The puppet Tang bandits outside the city continued to rush forward. They climbed up the ruins and the top of the city with corpses from both sides and fought with their own soldiers. Our soldiers finally paid a heavy price to kill one of them, but they rushed up.
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Aren't these bandits afraid of death? How could they still launch a fierce attack despite suffering such heavy casualties?
Is it like Wei Yan said that Tang thieves are invincible?
Yu Dayou opened his eyes and saw this scene, and immediately sighed and said: "Send the order, the whole camp will retreat immediately!"
"Where are we going?" someone asked immediately.
"Go to the Southern Front!"
Today, Wuzhou City is surrounded on three sides, not to mention the western and eastern fronts, which cannot be defended, let alone break out in these two directions. Although no fighting broke out on the northern front, the Ming army did not
Silly, they had already seen the pseudo-Tang bandit army with nearly 3,000 people in the north, and they were also real thieves.
According to several people who are familiar with the puppet army of the Tang Dynasty, the rebel army on the northern front is the first infantry regiment of the puppet Tang Dynasty, the direct troops of the thief general Hao Bainian. Who is Hao Bainian? Even the big guys in the capital know that.
The number one thief in the Puppet Tang Dynasty and the right arm of the Puppet Emperor Li Xuan.
It is conceivable how strong the combat effectiveness of the direct troops under his command is, so whether it is Wang Yue or Yu Dayou, even at this moment, they retreated after receiving the retreat order, or simply the Ming army had already retreated privately in advance
They were very sensible and did not choose to break out from the north.
Although it is a bit funny, the Battle of Wuzhou City still has nothing to do with the First Infantry Regiment. They can even proudly say: There is no war on the northern front!
The north was guarded by elite divisions such as the First Infantry Regiment of the Rebel Army. When Wang Yue and Yu Dayou chose the direction of retreat, they all bypassed the northern line in a tacit understanding and chose to go to the southern line.
As Yu Dayou ordered the retreat, the recruits from the Guangzhou Battalion turned around and ran away without caring about the other friendly forces still fighting.
The other Ming soldiers were not stupid either. When they saw the Guangzhou soldiers running away, they followed suit!
At this time, the quality of each Ming army was also reflected. Although the Guangzhou soldiers retreated, they still retreated while fighting. At the same time, they did not drop their weapons and retreat, and they were able to maintain organization to a large extent.
The other Ming troops didn't care much, and often turned around and ran away, throwing down their weapons and taking off their armor, not caring that the puppet Tang rebel army behind them was slashing at their backs with knives.
The Ming army retreated. After a long hard battle, the eastern front troops, which had been unable to successfully capture the city, finally saw the dawn of victory. The Fifth Guards Regiment and the Second Assault Battalion, which had suffered heavy casualties, finally succeeded in occupying the gap.
Then start advancing in depth.
However, at this time, these two troops had already suffered heavy casualties. They could still fight tenaciously before. That was because there was a supervising team behind them to force them to fight, and the officers kept saying that they could win as long as they rushed to the top of the city.
After rushing to the top of the city, they saw that the fleeing Ming army had no motivation to pursue or even enough physical strength.
After many people climbed up to the top of the city, they just sat down to rest regardless of the Ming army fleeing in front.
Wearing heavy armor and fighting for a long time is not only mentally destructive, but also your physical strength is about to be exhausted.
The battalion commanders and captains commanding from the front also believed that since the city had been conquered, based on past experience, even if the fleeing Ming army fled into the city, they would not be able to escape, and they would just have to slowly clear it out from behind.
Even though the commander of the Sixth Infantry Regiment was far-sighted, his focus was not on the defeat of the Ming army, but on the important areas in the city, especially the warehouses in the city!
Before the battle, at the expanded imperial strategy meeting, Li Xuan emphasized that after the city was breached, the warehouses in the city must be controlled as soon as possible to ensure the safety of the food in the warehouses to avoid being set on fire by the eager Ming army.
Although it is important to attack Wuzhou City and pull out this nail, it is equally important to capture the food, and chasing down the remnant enemy can only be regarded as secondary.
Therefore, after rushing to the top of the city, the troops on the eastern front pushed forward towards the city walls on both sides and stabilized the front. At the same time, the Sixth Infantry Regiment also sent troops to quickly advance deep in order to control the warehouses in the city as soon as possible.
When the Sixth Infantry Regiment made such a tactical choice, although it was correct and in line with Li Xuan's strategic instructions before the war, it was also an opportunity to escape when the Ming army was defeated.
Yu Dayou led more than a thousand Guangzhou soldiers who successfully evacuated without any stop along the way, and headed directly towards the south gate.
On the way, they saw countless defeated Ming troops running around. At this time, the eastern and western fronts of Wuzhou City had been broken through. Countless defeated troops ran down from the top of the city. Most of these people had lost their organization.
If the soldiers cannot find the general, they will not find the soldiers.
