Lou Sheng, the magistrate of Wuqiao County, and his Qing army made a shrunken turtle at this time, and did not dare to rise again.

The infantry of the Guards under the city walls could only continue to train their gun skills, using bullet rebounds and other objects to inflict casualties on the Qing army.

For example, if you directly hit the tiles on the city tower, you can also let the tiles fall and hit one or two Qing troops, or knock out the lanterns on the city tower, and the lamp ash can also blind the eyes of several Qing soldiers.

But the Qing army became more and more cunning and timid, and finally they all lay on the ground, so that the Guards infantry had to sit down and rest.

At this time, the Guards artillery followed.

The commander of the artillery battalion, Lin Renshu, couldn't help but ask Chen Zhenhui, the commander of the infantry battalion: "Commander Chen, what's going on, what about the Qing army?" Isn't there a defender in this Wuqiao county? ”

"Yes, why not, if there is no Qing army lying on the ground, what are the corpses, these guys are all shrunken turtles, the cat refuses to come up behind the battlements, just wait for the brothers in the artillery battalion to come up and let them drink a few pots."

Chen Zhenhui said, Lin Renshu laughed: "Then let these guys see, the artillery battalion is ready, all of them are there, the first and second heavy artillery are aimed at the city gate, the third, fourth, and fifth heavy artillery bombards the battlements on the left side and the right side of the back, and the other artillery shoots freely, and the county seat of Wuqiao is flattened for this official!" ”

Not long after the order of Lin Renshu, the commander of the Guards Artillery Battalion, was issued, the artillery of the Guards began to pull the artillery towards the vicinity of Wuqiao County.

"The first gun position is debugged!"

"The second gun position has been commissioned!"

"The third gun position is debugged!"

"The fourth gun position is debugged!"

……

A report came from everywhere, and the Qing army at this time still didn't dare to come forward, and the county magistrate Lou Sheng couldn't help but ask the county next to him: "Listen to this voice, is the artillery of the Ming army coming?" ”

The county man cried with a sad face: "The lower officials don't know." ”

"Then you go out and have a look!" The county man nodded, but he didn't dare to take his head, so he touched a county official with his foot: "Lao Wang, go out and have a look." ”

This subordinate named Lao Wang trembled and poked out half of his head, and before he could see outside, he was shot by Chen Zhenhui, who has always had a very high level of shooting, and hit his exposed half of his ear: "Brothers of the infantry battalion, suppress the firepower of the city wall for me!" ”

At this time, the Qing army on the city wall had no firepower at all, and Chen Zhenhui said this just to make these Qing troops hiding under the city wall dare not come forward, so as to achieve the purpose of making these Qing troops not know the outside situation.

The Manchu Wuqiao County official named Lao Wang covered his bloody ears and lay on the ground and didn't dare to raise his head again, only crying and mourning: "Master, the small eye disease is committed again, and I can't see what the outside is like." ”

"Useless stuff!"

Lou Sheng, the county commander of Wuqiao County in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, scolded and instructed another Qing soldier: "Look up and see, what the hell is going on." ”

But just when Lou Sheng, the county commander of Wuqiao County, asked his subordinates to continue to look outside, Lin Renshu, the commander of the artillery battalion of the Guards here, had already given the order to fire.

"Put!"

After a thunderous shout, there were bursts of whistling over Wuqiao County.

Boom!

The battlements in the southwest of Wuqiao County were hit by a bullet, and the battlements were directly lifted, and the bricks and mud were splashed.

Some Qing soldiers hiding behind the battlements screamed, and their severed hands and feet fell to the ground along with the collapsed battlements, and blood and flesh mixed with mud and bricks filled the entire Wuqiao County in an instant.

The city walls of Wuqiao County were simply unable to withstand the bombardment of the nitrification explosives formed by the artillery of the Guards, and the Qing troops hiding behind the battlements were either killed on the spot by the infantry of the Guards, or they could only be overturned by the air waves of the shells or injured by shrapnel.

Only some Qing troops who ran to the bottom of the city were not injured by the shells and bullets of the guards.

The artillery of the Guards not only surpassed this era in terms of explosive power, but also surpassed this era in terms of firing accuracy, the No. 1 heavy artillery and the No. 2 heavy artillery accurately fired the shells on the riveting structure of the Wuqiao County City Gate, and only two shots were fired each, and the Wuqiao County City Gate fell to the ground with a bang.

"Get on the bayonet! The first association captured the rear side of the city tower, the second association occupied the left side, the third association occupied the right side, the fourth association occupied the county government and the grain depot armory, the fifth association was responsible for eliminating thieves, and the sixth association stayed at the main city gate! The cavalry directly under the command immediately reported the news to the corps headquarters that we had recovered Wuqiao County at three o'clock on November 5, the 22nd year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty! Wait for the next instructions from the Corps Command. ”

After Chen Zhenhui gave the order, she first stuck the bayonet on the barrel of the gun and leveled the firearm: "Rush!" ”

The infantry of the 1st and 2nd Concords on both sides immediately rushed out.

The military boots stepped on the yellow soil and splashed a road of smoke and dust, the speed was very fast, almost as fast as cavalry, as long as the Qing army still appeared in front of him, he immediately stabbed it with a shot, and he could directly pierce the Qing army, and then pull it out and continue to rush forward.

The Qing army in Wuqiao County was completely routed, desperately running to other streets, and some even hid in civilian houses, while the First Association of the Guards Army did not pursue these Qing troops, and only occupied the rear city tower as fast as possible, and the Qing army in the rear city tower had already run away without a trace, so it did not cost a single shot to occupy the rear city gate and city tower.

Soon, the Second Association and the Third Association also occupied the left and right city towers respectively, and the Fourth Association had also surrounded the county government and the grain depot and armory and other important Qing army money and grain baggage bases.

The Fifth Association put on the epaulettes of the gendarmerie, and entered the city in groups of two, and from the head of the city, every time they caught one of the people in the city, they shouted:

"Speak!"

But the man also spoke, and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.

"It's not the Hejian dialect, it's Manchu, it's Tatar!"

The officers at the grassroots level of the Guards have all received training in the Manchu language and the local dialects of the north, so they can hear what these people are saying, and now except for the towns above the prefecture where there are Manchu cities that can distinguish the Manchus and Hans, the towns below the prefecture can only distinguish between the Manchus and the Han by language.

As soon as he knew that this man was a Tartar, the infantryman of the Fifth Guards Corps drew his saber and slashed at the Tartar, and soon the Tartar's head was cut off and loaded into the wagon.

"Speak!"

"Okay, I said, the military master spares his life, the military master spares his life!"

"It's Han, let it go first!"

……

In this way, on the afternoon of the entire Wuqiao County, the Fifth Association of the Infantry Battalion of Chen Zhenhui of the Guards began the preliminary purge activities.

Many Tartars regretted that they had not learned the dialect as soon as possible, and some Han Chinese regretted that they had learned Manchu to please their masters, and they had forgotten their native language and were beheaded by the Guards.

(End of chapter)