readx;? Chapter 905: Bad News

Cheng Que and Zong Zheng were curious about where the shells came from, and the soldiers under his command didn't know where the shells came from. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

If the cannonballs are fired from outside the city, it is unrealistic, although Pingguan is a pass, but the area is not small, if you want to attack the general's palace in the center of Pingguan outside the city, the artillery must be advanced at least within 50 steps of the city wall.

And at such a close distance, the defenders at the head of the city can directly attack with firearms, and the artillery outside the city has no chance of surviving, let alone igniting the artillery.

But in fact, the shells continued to fall into Pingguan City, hitting all parts of Pingguan, and next to my ears, the sound of rumbling explosions had already sounded, and as far as the eye could see, there were fires everywhere, thick smoke was billowing everywhere, and the air was filled with a strong smell of gunsmoke.

An adjutant general hurriedly ran to Cheng Que and Zong Zheng, stammered and trembled, "General...... General, cannonball...... The shells seem to have come down from the top of the hill on both sides of Pingguan!"

Hearing this, Cheng Que and Zong Zheng subconsciously looked at the peaks on the east and west sides.

I saw that on the peaks on both sides, the smoke was filled, and fire flashed from time to time. The two looked at each other for a moment, then looked at each other again, shuddered in unison, and said in unison: "Oops!

Pingguan is located between two mountains, the east and west sides of Pingguan, close to the cliffs, so Pingguan is a city sandwiched between two mountains, and the location is unique.

If it was in the era of cold weapons, the defenders in the city did not have to consider the peaks on both sides at all, even if there were enemies on it, they would not be able to attack the Pingguan below the mountain, because the peaks were too high and too far away, and the arrows would shoot down, and there was no strength at all.

But in the era of firearms, the situation is different, if the peaks on both sides of Pingguan are covered with artillery, and the artillery is fired from the bottom of the mountain, the entire Pingguan City is within the range of the opponent's artillery.

Cheng Que and Zong Zheng only figured this out now, it was too late.

The artillery battalion of the Wind Army, which was ambushed on the peaks left and right of Pingguan, continuously shot down the shells and landed everywhere in Pingguan, and each shell exploded on the ground, turning into a sea of fire within a radius of five or six meters.

A large amount of yellow phosphorus was added to the shells of the Wind Army, and the ignition point of yellow phosphorus was very low, and the high temperature generated by the explosion of the shells was enough to ignite the yellow phosphorus.

It's a pity that the soldiers of the Tiger and Par Battalion can't even see the shadow of the enemy, and they have empty skills, and they are useless at this time. The entire Pingguan is a death trap carefully designed by the Wind Army.

Cheng Que and Zong Zheng figured out what was going on, and hurriedly ordered all the soldiers of the army to immediately break through outside the city.

It's just that now they want to give up Pingguan and have no chance. A large number of Feng troops have already set up defensive lines outside the northern and southern cities of Pingguan and are ready for battle.

Seeing that the enemy army ran out of the city, the artillery and fire guns of the wind army opened fire in unison, knocking down the soldiers of the tiger and leopard battalion who rushed out of the city one after another.

People couldn't rush out, and they could only be forced to retreat to Pingguan, but the whole Pingguan had turned into a sea of fire, where was there a place for people to settle down and hide.

The soldiers who were burned to the point of nowhere to flee could only run out of the city again, once again facing a volley from the wind army outside the city.

This was repeated several times, and the battle lasted from morning to afternoon, and the breakthrough of the soldiers of the Haw Par Battalion gradually weakened, not because they did not plan to break through again, but because they really could not do it again.

Of the 200,000 soldiers, there are less than 50,000 left, and more than 100,000 soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Battalion were buried in the fire of Pingguan City, burned beyond recognition, and only a black and swarthy mass of charcoal remained. Even Cheng Que was not spared and died tragically in Pingguan City.

Seeing that the general trend of his side has gone, most of the casualties of his troops, this battle, his own side can not and cannot fight any further, in order to prevent the brothers of the tiger and leopard battalion from dying, in order to leave a little more blood for the tiger and leopard battalion, Zong Zheng finally had no choice but to order, all his soldiers and soldiers, surrender to the wind army.

The news of the surrender of the Haw Par Battalion also reached the Chinese military tent of the Feng Army as soon as possible.

The one who sat in the military tent was not someone else, it was Meng Qiuchen. The generals standing on both sides include Luo Ren, Zhan Xiong, An Yifu and others.

With only 100,000 soldiers and horses and less than 100 artillery pieces, how could the 11th Army have enough to set up an ambush near Pingguan and besiege the 200,000 soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Battalion? This time, the Feng Army invested so many artillery pieces and troops, most of which were from the Zhenjun Army.

It was the First Army of the Zhenjun Army that secretly penetrated into the country of Ningnan and cut off the retreat of the Tiger and Leopard Battalion.

Hearing the news that the remnants of the Tiger and Leopard Battalion had surrendered, people's eyes fell on Meng Qiuchen.

There is no need to guess, people know what kind of order he will give next, it must be to accept the surrender of the tiger and leopard battalion, after all, the soldiers of the tiger and leopard battalion are all from Ningnan, and Meng Qiuchen is also from Ningnan.