The whole city of Wuzhou was in chaos. Countless soldiers were running aimlessly on the streets. Some people took off their military uniforms and hid in private houses, while a few organized people headed towards the south gate or north gate.
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As for the Eastern and Western Fronts, naturally no one would be stupid enough to run there.
In this process, there was naturally no shortage of Ming troops who had no choice but to surrender. These Ming troops were not just ordinary soldiers, but also many middle and senior generals of the Ming army.
On the Western Front, Guangxi's capital commander Zhong Guangjun was after the city was broken, especially after the death of Shen Xiyi, the deputy commander-in-chief of Guangdong, and the desperate people were blocked by the puppet Tang thief army. In the end, they had no choice but to
He took the remaining more than a thousand people under his command and surrendered as prisoners.
Senior generals such as Liandu Commander Qianshi led their troops to surrender, and other generals such as Wei Commander Qianshi, Wei Commander Qianshi, and Qianhu surrendered even more.
Even though there is no statistics on how many generals of the Ming Dynasty were captured, Hao Bainian, who was in charge of the war on the Western Front, was able to judge by intuition that this battle would probably be the one in which the Tang Dynasty captured the most senior Ming Dynasty generals.
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Because in the previous Battle of Tonggu Acropolis, Battle of Liping Fucheng, Battle of Liuzhou City, and Battle of Xiangzhou, although the Tang Dynasty King's Division killed the enemy and captured many prisoners, in fact most of the senior Ming army generals escaped, and only
A few died in battle or surrendered.
However, in this battle, he saw with his own eyes that there were more than a dozen prisoners of war among middle and high-level Ming army generals. After the city-wide battle is over, the statistics will probably be even higher!
I just don’t know if Wang Yue, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and Wei Yan, the governor of Guangxi, have escaped. If they can be caught or killed, the political impact will be even greater!
At that time, who will dare to say that their Tang Dynasty is just a group of bandits?
At this time, Hao Bainian did not know that Wang Yuedu had already boarded the ship in Xijiang with the first officials and soldiers to escape. It was impossible to capture or kill them.
Wang Yue, who was standing on the top of the city, looked at Wei Yan, who had even lost his official hat. He thought of his side's breakout operation a moment ago, and he was a little frightened when he thought about it!
A moment ago, when they rushed out of the city gate, nearly two thousand puppet Tang rebels at the city gate formed an interception. Wang Yue made a prompt decision and sent half of the governors to fight, while he took the remaining governors to go around and continue.
Head to the river and wait for the boat!
Now, the more than a thousand supervisors who were left behind had suffered heavy casualties, but they could be considered successful in stopping the nearly two thousand puppet Tang rebels blocking the way in front.
After sighing, he ordered the soldiers to set sail and prepare to leave!
However, just after the order was issued, Wei Yan on the side said: "Look, sir, someone has rushed out again. Are you waiting for them?"
Looking in the direction indicated by Wei Yan, Wang Yue saw many Ming army generals rushing out of the South City Gate. There were probably three to four thousand Ming army generals who continued to pour out!
And he recognized the leader, Yu Dayou, the commander of the Guangdong capital!
"Sir, the rebel cavalry is coming, they are coming so fast!" Someone immediately said: "General Yu and the others are probably going to be in trouble!"
Wang Yue was silent for a while and then said: "Don't leave yet, wait for General Yu and others to come, and then let the navy's naval guns fire to support General Yu!"
After Wang Yue gave this order, many people looked worried. Naturally, they were not worried about the life and death of Yu Dayou and other Ming soldiers, they were worried about their own life and death!
A large number of thieves are rushing over from the distance. This cavalry is just their vanguard. By the time a large number of thieves arrive, I'm afraid they will be held back.
However, no one dared to disobey Wang Yue's order, so the ship that was about to set sail stopped again, and the planks that had been pulled up were put down again, preparing to meet the Ming troops who were running towards the river!
The naval guns on the navy side were also firing, but at this time we could see the difference between the Ming army's artillery and the Tang Dynasty king's artillery.
That is, the artillery of the Ming army basically did not have long-barreled guns that fired solid shells. Even these 3500- to 500-pound Folang machine guns installed on the bow of the ship fired shotguns, and their range was extremely limited.
Unlike the Tang Dynasty King's Division, although there were many shotguns, the heavy artillery was all long-barreled cannons that could be used to fire solid projectiles.
Leading the cavalry troops in pursuit was Colonel Cao Mingda, a veteran cavalry officer from the Tang Dynasty. As one of the first Ming army surrendered generals who followed Zeng Ziwen to surrender, he had already shed his status as a Ming army surrendered general and became a Ming army general.
The most direct general in the Tang Dynasty King's division, and has always been the commander of the first cavalry battalion.
At this time, several cavalry units were pursuing together, and it was his duty to become the supreme commander of this cavalry unit consisting of three cavalry battalions with the highest military rank.
When he saw that the warships of the Ming Navy on the shore had launched their artillery, and a few impatient Ming gunners even fired up, he immediately frowned!