One hundred and fifty second chapters Dingyuan battle twenty-six
While the Eastern Route Army was delayed in Grivus due to the riots caused by civilians, the westward detachment made rapid progress, marching 450 miles in seven days and more than 60 miles in one day. [] Such a rapid marching speed, on the one hand,
Thanks to the rapid advance of the 1st Cavalry Regiment, but also thanks to the Russians' decades of continuous road smoothing work, their results have greatly accelerated the advance of the Cavalry Regiment. If all goes well, the 1st Cavalry Regiment will
The regiment will arrive at the city of Ergun six days in advance. If the Russians knew that their decades of hard work in the Far East had succeeded in creating an enemy, they would probably feel very depressed and distressed, complaining about why their ancestors worked so hard to smooth the road for the enemy.
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Qi Zhuang, the commander of the West Road Detachment, led the cavalry regiment forward, leaving the infantry and civilians behind and being commanded by Zuo Mingnan and Qian Lin of the 2nd Infantry Regiment. Zuo Qian and Zuo Qian rode back and forth every day.
Keep in touch with Qi Zhuang. While urging the infantry regiment to advance, the two of them also arranged for civilians to accompany the army. Personnel from the Transportation Department and the sergeant followed. The laying of the post station required a huge amount of manpower, and the small strongholds at the transportation points
The construction also had to be done quickly, but Zuo Qian and the two were interesting. They left everything to the Transportation Department and the sergeant. They only transferred civilian workers to them when they complained about the lack of manpower, and they didn't ask anything else.
. This made Xu Ping of the Transportation Department and Guo Fei of the Military Officer so angry that they almost cursed their mothers. However, they were military officers, so this matter was not theirs to ask in the first place. If they were angry, it would be their own fault.
He had no choice but to do it by himself. Fortunately for Xu Ping, he was born as a guard of Zhao Qiang and had no idea of doing military affairs or civil affairs. Guo Fei was anxious because he had always been a military officer before, even though his position was empty-handed.
The battalion officer, but he is the leader of the first battalion after all, is now assigned to the sergeant of the General Administration Office, doing some logistics work, watching Qi Zhuang, Hu Wang, Zuo Mingnan, Wu Fengqiu, and Ma Long at the same time.
He and others successively served as military commanders, leading troops and horses to conquer everywhere, but he could only stare blankly, unable to help but not be impatient. Guo Fei didn't care about thousands of households, hundreds of households, etc. What he cared about was that he could not lead troops to kill the enemy.
As a soldier, of course, he has the majesty on the battlefield. For this reason, he "cryed" to Zhao Qiang, saying that he was an old brother, so why did he have to do these things in the sergeant? They were not allowed to do it yesterday. As a result, Zhao Qiang was ruthless
After giving him a severe scolding, he revealed to him some of the future framework and functions of the sergeant. At this point, Guo Fei smiled happily and repeatedly blamed himself, saying that he was "short-sighted and has no foresight." Finally, under Zhao Qiang's help, Guo Fei was satisfied.
Leave Yask and go to Guri River City to take charge of the laying work of the West Road Detachment Traffic Station.
On July 30, Zhao Qiang, who was in Yask, received information on the progress of the westward detachment sent back by Qi Zhuang and signed by Zuo and Qian. Qi Zhuang himself was illiterate, and this information was sent by Qian Lin, who was literate.
The letter contained only one sentence: "Our unit is making good progress. Please don't worry about it, division commander. The mission will be completed by the end of August."
Because he was worried that when the first cavalry regiment arrived at Ergun City, the city defenders would not be able to get out and the cavalry regiment would not be able to capture the city. However, Qi Zhuang became impatient and used his cavalry to attack Ergun City. Zhao Qiang was replying to the letter.
He warned Qi Zhuang in an extremely stern tone that after his troops resisted the city of Ergun, if the Russian army was prepared, they would seize the city quickly; but if the Russian army was prepared, they would carry out siege operations, clear out the surrounding tribal residents and people, and wait for the main force of the infantry.
