Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 403 Fiasco
After one hundred grenadiers threw two rounds of thunder, the front of the low wall was covered in smoke and dust, and Li Sanwa led the headquarters to rush over.

Taking advantage of the vacancy left by Hu Dabang's musketeers withdrawing, the first row of [-] musketeers from Li Sanwa's division quickly lined up along the low wall and raised their muskets to the front. Li Sanwa ordered, The soldiers around him blew their horns, and the short and sharp sound pierced the eardrums, and the two hundred firecrackers of the Ming army fired at the same time.

The gunners in charge of firing the tiger crouching guns suffered heavy casualties from the bows and arrows thrown by the Qing army. Forty gunners suffered more than [-] casualties. As a group, Li Sanwa's musketeers completed the loading of ammunition at the same time as Li Sanwa's musketeers started the first round.

In the sky full of dust and smoke, several tiger squatting cannons exploded one after another, a dark red flame flashed from the muzzle, and hundreds of projectiles swept across the loess black smoke in front like a gust of wind, smashing everything in front of it. All overturned to the ground.

As the second team of Ming army musketeers fired the musketeers in their hands, the Fran machine guns that had cooled down on the turret roared again, but this time the flight trajectory of the projectiles extended to the distance.

The Qing army retreated, and it was a disastrous defeat.

Strictly speaking, it was a retreat.

Seeing that the victory was in sight, the Qing army was completely defeated by the sudden thunder, volleyball, and tiger squatting guns.

Under the heavy casualties, the soldiers of the Han army flag fled first. Although the Qing army with the red flag also suffered heavy casualties, they wanted to continue to charge with tenacity.

However, when Jia Lazhangjing and several Niuluzhangjings who led the team were killed, the whole team fell into chaos, and their sight was severely obstructed, they had no choice but to withdraw from the battle.

The Frang machine gun was chasing and firing at the retreating Qing army brigade.

Under the three-dimensional attack of various firearms from far, middle and near by the Ming army, the Qing army, which was still dominated by cold weapons, finally tasted the bitter wine brewed by the weapons generation.

A gust of wind blew, and the dust and smoke gradually cleared away. Within [-] steps in front of the long low wall, there were dead and wounded Qing soldiers, stumped limbs and broken arms scattered everywhere, and blood stained the entire ground black and red. From time to time, the wails of Qing soldiers who were seriously injured and still alive came, and the whole scene was extremely tragic.

"Officer Qian Ying, send someone to call five hundred people to come over, hurry up and clean up the battlefield, and throw away all the Jiannu corpses far away! The casualties are sent to the supply camp after first aid!"

Amidst the intermittent roar of the Flang machine guns on both sides, Zhang Yuan led his soldiers down the fort, and several Qian Zong and Qian Jie hurriedly surrounded him.

Qian Jie followed the orders and left.

Although he usually does not need to obey Zhang Yuan's orders, but now it is wartime, as a member of the Qin army, he must also obey the orders given by his superiors.

"Liu Shun, your department immediately took over the first line of defense, and quickly repaired the damaged fortifications! Half a mile, you go to the western camp to see what's going on! Send the sentry to the fort to watch the enemy's situation, and report immediately if Jiannu transfers troops! All soldiers rest and eat on the spot!"

After accepting the order, Liu Shun turned around and went to make arrangements.

"Hu Dabang, you go to deal with the wound first, and go back to my camp with Liu Shun! Li Sanwa will follow me and wait for you two!"

Looking at the long arrow stuck on Hu Dabang's shoulder, Zhang Yuan said with a gloomy face.

With a dejected expression on his face, Hu Dabang endured the pain in his shoulder and saluted before heading back to the camp.

After giving the order, Zhang Yuan glanced in the direction of the Qing army's camp and found that there was no change in the other party, so he led his soldiers to his camp, and Li Sanwa followed behind with a proud face.

If he hadn't ordered the grenadiers to rush up after seeing the situation was not good just now, the first line of defense would probably be broken by the Qing army, and Zhang Yuan, who was on the fort, would be in dire straits.

After returning to the tent, Zhang Yuan took off his hat and helmet, preventing the guards from taking off his mail armor, and sat down on the seat: "Move a box for Li Sanwa! Move two more Let it go!"

