Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 201

On the artillery position west of Fuldan City, five D30-122 howitzers fired three quick shots, and then extended their shots according to Zhao Xin's request. This time, the range increased by 200 meters, and eight quick shots!
In the forest 500 meters away, when the Qing army led by Ushi Hada was bombarded four times, the Vanguard Battalion and the Chinese Army immediately exploded!Thousands of war horses collided and trampled on each other because they were frightened and out of control, neighing bursts.

Wu Shihada and other generals comforted their subordinates, while ordering: "The whole army stops! This is the enemy of ten thousand people planted by the thieves!"

(According to the Ming Dynasty's "Chi Hai Tu Bian", "Military Training Records-Miscellaneous", "Wu Bei Zhi" and other books, as of the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there were more than ten kinds of landmines used by the Ming army. According to the detonation method, There are combustion, pulling, tripping, machine-fired, etc. In addition to single-shot mines, there are also group-fired mines that use fuzes to control explosions; "child-mother mines" that detonate several child mines through the explosion of the mother mine. According to the combat If necessary, landmines can be placed on vehicles, in buildings or carried by animals.)
When the soldiers calmed down a bit and were busy calming the horses, putting out the flames, and preparing to treat the wounded, accompanied by the roar from a distance, there were waves of whistling in the sky again.

"boom!"

"My mother! Still coming!"

"Run! This is not the enemy of ten thousand people, it is thunder from the sky!" A few gunners of the artillery battalion of the Qing Army were the first to wake up and ran away.

The first to break up was the "retired barbarian army" following the artillery battalion.They were overwhelmed by the explosion and people yelling in front of them. Seeing the Qing army running back yelling in front, they also fled in all directions.

Although these urgently recruited border residents have undergone certain training, they are not professional soldiers after all; in addition, their supplies and treatment are different from those of the Eight Banners, and their fighting will is naturally different.In the eyes of these frontier residents, God is thundering now, what a fart!Hurry up and sneak home with the food on horseback!Fuke Jinge and Tasha, the co-leaders in charge of these archers, took a few soldiers and shouted loudly, trying to stop the rout.But seeing more and more casualties caused by the explosion, the two also understood that the situation was out of control, so they fled south with the rebels!

This is like putting a scumbag and a scumbag at the same table. In the end, not only did the boss not bring Mengxin, but the two skipped classes together.As the "teacher in charge", Fukang'an would have gone mad on the spot if he knew
In the Chinese army where Ushhada was, Xiaoqi, a soldier holding a flag, was holding the reins with one hand, trying to appease the horse under him; but two explosions sounded in succession tens of meters away, making his horse completely out of control.When he was hit hard by another frightened horse, Xiaoqi, who was holding the flag, flew forward from the horse and broke his neck.

In the flames and smoke, those Qing soldiers who were lying on the ground to avoid the explosion looked up and saw the flag of the Chinese Army suddenly disappeared, and they were shocked: "Wujunmen was killed! Everyone, run!"

The Eastern Front troops of the Qing army were in complete chaos!
At this time, Dai Sanbao and Guanbao, the guards' leaders, disregarded their own safety, stood up from their horses, and shouted loudly at the fleeing men, trying to prevent them from breaking up.As the chief and deputy commanders of the Firearms Battalion, Dai Sanbao and Guanbao's scolding didn't help. Yaerjiang A of the artillery battalion shouted dissuasion with Dai Sanbao at first, but it didn't work even if his voice was hoarse.Yaerjiang's heart fluttered, and he squatted on the horse's back. He even mixed into the fleeing crowd and disappeared without a trace.

The main general, Ush Hada, could not be found, and all he could see were fleeing soldiers.Dai Sanbao was so desperate that he drew out the Yanling Saber from his waist and was about to commit suicide when a shell exploded beside him, and Dai Sanbao flew into the sky amidst the flames and the exploding soil.

The deputy guard officer Bao saw that Dai Sanbao was dead, and he no longer wanted to regroup. He put his legs between the horse's belly and fled eastward with his own soldiers.

