Chapter 469: Express Report to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince
The Tianjin Qing Army horse team repeated the mistake of Yang Liuqing's battlefield comrades two days ago. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info under the bombardment of rockets and rocket artillery, no matter how many horses rushed in the momentum, they also knelt cleanly.
After the smoke cleared, the corpses everywhere, people, horses, and the screams of the wounded but not dead, the whole battle went smoothly, and Chen Ming himself was unexpected. The Qing army didn't know if it was because they hadn't learned the slightest lesson, or if they really couldn't think of a good way, so they rushed straight to the 'box' with a 'scattered horse'. Although the Qing army's horse team had more equipment than 'cavalry artillery' when fighting with Li Persimmon Yuan at the beginning!
But the power and range of the mountain splitting cannon and the sub-mother cannon are too low!
The first three thin lines would not really kill to rush to the mouth of the Sancha River to eat shotguns, so they broke off from the middle, and the 'box' that had been hiding behind them was convex forward, and the positions of the two sides were reversed, and then they resisted the 'rapid fire' of the Qing army, and kept the distance closer to two miles.
Half of the Hou family's rear [Sancha River Estuary] was covered in the range of the rockets, and not only that, Chen Ming on the opposite side was already ordering the whole army to prepare for the attack. It seems that he has not seen that his troops are still completely killed and wounded, and they have not yet achieved results.
The rich monk's forehead was furrowed, and the Fu Han army had withstood the bombardment of the Qing army for so long, which was really beyond their imagination. Even if the lethality of the solid bullet is really not enough, under the bombardment of the cannon for half an hour, the formation queue is not chaotic, which is as incredible as seeing a ghost in broad daylight, which makes the rich monk blind.
The artillery of the Qing army was still firing fiercely, and the artillery positions were filled with smoke, but the small phalanx of the Fu Han army was as stable as Mount Tai. Even after they took root, all the artillery fire of the Qing army was aimed at it and bombarded it, and the 'box' did not show any confusion.
The rich monk put down the telescope and shook his head helplessly, everything is left to fate.
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"Phew!" The sand canopy smashed by the shells was full of sergeants' faces, and the red military uniform turned dark red. Then there was a scream from behind the sergeant, and when he looked back, he saw one of his soldiers lying not far away, his eyes closed forever.
The sergeant's eyes flickered, but then he looked down to examine the rockets in the pit. More than one or two Fu Han soldiers around him fell in a pool of blood, some had passed away forever, and some were enduring severe pain and screams, they could not affect the emotions of their comrades and delay their work. He lay there quietly and waited for the medic to free up his hands to bandage himself!
The sergeant walked out of the boy boy camp, and now he has long been accustomed to seeing life and death, and to the sacrifice of his comrades.
Ten meters away from him, another sergeant officer was also in a dirt pit to scrutinize the rockets. Digging a pit to hide rockets is a lesson learned from the sacrifice of the blood of the Fu Han army, and all the excavated soil is piled up at the front of the pit, so that even if the shell happens to be hit, the shell is in the first gear of the soil slope, and it will leap high over. Otherwise, the shell will shatter the shell and ignite the gunpowder inside, and it will be a big trouble.
Finally, they had to insert a conical iron drill through the rear door of the rocket, load it into the arquebus, and the rocket would be complete.
The distance between two miles of land certainly increased the coverage of the Fu Han army's rockets, but it also made their own danger skyrocket. More and more shells hit here, both the soldiers on the four sides of the box and the fighters of the rocket units inside.
Until the rockets flew towards the back of the Hou family at a very fast speed. The flames and explosions rose behind the Hou family, and the rockets once again used their powerful rate of fire to abuse this first-rate cannon of time and space into a dog.
Between the rocket troops and the large army of the Fu Han Army behind them, the horse-drawn carriages were running rockets rapidly.
"Kill......" Fuller was furious, and he knew that the battle was coming to an end. I can't feel sorry for the cavalry anymore, otherwise whether the whole team can retreat from the battlefield or not will have to be said.
"Lehai, charge me, charge!"
The deputy commander of the Xiao cavalry battalion obeyed the order, three or four hundred horse armor soldiers of the Xiao cavalry battalion, a thousand Zhili horse teams, and two or three hundred Mongolian horse teams, seven or eight thousand horse hooves trampled the earth, and the thunderous sound immediately made the rocket troops divert some of their energy.
"With a trumpet rocket." It would be too wasteful to fight the cavalry of the Qing army and use medium and heavy rockets. The commander shouted.
