Great Qing Dynasty talker

Chapter 391: The battle is in full swing, and the traitor appears [Additional update for the leader "Ah, little lady, don't run away"]

Everyone's eyes turned to Fu Chang'an.

Fu Chang'an saw beads of sweat on his forehead. He closed his eyes, and then suddenly opened them after 30 breaths.

shouted:
"Give it to him, all to him. All the soldiers on the west bank, including the grooms and auxiliary soldiers, will be given to him. I will also cross the river!"

"Futai!"

Fu Chang'an stretched out his hand to stop his subordinates from advising him.

He drew his sword and pointed it at the other side of the river:

"The court cannot afford to lose this battle. Please follow me and fight to the death."

Everyone's eyes were red and they were choked with emotion.

They all knelt down.

A large group of troops quickly crossed the stone bridge and pontoon bridge and prepared to join the battle.

The strong wind is frightening

Fortunately, this is an artificially excavated river channel with relatively gentle water flow and limited width.

Even so, the Qing army's auxiliary troops temporarily added several ropes for people crossing the bridge to hold on to instead of guardrails.

……

far away,

Wu Jun dispatched a lookout vehicle.

There is a small wooden fence on the top of a thick wooden pole that is 10 feet high.

A person with excellent eyesight who is not afraid of heights tied himself to a pole to provide vision for the army and minimize the fog of war.

"There are Qing reinforcements crossing the river from the west. There are a lot of cavalry and a lot of dust."

“It’s impossible to estimate the number.”

The lookout kept waving flags to indicate the direction of enemy reinforcements to his men.

Lin Huaisheng was silent after hearing the news.

This is bad news for him.

The two Qing armies joined forces and had strong military strength, which made them even more difficult to deal with.

"The central army moves forward and takes command."

"As ordered!"

Orders came one after another, and the Wu army's formation changed wildly.

The artillery re-harnessed the vehicle and moved forward.

……

Looking down from the air, the Wu army's formation looked like the Chinese character "同".

The 1 soldiers of the 4000st Corps were armed with sharp bayonets.

Using standard line infantry tactics, three rows stood quietly 3 feet behind the artillery position.

800 riflemen gathered from the entire army were behind the 1st Corps.

The 2nd Corps was on the left wing, with the phalanx arranged vertically in battalion units.

The same thing happened with the Guards on the right wing.

In the middle are the commander-in-chief Lin Huaisheng and his guards, the 1st Expeditionary Army, and the armored battalion of Yang Yuchun of the 2nd Corps.

The cannon fodder of the expeditionary army was quite surprised.
In this battle, he was not driven to fight at the front? Did the military court have mercy?

Zhang Laosan stretched his neck hard to see clearly how many Qing troops had arrived.

At this time, the military law team passed by.

Tell everyone in the 1st Expeditionary Army:

"You are also part of the glorious Wu army. Don't have any other ideas. If you win, you will have plenty of wine, meat and women. If you lose, the Qing army will cut you into pieces."

Zhang Laosan looked at the fluttering camp flag~
I thought to myself, this is true.

Usually they are divided into regular legions and dispatched legions.

If we lose, we will be forced to treat everyone equally.

The Shaoxing scholars in the military court were full of bad intentions, and this was a reminder to themselves not to have any thoughts that they shouldn't have. If they lost, they would still be slaughtered by the Qing army.

……

The Qing army came in large numbers.

On the front, Hailancha dispatched more than 2 infantrymen at one time.

From south to north, they are Hezhou Town, Xining Town, Jiangpu Town, Ningxia Town, Taiyuan Town, Daming Town, Nanyang Town, Hebei Town, Guide Town, ~
The distance between the troops of each town is no more than 20 meters.

People were crowded together, huddled together, and moving forward with their necks shrunk.

There are flags of various colors, it’s so lively.

Lin Huaisheng saw the flag of "General Hu of Jiangpu Town" from afar and whispered two instructions.

A guard looked surprised and then left, reminding the artillery not to bombard friendly forces.

In the south,

More than 4 new Huaixi troops were busy organizing their formations in a mess.

They had been in the army for too short a time and were a little unfamiliar with the formation.

Two eye-catching flags lead the way.

One is the military flag of the "Imperially-appointed Huaixi New Army", and the other is the general flag of "Anqing City Defense Captain Mingliang".

……

Bright is crazy.

Just now he drank enough liquor and was in a state of extreme excitement.

His eyes were bloodshot, his hair was tied up in a long braid, and he was walking in the front with his bare chest and a sword and shield in hand.

Hailancha knew the whole story.

Therefore, the new Huaixi army was thrown to him for command, fulfilling his wish to die.

Mingliang turned his head and emphasized his identity again:

"I, Mingliang, am a member of the Bordered Yellow Banner, and a hereditary commander of the Light Cavalry. Empress Xiaoxianchun is my aunt, Grand Secretary Fuheng is my uncle, my father is the commander-in-chief of the Eight Banners, and the wife I married is the granddaughter of Emperor Kangxi."

"Is it enough for me to take the lead as the first to ascend the mountain, given my status?"

