A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 270 The Last Battle

In the space between the two earthen walls, there were screaming Qing soldiers everywhere, and most of them fled back like a tide, especially those Eight Banners Mongolian troops who followed behind, all of them ran faster.There were also some people who were blinded by the beating, screaming and not knowing where to run, or finding something to cover it up.

"put!"

The fourth row of firecrackers had already stepped forward to shoot at them, and blood mist appeared from the chests or backs of those fleeing Qing soldiers, and they staggered and fell to the ground.The rest of the people stumbled, abandoned the weapons in their hands, and just wanted to escape from this terrifying place as soon as possible.

However, the mudbags and soil baskets everywhere, or the corpses of soldiers strewn about on the ground, and the blood of stumps and limbs that stepped on from time to time, all made them feel that the ground was so difficult to walk on.Many people were tripped and fell to the ground, and then countless pairs of big feet stepped on them.

The people who were stepped on screamed loudly and struggled to get up, but the big feet that covered their faces continued to step on them until they were speechless, and their heads, faces and bodies were crushed.

The five passages of the first earthen wall were crowded with people, and perhaps people subconsciously walked through the gate.However, there were only five gates, and there were shield cars blocking the way. There were too many Qing soldiers trying to escape, causing the passages to be crowded like sardines in a can, and many people were squeezed to death or trampled to death.

Many shield vehicles in front of the passage were overturned to the ground by the anxious crowd.

There are also more clever Qing soldiers who climbed out of the earthen wall. Looking from the side of the Shunxiang army, they are densely packed with people who climbed the wall.Then the screams and screams continued. It was obvious that the Qing soldiers who climbed the wall fell into the ditch under the wall. The ditch over there was not filled, and the sharp wooden thorns in the deep ditch were hard for them.

Looking at the fleeing Qing soldiers, Wang Dou took a deep breath, looked at Han Zhong and Wen Fangliang beside him, and said lightly, "Let's pursue them!"

Excited expressions appeared on the faces of the two of them, and with a clattering sound, each drew out his saber and sword, and shouted: "Brothers, follow me to kill slaves!"

The shouts sounded, and hundreds of spearmen and shield soldiers of the Shun Township Army chased after the two of them. Seeing them chasing densely, the Qing soldiers inside the earthen wall were even more frightened and panicked. Screaming, rolling and crawling, just trying to escape.

The Shunxiang army kept chasing them, stabbed them with knives and spears, and killed them one by one. Some of the Shunxiang army stumbled.However, those Qing soldiers had no heart to resist. They either screamed and ran for their lives, or knelt down and begged for mercy. None of them dared to turn back and fight.

Han Zhong was so excited that he stepped on a pile of bloody and slippery large intestines, which had frozen in the severe cold weather, like stepping on watermelon peels or banana peels, Han Zhong lunged forward, just in time He threw himself on a vest of the Qing army inlaid with a white flag.

The waistcoat got some weight from somewhere, screamed and threw off Han Zhong's body, like a divine help, got up and did a series of hurdle movements, and then rushed over the dirt wall that was one person tall for him, he jumped over Behind the earth wall, there was a loud noise outside, and I don't know what happened.

"Fresh goods, run fast..."

With the support of the guards beside him, Han Zhong got up in embarrassment and continued to lead the chase.Soon there were not many Qing soldiers inside the earth wall, and then a large number of Shunxiang troops chased out of the earth wall, chased and killed the defeated Qing soldiers, and drove them to attack the formation behind them.

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Han Zhong and Wen Fangliang pursued and killed them, but Wang Dou led the firecrackers still behind the second earthen wall.

There was a strong smell of gunpowder smoke and blood in his nose, and Wang Dou exhaled thick white air. He looked outside the wall, and there were corpses of Qing soldiers in different shapes between the two earthen walls. on the ground, or lying on a mudbag soil basket.

More remains of the Qing army smashed by artillery, accompanied by pools of blood on the ground.Like the corpses of the Qing army, they all froze quickly and stiffened in the cold winter.

Those helmets, weapons, and flags are scattered everywhere, look at their dense bodies...

"There should be more than 1000 Tartar soldiers killed..."

Wang Dou heard the soft discussions of the officers beside him.

"This bonu thief has lost a lot."

At some point, Lu Xiangsheng came to Wang Dou's side, his face was very exciting, and his Chinese army general Chen An was also breathing hard.

They looked further away. Over there, Wen Fangliang and Han Zhongji had chased and killed them far away from the earthen wall, and the Qing troops retreated like a tidal wave.

"It's almost done, let's call back Mingjin."

Wang Dou muttered to himself, and then said to Lu Xiangsheng: "Minister, the slaves have suffered such a setback, they must have become angry from embarrassment. The general thought that I would be ready to retaliate against their artillery bombardment..."

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This wave of attacks consisted of most of the troops of Zhengbai Banner and Xiangbai Banner, Jiala, and a part of the Eight Banners Mongolian army.After Jialazhangjing of the Two White Banners drove most of the Alihachaoha battalion soldiers into the earthen wall, everything went smoothly at first, and the two of them and the rest of the Qing soldiers were about to enter the earthen wall.

Afterwards, they heard the thunderous sound of artillery and firecrackers, and they were in a state of panic when they saw a large number of soldiers in Jiala running back in terror, especially the Mongolian army who shouted the loudest.They chopped down several rout soldiers, but they couldn't stop their rout posture.

As more people escaped, they also had to run back for their lives.After those Shunxiang troops chased them out, they collapsed even more, scrambling to escape to the back.

