Chapter 408: The Qing Army Retreats!

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Tuhai's guards also rode their horses at the same time, using their bodies to protect Tuhai in case Tuhai was hit by marbles again. This is also a model of loyal protector, this action of the guard did play a great role, Xu Yi came to a new round of shelling, a puff of scattered bullets fell just on the back of the guard, the guard also lay on the horse's back, but still clutched the reins in his hand and did not fall. Tuhai was protected, but the guard went to the West Heaven.

When the cannon in the Wu army's camp sounded, Zhou Peigong and Zhao Liangdong were also dumbfounded, but Zhou Peigong and the two quickly reacted, after all, you can use the cannon, so of course people can use it, but I didn't expect the Wu army's counterattack to be so fast. "Block, get out of the way and let the cavalry retreat! Be fast! Zhao Liangdong immediately wanted to be beaten, but it would take time for this order to be conveyed and executed.

In the end, the cavalry of the Qing army still retreated, but the Eight Banners cavalry at the front not only failed to be ashamed of their performance yesterday, but took their lives in this charge, and the 1,300 Eight Banners cavalry came back less than two hundred, and they were all wounded. In addition, although the Mongolian Horqin cavalry did not charge at the front, these Mongolian cavalry charged too fast and got too close, and they also lost as many as six or seven hundred!

The mighty more than 3,000 cavalry charged forward, and less than half of them finally returned. Such losses were even heavier than the losses of the Wu army's Guanning Iron Cavalry just now. This time, it was Zhao Liangdong and Zhou Peigong's turn to drip blood in their hearts! Especially Zhou Peigong. At the moment, I am worried about the situation in Tuhai. I just got a report that Tuhai was injured, so I immediately rode over. The commander of the battlefield here is still Zhao Liangdong, and at this moment he is staring at the Wu army's artillery array in the distance, and loudly ordered: "Order, give me the command to blow up the Wu army's artillery array, I can't knock out the artillery on the opposite side, before we are killed by the artillery, Lao Tzu will also have a military law to deal with it first!" ”

Wang Pingfan, who has the same idea as Zhao Liangdong, is officially opposite. Since the key to determining the outcome on the field at this moment has become this cannon, it is inevitable that the local cannon must be knocked out, otherwise when the charge will be made, it will be attacked by the local artillery, and such a loss is really unbearable. However, if you defeat the artillery array on the opposite side, then you can use your own artillery to pursue the victory, use the cannon to defeat the morale and confidence of the enemy, and then defeat and recover the full cover!

Under the orders of the generals on both sides. All the artillery on their respective artillery positions turned their heads and opened fire on the enemy's artillery positions. In the burst of artillery sounds, the swarthy projectiles flew towards the opposite artillery position with the anger of their respective sergeants.

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

"Hit me hard!"

"Shoot the artillery of the Tartar (Wu Dog) to this officer!"

In the cheers of the respective artillery commanders. The artillerymen of the Wu army and the Qing army all exerted their strength to aim at their respective enemy positions and bombarded them. At this moment, the level and accuracy of the gunners on both sides are reflected, the speed and accuracy of the Wu army's artillery are stronger than the Qing army's gunners, and the first round of bombardment of the Qing army actually did not hit the Wu army's artillery position, but the Wu army's side had two shells on the Qing army's position, and a few of them fell not far away.

At this critical time, Wu Jun began to use their treasure-flowering bombs. The Wu army is also equipped with this powerful thing, but the cost of this thing is too high, Wu Sangui's instrument supervisor does not need to make such a flowering bullet to cost fifty taels of silver, if all the flowering shells are used in an artillery battle like this, then fifty cannons can shoot more than a thousand shells in only half an hour, but it is fifty or sixty thousand taels of silver, where can the Wu army support such a high military expenditure!

Two flowering shells exploded on the position, killing and wounding more than a dozen people in an instant, and one of the cannons was blown up and flew up, completely unusable. Seeing this situation, the gunners of the Qing army here panicked, the Wu army must have been eyeing them, this place is really too dangerous at this time, and they may be like those gunners next to them at any time - there are no dead bodies! So they looked even more flustered, and the reload level automatically slowed down.

In the midst of earth-shattering explosions, there were constantly Qing gunners and cannons flying into the sky, and even those gunners were blown to the ground, and even those guns were damaged nearly half on the spot. Seeing the wolf appearance of the Qing army's artillery, the soldiers in the Wu army's camp cheered one after another, but two rounds of mutual shelling, their own losses were not there, but the opposite side was turned on their backs. This artillery bombardment also completely raised the morale of the Wu soldiers, and Wang Pingfan couldn't help but smile and nodded, artillery can not only give the enemy great damage, but also boost their own morale, no wonder I heard that Geng Jingzhong, the king of Jingnan, called the cannon the god of war!

