Chapter 50 The Qing Army Arrives and Fights! War! War!

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The outside of Linqing City has been surrounded by land and water by the Qing Dynasty army.

Zhenghuang and inlaid with yellow flags are the Zhenghuang Banner Manchu Flag, Zhenghuang Mongolian Flag, inlaid with Yellow Manchurian and Mongolian flags, and the Governor of Waterways and Rivers led the sailors and battalions from all over Shandong, riding dozens of huge boat-sealing warships, large and small ships, completely blocking the entire canal.

The largest of them even reached a length of 12 zhang and a width of 2.6 zhang, but the draft of these wooden sealing boats is very shallow, and the deepest is only 1.6 zhang.

Linqing City faced the enemy army that was crushing the city by this black cloud, and it was like a burden.

The soldiers guarding the city on the city wall watched the camp tents of the Qing army continue to the horizon, and all kinds of flags were waving in the wind, and they were so frightened that they couldn't even hold the guns in their hands steadily.

Xie Qiang and Ran Lingyang climbed the city wall to take a look, and when they saw tens of thousands of Qing troops encamped, they were also shocked when they saw tens of thousands of Qing troops camping for dozens of miles.

Of course, they were not afraid of countless heavy firepower, and after carefully scouting the firepower of the Qing army, they found that these Qing troops did not attach much importance to thermal weapons.

In addition to the general's cannon, there are several sub-cannons, plus some muskets, and the others are all arches and arrows, and broadswords and spears account for most of them.

This kind of firepower can only be used as a target for them.

While watching, Xie Qiang and Ran Lingyang felt an indescribable sadness in their hearts, China was still the core of the world when it came to the Ming Dynasty, and the scientific and technological force has always been the strongest in the world.

In the Ming Dynasty, triggered mines, missile-like multi-stage rockets have long been listed as standard equipment in army and naval operations.

In 1558, the Ming Dynasty made 10,000 of China's first arquebuses.

During the Longqing period, he also invented that the barrel can be rotated and fired in turn in an instant, which is roughly equivalent to the revolver in modern times. The five Thor machine muskets.

In 1633, the Ming Dynasty sealed the boat and sealed the king Shangfeng, which was the largest warship in the West at that time, the "Sea King", built by the British in 1637: the sealing boat was 66 meters long, 19.8 meters wide, 16.5 meters deep, 4 meters draft, and 12.5 meters high, while the British ship was 51 meters long, 14.7 meters wide, 23.17 meters deep, 6.8 meters draft, and 16.37 meters high.

At the same time, various advanced methods of casting cannons can even be compared with those of the American Civil War.

But by the Qing Dynasty, these advanced technologies were buried and destroyed by the rulers.

In the twenty-seventh year of Kangxi, when the Qing army presented the Russian trigger-fire arquebus samples captured in the "Yaksa War" to Kangxi, Kangxi banned the Qing army from using this new type of musket on the grounds that he must not interrupt the traditional bow and arrow spear granted by his predecessors, leaving only two for his own play.

In the 54th year of Kangxi's reign, Jin Guozheng, the chief soldier of Shanxi, promised to donate 22 new types of sub-cannons and send them to various battalions for training, but the emperor forbade local officials to develop new cannons on their own.

During the Yongzheng period, the Qing court also collected all the sub-cannons from Shengjing, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces to Beijing.

Thinking back on these sad histories, looking at the spears, broadswords, bows and arrows and braids in the hands of the Qing soldiers below, Xie Qiangran Lingyang hated the ignorant Manchu wild boar skin even more, and issued an order, ordering the soldiers to correct Zhu Yuan and launch an attack with all their might.

The 155 mm cannon was reoriented and aimed at a dozen huge ship-sealing flagships on the canal.

The artillerymen next to him immediately picked up the shells and loaded them.

A cannonball immediately ejected as the barrel retracted, and then the black smoke streaked across a beautiful parabola and smashed into the deck of the ship's flagship.

Several of the soldiers standing on the deck of the sealed boat were stoned to death, and the naval staff general next to him immediately prepared to give the order to launch a counterattack.

But the next moment, the cannon fire exploded, and the whole huge wooden boat broke off the deck, and the cannon fire blew the boat up from the middle, and then fell heavily on the water, and the front half of the boat went straight down and sank to the bottom of the river.

