Chapter 328 The Qing Army Flees, Pursue All Fronts!
Boom boom boom...
The dust and smoke from the explosion of fifty or sixty explosive bombs directly engulfed Duduo and Nushan, who were closer to the northern fence of the camp, and more than a hundred Gebusixian and more than a hundred white-armored elite cavalry.
In cold weapon warfare, these Manchurian Eight Banners warriors could fight one against ten. In the past, one man even chased and killed hundreds of Ming troops. Many of them were killed and wounded before they could even swing their swords to engage the Ming troops.
Near the center of the camp, groups of soldiers from the Shenji Battalion carried tiger squatting cannons and passed the soldiers of the Huben Camp. They were less than a hundred steps away and fired shotguns at the more than a thousand fearful and panicked horse-armored and red-armored soldiers.
A total of two to three hundred rounds of loose bullets were fired, and death nets were formed one after another to cover them!
Even if the elites of the Eight Banners of Manchuria only wore two layers of armor, and everyone had a silk lining, and there were two to three hundred red-armored soldiers wearing three layers of armor, under the bombardment of so many shotguns, there were still a lot of casualties.
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Especially some of the red-armored soldiers who were on the periphery, only a few dozen steps away from the Crouching Tiger Cannon, were even blown into shape by shotguns!
It can be said that for these Manchurian Eight Banners elites, there was first a violent rain of iron bullets, and then a rain of flesh and blood.
The land beneath their feet instantly turned blood red, just like the land they had plundered and massacred every time they entered the pass.
After another round of bombardment by two to three hundred tiger cannons, less than one-third of the elite Manchurian Eight Banners were alive, and less than one-fifth were still riding horses.
And they were basically in the original middle area - it was the people on the periphery who blocked the cannons that allowed them to survive by chance.
The Tiger Guard Camp and the Shenji Camp of the Royal Forest Army were slightly startled when they saw the Shura hell-like scene caused by the two rounds of bombardment from the Guangming Artillery and the Crouching Tiger Artillery.
Immediately, the soldiers at the front of Huben Camp shouted——
“Kill the Tartars!”
As a result, four Qian General's heavily armored infantry rushed towards the remaining Eight Banners elites from four directions, engaging in close combat.
In fact, at this time, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion should be allowed to plow through the two rounds with grenades and volleys of guns.
But the officers and soldiers of the Huben camp knew very well that if they did this, they might not even get a chance to make a move.
In addition, Zhu Yuluo did not direct the specific battle at the scene, but only made larger troop mobilization and arrangements, so the officers and soldiers of Huben camp went forward recklessly.
I don’t know if these Manchurian Eight Banners elites were all blinded by the artillery, or they were frightened by the two bird’s-eye view drones in the sky.
Some people didn't put up much resistance and just let the soldiers of Huben camp kill them.
Of course, most of the Manchu Eight Banners elites still subconsciously resisted and showed strong personal fighting capabilities.
Even when morale is extremely low, one person can often defeat two or three Huben camp soldiers.
It should be noted that the officers and men of the Imperial Forest Army's Huben Camp are all elite soldiers selected from various armies who are good at close combat.
It can be seen from this that these horse-armored soldiers, red-armored soldiers and white-armored soldiers are indeed fierce and good at fighting.
Unfortunately, times have changed. In this battlefield where the proportion of firearms has greatly increased, personal bravery no longer has much effect.
In a certain tent, Zhu Yulao saw that only a few hundred elite Eight Banners soldiers led by Duduo were still fighting, so she used the intercom to say to the two groups of the Flying Eagle: "Play the recording and ask these people to surrender."
The reason for this decision was that Zhu Yurao found that Duduo was no longer visible on the battlefield. He did not know whether he was knocked unconscious by the explosive bomb just now or escaped, so he wanted to end the battle as soon as possible and clean up the battlefield.
Secondly, the remaining hundreds of Eight Banners elites are clearly resisting, and there is no need for the Huben Battalion to fight them. If they have to fight, it will only increase casualties and has no military significance.
In the end, if these people could be captured, it would still be a few hundred strong laborers.
On the battlefield inside the camp, the remaining 300 or so Manchu Eight Banners elites were forced by the soldiers of the Huben Camp to shrink into a circular formation, but no one surrendered for a while.
It is true that the choice of surrender has not yet appeared in the minds of these Eight Banners elites.
However, when two bird's-eye view drones hovered over them, projecting bright lights and broadcasting words calling for surrender, some people who knew Chinese finally couldn't stand it any longer.
What frightened them was that it was not the thousands of heavy armored infantry of the Ming Army surrounding them that lost support, but the two drones in the sky.
In their view, this indeed shows that the Ming Dynasty has gods to help them. They are just mortals, how can they be enemies of the gods?
At first, only a few Manchurian Eight Banners nobles or generals who knew Chinese threw down their weapons, knelt down and surrendered.
Although most of the Manchurian flag soldiers did not understand Chinese, they saw a few people surrendering and guessed what the two strange birds were shouting.
