Chapter 440: A Great Victory
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At this distance, the Qing army array, which had formed a formation, also wanted to release arrows to block the advance of the Mawei Army, but they themselves knew very well that even if the arrows in their hands were shot, they would not be able to reach the Mawei Army on the opposite side, and they could only waste their strength and arrows in vain, until within 100 meters of the Mawei Army's advance, their strong bows could show a little effect, and not every archer could shoot that far.
The steadily advancing Matails continued to shoot, and after reaching this distance, the previously neat queue began to disperse, and free fire began. It's just that in the process of marching in this queue, although it only advanced fifty meters, but it also lacked a lot of achievements, the Qing army was the first to line up the formation, it is good to say, the more than 1,000 deserters who were forcibly stopped by the panic were in chaos, and after more than 200 soldiers fell under the continuous shooting of the Mawei army, they suddenly broke up again, so far away from 150 or 60 meters, just looking at the figure, a piece of people fell on their side, how can this battle be fought?
As a result, the deserters who were already in a chaotic formation suddenly dispersed again, and continued to flee towards the north regardless of it. At this time, the more than 100 Qing cavalry and the Qing army in the two phalanxes had no time to care about them, and the Mawei Army was in front of them, and all their energy had to be used to fight the Mawei Army. However, in this way, the fleeing Qing army lost their armor and also affected the soldiers on the array that was preparing to resist the Mawei army, not to mention anything else, that is, the morale was greatly affected. A lot of soldiers are thinking. They can run. You can run on your own side, why are you stupid to block guns for others here.
The soldiers of the 10th Battalion continued to advance, and the other troops behind were also catching up quickly, and then the 8th Battalion of the 9th Battalion also joined the ranks of shooting, and the whole 3,000 people formed a 200-meter-long attack queue. It's like a huge brush that writes a lot of color.
The adjutant general of the Qing army, Harhaqi, urgently gathered more than 2,000 men and less than 3,000 men, and at this moment, he was attacked by the Mawei army so fiercely, and the Qing soldiers who were fleeing with their lives were about to be unable to hold on. Fortunately, at this time, the Mawei Army advanced to within 100 meters, and the distance between the two sides was only 80 meters, and hundreds of archers on the side of the Qing army desperately bent their bows and arrows under the escort of the sword and shield soldiers, and hundreds of arrows did have some impact on the dense attack formation of the Mawei Army, and there were also 100 Mawei soldiers injured, and more than 30 people died on the spot.
The Qing army in front of the battle also felt a little better. Fortunately, some of the horsetails were crawled down by them, and the horsetails who were killed or seriously wounded fell to the ground. Immediately, a soldier will go to check on him, and the dead will be left alone for the time being, while the wounded will immediately be carried back to the back for treatment, and then quickly follow the team. Fortunately, the medical staff of the Mawei Army followed the rear of the queue, and the soldiers on the front line could put down their wounded brothers as long as they carried their wounded brothers on their backs for a few tens of meters, but they did not delay them to continue to return to the team to attack.
"Zeng Yong!"
"The last general!"
"Lead the guard brigade to attack, give me the fastest speed to break through the enemy formation, and completely disrupt the Qing army!" Zeng Yangxing held the binoculars and observed the situation on the battlefield in front of him, and said to the captain of the guard group beside him. Zeng Yong is his nephew, and he is also the captain of his guard team, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, not that he is relying on the position of the relationship, Zeng Yong himself followed the Geng family army at the age of sixteen, and he has been counting for more than ten years, and his personal bravery is also in the forefront.
"But Dashuai, you can't do without people here!" Zeng Yong said hesitantly.
"This is a military order!" Zeng Yangxing said expressionlessly, "You want to disobey military orders?" ”
"No, uncle" Zeng Yong wanted to continue to persuade, but Zeng Yangxing immediately interrupted him: "There is no uncle of your in the army. I know what you're thinking, but do you think I'm missing your guards at the moment? Everyone else has made meritorious contributions on the battlefield, are you just willing to stay by my side and watch? ”
Zeng Yong was stunned, and then understood the meaning of Zeng Yangxing. "Uncle Xie is handsome!" After speaking, he turned around and yelled at the guards behind him: "Brothers, the opportunity for meritorious service has come, follow me!" ”
At this moment, the 110-mounted guard brigade was fully armed and rode a war horse behind Zeng Yong to form a peak and arrow formation, and rushed towards the Qing army on horseback.
