Lord of Ming Dynasty

"We broke through the enemy's camp, captured 1000 Manqing slaves in coats, and [-] of the enemy's general's personal guard cavalry, captured [-] imitation three-pound guns from the enemy, and destroyed [-] of them. , seized one hundred matchlock guns from the enemy, countless other weapons, countless food and supplies, and [-] taels of silver. In addition, the enemy's chief general has been interrogated. picture."

"In addition, General Xiao Fei asked you to go to the military tent in the camp to discuss matters."

"I know, let's go. By the way, didn't the governor also follow? Where are they?"

he asked.

"The first cavalry brigade and militia brigade of the Imperial Guards Brigade and the militia brigade are still marching [-] miles away, and they are probably already camped." The soldiers around reported.

Brother Zhu was a little depressed, and he didn't expect to be played by a guy named Suo'etu.

Fifty miles away, Suo'etu waited for a while, and finally less than [-] defeated Mongolian cavalry soldiers caught up with him. He waited for another half an hour, but no one came up, so he took these defeated soldiers to chase Oboi.

At dawn, he heard the sound of hooves and thunder, and about a hundred cavalry came towards this direction. He hurriedly hid in a nearby grove with his soldiers and horses. As soon as he entered the woods, he saw a hundred cavalry scouts from the Huaxia Army The team galloped past, and after a while, a Mongolian cavalry squad of dozens of people ran from the other side, and fled to this side in a hurry. He sent someone out to stop them and questioned them.

Knowing that the cavalry of the Huaxia Army has marched again, the search area has been expanded, and the force will be about [-] to [-] soldiers and horses. The army he lost is considered to be annihilated, and it is estimated that there will be no organized cavalry in the rear.

Only then did Suo Ertu get nervous, and hurriedly fled again.

And Zhang Qiang in the distance didn't express any opinion on Brother Zhu's carelessness this time. Young people always have to grow up, and he can still afford this tuition fee. Only more than [-] prisoners were rescued. This is considered a tactical victory.

What's more, he still has a second hand, Oboi, who cannot escape. He ordered Xiao Fei's large army to rest for half a day and continue to attack. Brother Zhu's cavalry rested in the middle of the night, leaving all the prisoners and wounded for Xiao Fei to deal with. Lead the team to continue the pursuit.

Chapter 462 Meeting Obai 14

Since Aobai brought his troops to the riverside, he has always been worried, constantly urging the troops to find a ferry, build a pontoon bridge, or directly use the ferry to transport the troops.

By the time Zhuge realized that something was wrong, most of Obai's 2000 troops had crossed the river, and all the important troops of the entire army had crossed the river, leaving only some coated servants guarding the riverside, and a group of [-] men The Manchu horse-riding infantry unit, transporting luggage and supplies back and forth across the river.

After crossing the river, Oboi sent cavalry to scout out the surrounding terrain and scout out the enemies nearby. He scattered [-] cavalry and covered a range of [-] li.

The situation reported by the cavalry made him a little worried. After crossing the river, the land was mostly flat for fifteen miles, but after that, he had to cross a small mountain range and several small villages, and then an important road made him worry. The long and narrow canyon stretching for fifty li is surrounded by peaks and cliffs as high as 300 meters on both sides. It is impossible for a person who leads troops all year round not to worry about this terrain.

What if the enemy has already sent troops to occupy here?

For this reason, he postponed the march until all the troops had crossed the river, and then sent nearly [-] cavalry to sweep and search the surrounding area for nearly [-] miles, while the Chinese army was stationed [-] miles away from the river. A small fishing boat, waiting for news.

Just after noon, the first search team of cavalry came back to report that the search of the Fifty Mile Canyon was completed, and no enemy army was found lurking beyond the exit, only a group of ragged bandits fled in a hurry.

And the cavalry on the riverside came back to report that the scout cavalry of the Huaxia Army appeared on the riverside, searching around, or looking in this direction.

