Chapter 252 Battle of the Dongjiang River, Foreign Guns vs. Vests

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On the north bank of the Dongjiang River, guns roared, killing shook the sky, and the counterattack of the Qing army seemed to have begun.

Playing a small growth in the city of Guangzhou's flag man Guerjia. Yuan Bao is now an ordinary soldier of the Guangdong Green Battalion Military Standard, and Fu Fang just spared his life, and did not reinstate him as an official, but demoted him to an ordinary Green Battalion soldier.

Now he had to pick up the rattan card, wave his waist knife, and rush forward against the bullets of the Ming army. If you don't rush, you can't do it, Monk Greenqin's Goshha is behind to supervise the battle, not with a waist knife, but with a brown bass gun to force the big guy to rush! Moreover, before the charge, opium was also openly supplied, and those who were addicted to smoking were given too much, and those who were not addicted to smoking were given liquor to strengthen their courage.

However, Guan Yuanbao doesn't need opium, liquor and the overseer, and he will risk his life to rush. Because he is a Manchurian, a flag man, and a flag man who was born and raised in Guangzhou! If the army of the monk king was defeated by the Zhu family of the Han people on the north bank of the Dongjiang River, this Guangzhou would be lost. When the time comes, will their mothers, daughters-in-law and children still have a way to live?

The emperor of the Zhu family said in "Ta Kung Pao" that in the robbery of Gengyin, the banner people killed 700,000 Guangzhou people for a whole 12 days! He consulted the old people in the city about this, there is indeed something, it was Shang Kexi who took someone to do it, slaughtered the city for 12 days, and Zuihou still has to survive the Guangzhou people thanks...... It's hard to say whether you killed enough 700,000, but two or three hundred thousand Han people are always killed!

If the Zhu family is allowed to conquer Guangzhou, it is not much to kill twenty or thirty thousand banner people to relieve hatred, right? But how can there be so many flag people to kill in the city of Guangzhou? I'm afraid that even my own kid who is not as tall as the wheel will not survive.

can't let the Zhu family win, and for the sake of his wife and children, he must also block the surname Zhu......

He gasped and pressed forward with his head covered. The partners around him were knocked down one by one by the platoon guns fired by the Ming army in front. But he was unharmed.

"Ready...... Fire! ”

Shi Dakai waved the command knife again. Then there was a neat explosion, and a row of smoothbore guns with bayonets opened fire. The dense Qing army brigade in front suddenly thinned out a lot, but it did not retreat, and still surged up like crazy. Gunfire rang out again, and then there was the roar of artillery, it was the Ming army's 12-pounder and 9-pounder cannons firing shotguns! Countless tiny iron bullets erupted from the barrel of the black hole, sweeping through it like a storm.

Guan Yuanbao fell, but not by the lead and iron bullets flying in the sky. Instead, he was knocked down by a green battalion soldier next to him who was beaten into a blood gourd, if it weren't for this guy, Guan Yuanbao would have become a blood gourd!

When he pushed away the lifeless corpse and struggled to get up, there was no living Qing soldier around. The Ming army on the opposite side had already begun to charge, and they were all holding foreign guns with bright bayonets, shouting "Long live", as if they were tigers descending from the mountain!

"It's time to be loyal to the Emperor, Guerjia. Yuan Bao didn't embarrass his ancestors...... "I thought so in my heart, but my legs and stomach couldn't stop trembling." The waist knife in his hand seems to weigh a thousand pounds, and he can't lift it!

"Throw the knife away. Hands up, squat! Several Ming soldiers roared at the same time, and the muskets in their hands were aimed at Guan Yuanbao.

With a bang, Guan Yuanbao's knife fell to the ground, and the rattan card was also thrown, and his two arms were raised high, but he did not squat, because his legs and feet did not obey the call at all.

Wow......

Guan Yuanbao cried, crying very sadly.

"What are you crying about? If he does not kill his head, he will cut off his braids. A Ming soldier put his rifle on his back, took out a dagger and cut Guan Yuanbao's braids, and then someone came over and wrapped Guan Yuanbao's neck with a rope, and took it and left. The current Ming army adheres to the Jishi army and is not thirsty for killing. After Guangdong is defeated, I don't know how many construction projects will require coolies, so of course these captives will have to be caught more! Moreover, Guan Yuanbao is now wearing the uniform of a soldier in the green battalion, and no one believes it when he says that he is a big man of the banner.

"I didn't expect this Qing army to have a time when they were not afraid of death!"

When Guan Yuanbao and the other captured green battalion soldiers walked to the prisoner camp in the rear under the escort of the Ming army, Zhu Jishi was holding a monocular, watching the battle with emotion.

