Win the Ding 1617

On the outskirts of Hongqiao Town, two battalions of the 23rd Security Brigade's Wu Changqing Sub-battalion encountered an outpost of the Qing Army. The news of the encounter, passed by Ji Changming's fast horse, appeared in front of Li Huabao, who was staying behind in the Shanghai business district, in less than an hour.

"Wu Changqing, what is his origin? Can he withstand at least twice the impact of the Qing army? Besides, this is just the outpost of the Qing army, and there will be a large group of Qing soldiers following behind!"

Because this is the first battle of Shanghai's defensive battle, it has a great impact on the morale of the army.Li Huabao had to pay special attention to this small-scale battle, where the total number of troops invested by both sides did not exceed 1.

"Wu Changqing is also a veteran of the Southern Guangdong Army! Ever since he joined the army in Rili, he has been fighting north and south under the command of the lord. However, he rarely fought in the Central Plains these years. Most of them were in Nanyang, Tianzhu, and Banggala Last year, Ji Gong became the head of the regiment and was incorporated into the sequence of the 23rd Security Brigade. Following the brigade commander Ji Changming, he set off to Shanghai, and this was also his first battle in the Central Plains." Generally, Wu Changqing's resume was reported.

"Oh! What merit did he accomplish?" Li Huabao immediately became interested in Wu Changqing.The reason is also very simple. This guy has fought in Nanyang, Tianzhu, and Banggala, but he has never been promoted too fast. This shows that this guy named Wu Changqing has not entered his few years. The vision of a younger brother may be because he is not welcomed by those younger brothers.However, he was able to accumulate military achievements all the way up, which shows that this guy really has two brushes, and he is more capable of fighting.Let others not cover up his credit.If he, Li Huabao, could take Wu Changqing into his pocket, it would be a multiple benefit.Needless to say, he has an extra general who can wholeheartedly work for him. With the reputation of knowing people, Li Huabao's reputation among the generals of the Southern Guangdong Army is bound to be even better.Moreover, you can also give those younger brothers a resounding slap in the face!Such a character has also worked under your hands, why hasn't it been discovered by you? !

As everyone gets older and their knowledge and horizons broaden, all kinds of open and secret struggles also begin to appear among Li Shouhan's sons.This point, with the death of the eldest son Li Huayu, has almost become an obvious matter.

"Return to the words of Master Liushou. Last year, when Wu Changqing was in Tianzhu, when he was the leader of the gang, he led a battalion of people out to patrol. He didn't want to be surrounded by a rebellion army. He had less than a thousand soldiers The horse, coping calmly, faced the native Indian soldiers and horses that were several times his size, and finally stood firm until the arrival of reinforcements. Killed more than a thousand ranks, captured more than [-] people, and captured nearly a thousand mules, horses and camels, not including knives, guns, equipment, gold, silver and jewels .It is precisely because of this that we found the best excuse to fight against the earth king and annexed him in one fell swoop. We opened up a territory for the lord for nearly a thousand miles, and the population is nearly [-]. Therefore, he was promoted to the head of the regiment."

"This guy really has two tricks!" Li Huabao confirmed his opinion in his heart.He suppressed the question he wanted to blurt out, "You don't know why he was promoted so slowly?" He just slowly arranged to many officials in the Military and Political Department and the Staff Office's Battalion Office: "Send the word, as long as Wu Changqing If he can survive the first battle, he will be promoted if he stays behind. He can serve as the brigade commander of the reserve brigade!"

"Subordinates, please remember!"

Although according to the system of the Southern Guangdong Army, officers at the brigade commander level must be appointed by Li Shouhan himself, but Li Huabao's nomination basically confirmed the position of the brigade commander of the nominated person.

On the outskirts of Hongqiao, Wu Changqing had already exchanged fire with the Qing soldiers.

