Chapter 221: The kingdom of heaven collapses, go north!
call out! ! ! ! !
The sharp roar of rockets sounded again.
In front of the Guards Cuirassier Brigade, the Taiping cavalry who also came towards the Cuirassier Brigade encountered continuous rocket attacks.
at the same time.
boom!
A huge grenade exploded in the air!
This is a shrapnel specially designed to deal with infantry!
The huge explosion blasted countless steel pellets downwards.
Within the scope of the explosion, many soldiers in front of the Taiping Army formed a dense infantry charge formation and were shot into sieves by shotguns.
"Grenade preparation! Hand-to-hand combat preparation!!"
Wang Dayong saw that all the cuirassiers had been dispatched, and immediately released all the reserve teams at hand.
At this moment.
Both sides have given up.
On the large plain west of Nanguantao Town, the two sides formed a hand-to-hand battle line hundreds of steps long.
Countless grenades were thrown forward.
The violent explosion immediately stalled the charging momentum of the Taiping Army's old battalion musketeers.
But they still were not defeated.
These veteran soldiers of the Taiping Army, who had suffered huge casualties, had red eyes, holding muskets with bayonets in their hands, and just rushed forward in a scattered line of skirmishers.
fight! fight!
As long as we can enter into hand-to-hand combat, the Kingdom of Heaven will win!
they thought.
"Bayonet! Charge!"
The Ming army officers on the front line also cheered.
The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were never afraid of hand-to-hand combat!
boom!
At least three to four thousand people were killed and injured by artillery, muskets, and grenades. When the Taiping Army rushed to the Ming army's formation, only more than 4,000 people were left. Four thousand infantrymen of the Ming Army's Guards Regiment suddenly collided with each other.
Phew!
Phew!
The bayonet stabbed hard into the enemy's chest.
The blood soon dyed the lines of this melee fight red.
However.
Even though this place is so tragic.
It was not the infantry on both sides that determined the outcome of this battle.
It's the cavalry from both sides charging towards each other!
The Taiping cavalry that had been harassed by rockets was now divided into three groups separated from the front and back.
But their numbers were still large.
And at this time.
The Ming army's cuirassiers have also begun to accelerate as fast as possible.
There was almost no space between the tall horses, and a wall of cavalry suddenly pressed over them.
Ran Tianyuan, who was responsible for commanding the cavalry in combat, felt his scalp numb.
The cavalry under his command were harassed by rockets and were no longer in good order.
"How can we resist this?"
Ran Tianyuan gritted his teeth.
"Rush! Keep rushing forward!!"
At this moment, the opponent is right in front of you and will rush over in an instant.
If the cavalry loses speed, it will basically be at the mercy of others.
So Ran Tianyuan didn't have time to form a team, so he could only gather into a group and continue to move forward!
However, at this time, the battlefield situation began to become chaotic again.
The reason turned out to be the crotch of the Taiping Army. Some timid horses were frightened when they saw the momentum coming from the road wall in front, and did not dare to rush forward and collide with the opponent. Instead, some horses suddenly braked, causing chaos. The military formation will be even more chaotic, and the horses will collide with each other and trample on them.
The whole cavalry was in chaos!
And right now.
In the first wave, two thousand Ming army cuirassiers launched the final charge.
Destroy and destroy.
In the first wave, the Taiping cavalry, which numbered tens of thousands, collapsed at the first touch.
The Ming army's cuirassiers, which pressed down like a city wall, rolled over the Taiping army's cavalry.
They didn't fight hand to hand, they just kept running and charging!
The carbines in their hands were made of white wax rods and would break into pieces after a collision. Therefore, many Ming cavalrymen threw away the broken carbines in their hands, pulled out six-shot revolvers, and rushed towards the enemy with thunderbolts. area shooting.
The first wave of cavalry rolled over.
The next two waves of cuirassiers quickly crushed Gu Bolai again.
The Taiping cavalry was completely dispersed.
Their group of cavalry was completely scattered, running around on the battlefield and no longer organized.
The Ming army cuirassiers who ran over them made a slight adjustment and began to launch a storm-like impact towards the second wave of enemies ahead.
Five thousand cuirassiers.
Non-stop, almost like the autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves.
Thirty thousand Taiping cavalry were beaten to the point of complete collapse! !
Such a scene stunned Ran Tianyuan and the Taiping generals in the rear.
It's really devastating.
In just half an hour, the Taiping Army's elite cavalry was defeated.
"Could this be a heavenly soldier?"
someone exclaimed.
Zhang Hanchao also had a numb scalp.
The Ming army's muskets, artillery, and wire formations were powerful.
But these are all methods of infantry warfare. It is not surprising that the Ming army was very powerful in infantry warfare.
But how come the Ming Army Guards Regiment, which is mainly composed of Guangdong and Fujian soldiers, is so powerful even with cavalry?
Are Guangdong and Fujian the places where cavalry is sent?
They don’t even have many horses there! !
If Guangdong's cavalry were really that powerful, how could the Song Dynasty be crushed by the Mongolian cavalry in history?
If the Song Dynasty had five thousand such cavalry at that time.
What Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, what Eight Banners?
They all need to get the fuck out of here.
That kind of cavalry.
How could it be raised in a place like Guangdong?
So where did Emperor Zhu get such an elite cavalry?
Everyone was stunned.
Tap tap tap.
