Lord of Ming Dynasty

He secretly calculated the enemy's strength. It is said that the enemy is no more than [-] people. However, he read the enemy's information brought by the garrison general. The enemy has some miscellaneous troops. They are all Miao soldiers, chieftain soldiers, and soldiers from other tribes. , as well as some township bravery and regiment bravery, the enemy may only have lost these troops due to the consumption in the early stage, plus some soldiers with the Han army banner of the Qing army. It is estimated that these soldiers with the Han army banner are the main force of the enemy, and there are some very brave guys. It is a soldier or horse of the enemy's servant or general.

The development of the Qing Dynasty still cannot change their military pattern of mainly relying on family members and family generals. According to his judgment, the enemy's early military losses are not large. It was exhausted, and some elite backbone soldiers were added, but the enemy's strength was still proudly retained. If he rushed out now, then he would be greeted by the enemy's more elite, fierce veterans mainly from the Ding family.

So, next, he is going to use artillery to bombard most of the enemy, killing and injuring the enemy's main force in large numbers.

In the early stage of the battle, he mainly consumed the ordinary militia company, the young and strong in the city, and the soldiers of the militia self-defense force. Of course, there was also a large part of the elite militia brigade, as well as the infantry company soldiers of dozens of field regiments.

They defended the city, and the defensive side always lost less than the offensive side. His side lost [-] troops, which was only one-third of his army's strength, and he still had nearly [-] troops.

The enemy would never have thought that he still had so many troops. He always showed the enemy his weakness. Those troops who ran out in an open manner sneaked back. Most of them ran back, and a small number were blocked by the enemy on the road. Lost.

Now he knew that the enemy's soldiers and horses must have been gathered back. If they did not gather back, the enemy would have no more troops to send.

And he boldly evacuated all the troops in the surrounding towns and villages, and was setting up an encirclement circle for the enemy. Many soldiers and horses had already moved into the mountains in a scattered manner, hiding in the low-lying areas on the river beach, waiting for him to send a signal. It can be surrounded in all directions, don't forget, the two militia units have [-] soldiers and horses.

He ran to the 2000 soldiers who died, hundreds of soldiers who were injured, and then went to the nearly [-] soldiers guarding the ferry in Fenghuang Town, and ran to the soldiers who were attacked and blocked by the enemy. He estimated that there were more than [-] soldiers and horses. There are still [-] soldiers and horses on the north bank of the Yellow River, that is to say, there are at least [-] soldiers and horses outside the city. His soldiers and horses are about the same as the remaining soldiers and horses of the enemy, or slightly more, because there are still constant soldiers and horses. Although there are not many soldiers and horses in the reinforcements and the militia self-defense force, there are as few as a dozen people in a village, but there are nearly a hundred people in many.

Then he still has nearly [-] soldiers and horses here.

While he was counting these troops, the enemy general over there also looked depressed. This time, he wiped out all the miscellaneous soldiers that Shang Kexi handed over to him, and the main force also suffered nearly 1 casualties. Even if he gathers some soldiers sent out, the total force is only [-] soldiers and horses. He received Shang Kexi's order to move his troops to Fenghuang Town at the crossing of the Yellow River, but he still couldn't swallow his breath. He decided to Fight again, if he still can't take down this small mountain city, he will bring his troops to meet the prince.

According to the messenger's report, the battle over there was also very difficult. The enemy lost all the territory outside the town and was surrounded by more than 3 troops. They rushed in twice, but were still beaten by the enemy. The enemy's tenacity surpassed The prince's imagination, so the prince hoped to send more troops to go there, first send some people to cross the river, go there to harass the enemy's ferry, and lay down a ferry to open the way for the rear troops and luggage.

All our troops cannot be spent here.

He kicked the groom who was serving under his horse, drove him away, and then let those belts surround him. He waved his whip, pointed to the mountain city below the mountain and said: "My lords, the prince has an order to let our army Go to the ferry, but I want to attack the enemy's county again. Each of you will go down with two thousand soldiers and horses to attack the enemy. You must take this mountain city for me.

