Chongzhen Undergraduates

From the outside of the trench to the foot of the mountain, there are dead bodies everywhere, including those of the Zhou army and those of the Ming army.Some of the corpses had serious plaques, and the faces of the dead had turned into a maroon-purple color and were frighteningly gray.No matter which side the soldiers are from, after going through this great battle, I am afraid that they will have no fear of life and death.

Zhang Mazi kicked away an iron cannonball, barely straightening his leg.The round of artillery just now killed five brothers in the trench, and he remembered them all clearly.If the rock next to him was not hard enough to bounce off the iron bullet, he might have been sacrificed.

"Is there still water?" A weak voice came from the other side of the stone.

"It's fucking empty." Perhaps it was Zhang Mazi's hearing loss, or maybe there was something wrong with the voice of the person over there, but Zhang Mazi couldn't recognize who was speaking.

The three Baldy Mountains have been defended up to now, thanks to enough new gunpowder.If what Zhou Jun left behind was the traditional black gunpowder, then Ming Jun might have to use it as firecrackers.If there are time-travel novels that use black powder to make unconscionable cannons, it is nonsense.Traditional black powder cannot be used to make explosive packs, and the detonation speed is not enough.The new type of gunpowder produced by Zhou Jun cannot be used directly as explosive kits, but it can be used as propellant for unconscionable guns.

Speaking of which, someone should know how Zhang Mazi and the others used this explosive to kill the enemy.It is like digging a nest to bury explosives and blasting stones like the earth mining in the countryside in the 80s and [-]s.In other words, what the Ming army played was a minefield where stones rained down from the sky.

Of course, the consequences are also serious.The three Bald Mountains were completely blown up and riddled with holes. Everyone was like clay figurines buried in the dust, and none of them looked human.

"Has the enemy retreated?" Zhang Mazi tried to get up.

"It seems to have retreated." The other side of the stone replied.

"Hurry up and bury the mine." Zhang Mazi roared with all his strength.

A few figures wriggled in the trenches of Ertuzi Mountain, slowly climbing towards the mountainside.Two soldiers of the Ming army dug a few times in the blasted hole, buried a bag of explosives, picked up some soil, hammered it with stones, and then covered it with large and small stones.After inserting the fuse that was removed from the grenade that came with it, it was carefully covered with a stone slab so as not to be blasted out of position by Zhou Jun's cannons.In addition, a rope had to be pulled to the trench.This is the more advanced land mine of this era.

It is impossible for ordinary artillery shells to hit this mine accurately, unless it is like the flowering bombs of the Ming army, but Zhou Jun's flowering bomb technology is not good enough. What hits is not a flower, but a few petals, or maybe some dumb ones. bomb.

This is the situation on the Hujiawa frontline battlefield.

Hu Yiqing, who was in the back mountain valley, already had a sad face in the early morning, and he was almost unable to take out even the lowest-demanding landmines ahead.There is still dynamite, but the things that make the fire have been used up.You can't use Zhou Jun's simple matchlock to ignite the fire, right?What do the brothers who go to ignite the fire think, how much courage does the person who ignites have to sacrifice?

Hu Yiqing didn't know if Deng Zhirong would send reinforcements, anyway, it had been two days and no one had sent any news.Several huts in the valley were full of wounded soldiers. Six or seven hundred of the 2000-man team had died in battle, and dozens of people would die in almost every round of attack.Hu Yiqing was prepared in his heart. If there was no reinforcements until dark today, he would set fire to the temporary warehouse.Moreover, some seriously injured wounded have asked for their lives and planned to die on the spot.

"Report to the commander, the reinforcements have arrived." Just when Hu Yiqing was about to abandon the defense, a tired team came from the back mountain, and Deng Zhirong's reinforcements finally arrived.On the side of the Ming army, reinforcements who arrived in time temporarily resolved the crisis.

Li Benshen's side has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. Many corpses were thrown on the mountain and could not be collected. A faint smell began to permeate the battlefield.

Dead people are normal, how can there be no dead people in war.On the contrary, Li Benshen felt that death was not enough. If the previous battlefield had been fought fiercely for three days, it would be embarrassing to call it tragic if thousands of people did not die.He felt that the world seemed to have changed. The soldiers who participated in the battle cherished their lives too much. The previous fight became a competition of firearms between the two sides. Only a dozen people were killed or injured in one round of shooting, and both sides lost their courage.