Ao Bai's heart sank, the enemy's scout cavalry arrived here, it meant that his broken cavalry unit was in danger, his heart ached, it was his own troops and horses, and there were three of them with his banner The tribal men and horses are all lost.

I don't know what happened to the boy in Sony's family.

He feels a little sorry for a boy from Sony's family. After all, that boy bought him a day to cross the river and successfully completed the task he gave him, but he wasted half a day sitting here According to his plan, he could buy at least two days, about a hundred miles, so that the enemy would have to take at least another day's journey to catch up with his cavalry.

This is a large army. If it is a small group of horsemen, hundreds of cavalry, it can cover two hundred miles in one day, but his [-] army cannot cover one hundred miles.

After regretting for a while, he let it go. After all, several princes of the Qing Dynasty were lost, and the son of a Manchu, a minister, could not make him feel too sorry.

Knowing that the Huaxia army appeared by the riverside to spy, he immediately ordered the camp to be pulled out. It took an hour for the [-] cavalry to gather, and half an hour for the camp to be pulled out. In the afternoon, the army began to flee wildly.

Now he ran for eighty miles in one breath, and only entered a small town for a rest after ten miles at the exit of the canyon. It was already midnight.

Fortunately, the enemy did not follow, nor did they arrange blocking troops ahead.

At this time, the Huaxia army had already arrived at the ferry, and even Zhang Qiang's guard brigade had arrived, while Brother Zhu's vanguard cavalry had already built a pontoon bridge at the ferry.

The cavalry has dispatched [-] soldiers and horses to explore the surrounding terrain and scout out the whereabouts of the enemy.

Zhang Qiang received the messenger sent by Wang Yuqun. They have already established an intercepting force, which is in the hilly area at the intersection of roads in a small town eighty miles away.

Zhang Qiang didn't expect that Wang Yuqun and the others would run so far, which was almost a few miles deep into Hubei.

Then he was shocked when he received the report from the scout cavalry sent by Brother Zhu. Your uncle, this is only ten miles away from the army of Oboi who just settled down. It is not a straight line distance, but a horizontal distance. That is to say, if the small town turns a corner and goes up three or four miles, the two sides can start a war directly. Maybe at this time, the two sides have discovered each other, and their swords are already on the verge of war, ready to start a war.

Because that place happened to be stuck at an important pass where Obai's army broke into the territory of Hubei, and there was a small pass, as long as they went out of the pass, they could immediately escape into Hubei.

Thinking of this, Zhang Qiang immediately sent someone to call Brother Zhu, and asked his cavalry troops to immediately support Wang Yuqun, the old man. He ran far enough. At first, he thought he was intercepting at the riverside, or across the river, and the worst was intercepting in the canyon. .

That is the best place to intercept the enemy's army and ambush the enemy. Who would have thought where he went.

If you think about it carefully, it’s a good place to keep the enemy from paying attention. When the strongman stumbles, it’s often when you just get out of the danger and relax your spirit. This Wang Yuqun, or Tong Dawei, is also a fine person. Played this a big kite, big bomb.

However, their [-] infantry and [-] cavalry are a bit unreliable against the enemy's [-] cavalry army. After all, within the territory of Hubei, it belongs to the enemy's rear area. Zhenxin troops were stationed, and there were still a lot of unclear numbers of Qing troops stationed near the river in the distance.

This is equivalent to the beginning node of Zhang Qiang's roundabout outflanking tactics. The end of the first stage, the first stage, is to take all the territory of Huguangzhou, then defend it, implement the rule of the Huaxia Army, sit in Huguangzhou by himself, and then Xiao Fei leads the big The troops are like the German army encircling the Maginot line of the French army. They go to the rear to copy the enemy's back route, making the Qing army use a lot of energy and funds, personnel, and troops. The Yangtze River defense line piled up loses value and completely collapses the Qing Dynasty. After this war , the Qing Dynasty will be like a girl who has stripped naked, allowing the Huaxia Army to humiliate wantonly.

