Chapter 217 Defend your hometown and protect your loved ones
Early the next morning, the horns were arrayed, and after breakfast, the various departments began to assemble, and everyone began to complete the formation, making the final preparations for the battle. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
He took the gold helmet from the county lord Zhu Shuying, held it in his hand and pondered for a while, then suddenly put it down, quickly returned to the seat to write a letter and handed it to Wang Zhiyao, a staff officer next to him, and said lightly: "One hundred thousand urgent, immediately send it to Guo Chonglie's regiment in Xishan, and hope that it will be implemented." ”
Mrs. Huang Daiyun was slightly stunned, put down the hand that was stupidly looking at her eldest son Yang Wen on the side, and asked with concern: "Zixiu, no, are you okay?" ”
Thinking of the appalling Sichuan Massacre, Yang Xuan's face changed, he forcibly endured the grief and indignation in his heart, bent down and whispered in his ear: "If I am unfortunately killed, don't care about anything else, go south, all the way south, don't care about any earthly world, the more south the better, escape from China and flee overseas."
Madame, don't think of me, remember, please, please. ”
The air in the whole room was very heavy, and I clearly heard several sobs, and suddenly saw the lady rushing over and hugging each other tightly, and replied word by word: "Husband, if misfortune happens, the concubine will not be alone." ”
Yang Xuan was slightly stunned, shook his head for a long time, and then walked out of the prefect's lobby with a treasure knife in his hand.
Niu Dayong had already led a large group of guards to wait by the gate, and everyone saw Yang Xuan walking out of the gate, and cheered loudly one by one: "The loyal army will win, and the loyal army will win."
Turning around and looking at the prefect's yamen again, he turned over his horse, and the group rushed out of the north gate quickly, and after seeing Yang Xuan appear, the entire camp erupted into a strong roar.
Stopping in front of the big tent for a while, galloping back and forth, inspecting the various camps, where he passed, the soldiers broke out into cheers, and Yang Xuan pulled out his sword and signaled back and forth.
At the same time, the supervisors of the regiments, the assistant offices of the battalions, and the secretaries of the major brigades were holding simple loudspeakers for the final war mobilization, and everyone talked about the Mongol invasion of Sichuan, the Manchu sinful shaving order, the Manchu massacre, and the achievements of the reform in recent years.
The crowd was boiling, everyone shouted loudly one by one, and some were hoarse.
At this time, Yang Xuan had returned to the great fashion, suddenly pulled out the treasure knife in his hand, raised it above his head and shouted: "Defend your hometown, protect your relatives"
As soon as the surrounding soldiers heard this, they shouted loudly one by one, and slowly, the slogan of "defending the hometown, defending the relatives" spread throughout the audience, and everyone cheered loudly while singing various military songs.
Sitting on the war horse, after looking at some soldiers around him with frightened expressions, the whole atmosphere was particularly tense, and Hao Ge said with disdain: "I heard that this Yang Xuan is a person who has fallen off the list, how can he lead the soldiers spinelessly, crying and shouting slogans, it's really strange."
When the surrounding generals heard this, everyone looked at each other and smiled to remove the shadow in their hearts.
But many of the soldiers of the Green Battalion don't think so, especially since some of the generals of the Green Battalion who were defeated by the Loyal and Righteous Army a few days ago have not yet come over from the shadows of the past.
Some old men in the army have repeatedly warned that the real threat is not in the open, but in the shadows, which may not have been understood by everyone in the past, but after the past few days of mountain battles, some people have begun to understand this truth.
Unlike other armies of this era, the Loyal Army is shrouded in a veil of mystery, and there is a hint of weirdness all over its body.
In order to defeat the other side on the battlefield, many generals often create a momentum of taking the lead, not only pulling out all the soldiers and horses, but also planting pennants behind each person, giving people the feeling that the pennants are everywhere, and there are countless people and horses all over the mountains.
The Loyal Army, on the other hand, had only one pennant for each brigade, and it was not at all obvious that there were hills, rivers, and villas everywhere, almost hidden in the earth.
When the two sides were fighting, the loyal army did not pull out all the soldiers and horses like other soldiers and horses in an attempt to overwhelm the other party in momentum, often only a small number of soldiers and horses were put out, and the main force was hidden in the shadows.
Since a few days ago, the two sides started a tug-of-war in the hilly area of dozens of miles wide in the north of the city, relying on the cottage, the various departments of the green battalion have suffered a lot, everyone is just wrapped up by the generals to surrender to the Manchu Qing, sweeping away some of the Ming army and the righteous army that do not pose much threat, and now they have to face the powerful loyal army, many soldiers are frightened, and the morale of the whole army is not high.
