Chapter 218 Exaggerated War Report!
The war elephants who had been running wildly were caught off guard and panicked. The original neat impact formation was misplaced in an instant. Some war elephants were trying to stop their feet, and some war elephants directly crossed their bodies. They all rushed into all the obstacles around them and wanted to escape from this terrible The fire hell.
The long knife tightly tied to the ivory has now become a sharp weapon for them to deal with their companions, and the wounded war elephant is even more crazy. The cavalry on the elephant's back screamed and fell off the elephant's back, and was instantly trampled into meat pulp by the rough and wild elephant legs.
The chaos of the whole war elephant array immediately affected the cavalry following them. The end of those cavalry was even more miserable. Some cavalry were lucky to rush through the obstruction of the elephant soldiers, but they desperately found that there were more grenades with strange arcs in the sky that hit their foreheads. Bick.
Ding Kesheng's eyes widened in disbelief. He looked at the Guiren Wall as hard as he could. However, there was no mass of gunpowder smoke after the artillery bombardment there. However, where did these powerful and terrible explosions come from? Looking at his elite subordinates torn to pieces in the mass of firelight, and watching the war elephants who were already looking at the vanguards who were looking at him were trampling on their soldiers crazily, Ding Kesheng almost cracked the corners of his eyes and bit his back alveolar teeth.
No war elephant dared to rush through the sea of explosive fire, and even those war horses had the same idea. In this way, the originally high-spirited impact formation of the Xishan Army began to become chaotic under the rebellion of the two animal forces.
After two rounds of crazy and dense explosions, they stopped in an instant. Ding Kesheng's opponent still stood quietly dozens of steps away, and even the formation did not change at all.
Maybe their secret weapons have been used up. With such an idea, Ding Kesheng, who was angered by the death and injury of his elite, pulled out his sword, roared loudly, ordered the war elephant to be driven away, leaving a way for the cavalry and infantry to charge at full speed. In fact, the previous order did not need to be issued by him, because except for more than a dozen war elephants that were stabbed by the long knives on their companion' ivory, which had fallen to the ground and twitched, the rest of the war elephants had fled under the control of the remaining, dead-faced riders, and those soldiers who helped to drive them away. Both sides of the battlefield.
"Brothers, this is the end of the time to watch the performance. Let's start working." Liang Pengfei fiercely spit out the cigar head and raised his hand with a shot. A knight who had rushed only dozens of steps away from the shield array turned over and fell to the ground. The front hoof of the war horse twisted into a strange shape and kept crying. The knight just wanted to stand up, and the bullet came straight from the battle. He returned to heaven.
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"Fire!" With the shouts of those lower-level officers, the thousand musketeers under Liang Pengfei's hands began to show their amazing lethality. The dense platoon made the Xishan army cavalry and infantry who rushed forward as if they had hit the door panel and fell to the ground one after another. There were many archers among them. However, in this situation of charging, it was simply nonsense to pull the bow and arrow to aim at it.
The dark helmet is the best protection for those musketeers. Although some people are constantly hit by the sparse feather arrows, few hit the key points. The injured quickly withdrew from the battle sequence, which was made up by the rear bombers and took over what they did. The musket has been added to the shooting line.
The white smoke spewed out by rows of muskets formed a thick fog in front of the Liang's army's battle, and few Xishan soldiers who crashed into the fog could rush to the battle alive.
These Xishan soldiers saw this horrible and dense musket application for the first time, and the killing of the large bomb rain, watching their companions fall one by one, just like a sharp saw, cutting their courage.
At this time, the shouting sounded again, and two rounds of grenades flew out. This time, it is no longer to block the opponent's charge, but to effectively kill the opponent.
The result is very simple. In the face of the opponent with a long spear, Liang Jiajun, who used a large number of musketeers to carry out four-stage strikes and grenades, which surpassed the individual-intensive anti-personnel weapons of this era, undoubtedly won another brilliant victory.
Three thousand to five thousand. As a result, more than a thousand corpses of the other party were left, and nearly 1,000 wounded were captured. Only more than 2,000 were run. Those frightened war elephants even more than a dozen did not have time to take them away. Ding Kesheng, Ruan Wenqi's most trusted general, led more than 2,000 defeated by the destruction of the will to fight. The soldiers fled back to Fumei City to survive.
Although Ding Kesheng, who was ashamed and angry, once thought of being martyred before the battle, after being stopped by his own soldiers and generals, he gave up his death rationally. After all, not everyone wants to die all the time. Since he can't die for the first time, Ding Kesheng may feel that it's better to live, so he is running. After Fumei City, he sent an emergency document to Ruan Wenhui.
