Lord of Ming Dynasty

Shang Kexi took advantage of the morning light to put down the binoculars, pointed at the town and said, "Hurry up, let someone charge again with soldiers and horses, the enemy doesn't have many soldiers and horses, and we can rush into the town with only one time, take the town, we We can hold the ferry."

Yes, the ferry doesn't mean much to the Huaxia army now, but for Shang Kexi, if he can take down the town, his side will be considered safe in the future, even if he loses the troops sent by [-], he can still guard the coast of the Yellow River In the future, if the Huaxia Army wants to raid here, they will have to pay a lot of casualties. They will get stuck at a few key points on the mountain, defend the town, and then send troops to guard a few places that are easy to cross the river. Then their territory in Shanxi Prefecture will be considered stable.

He fought the Huaxia Army not to hold back the Huaxia Army, but to solve his own worries. During the Dajin Kingdom, he lost the bridgehead on the north bank of the Yellow River. He had no troops to take it back with the Huaxia Army. After the Qing Army came, there was no troops. Let's solve this problem. After Shang Kexi came here, what he worried about every day was that if the enemy crossed the river from here, he would bear the brunt of it. Now, by taking this opportunity, he can explain the past to Yao Qisheng and solve his serious problem, even if the five thousand soldiers They are all damaged, as long as their territory is stabilized, they will ask the court for military pay, food and grass, and then recruit some soldiers and horses from Shanxi Prefecture, and their strength will gradually develop.

These are the foundation, territory, and military strength for oneself to survive in this world.

Soon a leader went out again with 5000 soldiers and horses. There were cavalry and infantry. Over there, after Tianying and the others rectified their soldiers and horses, they ushered in an attack of more than [-] soldiers and horses from the enemy. town.

Because the soldiers and horses here are only more than 1000 and less than [-] soldiers and horses, it is impossible to estimate Phoenix Town.

As the sky gets brighter, the hit rate of the soldiers gradually increases. Dark night is a good time for both the enemy and us to hide ourselves, but it also makes the comparison of the strength of the two sides not based on the number of people. Although the Huaxia Army The weapons are more advanced, and the quality of the soldiers is better, but in the dark night, the enemy still breaks through and fights close, but during the day, the Huaxia Army's shooting accuracy rate has improved, and the new reinforcements have greatly increased the strength of Tianying's side, so it is very easy Knock the enemy down to the ground from a distance of 200 meters, and the dense firepower oppresses the enemy afraid to step forward.

Several six-pound guns that had been hidden all night began to fire, throwing solid bullets and flowering bullets into the enemy's attacking queue time and time again.

Shang Kexi looked at the broken limbs and arms that flew up again and again, and he wanted to commit suicide. So many of his old subordinates were killed by the enemy, so how could he remain calm? I go, go, go.

At this time, a leader ran over, "My lord, my lord, it's not good, our army was cut off by the enemy, and five thousand, five thousand civilian men who transported supplies were captured by the enemy. Your Excellency, they are all scattered, the enemy, the enemy surrounded us, and there are routs everywhere behind the mountain."

"Ah," Shang Kexi's heart skipped a beat, when did the enemy run behind him.

"Damn it, send someone to ask, why did that bastard Shanqi not take down the mountain city all night? Where did they fall to the ground now? Why did the enemy run behind our ass?"

After finishing speaking, he said to his personal guard: "Send a team of cavalry to the back to see what happened when they fell to the ground. How many troops does the enemy have? I don't think there will be too many."

At the same time, on the mountain road, the newly recruited officers and soldiers of the garrison brigade were sweating profusely. They received the order to immediately reinforce Fenghuang Town without entering the city.

So they ran for more than half an hour, ran a few miles from the mountain city, and just crossed the defense area of ​​the elite militia brigade, and ran to the ordinary militia brigade at the ferry of Fenghuang Town.

A regiment of infantry, carrying small guns and three-pound guns, led the temporarily requisitioned mules on the south bank, and rushed towards Fenghuang Town with ammunition.

In the distance, a group of elite militiamen from the North Shore militia company quickly supported Tianying and the others on the ridge.

Seeing a group of militiamen running over in the distance, Tianying said to the remaining [-] militiamen and officers and soldiers of the garrison brigade hiding in the fortifications: "Charge, let's rescue Phoenix Town."

