The ninth and fortieth chapters are constantly depressed
Seeing the North Korean cannon fodder rushing into the Qing army's main line and causing chaos, both Gonzalez and Huang Ding laughed happily.
After laughing for a while, Huang Ding asked in a consulting tone: "Is it time for the cavalry to go up?"
Gonzalez nodded and decisively adopted a risky tactic: "To fight the drowned dog, not only the cavalry, but also the men in front of us will start trotting. Let's kill them together." Faced with the fleeting fighter opportunity, Gonzalez said:
Adopted a decisive battle attitude.
Due to the capture and requisition in Korea, the Marine Corps now has more than 500 cavalrymen. However, the cavalry must first form a team, so the artillery is dispatched first.
The artillerymen led the horses to tie up the loaded artillery, then led the horses around half a circle, and then drove the horses towards the front of the formation. They ran to the front of the formation through the passage between the square formations, and then led the horses to the front of the formation.
The horse turned half a circle, pointed the muzzle of the gun forward, then used the prod to compact the ammunition in the barrel, lit the match, and fired towards the melee between the Qing army and the Korean cannon fodder.
This round of shelling completely caused the North Korean cannon fodder to lose the courage to continue fighting. With a "boom", all the North Korean cannon fodder ran around on the battlefield like headless flies.
As soon as the sound of cannons fell, five hundred cavalrymen of the Daping Army lined up and charged from the right side of the phalanx. This charge made the entire battlefield even more chaotic. Even the phalanx that was steadily moving forward began to stop and assassinate
The Korean cannon fodder close to the phalanx was raised to prevent them from rushing into the formation, but instead confused the formation of the Marine Corps.
Seeing that the Daping Army had already moved closer, Duduo also squinted his eyes and fell silent. After a while, he sighed: "Hey——! Retreat! Retreat ten miles. Let the cavalry cover behind you, and don't mess around.
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With their current chaotic formation, the Qing army simply cannot resist the approaching Marines. Knowing that they are at a disadvantage and still resisting is not brave, but foolish. So take advantage of the moment
Those North Korean cannon fodder were still on the battlefield, and Duduo took the initiative to withdraw one after another.
It is true that success is cannon fodder and failure is cannon fodder. The more than 10,000 North Korean cannon fodder like headless flies also blocked the advancement of the Marine Corps. When the Daping Army finally dispersed them, the Qing army had already withdrawn from the battlefield and headed towards
Withdrew from the rear. Seeing that the Qing cavalry was waiting closely behind, they also felt that the pursuit speed of the phalanx could no longer keep up with the Qing army. Gonzalez and Huang Ding no longer pursued reluctantly, and called the gold at the right time to withdraw their troops, ending the day's fighting.
In this day's battle, it can be said that the Qing army suffered a very depressing defeat. They had no time to start a head-on battle with the Daping army, but they were defeated in the "battle" with the Korean cannon fodder. Especially those Korean cannon fodder were still Qing troops.
Arrested and driven away, this really feels like shooting oneself in the foot!
Inexplicably, the Qing army lost more than a thousand soldiers and horses. However, the Marine Corps only spent dozens of artillery shells, which can be said to be unscathed. Especially this time, the Qing army brought six guns to attack Seoul.
The general artillery was eventually abandoned by the Qing army during the retreat. This caused the Qing army's long-range firepower to suffer a great loss. Moreover, once the Marine Corps was in trouble and retreated to Seoul to defend the city, the Qing army would have no means of attacking the city.
This also put the Daping Army in an invincible position.
For this reason, after three days of rest, Duduo was eager to lead the army and advance forward again. He wanted to completely defeat the Daping Army in the field and prevent the Daping Army from having a chance to retreat.
But at this time, the third batch of 6,000 Marines had landed in North Korea. This force marched quickly to Anzhou and joined the main force led by Huang Ding in Gonzales.
As a result, the Qing army became at a disadvantage in terms of military strength. For this reason, Duduo had his troops stationed on the spot to prevent the Daping army from moving north; at the same time, he urgently reported to Jierharang and asked him to send reinforcements quickly.
Reinforce their own troops. So the two armies also came to a stalemate in Anzhou.
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Duduo in North Korea was depressed, but Abatai who entered the customs was even more depressed.
On May 27, Abatai, who received Dorgon's urgent order, led 50,000 Manchu and Mongolian allied troops to enter the pass from Yu County (now Zhangjiakou). The direction of the march was directly towards Beijing City. Due to the main force of the Daping Army,
The troops were fighting everywhere, and it was impossible to arrange enough troops on the Great Wall defense line, so the Abatai tribe did not encounter any resistance when entering the pass. However, the beacon fire on the Great Wall also spread to all directions. As soon as the smoke rose, the entire
On the front line of Xuanda University, all organizations mobilized and began to completely fortify the walls and clear the fields to prevent the Qing army from taking food locally.
Since the Great Wall defense line has become undefended, the Daping Dynasty began to organize exercises to strengthen the wall and clear the country at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Now, as soon as the beacon fires are seen in Beizhili and Shanxi, officials immediately gather the people scattered in the countryside.
