Chapter 0380: Hard Stubble
Zhou Qingfeng ordered the horn of the general attack to be sounded.
When the battle between the east and west was scorching, Jiannu did not have time to care about the enemy in other directions. Combat sappers with fighter planes approached from both north and south, risking the destruction of the village's buildings. There were even combat sappers who saw that their comrades had sacrificed too much in the front, so they grabbed the snorting explosives bag and threw it at close range towards Jiannu's team.
Kilograms of explosives could not be thrown far, but the killing radius was more than 10 meters, which caused great damage to the people who threw them. The explosive pack was much more powerful than the grenade, and the violent explosion caused a general collapse in the morale of the Jiannu, and the hedgehogs gathered in a mass of their flesh and blood scattered in the village.
When the explosion continued, the low houses in the village were destroyed in pieces by the air waves, and Saharen, who was in charge of the command, was blown up by the explosion comparable to a ninth-level spell, and his mind buzzed and fell to the ground.
The explosion blew up many of the lit bonfires and ignition points in the village, and it was pitch black everywhere. The Guards in the Darkness rely on the formations to connect with each other and exchange visions. The stunned Jiannu scurried around like a mouse, brandishing knives and guns to prevent anyone from approaching.
"Light the torch, light the torch."
The officers of the Guards shouted incessantly, and torches were lit to provide illumination. In the darkness of the night, Jiannu was unable to form a team and was trying to hide and escape. But in the face of rows of advancing spears and lit torches, they are constantly being found, and in a desperate situation, they can only resist stubbornly, and then they are stabbed to death one by one.
When Sakharen regained his senses, he found himself being dragged into a sturdy mud hut by his own soldiers. His ears were buzzing, his face was bleeding, and there were a dozen or so people at hand, but the big axe he was used to was gone. He stood up, took a large knife from his own soldier's hand, and asked, "What the hell is going on?" β
But the soldiers shouted in response: "Master, we must rush out, otherwise it will be too late." β
Torches raged outside the door of the earthen house, and a long line of spearmen was stabbing inside the house. The most ferocious is a woman taller than a man, a two-handed sword in her hand dances like a heavy axe, and no one is her opponent under the edge of spiritual power. The walls of the earthen house are being torn open by her.
The situation was so bad that Saharendon felt hopeless. He carried the broadsword and wanted to meet the tall woman in full bright silver armor. But suddenly he turned his head again, and saw that the wall behind the earthen house had been chiseled open. Behind the hewn hole was the light of torches and the noise of human voices, followed by several smoking objects.
I don't know what this smoke is, though? But Saharen had just tasted its power. He screamed a few times to kick the smoking stuff out. But as soon as he moved, the smoking grenade explodedβand with a few booms, the cowhide boots under his feet were blown away, and half of the soles of his feet were missing, leaving a few bones hanging from his legs.
Sakhalian fell screaming. It just so happened that the door of this earthen house was broken by Ye Na, and the stubborn Jiannu under the sword blade splattered with blood and fell to the ground one after another. He turned his head, only to see the tip of a blood-dripping sword pointed at his throat. He wanted to curse a few words, but his trachea was cut.
The room was instantly quiet .......
After making sure that there were no more living Jiannu in the house, Ye Na turned to clear the remnants of the enemy from other directions. Soldiers with torches were searching house by house, and when they found the enemy, they simply demolished the houses.
In the fields on a snowy night, there are still many headless fly-like Jurchen barbarians running away. Occasionally, a few with horses can run faster, and those without horses often stumble. The weather was bitterly cold on this snowy night, and the black rumbling did not know the road, and the barbarians on foot could not run far and could only find a way to hide everywhere.
The three companies of the 1st Guards Battalion spent the night clearing the remnants of the enemy, and even sent out cavalry to pursue them north at dawn the next day. In the end, the enemies who escaped were unknown, but the Jurchen barbarians who ambushed corpses in the small village of Shahepu counted more than 300 corpses one after another. After a small number of captives identified him, Sakhalian's body was dragged out.
More than 50 of the Guards were killed and seriously wounded last night, most of them from face-to-face battles with Saharen's elite foot soldiers. After the spear infantry attracted the full attention of the enemy at great cost, the combat sappers took the opportunity to inflict huge casualties on the enemy and at the same time completely demoralize the enemy.
Although the opening battle was extremely fierce, the damage was relatively limited. More than half of the results were achieved in the liquidation and pursuit of the enemy's demoralization, proving once again that a unit is a fish belly if it is not motivated.
"The wounded, the corpses of comrades, the captives and the rescued civilians were carried away in horse-drawn sleighs. Let the cavalry go north to conduct armed reconnaissance, and the infantry participating in the battle returned to the Tiger Skin Post on foot. After Zhou Qingfeng gave the order, this snowy night raid came to an end.
Sakhalian's body was frozen and stiffened, hanging from a large wooden stick and set up on the road. The corpses of more than 300 Jiannu were carried to the side of the road and piled up, looking like a pyre from a distance, and up close were a body twisted and dead in various poses.
For murderous enemies, it is useless to talk to them about civilization. You have to communicate with them in a way that they can understand and understand. Zhou Qingfeng built such a Jingguan and placed it on the side of the road, presumably Jiannu must understand.
