Dingyuan number.
Bridge conning tower.
"Didi didi~"
As a combat headquarters, the headquarters radio station is on 24 hours a day to receive telegrams from each brigade and respond.
A group of staff officers in the General's Mansion constantly adjusted their tactics based on the telegram information, and finally displayed a situational map of the enemy and ourselves on the sand table.
Kong Er was full of energy, pointed his baton at the sand table, and said to everyone: "All departments of our army are making good progress.
The 3rd Brigade was in the Suzhou-Hangzhou area to suppress landowners' land distribution. A group of peasants in Hangzhou rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and killed the county magistrate. Kaicheng surrendered.
In the countryside, dozens of peasants, large and small, revolted and cooperated with our army to clean up the gentry.
The knights and the heavy artillery brigade headed north again, attacked Wuxi, and attacked westward along Taihu Lake.
The main force of our army's 1st and 2nd brigades moved westward along the Yangtze River, and important towns such as Yangzhou and Zhenjiang fell in sight.
The navy used emergency modified depth bombs to clear the sunken ships in Jiangyin. Our Ming navy could move up the river and join forces with various ministries in Jinling. "
However, compared to the South Bank, it is more comfortable.
A regiment in Chongchuan District on the north bank was engaged in a bitter battle.
Jiaqing issued a death order and was determined to eliminate this regiment of Ming troops and seize their equipment.
All the Qing troops from the Jiangbei camp to the southern suburbs of Beiping were mobilized and assembled in Rucheng, west of Tongzhou, which is today's Rugao.
The 260,000 Qing army, led by the famous Manchu general Eldenbao, surrounded the island in the Hao River.
The Ming Army Combat Command received the telegram and urgently transferred 1,000 people from the 3,000 recruits of the 2nd Division on Chongming Island to cross the river for support.
The battleship Jingyuan broke away from the team and began to turn around. Together with a dozen sail battleships, it returned to the estuary of the Yangtze River and prepared for land bombardment on the south bank of Chongchuan District.
Haohe City.
"Da da da~"
The city walls were covered with heavy machine guns. The machine gunners fired short bursts of fire, knocking down a dozen Qing soldiers who wanted to attack the stone bridge.
The Ming army consciously began to save ammunition.
Emperor Jiaqing gave the death order, and almost all the Manchu Eight Banners became supervisors.
The Qing army even found all the cattle and sheep that could be seen nearby and drove them to carry out a suicide charge with the Green Camp soldiers.
The corpse stretched from 800 meters away to the front of the moat.
The thick blood gathered together and eventually merged into the Hao River. The smell of blood could be smelled miles away.
After several days and nights of fighting, most of the Ming army's ammunition had been consumed.
The regiment leader Ding Qiao reported to the headquarters in advance and requested support.
A small slope in the distance.
Eldenbao led a group of people to observe with telescopes.
Several thick-haired Russians exclaimed.
"Sukabule~"
"The weapons of the Ming army are too advanced and their killing efficiency is so high."
This was the first time that Tsarist Russia entered the battlefield of the Central Plains. In the name of assisting the Qing army with its artillery, it arranged for a group of officers to go south to collect first-hand intelligence on the Ming army.
When Eldenbao saw that the Ming army had killed more than a dozen Qing soldiers, his originally sad face showed a bit of joy.
That kind of musket that can fire continuously is out of ammunition!
"Come here, tell me to go down and mobilize 30,000 green soldiers and 6,000 musketeers for me, prepare to charge!"
Since the late Ming Dynasty, muskets have been the mainstream on the battlefields of the Central Plains.
Although the Manchus and Qing Dynasties were said to be "unparalleled in cavalry and shooting," in fact the main force was the musketeers and artillery.
During the Battle of Songjin, the Manchu Qing Dynasty mobilized 37 red heavy artillery pieces and countless other large and small artillery pieces.
The firearms equipment rate of both sides is very high.
Although the Qing Dynasty's armaments are now lax, the equipment rate of firearms is still not low.
Ding Qiao lay on the city wall and looked at the Qing army with squinted eyes. They seemed to have made a big move.
The shield car, wooden platoon, etc. are forming a team under the push of the green camp.
There are various kinds of guns, such as carrying guns, bowl-mouthed cannons, and camel cannons.
Behind them are the musketeers arranged neatly, as well as the green battalion cannon fodder wearing uniforms and equipped with swords and spears.