Meng Qiuchen was relaxed at this time, at least on the surface, holding the scroll in his hand and paying full attention to it.

After not hearing his reply for a long time, Guan Xi looked at the people present, took two steps forward, and whispered: "My lord, the remnants of the Tiger and Leopard Battalion have given up resistance and all surrendered, can we stop the attack and start surrendering?"

Raising his eyes and glancing at Guan Xi, Meng Qiuchen's gaze fell back on the scroll, he dipped his fingers in saliva, turned a page of the book, and after a while, said indifferently: "Refuse the surrender of the enemy army, let the enemy army take up arms, and fight to the death with our army to the end!"

"Big ...... My lord?" As soon as these words came out, the faces of all the generals present also changed. Since the enemy has surrendered, it is reasonable for the enemy to surrender, and there is no need to kill all the 200,000 people in the tiger and leopard battalion, right?

Meng Qiuchen slowly put down the scroll and said slowly: "This is His Highness's order, do you want to obey the order?"

In a word, the bodies of all the generals present were shocked. Meng Qiuchen continued: "It is also reasonable for His Highness to give such an order, the Tiger and Par Battalion was captured as a mob in Pingguan, and we naturally have to eliminate all of them in the same way as we treat the mob. If we are left alive and it is known that we are the tiger and leopard battalion that we are trapped, His Highness's situation in Tianjing will be very dangerous, and my country's plan to send troops to Ningnan will also be exposed immediately. ”

"So ......"

"Therefore, not a single living mouth must be left behind, and they must all be killed. Speaking of this, Meng Qiuchen also sighed softly.

Leaving the remnants of the tiger and leopard battalion is equivalent to leaving a big trouble, that is, it cannot be escorted back to China, and it is not good to be detained on the spot, leaving hidden dangers in Pingguan City, and killing them all, is the best choice for their own side, but this is also the most cruel choice.

Zong Zheng led the remnants to surrender, but the Feng army refused to accept their surrender, and the remaining tens of thousands of soldiers of the tiger and leopard battalion were pitied.

The battle of Pingguan was not completely over until the early morning of the next day. In this battle, the 200,000 tiger and leopard battalion led by Cheng Que and Zong Zheng were completely annihilated under the joint siege of the Fengguo Zhenjun Group Army and the Eleventh Army.

It is also after this battle that there are two more fortresses in Pingguan, one is Dongshan Fortress, the other is Xishan Fortress, and the two fortresses are located on the top of the mountain on both sides of Pingguan, and Pingguan City forms a joint defense line.

At the end of the battle, the Zhenjun Army hid back in the mountains and forests of Shah, leaving the 11th Army to clear the battlefield.

It took more than half a month for the 11th Army to dispose of the corpses of the soldiers of the Haw Par Battalion. Even a hundred years later, in the south of Pingguan Castle, a large number of bones can be excavated by digging more than five meters into the ground.

As for Pingguan City, it has been burned to the point that there is nothing left, the city is full of ruins, and the reconstruction work naturally falls on the head of the Eleventh Army.

Ten days later, the news of the Battle of Pingguan reached Tianjing.

The first to spread the news was not the people of Ningnan, but the people of Feng. Guanxi sent a soldier to the county seat of Nanding County and informed the county government of Nanding County, saying that near Pingguan, tens of thousands of mobs rioted and stormed Pingguan, and they had been completely annihilated by the Feng army.

In addition, when the defenders were fighting against the mob, Pingguan suffered serious damage, and their own side suffered heavy losses, and they needed to be compensated by the Ningnan court.

The county government of Nanding County did not know that the Haw Par Battalion was lurking in their jurisdiction, let alone that the Haw Par Battalion disguised itself as ordinary people to attack Pingguan.

When the county officials entered Pingguan, people were dumbfounded, this is still their impression of Pingguan, everywhere is scorched earth, everywhere there are ruins, there are charred corpses everywhere, the ground is full of potholes, full of bullet holes.

It didn't look like a mob attack at all, but rather a scene of two armies fighting in the city.

The most bizarre thing is that after investigation, there was no change in the central army in the country, and the people near Pingguan had no missing people.

But it would be a bit ridiculous to say that the city of Pingguan was destroyed like this by the wind army itself, just to deceive the imperial court of his country a little compensation.

The whole thing, inside and out, revealed unusual weirdness and weirdness, and the Nanding County Government did not dare to delay, and used flying pigeons to pass the book and spread the news to Tianjing.

Hearing that Pingguan was attacked by the local people, it seems that a lot of people died, and the ministers of Ningnan were surprised, but they didn't take it too seriously.

Pingguan was originally the pass of the country, but it was suddenly occupied by the wind army, and the local people were naturally dissatisfied, and the local government could find a way to appease it.

The most horrified of this matter is the eldest grandson Bohao. Others may not know what's going on, but he's the one who knows the whole thing best.

For several days, he has been waiting for the good news from the tiger and leopard battalion, but after so many days, he has not waited for any news to come back.

As a result, on this day, what he was waiting for was the news that the 'mob' that had attacked Pingguan had been completely annihilated by the Feng Army, and he couldn't believe his ears, could it be that all the 200,000 soldiers of the Tiger and Par Battalion had been killed by the Feng Army? How could this be? The Feng Army had only one legion in Pingguan!

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