Chapter 684: Shenyang Victory
At the same time, there was actually Wu Chaoyue's personal soldiers who shot in a lying position, specifically responsible for striking the fish that slipped through the net under the muzzle of the Gatling machine gun, and tried not to give the Russian Cossack cavalry a chance to get close to the Wu army's position.
But it's a pity that the limelight of Henry's serial guns this time was stolen clean by the Gatling guns that had just entered the battlefield, and in the dense sound of gun firing that made people's scalps tingle, Wu Jun's ten Gatling guns were like ten huge fire snakes, forming a red fire net, completely blocking the road in front of the position, but any enemy who dared to touch this fire net, whether it was a man or a horse, whether it was cavalry or infantry, there were only two ends up - either dead or wounded!
The stormy metal bullets raged, easily drilling into the bodies of the Cossack cavalry, splashing blood arrows, the poor Cossack cavalry basically didn't even see the weapons of the Wu army clearly, and even fell in a pool of blood with the war horse under the crotch, but the Cossack cavalry behind was too late to react, and the second was inertia, still wielding the snowy Cossack cavalry knife to advance, and the moth continued to rush towards the fire network composed of Wu military bullets.
The Cossack cavalry knife has a nickname called the eagle's claw, which is made of high-quality stainless steel smelted in Central Asian mines, with a thick back and wide blade, a beautiful arc of the blade, and an unusually sharp blade, and the eagle's head-like copper-clad handle is cast in one piece, or poured with heavy lead, which can easily knock the opponent unconscious or even break the opponent's skull when engaging the enemy, and is one of the few excellent combat knives in the world.
It's still a pity that such a sharp blade has completely turned into a broken copper and iron at this moment, not to mention the Cossack cavalry holding this kind of sharp blade, let alone smashing the skulls of the Wu soldiers with the handle of the knife, it is difficult to use a knife to cut the Wu soldiers, basically they have not rushed to within 50 meters of the Wu army's position, they have been stacked upside down by the dense fire of the Gatling machine gun, and they roared helplessly and clenched the Cossack cavalry knife and fell over, and occasionally a few fish slipped through the net, and they were quickly knocked down by the Wu soldiers with Henry's serial guns, Hardly a single person was able to rush within twenty meters of the Wu army's position.
At this time, the Cossack cavalry behind finally found that the situation in front was not good, but their commander Nikita had already fallen on the charging road, and no one issued a command order, so these Cossack cavalry could only fight on their own, or continue to charge by inertia in a daze, or stop their horses, and some cavalry adjusted their direction in the charge, and fled to the two wings of the Wu army's position away from the Wu army's fire network, and the queue was quickly chaotic, colliding with each other and falling down or tripping over the corpses of war horses on the ground can be seen everywhere, There is no threat to the machine gun position of the Wu army, the Gatling machine gun of the Wu army takes the opportunity to go crazy, and the more brutal slaughter is the Cossack cavalry that is the greatest threat to the soldiers of the Wu army, the corpses and wounded soldiers of the Cossack cavalry on the ground have been densely packed, and many places are still layer upon layer, and the ownerless war horses neighed and ran everywhere, and the scene was like Shura hell.
The dense corpses on the ground are not only Cossack cavalry, but also the infantry of the Tsarist Russian army, although they were not focused on by the Gatling machine guns of the Wu army, but during the rain of bullets, countless bullets were still sprinkled on the dense horizontal column of the Russian infantry, plus the Henry Lianzhu gun of the Wu infantry also shot at the infantry of the Russian army, and countless soldiers still lay down in the infantry of the Russian army.
What's worse is the contingency decision of the commander of the Russian army, Kazakevich, who faced the Gatling gun that appeared for the first time in actual combat, Kazakevich, who did not know how to deal with it, out of the combat habits he had cultivated over the years, decisively chose to let the Russian infantry continue to advance, and the Russian soldiers were like the British and French soldiers in the Battle of the Somme during World War I. Pieces fell in rows, and also fell in rows in pools of blood.
During the period, there were also many Tsarist Russian soldiers shooting at the Wu army's position, but the Wu soldiers were all in a lying position to meet the enemy, basically difficult to be hit by the enemy's bullets, the machine gunner also had sandbag fortifications to protect, and the reserve shooter, revolver and loader were guarding the side, ready to take over the machine gun at any time, and continue to pour barrage towards the enemy, so the weak counterattack of the Russian army naturally did not receive any effect, all kinds of guns of the Wu army have been roaring, and the bullets have been flying towards the dense horizontal formation of the Russian army. The Russian soldiers have been screaming and falling to their deaths, and the dense ten-row horizontal line has collapsed more than half of it almost in the blink of an eye.
The massacre lasted for nearly ten minutes, and finally, the last two rows of the Russian army began to appear to be shot and lay down, and the desperate Kazakievich remembered to order a retreat, and as a result, the soldiers of the regular Russian army, who had already been frightened, suddenly fled faster and more embarrassed than the recruits, and the queue completely collapsed in an instant!
