Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 575 Support (V)

Zamparini squinted his eyes and gently pulled the trigger, only to hear a burst of explosion. The red-hot lead bullet was shot from the barrel of the 1633 flintlock pistol, killing a Qing army general wearing cotton armor and a lightning rod on his head. The man who looked like shot fell to the ground.

"Master Ma is dead! Master Ma is dead!" Some Qing soldiers who were close to the army shouted the news of the death of the main general in Wu dialect.Soon, there was only a sound of hula-la, and hundreds of green battalion soldiers with braids hanging behind their heads fled backwards with their morale collapsed, and withdrew from the battlefield.Zamparini let out a sigh of relief. This is the warehouse of the Yangzhou army. They had just occupied it for less than two hours, and the Qing army had already launched three attacks.This wave in front of me is the third time, just like the previous two times, it was successfully repelled by the people from the east coast, and this time it seems that a middle-level and senior officer of the enemy army was killed by the way, which made Zamparini a little satisfied .

"Platoon leader!" As soon as the Qing army was repelled, the soldiers surrounded him. Just now Zamparini, as an officer, attracted the firepower of the Qing army, and many feathered arrows shot him. Fortunately, the Qing army's arrows could not After penetrating the high-strength curved steel armor of the East Coast standard, Zamparini was not injured.

Zamparini glanced over and found that he still had 18 brothers under his command, which made him feel cold: Another person died?But fortunately, the brothers knew what he was thinking, and they immediately said in one go: "Platoon leader, Lin Xiaohu was shot in the shoulder by a Tatar arrow, and he is currently being bandaged in the medical office. There is nothing serious about it. The chief secretary is scolding him, he rushed too far this time."

Zamparini nodded, then sat down next to a stone lion in front of the military storage warehouse, took out a pipe from his pocket, stuffed some tobacco into it, lit it, and smoked.The name here is the Army Storage Warehouse. As the name suggests, it is the material warehouse of the Yangzhou City Army. In fact, it is the same. After being captured by the East Coast Army this morning, everyone found a large number of knives, guns, arrows, uniforms, and leather armor in it. , Eastern muskets (bird guns) and some gunpowder.At that time, the Qing army guarding here fought for a long time. The Qingzhou soldiers of Zhai Cong'e, who was in charge of the main offensive task, killed and injured more than 100 people. The Qing army was defeated - most of them died in battle or fled, and more than a hundred people surrendered.

After occupying here, the Qing army immediately organized several massive counterattacks, but they were all defeated by the reinforcements from the east bank.After the main general of the Qing army was killed this time, their offensive should have stopped for a long time.

There was a burst of rhythmic footsteps from behind, and Zamparini knew it was Gao Shan, the deputy company commander of their company, without looking.Sure enough, it was the tall and fat Gao Shan who came. He was holding a saber in his left hand and a copper whistle in his right hand, and he immediately blew it when he walked around the door of the military storage warehouse.Some soldiers of the 104th company who were resting immediately stood up and formed the whole team. Zamparini was also among them. He emptied his half-smoked pipe, and then quickly went to the head of the right row of his row.

When Gao Shan saw that the five platoons of soldiers were all here, he immediately raised his voice: "The commander-in-chief has an order to immediately reinforce the Chenghuang Temple. The Qing army there used two cannons, and the 2nd Battalion of the Eight Banners New Army was caught off guard. They suffered heavy losses, and they are currently standing guard in the Chenghuang Temple, and a large number of Qing troops are blocking the outside. Hurry up, Marshal Mo has ordered several long-barrel cannons outside the city to enter the city to assist in the battle. The task here is handed over to the volunteers The 5th and 6th Squadrons, they have rushed over from the Yixue Academy."

After Gao Shan gave the order, the hundreds of musketeers from the 104th company immediately handed over their defenses to the 300 volunteer soldiers who rushed over, and then walked [-] meters along the avenue by the small river to an intersection and stopped. When you get down, turn left from here and less than [-] meters away is the Chenghuang Temple.The Town God's Temple is next to the Jiangdu County Government, and it was an area where the Qing army focused on defense.It is said that Shi Tingzhu, the commander-in-chief of the Qing army, was still in charge of the county government office to direct the battle yesterday, but after the troops on the east coast conquered Yangzhou government office, military storage warehouses and other places just across the street from the county government office, this guy withdrew to the south of the city In the Yangzhou Academy, I was really afraid of death.

Zamparini rushed forward. He saw that the streets here are quite wide, perhaps more than ten meters wide.The building at the intersection is Yangzhou Fuxue, and there are 250 standing spearmen and more than 200 military men who are also equipped with spears. It is a pity that they do not have artillery, and the spears in their hands alone may not be able to defeat them. The Qing army, so they stood firm here, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements.

After seeing the arrival of the reinforcements from the bandits in yellow, there was a commotion on the Qing side. They began to move a cannon clumsily, trying to aim the muzzle at the intersection.This made Zamparini's pupils shrink for a while, where did his cannon go?We have always used cannons to bully barbarians. When will barbarians use cannons to bully us?

Deputy company commander Gao Shan saw that the situation was not right, and immediately ordered the troops to withdraw to the school, relying on brick walls to defend.The Qing army outside was greatly encouraged when they saw the bandits in yellow retreating into the school. The officers quickly organized hundreds of people to kill them, intending to rush into the school.These people shouted various incomprehensible dialects and looked excited, but their efforts were doomed to fail.The narrow gate of Fuxue was blocked by dense 4.2-meter spears. The Qing army rushed in with their shields, but they couldn't rush in for a while.This stalemate situation gave the musketeers an excellent shooting opportunity, and the soldiers spontaneously raised their guns and started shooting freely without the officer's orders.

