Chapter 485: Destruction

The war began, the real began. The pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info is located in Xianghe County with Duji as the center.

At noon the next day, the forward troops of the Fu Han Army drove to the town of 500 households southeast of Duji, and the Guards Brigade and the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the Jiangsu Army did not hurriedly set up camp after arriving at the place, but immediately put on a posture of vigorously beating the 100 households not far away, that is, the forward position of the Qing army.

There is not a single person in the 1000 villages, and there are a total of 4,000 Qing troops stationed there inside and outside. The commander was the deputy capital of Manchuria.

As a master who has spent most of his life in the chaos of Beijing, Delang is certainly not an outstanding general, in the early years of the Qing army's attack on Dzungaria, as well as the pacification of the size and the battle of Zhuo, although he appeared on the battlefield, but never had any eye-catching performance. He is a visualization of the vast majority of middle and high-level officers in the Manchu Qing Dynasty at this moment, and his identity is enough, and the position is here. In fact, they are far from the ability to match their identity and position.

One by one, the shells fell on the ten hundred villages, but Delang did not think that 'he' would fail, although he was well aware of the combat effectiveness of the Fu Han army, he was full of confidence. Because behind him stood the entire Qing army, and the Fu Han army arrived at only a vanguard force.

Also because he had a large number of cavalry, in the village of 800 households, not far to the east of Shibaihu Village, a cavalry team of 3,000 people was quietly watching the performance of the Fu Han army.

There are more than 10,000 people in the vanguard of the Fu Han Army, looking at their banners, in addition to a miscellaneous unit of the first division of the Jiangsu Army, the other brigade is the personal guard unit headed by Chen Shunkui, which is definitely the first-class elite soldiers of the Fu Han Army.

However, in addition to the 1000 villages, this army also had to keep an eye on the troops that had opened out of Jiajiazhuang from the front, which was a pure Eight Banners New Army, and the number of people would be as large as an entire town.

Behind Jiajiazhuang is Du Ji, and the two places have been completely connected as a whole, becoming a large camp of the Qing army in this battle.

Three thousand cavalry sat on the ground, they waited quietly for the order to attack, and the cotton armor looked mighty in the sunlight. The vanguard of the Fu Han army did not even have a decent horse team.

The Mongolian white flag capital Tong Qingchun climbed down on the roof of the house and looked at the battlefield not far away, the war was about to begin.

In this battle, the Qing army will once again use the method of frontal attack, and the Qing army in ten hundred villages is very likely to be defeated miserably, but how can the reluctant child be able to trap the wolf.

With the sound of a sharp whistle, the musketeers of the 1st Division of the Jiangsu Army marched forward in unison.

The battle is on!

The Qing army, which was in a weak position, did not have a 'knight' style, and also marched towards the center of the battlefield. Although they have the advantage of troops on the whole, they are in a weak defensive position in the position of 1000 villages.

"Boom, boom, boom-" The Qing artillery opened fire first.

The shells did not reach the ranks of the Fu Han army, because the infantry on both sides were arrayed outside the range of the opponent's artillery. However, the Qing artillery unexpectedly fired flowering shells, and the explosion power of these low-quality flowering shells was very small, but each shell could burst out a thick black smoke, and the gunpowder smoke slowly blocked the Qing army.

Jiang Wei instantly understood the intentions of the Qing army. They are now firing not to kill, but to cover, using the smoke of the explosion as their own cover.

"Fire—"

In the artillery position of the Fu Han army, fifty-six cannons also let out a roaring roar after waiting for twenty minutes!

The infantry of the Fu Han Army continued to make great strides forward, the artillery landing points of the Qing army were approaching one after another, and the private line of the first division and one brigade of the Jiangsu Army was gradually submerged in the black smoke. From time to time, the screams of soldiers could be heard from the thick smoke in the distance.

But listening carefully to the sound of footsteps landing, the vibration is still the same, and there is no confusion at all.

The distance between the two sides gradually shortened, and the Qing army began to move.

"The Tartar recruits are training well!" Jiang Wei's eyes lit up. He didn't expect that there were so many Eight Banners New Army in the Qing army in Shibaihu Village, and the mortar artillery troops that followed the troops fired a burst of flowering shells, and it was not uncommon for the latter to advance with cannonballs on their heads, but they could still keep the battle line roughly neat while advancing, which was not something that ordinary armies could maintain.

It is their Jiangsu Army Division and Brigade Brigade, which is roughly at this level.

Jiang Wei didn't know that the 1000 villages were used as the forward positions of the Qing army, and in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the Qing army there, Ah Gui transferred a full four battalions of the Eight Banners New Army, and the remaining 2,000 people were also trained by four battalions. In terms of gold content, among the garrisons of these villages in front of Duji, it is definitely top-notch.

