Chapter 747: Jingshi's Tug of War (6)
What is the enemy of Bali Bridge on the outskirts of Beijing, Su Shun is the Beijing division knows best, the British and French forces not only have sharp firearms, but also extremely accurate marksmanship, since the shelling that began last evening, Su Shun was also scared a lot, and a thousand artillery pieces lasted all night!
Su Shun can be regarded as having experienced the war, but such a big battle has exceeded his imagination, when he was guarding the Bali Bridge, how many artillery did the British and French forces have, and how many artillery are there now? Presumably, the front line of the Bali Bridge is already hellish!
Thinking of this, he was in awe of Yang Meng a lot, Eight Banners New Battalion? I'm afraid it's not a fart in Yang Laosan's eyes, right? His militia is too powerful.
"Third brother, what are your orders for calling me?"
After cleaning up his mood, Su Shun also had a plan in his heart, now his two princes and brothers are unreliable, and now the Jingshi, the one who can make him Su Shun rely on is the one in front of him.
"Don't play with these slippery things in front of Lao Tzu, your Beijing battalion soldiers, in addition to maintaining the security and taxation of the Beijing division during this time, they also have to take on the errand of transporting supplies.
Aren't there refugees outside Jingshi? Work to give money and food, what your Beijing camp has to do is to protect the materials, Gong Wei Jingshi is a top priority, you must not go on a business trip, now not only you, Lao Tzu is also hated by the princes and ministers of Beijing!
Once something goes wrong with Jingshi, neither of us will survive! ”
Su Shun's appeal, Yang Meng is very clear, one is power and the other is life, and now the purpose of the two is basically the same, that is, not to let the princes and ministers of Jingshi raise their heads.
"Got it, those who don't accept it. I'm stepping up these days, and killing them is nothing more than a waste of money. Why don't they give up their family assets and their lives to defend the Jingshi! ”
Su Shun, who is in power, although he is obedient in front of Yang Meng, but in the face of those princes and ministers in Beijing, Su Shun is also an arrogant and domineering bastard!
"Hmmm! That's it! When raiding the house, there are some noble ladies and noblewomen with good faces, you pay attention, this is a house in Jingshi. Put them there, tell them that obedience can save the lives of their families, their families. Don't just kill it, just go to jail! ”
Such a dirty errand, Su Shun has done a lot these days, and collecting money for the emperor is also collecting money for him Su Shun himself. Assessed tax of five million taels. Su Shun's side also withheld hundreds of thousands, compared to other officials, Su Shun's approach is already considered incorruptible.
"Oops...... I knew that the third brother had this hobby, Su Shun would have done it a long time ago, and Su Shun was confused about this! ”
As soon as he heard this, Su Shun was also busy pleading, and he was negligent in this matter.
"Humph! You should be as filthy as you! The one over there! ”
This matter categorically cannot be admitted in front of Su Shun, and once it is recognized, it will be passed on by Su Shun. This matter is difficult to do, Yang Meng pointed in the direction of the imperial city. Su Shun's face suddenly became exciting.
"That one?"
"It's fun, but it's a good girl, what do you think? Lao Tzu has to worry about the war of Bali Bridge day and night, come to Beijing for a few days, there is not a day of sleep, last night was called by the emperor to watch the night, my brain is mixed, the following is similar to braids, watching the bluff touch the soft lying down! ”
"The third brother has worked hard, is this a good wife or a good girl?"
"Both! It's nothing more than the family members of the criminals, give them a thought, they will be obedient, instead of being an official prostitute, it is better to serve the one inside, inform your person, don't get started, find some old mothers in the palace to check it, don't get into the sick, these people can't say that they can reach the sky in one step! ”
"Got it! How much? ”
"There is not much in the beauty of the fine! This is a secret matter, and we must not miss it, otherwise we will both be unlucky. ”
"Got it! Got it! Just in my name, it's just that my reputation has long been stinky. ”
"The best!"
Many dirty deeds are carried out in Beijing under Yang Meng's arrangement, and unlike Sushun, shadows and shadows threaten officials with real power, and in the six or seven days of entering Beijing, Yang Meng's command has gathered a lot of officials, but these officials don't know that the person behind the shadow is Yang Meng.
Now for Yang Meng, the Bali Bridge has also become the top priority, how much firepower the Bali Bridge can attract, but also determines the success or failure of Yang Fuliang's side, as long as the Bali Bridge can be delayed for three or five days, the number of artillery gathered by the British and French forces is terrifying.
The British and French forces continued to transport heavy artillery to the vicinity of Bali Bridge, and Yang Meng probably figured out their context, this is to hurry up and go down to Beijing! Once the Jingshi was captured, the Qing Dynasty would be over, and the decision of the top brass of the British and French forces was undoubtedly extremely correct.
The reason why Bali Bridge did not rout, Yang Meng also found it, that is, the density of artillery fire, the high density of artillery fire, which makes people frightened, but the new army and militia that can't run away and can't walk are also quickly adapting to such a battle situation.
As long as the front line of Bali Bridge does not collapse, then Yang Meng's plan will become the majority, and now Yang Meng needs to wait, and what he needs on the side of Bali Bridge is patience.
The word forbearance, but it is written with life in Bali Bridge, the British and French forces have more and more large-caliber heavy artillery, and these heavy artillery are pouring grape seeds all over the world, with the continuous artillery fire, the number of ammunition of the British and French forces is also declining rapidly, and many miscellaneous things have also begun to appear on the position of Wei Huozi.
"Damn! This knife and fork can also be used as a cannon, these bastards are really crazy! ”
Wei Huozi's face was full of putty, and his battle robe was also stained with mud, and he picked up a few deformed knives and forks in the trench, Wei Huozi's face was not hideous, only a smile, which showed that the British and French forces were running low on ammunition.