When returning to the Tiger Skin Station, the soldiers of the first battalion of the Guards who had fought all night were a little tired. The tall cow was even more excited and depressed. Zhou Qingfeng saw that he bowed his head and didn't speak, so he took the initiative to ask: "You fought a good battle just now, and you will be rewarded for your merits when you go back, why are you still unhappy?" β
Gao Daniu was only nineteen after the New Year, and he raised his head and grinned bitterly: "I am naturally happy to win the battle, but one platoon in my company is almost dead, and only two of the six squad leaders and deputy deputies are alive." Even the deputy platoon commander was seriously injured and broke a hand, and he could no longer go to the battlefield. Of the two main companies of the battalion, one of them suffered nearly half of the casualties, and it was considered disabled. Jiannu is also very powerful when he is desperate. β
Ye Na rode a horse and followed Zhou Qingfeng, looking sideways at the tall bull. She had always been amazed that this ordinary man turned out to be one of the generals of the 'Revolutionary Army' Guard. Her age is not very old, and her background is very ordinary, even inferior to her. But his command last night was decent, and he dared to lead the team to plug the gap when necessary, and he would have to fight with his life.
"Of course Jiannu is not easy to fight. Last night's results were very good, and fighting is about death. We die more, and the enemy dies more. Nearly half of your company was killed or wounded and lost its combat effectiveness, and it was immediately transferred back to Gaizhou for repairs and replenishment of reserve recruits. Next, I will transfer Li Yanxi, who is stationed in Fuzhou, to carry the revenge of Jiannu together. There will only be more people who will die next. β
Zhou's prediction was quickly verified.
After the Jurchen barbarians who escaped from Shahepu returned to Shenyang, Huang Taiji thought that he had heard it wrong. After confirming the news, he was even more shocked and angry, and he was furious. He had no idea that anyone would dare to annihilate Sakhalian's troops right under his nose. What annoys him the most is that he still hasn't figured out who the attacker is so far.
Sakhalian is not an ordinary person, he is Nurhachi's son-in-law, and he is just here to help defend Shenyang. This was slaughtered inexplicably, and Huang Taiji also had to bear a lot of responsibility.
Huang Taiji couldn't sit still in Shenyang, so he personally led thousands of elite horsemen out of Shenyang, but was blown up by the mines planted by the guards on the way. He gave up the road in a hurry, and drove from the plain to find a path, and when he arrived at the Shahepu that the deserter said, he saw the body of Sakhalian hanging on the side of the road.
At first glance, it seems that there is a person hanging from a wooden pole on the side of the road. The man was covered in snow. It wasn't until he drove the slave forward to unload the body and deliver it to Huang Taiji that he recognized that it was Sakhalian, who had been with him yesterday.
Huang Taiji's eyes suddenly cracked, and his eyes turned red. He blurted out, 'Who did this?' and soon another servant came up to report that he had found a 'bunch' of subordinates brought by Commander Sakharen yesterday under a heavy snowdrift.
It's a lot!
The pile of more than 300 corpses is tall and tall.
Huang Taiji walked in front of the piled up Jingguan and realized why so few people fled back. Most of these in front of him are soldiers who have followed Nurhachi for many years, and they are elite soldiers drawn from every Niu Lu. More than 300 people died in this time, which is equivalent to six or seven Niu Lu being emptied-Zhengbai Flag is only eighteen Niu Lu in total!
Seeing such corpses piled up, Huang Taiji was going crazy with hatred. He was not the most favored among the sons of Nurhachi, and he was able to become the four great beylers entirely by his own efforts. But even if he works hard, his positive white flag is better than the inlaid white flag of Chu Ying's son Du Du, and his power is the second-to-last of the eight flags.
It's good to be beaten to the bottom now!
Who the fuck is this bothering me?
Huang Taiji's seven orifices smoked, and he suppressed the anger in his heart and continued to move towards Liaoyang. This time, it didn't take long to see the main owner - Zhou Qingfeng was in the Tiger Skin Station, and his combat engineers used black powder to blast a circle of fortifications on the frozen soil. The tiger skin post is ready inside and outside, according to horses, moats, watchtowers, everything is available.
More than 1,000 troops of the first battalion of the Guards were stationed in the station, as well as 2,000 militiamen who had rushed from the rear to support them in the past two days. In addition, more than 1,000 horses from Li Yanxi's third battalion are maneuvering towards Liaoyang, and they will be able to ride horse-drawn sleds in two days.
Huang Taiji led the troops to approach, and Zhou Qingfeng was staying on the watchtower erected in the post station, holding a telescope and scolding viciously: "This is cold and snowy, and behind Lao Tzu is the organization of the entire 'revolutionary army' to support. I don't believe that you Jiannu can use your personnel and supplies so efficiently.
All the deserted villages around this tiger skin post have been evacuated and burned down by me, and you can't find a house, a well, or a grain of grain in the wilderness. Although this place is only sixty miles away from Shenyang, as long as you can't break my camp, you have to follow me. The more I consume, the happier I am. It will take a month or two, and when spring begins, your attack will have to decrease. β
Huang Taiji was really blind and crazy when he saw the circle of fortifications in the Tiger Skin Station, he really couldn't understand how the ground was frozen harder than stones in this winter, how could someone dig several wide and deep trenches here? A large number of horses were also arranged. The garrison does not seem to be small.
The Jurchen barbarians probed around, and found that this small place was actually cultivated with three layers inside and three layers outside, and the security was extremely strict. The biggest headache is not this fortress-like tiger skin station.
Tanma quickly reported to Huang Taiji, "Master, the villages near this post station have been burned, and the houses have either collapsed or been roofed down. There wasn't even a ghost around. If we were to camp here, we would not be able to do so. β
It's impossible, it's impossible.
If you sleep in the wild in this place in Liaodong in winter, everyone will freeze into popsicles the next day. Huang Taiji himself can only go out in a leather jacket, how can he not know the problem in front of him? It's just that I finally brought more than 1,000 people out to find a place, and when I saw that it was a hard bone that couldn't be gnawed, I retreated?
After thinking about it again and again, Huang Taiji was so aggrieved that he wanted to vomit blood. In the end, he could only ...... ruthlessly.
"Retreat, go back to Shenyang. My white flag can't stand the toss. β