Chapter Seventy-Eight

Originally, according to Li Hongfei's combat idea, it was to hold the landing port, wait for the convergence with Guo Sheng's breakthrough troops, and then withdraw to Zhenjiang. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, due to a communication error, Zhang Chao's troops waited for a long time, and there was no trace of the breakthrough troops.

So in order to complete the task, Zhang Chao ordered the whole army to land.

It's not that Zhang Chao is conceited, thinking that with only five or six hundred people, he can fight against tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Qing army, but that he must make an offensive posture in order to attract enough Qing troops to break through and buy time for Guo Sheng and others.

Otherwise, a group of people stayed on the ship, and the Qing army knew that they couldn't help the other party, and at most they would send a small force to monitor, and they would not pay attention to Zhang Chao and the others..........

It is better to say that the personnel landing, but when the Furlong machine lands, it is necessary to stop firing, and even if it is an alternate cover landing, the density of firepower will be greatly reduced.

The Qing generals seized this gap and sent two associations (more than 8,000 people) to attack quickly, trying to drive the support army down the river in one fell swoop.

However, Zhang Chao's reinforced battalion, with a long-range Furlong machine gun and flintlock fire in the middle, even if it rushed to the front and grenades beckoned, how could it be so easy to break through?

However, the general of this Qing army also came down from the battlefield of Chongming Island, and he also knew a lot about the three-plate axe of the Ming army's new firearms, and he understood that if he wanted to break this firearm formation, he could not have the slightest hesitation, and he must rush forward in one go, and engage in a white-knuckle battle with the other party.

Only by completely entangling the other party can we avoid the destruction of the palm thunder.

So the Qing army was divided into straggler fronts, and after paying a heavy price, they finally reached the explosion range of the grenade, which is the most critical thing, as long as they dodge this blow, they can engage in white-knuckle combat with the Ming army, drag the Ming army's firepower, and strive for opportunities for the follow-up troops.

The Qing army had a good idea, but when they rushed past the explosion range of the grenade, they found that the soldiers at the front of the Ming army were each holding a strange shape of a firearm about eight inches (25 centimeters) long.

Under a volley of firepower, it was not easy to rush over, and the Qing army, which was already one of the few in the past, fell in an instant.

The Qing army was also persistent, and the troops in front were basically wiped out, and the soldiers who rushed through the grenade-covered area in the back continued to attack.

"Your palm thunder is still over, and the fire gun is over, see what you can resist, as long as you engage in white-knuckle combat, then you will definitely be defeated.........."

The Qing army's idea was good, but the ending was tragic, because the Ming soldiers who had finished the first round of firearms did not retreat, but held the strange-shaped firearms, shook them twice, and then played the second round again............

Okay, your fire gun is really weird, but one gun can fire two shots in a row, can it still be like a three-eyed gun, three shots in a row?

So the Ming army shook the revolver again and fired a third shot.

It's good, it's very powerful, you have the ability to use a gun and shoot a fourth shot!

The result speaks for itself, and the Qing army was slapped in the face again.........

In a short period of time, after five consecutive firepower volleys, the Qing army finally collapsed, no matter how tenacious their willpower was, in the face of the mysterious fire gun of "infinite bursts", no one had the courage to continue to rush again.

Heavy casualties are one thing, the self-made guns in the rear of the Ming army have passed through this firepower vacuum and have been reloaded again, while the Ming army's Fran machine guns, although the firepower has been halved because of the landing, but it can still suppress the large forces in the rear of the Qing army, resulting in the fact that the Qing army can break through the fire blockade of the troops, and can not fill the loss gap on the front line at all.

After a quick charge, the two associations of the Qing army lost two battalions (one infantry battalion of 659 people), which was not much worse than the previous battle losses on Chongming Island.

You must know that the Qing army is on Chongming Island, but it is facing 5,000 Qi family troops and a chariot battalion!

Moreover, although the Suzhou New Army is not equipped with heavy artillery, it has more miniaturized and faster firepower equipment than the Qi Army, and even if the Qing army retreats, the Suzhou New Army can chase after the Qing soldiers and beat them up, and the results achieved are naturally multiplied.

Sure enough, in the ensuing pursuit battle, the Suzhou New Army once again eliminated a battalion of the opponent, and in the end, Bolo transferred the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, using the advantage of cavalry and archery, to barely stabilize the position.

The Qing army topped the cavalry battalion, but it was just to stabilize the position, the Suzhou New Army at this time Furlong machine guns, has all landed, and set up in place, at this time if the cavalry dares to charge, it is definitely how many come, how many die.

The two infantry divisions that had previously attacked the new army in Suzhou, after a charge and a counter-charge, lost nearly 2,000 men in three battalions, and only more than 6,000 defeated soldiers were left.

Bolo also knew that it was no longer realistic to let these people resist the Ming army in front of him, and the best way was to transfer to the south gate and use the victory at the south gate to awaken the bloody nature of these defeated soldiers.

Bolo's idea is good, blame this Qing army for being too unlucky, not long after heading to the south gate, he ran into the "thousands of troops" led by Guo Sheng, just the army is okay to say, everyone is mixed together, and when the nearby reinforcements come, this army of thousands of people will soon be wiped out.

The key is that the forward troops on the opposite side, each armed with weapons, are exactly the same as the army that defeated them before.

Coupled with the fact that the sky is getting darker, and there is a large group of people in the back, who knows if they are all armed with this terrifying firearm?

Soon, this Qing army of more than 6,000 people, after Guo Sheng showed the "shaking gun", did not start fighting, and dispersed as birds and beasts.

"It turned out that the reinforcements were sent by adults, sending a signal to inform the other party of our location." After Guo Sheng figured out the reason, he ordered his subordinates to fire signal flares.

The so-called signal flare is a ceremonial bomb similar to the "Monkey in the Sky", the reason why Guo Sheng did not launch it before was because he found Yangzhou City, and also used this kind of signal flare to transmit information, he was afraid of misleading the defenders in the city, so he did not launch it when he broke through.

Now that the reinforcements have arrived, and it is getting late, I am worried that I will accidentally hurt my own people, so it is necessary to send a signal to remind the reinforcements.

As soon as the signal flare was issued, not only Zhang Chao saw it, but also Liu Zhaoji, the governor of the left capital who was struggling to resist the Qing army's attack in the north of the city.

"Didn't you say that the inside should work together to attack the Qing army? How did you run to the riverside! Liu Zhaoji was puzzled.

"This signal is a signal of the city being broken, or a signal of defeat, could it be that the superintendent went out of the city to meet the Qing army and failed?" Someone asked.

"Report to the general, the east and south of the city have been occupied by the Qing army, and a large number of Qing soldiers are about to pour into the north of the city!" The herald brought even worse news.

The Qing army in the south of the city, after being scuttled through the camp by Guo Sheng, did not dare to defend with this group of "dancing gods" army at all, and one by one the generals quickly made a decision in their hearts to hand over Guo Sheng's team to the friendly forces behind.

He led the army to continue to advance, and took the attack on Yangzhou City as the main task, so as a matter of course, he poured his army into Yangzhou City.

The whole battlefield has become delicate because of this, and the Qing army and the Ming army have actually become you fight yours, I fight mine, and they don't interfere with each other...........

"Phew! His grandma's! Liu Zhaoji burst into foul language for the first time, then sorted out his emotions, turned his head and said to the few remaining soldiers: "All the soldiers retreated with me into the nearby houses, and I want to fight with Qinggou, street by street, house by house!" ”

It is impossible to cooperate with the outside world, and now the only thing that can be done except surrender is to engage in street fighting with the Qing army.