Chapter 66: The Battle of Chongming Island (End)

For the first time, the grenade was put into real combat and achieved considerable results. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

However, it was always a close-range defensive weapon, and after the Qing army was prepared, the soldiers who threw grenades were taken care of by the Qing archers.

The vast majority of the soldiers who threw grenades, the first time they took out the grenades, they were overwhelmed by the dense rain of arrows, and even a few unlucky people had already pulled the fuse, but they didn't have time to throw it out..........

"Boom!"

The explosion of the grenade sounded again, and in addition to the camp of the Qing army in front, the chariot battalion of the Qi family army was also injured by mistake because the grenade was not thrown.

The accidental explosion not only killed and injured his own soldiers, but also detonated a Fran cannon that was being loaded with ammunition, and the steel balls in the barrel of the cannon shot out in all directions, instantly clearing a large area around it, making this area lose its means of fire attack in a short period of time.

The Qing army even seized the opportunity and poured into this area in large numbers, wanting to take the opportunity to break through the defense line of the chariot battalion.

"Put on the bayonet and drive the enemy out!"

"Bombardiers hide behind the chariot and throw, don't take the lead!"

"Rocket car salvo to block enemy reinforcements!"

Faced with an unexpected situation, the front-line commander hastened to issue a remedial order.

In the past, the firearms of the Ming army was also very strong, and the number of troops each time they left the station was even much more than that of the enemy army, but why were they often not the opponents of the enemy army?

The tactical thinking of the commander is a key to this, and whenever a battle is launched, some commanders will even follow the tactics of the cold weapon era and take the lead in charging in order to boost morale.

Firearms battles are not cold weapons battles, the commander is the brain of the entire unit, especially in the event of an emergency, the most test is the commander's ability to adapt to changes, if the commander does not care about rushing forward, the advantage of the firearms unit will no longer exist.

Throughout the history of the Ming Dynasty, there were only a few famous generals who could understand the importance of commanders to firearms units.

Fortunately, this batch of Ming troops has learned extremely advanced knowledge of firearms and tactics, and their on-the-spot adaptability is still good, and after a series of orders were issued, the riots in the chariot battalion finally subsided.

When the Qing army rushed closer, but was stopped by the chariots, and the bombardier became cautious after the initial accidental injury, the Qing army was never able to break through to the formation despite its fierce attack.

"My lord, this chariot battalion is equipped with too many firearms, and they are fired continuously, and it is difficult for the soldiers to break through!" A Qing army general said.

The chariot battalion they faced before, among which there was still half of the cold-weapon troops, although it was a little difficult to bite, but if they broke through from one point at any cost, took advantage of the gap in the opponent's firepower, and after engaging with them in short arms, they could always take down the chariot battalion by relying on their own continuous reinforcement of troops.

But now the tank battalion encountered, all the staff are equipped with firearms, the Fur machine is finished, the rocket continues to be aggressive, the rocket is fired, the bird gun fills the shooting gap, and when the bird gun is loaded with ammunition, the palm of the hand (grenade) fills the fire gap, even if it really rushes to the front, before the tank is crossed, it is stabbed to death by a group of soldiers with spears (bayonets).

When this wave was defeated, there was not much left of the Qing army's charging troops, and as for the follow-up reinforcements, they had to face the reloading of the Fran planes, rocket cars, and bird guns.

Just when Bolo was considering whether to withdraw the army and destroy the enemy's rear reinforcements first, the officer who was in charge of setting up the artillery came in a hurry again: "Lord Qiqi, the artillery is already in place and ready to be fired at any time!" ā€

"Good! Order, all artillery state solid shells, give me fire at the enemy tank battalion! All the infantry continue to attack, and the enemy cannot be given the slightest respite! "Bolo gave the order for a general attack.

The distance of the solid bullet can reach more than 1,000 meters, and the Ming army now uses the flowering projectile, which has a range of only 500 meters, which is more than double the range, and the Qing army can easily hit the Ming army's chariot battalion, but the Ming army's artillery shells cannot touch the side of the Qing army's artillery.

As the cannon rang out in the Qing army's camp, the Qing army's attack became more and more frenzied.

"What's going on! How could the Qing army also have artillery, could it be that the warship could not be driven ashore? "The Ming generals were stunned by the sudden artillery fire.

Although the opponent fired a solid bullet, the killing effect on personnel is not great, but it is very lethal to the tank, high-speed flying shells, often slightly rubbing the tank, then the tank is basically scrapped.

The first round of salvo fire by the Qing army fired more than 100 shells, destroying more than 20 chariots in an instant.

