Chapter 354: Hell Valley
"Bastards, you bastards, God, get out of the way!"
Karekin roared incoherently. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
He already knew why the Mongolian soldiers had fled, and the yellow-green mist behind them was slowly drifting with the wind, and in the mist, the Mongolian soldiers were constantly staggering out, and then fell to the ground, coughing desperately, and stretched out their hands desperately to this side, as if a drowning person was desperately praying for help, and the same desperate screams in the fog were constantly drifting with the wind......
He's not a fool to understand that the fog is poisonous.
But the problem is that they are crowded into a canyon that is not yet 50 meters wide, and it is surrounded by trees, and the narrator has an icy mountain stream, and there is actually only a mountain road less than five meters wide in the middle, and there is no way to avoid this place! The fog was drifting towards him, and he couldn't see the edge of the width at all, he didn't think that those trees would block the terrifying fog, now the front of the fog was less than a hundred meters away from him, and the best choice at this time was to turn his head and run as far as he could, but the problem was ......
He looked around and lamented in despair like an old farmer whose crops had been shoveled.
The defeated Mongol soldiers around him filled every gap near the Cossack cavalry, and they were still fighting with the Cossack cavalry, and from time to time the Cossacks were stabbed from their horses with bayonets, and from time to time the Mongols were hacked to death by sabers, and what made him speechless was that many people seemed to have forgotten that the poisonous fog was approaching. At this time, the whole valley was like those Han bazaars, crowded with people and horses, dead bodies were trampled under their feet, cursing, screaming, gunshots, sabers and rifles clashing, the screams of war horses, and the sound of chaos mixed together, it was a complete disaster.
Run?
How to run?
Not to mention running, he can't even move forward.
Karekin roared in despair, pointed a short gun at a Mongolian soldier next to him and pulled the trigger, just when the other party fell, he simply abandoned the war horse, relying on the size advantage of tall people and horses, brandished the saber and constantly cut down the Mongolian soldiers who were blocking the way, and even included the Cossacks who were also blocking the way, and finally cut the bloody road and ran desperately towards the mountains and forests next to him.
No matter what the fog is, as long as it is fog, it will not drift to the top of the mountain.
His experience is correct.
But alas......
Suddenly, a piercing whistling whistle swept overhead, and before he could react, a black shadow fell ten meters away, and then an explosion flashed brightly, but the power of the explosion was not great, except for the two soldiers who were blown over recently, the others were not affected, he could even see a palm-sized shrapnel, dragging a yellow-green smoke trail flying over and smashing on his horse, but it did not cause any damage, and then it was bounced to the ground.
He was dazed for a moment.
But the yellow-green mist that kept coming out of the shrapnel instantly woke him up.
"Damn it!"
Karekin screamed, hurriedly covered his nose and continued to run.
However, at this moment, the same howl in the sky overhead was densely crossed, the same explosions sounded one after another, and the yellow-green poisonous fog spread unscrupulously like the thick fog of Lake Baikal in the early morning, and the screams and coughs in the poisonous fog immediately sounded intensively, and the Mongolian soldiers and Cossacks who were entangled fell one after another. Even Karekin was shrouded in a poisonous mist, and although he covered his mouth and nose with his clothes, it was obviously useless, and then he smelled a spicy and pungent smell, and at the same time, his eyes were as painful as if they had been splashed with chili pepper water, and he screamed, but inhaled more poisonous mist, and the burning sensation began to spread from his lungs in an instant.
He coughed like mad and fell to his knees with tears in his eyes, his snot running down and spitting out frothy pink phlegm with blood on it.
It was his internal organs that were corroded by hydrochloric acid and hypochlorous acid.
Above him, rockets filled with liquid were still falling, and the poisonous mist filled the air among more than 3,000 Mongol soldiers and 1,000 Cossack cavalry, while the wind continued to push north along the valley, swallowing more and more Cossack cavalry. And the Cossacks behind were also frightened, these barbarians who were incomparably brave on the battlefield had a natural fear of something beyond their comprehension, and they did not hesitate to turn around and run away when they looked at their companions who were constantly falling in the poisonous fog. But the five thousand cavalry dragged out a long line, and the rear ones didn't even know what was happening in front of them, and they continued to move forward at a normal pace, colliding with their companions who were rushing back, and the chaos spread from front to back.
By this time the Cossacks had actually collapsed.
This time they suffered a loss by being squeezed into a valley, if it was in the plains, these poisonous gases would not have made them mess like this, but under the constraints of the environment, this valley would have become a hell for them.
"It's a pity, if you kill it at this time, it's probably no problem to wipe them all out."
Xu Ming said with some regret.
The Ming army is not equipped with gas masks, this kind of thing has to consume a lot of rubber, and now it does not have this condition, so it can only use alkaline water towels to do some primary protection, so when the concentration of poisonous fog is high, it is absolutely not daring to go in, anyway, this is chlorine gas and not jie Ziqi, alkaline water towels are still okay for low-concentration chlorine protection, so in this case, it is not possible to kill and fight the water dog.
