Chapter 152 Break the city and attack, move forward
The Ming army that broke through the city defense encountered very little resistance at first. Firstly, the focus of the Qing army's defense was not here. Secondly, there was a sudden big explosion and a round of fierce bombardment that caused heavy casualties to the Qing army.
Surrounded by fear and confusion, no effective resistance was organized in a short period of time.
The Ming soldiers who rushed through the slope-shaped gap, under the command of their respective officers, quickly seized the breaks in the city walls on both sides, covering the follow-up troops that swarmed into the city. The troops entering the city were deployed according to the plan, advancing in three directions: east, south, and north.
Expanding the occupied area allows more troops to enter the city and participate in the battle.
The sound of gunfire, explosions, and shouts of killing spread from the west of the city, and the fighting spread to all directions. Although Qing troops from other places were reinforcing, the Ming army had firmly controlled the breakthrough, and more and more troops participated in the battle. The Qing army failed
It is already inevitable.
Loading, moving forward, shooting, the musketeers formed in array used the forward shooting method and advanced steadily and firmly along the street. Round after round of volleys were fired amidst the sound of sharp whistles, and clouds of white smoke filled the air.
It was quickly blown away by the wind.
"Kill, kill, kill!"
Swords and guns exchanged, collided, bullets, and arrows shuttled through the air. Flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the hand-to-hand fighting was brutal and bloody. Then there were bursts of musket fire, mixed with the explosion of grenades.
The artillerymen carried the sky-blasting cannon into the city to assist in the battle, which made the balance of the battle more tilted towards the Ming army. The troops advancing north defeated the enemy in front of them and occupied the west city gate. Under the protection of a small number of Ming troops, a large number of villagers' volunteers were carried away.
Carrying it on his shoulders, he transported the Fran machine gun and the gun carriage into the city.
The Fran cannon loaded with shotshells was quickly pushed to the front of the formation, relying on its high rate of fire to spray hundreds of lead bullets at the enemy in front of them. On the narrow street, the power of the Fran cannon was fully revealed, and the lead bullets
Under the sweeping sweep, the Qing army's corpses lay on their pillows and countless wounded. The Ming army pushing north became more powerful and turned along the city wall to attack the north gate.
With a forceful pull, the bayonet was pulled out from the Qing soldier's body as blood splattered, and the heavy corpse was kicked away. Tang Ji gasped for breath under the eaves.
Shooting with guns when far away, stabbing with bayonets when close. Although the Ming army had the advantage and pushed forward tenaciously, losses were inevitable. After a hand-to-hand fight, Tang Ji's row of musketeers had scattered, but on the street
The musketry formation was still tight. The comrades who saw the hand-to-hand combat had dispersed to both sides. They all raised their muskets. After the sharp whistle, they fired a dense volley. They stopped to reload. The row behind them stepped forward and raised their guns.
, whistle, volley.
Several arrows flew in, and three Ming soldiers fell down. Tang Ji quickly stepped forward and filled the gap. The figures beside him shook, and two comrades also stood over.
Shooting and advancing, the Ming army pushed back the Qing troops facing them step by step. Since the Qing troops in the south were attracted by the artillery bombardment and had the largest number, the battle became more intense, the advance was slower, and the casualties were greater.
There are fewer and fewer Qing troops in front of them. They will be defeated soon, but the Ming army's advance is halted. What they had expected but hoped never to happen happened before their eyes.
Hundreds of people who looked like ordinary people appeared behind the Qing soldiers who had been killed and scattered, and walked towards the Ming army numbly and obediently. Behind the people, there were Qing soldiers waving their swords and guns, shouting and yelling.
"Charge. Let them charge." Xu Chenggong looked ferocious, gritting his teeth and howling from behind the formation.
Charge, charge! Let’s see how you make decisions when facing unarmed people. Those people are running away in all directions, disrupting the positions of both sides, which is of great benefit to our army without any harm. They come to engage in a melee with our army.
Well, what I want now is chaos! Hold on until dark, maybe there will be a turn for the better.
Desperate people often have crazy ideas, but guys like Yunlong and Xu Chenggong can only be called beasts in human form. They know that they are destined to fail, but they want to see more people bleed and die.
, they will be satisfied and comforted.
Swords and guns were swung down, and blood splattered. The people were in a daze at first, but now they woke up. They each shouted and rushed towards the Ming army with all their strength.
The sharp whistle sounded, causing the confused and hesitant Ming soldiers to wake up and start firing. But the officer hesitated for a moment, and the order was given too late, and the people had already rushed to a place less than thirty meters away.
After a round of volleys, the second row of soldiers had just stepped to the front, and the civilians were already approaching. After the sparse gunfire, the civilians and the Ming army were already face to face.
Tang Ji hesitated, but did not fire the gun in his hand, but subconsciously stretched the bayonet forward. He had been fighting for nearly two hours, and this almost random action stabbed a strong man running in front.
