Chapter 176: Destroying the withering and decaying
"How is that possible? How can it be? Heavenly soldiers and generals are also helping Wu Sangui's old thief?! ”
Since joining the army at the age of fifteen to the present, he has been rolling and crawling on the battlefield of the two armies in the fierce battle of life and death for more than 40 years, and has experienced no less than 100 battles, Ao Bai is still the first time to lose his soul on the battlefield and scream, and the degree is not only shocking, but also with incomparable fear and despair, just like a rookie who has just entered the battlefield for the first time to see the dead and blood so nervous, so panicked, so timid and afraid, Even the ridiculous words of heavenly soldiers and generals shouted out of their mouths.
If Xiao Mazi was at the scene and saw the frightened and timid expression on Aobai's ugly face at this moment, then Xiao Mazi would definitely laugh out loud and shout excitedly, "Old man Ao, it turns out that you also have today!" ”
I really can't blame Ao Bai for the waste material, the key is that since there are written records, except for myths and stories, no one has really heard or seen the enemy flying in the sky, spreading his wings and soaring in the blue sky and white clouds, Ao Bai has never heard of it, has not seen it, and has never thought about it! Now he saw the soldiers of the Wu army flying in the air, soaring into the sky with the banner of Wu Sangui's army, Ao Bai no longer opened his mouth to stammer, was dumbfounded, and screamed loudly, then Ao Bai's nerves were really thicker and bigger than his tiger's back and bear's waist.
In fact, Aobai's performance has been calculated, all the Qing generals present who are expected to have a telescope, as long as they use the telescope to see the three huge airships, as well as the white 'Wu' character of the black airbag, and see the Wu army flag hanging on the hanging boat, they are completely stupid on the spot, and a few calmer ones screamed like Aobai, and those who were a little less courageous or whose surname was in a hurry were simply sitting on the ground, or kneeling on their knees with a plop, and shouting like crazy, "Heavenly soldiers and generals!" The heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals are coming! ”
Thanks to the blessing of flying in a straight line, it didn't take much time for the Wu army airship team that came from Zhenning to fly over the Wu army's rear team, but the first to be frightened was not the Qing army, but most of the Wu army soldiers who still don't know it, everywhere the airship went, the Wu army soldiers all screamed, or ran around, or knelt down on their knees to bow and worship, desperately kowtowing to pray for God's blessing - if it weren't for the fact that the Qing army had also been shocked and overwhelmed, and had been bombed by the Wu army's rocket array and did not dare to advance an inch, the Qing army took the opportunity to launch a surprise attack, Wu Jun had to suffer a big loss.
Seeing such a scene, Wu Yingqi, who insisted on personally leading the airship team to bomb, of course laughed in the sky, slapping his belly, while Wu Sangui and other senior generals of the Pingxi Royal Mansion were angry and funny, and hurriedly sent a large number of people to send orders and propaganda to tell the soldiers of the Wu Army that it was not demons and monsters flying in the sky, let alone enemies, but the air force of the Pingxi Royal Mansion, which was here to help them kill full of dogs. At the same time, he raised the banner and ordered Wu Yingqi to hurry forward to fight, and not to stay in the rear to intimidate the soldiers of the army.
In order to facilitate the command of the air force, Lu Fatzi specially designed a set of extremely unique methods for Wu Sangui to give orders, that is, let the soldiers hold wooden planks painted with white paint to form a huge white arrow, each arrow commands an airship, so that the airship army can see the order at a glance when looking down at the sky. And when he saw that the three arrows were all pointing straight ahead, the triumphant and high-spirited Wu Yingqi finally stopped boasting about himself, and asked the four airship soldiers of the same boat to quickly shake the propellers and sail forward in the direction with a rope.
In order to meet Wu Yingqi's bombing ** and load more ammunition, the Wu army's airship unit flew at an extremely low altitude this time, less than 150 meters above the ground. Although this is an extremely dangerous altitude for the airship with extremely fragile airbags, when the three Wu army airships flew in front of the Qing army, not only did no one in the Qing army shoot arrows into the sky, but because they were too close to see the Wu army flag and Wu soldiers on the airship, they were even more frightened. The Qing generals and the overseers were all at a loss, completely forgetting to restrain military discipline and stop deserters.
