The space between the two earthen walls was filled with Qing army Tatar soldiers who were shouting wildly. Most of them fled back like a tide, especially those Eight Banners Mongolian troops who were following behind them. They all ran faster. . Some people were also blinded, screaming and not knowing where to run or find something to cover themselves.
"put!"
The fourth row of musketeers stepped forward to shoot at them. The fleeing Qing soldiers staggered to the ground with streams of blood coming out from their chests or backs. The remaining people stumbled, discarded the weapons in their hands, and walked away, hoping to escape from this terrifying place as quickly as possible.
However, the mud bags and baskets everywhere, the corpses of soldiers scattered on the ground, and the large pools of blood from broken limbs that they stepped on from time to time all made them feel that the ground was so difficult to walk on. Many people 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 kept stepping on their heads and faces until they were unable to speak and their heads, faces and bodies were trampled to pieces.
The five passages of the first earth wall were crowded with people. Perhaps people's subconscious psychology is to go through the main door. However, there were only five gates, and there were shield carts 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 alive or trampled to death. Many shield cars in front of the passage were overturned to the ground by the anxious crowd.
There were also more clever Tatar soldiers of the Qing army who climbed out of the earth wall. Looking from the side of most of the new army in Xiahe Village, they were densely packed with people climbing the wall. Then screams and screams continued to be heard. It was obvious that the Qing soldiers who climbed the wall fell into the trench under the wall. The trench over there was not filled in. The sharp wooden thorns in the deep trench were not easy for them to bear.
Looking at the fleeing Qing soldiers, Liu Yan took a deep breath. He looked at Wang Bo and Zhang Yi, Shen Tuo, Chen Xun, Wang Yue, and Miao Shao beside him, and said lightly: "Pursue!"
Several people had excited expressions on their faces, and with cries, everyone drew out their sabers and shouted: "Brothers, follow me to kill the slave!"
Screams rang out, and more than a thousand spearmen and sword and shield soldiers of Xiahezhai's new army chased forward behind a few people. Seeing them chasing closely, the Qing soldiers inside the earthen wall were so frightened that they didn't choose their way, and they all screamed. Howling like a human voice, he rolled and crawled just trying to escape.
New troops from Xiahe Village kept catching up with the Tatar soldiers of the Qing army, stabbing them with swords and spears, killing them one by one. Some of the new troops from Xiahe Village were tripped on the way, but those Qing soldiers had no chance. Resisting, either screaming for life, or kneeling down to beg for mercy, no one turned around to fight.
Wang Bo was so excited that he stepped on a pile of bloody and slippery large intestines. The pile of things had frozen in the cold weather, just like stepping on watermelon peels or banana peels. Wang Bo lunged forward, just in time. Pounced on a Qing army vest with a white flag.
I don't know where the strength of the vest came from, and he screamed and threw away Wang Bo's body. Like a divine help, he got up and performed a series of hurdles, and then rushed over the earth wall that was one person high for him. He jumped over Behind the earth wall, there was a loud noise outside, and I didn't know what happened.
"Fresh goods, they run very fast..."
With the help of his guards, Wang Bo got up awkwardly and continued to lead the pursuit. Soon there were not many Qing soldiers inside the earthen wall, and then large groups of Xiahezhai's new army soldiers rushed out of the earthen wall, chasing down the defeated Qing troops and driving them into the formation behind them. Wang Bo, Zhang Yi and others led their troops to pursue and kill them, while Liu Yan led all the cannon soldiers to remain motionless behind the second earth wall.
There was a strong smell of gunpowder smoke and blood in his nose. Liu Yan breathed out a thick white breath and looked outside the wall. Between the two earthen walls, there were corpses of Qing soldiers with different forms of death. They were either lying on the ground or lying down. On the ground or lying on a mud bag or basket.
More Qing army stumps were smashed by artillery, accompanied by pools of blood on the ground. Like the corpses of Qing soldiers, they quickly froze and hardened in the cold winter.