Under the leadership of the two battalions of the Eight Banners New Army, the training of the other two battalions was able to roughly maintain the neatness of the front line of the privates under the baptism of flowering bullets.

Until, with a loud bang that shook the earth, a raging red cloud exploded on the battlefield, and the black smoke of gunpowder rolled up the fire cloud and quickly rose into the sky, and the battlefield where the artillery came and went just now seemed to suddenly become a pediatric.

The moment the heavy rocket burst, time and space seemed to be torn apart. The strong air currents swept wildly across the surrounding ten zhang radius, as if a large hand was 'twisting' the space near the explosion point, and the deep-rooted trees were cleanly twisted and shattered. Houses were like castles made of sand, completely destroyed and destroyed. The firewood, the gates, the beams, the furniture in the house, the ball that was kicked by someone, jumped out and flew far away...... The nearby Qing troops were all scattered and fled.

Even the Eight Banners New Army, which had the strongest will to fight, saw countless compatriots being shattered in the flames, saw the stumps and broken arms thrown away, and all kinds of debris that were overwhelmingly hit, the latter was also extremely lethal under the impetus of the super explosive force. It is inevitable that there will be fear, confusion, and madness from the bottom of their hearts, making each of their scalps tingle and exploding, and fear from their vertebrae.

As for the training army with a weak will to fight, after the rockets of varying weight and severity fell one after another, the soldiers who were full of fortitude half an hour ago became madmen who only cared about fleeing for their lives and lost their minds.

Lives were wiped out in the flames, and many wounded soldiers screamed and disappeared into this cruel world under the merciless trampling of their kind.....

The battlefield after being baptized by rockets is like purgatory.

Delang bit his lip fiercely, and the rockets that exploded on the battlefield illuminated the smoke of gunpowder. His position was a hundred and ten feet away from the battlefield, and the blazing waves were rushing towards them, and they could still feel its fierce 'enthusiasm'. With a loud bang, billowing smoke and endless earth and sand rose into the air like an overwhelming sandstorm, and then swept in all directions.

In the black smoke, scarlet burst flowers bloomed. But that beautiful and bewitching 'charm' will only be a flower on the other side that symbolizes death, but it can't arouse the love of the Qing army at all. The soldiers who fled in a hurry, the red splashed blood, and the death sprinkled on the ground, are the truest portrayals of it.

When the loud noise subsided, the muskets finally rang out in the roar of cannons.

At this moment, there is no difference between the Eight Banners New Army and the coalition army, everyone is fleeing in a hurry, and the rockets of the Fu Han Army have extended to the entire ten hundred villages.

Qingchun looked at the battlefield with a frown, the sound of explosions continued to come, the smoke had already obscured the sun in the sky, and the ten hundred villages seemed to have been lost, but he still didn't see the signal rising.

In Li Xinjia Village, behind the slope of Shibaihu Village, more and more defeated and wounded soldiers were withdrawn from the front line of Shibaihu Village, and Ah Gui saw two soldiers of the army training supporting a wounded and sick soldier of the Eight Banners New Army who was not wearing a helmet with blood on his head from both sides. The wounded soldier was still spitting blood from his mouth. The other wounded soldier of the training army, without a gun or a sword, walked alone, humming and cracking his mouth along the way, the wound made him unbearable pain, and the wound on his left hand covering his abdomen could not stop blood overflowing, flowing onto his military trousers.

The casualties on the front line were very large, and the Fu Han Army did not put their killer weapon unused, and whether it was the New Army of the Eight Banners or the training army, they were generally vulnerable in the face of rockets, a weapon that completely transcended the times.

"According to the plan, put into the reserves." Gui roared. He thought that the Delang Department would be able to hold out for a little more time in the ten hundred villages, but he didn't expect it to be much more interrupted than expected.

When the situation can't be opened, he will naturally have to invest more troops, of course, he will not let the precious Eight Banners New Army surprise the neatly arranged pro-guard brigade of the Han Army, but let the green battalion, flag soldiers, and some training soldiers with swords and guns all thrown into the ten hundred villages.

The artillery fire of the Fu Han army is too powerful, one point has collapsed, and it is not to play other points to move back to the situation, let alone throw all the hole cards in his hand at once, which is what the most stupid commander can do.

Jiang Wei's face was solemn. When he chased the footsteps of the rocket 'cultivation' and rushed to the 100 villages, the Qing army had already collapsed, and whether it was the New Army of the Eight Banners or the training army, there was no large-scale existence at all. But he soon found that the pace of the 1st Division of the Jiangsu Army was sluggish, and the resistance they encountered was increasing.

More and more cold weapons Qing troops appeared in the ruins of the 1000 villages, they had banner soldiers, green battalions, training bravery, and some training troops.

Now the firepower that the Fu Han army can rely on is more the power of mortar artillery. The lethality is far from being comparable to that of rockets.

