The blue smoke on the messy ground could not be dissipated for a long time. "Kill..." Amid the roar, a bright blade swayed and a large group of people rushed towards him. The most casualties of the Suzaku Army soldiers had reached their psychological endurance limit.
Many people in the front row retreated in disobedience, and many soldiers in the back row who were loaded with gunpowder and lead firearms were unwilling to go forward, and the team had already begun to become messy.
Sun, who had just served as the commander of the left whistle of the Third Army, was waving his sword and shouting: "Change teams, change teams, prepare to go all out!" The scene became increasingly chaotic, and the army was about to lose control due to the large losses of middle and lower-level officers.
Someone is shouting: "The brave wins, the weak dies, the iron law on the battlefield! Unity and glory..." "Those who retreat in the battle will be killed!"... But people's panic cannot be eliminated by just a few people's mouths.
Rows of muskets were scattered in three rounds. More than half of the officers and soldiers in the front rows were killed and injured. There were scary flesh and blood everywhere. Like his mother's death row, they were killed. They were all raised by their parents and finally survived.
Who is not afraid of death for decades? Some men can no longer control their emotions and cried out to the sky and the earth.
"Dong, dong..." The skin drum sounded, and the general saw the enemy soldiers rushing closer and closer, shouted and ordered: "Raise the gun and prepare for it!" Some people entered the attack position one after another, and the people were noisy, and some people didn't hear it.
The order opened fire. Others heard the gunshots and thought they had issued military orders, so they also fired the guns with a "crackling"...
The running enemy fell down sporadically, but the attack was not stopped. Many people behind rushed over roaring and shouting. There was no formation at all. A group of people rushed forward with swords and guns.
The distance was nearly twenty steps, and someone was running away from behind. Several horse-riding guards rushed forward and slashed their swords. Some people died under their own swords. The commander had already restrained the army and allowed them to block the charge of the enemy soldiers.
The scene was very chaotic. Team Sun was realizing that the left sentry horse had been defeated, and although it had not completely collapsed. However, he had not received the order from the third army to escape. According to the rules, he should fight to the end.
Sun "commands" now useless to give any orders, only despair lingers in his heart, and he doesn't know what to do. In the end, he feels that he is an officer, and obeying military orders is his duty. Since he has not ordered to retreat on the top of the mountain, he should continue to fight. Anyway
All the left and right are dead.
So he shouted, "Draw the sword and prepare to face the enemy!" After a while, the two armies had already met in close combat. An officer and military general led the way, stabbed a soldier in the chest with a knife, and rushed into the crowd frantically. In an instant
In the meantime, the sound of killing had spread, and people fought together, and the most primitive killing broke out, and they used sharp weapons to stab the living people.
The left-shou team completely lost its organization, and the formation was broken through, and people could no longer help but flee backwards. There were still a few who were not afraid of death fighting with short guns, but they were very submerged in the chaotic and crazy crowd.
The interweaving of iron and blood, screams endlessly. Some people were trampling on the ground, begging for mercy loudly, but the use was of no use. Here, there was no sympathy in hell on earth. The rest of the people threw away their armor and lost their lives.
Escape backwards, the bodies were thrown everywhere, and there was no place without any blood.
Outside dozens of units, the teams at the Third Army stood motionless. People watched the tragic situation ahead, and they didn't dare to make a sound, and everyone was silent.
At this moment, two horses rushed over from behind, and one of them shouted: "The commander of the Third Army, if the enemy rushed to the middle post, they could order differentiated killings!"
The so-called differentiated killing means killing all enemies and us. At this moment, there is no such thing as "ruo". There are already a large number of riots running from the front, and most of the ones running ahead were the defeated soldiers of the Suzaku Army, carrying the pursuing officers and soldiers.
There were densely packed officers and soldiers behind them, and the crowd rushed like a flood.
"Prepare!" a voice shouted, and the drums also sounded. A row of musketeers raised their weapons, aimed the neatly forest of guns ahead, waiting for the upcoming order.
When the sound of guns in his camp sounded, Commander Sun, who was trapped in the crowd, had already understood the reality. He stood on tiptoe and saw a large number of soldiers lying in the rain of guns. Blood beads filled with the air
Let him face it again, he took off his helmet and threw it away, grabbed the sword and placed it on his neck, closed his eyes and gritted his teeth, pulled it hard... In an instant, he was knocked down by the soldiers, and his body was submerged
In the footsteps of numbers.
The sound of gunpowder silenced for a while, and the second row of muskets had entered the shè formation. The worst was the soldiers who had scattered left whistle, who were chased and slashed behind them, and there were black muzzles in front. Some people were wearing dozens of kilograms.
Heavy armor and equipment could not run anymore, and they lay down to avoid lead, but the crowd was too dense to pretend to be dead, so they were trampled by iron shoes. The people on both sides were better, they could run to the sides to avoid
Open the area in the middle.
The second round of the two sides killed a large number of officials and soldiers who followed and pursued them. However, the number of officials and soldiers was very deep, and the people behind were still yelling and rushing. There were also established teams behind them, and the offensive was slight.