When the enemy arrives, cavalry must not attack the city.
After the incident, Zhao Qiang was still a little worried. He wrote another letter to Zuo Mingnan, asking them to speed up the march. Regardless of the cost, they must narrow the gap with the cavalry regiment and shorten the time to catch up with the cavalry regiment in time.
Three days ago, the East Road detachment encountered civilians making trouble in Grius, and Hu Wang had reported it word for word. Zhao Qiang agreed with Hu Wang's decision and sent people to chase the East Road detachment.
Wang's decision was affirmed and he was asked to suppress it with iron blood if he encounters similar situations in the future.
We are short of people, but our Guan Ning army would rather be short of people than those troublemakers. This is what Zhao Qiang asked the soldiers who went to the East Road detachment to deliver orders to Hu Wang.
Zhao Qiang was very satisfied with the progress of the West Route Army. Apart from worrying that Qi Zhuang would do some reckless behavior, he had nothing to worry about. Zhao Qiang also reported the situation of the East Route Army's suppression of civilians in Grius to the West Route Army.
Let them also pay attention to whether the civilians are dissatisfied with Guan Ning's army. If there are any signs, they must take action to eliminate them first.
However, this point is superfluous to Zhao Qiang, because the reason why the civilian husbands made trouble in the East Route Army was related to the coach Hu Wang's personal attitude towards the civilian husbands. If his goodwill was not too overflowing, the civilian husbands would not have any sympathy.
The contempt of the East Route Army. In the West Route Army, let alone gathering to make trouble, the civilians did not even dare to say a word during the march, because they were afraid of Guan Ning's army and their commander-in-chief, who would say rudely,
Qi Zhuang's reputation in the West Route Army is much "stronger" than that of Lu Xiazi in Gulihe City.
After the situation of the East and West Second Route detachment was reported, Zhao Qiang, who had been worried for the past few days, calmed down a little. Although the situation of the East Route Army was not ideal, it was not too bad. It was originally based on infantry, and the largest number of troops was here.
The strategic purpose is to create another base area for Guan Ning's army and complete the offensive momentum against the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the direction of Jilin and North Korea. To accomplish this strategic purpose, the East Route Army will not just occupy Duolunchan, but also occupy Duolunchan.
Establish a bridgehead south of Zen and in the direction of Vladivostok, complete the effective occupation of that land, and convert the population and wealth in the area into the war power of the Guan Ning Army to cope with the upcoming battle against the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, the East Route Army simply cannot
It is possible that the East Route Army will participate in the third phase of the Dingyuan operation again. At least until next spring, the East Route Army will not have any major wars. Everything will focus on construction. If the East Route Army cannot effectively rule the East next year, Zhao Qiang will even consider
In the early stages of the war against the Qing Dynasty, the Eastern Route Army was not used. When the time was right, the Eastern Route Army was sent out as a surprise force to attack Shengjing and dig up Huang Taiji's grave!
If you want to beat him, you have to hit him big and hard. The beating will make Kangxi's body hurt and he will vomit blood! Let Kangxi taste the pain of Emperor Chongzhen!
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The 2nd Cavalry Regiment, under the leadership of captain Ma Long, dispersed in teams, with the main force concentrated in the direction of Heilongjiang to cut off the Russian strongholds such as Dujigensk, Udysk, and Tugursk.
These Russian strongholds also have some Cossack cavalry, but Zhao Qiang believes that with the strength of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, although it cannot carry out large-scale group operations, it is more than enough to strangle the Russian envoys who communicate with each stronghold. Again.
Ma Long was also an old soldier, and the First Cavalry Brigade under his command had been in battle several times. Even if he encountered a hundred-man Cossack cavalry, even if he could not defeat the enemy, he would still have to worry about self-protection.
The situation reported by Ma Long also made Zhao Qiang feel optimistic, because the Second Cavalry Regiment had successfully made the Russian troops in Dujigensk and other places deaf and blind. The Russian troops in these places were suddenly attacked by unknown troops on the lines of communication.