The Huaixi New Army was confused by a series of glorious titles.

Mingliang took a handful of banknotes from the servant and held them high:
"Here are 5 taels of silver notes. I want to recruit 200 brave warriors to fight with me. Do you have them?"

This was his personal savings, and it is meaningless now.

I'm dying, but I haven't spent all my money yet.
I'm depreesed.

……

Seeing the generous reward, someone immediately volunteered.

Mingliang didn't even look at it, he just took out a banknote and stuffed it into the crowd.

He had none of his former noble reserve:

"Take it, don't despise it."

suddenly,

He stopped distributing banknotes and stared at Xu Mancang, who was a head and a half shorter than him, in a daze:
"Wow, are you also going to sign up to be the first to board?"

"Correct."

"Have the guts!"

Mingliang took off his hat and put it on Xu Mancang's forehead.

He patted his shoulder heavily:

"Brothers."

"You people in northern Anhui are very loyal and manly. It is my great honor to shed blood with you today."

……

Xu Mancang wore a hat of a third-rank official.
I just felt the blood in my body rushing up, and the excitement was indescribable.

"Kill, kill the thief."

Mingliang waved his sword and rushed to the front in a tragic manner.

His two servants held up the flags, cried out with tears in their eyes, "Kill the bandits!", and followed their master forward.
Next came 200 heavily-recruited pioneers.

Behind them was the Huaixi New Army, whose ranks were in disarray but morale was high.

They were about to challenge the long-awaited 2nd Army of the Wu Army. As the saying goes, when fellow villagers meet, bang bang bang bang~
We saw that the Qing army had already entered 2 miles.

The officer of the Guards Regiment commanding the rifle square raised his sword:

"45 degrees, let go."

A group of people fell down in the middle of the charging crowd, and their bodies fell behind them.

The formation is too dense, that's it.

The rain of bullets from the sky lasted for four waves, causing at least five to six hundred casualties among the Qing army.

……

then,

The gunfire from the 2nd Corps on the left wing and the roar from the artillery positions in the front rang out together.

only,
The targets are different.

The left wing targeted the Huaixi New Army, and the front targeted the 9-town Green Camp.

The intensive artillery fire from Wu's army caused the Green Camp in the 9 towns to somewhat collapse.

The artillerymen fired exactly according to the manual, accurately and quickly.

The best landing point for solid bullets is about ten feet in front of the enemy group.

It has been dry and rainy recently, and the ground is hard.

After the solid bullet hits the ground, it bounces forward, hits the ground again, and bounces again. This cycle repeats twice. Hailan's forehead is bulging with veins, but there is nothing she can do.

The planned tactics were disrupted by Wu Jun's "ultra-long-range projectile".

He couldn't predict how many such "super-long-range musketeers" or "musketeers blessed by witchcraft" the Wu army had?
So I don’t dare to use the tactic of adding fuel in batches.

If, by any chance, they were defeated by Wu Jun’s “ultra-long-range projectile” again, their morale would be completely destroyed.

Fighting with humans and fighting with monsters are two different things.

Once these Green Camp soldiers are convinced that the fake King of Wu is the evil king, and that the soldiers under him are all evil soldiers, they may collectively mutiny and abandon their weapons and armor.

……

After the 9 towns, there were 12 more towns of troops.

Hailancha went crazy. He wanted to use a sea of ​​people to overwhelm the dense firepower of the Wu army.

Fu Changan arrived on horseback, his tone full of surprise and anger.

"Hai Du Tong, what are you doing?"

"Governor, there is no way. I don't know what kind of magic Wu the thief has used. The musket can only shoot two and a half miles. Two and a half miles."

Fu Changan was stunned and looked at the generals around him.

All the generals nodded, indicating that Hailancha did not lie.

"Two and a half miles? Two and a half miles!"

He kept muttering to himself, looking at the dark crowd fighting in the distance.

"Governor, I will personally lead the cavalry to attack the Wu bandits' center and chop off that monster's head."

"it is good."

After all, Hailancha's mind was bewitched by the magic.

He changed to a black horse and ordered his soldiers to kill the black dog and let the blood flow onto his blade.

The Saurons followed suit.

Use black dog blood to smear back and forth on your face.

……

Jiangpu Town had the lowest casualty rate among the nine towns, and Xining Town and Ningxia Town on both sides also benefited from it.

Wu's artillery deliberately avoided this area.

Hu Zhihuang whispered to his confidant:
"Tell the brothers to slow down."

The confidants walking in the front slowed down their pace, and the entire formation naturally slowed down.

Ma Qingshu, the general of Xining Town on the left, rode over and asked:

"Sir, what's going on?"

Hu Zhihuang suppressed the urge to stab him, and with his facial muscles trembling, he spoke in the most terrifying tone of his life:

"That's a demon formation."

Ma Qingshu, the fighter, shuddered in his heart.

In the bright daylight of late summer, every hair on my body stood up.

"Brother, do you have any evidence?"

Hu Zhihuang is in a state of acting:
"Have you ever seen such a strong wind blowing out of nowhere?"

