Chapter 326: The Battle of Jingzhou (Part II)
Speaking from the heart, Jingzhou's Eight Banners fought not badly, even like most of the Qing army and the Eight Banners in this era, the Eight Banners in Jingzhou were also very afraid of hand-to-hand white-knuckle battles, giving the Wu army death squad the opportunity to rush to the city wall with a flying ladder, but after being forced into a desperate situation, the brutal blood flowing in the veins of the Eight Banners soldiers still had some recovery, and they took out the courage and fighting spirit to launch a fierce counterattack on the head of the Wu army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
After leading the army to launch a counterattack was Guisheng, the deputy commander of the right wing of the Jingzhou garrison of the Eight Banners, and rushed to the city wall with the reserves, Guisheng first personally hacked to death a leader and several banner soldiers who took the lead in escaping, and then took the lead in killing the Wu army's position, while shouting with red eyes: "Good man of the Eight Banners, you should fight to the death and kill the thief!" ā
Not to mention, seeing Guisheng taking the lead in the charge, the surrounding Eight Banners soldiers immediately seemed to have found the backbone, they threw down their old-fashioned gun-carrying arquebuses, pulled out their sabers at their waists and strode towards the Wu soldiers, roaring and waving their knives and slashing, as brave as the usual street brawls and bullying the unarmed Han people, and also somewhat recovered some of the fierceness and fierceness of the Qing army when they entered the customs.
It's a pity that the Jingzhou Eight Banners bottomed out this time to find the wrong opponent, no matter how they mustered up the courage and beast recovery, but also made up for the huge poor service in terms of experience and training, the Wu Army death squad formed with the Li brothers' personal soldiers as the backbone not only received strict training all year round, many people still followed the Li Xubin brothers to fight for many years in the Hunan army old man, experienced and tenacious, the best at fighting is a tough battle, so the Eight Banners are destined to pay a heavy price for this counterattack.
In the splash of blood, Guisheng, known as the number one brave general of the Eight Banners of the Jingzhou garrison, lived up to his prestige and slashed two Wu soldiers one after another, and then seized the opportunity to cut off the left hand of a Wu soldier with a knife. But just when Guisheng was very proud, the Wu soldier who lost his left hand roared angrily, and slashed Guisheng's face with a backhand, splitting Guisheng's three teeth on the spot. Guisheng fled in hiding, and only thanks to the protection of his own soldiers was he able to avoid the desperate pursuit of the Wu soldiers.
On the contrary, Li Xuyi, the commander of the Wu army's death squad, was dressed in light clothes, and he was like a tiger descending from the mountain, and he was killed in and out of the crowd of Eight Banner soldiers, killing countless light and serious wounds all over his body, and still struggling to kill on the front line, and in less than a moment, he had personally hacked to death three Eight Banner soldiers and seriously injured several people. Driven by Li Xuyi, the warriors of the Wu army rushed to be the first, all brave, carrying big swords like chasing ducks, driving the Eight Banners to slash and kill, and it didn't take ten minutes to repel the counterattack of the Eight Banners, and victoriously protected the city's position, winning space and time for the follow-up army to ascend the city.
At the same time, a battalion of Wu elites equipped with screeching guns and picric grenades has also rushed to the Ballast Gate, relying on the protection of the first warriors to quickly ascend the city, and then after these Wu Army elites rushed to the city wall one after another to shoot and drop bombs, the Eight Banners on the Ballast Gate City will never have a chance to succeed in the counterattack, Guisheng once again organized the second charge counterattack, was easily repelled by the Wu soldiers with only a few grenade shells, Guisheng himself was also injured in the waist and kidneys by the fragments of the grenade bullets, and was forced to withdraw from the battle with a beastly wail.
With a snap, Li Xuyi slapped himself heavily, because Li Xuyi suddenly realized that he had made a big mistake at this time, forgetting that he was now a general of the Wu army, and he was still fighting with the old routines of the Hunan army.