Those helmets, weapons, and flags were scattered everywhere. Looking at their dense corpses, Liu Yan thought to himself: "More than a thousand Tatar soldiers should have been killed..."
Liu Yan heard the officers beside him talking softly: "This wave of slave thieves has suffered a lot."
At some point, Lu Xiangsheng came to Liu Yan's side. The expression on his face was very exciting, and his Chinese army general Chen An was also breathing desperately.
They looked further away. Over there, Zhang Yi, Wang Bo and several other generals had led their troops to chase and kill them quite far away from the unearthed wall. The Qing troops were routed back like a tide.
"It's almost done. Ming Jin withdraws his troops."
Liu Yan muttered to himself, and then said to Lu Xiangsheng: "Master Governor, the slave thieves are so frustrated that they must be very angry. The general thought that we would be ready for revenge from their artillery bombardment..."
This wave of attacks included most of the troops from Zhengbai Banner and Xiangbai Banner, as well as a portion of the Eight Banners Mongolian Army.
After Jia La Zhangjing of the Two White Banners drove most of his soldiers from the Aliha Chaoha camp into the earth wall, everything went smoothly at first. The two of them and the remaining Qing soldiers were about to enter the earth wall.
Then, they heard the thunderous sound of artillery and gunfire, and while they were wondering, they saw a large number of soldiers in Jialan running back in terror, especially the Mongolian soldiers who screamed the loudest. They cut down several defeated soldiers, but they could not stop their defeated posture.
As more people escaped, they had to run back for their lives. After the soldiers of the new army of Xiahe Village chased them out, they collapsed and scrambled to escape behind.
A hundred or so steps away from their military formation, the Manchu Army and the Mongolian Army lined up with two white flags and two Jia La. They were not polite when they saw them fleeing back. The densely packed archers shot countless sharp arrows at them. Anyone who dared to attack their military formation was shot to the ground.
At this time, the defeated soldiers woke up and fled to both sides. More importantly, the sound of Ming Jin withdrawing his troops came from the Ming army formation, and this fatal defeat slowly stopped.
In the Qing army's formation two miles away from the earthen wall, after seeing the situation in front and hearing the urgent military intelligence report, Duduo, Dorgon and others could not help but be stunned. Dorgon's face kept twitching, and he suddenly shouted There was an abnormal burst of laughter, with tears in the laughter: "What a Liu Yan, what a Liu Yan! Before going there, I paid attention to Lu Xiangsheng, but I didn't expect that a small Ming Dynasty defense officer could have such combat power!"
In front of the entire army, Dorgon beheaded the two fleeing Zhengbai Banners and Lazhangjing with White Banners, and hundreds of deserters, all of whom were put into cloth bags and trampled to death with horse hooves. Looking at the earth-colored people, Dorgon said coldly: "Capture Xuanda and Shandong camps of the Ming Dynasty, and kill Liu Yan, Lu Xiangsheng and others, today!"
Led by Dorgon's Zhijinlong Banner, the Qing army's flags advanced densely in the formation until they were one mile away. The two Hongyi 12-pound cannons, the two Hongyi 24-pound cannons in his formation, and more It's a close-range bombardment.
Liu Yan could clearly see the Qing army's formation. 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 maximum damage on them to see who would bleed more blood. See who can last until the end.
After the Qing army's formation advanced one mile, more troops seemed to be transferred to the two wings, and they continued to attack like a tide. In addition, their artillery also began to fire at the positions defended by the new army in Xiahe Village.
Each wave of dozens of large and small iron balls roared in, as if the ground was shaking. The two hard earth walls were constantly being smashed down by iron balls weighing dozens of kilograms. The mud bags and baskets in the middle were even thrown through the air by the blows. The dirt in the middle was flying, accompanied by pieces of cloth and wooden strips.
