249.Battle of Jiangsu and Zhejiang (3)
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After tossing the situation for about an hour, the two new forces of the Qibing Battalion and the Qingshan Battalion, which had finally completed the dispatch, launched an attack on the four gates at the same time, and the Hongyi cannon, the Franc machine gun, the tiger squat cannon, and the turpentine cannon brought by the Qing army were all vigorously cast at the city regardless of whether the range was enough or not. But what the Qing soldiers who were releasing fireworks and firecrackers never imagined was that the Zheng army brigade had retreated from each city wall, and there were only one or two watchers on each city wall, so this grand sound and light performance was flattering to the blind man.biquge.info
After half an hour of shelling, the Qing brigade began to charge according to the old routine. The result of the charge is naturally self-evident, but the Qing army, which was almost unscathed, was a little hesitant after occupying the city, some prudently sent people to ask Wan Yongqi, and some recklessly led their troops to rush straight into the city, and between prudence and recklessness, they first sent a small force to try to move forward, and since then, the Qing army has begun to be chaotic at the same pace.
"The sea rebelled and forsaken the walls and fled into the city?" In ancient China, the loss of the city wall usually represents the beginning of the city changing hands, as for the street fighting, the strength of the Qing army is ten times that of the Zheng army, so Wan Yongqi really thought that the victory was in his hands for the first time. "Very good, order all the departments to move forward bravely, when the Kefu County Yaju annihilates the sea against the city"
Before Wan Yongqi's order was issued, a Qing soldier who reported the news was hurriedly led to the front: "The Zuozhong (Xun) under the Qi Barracks was intercepted by the sea in the south street of the city, and the sea was shot and killed by our officers and soldiers with bird guns, and the center and left have already suffered more than a dozen casualties."
"This is the stubborn resistance of the sea." Wan Yongqi took it for granted. "The Ministry of Life must not be afraid of death and injury, and must pour in"
The Qing army, who shouted loudly to kill, waved the weapon in his hand and rushed towards the seemingly thin barricade in front of him, but when he was fifty steps away, Zheng Junping, who was hiding behind the barricade composed of door panels and seats, suddenly came out with a walking gun, saying that it was too late and that it was fast, only to see Zheng Jun pull the trigger steadily, and more than a dozen guns jumped at the same time, and the dense guns and bullets were knocked down by the Qing army that was about to break through.
At this time, the Zheng army shooters did not personally load, they handed over the rifle in their hands to the reserve behind them, and then took the rifle handed over by the reserve team and re-aimed and shot, so repeatedly, as long as a certain firing frequency was maintained, the bullets fired by the Zheng army were endless, so that the Qing army that tried to take advantage of the Zheng army's firepower gap to implement it suffered a big loss.
The Qing army's bird guns took it for granted that they shot at each other, but the Qing army's bird guns were too thin, the charge was limited, and the power was not enough to penetrate the barrier formed by the door panels and tables and chairs, and with the accuracy of the guns at that time, it was undoubtedly impossible to carry out accurate sniping on the heads and shoulders of the exposed Zheng soldiers, so although the Qing army's counterattack was equally fierce, the effect was very different, and only a few unlucky people in the Zheng army were unfortunately shot to the end.
However, the number of Qing troops was so large that they could desperately approach regardless of casualties, while the Zheng army had one less dead and wounded, so after the casualties had accumulated to a certain extent, the Zheng army threw out a few earth-shattering thunderbolts, and then abandoned their current position under the influence of the smoke from the explosion and moved to the second alley.
The Qing army came up with the idea of using the door panel left by the Zheng army as a shield, but the Zheng army's infantry is not comparable to the Qing army's bird gun, and its basic power is enough to break through the two cotton armors within fifty steps, so after penetrating the inch-thick door panel, the remaining guns can also cause damage to the Qing army.
The Qing army, which had spent a lot of money to seize the entrance of two alleys, suddenly opened up, and several birds and guns shot at the Zheng army behind the bunker through the storefronts along the street and the second floor of the households, and the tiger squat cannons, Franc machine guns, and turpentine cannons that had been stranded outside the city were also transported in through the reopened city gate, and the casualties of the Zheng army began to increase.
For this unfavorable situation, the Zheng army leaders who blocked the east, south, and west were a little unable to stop it, so they only directly withdrew the county government with stronger fortifications, and only Yang Biao, the leader of the second sentry and the first team of the North Street, had some ideas: "The second squad will stay with me, and the rest will leave the earth-shaking thunder and be brought back to the county government by the Han squad leader." ”
"My lord, what are you?" The squad leader surnamed Han kept his footsteps and looked at his commander with surprised eyes. "If I don't stay, will you lead the rest of the people to retreat?"
"Afraid that I will join the enemy?" Yang Biao scolded with a smile, and then had a positive expression. "I have three brothers in my family, and some people died for their fathers and mothers, so I accept the order!" The remaining twenty-two soldiers of the two squads and the seven wounded of the three squads saluted Yang Biao at the same time, looking at the background of their departure, Yang Biao clasped his fists at the eight soldiers who remained on the spot. "Brothers, don't blame me, it's a horse leather shroud everywhere, so now give me the roof, and then beat me when you see it!"