After remorse, Li Xuyi immediately shouted: "Throw a grenade, throw a grenade on the head of the anti-thief army!" Although we don't need to economize, we don't need to economize now! ā
Hearing Li Xuyi's order, the warriors of the Wu army's death squad were no longer polite, and immediately took out grenades and smashed them into the enemy's dense crowd. The follow-up battalion of the Wu army continued to climb the city quickly by relying on the flying ladder, shooting and killing the remnants of the enemy in the city, while rapidly expanding the position at the head of the city, and soon controlled the head of the ballast gate, and began to condescendingly shoot and drop bombs into the city.
After the report of the smooth progress of the Ballast Gate was reported to Wang Fu, Wang Fu first scolded that he was really not beaten, and then he was not polite, and immediately ordered the Marine Corps of the Navy Division to land on the shore and launch an attack on the Gong'an Gate. At the same time, all artillery fire was concentrated to bombard the public security gate to cover the siege of the Marine Corps.
At the same time, of course, the defenders of the Eight Banners in Jingzhou had already been in chaos, and Mianxun took his own soldiers to hide in the general's mansion, which had been hit by artillery in many places, shivering, praying to God and Buddha to bless God to let the Eight Banners of Jingzhou survive this difficulty. In fact, Xi Ling'a, who commanded the defense of the city, sent troops to reinforce Zhenliumen several times in a vain attempt to recapture the position, but was easily repelled by the Wu soldiers with a platoon of guns and grenades. And after suffering a lot of losses a few times, the already very smart Eight Banner Warriors soon became smarter, and as soon as they were asked to attack the Ballast Gate, they fled for their lives, and many more intelligent Eight Banner Warriors simply fled back to their homes to change their clothes, hoping to survive until dark and escape from the city in chaos. The Eight Banners, which had been well-organized, were completely in chaos, and there were constantly situations in which the soldiers could not find the generals, the generals, and even the banners of their own units, and the command was almost paralyzed.
The confusion also affected the position of the Eight Banners on the wall, although the Wu army's naval division concentrated as much as possible in the east as much as possible in order to avoid accidentally injuring the Han people in the west city, and almost no shells hit the position on the wall wall. However, seeing the chaos in the city on the partition wall, the Eight Banners soldiers rushed to flee to the side of the partition wall to avoid the shells, and heard the bizarre rumors brought by these defeated soldiers that the ballast gate had been breached, and the public security gate had been blown down, and the defenders of the partition wall, who were mostly idle bannermen, were still frightened and panicked.
"The ballast gate has been broken, run away!"
I don't know if it was the frightened banner man who shouted like this, and the already panicked defenders of the partition wall were suddenly in chaos, and countless soldiers rushed into the city crying and shouting to flee for their lives, shouting that the ballast gate was broken one after another. And although Duolonga judged from the sound of gunfire and cannons that the Wu army did not enter the city in large numbers, and shouted to stop it, it was to no avail, not to mention the friendly troops, even the banner soldiers who had just been assigned to him kept going down the city to flee for their lives.
The sudden loud noise from the west made Duolonga immediately turn his head to look west, and then, Duolonga's pupils also contracted violently - in the streets and alleys of Seoul in the west, it was as if there was a sudden explosion, and countless Han men and women suddenly poured out, holding all kinds of chaotic flags and all kinds of simple homemade weapons, and rushed towards the partition wall like a tide, and the angry roar shook the heavens and the earth, directly overpowering the cannon and gunfire of the Wu army.
"Kill all the thieves!"
Duolong'a couldn't believe the picture in front of him at all, and he couldn't believe that the hatred of the Han people in Jingzhou for the Manchurians of the Eight Banners would be so deep. Relying only on the rudimentary weapons with kitchen knives and wooden sticks as the main force, relying only on a few thick woods that have not even been stripped of the bark, and some fragile flying ladders that are obviously improvised and made, the Han people of Jingzhou and countless Miao Yi people followed one after another, facing the bullets hurriedly fired by the Eight Banners, stepping on the messy ruins and the corpses of compatriots, rushing to the city wall without hesitation, carrying wood to hit the south and north new gates of the wall, stepping on the simple flying ladder to impact the city wall, crazy and futile knives and axes to split the city wall gates, The heartfelt roar echoed through the crowd............
