Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 343 Battle against Ancient Ning Pagoda ([-])

Back in time two days ago.

After the Qing army's night attack failed, the vanguard of the Northern Navy chased them to the vicinity of the first ditch of the Ningguta camp at noon that day, which was less than three miles away from the Qing army camp.

The platoon leader of the Beihai Navy who was running ahead saw the rout of the Qing army hundreds of meters away jumping into the trench with their butts pissing, and then there was no movement, so he became vigilant.

"Pass it on, everyone spread out in a double formation! There is something weird ahead!" Following the officer's order, Bei Haijun, who was running ahead, slowed down and covered alternately in groups of two with a distance of 15 meters between each group. go ahead.

Suddenly, a drumbeat sounded like a shower from a few hundred meters ahead. Those experienced North Navy veterans hurriedly pulled their companions, and a dog eating shit lay on the ground, shouting: "Get down! Hide!"

Boom! ! !
In an instant, the entire defense line of the Qing army seemed to be streaked by rolling thunder, white smoke rose, and countless roars sounded. The guns fired together.Immediately afterwards, thousands of musketeers emerged from the trenches, holding muskets, and fired again.

The chief of the Qing army on a victorious cannon position saw two soldiers of the Northern Navy who were unable to dodge being hit by the shot and fell to the ground. He shouted excitedly: "It's a hit! It's a hit!"

The artillery battalion Xiao cavalry school commanding nearby smiled and said: "Good job! Reward!"

Before he could finish his sentence, a rain of bullets hit from the opposite side, and the chief of the Qing army and several Qing army gunners were shot to death.

At this time, several gunners of the Qing army who had already loaded their shells saw a Beihai soldier carrying a small leather bag rushing to the place where there were wounded soldiers. , was about to aim and fire, only to hear someone behind him say in a deep voice: "No way!"

The gunner of the Qing army looked back, and it turned out to be the Xiao cavalry school.

"My lord, why is this?"

The Xiao cavalry school stared at the ambulance soldier in the distance with complicated eyes, and said meaningfully: "That is the one who is in charge of rescuing the wounded among the rebels, you can't fight!"

"Ah? You said that, is that a doctor?" Several gunners thought that this is really strange, even the doctor who saw the doctor went to the battlefield!But then again, how does this lord know so clearly?

In the blink of an eye, Xiaoqi School remembered the days when he was a prisoner in Beihai Town; when he was captured on the battlefield in Fuerdan City, if there were no these rescuers, his life would not have survived today.
The Qing army took advantage of the trenches to fire non-stop, and during the shooting intervals, some Qing army archers also threw out from the trenches.The problem is that the two sides are separated by more than 200 meters, whether it is bows and arrows, matchlock guns or flintlock guns, it is not lethal to the scattered soldiers of the Northern Navy; only those artillery can cause damage to the soldiers of the Northern Navy.

However, the firing frequency of these small front-mounted artillery deployed on the front line was too slow, which gave the North Navy an opportunity. They took off their engineering shovels from their backs and began to dig the soil desperately to build simple fortifications.

They first dug a small pit where they could lie down, and then piled up dirt and stones in the direction facing the Qing army.After that, the soldiers continued to expand the simple bunker, gradually expanding it into a one-meter-deep "U"-shaped bunker.

These are all the homework that the North Navy has done in daily training. In addition to U-shaped bunkers, there are also W-shaped, V-shaped, and various curved deformation bunkers evolved from these three types.

The advantage of the U-shaped bunker is that if a position is bombarded by the enemy, soldiers can quickly move to another position to avoid it with anticipation.

When the Northern Navy completed the digging of bunkers and built several machine gun firepower points, the casualty rate of Qing army gunners in the trenches suddenly increased, and those Qing troops who dared to open fire were all cleared one by one by machine gun fire.

Now the Qing army was paralyzed, they could only lift the musket loaded with ammunition and the two of them with both hands, and shoot blindly at the outside.Those gunners could only take a hasty glance outside, and then fired randomly in the direction of observation.

In the trenches of the Qing army, a few Qing soldiers who escaped from the sneak attack at night will now have some free time, chewing white flour pancakes in their mouths, and cursing: "These gangsters have been fighting all night. Not tired!"

