Chapter 336: Duoduo Runs Away
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The Seventh Division was very scattered in Tongzhou City, and Xie Kui only gathered about 1,000 people after blowing the whistle for a long time, and Wang Qiang, who couldn't wait, ordered Xie Kui to lead these more than 1,000 people to run towards the west gate of Tongzhou.
Wang Qiang later regretted his move for a long time because he ran in the wrong direction. If the Qing soldiers want to run over the canal, they must pass through the Yudai River Bridge, and if Wang Qiang blocks the bridge with more than 1,000 people, I am afraid that it will be difficult for Duoduo to fly over with his wings.
After Turai sent people to intercept the Wehrmacht cavalry, Duoduo did not dare to delay and led more than 10,000 people to trot.
The reason why Bali Bridge has this title is precisely because it is only eight miles away from Tongzhou City. Bali was not a distance at all for the trotting cavalry, and when Wang Qiang led a team of more than 1,000 people out of Tongzhou City, Duoduo's cavalry brigade also rushed to more than two miles away from Tongzhou City.
Duoduo didn't know that the Seventh Division had captured Tongzhou, and was about to send someone to inform Kong Youde, but was stopped by Fan Wencheng next to him.
"King Yu, the situation is a little wrong, we must cross the river as soon as possible, and we can't go to inform Kong Youde anymore." Fan Wencheng patted the horse, walked to Duoduo's side and said.
Without waiting for Dodor to speak, the scouts sent in front quickly confirmed the news to Dord, and reported that many members of the Wehrmacht were driving out of Tongzhou City, apparently trying to intercept Dodor's brigade.
This news almost didn't make Duoduo fall from his horse, but after all, Duoduo had been in battle for a long time, and instantly stabilized his mind again.
"Haguna. You lead the cavalry ahead to clear the way. Everyone followed closely. We must cross the river as fast as possible! "It was not long before Dordor made the right decision.
The cavalry commander Haguna answered, ran to the front to organize the cavalry to prepare for the charge, Duoduo looked at Fan Wencheng beside him, and said: "Mr. Fan, you will rush up, pay more attention to yourself, you few protect Mr. Fan." ”
Duoduo knew how important Fan Wencheng was to him, and he didn't want to leave him behind, so he beckoned a few personal soldiers to ask them to protect Fan Wencheng.
"Damn! There are a lot of people! Xie Kui. Organize your troops to defend! Wang Qiang held the binoculars and looked at the Qing cavalry that was galloping, and burst into a foul language.
It was too late to dig a bunker, and more than a thousand soldiers quickly looked for favorable terrain and lay on the ground, and the rifles in their hands also pointed in the direction where the Qing cavalry was running.
Ma Yingkui and Zhao Quan drove the lock pillar and the guards back, and began to organize troops to encircle and annihilate the 2,000 Qing soldiers and new troops, but many of these new troops who grew up immediately still ran to the horses, and ran towards Tongzhou on their horses.
Suozhu and the guards rushed back to Luo Jian's side, surrounding Luo Jian and Zuo Mao's people in the middle.
"Lock pillars. What are you doing? "Luo Jian is a little strange.
"Dadu Governor, many Qing soldiers have been scattered. They all had muskets in their hands. Lockpost said.
Knowing that Zhao Quan's cavalry brigade and the first regiment of the Tenth Division had crossed the Bali Bridge and began to pursue the Qing soldiers, Luo Jian's heart finally let go of a little, but he didn't know how the Seventh Division was prepared, and led the guards and Zuo Mao to chase in the direction of Tongzhou.
"Get the grenades ready!" Wang Qiang saw that many soldiers only stretched out their rifles, and hurriedly shouted at them.
Hearing Wang Qiang's roar, the soldiers took out a grenade, unscrewed the cap, and put it beside them.
Three thousand Manchu cavalry had already roared towards Wang Qiang's defensive line, five hundred meters, four hundred meters, three hundred meters, Wang Qiang still did not give the order to fire.
Fifty meters later, thousands of cavalry rushed towards the defense line of the Seventh Division like a tsunami, and the palms of many soldiers were already covered with sweat.
