Lord of Ming Dynasty

Dong Fengpo's words shattered his dream, "Over there in Zhangjiakou, we fought with the Qing soldiers led by Duolong for more than a week, killing and wounding more than a hundred thousand of them, but they still had more than 20 soldiers and horses. In fact, they are all the people nearby, as well as the country and regiment courage of the Han landlords and squires, as well as the green camp soldiers and horses that they don't pay attention to.

The casualties of the Han Army Banner were not too heavy. If the Mongolian cavalry hadn’t been attacked by our artillery several times, they would not have suffered much casualties. The Manchu and Qing soldiers had only been killed and injured by our raids on the camp a few times, but their main soldiers and horses were still there. There is almost no injury, why can they gather so many soldiers and horses this time?

Because they learned from us to catch artillery fire, that is to say, when we have a small force, even if we bring servants, the casualties are our real combat effectiveness, and the deaths of others are cannon fodder. The regular soldiers of the Qing army are actually not Many, our 5000th Field Division has more than 6000 soldiers and horses, plus your corps headquarters has more than 2 soldiers and horses, the regular soldiers and horses are actually only a little over [-], and the servants and horses are only about [-] soldiers and horses.

And how many enemies are there?

At any time, they can use the nearby people, village bravery, and regiment bravery to form hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses. We will always be exhausted. We are attacking now, and the Qing army is in chaos. In fact, they cannot organize much cannon fodder to join the war. What is being killed now is their regular soldiers and horses. If they die more, we can survive for one more day. "

"Okay, I'll lend you more than 100 members of my personal guard, take good care of yourself." Hu Kui was persuaded.

Chapter 900 Less is More

Dongfeng Po took a look at the assembled soldiers and horses. There were [-] Musketeers, [-] Cavalry, and [-] Artillery, with three three-pounders and six-pounders.

"Open the city gate, let's go." Dongfeng Po saluted Hu Kui who was upstairs above the city gate, and then took the lead and galloped out of the city gate.

No one on both sides of the melee outside the city paid attention to the county town, they were fighting everywhere, and they could see chaotic soldiers of the Qing army running past everywhere. For a while, they saw the Huaxia army chasing and killing the Qing soldiers, and for a while, they saw the Mongolian cavalry chasing and killing the Huaxia soldiers. After a while, the cavalry of the Huaxia army chased and killed the Mongolian cavalry. After a while, the Manchu soldiers defended a piece, using bows and muskets to fight against the Huaxia army who besieged them.

In the increasingly bright morning light, the good times when the Huaxia Army took advantage of the chaos of the Qing army are gone forever, and the disadvantage of the Huaxia Army's small number of troops is increasingly manifested. The soldiers couldn't find an organized unit, so it was impossible to gather the troops effectively, and everyone fought on their own.

As soon as they gathered, they were scattered by the opponent's large number of soldiers. For a while, the Qing soldiers gathered and were dispersed, and for a while, the Huaxia army gathered and were scattered by the stubborn Qing soldiers and Manchu soldiers.

By the time Dongfengpo rushed out of the city gate with a large number of soldiers and horses to march forward, there were very few Huaxia troops fighting at the south gate. Occasionally, some hiding servants could be seen throwing their weapons and being captured by the Qing soldiers.

As soon as the three thousand soldiers and horses lined up neatly out of the city, the nearby Qing soldiers immediately fled in fright. Five hundred cavalry attacked together, defeated the enemy and ran back. When encountering a small group of Qing soldiers, the leading elite musketeers ran forward.

Three thousand musketeers lined up in a battalion with a frontal width of three miles, guarded by cavalry on the left and right, followed by artillerymen driving carriages in the rear, protected by a battalion of musketeers, and protected by a hundred cavalry, advancing straight to the south gate. The depth of the nearly seven or eight miles of the front was cleared, gathered about [-] troops, and organized into a battalion, led by soldiers of the Huaxia Army, and the servant army was the main force. The battlefield begins to clear the enemy.

As the team moved forward, when the sky was bright, Dongfeng Po led his soldiers and horses from the front of the south gate to the front of the west gate. During this period, he gathered 100 scattered cavalry regiment cavalry and captured more than [-] cavalry of the enemy's Han army flag. , neither killing them nor sending them to the rear, they were directly dispersed and incorporated into the cavalry team, and continued to chase and kill the enemies on the battlefield.

When Ximen was cleared, he captured [-] Mongolian cavalry, [-] green battalion soldiers, gathered [-] servant soldiers, and [-] Huaxia soldiers, and reorganized them on the spot. The team grew to nearly [-] soldiers and horses, and continued along the The axis advanced and turned, and only then did we encounter a Qing army camp, and there were still many Qing soldiers in the Qing army camp.

The artillery stepped forward, fired a bombardment, and then pushed the entire front forward. The Qing army was defeated, and even the Manchus surrendered. They rescued more than 100 soldiers of the Huaxia Army and were incorporated into the team. Push forward and turn to the north gate.