The second half of the sealed boat fell on the water surface with a "boom", and at this time, the calm and waveless water surface seemed to have become a concrete ground, and the huge anti-earthquake directly shook all the officers and men of the sailor division who were still alive on the second half of the sealed boat, and all the internal organs were shattered, and the seven orifices bled to death.

A moment later, the second half of the boat slowly sank as the cabin flooded.

The officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty sailors on the several sealed warships next to them were devastated.

The sailor guard on the battleship next to him immediately roared: "Fight back!" Fire! ”

The gunners on the boat pushed the cannons, moved the barrels, aimed them at the city walls, and then picked up a shell and poured it into the chamber.

At this time, one by one, cannonballs flew out from the Linqing city wall and the city, drawing huge white trajectories in the air, and then flew towards their sealed warship.

The wooden deck of the Bird Boat battleship was very fragile, and under the bombardment of 155-mm heavy shells, a huge hole was immediately opened, and a fire ignited on the deck, and then a "boom" explosion sounded, and several general guns and sub-mother guns next to it were directly blown up, and dozens of officers and men of the naval division were also involved in the fire and were swallowed up.

The pipe band on the birdship battleship immediately ordered to extinguish the fire, and then returned fire.

As a result, the Qing soldiers manipulated artillery, fire canisters, muskets, and fire guns to return fire on the Linqing city wall.

The Qing soldiers launched a variety of attacks, but most of them were not of sufficient range, fell into the water, splashed several meters and more than ten meters high, and the artillery hit the city wall, making huge black marks on the city wall.

A cannonball fell from the sky, pierced the deck and hold of a ship, and exploded.

The boat, which was nine feet six feet long, three inches and one minute thick, and one foot and five feet wide in terms of beams and belly, immediately made an overwhelming sound of "squeak, squeak, squeak" and began to enter the water in large quantities.

Just as the soldiers at the bottom were in a hurry to plug the hole created by the explosion, two more shells hit the ship.

The battleship was immediately blown into three pieces by the explosion of the cannonball, and before the sailors on the battleship could jump into the river, they were sucked into the whirlpool rolled up by the rapidly sinking huge battleship.

The shells that continued to fall from the air broke the masts of the Qing Dynasty naval warships on the water, and the sails were also broken into tatters.

After receiving one or two shells, the explosion caused serious damage to the hull, and the wooden planks ignited a raging fire, which was too late to extinguish, and countless officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty sailors were burned alive in the fire.

Countless black smoke rose from the surface of the canal, and fires were everywhere, burning the sky red.

The officers and men of the naval division could not withstand such a fierce artillery fire that was powerless, and they began to turn the bow of the ships and flee the battlefield, but these ships had been moored according to the range of their artillery fire, and the speed of 8 knots per hour was too late to escape from this battlefield.

One by one, these bird boats and warships were accurately hit by the artillery fire controlled by the soldiers of the battle template, and then they burned and sank into the canal amid the screams of the officers and men of the naval division.

All that was left of the river was black smoke, broken planks, and some fragments of sails and broken clothing, as well as some light small objects.

The officers and men of the three standard battalions of the water division under the governor of the river were all wiped out in one battle.

Outside the city of Linqing, the Qing army was on land.

As the battle with the water division began, the People's Liberation Army on this side also launched an attack on the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion of the Qing Dynasty.

Under the measurement and calculation correction of the technical template soldier and the subtle control of the combat template soldier, the shells are like having eyes.

It fell in the center of the formation of the Qing Dynasty army, and the explosion immediately cleared the tents and horses of the Qing Dynasty officers and soldiers within a diameter of more than 100 meters, and the powerful shock wave overturned the surrounding officers and soldiers by more than ten meters.

These Qing soldiers had just grabbed the things next to them and climbed up, and another round of shells scattered in all directions in the Qing army's formation.

The small mushroom clouds formed by the explosion of smoke and dust completely obscured the vision of these Qing soldiers, and they could not even find the direction of their attack.

One by one, the dazed Qing soldiers grabbed their broadswords, rushed forward with the army amid the overwhelming sound of killing, and then slashed fiercely with another army that rushed diagonally in the smoke and dust.

