The machine gun caused great damage, and the Ming army soldiers were very dense in the trench. The blood from the bullet wounds spurted and spattered, flowing everywhere, and the narrow trench was quickly filled with blood. It was strafed by infantry fighting vehicles.
The battlefield they passed turned into a pipe filled with a layer of red liquid, filled with a nauseating smell.
All Qu Dingsheng's confidence collapsed after two minutes of Gatling gun fire.
Forty infantry fighting vehicles may not seem like much, but the rate of fire of the Gatling gun is so fast that it can kill more than a thousand frontier soldiers in one minute. And the Ming army lost more than just soldiers who were shot, because
After being strafed, thousands of other soldiers lost their organization and order and ran wildly in and behind the trenches. If this continued for only twenty minutes, the entire Baoding Prefecture Ming Army's front would completely collapse.
There is no doubt that the frontier troops in Shanxi Town and Datong Town have no chance of defeating the Huben Army.
The so-called loyalty to the Ming Dynasty and Zhu Youjian did not exist. In the past, the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty could line up in the suburbs of Beijing to welcome Dorgon after the Manchus entered the customs. The same was true for Qu Dingsheng, who could be loyal to the new master at any time.
.As a frontier general who made a lot of money in the military camp and locally, what supported Qu Dingsheng and Li Zhi's fight was the absolute numerical superiority of the Ming army.
Qu Dingsheng originally thought that with rifles and cannons at the level of the Jiangbei Army, the Ming Army would be able to overwhelm the Huben Army with numbers without falling too far behind in technology. However, the appearance of infantry fighting vehicles made Qu Dingsheng understand that everything was an illusion. The differences between the Huben Army and the Ming Army
The gap cannot be reversed with ten times the number of people.
In just a moment, the anxious Emperor Zhu Youjian, the Ming Dynasty's Jiangshan Sheji, and the power of the Shanxi General Army disappeared like clouds and smoke in Qu Dingsheng's mind. The only thing Qu Dingsheng still thought about was his own life.
Qu Dingsheng's trembling body suddenly trembled and he shouted loudly: "Down with the flag! Surrender!"
Hearing the roar of the Shanxi commander, the other military attachés around looked at Qu Dingsheng in panic.
Only a few minutes into the battle, the confident and arrogant "Admiral of the South Road" Qu Dingsheng decided to surrender? If Baoding surrendered, the right wing of the main battlefield in Wuqing County would be completely exposed to the guns of the Huben Army.
Zhong Feng led the Huben army from the south to the north to encircle them, and Yang Guozhu's main force of hundreds of thousands near Wuqing would be devastated.
Qu Dingsheng's decision to surrender was tantamount to announcing the complete defeat of the Ming Dynasty in this decisive battle.
If this decisive battle were lost, the Ming Dynasty would be doomed. In other words, Qu Dingsheng only lasted three minutes on the battlefield before he sentenced the desperate Ming Dynasty to death.
Once the Ming Dynasty is over, so will these military officers who lord it over others.
All the generals looked at Qu Dingsheng with pale faces and were speechless.
Qu Dingsheng looked at the hesitant generals around him and shouted loudly: "Surrender! Surrender is the only way to survive! Down the flag!"
The generals around looked at me and I looked at you, their faces pale, but they did not dare to listen to Qu Dingsheng's order.
To retreat at this time is to give up everything.
A young guerrilla general with eyebrows like swords suddenly shouted loudly: "We cannot surrender! Once Baoding surrenders, we, the Ming Dynasty, will no longer be able to save it! Even if we risk our lives, we must save the emperor! Save the Ming Dynasty."
Qu Dingsheng looked at the infantry fighting vehicle slowly approaching, and then at the young guerrilla general. His body shook violently and his eyes turned blood red. He was originally a ruthless and ruthless man, how could he give up because of the obstruction of a young general?
He suddenly pulled out his saber and stabbed it into the stomach of the guerrilla general without hesitation.
Blood splattered everywhere. The young general looked at the knife on his stomach in disbelief. He grabbed Qu Dingsheng's shoulders and said with wide eyes: "Can't...can't surrender..."
However, the blood flowed too fast, and he soon lost his strength and slowly fell to the ground.
