Chapter 119 Filling the Trench with Human Life
The so-called fierce general is not a single-handedly confrontation with 10,000 enemies in romance novels, but refers to his tactical style is very fierce, and every time he fights, he fights the rabbit with all his might, and defeats the enemy in one fell swoop.
Azig is such a fierce general.
Li Zicheng was a hero, but he was stubbornly frightened by Azig, from Shaanxi to Huguang eight battles and eight defeats, fled from the wind, collapsed into an army, and finally died in Jiugong Mountain. Is the gap between the Dashun army and the Qing army really so big? Not necessarily, the momentum of the key Azig came up, and Li Zicheng was completely suppressed by the opponent, just like the opponent poured three goals in a row at the beginning of a football game, and he couldn't kick it later.
Fleur regarded his father as an idol, and he had learned a thorough style of commanding battles, attacking with all his might every time he went on the battlefield, and he was extremely ferocious. In the past few years, when fighting other Ming troops, his tactics have repeatedly worked, often destroying the withering and lightening the victory, which has earned him a reputation for being brave and good at fighting, as if he is the second in Azig, and Foureh is also very proud of this...... But he didn't realize that although Azig was brave and unscrupulous, he had developed a keen and precise judgment by virtue of his experience in a hundred battles, almost an animal instinct, and he could always find the enemy's weakest link, and he had a rough idea of whether he could defeat him, but Flek did not have enough battlefield experience, and was more akin to brute force.
It looks like a god, but it doesn't look like a god!
If Azig were here, with guò intelligence feedback and some detailed analysis, he would have made more thorough preparations, and then launched an all-out onslaught, and did not give the enemy a chance to breathe after the attack began...... Fu Lehe underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Chu army, and as soon as he came up, he used the tactics of crowds to launch a strong attack, and was bloodily slaughtered by the Chu army.
The first attack on the mountain. The Qing army dispatched 1,200 auxiliaries and long-term soldiers, and 100 green battalion soldiers. More than 500 of them died in the artillery fire of the Chu army, and more than 300 died in the butcher's knife of the Qing army's warlord. In the end, the whole line collapsed, and more than 200 people retreated regardless of a single thing, and were immediately forced by the military law team with knives and guns, and knelt in front of the battle in unison.
The officer of the military justice team brandished a steel knife, beheaded several auxiliary officers, and came to the front of a green battalion officer, but there was a hesitant look on his face, he lifted the knife and put it down, and looked back at Zhang Guozhu with an inquiring gaze. Under the scene of the collapse of the whole line just now. This officer of the green battalion has tried his best to supervise the battle, and he has taken the lead in the charge, and it must be the same result if he goes up by himself, they are all acquaintances of the same battalion, and they really can't do it.
“……”
Zhang Guozhu was also reluctant to kill him like this, this green battalion officer was not only loyal, but also always effective, and the attack was frustrated because the Chu army was too strong, not his responsibility...... Zhang Guozhu cleared his throat. Just as he was about to open his mouth to pardon these defeated soldiers, Fu Lehe under the banner of the Chinese army suddenly turned his face and stared at Zhang Guozhu coldly with a cold gaze.
"Well...... enforce military law. Show them all! ”
Zhang Guozhu turned to his subordinates, the Green Battalion and a group of auxiliary soldiers, and said loudly: "If you don't fill that trench today, no one will want to go back alive." Who dares to cower and retreat, this is the end! Dare to rush up with your head lifted. Whoever throws the sack into the trench shall be rewarded with two taels of silver per person. Ben will never break his word......"
With the swing of the sword, more than two dozen green battalion soldiers were cut to the ground.
Immediately afterwards, the military law team came to the more than 200 auxiliary soldiers, and these more than 200 people knelt on the ground without saying a word.
Zhang Guozhu dispatched his troops, and then brought in 800 auxiliary soldiers and 500 green battalion soldiers, ready to launch a second attack, but Fu Lehe urged his horse to come to the front and stretched out his horse whip to stop him.
"Send another thousand auxiliaries, send your men too, and be sure to fill in the trenches."
"Yes, yes...... However, the hillside is too narrow, and attacking with 1,300 men is already the limit, and any more may be in the way......" Zhang Guozhu said hesitantly.
"The southern thief cannon is fierce, and the 1,300 people in front of him will soon be gone. Half an hour in total, you have a little more than two quarters of an hour left, don't fail again. ”
Fu Lehe's face was expressionless, his tone was also very flat, without the slightest threat, but he was full of indifference in grasping the power of life and death, Zhang Guozhu instantly sweated, and when he turned around to face his officers and soldiers, his face was already hideous.
Redeployed troops and horses, the Qing army launched another attack.
Braving the artillery fire of the Chu army, the tide of auxiliary soldiers poured up the hillside, and hundreds of green battalion soldiers were mixed in, and when the flintlock pistols of the Chu army were fired again, they took advantage of the moment when the smoke of gunpowder had not yet dissipated, and hid behind the ditches and layers of corpses, and fired at the camp wall with bows and arrows and bird guns.
