Chapter 119: The Battle of Kaixian Offensive and Defensive Battles Ends
In this way, the Han army had to use the position layer by layer to block the attack of the left army, but the positional war could not stop the left army for a long time, no way, to blame the Ming army's firepower and equipment was too fierce, not to mention that these are the elite of the left army, and more powerful than the general Ming army, but unfortunately, such an army became the right-hand man of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the original history of the late Ming Dynasty.
In the early days after the Manchu army entered the customs, it had an advantage in the battle with the Ming army, which is undoubted, but with the extension of time, the combat effectiveness of these so-called savage-like elite cavalry is simply a thousand miles, such as in the Jingzhou victory in the fifth year of Yongli, the Ming army directly hit Shen Yongzhong's 20,000 Manchu and Han army, and in the victory of Guilin in the sixth year of Yongli, thousands of cavalry were annihilated in the field battle outside the city, and rushed into the city to kill the prince Kong Youde, etc., However, what really helped the Manchus to dominate the world and consolidate their foundation was the Green Battalion formed by the Qing Army. And now the left army of the Han army is the most elite of these green battalions, the later Jin Shenghuan swept Jiangxi, Li Guoying occupied Sichuan, all relied on this army to make great contributions to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but for Huaxia, this army is essentially two devils, but it is just a two devils with strong combat effectiveness.
Since ancient times, there are still few things that help robbers beat their own people, such as Zhang Bin, Wang Meng, Han Derang, Zhang Hongfan and now Li Yongfang, Hong Chengchou and others who surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty for less than a year, the hundred-legged insects are dead but not stiff, although the Ming Dynasty is rotten and difficult to stand, but the shelf is still there, and any foreign forces can not be killed from the outside for a while, but if there are a large number of traitors and dogs who only care about personal interests, then, even if there are many loyal ministers and good generals, it is in vain, even if the firearms are sharp, there are not eight Jin merchants, Kong Youde and his ilk have turned this into a weapon for the enemy to slaughter my Chinese sons and daughters!
The first day passed, and the left army finally rushed through the mountains and came to the other side, and the county seat of Kaixian County, like a green jade belt floating in the valley, was also completely displayed under their eyes. And these left troops have also shown the greedy eyes of jackals, and soon, the fatigue of attacking for a day and a night is dissipated by the excitement of the moment. Zuo Liangyu did not let his officers and soldiers rush down, but ordered the army to immediately seize the commanding heights closest to Kaixian County and use heavy artillery to bombard the Kaixian County.
Countless white smoke rose from the county town of Kaixian, the suspension bridge on the city gate collapsed under the bombardment of iron bullets, and with a bang, another house collapsed, but the city wall is still intact, after all, the city wall of the county seat of Kaixian County has been reinforced with concrete by the Han army, don't think how fresh this thing is in the Ming Dynasty, this is not strictly a new thing in the Ming Dynasty, and after a little improvement, it is basically close to the level of modern times, so the city wall of Kaixian County is firm, but I don't know at some time, the left army still shouted happily.
The reason why the left army was so excited was that although the city wall did not collapse in Kaixian County, the city gate was blasted open, so tens of thousands of left troops rushed over frantically. The soldiers of the Left Army, who were fighting for money, rushed into the city frantically without waiting for Zuo Liangyu's order. The Eighth Battalion had two target soldiers guarding the city, and they deliberately stood on the city wall before the bombardment by the Left Army to tell the Left Army that Kaixian County was not an empty city, but when the Left Army carried out the bombardment, they had quietly retreated from the city wall under the cover of white smoke and came to the city gate and removed all the stones against the city gate, and the city gate was also bombarded open by the Left Army.
Don't think that these two target soldiers are seeing that Kaixian is not guaranteed and want to take refuge in the left army before opening the city gate to surrender, the soldiers of the Han army are not fighting for money, especially the officers and students are instilled to fight for the peace of the world and fight for the people of the world before enlisting in the army, in other words, the soldiers of the Han army are a little nobler, of course they also love money, but the money income of the soldiers of the Han army is not less than that of the soldiers of the left army by plundering, on the contrary, due to the difference in the system, if they obey the military discipline of the Han army, The greater the gains.
