Chapter 400: Battle of Changsha, Blood to Blood
On the east bank of the Xiangjiang River, from Changsha City to Liuyang River, and then to Kuitang River, guns and cannons roared, and the sound of killing shook the sky.
He is an ordinary soldier in the camp of Changsha City, old and young, Ping said that he took a group of campmates to squeeze the loafers in the city, and also sent the loafers to stand guard for himself.
But now he had to take this group of campers, holding rattan cards, waving waist knives, and rushing towards the Tianxin Pavilion. Don't talk about him, the thousand generals who guarded the city camp all rushed in front. The heads of He Tenglin, the governor of Hunan, and Shen Jing, the prefect of Changsha, are hanging high in front of the governor's yamen, which is now the Jingyi general's Xingyuanmen.
Kangxi's edict of "those who lose an inch of land will be killed" is not child's play, and these two people have to bear the responsibility for the loss of Tianxin Pavilion. The rebellious general Oro Dai was also demoted by three levels, and he made meritorious service for his crimes, and together with Ye Jiusi, the governor of Hunan who entered the city, he was red-eyed to recover Tianxin Pavilion.
His daughter-in-law and boy should be watching from a distance, he mechanically rushed up the stairs leading to Tianxin Pavilion with the crowd, and his heart was still churning with distracting thoughts. There was a loud bang in front of him, and then he heard the elongated and out of tune screaming in the city garrison Qianzong, and when he looked up, he saw that Qianzong was followed by a few soldiers, and his body flew down like a broken kite.
Am I going to die? I don't want to die...... He gasped for breath, he felt like he was urinating, and his legs and stomach were cramping, but he didn't stop a step under his feet, and the campers around him looked like him, with a desperate glint in their eyes, but their faces seemed to be wearing heavy masks, and they were indifferently surging up.
The gunshots rang out non-stop, and the crowd in front of them dissipated like waves on the reef. The dense backs of his campmates suddenly emptied, he stepped on a human head, his body slid down, and less than ten paces away from the low wall, a row of muskets with bayonets opened fire, and blood poured on his back.
When he stood up, there were no campers alive in front of him or behind him. Countless thoughts flashed through his mind, and he wanted to grab a few of them, such as kneeling down and surrendering, such as abandoning his weapon and running away, but these thoughts could not be slid and his hands were not spared, and finally one thought filled his entire brain.
Whoever dares to defect to the enemy and who dares to flee will not receive a penny of bereavement for the families of all the people in the entire battalion.
The figures of the red-clothed soldiers in front of him were like magma that could melt everything, burning him no longer to bear. He twisted his voice, let out an inhuman low, and froze forward.
Puff puff...... The red-clothed soldiers didn't bother to shoot, and several bayonets stabbed into his body at the same time. The moment his consciousness dissipated, he breathed a sigh of relief, this damn world, he was liberated.
"Are these guys crazy?"
Looking at the corpses of the enemy soldiers covering the steps, a sergeant commander of the British Chinese Army muttered unbearably.
"I don't have to live! Brothers! Die! ”
On the west bank of the Kuitang River, under the banner of the brave general Norbu, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was under the yellow banner of Manchuria, and the leader of the Eight Grids shouted like a madman, and behind him, a large group of soldiers in cool silk coats rushed up the river bank from the pontoon bridge and rushed towards the scarlet figure in the distance.
"You are the emperor's coat, and the emperor thinks of the master-slave relationship, and does not cut off your heads in the camp! Let you die on the battlefield, and you can still get a reputation for loyal and brave battles, and bless your family. With such a mighty imperial grace, you can have no regrets, go and die! ”
The rebuke of the marshal Norbu still echoed in the heart of the eight grids, when he burst into tears and bowed to the north in thanks.
At this moment, he was still in tears, not only him, but also Jiangxi Green Camp on the left and right, all of them were crying and charging at the same time, and the officials all said in a cannibalistic tone, today is the time of death, don't expect to live anymore.