"The Qing army had a good plan, and actually dismantled the artillery on the warship! It seems that this place cannot be waited long, and it is necessary to break through to the rear, even if it cannot be protruded, it is necessary to get out of the range of artillery. Qi Zhifeng finally understood why the Qing army gave an hour of "consideration" time.

"But there are more troops in our rear, and it's hard to rush out!" Some generals were worried.

According to the feedback from the battle, there were at least 30,000 Qing troops blocking the rear, which belonged to the enemy's key attack area.

"No matter how difficult it is, you have to rush, otherwise staying here will be finished sooner or later, leave the scrapped artillery trucks alone, concentrate all the rocket vehicles and the general cannon (vehicle-mounted Hongyi cannon) for me, and open a gap to the rear." Qi Zhifeng issued a breakout order.

The Hongyi cannon is very powerful, but the reloading speed is extremely slow, and the limited number (only eight) has been hidden by Qi Zhifeng, and now it is just using it to open the gap.

Eight Hongyi cannons, four large rocket vehicles, and more than 80 Fran cannons in the direction of the chariot battalion's breakthrough, with a single salvo, created a weak area of about one kilometer in the rear.

Qi Zhifeng even transferred the 5,000 flintlock musketeers of his team to form a mandarin duck formation and fired progressive shots towards the rear to cover the retreat of the chariot battalion.

"The Ming army is about to escape, everyone charge with me!" There were Qing generals shouting loudly, trying to boost morale.

Not to mention, this effect is quite good, except for the Qing army in the direction of the chariot battalion breakthrough, no one dares to step forward to defend it now, and the Qing army on the other three sides has once again increased the frequency of attack.

Immediately after that, the second round of artillery shelling of the Qing army sounded again.

Due to the large area of the tank battalion, the Qing army's artillery fire could only reach one-third of the tank battalion, but this was enough, because for every time a gun carriage or rocket car was destroyed, the firepower of the tank battalion would be weakened by one point.

Once the firepower is weakened, the threat to the infantry of the Qing army will also be weakened, and before it could only rush to about 50 meters in front of the chariot battalion, but now after two rounds of artillery fire, the Qing army has been able to break through to the chariot battalion and engage in a white-knuckle battle with the Ming army.

With the influx of Qing troops, the retreat of the chariot battalion was forced to stop, and it could only stop and continue to defend.

"Fuck! Since the Tartars won't let us go, let's give him some color to see, and order the general's cannon to bombard me towards the Qing army's artillery array, and then transfer fifty furlong cannons, load solid shells, and support the general's cannon! ā€

Since there is no hope of breaking through, it is necessary to take out the opponent's artillery first.

The breakthrough failed, Qi Zhifeng took out one-third of the artillery, and engaged in an artillery battle with the Qing army, and the defense of the chariot battalion suddenly weakened a lot, if it was not equipped with enough flintlock pistols and grenades, which were melee killing weapons, at this time this Qi army was afraid that it would have fallen into the predicament of white-knuckle warfare.

Even so, a quarter of the chariot battalion was stuck by the Qing army and could not give full play to its firepower advantage.

"General, it can't go on like this, although our breakthrough this time was unsuccessful, most of them were out of the range of Qing artillery fire, it is better to leave a part of the break, we will concentrate our firepower and continue to break through." A general proposed.

His meaning was obvious, to abandon the quarters of the soldiers, and by the way, let them break off, and the remaining three-quarters of the artillery could be used intensively and continue to break through.

"But those are my brothers!" Qi Zhifeng knew that this was the best way at the moment, but he was the main general, how could he bear to do this.

"General, when it is broken, it will be broken!"

"That is, we still have the strength to fight now, and the most important thing at the moment is to join forces with the general soldier, and maybe we can turn defeat into victory!"

A group of generals persuaded one after another.

"In this way, this officer will stay with the chariot battalion, form a new defensive formation, cover the retreat of the brothers who were entangled by the Qing army, and the flintlock brigade will cover the wounded brothers to continue to break through, and join the general army earlier, if there is a chance, come to the rescue of us again." Qi Zhifeng thought of a compromise solution.

If only a part of the broken troops were left, then these people would definitely die, and there was a chariot battalion to drag them down, although the firepower was sufficient, but due to the speed of movement, they might not be able to break through the enemy's defense line in the end, so they simply left the entire chariot battalion behind.

The Qing army in the direction of the Qi family's army breakthrough had been frightened by the previous firepower volley, and arranged for the flintlock pistol troops to continue to break through, and with the explosive power of the grenade, it may not be impossible to fight.

"General, you lead the troops to break through, and we can stay and hold off the enemy." Some generals felt that Qi Zhifeng, as the main general, could not stay here and wait for death.

"Don't say it, since I am the main general, I should listen to me here, obey the order, and hurry up to carry it out." Qi Zhifeng refused.

