Chapter 53 shows no mercy

In the camp of Huguang Town, the soldiers of Gangfeng and Broken Barracks, who had eaten lunch and rested for half an hour, began to help each other put on their armor, and they would still play in the afternoon, but no longer as the main defensive force, but as a reserve for the trapped camp. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Near the first line of defense, the soldiers of the Huashan battalion who had finished their work also began to line up and retreat to the center of the camp in turn. In order to seize the time, Pang Yue deliberately staggered the work and rest time of the Huashan battalion and the rest of the battalions that were tasked with combat readiness.

Just now, while the robes of the rest of the battalions were having lunch and resting, the Huashan battalion finally completed the task assigned to them after some hard work. The tattered shield carts abandoned by the Qing army have all been pushed to the side of the cotton stream and set on fire, the corpses and earthen bags of the Qing soldiers that filled the passage and filled most of the trenches have also been cleared, all the intact heads have been cut off, better armor and weapons have also been collected, and the headless corpses have been thrown twenty paces north of the first low wall, and a layer of lime has been sprinkled to cover up the stench of corpses for the time being.

Originally, according to the health regulations formulated by Pang Yue for Huguang Town, in order to avoid the spread of the plague, the corpses left by both the enemy and the enemy on the battlefield should be disposed of in time, buried on the spot or cremated, but considering that the day has not yet passed, the Qing army may still launch a large-scale attack, so it can only be done temporarily.

In a burst of neat and powerful steps, the soldiers of the Huashan battalion trotted back to the camp in a neat queue and began to eat and rest.

"Stand up!" "Assemble!" …… After the officers and men of the Huashan battalion returned to the main camp, the commands of the officers of the Gangfeng and Broken barracks sounded, and the soldiers who had finished their armor picked up their weapons and began to line up, preparing to go to the first line of defense as the backing of the trapped camp. After the morning battle, the recruits have become much calmer and no longer as nervous as they were at the beginning.

"In the battle in the afternoon, if the Qing captives had only dispatched the green battalion soldiers, our army should have achieved better results than in the morning." On the high platform of the Chinese army headquarters, Zhang Yunli said to Pang Yue, "In the trapped camp, the proportion of veterans is greater than that of the two battalions of Gangfeng and Broken Army, and more than half of the officers and soldiers wear iron armor, so it is even more difficult for the Qing captives to have a chance to break through." ”

Pang Yue nodded, according to the predetermined plan, the firecrackers and artillerymen who served as the defense in the afternoon were still from the Gangfeng, the trap and the Agni Battalion, that is, the original team in the morning, and the trap camp dominated by pikemen and sword and shield soldiers was responsible for the task of responding to the enemy after the hand-to-hand encounter. Therefore, although there were only more than 4,000 people trapped in the camp, which was not as good as the total number of the two battalions in the morning, the total number of troops participating in the battle did not change much compared with the morning. And there are mostly veterans in the trapped camp, which will definitely teach the green battalion soldiers a more painful lesson.

In addition, for the sake of command, the troops responsible for defense were still divided into two parts. The two teams A and B of the trapping camp and the fire team of the broken army camp were commanded by Cui Shoucheng and were responsible for defending the eastern half of the first line of defense. The Broken Army Camp Torch Team was originally drawn out of the trapping camp, and it belonged to Cui Shoucheng's old subordinates, so it would not be difficult to command. The two teams of the trapped camp C and D and the firearms team of the Gangfeng battalion were commanded by He Guoyuan, deputy of the trapped camp battalion and guerrilla general, and were responsible for defending the western half of the first line of defense.

After the Gangfeng battalion and the trapping camp were assembled, the two teams of musketeers checked the weapons and ammunition they carried, and began to run quickly towards the first line of defense under the leadership of the two thousand commanders, while the rest of the spear, sword and shield soldiers trotted to follow slowly.

Looking at the queue that did not see the slightest chaos in the march, and then looking at the spear and the iron armor near the first line of defense in front of him, Pang Yue breathed a sigh of relief gently, and a subtle smile appeared on his face.

In a few moments, the signal flags hung up on the western hill and the lookout post on the Chinese army's lookout car made everyone's expressions awe-inspiring again: the Qing army's Hongyi cannons were dispatched again, and the number was more than in the morning, as many as 14.

"Let the battalions spread out in formation and pay attention to the artillery!" Pang Yue looked through the telescope at the row of black and murderous cannons in the distance, gave an order to the herald beside him, and hurriedly got off the high platform with several officers around him, and scolded in his heart as he walked: Isn't the cannon that bullies Lao Tzu not advanced enough? In the future, Lao Tzu will cast a better cannon and guarantee that your grandsons will be blasted to the point that there will be no scum left.