"Hit!" Wang Qiang fired the first shot, a cavalry planted off the horse, and then the continuous gunfire began to sound, the galloping Qing cavalry fell off their horses like dumplings, but the cavalry behind did not stop, they all knew that there was no way to retreat, only to rush over there was a glimmer of hope.
"Grenade ready!" Although hundreds of cavalry had been beaten to the ground, there were still countless cavalry rushing towards the defense line like moths to a fire, and the firepower of the rifle was extremely insufficient, Wang Qiang took the lead and took a grenade in his hand.
"Start dropping bombs!" Wang Qiang threw out the grenade in his hand with all his might, and then hundreds of grenades flew towards the Qing cavalry that rushed up.
The Qing cavalry fell in pieces under the bombardment of grenades, and a Qing cavalry even rushed to the edge of the defense line, and was knocked over by a soldier with a shot, and the fallen horse threw the cavalry on his back far away, and the tumbling horse kept coming towards the soldier, so frightened that he rolled on the ground a few times before dodging.
The soldier just turned over, but in front of him was the Qing cavalry who had just fallen off the horse, and the two dead fish-like eyes were staring at him, and the soldier kicked over, but the Qing soldier did not move, obviously he had fallen to his death.
The soldier could no longer care about this, and took a step forward to lie on the corpse of the war horse, and opened fire on the cavalry who continued to run behind.
The explosion of the grenade frightened the horses of the Qing cavalry in all directions, and the pressure on the defense line suddenly became much less, and there were more and more soldiers of the seventh division out of the city, and it was impossible for the Qing cavalry to break through the defense line, so Wang Qiang had time to carefully look at the entire battlefield.
The entire battlefield was already full of the corpses of the Qing cavalry horses, and many wounded Qing soldiers were lying next to the corpses of the horses crying for their fathers and mothers.
"Commander, it's not good!" Xie Kui ran over from the north.
"What's wrong?" Wang Qiang roared, his ears were ringing, and he couldn't hear it at all if he didn't shout.
"Duoduo is gone!" Xie Kui pointed to the north and shouted.
"What did you say?" Wang Qiang didn't hear clearly.
"Duoduo is gone!" Xie Kui shouted loudly again.
"Then what nonsense are you talking about? Stop them! Wang Qiang shouted anxiously.
Duoduo had his cavalry charge through the Seventh Division's defense, and he himself led his own soldiers and the new army to charge from the northern edge of the Seventh Division's defense, although Xie Kui himself led his men to guard the north. But the line of defense is really too wide. More than a thousand people simply could not block such a wide front.
Other units of the Seventh Division rushed out of the west gate one after another to join the defensive team. The Qing cavalry that stormed the defense line of the Seventh Division became less and less.
Wang Qiang and Xie Kui led the people to the west of Tongzhou, but saw that the Qing cavalry had bypassed the Tongzhou city wall and ran to the east, and it was too late to catch up.
Suddenly, there was an explosion in the east of Tongzhou City, and Wang Qiang jumped up from the ground.
"It's a mortar! Xie Kui, quickly lead someone to catch up, just see if they can stop Duoduo! The continuous explosion of mortar shells rekindled Wang Qiang's hope.
The dense sound of gunfire and grenade explosions let Dodor know that the 3,000 cavalry who had gone to storm the Seventh Division's defense line would not return. As he galloped on his horse, Dodor felt his heart twitch.
These cavalry are the most elite white-armored soldiers, if it was a few years earlier, this 3,000-person cavalry could be in the territory of Daming as if no one was in the realm, and now they all fell under Tongzhou City in less than ten minutes.
However, the Yudai River Bridge has already been seen, and the way of life is in front of him, Duoduo can no longer care about the distressed three thousand cavalry, and desperately whips the war horse, just wanting to fly across the Yudai River Bridge in one step.
Just when Duoduo thought he had escaped, dozens of mortar shells fell into the galloping Qing cavalry, and immediately blew up dozens of horses. The cavalry that was fast behind was not as fast as the horses, and there were not a few people who turned over on their backs.
