Eight hundred and sixtieth chapters immortal
When the Qing army in Sanwan was launched, Oboi wanted to use his superior cavalry to attack the Taiping defense line, and then the infantry covered it and defeated the enemy in one fell swoop. However, the area of Sanwan and Gaomin Temple is the intersection of Yizhen River and the ancient canal, which is a triangular area, which is not suitable for grouping the Qing army to charge. Therefore, after the battle began, the cavalry of the Qing army could not play its advantages and did not achieve the great victory that Oboi expected. Oboi had to order the cavalry to withdraw, and instead competed with the infantry brigade of the Han army and the Green Camp with the Taiping Army. The two sides staged a bloody battle that the Qing army had never had since entered the pass on the land of more than ten square kilometers.
The Qing army simultaneously attacked the defense lines of the first and second towns of the Taiping Army. Relying on the advantage of large populations, they divided into several large arrays and lined up to defeat the Taiping Army. Not long after, the Qing army made rapid progress in the middle, and the two wings of the troops were held tightly by the Taiping Army, causing the Qing army's large forces to advance along the middle line. From the sky above the battlefield, the Taiping Army's front was in the shape of a "concave".
On the defense line of the second town, the dry branches of dead grass on the ground were burning, and corpses fell on the ashes. If someone hadn't moved occasionally, no one would have believed that there would be living people here.
There are more than a dozen graves on the side of the defense line of the A Brigade of the Second Town, surrounded by fertile fields. One grave looks very new, and there are traces of paper money burning on it. I think it is a new grave that was buried not long ago. A solid iron bullet fell on the new grave, and the tomb was cut off. More and more shells fell down, smashing the dozen graves into distortion. I wonder what the skeletons buried below felt like.
Around these dozen graves, the Ming and Qing dynasties were fighting fiercely. The Qing army continued to surge, and the attack seemed to be endless. More than 2,000 Xuzhou soldiers piled up hundreds of corpses in this death area, but they still could not occupy it. They kept rushing up and were beaten back. The wounded soldiers shouted miserably under the graves, and no one was attentive to rescue them. The living Xuzhou soldiers seemed to be numb. They drove up and down, and then went up again. Every time they stepped forward with their legs, they didn't know whether they could walk back alive.
The deeper the Qing army broke into the middle line, the more fierce the Taiping Army's resistance became. The Taiping Army on both wings fought even more fiercely, causing the battalions transferred from the north to lose their combat effectiveness. Finally, the Han army went into battle and the Mongolian soldiers also went up. Oboi, who gritted his teeth to supervise the battle, had to throw the men of Manzhou who had been reluctant to put them on. The soldiers of the two yellow flags also pressed up. They were hanging far behind. Some Niulu rode horses to supervise the battle, while some Niulu came down from the horse, picked up their big bows, and shot rounds of arrow rain towards the Taiping Army's front.
The Taiping Army retreated step by step to resist. Every time the Qing army furthered, they would pile up piles of corpses. The artillery located behind the Taiping Army's defense line was constantly firing. The cannons falling from the sky made every advance of the Qing army, and when they were nervously facing the Taiping Army in front of them, they would look up at the sky from time to time, for fear that a large iron ball would fall and smash him to pieces.
The Manchu and Mongolian children who had never been to the battlefield before may not have a deep feeling, but those Manchu and Mongolian officers and old soldiers who had fought with the Ming army would be shocked, because they had never seen the Ming army that could be so densely beaten firearms and never stop for a while.
Round shot!
The Manchu and Mongolian generals saw that the Taiping Army's firearms were not very advanced. The Han army's firearms were similar to theirs. However, the Taiping Army did not fire a volley when they were in the battle like the Han army, and then loaded medicine and then fired again. Instead, they divided the gun soldiers into several teams, and the teams fired in turn, which continued to cause a barrage that seemed to be unbreakable. Every time they forced the barrage back a little, they had to suffer considerable casualties.
Half of the Han army participating in the war were children of Liaodong, but it is not correct to say that they were children of Liaodong, because many of them were born in the Qing army from within the pass and outside the pass by the Qing army twenty or thirty years ago. Some were civilians of the Ming Dynasty, some were military households and border troops, and some were descendants of the Ming army who surrendered.
In this decisive battle, Shunzhi transferred more than 7,000 Han troops to Sanwan, but the Han troops using firearms were less than 1,000, while the rest were cavalry, while others were no different from the Green Camp. The reason for this was that the Qing Dynasty's firearms were concentrated in the hands of Sanshun King. With the death and surrender of Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao, the destruction of Wuzhenchao's artillery in Guangdong led to the fact that the Qing Dynasty could hardly take out established artillery or firearms. On the other hand, the Qing Dynasty did not pay attention to firearms, but now, the Manchu and Mongolian generals, including Oboi, were deeply aware that the Qing army's firearms must be strengthened, otherwise, the future wars would be difficult to fight.
Looking at the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers who were killed and killed by the Taiping munitions, Oboi was bleeding in his heart. He couldn't help but think that it would be great if the Wuzhenha Chao army had not been destroyed in Guangdong, otherwise the artillery fire of the Qing Dynasty would not be weaker than that of the Taiping gang. It's a pity that the children of the Liaodong Han army were the children.
The faces of the Manchu generals who were watching the battle were twitching slightly. Beiletuntai, who was leading the troops on the front line, also sighed immediately, but after sighing, he still ordered a charge because he had to do so. He would never admit that the Manchu and Mongolian children thought that the proud riding and shooting would lose to the Ming people who were never seen. If the Ming army's firearms were really powerful, the Qing Dynasty would not have entered the pass!
Ge Yi stood on a haystack piled up by villagers, holding a thousand-mile mirror to observe the Qing army's offensive. Seeing the Qing army's offensive like a tide, even though he was not afraid of heaven or earth, he was a little scared at this moment. He thought that his first town could withstand the Qing army's attack, but now it seems that he was probably too optimistic. If the Qing army continues to rush over like this, he believes that the first town may not be able to hold on.
Oboi was like crazy, constantly throwing his troops into the air. Although the Qing army suffered heavy casualties, the Taiping army suffered heavy casualties. The posture of both sides was clearly unstoppable.
There are things at home these days, and now it is the patient's business, but it is always ready for the funeral. Of course, it is not the immediate relative of the bone, but the wife's grandmother. However, my father-in-law went there early and only had a daughter, so it is definitely not possible for me to not pay or work. Now I am in the hospital, and I am preparing to get it back the day after tomorrow to prepare for the funeral. I am depositing the manuscript, so I have a little update, mainly because I am afraid that I will stop updating it when I cannot update it. Of course, if possible, I will post more. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!