Chapter 91: The Rotation of History, the Extension of Cause and Effect
The cool breeze of February blew gently, still carrying a slight chill, as the Chinese army's queue passed by the river near Wangyuan Bridge.
The frontal battle near Wangyuan Bridge had completely stopped at this time.
Groups of surrendered prisoners were held in several triangular depressions along the river. The Chinese Army's musket formations guarded the opening to the outside, and a small number of troops went to the other side to prevent the prisoners from escaping across the river. It was originally larger
On the battlefield in the area, the Jin people's flags fell over, the baggage was in chaos, the corpses were most densely packed on the front line of the battle, and the tragic scene spread towards the river.
Where the rockets were ravaged, the fire had been extinguished, leaving behind shocking burnt corpses, explosions, burned soil, injured Jin soldiers still groaning in the wind, and some of the faces of the soldiers who were being driven away and under guard.
You can even see the tears shed.
Looking across the bridge, the ground turned into patches of black.
The accuracy of the "Dijiang River" is still a problem that needs to be greatly improved at the moment. Therefore, in order to block this almost only escape route, the Jin people's 30,000-strong army was reduced to the highest level. The Chinese army faced this bridgehead before and after.
More than sixty rockets were fired. Black spots everywhere spread from the bridge head. Half of the small stone bridge collapsed, leaving only an opening for two people to walk side by side.
Ning Yi rubbed his fists and walked through the battlefield where the cool breeze blew.
Everyone around him was excited. Even the veterans of the Chinese Army holding guns nearby were a little surprised at the victory of this battle and were overjoyed. Only Ning Yi looked at the scenes around him.
His eyes seemed a little distant.
"Wangyuan Bridge...how far is it from Zizhou?"
"Eleven miles."
"...Oh." Ning Yi nodded.
On September 21, 1860, at Bali Bridge on the outskirts of Beijing, more than 30,000 Qing troops faced off against 8,000 British and French allied forces. A fierce battle lasted for half a day. The Qing army suffered more than 1,200 casualties. Five British and French troops were killed and injured.
Forty-seven people.
This is another period of history, the most humiliating scene in China during the Second Opium War.
Of course, many times history is more like a little girl with no independent ability. Just like Han Shizhong's "Huang Tiandang Victory", the records of the Battle of Baliqiao are also full of strange things. In the records of later generations, people say
The monk king Seng Gelinqin led more than 10,000 Mongolian cavalry and 20,000 infantrymen to launch a brave battle. Although the resistance was tenacious, however...
However, in the end, the Qing army suffered 1,200 casualties, leading to the defeat of the 30,000-strong army. After returning home, some French officers trumpeted the Qing army's heroic fighting skills, saying, "They withstood the heavy firepower that caused heavy casualties...
"Don't take a step back, persevere bravely, and everyone will die on the spot" and so on, but some members of Congress believed that what happened in Baliqiao was just a "ridiculous war."
What is the truth of history?
At this point it's more like an unimportant detail.
Will that period of history disappear because I came into this world? I don’t think so.
He walked around the blackened crater and sighed softly.
The technological generation gap seems to be an insurmountable mountain, but it is not necessarily true that it is completely insurmountable. During that period of history, the Chinese nation was humiliated and fell behind for more than a hundred years, until 1950.
At the beginning of the war to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea, China was always lagging behind.
In a place called Shangganling, the Americans used tens of thousands of artillery shells and explosives to bomb a position of only 3.7 square kilometers for 43 days every day. 1.9 million artillery shells were fired, and five bombs dropped by aircraft.
Over a thousand years ago, the granite on the entire mountaintop was cut down by two meters.
The volunteers, who were short of explosives, even dismantled the unexploded dumb bombs dropped by the Americans and used them to dig air-raid shelters.
At that time, it was the Chinese people who had endured a century of humiliation who used their willpower honed in fire to smooth out the greater technological generation gap and win decades of breathing space for China later on.
The Wu Dynasty has endured more than ten years of humiliation.
The screams of the wounded soldiers continued.
It was a Jurchen veteran who had been affected by the explosion in the previous battle. He was sitting in a pool of blood. One of his feet had been blown off. He woke up from a coma, and the huge pain caused him to shout on the battlefield.
Ning Yi walked up to him and looked at him quietly.
The military coat only swayed slightly in the wind. There was no compassion in Ning Yi's eyes. He just looked at the veteran with a broken leg quietly. Such Jurchen soldiers must be veterans who have experienced battles again and again. They died in
There are already countless enemies and even innocent people in his hands. Most of the Jin soldiers who can set foot on the battlefield of Wangyuan Bridge today are like this.
The shouts of the Jurchen veteran even gradually stopped in front of this gaze. His teeth chattered and his eyes did not dare to look at Ning Yi. Ning Yi stepped on the pool of blood and walked towards the distance.
"Li Heng...are you unhappy?" Hong Ti beside him asked softly.
Ning Yi looked back at the final scene on the battlefield, and then shook his head.
"No."
he said.
At this time, good news was spreading in different directions.
Even within the Chinese Army, a shocking shock will come soon...
…
In the Jurchen camp, there was a completely different scene.
People were waiting for confirmation of the battlefield news. Shi Yema shouted "This must be false..." After that, Zong Han, who was sitting on the chair, stopped expressing his views. The scouts were called in and waited for Shi Yema.
When pressed, he described everything that happened on the battlefield in detail. However, before he was halfway through the sentence, Wan Yanshe kicked him out violently.
"This is a spy who is messing with the morale of our troops!"
Shi Yema spoke categorically, and Bali Su on the side also added: "Maybe it is."
