Chapter 68: The Battle of Changsha (Part II)
In order to prevent Zheng Jiajun from intercepting and killing the letter soldiers, Shen Yongzhong sent several waves of people to deliver letters to Hong Chengchou. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The messengers were all Shen Yongzhong's cronies, and they were quickly whipped, and it was delivered to Hong Chengchou in less than two days.
Seeing the content of the letter, Hong Chengchou was dismissive.
Wu Sangui has not yet arrived, where did Lao Tzu get the soldiers and horses to reinforce. Besides, Lao Tzu still wants to gather soldiers to guard his own safety, where will he send troops to reinforce you!
There was no soldier, but in order to appease Shen Yongzhong, Hong Chengchou replied with a letter.
It roughly means that there are no soldiers to send, so that Shen Yongzhong will be loyal to his duties, serve the Qing Dynasty, and stick to Changsha.
The letter was not delivered to Shen Yongzhong in the end, and Changsha was not held for even a day before it was conquered by the forward battalion of the Zheng family's army.
Zhou Quanbin attacked Changsha this time, and carried the newly developed artillery with the army in an ox cart.
After three years of research and development, Gewu Academy has finally developed a better steel.
Under the guidance of Zheng Chenggong, after the addition of manganese, the strength of the steel was improved.
The new steel chamber can withstand more powerful gunpowder without exploding.
The inner wall of the barrel was also rifled with a hand-rotating steel knife, and the improved black powder was used, which made the gun more powerful and had a longer range.
This attack on Changsha was also a real battle to test the power of the new artillery.
Twelve guns were pulled to the battlefield by ox carts, and the artillerymen were shaking their guards vigorously and adjusting their muzzles.
Shen Yongzhong saw that Zheng Jiajun only had infantry carrying ladders and so on, and felt that with so many sharp weapons prepared in front of him to defend the city, he decided to be able to hold Changsha.
Shen Yongzhong calmed down a little, ready to let Zheng Jiajun hit his head under the city and bleed.
Hearing the sound of slogans coming from the Zheng family's army array, Shen Yongzhong hurriedly raised his head and looked into the distance, and was immediately frightened when he saw it.
Twelve artillery pieces were discharged in front of the Zheng army.
Shen Yongzhong had long heard that the Zheng family's firearms were powerful, especially the artillery, which made the Qing army suffer.
Looking at the busy artillery of the Zheng Jiajun, Shen Yongzhong felt distressed in his heart.
If Lao Tzu has artillery, how can he make you so arrogant.
Most of the artillery of the Qing army was in the Beijing division, and the artillery in the south was collected by Doni and brought to attack the Great Western Army.
There are only six artillery pieces in the huge Changsha City, and they are all made in Longqing, which is old and useless.
Shen Yongzhong thought about whether to send troops out of the city to destroy these artillery.
But thinking of Zheng Jiajun's musket, Shen Yongzhong dispelled this thought.
Shen Yongzhong thought fiercely. Even if you use human life, Lao Tzu has to stick to it for half a month!
Shen Yongzhong looked at Zheng Jiajun's artillery with a monocular, and saw that it stopped when it was still two kilometers away from the city gate, and Shen Yongzhong was very confused.
The firing range of artillery of this scale is generally less than 1,000 miles, what is the purpose of Zheng Jiajun's artillery not getting closer, is it that those artillery are timid and afraid of death, or is it a mistake in calculation?
When Shen Yongzhong was still thinking about it, the artillery had already completed the operation.
I saw the muzzle of the cannon blazing, and the smoke billowing into the sky.
Cannonballs whizzed and exploded at the top of the city.
The scene of the explosion was littered with corpses that had been smashed alive, half of the arms, thighs and even severed heads, bleeding and brains.
Thundered! Thundered! Thundered!
The explosions continued one after another, and they continued into a chapter of Death Town Requiem!
The impact of the explosion, the flying shrapnel, indiscriminately harvested human lives.
Human life seems so cheap at this time. Every loud bang took the lives of more than a dozen or twenty people.
The Qing soldiers turned from stunned to frightened, and the Qing soldiers who were lucky not to be killed knew that the city had become the most dangerous place, and they didn't know who ran away with a scream first, and the living Qing soldiers fled from the city with their heads in their hands.
Zhou Quanbin picked up his glasses and observed, and saw that the artillery had shook the city, and the Qing soldiers threw down their weapons and ran down the city.
Zhou Quanbin shouted excitedly, "Yes, that's it." Give Lao Tzu a hard beating! ”
Wherever there are many people, the observers report their directions loudly.
Artillery ravaged the Qing soldiers at the head of the city, and the entire Qing army was in chaos.
Seeing that the infantry was about to reach the city wall, in order to avoid accidental injury, Zhou Quanbin still gave the order to stop the shelling.
No matter how sluggish the Qing soldiers were, they knew that the situation was not good, and Changsha City could not be defended.
Zhang Guozhu, the guard of the north gate, saw that something was wrong, and immediately opened the city gate and surrendered to the Zheng family army with his men.
The city gate was wide open, the ladder was useless, and the Zheng family soldiers immediately threw them aside and killed them from the city gate to the city.
The Zheng army's army has entered the city, and the Qing soldiers no longer dare to resist, those who surrender surrendered, and those who fled fled took the road.
Zheng Jiajun took Changsha without encountering decent resistance.
Shen Yongzhong looked at the tragic scene after the explosion, his eyes were in a daze, and his mouth kept shouting: "It's over, it's over, it's all over!" ”
Shen Yongzhong was stunned, he didn't run away and forgot to surrender, it was his henchmen who fled from the city behind his back.
After taking Changsha, Zhou Quanbin was very happy and shouted loudly, "Send an envoy to report to the general immediately!" ”
"Yes, General!"
Seeing that his subordinates had already controlled Changsha City, Zhou Quanbin rode on a high-headed horse and walked towards the city, shouting on horseback: "After entering the city, you little rabbit cubs listen to Lao Tzu, who dares to make the three major disciplines and eight attention mistakes, and disgrace Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu personally sent him to the execution ground!" ”
The guard hurriedly responded, "Don't worry, sir. We're going to keep an eye on those little bastards. ”
Zhou Quanbin nodded, looking at Changsha City, very proud.
Lao Tzu was still smart, and took the opportunity to go back to Nanjing to study at the Military Academy, and recommended himself to the general Mao Sui, so that he grabbed the opportunity to be a pioneer officer.
Thinking of the angry face of Guo Ting, the commander of the Ninth Group Army, when he heard that his position as a pioneer officer was snatched away, Zhou Quanbin was so proud!
With these military exploits, his military rank should also be promoted to the rank of lieutenant general!
After hearing that Huguang was recovered, Zheng Chenggong planned to redivide the military region.
When the time comes, he should be able to get the position of commander of a military region to sit in, and no matter how bad it is, he should be the deputy commander.
has always been able to be the commander-in-chief of an army in the future, commanding thousands of troops and horses, Zhou Quanbin's heart is hot. (To be continued.) )