Chapter 147: The World of Blood and Fire (4)

87_87379 "How could there be such a huge number of casualties?" ”

150,000 people went up, only 70,000 came down, and 80,000 casualties were too huge for Luo Rongguang.

"The naval artillery is too powerful, the small Japanese side is decisive, in addition to casualties, there should be many people who retreated, I have ordered that Jinmen and Beitang open the net to collect people, and it should be able to collect tens of thousands of people."

The whole line was pressed, there was no supervising team behind, many Zhenwei troops ran away, and the guns and ammunition in the Dagu dock were piled up, but there were not enough people in Li Dacheng's hands.

After this battle, how to win people's hearts is still a problem, Haikou is left with nine warships, but the price paid by Li Dacheng is inevitably greater, three battles in a row, more than 200,000 horses, less than 100,000 remaining, and nearly half of the strong men and wounded, the next blocking battle is not easy to fight, I hope that the Beitang area, the rear of Jinmen can gather a certain number of routs, right?

In the next three days, Li Dacheng and the foreign devils were settling the hearts of the army, what the foreign devils were doing, Li Dacheng did not know, he made a promise here, in the future war, the Zhenwei army would never take a step out of the trenches and was only responsible for defense, and also issued an additional one million salaries, and let the entire army take turns to go to Jinmen to rest and recuperate, which caught the crumbling military heart.

But after the First World War, the military spirit of the Zhenwei Army was scattered, which is also an inescapable reality.

In order to gather people's hearts, Li Dacheng also added a new military regulation, as long as you can kill a foreign devil in the resistance war, you can go to the rear of the army to be a supervising team, and the whole army has become a supervising team, and it will rotate again.

In this battle, the losses of guns and artillery were barely compensated. Many foreign goods are sent down as military salaries, and now the personnel gap in Dagukou is about 50,000, which means that Li Dacheng now has 50,000 guns in his hands and no one uses them.

Fortunately, the losses of artillery were not very large, and there were more than 7,000 of the more than 10,000 people in Luo Rongguang's hands. With Luo Rongguang under the command, the support artillery fire of the Zhenwei Army is still preserved, so the battle can continue to be fought, otherwise Li Dacheng doesn't know how to fight the next battle.

After suffering a blood loss, the foreign devil has also become extremely conservative. One by one, they are settling the beachhead, and it seems that Dagukou is still their main direction of attack.

The front line of the five major batteries is still the front line of Li Dacheng, looking at the Japanese-Russian coalition forces that are still reinforcing the offensive in the distance. Li Dacheng could only smile bitterly, and there would be no chance to drive them into the sea in the future......

Compared with the spirited Japanese-Russian coalition army, the morale of the Zhenwei army is much worse, even if it takes turns to fight, the Zhenwei army has not been able to hold the five forts of Weizhen Haimen for five days. One day, the Zhenwei army paid more than 10,000 casualties, and the defense line retreated to the area of the dock and station.

Old Maozi compared to the little devil. It's still a lot worse, after the First Sino-Japanese War, the little devil has a sense of superiority out of pride against the Qing army, even if the positional battle is difficult, the momentum of the little devil is still very high. Li Dacheng also wanted to defeat their arrogance, but he couldn't do it with Zhenwei Army alone.

With the retreat of the front. The sabotage also began, ripping off the entire railway. Blowing up the entire wharf, tearing down, blowing down a building, the decline of the Zhenwei army is uncontrollable, although most of the people have experienced the war, but the people's hearts are absent, the best of a blocking battle, the Zhenwei army repelled five charges on the position, many positions, are one or two charges to change hands, in this process, the Zhenwei army and the Japanese and Russian army casualties, roughly two to one, under the attack and defense of the Zhenwei army still can not take advantage, this is the gap between the familiar battlefield and the unfamiliar battlefield.

After calculating the distance and time, the Zhenwei army will almost lose more than one kilometer of land in a day, and the current position is about forty kilometers away from Jinmen, I hope that during this time, the Japanese-Russian coalition forces will not launch a general offensive.

Li Dacheng is waiting, waiting for the Zhenwei army to become familiar with the war, the harsh military law is useless during this time, so he can only wait for the Zhenwei army to slowly become familiar with the war, and get out of a group of veterans, otherwise no matter how many people are killed, they will not be able to arouse the morale of the army.

In that decisive battle, more than 10,000 people fled to Beitang, and Beitang is now a lonely place, and the more than 10,000 Zhenwei troops Li Dacheng will be cheap.

There are about 30,000 people who fled back to Jinmen, and in the past few days, the Zhili Prefecture has brought in more than 100,000 strong men, and 50,000 strong men are moving to the front line.

The current exchange of fire between the two sides is basically still tentative, and after suffering a few losses, the side has also begun to face up to the Zhenwei army, and people are fighting extremely cautiously during this time, such a battle is by no means easy to fight.

