Dominate the Country

This was not the first time that the Qing army suffered from rockets. The first one was the Sichuan soldiers on the battlefield in Hanzhong. That was the first time that rocket artillery/bombs appeared on the stage, and the Sichuan soldiers were beaten to a pulp. However, the backward and slow military intelligence of the Qing Dynasty, or the relatively backward war layout model, made the Sichuan and Henan wars completely form two relatively isolated closed areas. The intelligence exchanges and exchanges between the two war zones were very rare, so that after several months, Wang Tenglong had no defense against rockets.

So, when rockets fell from the sky to Tangzhuang, he was completely stunned.

Too fast, the speed of rocket launch was too fast! "This is not artillery!" Wang Tenglong shouted in his heart. There is no such fast artillery in the world.

In just six or seven minutes, ten rounds, two hundred powerful rockets fell into the not-so-big Tangzhuang.

The continuous explosions made the whole Tangzhuang explode. The rockets carried by the cavalry brigade were all the heaviest large and extra-large rockets, each weighing 50, 60 or 70 kilograms. The amount of gunpowder loaded in each rocket was much more than that of the most powerful flying thunder bomb, so the power after the explosion was naturally much greater.

One explosion shook the ground within a radius of more than ten feet.

The Qing army in Tangzhuang was like the end of the world, with mountains collapsing and houses falling down.

The broken and shattered corpses, human and horse, were like entering a bloody slaughterhouse, with legs, feet, arms, heads, internal organs..., these "parts" were fiddled with everywhere. The burnt smell left by the blood being evaporated by the hot flames was nauseating.

The power of any rocket after the explosion could cover and destroy the entire farmyard!

The screams of the Qing soldiers, the panicked neighing of war horses, the sound of houses collapsing, the scene of the burning fire, the whole Tangzhuang was a doomsday.

Whether you are a solid brick house or a dilapidated thatched house, it is as thin as a piece of paper under the power of rockets. Moreover, many of them are special bombs with added materials. The rural areas of this era are mainly thatched houses and adobe houses. Now it is the dry and windy autumn and winter. Open fires are naturally ignited and then rapidly expand.

Whether it is the thatched roof or the firewood piles in front of and behind the house, a fire accompanied by continuous explosions and the northwest wind at the time of autumn and winter quickly spread throughout the village.

"Retreat. Retreat from the village, retreat quickly!"

Wang Tenglong and Li Tianyou felt like they were dreaming. In such a short time, so many powerful rockets fell from the sky, the whole village was bombed into chaos, and more than a thousand cavalry and horse teams were all finished.

The ground beneath their feet was shaking, their legs and feet were weak, and their ears were buzzing. Wang Tenglong shouted loudly, but even the people opposite him could not hear his shouts.

Wang Tenglong jumped on his horse and expressed his intention with his actions. He rushed out of the burning Tangzhuang with his head covered. Some scattered people and horses joined him along the way. When he stopped at the south end of the village, there was only one officer above the fourth rank, Li Tianyou, and the number of officers and soldiers under him was only a few hundred. And the whole Tangzhuang gathered 1,700 to 1,800 cavalry last night, and Wang Tenglong's personal soldiers alone had 200 to 300 cavalry. Wang Tenglong rushed out of Tangzhuang all the way, and some cavalry gathered along the way. Now the total number is only a hundred! ?

In addition to being shocked and heartbroken, Wang Tenglong burst into tears looking at the burning Tangzhuang.

He felt distressed and aggrieved. What is the point of fighting this battle? There was no one there when the battle was launched, and even the faces of the people were not seen, and they were all finished in a daze.

In Tangzhuang, the violent explosions disappeared, but the burning flames became bigger and bigger, which are what horses fear. Especially flames, the explosions can be withstood by specially trained war horses, but flames are a threat that horses cannot bear. The rapid fire in Tangzhuang immediately made the Qing army's war horses inside fall into fear. And this is the main reason why only so many people followed Wang Tenglong to rush out of the village.

The war horses were so scared!

Of course, many people must have rushed out of other village exits, especially those who escaped alone without riding horses, but Wang Tenglong can only command these hundreds of cavalrymen now, and they are all scared and their fighting spirit is exhausted.

"Kill..."

The loud shouts of killing rang loudly in the north of the village.

Wang Tenglong escaped from Tangzhuang by luck. He looked to the north. The clear firelight was where the Fu Han army fired artillery shells, and it was also where the loud shouts of killing rang out. Chen Ni completely ignored the four villages outside and attacked Wang Tenglong's headquarters in Tangzhuang.

"Sir, hurry up. Only by joining other teams can we resist." Li Tianyou pulled Wang Tenglong's reins.

There is no suspense in this battle alone.

The Gansu-Shaanxi cavalry in Tangzhuang was scattered by rockets, suffering heavy losses, and their morale and fighting spirit were also knocked down.

