Chapter 444: The Monk King's Generous Gifts
Looking back at the situation on the Tiger God Battalion, in fact, before the battle began, the monk also expected that the soldiers of the Tiger God Battalion were likely to make common mistakes on the battlefield of recruits, and they could not resist the huge psychological pressure to shoot in advance, and they also made arrangements early to prepare for this situation. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The middle and lower-level generals of the Tiger God Battalion who were drawn from the Fengtai garrison strictly implemented the orders of the monk and the prince, and warned the soldiers of the Tiger God Battalion one by one, saying that it was definitely a dead end to shoot and fire first without an order. Everything is perfect, and everything is in the hands of our monk and prince.
The only miscalculation of our monk and prince is that Wu Jun will shoot first, although Li Chendian led his own personal army team to only shoot within the range of Lixu, or shoot at the sky, but still use the overly nervous Tiger God Battalion warriors to resist the pressure in their hearts, subconsciously pulled the arquebus or the trigger of the gun, and shot at Li Chendian, who was outside the range--still fired without aiming.
Then, disaster, it was the first time to fight the gun on the battlefield, and did not receive any modern military training, after hearing the sound of the gun, almost all the warriors of the Tiger God Battalion thought that the monk had given the order to fire, so they did not hesitate to pull the trigger one after another, but the gunners of the Tiger God Battalion who had just begun to learn how to operate the gun also subconsciously lit the fuse with a torch, and the middle and lower generals who served as veterans had no time to stop it, and could only watch the middle and even the tail of the fuse directly ignited by the torch, can only crawl and dodge away so as not to be affected by the cannon storm.
Bang bang, boom boom, thousands of birds carrying guns and dozens of artillery guns firing successively The scene is very spectacular, and the momentum is amazing enough, but our monk and prince are so angry that he jumped up directly from the handsome chair and scolded, "Fuck it!" Who gave the order to open fire? What's the use of shooting from such a distance?! ”
What happened next made the monk even more angry with the nose of the monk and the prince, and the soldiers under his command did not obey the order and fired indiscriminately, and the officers drawn from the Fengtai garrison stepped forward to beat the warriors of the Tiger God Battalion, and some of the short-tempered officers also pulled out their knives to indiscriminately cut the soldiers of the Tiger God Battalion who took the lead in shooting, and were so frightened that the warriors of the Tiger God Battalion who were cut but not cut ran away.
As a result, seeing their companions fleeing for their lives, the warriors of the Tiger God Battalion, who were already panicked and nervous to the extreme, blindly followed for unknown reasons, picked up the musket that only fired one shot and ran back, affecting more Tiger God Battalion soldiers, and quickly causing the front-line Tiger God Battalion warriors to collapse across the whole line, shouting that the Wu army had been killed and fled to the camp, which seriously shook and hit the morale of the soldiers of the Tiger God Battalion, and also caused the other Tiger God Battalion soldiers who were waiting in the camp to be in chaos before fighting, and the panic was even worse.
"Steady! Steady! On the reserves, take over the defense line of the sheep and horse wall! Stop the eight lambs who are running around, and cut down all the leaders! ”
The army was formed in too short a time, and he had not received any military training, and the thunderous order of the monk and the prince naturally did not have the effect of prohibiting it, no matter how the middle and lower-level generals commanded the expulsion, the reserve team just could not quickly step forward to take over the defense line and fill the huge loopholes left after the collapse of the first-line army. At the same time, the supervising team ran to intercept and slash the collapsed soldiers, and forced the large number of defeated soldiers of the Tiger God Battalion to jump up and down, scurrying in all directions, causing even greater chaos in the camp.
Seeing this scene, if the soldiers of the Wu army don't know how to seize the opportunity, they will really degenerate to the level of warriors of the Tiger God Battalion. Without Zeng Guoquan's order, and it was too late to summon the people of the headquarters to immediately go forward to participate in the battle, Li Chendian first kicked away the Qing army envoy who was rude to Zeng Guoquan, and then pulled out his saber and roared, and directly launched a charge with more than 20 personal soldiers, and rushed directly towards the gate of the Tiger God Camp with red eyes. Zhu Hongzhang, who was originally here to answer Li Chendian, was the same, and he didn't have time to ask Zeng Guoquan's consent at all, so he directly ordered the two battalions of Wu Army led by him to charge in battle formation, and followed Li Chendian behind him to kill the Tiger God Camp camp.
