Chapter 483: The Battle of the Eight Mile Bridge (3)
It was not only the Doluo County Wang Lubu who saw the scene of the collapse of the new army, but even the Yongzheng Emperor also saw such a scene, and almost everyone fell into silence.
The comparison between the two sides is almost as simple as an adult, educating a child by various means, but for Yongzheng, he is pointing at his nose and scolding him.
"Don't be afraid, don't run! Can't run! โ
All kinds of shouts blended together, and they hoped that the new army would calm down in time, which was of no use to other armies that were already in disarray. However, unlike the Eight Banners, there is no shortage of elites in the traditional sense among them, so they are also trying their best to save the overall situation.
"Daqing depends on us, we can't run anymore!"
With a murderous look on his face, the white-flaged leader Gotze pulled out his waist knife and slashed several of the routs before stopping the rout, while the remaining Qing soldiers also rejoined the queue in trembling, although they were still scared, but they also knew that they had no way out.
Compared with the chaos of the Qing army, the Fu Han army is like a sophisticated machine, rows of Fu Han soldiers stand in front, their faces are calm, even if someone is hit by the Qing army artillery from time to time, others will take the place and re-form a complete formation.
"Fire!"
A neat white smoke erupted from the muzzle of the Fu Han army, and the fine lead bullets swept through the Qing army's formation like a rain curtain, and a large number of Qing soldiers fell to the ground, their eyes looking at the sky in the distance, and gradually being completely shrouded in darkness.
Gรถtze, the leader of the white flag, was one of them, his chest was completely stained red with blood, and the strength of the whole person was quickly lost, and in the moment before he died, he remembered a lot, his Ama and his mother, as well as those relatives and friends who had embarked on the road of no return...... At last he tried to look at his brothers, only to see corpses all over the ground, filled with desolation.
"Whether the new army can win or not, it depends on the ...... of our horse team"
The horse team led by Seng Bao finally moved to the flank of the Fu Han army, but because the formation of the two sides had changed a lot compared to before the war, the Fu Han army he faced had changed from a division to a half division, and there were thousands of horse teams of the Fu Han army, which were eyeing the flank.
Looking at the artillery position of the Fu Han Army that was still firing, Seng Bao finally made up his mind, he raised the spear in his hand high, the big flag behind him was fluttering in the wind, and behind the flag, there were tens of thousands of Eight Banner Horse Team.
I have to say that the Eight Banners Horse Team has always been the elite army of the Eight Banners, and the 10,000 cavalry under black pressure are silent during the march, calm and firm, and all movements are indicated by the flags swaying up and down, left and right, without the slightest disorder, which makes people look very pleasing to the eye.
For the Qing army's horse team, their priority target is naturally the artillery position, but the artillery position is relatively far away, and the horse army cannot directly charge, so Seng Bao began to lead the army and entered the final adjustment stage, waiting for the order to charge.
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In the camp of the Chinese army of the Fu Han army, a group of Fu Han army generals are surrounded in front of a large sand table, which is the terrain of Zhili, and some small black and red flags are inserted, which represent the distribution of troops on both sides, of which the black one belongs to the Qing army, and the red one belongs to the Fu Han army.
Ning Zhongyi, Qian Ying, Uzhijing and others were standing beside Ning Yu, and everyone seemed to be looking at the sand table into a state of contemplation, and seemed to be waiting for something.
After a few moments, a major of the Fuhan Army walked briskly into the tent, holding a blank piece of paper in both hands, and passed it to Ujikei, the deputy chief of the General Staff.
"Their new army can no longer bear it, and the horse team in Zhangjiawan has now moved, and the target is our artillery position...... The 23rd Division was in the way, and according to intelligence estimates, in about half an hour, a charge on the artillery positions would be launched. With a somewhat solemn look on his face, Ujijing reported the information again.
Ning Zhongyi nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "The charge of tens of thousands of horse troops has been encountered once in Anqing before, but now this time it is different...... The rest of the Qing court's horse teams will also move. โ
Everyone nodded, Zhili is a plain land, suitable for the horse army to charge, and the battle of Anqing Mansion at that time is completely different, and more importantly, the Qing army will never let the horse team of Seng Bao charge alone, and the corresponding means will also be there.