A personal soldier obeyed the order and went to a corner of the tent to bring out three horses. Li Sanwa took one and sat down happily.

"Silly, get some food and water! You two eat together too!"

The soldier named Hantou went away in response, and the other soldier also left the tent afterward, standing outside the tent with his hand on the handle of a knife, guarding.

"Vice President, how many more days do we have to stay here? Jiannu loses two battles in a row at any time, but after all, there are too many people. Our department also suffered a lot of casualties today. It's okay to carry it for another day or two. If there are too many, I'm afraid I can't hold on!"

After sitting down, Li Sanwa looked at Zhang Yuan and asked tentatively.

"Let's see how the situation looks. If we can keep it, we will keep it. If we can't keep it, we will retreat to the baggage camp. Our reward lies in how many Jiannu people we can have! If we can kill and injure Jiannu more, Sun Dushuai will also have a face. Just not?"

Zhang Yuan kept supporting the armrest of the seat with one hand, tapped the fingers of the other hand on the armrest, looked at the tent door and said.

The Ministry of War did not give him an order that he must defend for a few days. As long as he could consume enough artillery fire from the Qing army, his thousands of people could retreat to the supply camp at any time to help the Yongwei Battalion strengthen its defense.

But Zhang Yuan wanted to inflict heavy damage on the Qing army, earn enough military exploits before retreating.

Ever since he was promoted to deputy commander in chief, Zhang Yuan had been looking forward to the position of commander in chief as long as he stepped forward for a long time.

But if there is no dazzling record, this deputy commander may be the pinnacle of his life.

Although the Ministry of War had informed him of all the conjectures when it issued the battle plan and tasks to him, and he also knew that Jiannu would definitely send troops to attack the supply camp, but he did not expect that Jiannu would actually attack with heavy troops this time.

Since there is a strong army to rely on behind him, how long will we wait if we don't take this opportunity to make more achievements?
After the two chatted for a while, Liu Shun and Hu Dabang, who had bandaged his wound, entered the camp one after the other.

"sit down!"

Zhang Yuan ordered after sitting upright.

Liu Shun clasped his fists and sat down, but Hu Dabang looked ashamed and stood there without moving.

"Hey, Hu Dabang, are you still putting on airs? If you tell you to sit, you don't want to sit, do you dare to plan to sit with me!?"

"The humble job almost ruined a major event today! I feel sorry for the vice president in my heart, and I have no face to sit down!"

"Come on! Don't act like a woman! Sit down now! Today's situation is due to a mistake in the arrangement of the general, which is why I almost taught Jiannu to rush in! After the first battle, the general also underestimated the enemy. I thought that Jiannu was not much different from those thieves, but I didn’t expect that Jiannu was really fierce! With so many casualties, I still rushed forward! Jiannu’s archers are also strong! Our brothers were killed and injured a lot today. You have to find a way to break through his arrow formation!"

After hearing Zhang Yuan's words, Hu Dabang felt a little less ashamed, and then sat down on the horse in embarrassment.

Recalling the scene just now, Zhang Yuan still has lingering fears.

Standing on a high place, he watched the fearless Jiannu rush forward, and it was too late to get down from the fort.

While hating his mistakes in the arrangement and Hu Dabang's incompetence, he was also prepared to die in battle. He didn't let go until he saw Li Sanwa commanding the grenadiers to beat the Qing army. Take a breath.

"Vice President, what should we do next?"

Liu Shun looked at Zhang Yuan and asked.

"Today's battle proved that our fortifications are still quite effective. Later, we will arrange for Minzhuang to raise the burlap bag a little bit higher, and let the gunners put the gun rack on it. In that case, if the two layers of burlap bags are covered, even if Jiannu hits close, wearing a The armor will not be turned over for a while, so we will have enough time to withdraw or fight! Then, remove the Frang machine from the four forts, and build four wider forts behind the first low wall , such a thing, how much more soldiers can build slaves?! In addition, prepare a few large iron nails. In case of an emergency and the cannon cannot be transported away, use iron nails to seal the fire door and tell him to get it. not available!"

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