Of course, he exaggerated the strength of the Qing [***] team a little bit, otherwise he would not have reported his defeat.
After receiving the news that Nading Kesheng's 5,000 troops and 10,000 Qing troops had a life-and-death battle under the Guiren City, losing soldiers and generals, and having to retreat to Fumei City, Ruan Wenhui's illness seemed to be even more serious.
These days, He Lin finally waited for the reinforcements he longed for, the heavy artillery used for the siege, and the siege weapons vigorously built during this period, which made the situation of Lang Mall serious.
Ruan Wenhui's ten-day siege made Ruan Wenhui cry. Just as he was considering whether to retreat to the Shenglong City, Ding Kesheng's urgent military report was like a heavy hammer and hit his already fragile nerves.
He understood the combat effectiveness of his brave general, so he did not doubt Ding Kesheng's emergency military report. Since there was no doubt, the sharp rise of the Qing army behind him was not just a simple threat, but a strong opponent.
Ruan Wenhui, who was already pessimistic about the situation, suffered another heavy blow with the feeling of a tiger and a leopard in the back. Although he still did not show it, vaguely, there were some bad rumors among the ministers. However, due to Ruan Wenhui's accumulated power and the military power were in Ruan Wenhui's hands, so those men were at most secretly squeezing their eyes.
It is imperative to re-shuffen people's hearts, improve morale, and... and retreat. As if because of the motivation because of pressure, Ruan Wenhui seems to have forgotten the pain during this period of time and dealt with all kinds of affairs with vigorous energy every day.
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But now, in his bedroom, Ruan Wenhui, whose gray hair has almost turned into snow, is leaning on the couch. Next to him, an imperial doctor is nervously holding the pulse for him. In front of him, a general stood up uneasily from time to time to time, opened his mouth to speak, and then resentfully. Sit back.
"Your Majesty is fine. You just need to rest in peace. I'll open a recuperation prescription later..." The imperial doctor loosened his hand and said to Ruan Wenhui.
Ruan Wenhui nodded slightly and waved away from the imperial doctor. She raised her head and nodded at the general. Although she was still in good spirits, her hard work not only whitened his beard and hair, but also the wrinkles on her face were like the rings of the old tree: "Sit down. I know my illness. I can't die for a minute. "."
"Your Majesty, you'd better be less careful. Look at your current body. I feel really uncomfortable in my heart. The general who was called by Ruan Wenhui is his nephew Ruan Guangxian. It is also the only son of the brother of the three brothers of the Ruan family who died young. In fact, in terms of seniority, Ruan Wenyue can only be regarded as the second brother, but the boss died of illness before the uprising. Therefore, the Xishan Ruan family generally only refers to the three brothers.
However, this Ruan Guangxian is also quite talented. Now, he is already a powerful general of Ruan Wenhui.
"I know your intention very well, but that He Lin is really a headache. Unexpectedly, he has the patience to wait for reinforcements and heavy artillery before starting to attack again. These days, Lang Mall looks dilapidated and no longer suitable for defense. Therefore, I decided to withdraw from Lang Mall and retreat to Shenglong." Ruan Wenhui used to stroking the snow-white eyebrows.
"Your Majesty is wise. It's just that Your Majesty, how to deal with the Qing Dynasty in the south? Please make a decision as soon as possible. Ruan Guangxian paused and then said. The strength of the other party seems to have grown too fast. If it can't be annihilated or suppressed by them in a short time, and then let it develop, Annan will be in danger.
"Oh..." Ruan Wenhui answered lightly, but then fell silent, making Ruan Guang stare dry.
After a long time, Ruan Wenhui said, "Do you think Ding Kesheng can defeat more than 10,000 Qing troops with his current strength?"
"This..." Ruan Guangxian couldn't help stagnant. He squeezed his dry lips and shook his head slowly: "No, now in order to deal with the main force of the Qing Dynasty in the north, the troops of the court are almost empty. If Ding Kesheng arrives in Guiren City in advance and converges 5,000 soldiers and horses in the city, even if he can't win, the defense is more than enough.
"Yes, but who would have thought that the other party actually took the lead and cheated Guiren City. Five thousand soldiers and horses actually escaped less than a thousand people. And Ding Kesheng wanted to take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold and wanted to lure the enemy to fight. Who would have thought that the other party... Alas, even the defeated soldiers of Guiren City were added to more than 3,000 now, just relying on This little force, not to mention the counterattack on Guiren, it's good to be able to defend Fumei City. Ruan Wenhui smiled faintly, as if he did not have much anger and chagrin about Ding Kesheng's failure, but this made Ruan Guangxian feel more uneasy.
(to be continued)