Chapter 70: The Battle of Changping (Part 2)(1/2)
In order to delay time, Azige sent another Jiala to storm the Denlei army. The cavalry still was shot before they ran far away.
At this moment, the Qing army was already scared, and more than 200 people died and then collapsed back into the formation.
The defeat of the Qing army was not new. The casualties that the Qing army could bear were very low. Judging from the history of the Qing Dynasty's war, sometimes dozens of people died would cause defeat.
Although the Ming army was much defeated, there were many Qing soldiers at this time. However, the Qing soldiers were cavalry, and they could be chased and defeated. The defeat had no effect on them. However, the Ming army had not many cavalry, and defeat was often fatal.
However, the Qing Dynasty also had a harsh supervision system, which was set up for those cannon fodder troops. There were a large number of Mongolian soldiers and Han soldiers in the Qing army, which were all cannon fodder.
The way they seized the world was to use the harsh supervision system to drive away the cannon fodder to siege cities and land, and they just hid behind and robbed.
In an era when soldiers have no faith, defeat is very common. If one side fights to the end, it can exert great combat effectiveness.
For example, Wu Peifu in the Beiyang period also relied on this trick to fight, winning the Zhi-An War and the First Zhi-Feng War.
It can be seen from this that this kind of supervision system is actually very effective, but compared to the army with faith, this supervision system is vulnerable.
For example, Wu Peifu was later beaten to the point of running away by the Northern Expedition Army.
If the Soviet army during World War II was an old soldier without faith, then Germany could capture the entire Soviet Union without any effort.
However, the Soviet military and civilians who had faith continued to fight against Germany tenaciously and finally won.
The Denglai Army is a new soldier with faith, so there is no supervision team because the soldiers are very conscious and the Education Commission is always mobilizing and leading by example. However, there are also strict military laws to restrict it, but they are all liquidated after the war, and the first one is the Education Commission.
...Ajige didn't want to retreat, but was afraid that once he retreated, the other party would take the opportunity to advance, and the cannon would not have the chance to hit the Ming general named Zhao on the opposite side.
The only way now is to kill that general, so that he can be free from punishment only when he returns. At this moment, Ajige no longer cared about anything.
After the second team of Jiala retreated, Ajige became ruthless and sent another Jiala up again, and he looked so idiotic.
If a more arrogant general would really think that the other party was an idiot, but Zhao Yan didn't feel that, and he was even more convinced that the Qing soldiers had some plans.
At this moment, a rocket equipped with a whistle device in the far east pulled the tail flame into the sky, making a loud "Yiyo...bang..." sound. Zhao Yan took the telescope and looked over.
"The cavalry and artillery battalion reached the attack position." Liu Heng said.
"Rocket Bombing." Zhao Yan shouted, and the flag bearer on the podium quickly blew the flag verbs.
"ignition."
"ignition."
"ignition."
The rocket commanders of the three infantry battalions roared, and the rocket soldiers and auxiliary soldiers of each battalion were immediately busy, igniting the leads that had already been aimed at the Qing army's launch frame.
"Swish...swish...swish..." The rockets on the launcher saw thick smoke coming out of their tails, and flew out one by one.
A rocket in a launcher cannot be fired at the same time, otherwise accidents are likely to occur. Therefore, the length of the leads on the launcher has been strictly designed.
I saw that the sky was filled with rockets, covering the sky like locusts. The three infantry battalions each had 200 launchers, which totaled 600, and the rockets were launched at a time reached 9,000.
Although these 9,000 rockets were launched in one shot, most of them extended backwards.
9,000 rockets took off one after another, forming a spectacular scene. All the soldiers of the infantry battalion looked up at the rocket flying overhead, with obsession in their eyes. This is the power of civilization!
"Yiyiyi..." The whistle device on the rocket made a shrill whistle, like a death-seeking sound.
At first, the Qing soldiers opposite only saw a lot of smoke rising, and then they saw rockets covering the sky flying from the back of the Ming army... All the Qing soldiers were stunned at this moment.
Spectacular! So spectacular!
But then these rockets landed on the ground and ran around on the ground. The Qing soldiers were so scared that their hands and feet were cold and their expressions changed drastically.
With a "coax...", the Qing army suddenly exploded, screaming that there were some escapees, some crying for their parents, some scaring them to their hands and feet, and the formation was suddenly in chaos.
It was too late to run away. These rockets were fuses for five to six seconds, and almost exploded with a bang as soon as they landed.