There was no sign of stagnation. There was a close contact in the front and hand-to-hand combat began again. The soldiers of the Suzaku Army were equipped with short guns and melee weapons, and the middle post was not dispersed, blocking the attack of the official army. The two armies fought each other on the same line, and in some places the corpses were
It has been piled up.
The area where the battle was not as big as half a schoolyard, but the number of casualties was very large. A small piece of land was bleeding like a river, like a Shura slaughterhouse.
On the high ground of the Third Army Central Army, a general reported to Zhang Chengzong that heavy artillery could be loaded again. The running general reminded carefully: "Do you want to load the loose pieces?"
This sentence is very small, but it makes everyone nearby look serious. Heavy cannons fill the sparse, which means preparing for the last defense on the cannon position; because the sparse loaded by small stones and iron balls is only a few dozen steps
It is effective in distance. It can block the area within dozens of steps ahead at one time and carry out large-scale killing, which is very deterrent to the enemy group that has already rushed to the front to catch the enemy.
Doing this means that the cannon formation will be attacked? Zhang Chengzong held his left hand on the hilt of his waist and stared at the war not far ahead. The two armies were still fighting each other. Looking up, there were a formation of troops
Close to... The offensive of the Beijing Camp was so fierce that it looked like crazy, with either you or I died. Moreover, this army was quite brave and had unprecedented ability to withstand casualties.
Zhang Chengzong said in a deep voice: "Fill in gunpowder, block the gun barrels, and blow up the field guns."
"What... General?" The artillery general was stunned for a moment, and for a moment he thought he had heard the wrong ear.
Zhang Chengzong glared and said, "Order, blow up the heavy artillery!"
Then the general replied: "The last general will receive the order!"
After all the silence for a while, Zhang Chengzong spoke again: "In the battle formation, the people who cannot afford to lose die miserably, and the consequences are serious! When the heavy artillery is blown up, he immediately ordered the soldiers of the right squad to discard all their supplies and retreat to the northwest.
Go closer to the main force of Yongding Camp. Order the middle post that is fighting and the nearby defeated soldiers to scatter their own lives, and the surviving people will run towards the main force."
Everyone was frustrated, and tears flashed out in some people's eyes.
"Send horses immediately and report to Zhubutang. The defeat of the Third Army is a foregone conclusion. Report to Zhubutang to guard against the threat of the left wing." Zhang Chengzong recalled his left and right and said, "I should have committed suicide by apologizing for the spirit of the fallen soldiers in heaven, but the time for death was not at this time.
, I will definitely kneel outside His Highness’s door and beg for death for today’s failure.”
...
"The Third Army lost more than half of its baggage, and it was defeated on the left wing."
Zhu Heng's mind still echoed. He may lose more than a thousand people in half a day, and they are all the jingsharp of Yongdingying. Such losses are really hard to bear... Yongdingyingying, known as the ace of the Zhuque Army, is a total of
There are only a few people.
Could it be my strategic mistake? Zhu Heng tortured himself in his heart more than once. Nearly half of the soldiers of the Third Army were killed in frontal battle formations, and some people could run away in an organized manner. Such a death rate shows that defeat is definitely not enough soldiers.
The reason for being brave is that it is your own fault?
In any case, we cannot step down from military power or sink into a depressed mood, and we need solutions.
The failure of the Third Army made Zhu Heng lose the confidence to directly eliminate the Shenji Camp in the field, and now he is in a situation that is easily surrounded, causing an unfavorable situation of being attacked from both sides. He decided to give up this time by luring the official army out of the city, and then
After discussing with the generals of the staff, the main force immediately retreated and returned to Ruichang City first to stabilize the position.
There may be some undead defeated soldiers in the wild, so Zhu Heng only sent scattered scouts to search for them and tried to bring them back as much as possible to reduce the losses of soldiers.
The next day, the main force of Yongding Camp entered Ruichang City, and the Shenji Camp also followed. At this time, some staff members believed that the official army was about to come to the city and besieged the city. "When the official army surrounded the city, it would be extremely difficult for us to get out; reinforcements
It is impossible to wait. Wuchang City is too far away and there are no soldiers... At that time, it will be extremely dangerous to have to trap the lonely city."
However, Wei Bin opposed that statement. Wei Bin believed that if he could not win the battle at all, this battle would be impossible and nothing would be useful. "If the official army dared to come to the city, we would be like the Battle of Gaodu.
In this way, use the advantage of the territory, form a formation behind the city, and fight to the death."
Zhu Heng walked for a while and thought to himself: Although the first battle was not good, I was not scared to the point where I didn't even dare to defend the city. His hesitation was just a psychological effect. After all, I couldn't imagine the consequences of losing the entire Yongding Camp.
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After a while, he said, "Defend the city locally and watch for the time being how the official army is mobilized."
Next, Zhu Heng had to write a memorial to the King of Xiang in Wuchang City about the situation on the battlefield. The letter of defeated... was really uncomfortable to write.