Cutting 1719

Chapter 356 Tragic and Tragic

On August 29, the Battle of Xinhui officially broke out. Although both sides had no way out and expected the cruelty of this battle, the real tragedy was not shown, and it can even be said that it surpassed everyone expected.

The distance from Guangzhou to Xinhui is only tens of miles. The Eight Banners Army led by Guan Yuanzhong, several governors and governors, plus [-] Green Battalion Army, a total of [-] troops, arrived at the city of Xinhui early. In just one day, the two sides changed the host and guest in Xinhui City, re-enacting the bloody fighting scene.

Although Xinhui is still relatively strong, but after all, it has not experienced war for many years, and the city wall has not been well repaired. In addition, the Han army attacked the city yesterday, so that many places on the city wall were cracked, and these The crack was only repaired briefly at night, and there was no time for a complete repair.

Because of this, when the [-] Qing troops arrived at Xinhui City, Guan Yuanzhong was very keenly aware of the problem on the city wall, and he gave the order to attack very decisively. As for the so-called surrender plan offered by others, he did not It was adopted by Guan Yuanzhong, because he understood a truth, whether it is a peace or surrender, it is necessary to fight first, and then talk after the fight.

Then hit it!

Guan Yuanzhong's order quickly reached the Qing army. The soldiers of the Qing army lined up neatly, carrying blunderbuss on their shoulders, and some held long swords. They were ready to attack the city. Nearly a hundred sub-cannons were also pushed to the front, and many soldiers were doing final adjustments.

There are many blacksmith shops in Guangzhou, and there are also many shops that can make guns and cannons. For example, Foshan is full of gun shops.Guan Yuanzhong is also a person who pays much attention to firearms, so the firearms equipment rate of his troops is high, which is much higher than that of the Eight Banners and Green Battalions in other provinces, and the bird guns and mother-child artillery are also very well-made. Working is different.

Facing the soldiers of the Qing army under the city, Guo Ding'an didn't panic at all. He knew that this battle was not easy to fight. After all, in order to quickly move to Guangdong and Guangxi, the Second Guards Brigade did not bring many large-caliber artillery. There are only sixteen six-pound cannons and four twelve-pound cannons around. No matter how superior the quality is to the Qing army, the quantity is indeed at an obvious disadvantage.

But isn't the imperial guard just rushing to fight a tough battle?At least compared to yesterday's situation, Guo Ding'an prefers this kind of face-to-face fighting with real swords and guns, and the soldiers of the Guards Brigade are the same.

"Boom--"

The artillery of the Fuhan army on the city wall was the first to fire. With the advantages of range and condescension, they fired farther than the Qing army. In addition, they were all flowering bullets. Therefore, when this round of flowering bullets fell into the Qing army When they were in the formation, an extremely serious blow was caused in an instant, flesh and blood flew all over the place, and several Qing army artillery were vaguely blasted into the sky.

Guan Yuanzhong's face became silent at the moment, the gap between the firearms could be seen with a clear eye, and he didn't know what happened to the new firearms that the emperor had tinkered with, but at the moment he had no choice but to make do with it, so he ordered the gunners to move forward Continue to push until you can hit the city wall.

The entire formation of the Qing army began to move forward slowly, but in this process, the artillery of the Fuhan army cast a deep shadow on everyone present. Although the explosive bombs became lighter and smaller, more fragments were excited when they exploded, and their lethality became stronger.

Almost often, when a flowering bomb gets into the queue of the Qing army, dozens of people around will be knocked down in the next second. Every roar is like a horn of death, and every explosion seems to be an invisible The iron broom, sweeping down the people standing around.

Seeing this situation, a guard of the Qing army quickly drew out his sword and shouted at the Qing soldiers to charge forward. Seeing this situation, the rest of the generals also kicked and kicked the Qing soldiers to charge forward. The soldiers of the Qing army just set up the ladder and charged towards the city wall of Xinhui, even though the people around them kept falling.

As the soldiers of the Qing army got closer and closer to the city wall of Xinhui, a Fuhan sergeant narrowed his eyes, began to measure the distance with his palm, and then shouted loudly: "Two hundred steps!"

Everyone knows what this distance means. Perhaps it is only a short effort, and the soldiers of the Qing army will rush into a distance of one hundred steps. This distance is also the effective shooting distance of Hanyang's muskets. It is very good, so it is also the first-round shooting distance of the Fuhan army, which is called the death distance by the Qing army.

"150 steps"

"120 steps"

Everyone held their breath and stood on the city wall holding their shotguns. They did not deliberately aim at the Qing army charging below, because it was meaningless to aim at this distance, but the salvo method was enough to make up for the gap in accuracy.