While waiting for the second round of messages to come, Zong Han walked in the room, looked at the map about Wangyuan Bridge, and then whispered: "Xiebao is rough but fine, even if Ning Yi is deceitful,
If you are suddenly attacked, you won’t be unable to deal with it.”
Shi Ye immediately nodded: "My father is right."
The camp was quiet for a long time. Zong Han, who sat back on his chair, said, "I'm just worried that although Xie Bao is smart, he always has an air of arrogance in his heart. If he has trouble making a decision when he retreats, trouble will result."
Shi Yema said nothing.
At 2:00 p.m. (4 p.m.), more detailed information came. The scouts hiding in the distance of Wangyuan Bridge described in detail the chaos on the battlefield. Some people fled the battlefield, but whether there were any oblique guards among them remains unclear.
Before he knew it, Yu Yu had already arrived at the front to meet him. As Zong Han listened to the scout's description, his hands on the chair railings were already trembling slightly. He said to Sheyama: "Zhenzhu, go and take a look at the front."
After Shi Yema left, Zong Han asked the scout to continue describing the scene on the battlefield. When he heard the scout talk about King Baoshan finally leading his troops forward, and finally the commander's flag fell, it seemed that he had not fought out, Zong Han stood up from his chair and said,
The armrest he was holding in his right hand broke with a click, and Zong Han threw it to the ground.
The scouts were still describing the horrific firearms bombardment at the head of Wangyuan Bridge. The continuous flames and explosions made it impossible for a large number of soldiers running to the bridge to pass. Some soldiers were on fire and ran screaming among the crowd.
The soldiers threw themselves into the still cold and biting river water on the shore. The northerners were not good at swimming, so most of the soldiers who threw themselves into the river drowned.
"enough--"
Zong Han interrupted the scout's description. The scout knelt there and remained silent.
But after a while, he heard Zong Han's voice again: "You - continue talking about the firearm."
Only then did the scout dare to speak again.
At around 3:30 p.m., people gradually learned about Wanyan Xiebao's heroic charge and the uncertainty about his life and death from the soldiers who fled back from the front line of Wangyuan Bridge. After a while, it was confirmed that Xiebao had been killed.
captured.
At this time, the attack and defense of the entire Shiling battlefield had stopped under the orders of both parties participating in the war, which proved that both sides were aware of the shocking results of the battle in the direction of Wangyuan Bridge.
Most everyone can understand the meaning contained in the results of the victory.
Six thousand soldiers of the Chinese Army, armed with new types of firearms, defeated the 30,000 elite Jin Army led by Xie Bao in half an hour. Thousands of soldiers were treated as dead, and more than 20,000 were captured. Those who escaped
Very few. And the casualties of the Chinese army were only a handful.
Most of the time, both sides were actually confirming whether the results of the battle were true. On the Chinese side, Yu Zhongdao asked the messenger to confirm the source of the information three times before accepting the reality. Qu Zhengyan sat on the ground with the information.
, was silent for a long time, and then asked someone to confirm it again. After receiving the message, the staff officer Chen Tian burst into laughter at first: "Who is entertaining me? It must have been by me before..." Then he reacted and became furious:
"No matter what, you can't joke about military affairs——"
People accept the entire message in various ways.
The afternoon was not over yet, and Ning Yi had already joined Han Jing, pulling a cart partially equipped with "Dijiang" rockets and launchers to the front line of Shiling. While riding forward, Ning Yi, Han Jing, and several others
Technical personnel and staff review problems that occurred on the entire battlefield.
"The strength of the musket barrel has always been a problem. The first few rounds were a little better, but after the third round, we noticed that the situation of chamber explosions was improving..."
"After three rounds, the paper shell of the ammunition became somewhat jammed..."
"Dealing with the cavalry, we took advantage of luck. The Jurchens originally wanted to circle slowly to the south, but we launched in advance, so they were not mentally prepared. Later, when they wanted to speed up, it was already too late... We noticed that the second round of launch
Here, the head of the Jurchen cavalry was affected. The remaining cavalry did not circle the field anymore, but chose to charge in a straight line, just in time to hit the muzzle of the gun... If the enemy is prepared next time, the speed of the cavalry may still cause us harm.
threaten……"
"The loss of rockets was not as high as expected. They collapsed when they were frightened. Now they can still fight a few more times..."
Among people's chattering discussions, they also talked about the usefulness of rockets. Some people said that the name "Dijiang" is mighty and domineering. According to the "Book of Mountains and Seas", the Dijiang River is shaped like a yellow sac and red like red fire.
Wingless is faceless, and the most important thing is that he can dance. This rocket is named after the Emperor River, which is really lifelike. Mr. Ning is really good at naming, and it has profound connotations...
Han Jing came closer and hesitated: "Although... it is a great happy event, but the word "emperor" is not appropriate. Let's kill the emperor..." He used his hand as a saw and looked like he was cutting.
Sawing Zhou Zhe's head in the air, he didn't continue talking.
Ning Yi tilted his head: "Dijiang..."
"Yes, Dijiang."
"Pulp..."
"Jiang...it's Jiang." Han Jing chewed for a long time before riding his horse to follow, "What do you mean?"
As the sun sets, the front line of Shiling is approaching.
Zizhou.
Li Shishi also received the first round of battle reports after Ning Yi left. She sat in a simply decorated room and was silent at the table for a long time. Then she covered her mouth and cried. There was a smile in the cry...
For many years, she once questioned the rationality of Ning Yi's behavior of killing Zhou Zhe in the Jinluan Palace that day. Now there is no need to ask about this matter. At the most critical moment of this battle that almost determined the survival of the entire ethnic group,
On the sixth day when he led his troops to attack, he easily destroyed Wanyan Xiebao, whose strength was five times his own.
The setting sun shone in from the window of the hut...