"Wan Sheng! Wan Sheng!"

Up and down the walls of Fuldan City, accompanied by the sound of cannons, the cheers of thousands of people in Beihai Town were louder and louder.Chen Qingsong, who heard the news, went up to the top of the city and asked Zhao Xin, "Do we need to send militiamen to attack?"

Zhao Xin shook his head and said: "Fukang'an's brigade has not arrived yet, and besides, there are Wang Yuanfang and the others in the south. Ask the militiamen to strengthen their vigilance. According to what we said before, if the enemy approaches, they will shoot at 150 meters away!"

After Zhao Xin finished speaking, he went down the city wall, arrived at Chen Qingsong's logistics headquarters, and notified Liu Sheng.

"Contact Wang Yuanfang immediately and order them to dispatch! Take Mongolian Karen within two hours and cut off the Qing army's escape route to the south!"

"Understood! I'll notify him right away!" Liu Sheng on the phone should have overcome the dull state before, and answered with a very forceful voice.

The Qing army brigade on the southern front heard the rumbling guns from six or seven miles to the north, and thought it was Ush Hada who had begun to attack the city, so they began to shout excitedly.

One of the team leaders complained: "This Wushi Hada, what a fucking chicken with eggs in his ass, hurry up!"

As the deputy, Zuo Ling said with a smile: "I reckon he wants to take down Fuldan City first, and let Marshal Fu reward him for his credit."

The ginseng stared, and said disdainfully: "I really don't look down on him, just rely on him? Grandma!"

The two were talking when they heard the sound of horseshoes behind them, and when they turned their heads, they saw an orderly running past the team holding an order flag, shouting: "The commander-in-chief has an order, the whole army is two miles away. Array!"

Zuo Ling was surprised: "It's too early to line up now, isn't it?"

"Shut up! This is the commander's order, how can you question it!"

At this time, Fukang'an knew that the Eastern Front had already started, and finally made up his mind to give it a go.While constantly sending scouts from the vanguard battalion to the north, he also sent messengers to contact Du Erjia in the western camp and Ush Hada in the eastern camp. Arrayed three miles outside the city.

The big formation Fukang'an put up is the famous "nine advances and ten chains".

In the 29th year of Kangxi (1690), Kangxi, who was personally conquered by the royal driver, ordered Prince Fuquan of Heshuo to lead [-] soldiers, plus auxiliary soldiers and logistics civilian husbands, to camp [-] miles away from Ulan Butong due to illness. Array.

Since the production of muskets by the Qing army at that time was still at the level of the late Ming Dynasty, it was really not an opponent of the Junggar army who held Tsarist Russian firearms, and suffered heavy losses, even Tong Guogang died in battle.After that, the Qing army stopped attacking at all, and listed the "nine advances and ten serial formations" at the foot of the mountain, and started to bombard the Galdan southern invading army with cannon fire.In the end, the battle ended when the Galdan Department ran out of ammunition.

The ones who came to the forefront of the formation at this time were the firearms battalions stationed in the Eight Banners from all over the country.There are 458 people in each battalion, and such formations are arranged in a staggered manner, a total of 9200, with a total of [-] people.

Each battalion is divided into three divisions, and there are three flags in the formation.

There are 110 antlers behind each flag, [-] shield carts behind the antlers, [-] musketeers in cotton armor, and two rope guides on each side (responsible for keeping the fire and helping the musketeers to light the match).On both sides of the leading rope soldiers, there are twenty pike soldiers and twenty flail and stick soldiers.On the left and right sides of the flail and stick soldiers, there are five cannons of General Shengong, and each cannon is in charge of three gunners.On both sides of the cannon, there are [-] Xiao cavalry and [-] shotgun cavalry.

There are also three leaders who are responsible for raising the flag, three Xiaoqi, one officer who follows the banner, two leaders, and twenty Xiaoqi.Secondly, there are 15 people who participate in leading the five flags and hold the flags.On two sides of the red flag, there are two leaders holding the flags; ten Xiaoqi in charge of ringing gold, four cotton-armored soldiers carrying drums, two Xiaoqi playing drums, and thirteen Xiaoqi playing the conch.In addition, there are two dutongs, one deputy for each banner, two ginseng leaders, five Sanzhi officials, two envoys, and seven Xiaoqi schools.