The battle at the north gate was fierce, and there were also established Huaxia army soldiers and horses occupying the Qing army camp, which was the enemy's Mongolian army camp yesterday. It was resisting the siege of about 3000 Qing soldiers. Some of these people were green battalion soldiers, some were Mongolian cavalry, and more It is a Manchu soldier of the Qing army, with a very tenacious will to fight.

Dongfeng broke continuous shelling and fired a volley of guns. The Manchu and Qing cavalry dared to charge into battle. They fired a volley of guns and the cavalry attacked. More than 300 captured Mongolian cavalry and more than 100 Chinese cavalry were killed in battle. Finally, this group of more than 3000 Qing soldiers was wiped out. horse.

More than 1000 soldiers and horses from a brigade were rescued. There were more than 80 soldiers and officers left in the brigade, more than 300 cavalry from the cavalry regiment, more than 500 servants, more than 300 young and strong people, and nearly 2000 wounded. , mostly common people.

The wounded from this battle and some civilian soldiers were left behind, and the captured green camp soldiers were incorporated into the team, and some lightly wounded were left to guard the camp. Dongfeng Po continued to advance with a re-strengthened team of more than 800 troops.

Successively conquered the camps previously captured by the [-]rd Brigade that were guarded by the [-] Han Army Banners, and rescued the soldiers of the [-]rd Brigade, as well as [-] civilians, and [-] captive cavalry soldiers from the former Dajin Kingdom in Shanxi Prefecture. Allegiance to the Huaxia Army was incorporated into the cavalry.

At this time, the cavalry led by Dongfeng Po had reached 200 troops, the Huaxia Army had 500 soldiers, more than 900 servants, more than 300 captive soldiers, more than [-] civilians, and more than [-] artillerymen. He also seized a ten-pound gun from the Qing army.

However, after all, the Qing army had an absolute superiority in military strength before. Although after a night of chaos, many young and strong people escaped, and many troops of the township and regiment braves even dispersed a lot overnight. Not a few, the Mongolian cavalry encountered chaos. Although the generals of the Qing army tried their best to gather them together, they still died in battle and disappeared without a trace. There were also many people who could not return to the team. There are not many troops that can be used to fight back, just four thousand soldiers.

One thousand Mongolian cavalry, one thousand Manchu cavalry, five hundred Han army banner infantry, three hundred township braves, more than 2000 green battalion soldiers, and three cannons.

After all, Suo'etu has been fighting for so many years. After a night of chaos, until the dawn of the morning, he also organized a counterattack like Dongfeng Po, calmed the chaos, and gathered troops.

The first thing he did was to suppress the two cannon fodder camps, and killed all the chaotic people captured there. Then he ran into the soldiers and horses of the second brigade. The combat effectiveness of the battalion, Suo'etu led the Qing soldiers to fight bad debts with the second brigade all night, and both sides suffered heavy losses. The second brigade lost control of the troops, and Suoertu did not completely stop the chaos at night.

Later, the troops of the cavalry regiment suddenly appeared and dispersed the team. Now he is still gathering soldiers and horses, chasing the scattered Huaxia soldiers and horses of the second brigade.

The Second Brigade did carry out the task assigned to them by Dongfengpo to contain the enemy, but because the team was scattered and unable to convey orders, each department of the Second Brigade fought on its own. Fleeing, the brigade of soldiers and horses with Suo'etu had already run out of Huailai County, and they turned back at dawn, but there were not many soldiers and horses, only a hundred people, and Suo'etu brought nearly [-] soldiers behind Horse chase.

Suo'etu finally lost the second brigade when he entered Huailai County, so he could only go back to his own camp. The battlefield has been controlled by the Huaxia Army.

Hastily ordered the Qing military commander to take the soldiers and horses hastily gathered in the camp to attack the Huaxia Army. According to his thinking, the Huaxia Army will not have too many soldiers and horses. In his estimation, the Huaxia Army will definitely not have more than three Thousands of soldiers and horses, he knows the soldiers and horses in the Chinese military city too well. The Qing army has always liked to use spies to earn the gates of the Han people, and then took the opportunity to seize the city gates with elite troops. The cavalry rushed in to attack the Han people. Once broken, there will be chaos, so the Qing soldiers can often fight more with less and win quick victories.

However, he now encountered the No. 16 Division of the field army led by Dongfeng Po, who was head-to-head. Dongfeng Po saw through that the Qing army could not gather a large number of troops, so he dared to bring more than 3000 soldiers and horses to clean the battlefield by crushing.

Chapter 9 and One

"Fight," in the woods, six thousand soldiers and horses led by Dongfeng Po suddenly rushed out and squatted down, shooting at the soldiers and horses of the Qing army who ran over.