"Drop bombs, drop cluster bombs!" As soon as he flew to the top of the Qing army, Wu Yingqi immediately couldn't wait to yell and flee for his life.
Fortunately, the Wu Army airship soldiers who had obtained Lu Fatzi were very calm, and Yu Tianyu, the current captain of the Wu Army Airship Team, who was the first to parachute from the airship, hurriedly reminded: "Second Prince, you can't throw cluster bombs now, we fly too low, in case the small bomb is blown up into the sky and hits us, we will be in trouble." ”
"Then throw the explosives bag, quick." Wu Yingqi changed his tone and ordered.
"Second Prince, it seems that you should throw the flyer first, right?" Yu Tianyu cautiously reminded again.
"So what are you doing all the time? Throw it away! Wu Yingqi roared and grabbed a stack of flyers, and threw down the airship with his hand, Yu Tianyu and the other four airship soldiers left two people to shake the propellers, and the other two also quickly picked up the flyers and threw them on the ground one by one.
Colorful leaflets fell from the sky, and all of them were printed with eight big characters - Heaven punishes thieves, surrender and don't kill! After the Qing soldiers scrambled to check these heavenly wills and understand the contents, countless Qing soldiers threw down their weapons like crazy, rushed to the front of the Wu army's position, knelt on the ground and shouted surrender, including countless Qing army backbone core Manchurian soldiers, Qing army generals and supervision teams not only couldn't stop it, and even some Qing army grassroots generals surrendered with their teams, and hundreds of thousands of Qing troops were terrified and completely fell into despair.
"The battle of the heart is successful, the total attack!" Wu Laohan annihilated Lao Qiuba, who had been rolling and climbing on the battlefield for decades, and when he saw that the victory was decided, he immediately waved his hand and ordered a general attack.
"Knock knock!" Hundreds of cowhide drums beside the flag array of the Wu army finally sounded, and the various armies of the Wu army, whose morale was greatly boosted, counterattacked in an all-out way, howling like a tide and rushing towards the Qing army, which was far superior in number. At the same time, in order to cooperate with the main battle, the Wu army's airship finally threw bombs downward, and one by one explosive bags weighing three catties fell from the sky and fell into the chaotic Qing army.
Almost at the same time as the Wu army launched a full-scale general attack, Ao Bai finally woke up from the shock, woke up a few pro-soldiers with punches and kicks, and asked them to set Tuhai into the flag array. And after Tuhai arrived in front of Aobai, not only did he not salute, but struggled to limp and rushed to Aobai to kneel down, hugged Aobai's thigh and cried, "Enxiang, it's over, it's over, the heavenly soldiers have descended to earth, we are doomed, we are doomed!" Eun Xiang, what should I do? ”
"What to do? Cold! Ao Bai's expression was very calm, he grabbed Tuhai, first rewarded him with two slaps, beat him to his senses, and then said in a deep voice: "Listen, this is likely to be the old man's last order, the old man now orders you, immediately retreat with all the troops who can still obey the command, do not enter Guiyang City, do not stay in any city in Guizhou, withdraw directly to Huguang from the way they came, take away all the troops along the way, retreat to the Yangtze River defense line, understand?" ”
It took a lot of time for Tu Hai to finally come back to his senses, first nodding his head in understanding, and then exclaiming, "Eun Xiang, what about you?" What do you do? ”
"Don't you want to be a queen?" Ao Bai asked coldly, and said: "The matter of the palace will be handed over to the old man, the old man will try to buy you time, your task is to escape from Guizhou with the Qing army as much as possible, they are all the elite of the Qing Dynasty, each one left is equivalent to keeping one more fire." ”
"Enxiang, let the lowly queen be the queen." Tuhai pleaded pretendedly.
