Chapter 435: Victorious Transformation

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"Rush! Speed up! The generals of the Qing army brandished their swords and shouted loudly: "Defeat the rebels, double the reward!" ”

The Qing sergeant suddenly let out a roaring cry, and rushed forward like a red-eyed beast, and the black and oppressive formation rushed towards the front of the horsetail array. The gunners of the Mawei Army were sweating profusely, firing shells quickly with all their might. The sound of artillery came and went, and the entire artillery camp position was completely shrouded in white smoke.

"Adjust the muzzle, one hundred and fifty meter position, grape shell ready!" The commander of the artillery battalion commanded loudly, and with the firing of grapeballs, it also represented that the battle between the two armies had entered the level of close combat. The solid shells and flowering shells that were originally loaded in the general's cannon were all replaced with grapeshells at this moment, and many grape shells were filled into the breech, not to mention the feelings of the Qing army on the other side, that is, the gunners of the Mawei Army felt numb in their scalps.

"Launch!"

Patches of grapeshot shells were sprayed out with each beating of the muzzle, forming a dense barrage, and many Qing soldiers were killed before they could get close to the Mawei Army formation.

"Infantry shooting!" Zeng Yangxing observed that the Qing army was really rushing forward without fear of death at this moment, regardless of the artillery fire and the rain of bullets, it was already approaching the military formation. Although the Qing army hiding behind the sand bags on the chicken bus and the cart had many casualties. But the follow-up people are coming in a steady stream.

"Don't change the calibration of 150 meters. Load and fire with all your might!! ”

The smoke from the artillery was too thick. There was no one on the artillery battalion position who could see the target clearly, so they simply set the standard and did not aim, and directly fired volleys in rows and rows. The crisp sound of gunfire was also accompanied by continuous sounds, a large number of Qing soldiers were shot and fell down without getting close to the military formation, at this time the Qing army had someone to retreat, but Tula had already sent two thousand men and horses to rush over, and the rolling crowd once again filled the battlefield, and the front team swooped forward against the rear team.

"Rush! Entering the anti-thief army array will be rewarded with ten taels of silver. Kill one enemy and get a reward of twenty taels! "More than a dozen Qing army generals rode their horses along the already chaotic Qing army columns, shouting and encouraging morale." Hurry up and rush for Lao Tzu! If you have grace, the person who kills the captain of the anti-thief brigade or above will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver, and the reward of 10,000 taels of silver for capturing the commander of the enemy army will be promoted to three levels! Cowering, cowardly retreating, slash! ”

At this point in the battle, the most courageous ones were not ordinary soldiers, but four staff leaders, who took the lead at the moment and rushed to the front, and half of the soldiers around them were killed and wounded, but they still brought the team to a position eighty meters away from the Mawei Army array. at this distance. The archers of the Qing army were already able to shoot arrows with their bows drawn, and the four commanders also gave the order decisively. All crossbowmen prepare their arrows and fire them. The dense arrows launched by the Qing army shot towards the Mawei army's formation, and the Mawei army suffered a large number of casualties in the first wave. A little further ahead, the Qing army's musketeers also had enough range to shoot, and they picked up their shotguns and shot at the horsetails on the opposite side.

However, as a large number of archers and musketeers of the Qing army rushed to the front, using the chariot to cover and shoot, the casualties on the side of the Mawei army also increased. Zhang Wenliang, the former commander of the army, felt that the time had come, and immediately shouted to the herald: "Grenade preparation!" ”

The heralds immediately conveyed the order, and as soon as the banner changed, all the military formations also received the order, and several battalion commanders took the lead in picking up a grenade from their hands and pulling the ring to throw bombs in one go.

"Bomb dropping!" The battalion commanders shouted orders as the grenades fired. "Bomb drop! Bombing! A stack of orders was quickly passed through the various military formations. The Qing soldiers who were shooting arrows and shooting only saw that the Mawei army formation suddenly threw many small iron bumps at them.