Before the six-pound gun fired, the infantry of the Qing army had already reached the distance that the infantry could shoot.The messy formation, the noisy sound waves, the hustle and bustle and shouting all put tremendous pressure on the soldiers and horses of the two battalions of the Southern Guangdong Army.Fortunately, officers at all levels suppressed them in a low voice, so that the soldiers who couldn't hold their breath and couldn't bear the pressure did not open fire at the Qing army indiscriminately.They just tried to adjust their breathing under the encouragement of the chief armor and the team officer, hoping in their hearts that these Qing soldiers would enter the firing range of the firecrackers as soon as possible, and waited for the firing signal from the officer.

Although it is said that the distance that bows and arrows can shoot, firecrackers can also do it, but the Southern Guangdong Army, which pursues the best shooting effect, generally only allows fire when the enemy infantry enters a distance of forty or fifty steps!Fortunately, the usual harsh military discipline and more or less battlefield experience played a role. Although the Qing soldiers approached step by step, some people's palms and foreheads were covered with sweat in this weather, but they still kept silent.Just wait for them to come within range of you.From time to time, I used my peripheral vision to observe the flint on the faucet, hoping that it would not drop the chain at a critical moment and affect my meritorious service.

The Qing soldiers on the opposite side were also very disturbed.According to their own thinking, when they reached one hundred forty or fifty steps, someone would almost lose their composure and start firing.In their impression, even the Southern Guangdong Army has always been known as the elite, not to mention that the opponent's firearms can't help but fire indiscriminately before they get into range.But at this distance, there will be some abnormal behaviors.However, the army on the opposite side stood there quietly, like a group of clay and wood sculptures.

However, there is no room for them to think too much on the battlefield.The marching team has entered a hundred paces away.The huge pressure and the upcoming wealth killing and many other factors caused the Qing army to shout loudly in unison. The Qing soldiers shouted in unison, quickened their pace, and rushed towards Wu Changqing's front.

One hundred steps, ninety steps, eighty steps, seventy steps, sixty steps, now!

The commander of the artillery team suddenly shouted: "Fire!"

The muzzles of the two six-pounders belched huge clouds of white smoke and fleeting red flames.The few Qing soldiers who were closest to them and who were already eager to come up and seize the two cannons for meritorious service flew out immediately!By the time the body fell to the ground, it had already been beaten into a mess of tattered flesh by the dense shotgun shells.

"fire!"

The speeches of these two guns opened the prelude to the firepower of the artillery team.It seems that at the same time, several artillery pieces on the two wings made deafening sound, a large cloud of smoke rose, groups of whistling shotgun pellets, mixed with the sharp whistle when piercing the air, although human ears could not hear it, but those war horses But he could hear clearly.This kind of sound is like the grinning laughter of these small devils!

At a distance of less than 90 meters, the six-pound gun is placed horizontally, and the double shot is fired, and the opponent is in a fast-moving dense formation. The lethality and effect of this lethality, the lethality, the author does not need to give you a detailed description, right?

The speeches of these six-pound guns not only turned the flesh and blood of dozens of Qing soldiers into tatters, but also dealt a blow to the Qing soldiers whose eyes were reddened by all kinds of violence!Let them suddenly realize that the enemies on the opposite side are not those merchants and rich men who can let them slaughter and plunder at will, let alone kind-hearted civilians.It's a ruthless character with guns, knives and guns in his hand, whose combat power is even better than them!

Thinking of this, the attacking team that had just been aggressive just now stopped for a moment, as if a vicious dog had been hit by a stick, and the momentum of barking its teeth and claws stopped immediately.Suddenly, as if their crazy minds were awakened by the autumn rain and autumn wind, many people uttered a shrill cry at the same time, turned around and ran away along the way they came from.

If it is said that the soldiers recruited by Duduo along the way were scumbags with only five combat effectiveness, then the performance of the Eight Banners cavalry who supervised behind the queue and responded on the two wings was a bit disappointing.

The flames from the muzzle, the thick smoke, the loud noise, and the scene of blood and flesh flying in the army also made the two or three hundred Eight Banners cavalry who watched the battlefield coldly from the two wings a little abrupt.Most of the war horses under the crotch had never experienced such a simple bloody and violent scene. They were startled by the thick smoke and fire from the muzzle, and dozens of war horses could not help but neigh and began to retreat.The riders on the horse moved back quietly while yelling at their mounts.