It's already midnight, and there won't be too many soldiers and horses in the enemy's city, about two or three thousand, and the enemy is just a bunch of farmers who have just put on the uniform of the Huaxia Army, take it down for me, two Whoever takes it after an hour, I will keep his troops here. After taking it, the knife will not be sealed, and you can rob it at will until dawn. "

8Chapter 17 Clean and neat annihilation

The sound of war drums was loud, which was the rhythm of the Qing army's attack. Now the Qing army didn't have to hide anything. Anyway, after fighting for three hours, the enemy here already knew what they wanted to do. After so long, the enemy and us basically Knowing the opponent's strength from the outside, so the Qing army formed a team of 2000 people and launched an attack from three sides.

On the top of the mountain, there are artillery units deployed in sequence. Fifteen cannons are constantly beating on the walls of the mountain city. One thousand and five hundred artillerymen and five hundred civilians took off their sleeves and arms to dry, one by one. I'm sweating profusely, a nine-pound projectile, one is nothing, if I move a dozen or so in a row, I'll pant a bit, twenty or thirty, my feet will be a bit floating, not to mention those ten-pound shells The Qing army, and the artillery who had to work hard to return the hundreds of kilograms of cannons to their original positions every time they fired.

More than 1000 civilians over there are loading the wounded from the last few battles into wheelbarrows one after another, or supporting them, and retreating towards the ferry in Fenghuang Town.

The horse team that opened the way had already run for more than three miles, and the escorting soldiers also stood up and pulled out the camp one after another, loaded the luggage into the horse carts and ox carts that were looted from nearby villages, and let the peasants drive them, and they followed the luggage and left.

There are also thousands of people, and there are also captured civilian husbands who carry the captured rice, chickens and ducks on their backs, and they act together with the army.

The gunfire from the rear began to intensify.

At this time, they heard a strange sound, which was different from the sound of the solid bullet artillery they were equipped with, and the sound of the explosion was also different from the solid bullet.

The solid bullet is the earth shaking and the mountains shaking heard at the firing position, and this sound is the earth shaking and the mountains shaking heard in other places.

Looking back, they saw countless fireballs in the air like meteorites, and they were as gorgeous as meteors falling to the ground, and they exploded on the artillery positions.

Then the artillery position was full of flames, and then there were screams. In the cold night wind in the north, in the empty mountain stream in the mountains, they heard extremely sharp screams, which were the screams of their soldiers.

The enemy's artillery hit the artillery positions in the first round, and the second round hit the mountains where the generals were on the mountain. There were also flames and shouts, and then they turned their heads to look at the city wall. In the charging Qing army, pieces of stumped limbs and broken arms were also exploded, and there were screams one after another. The first was a neat artillery fire, and then there was uneven artillery fire, which continuously smashed the flowering bombs on the Qing army. In the ranks, the Qing army was in disarray. Although they were still charging, it was obvious that they could no longer find the vigor they had at the beginning.

The general of the Qing army was pulled up from the ground by his subordinates. He was bombarded by the enemy just now. Although it was only a wave, it also shocked his horse. He fell into the grass below a hillside, his mouth was a little salty, he must have scratched his mouth, touched it with his hand, even though it was night, but because of the moonlight, he could see the sticky black and red blood on his hand.

Looking around, the soldiers here are gathering the rout soldiers. Just now, they were densely surrounded by a group of soldiers and horses. Now there are only a sparse team of about a few hundred people left.

Turning his head to look down the mountain, where is the mountain city, the attacking Qing army was beaten and fled in all directions, how could anyone attack, just like this, the enemy's artillery was still relentlessly chasing these deserters and bombing, the enemy's shells were fired one after another. , were all exploded, and from the flames of the explosion, every time there was an explosion, five or six Qing soldiers could be seen with their limbs flying horizontally, or flying far away by the air waves of the explosion.