After the cutoff, the Cossack cavalry was sent out several times to wipe out Ma Long and the others, but Ma Long and his officers were extremely smart. When the Cossacks were in large numbers, they would withdraw without contact with them. When the Cossacks were small, they would gather several times more than their opponents.
After several times of this, the Russian troops in several places huddled up and began to prepare to hold on, instead of sending out the few Cossack cavalry groups to be swallowed up by the opponent.
"When the enemy advances, we retreat; when the enemy retreats, we advance; if there are many enemies, we will fight; if there are few, we will annihilate them." Zhao Qiang summed up the combat method of the Second Cavalry Regiment in sixteen words, and immediately issued it to the entire division, together with the local public security
Each officer in the brigade was given a copy, requiring them to study hard and apply it flexibly when facing the enemy. At the same time, these sixteen-character guidelines also became a learning item for the officers of the training brigade. In order to describe these sixteen characters in detail, Zhao Qiang took the time to report to Ma Long
Several battle cases from the past were combined with the strategic thoughts of great men of later generations. I personally gave a speech to Wu Si who came to Yask, and then asked him to go back and convey it to the instructors intact, and then the instructors then conveyed it to the students.
Educate so that every soldier can understand it thoroughly and be able to carry it forward when he serves as an officer at all levels in the future.
The construction of Dingyuan, Gulihe, and Yask has been carried out in an orderly manner under the successive arrangements of the people. After more than half a month of governance, most residents have begun to accept that the rulers have changed from Rakshasa people to Guan Ningjun.
Reality. After Zhao Qiang refused to consider setting up an official government office, Wei Ji and Liu De of Shouyi City once again wrote a letter asking Zhao Qiang to select the location of Guan Ning's army as soon as possible so that the general headquarters could be moved there.
And carry out supporting construction. This time, Zhao Qiang did not refuse because he was already considering it.
The headquarters of the Guan Ning Army is not only convenient for communication with the occupied city, but also the area it is located in must be sufficiently convenient. To sum it up simply, the base selected is not only the headquarters of the Guan Ning Army, but also the location of the entire Guan Ning Army.
The core of the military territory, if it can be compared, is as important as the city of Beijing to the Manchus, and Zhao Qiang fully agrees. Therefore, after Zhao Qiang visited Dingyuan and Yask on the spot, he finally decided to locate the headquarters of the Guanning Army in Yask.
.The reason why Guli River City is excluded is not because the residents there are highly Russianized, but because the Guli River is too close to the north, making it inconvenient to control Ergun in the south and west. Dingyuan City is located in its own city.
But it is too small and is not suitable for the influx of large numbers of people and military and political institutions. In comparison, among the areas currently controlled, only Yask is the most suitable as the headquarters of the Guanning Army. If a major victory is achieved against the Qing Dynasty, Zhao Qiang will have no doubt
, the Guan Ning Army headquarters will move forward to Jilin and Shengjing. When the situation is good, it is not impossible to establish the country in Shengjing.
The advantage of Yask is that it is located on the Jingqili River. Down the river is the area controlled by the East Route Army. The area is also a plain. There is the natural barrier of Waixing'an Mountains to the north. It is not too far from Shouyi City to the south.
After the road is simply leveled and paved, there will be no communication problems. If there is a police presence in Shouyi City, Yask will be informed within a few days and can quickly mobilize garrisons from various places for support. In addition, Yask radiates to the entire Heilongjiang Basin.
In the planned battle against the Qing Dynasty, the Battle of Yaksa that will take place next year is the best opportunity for Zhao Qiang to reap the benefits. And if Yask becomes the base camp of the Guan Ning Army, then when Zhao Qiang leads his troops to fight, the headquarters of Yask can
Provide the most effective logistical support.
Yask is Yask. Having made up his mind, Zhao Qiang immediately sent an order to Shouyi City and asked Wei Ji or Liu De to come here to implement the construction of the city of Yask.