Since crossing the Yellow River, it has been a smooth battle. Many cities only need to unfurl the flags under the city, take off the iron helmet to reveal the money and rattail, and after entering the city, the children can get whatever they want.This kind of city is still considered good, at least until the Qing soldiers approached the city.A large number of prefecture and county cities were sent to the army to contact and surrender when the Qing army was tens of miles away, and they changed their flags in the city, announcing that they were already the emperor of the Qing Dynasty!

The children's treasures that can be easily obtained, why do you have to work hard?As long as the city in front of us can be conquered, then the food, property, children, and treasures in the city can't be moved by us at will?Desperate things, let those Han people surrender their troops to do it!

This kind of thinking spread rapidly among the Eight Banners troops of the Qing Army after crossing the river.Encountered such a difficult enemy again today, these hundreds of Eight Banners cavalry could not help but retreat one after another, retreating the battle line by at least an arrow.I hid aside and watched the Nanyue Army fight with the Green Battalion soldiers.

Take advantage of his illness and kill him!

"First column! Step forward! Fire!"

Seeing that the ranks of the Qing soldiers showed signs of collapse, if Wu Changqing didn't do anything at this time, then he would be Song Xianggong.Don't even think about developing in the Southern Guangdong Army.

A series of cruel passwords sounded, followed by deafening firecrackers sounded one after another.Amidst the sound of gunfire, several elite soldiers who had been rushing to the front, wearing iron armor and holding leather shields in their hands, were hit by projectiles flying from behind!The projectile easily broke through the tattered iron armor on their bodies, and knocked the leaves of the armor into the air.With spurts of blood gushing out of their bodies, these forwards staggered and were knocked to the ground one by one.

"First column, squat! Second column, fire!"

"put!"

There was no time to think about it. The first row of firecrackers squatted to clean their firecrackers, check the flints, and load ammunition. The second row moved forward again. There was no need to aim at all, as long as the trigger was pulled, at a distance of sixty steps, the Qing soldiers formed a fleeing team. As soon as the firecrackers sounded, someone in the team would fall down with a scream.And the fallen people exacerbated the speed of the team's collapse and escape.

Behind the Southern Cantonese army lined up in the sky, due to the continuous firing of hundreds of firecrackers, a dense cloud of gray-white smoke had condensed, combined with the water vapor in the air, it condensed into a mass of things that looked like fog but not fog, and smoke that looked like smoke but not smoke. In the eyes of the retreating soldiers of the Qing army, this blob of sulfur and saltpeter smelled like the demonic wind when they came out of the eighteenth floor of the nether hell with a bull-headed horse-faced card in their hands to claim their lives!

If there were Western missionaries in their ranks, they might have corrected their misconceptions, "Devil! The devil Satan in hell always has a sulphurous stench when he comes out!"

"put!"

In the cloud of smoke behind him, the roar of the devil came again.

The second row of firecrackers stopped on the spot, cleaned the firecrackers, and loaded ammunition.The third row of firecrackers stepped forward, and another large puff of gunpowder smoke sprayed out. The Qing soldiers who were running wildly screamed and were knocked down to the ground!The bullets tore through their armor, and rolled rapidly through their bodies, stirring up their internal organs into a mess.

"In the first row, go up to the gun! Get ready to charge!"

The first column had already been filled and was waiting for orders.Hearing the officer's password, he immediately pulled out the sleeve thorn from his waist, and with two clicks, the thorn was installed.

"All in the first row! Prepare to use thorns"

"Huh! Ha!" The soldiers in the first row shouted in unison. The installation regulations stipulated that the gun should be held flat in the hand, and the thorns should be pointed upwards obliquely, which happened to be the position of the head and face of the person. Always ready to leap forward.

"kill!"

Amidst the smoke, nearly a thousand spears shot out suddenly.The impact of this scene on the Qing soldiers was undoubtedly devastating.They had already been knocked out of their wits by the bombardment and firecracker bombardment, how could they have imagined such a thing? !From their point of view, these thousands of people held the hands, as if the gate of hell suddenly opened, and countless Shura evil spirits rushed out of it, screaming and howling, coming to the world to plunder their own blood!