In the current battle, the Eight Banners New Army did not show extraordinary ability in terms of actual combat strength, in terms of the assessment of the General Staff of the Fu Han Army, the current New Army Eight Banners is at most the level of the Fu Han Army several years ago, perhaps after many major wars, they can grow up quickly in the war, but at least in the current war, it does not pose a real threat, the key is still the Ma Army.
From the current Fu Han army, the biggest weakness is the horse army, not only lack of horses but also lack of enough skilled cavalry, especially these things need time to accumulate, so until the time of the Northern Expedition, the Fu Han army had 11,000 cavalry, of which the real cuirassier was only 3,000 people, and the remaining 8,000 cavalry belonged to the cavalry infantry.
Therefore, when to use these three thousand cuirassiers, only the emperor himself can decide, and even the other generals of the Privy Council do not dare to speak casually on this issue.
For a while, everyone fell silent, until Ning Zhongyi felt that he should say something, but Ning Yu raised his hand with a somewhat confident smile on his face.
"Since the guests are here, we have to do something, otherwise wouldn't it be for Yongzheng to look down on?"
Ning Yu's finger pointed at the little black chess piece of Seng Bao, and sneered: "Let them in, let the twenty-third division go up, tell Xie Qingchun, drag the horse team for two hours, and I will give them all the rewards!" โ
As soon as they heard this, everyone's eyes couldn't help but light up, the casualties suffered by the 23rd Division in this battle would definitely be very large, but this was also an opportunity to prove itself, and compared to other divisions with lower numbers, this was already a very valuable opportunity......
As for Xie Qingchun, a veteran, he has also entered everyone's sight, as long as he can withstand the Qing army's horse team, there will be no less viscount in the future......
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Any movement on the battlefield has already worried everyone's hearts at this time, and even more so for Yongzheng, who held a clairvoyant mirror and watched Seng Bao's horse team charge, his face fell into contemplation.
In addition to the charge of the monk and the horse team, Yongzheng also saw the follow-up troops of the Fu Han army, and was launching a counter-encirclement in the direction of the monk and the horse team.
The ministers of the Military Aircraft Department and the king of Shuncheng County, Xibao, surrounded in front of the sand table, and the other generals of the Eight Banners of Shun were also nervous and did not dare to come out, quietly waiting for Yongzheng's decision.
"If you ignore it, it will be difficult for the Wang Lubu Department of Duoluo County to continue to hold Zhangjiawan, once Zhangjiawan falls, the Fu Han army can completely surround my Bali Bridge from the flank, and when the time comes, it will only make our army more passive."
Wang Xibao of Shuncheng County was young and vigorous, and he still started from the problem itself when considering the problem, so he quickly put forward his own opinion, that is, to arrange Dingfuzhuang and the Qing army horse team stationed at Bali Bridge to directly attack the Fu Han army.
In Xibao's view, the Bali Bridge has lost its defensive value at the moment, and the original plan was to use the Bali Bridge to attract the main force of the Fu Han army to attack, so as to hit the strategic purpose of the opponent, which is itself a bit whimsical - the other party is not stupid, they will not pass through such a narrow bridge deck stupidly.
Of course, Xibao didn't dare to say these words, because it was Yongzheng's idea to guard the Bali Bridge itself, and I have to say that laymen's thinking about war is always a little bit taken for granted, after all, the enemy is not so stupid.
Naturally, the others didn't dare to talk, and Yongzheng's face was also a little blue, and he snorted coldly: "Guarding the Bali Bridge is to defend the main road to Tongzhou, so naturally you can't give up easily......." He first redeemed a few words, and then said softly: "The Qing army in Dingfuzhuang is going to move, and the new army in Tongzhou is also moving, so you have to drag the other side in......"
In today's era, the command of war is not as many people think, can be adjusted in detail according to the enemy's situation, if you really force it to do so, then wait to lose the battle, just like a genius strategist who commanded the machine gunner to move forward ten meters in the future, was defeated in the war.......
For the commanders of both sides, what they can do is to judge the situation, slowly put down the chess pieces in their hands, and then in the long wait, get a plausible news, and then judge according to the news, put down a new chess piece, but the problem is that no one knows whether this choice is correct.
Therefore, as a commander-in-chief, it is impossible to release all the chess pieces at the first time, otherwise after the other party dissolves it according to the situation, then he will have no way to intervene, and can only stare dryly and watch the situation gradually deteriorate.
