Chapter 130 Surrounding the Point to Help (Part 2)
"Hurry, hurry, all are ready, prepare, the Tartars are about to attack." On the second line of defense of the merchant army, Zhao Yue shouted at his soldiers.
Zheng Guangming, Liu Yuan, Wang Huiping, Zhang Lidong and others were also lying on the cloth bag, holding the muskets, aiming at the Qing soldiers in front of him, Liu Yuan spitted and said, "Damn it, these dead Tartars."
Jie, this time I was fighting for it is the real murderer. Company Commander, are we going to stand by?"
Zhao Yue said angrily: "If you can't stand it, you have to. Haven't you heard from the regiment commander? You will never retreat when you guard the position. The Tartars attacked and died here."
Zheng Guangming said: "Damn, I haven't married yet! If I die here, it would be too unfair."
Zhao Yue glared at him. Although he didn't say anything, he was very dissatisfied with his regiment commander Li Dingguo. At this time, all of them had become formal soldiers of the merchant army and were all assigned to the Sixth Regiment of the Fifth Division.
Zhao Yue was promoted to the company commander and was in charge of more than 200 people. However, Zhao Yue was a thousand households after all, and served as the commander of the guard for a few days. He also claimed to be familiar with the army, so he felt a little unbalanced.
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Moreover, his regiment commander was actually Li Dingguo. A man from a bandit was entrusted with such an important task. He was originally the commander of the Wei Dynasty, but he fell into a position similar to a hundred households. It seems that Shang Junmen is not there either.
He knows how to use people. After the first line of defense was lost, Zhao Yue also put all the responsibility on Li Dingguo's mind. A bandit understands military tactics and is completely blindly commanding. It seems that he will be implicated by him.
At this time, the Qing army also reorganized the attacking troops and approached the second line of defense. Li Dingguo also yelled: "Let's fire."
The muskets and cannons in the merchant army opened fire and shot at the Qing army. Although Zhao Yue had a complaint against Li Dingguo, he fought fiercely in the battle because he was the company commander and did not have to participate in the third company.
If you shoot, you can shoot freely, so you can shoot with a musket and throw grenades at the same time, and you can also work very hard.
Under the full resistance of the Merchant Army, the Qing army suffered numerous casualties and injured, and the first attack on the second line of defense was repelled.
The subsequent battle situation was beyond Kong Youde's expectations. The Qing army launched three attacks on the second line of defense of the merchant army, but not to mention breaking through the second line of defense, it was not even within twenty steps of the front line of defense.
When he arrived, he retreated under the fierce firepower of the merchant army.
Kong Youde then understood that when attacking the first line of defense, the two thousand cavalry mainly played a decisive role. It was they who used their speed and regardless of their own casualties that quickly broke through the defense line of the merchant army and made the infantry behind them.
Winning the opportunity. Now, relying solely on infantry attacks, it is of course difficult to make a breakthrough in the face of the dense firepower of the merchant army.
What's more, most of the troops attacking now are surrendered. Although these veterans did not dare to retreat randomly, they deliberately slowed down when attacking, hid behind others, and kept shouting.
Then: "No, I can't attack. Everyone retreat quickly, retreat quickly!" He encouraged the other soldiers to retreat, but he waited for someone to retreat first before he retreated, so that he would not have to rush to die
, there is no responsibility to retreat and escape, and both sides are pleased.
Of course, if you play too much this trick, you will also be discovered. Therefore, after this attack retreated, Kong Youde immediately captured more than 100 of the soldiers, beheaded in the formation, and then ordered the soldiers to launch an attack again.
If he did not capture the position of the Merchant Army, he would not be allowed to come back. At the same time, he would also devote all his only five hundred cavalrymen to the battle.
