Lord of Ming Dynasty

"There's not enough ammunition. The captured guns and artillery have already been sent out. Most of the servants have taken the captured muskets. The captured soldiers each have some swords and a small amount of muskets, but we don't have enough ammunition. Well, the Eighth Field Division hasn’t come back yet, I don’t know if the cavalry company intercepted them, or they didn’t dare to return without an order.” The cavalry commander came to find Dongfeng Po.

"Isn't the luggage of the headquarters brought up yet?" Dongfeng Po asked.

The head of the cavalry regiment said: "We are surrounded here, and the headquarters is not strong enough. I am afraid it is impossible to take the risk to deliver ammunition to us. You must know that their strength is not large. The strength of the Qing army is several 10. It’s not good to be surrounded, we still have to rescue them.”

Chapter 894 The Qing Army's Counterattack 4

In fact, because the Qing army cut off the contact road, they don't know where Hu Kui is surrounded now. Hu Kui sent cavalry to contact them yesterday, but the cavalry was forced to disperse by the Qing cavalry halfway. Running around, avoiding the chasing and killing of the Qing cavalry.

"We have to organize our forces to break through the enemy's siege, and send people to contact the Merlin Fish Corps again, and we have to find the Corps Command. I heard that the Corps Command is a hundred miles behind us. Now it may have been captured by the enemy. Surrounded." Dongfeng Po knocked on the table and said.

"But we don't have many cavalry anymore. In the past few days of fighting, the cavalry regiments have been wiped out. There are not many cavalry in each regiment now, and the strength of the cavalry regiment is no more than a battalion." The cavalry regiment leader said.

Dongfeng Po thought for a while, "Didn't we capture a lot of the enemy's war horses? Select some of our soldiers and horses who have ridden war horses, or were originally cavalry, as long as they have ridden horses, you can also find them from the servants and prisoners. , as long as they can serve us, we will give them the identity of the people, and after the war is over, they will not be held accountable for the status of the Qing Dynasty."

The head of the cavalry had no choice but to do so.

When the two of them were talking, the battle had entered the final stage. The Qing army's retreat would be the first line of defense on the outer line, occupying the surrounding commanding heights, intersections, and passes, while the Huaxia army occupied the villages, rivers, and towns on the outer line of defense. The line of defense extended five or six miles to the outside.

At the beginning of the Chinese lanterns, when the selected troops came back, there were more than 3000 soldiers and servants who could ride horses, and even people among the common people were selected. Zhangjiakou was originally a place for trade, mostly with the grasslands, and most of the common people and middle-aged Growing up on horses or riding horses, so more than 3000 of the 2000 people are ordinary people, and only 600 people are selected from various troops with cavalry experience or have ridden horses. There are not many people in Japan and North Korea who have ridden horses, and the indigenous people in Southeast Asia rarely ride horses, with less than 300 people.

Incorporate two cavalry companies, plus an artillery company and heavy soldiers. The heavy soldiers often ride horses, so they are also incorporated into some. In this way, there will be 4000 to [-] troops to control the servants and the people. The total force reached [-] troops.

The captain of the cavalry led the men himself.

In the middle of the night, the Huaxia Army launched a feint attack on the outer defense lines occupied by the enemy in the north and south, dispatched [-] civilians, [-] servants, and two regiments to charge towards the enemy's positions with the support of artillery fire.

The head of the cavalry regiment led the entire regiment on the horse, and slowly followed the charging team. After the charging team had submerged the enemy's stronghold, he waved his saber and shouted, and the entire cavalry team swept across like a tide. The enemy's position, and then left in the dust. During the period, several enemy camps were broken through, many enemy camps were burned, and the cavalry team blocked by the enemy was defeated.

Fleeing away in the dark night, first fled to the west, then escaped for a hundred miles, the whole team dispersed more than 1000 soldiers and horses, and there were less than 300 troops left, then turned to the south, and ran to Liyaohuai at dawn The county seat was resting in a valley only fifty miles away. This time, another [-] people were lost, dozens of servants, and two hundred people. The people are still unreliable.

The commander of the cavalry regiment divided half of the company and asked them to take half of the people and a few servant soldiers to advance towards Shanxi Prefecture, looking for the Eighth Field Division, and then he sent half of the company to the First Field Division Zhao Hu. Go to the common people's cavalry, these common people are locals who are familiar with the surrounding roads.

The No. 16 field division led by Dongfeng Po with little ammunition started another day of operations.

Last night's charge was not only to cover the cavalry regiment from the encirclement to find the regiment headquarters, but also to break the enemy's siege situation and open a gap in the enemy's defense line.

Because of the assault of the cavalry regiment, he chose the important breakthrough location in the south, and the north was just a feint attack. After the cavalry regiment broke through, he immediately sent the servant army to continue the attack, captured several villages and highlands, and occupied a mountain forest in one fell swoop. , successfully drove a nail into the enemy's line of defense.