"After such a big defeat, can the old man still run? Is there still a face to run? Ao Bai asked again, and said with a firm expression: "Just do it, you don't have to be modest, there is not much time, and the old man has no time to write a suicide note, the old man's next words, you must remember them all, and transfer them to the emperor for the old man!" ”
Tuhai cried loudly, shook his head in pain, and Ao Bai shouted angrily: "Cry a ball!" Who has not died in ancient times, the old man can return the body of the horse leather, it is already very satisfying, what else is there to regret? Listen to Lao Tzu's words, lead the army to run, the infantry who cleaned the battlefield just now came to report, Wang Jinbao, Lai Ta and Mu Zhan They are not dead, but they are seriously injured, you must take them back to Huguang for the old man, and leave us a few pillars of the Qing Dynasty! Got it? ”
Tu Hai burst into tears and nodded in pain. Ao Bai smiled with satisfaction and said: "Very good, the old man will ask you for the withdrawal from Guizhou, and please tell the emperor, the old man really didn't have the intention of hurting him, in the eighth year of Kangxi, the old man just wanted to abolish him, and he definitely didn't have the slightest intention of killing him, please let him go for the sake of this, let go of the Ban Bushan and Kachuha gangs, they are all pillars of the country, loyal ministers of the court, even if you don't want to use them, don't kill them." Do you remember clearly? ”
"Remember." Tu Hai choked up and agreed.
"There is one more thing, you must report it to the emperor." Ao Bai said solemnly: "After Wu Sangui's rebel thief hit my main force of the Qing Dynasty, he will inevitably go north to Huguang and peep into the Central Plains, you ask the emperor to negotiate peace with Wu Sangui, even if Huguang is given to Wu Sangui's old thief, as long as he can temporarily stabilize Wu Sangui's old thief, he has won a respite and recuperation time for my Qing court. Don't be impulsive, insist on refusing to give in, and continue to meet with Wu Sangui's old thief, then my Qing Dynasty will be ruined. Remember? ”
Tu Hai choked and nodded, at this time, the Wu army airship had almost flown within a mile of the Qing army's flag array, and the Qing army team in front of the flag array either rushed to flee for their lives, or rushed back to the flag array to ask for an order. Seeing that the situation was critical, Tu Hai hurriedly asked again: "Enxiang, do you have anything else to explain?" Wu Gou is about to be killed! ”
"And one last explanation!" Ao Bai said quickly: "Please the emperor must kill Wu Yingxiong, and you must not hand over Wu Yingxiong to Wu Sangui old thief!" As for the crime, you can let the emperor push it on the old man, just say that the old man saw the defeat of the army, and sent someone back to Beijing to vent his anger, and then as long as he can temporarily stabilize the old thief Wu Sangui, even if the old man's family is handed over to the old thief Wu Sangui to deal with! Don't forget, don't let Wu Yingxiong get away! ”
"Eun-sang, why?" Tu Hai was taken aback, and said in his heart that the old man was crazy, not only to take the initiative to charge Wu Yingxiong with private murder, but also to ask Xiao Mazi to hand over his whole family to Wu Sangui, thinking that his family could not cut off his children and grandchildren?
"I don't have time to explain, go back and ask the Queen Mother, she will understand!" Ao Bai yelled, pushed Tu Hai his own personal team, and shouted: "Protect Tu Zhongtang and go first, restrain the rear army to retreat north, and carry Wang Jinbao and Lai Ta away!" ”
Aobai's own soldiers carried Tuhai, who was crying and lost his voice, and left first, Zhou Peigong also quietly followed, although Aobai saw it, he didn't bother to pay attention to it, just beckoned the former generals to step forward, and shouted the order: "The generals listen to the order, and each restrains the army to move closer to the Chinese army, and retreat along the official road to Guiyang!" Then he ordered Yue Le and Le Erjin, ordering them to break through the siege and retreat to Huguang along the way they came, but they must not enter Guiyang City, so as not to be surrounded by the thief army! ”
"Cover." Before the Qing army generals agreed, a Wu army cluster bomb fell from the sky, just in front of the Aobai flag array, this kind of cluster bomb carefully designed by Lu Fatzi is composed of eight explosive tubes and a black powder explosive tube, the black powder paper explosive tube located in the center of the short lead preemptively exploded, and the eight iron explosive tubes were fired in all directions to explode, in order to more effectively kill and injure the enemy. As a result, a bomb fell, and Ao Bai immediately lay down in front of the flag, and two pieces of shrapnel also hit Ao Bai's chest and cheek successively, although it was not fatal, but it also made Ao Bai's face and body bleed.
"What are you doing? Why don't you go back and retreat with your troops? Ao Bai yelled. Before the words fell, another cluster bomb fell, hitting the banner of Aobai, and in the violent explosion, the white-haired banner of Aobai fell in response, and the morale of the Qing army also completely collapsed, and even countless Qing soldiers screamed the slogan that Aobai is dead.