The left army rushed in, and one by one suddenly turned from elite soldiers to chaotic soldiers, and a group of troops who gathered morale by robbery could not change this bad habit, and as soon as they entered the city, they thought that they were all safe. How can things be so simple, Zhang Yingyuan's lesson is in front of them, and they do not arouse vigilance, and soon, after the left army of about two battalions rushed into the city, the soldiers of the two standards suddenly attacked and blasted out the rest of the left army with the firearms of the Han army.
The firearms of the Han army are not as good as those of the left army in terms of quantity, but they can compete with the most advanced firearms in the world in terms of quality and continuity and destructive power. In order to give better play to the firepower advantage of the Eighth Battalion, Yang Ming gave the Eighth Battalion more than 1,000 newly produced Han guns from the Han Ordnance Institute, which were originally intended to be equipped with the first and fourth battalions, and Li Guangtian had always had a very good relationship with the people in charge of the Han Army Ordnance Institute, so he insisted on asking for more than 2,000 bird guns in stock, so that the eighth battalion's musket equipment has reached 100 percent, plus more than 10 newly developed artillery pieces of the Han Army and more than 100 artillery pieces of various types that had been captured by the Ming Army. The dense network of fire formed by the 8th Battalion soon returned the favor with its own way, completely blocking the left army outside the city.
In this way, the two battalions of the left army were completely locked up in the city, and Li Guangtian and the three standards outside the city had also returned to the city through the secret passage, so a street battle began, the left army's ability to fight in the streets of the city was really not flattering, the performance in the hot spring town was very bad, and the performance in the city was equally bad, these left army soldiers were like live targets by the Han army soldiers, many Han army soldiers became game characters in the line of fire, and they eliminated more than 10,000 left troops in the streets and alleys.
The next day passed, Zuo Liangyu was very angry, he had begun to play completely out of order, hearing the gunshots in the city, he directly ordered the army to attack the city, and organized a team of supervisors, and those who dared to retreat were immediately killed! The left army belongs to the family army, especially Zuo Liangyu's personal soldiers, and there is more or less kinship between the various departments, and when they saw that their friends or so-and-so brothers and nephews were being shot dead in the city, they naturally did not dare to slack off, and they insisted on desperately attacking the city one by one.
The left army in the city was wiped out in less than three hours, and by the early morning of the third day, the left army outside the city could only be said to avenge the left army in the city rather than rescue the left army in the city. On this day, Li Guangtian steadfastly defended the city, however, because the left army was too common to hate the enemy, for the first time, the casualties of the left army were less than those of the Han army, Li Guangtian had to take the soldiers of the Han army out of the city to meet the battle, the result was very unexpected, the soldiers of the Han army hated the enemy to the same extent as the left army, and forced the left army to retreat to the camp outside the city.
One side clamored for revenge for relatives and friends, and the other shouted for revenge for comrades, and the tug-of-war between the two sides continued until the morning of the fourth day.
"Lao Tzu will not withdraw! This group of dogs' left army, Lao Tzu wants to kill them all here! Li Guangtian yelled at the envoy in brocade clothes a few times, and scolded: "Lan Guanwei is that garlic, it's not his turn to take care of me!" ”
Like Cao Laosan, Li Guangtian also has an artillery temper, and Lan Guanwei has once again become a punching bag. But angry to angry, orders still had to be obeyed, the eighth battalion after destroying more than 20,000 enemy troops withdrew from the battle, but the losses were also quite few, and the casualties had exceeded 2,000. As a result, the later recruits and soldiers did not want to be divided into Li Guangtian's banner, no way, his men always lost the most soldiers, from the time he was the third team of the third standard was participating in the second defense of Hanjia Village.
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