The enemy's city gate opened, and teams of cavalry rushed out. Although there were not many of them, dozens of cavalry chased and killed these hundreds of Qing soldiers. A burst of musket fire was fired, and then rushed to the vicinity, and there was another crackle. A burst of musket fire, and finally saw them waving the standard sabers produced by the Huaxia Army that were shining coldly in the moonlit night, and the heads of the Qing army, the easy reaper. How could the Qing army be organized? They threw away their guns and took off their leather armor. , armor, threw away the helmet, and ran down the mountain.

Some ran to the enemy's city gate in a daze, and were shot and killed by the infantry of the militia company who came out of the city. The fluorescent lights of waves of bullets flickered in the night sky. It looked like a mountain fell.

"My lord, my lord, hurry, hurry, protect my lord and run to Fenghuang Town, hurry." Losing his top, wearing a tattered mandarin jacket, he drew his sword and waved his personal battalion belt, with his hair loose and shaking With long braids, he stood less than 20 meters away from him, yelling loudly.

The attendants around him also shouted loudly, "Bring Your Excellency's horse, hurry up, and help Your Excellency get on the horse."

The braids of the generals of the Qing army also came loose, and the mandarin coat was scratched a few holes. Holding on to his waist knife, he looked at the artillery position over there unwillingly, "Order to let people go and see our cannons Let them take as much as they can, and quickly follow the brigade."

A follower immediately shouted, "Cha." Then he patted the horse and ran away.

At this time, there was another sound of artillery in the mountain city. They saw that the flame gas from the gunpowder explosion at the tail of a pile of shells had not dissipated, and they flew towards this side rapidly.

"Guard my lord and go first, hurry up," the loyal attendant hurriedly helped the general of the Qing Dynasty onto the horse, but the shells were coming too fast, how could the speed of a person compare with the speed of the shells?

Then another explosion sounded all around, and a cannonball fell suddenly. The body of the general of the Qing Dynasty just sat upright, and then shook for a while. died.

Not far away, he also climbed onto the horse's belt and stared blankly at the death of the Great Qing Candidate in the distance. His whole body was shocked, and he patted the horse and left. The soldiers around him also fled. He was shot by the enemy's shells Frightened, he forgot to leave the chief officer behind, and he will be punished even if he goes back, even beheaded.

But at this critical moment, he didn't care so much anymore. The enemy's troops came out of the mountain city continuously, and a group of cavalry was about to arrive here, followed by dark infantry. The flames flickered in the grass, it was the enemy who even sent the peasants and farmers, and the kitchen knives were all picked up, the enemy is going to desperately, can he not escape?

He has never seen such a fierce cannon, and the flowering bomb exploded when it hit the ground. He has seen solid bullets before, but he has never seen the explosion scene of the flowering bomb. He fled quickly without gathering his men.

Seeing the enemy fleeing, Wan Dou Ni said to the garrison general, "Take the men and a company of troops to defend the city, dispatch troops from each village as soon as possible, and then return to the regiment quickly. I will lead the troops to gather troops from all over the way to reinforce Phoenix Town Ferry."

After speaking, without waiting for the garrison general to reply, he left with his soldiers and horses.

At the same time, many artillery pieces in the city were also taken away.

After crossing thousands of rivers and thousands of mountains, Zhang Qiang was woken up in the middle of the night, and then got out of bed with his clothes on, and went to a corridor outside the hall. He listened to the attendant on duty report to him about the battle at the Yellow River Ferry, and then went into the study in the side hall, The attendant served tea, and he quietly listened to more reports.

Chapter 848 Our militia can also fight

In his study, Zhang Qiang received a battle report from the front line. The enemy has invaded. The Shang Kexi Department of the Qing Dynasty has attacked the territory of the Huaxia Army on the north bank of the Yellow River. The latest information is that the army is suppressing the territory and attacking in an all-round way. This is more urgent. Those attacks in the past They were all small frictions, and the Huaxia Army took precautions, and the enemies who were beaten ran away, but this time the enemy had more troops than the Huaxia Army.