The man looked shocked, but his body slowly fell down.
The "buzzing" sound of the bowstring sounded, and a piece of feather arrows passed by the people and shot into the ranks of the Ming army. They screamed, "shenyin", muffled, thump thump thump, and many Ming army soldiers were shot and fell to the ground.
Various sounds echoed in Tang Ji's ears. He didn't need to turn his head to look, but he knew that his comrades on the left and right were being hit by arrows flying towards him. His anger suddenly rushed to the top of his head, and his eyes were red.
He pulled out the bayonet from the corpses of the people and stabbed the people facing him.
There was another burst of arrows. The despicable Qing army hid behind the people and used bows and arrows to kill and injure many Ming soldiers.
"Kill, kill!"
"Those who stand in the way will die, and those who retreat will be killed!"
"Either they die, or we die, kill, kill forward."
The shouts rang out, from officers at all levels and from soldiers as angry as Tang Ji. They were both orders, reminders and warnings.
The muskets fired again, and more and more soldiers came to their senses. After firing, they stabbed the running people with their bayonets. The paused battle formation regained its vitality and moved forward, raining arrows kept coming.
The casualties of the Ming army were increasing.
Those people originally thought that the Ming army would open the road to allow them to escape, and they only cared about their own lives, not caring about the consequences of the chaos of the Ming army's battle formation. At this time, they saw that the Ming army was like a ferocious god, killing everyone at every turn, pushing straight towards them, frightening
The people in front were desperately trying to move backward, but those behind who were driven forward didn't know where they were and kept moving forward with all their might. What's more, the Qing army had begun to kill and kill these lambs from behind, shooting arrows with all their might.
The people also rushed forward.
The bright red scene in front of me was full of people who were struggling to their death but didn't know where to survive. They were scurrying around like headless flies, squeezing away their compatriots who were thinner than themselves, looking for a safe place to hide. Those who were even weaker actually sat down directly.
Lying on the same spot, no matter whether it was the Ming army's muskets or bayonets coming, or the Qing army's swords coming, he could not sit still, and just died in silence without any resistance. Even the screams were so weak and powerless.
"Kill, kill!" Tang Ji roared angrily, but tears welled up in his eyes. In his blurry vision, he saw a figure in front of him who was stabbing with his gun, making mechanical movements over and over again.
"A good man goes to mourn his country; his head can be cut off, but his spine is not broken; a good man goes to mourn his country; he never returns to his hometown; he goes to the battlefield; his blood can be shed, but his ambition is high; a good man goes to the battlefield; he serves his loved ones.
.De Ningkang..."
The song sounded from the rear, and more and more soldiers joined in with the song, appearing generous and tragic amidst the bloody and brutal fighting.
Move forward against the rain of arrows, move forward through blood and corpses, move forward, move forward!
There were no more civilians. Except for those who were lucky enough to survive by hiding within two feet of each other on both sides of the street, the rest fell on the battlefield.
The two armies connected, and a more brutal fighting began again. Gunshots rang out, and bayonets came forward one after another. The anger and hatred accumulated in the hearts of the Ming army soldiers finally had a target to vent, and they burst into redoubled bravery and violence. It was even more clear.
The soldier ignored the danger at hand and slammed the grenade at the humanoid beast on the opposite side.
"Hold it, hold it!" Xu Chenggong shouted desperately, but he could not stop the soldiers who had lost their fighting spirit from retreating.
There was a scream in the air. Several black objects smashed into the Qing army's ranks, bouncing on the ground with green smoke, and then there was a loud bang.
The dazzling white light dazzled the Qing army's eyes and deafened their ears. Several large pits appeared on the ground. Surrounding the pits were pillowed corpses and countless stumps and broken arms. Xu, who was shouting under the flag just now,
Success and his general's flag disappeared without a trace, disappearing in this shocking explosion.
The bombardment of these sky-blasting cannons completely destroyed the Qing army's will to fight. Under the extremely ferocious offensive of the Ming army soldiers, the retreat turned into a retreat, and the retreat turned into a flight. They abandoned their swords and guns and ran away in all directions.
"Kill!" Tang Ji pulled out the bayonet from a kneeling Qing soldier who surrendered, kicked the body down, and chased forward bravely with his comrades.
If you catch up, you will be stabbed by bayonets, no matter whether you turn around to resist or kneel down to beg for mercy. In front of the red-eyed Ming soldiers, the Qing soldiers in the south of the city suffered heavy casualties and fled in embarrassment. Well, there were no wounded and no prisoners. They were so angry that they almost
In the eyes of the irrational Avengers, only killing, killing can reduce the hatred in their hearts.
