Chapter 302: The Battle of Guide (5)
Following the attacking troops to a place 200 meters away from the city wall, Zhuang Zigu heard a loud noise on the city wall, he knew that it was a cannonball that detonated the Qing artillery, but he didn't know that Li Guohan was also crushed in this loud noise.
"Quick! Hurry up, everyone! Zhuang Zigu roared desperately, originally he didn't need to personally lead the attacking troops to attack the city, but yesterday he was provoked by Liu Zhaoji, and today he swore to take the city of Guide, so he hid from Liu Zhaoji and personally led the siege troops to rush up.
Soon rushed to a place more than 30 meters away from the city wall, the riflemen stopped, squatted on the ground one by one and raised their rifles to aim at the city, the soldiers carried the ladder and continued to run towards the city wall, followed by 200 bombardiers, the grenade safety cover in their hands had been opened.
Just when the ladder was set up on the city wall, a few Qing soldiers finally appeared on the head of the city, a few crisp gunshots rang out, and several Qing soldiers fell, and the distance of more than 30 meters was indeed too close for a rifle.
Although the Qing soldiers who had just rushed to the city wall were knocked over, more Qing soldiers still rushed up behind, and they couldn't help but rush up.
A ladder was finally overturned by the Qing soldiers, crushing several attacking soldiers, seeing that there were more and more Qing soldiers on the city wall, Zhuangzi, who stopped a hundred meters away, was anxious and red-eyed, and shouted: "Bombardier, hurry up and drop the bomb!" ”
Although the bombardiers were all strong, they could not run fast even if they wore several layers of armor, and the bombardiers ran behind the soldiers who rushed forward with ladders.
Fortunately, the road is not far. The bombardiers finally arrived under the city walls. Bows and arrows and stones began to fall from the city. The thick armor finally worked.
Pulling the ring of the grenade, the bombardiers threw the grenades in their hands to the city wall, and it has to be said that the grenade is really a sharp weapon in close combat, only five or six grenades were thrown on the city wall, and a large number of Qing soldiers on the city wall have fallen.
Although Hauge sent his own soldiers to personally supervise the battle, more and more grenades flew to the city wall, and the city wall where the fortifications were basically destroyed could not be avoided at all, and the Qing soldiers began to turn around and run under the city wall.
Hauge's own soldiers had already chopped seven or eight soldiers who had fled from the walls. But there were more and more people, and some soldiers even raised their waist knives in their hands and slashed at the soldiers who were supervising the battle.
As the first soldier showed his head on the ladder, the grenades began to fly under the city wall, and the iron pots and oil and water placed under the city walls were blown up everywhere, but fortunately, the Qing soldiers did not have time to burn the pot, no one expected the Wehrmacht to climb the city wall so quickly, according to past experience, it is always the basic use of all kinds of defense equipment to use these.
More and more bombardiers climbed the city walls, and the Qing soldiers under the walls had fled far away, and the bombardiers began to attack along the walls on both sides. The wider and wider walls were cleared, and the riflemen of the brigade also stepped on the ladder to climb the walls. In-place defense was launched on the city walls.
Haoge, who had been escorted by his own soldiers to the south side of the east gate, was still unwilling, and ordered his own soldiers to quickly find Liu Jinzhong and Huang Ying, and the personal soldiers hurriedly took the order, and before they could find the person, a grenade exploded around the periphery of the personal soldiers who surrounded Haoge, and several personal soldiers fell down with a wail, and a group of people continued to run along the city wall to the south.
The bombardiers and riflemen quickly took control of the east gate, and more and more Wehrmacht soldiers went up the city walls, and the commander of a regiment, Li Meng, also arrived.
Seeing that the east gate had been occupied, Li Meng ordered a group of soldiers to quickly go down the city wall to remove the sandbags blocking the city gate, and it took more than a quarter of an hour for the city gate hole to be emptied, and then the east gate was opened, and the troops waiting outside the city gate immediately entered the city of Guide from the east gate.
Liu Zhaoji, who was staring from a distance, was overjoyed when he saw that the city gates were opened, and greeted He Ying, "Go!" Let's go upstairs at the East Gate. After saying that, he asked the guards to lead the horse, turned over and ran towards the east gate.
When Liu Zhaoji arrived at the East Gate Tower, he realized that entering the city did not mean taking Guide City, and the battle had just begun.
Hauge was escorted by his own soldiers and fled to the west of the city, but Hauge refused to go out of the city, he knew what it meant to lose Guide City, although the Wehrmacht had entered the city, it did not mean that they had occupied Guide City, there were still 50,000 or 60,000 Han troops in the city, if it was well organized, maybe it could drive the Wehrmacht out of the city.
Just when Haoge sent people to look for the commanders of the Han army, Liu Jinzhong and Huang Ying also ran towards the west gate surrounded by their own soldiers.
"Stop it all! You all followed this king back from the south, which one of you didn't have Han blood on your hands? Do you think the Wehrmacht will be able to let you go? Even if the Wehrmacht lets you go and loses your return to Germany, the court will not let you go! Now they are all killed with this king, the Wehrmacht is not numerous, and their firearms are not fully effective in the city, as long as they are driven out of the city, it will be victory! ”
Hauge found the steps of a house, raised the waist knife in his hand and shouted loudly, and the soldiers around him also shouted loudly.
Seeing that Haoge himself was guarding the west gate, Liu Jinzhong and Huang Ying didn't dare to run anymore, they all knew that Haoge was telling the truth, even if he ran out of Guide City, he would only live a few more days, and the Manchu court would definitely not spare them.