Li Benshen certainly didn't know that the later generations with highly developed thermal weapons would drop several tons of bombs to kill a person in a battle.In the wars of later generations, dozens of bullets can kill a person at the beginning, and it takes tens of thousands of molecular bullets to destroy an enemy.This is how warfare evolves.

But he, Li Benshen, was already red-eyed, and he would not think about this issue. He had already reported the military situation to Wu Sangui, and very importantly, he mentioned the tenacious battle of the Ming army outside Tongguan.

This military situation illustrates a problem. The main force of the Ming army is at Hangu Pass, and the strategic deployment of the Zhou army was successful.However, in order to stabilize the Ming army, it is necessary to increase the attack on the Ming army on the west side of Hangu Road. Only by firmly attracting the attention of the Ming army to the Hangu Pass area can the Zhou army's plan go smoothly.

After Wu Sangui received the military situation, he took it seriously. He ordered the defenders near Tongguan to immediately reinforce Li Benshen, and he must win the battle at Hujiaao and push the front line to Hangu Pass.Only in this way, the Ming army will send heavy reinforcements to Hangu Pass.In order to cooperate well with this battle, Wu Sangui took out his accumulated firearms troops, intending to use the most advanced weapons to attract the attention of the Ming army.

And the [-] elite Guan Ning army around Xi'an has already assembled. As long as there are signs that the Ming army in Huguang is gathering towards Luoyang, these [-] elite cavalry will be the tiger and wolf division that broke through the land of Jianghan.Wu Sangui still only believed in his Guanning iron cavalry in his heart. As for the firearms used by the infantry, he still felt a little unreliable.At least from the performance experiments of cavalry charges, the firecrackers cannot withstand the charge of cavalry.

"One hundred thousand, one hundred thousand!" Wu Sangui felt excited.Even if Hou Jin was not wiped out by Zhu Youjian, in his heyday, he would not be able to form [-] elite cavalry.From [-] to [-] Guanning iron cavalry to today's [-], Wu Sangui is proud enough, and he expected that Zhu Youjian would not be able to show such a family background either.

Chapter 553 : Pointing soldiers on the battlefield means Jiangshan

Li Dingguo finally came to Luoyang, and only two regiments of defenders remained in the huge Luoyang city.

An imposing commander-in-chief of the Sichuan-Chongqing-Hubei Campaign did not even have a decent army around him. It can be said that Wu Sangui really hit Daming's weakness this time.

The first thing is of course to quickly set up a command system, and it's not Li Dingguo's previous team.Judging from the accounts given by Zhu Youjian, Li Dingguo has nearly 40 troops to mobilize.

However, these troops need to defend four provinces, and they are too scattered, and the troops are not assembled in place.In particular, the four armies mobilized by Huguang and Nanzhili are still on their way to Henan.

The above are the disadvantages faced by Li Dingguo, but Li Dingguo's advantages are also obvious. Wu Sangui's strategic deployment has been leaked to the Ming army by Tiandihui.

This is an open battle, a race against time.However, no matter how clear the chess game is, it also needs a good standard-bearer, a good standard-bearer who can maximize the strength of troops.

"One hundred thousand riders, it's difficult!" Li Dingguo rubbed his temples, staring at the map hanging on the wall but couldn't think of a solution.

The main cavalry of the Ming army is all in the north, and the infantry in the south is going to fight against the famous Guanning iron cavalry. Unless there are effective means, it is just a joke.

Infantry fighting cavalry is still on the vast plains. I am afraid that only the two Song dynasties have traces to follow. Is it necessary to play infantry again?

Wu Sangui was not a post-Golden Tartar, so it was unrealistic to surround them with Congreve rockets. The rockets actually hit a fixed target. The destruction of the Tartar cavalry would definitely attract the attention of the Zhou army.

And of course Li Dingguo also wanted to know what the strategic intention of the [-] cavalry going out of Wuguan was, Wu Sangui would never compete with the Ming army for the strength of a pool or a place.

Even if the Ming army had infantry armor, it could not keep up with the rhythm of the cavalry.We have to find a way to do this from another place.

