Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 439 Bloody Battle in the Trench

In history, the capital was captured. When Huang Taiji died violently and the slaves were leaderless, it was Dorgon who quickly stabilized the political situation and jointly supported Emperor Shunzhi. A series of big events, the characteristics of its people are decisive and ruthless.

The same is true for Dorgon in this battle. He didn't get a bargain the day before, but his morale was low. In just one day, Dorgon changed his tactics. Those captured civilians were directly driven out of the barracks and replaced with heavy chariots , holding the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty with the scull shield, charged to the front line.

This time it was real. Tens of thousands of people pushed the chariots and shouted forward. Relying on the cover of the chariots, flying sand and rocks quickly filled the trenches dug by the beggar army. This time, the entry was extremely fast. , Waiyan another trench was filled.

The effect of the sniper this time is much worse. Although there are still some stupid Jiannu who show their heads and get sniped from time to time, but squatting in the pit and aiming upward at the tall chariot, it is obviously much worse, and the target with only a little head exposed It was also much smaller, and among the slave-building army, the shouts of raising the flag never stopped. Even if someone was killed by a headshot, the progress of filling the trench never stopped.

Staying on the bastion and looking down, Song Qingshu couldn't help frowning. He planned to lure the Jiannu to the bottom of the bastion and give them a hard time. The trench will be lost sooner or later, but it can't be thrown like this. so easy.

While he was hesitating, there were gunshots and curses suddenly heard among the soldiers scattered in the ditch. Song Qingshu was startled, looking down through the binoculars, he broke out in a cold sweat.

The forward assault army gave up the trench position. I don’t know when some Jiannu sneaked in. Just now, a few Jiannu attacked the snipers who were concentrating on aiming. Looking at his partner on the back, he fired a warning shot in advance. According to the skill of the front-running army, except for one who was caught off guard and suffered some injuries, the remaining four Jiannu were all sent to the west by revolvers and bayonets.

After hesitating for a while, Song Qingshu put his foot on Liu Zongmin's ass who was dozing off while standing aside with squinting eyes.

"Old Liu, you go! Protect the sniper!"

Unintentionally, Song Qingshu created the second largest trench warfare in the history of the East. The largest trench warfare in history was World War I. The tactics used to deal with the machine gun, the artifact of World War I, are now hundreds of years earlier. It was applied to the land of Daming.

The Hongyi cannons that I wanted to keep until the end were fired. After all, the tiger crouching cannons were too light to penetrate Jiannu's heavy chariots that were specially used to defend against Ming army weapons. In the Jiannu car camp many meters away, in the trench several miles long, the assault soldiers of the Qihuo army's skirmish line also fought a bloody battle under the cannon with the Jiannu who broke into the trench.

There are cannons above the head shooting back and forth, aiming at the snipers of the beggar army, Jiannu actually assembled a bow and arrow sniper team, I have to admire that the skill of the eagle hunters in the old forests of Liaodong is also extraordinary, the trenches Here, a sergeant of the Qihuo army showed his head slightly, and that was an arrow. Jiannu's arrow was fast, hard and poisonous, and many soldiers of the Qihuo army were also shot in the head.

Trench warfare is really extremely cruel. Only one person can stand in the narrow width of less than one meter. Once the two sides confront each other, they can only fight until one side falls, with teammates behind them, and there is no room to escape.And here, the bayonet that Song Qingshu placed high hopes on and Jiannu's Pudao, the two-handed machete is not very useful, because the space is too small, the wheel cannot be opened, and the bayonet can only stab forward. If you can't stab someone, the other party will be slashed at the head with a big knife, and you will confess here.

In one day, 500 people from the begging army were left in the trenches dug by themselves, and the corpses even piled up the trenches.

It was another kind of guy that Song Qingshu didn't expect to make a fortune.

On the third day of the decisive battle, two-thirds of the ditch had been paved, and the soldiers of the two armies were crowded in a narrower space to confront each other. The blood gushing out flowed like a stream at the bottom of the ditch. With the sound of fighting, the blood vessels on Song Qingshu's forehead twitched, and the binoculars were pressed down, just in time to see Liu Zongmin who went into battle in person.

Jiannu's big knife on the opposite side is more than one meter long, and it can't turn sideways at all, so he can only hold it high and chop it off from Tianling Gai. With a bang, it just hit the guy in Liu Zongmin's hand. Throwing it away, the guy in his hand slammed his head directly on Jianu's head, but when he heard a click, his head parted, and the man rolled his eyes and twitched before falling heavily to the ground.

I didn't expect my comrades in arms to die so quickly. The Jiannu behind him didn't even have time to react, and his jaw was smashed from bottom to top by another guy. Then Liu Zongmin swept all the way like a tank, and there were six Jiannu. They were all knocked down to the ground by him alone, and the beggar army soldiers behind only had time to make up for the survivors with bayonets.

Seeing this scene, Song Qingshu heaved a sigh of relief, and at the same time, he turned his head and said to the military clerk: "Make a note, there will be trench warfare in the future, let the soldiers change into engineering shovels!"

