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Chapter 172 Jiujiang Blood ([-])

Fighting requires the dead, and sometimes it is just better than someone else's death.Many people died, and when they were afraid, they collapsed.At least before modern warfare, there was nothing like this.

So far, the Qing army seems to have a large number of people, but it is even more unbearable. The reason is very simple. Only about one-third of the soldiers under the Qing army are hand-to-hand soldiers. 1 people are able to go to battle and fight. Among the remaining 2 people, most of them are shotgun soldiers, and the other part are guards, who cannot go to the battlefield.

The Fuhan Army is different. Except for the two independent divisions that have not undergone a series of adaptation and training, the other two main divisions and one garrison division are very strict in training. They not only train in the use of muskets, but also in hand-to-hand combat. , so in this rainy day, everyone in the Fuhan Army can fight.

After a day of bloody fighting, more than 4000 of the Qing army's few hand-to-hand soldiers have fallen, and the remaining 6000 are also in a state of collapse, and the casualties of the Fuhan army are not small, thousands of soldiers The old soldier lay on the muddy ground.

At this time, Yongjina was looking forward to the clear weather even more. If he continued to fight hand-to-hand, the Qing army might not be able to bear such casualties, and sooner or later it would collapse.Although there were still 2 Qing troops at Taiping Pass, the combat power of these [-] people was not high at all. With the help of the favorable location, they might be able to defend the pass.

"That's horrible!"

Dong Ce couldn't help sighing, even though he had fought so many battles, his heart was always soft, especially when facing those comrades who got along day and night, Dong Ce would be very indifferent, but he would also sincerely hope, This group of soldiers brought out by him can live well.

The black brush fell on the paper, and the ink seeped through the back of the paper. Zheng Yun, Gao Jie, Liu Si...a personal name was written on it. These are the list of soldiers who died in this battle, including a battalion commander, seven A company commander and more than a thousand soldiers, after writing, Dong Ce's face was covered with tears.

"Don't think too much, there will be many names later, maybe one day, your name and my name will appear on it."

Ning Yu lowered his head and touched the thick stack of rosters with his fingers, but before he touched it, he withdrew his hand again, with a slight pain in his eyes.

Dong Ce stopped writing, raised his head and looked at Ning Yu seriously.

"Governor, the battle of Jiujiang must not be slowed down. If it is really slowed down, the Qing army will gather more troops. We must attack tomorrow and completely defeat the Qing army."

"Tomorrow, I will be the leader of the Eagle Battalion in the same year!"

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The terrain of Jiujiang is very special. The terrain of Wutong Ridge is high in the south and low in the north, and there are large hills in the east. It is barely possible to gather the army here. However, due to the influence of the terrain, the situation here is quite complicated. To win, more people who have already It is no longer a strategy, but a collision of wills.

Every time there is a war, the Dudu Mansion will send a recorder to join the army to record the details of the battlefield one by one, and file them after the war for future reference.Ning Yu attaches great importance to this matter, so every time a battle is fought, someone will be arranged to write these battlefield data clearly.

Lu Jiong, the new secretary who joined the army, was originally just a scholar who would vomit when he saw a dead body. Although he still vomits now, he can record everything on the battlefield.

"That's horrible."

Lu Jiong was horrified when he saw the corpses stacked on top of the mountain. The impact of this scene was so strong that Lu Jiong's hands trembled a little.

"On the eighth day of October, the third regiment of the first division of the Fuhan army and the first regiment of the third division fought at Wutongling with the first division of the Qing army. There were many casualties and corpses piled up in the field."

boom - boom -

As the weather gradually improved, the artillery of the Fuhan army in the distance roared again, and dozens of bullets were shot out, smashing hard on the Wutong Ridge, causing death in the formation of the Qing army.

Although it rained heavily, fortunately, the Fuhan army did a good job in preserving the gunpowder. They wrapped all the gunpowder with grease cloth earlier, so there was no resurgence of moisture and it can still be used normally.

thump thump——
The drummers accompanying the team beat the drums more and more intensively, and the soldiers of the Fuhan army also walked towards the Qing army. They lined up in a horizontal line, stepped on layers of corpses, and gradually moved forward amidst the roar of artillery.

After many battles, the current Fuhan Army has done a good job in the connection between artillery and infantry. Soldiers can move forward normally under the roar of artillery. When they reach the designated position, the artillery will gradually move back. , so I don't worry about accidental injury.

Seeing the Fuhan army attacking the position with their guns at the foot of the mountain, Yongjina couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief. He was fully thinking that if the Fuhan army launched a hand-to-hand attack again, the battle might not be possible. .But Yongjina ignored one point, that is, in terms of musket tactics, the Qing army was even more unable to fight.

"We lost miserably in hand-to-hand combat before, but now that we have more shotguns, we can't lose again."

Yongjina was quite helpless towards these soldiers, especially the [-] and Eight Banners soldiers under his command, which gave Yongjina a bit of a headache. These people were all related to the capital, and everyone died A troublesome matter, he himself is no better than Fu Erdan, he is Jane in the heart of the emperor, he is purely taller than the short ones, and it is because of General Jiang Ning that he has reached such a high position.

"Everyone, the weather has cleared up now, and I have sent someone to send a message to the guards at Taiping Pass. As long as we block here for another day, when the Fuhan army is exhausted tonight, our army will take advantage of the situation to attack Chu Ni at night. Below, it is a big victory!"

When Yongjina was young, he didn’t study hard. On weekdays, he liked to read some novels, such as the Three Kingdoms. These became his military enlightenment textbooks. Now that he is fighting, he has started to apply some things from the novels. .

This made the other generals of the Qing army a little speechless. Although they knew that Jiangning General Yongjina was just a martial artist with well-developed limbs, they did not expect that this person's mind was so simple. Let's not talk about the so-called Can internal and external pinching be realized, if so, so what?As far as the current Qing army is concerned, can it fight night battles?

Not to mention, after two days of defense, it is not clear how many soldiers each has on hand?It is true to say that there is an army of [-], but once the battle starts, the water in it will become too big.But these things can't be said too clearly, so the generals responded vaguely.

But the current battle had to be fought. Yongjina felt helpless, so he had to send a part of the Eight Banners soldiers, plus a part of the Green Battalion soldiers, each holding a shotgun, and went to the front of the formation, probably more than 4000 people. It looked quite spectacular.

(End of this chapter)