Chapter 179: Irretrievable Decline
"Kill!"
"Kill me!"
On the mountain road of Purple Mountain, countless soldiers of the Ming army followed the military flag to attack the mountain, and the shouts and killings they made shook the sky, which was also mixed with the rumbling cannons from the mountain from time to time.
These cannons were basically sounded by the easy-to-carry tiger squat cannons, not only the Qing army once again used the tiger squat cannons, but the Ming army attacking the mountain also carried dozens of artillery pieces to cover the infantry to attack the fortification.
However, the trees on the Purple Mountain are very lush, and the cannonballs fired often hit the trees and lose kinetic energy, falling to the ground in the middle of the battle, so in the middle of the artillery battle between the two sides, you can see the trees that have been broken by the waist from time to time.
"Shoot the arrows!"
The Qing soldiers led by the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners released their fingers one after another, and sent the arrows on the bowstring of the full force into the air, only to hear a series of sharp sounds of breaking the air, a row of arrows rose into the air, crossed an arc in mid-air, and fell into the attacking Ming army formation.
The Ming army took the punishment battalion equipped with only a small round shield and a spear waist knife as the vanguard force, the purpose was to consume the long-range firepower of the Qing army, but the round shield in their hands could not protect their whole body at all, so it was just a round of arrow rain, and there were many casualties in the Ming army.
"Raise the shield to defend and charge Lao Tzu!"
"Don't be cowardly, cowardly, kill on the spot, kill one enemy and reward two taels of silver, kill two enemies, and the official will be promoted to one level!"
The officers in the camp shouted loudly to motivate the infantrymen who had the example of Ma Shin and had been rewarded in the previous battles, and they were all eager to fight, and they did not need the encouragement of the officers, and they all rushed towards the enemy with a howl as if they had been beaten with blood.
Behind them, the Russian garrison, the Indian warriors, the Shenji battalion, or the anyway Qing troops advanced slowly, their swords and shields in front, alternately covering their robes from arrows.
Although they knew that the enemy was deliberately coming to consume their arrows and ammunition, they could not watch the other party kill in front of them, once the two sides met the enemy, the Ming soldiers who were slow behind them would definitely charge directly, so that the two armies would fight together.
Therefore, the Qing generals could only order the archers and bird gunners to shoot mercilessly at those punishment battalions.
"Release!"
Bang bang bang –
After firing a volley at the infantry of the punishment battalion at the order, the front-row gunners quickly turned around and retreated to the back of the queue to reload, and the projectiles they fired easily penetrated the wooden shield in the hands of the punishment battalion, and after making a slight inconspicuous hole in it, it burrowed into the flesh and blood of the infantry behind the shield.
In a moment, dozens of foot soldiers fell in the ranks of the punishment camp, and they fell to the ground in wailing, but the soldiers behind them still buried their heads and straddled their bodies, and continued to run forward.
Under the combined fire of the Qing archers and bird guns, the punishment battalion suffered heavy losses, and they did not even touch the side of the Qing army, because of the tragic casualties, the morale of the army was broken, and they turned and fled.
In the face of these unarmored "cannon fodder" of the Ming army, the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, mixed with the Qing archers, did not even bother to replace them with javelin-like iron arrows, and only after seeing the "cannon fodder" of the Ming army defeated, they changed to iron arrows and stared at their real enemies.
Soon, the punishment battalion retreated, the Ming soldiers stared at it, and gradually advanced to the Qing army, Xu is yesterday's battle left a psychological shadow for many Qing soldiers, they looked at the Russian garrison with both hands and axes, expressionless, as if hanging a heavy stone in their hearts, the whole person felt very depressed, and a faint fear rose in their hearts.
Perhaps knowing that the arrows could not cause too many casualties to the armored Ming army, the Qing army did not rush to expend the strength to release the arrows, but waited until the Ming army arrived, and then several arrows were fired in unison.
Even so, the Ming army did not act rashly, and when they advanced to within twenty paces, the Ming infantry roared and charged at the Qing army, and they still took the Russian garrison as the vanguard.
The thousands of Russian garrisons raised their two-handed battle axes and let out a howl like a ghost
The roar of the scream startled the Qing army bird in the front row with bloodless faces, and hurriedly fled backwards, and although the Qing saber and shield hands and spearmen were on top in time, they still couldn't help but tremble their legs when they looked at the terrifying battle axe.
"Kill!"
Under the roar of the Russian garrison, a tomahawk was about to slash down, and immediately slashed on the shield that the Qing saber and shield hand raised to block, and the lucky sword and shield hand successfully blocked the slash, but the shield was also cut with a deep gap, almost scrapped.
Unfortunately, the shield was split in half, and then the tomahawk continued to split, splitting the stunned Qing soldier in half.
During the charge, a Russian garrison exerted force under his feet, jumped up in the air, and the battle axe in his hand slashed downward, and the Qing spearmen in front of him looked at him in horror, but he still gritted his teeth and stabbed the spear out, the Russian garrison couldn't dodge, and was actually directly penetrated by the spear through the body, and the tip of the spear penetrated the body and was inserted from behind.
He looked at the spear inserted into his body in disbelief, the light in his eyes quickly drained, and the battle axe in his hand also smashed to the ground with a clang, the Qing soldier was also taken aback, he didn't expect that he actually killed a Ming army, but before he could show ecstasy, an Indian warrior rushed to him, roaring and waving a scimitar to cut off his head.
Even if the values in the game are very stretched, and the Russian garrison can't even beat the natives' melee infantry, but in reality, their performance did not disappoint Su Yan.
Soon after the engagement, the defense line formed by the Qing army's green battalion soldiers was crumbling by them, and if it were not for the Eight Banners soldiers who gave up their bows and arrows in time and drew their swords to join the battle, the Qing army's defense line might have been crushed soon.
However, the participation of the Eight Banners only slowed down the speed of the Qing army's rout, especially after the Ming riflemen went around the flank of the battlefield and shot at the Qing army's battle group, the Qing army was quickly defeated by the enemy, and the chaotic army directly carried those Eight Banners soldiers who still wanted to fight to the death to flee to the mountain, and at the same time exposed their fragile backs to the enemy's blades.
If there were still people trying to resist at the beginning, but as the scale of the rout became larger and larger, all the Qing soldiers fled like crazy all over the mountains, and the Ming army behind them chased them like a dog and a chicken, as long as they caught up with one person, they raised their knives and fell, and cut off the opponent's head at once, completely not giving them the opportunity to kneel on the ground and beg for mercy.
Similar situations can be seen everywhere on the battlefield of Purple Mountain, although the Qing army has the assistance of the Eight Banners in the city, but it is still difficult to save the defeat, which makes Bolo, who has been looking at the battlefield of Purple Mountain, anxious.
He knew that he couldn't continue to look at it like this, no matter whether the Ming army had set up an ambush outside the city or not, he had to mobilize troops and horses out of the city to respond, otherwise the Qing army on the Purple Mountain was very likely to be completely annihilated under his nose!