"One Hundred Steps"

When the non-commissioned officer who reported the number shouted a hundred steps, the soldiers of the Fuhan Army in the first row on the city wall pulled the trigger in unison. After the gunshots that shook the eardrums, rows of bullets were fired, like Like a downpour, it sprayed from the city wall and landed on the Qing army charging directly below.

Almost one-third of the Qing soldiers who rushed to the front fell down. Some of them were shot in the stomach, some were shot in the arm, and some were shot in the head—but these people There is no difference, because in this era, anyone who is hit by a musket is almost certain to die. Even if lead bullets cannot kill him, hemorrhage and subsequent infection will take his life away.

The Fuhan soldiers in the first row on the city wall took a step back in unison, and were replaced by soldiers in the second row. They stepped forward and stood in front of the crenellation of the city wall. The trigger, the violent gunfire accompanied by thick smoke, turned the entire Xinhui into an illusion like a city in the clouds.

It's too bad, it's really too bad!

Not only the Qing army under the city thought so, but even the Fuhan soldiers on the city wall felt that this scene was not like a war, but a massacre, but the ruthlessness of war is that even if the front is There is a dead end, and they have no choice to escape.

Guan Yuanzhong looked at the scene in front of him with a livid face, and not far from him stood teams of supervisors, who were executing the soldiers of the Qing army who had fled back from the front, and their faces were all the same. It seems that ordinary iron youths did not expect the cruelty of this battle at all.

"Boom—"

The sound of the artillery of the Qing army finally echoed in the sky and the earth. The distance between them and the city wall of Xinhui was already very, very close, and less than 30% of the artillery that successfully arrived was left. The remaining [-] artillery pieces were already on the way. It was completely destroyed by the artillery of the Fuhan Army, but there are almost [-] artillery left, which is thankful.

The two sides finally launched a confrontation on a horizontal line, but at this point, what the Qing army lost was not only the accuracy of the artillery, but also the speed of firing. Compared with the speed of the Fuhan army, they were really inferior. The slowdown was too much, so when more than 70 cannons bombarded at the same time, the middle of the second round was enough for the Fuhan army to fight another round.

There was an extremely tragic artillery battle between the two sides. From time to time, the artillery of the Qing army and the Fuhan army were hit and destroyed by the opponent. The high-flying artillery even beat the soldiers next to each other into a ball, surrounded by the Fuhan army and the Qing army. On the first day of the war in Xinhui, the bloody prelude had already begun, and the two sides used blood and flesh to intertwine into an extremely tragic battle.

When Xinhui fell into a tragic strangulation, the return sailors of the Fu Han Army and the Qing Army sailors who had been waiting for a long time formally met in the South China Sea. This battle was absolutely unavoidable for Qiu Ze, because hundreds of civilian ships They couldn't escape the pursuit of the navy of the Qing army. If they abandoned the civilian boats and left, the follow-up plans of the Fuhan army would be wiped out.

But judging from the current situation, there are more than 200 ships in the navy fleet of the Qing army, among which there are many giant warships with a length of 56 meters and 24 guns. During the heyday of the Qing court, there were at least fifty such warships.In comparison, the Fuhan Army Navy has only more than 100 small and medium sand ships, which can be said to be pitifully weak.

Qiu Ze is a capable person. Otherwise, with his temper and character, he would have been squeezed out in the Qing army long ago. The reason why he was able to lead a fleet to Ningchu fully demonstrated the opponent's ability , and people with ability and character often act unexpectedly.

To defeat the navy of the Qing army, only by victoriously defeating them can the shame be washed away and the emperor's entrustment can be lived up to.

Of course, for Qiu Ze, he is not without any cards, at least before the battle, Ning Yu sent him a batch of rockets urgently, and Qiu Ze has seen the power of these rockets a long time ago , With these weapons, even if it is the warships of the Qing army in front of him, Qiu Ze is not afraid at all.

There was no prelude or signal to the battle between the two sides. Just after the distance between the two sides gradually approached the range of the artillery, the Qing army and the Fuhan army both started shelling at the same time, but judging from the current distance and the accuracy of the artillery , The two sides had a fight but didn't lose a single vellus hair.

Qiu Ze stood on the largest blessing ship in the fleet. The ship was very tall, with three floors, and there were guard plates made of bamboo on the side, and there was a terrace on the top of the ship, and the artillery stood on it , was firing projectiles towards the Qing army fleet on the opposite side. He looked at the fleet in front of him, but he felt a little nervous unconsciously.

"Come closer, come closer"

(End of this chapter)