Li Dacheng also defended the position once with a ghost head knife, facing small Japan, the battle was difficult, compared to marksmanship, not more morale, than the number of Zhenwei army does not have an absolute advantage, except for defeat, there is no other choice, not a step to defend the position, the veterans are filled in, and the future battle will be even more impossible to fight.

In the face of the coalition forces with Japan and Russia as the main force, it is already commendable that the Zhenwei Army can maintain the situation of losing and retreating.

A little temptation by the other party is not beneficial to the Zhenwei army, for two reasons, one is that the coalition forces are waiting for reinforcements, and the other is that the coalition forces are preparing for a general offensive.

Fortunately, every time they retreat, it is the Zhenwei army that takes the initiative to retreat, although there are losses in soldiers, but in terms of firearms, it does not decrease but increases, if there is enough reserve in this way of playing, Li Dacheng can drag them to death little by little, but time is also very precious for the coalition army, and the general attack is only afraid that it will come soon.

The position around the military grain city is still being reinforced, but the atmosphere on the opposite side is a little abnormal, Li Dacheng is very afraid, and the opposite side will give him a sudden general attack, once it is dispersed, it will be fought in Jinmen again.

Fall back! Taking the initiative to withdraw to the position of the military grain city that has not yet been reinforced, this retreat is more than ten miles, and it is also necessary to reintegrate the Zhenwei army in exchange for space for a certain amount of time, otherwise it will be difficult to block the general attack of the Japanese-Russian coalition army on the plain.

Li Dacheng took the initiative to retreat, which should be correct, which bought five days for the Zhenwei army, the previous intelligence showed. Little Japan's backup has arrived, and people are also integrating troops! If it drags on in front, the battle of the military food city will not be easy to fight.

The remaining more than 5,000 shells of the Dagu Fort were buried by Li Dacheng in the area of the Military Grain City. Li Dacheng also wanted the coalition army to suffer a loss, and then in the future, he had to withdraw to the area where the Huangzhuang Annihilation War was fought. Fighting a field battle is not good for the Zhenwei army, and there are villages and towns all over Huangzhuang, and when you retreat there, you can only rely on the villages to fight a blocking war.

The evacuation of the personnel over there was a little slower, and the area around Huangzhuang was too close to Jinmen, once the battle started in Jinmen. The villages and towns in the Huangzhuang area will inevitably suffer, because there are too many villages and towns there, and they did not dare to carry out the previous river blocking and releasing water.

The decisive battle of the military grain city was initiated by the Japanese-Russian coalition forces. The 5,000 shells were detonated on the battlefield, causing the Japanese and Russian troops to suffer bloody losses, but also attracting the frenzied retaliation of the Japanese-Russian coalition forces.

More than two hundred artillery pieces. After a day and a night, the 30 artillery pieces left in the military grain city were all destroyed, and no one on either side of the fight was pleased. The Japanese and Russian troops suffered more casualties than before, but they were no better. The 150,000 Zhenwei Army, which had just been reorganized, was reduced by more than 60,000 troops. Again crippled.

When retreating from the military grain city, the battle was much more miserable, after dozens of contacts in a row, the other party also touched some of Li Dacheng's ideas, the Zhenwei army retreated, the Japanese-Russian coalition army chased behind the buttocks, all the way to Huangzhuang, ash heaps, Zhenwei army was also discarding corpses along the way, more than 80,000 horses started from the military grain city, and lost more than 20,000 yuan in Huangzhuang.

After withdrawing to Huangzhuang, Li Dacheng also realized that something was wrong, and let more than half of the Zhenwei army forcibly wrap the people near Huangzhuang to retreat to the Jinmen concession, Li Dacheng simply gave up the Huangzhuang area, and after digging and blowing up the surrounding river embankment, Li Dacheng left a vast ocean and withdrew all the remaining Zhenwei troops to the vicinity of the Jinmen concession.

The decisive battle on the beachhead, the battle for the fort, and the decisive battle of the army grain city, the three major battles that are remarkable, Li Dacheng has the advantage in strategy, but in terms of losses, the Zhenwei army is far greater than the coalition army, and the three major battles took more than 20 days, when Li Dacheng withdrew from Huangzhuang to Jinmen, he promised a month of time, but did not do it, and there were still four days left for only a month!

Li Dacheng estimated that the losses of the coalition forces were at least 60,000 or more, and such casualties were not small for the coalition forces.

"Lord Belle, my words are full, all the way down, we can't delay for a month."

In the lobby of the Zhili Government Office, Li Dacheng and Tingjie sat face to face, Gui Shun sat above, and the officials of Zhili sat below, the war results were not as expected, the morale of the Zhenwei army was a major reason, when the military grain city retreated, Li Dacheng's negligence was also not a small reason, after being pursued, the Zhenwei army had no fighting spirit at all, which was the most important reason why Li Dacheng abandoned the Huangzhuang area.