But reality will not be diverted by human will. The impact of five hundred cavalry is obviously not comparable to that of two thousand cavalry. Moreover, this is the last line of defense. The soldiers of the merchant army are also fighting desperately, so they have experienced the rain of bullets. After the attack, the Qing army, with less than a hundred cavalry, rushed into the defense line of the merchant army, but the number was too small, so it was quickly wiped out by the defensive soldiers of the merchant army, and basically did not cause any defense line of the merchant army. How much influence? Without the restraint of cavalry, it was impossible for infantry to break through the defense line, and in the end they could only retreat again.
But Kong Youde has already stated that he was not allowed to retreat without breaking the position of the merchant army. Therefore, the supervisor team was not polite. He raised his big sword and chopped down the fastest retreating few people to the ground. However, the soldiers who attacked this time were ignorant. Attacking is dead, and retreating is dead. Both left and right cannot live. However, during the attack, they cannot reach the merchant army and have no fire. But the supervisory team is right in front of them, and they don’t know which soldier raises it up. The spear in his hand stabbed into the lower abdomen of a soldier in the supervision team.
This action was like throwing a stone on the calm water surface, and the waves immediately spread out in circles. The angry and desperate soldiers finally completely lost their minds, raised their swords and guns, and fought at their past battles. He slashed hard and did not care about his former charisma. The soldiers in the supervision team naturally would not be willing to do it. They dared to do it with themselves, and they were in a rebellious way. Of course, they also waved their weapons and fought hard.
This unexpected and sudden incident shocked the main generals of both sides. The entire battlefield stopped, just watching the Qing army kill each other in the middle of the position.
However, the soldiers of the merchant army all looked at the unexpected change with the mentality of being a spectator. A battalion commander next to Li Dingguo said heartlessly: "Good guy, it turns out that these Tartars are so fierce. Fortunately, they didn't let them attack our position, otherwise we would have suffered."
Another battalion commander also said: "Yes, look at this fierce force, what is it really called? What does a word often said by the military master? "
Li Dingguo took a photo of him and said, "It's great. I've told you how many times I've been, why can't I remember it?"
The battalion commander said, "Yes, yes, it's powerful, what is powerful? This is powerful?"
Unlike the merchant army's mentality of playing soybeans, Kong Youde was shocked and angry at this time, but the chaos had already happened and he was unable to save it. Moreover, there are now three or four thousand defeated soldiers, each of them full of anger, and they are all working hard. The supervision team gradually became a little lost. Kong Youde was still thinking whether to join the troops and deal with the defeated troops first. But at this moment, the left and right suddenly heard a loud killing sound, and countless troops were killed and they fought. All are under the banner of the merchant army.
Kong Youde's mind immediately buzzed, and suddenly he realized that he had completely fallen into Shang Yi's trap.
And suddenly, with a "boom", a shell fell next to Kong Youde, and exploded more than ten feet away. Kong Youde's eyes turned black and fell to the ground by the impact of the explosion, and his personnel were not awake.
Since the war started, the artillery of the Merchant Army has used shotguns, which has a high lethality, but has a limited range. Therefore, Kong Youde relaxed his vigilance and became closer to the command. In fact, in the Merchant Army, There are also sixteen medium-sized artillery in the position, and it is no problem to fire flowering bullets and shoot them three or four hundred steps away. Now Li Dingguo also knows that other offensive troops have arrived, so he ordered all artillery to be fired with flowering bullets instead.
After the shells fell into the Qing army and exploded, the soldiers who had lost their minds and killed each other woke up, but they quickly discovered that they had been surrounded by the merchant army.
At this time, someone hurriedly rescued Kong Youde. Fortunately, Kong Youde was wearing three layers of heavy armor. Although he was covered with more than ten iron pieces, most of them were blocked by heavy armor. Only three pieces penetrated the protection of the armor and injured him. Fortunately, the body is not a vital part, but it is not a risk of life. When you fall into a coma, it is mainly due to shock and anger and shock.
After Kong Youde was awakened, he finally understood the current situation. Not to mention that he could not save his son, he might even have to take him in, so he could only order the withdrawal of his troops immediately.
