Chapter 358: The Left Army Collapses
Without any suspense, the Huaxia army attacked the city of Hangzhou, and then, using the superior artillery, destroyed the stubborn resistance of the Qing army, and won victory after victory.
Xu Zhanbiao, the general of the Qing army, is a cadre of wisdom and bravery, but he is unable to deal with the barbaric artillery of the Huaxia Army, when the two armies confront, at the beginning, the Qing army has a geographical advantage, the infantry is hidden behind the house, determined to fight house by house, street by street, to consume the Huaxia army to the greatest extent,
The Qing army fought bravely and shot skillfully, killing many Chinese officers and soldiers on the way forward, or at the intersection of the street where they reconnoitred.
The Huaxia army was furious, and immediately mobilized flying thunder cannons to bombard the enemy, and actually destroyed all the houses and ground of the residents.
After the war, not only Luo Yang criticized the artillery, but also the Huaxia Army itself felt that it was too cruel, because many residents were also killed in the houses.
The power of the flying thunder cannon is too great, and it often reimburses dozens of hidden Qing soldiers together with one shot.
The Qing army is not an opponent at all, the famous general Xu Zhanbiao was so angry that he vomited several liters of blood, and he had to lead the remnants to escape to the back.
After breaking the city, the troops of the Huaxia Army immediately stopped the feint attack to avoid indifferent losses, so it also gave the Qing army a large number of opportunities to gather and reinforce the southern part of the city.
Zuo Zongtang was shocked by the break, but he was not overly worried, in his opinion, as long as the Qing army counterattacked anytime and anywhere, the Huaxia army could be suppressed, because, similar things, in the past few years of battles, there have been a lot, in the end, the Qing army is victorious,
Zuo Zongtang personally sat in the south of the city, dispatched troops to reinforce, and also issued a murderous military order, ordering the officers and soldiers to fight to the death and not take a step back.
The posture of the Qing army's mighty advance made Zuo Zongtang very pleased, and he personally rode out on horseback and led his cronies to supervise the battle.
It's a pity that as soon as he arrived at the confrontation line, he was stunned, this is a war, ah, it's clearly looking for death,
The Qing army charged forward in clusters, and was also knocked down by the enemy piece by piece, and there were mutilated corpses and arms and legs everywhere, and there was blood everywhere, and it had become a hell on earth.
"It's horrible." Zuo Zongtang shouted in his heart, but he didn't say anything,
In a short time, more than 200 flying thunder cannons, all of which entered the city and were equipped with infantry teams, and the infantry also quickly increased to more than 10,000 people, divided into several roads, and attacked the front.
A few flying thunder cannons, ravaging the streets and houses in front, dozens of infantry, immediately occupied the ruins, searching for the remnants of the Qing army,
A large number of officers and soldiers of the Qing army were directly torn to pieces by the air wave of the shell explosion, and some were stunned, lying half-dead in the streets and dust.
The Qing army's casualty rate was alarmingly high,
This is not a battle, but a massacre, and the Chinese officers and soldiers who participated in the battle recalled one after another,
The officers of the Qing army, some people who were lucky enough to survive, were particularly impressed by this, where is the war, it is looking for death, really looking for death, a lot of them, a large group, waiting for people to bombard, people's infantry is far away, they don't even bother to fight guns and bullets, only let the shells bombard, the Chinese army has an amazing number of shells,
This is a Tufa cannonball, a real foreign artillery shell, which is pitifully rare, so it is only used in suppression battles outside the city, and the rest are explosives packs, things developed by Tufa, which can be made as long as there is gunpowder, and the source is very wide and the quantity is very sufficient.
"My lord, my lord, the enemy, the bandits' cannons are really powerful, our army is not an opponent." Finally, an officer ran to Zuo Zongtang to report the truth,
"The artillery of the bandits, hum, is there very little artillery in our army?" Zuo Zongtang didn't know how powerful the enemy's artillery was, but he was already confused.
Angry is angry, Zuo Zongtang quickly changed his methods, he ordered the troops to retreat quickly, only ambushed with a small number of troops, sniped the Huaxia army with foreign guns, and hesitated the progress of the enemy army.
"Immediately retreat to the east of the city, and prepare to retreat by water." Zuo Zongtang said decisively,
The Qing army prepared an escape route on the river in the east of the city, so it was so bold.
It's a pity that the sniper troops of the Qing army are too watery, and they can't hold the charge of the Huaxia army at all, as soon as they see the Qing army defeated one after another, the Huaxia army knows that victory is already in hand, and it is even more arrogant, the soldiers don't even listen to the command, decisively infiltrate the impact, and fight hard, especially the troops on the city wall, suppress the enemy with firepower, assault along the city wall, and advance more rapidly,
On the city wall in the west of the city, more than 2,000 Qing troops were intercepted, all of whom were killed, and the battle death is good, but in fact, they were all bombarded to death, and the Qing army concentrated to resist, it would be bombarded by artillery, bombarded by grenades, and if it was dispersed, it would be attacked by the rifle and foreign gun fire of the Huaxia army, and it would have no ability to resist at all.
The battle showed a one-sided trend early, the Qing army collapsed on all fronts, and the tide generally retreated towards the east of the city.
Luo Yang entered the city, ordered the troops to advance quickly, and after learning that the Qing army had been retreating eastward, he sent several troops to infiltrate and intersperse forward, and also sent people to give an order to the cavalry regiment lurking in the south of the city.
This cavalry regiment quickly rushed back, because the enemy situation changed, and they had to take the east road, so they could only rush to the east of the city to intercept the enemy.
In fact, the situation is not as simple as Luo Yang imagined, the Qing army has already collected a large number of ships, and there is no need to go somewhere in the east of the city, but to gather somewhere in the city, and you can get on the boat and escape on the Qiantang River.
The heroic assault of the Huaxia army, especially those infiltrated troops, was even braver, they even changed the uniform of the Qing army, and were able to advance smoothly, an infiltration force of one hundred and ten people, even interspersed with the vicinity of Zuo Zongtang's army, and almost captured Zuo Daren alive,
Another infiltration force, all the way to the storm, beat the Qing army to cry dad and mother, and finally interspersed with a prescription place, ha, the front is not the riverside, a large number of ships, ah,
A small number of Qing troops were guarding, so they rushed up and annihilated them.
Because the weapons and ammunition had been exhausted, these boys rushed directly to fight hand-to-hand with the troops guarding the ships of the Qing army, and there were many casualties, but as soon as they occupied the ships, they were happy, "Spicy Gopeck, burn it for me." ”
The ignited fire quickly burned the ships, and the tung oil applied to prevent flooding became a terrible incendiary agent, and dozens of ships were wiped out in the fire.
This unit was later specially rewarded by Luo Yang, and they killed thirty large ships and twenty-five small and medium-sized ships, which could allow at least two thousand Qing troops to escape.
The battle lasted until the afternoon, because of the interception of the infiltrated Huaxia army, the Qing army could not gather in time to board the ship, only to continue the battle, and in the second half of the night, finally killed a few bloody roads, and the division was met.
Zuo Zongtang led the officers and soldiers, and finally gathered his cronies and generals together, boarded the boat and prepared to leave, but unfortunately, the Qiantang River tide broke out.
The mighty river tide quickly swept away the forward ships of the Qing army, and the follow-up officers and soldiers decisively escaped from the ships and climbed ashore before escaping.
Zuo Zongtang committed suicide with a knife and was intercepted,