Even Lieutenant Colonel Zhu Xu, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, couldn't help but take a breath when he saw this scene. The densely packed corpses looked too terrifying, and many of these casualties were actually not dead.
, it’s just injuries, but the groans of the injured people make people feel the cruelty of war even more!
However, although he took a breath of cold air, he is also a veteran who has experienced countless battles. He can be a lieutenant colonel in the Tang Dynasty King's Division, especially a deputy in the First Infantry Regiment, the most competitive main force.
The leader of the regiment has many qualifications and military exploits.
So he was only shocked for a moment, and soon returned to normal, and then loudly ordered: "The grenadier comes forward, the sword and shield soldiers cover, attack from both sides, and expand the occupied area!"
As soon as Lieutenant Colonel Zhu Xu reached the top of the city, he issued relevant orders and directed the troops ascending the city to continue fighting.
At this time, on the side of the First Infantry Regiment, Colonel Chen Keqiao also saw that the commando team had climbed to the top of the city. At this time, he knew that it was time for his own First Infantry Regiment to actually attack!
"Send the order, the 1st Infantry Battalion and the 2nd Infantry Battalion come forward quickly to reinforce the commando team!"
Although the commandos themselves can open a gap in the city, once the Ming army organizes a large number of heavy armored infantry and spearmen to counterattack in a dense square formation, these commandos will be in danger.
They had already formulated relevant combat plans before the war. Once the commando team opened a gap, the First Infantry Regiment must immediately follow up with reinforcements.
As for the subsequent battles on the city, especially the counterattack against the dense Ming army, without the support of the First Infantry Regiment, the commando team is likely to fall into a bitter battle, resulting in heavy casualties or even failure!
Hao Bainian at the rear naturally watched the entire commando operation in detail through binoculars, and knew that during the climb to the city, not only the Ming army suffered heavy casualties, but also his own casualties were also considerable. However, Lieutenant Colonel Zhu Xu would still be shocked by this.
If so, then Hao Bainian had no feeling about it, and even said to others with joy on his face: "Okay, the first contribution in this battle should be made by the commando team!"
"Instruct the whole army to launch the final charge, order the Second Infantry Regiment to go into battle, expand the results, and capture Liuzhou in one fell swoop, as a New Year gift to His Majesty!"
Hao Bainian had fought countless hard battles and had already taken care of the casualties, and he was a pretty standard general. As long as he could win the final victory, it didn't matter if he had to pay some casualties.
As for the casualties of soldiers and even officers, in his opinion, they are just a number!
These soldiers were killed and wounded, and it wouldn't take long for him to get enough recruits from the Training Department to supplement them. It wouldn't take long after this battle for his First Infantry Brigade to still be able to maintain its peak state of full strength!
For a senior general like Hao Bainian, war is not cruel, but romantic. It is a way for him to build meritorious deeds and gain glory and wealth!
Hao Bainian was not moved at all by the casualties incurred by this general attack, but the other people on the side looked unhappy.
The few civil servants in the cabinet and the civilian officers in the Privy Council who accompanied the army to watch the battle looked at such a tragic battlefield, and few of them could remain calm.
The deputy director of the Recruitment Department of the Ministry of War looked at the battlefield and muttered in his heart: "Nima, these casualties are so heavy. I am afraid that all the recruits I recruited in Liuzhou Prefecture this month will be filled in. There are also so many casualties in the Third Guard Brigade."
It’s so big, I’m afraid a large part of the Ming army’s captured troops will have to be replenished later. In this case, where can we find the soldiers needed by the Fifth Guard Brigade?”
People in the Training Department of the Privy Council also thought to themselves: "This Hao Bainian is too reckless in fighting. Is it easy for our Training Department to train new recruits? It is not easy. You have killed so many people in one battle. The soldiers trained by our Training Department are not enough."
Not on!"
The civil and military officials of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty were just thinking secretly, but Cen Shouji, the leader of the chieftain soldiers, did not look good!
This battle is not over yet. The number of casualties among our own soldiers is no less than 200. Their total number of soldiers is only more than 1,500. The casualties are so heavy, but on the front line, the Tang Dynasty King
Under the force of the division's officers, the soldiers still had to continue the attack. By the time this battle was over, there would probably be no less than 300 casualties.
With so many casualties, how should I explain it to the chieftains?
You must know that these soldiers who were killed or injured were not ordinary soldiers, but elite standing soldiers who had been trained and trained by the chieftains for many years. It would be difficult to deal with too many deaths!
Not to mention the thoughts of everyone watching the battle from behind, but under Hao Bainian's order, the frontline units continued to fight. The First Infantry Regiment began to reinforce the commando team, climbed onto the city wall one after another, and then cleaned up both sides of the city wall, and the Ming Dynasty counterattack came.
The army conducts operations.
The other troops also took advantage of the fact that the main force of the Ming army was attracted by the commando team and the 1st Infantry Regiment, and launched an assault on the city.
Among them, the strategic reserve of the Tang Dynasty King's Division, the Second Infantry Regiment, which entered the battlefield for the first time, was the main one. The Second Infantry Regiment forcibly launched a charge from the other side and successfully opened the gap at the top of the city.
At this time, among the various troops of the Tang Dynasty King's Division, there were already more than a thousand troops arriving on the city, and this number was still increasing rapidly.
