Chapter 25: The Great Breaking of the Hollow Phalanx (I)

The Qing army also began to use the flag language here, giving the Mongolian flag officers and soldiers an order to rush into battle, and the monk on the opposite side had long been tired of such a method of bombarding with guns and cannons, and when he heard that the Mongolian cavalry was on the opposite side, he first turned over his horse and shouted to the surroundings: "The descendants of Genghis Khan, whether they are heroes or bad seeds, rush up to take a look." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”

After shouting, Monk Lingqin rushed out of the position on horseback. Seeing that the enemy cavalry was also coming out, the hollow phalanx of the British and French forces turned the muzzle of the cannon, aimed the artillery supporting the frontal charge fire at the cavalry of the Qing army, and began to bombard.

The cavalry of the Anglo-French army was also hit by the muskets and artillery of the Qing army on three sides, but in the era when there were no machine guns, it was unrealistic to completely rely on artillery and muskets to eliminate the cavalry.

The position of the three banners was slightly panicked by the cavalry impact, and it was immediately stabilized, and the soldiers in front of the three banners were all full-body armor soldiers wearing Oriental armor, which was really invulnerable, whether it was stabbed by a spear, or a saber cut, wearing this Oriental armor was not killed, even if it was stepped on by the foreign soldiers back and forth a few times, they all got up from the ground and shouted and scolded with knives to cut people.

When everyone saw this foreign soldier, they took off their spears and broadswords from the tricycle and fought with the foreigners' cavalry.

Yu Deqian said to Emperor Xianfeng at this time: "Your Majesty, you can order a general attack at this time." ”

"Spread my will, the eight banners are available, beat the drum and march into the army." After Emperor Xianfeng finished speaking, he put on a gold-plated steel armor mask, got on his horse and brandished a 38-pound stainless steel Daguan knife with a length of two meters and five and shouted: "The descendants of Nurhachi, the masters of the three banners, rush with me." ”

Emperor Xianfeng also took the lead here, leading the cavalry of the Three Banners to rush into the cavalry formation of the British and French alliances. Yu Deqian was helpless, and also got on his horse and fought among the cavalry of the British and French forces under the escort of several Japanese samurai.

At this time, the artillery platoon of the Anglo-French army had just disrupted the charging formation of the Mongol cavalry, but it was not defeated, and the Qing troops in all directions began a general attack with broadswords and spears. At this time, the artillery fire could not be supported, and a few minutes later, the two armies came into contact with the Oriental steel armor soldiers as breakthrough hands, slashing and killing in the bayonet array of foreign soldiers, as if entering a no-man's land.

The muskets and bayonets of the British and French troops could not be pierced, and they could not penetrate the Oriental steel armor, and they saw that the people around them were hacked to death or stabbed to death with spears by the Qing army armor soldiers one by one, and the weapons in their hands were almost helpless to take the enemy.

After Xianfeng rushed into the cavalry formation of the British and French forces, he slashed with a sword, and a leading foreign soldier was cut off by Xianfeng, and Xianfeng, who was dressed in golden armor, also attracted the attention of many enemies - this must be a big man, whether he was killed or captured, it was a great merit.

It's just that it's not so simple to pick up the cheap, and the guards of the Zhenghuang Banner are not fools, and after Emperor Xianfeng slashed a foreign soldier, they all entered the foreign soldiers from the left and right of Emperor Xianfeng, trying to reduce the pressure on the master.

Emperor Xianfeng urged the horse to follow into the foreign soldiers, I don't know how many people were killed, Emperor Xianfeng's big ocean horse had been stabbed to death by the foreigners, Xianfeng didn't care, and began to dismount and stand on the chaotic battlefield, and gradually lost contact with the guards around him.

When Xianfeng had just slashed a foreign soldier but was knocked down by another foreign cavalry - the foreign soldier who knocked down Xianfeng on horseback was soon jumped up and dismounted by a guard with a yellow flag, and the two began to roll on the ground, and the British foreign soldier who was cut by Xianfeng jumped off his horse and slashed at Xianfeng to pick up this cheap, but he was cut twice in a row, but he was blocked by the steel armor of Xianfeng's head and thorax.

When the foreign soldier was about to cut Xianfeng's third knife, an Oriental steel armored soldier rushed out from the side of the foreign soldier, holding two steel hammers, and stepped forward to smash the head of the British soldier who picked up the cheap like a watermelon, and the British soldier's brain was red and white splashed on Xianfeng's half.

