Chapter 455 Perrier's Envy

For the Qing army in Xuzhou, the fierce battle last night was tragic and sad. Li Shiyao's momentary thought saved the Qing army's large forces, but Li Shiyao's governor's standard was damaged, Li Xingyuan's town standard was damaged, and Fengshan's town standard was also damaged.

The three most elite troops of the Qing army in Xuzhou City were all destroyed.

Li Shiyao used three stones to save a piece of sand.

In the night battle, the Fu Han army invested two battalions, a tank battalion and a musket battalion. Then the most elite force of the Qing army in Xuzhou was broken.

It was only a three-quarter hour fight!

Not to mention how exhausted the retreating tank battalion was, in the late autumn weather, some soldiers opened their arms, and their strong chests were blown by the night wind. At the edge of the campfire, Perrier could even see the hot steam coming out of the soldiers!

Of course, Perrier was more concerned about their numbers. This army did not lose much after a fierce battle.

"Sir, they still have at least 500 people."

"Can you estimate the specific number?" Perrier already knew the "fighting spirit" of the Fu Han Army. All the soldiers of the attacking force who did not retreat with the troops could almost be considered dead.

"Thirty to forty people." The follower looked at the soldiers of the tank battalion with fear. A strong smell of blood came from every soldier of the tank battalion. After taking off their armor, their military uniforms were all stained with blood, and even the boots of some people were soaked with blood to the ankles.

Not to mention the blood dripping on the armor, the blood stains on the swords and iron bars, and even the white objects. The follower did not dare to take a closer look at what it was. His intuition told him that the white object was human brains.

Hearty laughter came from behind Perrier. It was the soldiers of the tank battalion chatting after the war...

"These soldiers have a better mentality." Perrier was a little envious. The failure in the Seven Years' War made the whole Gallic rooster feel bad. Perrier, who had a certain understanding of Chinese culture, couldn't help but think of an idiom when listening to the laughter of the tank battalion soldiers. "The Chinese have an idiom to describe the morale of the army. It means that they are very happy to hear the news of the war. It is very suitable to use it on these soldiers."

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After the attacking troops withdrew from the battlefield, the artillery of the Fu Han Army quickly launched a covering bombardment towards the gap. There were as many as seventy or eighty cannons and mortars concentrated in the south of Xuzhou. The elite Qing army, who had just "defeated" the powerful enemy, immediately turned into a panic before they had time to be happy...

"Quick. Hide quickly, hide quickly!"

Li Xingyuan saw the retreat of the Fu Han Army and had no intention of pursuing it. He loudly ordered the troops to hide. Prepare for the next round of artillery fire from the Fu Han Army! This is the positional battle on the battlefield of Xuzhou. Charges and bombardments were staged in turn. The Fu Han Army constantly consumed their flesh and blood with shells, bullets and bayonets!

Whoever sheds blood and courage first will lose the battle.

"Boom boom boom..." The bombardment last night was very loud. Just as Perrier carefully observed the tank battalion soldiers chatting and laughing after the war, seventy or eighty large and small artillery fired together, and the sky was muffled. It was really like a "mine pool".

"**** Don't you continue to attack?" Perrier asked an accompanying Fu Han Army officer beside him.

"No more fighting tonight." The officer shook his head and said. Chen Ming will not continue to fight tonight. Not only will he not fight, but the troops west of Xuzhou will also open some gaps for the Qing army to escape at night. The most important thing in the first and second half of the night is to see if anyone in the Qing army has escaped. But the officer didn't understand, how could their prince be sure that someone would escape tonight?

He was just a small sergeant, of course he didn't know Chen Ming's real arrangement.

Only the regimental-level officers in the entire camp knew that when the second batch of musketeers from a battalion reinforced the tank battalion, more than 20 scouts in Qing army uniforms also entered Xuzhou City together, so everything that followed was a matter of course.

The sergeant's rank was too low, and he didn't know about this plan at all.

The rest of the first half of the night passed peacefully. If there was another immortal in the Fu Han Army who knew the "qi-watching technique", he would have found that the morale of the Xuzhou Qing Army, which was originally as soft and scattered as cotton wool, was now more erratic like clouds. In the second half of the night, Chen Ming was already asleep. Suddenly, he heard the faint sound of gunfire, and he smiled but didn't get up, continuing to indulge in his dreams.

Li Shiyao sat there from last night until dawn. After the fierce attack launched by the Fu Han Army in the first half of the night, there was no subsequent attack. This was the most stable night for the Fu Han Army in the past few days.

But the Fu Han Army was stable, but the Qing Army was in chaos. I don't know what happened, but suddenly some soldiers started to run away.

This sign appeared at midnight and reached its peak at the beginning of the morning hour. In just one or two hours, the tide of deserters rose, which was by no means without reason. The Fu Han Army had already beaten Xuzhou to a pulp, and there were rumors last night that the town flags of the two generals Li and Feng and the governor's flag were all severely damaged. That was the last straw that broke the camel's back. The tense morale of the Qing army was completely destroyed! More than twenty scouts were more than twenty flames. They fanned the flames, spread rumors, and frequently "took the lead" in exploring the way while leading the deserters out of the city.

If the Qing soldiers were calm, it might be that no one would notice that something was wrong. There were no such noble people in the Qing army. They finally got out, but instead of running away, they sneaked back to lead them...

But when people panic, many of the revealed traces will be ignored by them. Or it can be said that after people fall into a deep well, they always hope that a ‘good person’ will appear in their hearts.