Whether the Huaxia Army should increase its troops on the north bank of the Yellow River or withdraw them is a matter of choice.

After watching for a while, he looked up to the north, smoking a Huaxia brand cigarette. Although he couldn't hear the sound of guns and guns here, he could feel that unified footsteps were approaching.

He really wanted to go to the front line to drag those two militia brigades back, but now he is His Majesty the king of the kingdom, honorable, it is no longer the era when he didn't care about anything in order to survive, and there is the Ministry of Defense below, the National Defense There is also the General Staff Headquarters under the headquarters, those soldiers are Xuanyuan Longfei's subordinates, Xiao Fei is in command, and there is the commander of the Corps below.

Thinking of the commander of the corps, Zhang Qiang felt that the military system should also be changed, and the military ranks should also be changed. Up to now, the official positions and ranks of these Ming Dynasty are very confusing, so they simply changed to the military rank system of later generations. Squad leader, company commander, whatever, otherwise he might get confused about some military ranks and official positions sometimes.

For example, the head of the corps is actually the deputy squad leader, the chief of the division is actually the squad leader, the small flag is actually half of the platoon leader, and the general flag is actually the platoon leader.The corps leader, the chief, the small flag, and the general flag are actually military ranks, and the deputy squad leader, squad leader, and platoon leader are actually positions.

"The latest battle report." The military attache brought a document and placed it in front of Zhang Qiang.

Zhang Qiang saw, "My Merlin Yu Corps received the report of the enemy's invasion yesterday, and quickly assembled, dispatched a garrison regiment of [-] troops to the rear, plus a squadron of ordinary militia brigades near the Yellow River, [-] troops." The troops arrived at the ferry last night.

Crossed the Yellow River at 10:830 in the morning. After resting and regrouping, they went straight to the attacked mountain city. But after arriving at the mountain city, the battle in the mountain city was over. After leaving thousands of troops to guard the mountain city, they sent another thousand troops to search for the enemy in the direction of Sanmenxia and captured the enemy. 38 remnant soldiers rescued 120 members of the disbanded militia self-defense team and [-] members of the militia company. They met a small group of soldiers and horses from the general militia brigade that was advancing, and then redeployed. They took back many villages captured by the enemy and stabilized the situation. The situation from Sanmenxia to the mountain city line, on the mountain, on the mountainside, until the ferry.

The troops staying in the mountain city regained the villages around the mountain city, captured more than a thousand remnants of the enemy, and seized the corpses of the enemy generals of the Qing army, three artillery pieces, 38 remaining solid bullets, and two barrels of gunpowder.

The small units of the two ordinary militia brigades and the first regiment of the garrison brigade, who were advancing quickly, met with General Wan Dou Ni, the commander-in-chief and staff officer on the north bank of the Yellow River on the way. More than 200 soldiers and horses from both sides arrived at [-] o'clock in the morning. When we arrived at a place [-] kilometers away from the ferry of Fenghuang Town, we encountered a [-]-strong army led by the Tianying Garrison Staff, resisting the enemy's attack.

Fenghuang Town was besieged by a large enemy force and completely surrounded Fenghuang Town. According to the report of the militiamen in Fenghuang Town who escaped, there are more than [-] soldiers and horses in Fenghuang Town. In a bloody fight, our army is solving the Qing army that besieged the Tianying Department.

At this point in the situation report, our department will send additional troops again. The garrison brigade and regiment assembled in the rear, the militia elite brigade and a squadron with [-] soldiers and horses, as well as the field brigade and a battalion of artillery, and a battalion of infantry are attacking. The Yellow River Ferry enters the north bank of the Yellow River from the direction of the mountain city.