However, in ancient times, the various ministries were very strict in governing the army, and if they did not obey, they could get into the disaster of death, and there was no way, under the strict orders of the generals, everyone pushed the side van as a cover, shouting slogans and rushing over.
In order to give everyone courage, in the distance, the Han army flag gunners are continuously firing artillery, although at this time the cannonballs are not far away and inaccurate, one by one solid iron balls fly over the head from a distance and fall in front of the opponent's formation, probably hoping to deter the other party by firing cannons, so as to achieve the goal of taking the lead in the first place.
Seeing that the green battalion soldiers dragged on the offensive, the 11th Regiment Du Si Jin Tongwu shook his head, in the past, the rebels were quite afraid of artillery, but after many explanations and field exercises by adults in the past few months, everyone understood that such a long-distance artillery could at most deter the opponent, and it was difficult to cause any substantial damage.
took off his helmet and waved it to the right, and after someone in the forest behind him seemed to wave his hand, he then loudly issued various instructions to the watchtower car around him, and the heralds on the watchtower car quickly played various flags, and slowly an order was quickly transmitted to the battalions.
Now the Green Battalion will be getting closer and closer, their crossbowmen in front, infantry behind, and at a distance of about 150 meters, the crossbowmen will stop and shoot at a distance, while the infantry will cross and kill the loyal army.
In the past, there were too few crossbowmen in the rebel army to carry out large-scale long-range shooting to suppress the opponent and suffer a lot on the battlefield.
The Loyal and Righteous Army is different, not only has many people who are good at shooting, but also is equipped with a large number of artillery, and long-distance shooting will cost too much physical strength of the soldiers, and there is no crosshair like a scatterball, and now I see that the other side is ready to use bows and arrows to shoot from a distance to suppress themselves again.
However, Jin Tongwu didn't want to consume the physical strength of the soldiers to shoot at the opponent, and commanded several large Franco cannons behind him to fire at the opponent.
Before the invention of machine guns, artillery, crossbows, and bird guns were the nemesis of cavalry, and in the Battle of Bali Bridge during the Opium War, the French army first used rocket artillery to shake the cavalry formation of the Mongol Tartars, and then defeated the opponent in the confrontation.
During the Napoleonic period, Napoleon, who was born as an artilleryman, also believed that he needed to rely on artillery to crush the opponent's human waves.
Now facing the Green Battalion crossbowmen who were firing from a distance of a hundred paces, they happened to be the prey of the Franco's cannon on the hillside behind.
The gunner quickly shed the camouflage on the large Franc cannon, a soldier took a torch and lit the arquebus, and then took five or six steps back, the arquebus made a squeaky sound, and then a deafening cannon sounded, a huge fireball burst out of the muzzle, and quickly fell into the distance crowd and exploded.
Due to the knowledge and cognition of the previous life, coupled with the special identity of the protagonist deputy leader, many gunners of the Loyal and Righteous Army have gone to private schools for a few years, unlike the Han Army Banner and the Green Battalion, which are mostly composed of big and old coarse, and most of them are full-time gunners on the battlefield.
The artillery of the Loyal Army is cast by iron mold water cooling, and the Franc cannon is mostly placed on the gun carriage, and there are sights on it to aim by adjusting the scale, so that at this time it can be far away and accurate.
The lead bullet burst out of the cannon, flew into the air, and then fell to a radius of several meters like a heavenly maiden, startling the surrounding soldiers to dodge in all directions in a panic.
The artillery casting technology of the Loyal Army has long been improved, the cost of artillery has been sharply reduced, and the number of artillery equipment is very large, giving people the feeling that the artillery of the Loyal Army really does not need money.
Gao Mingzhan, the traitor commander of the Green Battalion, obviously did not expect that the artillery fire of the Loyal and Righteous Army would be so accurate and fierce, let alone that the other party would dare to fire scattered bullets from behind him.
Such a local armed force has basically reached the level of the Qi family army a hundred years ago, and when it rushed to a distance of more than 100 steps, the soldiers in front carried out four or five tiger squat cannons, lit the fire rope and fired the cannons directly.
The shells fell like a goddess scattering flowers, and the soldiers hiding behind the side van could no longer endure such dense firepower from the other side, everyone hid behind the side van, while desperately pushing the side van in front, the crossbowmen blindly shot back with arrows, and the musketeers shot with the help of the reserved hole on the side van baffle.