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"Boom!" "Boom!" …… With bursts of deafening, heart-wrenching loud noises and the trembling of the earth, blazing shells came straight to the Ming army camp from two miles away.

This time, a total of 14 Hongyi cannons of the Qing army participated in the firing, including two 24-pounder guns, two 18-pounder guns, four 12-pounder cannons, and six 9-pounder guns. Moreover, the artillery bombardment of the Qing army did not only focus on the first and second lines of defense, almost half of the shells also hit the camp, smashed one tent after another and even caused open fire, some of the chariots deployed nearby were also beaten to sawdust, and some soldiers who could not hide fell in a pool of blood, dying or wailing in pain on the spot.

As soon as they returned to the camp, the officers and men of the Huashan battalion, who had not had time to take a few bites of their meals, had to put down their rice bowls and lie down behind earthen baskets, dirt bags, or shallow trenches to avoid shells. For a while, angry scolding voices such as "dog Tartar, grandfather ** eighteenth generation ancestor" sounded one after another. After working for most of the day, my stomach growled with hunger, and I was disturbed by the tartars as soon as I picked up my rice bowl, and there was nothing more disturbing than this.

As in the camp, the first line of defense was filled with smoke and dust, debris flew everywhere, and the loud thud of shells hitting the hearts and lungs of the people was constantly knocking. After the high-speed red-hot iron balls weighing more than ten or twenty pounds came into contact with the earth, they made a loud bang and quickly rebounded, flying towards the next destination, or falling on the soil bags and baskets to stir up the flying soil, or simply contacted the hard ground again, and after the second or even many rebounds, they fell on the heads of the Ming officers and soldiers who were evading, bringing out bursts of blood mist and terrible screams.

Fortunately, thanks to the experience of anti-artillery in the morning, the officers and men of Huguang Town were very well prepared, dug more shallow anti-artillery trenches, and piled up more earthen baskets and bags, so the losses suffered were not very large.

At the same time as the Qing army continued to shell, green flags also rolled out from the large array, surging towards the upper and lower reaches of Mianxi. This time, Duoduo still let the Green Battalion take the lead. However, the main force of the attack became the Hanyang General Soldier Feng Tengyuan Department and the Chizhou General Soldier Yu Yongshou Division, and Zhang Yingxiang and Wang Guangen's Division, which had suffered heavy losses in the morning, were located behind them. Moreover, after the lesson of the morning, the green battalion soldiers no longer dared to rush directly from the front of the Ming army's defense line, which made the killing effect of the Ming army's artillery on the first line of defense weakened a lot.

The cannon roared, the green flag was surging, and the lookout post on the hill on the west side kept informing the officers and men who were dodging the shells at the foot of the hill of the green battalion's advance distance and position.

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I don't know how long it took for the Qing army's shelling to finally stop. Immediately afterwards, green flags and black pressed human heads emerged from the foot of the mountains on both sides, converging into a surging wave that swept towards the Ming army behind the breastwork.

"Medium-sized Furlong machine, ready-" At the gap in the breastwork, the artillery officers heavily drew the order flag in their hands, and at the same time burst out: "Fire!" ”

The two sides of the shelling and the shelled immediately switched positions, and because they had been firing for a long time, and their own infantry had already rushed towards the Ming defense line, the artillery of the Qing army had to stop the shelling in order to prevent accidental injury to their own people and the explosion of the artillery. But the artillery of the Ming army, which had been prepared, did not have this scruples, although a few artillery pieces were surprisingly destroyed by the shells of the Qing army just now, but most of them were still intact, and of course they had to play a little role in the face of the surging green battalion soldiers below.

"Boom!" "Boom!" …… The flames flashed, a loud bang erupted, and the stormy shotguns almost smashed the distance directly in front of the gap into a bloody no-man's land, and the broken green flag and various stumps flew into the sky together.

The Qing army's momentum was only slightly paused, and then it continued to move forward.

Subsequently, the bronze cannon and the tiger squat cannon also opened fire, and many shield cars in the front row of the Qing army's array instantly turned into worthless rags, and the Qing soldiers behind them were also beaten to pieces.

After the artillery was fired, the Qing soldiers had already rushed into the range of the flintlock guns.

"Musketeers, all of them in the first row!" Behind the breastwork, the officers of the Musket Corps tore open their throats and shouted, "Raise your gun!" ”

"Ready! - Put! ”

In the dense sound of fried beans, countless blood flowers bloomed on the bodies of those Qing soldiers who had lost the protection of the shield car, and their bodies were first beaten, and then they fell weakly. The Qing soldiers who had shields as protection continued to hide under the huge protective plates and advanced towards the low walls and breastwalls of the Ming army, and the dense lead bullets from the flintlock pistols hit the protective plates wrapped in several layers of cowhide or quilts, making a muffled sound of "bangbang", but most of them could not penetrate. Only the large-caliber lead bullets fired by the powerful guns were able to penetrate the protective plate from time to time, bringing out the screams that followed from time to time.

