Chapter 344: Retreat to Miyagi
The city is broken, the first to break through from the north of the city, there, is the Hunan army's ace Bao Chao's army attack location, the trump card is the trump card, with elite soldiers, with the strongest firepower, with the most skilled combat skills, so, the troops cooperate tacitly, the defending Huaxia Army a regiment is disabled,
The regiment of the Huaxia Army is defending at a position of more than 1,000 meters, of course, its strength is very limited, basically one person on the one-meter city wall, and it is attacked by the enemy in several places, and it is immediately overstretched.
In this way, the Huaxia army bombarded the canned explosives packs and ignited grenades at the place where the enemy was concentrated, so that the enemy's attack paid a heavy price.
The eyes of Bao Chao, the chief general of the Qing army, were red,
He had never fought such a battle, the enemy was too cunning, the force was too fierce, a bag of explosives came down, and Hu rumbling was a large number of dead and wounded,
The bodies of more than 2,000 people piled up together are magnificent,
The Qing army was annoyed and angry, Bao Chao was even more angry, but he was definitely not a reckless person, under the multi-faceted plagiarism, he used foreign artillery to bombard a place, so that the Chinese officers and soldiers could not raise their heads, and then, the Qing army bombarded dozens of meters on both sides of the breakthrough point, repeatedly bombarded, in order to isolate the reinforcements of the Chinese army from entering, so the infantry of the Qing army quickly climbed and attacked,
After paying a heavy price, the Qing army finally stood on the head of the city of Nanjing.
It can be said that the Qing army fought a good battle, better than the previous siege of Tianjing City under the defense of Li Xiucheng, at that time, the attack was invincible, and the Qing army had to dig tunnels to bombard the city with mines.
It's not that Li Xiucheng is more capable, but the Qing army is ruthless this time, and it doesn't matter how many casualties there are,
After Luo Yang learned that there was a breach in the north of the city, he immediately mobilized reserves to rush to the battlefield to plug the loopholes, and the two companies did not have many troops, but they used a few cannons to bombard the Qing army into a mess, with a large number of casualties, and actually plugged the loopholes.
What kind of person Bao Chao is, he hasn't risen high, and when he saw that the breakthrough point was blocked, he suddenly jumped like thunder.
The Qing army attacked continuously and repeatedly, not only suffering heavy casualties on its own, but also causing the casualties of the Huaxia army to rise rapidly.
Li Xiucheng rushed to the battlefield with his wounds and served as the commander of the north of the city, and the rest of the Chinese officers and soldiers were also very brave.
Luo Yang's reserves have been exhausted, intercepted several breakthroughs of the Qing army, looked at the situation, and decisively sent a thousand female soldiers, first rushed to the Tianwang Palace to defend, and then, a large number of artillery fire, explosives and other materials were mobilized there, seeing that all the materials would be exhausted, the situation is indeed not optimistic,
Li Xiucheng sent people from the north of the city and suggested to Luo Yang, "King Rui, the Hunan demon is attacking to the death, and our army is outnumbered, so we should withdraw from the siege of the city and move outside the city." ”
It was another plan to let the city go, so Luo Yang sent someone to reprimand him,
Li Xiucheng's loyal and cowardly character cannot be changed, although he is willing to fight to the death, he can't stick to the end.
The Huaxia army fought fiercely repeatedly, with less than 9,000 people, and had already lost 2,000 people, so Luo Yang ordered the officers and soldiers to resist bravely and save ammunition at the same time.
Although the Qing army was fierce, there were too many casualties and had to stop the attack.
Luo Yang decisively ordered each to capture, retreated back to the Tianwang Palace, dug a ravine nearby, and relied on the palace wall to defend, in fact, the Tianwang Palace is a very large military fortress, similar to the fortress in Ma Hualong's Jinji Fort,
In order to kill and injure a large number of enemies, after retreating, Luo Yang also adopted the method of small-scale attacks, and near several city gates, ambushed troops, and simply opened the gates.
The Qing army really hit the plan, since climbing the city wall suffered heavy casualties, it must be better to attack the city gate directly, seeing that the Huaxia army has retreated, and the city gate is open, the Qing army, which was suspicious for a while but has no choice, can only rush,
In the north of the city, dozens of Qing soldiers rushed in and were immediately beaten into garbage by the rain of foreign guns and bullets.