Zeng Yangxing's position was a little far away from the place where the front line was fighting, the straight-line distance was about 800 meters, and the guard brigade had to be about a thousand meters to rush in front of the Qing army's formation when it turned a corner. However, this is only a thousand meters, and the war horse galloped wildly, the speed was much faster than a human run, and it was only a minute, and the guard brigade galloped to a hundred meters away from the Qing army's array.
"Kill"
Zeng Yong took the lead, and pulled out the short fire gun on his waist to shoot repeatedly, and in just ten seconds, the four short fire guns on his body were shot empty. On the cavalry division's side, three short muskets per soldier were standard, but on the guard brigade's side, there were four. The guard brigade is not from the cavalry division, but they are all veterans of the Geng family's army, eighty percent of them are northerners from Liaodong, and Zeng Yangxing or Geng Jingzhong are fellow countrymen, and their riding skills are all leveraged, and they don't need to pull the reins at all, and they can gallop quickly with their legs tightly clamped on the horse's back.
"Kill"
"Kill"
The soldiers who followed behind also performed the same action after Zeng Yong shot, and at the same time shouted loudly to kill. In the minute when the guard brigade rushed over, the soldiers of the tenth battalion in front had also forced to within more than 50 meters of the Qing army, and the guard brigade suddenly hit the Qing army from the side, which made the Qing army panic, even if the Qing army's big shield defense was tight, but there were still many Qing soldiers who fell. The whole formation is in jeopardy.
More than 150 cavalry members of the Qing army on the left side saw the Mawei Army rushing over. Also transferred from the left side of the battle formation. After the Mawei Army approached a distance of more than 100 meters from their own array, they also launched a charge and headed towards the soldiers of the guard brigade.
"Kill"
The Qing army's left cavalry also roared in the same way, and began to bend their bows and shoot arrows during the charge, and the same more than 100 arrows shot towards the side of the guard brigade. At the front, Zeng Yong and other soldiers who had finished shooting their short guns were lying on the horse's back, and as the horse continued to rush forward, the other soldiers who were later aimed at the Qing army that was galloping towards them and pulled the trigger.
"Bang Bang Bang"
"Bang Bang Bang"
"Bang Bang Bang"
It was another clash of bows and arrows and muskets, cold weapons and hot weapons. Looking at this scene, the two sides were evenly matched, and the number of people on both sides fell almost equally, and more than a dozen fighters fell in less than ten seconds. At this point, in fact, the Mawei Army suffered a little loss, after all, their number was forty or fifty fewer than the left pacesetter horses of the Qing army in front of them. But the difference between the two armies became apparent when they rushed in front of them.
On the side of the guard brigade, especially the fifty or sixty cavalry following behind, when they approached one or twenty meters, the hit rate of the short guns reached almost 100 percent, and each person fired several in succession, and the number of people on the Qing army's side was immediately removed. When the two armies staggered, the guard brigade was on this side. Zeng Yong's department still has 90 cavalry, and the cavalry of the Qing army's left mark only has 40 cavalry. Twenty to one hundred. The guard brigade paid the loss of twenty cavalry, and the Qing army directly removed most of it, one hundred and fifty at the moment only forty left, the Qing cavalry who were born to love this point no longer have the fighting spirit, looked around, shouted, but did not look back as a deserter, at this moment they have completely lost confidence in the rear army and Harhaqi, they will lose this battle!
"Hahaha! Cowardice! Zeng Yong laughed happily at first, and then disdainfully deprecated.
The other fighters around him also laughed at each other, and the loud voices could be heard clearly in the dense gunfire. As soon as the cavalry on the left mark fled, the morale of the Qing army in the phalanx was greatly reduced, if it were not for the Harhaqi order to suppress the battle team, I am afraid that the whole army would collapse at this time.
