Chapter 382: Reluctantly Surrendered
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"My lord, the artillery of the Mawei Army is too fierce, if you continue to do a few more rounds of artillery like this, the soldiers below will collapse without a fight!"
"Yes, my lord, hurry up and get an idea!"
"The brothers have already been killed and wounded by two, so if we continue to count it, we only need the Mawei Army to come with ten rounds of artillery, and we will all have to leave it here!"
"My brother died, and his body was blown into several pieces, it's really miserable!"
"Let's run away, if we don't escape, we will really die!"
"There are cavalry of the Horsetail Army in the back, so let's surrender! After all, the Mawei Army is also anti-Qing, and if we surrender, they will definitely not be embarrassed for us! ”
There were miserable howls and complaints in Wang Hui's ears, some persuading those to flee and those to surrender, and it was a mess. Wang Hui himself can't make up his mind at this time, he has been loyal to Wu Sangui for decades, and he has rarely lost in his career for decades, this time he didn't even see the enemy's face clearly and ran away or surrendered, he really couldn't get over this hurdle. And he was also very depressed, they also used artillery when they attacked various cities in Hunan before, but they were all solid bullets, but the Mawei Army had already fired two rounds, and they were all flowering bullets!
It's not for nothing that the Wu army has flowering bullets, this kind of thing was made at the earliest around 1,000 AD, and the manufacturing cost until now is unacceptable, how can the Mawei Army use it on such a large scale?
When the flowering bomb was first invented. The power of the factors limited by the power of gunpowder is very small. This type of shell uses fragments and shock waves generated by the explosion of the projectile to achieve the killing effect. In the Ming Dynasty. With the continuous improvement of gunpowder manufacturing technology and power, the technology of making flowering bombs has made great progress and development, but the reason for restricting the large-scale use of flowering bombs is still the problem of cost. Even in the current Wu Army Ordnance Bureau, the cost of making zuò flowering bullets is still about forty taels of silver each, forty taels! The high price makes everyone who wants to use it think of the word bankruptcy before using it, as long as a large battle of thousands of shells is fired, tens of thousands of taels of silver will be gone, so even if Wu Sangui is very rich, he does not dare to use flowering shells on a large scale. You can only use some when it matters most.
No matter what Wang Hui was thinking at this time. The chaos continued throughout the circle, and only a few minutes after the last round of artillery was fired, the third round of artillery fire began again. The artillery in a row once again spewed out a large puff of white smoke, accompanied by a huge roar, and the thrust of the cannonballs when the gunpowder exploded instantaneously rushed out of the barrel and flew towards the circle of the Wu army.
Hearing the sound of artillery again, the Wu army was completely panicked, and many soldiers could no longer care about the formation, looking around for a place to avoid the shells. It's just that this is a field, and there is no emptiness around them, and they don't pull a cart or anything with them. There was no place to hide, and they were scurrying around like headless flies. The formation is completely out of order.
This masterpiece also benefited from the fact that the 60 guns did not fire at all, basically 10 guns and 10 guns hit one direction together, and the entire circle was taken care of in all directions, and after three rounds of artillery bombardment, 180 shells also caused at least 500 deaths, and thousands of people were seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness, and these 4,000 people were removed by 30% at once, and the rest of them were in chaos, and they could not form combat effectiveness at all.
Wang Hui and several other major generals were also fateful, three rounds of shelling, seven or eight shells exploded around them in a row, and they actually let them dodge, but the guards around him died several times, which was to protect him, otherwise he would be the one who was injured or killed in battle.
"My lord, run away!"
"Surrender, sir!"
"My lord, let's fight with the Ponytail Army!"
"My lord, fight and avenge my brother!"
After the explosion, Wang Hui and other generals surrounded several generals again, saying everything, and when there was complete chaos here, the three thousand soldiers of the First Brigade of the Mawei Army had already arrived one hundred and forty or fifty meters away from the circle. The horsetail army surrounded him, and although he was within range of the muskets, he did not shoot.
"Wu Jun listen, our Mawei Army does not want to kill more, the division commander has an order, kneel on the ground and beg for surrender to avoid death, otherwise there will be no forgiveness for killing!"
"Wu Jun listen, our Mawei Army does not want to kill more, the division commander has an order, kneel on the ground and beg for surrender to avoid death, otherwise there will be no forgiveness for killing!"
Thirty cavalrymen ran out from the side of the Mawei Army, shouting loudly one by one with a loud voice, these thirty can be said to be the best voices in the team, and they shouted in unison in the direction of the Wu army, and the sound suddenly overshadowed the wailing of the Wu army in front.
At the same time, the 3,000 men of the 1st Division of the Mawei Army continued to approach with neat steps.
"Hah!"
"Hah!"
"Hah!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
The neat trumpet matched the neat pace, and the overwhelming pressure rushed towards the chaotic Wu army. The Wu army, which had already been frightened, did not have the courage to resist at this time, and the Mawei army on the opposite side was no less numerous than them at this time, with neat appearance and high morale. Looking at them again, the military formation was completely chaotic, the corpses of the lightly wounded, the seriously wounded, and the corpses of people and horses were all over the entire Wu army circle, and many grassroots officers of the Wu army were also killed, and the soldiers could not find a commander, and the whole was bleak!
"Your Excellency, it's time to make up your mind!" Adjutant General Ma Zuchang shouted in panic.
"Yes, my lord, whether it's a fight to the death or whatever, we'll all listen to you!" Zhu Shi, the general of the East Road, also shouted loudly.
Wang Hui himself was not panicked, and his long-term prestige in the army also made several generals around him dare not move, the third round of shelling has passed nearly a quarter of an hour, and the Mawei army has approached a distance of less than 100 meters, and one by one they are aiming at this side with guns. They are now completely trapped in the Jedi, there is a strong enemy in front of them and there are obstacles in the back, there is really no way. Looking at the corpses of the generals around him and the wounded and killed soldiers on the periphery, Wang Hui still felt a heartache.
"Bang bang bang!"
"Bang bang bang!"
"Bang bang bang!"
At this moment, the Mawei Army surrounded by the periphery began to fire muskets under Bai Xianzhong's order. Thirty soldiers shouted for a long time, Wu Jun didn't move here, there was no meaning of the avatar at all, and he didn't surrender but didn't launch a counterattack, which made Bai Xianzhong realize that the pressure on the Wu army was not big enough, so he ordered the two rows of soldiers in front to attack, first come to two rounds of guns, give Wu Jun a little color to see, if they don't surrender, just press it directly, and wipe out all of them!
"Ahh After two consecutive rounds of guns, they stopped again after firing, and then a large number of Wu troops fell, and suddenly the Wu army completely collapsed, and many Wu troops began to kneel and beg for surrender.
"Hey, surrender!" Wang Hui said as if he had exhausted all his strength.
"Surrender, surrender!"
"Surrender, surrender!" At this time, when they heard the order to surrender, instead of being sad, the soldiers of the Wu army seemed to be relieved, quickly threw away their weapons, knelt on the ground and began to surrender!
"Division commander, the Wu army has surrendered!" The guards beside him reported to Bai Xianzhong.
Bai Xianzhong put up his binoculars and saw that Wu Jun had indeed begun to surrender on his knees, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth and said, "Hehe, count them as knowing current affairs." Ordered, the 1st Brigade quickly stepped forward to clean up the battlefield, concentrated the Wu army in custody, and then retreated to the original position of the horse rejection pile. ”
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