Thousands of soldiers poured up the riverbank, divided into several large arrowheads, and slammed into several wide and shallow red-clothed arrays a mile away. The sound of the knocking piling never stopped, and the huge iron bullets were like sharp knives, cutting through the crowd ashore with a knife, like chopping fat meat filling, each knife splashed countless blood juices, and also brought up pieces of scattered minced meat.
Some of the arrows were directly crushed by artillery fire, lying on the bank of the river and refusing to advance half a step. But the eight grids can't stop, and they don't dare to stop. Rushing two or three hundred paces away, the whizzing flowering bullets fell, exploding fireworks and raining iron sheets over the crowd. A flowering bullet exploded at a height of two or three feet, and the eight-bar lightning rod helmet also jingled, and he didn't pay attention to the severe pain in several places in the back of his shoulder at the same time.
It was almost a hundred steps, and Bage couldn't help but cheer with the brothers who were already half left. The cannons were pulled up, and the crowd was divided, and the muskets were flat. Shoot! Fire! The recoil shook his body, and he vaguely saw the red-clothed soldier fall in the distance, and joy shook his heart.
A neat white smoke erupted from the front of the red-clothed soldiers' array, and the tremor churned out from his heart, turning into a sharp pain, making his strength dissipate rapidly. The musket was unarmed, and Hachige fell to his knees, looking down at his chest, where green smoke was billowing from the hole the thickness of his thumb, and the charred flesh was rolled out.
Bage fell to the ground, but his consciousness was still very clear, and he heard the screams continuously, and the sound of the human body hitting the ground again and again. In just a moment, his assistant leader was killed and wounded, and the lucky ones who were alive were shooting and laughing while shooting and laughing, as if they had lost their hearts and gone crazy.
The cheers suddenly rose to the sky, the dust on the side of the battlefield was rolling, and the ground shook like thunder, which was the horse team of the Jiangxi Green Battalion crossing the river.
Eight squares were close to the ground, and only the raging horse's legs could be seen rushing towards the large array of red-clothed soldiers. At this moment, he was also excited and happy in his heart, kill, kill all those thieves!
The horse's legs flipped quickly, and before they could get close to the large array of red-clothed soldiers, they seemed to be stuck in a quagmire and swamp, pouting their hooves and kneeling on the ground, and there was chaos. It was originally a monotonous view of the horse's legs, but the human body fell like raindrops, instantly covering the eight-grid line of sight.
In the neighing of the horse, Bage spurted out a mouthful of blood, no longer breathing, still round eyes filled with unwillingness, from the capital, trekking thousands of miles, he didn't even see the face of the thief army...... "I will have to pick up these barbed wires later, clean up, and use as much as possible if I can, one is a dozen taels of silver." ”
Behind the red-clothed array, He Mengfeng, the commander of the right battalion of the Tiger Ben Army, looked at the barbed wire defense line that had fallen for most of the time, and said distressedly.
"It's either blood or minced meat, how can we have the effort to clean it up, there are thousands of these things behind us. Yo, the Tartars are really desperate, and even the general's cannon has pushed across the shore. Alert to the system, please ask the military family artillery wing support. ”
Han Zaixing, the commander of the left battalion, held the newly issued binoculars and gave orders while observing the enemy's situation.
"What medicine did the Tartar soldiers take today, and why did they change their surname? I thought that they also had the Heavenly Punishment Society and the Holy Martial Society in their army. ”
He Mengfeng also raised his binoculars, and immediately saw that half a mile away, hundreds of Qing soldiers continued to rush forward under artillery fire, and the leading generals waved battle flags, and their posture was quite high. I also want to take a closer look, whether the general is an acquaintance in Jiangxi, an eight-pound cannonball pierces through the enemy group, and the person suddenly disappears with the flag, smacking his lips in disappointment.