Behind the front line of the first row of firearms battalion is the second row with the vanguard battalion in the center and the bow-handling row of the retreating barbarians.

In addition, a group of civilian men drove a cart to the back of the second column of Qing troops, unloaded a lot of wood from the cart, and began to build a high platform with ping-pong-pong.

Two hours later, when the 2370 battalions of the Qing army formed a long snake formation 160 meters long and [-] meters deep on the vast plain in front of the two castles, all the officers and soldiers of Beihai Town, including Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng, All look silly!
On the west side, Liu Sheng smeared cool oil on the big bump on his forehead that hadn't faded, and said in amazement: "I'll go! I'll go~! I really want to play with guns and cannons!"

In the trenches on the southern line, Sheng Haizhou Heping looked at the opposite, and praised: "It's really worthy of the powerful army of the Celestial Dynasty! It's a pity that I met the lord."

Pingtai said: "After this battle, will we be able to live in peace for a while?"

Sheng Haizhou said: "It's hard to say, I think the lord must have his own plans. Lu Shoushan and the others will bring back many refugees from Henan. Pingtai, when I think that the lord's foundation will grow even stronger, my blood boils!"

Pingtai said: "Yes, at the beginning of last year, we were still struggling to survive on Xiong Island. Who would have thought that this would be the case!"

Sheng Haizhou put down the binoculars and nodded, "Yes! Our Beihai Town is invincible!"

Ding Guofeng didn't speak for a long time, thinking that these two idiots were going hysterical again.
On the east side, Zhao Xin stood at the top of the city, holding up his binoculars, and said in surprise, "Damn it! Take a quick look, Old Chen, seeing is better than hearing a hundred things!"

Chen Qingsong looked at the tyrannical situation on the opposite side, and sighed: "It would be great if it could be maintained forever in history! It's a pity!"

Liu Siting also ran to the top of the city, looked at it with a telescope, and said, "Why is there no handsome guy?"

Zhao Xin and Chen Qingsong: "."

"Boom~!" Zhao Xin and the others were taken aback. After Mao Yao shrank his head, he saw a faint cloud of white smoke rising in the distance, and then heard the sound coming from the Qing army formation opposite. There was a sound of drums and horns.

Liu Siting asked curiously, "What is this for?"

Zhao Xin shook his head and said, "I don't quite understand either. The sound just now should be the letter gun, and the coach should have come out."

Having said that, Zhao Xin leaned on the wall, pointed to the high platform in the distance with a smile, and said to Liu Siting: "The emoji pack is here!"

"Who are you talking about?"

"Erkang, it's Fukang'an." After Zhao Xin finished speaking, he learned the lines of the TV series and said, "Ah! Ziwei, you can't have more than me, because I'm already full!"

Liu Siting said with a look of disdain: "Huh~~ It's disgusting!"

Zhao Xin pursed his lips and said, "I don't cooperate at all. If your doctor Hong is here, you should say 'You are full, then I will come out!'"

"Uh~! Man you big-headed ghost!"

At this time, after the formation of the Qing army, with the sound of a battalion letter cannon, and amidst the sound of drums and horns, Fukang'an's sedan chair, escorted by hundreds of Chinese army guards, came to the handsome platform that had been set up. .A horse-riding general following the sedan chair held a five-foot-long, square golden cloud python flag, surrounded by flame patterns; .This is the banner used by Fukang'an.If this battle is won, the flag will be put into Ziguang Pavilion for preservation after the victory.

And another ginseng held high a large yellow flag more than ten feet wide, with a big "handsome" written in Manchu and Chinese characters in the middle; the flag was crowned with a golden wooden gourd top, and a blue streamer was added. .

