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"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

Although there were only ten three-pounder cannons that followed, all of them were grapeshot, and although each shot contained a small number of bullets, it was also the size of a knuckle of twenty little fingers. One launch is two hundred, and the lethality is considerable.

For a time, bullets were as dense as hail raindrops, shooting towards the Qing army, and in the rushing military formation, rows of soldiers immediately fell to the ground and died. Although there were also many musketeers and archers who shot arrows at the Mawei soldiers and fired back, the power was very small when they came from such a distance. As for their muskets, one of the muskets shot a buckshot that hit more than two dozen soldiers, and the rest were all in vain.

Leerjin's army also followed the tradition of the Manchu Eight Banners, and the army was also divided into red armor soldiers and white armor soldiers, so such valuable things as armor were used by warriors, and ordinary soldiers were wearing ordinary thin armor, and only a small number of warriors were eligible to wear more than two layers of armor, and the white armor soldiers were even more gasping for three layers of armor. Soldiers in such armor. Generally at a distance of 80 paces away, it has a fairly good protective effect against bullet shooting. Even if the horsetail soldiers were holding new front-loading rifled guns, they could not effectively penetrate these armors without coming within sixty paces.

The rifle platoons of the Mawei Army have always been unfiring and have begun. It must be continuous. There is not a single void at all. If it were an old-fashioned musket from the past. I still need to give you a three-stage strike formation or something, but now I don't need it at all, depending on the situation, one or two rows can be done. As long as it doesn't block the view of others. After such a long period of training, coupled with many actual battles, so many gunpowder bullets were fired. Even a very average soldier in the Mawei Army can shoot four times in a minute, and basically can fire five shots in a minute.

The Qing army's advance did not stop, braving the rain of bullets. Stepping over the corpses of the battle that had been killed by the guns, it was still difficult to approach the formation of the Mawei Army.

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

The sound of the three-pounder cannon continued to sound, and the lethal effect of the grapetear bullet at the moment was even more terrifying than the musket in the hands of the marines. Each round of artillery sounded, accompanied by a dense crowd of hundreds of bullets falling on the heads of the Qing soldiers. Not to mention those ordinary soldiers, even the shield soldiers holding shields in the Qing army, they could not withstand the attack of cannonballs from the sky.

Obviously, this part of the Qing army did not see the power of the horsetail rifles and artillery in the army, and rushed out with a loud roar, but they did not expect that this was basically a massacre. This side of the North City Gate. In just a few minutes, at least seven or eight hundred Qing soldiers fell. Falling down at this time means that there is no chance to stand up again. The Qing army that rushed outward was only 2,000, and in just a few minutes, nearly half of the casualties had already been lost.

The Qing army that rushed out was indeed hit a lot, but because the first batch of people rushed out here was not very many, the total number was only 1,200 or 300, and in the process of advancing, they found that the crowd on their side became sparse, and after paying more than 70% casualties, the remaining Qing army collapsed, and then retreated back to the city. Although he lost more than 100 people again in the process of retreating, he escaped back after all. Just as the Mawei army continued to approach the city wall, the entire queue had approached the gap in the city wall was only more than 50 meters, and the Qing army, which had already run down the city, had a team appear again, raised its bow and arrows and shot at the Mawei army. In the case of being caught off guard, the Mawei Army suddenly suffered a lot of casualties.

Due to the condescending position, these arrows of the Qing army fell down from a high place, and many of them directly hit the face of the soldiers of the Mawei Army, and because the equipment of the Qing army was all heavy arrows, once they were hit by the vital point, they were basically helpless. There were casualties among the comrades around him, and the soldiers of the Mawei Army did not panic, and the soldiers in the middle and rear immediately turned their guns to aim at the Qing army at the head of the city, and there was a burst of gunfire, and suddenly, the arrows of the Qing army at the head of the city were suppressed.