The battle has reached this point, even if Ao Bai has the ability to reach the sky, there is no way to turn the tide of the war, the morale of the Qing army completely collapsed to the north like a tide of fleeing for their lives, trampling on each other in a panic, countless dead, Wu soldiers and soldiers are desperately pursuing by air and land, chasing the Qing army that is still far superior to their own like chasing ducks, slashing and killing the Qing army generals and soldiers like a mad slaughter, killing the Qing army is corpses all over the field, and the blood is full of water.
Cluster bombs in the sky exploded in the middle of the Qing army brigade from time to time, bringing up waves of blood and gunsmoke, almost every cluster bomb went down, twenty or thirty Qing soldiers died on the battlefield, and the Qing soldiers who were knocked down and overturned were trampled by the rain and hail of their companions, and they also screamed that they had lost the opportunity to get back up forever - in this chaotic army, falling down means death!
The front army collapsed, the Chinese army collapsed, the two wings collapsed, and every Qing soldier and general had completely lost the courage to turn back and fight again, and there was only one thought left in his mind, that is, escape, escape! Even if there are few Wu soldiers chasing and killing their own team behind their backs, none of the Qing soldiers thought of turning back to face the battle, but they just desperately fled north, and then fled north, and the Qing army's hat mountain camp was instantly overwhelmed by the defeated soldiers of the Qing army, and the grain and grass that were transported into Guizhou by countless manpower and material resources were abandoned and disregarded, all of which were cheapened by the Wu Lao Han who enjoyed his success.
Not only did the Qing army collapse, but even Wu Sangui's army completely became a mass of scattered sand, and the generals of the Wu army, large and small, led their own teams to rampage in the defeated ranks of the Qing army, fighting separately, desperately slashing and slaughtering the defeated soldiers of the Qing army who had lost the will to fight, even if Wu Laohan annihilated himself, he could only barely restrain Hu Guozhu, who had been guarding by his side, and could not command the rest of the generals to act. However, it doesn't matter to Wu Sangui and the old Han Annihilation, the victory has been decided, and it is time for the soldiers to indulge.
Countless Qing soldiers fled into the deep mountains and old forests on the side of the road, or lost forever in the dark primeval forest, died in the mouth of tigers, wolves and snakes, or were captured alive by the Miao Yi people who fled the war, and every piece of equipment on their bodies was robbed by these poor Guizhou people who couldn't even afford pants, and people died even more miserably.
There were also Qing soldiers who surrendered on their knees, but they were greeted either by the heavy leather shoes of their companions or the blood-stained swords and spears of the Wu soldiers. The northern end of the Anshun Basin was completely stained red with the blood of the Manchus, Han and Meng, and covered with the remains of the corpses of these people.
It was getting late, and in a trance, Wu Sangui and Wu Lao Han seemed to have returned to the night of thirty years, which was also a blood-soaked night, hundreds of thousands of Ming troops fell into a desperate situation because of Hong Chengchou's stupid command, and were forced to break through overnight, and as a result, they were ambushed by the Jiannu Aobai Department, and they were also slaughtered by the Aobai army like a duck, and it happened to catch up with the night tide, and countless Ming soldiers under the command of Wu Sangui were either swept away by the tide, or were slaughtered and killed by the brutal and vicious Jiannu army, Even the soldiers of the Ming army who were lucky enough to become prisoners were few, and Wu Sangui fled back to Ningyuan alone. That night also became Wu Laohan's eternal nightmare.
"It's okay, it's reversed now." Wu Lao Han suddenly smiled, raised his knife and shouted: "Sons, chase Lao Tzu!" Kill Lao Tzu! Avenge Lao Tzu's brothers back then! Snow hate! ”
Although Wu Laohan's words could not be heard by too many Wu soldiers on the crowded battlefield, the Wu soldiers were already doing this, and the Wu soldiers were like swimming dragons, swooping in the defeated soldiers of the Qing army, slashing and killing wantonly, only hating that they couldn't grow an extra arm and an extra hand to slash and stab. Countless Qing soldiers fell off the mountain bridge, and the corpses quickly filled the ravine, blocking the river, and all the rivers along the way were stained red with blood.
