Chapter 138: Kill or bury!
It's just that cornfields are so easy to drill?
The cavalry can hide in it, that is because they entered in advance, and they were completely prepared, and now the British army has plunged into it, completely ignoring the head, and the dense corn stalks and sorghum stalks have become a copper wall and iron wall, and it is difficult to pass it on!
Moreover, two thousand people, drilling cornfields together, where can they run through? It's simply impossible!
At the beginning, the cavalry also brandished their swords, slaughtering frantically towards the British army, and later, seeing that the British army had already drilled in, the cavalry did not want to charge, especially charging in the cornfield to the war horse too much damage, sharp corn stalks and sorghum stubble, it is easy to hurt the horse's legs and belly, and the fool will chase it in!
What to do?
The cavalrymen almost each had a rifle, all of them were loaded with bullets, and began to shoot at the British troops in the cornfield in turns, even if there were corn and sorghum blocking, nearly 2,000 people fired a salvo at close range, and the lethality brought to the British army was still very terrible! A scream came from the cornfield!
As for the two hundred brothers of the firearms battalion, they jumped directly from their horses and set up the artillery not far away.
Dozens of shells were fired at the British in the cornfield and fell in the middle of the British troops!
Boom Boom!
An explosion was earth-shattering!
The British troops fleeing in the cornfields were completely powerless, and people were constantly sent into the sky by explosions, stumps and broken arms flew around, and the entire farmland had been beaten to pieces, and the smoke was billowing out!
Every time Saxton in the cornfield hears a cannon, his heart shudders! Rub, artillery, this is Lao Tzu's artillery, it was actually used by the Qing army against itself! Damn it! How many brothers must have died under fire!
Evil, damn it, dozens of artillery, thousands of shells, once again like this! It's even worse than that Edwards of the specialty, Edwards just threw away 3,000 shells, and without artillery, it's a useless iron lump, but now it's good, he actually sent more than 30 heavy artillery pieces to the Qing army in one go! Together, there are more than a thousand warriors of the empire!
The battle was fought ......
It's so ******!
Guo Ye, the dog said Guo Ye! It's this kid again, sooner or later, Lao Tzu will settle this account with him, don't kill him, and swear not to be a man!
But it didn't work to swear by a curse, and all Saxton could do now was to lead the brothers out as much as he could, and run as many as he could! Run! The matter of revenge can only wait for the future!
In the distance, a British cavalry was galloping on the main road, heading straight for the direction of Yangzha.
It is the British Royal Cavalry led by Grant, and now there are more than 1,000 Royal Cavalry, close to the strength of a regiment, and the two regiments have to be combined to use together, Grant's task is to launch a charge from the north when the Qing army is defeated, with the impact of more than 1,000 cavalry, plus rifles, even if it is thousands of Qing troops, they can only be slaughtered.
Suddenly, Grant stopped the war horse, the sound of cannons! That's right, it's the sound of cannons!
The gunfire in the distance is difficult to hear because of the distance, but this cannon sound is really real!
Guns! It's the Armstrong heavy artillery of the British Empire!
Grant was shocked, and hurriedly took the war horse, and at this time, the cannon sound sounded intensively again, and it was from the direction of Shuangqiao!
Grant's face changed drastically, General Saxton must have encountered a block at the Twin Bridges, and the battle was not ordinarily fierce, otherwise, Armstrong heavy artillery would not have been used!
"Order, the army immediately stopped advancing, immediately sent a reconnaissance platoon, in the direction of the double bridge, to detect the enemy's situation, and report quickly!"
The reconnaissance platoon received the order and rushed into the distance like a raging wind!
At this time, Grant was still leading the British army to run wild in the cornfield!
On the road of Shuangqiao, Guo Ye sneered and looked into the distance, a big victory, this is the real big victory!
Guo Ye directly ordered people to search the cornfield, and if they saw guns and ammunition, they would all be collected back, and as for the corpses, they would be thrown aside.
Chen Hai asked suspiciously: "Brother Ye, the corpse is thrown aside, there are a lot of dead corpses, just throw it like that?" ”
"Of course! If you don't throw it away, do you still want Lao Tzu to bury incense for them? What's more, Lao Tzu only kills people now, no matter how buried they are! ”
Guo Ye replied coolly, and Gao Qi on the side raised his thumb high, yes, what is special, just kill, no matter how buried!
In just over twenty minutes, the battlefield was cleaned up.
The First World War captured a lot, killed more than 800 British soldiers, seriously wounded more than 300 people, captured more than 200 people, captured more than 1,400 rifles, tens of thousands of bullets, and on the road, there were still more than 30 Armstrong heavy guns and more than 1,000 shells! And the 2,000 Qing troops only killed less than 100 in battle, and more than 200 were wounded, what a brilliant record!
Chen Hai, Gao Qi and others have now surrendered to the five-body worship of Guo Ye, this is the god of war, and it is definitely the god of the army like Zhuge Liang and Zhang Zifang!
Guo Ye couldn't help but be overjoyed, this is a good thing, in this era, the Armstrong heavy artillery is the most advanced rifled gun in the world! With great power and a high hit rate, it is a rare killing weapon!
It's a pity, it's just a little less shells, only more than a thousand rounds, and it will be used!
Guo Ye shouted: "Order, the army immediately carries all the weapons and rushes back to Yangzha!" ”
Guo Ye led more than a thousand people and began to retreat into the distance.
On the other side, when Grant's reconnaissance platoon was galloping to probe the military situation, suddenly, more than a dozen people rushed out of the cornfield on the side!
The officers and men of the reconnaissance platoon were startled, and raised their rifles one by one, and the platoon commander Husky shouted: "What people! Stop moving forward, go forward again, and we're going to shoot! ”
At this time, more than a dozen people had staggered onto the road, sitting on the ground one by one, panting heavily!
The Huskidon was dumbfounded, the British! It turned out to be his comrade-in-arms!
"Which team are you from? Why are you so embarrassed? What's going on? ”
Husky's heart sank and he asked hurriedly.
One of the British soldiers at the head gasped and replied: "Second Lieutenant, I am the captain of the Imperial Infantry Regiment Cruise, we followed General Saxton from the middle road to Yangzha, and were ambushed by the Qing army at Shuangqiao, caught off guard, and were scattered by others, 3,000 people, more than half of the casualties ......"
Yes!
Husky's head was dizzy, and he almost fell off his horse, rubbing, three thousand infantry, and was defeated by the Qing army!
"What about General Saxton, and what about the rest of the soldiers?"
A weak cry came from the cornfield, "I'm Saxton......"