"Rush!" Wang Wanyu, the commander of the fifth battalion of the second division of the Mawei Army, who was in charge of commanding at the north gate, shouted loudly with red eyes, the bow and arrow shooting just now brought a lot of pressure to the Mawei Army, and at the same time felt sad about the loss of his army. In just one round, the Mawei Army had forty or fifty casualties, and if it were two more rounds, he would have lost a squadron under his command. It is necessary to rush to the gap in the wall and enter the city quickly, so as to avoid being fired condescending by these bows and arrows.

"Raise soldiers for a thousand days, rush into the city, and kill all the Qing troops! Come on! Wang Wanyu took the lead himself, grabbed a gun and ran to the front. The gap is large enough, even a dozen horse-drawn carriages driving side by side, and this gap can also be accommodated. It's just that this gap is all rubble, of course, the carriage can't go, but there is no problem for people to rush up.

The Qing army did not have many archers in Chengtou Mountain, and there were only 200 of them when they were full, and the arrows became more and more sparse under the suppression of the continuous rifle bullets of the Mawei army. It is no wonder that although the Qing army's condescending shooting hit rate was very high, either shooting people in the face or shooting people in the chest, the bullet hit rate of the horsetail soldiers was also very high, and the bullet density was far higher than that of the Qing army's arrows at the head of the city. As long as they are bitten by bullets, there are basically few lives left. The main reason is that the Qing army exposed at the head of the city is basically the vital part of the upper body, especially when the head appears in the battlement, the bullet can easily get in.

Soon, the soldiers of the Mawei Army began to approach the bottom of the city one after another, and their figures were completely blocked by the city wall. The number of soldiers in the Mawei army attacking the east gate was also quite large, but in this short effort, he lost sixty or seventy people again, which was also greatly unexpected by Wang Wanyu.

At the gap in the city wall, the Qing army was as expected. Ambushed at the gates of the city, ready to counterattack as soon as the Mawei Army entered. And Wang Wanyu, who had already expected them to do this. Immediately let the ten small three-pounder cannons that followed behind press on. Then the grape bombs began to bombard behind the gap. The three-pounder cannon was small in size, easy to transport, and very simple to operate, and the soldiers withdrew the three-pounder cannon after nine consecutive shots.

I really can't underestimate the three-pounder small-caliber gun, which fired 90 guns in a row, and a large number of grape shells were fired. With the gap in the city wall as the center, it can be said that the killing effect is amazing within a hundred meters of the city, and the Qing army, which was originally preparing to raid the Mawei army, was also dumbfounded after encountering this situation. This is not much different from the situation when they rushed out of the city before, in a short period of time, the Qing soldiers were killed and wounded more than 1,000 again, and the morale of the Qing soldiers was destroyed by artillery fire!

"Rush!" More than 2,000 horse-tailed soldiers did not stop at this moment, rushed into the city, and immediately separated and chased the streets. At this moment, the Mawei Army began to sweep the streets around the North City Gate in groups of various squadrons. Whenever they encountered the Qing army, they immediately opened fire. Of course. If they voluntarily kneel and raise their hands in surrender, then it is a different matter. The number of Qing troops at the north gate was originally quite large, but now except for those with fast legs and feet, most of them immediately discarded their weapons and surrendered the moment they saw the Mawei army catching up. There are also many who are unwilling to surrender, but the muskets of the Mawei Army are really powerful, and they can still accurately shoot deserters when they shoot from such a distance, which makes them even more afraid to move.

At the north gate of the city, more than 6,000 soldiers were arranged to defend the city, and when the Mawei army bombarded the city tower, more than 1,000 people were wiped out on the city tower, to be exact, it should be more than 1,600 people, which refers to the total number of casualties, and the seriously injured are also among them, and on the battlefield, they were seriously wounded, which was basically the same as the battle death, and the war died and suffered from the pain. More than 1,100 people were again wiped out by the muskets of the horsetail soldiers and the grapeshot of the three-pounder cannon by the muskets of the horsetail soldiers who had just broken through the gap in the wall, and now, at this gap, about 1,200 more people were killed, and in just these three rounds, more than half of the 6,000 people were removed. At this moment, the Mawei army that rushed in completely exceeded 2,000 people, and the Qing army had no morale on its side, but the morale of the Mawei soldiers was so strong that it could not be increased. In this case, if the Qing army leads the generals and then leads his subordinates to fight against the Mawei Army, it is really his own head that is broken.