A very rare spectacle in the history of war appeared, more than 20 Wu soldiers led by Li Chendian strode forward, and the momentum was like a rainbow of direct impact on the Tiger God Battalion guarded by 50,000 troops, and the Tiger God Camp army with more than 1,000 times the strength of Li Chendian's army was chaotic before the battle, the generals scolded angrily, and even kicked and beat the soldiers to force the soldiers to enter the defensive position, but it was still unable to stop the soldiers from shouting and screaming, holding their heads and running away, and they could not stop the soldiers from shooting indiscriminately without any aiming. Not only did not a single bullet hit the soldiers of the Wu army, but on the contrary, some Tiger God Camp warriors were accidentally injured, causing further confusion among the Tiger God Camp warriors.
"Defend the gate! Wu thieves must not be allowed to get close to Yuanmen! No shooting, no order! No shooting, no order! ”
The battalion gate officer who came out of the Fengtai garrison roared so loudly that his throat was about to burst, and his eyes were so anxious that he was about to spurt blood, but the warriors of the Tiger God Battalion who were in charge of guarding the gate still fired indiscriminately in a panic, wasting ammunition in vain, and wasting the precious loading time of arquebuses and carrying guns.
At this time, Li Chendian and his personal soldiers finally rushed into the range of the musket of Yuanmen, knowing that the opportunity was rare, Li Chendian and his personal soldiers were not in a hurry to shoot, but continued to move forward against the bullets fired indiscriminately by the Tiger God Battalion, until they rushed close to the range of fifty meters before raising their guns to fire, more than 20 rifles were fired one after another, and immediately hit many Tiger God Camp warriors, and immediately beat away more Tiger God Camp warriors, "Wu thief is here, run!" ”
It's just that the bullet has such a big effect, and when Li Chendian's personal soldiers threw the bitter acid grenade they brought with them in the charge, the performance of the Tiger God Battalion warriors guarding the gate was naturally more exciting, and the first grenade smashed into the gate and exploded, and the Tiger God Battalion warriors who were forced to shoot in front of the camp gate officer did the birds and beasts scattered, and they could escape and hate their parents for giving birth to two legs. Then after several grenades were smashed in a row, no matter how many warriors of the Tiger God Battalion behind the gate basically escaped, even the warriors of the Tiger God Battalion in the arrow tower above the gate scrambled to jump off the arrow tower to escape, and the camp gate officials were directly overturned and trampled by these warriors, trampling to the point of spitting blood.
No one stopped him, of course, Li Chendian's personal soldiers stepped forward together, pushed together, and directly knocked down the gate that had been injured by the grenade, Li Chendian shouted again, and took the lead in rushing into the Tiger God Camp camp with a saber, and the personal soldiers followed closely, following Li Chendian in the Tiger God camp to rush left and right, as if entering no man's land.
After rushing into the enemy camp, Li Chendian and others, who had experienced a hundred battles, knew the importance of momentum, no matter how small the number was, they would first provoke the enemy's dense and chaotic place to attack, shouting and cutting people when they saw them, and killing them when they saw the enemy, supplemented by grenade bullets to open the way, directly blowing up the enemy crowd, forcing the enemy to flee in a mess, and taking the opportunity to drive the enemy's defeated soldiers into free strikers like chasing ducks, and impact the next enemy dense place.
In the face of such a sophisticated and ruthless enemy, in fact, the Eight Banners slaves, who are already more delicate than their masters, are of course ghosts crying wolves and howling, holding their heads and running around, and there are many people running there, causing more Tiger God Camp warriors to collapse and chaos, and the defeated soldiers are surging like a tide, overthrowing the baggage, tearing down the camp tents, stepping on the camp fences, trampling on each other, countless dead, and the sound of crying and shouting gathers and goes straight to the sky.
The monk did not do his best to reverse the defeat, and sent troops from the Chinese army camp several times to launch counterattacks, in a vain attempt to eliminate the rebellion of the Wu army who dared to whisk their tiger whiskers with only a dozen people, but the camp of the Tiger God Camp was too chaotic, and the crowd of the routs was too turbulent. The monk was so anxious that he screamed, but he was helpless.