The Eagle Yang Army was in the south of Changsha City, responsible for the main attack on Changsha City, and the Tiger Ben Army entered the east of Changsha City, but was attacked by Changsha City, Bahun Dai in the north and Norbu in the east. The terrain was so unfavorable, but the Tiger Ben army did not retreat, causing Bahun Dai and Norbu to send troops to besiege it. Now the left battalion and the right battalion are working together to resist Norbu, and the front battalion is alone against Bahundai.
Changsha City also joined in the excitement, moving more than a dozen generals ranging from 5,000 to 8,000 catties, and they kept fighting. provoked Zhao Hanxiang, the cannon king who could not hear the sound of enemy cannons on the battlefield, sent a 20-jin cannon wing to the east of the city, and eight 20-jin cannons started to start an artillery battle with Changsha City.
In the northeast of Changsha City, Zhang Ying's face was covered with sweat, both from the scorching sun and nervous. The gunfire in front of the front camp of the Tiger Ben Army was more dense and more mixed.
After the Huben army captured the original camp in the east of the city of Bahun Dai, Bahun Dai didn't know whether he was reprimanded by Kangxi or what, so he put on a posture of never giving up until he recovered the camp, so that the Shaanxi-Gansu-Green Battalion gathered thousands of musketeers who had changed flintlock muskets, set up hundreds of small cannons, and shot at the Tiger Ben army from a distance of more than 100 steps.
Even if Meng Kui supported Zhang Ying with half of the army's 12-jin cannons and all the flying cannons, the Qing army still occupied several high slopes, the guns and cannons did not stop, and they were beaten to the ground, and they still fought to the death. I saw that there were still flags waving in the rear, and people were coming and going, and it was obvious that there was still a rear.
"Is the barbed wire fence plugged in? Get ready for both wings! Remind them not to be stupid, they have to rely on the change of formation in the previous drill to save their lives! ”
Seeing a large puff of smoke and dust sweeping from the west bank of the Liuyang River, Zhang Ying was sweating like rain.
"Let the Southern Barbarian thieves learn what Manchurian cavalry archery is! Rush! ”
More than 2,000 cavalry rushed south along the west bank of the Liuyang River, and the deputy commander of Xi'an, who led the army, called out in a majestic voice, and received a thunderous response.
This cavalry is not an ordinary horse team, among them there are 1,000 warriors of the Beijing Banner Forward Battalion, as well as 1,000 horse armor selected from the Xi'an Banner Battalion, all of them are skilled in bows and horses, people are strong, and horses are good horses. In Erlu's opinion, relying on more than 2,000 cavalry, they can go straight to the enemy's base camp, and even if they are 100,000 Han infantry, it is difficult to withstand this unstoppable charge. Ba Hun Dai asked him to break through the thin large formation in front of him and go straight into the rear of this enemy army, and he felt that he was slaughtering chickens with a knife.
The horse team is like a torrent, even if there are shells constantly bombarding, there are still flowering shells exploding from time to time around the head, but the soldiers of the Beijing Banner Forward Battalion are already blood-red, and the Xi'an Banner Battalion is also a long-time battle-hardened person, and the mounts on both sides are Northwest war horses, which are not sensitive to artillery fire, and the impact of the horse team has not diminished at all.
Half a mile ahead, the red-clothed infantry, less than 2,000 men, was withdrawing from the horizontal formation, shrinking into a strange quadripartite formation, forming a tight circle around it, but the center was empty. Seeing that Eru wanted to laugh out loud, with more than 1,000 infantry, he still wanted to fight against the superior number of horsemen, looking for death.
Three hundred steps, two hundred steps, but in a moment, they were about to approach the enemy's large array, but in front of them was a neighing of horses, and the momentum of the impact suddenly stagnated.
"Damn, where did this thing come from!?"
"So many wire nets, my God!"
The subordinates in front shouted and cursed, and Erlu rode forward, seeing the situation in front clearly, and couldn't help but gasp.
(To be continued)