A hundred or so paces away from their army formation, there were two white flags and two Jiala Manchu and Mongolian troops lined up. They were not polite when they saw them fleeing back, and densely packed archers shot Boboli arrows at them. Those who dared to attack their army formation were shot to the ground.

Those rout soldiers came to their senses and fled to both sides. What's more, the sound of Ming Jin's retreat came from the Ming army formation, and the fatal rout slowly stopped.

In the large formation of the Qing army two miles away from the earthen wall, Duo Duo, Dorgon and the others were dumbfounded after seeing the situation ahead and hearing the emergency military report. Laughed abnormally, with tears in his smile: "What a Wang Dou, what a Wang Dou!"

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In front of the whole army, Dorgon cut off the heads of the two Zhengbai Banners and Xiangbai Banner Jialazhangjing who had fled, and hundreds of deserters, all put them in cloth bags and trampled to death with horseshoes.Looking at everyone with ashen faces, he said coldly: "Taking down the Xuan camp of the Ming Dynasty and beheading Wang Dou is today!"

Led by Dorgon's weaving golden dragon banner, the densely packed Qing army banners in the big formation advanced all the way to one mile. The two Hongyi 24-pound guns and the two Hongyi [-]-pound guns in his formation were even more powerful. near bombardment.

Wang Dou could clearly see the formation of the Qing army. He discussed with Lu Xiangsheng and made up his mind to stick to the second trench wall. After the Qing army came in, he would concentrate his firepower and inflict the greatest damage on them. See who bleeds more. Who can stick to the end.

After the Qing army advanced for a mile, it seemed that more people were transferred to the two wings, and they continued to attack like a tide. In addition, their artillery began to continuously fire at the Shunxiang army's position.

Dozens of large and small iron balls roared towards each wave, shaking like the earth, and the two hard earth walls were constantly being smashed down by dozens of kilograms of iron balls.The mudbags and soil baskets in between were thrown into the air by the blow, and the soil in the middle was flying, accompanied by pieces of cloth and wooden strips.

The flying dust was still mixed with thick blood mist. The corpses of the Qing soldiers were constantly being carried up by the shells, and blood flew from their stumps.

The roaring artillery shells kept hitting the tents, more tents were knocked down, more tanks in the core defense line were smashed, and the food and supplies inside were damaged.There are also more and more medical casualties.Nowhere seemed safe.

Behind the second earth wall of the Shun Township Army, besides the earth bags and baskets piled up on the ground, during the interval between the Qing army firing artillery, all the sergeants also desperately dug trenches, digging one after another in the camp, and then many sergeants hid in the camp. go inside.Of course, it also depends on luck. If the iron ball hits the body on the spot, there is no way to hide in the trench.

The two Hongyi 24-pound guns and the two Hongyi [-]-pound guns of the Qing army fired artillery continuously, wave after wave, and roughly every three waves stopped for a quarter of an hour to let the guns cool down. Obviously, the gunners of the Qing army over there were sensible. .

As Lu Xiangsheng's command chariot, the Yuanrong chariot has been smashed, and the watch pole chariot is still there, but the standard bearer of the Shunxiang Army on Diao Dou is constantly sweating. The place fell, he was afraid...

Although there were earth walls, mud bags and baskets, and trenches to block them, the soldiers of the Shunxiang Army and the Supervising Biao Battalion suffered few casualties, but the psychological pressure was too great.If the roaring iron ball hit someone, it would be better to die on the spot.

Wang Dou and Lu Xiangsheng hid behind the second earthen wall, watching the shells roaring past their heads, and couldn't help being frightened.What worried them even more was the military situation on the two wings. There were shouts of killing one after another, and they didn't know if Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei on the two wings could resist the onslaught of the Qing army.

Finally, the artillery of the Qing army stopped. Wang Dou estimated that each of their artillery had fired more than [-] cannons, and they should stop for half an hour to dissipate heat, otherwise the Hongyi cannons would explode.

Wang Dou and Lu Xiangsheng stood up, seeing a mess in front of them, and heard the sound of the Qing army's war drums, and loud shouts ahead, it seemed that all the Qing soldiers in front were charging, and they rushed towards the Shunxiang army's defense line like a tide.

Seeing the black crowd ahead, Wang Dou took a deep breath, Dorgon wouldn't put all his troops on it, would he?

Lu Xiangsheng beside him said quietly: "Guoqin, life and death, today, it seems that the slaves want to destroy us and are willing!
His tone was very calm, and his face was full of determination.

Wang Dou hadn't spoken yet, but he heard the cries of killing from both wings getting louder and louder. Suddenly, a soldier of Yang Guozhu rushed over covered in blood, and reported anxiously to Lu Xiangsheng: "Mr. Come in, Yang Junmen and General Guo are in a bloody battle with the enemy, and the last general is in the camp and urgently needs reinforcements."

Wang Dou was startled: "Xuanfu's general Zhang Yan died in battle?"

At the same time, Hu Zichen, the general of Hu Dawei's middle army, rushed over and said urgently to Lu Xiangsheng: "Minister, the large right-wing slaves are pouring in, and my battalion is not strong enough, please help me quickly. "

Lu Xiangsheng suddenly said to Wang Dou: "Guoqin, I will leave this place to you. The governor will personally lead the army to support the two wings."

Wang Dou held him back desperately: "Minister, I will be able to mobilize some troops to support at the end, so you don't have to go to the dangerous place yourself!"

The crowds of people around the camp poured in, and a blunt Chinese voice rang out: "Kill Wangdou, kill Wangdou, kill Wangdou..."

(End of this chapter)