Chapter 749: Jingshi's Tug of War (8)
"It's a good day, it's a murderous night, prepare the gongs and drums, and when the foreign devils pounce in, knock them up and fight, and tell the brothers under SΓΉ that after the battle, each person will have fifty taels of silver, and go home to the wife and children to hot the kang head!"
In the rumbling cannon, I looked at the night that slowly turned dark, drank a few sips of spirits, Wei Huozi usually issued an order for a decisive battle, Baliqiao these people, it is better to die than to live, how can there be two hundred taels of silver to settle in after death, the Yang family does not do things, and if they are alive, they will go home with fifty taels of silver and fear!
Jingshi Mintuan, half of the people, half of the children of the Eight Banners, for these people, Wei Huozi also has pity in his heart, but the battle must be fought, and people must also die, the third master has words, since people want to die, who is not dead?
It is better to die than the new army directly under Wei Huozi and the Tibetan army trained by him, compared to the militia of the Beijing Division, these people are more loyal to the third master, they are alive and are the people of the Yang family, right?
"Issue an order for the whole army to attack, artillery fire lasts for half an hour!"
Night fell, and Grant's side, like Wei Huozi, was ready for a decisive battle, hoping to leave this flesh slaughterhouse sooner!
After half an hour of shelling, more than 30,000 British and French troops almost completely overwhelmed the front line of the Bali Bridge position.
With flesh and blood, blocking the first round of shooting of the Qing army, the soldiers of the British and French forces and the sailors on the ship howled and rushed to the Bali Bridge position.
"Ignition! Hit the gong! Drum! it! β
Standing in a half-length trench on a high place, Wei Huozi also gave the order for a decisive battle, howling even more bitterly than the Anglo-French army. A howl that doesn't resemble a human voice at all. I also think about it at the Baliqiao position. The Qing soldiers dripping with mud on their bodies looked extremely terrifying in the night and firelight.
After the melee took over, there were not many opportunities to shoot, and the surging Jingshi militia and the Jiangnan New Army dealt a fatal blow to the first wave of charging British and French troops, and the first wave of thousands of people was quickly annihilated by the raging flow of people.
But such a charge is for a veteran like Grant. It is simply to send to death, behind the first wave of coalition troops, there are coalition soldiers lined up in a battle formation, three-stage strike, five-stage strike, and even ten-stage attack battle formation, the killing of the Qing army is fast and effective, although the position is unfavorable, but the surging Qing army does not know how to dodge at all, just a strong charge.
"Defeated! Blow the trumpet and withdraw the troops! β
Such tactics of the Anglo-French coalition army, Wei Huozi wanted. It's a pity that the Jingshi militia and the Jiangnan New Army that rushed up have already collapsed. There was no battle formation at all, except for the first wave of charging British and French forces, Wei Huozi did not want to achieve greater results.
"General, you can't get down!"
The clarion call to retreat has no effect on the charging people, and they may not hear it at all!
"That's exactly what happened! Let the Tibetan army flank the two wings of the British and French forces, destroy their gun arrays, even if they die, Lao Tzu has to arrange a suitable death for his subordinates!
Send a telegram to the third master! Within an hour or two, there was no possibility of retreat for the Anglo-French forces! β
These are all in Wei Huozi's consideration, these tens of thousands of people in Bali Bridge, withdrawn are waste, used for decisive battles, except for the first wave of offensives, they are basically slaughtered, in order to give them a similar way to die, in order to allow them to fight hand-to-hand with the British and French forces, Wei Huozi is ready to take 10,000 Tibetan troops.
This 10,000 Tibetan army may retreat wholeheartedly, or it may be wiped out, but this decision was agreed by the third master, they are all life and death brothers who fight in a trench, even if they die, they have to let them die decently!
"General, the Tibetan army has disrupted the gun array of the British and French coalition forces, and the militia has already taken over the foreign devils, and the commander of the Tibetan army has sent someone to ask if he wants to continue the battle!"