In addition, there is a rectangular banner more than ten feet high, which reads "Imperial order to co-organize the bachelor, the first-class Jiayonghou, the prince Taibao, the imperial minister, and Jilin general Fu."

The car curtain shook, and Fukang'an came out from inside.

"See you, Commander!" Under the commander's stage, hundreds of Dutongs, Deputy Dutongs, generals, and co-leaders all raised their hands and saluted Fukang'an with their chests flat.

"Excuse me." Fukang'an looked as usual, and he asked Fu Ming'a, the commander of the Qianfeng Battalion: "How is the situation of the thief?"

"Commander! The thieves dug a four-mile-long trench under the city of Fuldan, as well as the side of the city of Jurgen. Now they are all huddled in it and dare not go out. According to the bid, they sent people to investigate, and there seemed to be only 2000 or [-] people on the other side. look."

"It's just a group of jumping clowns, relying on the sharpness of their guns. Our Qing Dynasty soldiers are invincible!" All the generals smiled when they heard this.

Fukang'an knew very well that morale could not be discouraged, so he deliberately showed contempt for Beihai town in his words.As for the news of Duerjia's defeat, only a few people such as Chengdu General E Hui know about it.

He has not closed his eyes since last night, thinking about launching a general attack almost all night.The sand table map around Fuldan City can flash in front of your eyes as soon as you close your eyes, and you can vividly remember it.Last night he held the candle and looked at it again and again. The closer the morning was, the more irritable he felt; the excitement was mixed with tension and anticipation, and there was also a trace of anxiety.

Unexpectedly, the news of Du Erjia's retreat came in the morning, which made him feel even more uneasy.The army of 500 people was defeated. Is it because Duerjia is too incompetent, or is the opponent good at magic?Is it really like what Fu Ming said, that Zhao Xin only has 2000 people under his command?This is too appalling.

Fukang'an withdrew his chaotic thoughts, cupped his fists facing south, and said to the generals: "The emperor has a night of clothes and food, and conquers the eight banners of the world. This is a great man's meritorious service. He serves the society and the emperor, and he will never lose Jin Ou! Today If this imperial food cannot be destroyed, Fukang'an will only have a dead body to repay this kindness!" ""

"I dare not die!"

"E Hui, Shu Liang, Pu'erpu, Mu Keden'a, Fu Ming'a, follow me to the commander's platform to watch the enemy! Everyone else, go back to the camp and wait for orders!"

"tie!"

The handsome platform is built on a slightly arched soil slope, more than six meters high, and the area on the platform is only eight or nine square meters.Inside the railing, in addition to the place where the big flag is placed, there is also a grand master's chair covered with tiger skin.

When the three banners were hoisted on the commander's platform, tens of thousands of soldiers shouted amidst the thunderous drum music: "Wan Sheng! Wan Sheng! Wan Sheng!"

Everyone went to the handsome stage, Fukang'an took the binoculars passed behind him, and looked at the opposite side.

Fu Ming stretched out his finger and said, "Look, Commander. The thieves dug two ditches more than four miles long in the west and south of the two cities, and soldiers were hidden in them. There are some strange things behind the ditches." Facilities, the subordinates don’t even know what it is.”

In the field of view of the binoculars, I can only see that the ditches on the opposite side have been dug in zigzags, and there are crowds of people inside.Fukangan noticed that some thieves stuck out their upper bodies from the trench and were looking at him.

Following Fu Ming'a's fingers, he noticed that there were six strange buildings without roofs on the two wings of the opposite position.These buildings are only half a circle surrounded by two mud walls, and there are quite wide gaps in the front and back; the gap between the two dark pipes protrudes from the mud walls, facing directly to our side.In addition, there are some weapons that seem to be carrying guns erected behind the trenches; it is noticeable that a light brown shield is installed in front of those carrying guns.This should be the kind of quick-firing cannon that Qitai mentioned. The power of firing can knock hundreds of kilograms of blunderbuss into the air.

Fukang'an put down his clairvoyance, and ordered viciously: "No matter what, let the cannon speak first! Send the order! All the generals cannon fire one round!"

(End of this chapter)