It turned out that Wang Qiang transferred the mortar battalion when he was cleaning up Kong Youde near the east gate. Wang Qiang was in a hurry to go out of the city to intercept Duoduo, but the mortar battalion did not have time to catch up, and when the whole battalion packed up the mortars and was about to run towards the west gate, the battalion commander Zhao Yudong suddenly ordered the whole battalion to stop.
"Hurry up to the East Gate wall!" Zhao Yudong and the whole battalion quickly lined up the mortars on the wall of the East Gate.
Zhao Yudong was a disciple of Jiangyin Zhutang who joined the Yangzhou Army with Yan Yingyuan, and earlier in Yan Yingyuan's artillery brigade, and later when the artillery brigade was split, Wang Qiang asked him to the Seventh Division.
Although the 36th mortar of the mortar battalion fired more than 200 shells, Zhao Yudong still saw in the telescope a large group of personal soldiers escorting Duoduo to escape across the Yudai River, which made Zhao Yudong so angry that he smashed the city wall.
But what Zhao Yudong didn't know was that although he couldn't kill Duoduo, his more than 200 shells still killed more than 1,000 Qing soldiers, and the horses of one or two thousand Qing troops were frightened, and they didn't run across the Yudai River at all, which is nothing, the key is that there is another heavyweight among them, that is Fan Wencheng.
Although Fan Wencheng, who was fifty years away, was a civil official, he was also on horseback for a long time when he was in Liaodong, and he didn't feel hard when he started running, but after all, his age was not forgiving, and when he ran through the north city wall of Tongzhou, Fan Wencheng felt a little struggling.
After the north city wall, Zhao Yudong's mortar battalion began to bombard, the war horse in front was constantly blown over, Fan Wencheng also controlled the war horse to avoid a tumbling war horse, but finally failed to dodge the second frightened war horse, was knocked to the ground, and before Fan Wencheng, who was broken, got up from the ground, the war horse galloping behind stepped on his chest.
Luo Jian and Zuo Maodi rushed to the west of Tongzhou with their guards, and both of them were stunned by the scene in front of them.
Almost all the horses within a radius of several miles were fallen to the ground, and the wailing sound of the injured horses made both of them a little unbearable to hear.
The Seventh Division was cleaning up the battlefield, and Wang Qiang was sitting cross-legged on the ground, his fingers drawing circles on the ground, obviously not coming out of his remorse.
"Xiao Wang, what are you doing?" Luo Jian shouted a few times before he shouted Wang Qiang from the ground.
Wang Qiang rubbed his ears, a little embarrassed, "Chief, my ears are so shocked that I can't hear them." Chief, I've let Dodor go! ”
"You kid, don't think about it so much, hurry up and organize the troops to clean up the battlefield, Commander Ma has already chased Duoduo with the 10th Division and 2 Cavalry Brigades, and they can't run far." Luo Jian saw that Wang Qiang was already very self-blaming, and he no longer criticized him.
Duoduo ran all the way with the remnants of the defeated army, crossed the Yudai River and ran for more than ten miles before the troops stopped to rest for a while, and if they continued to run desperately like this, the war horses would be wasted.
"What about Mr. Fan? Did any of you see Mr. Fan? Duoduo, who had taken a breath, remembered Fan Wencheng, and he still wanted to hear his opinion on where to go next.
"Qiyu King Yu, Mr. Fan fell off his horse when crossing the bridge, and the little one failed to protect Mr. Fan, please punish King Yu!" One of the guards said very uneasy, he was one of the guards that Duoduo had arranged to take care of Fan Wencheng.
Duoduo was unexpectedly not angry, and perhaps he also knew that he couldn't take care of himself in that situation, and it was almost impossible to take care of others while galloping.
"King Yu, which way shall we go?" Turai didn't know that Fan Wencheng had been reimbursed, and he didn't have much interest in Fan Wencheng, and now he was concerned about how to escape to Liaodong.
"We don't have food and grass, it seems that we have to go to Shanhaiguan, where our people are still guarding, and we may be able to replenish some when we get there." Duoduo pondered for a long time, taking the road of Shanhaiguan is the closest, once you pass Shanhaiguan, you will also reach the territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty before entering the customs.
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