After arranging for Brother Zhu to leave as soon as possible, Zhang Qiang called Xiao Fei over again and asked him to quickly arrange for those musketeers and artillery units who still had the strength to pursue to start the pursuit.

In the end, two thousand musketeers and one thousand artillery brigade soldiers were mobilized, pushing nine-pound guns, six-pound guns, and luggage pulled by carts to quickly set out to pursue and reinforce Wang Yuqun and Tong Dawei's intercepting troops.

Next, arrange for the surrender of the remaining Qing troops in Huguang. The 24th Field Brigade to follow up will be stationed in Changsha Mansion, and the militia troops that will follow up will quickly clear the territory of Huguang with the cooperation of the separated cavalry troops. , to carry out preliminary occupation work.

Officials and garrison battalions have been stationed in the lesser half of Huguang territory, and the greater half of Huguang territory is still in a power vacuum. Zhang Qiang has to concentrate on managing these matters. Fortunately, the Second Guards Brigade has taken over the defense work of the center, and can be transferred from the center. Some garrison regiments have entered Huguang, and some garrison battalions and militia units can also be transferred from Jiangxi Prefecture to enter Huguang. The Huaxia Army has achieved the first-stage strategic goal set by itself.

After completing these, Zhang Qiang found another place and operated the war eagle to check the battlefield to see how Wang Yuqun and the others intercepted the enemy, and the command was handed over to Xiao Fei.

Chapter 463 Meeting Obai 15

drum,

drums of war,

Aobai heard the sound of war drums in the middle of the night, and got up in a hurry to figure out what was going to happen.

Just after washing and putting on the armor, a small school came to report, "My lord, my lord, the Huaxia Army, the Huaxia Army, blocked our way back, our barracks outside the town were attacked by enemy artillery, and the ranks were in disarray. Now, the cavalry who rushed out of the camp were attacked by enemy cavalry and were retreating into the town."

"How can there be Huaxia Army on the front line?"

"Explain to me, the nearest Huaxia Army is still eighty miles away?"

Aobai didn't just run away blindly, he sent scout cavalry to the rear.

The scout cavalry kept a close eye on the Huaxia army in the rear. Although they couldn't stop the enemy from crossing the river, they could tell Oboi where the enemy was and how far away they were from us through their eyes.

According to Oboi's speculation, even if the enemy crosses the river, it will take half a night, and then they will form a team and set up camp. In the early morning, they can walk another ten kilometers, that is, twenty miles, and they will soon reach the territory of Hubei Province. At the home ground of the Qing army, there are [-] new troops stationed, tens of thousands of Qing troops, and countless landlords and gentry who are loyal to the Qing army. After more than ten years of entering the customs, the Qing army truly controlled the land and people's hearts in the north. Now the court in people's minds is no longer the Ming Dynasty that was full of disasters and harsh to the people.

The entry of the Qing army into the customs is good news for the landlords and gentry of the Ming Dynasty. They can reshuffle the cards and stand in line early, and they can benefit more. Breathe a sigh of relief, some policies of the Qing army are still very oriented towards the common people, which greatly eased the conflict between the common people and the interest group representing the Ming Dynasty.

The landowners and gentry who represented the Ming Dynasty were overthrown, and the people knew that the Qing army had avenged them. Therefore, many people were still very grateful to the Qing army in their hearts. The new policy alleviates the conflict between oneself and the people. In order to survive and fill their stomachs, the people also accept the employment of the new landlords and gentry. Hello everyone, I am good, everything is good.

Many people also became new beneficiaries by colluding with the new landlords and gentry, so they would support the Qing army. They were the saviors in the hearts of the people who hoped that the turmoil would stop at a very small price.

Maybe many people were arrested and used as cannon fodder, but many people couldn't see it, and they didn't want to see it. After all, stability is what the people hope for.

The disaster is not as good as one's own family, and the death of other people's family is the business of other people's family.