Now the sky has dawned. Li Shiyao numbly listened to the news reported from all over. There were battalion-level teams fleeing together in Xuzhou City. How miserable it was! "What kind of stupid brains are those people..." Li Shiyao was too lazy to scold these people. Should the pig brains think that the defense line of the Fu Han Army would have such a low-level mistake - a defense loophole? Comparing these people to pigs is really an insult to pigs.

Last night's combat effectiveness Li Xingyuan lost two fingers, fortunately both on his left hand. Fengshan was seriously injured and unconscious. He was hit by a shell and half of his face was torn off. His head was like a blood gourd. No one can say whether he can wake up in the end.

Among the four battalion officers in Li Shiyao's command, one guerrilla and one lieutenant general died, and another lieutenant general was seriously injured. When the four battalions left Huai'an, there were only 3,000 soldiers, but now less than half of them are left, and they have completely lost the ability to continue fighting.

Adding the governors of Fengshan and Li Xingyuan, the most elite 6,000 soldiers of the entire Subei Qing army can now be reduced to less than 2,500.

Li Shiyao could feel that the offensive force of the Fu Han army yesterday was much stronger than before. Yesterday, the 6,000 elite soldiers under his command who were the Great Wall were scattered all day and night, and something happened last night. In one night, or to be more precise, half a night, the troops in the city lost a full 5,000 people. If the Fu Han army launches such a strong offensive again today...

Li Shiyao suddenly stroked his neck with his hand, "Great head, great head..." Then, "Hahaha, hahaha..." He let out a desperate and sad laugh. He was not worried about himself, nor was he worried about Da Qingguo. At this time, Li Shiyao was only worried about his family in Beijing.

If I die, what will happen to my family? They are Han army bannermen, and they don't bind their feet. They are also pampered, not like the big-footed women in poor families. Even if they escape to the people, how can they not leave traces after a long time?

At this moment, the main general of the Qing army in Xuzhou, Li Shiyao, was also defeated. Then the fall of Xuzhou City became a matter of course.

The attacking forces of the three regiments launched an attack from three sides at the same time. At the beginning of the Si hour, that is, at nine o'clock, they officially launched an attack on Xuzhou City, attacking from three sides.

If the previous Fu Han Army was an open palm, then the current Fu Han Army is a claw with five fingers inward!

Xuzhou City, the fruit held tightly in Chen Ming's palm, can still resist for a while with the soft shell at the beginning. But now the soft shell on the outside of the fruit has been pierced by Chen Ming. When his "five fingers" are inward, the bright red flesh immediately turns into blood plasma and flows out without hesitation.

Li Xingyuan died, Fengshan died in a coma, and Li Shiyao also died.

The whole battle lasted until five o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun was about to set in the west, and no more gunshots were heard in Xuzhou City.

At this time, the Henan Qing army that came from Dangshan had just reached Xizhendian, and Xuzhou was still sixty or seventy miles away, which was two days' journey. In front of them, southeast of the location, was Xiaoxian, where a battalion of Fu Han Army was stationed.

Agui, who had originally dispatched cavalry to guard Xiaoxian, suddenly ordered the entire army to retreat the next day. Just when the army was confused, a piece of news came out, and then it was quickly confirmed to be true-Xuzhou fell.

Li Shiyao and his 30,000 Qing troops were either captured or annihilated, which was considered a complete annihilation.

Without the "internal response" of the Subei Qing army that had fought with the Fu Han Army in Xuzhou City for more than ten days, although Agui brought a lot of troops this time, he had no confidence to fight against the three brigades of Fu Han Army under Chen Ming.

"The 4th Brigade will stay in Xuzhou and look for an opportunity to move westward and join Chenzhou. The 20th Brigade and the Guards Brigade will follow me to rescue Jining." In Xuzhou, Chen Ming, who learned that Agui had suddenly withdrawn his troops, could no longer delay going to rescue Jining. Even if he was thinking about dealing with the Kong family in his heart, he had to do everything for the sake of face.

The 20,000 prisoners captured in the Battle of Xuzhou were all left in Xuzhou, and there were many artillery pieces. He didn't think that he would really fight this time. How stupid must the Qing army under Jining be to continue to fight the Fu Han Army after a long battle?

This is a parade.

The Fu Han Army went north and the Qing Army retreated west. Of course, Chen Ming had to be more aggressive. His troops went to Jining along the west bank of the canal. By then, the Qing army retreating from Jining might not even be able to stay in Jining Prefecture.

Weishan Lake, Zhaoyang Lake, Dushan Lake, and Nanyang Lake. The canal section from Jining to Xuzhou is all lakes. When Chen Ming led his troops to Nanyang Town, where Nanyang Lake and Dushan Lake meet, the siege of Jining was lifted. The Qing army that retreated westward across the canal from Jining did not even dare to stay in the counties of Jining Prefecture. They retreated all the way to Juye, the easternmost county of Caozhou Prefecture!

The only battle left on the battlefield was the Battle of Jinan. The Nanjing side also formed a preliminary decision on the "arrangement" for Anhui, which was passed to Chen Ming by express pigeon.

No fight!

But support the Nianzi - the Nianzi who defected to the Fu Han Army, and let the Nianzi go south to attack Luzhou. After taking Jinan, the Fu Han Army consolidated and cleaned up the territory of Shandong, rested the troops, and waited for the war next year.

Chen Ming also quickly sent a letter back to Nanjing, agreeing with this decision. Just like Chen Cong convinced Chen Hui, the dangers of the river bank + Huanghuai also convinced Chen Ming. The next year will be the highlight, and he doesn't want to cause any trouble. All the Qing army prisoners captured in the Battle of Xuzhou will be sent to the Yellow River and the Grand Canal to build dams and dredge the river.