Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 359 Pursuit and counter-pursuit
The situation in Mobei has become more and more treacherous and complicated.

In order to ensure that his Eight Banners will not be wiped out, Fei Yanggu began to gather all the banner tents and Jiala of the Eight Banners, and allocated more than 2 new troops to escort them to move westward. For the march of hundreds of thousands of huge troops, Fei Yanggu made a careful plan, including the movement of chariots and horses, logistical supplies, reconnaissance and sentries, and escort troops to ensure that his foundation would not be damaged by Li Dingguo.Dai Peng and Cheng Lin led the migration team, with Wen He as assistant.

The main force of the Manchu Qing army, led by Fei Yanggu himself, continues to operate in Mobei. Fei Yanggu's purpose is also very simple, which is to cut off the rear of his large army, let them migrate to a relatively safe place, and Give Li Dingguo a serious loss and stop them from moving forward.In the future, he will also leave a team behind to continue in Mobei, consuming Nanming's strength.

Ever since, the situation in Mobei has changed from the invasion and destruction of the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty by the cavalry group of the Ming Army to the anti-guerrilla of Fei Yanggu's new army against the Ming army.

The first cavalry division led by Wu Sansheng completed the attack on the Xianglan Banner before. The Ming army also formulated a strategy plan for the convenience of movement, and divided it into three groups to attack the Manchu Qing Banner.Wu Sansheng's headquarters originally planned to continue moving westward after attacking the enemy, looking for possible targets, and returning [-] days later to join the headquarters of Li Dingguo's army at the designated location.

However, at this time, Wu Sansheng's department encountered the main force of the Qing army.

"How many troops does the enemy have?"

"I didn't have time to calculate carefully, but the size is at least two divisions. Our reconnaissance team was immediately discovered by the Qing army, and then retreated immediately. In order to avoid the division being discovered, the reconnaissance team detoured several times and divided the troops. , avoiding the interception and killing of the Qing army's scouts, and then successfully brought the news back."

Wu Sansheng was a little nervous. He only had more than 3000 cavalry at full strength. If he faced the enemy's main force, it would be difficult for him to deal with it.

"Reconnaissance shows that the enemy army is a pure force without non-combatants. It seems that the purpose is to deal with us. Now the enemy army is very close to us, and it is very likely that we will encounter our army."

Wu Sansheng said: "Transfer quickly to avoid a frontal battle with the Qing army and try to cover up our traces."

He also knew that even if he covered up the traces, he would not be able to cover up much. After all, he was an army of more than 3000 people, and he was still a cavalry. Wherever he walked, he would definitely leave clues for the enemy to track.

Wu Sansheng was very sober. He understood that this Qing army was different from those in the pass. It had sophisticated weapons and was almost on par with the Ming army.When the military strength is not dominant, it is unrealistic to rush to a decisive battle with the opponent and think about relying on the previous method to win more with less.

"Send Xunying to the Army Command to inform us of the situation here. In addition, strengthen our reconnaissance. If the Qing army shows any opportunity, we must seize it and change our current situation."

Wu Sansheng has followed the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army for many years, and has also learned a lot of tactics and military thinking under Li Dingguo's command, which is very different from the previous general form.

In this way, the Qing army hung behind Wu Sansheng for three or four days, and Wu Sansheng also set up suspicious positions many times, deliberately confusing the Qing army through false grassland traces, in an attempt to escape the pursuit of the Qing army.On the fourth day, Wu Sansheng received a reply letter from Li Dingguo through Xunying. Li Dingguo said that another Ming army was also chased by the Qing army, and he would send a large army to meet Wu Sansheng. By all means, go to the vicinity of the Orkhon River and join the headquarters of the group army.

"In the past two days, another Qing army has also appeared behind us. Some of our soldiers are exhausted now."

Wu Sansheng was very clear about the situation of his troops, "This won't work. Before we reach the Orkhon River, we may be overtaken by the Qing army. We must attack the Qing army and create opportunities for us to leave."

"Master, what do you want to do?"

"Attack the Qing army at night!"

In the past few days, Wu Sansheng also had a certain understanding of the Qing army that was chasing him.This Qing army obviously came in light clothes, and all members were cavalry, just like my own, or dragoons to be precise.It can be seen from many signs that the opponent's fear of horses is not good enough, and if they really want to fight, they have to dismount.Moreover, in order to chase him, the opponent did not carry a lot of artillery and supplies.

Therefore, Wu Sansheng set up suspicious formations during the day, making the pursuers of the Manchu Qing army feel as if they were about to catch up with them, while Wu Sansheng's troops circled around and spent six hours recharging their energy. When the army continued to march and pursue at night, Wu Sansheng personally led the first cavalry division to launch a sudden attack on the Qing army from the side.

The sound of intensive horse hoofbeats rang loudly, and the Manchu Army immediately realized that something was wrong.Sure enough, as Wu Sansheng expected, not all of this group of Qing troops were on horseback for mobile combat. Many of them dismounted and began to build a defense line.Taking advantage of the darkness, the troops from Wu San Province immediately rushed into the long formation of the New Army.

The fight was very sudden and violent. The Manchu Qing army was also very flustered by the night attack, but it did not completely collapse.Wu Sansheng managed to break through their formation successfully, but due to the limited strength of their troops, they could not achieve a very good encirclement of one of them.

The New Army soldiers with big braids but wearing modern military uniforms held their Hanyang-made rifles and fired hard at the Ming Army charging in the darkness. However, the attack of the Ming Army, which was as fast as a dragon, quickly killed many New Army soldiers. .In particular, most of the Qing troops in the front group suffered very heavy losses. The Ming cavalry, which had both impact and lance firepower, had skilled impact and shooting techniques, but the Manchu Qing troops counterattacked very quickly and decisively.

"Division Commander, the enemy has set up a machine gun position!"

Wu Sanxing was shocked to find that the Manchu and Qing army's cut rear had already formed many firepower points, and they began to fire wildly towards the front, regardless of their friendly troops who were still alive there.

Wu Sansheng knew that he could try to destroy these machine gun positions through flank impact, but his troops would suffer considerable losses, so Wu Sansheng resentfully ordered the troops to start an orderly retreat.

At this time, the Qing army also sent real cavalry to block a wave, but as soon as they left the cover of the machine gun position, they would be beaten back by the Ming army.When the Qing army had no choice but to watch, Wu Sansheng led the slightly damaged Ming cavalry and left.

In this short-term confrontation, Wu Sansheng killed and wounded more than 1000 people from the Manchu Qing army, and his own loss was only about one-tenth of the opponent's, which is considered to have achieved a very good tactical goal.However, his attack did not completely deter the pursuit of the Qing army strategically.

(End of this chapter)