The short fire has been completed, and it is time for the real cavalry charge. Zeng Yong's weapon was a big gun, which had been on horseback just now, and he was also holding it in his hand at the moment, and a few of the other soldiers were also holding long weapons, and almost all of the others were holding the best quality swords. At this moment, Zeng Yong raised his big gun, led the remaining ninety horsemen to gallop, and when he crossed the front formation, he suddenly turned his head and shouted: "Everyone listen, follow me for a while, don't act without permission, our mission is to leave with one blow, and we must not fall in love without retreating!" Remember my commands! ”
"Yes!" Everyone behind him responded at the same time, but only a dozen people approached, and then the soldiers behind were also constantly conveying Jiang orders. The soldiers and horses of the guard brigade were very close to the Qing army's formation, just turned a small corner and the Qing army's left cavalry played against a distance of nearly two hundred meters, but at this moment it only rushed into the enemy formation in the blink of an eye, and at the moment of engagement, nearly a hundred cavalry slammed into the Qing army's large array, and the huge impact of the war horse shattered the muscles and bones they hit, and the snowy sword flashed and even the armor was cut into two.
A few knights of the guard brigade unfortunately crashed into the guns of the Qing army, the high-speed moving war horse seemed to hit a wall, several spears stabbed the neck of the war horse, chest and abdomen, sat down and the war horse made a painful neighing sound, and the huge pulling force threw several soldiers out, they were thrown high, as if they were quickly thrown a chain ball to draw a beautiful arc, and fell into the gun array behind at an incredible angle, and the next moment the sound of crackling bamboo and wood breaking came.
The companion who followed behind the cavalry in front did not hesitate to slash at the culprit who killed his comrades, the snow bright knife flashed, and a few traces of blood flew up with a huge head, and the clean cut did not have a trace of delay, and the next moment the person took advantage of the horse's momentum to slash at the body of another Qing soldier with a backhand. The sharp scimitar lightly cut through the armor of the Qing army, and cut a terrible wound along the drive from the neck obliquely, bright red blood gushed out from the chest like a spring, and in the blink of an eye, half of the corpse was knocked away by the huge force driven by the war horse. The blood splattered everywhere woke the deceased's comrades from their terror.
Blood can inspire fear as well as anger. Stirred by the blood of his comrades. The stunned Qing sergeant reacted in an instant, and then more than a dozen spears stabbed into the body of the cavalry of the guard brigade from different angles, and the huge impact force on the front made the cavalry of the guard brigade stab through before they had time to react more, and their bodies twitched and hung down the long knives that were about to fall, and their heads tilted and fell off the horse.
In an instant, the assault of the cavalry of the guard brigade broke the situation of the Qing army's stubbornness, and the blue-green army was entangled with the blue-white, black-and-white army on the position, and bewitching blood-colored flowers bloomed everywhere, which are bloody flowers that can only be produced by human life. It took countless lives to nourish this terrible spectacle. Zeng Yong clenched the big gun with both hands at this moment, the gun was like a dragon and a fierce tiger, and the place where it passed brought up a bewitching blood light, and the horsetail warriors who followed closely behind him turned into sharp razors, each penetration cut a deep wound that could be seen to the bone, and like a chisel to cut off the last hard shell of the Qing army.
The tragic shouts and roars were quickly dissipated by the influx of more and more Qing troops, and within a moment, the main army of more than 1,000 Qing troops was stirred up. At this opportunity, the soldiers of the 10th Battalion also approached to the front 30 meters, and they could clearly see the faces of every enemy soldier on the battlefield, but the rifles in their hands did not stop for a moment. After firing a shot, he immediately began to reload, and at the same time, his comrades behind him immediately stepped forward and continued to shoot without opening a gap. This two-sided flanking attack made the rest of the Qing army unable to support it and began to retreat. The whole battlefield is like a domino after a rout.