Shang Kexi took inventory of his remaining soldiers and horses at this time, and there were still 5000 soldiers and horses that had not been used. In one night, of the 5000 soldiers and horses he brought, more than [-] people were killed or injured, and there were more than [-] people who rode on the ferry. The ship went far away, and there were still [-] soldiers and horses in the mountains behind who were in charge of guarding after the break, and [-] soldiers and horses who were responsible for transporting supplies were still on the road, and the [-] soldiers and horses who were in charge of guarding the peasants were defeated, and all [-] civilians were captured by the enemy. .

The back road was cut off.

He had to order Ming Jin to withdraw his troops, and the five thousand soldiers who were still able to move out of Fenghuang Town to attack, retreated back from the front of Tianying's fortification, and Tianying and the others chased after them stepping on the corpses of the Qing army who had been killed and wounded on the ground overnight. them.

The two thousand Qing troops who were too late to retreat were blocked in and out of the town, and at the same time they blocked a thousand remnants of defeated soldiers who attacked them.

They were compressed in the area outside the town from the trench stronghold to the mountainside one and a half kilometers.

On the mountainside behind, about [-] soldiers of the elite militia brigade began to attack the enemy's soldiers and horses regardless of the fact that there was still a brigade of soldiers and horses on the enemy's mountain.

At this time, Tianying and the others are in a very critical situation. Even if the two militia companies behind come to reinforce them, their soldiers and horses are less than 500 people, while the enemy still has [-] fresh troops, and nearly [-] divided remnants and defeated generals. , There are hundreds of enemy soldiers guarding the ferry on the other side of the ferry. If these soldiers and horses are in a hurry and charge down one by one, no matter how advanced their weapons are, they will be wiped out if the enemy charges one by one.

Chapter 851 The Helplessness After the Great Victory

At dawn, Zhang Qiang squinted for a while, and then called to the attendant officials to prepare to go out. He wanted to go to the battlefield to see the largest battle with the Qing army.

After receiving the order, the Guards Corps began to prepare supplies, convene troops, arrange for left-behind personnel, and then dispatched manpower to the Garrison Command to arrange escort personnel. This time, only two battalions of the Guards Corps remained beside Zhang Qiang. Leaving a battalion in the capital to protect the imperial palace and taking another battalion out would obviously not suit his current status.

Being ambushed by the enemy many times, let him know that now is not the time for him to act willfully, so he must bring more troops with him.

The imperial guards of the capital, also known as the troops directly under the garrison headquarters, the elite troops of the garrison, immediately sent a regiment of soldiers and horses to follow, and at the same time dispatched a company of guard troops from the military academy, and a company of cadets from the military academy to follow. A battalion of six twelve-pounders and one eighteen-pounder followed.

In short, it is so mighty, and it took a whole morning to prepare.

It was already noon when we set off.

Zhang Qiang forbids the troops to notify the troops along the road in advance. This is why his whereabouts need to be kept secret. In case the general of the army in that area rebels, it is still a matter of whether his reinforced regiment-level troops can last until the reinforcements arrive. The Huaxia Army No matter where the troops are now, they are all fighting well.

Because the Huaxia Army has been fighting since the founding of the country, and has never stopped fighting.

No matter which unit is a meritorious unit that has survived the war.

Now the core area is empty of troops. If you want to support them, you have to deploy troops from the front line. All the troops are adjusting and deploying, which is a bit chaotic. , he was unlucky.

So the troops set off for nearly half a day, and only when they set up camp at night did they notify the nearby troops to start alert.

By the time Zhang Qiang drove out of the capital, Shang Kexi had already fallen into despair. Tianying and the others seized the opportunity to defeat the Qing army who had withdrawn from the town, captured nearly 900 people, killed and wounded nearly 600 people, and rescued them. The Phoenix Town garrison with less than [-] troops left.

After that, they began to chase the fleeing Qing army, and captured prisoners all over the mountains and plains.

Two hours later, with the arrival of reinforcements from the garrison regiment and the elite militia brigade, their strength had increased to [-] soldiers and horses, and they immediately began to encircle and suppress Shang Kexi.

The Qing army defended the mountain and fought tenaciously. It took more than 1000 soldiers to drive 3000 Qing troops down the ridge. They occupied the ridge and left troops to guard the ridge.

Shang Kexi's troops gathered 1000 soldiers and horses, fled down the mountain, and directly attacked Wan Douni's blocking force on the bank of the Yellow River. The blocking force of more than [-] people was like a reef beaten by huge waves, motionless. There are pursuers.

Except for the Yellow River, they were surrounded on three sides, compressed, gathered soldiers and horses, and there were more than 8000 soldiers and horses, but they were all frightened and could only attack the flat river bank less than two miles wide.