If there were only the cavalry brigade and the Qing army in Tangzhuang on this battlefield tonight, Chen Kaishan could just call on his soldiers at this time, pursue and fight against the Qing army in Tangzhuang, and enjoy the joy of the 'harvest'. But there were four other groups of Qing soldiers on this battlefield. After Tangzhuang was attacked, the Qing cavalry and horse teams from the other four villages gathered one after another and got out of the village. Although they were attacked by rockets to some extent, the number of rockets was small and they were only used to harass and delay. Chen Kaishan used most of the rockets in his hand to set fire to Tangzhuang!

"Kill..."

Song Yuanjun shouted loudly. The thousand cavalry behind him were divided into four teams, front, rear, left and right, watching Chen Kaishan's main force coming to attack.

Chen Kaishan was not worried about the Qing army's counterattack, because he still held a hundred rockets in his hand.

With the carrying capacity of the spare horses of the cavalry brigade, the total carrying capacity of the cavalry brigade is only this large. No horse-drawn carriage was used, because the road between Shangshui and Zhoujiakou was not accessible by horse-drawn carriage. The Qing army destroyed all the roads and alleys. When the cavalry brigade attacked Bentangzhuang, they often walked through abandoned fields, so it was difficult to transport them again in the dark. There are ridges in the fields one after another. It's fine during the day, but it's difficult to move quickly at night.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."

Rockets were launched one after another. The thick smoke and bursting flames immediately engulfed Song Yuanjun's cavalry three to four hundred meters away.

"Kill..."

A cavalry battalion leapt out. Horse hooves roared, and the sound of killing shook the sky. Due to the terrain, the troops could not form a neat wall formation. But to be honest, under the current situation, there is no need for the Fuhan Army to play any more wall queues. It was the 'skirmishers' who swarmed away the Qing army's counterattack.

It can also maximize the speed of the seated horse and achieve the best results.

"kill……"

A lance pierced Song Yuanjun's heart. Song Yuanjun, who was born in Wu Jinshi, even though his cotton hat was broken by shrapnel from a rocket bomb and he was bleeding profusely, his excellent bow and horse skills did not drop even half a point. He easily dodged the spear while on horseback. Then the saber in his hand flashed with white light, and a scream rang out.

The Fuhan Army cavalryman who had just stabbed Song Yuanjun with a shot had one arm drooped. He threw the lance to the ground and pulled out a saber from under the saddle with his backhand. The cavalry did not even look back and continued to chase the defeated Qing army ahead.

Song Yuanjun turned his horse's head and leaned down to avoid the front of the Fuhan army. But at this time, he heard a gunshot in his ears, and almost at the same time, a bullet pierced the back of Song Yuanjun's head, blowing off his entire head.

Without saying a word, Song Yuanjun's body fell to the ground.

Time? Fate?

Two hundred rockets bombarded Tangzhuang, allowing Wang Tenglong to escape unscathed, but Song Yuanjun, who rushed to the rescue, lost his life so easily.

"Da da da..." The sound of horse hooves sounded in front of Wang Tenglong who was running away.

A team of eight or nine hundred horses galloped from a distance. The leader was none other than Zhang Zhiyuan.

The sharp saber waved in the direction of Wang Tenglong who was being chased not far away. Zhang Zhiyuan shouted loudly, "Brothers, hold on to the sword and gun in your hands and let Chen Ni, who is opposite, take a look at our Northwest athletes. ability.

He is so powerful with firearms, he is nothing like a cavalryman. The real skill is to show off the real skills with swords and guns on horseback. Let us men teach them how to be a new person. Come with me..."

"charge--"

Eight or nine hundred Gansu and Shaanxi horse soldiers shouted together. One hundred of these people are not convinced by today's defeat. Just as Zhang Zhiyuan said, what does it mean for the cavalry to win with firearms?

There were so many great athletes who didn't even have a chance to swing their swords, and were shattered into pieces in successive explosions. Just thinking about the futility of this battle, a suppressed anger quickly rose in the chests of the Qing army's cavalry soldiers. "Kill..."

"Kill..."

The Gansu and Shaanxi horsemen waved their sabers and spears, urging their horses to sprint quickly.

And how could the Fuhan army, which had discovered the Qing army's movements long ago, act unprepared? After lighting up Tangzhuang, Chen Kaishan quickly asked the rocket troops to move forward with the launcher for a mile or two.

In the diagonal stab, two rockets fell into the Qing army's sequence and exploded. Countless pieces of fine iron filings and angle iron covered a large area around them.

As the two rockets hit, "Whoosh..." Amidst the sharp whistles, deafening explosions sounded one after another inside and outside the Gansu and Shaanxi cavalry ranks.

"Whoosh -" the sound rang in his ears, and an angle iron scraped across Zhang Zhiyuan's cheek, and he immediately felt a heat on his stubble-covered left cheek.