Now that the war has burned near Jinmen, a large-scale retreat is about to begin, and if you admit your mistake, it is just Li Dacheng's opening remarks.

"I don't care!

You say, how many foreign devils have the Zhenwei Army defeated in the past month? ”

Although it is a pre-choreographed play, Gui Shun's words have a lot more momentum than before, which is good!

"More than 60,000!

However, the battle losses of the Zhenwei army are also around 200,000!

Lord Belle!

The war is about to burn to Jinmen, and the people of Jinmen should retreat north, and if they don't retreat, they won't be able to leave! ”

In the hasty withdrawal of the Huangzhuang Zhenwei army, leaving a lot of heads and tails, the first battle of Tianjin is about to start, the evacuation of the people of Tianjin, Li Dacheng did not dare to wait, before the foreign devils came, evacuate the vast majority of the people, one to rest assured, the other to let the Beijing division gather a lot of people, even if you have to fight the defense of the Beijing division, hundreds of thousands of men, more than 200,000 guns, it is enough to fight a death.

"What do you think? Ben Baylor believes in the second master, what do you say? ”

Less than a month of war, so that Li Dacheng was a little out of shape, lack of sleep, irregular food and housing, and also personally participated in the war to boost morale, Li Dacheng estimated that he had lost at least ten pounds, and his eyes were deep-set, after Gui Shun finished speaking, he glanced at the lobby, and there were some gasping sounds.

"Second master, can you be sure of the battle in Jinmen?"

As the head of the officials in Zhili, Ting Jie opened his mouth, and the master opposite him is really a master now! If you don't admire it, no matter how many people and horses he has lost, he can defeat the 60,000 horses of foreign devils, he is the master!

"You can fight! But can't hold it! After the battle, the Jinmen Gate was completely destroyed! ”

"Can't talk?"

"I'm afraid that the foreign devils won't be able to negotiate if they don't hit Jingshi!"

"So...... In this case, Tingjie is willing to play the court and relocate the people of Jinmen! ”

"It's not a matter of not being able to play, if the people of Jinmen don't want to be slaughtered by foreign devils, it's best to retreat to Jingshi, foreign devils have suffered heavy losses all the way, and in this battle, foreign devils will inevitably slaughter the city.

Go, I can still block for ten days and a half months, if I don't go, the Zhenwei Army will not care about the people of Jinmen, and the Jingshi is more important! ”

Baojingshi is still the people of Baojinmen, Li Dacheng understands very well in his heart, with the mood of foreign devils now, if he hits Jingshi, he will inevitably slaughter the city, Jingshi cannot be slaughtered, this is the bottom line, if the people of Jinmen do not go, Zhenwei Army can only take the first step.

Don't talk about the future, now, while everyone is talking, some of the elite men and horses of the Zhenwei army are evacuating to Cangzhou Mansion and Shandong, and they have taken away more than 10,000 brand-new Mauser, millions of bullets, and ten unassembled eight-life-six Krupp guns, and twenty-five brand-new seven-life-five Krupp mountain guns, which is Li Dacheng's own confidence, even if he is gone, this is also the confidence of the Zhenwei army's forces.

Wang Wu and others also withdrew to Cangzhou Mansion together, the battle of Jinmen, even if it was a street battle, I am afraid it would not be able to support it for too long, until now, the two sides involved in the war are already familiar with each other, and the morale of the Zhenwei Army is not successful, and people are afraid that they have already figured it out.

"So what are you waiting for? Withdraw! ”

In the end, it was Gui Shun who made the board, although Li Dacheng was still there, but for the war, Gui Shun was really afraid, and the Zhenwei army died in a month, and the small 200,000 people died, such a war was beyond Gui Shun's cognition.

With Gui Shun's decision, the retreat of Jinmen is regarded as having an official order, more than 10,000 bannermen who survived the war, more than 10,000 bannermen who have been guarding Jinmen, plus 15,000 veterans of the Zhenwei Army, and a force of 40,000 people, were given to Guishun by Li Da, and Guishun could not stay any longer in the boundary of Jinmen.

The retreat of 40,000 Zhenwei troops and 50,000 Zhili Zhuangding can also cause panic among the people of Jinmen, and the retreat is easier, and the remaining errands are Li Dacheng's more than 60,000 remnants, Qi Shiduo's 50,000 Zhenwei troops, and Cao Baofu's more than 20,000 Lao Caoyong.

In this way, there are nearly 150,000 people in Jinmen, at least 100,000 strong in Beijing, and the main force of the Zhenwei Army, which has a great relationship with the Boxers, stayed in Jinmen in a bloody battle.

As for the remnants of the Zhenwei army in Jinmen after the war, there are many places to go, the three eastern provinces and Mongolia can't go, as long as Gui Shun can open up the joints in the imperial court, the Zhenwei army will not be destroyed! (To be continued).