These rout soldiers were already hungry and thirsty from the fierce battle in the early morning to noon, not to mention that the previous escape had made them exhausted.However, if they knew that the Northern Navy soldiers on the opposite side were munching delicious compressed biscuits and jerky in the bunker, they would probably die of hunger.

After eating the pancakes and drinking some water, the broken soldiers felt alive again.One of them looked around for a while, and said to a man in a low voice: "Brother Ergui, why am I always so restless? How about we run to Daying?"

The man slapped the opponent on the head angrily, and cursed in a low voice: "Run your mother, run! I didn't see that there were more than a dozen chopped off!"

In order to prevent the front-line soldiers from fleeing without authorization, the supervising team dispatched by Mingliang guarded the exit of the front-line trench retreat. Anyone who dared to escape would be caught with a knife; The blood that flowed out has merged into a red and black pool of blood.

In the northern naval fortification on the opposite side, the company commander leading the team was using a walkie-talkie to request artillery support, but the order he got from the regiment headquarters was to let them defend on the spot and gradually expand the scope of the bunker, and the follow-up troops would quickly come to support.

"What is this? It's something that can be solved with a single bombardment!"

Hearing the officer's complaint on the walkie-talkie, Lu Shoushan, who was sitting on the hill behind him, said: "What nonsense, execute the order!"

As the North Navy continued to dig fortifications frantically, the entire battlefield fell silent.The Qing army in the trenches was confused and thought they were holding it, and the soldiers in the vanguard of the Northern Navy were also puzzled by Monk Zhanger.

However, the Beihai Navy stopped advancing suddenly, which surprised the commander of the Qing army, Fucha Mingliang, and his generals.

"Why don't they attack? What are they waiting for?"

Behind the second line of defense of the Qing army, Mingliang held up his clairvoyance and watched for a long time, feeling a bad premonition in his heart.He had already made all the preparations, just waiting for the Beihai Navy to continue to attack and rush into the first trench!

"Marshal, has our plan been discovered by Thief Zhao's men?"

"Absolutely impossible!" A general in charge of implementing the plan said decisively: "This matter has been prepared for a year, and we all did it at night, and Zhao Bandit's men couldn't detect it at all!"

Mingliang frowned and thought for a long time, then slowly said: "If they don't attack after two hours, we will withdraw our troops to the second trench!"

At this time, the headquarters of the North Navy's West Road Column had moved behind a soil slope five miles away from the battlefield, and more than 2000 people from the Fifth Regiment were cutting trees everywhere in the surrounding fields.After the branches and vines are removed from the cut trees, they are trimmed into logs more than one meter long with a saw and axe.

"This famous general of the Fucha family really has two tricks! If we hadn't been prepared, we would have fallen into his trap."

After hearing Liu Sheng's words, Fan Tong also laughed happily, and said with a smile: "This group of guys never dreamed of it, we have seen it clearly from the sky."

The bright strategy is water attack!
Mingliang had thought of this since the trenches were dug a year ago.In order to facilitate concealment, the Qing army worked at night.Not only the first trench, but also the north and south sides of the next two trenches have been dug through the Shangjian River and Hualan River, and sluices have been set up.If the Northern Navy invaded the trenches, the Qing army would open the gates one by one to release the water.

Right now, the Huerha River and its various tributaries are in the spring flood season. Once the sluice gates are opened, the rapid river water will quickly turn the wide trench into a moat.No matter how powerful Zhao Ni is, he can't shoot while swimming, right?

If the Northern Navy tries to pass through the bridge, it will first be hit hard by the heavy artillery of the second and third lines of the Qing army, and then the dozens of Yaksa warships staying on the Huerha River will also sail into the Hualan River and the Shangjian River respectively. The encircled North Navy carried out artillery fire from three sides.

In fact, at present, the remaining [-] birdsong cavalry and [-] forward battalion cavalry of the Qing army have quietly gone north along the east bank of the Huerha River and entered the mountains and forests to wait in hiding. The northern navy launched a surprise attack from behind.

The heavy artillery deployed by the Qing army behind the second-line and third-line trenches included fifty general Wucheng Yonggu cannons, 150 red-clothed cannons, 120 Yanwei cannons, and more than 30 sky-rocketing cannons; Door return cannon, strange cannon, victory cannon, son and mother cannon and dragon cannon.

