between the Southern Ming and the Qing army in the past, generals like him, the end was beheaded by the enemy to show the public, surrender and not surrender are almost the same.
The Manchu general said: "Lord Belle, surrender, you can still live for a while, maybe the imperial court will rescue you, if you don't surrender, the enemy's artillery will come down, and you will be as broken as we are." ”
"That's it, that's it, Dorondo, order to stop resisting, throw down your weapons, tell the other side that we have surrendered, and tell them to stop killing our soldiers."
"Dangdang-" The crisp sound of gold in the Qing army sounded, all the soldiers stopped, no longer resisting and charging, because this is a senseless sacrifice, they can't get close to the Huaxia army at all, even if they are fighting in the back of the Huaxia army, they can't get close, the two field brigades also have 4,000 musketeers, and they also have artillery battalions, and there are two cavalry brigades to respond left and right, and the cavalry brigade is not holding a bow and arrow, but an arquebus, and this battle can not be fought again.
When a white flag was raised, the artillery of the Huaxia Army, which was still violently shelling the Qing army, stopped, and the thick smoke of gunpowder rose in the air, and the battlefield was silent.
(End of chapter)