At this moment, at the south gate, the situation here is different from the north gate. On the south side of the south gate, the navy's warships were in charge of shelling, and there were two places where the north of the city wall collapsed, and after the first gap appeared, the second forty-meter-long section of the city wall on the east side of the south gate also began to collapse, and the two sides were only three minutes apart. After the gap appeared, 2,000 Mawei Navy rifle teams from the 15 warships of the Navy also came down, and under the command of Bian Weihang, the captain of the Fuyuan, they began to officially attack the city, just like the north gate.

However, the Qing defenders on the south gate seemed to be crazy, and they rushed towards the array of the Mawei army without their lives. But the result was tragic, so far it still has not broken through to the 30-meter range of the Mawei Army array, and at least 3,000 Qing troops fell at a distance of seventy or eighty meters between this short gap in the city wall and the Mawei Army array. If Geng Jingzhong was standing on this side in this scene, he would probably sigh, alas, slaughter! This is also the reason why the Western invaders in later generations slaughtered tens of thousands of Boxers with only more than 1,000 musketeers.

In the current situation, in the process of continuous charge, the corpses of his comrades and brothers are all under his feet, and a large number of seriously injured soldiers are wailing, and the defenders behind are not rushing forward wisely, and no one will really take their lives seriously. They had never seen such a scene before, but now they knew that the Mawei army on the opposite side was simply a group of devils, and their defense line could not be broken through at all, and no matter how many troops they piled up, there would be no other results.

The naval rifle team of the Mawei Army on the south gate can be said to be very easy, and the Qing troops who rushed out of the city were numerous, and the reason why they were not able to rush in front of the two thousand rifle team quickly was that the biggest credit was still on the head of the battleships on the Guxi River. As soon as the Qing army broke out of the gap, the two gaps were focused on by the guns of the Mawei battleship, and at this time, the battleship fired the same as the three-pounder cannon at the north gate, but all fired flowering shells. In fact, the dozen or so rounds of shelling behind them were all fired with flowering shells, and they still did so until this moment.

The shelling on the battleships of the Mawei Army also began only when the Qing army rushed out for the most part, and the Qing army seemed to be about to rush in front of the Mawei army. But there is a small area to be pulled. Hundreds of flowering shells fell, and then exploded violently. How many lives are enough to be buried?

"General, let's go! Late will change! Guni Yinbu said to Le Erjin, whose facial expression had changed dramatically.

Leerjin nodded silently, then pulled the reins and turned the horse's head, and then clamped the horse's belly with both legs. "Drive! Break through from the East Gate! ”

At the east gate, the Mawei army did not arrange a large army to attack the city, and the tactic of besieging three queyi was most suitable for the siege of the city. Surround three queyi and leave a way to survive is also the most suitable tactic for the Mawei army to adopt at this time. The number of Qing troops in the city was almost three times that of the Mawei army, although the Mawei army had sharp artillery fire. However, as long as the Mawei army attacked the city, it was inevitable that they would have to fight in close combat with the Qing army, so it was better to leave a city wall. First of all, use powerful firepower to exert absolute pressure on the Qing army, and at the same time, the remaining side of the city gate can make the enemy commander feel that there is still a way to survive and not be trapped and fighting. As long as the commander of the Qing army, Leerjin, had this idea, then the Qing army would not have much resistance power, so that the Mawei army could defeat the enemy army as quickly as possible, and then it could pursue and annihilate it.

There are not many cavalry units left in the Qing army, and more than half of the cavalry in the north of the two engagements have been wiped out, and at this moment, the remaining war horses are only more than 3,000 horses, which are more than 1,000 people and many pure cavalry. The war horse under the crotch is not a good war horse. The more than 10,000 Qing army auxiliaries in the city and the more than 10,000 soldiers who were fighting with the Mawei army were all abandoned by Le Erjin at this moment, and he led his cronies to step on the war horse and began to break through from the east gate.