The shape of the battlefield changed rapidly, and the 10,000 Tibetan troops in ambush were not expected by the commander of the coalition forces, Grant, and the two wings were not supported at all, and a chaos ruined Grant's entire layout, and the war was truly a melee hand-to-hand combat.
"Let them get out of here! Prepare to encircle the Anglo-French forces! β
The militia of Baliqiao will be defeated, that's for sure, counting on a group of delirious people to defeat almost the same number of Anglo-French troops, such a good thing Wei Huozi thought! Unfortunately, no!
The bloody hand-to-hand combat lasted all night, and the frantically charging Jingshi militia disrupted the entire war of the British and French forces, with enemies everywhere, enemies everywhere, and it was difficult to distinguish between friend and foe in the night battle, and the chaotic killing lasted all night.
"Third master, it's done! The Dagu mouth changed hands, the ships in the barrage changed hands, we only lost more than 700 people, and completely annihilated more than 2,000 British and French troops guarding the Dagu fort and warships! β
The remnants of the defeated Dagu Fort guarded by the defeated army, there was no combat power at all, they had been scrapped at the Bali Bridge, and after the Tibetan army received Yang Fuliang's order, the easy sneak attack was successful, first the Dagu Fort changed hands, and then the entire fleet of the British and French forces.
There were more than 130 warships, and only more than 300 old, weak, sick and disabled sailors were guarding the battleships, and they didn't have the courage to burn the ships, and the entire fleet changed hands intact.
At dawn, Yang Fuliang burned the small boat that could not be taken away from the Dagu Kou barrage, and the back road of the British and French forces was completely cut off!
"It's done! Inform Wei Huozi, as long as the British and French forces do not break through, we will not fight, clean up the battle, and Lao Tzu will sleep first! If Peng Yunzhang comes, let him wait! β
After finishing speaking, Yang Meng found a place to sleep, curled up in the corner with his clothes, and his snoring came out in a short time.
When Yang Meng slept, the battle situation of Bali Bridge was also over, in the night, mixed with many sailors of the British and French coalition troops, there were a lot of accidental injuries, after the start of the fight, in order to avoid accidental injury, the soldiers of the British and French coalition fought while shouting, in the early morning, there was no one standing on the battlefield of Bali Bridge, most of them slept on the cold ground, and the hand-to-hand combat lasted all night, the consumption of body and spirit was too great, and many people were tired and faint.
Clean up the battlefield? Elgin, Gro, and Grant were not in such a mood, and it was close to dawn. The scout came to report. A fire rose at the mouth of Dagu. After hearing the news, Grant sat on the ground with his buttocks, and his movements after being overshocked were almost the same.
"One hundred and thirty-seven ships, eighty-six warships, including sixty-four warships of the middle and third ranks, a country's fleet is gone!"
Grant's chatter didn't sound shocking to Elgin. He looked at the chaotic battlefield, thinking about the survival of these people, including the entire coalition army, and hit the plan!
Now that I think about it, this time the British and French governments completely fell for that Yang Butang's plan, and I am afraid that the Qing State's war preparations have been preparing for the war in India since the time when Yunyan was launched. The civil war of the Qing Kingdom, and the subsequent confrontation between the two countries in Guangzhou. The army of the Qing State is not useless, and it should be the second-line troops of the Qing State who really participate in the civil war, and the real army of the Qing State is the one who defends the five major commercial ports and the Beijing Division.
Yang Butang is right, the population of the Qing State is too much, a huge country of hundreds of millions of people, tens of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of casualties, it is not surprising at all, he used the lives of the second-line troops to lure the entire coalition army into his carefully planned trap, and his target is the fleet of the coalition army, with this fleet, I am afraid that the navy of the Qing State can also be built smoothly, eighty-six warships, Grant is right, the strength of a country's navy!
"Grant, fly the white flag and let's surrender!"
It's too late to say anything now, and the rest of the Anglo-French army is probably slaughtered by the elite of the Qing State!
"Ergin, what are you talking about?"
Gro is still like a cloud, what Grant means, what Elgin means, he hasn't figured it out yet!