At this time, the Wu Army Infantry Brigade led by Zhu Hongzhang had also rushed to the front of the Tiger God Camp, and what made Zhu Hongzhang and other Wu Army soldiers smile crookedly was that Li Chendian had not only broken open the gate of the Tiger God Camp for them, but the Tiger God Camp warriors on both sides of the gate had long since fled there, and the Wu Army Brigade rushed straight into the camp and directly sounded the death knell of the Tiger God Camp. Frightened, the warriors of the Tiger God Battalion, who were already frightened in the distance, were even more distracted, and before the soldiers of the Wu army could get closer, they had already thrown down their weapons and fled for their lives, and the front camp was in chaos, directly and completely collapsed, and quickly affected the Chinese army camp.
The defeat has been decided, and the monk prince, who has always been familiar with current affairs, decisively chose to move to the rear camp with his own soldiers, and kept thinking about two questions in his heart, "Why was General Tuhaitu able to build a Baoyi house slave into an army in one day, but this king only brought out a bunch of waste soft eggs?" Also, who should be the scapegoat this time? ”
At the same time, seeing the battle situation of the Tiger God Camp on the tower of Yongding Gate, the general Hui Lao Wangye, who was ordered to defend the capital of the General Division, directly peed his crotch, and the Admiral of the Nine Gates was on duty in the inner city, and Prince Yixun, who was on duty in the inner city, also trembled with his legs, and muttered in despair with a pale face, "Just such a little Wu thief, can you beat the 50,000 Tiger God Camp like this?" How can this battle be fought? How to defend the capital? How can it be kept? ”
There were also other Qing generals and soldiers on the Yongdingmen city wall who were frightened, although the Qing army guarding the outer city was a Fengtai garrison, well-equipped and well-paid, and had undergone relatively strict military training, and had some battlefield experience. However, seeing that more than 20 Wu soldiers could beat the 50,000 Tiger God Battalion by pressing and beating, these Qing soldiers still couldn't help but feel cold in their hearts, and they whispered one after another, "Wu thieves are all heavenly soldiers and generals?" So fierce? How could we possibly beat such a thief? ”
Diametrically opposed to the frightened Manchu civil and military and Qing soldiers, the Gyeonggi homeless beggars who watched the battle from a distance kept cheering and applauding loudly, because these Zhili people who were turned into homeless beggars by the war knew very well that after the battle, they would definitely be able to pick up a lot of good things on the battlefield, maybe they could also peel a few decent bloody clothes on the dead corpses to keep out the cold, and countless young and strong homeless people directly started such an idea, "The white hat soldiers are so powerful, I have to try my luck with them, if I can give them an errand, Not only can you eat with a mouthful of food, but you may also be able to follow them into the capital to make a windfall. ”
At the same time as the fierce battle in the camp, of course, there have been countless Tiger God Battalion warriors who have started to flee out of the camp very smartly, but it is a pity that Zeng Guoquan has already divided two thousand infantry to step forward, and divided the troops to defend the east and west sides of the Tiger God Battalion, Ding Ruchang also sent two cavalry to help, blocking the way of the defeated soldiers of the Tiger God Battalion, and constantly shouting the slogan of surrender and not killing to force the Tiger God Battalion warriors to surrender, as a result, some of the Tiger God Battalion warriors who tried to escape from the gaps in the Wu army's position died tragically under the guns of the Wu cavalry. The rest of the warriors of the Tiger God Battalion also immediately made a smart choice, put down their weapons, knelt on the ground and raised their hands high, and shouted with a crying voice: "Uncle Rebel Army, I was forced, it was my master who forced me to fight you!" ”
Of course, more Tiger God Camp warriors fled to the Yongding Gate due north under the personal leadership of the monk and the prince, but unfortunately, after the martial law of the whole city of Beijing, the Yongding Gate is not very open in normal times, which will see tens of thousands of defeated soldiers rushing over, and the old prince Hui and Prince Alcohol, who are still a little brainy, are of course even more afraid to open the gate, so just put down some rope hanging baskets above the city gate, and receive the monk and Alhe and other senior generals into the city, and the rest of the Tiger God Camp warriors were blocked out of the city, No matter how much they cried and pleaded, the gates would not be opened.
