Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 683 Death March
Gao Ning launched the Ming Air Force to conduct a devastating bombing of the Eighth Army, and sent Li Wan to lead the Ninth Army to dispatch troops from the north, cutting off Ulerden's retreat from the north. The entire Spanish war had a major change.

Uladen was still trying to maintain the order of the Eighth Army along the way, but he found that this was an almost impossible task.During the day, his army would be severely hit by the Ming Air Force, and Ming's reconnaissance planes hovered over their heads almost continuously. Once the Qing army was spotted, bombers would come and drop a lot of bombs on them.

Marching north from Zaragoza, due to the lack of supplies of the Eighth Army of the Qing Army and the bombing of the Ming Air Force all day long, it can be called an unprecedented death march.

To make matters worse, a sudden cold snap swept across Europe, and Spain, which had a relatively warm climate, actually experienced heavy snowfall.The Eighth Army was ill-prepared for this, and various factors such as hunger, bombing, and severe cold finally forced this army that had once shined in the European battlefield to collapse completely.

Even if the Qing army looted nearby villages and towns along the way, they could not find enough supplies to supply themselves.A large number of local village and town residents have fled because of the war, and the northern part of the Aragon Plain is almost no man's land at this time.There were very few things that the Qing army could loot.

But what followed behind them was the 42nd Army of the Daming Army, wearing a cotton army coat and a thick cotton army cap, and coming in military trucks and armored vehicles.

To the surprise of many people, the scale of the battle that broke out on both sides was not large.It seems that in order to escape, Uladen broke up the large army into smaller troops and infiltrated eastward towards the mountains.The 42nd Army fought with a part of the Qing army. Some troops resisted fiercely and would fight until all members were killed without surrendering, while some troops surrendered to the Ming army after a slight exchange of fire.

There is no way to go to the north, and Uleden can only choose to take small roads and mountain roads to cross the Pyrenees.Naturally, he couldn't command large troops across mountains and mountains, so he had to disband the troops into company and battalion levels.However, in this environment and conditions, crossing the snow-covered Pyrenees is actually not too different from suicide.

Lu Haogu, who was dressed thickly, came to the foothills of the Pyrenees. There are no large towns in this area, basically small villages.

"Commander, the entire village of Burji is dead." The officer in charge of the investigation looked very serious, but he wasn't shocked.

They have seen this kind of thing a lot along the way.

Under the extreme fighting environment, the Eighth Army of the Qing Army on the death march had turned into pure demons.They must be fed, they must find a place to hide, they must find warm clothing to keep out the cold, and they must not allow local people to reveal their whereabouts to the outside world.Therefore, in a small village like this, if the Qing army passes by, it will definitely carry out a brutal massacre. Except for those who escaped in advance, there will be no survivors at all.

Lu Haogu nodded silently.

They walked through the mountain roads outside the mountains, and after almost a certain distance, they could see the frozen corpses of Qing soldiers who were almost stripped.These corpses were just abandoned on the side of the road without anyone taking care of them.Their former comrades-in-arms would not even scrape the snow for them and bury them in the ground.Because everyone wants to escape alive, and no one wants to bother about the dead.

At least the death march these days has completely dehumanized them.All they had to do was flee, hurry, and survive the pursuit of the Ming army.

The dead would be stripped of their clothes and put on by the living, and their weapons would be left where they were, though usually without bullets in them.

As far as Lu Haogu came to the front line to investigate as the army commander, he saw at least dozens of corpses of soldiers from the Western Qing Dynasty frozen into ice sculptures.

The cruelty of the war is presented in detail before the eyes of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.Perhaps before going to war, many people had endless patriotism and passion as young people, but after seeing the cruelty of war, they would hate war from the bottom of their hearts.

But there are always people who start wars because of greed and profit, but there are always people who have to fight to make their civilization grow and continue.

Lu Haogu's breath turned into white gas in the cold weather. In fact, the temperature at this time is not too low, that is, one or two degrees above zero, but the previous heavy snow made the overall temperature lower.The Qing army's winter preparations were insufficient, and the bombing of the Ming Air Force destroyed most of their supplies, leaving them almost naked to face the severe winter snow.

"The Eighth Army is finished." Lu Haogu made his own judgment.

The staff officer also nodded: "Even if part of the Qing army can pass through the Pyrenees and escape back to the French side, their establishment will basically be broken up. I don't know how many people died on this road."

Lu Haogu said indifferently: "Uleden, as the acting army commander, made a near-rebellious action, and the Eighth Army was attached to him. With Xiqing's piss, this group of soldiers who fled back may be punished more severely. Abnormal interrogation and treatment, maybe at that time they will wish to die on this road, or surrender to us."

In fact, not many Qing troops chose to surrender to Ming Dynasty.However, the European armies fighting against the Qing army were very easy to surrender to the Qing army when they were at a disadvantage.The Qing army treated the prisoners very badly. Although they did not kill the prisoners on a large scale, the prisoners had to work like coolies and endure the humiliation of the guards.Many captives will eventually be reorganized into puppet troops, which is considered good treatment.

The Qing army treated the prisoners harshly, fearing that they would do the same.Moreover, within the Qing army, there were various rumors that the Ming army would abuse them.In the early years, Bai Mingxiu, who was still a prince, killed Tartars and built a stele of the head. The soldiers of the Qing army circulated that even if they surrendered, they would be killed, and then their heads would be cut off and buried in the ground with other heads.

Because of this rumor, many soldiers of the Qing army did not dare to surrender, but fought desperately.In fact, they were often Slavs, Central Asians, and Balkans, and the Ming army had no interest in killing them at all.However, they wanted to work hard, and the Ming army also welcomed them. Anyway, they had so much ammunition that it felt like the battle would not be in place if they didn't use it up.

The entire army of the Eighth Army was annihilated, which completely shocked Feiyangu who was still hesitant.Uleden and Larbin seemed to have disappeared, and no one found them afterwards. Only less than [-] Qing soldiers fled back to France. When they were found, they were already in shape.

The Western Qing Empire finally realized that their victorious victories had finally hit an iron plate.

(End of this chapter)