"Kill all thieves! Kill all the thieves! Kill all the thieves! ā
"What did Mianyu and Xiling do? Why did the Han people in Jingzhou hate us banner people to this point? Hate it as if you have a grudge against your father? ā
Countless questions flashed in Duolong'a's heart, but Duolong'a had no time to verify these answers, in the face of the monstrous anger of the Han people in Jingzhou's volcanic eruption, none of the Eight Banners soldiers on the wall were not trembling with their legs, none of them were looking around looking for a way to escape, and Duolonga had already been surrounded by four tiger-fighting soldiers in the middle, ready to flee at any time - if they didn't escape, they couldn't do it, even if the Han people under the wall spit on one person, they could drown Duolonga and others!
Finally, a Han people with rusty firewood knives were the first to rush to the partition wall, and the surrounding flag soldiers hurriedly shot and hit him, but the Han people didn't seem to know, with red eyes, they just pounced on a well-equipped Eight Banner soldiers, roaring and waving knives indiscriminately, and the surrounding flag soldiers hurriedly helped, and also knocked the firewood knife in his hand away, but the Han people hugged the enemy in front of him, opened their mouths and bit his throat, until his back was cut by the Eight Banners soldiers and did not let go, and bit through the throat of the flag soldiers. and with him.
More Han Miao Yi people rushed to the city wall, although the weapons in their hands were simple and rough almost pitiful, basically it was difficult to cause fatal damage to the Eight Banners soldiers wearing cotton armor, but they still pounced on the Eight Banners soldiers like moths to the fire, slashing axes and sticks, using fists and teeth to fight with the Eight Banners, and even some people rolled down the city wall with the Eight Banners and died with the Eight Banners.
In the face of the monstrous anger of the Han people in Jingzhou, not to mention the pampered Jingzhou garrison Eight Banner soldiers, even Duolong Adu, who has been licking blood on the battlefield all the year round, is cowardly, knowing that it is only a matter of time before the wall is breached, and even more aware that once these Han people rush into the city, the only fate waiting for the Jingzhou Banner people is a cruel and bloody massacre!
"I have to persuade the old general Mian and Xiling Ah to surrender, otherwise the Jingzhou banner people will be finished."
Having come to this conclusion, Duolonga left his soldiers on the battlefield for the first time and retreated first, and took his four tiger-fighting soldiers through the fleeing crowd with great difficulty, and went down from the partition wall to the more chaotic city, and with great difficulty, it took a lot of effort to pass through the more chaotic crowd and find the yamen of the Jingzhou garrison general.
Of course, the Eight Banners guarding the General's Mansion refused to let Duolonga go in directly, and Duolonga tried his best to speak, and even resorted to bribery, so he asked Menzi to enter and report. However, at this time, there was a sudden earth-shattering cheer from the Nanxin Gate of the partition wall, as well as the cries of countless Eight Banner soldiers. ā
Without the barrier of the city gate, the magma fire of the Han people in Jingzhou was like finding a vent, and suddenly rushed into the city, and the eight banner parasites in the city cried and shouted Yishengjian, and the eight banner soldiers guarding the general's mansion also rushed to flee to the direction of the ancient trough gate where there was no enemy in the north. Without hesitation, Duolonga immediately rushed into the Jingzhou General's Mansion, looking for Mianyu's location everywhere.
It's a pity that Duolonga still couldn't find Mianyu, no matter how Duolonga asked when he saw people, the maids and servants of the general's mansion didn't know that the old general Mianyu was hiding there, there was no one in the lobby, and the signing room was full of official documents and letters, and there was no trace of Mianyu.
The shouts of killing the thieves were getting closer and closer, and he didn't want to be torn to pieces and smashed into meat sauce by the Han people in Jingzhou, so Duolonga had no choice but to escape from the Jingzhou General's Mansion in a hurry, and he also had a lot of brains to flee to the Ballast Gate, the safest Wu army at the moment, and when he saw the first Wu soldier, he raised his hand and knelt down to surrender.