Wan Dou Ni shrunk his troops and added another battalion to the front. He insisted on bearing the impact of Shang Kexi's [-] soldiers, intercepted the enemy, drove them out of the valley, and compressed them to an area less than five ordinary miles away from the river bank.

At the beginning, their troops were not enough. There were a few hundred people left on the mountain, nearly 800 people on the river bank, and more than 900 troops in the valley. With artillery, they bombarded the enemy. The more than 1000 troops running in front were too anxious, crashed into the most densely populated place of the enemy, and had to engage in bayonet hand-to-hand combat, but were beaten out by the strong enemy force, leaving hundreds of corpses and ran back.

Tianying hurriedly gathered the remaining troops, and used a safe attack formation to suppress the enemy in a row of guns, and beat back the enemy's pursuers.

In fact, at this time, his troops were not enough. Many troops were on the road to clean up the battlefield and set up blocking positions. Only 1000 troops rushed down the mountain. On the wide side of the ground, the enemy is likely to break through with a countercharge.

So he quickly sent people to gather all the troops on the mountain, adding another thousand troops, and finally stabilized his position.

At this time, their total strength was actually only more than 6000 people, but they had to block the impact of the enemy's [-] soldiers. Fortunately, Shang Kexi wanted to escape, regardless of the rear, and kept attacking the front position, causing some heavy casualties in the front position. One battalion fought for less than an hour, suffered three hundred casualties, and was almost wiped out.

It was not until the artillery of the garrison regiment was transported from the riverside road that they alleviated the problem of the shortage of troops.

Thirty artillery pieces were gathered, including nine-pounders, ten-pounders, six-pounders, and three-pounders discarded by the enemy, as well as nine-pounders, six-pounders, and two twelve-pounders brought by the Huaxia Army Garrison Regiment. Cannons, dozens of cannons fired in unison, which caused the enemy's formation to be chaotic and caused heavy casualties.

As soon as Tianying and Wan Douni met, a company was drawn from the garrison regiment, a company was drawn from the elite militia brigade, five three-pound guns were drawn from the artillery battalion, more than 100 troops were drawn from the ordinary militia brigade, and fifty civilian men were added as reinforcements. The intercepting troops in front kept the strength of the intercepting troops at [-] troops, which was enough to block the enemy's desperate assault.

When a company of remnant soldiers and horses from Fenghuang Town came up, an attack was also launched here, and the enemy collapsed immediately. By the time it got dark, 3000 soldiers and horses had killed and injured 4000 people, hundreds of people were missing, and the rest were captured. , Captured more than [-] enemy troops at once, captured hundreds of horses, and countless guns.

Tianying and Wan Douni lay like a pile of mud under a tree in the mountain, watching the soldiers and horses cleaning the battlefield in the distance.

It wasn't until it got dark that the two returned to Fenghuang Town. At this time, except for a few large courtyards that could barely accommodate people, the rest of Fenghuang Town had become ruins. The squadron leader, militia brigade leader, and several garrison battalion commanders gathered together, staring at the map in a daze under the light of the candles produced by the Huaxia Army.

Tianying pointed to the map and said: "From here to Yuncheng Mansion to Sanmenxia into the mountain, the total is 78 kilometers. The width of a ridge between here and there is [-] kilometers to [-] kilometers wide. Our current strength plus the strength of the mountain city, The current situation is [-] troops.

We have to leave at least [-] soldiers and horses to guard the mountain city, several hundred soldiers and horses to guard the ferry behind the mountain city, and we have to send the remaining [-] remnants of the militia brigade to search for the people of our slaughtered mountain village in the mountains and deeper into the mountains. In addition, here in Fenghuang Town At least [-] soldiers and horses had to be left to prevent the enemy's [-] soldiers and horses who had crossed the Yellow River from returning to seize the ferry and Fenghuang Town. These soldiers and horses had to clean up the nearly [-] kilometers of battlefield. "

Wan Douni looked up at the head of the extremely garrison regiment. They were all dissatisfied troops temporarily drawn from various garrison brigades in Henan Province. The maximum number was 2000, and the minimum number was only 400. Here, there is a militia brigade of [-] soldiers. Of the soldiers and horses, there were only less than [-] active soldiers left dead or wounded. The elite militia brigade had [-] soldiers, and after this battle, only [-] soldiers and horses were left.

It can be said that they are all remnants.

They can only ask for help from the rear, and let the rear send more troops to take over the defense. These soldiers and horses have to withdraw to a place tens of kilometers away from the south bank for rest and replenishment, or the militia brigade has reached its peak after this battle. The degree of withdrawal.