That's pretty cool!

With a cry, these green battalion soldiers finally returned to their original colors.Everyone pushed and shoved all the obstacles that blocked their escape, regardless of whether he was Brother Paoze, officials at all levels, or transportation vehicles, as long as he was in the way of Lao Tzu, they would all go aside!Compared with the gleaming two-foot-long thorns behind him, what is the military cudgel he is about to face?What's more, so many people escape together, the law does not blame everyone!At this moment, many people were in a trance. If the hats on their heads were not blown by the wind and their scalps were a little chilly, they seemed to have returned to the time when they were serving as soldiers under the banner of Ming Dynasty.

They ran forward for less than a mile in a chaotic manner. Many people ran away or the skills of turning into the battlefield had not yet completed their warm-up. Break up and flee with him.The situation on the other side made these defeated soldiers quickly know their current identities. Now you are Qing soldiers, not Ming soldiers anymore!

The hundreds of Eight Banners cavalry who were threatened by the gunfire of the Southern Guangdong Army from the flanks and retreated to the main formation suddenly rushed over from the two wings of the defeated soldiers, cutting off their escape route, and separated them from Meilezhangjing Sasuka and the commander-in-chief. Xu Youxin separated.

Dozens of elite cavalry rode their horses into the ranks of the defeated soldiers, stabbing with the Eight Banners spears and tiger spears in their hands, and immediately splashed dozens of blooming blood flowers in the ranks of the defeated soldiers.The blood, death and violence immediately made these rout soldiers realize that if they run again, they may not be faced with such a simple matter as military sticks, and they may become the chicken for the monkeys.

"Manahai, Alamu!" Sasuka's cold and cruel voice came from his lips.

"The slave is here!"

"Go up with your servants and enforce the military law among the defeated soldiers like Xu Zongbing! All the officers below the sentinel among the defeated soldiers were cut off by Ben Melezhangjing! The rest, those with official positions, each Reward twenty whips, lead the charge! Ordinary soldiers, ten whips each!"

Dozens of heads of officials at all levels were picked up on the tip of the spears by the soldiers of the Eight Banners, and they rode their horses slowly past in front of the soldiers and horses of Xu Youxin's town, in order to let them see what it is to run away. end!

"Back then, I followed the Prince Regent in Tashan, and was able to face Li Huamei's cannon fire. Hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers who dared to fight did not lose the wind. It was because of this combination! Back then, the Prince Regent had something to say, and anyone who retreated would be killed. Which! When the soldiers retreat, they kill the soldiers, and the officers kill the officers when they retreat! This is how we lead slaves like us to guard the dangerous land of Tashan! Let that Li Huamei go away with hatred! Now I will lead you to execute the same set Regulations, what is a mere Shanghai county?!"

I don't know if it's because of the really cold autumn wind and autumn rain, or because of other reasons.Sasu Kamel Zhangjing bragged about his heroic deeds in Tashan on horseback. When he was the first to implement the method of sitting in the green camp, the servants around him found that when Li Huamei and Tashan were mentioned, The master's right leg, which was injured in Tashan, trembled in the stirrup involuntarily.

Stimulated by spears, axes and silver dollars, Xu Youxin completed his team of soldiers who were ashen-faced and looked like a group of mud puppets in less than half a stick of incense, and drove towards Hongqiao Town again.

"Amitabha, Amitabha! It's best for those killers to take advantage of the moment when we were defeated just now, and retreat back to Hongqiao Town. Then we can camp outside the town, rest, have dinner, and wait for the brigade After the men and horses arrive, attack the city again!"

Many soldiers and officials prayed silently in their hearts while marching.

However, things backfired.

When the brigade arrived at the position where the firefight had just started, Wu Changqing had already led the team back.However, they did not retreat into Hongqiao Town, but formed a formation a mile and a half outside the town, just waiting for the arrival of the Qing army!