Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 294 Blood River ([-])

The battle in the northwest corner started suddenly and ended quite abruptly. The whole battle only lasted for more than 40 minutes.However, the casualties caused by the more than 40-minute battle were not small. Not only the Eight Banners warriors suffered more than 100 casualties, but even the militiamen of the Hezhong Security Regiment had more than 30 people who were shot or shot and fell to the ground. Among those who died, there were not a few who were injured.

Under the command of the military medical officer, a group of soldiers from the engineering battalion walked over quickly carrying stretchers, checking the wounds of the fallen soldiers and treating them at the same time.As for the injured Eight Banners warriors, they can only rely on themselves, and the military medical officers don't have time to treat them.

After the battle in the northwest corner came to an end, Mo Ming once again turned his attention back to the battlefield in the southeast corner where he was fighting for the second barbed wire fence.After the fierce gunfire erupted in the northwest corner just now, the barbarians' offensive here suddenly accelerated. They risked their lives and launched the most violent attack since tonight towards the last barbed wire fence.

During this offensive, part of the second barbed wire fence was almost broken through by the barbarians. About a hundred Eight Banners warriors who were in charge of intercepting the enemy's fierce offensive and bloody close-range combat were unable to hold back and collapsed backwards, resulting in About forty savages rushed into the camp.Fortunately, Mo Ming, who saw the situation was wrong at the time, immediately ordered Jiang Zhiqing, the deputy of the Army's 1st Company, who was serving as the reserve team, to bring four platoons of soldiers forward to quickly eliminate the barbarians who broke into the position.

After Jiang Zhiqing rushed over with 84 musketeers, he first fired a volley of guns, and then rushed forward with a bayonet-tipped rifle, stabbing and smashing, and finally wiped out the barbarians who crawled in through the gap.After that, they didn't have time to reload their rifles again. Holding glaring bayonets, they lined up side by side in a tight formation, desperately blocking the barbarians rushing madly out of the barbed wire.It wasn't until Liu Zhong rushed over with dozens of new Eight Banners warriors to take over their positions that Jiang Zhiqing led the soldiers back to the back, unloaded the bayonets, and loaded the rifles.

The battle became more and more intense, and almost when Jiang Zhiqing led his troops to wipe out the barbarians who broke in, another wave of barbarians scattered about seventy or eighty Eight Banners warriors in front of them and rushed into the camp.In desperation, Mo Ming once again ordered a senior platoon leader of the 1st company to rush over to put out the fire with two platoons of riflemen and one platoon of grenadiers.After a volley of guns and bombs, the barbarians who broke through were wiped out again, and the gap was closed again with the help of the Eight Banners warriors who came to support them.

After the two groups of firefighting teams were dispatched, only three platoons of army soldiers led by Chang Kaisheng and a group of staff officers and messengers remained beside Mo Ming, and the situation seemed to suddenly become tense.But fortunately, the ferocious attack just now was the barbarian's last flashback. After the fatal attack, regardless of casualties, failed to achieve the expected effect, the barbarian let out his breath, and the offensive immediately languished.In addition, the barbarians in the northwest corner have also retreated at this moment. The barbarian commander here may only increase casualties if he continues to attack, so he called for withdrawal after making a slight attack. horn horn.

After the horn of withdrawing troops sounded, the barbarians who had attacked like waves before retreated like a tide, leaving only corpses and groaning wounded on the ground.The barbarians retreated, but the people on the east bank did not dare to take it lightly. Except for some soldiers from the supply battalion and engineering battalion who were assisting the military medical officers to search and treat the wounded, all other combat soldiers stood behind the second barbed wire in full formation, dying. Stare ahead.The artillery brothers also began to replace the artillery with explosive bombs, and began to shoot reconnaissance shots at the dark place ahead. Unfortunately, the visibility at this moment is too low, and it is impossible to see what is going on in the distance.

This situation lasted until about 11:30 in the middle of the night. After the barbarians disappeared for nearly two hours, Mo Ming finally ordered the soldiers of the 1st Company of the Army to step forward to take over from the 103rd Company, who had been fighting fiercely for half the night. And the 104th company, so that they can take a breath and take a good rest.As for the soldiers of the Hezhong Security Regiment, the fighting time was relatively short, so Mo Ming didn't let them withdraw, but let them rest on the spot.As for the defense of these two places, the Eight Banners warriors led by Liu Zhong and Mo Wu are in charge.

The military medical officer quickly came over and reported to Mo Ming the battle casualties in the past few hours tonight: "As of eleven o'clock tonight, the Hezhong Security Regiment had 24 dead, 5 wounded and 49 wounded; the 103rd In the 10th company, 3 people were killed, 28 were injured, and 104 were injured; in the 12th company, 4 people were killed, 29 were killed, and 1 were injured; in the 2st company, 1 people were killed, 6 person was injured, and 61 people were injured; A total of 112 people were killed and 80 were injured. About a quarter of the injured were seriously injured and needed emergency surgery or amputation. A considerable number of them may not survive tomorrow, and the final death toll is expected to reach About [-] people. As for the casualties of the Eight Banners warriors, there is still no accurate number, but the approximate number of casualties is more than [-], of which the death toll accounts for about half."