The grenades exploded one after another, and although the killing effect of loading this grenade was far less than that of the flowering bullet, the number of this grenade was sufficient, and the power and momentum of many grenades thrown together were still amazing. Then the second row and the third row of grenades continued to drop, thirty or forty meters away from the Mawei Army's cannons of course can't hit here, their muzzles are still aimed at one hundred and fifty meters, and it is the Mawei Army artillery battalion that continues to fire at the middle and rear of the Qing army's array, so that the Qing army rushing to the front is much less, otherwise the Qing army must be much denser than in front of them.

At this distance, although the power of the bullet is great, it is not as powerful as the Qing army's chicken cart and the sand bags on the cart, so at this moment the grenade has become the best weapon. All of a sudden, more than 1,000 grenades were still more than 30 meters in front of the military formation, and some were thrown closer to the sea for more than 20 meters. A large number of grenades exploded, which also made these cars of the Qing army completely destroyed, so that all the Qing soldiers and soldiers were exposed in front of the Mawei army. Although it is said that it only takes a few seconds from the Shangqing Army to rush to the front and then engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Mawei Army, the rifle phalanx of the Mawei Army is not vegetarian. The successive rows of guns made the first group of people of the Qing army not fall, and the latter group of people had already poured over under the drive of the generals, so the Qing soldiers fell to death in batches in this open space of only about 30 meters, and each platoon of shots on the side of the Mawei Army was like a sickle to quickly harvest the lives of a group of people. Smoke enveloped the place, and those in the distance could only see the light of rifles and artillery fire.

If you want to say why the Qing army can't rush through the only short distance of about 30 meters, it is also that the Mawei military is fully prepared first. For the battle between the Mawei Army and Wu Sangui's nephew Wu Yingzhi more than half a year ago, the Mawei Army has fully learned a lesson. The Mawei Army loves the soldiers, basically trying not to fight hand-to-hand with the Qing army or the Wu army, of course, even if it is hand-to-hand combat, they are not afraid, but they still try to give full play to their rifle advantages. Therefore, it was in this short range of about 30 meters that the Mawei Army was already sprinkled with thistles when they were arrayed.

This thistle terrestris was also specially created by the Mawei Army for the War Department. Several sides were opened. The upright side can definitely pierce the soles of the enemy's feet with ease. Really. The Qing army rushed to this position, because this place was shrouded in gunpowder smoke alone, and rushed forward in a hurry, everyone noticed that there were such ten thousand things on the ground, and this number was too much too inconspicuous, and suddenly a piece of the Qing army was pierced through the soles of the feet and fell to the ground. The large army of the Qing army behind continued to squeeze forward, and some of the Qing troops were trampled to death by their own people.

On the side of the Qing army, under the impact at any cost, some of the Qing soldiers of the front army also rushed into the Mawei army formation. Officially began to have a breakthrough, and the Qing soldiers were completely like chicken blood, fearless to move forward or look at the gap that had been opened. However, the reserves of the battalions arranged in front of the Mawei Army also began to continuously close the breakthrough and beat back the Qing troops who broke through the defense and rushed into the formation, and it can be said that the battle entered the white-hot point: on one side was the crowd engaged in a white-knuckle battle to the death, and on the other hand, the artillery fire and platoon guns were still spitting fire and smoke all the time.

"Keep throwing bombs in the back, don't stop, throw all the money out!" Although the grenade is precious, this is exactly when it is used to play left and right, and the horsetail army in the front row gets the order and quickly ignites and projects the remaining few pieces. More than a thousand grenades flew out, and this time it was tragic. The formation of the Qing army was originally an endless long snake, but at this moment, it was like a broken backbone by this grenade, and it was broken into several sections at once.