Qu Dingsheng ignored the blood on his hands and yelled: "Fall the flag and surrender! Surrender to Zhenbei Bo!"
The surrounding generals looked at the roaring machine guns in the distance and the extremely vicious Qu Dingsheng. How could they dare to resist? One by one, they took off their armor and knelt on the ground.
The flags of the Chinese army fell down one after another. The soldiers in the trench who were frightened by the infantry fighting vehicles soon understood that the general had surrendered. As if they were being amnesty, they fell down one by one.
With the military flag in hand, he knelt above the trench and begged for surrender.
When the machine gunners in the infantry fighting vehicles saw that all the Ming troops had knelt down, they gradually stopped shooting.
The soldiers of the Huben Army smiled and looked at the Ming Army frontier troops opposite, as if everything was taken for granted, and they did not even cheer for victory.
Zhong Feng looked through the telescope at the Ming army generals kneeling in front of the trench and snorted coldly.
"The vulnerable rat!"
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Wang Pu was wearing gorgeous Shanwen armor and a scarlet cloak from the north. He stood in the intricate ditch in the west of Baodi County and was silent.
Wang Pu's current identity is Prince Shaobao of the Ming Dynasty, the commander-in-chief of Jizhen, and the "admiral of the North Road against Ni". He is specifically responsible for the front lines in Baodi County and the area to the north.
However, unlike Qu Dingsheng, who never shed tears without seeing the coffin, Wang Pu is a person who understands current affairs. He has fought side by side with Li Zhi many times and has a deep understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Huben Army.
And the more important thing is that Wang Pu understands Li Zhi, he understands that Li Zhi is not an ordinary person, and he understands that Li Zhi has abilities that ordinary people cannot.
Wang Pu frowned and looked at the uniform banner of the Tiger and Ben Army opposite, and couldn't help but read:
"together…"
"Qi Chao..."
Seeing Wang Pu's entranced look, the Wang family's chief steward and Wang Pu's third uncle Wang Gu looked around. After confirming that the generals around him were the confidants of the Wang family, he said: "Master, shall we fight?"
This battle?"
Two generations of the Wang family, father and son, have ruled Datong Town as the general soldiers of Datong for more than 40 years. The Wang family of Datong has controlled various interests of Datong like gold soup and iron barrels. However, Li Zhi massacred seven Shanxi merchants because of collaborating with the enemy, leaving only one
After Datong unified the Wang family, the Wang family's power expanded rapidly like a snowball.
The Wang family and Li Zhi conducted trade with one town and nine provinces, and continuously transported raw materials and handicrafts from Shanxi, Shaanxi and Mongolia to Tianjin. They also dumped cheap and high-quality industrial products from one town and nine provinces from Tianjin to the northwest, making countless profits.
Nowadays, the Wang family not only controls Datong City, but also uses its strong strength to actually control Jizhen. Wang Pu, the commander-in-chief of Jizhen, is not an ordinary commander-in-chief. He is absolutely loyal to his word in Jizhen.
Wang Pu's father is still alive, but because of the good relationship between Wang Pu and Li Zhi, Wang Pu is now actually the head of the Wang family. Wang Gu verbally calls Wang Pu the young master, but in fact he treats Wang Pu as the master.
Of course Zhu Youjian knew that Wang Pu and Li Zhi were inextricably linked, and Wang Dehua's Dongchang was not blind.
But even if the Emperor of Heaven understands Wang Pu's half-heartedness, he still has to use Wang Pu as the admiral of the North Road. Because if Wang Pu is not used, Ji Town's hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses cannot be mobilized at all. Without these hundreds of thousands of people, Zhu Youjian
I don’t believe that I can defeat Li Zhi.
The army of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be composed of ruffians and elite soldiers. Although Zhu Youjian lived in the Forbidden City every day, he also knew that this army was riddled with holes. Therefore, although he surrounded Tianjin with ten times the force,
At the last moment, he was still so nervous that he had insomnia and lost his composure.
But Zhu Youjian still didn't understand how bad this army was.
Hearing Wang Ju's words, "Admiral" Wang Pu smiled, as if Wang Ju had asked a stupid question.