The soldiers and horses of the Qing army fell to the ground one after another, and the formation was in chaos. Then the artillery shells fell. Although they were solid bullets, they made the Qing army worse. The impact force still knocked the Qing cavalry off their horses, and then the shells did not stop. They swept across the head of a Qing soldier next to them, and hit the horse head of the cavalry behind. The horse neighed and its head was smashed to pieces.

Although there were only a few shells, it caused chaos in the Qing army's troops, and they all turned around and fled. The Qing army supervisor team killed more than a dozen deserters in a row, but they couldn't control the team. At this time, the Huaxia army cavalry attacked. Two hundred cavalry surrounded the Qing army from both sides, attacked with a row of firepower, and then rushed into the formation of the Qing army brandishing sabers, and the Qing army was defeated.

They all fled.

The Huaxia army chased the Qing army and rushed to the front of the Qing army camp before they stopped. The Qing army fled into the camp. The Huaxia army gathered their soldiers and horses. The Huaxia army fought more and more. Dongfengpo who followed behind found a brigade of remaining soldiers Horses, the remaining soldiers and horses of the second brigade, also captured some servants who wanted to flee the battlefield, and continued to drive them into the team, so the number of troops increased to more than 8000.

When the third brigade returned to construction, the Huaxia army surrounded the last camp of the Qing army, and a dozen cannons added up to bombard the Qing army camp.

Then the prisoners of war charged, the civilian soldiers charged, and the servants charged. Although several charges did not break into the enemy camp, they also consumed the enemy's ammunition and some troops.

After the cavalry came back, it had expanded to [-] troops, and some Mongolian cavalry also surrendered.

"Let's charge once, the whole army will charge and take down the enemy's camp in one fell swoop." Dongfeng Po rode on his horse, and ran past each team, shouting loudly, and the guards around him repeated his words loudly.

Nearly [-] infantry troops rushed to the enemy camp. With the support of artillery fire, the Qing camp was broken.

Suo'etu fled from the back of the camp with hundreds of people, leaving an army of [-] to [-] on the battlefield.

"The cavalry pursues," Dong Fengpo ordered the cavalry to pursue, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, collect the enemy troops, and guard the prisoners.

A day passed, and Dongfeng returned to the city with his team exhausted.

Hu Kui stood on the city gate and looked at him. After the two met, Hu Kui smiled and said: "Congratulations, you have won a big victory. The siege of Huailai County was lifted and the enemy was defeated."

Dongfeng Po said a little tiredly: "This time Suo'etu is over. We killed more than 3 Qing soldiers and horses, defeated [-] troops, captured more than [-] Mongolian cavalry, and more than [-] Manchu soldiers. There are more than [-] soldiers in the army banner, and even more than [-] soldiers in the green battalion. The enemy's cannon fodder is as many as [-] people, including young and strong, ordinary people, village warriors, regiments, servants, etc. "

"What should we do with so many prisoners? Now we don't have many soldiers in the pure Huaxia army. They are all prisoners and servants."

"That's right, the combined soldiers of our two families are only more than 3000 soldiers. The servant army has 3 soldiers, the captive soldiers have 8 soldiers, and the civilians have [-] soldiers. And the Qing soldiers captured this time have [-] soldiers." There are many people, not counting their cannon fodder soldiers, common people, township bravery, and regiment members, and there are [-] to [-] people in one fell swoop."

While the two were worrying, a messenger came in and said, "Report to the two generals that the [-]st Field Division has sent a brigade over, it is less than half a day's journey away from us, and it is passing through the mountains.

Commander Zhao Hu sent me to tell the two generals that this time the Qing army concentrated a total of 120 million troops to attack our corps. All three field divisions were besieged, and the corps headquarters was also besieged, so it was impossible to reinforce you all at once.

The Baggyalu Corps coming from the rear is advancing urgently. Now it has joined forces with our army and is speeding up. We have defeated the enemy in front of us. "

"Oh, what happened to General Wang Dong?" Hu Kui asked his third field division.

The messenger said: "General Wang Dong succeeded in attacking Tianjin County first, then was driven by the enemy and had to retreat to the pier, and then the No.17 Field Division of the Zhuge Corps reinforced them. Now they have recaptured Tianjin County and faced the enemy's capital in the east. Yanjing formed a siege situation, and the No.17 Field Brigade dispatched a brigade to reinforce our [-]st Field Division and relieve us. We have captured Zhuozhou County and held it. "

"In addition, the Eighth Field Division has set out from Datong Mansion to defeat the 20 Qing troops led by the enemy Duolong in Zhangjiakou, and is sending a field brigade to reinforce you."

"Oh, well, the situation has reversed, we can rest for a while." Dongfeng Po said wearily, leaning back on the chair.

The messenger glanced at Hu Kui, and then said: "General Hu, you were dismissed from the position of the commander of the First Corps because of your rash advance. The General Staff Department asked you to go back to report on your duties and return to the position of the head of the Guards."

"Ah," Hu Kui was a little dazed. He felt his eyes wet. This was a failure and a stain in his military career for so many years. It is a civilian job.