Some of these cannons were transferred from the Beijing Armed Forces Academy, and some were cast in the Jilin Artillery Factory in the past two years. The overall number was several times higher than when Fukang'an sent troops to Fuldan City.

The above is where Mingliang dared to face the North Navy's attack.

However, after the sneak attack last night, Mingliang has learned that the Beihai Navy has an unknown cannon that can shoot from invisible places, and the sound of shooting is almost inaudible, killing people invisible.This made him worry again, and he didn't know how many guns he would have left after this battle was over.If it was a tragic victory, it would be difficult for Qianlong to explain it.

After noon, the Qing army hiding in the trenches first noticed a few strange black dots passing westward from the sky, and could faintly hear a buzzing sound like a wasp; Above the heavy artillery positions of the army, they stayed for a meal, and then flew north and south separately.

Before the right time, that is, at three o'clock in the afternoon, when the artillerymen of the various regiments who came behind entered the artillery position, the Beihai Navy began to act.

Liu Sheng's plan was to first pull out those artillery strongholds, and then send out his "surprise soldiers" to catch the Qing army by surprise.

With a bang of "嗵", a black shuttle-shaped iron bullet fell in front of the artillery position of the Qing army one kilometer away, and then a puff of red smoke rose, which immediately shocked the surrounding Qing army gunners. Startled, he quickly hid behind the gun emplacement.

But after a while, several gunners of the Qing army leaned out and saw that there was only a burst of red smoke from the location where the bullet fell, and there was no other movement, so they couldn't help but look at each other.

They already knew that the shells of the Beihai Navy could explode, but what was going on?Light smoke to scare people?
The general of the Qing army who was hiding behind the cannon suddenly got up and laughed loudly: "This is a fucking stinker! Get up! Get up!"

The general pointed to a gunner with a shovel in his hand and said, "Go, cover that thing with soil!"

"Me?" The Qing soldier who was called pointed to his nose and was stunned.

"Isn't it you! Do you want me to go?! You bastard!"

The Qing soldier walked over tremblingly, a few meters away, came and threw a shovel of soil towards the place where the smoke was coming out.
On the artillery position of the Northern Navy, the officer in charge of the Northern Navy heard that the aiming was completed, and immediately ordered the four mortars to fire.

"Pay attention! Start shooting, target enemy firepower point No. 101, load four cannons with one shot. Get ready~~ let it go!"

boom!boom!boom!boom!
"Target No. 102 enemy firepower point."

"No.103."

All the cannon positions of the Qing army were instantly blazed with flames, and the gunner of the Qing army who was shoveling the soil was blown to pieces, and the cannon of General Wucheng Yonggu behind him was also blown up, causing casualties everywhere.

The Qing army on the battlefield was shocked for a moment!Is this okay?
The sound of bombing rang out one after another, and the cannons of General Wu Chengyonggu of the Qing army were blown up one after another, and those Qing soldiers guarding the cannon positions all turned pale after seeing it clearly, and prayed for God's blessing. One is not oneself.

"Cooperate with other cannons to bomb us, right?" The gunners of the Qing army wanted to escape, but the sharp steel knives of the supervising team behind them made them even more afraid.

Mingliang and the others watched heavy artillery being destroyed by the unknown artillery of the Beihai Navy. They were very anxious but had no choice.A general Wucheng Yonggu cannon weighs six to seven thousand catties, and it cannot be pushed by a few people at all, and it cannot be pulled by more than a dozen oxen and horses.

Cannons can be rebuilt when they are gone, but the gunners are too precious to the Qing Dynasty to be lost like this!
Mingliang said helplessly: "Let all the gunners withdraw from their positions!"

"Mark the order!"

As the order was passed down, the gunners on the artillery positions of the Qing army suddenly ran away.

Fan Tong saw the situation of the Qing army's artillery position from the screen sent back by the drone, and said to Liu Sheng, "Can we dispatch it?"

"Get out!"

A rumbling sound came from the land in the east, and the Qing army hiding in the trenches had never heard such a sound.They cautiously checked out their heads, and saw a few green flat boxes moving towards them in the distance of the horizon.

"This, what kind of monster is this!"

Seeing the roaring green flat boxes getting bigger and clearer in his field of vision, the Qing army in the trenches was frightened from top to bottom.

