Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 219 Escaped

Dodo saw the low morale of the retreating soldiers, and he hadn't seen his soldiers so depressed for a long time.

Even in the fierce battle during the day, they are still extremely brave.

He knew that part of the reason should be caused by the bright light group launched into the sky by the new army.

If this mystery is not solved, and then send people to attack, I am afraid that they will still suffer the same failure.

In the end, Duduo could only sigh and did not send anyone to attack.

But how did he know that Huang Hairu was ready to die in battle.

Because the mortar rounds were out, the machine gun rounds were out, the submachine gun rounds were out, even the flares were out, and there was not much other ammunition left.

Although the enemy army was defeated twice in a row, the last remaining enemy army on the right was very tenacious.

Yes, the Qing army was in charge of attacking the right-wing army, but it was not completely wiped out as Doduo thought, but was desperately attacking.

However, since the first two attacking armies consumed most of the new army's ammunition, the firepower available to stop them was much weakened, and it took a long time to repel them.

The remaining firearms of the new army are mainly flintlocks, but due to sight, the flintlocks have been greatly affected.

In addition, the command at night was not communicated smoothly, and the firepower could not be effectively concentrated and used.

"Boom..." More than a dozen cavalrymen of the Qing army came in viciously from a fragile line of defense on the right like a sharp arrow.

A few shield soldiers who hastily used their shields to resist were knocked into the air, and more than a dozen cavalrymen of the Qing army rushed into the formation of the new army.

In the army formation of the new army, those in the front row are the real new army, and those in the middle and back rows are Xu Yong's troops.

The momentum of the cavalry of the Qing army continued unabated. After the new army at the front was rushed away, they rushed into the camp of Xu Yong's troops, causing panic and howls, and the soldiers retreated and ran for their lives.

Xu Yong was shocked, and roared loudly: "A Tartar head will reward you with 100 taels of silver. Those who retreat will die. If you become a deserter, you will kill the whole family..."

After all, he personally led his own soldiers to press the formation behind, and shouted: "Whoever dares to retreat, no matter whether it is a soldier or a general, the rear team will hack him to death."

Xu Yong was also in a hurry. He knew that if something happened to Huang Hairu, he would definitely not be able to escape responsibility.

Because everyone can see that the new army is very brave in combat and has tried its best. On the contrary, his team has not helped much, and is still hesitating at critical moments, disturbing the morale of the army.

If Tangning settles the matter at that time, he, Xu Yong, will inevitably be held accountable.

Sure enough, when Xu Yong's heavy reward and heavy punishment measures were used in parallel, the team was able to stabilize the team without collapsing, and the worst situation of bombing the camp did not occur.

A platoon leader of the new army brought people over in time to support him. He raised his hand and raised his pistol, and shot twice at the nearest Qing cavalry.

The Qing soldier froze for a moment, then fell backwards.

"Kill..." Following the order of the platoon leader, dozens of new troops took the initiative to kill the dozen or so Qing cavalry.

"Bang bang..." The sound of the musket.

"Swoosh..." The sound of arrows flying past.

"Kill, kill, rush up for me." Xu Yong almost shouted from behind, and the team started to move forward. Even if the soldiers in front didn't want to move forward, they were pushed forward by the people behind.

Gradually, the dozen or so Qing troops were surrounded by the crowd, and the encirclement became smaller and smaller, leaving less and less space for the horses to move.

"Kill, kill..." The soldiers yelled to kill, and kept stabbing forward with long spears, and the Qing soldiers were stabbed and fell off their horses one by one.

The rest of the Qing army also fought back desperately, shooting down soldiers one by one at close range, but in the end they were no match for four hands, including the horses under them, which were stabbed into a hornet's nest by the angry soldiers.

By the time the Qing troops from other directions discovered the situation here, it was already too late. After all, the dark night had a great influence on them, and they could not observe the situation in various places on the battlefield in time.

The biggest reason is that the number of Qing troops is too small.

There were only [-] cavalry in charge of the attack. At the beginning of the attack, nearly half of them were destroyed by the machine guns and submachine guns of the new army, and the formation was also broken up.

Therefore, after rushing forward, they could only fight on their own.

However, unlike the daytime battle, the reinforcements arrived in time, and there are no reinforcements now, so they failed to expand the results in one fell swoop.

Now that the successor is weak, he finally rushed into the formation of the new army, and was divided and surrounded.

This scene was still happening in other places. The new army united with Xu Yong's department to wipe out the small groups of the Qing army that came in by surprise, until the Qing army that rushed in was no longer seen.

Almost every soldier seemed to have collapsed, and it felt unreal.

Huang Hairu was inconceivable, he didn't know why the Qing army didn't have reinforcements and why didn't they expand their attack during such a good opportunity just now.

If the Qing army launches another attack, even if there are only a few hundred cavalry, it will definitely not be able to stop it, because it is impossible for our side to have reinforcements to support it, and it will undoubtedly be defeated.

Naturally, Huang Hairu didn't know that Duoduo made a mistake in his judgment and gave up attacking again. He knew that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time, so he immediately gave an order to evacuate quickly with the wounded.

The scouts sent out would bring back intelligence every once in a while, and the intelligence showed again and again that the Qing army really didn't come after them.

This made Huang Hairu very surprised, why did Duoduo give up so quickly this time?

If he knew that it was the flare that he didn't pay attention to that saved his life invisibly, his jaw would drop in shock.

After all, this did not happen when flares were used when fighting Zheng Jun.

At this time, Duoduo had already ordered to camp on the spot, until a dozen bloody soldiers were brought in front of him.

"Your Highness, from Lord Duolong down, all died in battle, only a dozen of us came back alive." A co-leader knelt on the ground and wept.

Duduo's expression changed, and he asked anxiously, "Why did you withdraw?"

Duduo's question stunned the co-leader for a moment, as if he didn't know how to answer it.

Duoduo immediately said: "Quickly report the whole battle process."

"Yes."

Immediately afterwards, the co-leader immediately described the entire offensive process of their first team in detail, and Duduo's face became more and more ugly.

Such a good opportunity to defeat the new army was just missed.

If the support army of the new army is wiped out together, most of the main force of the new army going north will be wiped out, and the destruction of Yangzhou City will be just around the corner.

Angrily, Duoduo found the leader who was in charge of the main attack, and ordered angrily: "Catch me, if you can't get Huang Hairu's head back, you don't have to come back."

"Yes, Your Highness, the last general is in command." The officer in charge already knew what had happened, and was sweating profusely, so he dared not say anything.

Although Duoduo was also responsible for not sending other reinforcements in time, how dare he blame Prince Yu.

Not long after, a group of more than a thousand cavalry rushed out of the camp and galloped towards Yangzhou City.

However, Duduo's mood did not improve at all, because the delay was too long, and he didn't know if he had a chance to catch up.

(End of this chapter)