Two more battalions of Wu soldiers rushed into the camp of the Tiger God Battalion, which once again accelerated the complete collapse of the Tiger God Battalion, and countless soldiers of the Tiger God Battalion shouted the slogan of fleeing for their lives and ran out of the camp, or fled to the two wings and were killed and captured by the Wu army, or tried to return to the city directly to the north, but there was already a sea of people in front of the city gate, the crying shook the sky, and it was so crowded that it was difficult to enter the city, and what chance was there to enter the city?
At the critical moment, the monk and the prince helped the Wu army again - in view of the fact that the warriors of the Tiger God Battalion dared to hit and slash the gate of Yongding Gate in order to escape for their lives in the city, in order to keep the city gate and not give the Wu army the opportunity to kill into the city, the monk and the prince simply suggested that the old prince Hui and the prince of alcohol shoot arrows at the city, splash fire oil and throw torches to set fire, and force the warriors of the Tiger God Camp to stay away from the city of Yongding Gate.
Hui Lao Wang Ye and the alcohol prince did not hesitate to adopt the advice of the monk and the prince, the Tiger God Camp warriors also fell into bad luck, behind the wolf-like Wu soldiers wielded knives and slashed, in front of the strong city blocking the road and bullets, fire blocked, advance and retreat, front and back are dead, the crowd is chaotic and trampled on each other to the dead corpses layer upon layer, you push me between the Tiger God Camp warriors and continue to fall onto the ice of the Yongding River that has frozen, and finally collapse the ice alive, countless Tiger God Camp warriors fell into the cold and piercing river water and struggled to call for help, The terrible screams and desperate cries are combined, like the hell of Shura.
At this time, the experienced Wu army soldiers came again with new tricks, after seizing the thirty-six Russian artillery pieces left in the camp by the monk and the prince, the Wu soldiers turned the muzzle of the cannon on the spot, and fired directly at the Yongding Gate not far away, and the shells smashed into the crowd, of course, a cannon and a piece of blood, a cannon of more than ten or twenty lives, which made the warriors of the Tiger God Battalion even more unable to parry, and also forced the soldiers of the Tiger God Battalion, who were mostly smart, to turn around one after another, and run back to the Wu army position to kneel and surrender.
Fortunately, Zeng Guoquan coveted the best weapons in the hands of the warriors of the Tiger God Battalion, and in order to reduce the resistance to the enemy's psychology, he had already ordered to accept anyone who surrendered before speaking, so these smart people all saved their lives, and also drove more Tiger God Camp warriors to return to the Wu army position to surrender.
Seeing such a scene, Zeng Guoquan and other generals of the Wu army were of course happier than the other, and they all thanked the monk for his generosity and kindness, and sent so many valuable weapons to the self-army that was short of weapons, which was still a good weapon! They are all like Shi Dakai at the beginning, praying to God and worshiping Buddha that the monk and the prince will be promoted to become wealthy, and his health will be healthy, and he will continue to preside over the defense of the capital, and be responsible for leading the defenders of the capital to fight to the death with his own army.
The rich gifts that the monk gave to the soldiers of the Wu army were not only that, just after he put down his arms and surrendered, there were already countless warriors of the Tiger God Battalion who ran to the Wu army generals who were guarding the prisoners, and they scrambled to say: "General, the small ones are willing to join the rebel army to atone for their crimes, the small ones on the ground in the capital are familiar with everything, and the silver vaults, granaries, horse pens and arsenals of the imperial court are there, and the small ones all know it, and the small ones can show you the way." ”
"General, I am the family slave of the Zhenghong Banner Leader Se Ke Zuo Ling, where the Se Zo Leader lives, what people are in the family, the little ones are all clear, I also know that he has an outer house in the south city (outer city), and has an illegitimate child, he is now guarding the Xizhi Gate, arresting his little wife and son, and keeping it can force him to sacrifice the city gate."
"General, I used to be an errand in the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, and the drainage canals in the inner and outer nine cities are there and what is going on inside, and the small ones know everything, and the small ones can show you the way and help you quietly enter the city."
"General, the small one knows that the village outside the city has more food and that place has less food, and the small one will be your slave, lead the way for you, and keep it for you, so you can grab a lot of food!"
"General, accept me as a minion, the minion will lead the way for you, and the minion will help you disrupt the party, go up the sword mountain and go down the sea of fire, and never frown!"
"The masters are above, the minions have kowtowed to you!!"