Turning around, he saw that a large number of Fu Han troops were already approaching the position of the rocket troops. What else can Fuller do? He still has a large number of horses under his command. In the battle of the Sancha estuary, the rich monk and the Fulle division of labor were divided into two, the former was responsible for the main infantry, with only a small number of horses. The latter was in charge of the cavalry troops, and had six or seven thousand horsemen under his command.
"Come with me, come with me." Fuller directly led the horse team to outflank the large force of the Fu Han army from the side. Of course, he would not think that he would really be able to inflict a heavy blow on the Fu Han army at this time, and the six or seven thousand horse corps would be scattered, with only one purpose - not to let the defeat of the Qing army in the first battle of the Sancha River Estuary turn into a big rout. In that case, even the city of Tianjin would be surrendered to the Han army without a fight.
The effect was immediate.
It has a great impact on the transfer of rockets of the Fuhan Army, as well as the speed of the large army. However, the two Qing army horse teams that were divided into two were also badly bombed by rockets. The muskets had no chance of coming in handy at all, and the Qing army's horse team could not rely on the distance of 500 meters at all, because in addition to rockets, the Fu Han army also had rocket artillery in their hands.
A violent explosion is particularly sensitive, and brilliant sparks are blooming like gorgeous peony flowers. If you ignore the declining rocket reserves of the 'clanging', Chen Ming also likes to watch fireworks displays.
The rich monk was being carried by Goshha and retreated frantically, and after they wanted to rush out of the Hou family, only after leaving the Hou family, the central area of the Sancha River Estuary, and getting out of the coverage distance of the Fu Han army's rockets, could it be regarded as real safety.
The rich monk's face was blank at the moment, and what lingered in his mind was the scene he had just seen.
A closed artillery fort built by them with hundreds of men and the largest number of wooden pillars and masonry they had collected collapsed with a spark from a rocket. Twelve members of the artillery crew brought the cannons inside, and all of them were buried.
From that moment on, the rich monk was in despair. It won't be long before Da Qingguo will collapse like this fort, right? Because the rich monk really can't think of what to use to resist this super-powerful explosive bomb!
The fortifications they had worked so hard to build could easily withstand the bombardment of twelve-pounder guns, at least ten cannons. However, in the face of such a high-power explosive bomb of the Fu Han Army, just one was completely defeated......
The rich monk didn't think about whether to rush or not, his brain was now completely immersed in failure and despair.
Most of the Qing troops retreated to the east behind the Hou family, but there were always some people with short legs, so I won't talk about their fate first, only that those Qing soldiers who escaped from the Hou family rushed towards Tianjin City without the officer's order. At the cost of more than 300 large, medium and small rockets, and a larger number of rockets, the Fu Han army successfully captured the ruined Hou family, and at the same time killed and captured more than 4,000 Qing infantry cavalry. The cavalry accounted for one-third of this.
After watching a fireworks feast, Chen Ming's eyes were dazzling and his ears were buzzing.
But the sun is already in the west, and although Tianjin City is only one step away from the mouth of the Sancha River, it is destined to be impossible to continue to fight.
"What's going on with Yang Liuqing?"
"Your Highness, the report that the reconnaissance battalion has just arrived has sent that the Qing army has crossed the Grand Canal from the lower reaches and has now moved to the opposite side of Yangliuqing Town. The strength was estimated to be between 6,000 and 8,000 men, accompanied by at least twenty cannons. ”
Liu Wu came as soon as he opened his mouth, and now he is becoming more and more like Chen Ming's 'office director'.
"Put two more battalions in Caozhuang to make up enough for one regiment." Chen Ming thought for a moment between giving up Caozhuang and keeping Caozhuang, and decisively chose to keep Caozhuang. The Qing army in Tianjin had already received enough blows. The Fu Han army is now going to attack the city of Tianjin, and one more regiment is not too much, and one less regiment is not too much. It's better to stay on the back road! "Did the sailor come to report?"
"There's a morning report. Our army sank in battle and sank by itself, and three other ships were damaged. At this price, they approached the south fort of Dagukou and fired more than 120 heavy rockets at it, ...... effect. ”
The time after the war was the time for Chen Ming to deal with other things, and the information sent by all sides was handed over to him one by one, and then a more specific panoramic battle map appeared in his mind in detail.
There was no new report of the situation of the Dabo team, and after many days of hard work to no avail, the sailor troops had found a way to deal with the Dagukou fort -- rushing to the front to release heavy rockets under the fire of the fort.
It's costly, but it's also very rewarding.
More than 100 heavy rockets washed the entire South Battery, and there would be no real damage to the cannons in those bunkers, and it was impossible to kill all the gunners of each battery, but the intelligence sent by the secret line of the secret camp that night showed that the more than 120 rockets had at least removed hundreds of experienced gunners and crew members from the South Battery.
