Chapter 317: The Great Bloody Battle in the Northwest
Supported by extreme religious thinking, these sectarian cavalry shouted "Long live Lord X" and rolled in, only to be knocked down by the blazing fire of the special combat team, and rushed up one after another.
Liangbi, the general under the command of the Qing army, was taken aback when he saw this situation, and he even had the idea of ordering not to attack, but in the end he suppressed this idea and let these sect cavalry continue to attack, his plan was to use the sect cavalry to support the Huaxia Army special combat team to death.
Faced with the fierce impact of the sectarian cavalry, the experienced special combat personnel were also eye-opening today, and even their thinking about it almost stopped when they hit the back, so they could only numbly pull the trigger and shoot, pouring a torrential rain of bullets at the sect cavalry, knocking over batch after batch of sectarian cavalry.
There are more and more corpses of the sect's cavalry lying on the streets of Lanzhou, but the people behind are still rushing up without fear of death.
Seeing this situation, Ma Shaohao was also secretly frightened, he himself had not opened fire on the battlefield for a long time, and today he personally operated a heavy machine gun and fired fiercely at the sect cavalry.
By the afternoon, although the casualties of the special combat team were negligible, the ammunition was running out, and it was about to use the means of white-knuckle combat.
The sectarian cavalry also sensed the sudden weakening of the firepower of the opposing position, so they suddenly increased the intensity of the charge, forcing the special combat team to shrink their positions, using barricade barriers to block the charge of the sectarian cavalry, and many soldiers were forced to use short-range pistols to attack the cavalry.
The sect cavalry began to jump off their horses, taking advantage of the terrain of the street to cover it, and slowly approached the position of the special combat team, and the situation suddenly became critical.
Fortunately, at this time, more than 200 airships of the second echelon of the Huaxia Army appeared in the air, bringing two regiments of 5,000 troops, and more importantly, 600,000 bullets to the special combat team.
The troops had not yet landed, and the bullets were thrown down first.
In the face of the enemy's fire, the special combat team immediately began to intensify again, and beat back the sect cavalry that was approaching within a few meters.
After the airship group put down its troops and landed, they were not idle, and wanted to use the weapons on the airships to fight the sect cavalry, but they were stopped by Ma Shaohao: "Don't use airships to hit the enemy, don't scare away these enemies, we have to put a long line to catch big fish, so that more enemies rush to die!" ”
This is an outlandish tactical idea.
The grassroots personnel of the Huaxia Army are difficult to understand, and the enemy is even more unexpected.
After dark, the cavalry of the sect could not see the tragic situation in Lanzhou City clearly, but only saw that Lanzhou City was burning with fire, and the city gate was wide open, and under the command of the officer, they continued to rush into the city gate.
In a day and a night, 50,000 sect cavalry near Lanzhou City came, and after entering Lanzhou City, under the blazing fire of the Huaxia Army, there was only one word - death!
It was not until after dawn the next day that people found that the corpses in Lanzhou City were piled up like a mountain, and the 50,000 cavalry of the Northwest Sect had suffered eighty percent casualties, and under the command of Liangbi, nearly half of the more than 30,000 Qing troops of the Eight Banners had survived.
At this time, more than 5,000 people in the third echelon of the Huaxia Army took airships and carried a large amount of ammunition, and after a night of rapid marching, they had rushed to the sky over Lanzhou.
Ma Shaohao, the commander-in-chief of the Battle of Lanzhou, saw that the time was ripe, and ordered the airship that had been waiting for a long time to be dispatched to block the retreat of the Qing army, and more than 16,000 people from the three echelons of the Huaxia Army rushed out of the city to pursue and kill the Qing army.
Seeing that the Huaxia army was unstoppable, Liangbi hurriedly ordered the remnants of the Eight Banners Army to retreat, but there was no time to retreat at this time.
After another day of pursuit, the Huaxia army annihilated most of the Qing army, and Liangbi was also killed in the chaos.
Originally, the battle of Lanzhou should have ended by now, but the Huaxia army found that there were still many sect cavalry frantically killing from all directions.
Encountering this situation, Ma Shaohao felt inexplicable, and after a day of bloody battles, and the killing of thousands of sect cavalry, he figured out the situation - it turned out that this was Cixi's plan to get out.
After Cixi escaped from Lanzhou City by luck, in order to cover her escape, she ordered Tie Liang to send hundreds of fast horse heralds, drafted a holy decree, and stamped it with a forged national seal, notifying the sectarian separatist forces in the northwest, and making many promises of rewards that could not be fulfilled at all, asking them to rush to Lanzhou City to rescue them.
The leaders of these sects have long had the idea of breaking away from the Qing court and standing on their own, and when they saw those emperors who made holy decrees and promises of rewards, they didn't recognize that the seal of the national seal was actually fake, as if they saw a pie falling from the sky, and they even sent cavalry to Lanzhou City to rescue them regardless of it.
Hu Zhen felt that this was an excellent opportunity to eliminate the separatist forces in the northwest, so he ordered Ouyang Yu, who commanded the unification of the northwest, to personally lead the fourth echelon of more than 4,000 people, and carry a large amount of ammunition supplies, and rushed to Lanzhou overnight by airship to direct the bloody battle against 300,000 cavalry in the northwest.
These Northwest Cavalry, brainwashed by extremist religious ideology, had no idea how to write a dead word, and with absolute superiority in troops, they attacked the Lanzhou city defense positions in batches.
The more than 20,000 Huaxia troops commanded by Ouyang Yu and Ma Shaohao still gave up defending the city wall, deliberately exposing many defensive flaws to attract those cavalry who did not know whether they were alive or dead to attack.
As a result, the battle was fought for another nineteen days.
The Huaxia army constantly transferred troops and ammunition and heavy supplies from the air, and finally increased the strength to more than 50,000 people, so that more than half of the 300,000 cavalry were damaged.
Under the terrifying firepower of the Huaxia Army, the remnants immediately collapsed, and under the joint pursuit of the Huaxia Army's land and air, they lost a lot, and in the end, less than two adults and horses could escape back.
This battle was earth-shattering, the sectarian forces in the northwest were almost wiped out, and the remnants of tens of thousands of horses no longer had the courage to confront the Huaxia army, and the Huaxia army marched into the vast northwest, and there was no longer much resistance.
However, there was also a bad result in this battle, that is, the initiator Empress Dowager Cixi disappeared into the vast mountains and Gobi in the northwest surrounded by Tieliang and more than 10,000 Qing soldiers of the Eight Banners.
Except that Hu Zhen felt that this was a bit troublesome, the Huaxia army was very unimpressed: an old woman in her seventies and eighties, with the Eighth Banner Army whose combat effectiveness is not good at all, what else can she do?
Who knows that this old woman's scheming is really not simple, her escape is a matter of great trouble, which has a significant impact on the development of the political pattern of various countries in the world, and millions of people have lost their lives because of her existence. (To be continued.) )