Chapter 181: A Great Victory
The distance of 70 meters is not much different from hitting a fixed target for the well-trained Qin soldiers who are fed with a large number of bullets, and the soldiers of the Zheng family army who rushed to the front fell down in an instant.
The sudden attack quickly plunged the first wave of Zheng Jiajun's attacking forces into chaos.
Screams, shouts, and angry shouts make up a vivid and real battlefield symphony.
How many enemies are said to be good? The promised enemy is running out of bullets?
At this time, all the soldiers of the Zheng family army had a sentence in their hearts that they wanted to say.
The Qin soldiers seized on the chaos of the Zheng family's army, kept shooting, and continued to expand the results of the battle, and the casualties of these Zheng family's soldiers like headless flies were rapidly expanding.
And Zheng Jiajun's weak counterattack could not cause harm to the Qin army at all, but was more like emboldening himself.
Moreover, there have been some cases of Zheng Jiajun soldiers turning around and running down the mountain, and finally after the officer who led the team killed a few deserters, the chaotic situation finally slowly stabilized.
The soldiers of the Zheng family army lay on the ground and shot at the Qin army's position, but because of the panic, basically the bullets had already reached the sky.
Although the Qin army was inferior in terms of strength, it was more well-equipped and had high morale, and the soldiers were generally relaxed.
Coupled with the huge difference in training levels, it is still easy to control the battlefield.
The soldiers of the Zheng family army looked very lively, but they basically lay on the spot and did not move, and many of them put their guns without raising their heads, regardless of whether the bullets hit the enemy.
When Zheng Sen saw the scene through the binoculars, he was shocked and angry.
Shockingly, the sudden appearance of the Qin army's troops caught him off guard, and he was so angry that the soldiers he had carefully trained for so long were so vulnerable.
Morale is a thing.
The morale of the Zheng family army quickly declined, while the morale of the Qin army was even higher.
Under the effect of morale, the soldiers of the Qin army shot more accurately and the rate of fire was faster.
The soldiers of the Zheng family army who attacked in the first wave were finally defeated, and by the time they retreated to the bottom of the mountain, the losses had already exceeded half.
As soon as the furious Zheng Sen and the other defeated soldiers withdrew, he had the officers leading the team down and cut them down, and killed several soldiers who were unfavorable in battle.
Seeing that the major general was so angry, the rest of the people were silent.
A second wave of Zheng soldiers began to attack.
Under the threat of death, the leading officer desperately urged the soldiers to rush up, so the speed of the march was much faster than the first time.
However, it is not surprising that this attack was still repelled by the Qin army, and the Zheng army left a corpse in a place and fled in a hurry.
The two offensive failures made Zheng Sen even more furious.
He finally decided to make a desperate bet, except to leave behind the troops to monitor the hill on the left, and throw all the remaining men and horses into the attack.
This battle has reached this point, and it is no longer a question of how many people die, but no matter how many people die, this battle must be won.
This is not only related to his Zheng Sen's face, but also related to his future in the army.
In any case, he could not afford to lose this man.
This time, Zheng Sen took his own guards to form a warlord team, which was specially guarded at the foot of the mountain.
Any soldier who dared to flee backwards was immediately killed and killed.
Under the threat of the warlords, the soldiers of the Zheng family army bravely charged to the top of the mountain.
Facing the soldiers of the Zheng family army who were swarming all over the mountains, the Qin army did not dare to be too big this time, after all, they only had two companies of troops in front of them.
At a distance of two or three hundred meters, the soldiers of the Qin army began to shoot. Under the supervision of the officers, Zheng Jiajun rushed forward regardless of casualties.
Under their desperate charge, they actually rushed to within fifty meters of the Qin army's position.
This level of progress made Zheng Sen breathe a sigh of relief at the bottom of the mountain, and this battle finally gave him a glimmer of opportunity.
Zheng Sen didn't care if the soldiers on the mountain could hear it, and shouted desperately at the top of his voice, urging them to continue to charge and strive to take the mountain in one go.
Under the stimulus of victory and the threat of the major general, the soldiers of the Zheng family army also broke out with rare morale.
They roared, held their guns, and rushed up to the top of the mountain regardless of casualties, which also brought a lot of pressure to the Qin army's position.
At this moment, Zhou Ze could no longer continue to hide his strength, and decisively ordered the artillery company to start shelling.
With a screeching sound, a string of cannonballs cut a graceful curve from behind the mountain and fell into the dense queue of the charging Zheng army.