"The little ones, all of them will be killed with me, there are few people from the Wehrmacht who have entered the city, as long as we get out, we will be able to drive them out soon!" Huang Ying can see the situation most clearly, when he was in Sichuan, it was he who led Haoge to attack Zhang Xianzhong, which caught Zhang Xianzhong off guard, and he also knew that if he surrendered to the National Defense Army, he would definitely not be able to fall well. Since there is no way back from front to back, it is better to turn back and fight a bloody way.
Haoge also wanted to follow the Han army to kill back, but was stopped by the soldiers around him, Haoge had to stand on the steps and shouted: "As long as the Wehrmacht is driven out of Guide City, each person will be rewarded with ten taels of silver!" "Actually, where did Hauge get the money at this time? It's just a habit of shouting on weekdays.
The soldiers did not know whether Haug had any silver, only that there was a reward for defeating the Wehrmacht, and many of them were so stimulated by the silver that they roared and rushed east.
What Liu Zhaoji and He Ying saw on the tower of the East Gate was a large number of Qing soldiers holding waist knives desperately attacking the East Gate.
Li Meng led a regiment to rush into the city, chasing the fleeing Qing soldiers while shouting: "Surrender or kill!" "There were already countless Qing soldiers kneeling on both sides of the street. Just when Li Meng felt that there was no suspense about the outcome of the victory. There was an earth-shattering shout of killing from the street ahead.
Li Meng was taken aback. I didn't know what was happening in front of me, so I raised my hand and waved it to the back, and the group that was chasing it suddenly stopped, and the stopped group quickly formed a formation on the street, and more than thirty rifles in front of it pointed forward in unison.
A moment later, Li Meng was a little surprised to see a large number of Qing soldiers rushing over with various weapons, as if they had taken medicine. It's like they're all crazy.
It was only a few tens of meters, and the crazy expressions of the Qing soldiers could already be seen very clearly, Li Meng shouted "hit" fiercely, and a neat gunshot rang out, and the Qing soldiers who were desperately rushing forward seemed to have hit a wall, and more than a dozen people in front of them fell to the ground in an instant.
Without waiting for the Qing soldiers behind to react, after a burst of bolts, the second gunfire rang out again, and after more than a dozen people fell, the Qing soldiers reacted. Some began to run backwards, while more Qing soldiers ran to both sides of the street. Some of them kicked open the doors of the houses on both sides of the street and ran into the house.
The Qing soldiers who ran backwards were driven back by the overseers who followed behind, and they also began to run to both sides, and a large number of Qing soldiers got into the alleys and people's homes.
Li Meng led a group into the alleys and houses, and it was at this time that the casualties of the group began to increase greatly.
Li Meng led more than 30 soldiers to chase more than 100 Qing soldiers into a small alley, just entered the alley, a rain of arrows flew, Li Meng suddenly fell three or four people around him, other soldiers hurriedly held them up, but two of them were shot by arrows, obviously helpless.
A few soldiers chased a dozen Qing soldiers into the house, and as soon as they entered the house, before their eyes could get used to it, a soldier was cut to the ground, and his companions quickly dragged him out, but saw that an arm had been cut off.
Liu Zhaoji and He Ying saw it really from the tower of the East Gate, and seeing that the casualties were getting bigger and bigger, Liu Zhaoji was anxious, "Quickly order all the regiments to withdraw to the streets!" The guards around him quickly ran down the city tower to find Li Meng.
At this moment, a regiment of Lou Ting's division also rushed in from the east gate, but they were not stragglers, but a small phalanx of thirty people, and after entering the city, one by one small phalanx began to pursue from the streets to both sides.
Liu Zhaoji was surprised to find that although Lou Ting's division used Yangzhou rifles, they fought as a whole, and the soldiers were not left alone, except for the occasional flying arrows, which caused a few people to be injured, and there were almost no casualties.
"Division commander, Li Meng, they are chasing without formation at all, this is not good! It seems that we still have to train well to fight in the city. He Ying also saw the situation of the battle in the city, he and Liu Zhaoji didn't know that there was a special term for the battle in the city called street fighting.
"Order the bombardier to open the way in front, and if there are Qing soldiers who resist, they will up!" Liu Zhaoji saw that the casualties were still increasing, and he was even more annoyed, because he was afraid that he would damage the houses and injure the people by mistake, but now he can't take care of it.
The first regiment had begun to withdraw from the alleys and private houses, and when all of them regrouped on Dongmen Street, Li Meng briefly counted the number of people, and in just half an hour, the first regiment had already suffered more than 130 casualties, and even more than a dozen rifles had been lost.
Hearing the casualty figures, Li Meng was so distressed that he trembled, most of the soldiers in the regiment were veterans of the Zhongguan battalion at the beginning, and they didn't lose a few people after so many big battles, and now they lost more than 100 people in half an hour in this Guide City, how could Li Meng think about it?
When Li Meng saw that they were coming, he quickly shook his head, put aside the casualties of the troops, and ordered the bombardiers to work in groups of ten people, accompanied by a regiment of battalions and companies to continue to pursue on both sides of the street.
Immediately afterwards, the explosion of grenades sounded from time to time from the direction of Dongmen Street to the South Gate, and the resistance of the Qing soldiers began to weaken and weaken, and more and more prisoners were captured by the regiments, and as a large number of prisoners were escorted out of the city by the soldiers from the East Gate, there were fewer and fewer battles in various parts of the city.
In the evening, Guide City finally calmed down, Liu Zhaoji, who had been standing on the tower of the East Gate, took out his pocket watch and looked at it, and the battle after entering the city was actually fought for more than four hours. (To be continued.) )