Now Duolong is mobilizing troops to surround this gap frantically. The Han army flags are marked one by one, and they enter the forest. After fighting for a while, it seems that they have penetrated the forest. Holding a big knife, a spear, and the captured Qing army muskets, he killed him back.

A target force withdrew frantically and became a sentry force, almost a platoon force, and the others were lying in the woods or captured.

The enemy immediately changed a group of people to guard the forest, and the captives and the enemy who attacked just now withdrew to the village, and the captives were escorted to the rear.

Duolong hated these people to death. The cannons of the Qing army bombarded the forest violently, didn't they just use cannon fodder? Win or lose, how many times the forest was taken back by the Qing army, and was immediately counterattacked back. At noon, this forest could no longer be called a forest, but a barren mountain.

Because the artillery fire from both sides blasted the forest into an unobstructed hillside.

At this time, no one is sending troops anywhere, and it has no effect. Then the two sides will find other places to compete. The Qing army besieged the mountain village, and the Huaxia army besieged the top of the mountain. Han army flags and green battalion soldiers, the casualties of the Huaxia army here are civilians and captive soldiers, soldiers of the servant army, and of course some soldiers and horses from the punishment brigade. Dongfeng Po is reluctant to let his regular soldiers go on the horse in this kind of war of attrition.

But Dongfeng Po knew that this was not the solution. The Qing army could go farther to catch cannon fodder outside at any time. Those Qing people were all of Han Chinese descent. At the beginning, I brought tens of thousands of servants, [-] cannon fodder, and the prisoners of the Qing army captured later. These days, they are almost dead. The people died [-] to [-], the cannon fodder died [-] to [-], and the servants died two or three times. Thousands of troops.

Even the cavalry regiment of his Sixteenth Field Division was wiped out, and the cavalry directly under the brigades and division headquarters were all wiped out. The artillery ammunition was running out, and many artillerymen became infantry. Each brigade fought five or six times on average. , also suffered heavy casualties, almost killing all the troops of a brigade, which means that there are almost [-] soldiers and horses here.

The cannon fodder of the Qing army killed almost 8 to 3 people, 2 to 4000 people were arrested by their own side, the green battalion soldiers died almost 20 to 30, the Han army flags almost [-] to [-], and the Manchu soldiers almost died Three to [-] people, leaving aside the troops that the enemy left yesterday, the enemy still has more than [-] soldiers and horses, and with the continuous cannon fodder, there will be more than [-] soldiers and horses. The key is that the enemy can get reinforcements, and their Reinforcements haven't arrived yet.

"Break out, general," said a brigade commander.

As the commander of the lieutenant general, Dongfeng Po was very embarrassed.

Chapter 895 Redeployment

The battle has been going on for a few days, and the first field division has also encountered such a situation. There are too many soldiers and horses facing them. With a division of more than 3000 troops, they have suffered heavy losses and had to retreat. Those prisoners The soldiers and the young men of the common people suffered heavy casualties. Many people ran away, and some of the servants also ran away. As a result, they were devastated and had to ask for reinforcements.

The Third Field Division who attacked Tianjin County suffered heavy losses. Not only did they fail to capture Tianjin County, but they were surrounded by several times the enemy. If they hadn't retreated to the coast and were covered by the artillery of the sea warships, their entire army might have been wiped out.

The scene of their hard resistance in the wild in Wencheng, Shandong Province reappeared in Wang Dong's mind.

Urgent documents flew to the rear like snowflakes, and the Baggyalu Corps dispatched urgently to advance quickly into Hebei Prefecture.

First recaptured the Cangzhou Mansion, which had been reoccupied by the enemy, and then divided the troops to support the First Field Division, and then dispatched the cavalry brigade to rescue the regiment headquarters, while Wang Dong's Third Division was urgently mobilized by the navy with warships and warships to mobilize Brother Zhu. The regiment was reinforced by servants and a field brigade.

So 30 Japanese servants and prisoners of Japanese soldiers were urgently loaded onto the ship and transported to the port near Tianjin County where Wang Dong was located. It took five days in a row, and all the old ships of the First Fleet were used to transport them. The two disabled field brigades of the field division were shipped to the Japanese island for rest and repair.

Shipped the [-]th Field Division of the Zhuge Corps to the port, and returned to the mainland as the [-]th Field Division of the Bagyalu Corps. Although the [-]th Field Division in Japan was also damaged, it was still able to take out two field troops. The brigade came to supplement the strength of Wang Dong's Third Field Division, but the headquarters of the Seventh Field Division did not reach the mainland, but only two field brigades.