The violent explosion caused more than a dozen openings to quickly appear in the dense formation of the Zheng family's army.
Just one round of artillery bombardment caused three or four hundred casualties to the Zheng family's army.
This is not because of how accurate the Qin army is, but mainly because the terrain on the top of the mountain is narrow and the number of Zheng Jiajun is too large, so when they reach the top of the mountain, because of the terrain restrictions, they naturally gather together, so the mortars of the Qin army have achieved extremely terrifying results.
The sudden artillery bombardment made the soldiers of the Zheng family's army, who were already in sight of victory, directly confused.
Many people died inexplicably without seeing the shells at all.
But before they could react, a second round of shells whistled down from the sky, once again setting off a bloody rain, and countless severed arms and stumps flew in the air.
An object fell from the sky and landed in the hands of a Zheng soldier. He looked at it to see if it was a head, or the head of their captain.
The soldier screamed, threw his head down, turned and ran.
After three rounds of shelling, the morale of the Zheng family army instantly fell to the bottom, and many people no longer ignored the threat of the overseers behind them, turned around and ran towards the mountain.
And the mortar of the Qin army behind them, tracking their footsteps, constantly exploding, harvesting their lives.
Zheng Sen at the foot of the mountain looked at the soldiers running down the mountains and fields, and his heart was instantly cold and desperate.
It was only then that he suddenly realized that he seemed to have fallen into the trap of the enemy.
He suddenly felt that all his previous ambitions and ambitions looked a little vulnerable in the face of real strength.
He thought that the new army, which he had worked so hard to train for more than half a year, was so vulnerable in front of the enemy, which made all his pride and dignity seem to become a joke in an instant.
What made Zheng Sen even more desperate was that when the rout soldiers under the mountain fled frantically, fierce shouts of killing also sounded behind him.
One of his own soldiers rushed over in a panic and shouted, "Major General, the enemy has copied from the back. ”
Zheng Sen's body shook and almost fell to the ground, he hurriedly slammed his knife on the ground, and asked in a trembling voice, "How could the enemy come from behind?" How many of them are there? Do you see clearly? ”
The soldier shook his head in panic and said, "A lot of people, a lot of people! Major General, let's run, it'll be too late if we don't run. ”
The Zheng family's army, which had just escaped from the mountain, was defeated, but when they were in shock, they heard that the Qin army had outflanked them from behind.
Suddenly there was even more panic, although Zheng Sen and all the officers were desperately trying to stabilize the army, but their efforts were in vain, because the Qin army's ambush had already been copied from the back.
Zheng Sen's telescope lens was all stuffed with figures wearing gray military uniforms and big-brimmed hats.
At this time, there was also an earth-shattering shouting from the mountain behind him.
Zheng Sen hurriedly turned his head to look, but it was the Qin army stationed on the top of the two mountains that launched a counter-charge.
The Zheng family's army, which was guarding the mountain on the left, had already followed the main army and fled.
Hundreds of figures in gray uniforms rushed towards them from behind.
At this time, there was an interception in front and a chasing soldier in the back, and Zheng Jiajun fell into a situation where there was nowhere to escape for a while.
The strange thing is that this siege is the side with fewer people and more people.
But at this time, the Zheng family's army was all without the will to fight, the soldiers were scattered everywhere, and many people even forgot that the muskets in their hands could also kill.
In order to escape for their lives, many soldiers even threw away their rifles altogether, panicking, and plunged into them as long as there was no one in front of them, regardless of whether the front was a dense forest or a cliff.
They want to stay out of the way of the crisis in front of them.
At the same time, Zhou Ze commanded the mortar company on the mountain to temporarily stop firing, and began to talk about the position of the artillery position moving forward, and continued to use artillery bombardment to aggravate the confusion of Zheng's army.
The shells kept falling into the crowd of Zheng Jiajun, and each round of shelling would take away the lives of a large number of Zheng Jiajun soldiers, the severed arms and stumps kept flying, and the scarlet blood sprayed everywhere from time to time, and the entire battlefield was like a Shura field.
At this time, the Qin army also completely blocked the Zheng family's army.
The Qin army was organized to encircle and annihilate and kill, and all the formations of the Zheng army were already in chaos at this time, the soldiers could not find the officers, and the officials could not find the soldiers, and everyone's only thought was to quickly find a way to survive.
In this situation, the Zheng army, which originally had the advantage of troops, was as powerless as a group of lambs to be slaughtered, and was constantly slaughtered by the Qin army.