……

Ma Qingshu was about to say:

"I've seen it before. The strong wind outside the Great Wall can blow a cow up to the sky. Don't scare me. I'm not trying to scare you~"

But Hu Zhihuang was seen holding the military flag and waving it back and forth.

shouted:
"Brothers from Jiangpu Town, follow the flag closely, retreat, retreat, retreat."

All the trusted officers shouted in unison.

The soldiers followed the officers' example.

The first gap appeared in the 9th town's offensive formation.

The Green Camp soldiers from the 12 towns who served as the second wave of attacking force were also at a loss.

Four towns stopped and watched, while the remaining eight towns continued to move forward, but their pace slowed down visibly.

……

Fu Changan, who was watching the battle from behind, saw it through a telescope and his hair stood on end:

"What's going on up front?"

"Whose general is that? Why does he have such a lack of military discipline?"

A guard standing on horseback observed for a moment and said:

"Returning to Futai, it seems that it is Jiangpu Town, which has performed particularly well recently. They retreated without authorization and blocked the road."

"Send someone to intercept them. Tell the general that if anyone retreats without permission, his entire clan will be killed. How brave does he have?"

Hu Zhihuang suddenly felt very upset. He was too nervous and shouted the wrong word just now.

It’s not too late to change your tune now:

"Defeat, defeat. Run."

He yelled at the top of his lungs, and his confidants were stunned, as this part was not included in the lyrics they had rehearsed beforehand.

However, since the boss is shouting like that, the people below will naturally follow suit~
"Defeat, run away."

This shout was so powerful that tens of thousands of Qing troops fell into chaos.

……

Many people overlook one point, that is, when fighting, the perspectives of God's eye, the commander, and the ordinary soldiers are very different.

Ordinary soldiers stood in the crowd, feeling nervous and uneasy.

The field of vision is only a few dozen feet.
What he could see was his team officer, dozens of familiar teammates, and the flag.

suddenly,

Someone in front shouted "We lost" and fled frantically.

Do you think it is true or false?
In fact, you don’t have to think of yourself as a soldier in a military formation, it will be easy to understand if you just think of yourself as being in the playground where the flag is raised on Monday.

Thousands of students lined up neatly to attend the ceremony.

About to disband.

suddenly,

Someone shouted:

There is a girl without clothes over there, everyone go and have a look.

Everyone will rush to run in the direction of the shouting.

The bald principal standing on the high platform could only watch helplessly as the situation below got out of control and the situation became chaotic.

……

Those responsible can be held accountable and severely punished afterwards.

But if you are on the battlefield, it will be too late to do anything afterwards.

Shouts of "We've lost, we've lost" rang out one after another, and Jiangpu Town viciously used swords and guns to push away the friendly troops of the 1st Battalion who were trying to block the road and restore order.

Fu Changan reacted quickly, and rode away, with thousands of Beijing flag guards following closely behind.
Fu Cha has shed enough blood for the Qing Dynasty, and he can't follow in his third brother's footsteps.

They quickly ran across the stone bridge and reached the west bank of the river, becoming the first group of more than 100,000 Qing troops to cross the river.

The second batch consisted of 3000 soldiers from Jiangpu Town.

Hu Zhihuang shouted while riding on his horse:
"Look, the governor has run away, what's the point of fighting?"

"Follow me back to Jiangpu! We won't fight this battle anymore."

……

The crowd crossed the river over a stone bridge and three floating bridges.

The river is only about 10 feet wide, so crossing the river is very fast.

Hu Zhihuang hesitated whether to destroy the bridge.

But looking back,
The soldiers of Xuzhou Town were less than 2 miles away from the bridge.

In order to avoid fighting against friendly forces, and also to avoid the small probability event of "the army with its back to the wall will win".

He made up his mind:
"Brothers, throw away your armor, flags and baggage, and run."

The soldiers were as if they had been pardoned, and they quickly threw away their heavy muskets, shields, swords, flags, and dry food.
Even straw hats, boots, and uniforms.

Ultimate weight loss, escape expert.

……

Hu Zhihuang rode on horseback, holding the flag tightly.

He was thinking in his mind,

The task of leading the army's pace has been completed, and the rest is a mess. The next task is to return to Jiangpu County safely as quickly as possible.

Lost weapons can be bought back.

His Majesty will provide him with better muskets and cannons. Of course, the gentry in the city will have to pay for them, which is reasonable.

By the way, all the money and grain of Jiangpu County were seized.

They are beginning to transform into "local warlords" who only obey orders and not declarations. The Qing court had better be sensible and not force them to change their flags.

Think clearly about what to do next.
Hu Zhihuang felt his heart burning with anger, and turned around and shouted:

"Brothers, please don't be deserters. I, Old Hu, solemnly promise to swear to heaven that as long as you return to Jiangpu, you will be rewarded 5 taels each."

The confidants were out of breath from running, but they still helped to shout:

"We all follow the general wholeheartedly. The general loves his soldiers like his own sons."

at this time,
Lao Hu's usual prestige was revealed.

All the soldiers in Jiangpu Town chose to trust Lao Hu!

(End of this chapter)