Harhaqi didn't know when he had run away, and the Qing soldiers who had lost the command of the main general and fell into hesitation followed their personal will, either launched a decisive charge, or turned around and fled frantically, and a collapse of the situation evolved into several complete collapses at a very fast speed, until the total collapse of thousands of Qing troops, and two or three thousand people retreated frantically backwards in a daze, but no one dared to provoke the Mawei Army that was like a mad tiger, and at this time there was only a flight.
Under the powerful offensive of the Mawei Army, they chased and fled northward like a chicken chasing a dog, and there were two Qing armies in the north that were about to complete the formation without even having a chance to play and were coerced by the defeated army and poured back. The cavalry of the guard brigade found the fleeing Qing adjutant general Harhaqi, so one of them bit Erhaqi and chased after him, behind Harhaqi were thousands of retreating soldiers, but he didn't care, this situation, if he didn't run, he would die here with these soldiers.
The retreat of the whole army at this time can be described as the biggest defeat of Harhaqi. The current situation is that there is no need for Harhaqi's retreat order at all, all the Qing troops are running for their lives, oh, but many Qing troops who have been caught up or are about to be caught up have stopped, discarded their weapons and knelt on the ground to surrender. At this moment, the Qing army has no future at all, and it is only a matter of time before it is completely annihilated. But in fact, the situation is not as dangerous as Harhaqi sees, they did kill and wound a lot of people, but casualties, injuries and deaths, there are not many who were really killed on the spot, most of them were shot in the body, lying there and shouting and screaming in pain as if they were about to die, the real steel knife is on the body, these guys can still fight again. The whole process was not only that Harhaqi misjudged the shape shì, but also the Qing soldiers in the phalanx just now also misjudged the shape shì, but it is no wonder that at that time, the people who saw a piece of land fell and howled, where did they still have the courage to stay and resist.
Now, the Qing army went up to the generals and down to the ordinary soldiers, and the wounded fled backwards with the uninjured. They all know that those who stay will die, the wounded are also people, and if they are people, they don't want to die, and at the critical moment, as long as there is still a breath, they will all run back. The Mawei Army was already pursuing, but there was no need for the battalion commanders to re-order, the soldiers of each battalion picked up their guns and continued to chase them, and they took the ass of the Qing army and laid a black hand!
The soldiers of the Mawei Army put their guns while running, and they no longer continued to reload after the fight, so they followed the shouting of killing to the sky, everyone fought bravely one by one, everyone was afraid that they would run slowly, and they would not be able to catch up with the killing of two more Qing soldiers, and they would lose their military exploits. On the other hand, on the side of the Qing army, they were panicked like lost dogs, vast like fish that had slipped through the net, and they were afraid that they would run slowly, and they would be caught up by the horsetail army behind and then stabbed to death with bayonets! Originally, it could be said that the combat strength of this Qing army was still good, and it can be seen from the fact that the phalanx just now could hold on to resist for so long, but at this moment, when the morale has been lost, the complete defeat is like a mountain, and no one wants to turn back and resist.
The sun has risen overhead, and the sun at noon can only be described as a scorching sun. The Qing army began to leave the city at dawn, until this moment has passed a full three and a half hours, but when they left the city, the spirit of the whole army was high, and the whole army marched into a long queue of several kilometers, but at this moment, it was only possible to find the corpses all over the ground from the periphery of these kilometers of marching road.
The defeat and retreat of the rear of the Qing army soon affected the central Laita department, and the two armies of Zhang Wenliang jointly defeated the Qing army again, and the Qing army was completely defeated by the general Jiang Qing army, and a large number of Qing troops surrendered on the spot. More than 30,000 Qing troops were finally eaten in one bite under the repeated attacks of 20,000 horsetail troops, only Laita fled with a cavalry of more than 500 Qing troops, and the rest of the remaining Qing troops all surrendered.
The battle, which lasted two hours, ended in the victory of the Mawei Army. The Qing army Zhejiang general Tula was angry and led his own troops to attack Yuanjue Monastery, but was sent to the west by a cannonball, while Harhaqi was chased by a bullet in the back when he fled and fell to his death. More than 11,000 Qing troops were killed, more than 5,000 were seriously wounded, and more than 18,000 were lightly wounded and captured. (To be continued......)