Zheng Sen kept shouting and swearing at first, trying to calm the rout soldiers again.
He slashed to death a rout who ran past his eyes, and this was already the fifth rout he had killed with his own hands.
But to no avail, the rout grew, and one soldier even fired a shot at one of the officers who prevented him from escaping.
Zheng Sen looked desperately at the fewer and fewer soldiers in front of him, and people kept falling, and his eyes had gradually become bloody.
Watching the soldiers he trained with his own hands fall one by one, running and fleeing like helpless sheep, while those gray figures are constantly approaching, constantly harvesting the lives of his men, Zheng Sen finally became angry, screamed, and fell to the ground and fainted.
And Zheng Sen's guard captain saw that his major general fainted, and hurriedly shouted: "Brothers, protect the major general to break through and fight a bloody way."
The captain of the guard put Zheng Sen on the saddle sideways, and rushed out desperately in the southwest direction with a group of guards who swarmed over.
The battle lasted no more than two hours from the beginning to the end, and the troops of 3,000 men were finally killed by more than 900 men, and four or five hundred escaped without a trace, and the rest were all taken prisoner.
The only luck was that Zheng Sen, the commander of the Zheng family's army, escaped under the desperate rush of the guards and did not fall into the hands of the Qin army.
After Zhou Ze led people to inspect the entire battlefield, he ordered the prisoners to be contained and counted on the one hand, and ordered people to clean up the battlefield on the other hand.
Although these muskets of the Zheng family army are not as advanced as those of the Qin army, they can also be used to equip the second-line troops, so they naturally have to be recovered.
As for other armor and banners and the like, Qin Jun didn't look down on them.
However, flags and the like can be used to repay merit, and they are also somewhat useful.
As for the escape of Zheng Sen, the main general of the Zheng family's army, Zhou Ze did not take it to heart.
On the contrary, from another point of view, Zheng Sen's escape back was a good thing for Qin Jun.
Because Zhou Ze believed that after this battle, Zheng Sen would definitely have a psychological shadow on the Qin army.
If he led his troops to fight against the Qin army in the future, he would already be afraid of the Qin army before the war began.
It is obviously impossible to expect such generals to be able to win battles.
There were too many prisoners captured this time, and there were only more than 1,000 people in the second regiment, so there were not so many people to watch and hold prisoners.
However, the commander of the battalion, who was in charge of counting and interrogating the prisoners, came up with a good way to get all the prisoners to strip naked.
Then tie each other together with their own trouser belts, so that they are not afraid to run away, and the weather is still hot anyway, so it doesn't matter if they have bare butts.
As a result, more than a thousand shrunken and bare-chested men appeared on the battlefield, causing the soldiers of the Qin army to laugh.
Zhou Ze also shook his head when he saw it, but he had to admit that this was indeed a good way, these captives were strung together, and they could be held down with only a small number of troops.
"Commander, commander, we almost caught a big fish this time." Lao Liang, the captain of the reconnaissance squadron, rushed over to Zhou Zedao.
What big fish? Zhou Ze subconsciously asked, but immediately asked, "Could it be that the guy who ran away has an unusual identity?" ”
Reconnaissance Captain Lao Liang nodded violently and said, "We interrogated the prisoners just now. It turned out that the guy who ran away turned out to be Zheng Sen, the eldest son of Zheng Zhilong's old thing, and I heard that this army was still under the guidance of the British and had been trained for more than half a year. I originally thought that this time I would come to attack Wenzhou and be able to catch us off guard, but I didn't expect it. After the first war, the entire family was reimbursed. This kid didn't think he would be beaten to death by his father when he went back, and he would be angry.
Lao Liang's face gloated, and Zhou Ze was a little surprised when he heard it, but he didn't expect that it was Zheng Zhilong's eldest son who led the team this time.
But he didn't care. The identity of the body is in Lao Liang's words just now. Additional information.
Sure enough, these horses were trained by the British. It seems that this time it is really an all-or-nothing bet.
Zhou Ze said a word, and suddenly remembered something and asked in a deep voice. Bring a few captives, I'm going to question them.
Soon, the reconnaissance captain Lao Liang brought a few prisoners over. Looking at the few captives who looked shrunk and scared, Zhou Ze. He laughed gently.
The captives looked at the baby-faced and uncle-doctor in front of them, and the enemy commander's originally nervous mood couldn't help but relax a lot.