The Qing army that was crowded at the front fell down in pieces, but the people behind didn't know what was going on, and they were still pushing forward desperately.The tragedy was born in this way. I saw more than a dozen grenadiers in heavy armor rushed to the front and bravely threw the hand-throwing bombs that were lit in their hands towards the rear of the Qing army. Iron nails, broken iron pieces, and steel balls wrapped in bombs scattered in the crowd, and the casualties of the extremely dense Qing army were simply horrible.After killing more than a hundred Qing troops who intended to climb the wall to attack, this wave of counterattacks by the Qing troops was finally repelled, and Zamparini was slightly relieved.

However, he was still very anxious, because their cannons had not yet arrived. In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, the superiors forbade them to storm the strong positions of the Qing army that were fortified with cannons.Just now, the 2nd Battalion of the Eight Banners New Army was taking neat steps to compress the Qing army on the street step by step into the Jiangdu county government office. Unexpectedly, it was suddenly bombarded by two cannons of the Qing army, and they were killed and injured on the spot in a dense formation. Seven or 80 people were killed, and then hurriedly hid in the nearby Chenghuang Temple and stood by for help.Without cannons, it can only be filled with human life, and the people on the east bank are obviously not willing to use human life to fill it.

Soon there was a rhythmic sound of footsteps outside, and Zamparini knew it was the sound of leather boots stepping on the stone-paved street, and reinforcements were coming!

I don't know if it took a few minutes or more than ten minutes, only to hear "Boom! Boom!" Two cannons sounded, and the two solid iron eggs fired directly at close range with the whistling sound of air. There was a noise.And only 2 minutes after the fight was over, the two artillery pieces fired again, and the shouts from the Qing army became louder.

After another 2 minutes, the artillery of the Qing army hadn't counterattacked yet, while the artillery of the people on the east bank had been firing mercilessly. This made Zamparini a little excited. Could it be that the artillery of the Qing army was destroyed? ?

There were chaotic footsteps on the street, and Zamparini vaguely heard some Chinese with a Henan accent that he was familiar with. It seemed that the commander of the Qing army was urging the soldiers to charge. Could it be that they wanted to stop the artillery of the army on the east coast from continuing to attack? are they?

Before Zamparini could continue to think wildly, Gao Shan, the deputy company commander over there, had already ordered the squadron leader of the stand-up team to open the gate of the school, and a large number of stand-up captain spearmen in breastplates rushed out with spears, attacking Qing from the flanks. The formation of the Qing army was a little chaotic.

"Go to the wall!" Deputy Company Commander Gao Shan said solemnly, holding a pistol.

The soldiers brought some ladders and set them up on the wall. Zamparini nodded and ordered his brothers to follow him up the wall.The top of the wall was about one meter wide, and it was difficult for people to stand on. Zamparini stepped on the ladder, leaned on the wall with his upper body, took a rifle handed up from below, and shot towards the street outside the wall.When he was done shooting, he handed the rifle to the men below, took a fresh loaded gun, and continued shooting.Going back and forth like this, other people followed suit. For a while, more than [-] people lay on the top of the wall and fired continuously, which made the Qing army outside the city flee with their heads in their arms.

There is no suspense in the next battle.The Qing army, which had lost artillery support, was squeezed from both sides by the spearmen from the east coast, and after hundreds of people were killed and injured, it was compressed again into the Jiangdu county government office.Mao Desheng, who came in a hurry, saw that the county government office was a brick and wood structure except for the courtyard wall, and immediately ordered the county government office to be set on fire.The soldiers did not dare to hesitate. They found a large number of clay pots, filled them with flammable materials such as lamp oil, and threw them into the county government office.After throwing away, many torches and firewood soaked in lamp oil were thrown into it, and the Jiangdu county government office suddenly burst into flames.

After the county government office was on fire, the Qing army panicked. They organized several consecutive charges to try to break through, but they were all massacred at the narrow gate by two cannons firing shotguns continuously, and then bombs and musket fire. Those who were lucky enough to rush through the barrage were also stabbed to the ground one by one by the East Bank spearmen who were waiting in full force.

The battle ended after half an hour. The Jiangdu county government office was submerged in raging flames. Most of the 300 or [-] Qing soldiers who retreated into the county government office were killed, and another [-] were captured. Draw a full stop.

Zamparini looked indifferently at the corpses of Qing soldiers lying here and there in the street, and there was a faint smell of burnt corpses in the county office, which disgusted him a little.At the entrance of the street, there is an army carrying bayonet-mounted rifles advancing. It should be the only musketeer team in the stand-up team. They seem to be advancing further south. There is a private garden there. There was no Qing army stationed there.

But even if someone is stationed, it doesn't make much sense.After the capture of the county government office, more than half of Yangzhou city has been controlled by people from the east bank. I heard that Captain Zhang Xudong, who was in charge of commanding the battle in Xincheng, fought very smoothly.The main force of the Qing army should not have been deployed there. Strongholds such as Guandi Temple, Jingzhong Temple, Anding Academy, and Salt Transfer Envoy Siyamen fell into the hands of the people on the east bank. They are currently advancing towards the Western Temple area, trying to attack in a roundabout way. Hedgehogs gathered in the Qing army in the southeast corner of Yangzhou City.

(End of this chapter)