The soldiers of the Eight Banners who caught the bows and arrows pulled the strings and shot in the direction of the enemy they had memorized before, but at this moment, they had just gotten up in a different direction, and the arrows shot directly at their own army.

The central Qing army was covered by several rounds of heavy artillery fire, which directly triggered the camp roar.

The Qing Dynasty Eight Banners stationed in front of them charged in the direction of the city gate, and on the battlements on the city wall, the PLA soldiers set up heavy machine guns, directly turned the muzzles, and poured bullets at the cavalry charging below.

With great speed and power, the bullets pierced through these cavalry and then carried them up, flew into the air, and more bullets came over, knocking the bloody Eight Banner cavalry in mid-air to bloody holes, and blood was sprinkled like rain.

Then, the cavalry, which had been beaten into the air, fell to the ground like rag dolls.

Their horses were also shot through their long necks, heads, and bodies, and fell to the ground after being knocked into the air.

The rain of bullets continued to pour down, the cavalry were killed one by one, and they did not even have time to slow down and turn their horses' heads at high speed, these cavalrymen who had galloped across the old century had already retired from the stage of history before they had fought the enemy.

After eliminating the Eight Banners Cavalry Legion, Xie Qiang and Ran Lingyang ordered the soldiers defending the city to open the city gates.

After the city gates were opened, tanks and armored vehicles lined up and drove out.

They were followed by PLA soldiers armed with automatic rifles and bazookas, and they went out of the city to fight a decisive battle with the remaining Qing Dynasty troops, or to encircle and suppress and train soldiers.

The tank's tracks rumbled forward, and the heavy weight and soft soil made the tank unit very slow.

Of course, their enemies are slower and are constantly rushing towards this side.

The tankmen moved their guns and fired at the Qing troops in front of them.

The soldiers operating the machine guns on the tank simply resisted the Gaoping dual-purpose machine guns, and did not change direction at all, and the Qing soldiers who were killed in front were directly cut in two by the powerful bullets, but some Qing soldiers continued to rush over.

There were so many soldiers that he could already feel the tremendous heat of the barrel of the machine gun passing through the air.

The PLA soldiers who followed in line shot at the Qing officers and soldiers who rushed sporadically, and their bullets often pierced through two or three Qing soldiers before they stopped in the body.

Most of the rain of arrows thrown by the archers of the Qing soldiers fell into the open space beyond the firing range, and the sparse fell on the tank armor in front of them, and they also made a "clanging bell"

After the sound, it fell to the ground.

Even if it hits the machine gunner, the arrows that are thrown out to reach the range are no longer powerful, and they can't penetrate the layers of body armor that are extremely protective on these soldiers.

The PLA soldiers who followed the last, when they saw the place where there were many Qing soldiers, aimed at firing a rocket launcher, and after the shell exploded, a blank circular area was formed.

Armoured vehicles and tank groups are interspersed with pursuits all the way, constantly killing or crushing them into the ground beneath the tracks.

The Qing soldiers have begun to bear the huge casualties, and are slowly retreating or even fleeing, but the armored vehicles and tank groups have formed an encirclement of the Qing army's formation in the previous intersperse.

This is the order of Xie Qiang and Ran Lingyang, they want to annihilate the Qing army in one fell swoop with overwhelming firepower, sweep away the Qing army forces in the entire Shandong, and then quickly dispatch troops to occupy the entire Shandong in a blitzkrieg operation.

Tank groups, armored vehicles, and PLA infantry advanced layer by layer, hitting the center of the encirclement little by little, and the rain of bullets "whizzed" through the air, and then took the lives of two or three Qing officers and soldiers, and then stopped the harvest of life.

The PLA soldiers who pulled the trigger of their rifles were already numb, and as soon as any creature that looked like a Qing army appeared in their eyes, they swept it straight over.

At this moment, the Qing soldiers are not even numbers in their eyes, and their only reaction in the face of the enemy is to aim and pull the trigger "bang".

Then after the bullet is empty, pull out a new magazine and replace it.

No one spoke, and all PLA soldiers did not accept surrender.

These Qing officers and soldiers had nowhere to escape.

Two or three hours later, tank groups, armored vehicles and PLA infantry converged in the center of the encirclement.

The more than 20,000 Qing Dynasty troops who came to attack have been wiped out and disappeared forever in the historical record.

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