It is very fortunate for the Qing army that the official road from Anshun to Guiyang is barely flat, and there are not too many cliffs, so the Qing army team barely avoided the tragedy of being pursued by the Wu army pursuers too tightly and fell off the cliff on a large scale, and was always able to escape to save their lives, but unfortunately, this official road greatly facilitated the comprehensive pursuit of the Wu army's infantry and cavalry. The nearly 200-mile road from Anshun to Guiyang was paved with the corpses of the men and horses of the Qing army overnight, and the blood stained the avenue red, completely turning it into a real bloody road.
The next day, when the Qing army was lucky enough to get rid of the pursuit, the defeated soldiers fled back to Guiyang City in embarrassment and exhaustion, but they saw that they hoped to be able to temporarily take refuge and rest in Guiyang City, which had already ignited a skyrocketing fire, and the tens of thousands of Qing troops stationed in the city had all fled to Huguang, and some Qing army heralds ran to pass the order, "The deputy marshal Tuzhongtang has an order, Guiyang can no longer be defended, and all must be withdrawn to Huguang, and everyone must retreat to Huguang!" ”
"Flee to Huguang? How to escape thousands of miles? Countless Qing soldiers cried in despair, and some angry Qing soldiers even shot and fired arrows at Tuhai's heralds, in order to express the extreme anger in their hearts, "Fuck your mother's Tuhai, you can run away as a dog, why do you want to burn Guiyang City?" So that Lao Tzu doesn't even have a place to rest and eat? ”
"Look, brethren! Look at the hills over there! I don't know who screamed in the defeated ranks of the Qing army, and when countless exhausted Qing soldiers followed the sound, they saw that on the mountainside of Qianling Mountain, the most famous in Guiyang, a flag was hung at some point, and it was fluttering in the wind in the rising sun............
It was a tattered Qing army flag, a white-haired nine-handsome flag.
"Tuhai, this bastard, why are you so stupid?" Ao Bai, whose face was covered with blood, stood proudly, but he was scolding angrily in his heart, "If you withdraw, why do you want to set fire to Guiyang City?" Do you think that Wu Sangui's old thief does not have enough hatred for us, and he must force him to kill us all? Do you still want to force the people of Guizhou to join in the slaughter of our defeated army? ”
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At about the same time, on the official road next to the Huaxi River in Guiyang, the equally exhausted Wu Sangui army had also rested and assembled here, packed up the team and prepared to fight again, and there was also to collect prisoners and treat wounded soldiers along the way, but with the arrival of the Wu army's teams one after another, Wu Laohan suddenly the situation was not right-why even Wu Yingjing's infantry had already come up? A certain self-army unit full of cavalry has not seen a shadow so far?
Thinking of this, Wu Lao Hanjian hurriedly asked the generals beside him, "You guys, who saw Yifeng last night?" And his Qujing army, why can't there be a shadow? ”
The generals of the Wu army shook their heads together, and finally Gao Dejie said: "Lord Wang, it seems that the last general saw the Yifeng brothers in the area of Pingba last night, and he was with his Qujing Green Battalion, but it was too dark and the battlefield was too chaotic, so the last general didn't have time to talk to him." ”
"It's good to see it." Wu Laohan Jian breathed a sigh of relief, and was really a little worried that his grandson-in-law was hanging in the chaos, but Wu Laohan Jian thought about it for a while, and felt that the situation was wrong, so he hurriedly asked: "Wait, Dajie, you walked in front of this king yesterday, since you saw a peak in Pingba, it proves that he is also in front of this king, why did he fall behind this king?" This part of the road is not complicated, is it? ”
"The last general doesn't know this." Gao Dejie was also dumbfounded, and exclaimed, "Don't something happen, right?" It was so chaotic last night, and the moonlight wasn't too bright, did the Yifeng brothers go the wrong way, or did something happen? ”
"Bastard! I really don't let Lao Tzu worry! Wu Laohan burst into flames and shouted: "Send someone to find it, you have to see people in life, and you have to see corpses in death!" This little bastard, who had the ability to fight and disappeared in such a favorable situation last night, Lao Tzu really obeyed him! Pull it back, and never let him go to war again! ”
(To be continued)