The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 149 Bloody Boy

Just now, Ha Feng'a, the only remaining senior officer of the Qing army, was leading the crowd to fight for the city gate. He saw the Ming army attacking, but there was no one to command at the pass.The city guards panicked and shot all kinds of firecrackers and crossbows down the ridge indiscriminately, where there was no accuracy.

In addition, Murima lent all the cannons in the pass to Tong Peng to attack and suppress the rebels. At this time, there are only two cannons available in Xianxia Pass, and one of them can only shoot from a distance due to the fixed angle.

Therefore, although the hussars of the Dragon Guards paid a lot of losses at the pass, there were still people rushing into the city gate along the path in front of the pass.

The spring wheel guns held by the hussars were very convenient in hand-to-hand combat. Dozens of people following Zhao Shichao raised their hands to form a row of guns.

The ten people who fought for the door together with Zheng Chenggong were all covered in blood. At this moment, the enemy army was slightly defeated. Only then did they realize that there was a large group of troops behind them, and their hearts were relieved, and they were already on the verge of collapse.

Afterwards, hussars continued to rush into the city gate, each with two spring-wheeled blunderbusses, and they also raised the blunderbuss unceremoniously and fired.

The barbarian army and Zheng Chenggong and others stalemate for a long time. It was the time when they were restless and impatient, and there was no one to restrain the command. Unprepared, they were directly shot by firecrackers. When Zhao Shichao led the crowd to fight with swords, they began to disperse as soon as they fought retreat.

Zhao Shichao knew that his men were not many, so he didn't continue to rush forward. He ordered people to put the horses and other objects near the city gate on the inside, and picked up the blunderbuss, bows and crossbows left by the Qing army. Put down the defensive posture.

Sure enough, several groups of Qing troops attacked later, but Zhao Shichao led less than [-] soldiers in his department to defend desperately, repelled the enemy's successive attacks, and remained firmly in the urn city, trying not to lose the city gate.

Two quarters of an hour later, another large group of people arrived outside Xianxia Pass.Zhao Shichao looked down the ridge, and saw a row of dazzling fire flashing, followed by the roar of fierce artillery.

Originally, the artillery of the Dragon Guard Army, which had been fully equipped with artillery, was extremely mobile. Under the emergency of the military situation, all six-pound guns were dragged by twice as many horses, and the road south of Xianxia Pass was relatively smooth. The artillery battalion was therefore the second to arrive on the battlefield after the hussars.

Although most of the shells landed on the stone wall of Xianxia Pass, the terrifying momentum of the artillery salvo and the few shells that hit the Qing army's camp in the pass still caused great panic.

The soldiers guarding the pass knew that the city gate had been lost. At this time, more than a dozen cannons appeared under the ridge and bombarded them continuously, and their morale quickly dropped to freezing point.

There were fewer and fewer people standing on the pass, and after a while, even closing the only cannon failed.

The dragoon battalion then also entered the city. The flintlocks they were equipped with were obviously more suitable for infantry combat. Cooperating with Zhao Shichao's troops, hundreds of people quickly wiped out the enemy troops on the horse path and rushed to the top of the city.

Xia Fu first led the dragoons to advance in salvo all the way.The fighting spirit of the Qing army guarding the pass had long been slackened, and there was no one to organize resistance at all, and the sporadic counterattacks were immediately suppressed by dense volleys of flintlocks.

By the time Liu Guoxuan's infantry battalion arrived at Xianxia Pass, the battle on the pass had basically ended, and the walls were filled with the flags of the Dragon Guards.

Liu Guoxuan's troops were immediately dragged by Chen Xiongfei as a "strong man", who helped him drag more than a dozen six-pound guns to Xianxia Ridge, lined up at the top of the city, aimed at the Qing army camp inside the pass and started bombarding them.

Durd had long heard the sound of firecrackers on the southern pass, but he just sat quietly in the tent, and even taught a few of his subordinates in a general manner, "Why panic? Such a steep and majestic pass, even if a hundred thousand troops attack Attack, it will be difficult to come up with one person! Give me more peace of mind."

It wasn't until artillery roared outside the pass, and the shells passed over his head with a sharp sound of piercing through the air, destroying several military tents not far away, that he realized that something went wrong!

Du De went out of the tent, grabbed a soldier who was fleeing in a hurry and questioned him, and only then did he know that Murima was dead, and the Ming army brigade attacked Xianxia Ridge.

Frightened, he brought a few guards along in a hurry, before he even had time to pack his luggage, he fled to the north entrance of Xianxia Pass, and now the only way to get out of the pass is to go to Quzhou.

The mountain road was extremely difficult at night, and it took Dould a long time to reach the edge of the Qing army camp, when he heard the earth-shattering cannons behind him.

Immediately thereafter, an iron ball weighing five catties smashed a Qing soldier to pieces, landed on the ground and bounced forward twice, before exhausting its momentum after jumping more than ten feet, and finally rolled slowly to Durde side.

He heard a faint sound of "gurgling" on the ground, lowered the torch to watch, and saw a black iron ball rolling towards him.

He quickly raised his left foot reflexively, but the iron ball passed by his right foot, and there was a "click" sound, and Durd fell to the ground in response, and his entire right leg was caught by the seemingly The slow shells smashed into pieces.

He passed out from the pain before he could scream.Several pro-army guards called repeatedly but did not wake up, so they had to lift him up in a hurry, and continued to flee northward with the rout of the brigade.

As the sky was getting brighter, the entire Qing army camp behind the pass was almost flattened by Chen Xiongfei's cannons. All the captive soldiers who escaped under the cannons hurried into the mountains and ran towards the north of the pass.

The engineering company was busy repairing the damaged city wall, while the infantry were searching for the captive soldiers hiding nearby. The entire Xianxia Pass was completely under the control of the Dragon Guards.

After Lin Yaotian learned that King Chen had captured Xianxia Pass, he also volunteered to lead his rebel army, who was good at mountain climbing, into Xianxia Ridge to pursue the captives.

Standing on the pass of Xianxia Pass, Zhu Linmei was listening to Yu Xin's report on the number of casualties that had just been counted.

"The second cavalry battalion killed 120 people, seriously injured 60 people, and slightly injured 37 people."

Yu Xin glanced at Zhu Linming's face, and continued: "31 people from the Dragoon Battalion were killed, 14 were seriously injured, and [-] were slightly injured...

"Among the 31 people led by General Guo, 21 were killed and ten were slightly injured. General Guo himself was wounded in his right shoulder.

"There is also a battalion of cavalry..."

Zhu Linmi frowned and her face was extremely dignified. Although after a chaotic battle last night and Zheng Chenggong risked his life to defend the city gate, he finally succeeded in capturing Xianxia Pass. Serious casualties.

Among them, a total of 400 people from the Hussar Battalion rushed to Xianxia Pass, causing more than half of the casualties.Among the more than 30 people led by Zheng Chenggong, seven of them died for the country, and the rest were all injured.

Who explained that Mo Mandi is full of deserters and demoted officials? !The Chinese nation has never been short of bloody men, as long as they see the future and hope of the nation, they will never begrudge their lives!

"Your Highness." A weak voice interrupted his train of thought.

Zhu Linmi turned her head and saw Zheng Chenggong, supported by two soldiers, reluctantly bowing to him.

(End of this chapter)