"Don't stop, don't stop, Chen Ni is in front of us. Charge forward, charge forward!

Chen Ni didn't dare to have sex anymore when he rushed forward.

Let us rush forward, rush forward! Kill them all and send them all to see the King of Hell——"

Zhang Zhiyuan showed no fear, with blood on his face still shouting loudly at the Gansu and Shaanxi horse soldiers behind him, and always charging at the forefront.

In the explosions, the Gansu and Shaanxi cavalry fell one by one, and their bloody corpses fell to the ground. The sky has turned bright! Just like their morale, it's almost over.

A Qing next to Zhang Zhiyuanhao suddenly felt as if all the bones in his body were being extracted. He fell off his horse without even a groan. Through the smoke of the explosion, Zhang Zhiyuan had already seen the face of his old superior Wang Tenglong.

The sound of horse hooves became faster. As the distance between the two sides shortened, the rockets really stopped.

A traditional battle of oriental cavalry. Both sides were "traditional" scattered teams, and the people and horses on both sides were like two mighty torrents, colliding heavily together.

The screams of people, the neighing of horses; the sound of collisions, the dying struggle; and the temporary wailing, and the smell of blood!

"Brigade commander, the Qing army in the east is coming..."

"Stop them. Wait until the battle in the west and the middle is over, and then deal with the east!"

One cavalry battalion after another was thrown into the battle by Chen Kaishan, and rockets were fired one by one. The battle was centered on where Chen Kaishan was, and the south, east, and west all started.

After the initial ease, the Fu Han Army Cavalry Brigade entered the final assault. Chen Kaishan was very confident in the battle. Because the morale of the Gansu and Shaanxi cavalry opposite them has been greatly frustrated, and now there is another hard-to-hard collision. Are the nerves of the Gansu and Shaanxi cavalry made of steel? They can't hold on.

In the battle in the west [Song Yuanjun], the Fu Han army has completely taken the advantage, and the Qing army has fallen into chaos, just one breath away. Then this battle was won. The Qing army in the middle has new reinforcements, and the middle road that was about to collapse has stabilized a little.

Chen Kaishan still has the last guard battalion in his hand, plus 20 rockets as a reserve. Save the appearance of external factors. At dawn today, he received news from Zhoujiakou that Agui led a large group of cavalry under his command and had already gone south from Chenzhou. It is not guaranteed that they will appear in Shangshui!

Chen Ming's order to him was to be careful. If Wang Tenglong's troops have not been completely defeated this morning, then return immediately!

But judging from Chen Kaishan's current situation, he will be able to completely defeat Wang Tenglong in another hour!

Without the need for a fast horse to report back, Chen Kaishan, holding a telescope, could directly take in the situation on the three battlefields.

Shangshui County, which is only eleven or twelve miles away from Tangzhuang, has already left the city after the reorganization of the Qing army. Five thousand infantry and cavalry troops that set out in advance went to Tangzhuang for emergency support.

Deputy Governor Tie Bao led more than a thousand Manchu and Han cavalry to gallop towards Tangzhuang. At the same time, the news that Tangzhuang was in danger was also reported to Agui by Enhui who stayed in Shangshui. The latter left Chenzhou Prefecture with cavalry yesterday, made a big circle, divided several small troops to bluff and confuse the line of sight, and led the troops into Yuanzhai at night.

Yuanzhai is located on the bank of Yinghe River. It is also a famous town in Chenzhou. It is about twenty miles away from Zhoujiakou! If the Fu Han Army went to Anhui along Yinghe River, it would definitely pass by Yuanzhai!

After Agui's army entered Yuanzhai, they immediately detained more than a thousand local people, young and old.

Before the Fu Han army noticed, more than 7,000 cavalry had already passed through the Changping Bridge at Yuanzhai and rushed to the other side of the Ying River!

Enhui didn't know the specific situation of Yuanzhai. He quickly reported the battle report of Tangzhuang to Yuanzhai, but that was only because Wang Tenglong's troops were directly dispatched by Agui, and there were 5,000 or 6,000 cavalry. He was actually in danger of being beaten by the Fu Han army cavalry, which was far less in number than his own. This Wang Tenglong really deserves to die!

"Report to the brigade commander, enemy reinforcements have been found in the direction of Shangshui. The more than 1,000 Manchu and Han cavalry in front are only six or seven miles away from Tangzhuang."

There are eighteen or nineteen things in the world that are not satisfactory. Chen Ming thought the Qing army was a little too simple. He also thought the cohesion of the Gansu and Shaanxi Qing army was too loose. Suddenly encountered a rocket attack. Although the Qing army cavalry in Tangzhuang was defeated, the Gansu and Shaanxi cavalry on all sides did not flee with them, but rose up to rescue...

Now the Qing army in Shangshui has just received the news and immediately ordered troops to attack.

Chen Kaishan slammed his palm hard!