A heavy rocket knocks out one person, and the difference in this ratio is beyond the need. But depending on the actual value of the big sale, these big fireworks are not at a loss. Not to mention that Chen Ming was very satisfied with this, thinking that it was the naval division of the Fu Han Army who found a clever way to break through the fort, and together with the European armed merchant ships who accompanied the operation, they also realized this problem for the first time when they saw the rockets of the defeat and defeat of the European pirates in the Sulu Sea.
"The flames of the explosion were so intense that the actual power of such a shell would be much greater than that of the heaviest flowering shell."
Of course, they did not personally walk around the South Battery, and did not see the gunners who were killed in the fort, so it was impossible to truly estimate the power of the heavy rockets. But if a weapon with such a fast rate of fire is used in naval warfare......
David finally knew how the pirates on the Sulu Sea had failed. "Shelley, if such a weapon is used against the Royal Navy, do you think the Navy can defeat the enemy? The power of the sea in this ancient country seems to be far more powerful than we think. ”
Shelley didn't speak, but shook his head fiercely, as a Marine who had served on the warship for many years, Shelley couldn't think of any way to make the battleship cope with such a Chinese attack, although he was not a naval officer by professional training.
"It has a range of up to a mile, a rate of fire that is too fast to count, and so powerful and not so accurate, it's an invincible weapon. As long as there is a group of clippers, relying on this weapon, the Chinese can dominate the world's oceans. ”
In the city of Beijing, the Manchu Qing Dynasty fell into a gloomy cloud. They relied on the horse team of the Great Wall and the New Army of the Eight Banners in front of the Fu Han Army, and their heads were still full of bags.
The Eight Banners New Army, which was trained with the strength of the imperial court, was killed by the Fu Han Army under the competition of the same strength, and the proportion of battle losses between the two sides was still amazing, and the Eight Banners New Army, which had more than ten times the advantage of troops and artillery fire, could not even take down a small Yang Liuqing.
The Fu Han army also freed up two similar weapons, and the longest range could reach three miles, and the power was amazing.
If the Eight Banners New Army could still give spiritual sustenance to the Manchu Qing before entering the war, now their aura has been completely stripped away. Maybe the Eight Banners New Army is really strong, but it just encountered a stronger Fu Han Army, but is it useful to think so?
"Stationmaster, Tartar can't sit still. Today, a lot of people are running out of the inner city. Dressed up one by one, they are ordinary. ”
Yu Zecheng had a real smile on his face, very warm and warm, without the slightest bit of a businessman's philistine. He had a feeling in his heart that the day when he would breathe the air in the sun was not far off. "The Eight Banners that the Tartars blew into the sky and the new army was defeated, and the horse team was no longer useful, and the two naturally knew that Beijing was going to collapse. If it were me, I would run away. ”
"But we don't have to worry about that. Those who escaped will be liquidated in the future, and they really haven't been found out, so it's their fate. Yu Zecheng spread out a map of Beijing on the table in front of him, "Tartars can run, but Beijing City can't be destroyed." Here, there can be no mistakes. This is the death order of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Yu Zecheng pointed to the location of the Old Summer Palace.
With the failure of the battle of Yang Liuqing, the Manchus suffered a very heavy blow mentally, and this year they may be able to exhaust the Han army with their absolute superiority in troops, but what about the next year? In the coming year, the Fu Han army attacked Beijing on a large scale, and the New Army of the Eight Banners could not hold on, and the horse team did not work, could the banner people still be able to keep their country?
"If the Tartars are withdrawn, there will definitely be a lot of Han soldiers left. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was worried that the Manchus were mad and destroyed the city of Beijing before leaving. ”
"But where are the Han people in Beijing who hold military power?"
Yu Zecheng has been in Beijing for many years, how can he not know the ownership of military power in Beijing? Even in the surrounding areas of Beijing, such as Tongzhou and Miyun, Han soldiers who originally held military power were either relocated or sent to the front. And to keep the Old Summer Palace and Beijing City, relying on the power of the dark camp Yu Zecheng is how unreliable he thinks. This still depends on the Fu Han army, they hit quickly, so fast that the Tartars were caught off guard, so that they didn't have time to escape, and naturally they didn't have time to think about sabotage.
"Bang bang......" There were two clear sounds outside the door, and then a man dressed as a guy flashed in, holding a small note in his hand. At this moment, outside the gate of the teahouse, a man dressed as a slave of a wealthy family was sliding his shoulders and walking briskly towards the inner city.
There were not many words on the small note, but the news made Yu Zecheng startled, "Russians ......"
"Quick, report this news to the prince!" (To be continued.) )