"It was ordered that Zeng Ying's troops would be divided into three routes, one route out of Longnan to capture Tianshui; one route out of Hanzhong to attack Fengxiang Mansion (ancient Chencang, now Baoji); the third route down the Han River to capture Shangzhou."

This is an established step. Zeng Ying's 20 people were themselves preparing for the capture of Guanzhong.It's just that everyone knows that it is not so easy to capture Guanzhong from Hanzhong, the road is difficult and the battle is difficult to fight.

Or else Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition so many times ended up in vain?Think about it, only a soldier like Han Xin can come up with the clever trick of "clearly repairing the plank road and secretly keeping the old warehouse".

It was too late for Tiao Zeng Ying's troops to rush to Huguang, and letting them attack Hanzhong could put a certain amount of pressure on Wu Sangui's rear.Li Dingguo believed that since Wu Sangui deployed a certain amount of troops at Hangu Pass and took away the most elite cavalry, he must not be able to mobilize many troops.

If the Ming army attacked Fengxiang at this time, Wu Sangui would definitely put all his last troops on the defense of Fengxiang and Lantian.

The role of Zeng Yingbu can only play this role, and the best result is to regain Guanzhong.But Wu Sangui's one hundred thousand cavalry needs to find another way.

It has to be said that the combat power of the [-]th Army impressed Li Dingguo. Although Hangu Pass, which seemed to provoke the war, had fallen into the hands of the Zhou Army, Deng Zhirong's deployment on the battlefield was very beneficial to the Ming Army.

The Fifteenth Army neither defended Hangu Pass to death, nor gave up the key points of the pass. Instead, they took the initiative to attack and occupy terrain that was beneficial to them.

There is a point of view in later generations, that is, in the face of absolute power, the enemy must be crushed and eliminated.

If you often read historical novels, you will find a phenomenon. Most of the battle plots are heavy on weapons, and then there is no strategy in the battle process. Basically, some so-called battle formations are copied, and then the enemy is killed directly.

Any war is indeed related to weapons and equipment, but it is also related to people.Can weapons alone really crush all the way without obstacles?It's fine for Midi to unify the world directly, why are they still trying to play various political methods.

Judging from the current situation, Deng Zhirong's troops can handle the battle at Hangu Pass by themselves. The combat power of the [-]th Army is far higher than that of the Zhou Army, and the command of the [-]th Army is no problem.Li Dingguo decided to let Deng Zhirong continue to stick to his position and fight a protracted war with the Zhou army, using one army to contain Wu Sangui in one strategic direction, which is a good deal.

How to deal with Wu Sangui's [-] cavalry?

While thinking of ways, Li Dingguo let the reinforcements of the four armies continue to march towards Luoyang. This matter cannot be changed for the time being, otherwise it will startle the snake.

In addition, the main force to defeat Wu Sangui still needs to pay attention to these four armies.If the troops are not enough, then continue to ask the emperor.

What's interesting is that the chief officers of the various armies encircling and suppressing Wu Sangui this time were all generals of the original Ming army.

In the Battle of Liaodong, Zhu Youjian used the main generals of the Daxi Army, and the main generals of the Yuan Chuang Army were used to recover Beijing and Tianjin.But when it was Wu Sangui's turn to deal with, it happened that the chief officers were all the chief generals of the former Daming officers and soldiers.

Zeng Ying from Sichuan, Deng Zhirong from the [-]th Army, Fan Yiqu, Fan Wenguang, Liu Daozhen, Yuan Tao, Wu Dading, and even Yang Zhan were transferred from Liaodong to Shanxi.

Of course, the post of commander-in-chief is Li Dingguo, and Zeng Ying is the independent deputy commander-in-chief.

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There was a pile of battle reports about Hangu Pass in front of Wu Sangui, but he didn't even bother to read them.

Based on Wu Sangui's experience, he could easily analyze the situation at Hangu Pass. After Deng Zhirong occupied Qinglong Mountain and established a defense line, Wu Sangui completely gave up the idea of ​​leaving the pass through the northern line.

It is not without reason why Hangu Pass was later replaced by Tongguan.Among the passes in the world, Tongguan is truly as famous as Shanhaiguan. It can only be said that Deng Zhirong occupies such a good location that he has already broken the Hangu pass.