Xianfeng didn't care, stretched out his hand to let the double hammerman pull it up and asked, "Which flag is a good man?" ”

The steel-armored double-hammer man pulled up Xianfeng, wearing a steel-armored mask, and replied angrily: "Long live Hui." Zhenghongqi pine two is also! ”

Emperor Xianfeng laughed: "I've seen it, who doesn't know that the second master of Song, who was in the red flag three years ago, is an expert in playing birds in our Sijiu City." ”

Songji also laughed: "That was three years ago, and now Songji, who is in the red flag, plays with a hammer and doesn't play with birds, hahahaha......"

At this time, Xianfeng and Song Er had already killed the cavalry of the British and French alliances, and their vision was broadened, and Emperor Xianfeng picked up the stainless steel Daguan knife, pointed to the British and French forces in the melee, and said to Song Erye: "Second master can fight with me for a while?" ”

Second Master Song shook his hammer: "I can't ask for it." I've been hungry for a long time. The thirst is unbearable. ”

Song Erye was originally a broken flag man in Sijiu City, that is, he had an errand on his body, but the money and food of one hundred and ten taels of silver a year was enough for a large family to chew and Song Erye's hobby of playing with birds, which was pure expenses, not to mention that the flag people liked to talk about pomp and circumstance, and those who couldn't afford to eat pork had to wipe their mouths with pigskin before going out.

What changed Song Erye's life was because Song Erye was the first batch of flag men in Sijiu City who began to try Dongyang vigorously disperse snuff, and after the first batch of trials, he was rewarded with fifty taels of silver from the Orientals. Then, Song Erye, who gradually began to feel bored walking birds, picked up the ancestral double hammer and began to practice martial arts.

With the net worth of the second master of Song, he could not afford to buy this Oriental treasure armor of 3,000 taels of silver, but the Nissin Bank opened by the Oriental people a month ago began to issue a special loan, with a maximum of 3,000 taels of silver, which can only be used to buy Japanese treasure armor with a monthly interest of one cent of silver.

But everyone thinks it's cheap, just like the Japanese businessmen advertised, don't you have everything if you cut off the heads of a few more foreign soldiers. And this Japanese treasure armor, the Japanese trading company announced that the goods can be fully refunded at any time.

With this good thing, the low-level banner people of Sijiu City naturally took out loans to buy this Oriental treasure armor, and some people only bought breastplates or cuirass helmet combinations before, and they also borrowed money from Nissin Bank to buy back other parts combinations.

According to the calculations of the Nippon Kyoshi Trading Company, a total of 87,436 sets of Toyo armor were sold before the war, and 53,270 pieces were recorded in loose pieces.

That is to say, in the Battle of Tongzhou in the Second Opium War today, nearly half of the Qing soldiers chose the full protection of Oriental treasure armor, and there were a certain number of semi-protected ones.

As for those who are unwilling to take out a loan to buy this Oriental Treasure Armor, the bank cannot force people to borrow money.

When Song Erye and Xianfeng killed the British army in the chaos of the British and French forces, the British artillery had already begun to be slaughtered by the Qing army's foot soldiers, and a desperate British artilleryman ignited the powder keg in the center of the British artillery town's position, with a loud bang, together with the surrounding hundreds of Qing soldiers who rushed up and the surrounding British gunners were turned into black gunpowder smoke in the explosion.

The smoke cleared, and the dozens of Qing army armor soldiers who rushed up and were shocked to death by the explosion did not have a single scar on the Oriental treasure armor. Hundreds of Qing soldiers were also injured by the shock - concussion to chest and abdomen, and many were unconscious.

Not long after the explosion here, there was another loud bang on the French artillery position, and a small mushroom cloud rose again. Although the Qing army lost a lot of armor in the two explosions, the artillery of the British and French forces was also completely wiped out.

At this time, in the war in Europe, artillery is king, both infantry and cavalry must cooperate with artillery, seeing that the artillery positions are all destroyed, the British and French coalition forces no longer have the fighting spirit, and the two servant armies of the Indian and Afghan armies and the African army see that the master has lost the battle, and their morale is even more depressed or wants to break through, or wants to surrender. The British and French officers cut down the servants, deserters, and surrendered hundreds of soldiers, but they could no longer hold their ground.