After taking the initiative to surrender, Duolonga soon saw Li Xuyi, the first general of the Wu army, and immediately proposed to meet Wang Fu, Li Xuyi was in a hurry to kill the enemy and refused to agree, only said that he would stay and then talk, but Duolonga hugged Li Xuyi's bloody legs, and pleaded with a crying voice: "Kerang, I beg you!" I really have something very important to see Wang Fu, please for the sake of your previous friendship, immediately send someone to take me to see Wang Fu. ā
After hesitating for a moment, Li Xuyi still nodded, and sent two personal soldiers to escort Duolong'a, who was actively bound, to meet Wang Fu. And by the time Duolonga left the city from the Ballast Gate, and went south to the riverside to board the Zeng Guofan by boat, the sky was already slightly dark, and the city of Jingzhou was already full of fires, and there were roars and cries that spread for miles.
"Brother Wang Fu, I beg you! Save the flagmen in the city! Let the Han people in Jingzhou not kill innocents indiscriminately, don't kill those banner people who surrendered, and don't kill those women and children! ā
Kneeling down in front of Wang Fu with a thud, Duolonga kowtowed desperately while crying and pleading. Wang Fu personally picked up Duolong'a, and said with an embarrassed expression: "Brother Duo, it's not that I don't want to stop the Han people in Jingzhou, it's that I can't stop them, we haven't contacted them beforehand, I don't know their leader, how do you tell me to stop it?" ā
"The Han people in Jingzhou, why do they hate us Manchu like this?!" Dorona cried in despair.
Wang Fu was silent again, and only said after a while: "Big brother, why do the Han people in Jingzhou hate the Manchus so much, I heard my relatives say a few things, all of which are true, one is that during the Daoguang period, the Manchus in Jingzhou deliberately made trouble when the Han people raced dragon boats, and after being beaten away by the Han people, the Manchus in Jingzhou rushed into Hancheng and beat and killed, burning dozens of houses. ā
"In addition, there is another thing, the terrain in Jingzhou is low-lying, there will be floods every year, the Manchu people live in the east city is high, and they are not affected by the flood, but the Xicheng where the Han people in Jingzhou live is low, and people will be drowned every year. One year, the heavy rain was so heavy that even the city was flooded with some houses, and in order to relieve the flood, the Manchurian people of Jingzhou opened the city gates and waterways of the next city and discharged the flood water into the ...... of Seoul. ā
Speaking of this, Wang Fu paused and asked, "Big brother, do you know how many Jingzhou Han people drowned that year?" ā
"I don't know, how many drowned?" Dorona shook his head and asked again.
"More than 2,000 Han people in Jingzhou."
Wang Fu's answer made Duolonga like a lightning strike, and also made Duolonga slowly kneel in front of Wang Fu, without saying a word, let alone begging Wang Fu to stop the massacre......
When it was dark, the front line sent a report, saying that it was because it was too dark, and the soldiers of the Wu army were still the same as before, and it was easy to be misunderstood by the people, and a large number of people were mistakenly injured by the people of Jingzhou.
Wang Fu thought about it for a while, first agreed to the request made by Li Xubin and others, and then said to Duolonga very helplessly: "Big brother, don't blame me, I have to be responsible for our soldiers." ā
Duolonga nodded silently, and after a long time, Duolonga suddenly said, "Brother Wang Fu, can you take me back to see Wu Zhitai?" ā
"What do you want to do?" Wang Fu asked vigilantly.
"I want to continue to play for Wu Zhitai." Duolonga said in a hoarse voice: "I want the whole world to see, we Manchurians are many bastards, but there are good people among us, who can understand the general situation and know the importance." I think that only in this way can the Han people take less revenge and save more innocent banner people....... ā
The next day, the bodies of Mianyu and Xiling'a and other important generals of Jingzhou's Eight Banners were sent to Wang Fu, and it took a lot of effort for Duolong'a to recognize that the piles of rotten meat in front of him were the corpses of Mianyu and Xiling'a. (To be continued.) )