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The Chizhou Green Battalion and the Hanyang Green Battalion, which served as the main attackers, suffered many casualties under the bombardment of the Ming army's guns, but they still rushed to the first low wall on the Ming army's defensive line on a bloody road. After that, just like the Henan Green Battalion and the Xiangyang Green Battalion that attacked in the morning, the auxiliaries threw the soil bags over the low wall to fill the trench under the cover of the shield cart, and some of the elite dead soldiers rushed directly through the passage in front of the gap to the Ming army behind the breastwork.

After another baptism of blood and fire, more and more Qing soldiers finally rushed to the gap in the breastwork and began to fight the Ming army in close combat. In the rest of the sections, the Qing army auxiliaries also risked their lives to fill in new passages in the trenches, and then the soldiers stepped on these passages to continuously rush towards the chest wall guarded by the Ming army. The hand-to-hand combat between the two armies was in full swing.

Behind the breastwork, the musketeers had all retreated, and rows of spears, swords, and shields had stepped forward one after another. The first few rows of officers and soldiers were all dressed in iron armor, and the spears in their hands pointed forward one after another, forming a cold, glittering, daunting steel jungle.

"Kill!" On the long front, the shouts of the officers and soldiers of Huguang Town came and went, and the rapid cold light approached the Qing soldiers. For a while, the splashed blood rain and all kinds of severed limbs and flesh flew in all directions, combined with the pervasive smell of blood, rendering the entire battlefield atmosphere extremely bloody.

Compared with the Henan Green Battalion and Hanyang Green Battalion, which attacked in the morning, the Chizhou Green Battalion and Hanyang Green Battalion, which were the main attackers, were under greater pressure and were more shocked in their hearts. Their combat effectiveness was still insufficient compared to that of the Henan Green Battalion, but the combat effectiveness of the trapped camp on the opposite side exceeded that of the Gangfeng and Broken Barracks that had served as defense in the morning.

Since the defeat of the Qing Dynasty, no, to be precise, since the fight as a soldier and a salary, these green battalion soldiers have never encountered such a strong enemy army. The cold and dense steel jungle on the opposite side was so dense and terrifying, from the beginning of the hand-to-hand combat to the present, almost all the elite soldiers who rushed over were swallowed up, turning into a blur of flesh and blood.

Yu Yongshou, the chief soldier of the Chizhou Green Battalion, looked at the scene on the front line and was dumbfounded. He used to be a general under Huang Degong, and Pang Yue, the current general soldier of Huguang Town of the Ming Army, and many high-level generals were once in the same army with him, and they got along almost day and night, so he naturally knew these people. But the scene that happened in front of him today made Yu Yongshou have a strong sense of strangeness to those characters who he thought he was extremely familiar with, and he really couldn't imagine that these former junior officers would burst out with such amazing combat effectiveness under the leadership of that brave and unscrupulous "Pang Maniac".

The Chizhou Green Battalion attacked the western half of the first line of defense. When Yu Yongshou was dumbfounded, He Guoyuan, the deputy of the trapping battalion responsible for the defense of the western side, and many of the officers commanding on the front line were also slightly stunned, because they found many familiar faces from the enemy coming from the opposite side. Those people used to be like them, they were officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, who followed Marshal Huang Degong to fight in the south and the north, and made countless military exploits. However, now, those people are already the officers of the Green Battalion, dragging their pigtails under the Green Banner and constantly urging their soldiers to attack this side. One of the generals of the trapped camp C team even vaguely saw his brother who had lost contact with him for more than a year, and he was even more stunned on the spot for a while.

After being stunned for a moment, He Guoyuan came to his senses, and he remembered what Pang Yue had specially explained to them: No matter what their identities were before, these people are now the accomplices of the Tartars, the enemies of the Ming Dynasty, and the enemies of all the soldiers in Huguang Town. Since they are enemies, they must not be merciful, only to completely destroy them!

Gritting his teeth, He Guoyuan yelled at the officers and soldiers in the trapped camp who were fighting: "Kill all the Tartars!" Recover the rivers and mountains! ”

According to an unwritten convention, if a commander shouts this slogan on the battlefield, it will encourage his soldiers to kill the enemy more bravely.

"Kill the Tartars! Recover the rivers and mountains! The tsunami-like shouts quickly spread, and the officers and soldiers who were still stunned just now woke up one after another, shouting and sending the Qing soldiers to hell one by one with the weapons in their hands.

"Kill!" The distracted Trap Team C just now roared hoarsely, his eyes were red, and a few teardrops the size of beans burst out of his eyes. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe to the starting point mobile network, reward, your support is my biggest motivation. )