Zhang Qiang and Xiao Fei urgently researched countermeasures and sent the Bagyalu Corps to the top, but they were still not strong enough. Two garrison brigades were transferred from Henan Prefecture to Shanxi Prefecture, and two garrison brigades were transferred from Hubei Prefecture to Shanxi Prefecture. The No. 16 Field Division of the Wuyu Corps rushed to Shanxi Prefecture to strengthen its forces there, and the Eighth Field Division, led by Tianying, rushed to assist Dongfengpo's No. [-] Field Division.

Because Feng Wuyu was already the general and deputy chief of staff of the General Staff, the commander of the division could only be General Ma Weiren of the abolished [-]th Guards Division.

The commander of the guard division must be one level higher than the commander of the field division.

In addition, the garrison brigade reorganized from the 17th elite brigade of the Southeast Asian militia was transferred to the island of Japan, and the captain of the eighth brigade, Sko, took over as the commander of the garrison brigade to guard Hokkaido. The No.17 field division Kai Zhige's fourth field brigade is responsible for guarding the corner of Honshu Island extending to Hokkaido and Hokkaido by the No.17 field division. Soon to be the [-]th Field Brigade of the No.[-] Field Division.

In this way, the Huaxia Army has an expanded eleven elite divisions with a strength of [-] troops.

In the past, all the divisions within ten had a larger establishment and better personnel than the later eleven and later units, and now there are eleven.

This is a bit like the meaning of the Japanese standing teacher.

There are also the establishments of Type A divisions and Type B divisions in later generations, and the purpose of the standing division is not to say that they have a large number of troops, but because they must keep so many troops for later splitting and expansion of more troops. Officers In fact, there are quite a lot of them. Once expanded, eleven divisions can be expanded into 22 Type A divisions, or more Type B divisions.

When Zhang Qiang mobilized his troops again, Dongfeng Po was already trying to break through here. It seemed that they had occupied a two-mile-wide gap, and the enemy could no longer trap them, but Dongfeng Po knew that this was actually an illusion. The enemy cavalry Too many, as long as the enemy wants to pursue, they can't run, and infantry can't run past cavalry against cavalry.

Therefore, after the breakthrough, he sent people to find the commander of the cavalry regiment, and again sent people to the Eighth Field Division to find reinforcements.

What he didn't know was that Tianying actually wanted to leave, but he couldn't, because they were entangled by the Mongols. The Mongols attacked the pass and infiltrated in many ways. He had enough troops to defend the Great Wall. The cavalry brigade The soldiers and horses are everywhere.

He also rushed to the staff.

Wandouni's [-]th Field Division had sent all their cavalry to help them find the Mongol raiders.

However, Wan Douni was entangled by the caravans and bandits of the local merchants, so he had to divide his troops to defend each county, and sent servants to encircle the bandits and caravans in Shanxi, as well as the troublesome Shanxi state businessmen.

They occupied this land and labeled all the merchants as reactionaries. Of course, the merchants are going to fight back, colluding with the Mongols, colluding with the lurking Qing army, and the Qing Dynasty is working closely to make trouble for him everywhere. The headquarters of the Merlin Fish Corps is also busy quelling the civil strife , accept and organize garrison brigades, and dispatch garrison brigade troops to various counties and prefectures.

As the civil strife in the garrison basically subsided, or the field corps didn't need to worry about it, but the enemy also came, and the Qing crazily counterattacked before death, using Mongols and Qing soldiers to harass Shanxi Prefecture from the grassland outside. Shanxi Prefecture could only rely on Ming city wall defense.

This is the helplessness of farming peoples towards grassland nomads.

Although the Huaxia Army is already very elite, and its equipment has also jumped from cold weapons to the era of muskets, but, but, but, without machine guns, correspondingly elite cavalry, and without a corresponding number of cavalry, the Huaxia Army still cannot, temporarily cannot go deep into the grassland Go to the Mongols to settle accounts.

As a musket and firearms unit, the Huaxia Army relied heavily on supplies from the rear. The enemy cavalry came and went like the wind. If the supplies were cut off, the muskets would turn into sticks of fire, and they would have to fight the enemy with knives.

Only then did Zhang Qiang understand why all dynasties, except the Yuan and Qing dynasties, had nothing to do with the Mongols, and never thought of expanding their territory. So many nomadic people have to go where, once there is a change, those people will become someone else's population, or a new grassland nomad.

The population of Mongols was originally small, why are they increasing? The Han people from the frontier ran over to help them continue their population and race. The Jurchens also plundered the population of the Ming Dynasty for 20 years before it changed from a few hundred thousand to a million. In this way, there are troops able to capture Shanhaiguan, and with the hard work of Wu Sangui and others, there are Kong Youde, Li Chengdong, Shang Kexi and other traitors who conquered the entire Ming Dynasty.