After dispersing the Taiping Army's cavalry.
The soldiers of the Guards Cuirassier Brigade marched non-stop, and Colonel Li Sheng, armed with a long spear, took the lead.
The roar of artillery had stopped.
The Taiping rear troops had been scattered by shrapnel shells.
Sharp suonas suddenly sounded on all fronts.
This is the charge number of the Ming army.
"Recover the Central Plains in one fell swoop! Charge!"
Wang Dayong, the commander-in-chief of the Guards, suddenly pulled out his sword and pointed it diagonally forward.
"Long live!!!"
The infantry of the Ming army held bayonets and struggled forward.
"Kill!!"
The light cavalry of the Ming Army also drew their sabers at this time, cut in from another direction, and attacked the enemy.
in front of them.
The place where there are as many as one hundred thousand people has begun to collapse like an avalanche of flowers.
Bayonets, sabers, grenades.
The Ming army wearing fiery red military uniforms was like scarlet lava erupting from the crater of a volcano, turning everything in its path into powder.
And the Taiping Army's military formation was completely shattered.
It was five thousand cuirassiers who rushed in from the flanks, like a giant hammer, knocking the already shaky building into collapse.
Liu Zhixie closed his eyes in despair.
He lost.
After the cavalry under his command, which had high hopes, were so easily scattered by the Ming army's five thousand cavalry, the outcome of this battle was already doomed.
The cuirassiers who rode tall and powerful, as if every horse was a legendary sweat horse, were constantly charging, forming a team, crushing, and charging.
It's like a pair of iron fists that are constantly being withdrawn and swung out.
in front of them.
The old battalion of the Taiping Army was elite and vulnerable.
An idea popped into Liu Zhixie's mind: Maybe Zhu Daohua could conquer the world with just these five thousand cavalry.
"King of Heaven, leave quickly! Otherwise it will be too late!!"
Liu Zhixie opened his eyes after hearing this.
In front of him.
It was a situation of overwhelming defeat.
Large numbers of defeated troops fled in all directions, while the Ming army's battle formation was crushing them.
The last batch of Tianguofu soldiers under his command who had not been dispersed formed a military formation in front of him, but every Tianguofu soldier had anxiety and fear on his face.
Ran Tianyuan, who fought bloody battles, was carried down from the front line by several soldiers.
He was crying and asking Liu Zhixie to leave quickly.
Seeing Liu Zhixie stunned on the spot, there was no reaction.
He simply struggled to get up, dragged Liu Zhixie's horse and headed west.
There are still thousands of cavalry that can be controlled now, which is enough to protect the king of heaven and escape back to Tongguan.
As soon as Liu Zhixie left.
The battlefield is even more one-sided.
Those old brothers in the old camp of Tianguo who were still resisting suddenly lost the courage to resist.
He grabbed his head and ran away.
"The Emperor's edict says: Surrender and avoid death!"
Right now.
Some Ming soldiers with loud voices began to shout.
Less than 10,000 Taiping soldiers were actually killed, 20,000 to 30,000 were injured, and hundreds of thousands of Taiping soldiers were still alive and kicking.
How could Zhu Daohua be so ruthless as to kill all these hundreds of thousands of Han men?
Soon.
The chants changed.
"Sihou Luo Siju of the Taiping Army has surrendered to the Ming Dynasty!"
"The Taiping Army King Wu Yao Zhifu surrendered to the Ming Dynasty!"
With these cries arose.
These old Taiping brothers didn't even have the will to escape.
A marquis and a prince both voted.
How can they resist?
soon.
There were old soldiers from the Taiping Army who threw away their weapons and sat in the snow waiting for the Ming army to catch them.
Liu Laoba squatted in the snow and cried loudly.
His Zhuangzi.
His two-bedroom concubine.
All gone.
All gone.
The kingdom of heaven is gone too.
Zhuangzi is gone too.
The future is gone.
"Why are you crying? We won't kill him!"
Mandarin with a Cantonese accent sounded.
Liu Laoba looked up and saw the Ming army soldier pointing his finger.
"Where to gather."
Liu Laoba sighed.
That's all, that's all.
In troubled times, human life is worse than that of a dog.
It's good to be able to save one life.
Others
You can't force it either.
"Won!"
Zhu Daohua in the command post behind let out a long sigh of relief.
After a while.
He instructed: "Gather all the defeated troops, temporarily gather the Taiping troops to Xuzhou, and order Xuzhou prefect Xue Siyuan to manage them properly first."
"Your Majesty, are you planning to send these troops from Heaven to Liaodong?"
"Liaodong?" Zhu Daohua shook his head and looked to the east.
"Organize into a military camp and go to America!"
In this battle, at least 100,000 heavenly soldiers were captured.
In addition, there are still hundreds of thousands of civilians who are staying in Liu Zhixie's Zhaozhou camp. They can also draw out strong men and buy hundreds of thousands of girls from Japan, and they can form hundreds of thousands of colonists.
Soldiers of heaven.
Go and colonize America for China!
"Drive Liu Zhixie to Guanzhong and don't let him appear in the Central Plains again!"
Zhu Daohua said.
"The infantry battalion of the Guards Regiment is responsible for collecting the defeated Taiping Army troops in various parts of Henan. The Cuirassier Brigade will follow me northward!"
"Goal: Defeat the Qing Tatar army!"
(End of chapter)