Digging pits to avoid cannons, it's really not a human guy, the big winter trip in the muddy water, the legs and feet are unconscious, a new pair of riding boots, two or three hours, was soaked in muddy water, if it weren't for the third master to send a lot of green onions, ginger, garlic and liquor, many people are afraid that they can't even walk.
Poor food, poor sleep, and bone-chilling muddy water are the number of deserters. Is it that someone climbs out of the trench to eat cannons, and as for getting out of the trench, he can't get out. Not to mention the men and horses under his hands, the trench is through the rear, but there are 3,000 Tibetan troops guarding the rear, Wei Huozi personally gave the order, only allowed to enter but not out, as long as you go out, no matter who the Tibetan army sees will shoot. This is also the only way for Wei Huozi to ensure that his front does not collapse.
After a day and a night of non-stop shelling, the British and French troops stopped the artillery fire, nearly a thousand small cannons. The bombardment of five hundred heavy artillery, in Grant's opinion, was enough to occupy the Bali Bridge position of the Qing army overnight. Tomorrow will attack the Qing Jingshi. It's Grant's battle plan.
But the progress of the night battle was extremely unsmooth, just when thousands of coalition troops were about to ascend to the position of the Qing army, the dense gunfire made the coalition army quickly retreat, in the artillery fire, held on for a day and a night, the Qing army still had combat effectiveness, it was too terrifying for the soldiers of the coalition army, and hundreds of corpses were lost. The soldiers of the Anglo-French army also obediently curled up to their positions.
Methods of artillery propulsion. After adjusting the range and firing range of the artillery, the coalition soldiers once again launched a surprise attack on the Bali Bridge position covered by artillery fire.
But today's artillery, is not very accurate, in order not to hurt the friendly army, the artillery of the British and French forces, the position of the shelling, pushed forward, the advance of the artillery position, but also to the front line of the Bali Bridge, leaving a piece of pure land without artillery fire, and in the trench of this pure land, squatting full of Beijing militia regiments.
Killing a foreign devil with a pot of white wine and boiled eggs is rarer than a hundred taels of gold for the militia in the trench, although Wei Huozi's reward is a little harsh, but the response of the Jingshi militia is: Do it with your life!
The continuous artillery bombardment continued all night, and at dawn Elgin, Gro, and Grant, who were standing on the watchtower, could not believe what they saw.
On the bridge deck, the river is full of corpses of the coalition army, the Tonghui River in the dry period has become a blood river, the Qing army position on the opposite side has also built a thick corpse wall, the bubbling blood flows along the Qing army's place, the bridge deck of the Bali Bridge, constantly dripping into the river, the morning fog, water mist, gunsmoke, ghost-like wounded soldiers wandering on the battlefield, the Bali Bridge has been turned into a real hell by both sides.
The position of the Qing army facing the sunshine exudes a strange brilliance in the morning fog, and Grant, who has been in battle for a long time, knows that it is the reflection after the blood coagulation, such a battlefield is no longer suitable for fighting, even if a veteran stays in such a battlefield for too long, he will go insane.
"The war cannot continue any longer, such a war is beyond the capacity of most soldiers, and if it continues, the coalition will collapse!"
Ergin and Gro were concerned about the Qing Dynasty's Jingshi, while Grant was more concerned about the soldiers of the coalition army, if it weren't for the mixed composition of the coalition army, in the process of command, Grant constantly sent different war groups, such a number of casualties, enough to make an army collapse.
The casualties of the previous few days were almost all in the positions of the Qing army, and the various corps that did not know the number of casualties could continue to fight, and this time so many coalition corpses appeared between the positions of the two armies, and the impact on the morale of the coalition forces was fatal.
Moreover, Grant also discovered a heinous thing, that is, in the position of the Qing army, the sound of cold guns sounded from time to time, every time the gunshots rang out, it meant that a coalition soldier struggling to survive on the battlefield died, such a ruthless army, such an army with the corpses of his comrades piled up into fortifications, such an army without sympathy and pity, absolutely outrageous, disgusting, hateful, and terrifying!
International justice has no limits on this army, even in the Crimean War, even in the war in India, there are no cases of shooting and killing wounded soldiers, Ergin leads the empire, angering a monster from hell, fighting such a war, Grant has no chance of winning.
"Grant, can you estimate the casualties of the Qing army?"
Erjin is not looking at the miserable battlefield, but not far ahead of the shining light of the Qing Guojing Division, the glazed tile reflection of the brilliance, in the morning fog is particularly eye-catching, at first looking at the battlefield, Erjin also has the idea of retreating, but looking at the lifeless Qing army position, has been the Qing Guojing Division's burst of Baoguang, he is also constantly strengthening his beliefs!
"Three to four times the coalition forces!"
The thick corpse wall, every meter is piled up with dozens of corpses, and the corpse wall that stretches across the battlefield is composed of at least one or two thousand corpses, and hell is nothing more than that, right?
"What if we attack from both flanks?"
"I tried it some time ago, there is no possibility, other areas are more unfavorable to the coalition army, the position set by the Qing army is conducive to the attack of the coalition army, I am afraid that the purpose of their position here is to consume the strength of the coalition army.
Count Ergin, the Qing country used all the people, trench warfare, as long as you can shoot, you can participate in the war, although we still have more than 10,000 coalition troops, but the number of Qing troops is more!
Even if we can capture the Bali Bridge smoothly, the losses we pay are unbearable, and five or six thousand people are probably not enough to attack the Jingshi of the Qing Kingdom, right? ”
Although Grant was not confident in winning the Battle of Bali Bridge, in terms of the strength of the coalition army and the Qing army, the coalition army still had hope of success, and five or six thousand people were Grant's estimated number of survivors. (To be continued......)