Mo Ming waved his hand, signaling the military medical officer to treat the wounded immediately.The casualties of the people on the east coast actually reached 173 people, which seems to be a palpitating figure. The main reason is that the barbarians also used a large number of musketeers.The Hezhong security regiment, which was directly confronted with them, suffered heavy casualties by surprise. The 78 casualties accounted for nearly half of the total casualties of the East Bank army.

As for the casualties of the Eight Banners warriors, they were selectively ignored by Mo Ming. In the eyes of the generals on the east bank, those servants were cannon fodder that could be sacrificed at any time.Moreover, he hadn't settled the score with Mo Wu and Liu Zhong yet. When the battle reached a critical moment, two groups of Eight Banners warriors in the camp at the southeast corner abandoned their position under the desperate attack of the barbarians, and retreated backwards. Disintegrated, if the Army's 1st Company as a reserve team was not strong enough, maybe those barbarians would have succeeded tonight.How can Mo Ming endure this?

Mo and Liu had confiscated the weapons of the nearly two hundred Eight Banners warriors who were disbanded, and they were placed under separate custody.What awaits them is a lifelong hard labor in the local Changshan hard labor camp, and their property will also be confiscated, and all family members will be reduced to slaves and lowered to the lower two banners.

After dealing with these matters, Mo Ming went to visit the wounded again, soothe their emotions, and commend them for their heroic fighting behavior.After a lot of tossing, it was already past five o'clock in the morning, so Mo Ming simply stopped sleeping and began to write a battle report.After finishing the report, he hurriedly ate a bowl of gruel served by the orderly, and it was already bright outside by this time.

Mo Ming put on her military overcoat, walked out of the camp accompanied by several staff officers, and looked at the battlefield full of corpses in front of her.What a shocking scene this is!The ground within the two barbed wire fences was densely covered with more than one layer of corpses. The number of corpses inside and outside the barbed wire fences was particularly dense. Most of the barbarians were killed by volleys of guns while climbing the barbed wire fences, and a few died. Stabbed by the spear of the Eight Banners warrior.As for the control range of several artillery pieces, it was a hellish scene. Countless barbarians were lying on the ground with holes in their bodies, and some were even beaten into a pile of rotten flesh.The ground is full of stumped limbs and arms, internal organs full of stench, and the heads of barbarians who have died.

Rao Mo Ming had seen bloody scenes on the battlefield many times, but he still seemed extremely uncomfortable after seeing the scene in front of him, and the bowl of rice porridge he just drank was faintly churning in his stomach.And the young trainee staff officers behind him couldn't help bending over and retching there at this moment. Such a scene was too bloody for young people like them who had experienced such a large-scale battle for the first time.

A large amount of blood gathered along the terrain and flowed into the Beg River not far away, dyeing a large area of ​​the river red, as bright and dazzling as a blood river.Mo Ming frowned and took another two steps, then waved and called the persons in charge of the supply battalion and engineering battalion who were in charge of cleaning the battlefield, and told them: "Dispose of the corpse as soon as possible, we don't have much time to waste here, maybe Gundam Fort There is also a fierce fight there now. They have limited troops and urgently need our support. After breakfast and dinner, they immediately set off and set off for Gundam Fort. Go and deal with the corpses, as soon as possible!"

The persons in charge of the supply battalion and the engineering battalion left accordingly. They had to clean up the camp, accommodate the wounded, prepare breakfast, load supplies on board, and clean the battlefield. They didn't have much time to deal with the corpses on the battlefield.After hastily collecting the corpses of their own side, they threw all the densely packed corpses of barbarians into Hanoi, and immediately dyed the river blood red, like a river of blood.

At ten o'clock in the morning on May 1641, 5, the packed east bank army left the camp that had fought fiercely in the middle of the night last night, and continued to march towards the Gundam Fort area in the upper reaches of the Berg River.The total number of barbarian deaths was finally counted. The commander of the supply battalion confirmed to Mo Ming that they and the engineering battalion had thrown about 26 corpses into Hanoi. It is estimated that the final death toll of the barbarians should be around three More than a thousand.

At the same time as the large troops set off, part of the ships of the supply battalion were separated, and many wounded with limited mobility were placed on them.The Hezhong Security Regiment also dispatched 40 soldiers to cooperate with about [-] Eight Banners warriors led by Mo Wu while escorting the [-] Eight Banners rout soldiers who broke up last night, while escorting the boats carrying the wounded to the River Fort downstream. .

(End of this chapter)