"Fire the cannon! Cannons are designed to defeat monsters!" Xiaoqi School yelled hoarsely, the muzzle of the victorious cannon in front of him burst into flames, and 12 taels of iron bullets whizzed and smashed on the outer shell of the green flat box.

With a loud sound of "Dang!", the iron bullet fell to the ground weakly, and was immediately crushed into the soil by the moving flat box.

"Iron?" Chin and eyeballs dropped all over the Qing army's trenches.

"Boom!" Another cannon fired.

"Dang!" There was another crisp sound.

"Tom tom tom!" A small cannon-shaped weapon on the green flat box opened fire, and the gunners of the Qing army who fired the cannon were immediately beaten to pieces, and their whole bodies were shattered.
Suddenly, a Qing soldier woke up and shouted: "This is a monster! Run!"

"The thief knows sorcery! This battle is lost!"

"Run away!"

The entire trench exploded like boiling water!

The panic-stricken Qing army rushed away from the obstruction of the supervising team. They dropped their muskets, bows and arrows, climbed out of the trenches with hands and feet, and fled westward desperately.

This is Liu Sheng's "surprising soldiers", five armored vehicles.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Zhao Xin removed the 37mm rapid-fire gun on the roof when purchasing, and asked for a bare body. Zhao Liang's arsenal later installed an M2HB on the roof. Already invincible.

Immediately behind the armored body were soldiers from the fifth regiment of the Beihai Navy carrying sleepers. They rushed to the ditch, threw the sleepers in their hands, and quickly filled in a passage enough for the armored vehicles to travel together.

The familiar whistle sounded around the armored vehicle, and the soldiers of the Northern Navy who had been waiting for a long time climbed out of their bunkers, followed the armored vehicle across the trench, and launched a sniper attack on the Qing army in the wilderness.

Mingliang and the others behind the Qing army's second-line position were completely stunned. Facing the oncoming five "green monsters" that couldn't be pierced by artillery, Mingliang would have nothing to do with being Zhuge Liang!
"Quick! Open the gate and release the water! Quick!" Mingliang suddenly yelled at his subordinates.

He could see that the green monster couldn't cross the one-foot-wide ditch at all, and had to fill the ditch with wood to get through.Right now, opening the gates and releasing water is the only life-saving straw!

Suddenly, dense gunshots and explosions sounded simultaneously from the north and south sides of the Qing army's position. The sound was the weapon of the Northern Navy.

"Commander! It's not good! The camp defending the sluice was attacked by bandits, and our soldiers are fighting to the death!"

"What?!!!" Mingliang almost spat out a mouthful of old blood, his plan completely failed.

A few minutes ago, just outside the Qing army camp defending the sluices on the north and south sides, two battalions of the Northern Navy regiment quickly entered the battle. Regardless of the casualties, the artillery fire of the warships of the army dispersed the Qing army and quickly organized a defense near the sluice.After the ten 75mm field guns that came later also joined the battle, the warships of the Qing army fled westward in embarrassment.

As the armored vehicles drove past the Qing army's second line of defense, the entire Ningguta camp was blown up. Thousands of Qing soldiers didn't care about the weapons and supplies, and the cloth and silver scattered all over the place. They only hated their parents for giving them less. On two legs, they fled to the ferry and pontoon on the east bank of the Huerha River.

"Let us go there!"

"Men, please do me a favor, there is still room for this boat."

The fleeing Qing soldiers and militiamen crowded the riverbank like headless flies. Some jumped into the icy water to swim to the opposite bank, some boarded boats, and many more could only kneel and cry facing the wide river. .Some crazy Qing soldiers even brandished knives at those companions who were lying on the hull of the boat in the river, which made all the soldiers of the Qing army watching the battle on the west bank of the Huerha River turn pale, and then turned around and fled to Ningguta City.

As the shouts of the Northern Navy got closer and closer, some Qing soldiers who had been "guests" in the captive camp in Fuldan sighed, then dropped their weapons and squatted on the ground, skillfully raised their hands and hugged their heads , Everyone said that this time they will have to eat corn bread for a few months.

At this time, Fucha Mingliang was carried by a group of soldiers and boarded a small boat. When the boat sailed through the middle of the river, the figure of Bei Haijun appeared on the river bank. The photos are extremely clear.

And this was the last scene Fucha Mingliang saw before he fell into a coma.

(End of this chapter)