Liu Zongmin's appearance in person was just a prelude to this cruel trench warfare, and he was immediately brought back by Song Qingshu, begging for a job as a deputy commander. If he died in such a forward battle, it would be a blow to morale. It's very big, if you want to die, you have to wait until the battlefield heats up!

But immediately, the commandos of the Beggar Army who charged in front all replaced the inoperable firecrackers with the length of an arm. It was originally distributed as an engineering shovel for digging fortifications. Although this thing is not as sharp as a knife, it is also forged from fine steel. Yes, it can be cut or stabbed in a small space, and when two sides confront each other, Jiannu's big knife is often pushed away with a shovel, and then he can cut Jiannu's head with a side chop like Liu Zongmin.

Fighting in the trench until the morning of the third day, the trench position of the beggar army that was several miles long was finally filled. In the last section of the trench, the Ming army on the opposite side fled in embarrassment into the gap between the bastion and the earth hills. , the most elite soldiers of the Gebush Xianhachao Battalion under his command were weakly chasing and killing them with knives in their hands. Dorgon didn't have the slightest joy of victory, but his cheeks twitched violently.

Even with Lu Xiangsheng, the majestic Minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty, at the most intense moment of the decisive battle, in hand-to-hand combat, the Jurchen soldiers could fight three at a time. In just three days, in the invisible underground trench warfare, even the Manchu forward battalion lost more than 700 yuan. For the first time, in close hand-to-hand combat, the Jianzhou soldiers actually lost to the Ming army.

This is definitely not a good sign for the famous Jianzhou Jurchen!
Moreover, the elusive Ming army musketeers only picked officers to attack. These days, more than 60 Zuo Ling who commanded the front line were killed in battle. Even Niu Lu was killed immediately after he replaced the new Zuo Ling. Tricks, it will not be an overnight effort to cultivate them once they are gone.

Fortunately, they were finally forced under the wall of the opponent's village. Although the piles of earth and mountains on the opponent's side were quite novel and solid, they were able to block the bombardment of the Hongyi cannon for three full days, but in Dorgon's view, no Ming army could be defeated The Qing army did not collapse when they reached the bottom of the camp. Even the Shanhaiguan General Soldier Du Song, who was known as the strongest Ming army at the time, was killed by Lao Khan's elite soldiers and fled. Almost the entire army was wiped out.

Seeing that under the earth mountain, Ming Gouzi on the opposite side hastily carried out the wood to seal the gap between the bastions, with a sneer at the corner of his mouth, Dorgon personally grabbed the purple gold carving bow that threatened to shoot Sun Chengzong to death. A loud arrow shot out with a whistling sound, and immediately shouted impassionedly in Manchu language.

"Break through Minggou's camp and capture Sun Chengzong alive!"

The twelve cowhide army drums were beaten by the strong men almost at the same time. Following the shouts, almost the entire army of the post-slave army who had been watching the excitement for more than three days was mobilized. Qi roared at the Qihuo army bastion, and countless projectiles roared and smashed hard on the bastion. Shooting off, more than a dozen begging army soldiers were hit by the dense rain of bullets, screaming and falling from the wall.

Immediately after the shelling, the charging team reached the bottom of the hill. Dozens of ladders were lifted and lay on the slope. Immediately, soldiers from the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty climbed up like ants biting their knives. Underneath, they carried large logs. More than a dozen sergeants screamed and slammed into the wooden door blocked by the Ming army blocking the gap between the earth and mountains. The sound of cracking and cracking continued. Dorgon watched with sharp eyes like a falcon. He couldn't help but waved his fist fiercely excitedly.

"it is good!"

"Congratulations to Lord Baylor, just wait and see to destroy the army and kill the general!"

Fan Wencheng on the side also showed a flattering smile, clasped his fists and clapped, Bao Chengxian also wanted to clap a few words, but the cannon shook his ears sorely, he grinned and couldn't laugh.

However, at this time in general wars, they basically ended with the defeat of the Ming army. None of the more than ten Jiala Ezhen and Gushan Banner masters in the upper class of Jiannu doubted it.

Not to mention, even Song Qingshu himself was hit by Jiannu's sudden burst of firepower. He was under the banner of Sun Tzu, and a soldier threw him to the ground, his ears were buzzing. It took a while to get up.

Patting the dust off his body in embarrassment, he lowered his head to look at the gap in the corner of the bastion, seeing the Jiannu rolling infantry rushing in fiercely, Song Qingshu couldn't help grinning obscenely, and sighed with his mouth.

"Tsk tsk, the rush is quite fierce!"

At this time, holding swords, shields and long spears, shouting the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, one by one the Jurchen infantry who dreamed of leading Ezhenzuo and stepped into the ranks of the nobles rushed into the inner camp of the beggar army through the gap, but they were addicted to Xue Xue's smile immediately froze on his face.

Along both sides of the gap, the beggar army also used sacks to form a low wall, showing a big bell mouth. Behind the bell mouth was the barricade, and there were six rows of beggar army gunmen holding their heavy fire guns insidiously. He also squinted one eye.

"Fire!"

(End of this chapter)