Boom boom boom boom boom... The explosions continued, and the smoke of gunpowder rose everywhere, wrapping up all the Qing army, blocking the Denglai army's vision, making people unable to see the situation clearly, and only the flames soaring into the sky were faintly seen in the smoke.
At this moment, a huge bombardment sounded from the rear artillery company of the Denglai Army, and the artillery companies of each battalion also extended artillery fire in front!
At this time, the sound of cannons also came from the east side of the distance, and the cavalry and artillery battalion also opened fire.
The rockets are still firing, and the cannons are firing wildly. The auxiliary soldiers are busy carrying ammunition, loading the rockets, and then extending forward to fire.
Whether it is artillery or rocket soldiers, they are watching the hourglass to decide how much distance should be extended. How many meters can the enemy run within a few seconds, and the combat laboratory has already tested this data.
When gunpowder is filled with smoke, they can only rely on this data to determine the extension distance.
A large amount of black gunpowder was lit at this moment, sending out a lot of gunpowder smoke, which was so thick that it almost choked people to death. Zhao Yan's eyes were sore when choked on the podium.
Fortunately, this is not the first time that the Denglai Army has experienced such a battle.
"Boom boom boom..." 600 bronze cannons continued to bombard forward, and the bombardment lasted for half a minute. Jiannu, who was not dead, should have run a distance of 1,200 meters.
"Pioneer Camp, charge!" Lin Yi drew out the Zhongzheng Sword and shouted.
"Breaking Feng Camp, charge!" Wu Yongliang drew out his sabre, and he had not been awarded the Zhongzheng Sword.
"Kill!" The two battalions of cavalry were already ready to move. After ordering, they drew out their saber and shouted and rushed forward. The two battalions rushed directly into the smoke of gunpowder and soon disappeared from sight.
"Dengzhou Camp, charge."
"Laizhou Camp, charge."
"Qingzhou Camp, press in."
Among the three infantry battalions, Dengzhou battalion and Laizhou battalion launched a charge, and only Qingzhou battalion maintained its formation and slowly pressed forward, just in case.
There was constant sound of killing during the charge, and soldiers rushed into the grass burning with flames, looking for traces of the enemy.
When they rushed into the smoke, they saw a miserable scene. There were corpses on the ground, and a large number of Qing soldiers and horses fell to the ground, some were blown into pieces, and some had dozens of shrapnel inserted into their bodies.
There were also many Qing soldiers wailing on the ground. When they encountered such wailing Qing soldiers, they directly killed them with one knife. No resistance enemies were found in the smoke of the cavalry battalion, so they rushed directly over the corpses.
When they rushed out of the smoke, they finally found a large group of Qing soldiers, and saw thousands of Qing soldiers running away in a panic.
"kill!"
The cavalry battalion where he found his prey rushed away.
The Qing soldiers ran in a hurry, each with only one horse, and there was no more than a cavalry battalion with one person and two horses. After running for ten minutes, their horsepower was finally insufficient, while the soldiers of the cavalry battalion changed their horses and their speed was rushing again, and soon they caught up with the fleeing Qing soldiers.
These Qing army defeated soldiers had no courage to resist and rushed to escape one by one. Only a few Qing soldiers turned around and fought, but were quickly chopped over.
The cavalry battalion lined up in neat formations and rushed into the five or six thousand defeated soldiers and launched a massacre of the Qing army. The two sides chased and fled. The melee lasted for nearly an hour, and the five or six thousand Qing troops fled north were completely wiped out.
After the infantry battalion charged, Zhao Yan soon received news from the scout that a team of more than 3,000 Qing troops ran south from the intersection to the west.
I thought all the Qing soldiers would flee to the north, but I didn't expect that more than 3,000 people ran from the intersection to the west. Zhao Yan hurriedly ordered Qingzhou Camp to pursue him.
The soldiers of Dengzhou camp rode on horses and chased the Qing army in the direction of escape under the guidance of the scouts.
...The smoke of gunpowder dissipated, and the tragic situation on the battlefield was finally revealed.
I saw that the land that was ravaged by rockets and shells were full of corpses. These corpses almost covered the ground. The grass on the ground was burned to black, and there were uneven craters and shrapnel everywhere, horse corpses, human corpses, wounded horses lying on the ground, and flags discarded by the Qing army.
There are the most corpses from two hundred meters to four hundred meters away, almost dense. The more you extend to the distance, the fewer and fewer corpses will reach two thousand meters away.
"At least half of the Jiannu were killed." Liu Heng estimated after reading it. It was not too unexpected to kill half of the Qing soldiers with such intensive bombing.