Zhang Guozhu sent his personal soldiers to act as a supervising team, standing outside the range of the flintlock pistol, constantly swinging his knife to slash and kill those slow auxiliaries and long husbands, loudly urging others to continue the attack, most of these auxiliary soldiers and long men were young men captured by the Qing army, for the faint hope of survival, carrying sacks and charging desperately upward, and at the same time secretly praying in their hearts not to be hit by the artillery fire of the Chu army.
"Bang!"
When Xu Nannan heard the order to fire, he immediately pulled the trigger, and with an unusually loud gunshot, his vision was blocked by smoke, and he couldn't see whether he hit the target, so he hurriedly retreated to the back row and gave way to his companion to shoot the position.
He was the only child in the family, and his parents were afraid that he would die young, so they gave him a girl's name, and he was often ridiculed by others when he was young, and he lost his temper with his parents several times for this...... After the Qing army entered the customs, Xu Nannan's parents died under the butcher's knife of the Qing army, and everything changed dramatically.
fled all the way from Zhejiang to Jiangxi, and accidentally joined the Ji'an camp of the Chu army, when he received the waist card with Xu Nannan's name written on it, he secretly swore with tears that he must kill all the Manchu Tartars, and his parents and family will take revenge!
Training, he worked hardest.
In battle, he is the bravest.
Xu Nannan has no family, no friends, except for his comrades-in-arms, the bird gun is his most loyal partner, a few months ago, the Ji'an battalion was equipped with a new type of bird gun, he has killed seven Tartars with this gun.
"I don't know if I hit just now? That tartar looks dumbfounded, and it's so close, it should be fine! Xu Nannan pulled out the national knife on his waist and carved a short one on the handle of the gun, one "positive" and one "down", a total of eight, representing the killing of eight Tartars.
Sticking the newspaper knife back into his waist, he began to reload.
After thousands of boring repetitions, the complex reloading steps are extremely smooth under Xu Nannan's hands, without any thinking and pause, just by subconscious reactions, the whole set of steps can be completed in a few breaths, and there is no omission. In the whole battalion competition before entering Nanzhili, his loading speed ranked second, and after this battle, he had to represent the Ji'an battalion to participate in the whole army competition.
Shake the fixed gunpowder in the paper bag into the primer pot, close the lid of the pot with a finger, remove the residual medicine, avoid the danger of misfire, the next step is to charge the gun chamber, but he subconsciously touched the primer pot again, and experienced the pleasure brought by the special feel.
There is a small pad made of gum, lacquer and silk, which wraps the medicine jar tightly, and according to the gentleman of the Soldiers' Comrades Association, this mat can enhance the airtightness of the bird's gun, and other important parts of the gun body have similar modifications, some can be seen, some cannot be seen, and the range and power of the bird's gun are improved.
In addition to the modification to enhance the airtightness, this new type of bird gun has become more perfect in many details, like a delicate and complicated Western clock, which makes people feel a sense of trust at first glance. Xu Nannan likes this new type of bird gun very much, it ...... No, her straight barrel is like a heroic girl, much more beautiful than the stupid and stupid old-fashioned birdie, there are no burrs and potholes on the inner wall of the barrel, the standardized production of the barrel can ensure that three hundred consecutive shots will not explode, and even the humble through bar has become lighter and easier to carry (the barrel of the arquebus is slender, so the bar is also very long, generally embedded under the side of the gun, made of fine and hard wood, only the head that is easy to wear is metal). )
There are also some professional technical improvements, Xu Nannan doesn't know much about them, but he knows that the range and power of this new type of bird gun have been greatly improved, and it is not much different from the flintlock pistol originally produced by the Chu army. He had become accustomed to the shooting and reloading steps of the bird gun, and once thought that this new type of bird gun was better than the flintlock pistol, but he heard that the Hengyang Arsenal had also improved the flintlock pistol, and pulled the bird gun apart a lot, which made Xu Nannan's heart itch.
"I don't know if after this battle, can we replace the Ji'an battalion with new guns first, although the Gongyi battalion is the big brother, but it can't be too partial, let's use their old guns......" Xu Nannan pondered while following the officer's order to step forward, re-standing in the firing position, and putting the bird gun on the chest wall.
"Aim!"
"Fire!"
Xu Nannan pulled the trigger steadily, and quickly stepped back again, although he still didn't see whether he hit the target, the corners of his mouth curled up with a smile. After a quick glance at the battlefield just now, the corpses of the Qing army increased a lot, covering almost the entire hillside, but they still failed to rush to the front of the trench.
Under the hillside, Zhang Guozhu's face was pale.
Fu Lehe said that the 1,300 people in front of him were really gone, except for a few green battalion soldiers lying on the ground, the other soldiers, auxiliaries and long-term soldiers were either killed or wounded, all of them lost their combat effectiveness, of course, no matter how intimidating and tempting, there were still many soldiers who turned around and ran away or lay down to avoid the bullets, but they died faster, and were directly hacked to death by their own warlords. (To be continued......)