Chapter Ninety-Two: Ambush on All Sides
After the artillery of both sides stopped the shelling with the red heat of the barrels as fast as they could, the British infantry moved first. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The effective range of the rifles of the British infantry was only 300 meters, even snipers could only hit at a distance of 500 meters, and even if they fired within 30 meters, there was no way to take the canned armor of the Qing army, so every time the British army could only move first and endure a long period of Qing firepower before entering the distance of the bayonet battle.
The advanced guns that the Qing army has always been equipped with can easily fight for a thousand meters, and they can also break armor and kill people. This made many British soldiers who had fought with the Qing army feel that the foreign guns in their hands had become burning sticks.
However, orders are orders, and rows of red-clad British troops in skirts marched in a phalanx to the sound of drums.
Within a kilometer, the platoon guns of the Qing army opened fire, and the rows of British troops fell, and the British troops behind heroically replenished. In this way, the British army began to leave corpses and seriously wounded on the road from a distance of one kilometer, and seeing that the British army had been dealt a heavy blow but did not disperse, Prince Edward felt that the army was ready to use.
Cixi, who was in the main position, also faintly heard the sound of English drums in the sound of gunfire, and threw down an arrow: "Pass my order, military band, play music." ”
The Qing army's current band is improved on the basis of the big opera troupe left by Xianfeng Ye, in the face of the Anglo-French alliance of the two crows, the capital was mobilized by the opera troupe personnel also have their own rewards, these years of the western expedition to the south, Xianfeng also took these troupes with him, Xianfeng Ye every time he went to the battlefield, the rear of the Qing army was noisy every time - in Xianfeng's view, this acting and fighting were no different, and later according to the customs of European foreigners, the military band system was also established, and the lead singer and conductor of the opera troupe changed into a five-grade official.
An Dehai picked up the arrow and asked, "Please have fun with the Queen Mother!" ”
Cixi pondered for a moment and said, "Ambush on all sides. ”
This ten-sided ambush describes the decisive battle between Chu and Han in those years. Today's decisive battle in Jerusalem by Qingying is not particularly appropriate, but it also has far-reaching implications.
Andehai: "Scum." After shouting, An Dehai trotted all the way to give the order.
Immediately after the Qing army's position, hundreds of guqins, guzhengs, and pipas continued to emit bursts of slaughter.
Faintly hearing the sound of slaughter coming from the Qing army's position, Prince Edward, the commander of the British army, felt a faint uneasiness in his heart.
Prince Edward rode a white horse, held the British flag, and kept running on the battlefield and shouted: "God bless Britain, God save the Queen." ”
The British army burst into bursts of British soldiers shouting: "God bless Britain, God bless the Queen." ”
And most of the Indian Ah San couldn't understand what the British army was shouting, but since the British master shouted his own house, he had to shout twice, so Ah San, who was born in a Brahman, took the lead and shouted: "Shiva bless, invulnerable." ”
The 500,000 Brahman-born Kshatriyas' servant army members Asan shouted in unison: "Shiva bless, invulnerable." Invulnerability, invulnerability......"
The 500,000 Asan servants shouted the blessing of Shiva, who was a few hundred meters away, to be invulnerable, but they were beaten to death by the Qing army's guns, and the corpses were scattered all over the field. The British army, as their master and warlord, also suffered heavy losses.
The British army was getting closer and closer to the Qing army's position in the footsteps of the drum music, and seeing that the first platoon was already within 100 meters of the Qing army, Ah San, who was asked to throw explosives in front of the Qing army's position, was also reselected. took the explosive bag and torch, and it turned out that such an explosive bag can only throw a distance of ten meters and eight meters, and the thrower generally cannot run out of the explosion range after the explosive package explodes.
Therefore, the work of a one-time grenadier was handed over to the Asan's servant army by the British army.
The Qing army also knew very well what these explosives bags were for, and when the Qing army attacked the enemy's artillery positions over the years, the loss of iron cans was not a few, and they saw a large number of explosive bags prepared by the British troops in the front row. The officers of the Qing army were also shouting: "Sharpshooters, hit the explosives bag, aim at the explosives bag." ”
Many sharpshooters in the Qing army were hunters, and there was no problem in pointing where to hit, and the distance of 100 meters was usually practiced to shoot incense, and there was no reason to be inaccurate in hitting such a large target with explosives bags.
As a result, explosions rang out from the ranks of the British army, and the power of more than a dozen catties of high explosives was not small, and each explosion could destroy the small half of the British army's phalanx, making the entire phalanx lose its combat effectiveness.
Under such self-inflicted measures, the pressure on the British army increased, and more and more troops were destroyed by their own explosives. When the nearest British unit entered the Qing army at a distance of thirty meters, ordinary Qing soldiers could easily shoot the explosive bag with a large target.
Amid the explosions on the front line, some of the servant troops and the British army finally could not resist the rout. There were also some very heroic British troops, taking advantage of the explosion on the front line, kicking up a large amount of smoke and dust, and taking the opportunity to attack it.
The frontal battle was quickly slaughtered, but it was the Empress Dowager Ci'an who presided over the frontal battlefield, and the Empress Dowager Ci'an took the palace maids, concubines, and eunuchs as firefighting teams to block the British troops who rushed up again and again.
Several cuirassiers of the Qing army were blown out by the explosion of the British army's Ah San bomb, and couldn't help but retreat, but they were caught by the eunuch Li Jinxi, who was holding a deserter in one hand and a ghost head knife in the other, pointing at the Empress Dowager Ci'an and a group of palace eunuchs who were fighting bloodily in the British army with a one-legged bronze man, and said: "You are still a gentleman, but you have eggs in vain." Those of us who have no eggs are more heroic than you. Bah. If you want to get out, get out, we won't stop you. ”
The Qing soldiers who said a few words couldn't raise their heads in shame, and the old Qing soldiers who took the lead turned red and turned around and killed the British army.
Li Jinxi scolded a few Qing soldiers back, and said to the little eunuch beside him: "Xiao Shengzi, it's good to go with our family to kill for a while." ”
"Back to the lord, Xiao Shengzi's stick has long been hungry. The thirst is unbearable. The little eunuch named Xiao Shengzi picked up a mace made of iron from the ground as he spoke, and followed Li Jinxi into the British army that had already rushed in.
Prince Edward saw that the British infantry battle line was scorched and the victory was inseparable, and immediately let the cavalry outflank from both flanks, and Cixi's cavalry did not move, seeing that the British cavalry copied over on both wings, and the cavalry of the Qing army also killed from both wings, and the cavalry of both sides quickly fought together.
Cixi saw that the British army had no back, so she asked the gunners to shoot red and blue fireflower shells into the sky. Not long after the salute was fired, two cavalry units in the distance struck the artillery position and the baggage unit in the rear of the British army.
These two ambushes have been in ambush for a long time, led by Chang Siye and Song Erye respectively, just waiting for the British army to play the last reserve, and then come to copy the back road of the British army.
At this time, although there were tens of thousands of artillerymen, baggage soldiers, and men on the British position, their combat effectiveness was low, and they were immediately slashed to the ground by the Qing cavalry one by one. The British army in front of the formation could not withdraw, and the British army that was not formed and was scattered had no resistance in the face of the cavalry.
Seeing that the overall situation had been decided, Cixi smiled and said: "I have ordered an ambush on all sides, so of course there is an ambush." Pity the British army who doesn't learn this song and no one knows it. ”