"It's not a big deal, just wait until the anger is gone."
Guo Hong said.
Indeed, it was like waiting for the air to dissipate.
Half an hour later, those Ming soldiers could already leisurely carry their sabers and stab them one by one, starting from Nanguan, the valley that stretched for nearly three miles was full of dying Mongolian soldiers and Cossacks, looking at it was shocking. There are not too many people who have been smoked to death, after all, the lethality rate of chlorine is not so terrifying, but not smoked does not mean that they can still move, including a total of 5,000 Mongol soldiers and more than 1,000 Cossacks, more than 6,000 people fell in this area. They can't run, they can't stand up, they can't hold their weapons, and no matter how brave a warrior is, he can only lie in his phlegm and snot and tears, struggling in despair, watching the saber stab into his heart.
Six thousand people, none of whom were spared, all became the souls of the Ming cavalry.
"Let's go, let's kill the Tartars!"
After cleaning up the battlefield, Guo Hong immediately got on his horse and pulled out his saber, pointing forward and said.
Behind him, the four thousand cavalry of the Ming Army immediately urged the war horses and continued to advance on the corpses everywhere, and this torrent of iron hooves soon reached Beiguan.
It is also called Jinsuo Pass here, and the South Pass forms the North and South Pass, the Jinzhong Basin leads to the throat of the party, and the Jinzhong Basin with Taiyuan as the core is the Jinzhong Basin with Taiyuan as the core. Originally, this was the second line of defense prepared for the defenders of Nanguan, but as a result, the defenders of Nanguan were completely annihilated, and the Cossacks, who were defeated by the anger, took away the only few hundred defenders. In this way, the first brigade of cavalry crossed the North Pass without blood, and soon chased the defeated Cossacks out of Zihongkou and officially entered the Jinzhong Basin.
Immediately afterwards, Guo Hong's troops pointed directly at Qi County.
At this time, the news of his risky attack, or it can be said that he was greedy for merit, also reached Qinzhou, and Chen Sheng, deputy commander of the 17th Infantry Brigade who remained in Qinzhou, did not hesitate to order an infantry battalion stationed in Qinzhou to immediately go north to reinforce it, and at the same time sent people to quickly notify the brigade headquarters in Linfen and the telegraph station in Guangping Province, and they reported to the military headquarters of the First Army and the Northwest Economic Strategy Embassy respectively. Because of the distance, the first to get the news must have been the headquarters of the 17th Brigade, and a cable telegraph to Xi'an had just been set up there, and soon the news was transmitted to the Northwest Economic Envoy in Xi'an by electricity.
As a result, the Northwest Meridian made He Jin directly angry.
Although it was not his job to attack Taiyuan, and the first cavalry brigade was not his subordinate, he didn't care about the division of responsibilities at this time, anyway, Lu Yi didn't have extra troops to reinforce Guo Hong, not to mention that the west of Taihang Mountain was originally his jurisdiction, and if something happened to the cavalry brigade, his responsibility would not be able to escape.
So immediately after his order, the 15th Infantry Brigade that was originally preparing to advance west in Xi'an went north to reinforce, and at the same time ordered the 17th Infantry Brigade to immediately attack north to contain the Qing army, and the three garrisons of Liaozhou, Huozhou, and Pingyang also joined the ranks of attacking northward, so as to force the Qing army to be unable to concentrate its forces to deal with the 1st Cavalry Brigade, and even the garrisons of Zezhou, Lu'an, and Puzhou, which were originally mainly to suppress bandits, also received orders to go north for reinforcements, so that the southern front, which was not the main direction of attack, immediately ignited a raging war.
At this time, the first and second cavalry battalions of the 1st Cavalry Brigade had already entered the hinterland of Jinzhong in two ways.
Guo Hong is not stupid, he is a cavalry brigade and I don't know if there are reinforcements coming behind, the whole brigade is equivalent to suicide, he left two battalions to dig trenches in Zihongkou to build fortifications, and let the other two battalions out, the Jinzhong Basin is less than a hundred miles wide, the cavalry runs fast and ends in the morning, let these two battalions play with the attack, don't attack the city, just go around, and spread the news of the Ming army to the entire Jinzhong Basin, those Han people who were pressed by Yinchu during this time can endure it.
To put it bluntly, he set fire to the entire Jinzhong Basin, causing the entire Jinzhong Basin to burn with the anger of resistance.
And his subordinates are responsible for disrupting the movement of the army of Yinchu, so that the traffic in the south of the entire Jinzhong Basin is completely paralyzed, the people here rebel, the Qing army that is pressed by Zhen over there cannot be transferred, and it will not be long before this area is completely chaotic, and the 20,000 Manchu and Mongolian coalition troops facing off with the Ming army in the Fenhe River valley on this side are over, and they will not be able to block the strong enemy in front of them without any matter what, so that the garrison of the 17th Infantry Brigade and Huozhou and Pingyang can be killed.
"Then, we can go straight to Taiyuan."
Guo Hong said proudly with his saber in his hand. (To be continued.) )