In fact, the Qing army had long lost its fighting spirit at this time. The direct troops brought by Kong Youde from outside the pass were almost completely lost when he attacked the position of the merchant army. The rest were basically surrendered troops, and they had no interest in the merchant army. He tried his best, but immediately started his best move - surrender.
But now it was dusk and night fell. Under the protection of more than 300 followers, Kong Youde finally escaped from the battlefield and fled to Guzhen under the darkness.
Although Kong Youde escaped, the battle was still a complete victory. The Qing army was almost wiped out with 20,000 troops, and nearly 12,000 prisoners were captured. Other spoils were captured and more than 180 war horses were captured. There were nearly two thousand muskets, a large number of weapons, armor and flags, etc. The sixth regiment also paid a considerable price, and the entire regiment killed more than 600 people.
In fact, all the ambush arranged by Shang Yi were somewhat redundant, because after the ambush emerged, the Qing army did not make any resistance except after surrender. The war ended quickly, which was much beyond Shang Yi's expectations. Many ambushes were concerned about this. They were all very dissatisfied. They all said that the Qing army was too out of control, and there were more than 10,000 people. Why did they surrender without even fighting?
Although it was a bit regretful that Kong Youde was not caught, Shang Yi didn't care too much. In fact, he was even more sorry that he had not gained much spoils in these consecutive battles. The Qing army's weapons, armor and flags were not big for him, and the fire guns were Basically, it was scrap iron. Most of the war horses were killed on the battlefield, and there was not much food. It was just that many prisoners were caught, which was quite good. It was a good group of laborers, but the prisoners also consumed a lot of food.
Then Shang Yi ordered Li Dingguo to lead the sixth regiment immediately and return to Fengyang to guard the garrison. The other men and horses cleared the battlefield and detained the prisoners. The men and horses of the First Division and the Fourth Division also returned to their respective garrisons.
After fighting the reinforcements, the next step was to clean up the besieged enemy troops. Therefore, on the next day, Cheng Jin also commanded his men and horses to attack Ma Town, and set up artillery outside the town, and a fierce bombardment was made. The morale of the town's Qing army was not high, and they were completely counting on Kong Youde to come to rescue. After learning that Kong Youde's reinforcements had been wiped out, the army was suddenly motivated and had no intention of resisting. As soon as the merchant army began to attack, they all started to attack. surrender.
Seeing that the general situation was gone, Kong Xunting had to take the risk of leading hundreds of followers to break through, but his luck was obviously not as good as his father. Before he could run ten miles, he was discovered by the merchant army. As a result, the troops around Kong Xunting were also being sold by merchants. When the army was broken, the remaining dozen soldiers gathered together and tied up Kong Xunting, treated him as a gift from Jin, and surrendered to the merchant army.
At the same time, the remaining two regiments of the Fourth Division stationed in Wuhe also took advantage of the gap after Kong Youde left and under the command of the division commander Luo Yuanbin, they launched an attack on the Qing army's camp. At this time, the Qing army's camp
It was very empty, with only a few thousand men garrisons, and they were basically surrendered troops, which could block the attack of the merchant army. Now the main general was not in the camp, so he immediately scattered the birds and beasts just by resisting a little.
Luo Yuanbin successfully captured the Qing army's camp, and all the supplies of Kong Youde's army were also managed by the merchant army. The harvest this time was very rich. Most of the property plundered by Kong Youde after entering the pass were in the army.
, a total of twenty red cannons, thirty-two other small cannons, 2,200 war horses, more than 40,000 stones of food, and more than 15,000 stones of forage. In addition, more than 100,000 taels of gold and silver were found.
, more than 2,000 pieces of silk.
By this time, the battle between the merchant army on the north bank of the Huai River was all over, and the merchant army achieved a brilliant victory. The 50,000 troops from the Kong Youde tribe were basically destroyed, and the scattered defeated troops were only about 10,000.
Many people fled back to the front line of De Mansion. Shang Yi then ordered that most of his troops be withdrawn back to the south bank of the Huai River and stationed in Fengyang.