In the past, these people fought only subconsciously. Many of them were still confused and were not very loyal and unyielding to the Qing Dynasty.
Now that they have the option of surrendering and surviving, they will naturally no longer resist and die.
Although the soldiers of Huben Camp and Shenji Camp were a little dissatisfied with not many heads being harvested, they did not dare to disobey Zhu Yuluo's orders in the slightest.
Immediately, the officers and soldiers of Huben Battalion rushed forward to collect the weapons of these Manchu prisoners of war, roughly stripped off their armor, and tied them up with ropes.
At the same time, some people are also cleaning up the battlefield.
Because the scope of the battle caused by Dodo's attack on the camp was not large, the soldiers quickly found Dodo, who was unconscious and slightly injured, and Nushan, who was killed.
There were also three Niulu Zhangjings from Aliha Super Camp with white flags - two were killed and one was injured. The injured one was named Ning Erjia, who knelt down and surrendered.
After taking care of Duduo's army, Zhu Yuluo was able to understand the situation on several other battlefields.
First is the south.
Boluo and Orosechen led four to five thousand cavalry to attack the camp. After being left with more than a thousand cavalry in the second town of the Imperial Guard led by Liu Wenxiu, the two led the remaining three thousand cavalry and fled.
On the western battlefield, the battle outside the trench positions was basically over. On the contrary, the tens of thousands of civilians caused some trouble to Enenqi's fifth town of the Guards.
Fortunately, they had two to three thousand cavalry, so they easily drove tens of thousands of civilians to one part of the battlefield and guarded them with a few soldiers and horses.
Later, Ainengqi learned through the Flying Eagle that the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners camp on the western slope was empty, so he led the cavalry to check and found that the camp was indeed empty.
As for the fifth town of the Imperial Guard, they were only asked to line up in the ditch position and cooperate with the border guards of Zeng Ying and Yang Zhan in the two towns to deal with the Eight Banners soldiers who were still resisting.
The Eight Banners soldiers in trench positions become tougher and more difficult to defeat the farther back they are.
Even the trench terrain sometimes prevented the border guards from exerting their numerical advantage, which delayed the war.
But even without the participation of the Imperial Guards, it was only a matter of time before these Eight Banners soldiers were annihilated.
Seeing this, Zhu Yurao immediately ordered Zeng Ying and Yang Zhan to use drones to call the Eight Banners soldiers to surrender, and sent people to send Nushan's head and the unconscious Duduo to strengthen the effect of persuading them to surrender.
As for the north, when Zhu Yuluo asked the Flying Eagle team responsible for monitoring the battle situation in the north to send back aerial images, he happened to see the Han Banner Army and the Green Camp Army fleeing.
Originally, Huang Degong's troops were divided into three groups to attack the camp of Yang Chengzu, Kong Youde, and Xu Dingguo.
Because when Li Jiyu's camp, Liu Zhong's camp, and Zhang Cunren's camp with the Han army's banner in the south were breached, many people retreated to the north, so the remaining three camps had a large number of troops.
In addition to Kong Youde, Zhang Cunren's Han army flag soldiers and horses were quite elite, especially Kong Youde's department, which not only had numerous artillery, but also three thousand matchlock troops.
Although Huang Degong's troops had successively captured two large camps in front of them, their morale was high. With the support of a batch of artillery and grenades from Zhu Yu'ao, the army's combat effectiveness was greatly improved.
Huang Ming, Xu Chong, Chen Xiance, Zhang Jie and other generals led their troops to attack the three major camps several times.
But after all, there were only 30,000 soldiers and horses, and because of the strong combat power of the Han banner army, they were driven out after several attacks on the Qing army's camp.
Therefore, the battlefield in the north was generally tense.
But at this time, I don't know if they got the news of the defeat of the Eight Banners Army of Manchuria and Mongolia. The three battalions of the Green Camp Army and the Han Banner Army suddenly fled.
Through the footage transmitted back by the micro-drone, you can see some green camp generals riding horses and running to the northwest with dozens or hundreds of servants.
For example, Kong Youde's tribe broke out to the east, hoping to join Geng Zhongming's tribe on the ancient canal and escape by boat.
Even those twenty red barbarian cannons were abandoned by Kong Youde's troops.
The generals under Huang Degong's command, who had been repairing temporarily, were stunned for a moment when they saw this, and then they sent troops to pursue him!
Although Zhu Yuluo was not sure why these traitor troops fled, she decisively issued a series of orders——
"Li Zhanchun, you lead the first town of the Yangtze River Navy to the north along the ancient canal and must defeat Geng Zhongming's navy!"
"The last general takes command!"
"Ai Nengqi, I now order you to lead the Qing Cavalry Battalion and the Guards' fifth town sentry cavalry to pursue and kill the fleeing Qing army from the northwest!"
"I accept your order!"
"The 13th team of the Flying Eagles controlled the drone to go to the south wall of Yangzhou City and asked the Yangzhou defenders to dispatch troops out of the south city gate to assist Huang Degong's troops in intercepting the fleeing Qing army!"
"Flying Eagle Team 13 takes orders!"
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Chapter completed!