"This is the time for a battle!"
Ding Qiao secretly screamed, and immediately called for the messenger to tell him: "Except for the stone bridge in the south.
Send people to blow up all the bridges in other areas!
Also, distribute all the ammunition and don’t be stingy when it comes to fighting.
Damn it, I can’t do it! "
Naturally, Ding Qiao would not act impulsively.
The reason is that a telegram from the headquarters has been received in the morning, and reinforcements and supplies will be delivered tonight.
As long as I can survive the afternoon, everything will be fine.
It's exactly two o'clock in the afternoon.
The Qing army attacked.
The 30,000-strong Green Battalion pushed a shield cart and charged towards Haohe City.
The gunner pushed the artillery cart, preparing to close the distance and arrange the artillery position.
And 6,000 musketeers lined up neatly and began to approach under the command of the officer.
"Da da da~"
"Boom boom boom~"
When the Qing army entered within 500 meters, heavy machine guns and regimental mortars opened fire.
The machine gunners no longer saved bullets, and continuous long bursts of fire formed a barrage, covering high-value targets of the Qing army.
For example, a bowl mouth cannon.
This kind of gun has a short range, but can throw a large amount of shotgun, which poses a huge threat to the Ming army at the top of the city.
The mortar target, under the guidance of the observer, began to bombard the Qing heavy artillery positions assembled at the rear of the battlefield.
"Go, go, go!"
"You can survive if you rush."
Under the command of the general, the green battalion soldiers braved a hail of bullets and began to charge "at the risk of life and death".
Rush forward and they will be killed.
But if they fled backward, their whole family would be hacked to death by the Qing army.
Therefore, the Green Camp soldiers had no choice.
Some simply threw away their weapons and ran all the way crying, cursing the eighteen generations of Eight Banners ancestors.
This was the best way for them to vent their anger. Eldenbao even acquiesced to the disrespect of the Green Camp soldiers.
As long as you don't scold Aisin Gioro, the Elden security guards will pretend not to hear it.
But soon, the Green Camp soldiers couldn't rush forward.
As the distance gets closer, the bullets become denser and denser.
As riflemen join in the shooting.
The green battalion soldier felt like he had hit an invisible wall, and his corpses fell into a line on the battlefield.
If you want to charge from the rear, you need to climb over the wall of corpses.
The violent bullets sprayed blood mist on this wall of corpses.
Anyone who climbs over the pile of corpses and emerges will be instantly lifted off the heavenly spirit cap and become a member of the "Great Wall of Flesh and Flesh".
The Qing troops in the rear could no longer charge forward and could only huddle behind the corpses.
The Qing army's attack was blocked.
Eldenbao looked at the sudden intensive firepower of the Ming army from behind and frowned.
A general advised: "Master Marquis, let the soldiers withdraw. As long as the Ming army has enough ammunition, our army will not be able to kill them no matter how many people we add."
There were also objections raised.
"No! The Ming army was besieged for several days and nights and did not receive supplies. This is a return to the past. We must not give up halfway."
"At this time, we should send additional manpower and rush over in one go!"
The two parties argued endlessly.
In the end, Eldenbao chose to attack by force.
The Qing army dumped 40,000 corpses here, but failed to rush to the moat.
When the war reached this point, he, a famous Manchu general, suddenly felt his face was dull.
In addition, Emperor Jiaqing sent urgent letters one after another, asking how the battle was going.
Eldenbao could only grit his teeth and continue to attack.
Another 30,000 green battalions were mobilized from the rear to join the charge.
Forced by the supervising team, the Green Battalion soldiers climbed over the wall of corpses and launched a charge while rolling and crawling.
The average survival time of soldiers who broke through the wall of corpses was less than 30 seconds.
They were sieved with bullets.
Those who were still alive cried and stuffed their intestines back in, their wailing sounds extremely miserable.
Throughout the afternoon, Eldenbao launched several consecutive attacks, killing more than 70,000 soldiers.
The battlefield was covered with corpses, and rivers of blood even flowed into the Qing army's camps.
Even the humanoid Tsarist Russian old man was so frightened by this scene that his face turned pale.
The death behavior of Eldenbao Rang soldiers also made some Green Camp soldiers nervous to the limit.
The entire camp is like a powder keg, which may only need a spark to ignite.