Although Yongzheng doesn't know military strategy, he understands this truth, so when he has to make a move, the best way is to pull the other party together to deal with it, and resolve the opponent's possible hole cards by fighting hard power.
Hearing Yongzheng's words, Xu Yuanmeng was taken aback immediately, and he said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid this is too risky........"
On the contrary, it was Shun Chengjun Wang Xibao, but he quite agreed, he glanced at Xu Yuanmeng, and said lukewarmly, "The scholars don't understand war, if you don't deal with the monks' horse team, not only will the monks' attacks be resolved, but they will also be completely surrounded, which will hurt morale too much, and the battle in the future will not be easy to fight......."
Xu Yuanmeng frowned, he didn't know much about military affairs after all, so he had to sigh softly.
Yongzheng saw that no one had any intention of objecting, so he nodded immediately, and arranged a large number of guards to pass on the news, and when the news was gradually transmitted, he saw that nearly 100,000 people on the entire Qing army defense line began to move........
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The changes in the Qing army's defense line and the array of the Fu Han army did not hide from the eyes of the monk Bao, he probably understood in his heart, I am afraid that this is the emperor has noticed his movements, and he is a little excited at the moment, once this battle is successful, the status in the emperor's heart will be different in the future, and his heart is a little hot for a while.
"For the sake of the Qing Dynasty, rush!"
The winter sun seemed a little warm, and there was a slight hint of it, and the monk leveled his spear, his legs slammed into the horse's belly, and the horse under his crotch fired like a sharp arrow after being forced.
Behind Seng Bao, there were rows of Eight Banner Horse Army, who also launched a charge at this time, and the target was the artillery position of the Fu Han Army three miles away, and among them, there was also an infantry division of the Fu Han Army, that is, the 23rd Division of the Fu Han Army.
When thousands of troops and horses galloped, the impact force caused by it was by no means comparable to the infantry, and the momentum of the tens of thousands of horse troops charging alone was enough to scare normal people into peeing their pants, and for the 23rd Division of the Fu Han Army facing its edge, this time was an extremely difficult test.
In fact, it is not that no one questioned this long back in the days when the General Staff was working out the program. After all, it is a bit risky to use a new division to defend the flank of the artillery position, and if they cannot withstand the breakthrough, although there are other divisions that can make up for it, the artillery position will definitely suffer great losses by then.
But in the end, Ning Zhongyi still made a decision and put the 23rd Division in this position, the reason is that Xie Qingchun, the commander of the 23rd Division, was once a regiment commander of Ning Zhongyi's 2nd Division, and Ning Zhongyi's understanding of it finally made the 23rd Division shoulder such a heavy responsibility.
In the face of the charge of the Qing army's horse team, Xie Qingchun was not half afraid, he held the command knife in both hands, quietly looking at the horse team charging in front of him, this is not because he has been scared stupid, but all this has been prepared for a long time, just wait for the Qing army to throw themselves into the net.
I saw that behind Xie Qingchun, as many as hundreds of new rockets were pointing diagonally at the sky, and next to each rocket, there was a soldier of the Fu Han Army, their faces were a little dignified.
In the Battle of Anqing that year, the newly developed rockets at that time defeated the cavalry of Nersu, killed thousands of cavalrymen, and even caused Kangxi's last resort to fail, so the rockets were also highly valued within the Fu Han Army.
Later, after the Westerners came to China, some of the corresponding gunpowder formulas were improved, and particle gunpowder was also applied to rockets, and the airtightness of the rockets themselves was improved, so the newly developed innovative two-year rockets were greatly strengthened in range and power.
For the Northern Expedition, the General Staff attached great importance to the important strategic role of rockets, so almost every division carried out relevant equipment, such as the 23rd Division, which needed to defend the artillery position, and even distributed a full 2,000 heavy rockets, which can be called an incomparably extravagant extravagance.
The rumbling sound of horses' hooves became more and more urgent, the cavalry of the Eight Banners wore cotton armor and iron helmets on their heads, they held spears in their hands, and bows and arrows were hung immediately, only to see that an arrow formation was presented, and in the center of the arrow, it was the monk Bao himself, the cavalry beside him waved the yellow flag, and the momentum gradually became stronger and stronger.
Almost everyone thinks that the thin horizontal formation of the Fu Han army in front of them can only choose to retreat in the face of the iron hooves of the Qing Dynasty.