"It was a big mistake to start this war! Grant, hurry up and rectify the coalition forces, we must set up a defense line in Dagu, otherwise, we will all be slaughtered! β
Ergin ignored the confused Gro, but urged Grant to quickly reorganize the coalition army, now survival is the most important thing, and the only thing they can rely on now is the huge fleet on their homeland.
After tidying up the battlefield, Grant did not disclose specific information, but only sent a coalition team of 3,000 people to rush back to Dagu to guard the warship, and this team, Wei Huozi's men and horses did not stop them, so they let them go, allowing them to reach the Dagu Fort, which was already empty.
After cleaning up the battlefield, Ergin knew the difficulties they were facing now, the remaining more than 20,000 coalition soldiers, almost no provisions, the supplies in the army reserves, only enough for the consumption of the army for five or six days, plus the horses on the front line, even if the limited supply of food, they could hold on for only half a month at most.
When the Anglo-French army roughly gathered up the men and horses, the more than 24,000 people and horses of Wei Huozi also moved, and as soon as the blood of hundreds of Yang characters stood up, the Anglo-French army began to retreat in the direction of Dagu.
Let them run to Dagukou, it is obviously impossible, Zhangjiawan, not far from Bali Bridge, is a good place to besiege the British and French forces, Zhangjiawan is easy to defend, it is easy to besiege, the huge number of artillery on the Bali Bridge position, Wei Huozi will not let the British and French troops keep, such a number of artillery, the threat to the new army is too great, although the ammunition is limited, but who knows how much ammunition the British and French forces have?
As soon as Wei Huozi moved, the British and French troops also responded, and Wei Huozi thought about it, they almost gave up all the artillery and the corpses of their comrades, drove the carriage with military supplies, and hurriedly fled to the vicinity of Zhangjiawan.
For the more than 1,500 artillery pieces of the British and French forces, Wei Huozi's disposal method is also simple, take away the light, and bury the heavy ones on the spot, as for the corpses of the British and French troops, they took off their clothes and chopped off their heads, and found a piece of civilian land to dig a deep pit and bury it, so as to ensure a bumper harvest here in the next few years!
As for the corpses of the Jingshi militia and the new army, the new army in Jiangnan buried them on the spot, and the corpses of the militia in the Jingshi were left behind, and those that were blown up could only be buried on the spot.
On the side of the Beijing Division, it was a peaceful night, and the sudden stop of the cannon sound caused the panic of the Beijing Division, and everyone in the capital was only afraid that the men and horses on the front line would be defeated, and the foreign devils would move to the Beijing Division!
The sound of the cannon rumbles and the heart is uneasy, the heart is uneasy without the sound of the cannon, but the emperor did not pay attention to this, without the emperor's will, the princes and ministers in the capital can only stay at home and look forward to it, whether it is a blessing or a curse Maybe it will be clear when the day dawns, right?
When the sky was bright, Peng Yunzhang went to the Yang Mansion in Beijing, and the quiet night was also a torture for Peng Yunzhang.
When Peng Yunzhang arrived, Yang Meng had just fallen asleep, this Peng Zhongtang came, and he still had to touch the soft nails, but there was no trivial matter when it came to the military situation, and the helpless Peng Yunzhang could only yawn while drinking tea and waiting.
Since beating this Yang Laosan into the king of Beijing Qin, how can there be a day when it will stop? But Yang Laosan's ability is extraordinary in the end, Monk Greenqin was defeated, Su Shun was defeated, and so far this Yang Laosan still does not show his defeat, can't this Yang Laosan really solve the disaster of the Jingshi?
But many things are just the beginning of this, Yang Laosan entered the King of Jingqin, although it was said that he got the holy decree, but the Han people brought the militia into the King of Jingqin, it was finally good to say, the generals stationed in various places, the kings of Mongolia, and the elite of the Eight Banners of the three eastern provinces, I am afraid that they also got the news, and the next Beijing Division, I am afraid that it is the real stage, you sing and I will appear! (To be continued......)