Although the battle was fierce, there was no suspense. The Ming soldiers were numerous, their guns were sharp, their battle formations were strict, and their fighting spirit was high. The Qing army was gradually divided, resisted stubbornly, struggled to the death, and its fighting spirit was sluggish.
The Qing army in Guangdong's subordinates Shang Kexi had the most combat effectiveness, but the number of "war veterans" who actually followed Shang Kexi in the east and west campaigns was less than 3,000. This was true during the Battle of Xinhui a few years ago, when Shang and Geng were
He complained to the Qing court. "Fortunately, there are only 2,500 soldiers under Ji Mao, and there are only 2,300 under Ji Mao. Including the green battalion, there are only 20,000. The battles in various places are not without damage, and it is difficult to recruit.
The supplementary troops are all from the south, they are all wandering people, and they are not experienced in fighting."
In other words, the current vassal soldiers and horses are almost all recruited later, and their combat experience and fighting will have been greatly reduced. Although the Ming army has been repeatedly replenished, the training period of the musketeers is short, and there are only a few assassinations.
With this simple action, a batch can be trained in basically a month. Coupled with the stimulation of welfare benefits, adequate political propaganda, and complete compensation and compensation, the new and cutting-edge divisions are actually very powerful.
The more important point is that the expansion of the Ming Army has unique advantages. In order to better enable the growth of new recruits and implement the training method of old soldiers leading the new, the expansion of the Ming Army should more accurately be said to be supplementary. There are no organic recruits.
, but the old troops are constantly injected with new blood, and then they are split into organizations after they expand to a certain extent.
With veterans leading them, new recruits can master their experience as quickly as possible; with veterans leading them, new recruits have a backbone in the battle formation. After one or two actual combats, the new recruits will mature quickly in such a divided unit, and even become infantry soldiers.
Join the ranks of veterans and start teaching real recruits through words and deeds.
The combat effectiveness of an army that has been expanded in this way will definitely decline in the early stage, but the skeleton still exists, and the degree of decline can be controlled within a certain range. And this kind of expansion is an easier opportunity for veterans to improve.
Most of the corps commanders and sergeants are veterans. If you continue to make progress, study more, and become more literate, you can apply to study in the martial arts hall and move towards the intermediate military rank.
Even if you are a veteran and have not been promoted, military pay and benefits will be different. At the very least, military pay and pensions increase based on service time and military merit. Land distribution after retirement also increases greatly based on years and merit.
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Therefore, whether you are enthusiastic about serving the country or serving as a soldier, as long as you work hard, there will always be benefits for you. Of course, the punishment for soldiers who violate discipline, neglect fighting, fear of death, etc. is also unprecedentedly severe. Both kindness and power are given equal importance.
Clear rewards and punishments have always been a characteristic of a strong army.
It was almost dusk, and tens of thousands of people were still fighting fiercely in the city. The sounds of killing, gunfire, and explosions were mixed together, echoing over the city.
The Qing army has been divided and surrounded in several isolated areas. Although it is still resisting, it has no power to fight back. Villagers volunteered in groups, led by a small number of Ming army soldiers, or in large areas occupied by the Ming army.
In the city, soldiers were searched and killed from house to house, with sporadic battles occasionally occurring; or dead bodies on the streets were collected and hauled out of the city on wooden carts to be burned.
One after another, light artillery was pushed into the city and advanced towards various areas where fighting was still taking place. Those already in place opened up their posture and fired fiercely at the high-rise courtyards and barricades where the Qing army was guarding. The sky-blasting artillery was at the Ming army's position.
Then the cannonballs were fired one after another, and when they hit the ground, they exploded into a mess, burying the Qing soldiers in rubble, or breaking their bones and tendons, causing heavy casualties.
At this point in the battle, it would be foolish to charge indiscriminately without caring about the lives of the soldiers. The stubborn Qing army was already meat on the anvil, ready to be slaughtered.
Li Sixing and Wu Sansheng stood on the city tower, quietly watching the city. The setting sun shrouded the city in red light, making it look like a blood-stained city.
"The Qing army obviously did not expect that our army could break through the city so quickly. They only focused on the defense of the city wall, but did not make preparations for street fighting." Wu Sansheng said quietly: "If this were not the case, our army's casualties would have been huge.
Increase."
"Today's casualties are not small." Li Sixing paused and sighed, "Zhang Guoyong's group suffered the most casualties, and he was so sad that he shed tears. They also beat them the hardest, and there were not many prisoners."
"Prisoners -" Wu Sansheng sneered and said: "Even if His Highness does not want to bear the reputation of killing prisoners, life-long hard labor is the lightest punishment. However, the final decision should be made after Guangzhou is captured. At that time, by
Your Highness’s decision is no longer our concern.”
Li Sixing didn't speak for a long time, and finally said in a low voice: "For some people, as long as they can live, no matter how they live, the extra day they can live is a day, and the extra time they can live is a moment. Just like the people in this city.