Zheng Jun, who was scattered to the houses and shops on both sides of the street, quickly managed to climb to the roof, and just as they had just climbed to the roof, they did not know that Zheng Jun had also taken advantage of the height of the houses along the street The Qing army brigade was rumbling past and rushed straight to Zheng Jun's last stronghold, the county office.
"Good guy, at least a thousand presidents." Yang Biao, who was lying behind the roof, suddenly saw that there was a Qing army in the team whose armor was obviously different from the one on the side, so he aimed at it, and with a sound of guns, the Qing soldier who was targeted was fine, but the other Qing soldier who was two people next to him withered down. "The straight lady thief, it's really crooked."
Not all Zheng officers and soldiers were as lucky as him to be able to defeat the Qing army without being discovered by the Qing army, no, a few half-kneeling on the tile just opened a gun and were discovered by the Qing army because of the movement on the tile surface, and as a result, the bow and arrow and the bird gun hit at the same time, which immediately made these Zheng soldiers hate on the spot.
But Yang Biao and the other cold guns continued, from time to time there were Qing soldiers who were shot in the back and fell to the ground, seeing this scene, several Qing soldiers muttered, and immediately someone led people to the house to search, and more went to the county government regardless of it.
"I want to catch Lao Tzu, phew! Grandpa doesn't play with you! Yang Biao gestured to Zheng Jun on the roof opposite, and at the same time patted another Zheng Jun who was following closely behind him, and the two quickly went downstairs and disappeared into the winding alley. Keep up, let's go to the East Side! ”
Yang Biao's actions can of course be regarded as a small fight, although it can add a little trouble to the Qing army entering the city, but it cannot shake the current battle situation. At this moment, the two battalions of Qing troops that had reunited had already divided and surrounded the Kunshan County Ya and the Chenghuang Temple and Confucian Temple on the side, but as soon as they were counted, General Li and the Qin guerrillas of the Qingshan Battalion collapsed at the same time.
"Lao Qin, there are more than 90 brothers in the Qi Barracks, and there are more than 70 who can't afford to be injured, so it is estimated that this number is indispensable on your side." The casualties of more than 100 and nearly 200 people accounted for almost a quarter of the Qi Bing Battalion, which naturally made General Li think highly of the strength of Zheng's army. "If we continue to fight like this, our two battalion leaders will be similar to the Songbei Association."
Qin Guerrilla also sighed a few times, and then asked in a confused manner, "What do you mean?" ”
General Li cursed the old fox secretly, and then had to directly provoke: "It's not that you and I don't really fight, it's just that now the morale is depressed, and I have to face the possibility of the sea rebellion and the poor rats, if there is no reward in the town, I'm afraid that the group of ruffians below is not easy to appease." ”
The black-eyed beads couldn't see the silver silver, and after figuring out what General Li meant, Qin Guerrilla, who felt that he had no chance to go up further, suddenly started to use his little brain, so he immediately said: "Brother, what he said is reasonable, we are doing our best to serve the Qing Dynasty, and we really have to give some rewards above."
"What? The casualties were too large, and there was no reward for fear of the ruffians below. "Wan Yongqi was so angry that his nose was not a nose or an eye, but speaking of which, the Qi Battalion and the Qingshan Battalion couldn't even send Zheng Duan directly, and unlike the Songbei Association, he really didn't appease the other party except for using silver bullets." Did the surnamed Hu come back after raising money? What, before he came back, the official knew that he was a person who could not do things. ”
In fact, Wan Yongqi is wronged Hu Wei, you must know that Zheng Jun is now vigorously cracking down on the so-called traitors and gentry who colluded with Jiannu, the original big family has either been robbed, or is looking at the style, if the Qing army wins a big victory, the silver sent to the door will not be less, but now the two parties are still tug-of-war, who dares to bet lightly?
There is no silver, but the battle still has to be fought, so Wan Yongqi thought about it for a while, and decided to use a trick to delay the army: "Come on, go and tell General Li and Qin Guerrilla, just say that the official has sent the secretary Hu and others to the townships to raise rewards, let them work harder, and the county government will be defeated, and the official will also allocate a reward for silver!" ”
However, Li and Qin are also veterans and old Qiuba, Wan Yongqi's tricks can naturally be seen through, because the officials themselves are not good at strong, so they pretended to bombard a few times with Franc machine guns and tiger squatting cannons, and then sent people to shout outside the county government for a while, which can be regarded as completing the work of tired soldiers, and reported that the attack was unsuccessful.
Wan Yongqi got this high-sounding false report, naturally his lungs were blown up, he immediately moved the camp into the city to personally command, and at the same time used the remaining 700 people of the Songbei Association to replace the positions of the two battalions around the county ya, ready to launch the final blow to the Zheng army, but the time has inadvertently slipped away, against the hot sun in the Jiangnan region in August, the Qing army has to consume a lot of water for every step of the action, without the Zheng army attacking, the Qing army's fighting spirit has also dropped to the lowest level, so the scheduled battle plan had to be delayed until dusk, thus, Zheng Jun was given valuable time to further strengthen the fortifications and reorganize the troops
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