"Inform the artillery team to carry out covering fire in the area between Shibaihu Village and Li Xinjiazhuang. Tell the third regiment to return to its original position, and not to order it not to move. Tell the rocket troops to hit the fire dragon bullet to the northwest of Shibaihu Village......" intuition told Jiang Wei that he must immediately stop the Qing army's reinforcement route. It's a pity that the Hot Air Team didn't match the vanguard at all.

Qing reinforcements arrived, and the offensive of the 1st Division of the Jiangsu Army became stronger, although the 3rd Regiment withdrew from the village of 1000 households. But the fight between the first and second regiments became more ferocious. Although the Guards Brigade was facing the pressure of the New Army of the Eight Banners of a town that appeared on the slope, it still did not hesitate to divide the strength of a regiment and move to the right side of Shibaihu Village, that is, the east side of the battlefield of Shibaihu Village.

A gust of wind blew across the battlefield, but it could only blow a corner of the thick gunpowder smoke over the battlefield. The smoke screen seemed to be pressed by a large, invisible hand. The incessant gunfire and elongated shouts from the ruins of 100 households kept the mood of both sides high. Even though batches of wounded people were constantly walking, or being carried, and withdrawn from it.

On the artillery position of the Fu Han Army, the artillerymen were unprecedentedly busy. The commander kept his face composed, and he took hurried strides, walking from one cannon to another, and he walked back and forth from position to position without stopping. shouted loudly and encouraged, and commanded the soldiers to fire more energetically.

Passing the shells, pushing back the guns, and loading the shells, every artilleryman must do his part well in the shortest possible time, and do it cleanly. The legs of each artilleryman jumped on the ground as if they were spring-loaded.

The cannon sound of "booming ......" was loud. One by one, the shells crossed the battlefield of the 100 villages where the fighting was fierce, and fell to the west and north of the village. One flowering bomb after another exploded piles of floating earth and puffs of black smoke.

There was a raging fire in everyone's eyes, they knew the power of the guy in their hands and the importance of the cannon! However, with the birth of the fire dragon bullet, there was no need for others to say it, and the artillery unit of the Fu Han Army felt the decline in status. I think how good they were back then, the entire Fu Han army fought around artillery firepower, but now? The rocket units that came out of nowhere stole too much of their brilliance.

Now they had to move quickly, send shells one by one to the middle of Shibaihu Village and Li Xinjiazhuang, and do their best to cut off the reinforcement channel of the Qing army.

The offensive of the First Division of the Jiangsu Army really slowed down, even if they fought more fiercely and ruthlessly, even if Jiang Wei concentrated all the mortars behind him and bombarded the Qing army on the opposite side fiercely, and then ordered the soldiers to charge forward again and again, regardless of casualties! But the pace of progress has slowed down. Jiang Wei had no idea how many Qing troops had rushed from Li Xinjiazhuang, four miles away, to 100 villages in this short period of time.

But they're still moving forward!

No matter how slow they are, they are also advancing.

Gui Han, who led the reinforcements, still clearly remembered Gui's instructions and couldn't mess with the other party. The bravery of the Fu Han army was not something that the Qing army could resist, and the discipline of the Fu Han army was not comparable to that of the Qing army. People can regroup in a short time after they are in chaos, and can the Qing army still gather together in the same way after they are in chaos?

Don't forget that they are only dealing with a part of the vanguard of the Fu Han army, and outside the village of ten hundred households, there is also a guard brigade. Bullets flew past my ears, and the sound of swishing reached people's hearts.

"Rush, rush with me—" Beta roared, waving the broadsword in his hand.

Behind him, a group of blue-flag-studded soldiers wearing lightning rods were holding knives and guns and mixing with the 'boom' of the first division of the Jiangsu Army that was coming straight with bayonets, and the soldiers on both sides were still sure to rush head-on. It was like two tides moving in opposite directions, and a split second collision splashed endless blood flowers.

"Ahh The eye was covered with blood, and a bullet opened a hole in his arm, piercing the arm guard, and blood kept flowing out.

"What are you doing here? Rush, keep rushing—"

A group of soldiers around him couldn't help but stop when they saw it, and the guards were even more nervous to protect Jiang Wei in the center. Jiang Wei grabbed the fallen broadsword with his left hand, his eyes glared at the soldier who had stopped in his footsteps, and roared sternly.

Brutal white-knuckle combat.

The light of the sword was so dazzling in the sunlight, and the sharp bayonet also shone with a chilling white glow.

cut off the enemy's head with a single sword, and before he could raise the sword again, his chest was already pierced by the enemy's bayonet;

A thrust pierced the enemy's chest, and before the bayonet could be pulled out again, he was beheaded by the enemy from the flank;

When the strength of a regiment of the Pro-Guard Brigade was circling behind the 100 villages, Qingchun of the 800 villages beckoned his cavalry to be ready to go. (To be continued.) )