At this time, it was naturally the turn of the two hundred cavalry in Wu Chaoyue's personal barracks to shoot, holding Henry's spear or saber and rushing towards the enemy, the cavalry of the Wu army was like a galloping torrent, and it didn't take a few minutes to catch up with the Russian army's rout brigade.
Although Kazakievich escaped relatively early and was easy to catch up, but when more than a dozen or twenty Henry serial guns were pulled on him one after another, a blood flower quickly gushed out from the back of Kazakevich's head, and he fell off the horse and was killed on the spot, unable to escape back to his army to continue commanding the battle.
The Russian army collapsed, and the Qing army, whose morale and fighting spirit were not very high, naturally joined the collapse queue unceremoniously, and the Qing army, which was engaged with the Wu army, was the first to break and flee. The Wu army took advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack, and the Wu army on the right flank and the Wu army in the rear, which had basically been untouched before, took the lead in lining up to kill the Qing army's position. Although there were only four battalions of 2,000 soldiers in the Wu army, all of them were elite battalions of the Wu army armed with firing pin guns and each battalion equipped with 32 grenadiers.
The next battle was still the purest slaughter, under the personal leadership of Cao Yanzhong, more than 6,000 Wu army infantry soldiers who had gone into battle before took the lead in launching a comprehensive pursuit, and Qian Wei, who stayed in the camp, first sent troops to defeat the infantry battalion that the Russian army had sent before, and then dispatched 2,000 troops to join the pursuit, joining forces with the main force to maximize the results of the battle, so as to reduce the future siege resistance.
The rout of the Russian army and the Qing army has long fled all over the mountains, although the commander of the Qing army Chonghou tried to restrain him, he also wanted to arrange for the palace army to give the main brigade time to escape, but he twice forcibly sent people to lead the army to the palace, and the palace army was twice smashed by the Wu army in the blink of an eye, and he had been biting his handsome flag and the Qing army brigade tightly, and finally Chonghou had no other way, but to adopt the advice of a Manchurian veteran who fled from the Central Plains to Guanwai to give him a personal soldier, and put down the handsome flag that marked his identity, He also completely gave up the command of the Qing army, mixed with the horse team and fled south in embarrassment, no longer holding the handsome flag to seduce the Wu army's officers and soldiers to focus on the pursuit and gunnery of the key care.
After doing so, Chonghou himself was much safer, but the battalions of the Qing army completely collapsed, and the generals and soldiers were even more unwilling to resist, throwing down their weapons and flags and fleeing faster than one by one. The pursuers of the Wu army were like a rainbow, and they also followed the defeated soldiers of the Qing Russian coalition army with fast steps, and while stabbing the defeated soldiers of the Qing Russian coalition army, they began to shout the slogan of surrender without killing.
The main reason why the Qing army in Shenyang did not carry the fight was that the morale was low, and they generally did not have the courage and determination to fight to the end with the Wu army, and there were two main reasons for this, the first was that the Qing army was repeatedly defeated in front of the Wu army, and even the land south of Shanhaiguan was thrown cleanly, and the generals and soldiers of the Qing army of course did not dare to dream of defeating the Wu army, which would rely on the Russian army the most, and the Qing army in Shenyang naturally had no courage to fight again.
The second reason is that the source of the Qing army is too complicated, thanks to the rabbit killer Kang Mazi and other wild boar skins ancestors and ancestors of the ban on the border policy, the Northeast has always been sparsely populated, the Manchu court fled north to Shenyang after the opening of the border ban, a huge number of people in the customs poured into the northeast, although to the Manchu court brought a large number of human resources and military sources, but also led to the Qing army composition of the complex, Shandong, Hebei, Mongolia and the people outside the Guan, and even Shanxi and all the way north to the northeast Jianghuai people, everywhere and what nationality there are, All kinds of dialects make it difficult to enforce orders and prohibitions, and the situation of holding together in the army is also very serious, and there may not be anything wrong with harmony in peacetime, but when the army is defeated, the weakness of the Qing army's lack of morale and disunity will naturally be exposed, and the situation of complete disintegration in the flight, pulling each other's hind legs and causing internal strife will continue to appear. In order to escape for their lives as soon as possible, the Qing soldiers not only pulled and pushed each other, and trampled on each other on foot, but even many infantry pulled the cavalry off their horses and grabbed the horses to flee for their lives.
This also led to the large number of Qing army surrenderers, as long as the smart Qing soldiers were caught up by the Wu army's pursuers, most of them decisively chose to kneel and surrender, and the Wu army because it was a two-way pursuit, but also had plenty of time and space to capture prisoners, and the result was very quickly, the Wu army officers and soldiers easily captured thousands of Qing prisoners, as well as hundreds of Russian prisoners.
The tide of the Qing and Russian coalition defeated troops swept the fields and roads, leaving dead bodies and prisoners who knelt down and surrendered, while frantically flocking to Shenyang, the situation was too critical, afraid that the Wu army would take advantage of the situation to attack the city, the Russian army and the Qing army in Shenyang did not dare to send troops to respond, they could only watch the defeated soldiers rush to the city, swallow up the fortifications outside the city that the Qing army had worked hard to build before, fill in the trenches, fall into the moat, and rush into the city without breathing.