The artillerymen of the Qing army not only suffered heavy losses under the blows of the Wu army's artillery, but also acted out of shape in the panic. But there were warlords behind them, and they did not dare to stop what they were doing, and these gunners still had to muster up the courage to load the guns with gunpowder projectiles, but there was a good saying, the busier they were, the more chaotic they became, and soon they were out of the basket. Suddenly there was a loud bang. There was a thunderclap on the ground, and a large area of the Qing army and gunners around it were blown up to the ground, and it turned out to be a mistake in the loading of a Hongyi cannon, and in a panic, too much gunpowder was filled into the barrel of the gun, and the cannon exploded on the spot, killing a group of people around, and even the soldiers of the supervision team who supervised the battle behind were also killed.

And at this time, the third shelling from the Wu army's side came. A total of 50 cannons of Fran machine guns and red-coated cannons, five flowering shells with a piercing sound, fell on the artillery camp position of the Qing army again, half of which directly fell into the artillery position, but this time it blew up all the remaining dozen or so artillery pieces of the Qing army.

"Good! Attaboy! Wang Pingfan saw the situation on the other side clearly in the clairvoyant mirror, and couldn't help but applaud loudly. Order, hit the artillery fire for me to bombard the Qing army's formation, and shoot all the remaining flowering shells, don't feel distressed, as long as we win this battle, how much silver can be made up! ”

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

The artillery of the Qing army was completely lost, and without the suppression of firepower, Zhang Manufacturers became the only show of the Wu army's artillery, and bursts of shells fell into the Wu army's military formation unscrupulously, and suddenly the Wu army's formation sounded a miserable howl, and pieces of stumps and broken arms flew into the sky. Soon, after only two rounds of shelling, the flowering shells in the Wu army began to run out, and then they were replaced with solid shells again. The power of the solid bullet at this moment is actually not much smaller than the flowering bullet, a solid bullet flying out, it must be rolled dozens of meters away on the ground with huge kinetic energy, so in the process of rolling, for the Qing soldiers, once touched, even if they are either dead or injured!

In fact, two rounds of shells were fired out again on the Wu army's side, and the front army on the Qing army's side began to collapse, and Zhao Liangdong saw that there was nothing to do, so he had to order the withdrawal of the army. Zhao Liangdong's order was timely, and most of the army still retreated in an orderly manner. But at this time, Wang Pingfan did not give up this excellent opportunity, and once again sent his ace cavalry - Guanning Iron Cavalry!

Previously, the Guanning Iron Cavalry lost 1,000 people, and there were three or four hundred wounded, but there were still about 1,700 people who could fight, and the momentum brought by the charge of the 1,700 cavalry was not small.

At this moment, the cavalry of the Wu army behind him was constantly approaching, and the momentum was terrifying, so that the Qing soldiers could not keep calm no matter what, so it was impossible to continue to maintain a strict and orderly retreat! So in the entire retreating army formation, the back wanted to run to the front, and the front wanted to run faster, when someone found that some generals led their henchmen and elites to run away in advance, the whole team suddenly couldn't hold on, as if it was an avalanche.

At first, the small corners collapsed, then the big ones fell off, and finally the whole collapsed, when the Guanning iron cavalry of the Wu army chased unhurriedly to a distance of seventy or eighty paces, Zhao Liangdong's troops had been completely disrupted, and everyone was mixed together, all running frantically.

The Guanning Iron Cavalry is worthy of being the most elite of the cavalry, and knows how to use power to oppress the enemy. At this moment, seeing that the pressure was almost over, the cavalry commander of the Wu army, who was running at the front, raised the saber in his hand high, and his own soldiers also raised the weapons in their hands at the same time, giving a signal to charge. The cavalry commander swung his saber forward fiercely, and the cavalry behind him also tilted their weapons forward in unison, and the movements of so many people were uniform. The horses began to accelerate, and everyone put their bodies on the horse's back as much as possible, so that the horses could run faster.

The sudden acceleration of the cavalry made the Qing soldiers who were already fleeing in a panic even more panicked, but now in such a situation, there are people in all directions, even if they want to disperse to both sides, there is no place to escape.

The defeat of the Qing army has become a foregone conclusion, after all, the number of more than 1,000 Guanning iron cavalry is not too much, and the pursuit cannot kill all the tens of thousands of Qing troops, and the Wu army's infantry military array is a little far away, and it is impossible to catch up at once. In the end, Zhao Liangdong broke his wrist, abandoned the two phalanxes of the original front army, let the large army retreat across the Wei River, and returned to Tongguan City half a day later. (To be continued......)