"It's just a suicide attack, brave but useless, and I've seen a lot of stupid enemies like this in the Middle East."

Old Peel raised the binoculars and observed another wave of offensive of the Qing army, this time the Qing army sacrificed the "wooden shield tactics", and hundreds of large wooden shields formed a "wooden wall" and slowly approached forward. However, this "wooden wall" can withstand the muskets of the Ming army, but it cannot block the cannons. Dozens of 9-pounder and 12-pounder cannons opened fire at the same time, and the iron bullets whistled through the enemy group, sweeping down all the soldiers behind the wooden shields, leaving only fragments and corpses in the ground.

"Your Majesty, beware of the enemy's cavalry breaking through my right flank!" Zuo Zongtang put down the binoculars in his hand and frowned, "Monk Greenqin is driving the green battalion soldiers to death, the purpose should be to attract the attention of our army to the front, and then send cavalry to attack my right flank. ”

"There are three battalions on the right flank, which is enough." Zhu Jishi smiled and said, "The Manchu cavalry can't break the hollow phalanx." ”

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"Again, you don't have to carry a bow and arrows, just a saber and a spear! Army...... Forward! ”

I saw all the cavalry under his command turn on their horses, or draw their long knives, or carry spears. Fu Fang also stepped on the war horse cleanly, pulled out the treasure knife given by Emperor Daoguang, and gave the order to advance. He is now in command not of the historical Chahar Horse Corps, but of the cavalry of the Jingying Jianrui Battalion. This soldier is the elite of the Beijing battalion, and the training on weekdays is relatively strict, and the training subjects of the Eight Banners are of course indispensable for equestrianism. Therefore, although these Eight Banners soldiers are not as good as the horse teams from Chahar and Heilongjiang, they can still charge on horseback.

As for Fu Fang, who led them, he was a martial artist who was proficient in riding and archery, and his kung fu was not under Monk Gelinqin. I saw him taking the lead, leading a team of thousands of horses, detouring from the rear of the Qing army's Dazhai, avoiding the sight of the Ming army, and sneaking towards the right flank of the Ming army.

At this time, most of the troops on the right flank of the Ming army's front were soldiers of the second brigade of the Ming army, so the entire right flank, including the three battalions responsible for flank security, were under the unified command of Su Yuniang, the commander of the second brigade.

"The king wants us to pay attention to the safety of the flanks, especially to beware of the surprise attack of the Eight Banners Horse Team. I think I can remove the 12 9-pounder guns from the two regimental batteries and place them on the flanks. "Huang Zhisheng, chief of staff of the Second Brigade, made a proposal based on the order that Zhu Jishi had just given. Su Yuniang frowned and thought about it, and felt that there was no need to transfer both artillery companies, so only one artillery company was mobilized, and ordered the three battalions of the 102nd Regiment to set up a long hollow phalanx.

"Tell Zhang Jiaxiang, Luo Yawang and Feng Zicai that they must obey Colonel Mercer's orders, hold firmly, and not lose anything." Su Yuniang finished the order in a low voice, and began to observe the battlefield in front of her attentively.

Zhang Jiaxiang, Luo Yawang and Feng Zicai were all born in the Liangguang Tiandihui system, and they were also the "generals" recommended by Su Yuniang to Zhu Jishi. is so reused, on the one hand, because Su Yuniang has a big face in Zhu Jishi, and on the other hand, because the military talents of the Ming army are indeed limited. It is okay for young officers who have just graduated from military academies to be staff officers, company commanders, and platoon commanders, but middle- and high-ranking officers at the battalion, regimental, and brigade levels still need experienced servicemen to serve as officers. Therefore, most of the battalion-level officers are officers who are older, who are born in the army (being a robber is also considered a soldier) and can understand the military academy curriculum, and the regimental-level officers are all foreign generals, and the four brigade commanders are of course Zhu Jishi's henchmen.

As the saying goes, one thing descends one thing, Zhang Jiaxiang, Luo Yawang and Feng Zicai, the three robbers, were not afraid of heaven and earth, let alone officers and soldiers, but Colonel Mercer, who had been with Emperor Napoleon, was obviously not an ordinary officer and soldier. Colonel Mercer's orders, they carried them all out to the letter, and commanded his subordinates to set up a large regimental hollow phalanx as quickly as possible. It happened to be on the right flank of the Ming army, blocking the route of the Qing army's horse team's assault. Of course, since the north bank of the Dongjiang River is a large plain, Fu Fang's 1,000-horse team is not impossible to bypass, but it is just a few more miles (the flanks of the phalanx are arranged with 6 9-pounder guns, so they need to go around from outside the range of the cannons). (To be continued......)