As the Qing army rushed to such a close distance, their archers were maximized. Rows of arrows fell, and the Mawei Army also suffered a lot of casualties, and there were not one or two who were hit by the arrows and died, but more than a dozen or twenty. On the side of the breakthrough, the people of Zhejiang took this opportunity to fill the battle array and began to engage in a white-handed battle with the Qing soldiers. Zhang Wenliang led people to rush to the largest gap at the first time, and fired desperately towards the gap. Zhang Wenliang's war knife didn't know where to fall in the fierce battle, and the short fire gun on his body didn't have time to reload after the bullet, and a Qing sergeant rushed towards him, and in a hurry, he pulled the trigger of the short fire gun, and the bullet hit the opponent's face violently, and the bullet reached the head and had a good result.

Zhang Wenliang was still standing there, but he grabbed a rifle in his hand, and he was really invincible and killed two devils. But at this moment, a feather arrow pierced his thigh, and Zhang Wenliang screamed and fell into the military formation.

On the Qing army's side, Tula picked up his clairie mirror and carefully observed every breakthrough in the Mawei army's formation. Yes, although the Qing army entered the Mawei army in many places, but there were Mawei troops in every gap who were trying to engage in battle, and he was deeply convinced that the elite under his strict training could repel the few Mawei troops.

But the result disappointed him, the Qing army rushed into these gaps not much, a series of grenade explosions and the ground full of thistles terrestris made the follow-up forces unable to keep up, the hundreds of people who rushed into the Mawei army formation were quickly strangled by the Mawei army. The gunfire on the side of the Mawei army is still firing, and the people of the Qing army keep falling, from the very beginning of the charge to the present, half an hour has passed, and the Qing soldiers have been killed and wounded a full of 3,000 people, and the rest of these people and horses look back and know that their queue is much looser, and there are not many people in the back, so the Qing army can not gather their courage.

But the result disappointed him, the Qing army rushed into these gaps not much, a series of grenade explosions and the ground full of thistles terrestris made the follow-up forces unable to keep up, the hundreds of people who rushed into the Mawei army formation were quickly strangled by the Mawei army. The gunfire on the side of the Mawei army is still firing, and the people of the Qing army keep falling, from the very beginning of the charge to the present, half an hour has passed, and the Qing soldiers have been killed and wounded a full of 3,000 people, and the rest of these people and horses look back and know that their queue is much looser, and there are not many people in the back, so the Qing army can not gather their courage.

The men and horses of the Qing army began to flee from this moment. Two of the four chiefs sent out by Tula died, and even the banner was lost. And the other two leaders, one was hit by a bullet in the leg, and it was not easy to be rescued. The other was shot by an arrow and bled profusely, so he ran to the rear to rest and recuperate. On Tula's own side, he saw that the men and horses were tumbling and surging under the Mawei army formation, and he was constantly forced down after constantly attacking the Mawei army formation. I was secretly anxious.

At this time, he saw that the men and horses sent for follow-up reinforcements were also retreating. I couldn't help but feel angry in my heart. Just as he was about to give the order to beat the drum to urge the attack, he saw that the men and horses who had already attacked the side of the army were also retreating. In an instant, after nearly three thousand men and horses on the battlefield had died, they completely collapsed like an avalanche like the previous wave, and the ground was full of routs who had lost their armor.

"Do you want the army to press it?"

"No, the old capital of the Qing army has not been used up yet, but there are still 10,000 Qing troops behind!" Zeng Yangxing looked at the situation on the battlefield and said, "Tell me not to pursue, take a rest." When the battle is fought tomorrow, Tula will have to use the last old bottom. We only need to rely on the position to completely cripple them, otherwise our casualties will increase a lot, you must know that most of the troops we are leading now are new troops! Hehe, wait until tomorrow, when the Qing army is discouraged and all the grass and trees are all soldiers, wouldn't it be better for us to defeat the enemy in one go! ”

On the side of the Qing army, the army is not ready to retreat into Jiashan County, in fact, even now that the Qing army has collected troops, the Mawei Army will not pursue. In today's one-day battle, the Qing army killed two generals alone. The number of other generals such as the general manager of 100 households reached more than 20 people. Such heavy losses are enough to meet the criteria of a "fiasco". Tula's head was covered with cold sweat, if such a heavy loss could not completely destroy the Mawei army. It was already difficult for him to explain to the imperial court. He commanded: "Beat the drums!" He decided to invest in his own town mark and family this time to break through the enemy village in one fell swoop.