The flying dust was also mixed with dense blood mist. The corpses of the Qing soldiers were constantly picked up by the shells, and their residual limbs were flying everywhere with blood.
Howling artillery shells continued to hit the camp tents, more tents were collapsed, more tanks on the core defense line were smashed, and the grain and grass baggage inside were damaged. There are also more and more medical officers, craftsmen and wounded casualties. At this time, no place in the Ming army camp seems to be safe.
Behind the second earth wall defended by the new army in Xiahezhai, in addition to piles of mud bags and baskets on the ground, the Qing army's artillery fire intervals, the soldiers also desperately dug trenches, digging one after another into the camp, and then Many soldiers hid inside. Of course, this also depends on luck. If the iron ball hits you on the spot, there is nothing you can do even if you hide in the trench.
The Qing army's two Hongyi twelve-pound cannons and two Hongyi twenty-pound cannons fired continuously, one wave after another, roughly stopping for a quarter of an hour every three waves to allow the gunboats to dissipate heat. Obviously the Qing gunners there had Understand people.
The Yuanrong chariot, which was Lu Xiangsheng's command vehicle, had been smashed, and the pole chariot was still there, but the flag bearer of the Xiahezhai New Army on the Diao Dou kept sweating coldly. If the two chariots below him were hit, they would fall from dozens of meters away. If he fell from a high place, he might...
Although there were earth walls, mud bags and baskets, and trenches blocking the way, the Xiahe Village New Army soldiers and the Dubiao Battalion soldiers suffered few casualties, but the psychological pressure was too great. If the iron ball whizzing over hits someone, it would be better to die on the spot.
Liu Yan and Lu Xiangsheng hid behind the second earth wall and couldn't help but be frightened as they watched the shells whizzing past their heads. What worried them even more was the military situation on the two wings. The shouts of killing came one after another. They didn't know whether Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei on the two wings could withstand the fierce attack of the Qing army.
Finally, the Qing army's artillery stopped. Liu Yan estimated that each of their artillery had fired more than twenty shots, and they should have stopped for half an hour to cool down, otherwise the Hongyi cannon would explode.
Liu Yan and Lu Xiang stood up and saw a mess in front of them. They heard the sound of the Qing army's war drums and loud shouts from the front. It seemed that all the Qing soldiers in the front were charging. They were rushing towards the new army's defense line in Xiahe Village like a tide.
Looking at the dark sea of people ahead, Liu Yan took a breath. Wouldn't Dorgon suppress all the troops?
Lu Xiangsheng beside him said quietly: "Liu Yan, life and death are at stake today. It seems that the slaves are willing to destroy us!"
Although Lu Xiangsheng's tone was calm at this time, his face was full of determination.
Before Liu Yan could speak, he heard the killing cries from both wings getting louder and louder. Suddenly, one of Yang Guozhu's soldiers rushed over, covered in blood, and reported anxiously to Lu Xiangsheng: "Supervisor, General Zhang has died in the battle, and most of the slaves and traitors have arrived. Enter, Yang Junmen and General Guo are fighting a bloody battle with the enemy, and the general’s camp is in urgent need of reinforcements.”
Liu Yan was shocked: "Did Xuanfu General Zhang Yan die in battle?"
At the same time, General Hu Zichen of the Central Army of Hu Dawei also rushed over and said urgently to Lu Xiangsheng: "Supervisor, there is a large influx of slaves and bandits on the right wing. Our battalion is not strong enough to catch it. Please support me quickly." .”
Lu Xiangsheng suddenly said to Liu Yan: "Liu Yan, this place is left to you. I will personally lead the army to support the two wings!"
Liu Yan held him back tightly and said: "My lord, I will mobilize some of my troops to support you, so my lord doesn't have to go into dangerous places!"
A thick crowd of people gathered around the camp, and an overwhelming voice in harsh Chinese rang out: "Kill Lu Xiangsheng, kill Liu Yan..."
Some people died, but not completely...