Their march route will be all the way east. Along the Guxi River and then from Shijiu Lake to get rid of the pursuit of the Mawei army, but they will eventually return to the Yangtze River, many go to Chizhou is Anqing, after all, there are only these two places on the south bank of the Yangtze River are still under the control of the Qing army, and many others have already been occupied by Wu Sangui's army in the hands of the Mawei army.

"Send a signal to the Qing army of the Metropolitan Governor that the Qing army has begun to flee from the east gate, and the cavalry troops of the pro-guard battalion are also preparing to act according to plan!" Gu Ping said loudly to the warriors beside him.

As soon as his words fell, a soldier not far behind him immediately raised his flare gun and fired three times in a row, without saying a word. This strange gun with a thicker barrel is the signal gun of the Mawei Army, many of which use fixed ammunition, but it is like an old-fashioned arquebus, which needs to be lit with a fuse.

"Bang ~~~~~~"

"Bang ~~~~~~"

"Bang ~~~~~~"

Each sound was more than a second apart, and three cannon shots rang out in a row, leaving a large cloud of yellow smoke in the sky, and the signal was transmitted.

"Can a battalion of soldiers ambushed in the woods of Xujiashan in front of you see this signal?" Gu Ping was a little puzzled.

"Don't worry, sir, there are also special people over there who are watching the movements here, and they will definitely be able to give the fleeing Qing army a big surprise later!"

"Okay, now, all ready, when all the Qing cavalry is out of the city, immediately all pounce, remember, aim to fight, the Metropolitan Governor likes these war horses under their seats!" Gu Ping said with a smile on the corner of his mouth. A total of 6,000 cavalry divisions of the Mawei Army returned to the mainland across the sea, and tens of thousands of war horses were transported back from Luzon Island twice in more than a year, but far water could not quench the thirst of the near, and in this Jiangnan region, it was really difficult to find good war horses. In addition, the Qing army under the command of Tula and Labu was not good at cavalry, and the cavalry team was very small, and the available war horses left in the end were only more than 1,200 horses. Most of them were divided up by various units of the army, but the four hundred horses that Zeng Yang deliberately left for Geng Jingzhong were used by the soldiers of the pro-guard battalion.

On the side of the East City Gate, Le Erjin and the cavalry of the Qing army under his command are just light soldiers, except for the armor and weapons on their bodies, the others are only part of the dry food. At this moment, the three thousand cavalry horses were rushing out of the east gate, and then rushed directly to the east without looking back. The city gate is narrow, and only three horses are riding in parallel at a time, and it really takes several minutes for these three thousand horsemen to get out of the city. When the cavalry of the Qing army went out of the city, the movement caused was not small, and the city of Dangtu was not big, and in a few minutes, the news that Le Erjin led the cavalry troops to break through and escape from the east gate spread to the other three gates.

The commander fled, and where could the remaining soldiers have much fighting spirit, and for a while, the morale that was already low was all drained, and the soldiers who threw away their weapons and surrendered began to appear. With the first one, it was like a plague spreading, the power of example was powerful, and the sound of a weapon falling to the ground made a large number of Qing soldiers begin to surrender on their knees.

The cavalry of the brigade all rushed out of the East City Gate, and the Qing army column was also stretched into a long strip. Since Gu Ping had 400 cavalry under his command, if he attacked from the middle of the road, although he was sure of defeating the Qing army, it was easy to be attacked by the Qing cavalry that kept rushing up from behind. At this moment, the Qing army all went out of the city and continued to run for five minutes, leaving the city gate for thousands of meters, and the queue was nearly two kilometers long, at this time Gu Ping spoke: "Brothers, the opportunity has come!" Pounce on my whole army, rush! ”

When the cavalry team of the Mawei Army's personal guard battalion, which had already been ready to go, heard the order, they shook the reins one after another, screamed and rode their horses to pounce! (To be continued......)