Bao Chao was very happy, since the Huaxia army ambushed foreign spearmen, it means that the force is not very strong, so he immediately attacked, and more than 1,000 Qing troops swarmed in from the city gate.
The Qing army rushed in very smoothly, but unfortunately, they were not very happy, and they did not adapt to the environment in the city, and they saw that those Chinese officers and soldiers threw grenades and other things, and they were killed and wounded one hundred and ten, and the Qing army with crowd tactics came one after another, shooting the Chinese army with foreign guns, etc., causing them certain casualties, and the Huaxia army saw that they could not control it, and made some small movements, turned around and ran,
Because there was a newly dug ravine to block it, the Qing army did not catch up.
The Qing army, which was rushing in, was continuing to advance at the position inside the city gate, and suddenly, there was a loud bang, and a large area burst into the sky.
The Huaxia army ambushed the mines, and blew up a large area of the Qing army near the city gate.
Finally, the brigade of the Qing army entered the city, the corpses were mountains and blood seas, everyone was angry like hungry wolves, running around, and finally, concentrated in the Tianwang Palace, here, the Huaxia army was waiting for it,
The Qing army swooped, the Huaxia army resisted, using ravines, etc., using palace walls, etc., with high and low cooperation, foreign artillery, foreign guns, flying thunder cannons, etc., the Qing army was blown up to countless casualties, and it was impossible to advance.
The Huaxia Army, which has shrunk the battle line, has sufficient troops to defend and prepare, so it is more calm to defend.
Zeng Guofan and other generals entered the city after taking the lead, appeared in the ranks of the Qing army, observed the Tianwang Palace, and regretted that after the occupation and robbery, they did not burn it in time, and on the other hand, they observed the enemy's defensive position.
"The thieves are well-armed, and it's not easy to fight." Zeng Guofan had to admit,
The Qing army stopped attacking, and the generals mobilized troops, prepared supplies and tactics, and conspired.
If the Qing army does not attack and dies in the siege, there is no problem if the Heavenly King Palace can hold out for a week, if the Qing army attacks to the death, it is difficult to know, anyway, after the gunpowder or something here has been fought repeatedly, there is really not much left,
Li Xiucheng asked: "King Rui, is it possible that Huaxia Tian only has these 10,000 people of yours." ”
Luo Yang said with a smile: "Where, there is a large area in Jiangbei, and the area around Shanghai is also within the scope of our army." ”
Li Xiucheng had attacked Shanghai, and knew the strength of the foreign gun team, so he admired and complained: "Then you came to attack Nanjing, and there were too few people with you." ”
Luo Yang was helpless: "I can't contact Jiangbei in time." "The heart said, if there was a mobile phone, a telephone, a telegram, how cool it would be,
The Qing army actually did not attack, which made Luo Yang more worried, he understood that the Qing army suffered extremely serious casualties, and if it took a few more hours, the morale would inevitably collapse, so he thought of an idea,
Zeng Guoquan and Liu Songshan, Liu Jintang, Lian Jie, Zhu Hongzhang and others were all escorted up and appeared on the palace wall, and then, the Huaxia army shouted loudly for the Qing army to see, "Listen, Fan Er Qing Demon, stop the attack immediately, otherwise, we will kill them." ”
Huaxia Jun not only shouted, but also told the Qing army who controlled it in their hands, and then took out the torn socks from their mouths.
In broad daylight, the visibility is very good, the environment of the pre-industrial era is not polluted, and the Western telescopic mirror, the officers and soldiers of the Qing army can see clearly,
"That's not the Nine Marshals,."
"Yes, it's his old man."
Here are suspicions, discussions, and worries, but on the palace wall, Zeng Guoquan and others shouted: "Quick, kill, kill, come and attack, leave us alone." ”
Liu Songshan and others also shouted together,
The Qing army was stimulated, thought about it again, and sent someone to shout, willing to forgive the lives of the Huaxia army in exchange for their own generals,
Huaxia Jun refused,
"Kill." Zeng Guofan hesitated for a while, tired with heat, and decisively ordered,
"Kill." Many Qing officers and soldiers knew what this military order meant, so they were also very brave enough to respond to the call and charge in formation.