Qi Zhifeng's side saw that he couldn't resist it, and he was already preparing to break through, but Qi Hongying's side had the upper hand.

Zheng Chenggong led the troops to rush over and took over the white-knuckle battle of the Qi family's army, giving Qi Hongying time to form a mandarin duck formation.

When the familiar sound of grenade explosions sounded again, the officers and soldiers of the 5,000 cavalry battalions who had been baptized by grenades before finally couldn't stand it, and they threw away their armor and fled in all directions.

However, the Qing army is not facing 5,000 Qi troops this time, and there is still a chance to gather troops after the rout, Zheng Chenggong is also a ruthless person, seeing the defeat of the other party, he seized the fighter plane, led 20,000 Ming troops, and chased 30,000 Qing troops behind the buttocks and slashed hard.

Throughout the woods, there were shouts of killing and wailing everywhere, and compared to the chariot battalion of the Ming army, the blocking force of the Qing army was the first to collapse.

Qi Hongying gathered the headquarters of the Qi family's army, and before she had time to count the battle damage, she hurriedly advanced towards the area where Qi Zhifeng was trapped, because she had already heard the guns of the chariot battalion and knew that her cousin's troops were still resisting..........

On the first day of the Qing army's landing on Chongming Island, because of a small grenade, it directly launched a decisive battle with the defenders of Chongming Island.

However, this battle, when Bolo shifted the main target to Qi Zhifeng, it was doomed to failure.

Take 60,000 people to smash more than 8,000 hard-to-gnaw bones, give up one-third of your own troops, attack the enemy's strengths with your own shortcomings, and only if you don't lose can you have ghosts.

When Qi Hongying led his team to attack from the rear of the Qing army and joined up with more than 4,000 Qi army musketeers, the Qing army completely lost its fighting spirit..........

There was still a fierce battle ahead, and a Qing army general with a bloodstained face, carefully holding a grenade in both hands, walked quickly to Bolo's side: "Lord Belle, we got it, we got it!" ā€

The Qing army paid a heavy price, and finally harvested a few grenades that were too late to detonate on the corpses of the Ming soldiers who died in the chariot battalion.

"Hey! For this little palm thunder, the price we paid is really too great! Bolo sighed.

"My lord, it's not good! General Li led Tai's troops to be routed by the reinforcements of the Ming army, and a large number of Ming troops converged with the Qi family army in front of the battle and killed us! "The herald brought bad news.

"How many people do we have to fight in our army today?" Bolo asked.

"General Li's troops are not clear, but now there are less than 50,000 troops left in front of the battle." A general replied.

"Li Shuotai's troops are estimated to be more auspicious and less auspicious, and the front-line soldiers have been fighting continuously, and they are already exhausted, I am afraid that it will be difficult to continue fighting, we have lost this battle, let's retreat, and we can go as much as we can." Bolo said with a blank face.

If there were ordinary Ming soldiers in front, Bolo would never give the order to retreat, but the other party was an elite army that could withstand 100,000 troops for most of the day with 8,000 people, and even killed and injured nearly 10,000 elite troops.

Such troops, who knows how many more there are on Chongming Island?

Li led Tai's 35,000 blocking troops, from the beginning of the war to the present, the entire line retreated in less than an hour, which is enough to prove the elite degree of this army, and the Qing army wants to fight this army, it must ensure that the soldiers are energetic, and the strength is several times that of the enemy, and it may be able to fight with it.

It's a pity that the Qing army has just landed on the island, the foundation is unstable, and the soldiers are fighting continuously, and they are already physically and mentally exhausted.

Bolo left Li led more than 30,000 Han troops, and only led 60,000 soldiers to leave, but fortunately the artillery on the warship and a large number of ruts were unloaded, otherwise even 60,000 soldiers could not be taken away.

Although the Qing army lost 40,000 people, only 15,000 were killed, and the remaining 25,000 people, including Li Shutai, basically surrendered or were captured.

If it weren't for the Qing army and the warships as a way out, this battle of Chongming Island would definitely be over if one side had to be wiped out.

Although the Ming army won a big victory, the price to pay was not small, and in order to break through quickly, the 5,000 Qi family army finally carried out a white-knuckle battle, killing more than 1,000 people.

The chariot battalion suffered the heaviest losses, and was completely wiped out by the Qing army by one-third, such a large battle loss would have collapsed long ago if the previous Ming army had collapsed, but the chariot battalion finally withstood the fierce attack of the Qing army.

Just because they are the victorious Qi family army, they can't embarrass the Qi family army..........

"A unit with a military soul is truly invincible, and the Qi family army is such a force!" This is the evaluation given by Li Hongfei.

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