These Qing soldiers were stowed in dense trenches and had no trenches and bulletproof fortifications, so the outcome was naturally sad. This was the sad outcome of the cold weapon army encountering the hot weapon army.
Dengzhou Camp, Laizhou Camp 2nd Camp chased and solved the fish that were left behind by the cavalry camp one by one. When they rushed to the Xishan area, they saw a group of Qing soldiers shouting the slogan "Kill the Tartars". There were more than 500 people. The people wore a circle of grass on their heads and were fighting fiercely with dozens of defeated Qing soldiers. Soon they were dealt with dozens of Qing soldiers.
The soldiers of Dengzhou Camp approached the past with caution.
"The brothers on the opposite side are their own people." The Han and Qing soldiers shouted quickly.
"It's a Han people." The officer in the infantry company judged. After asking, he realized that the more than 500 people were the artillery team of the Qing army. The officer was a little unhappy. He obviously had no good feelings for the Han people who served in the Qing army. But thinking about it, most of these Han people were involuntarily serving Jiannu, and they turned against each other in the face of the battle, which was considered friendly forces, so he sent a few people to take them to the rear and wait for the next arrangement.
Zhao Yan was in the rear and kept receiving good news. The Qing army was defeated. The cavalry battalion, cavalry artillery battalion, and infantry battalion advanced rapidly, annihilated about 6,700 Qing troops. At 3:00 pm, conquered Xianzhuang, and 3,000 soldiers of the Mongolian Left Camp (Mongolia did not form the Eight Banners at this time, called Zuoying and Right Camp) fled in a panic.
In addition to the Pioneer Camp continuing to pursue, the Qifeng Camp returned to chase Qingzhou Camp and went together to wipe out the three thousand Qing soldiers, Dengzhou Camp, Laizhou Camp, and Engineering Camp who fled began to clean the battlefield.
Cut the head, peel the armor, bury the corpse, slaughter dead horses.
The armor, weapons and flags quickly piled up like hills, and the five hundred Han artillery soldiers who rebelled also joined the work of cleaning up the battlefield.
They stared at the battlefield where Qing soldiers were corpses everywhere in front of them, and were stunned for a long time and could not speak. Although they had guessed from the movement that the Qing army was defeated, they did not want to be defeated so miserably.
The work of cleaning the battlefield lasted for nearly a day, and then all the bodies were buried. The number of Qing soldiers' heads was counted, with a total of 46,000.
The Qing army died under muskets by about 10,000 people, and nearly 26,000 people were killed. The subsequent pursuit killed more than 7,000 Qing soldiers and the heads of the three thousand Yan Duo tribes.
At the same time, more than 18,000 war horses were seized, of which 10,000 were seized from Xianzhuang. At the same time, nearly one million taels of property were seized in Xianzhuang, and the remaining more than 20,000 livestock were saved, and 15,000 people were rescued.
"I originally thought it was impossible to completely wipe out the invading Jiannu, but unexpectedly, I killed 43,000 people in one battle." Liu Heng sighed: "The firearm is indeed sharp."
"How are our casualties?" Zhao Yan asked.
"Fifty-six casualties were only injured and thirteen were killed in the pursuit." Liu Heng reported, "In addition to the 34,000 killed, more than one hundred Qing soldiers were captured. According to their identification, we only found Abatai's body, but their chief general Ajige disappeared."
"That must have run away from the western path. Wu Yongliang was ordered to chase Wu Feng Battalion with all his strength and must annihilate it inside the pass." Zhao Yan ordered.
"Lord, how should we deal with those more than 500 Han Qing soldiers who rebeled?" Liu Heng asked.
"It is included in the recruit camp for training, and you can add it to the Liaodong Special Forces Brigade in the future." Zhao Yan thought for a while and said, it is not a big deal. Zhao Yan was thinking about the horses, which are the most important group of seized. "Let the military doctors try their best to treat the injured horses."
"Even if those injured horses are saved, many of them can only be used for transportation." Liu Heng said, "But the more than 10,000 war horses left by Jiannu in Xianzhuang are cheaper."
...The final counting of the next day ended. A total of more than 43,000 Qing troops were killed, 3,000 rebels from Yan Duo's troops captured armor, several weapons, 18,000 war horses and 4,000 injured horses and mules, more than 5,000 wealth and property were nearly 2 million taels, and the remaining animals were more than 20,000. You rescued more than 15,000 Yanqing people.
To be continued...