The pursuers of the Wu army soon followed, afraid that the Wu army soldiers would rush into the city in the crowd, the Qing army in the city could only hurriedly close the north gate of Shenyang and put down the jack gate, the defeated soldiers of the Qing army who were blocked outside the city cried and shook the sky, threw down their weapons and knelt on the side of the moat There are countless surrenderers, but some people fled around the city wall to other gates in Shenyang, looking for a way into the city, some people took the rope thrown from the city, and went up the city, trying in vain to escape into the city to continue to fight with the Wu army, and even some people raised guns to guard the narrow moat, Use fire to stop the Wu army from crossing the river in pursuit.
After the machine gun post of Wu Chaoyue's pro-barracks caught up, he saw that there were still many Qing soldiers under the city who refused to come and surrender, and the machine gunners of the Wu army, who had not yet enjoyed the fight, immediately set up their machine guns, and poured bullets and rain on the enemy crowd under the city without saying a word, and the soldiers of the Qing and Russian coalition forces hiding under the city also fell to the ground one after another like cutting wheat, and the Qing army and Russian soldiers on the city wall screamed in disbelief in despair, and they did not dare to imagine that there were such terrible and evil weapons in the world, the morale plummeted even more, the morale of the army was more shaken, and countless Qing soldiers were more determined to surrender to the Wu army as long as they had the opportunity.
Devil Zi Liu also saw the terrifying power of Wu Jun's machine guns with his own eyes, and heard that the Qing and Russian coalition forces returned from the Dashiqiao fiasco, and the shocked Devil Six and Tsarist Russian Minister Zhemeni boarded the north gate of Shenyang to inspect the situation together, and as a result, they also saw the Wu army's machine guns raging and sweeping the defeated troops under the city. As a result, Rhemeni, who had been on the battlefield several times, could barely hold on, and his pale face was only one after another screaming, scolding Wu Jun's machine gun for being a weapon from hell. Devil Six was directly paralyzed in the arms of his entourage, his face moaning in despair......
"It's over! It's over! Manchuria is over! This king ......, and he will finish ...... and ....... ”
On the same day, the Wu army broke the main force of the Qing army in Shenyang and the Tsarist Russian Far East Army, the beheading level exceeded 7,600, the capture of the Qing and Russian coalition prisoners also exceeded the 6,000 mark, and nearly 1,000 war horses were captured, the ace Cossack cavalry of the Russian army was almost completely wiped out by the Wu army, and more than 2,000 regular troops were also wiped out by the Wu army More than seventy, the commander of the Tsarist Russia's northeast dispatch army Kazakevich was killed, and the Qing army general Chen Ming was also beaten into a honeycomb by the Wu army's machine gun when he fled for his life in the city, and the Russian army killed eight people at the rank of lieutenant colonel and above. The Qing army lost more than 20 generals and above. From then on, the Qing and Russian coalition forces on the battlefield in Shenyang no longer had the strength to confront the Wu army head-on, so they could only shrink in Shenyang and wait for the end to come.
It is worth mentioning that because the Wu army had previously used a text to offer a reward for the purchase of the heads of the Tsarist Russian soldiers, in the chaos, some Qing soldiers took advantage of the chaos to make a fortune, suddenly moved, and killed some lone Russian soldiers with cold gun sneak attacks and other methods, cut off their heads and ran to the Wu army to surrender and ask for a reward. After the situation report arrived in front of Cao Yanzhong, Cao Yanzhong, who was overjoyed, not only immediately fulfilled the promise made by Wu Chaoyue, and bought the heads of these Russian soldiers at a high price of ten taels of silver per head, but also asked these smart Qing soldiers to go to Shenyang City with a reward of silver to shout and surrender, encouraging the Qing soldiers in Shenyang City to learn from them and cut off the heads of Russian soldiers in exchange for Wu's heavy reward.
After visiting the Gatling gun, the secret weapon of the Wu army, which was finally declassified, Li Hongzhang suddenly remembered what was going on, and hurriedly ran to Cao Yanzhong's front to come up with a bad idea, suggesting that Cao Yanzhong send someone to escort one or two captives of the Qing army to the north, and let them go to Tieling City to publicize the Wu army's victory in Shenyang, completely crush the last hope of the Qing army in Tieling, and urge the Qing army in Tieling to surrender and sacrifice the city as soon as possible, so that the Wu army on the battlefield in Tieling can free up their hands to go south. Together with the main force, they will attack Shenyang City.
Cao Yanzhong immediately adopted Li Hongzhang's suggestion, and quickly selected two captured Qing generals to tie them up, and arranged for a cavalry to escort them north to Tieling to act according to the plan, and at the same time, Cao Yanzhong did not forget to explain to the grassroots generals of the Wu army who led the team, "When I arrived in Tieling, I quietly brought a message to Deng Siyuan for me, asking him to remember my previous explanation." ”