Chapter 428: Capture of Chuzhou (Part I)
One after another, flowering bombs fell like meteors into the array of 50,000 Vietnamese troops in front.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
One by one, large fireballs accompanied by a series of loud noises roared up in the Vietnamese army's array, the flames were burning, shrapnel was flying, I don't know how many Vietnamese soldiers disappeared in the first round of artillery bombardment of the Qin army, I don't know how many corpses of Vietnamese soldiers were blown up casually, I don't know how many Vietnamese soldiers fell in a pool of blood and groaned.
Xiao Tong, the commander of the Vietnamese army, who was lucky to escape in the first round of shelling, was stunned when he looked at the tragic scene in front of him.
"What's going on? What just happened? Is God going to punish us? ”
A series of question marks made Xiao Tong's head chaotic, and he could only blame God for this kind of thing that he thought was beyond the reach of manpower.
The side of the Great Yue Empire is aware of the Great Qin Empire. The army is equipped with many strange firearms, and the Great Yue Empire, the Tang Empire and other countries have studied these firearms, but they don't know what kind of combat effectiveness the army equipped with large-scale firearms has, and they don't pay attention to the firearms of the Qin army at all, and Xiao Tong is the same.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
After only a dozen breaths, the Vietnamese army, which had been devastated by hundreds of flowering shells, had not yet come to its senses, and some small-caliber artillery pieces on the Qin army's artillery positions had been quickly reloaded, and one shell after another continued to fire at the Vietnamese positions.
The shells were exploding, the flames of war were burning, and the Vietnamese soldiers who were shelled by artillery for the first time did not know what to do, so they could only squat on the ground with their heads in their hands.
"Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw!" Xiao Tong, who had been stunned, was awakened by the huge explosion of a new round of shells, and after waking up, Xiao Tong made the most correct choice.
Xiao Tong shouted for the Vietnamese army to retreat, and at the same time re-mounted his war horse and wanted to escape from this area, Xiao Tong's personal guards were closely guarding Xiao Tong's side, and the soldiers around Xiao Tong heard Xiao Tong's shouts, and they also shouted while turning around and fleeing to the rear.
In order to run faster, many people took off their armor, and the weapons in their hands had already been thrown away, and even some people who ran slowly were directly hit by people who ran fast.
"Black Cavalry, follow me!" Wang Shuo gave the order to charge loudly.
In the sound of rapid war drums, the front of the Qin army array quickly vacated passages, and Wang Shuo led three cavalry divisions and tens of thousands of cavalry to quickly pass through the vacated passages and pursue the fleeing Vietnamese army.
In fact, the Qin army was also a little confused, according to their ideas, the Vietnamese army should be able to resist a little bit, but they didn't expect that after only two rounds of shelling, the Vietnamese army collapsed, Wang Shuo rushed directly with the black cavalry, and the Qin army's artillery extended the shelling after this round of shelling.
The distance of two hundred zhang is neither long nor short, and after only a few dozen breaths, Wang Shuo has already rushed to the position of the Vietnamese army, and with a wave of the silver halberd in his hands, several Vietnamese soldiers were killed by Wang Shuo.
"Kill!"
"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The black cavalry who rushed to the front took out their revolvers and kept firing, and soon the two revolvers on their bodies were all out of bullets, and they directly brandished their cavalry knives and slashed at the Vietnamese soldiers, whose blood had stained the ground red.
How could the infantry have the speed of the cavalry, and the Vietnamese soldiers were trembling under the fire of the Qin army, and it was impossible to run fast, and one by one the Vietnamese soldiers were chased by the black cavalry and were cut to the ground.
"Those who surrender on their knees will not be killed!"
"Those who surrender on their knees will not be killed!"
Some black cavalry shouted loudly, wanting to make the Vietnamese soldiers whose morale fell to the bottom valley surrender, the role of Vietnamese prisoners is not small, these Vietnamese prisoners can be used to build a railway from the Guannai to the side of the Great Vietnamese Empire, and these Vietnamese prisoners can also be used for mountain mining, and the Qin army is eager to capture more prisoners, and some killings are just to make the Vietnamese army give up resistance faster.
After the first Vietnamese sergeant surrendered on his knees, more and more Vietnamese sergeants surrendered on their knees, perhaps some people thought that the law did not blame the public, but more of them were Vietnamese soldiers who wanted to live, no matter what, as long as they could live, it was better than dead, and it was better to die than to live rotten.
Xiao Tong took those Vietnamese soldiers on horses to run faster and faster, and there was no figure in a blink of an eye, but those Vietnamese soldiers who had no horses to ride were finished, under the blade of the black cavalry, the Vietnamese soldiers could only kneel and surrender if they wanted to live, of course, there were also those who would rather die than give in, and the next moment they fell under the muzzle or knife of the black cavalry, and it was impossible for the Vietnamese army that had completely collapsed to resist the black cavalry.
I don't know how long I ran, Xiao Tong stopped, and Xiao Tong's eyes were full of remorse and confusion in his eyes that were red.
Poof!
Xiao Tong half fell to the ground, Xiao Tong clenched his right hand into a fist, and smashed it to the ground.
Xiao Tong hated, he hated why he didn't pay attention to the Qin army, hated that he was incompetent and could only leave the Vietnamese army and run away.
Xiao Tong stopped, Xiao Tong's personal guard also stopped, and several pro-soldiers wanted to go over to help Xiao Tong, but they were organized by Xiao Tong's personal guard captain, and the captain knew that the general needed to vent the anger in his heart.
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The black cavalry led by Wang Shuo blocked most of the Vietnamese soldiers, and then the Qin infantry stepped forward and gathered the Vietnamese prisoners who surrendered on their knees.
The generals of the Qin army had already expected this scene, and the Qin army had prepared a large number of iron shackles, and used the shackles to restrain the Vietnamese prisoners, so they could not set off any storms.
After the Vietnamese prisoners were taken over by the infantry, Wang Shuo gathered the black cavalry, and a surging black wave rushed into Chuzhou, one of the nine states of the Great Yue Empire, after the black cavalry, the ten infantry divisions of the Yue army also followed into Chuzhou, as for the tens of thousands of Vietnamese prisoners, it was guarded by two artillery divisions and the Wuwei Pass garrison.
Eliminate the 50,000 Vietnamese troops blocked outside the Wuwei Pass, the first step of the expedition to Vietnam has been completed, and the next step of the expedition to the Vietnam army will be the second step, to capture Chuzhou, one of the nine states of the Great Yue Empire, and then take Chuzhou as a starting point to quickly capture the entire Great Yue Empire.
The first battle of the Yue army was unexpectedly easy, and even the Qin army itself did not expect that the Vietnamese army would collapse with just two rounds of artillery bombardment.
After the war, 50,000 Vietnamese troops were counted, more than 8,000 were killed, more than 37,000 were captured, and more than 4,000 were escaped.
However, the number of casualties of the 50,000 Vietnamese army was less than 100, of which only 23 were killed and no more than 10 were seriously wounded.
Once this battle loss ratio is known to all the countries in the land of Shenzhou, I am afraid that the countries will unite against the Great Qin Empire at the first time, with such a terrifying battle loss ratio, which country in the land of Shenzhou can resist the Great Qin Empire?