However, the Ming army defending the city had already suffered heavy casualties. If Liuzhou City had not been surrounded and was surrounded by the Liujiang River on three sides except the north, leaving them with nowhere to escape, they would have fled long ago.
However, there was no strategic collapse, but small-scale collapses and escapes continued to occur!
Especially those young men who were temporarily recruited. Facts have once again proved that in the fierce frontal combat, the young men without training are simply vulnerable. They were still able to defeat the Tang Army before they entered the city.
Assisted the regular Ming army in defending the city.
But when the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty climbed to the top of the city, they had neither the courage nor the ability to resist in hand-to-hand combat!
Therefore, the first ones to collapse are these young and strong ones!
Those guardsmen were better, but it was already impossible for the guardsmen to resist the oncoming puppet Tang rebel army alone.
At this time, although the Ming army was still resisting, many high-ranking generals of the Ming army could no longer see the hope of victory. Some ran away secretly, and some went to fight in person in despair, and finally died at the hands of the puppet Tang thieves.
Under the sword and gun of the army.
The swords and guns of the puppet army of the Tang Dynasty did not care whether you were from a thousand households or a hundred households, or whether you were an ordinary soldier, they would all be chopped down with one blow.
Some senior Ming army generals gritted their teeth and led their men to surrender on the spot.
Anyway, according to the news circulating outside, not many generals of the Ming army would surrender to the puppet Tang rebels, and the puppet Tang rebels were determined to treat their prisoners well.
As long as you surrender sincerely, you don't have to worry about your life being threatened, and after a period of study, you can continue to lead troops.
It is said that the garrison of the puppet Tang rebel army opposite was led by several generals from Guizhou, including senior generals such as Qianhu, Wei Commander, and Qian Shi.
The surrender of these few senior Ming generals in Liuzhou City once again proved the benefits of not killing prisoners of the Tang Dynasty!
Because in this way, when those Ming soldiers are desperate, they will have the idea of surrender or even surrender. They don’t have to worry about being killed if they surrender!
As more and more soldiers from the Tang Dynasty boarded the city, the city wall was quickly and completely occupied. After the Ming army was defeated, some surrendered, some died or were injured, and some fled back to the city.
At this time, in order to prevent the Ming army in the city from jumping over the wall and burning Liuzhou City in the event of a defeat, Hao Bainian made a prompt decision and directly ordered some troops to quickly enter the city and occupy key locations, especially the warehouses in the city. Hao Bainian learned from the intelligence
You know, there is a large amount of food and ordnance stored in the city's warehouses.
Otherwise, the Ming army in the city would not have the courage to defend Liuzhou City amid its own siege.
If a large amount of food can be captured, it can greatly alleviate the current food gap of our own army, so these food and ordnance cannot cause the Ming army to retreat and be burned!
When the city was destroyed, the officials in Liuzhou City also made their own choices. Some senior civil servants, especially the prefects in the city, Tongzhi, and county magistrates, most of whom were official officials with imperial examination backgrounds, chose to use various methods.
Such a way to commit suicide.
The prefect of Liuzhou Prefecture was even more extreme. He first killed all his family members and then committed suicide. Apparently he was afraid that his family, especially the female relatives, would be humiliated at the hands of the puppet Tang rebels.
Hao Bainian and other generals of the Tang Dynasty were also accustomed to the fact that the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty would rather die than surrender. So far, Hao Bainian has not encountered any senior Ming Dynasty civil servants who surrendered on their own initiative, especially county magistrates and prefects.
These top leaders.
I heard that the Second Infantry Brigade captured several county magistrates in Guizhou. I don't know how they captured them. How will His Majesty arrange these demotions in the future?
And here in Liuzhou Fucheng, not all of these civil servants would rather die than surrender. There will always be a small number of people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, or who have various thoughts, such as seeing the puppet Tang thief army.
After rising, he wanted to follow the dragon and seek promotion and fortune in a new dynasty.
After all, although the Tang Dynasty was said to be a rebellion, it had gone through a series of perfect procedures for becoming emperor and establishing an institution. In terms of traditional etiquette, the Tang Dynasty was still relatively formal.
So as long as the Tang Dynasty shows enough strength, these people don't mind changing from Zhu family ministers to Li family ministers.
After all, if you learn literary and martial arts, you can join the emperor's family. Working for the emperor of the Zhu family is also selling your life, and working for the emperor of the Li family is also selling your life. This is very consistent with the philosophy of scholars like them.
As for whether the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty rebelled or not, does it matter?
However, it didn't matter whether any officials from the Ming Dynasty surrendered. For Hao Bainian, it was enough to capture Liuzhou City and initially keep the buildings of Liuzhou City intact with few civilian casualties.
Everything else is irrelevant!
In the evening of that day, when the troops initially cleared the defeated Ming troops in the city, Hao Bainian didn't even have time to hold a post-war report meeting. He led a large group of people into Liuzhou Fucheng with a high profile and ordered the troops to maintain high alert and completely control the city.
The situation in the city, eliminate any green-skinned hooligans who dare to take the opportunity to cause trouble, the Ming army is defeated, etc.!
Now that Liuzhou Fucheng has been captured, it’s time to welcome the Emperor’s march south!
Hao Bainian did not want His Majesty to see a dilapidated and turbulent Liuzhou capital!