"General, our army has suffered a setback, and its morale has declined today, and it is no longer possible to attack the wounded soldiers. The general must not be tempted. Fortunately, our army is still vigorous, so we will withdraw our troops for the time being and fight again tomorrow. The guards beside him made a sound in time, Jiang He pulled back, indeed, it is really not suitable to fight again today. The sound of the gong resounded over the entire battlefield, but in fact, it was not a gong. The Qing army's offensive had also been defeated. The Mawei army gradually stopped shooting after the large number of Qing troops fled, and those Qing troops who were injured and could still walk fled with a limp.

The smoke of gunpowder gradually dispersed from the battlefield, and only at this time could the two sides clearly see the results of this nearly hour-long battle. Corpses were filled everywhere within a few hundred meters of the battle, and the corpses under the Mawei Army were particularly dense, and in some places they had been stacked more than half a person high. There were corpses hanging everywhere on the Mawei Army's formation, and even on the slope of the Mawei Army's formation, blood was gurgling down the Mawei Army's formation, like a black stream.

A strong smell of blood, sweat, and gunsmoke hung over the battlefield, making it disgusting. The infantry of the Mawei Army were all in tattered clothes, their faces were covered with smoke and dust, and some of them were wounded. They used rifles to support their bodies, and some of them carried the spears and broadswords of the Qing army that they had picked up when they lost their rifles, and looked at the fleeing Qing army, with dull expressions as if they had just had a dream

Seeing the Qing army closing the team, the group retreated to the direction of Jiashan County. The soldiers of the Mawei Army, who had just come to their senses, burst into cheers of victory - they had defeated the onslaught of four or five thousand elite men of the Qing army and stood tall. The cheers were transmitted one after another along the Mawei Army's formation, resounding throughout the battlefield. From now on, this batch of new troops of the Mawei Army will no longer be a new army, and the soldiers who have gone through the baptism of war are all veterans!

The officers of the Mawei Army were almost crying with joy at this moment - this army was built by their own hands and trained hard for more than half a year, and finally showed that they were a truly capable army, not just a team that walked out of a neat queue on the parade ground. The coach Zeng Yangxing noticed that many officers were wiping their eyes, and couldn't help laughing: "What? Are you going to cry one by one? How to look like a! ”

"General, what are we...... "Happy ......" said one of the officers: "Our army ...... It's finally a success! We won't lose! We win! ”

The Mawei army was happy on its side, but the Qing army was bleak on its side. Although the Qing army still had a large number of men and horses, Zeng Yang knew that the morale of their soldiers had declined, and it was unlikely that even if Tula used all the soldiers and horses to cover it tomorrow, it would not be as fierce as today - the most important thing was that the soldiers of the Mawei Army already had the belief that they would win, and they would fight more bravely in the upcoming decisive battle.

The total number of casualties of the Mawei Army was counted, and the number of dead reached more than 300, and more than 500 were seriously wounded, a quarter of whom were officers and sergeants. This casualty ratio has mixed feelings for Zeng Yangxing and others. The death of officers and sergeants in battle mostly shows that the pioneers have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but it is a great pity that the backbone of the painstakingly cultivated has been lost in this way. The loss of weapons was very severe, damaging not only a few hundred rifles, but also three artillery pieces. The ammunition consumption is even more staggering. The military clinic was busy, six or seven hundred wounded from both sides gathered in the open space outside the big tent of the clinic, rows of stretchers were lined up on the ground, the lightly wounded of the Mawei Army squatted on the side smoking and chatting, and some people sat motionless, as if they were dead, but when someone touched them, they would hum in pain.

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