Among the various cities and military garrison villages, except for the common people in the deep mountains, if anyone strays outside the city, they will be killed without mercy. And the grain and grass outside the city are also transported into the city, and even the crops that are about to be harvested in summer are harvested as much as possible, and those who are too late to harvest are not harvested.
Burning them all would prevent the Qing army from getting a grain of food.
As soon as Abatai led 50,000 Qing troops into the customs, he felt that he could not move forward. Because Pegasus Town had just swept the Monan grassland a few months ago, so the losses of the Mongolian tribes were great. Pegasus Town captured
The number of cattle and sheep exceeded 100,000, and the number of cattle and sheep that could not be carried and killed was no less than this number. Therefore, when Abatai entered the customs this time, they did not bring much food and grass supplies.
Of course, when nomadic people entered the Central Plains, they never had the habit of bringing more grain and grass. They always took grain from the local area, plundered all the grain, grass and wealth along the way.
But this time the actions of the Daping Dynasty were beyond the Qing army's expectations.
Last year, the entire northern region suffered from repeated military disasters. The Ming Army, Dashun Army, Qing Army, and Runing Army all fought and killed each other, causing the northern region to have no food harvest and the land was barren for a whole year.
In order to resettle these victims, before and after the establishment of the Daping Dynasty, the government of the Daping Dynasty strictly implemented the "Three Decree". The victims and refugees were gathered in various military villages and villages for collective production. Food was also transported to various cities and villages.
, as rations and seed grain for the people.
In order to prevent bandits from intruding, each military camp also formed a village guarding team. Although these village guarding teams were not equipped with any firearms, their training was based on the phalanx of the Runing Army.
Therefore, when the Abatai tribe entered the customs this time, they actually could not find food and grass in the countryside. If they wanted to obtain it, they had to attack well-defended cities or villages.
On the third day of the sixth lunar month, Xuanhua's first army garrisoned Zhuangzi.
Guan Qiguo looked at the more than 10,000 Qing soldiers outside Zhuangzi. They were so densely packed that he actually couldn't count them at all. At this time, he felt a little timid in his heart, but as the highest official in Zhuangzi, judging from his expression, he was still relatively
Calm.
"Can Zhuangzi hold on?" Guan Qiguo asked Shi Zhen beside him.
Shi Zhen is a veteran of the former Runing Army. He was discharged with an injured left hand, so he is now an official in charge of military training and public security in the township.
Shi Zhen carefully probed her head, looked at the Qing soldiers outside, and then whispered to Guan Qiguo: "Open in half! We have no firearms, and we only have dozens of hunting bows, and they can only be used at the top of the city.
It’s time to fight to the death. But Zhuangzi’s wall is too short, and it doesn’t take much effort for the Tatars to build ladders. If the children use all their usual skills, they can still withstand the Tatars. But they have never been in battle, so I
I’m afraid that they’ll be weak when the time comes and they’ll be in some trouble.”
The military garrison Zhuangzi where Guan Qi was located was the largest nearby, so as the head of the township, he personally took charge of the defense of this village. However, this village also supplied the entire township with rations, so there were two thousand grains and grass in the village.
There were many stones. And it was these two thousand stones of grain that attracted the Qing army who was short of food.
However, there are also many village protection teams in this village. After gathering people from several nearby villages, there are now more than 2,000 village protection teams in the village. Moreover, Zhuangzi is not a city after all, and its scope is much smaller, so the two
Thousands of men and horses are more than enough to guard such a small village.
But the disadvantage is that there are no long-range weapons and the city walls are too low. This time the Qing army entered the pass, pursuing high-speed mobility, so there were many horses, and many soldiers rode one person, two or three. But they
They didn't bring any siege weapons, and they didn't even bring many craftsmen, so it was basically impossible to attack the tall fortified city. But now that they saw this military garrison with only low walls, they would attack it at all costs.
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The Qing army is now on the verge of food shortage. Although it is summer and there are many birds and beasts in the countryside, they can temporarily sustain themselves through hunting. But 50,000 soldiers and horses cannot survive in one place even if they eat horse chews.
How long? And the Qing army entered the customs, is it just for hunting? This seems a bit funny no matter how you look at it.
Therefore, the current Qing army is bound to win over Zhuangzi, who governs Qi State.
After listening to Shi Zhen's words, Guan Qiguo smiled bitterly. It seemed that the difficulty this time was very difficult! So he then ordered: "Try your best! If you can hold it, I will give you credit. If you can't hold it, I will give you credit."
, let’s go to the Chung Martyrs’ Shrine together.”
Shi Zhen nodded, stretched out his injured left hand, and then said to Guan Qiguo: "Sir! I have arranged for dozens of cronies to enter the granary. The door of the granary is now locked. As long as Zhuangzi is broken, they will
Set fire to it immediately, and the Tatars will never get a grain of food."
When Guan Qiguo heard that Shi Zhen was so desperate, he smiled again and said to him: "It's good to be prepared. Please explain this to all the team members who protect the village! If the village is broken and there is no food, even if they are
If they want to surrender, they and their whole family will be killed by the Tatars."
