Chapter 83: Five Battles and Five Victories
On the one hand, the People's Army is constantly eliminating the big landlords who are evil under its rule and uniting the ordinary people, and on the other hand, the People's Army is also marching forward on the battlefield.
With the capture of Haifeng Qianhusuo by Hu Zhuang Yiyi Road People's Army on September 11, and the capture of Jiesheng Qianhusuo by Zhou Yiyi Yiyi People's Army on September 12, and by September 13, Fangnan Yiyi Road People's Army and He Yan Yiyi People's Army successively captured Jieshiwei Headquarters and Pinghai Qianhusuo.
Compared with several other people's armies, the Fangnan No. 1 Road People's Army has the largest number of troops and the strongest strength, with as many as two companies in the firearms unit alone, and the ordinary cold weapons unit is a full regiment, but when attacking the Jieshiwei headquarters, the number of casualties of the People's Army has exceeded 100, and in the other three battles, the casualties of the People's Army of all roads are only a few dozen.
It's not that Fang Nan won't only fight, but that compared with other thousand households, the Jieshiwei headquarters has the most elite soldiers, and it also has a cavalry of more than 100 cavalry.
The south above the battlefield also let a cold weapon unit disguise itself as a chaotic people, attracting the Ming soldiers of the Jieshiwei headquarters to come out and attack, the Jieshiwei headquarters has not yet received any information from the People's Army, even if some people feel that the sudden appearance of the chaotic people has a problem, in the end it still attracts nearly a thousand Ming soldiers to come out to encircle and suppress, including the cavalry.
The People's Army, disguised as a rebel, was almost overtaken by the Ming cavalry during the retreat, and then the firearms unit intervened and wiped out the Ming cavalry.
The cavalry was wiped out, the Ming army did not retreat, but bravely rushed to the people's army array under the stimulation of the heavy reward of the commander of the Jieshi guard, and was finally defeated by the firearms troops.
Fortunately, the People's Army attached great importance to the Jieshiwei Headquarters, and with two companies of the firearms unit as the main force, it finally captured the Jieshiwei Headquarters after paying more than 100 casualties.
After capturing the Jieshiwei headquarters, the People's Army of Fangnan 1st Road still has a goal to take, that is, the Jiazimen Qianhusuo more than 50 miles east of the Jieshiwei headquarters, but the battle of attacking the Jieshiwei headquarters made the People's Army soldiers on the Fangnan 1st Road very tired, and the Jieshiwei headquarters has not been completely controlled.
Therefore, after the People's Army of Fang Nan Yi Road rested for a day in Jieshiwei, on September 14, Fang Nan left a battalion of the cold weapons unit and two platoons of the firearms unit, and then took other troops to attack the Jiazimen Thousand Households, without any accidents, and before the end of September 15, the Jiazimen Thousand Households were captured by the People's Army led by Fang Nan.
Not counting the small-scale battles of attacking Yong'an County and Haifeng County and exterminating the large landlords, in the battle against the Ming Dynasty's Weisuo Army, the People's Army won five battles and five victories, although it did not reach the point of severely inflicting heavy losses on the Ming Army, but it also bought more time for the People's Army to control the occupied territory and expand the army.
The KPA is still weak and should not engage in siege warfare for the time being, and all kinds of battles that will cause a large number of casualties on their own side should be carried out, but in order to temporarily turn the passive into active, the KPA can only take the initiative to attack and destroy the Jieshi Weiming Army closest to the KPA territory first.
Otherwise, after the news of Yong'an County and Haifeng County being captured by the People's Army spreads, in just a few days, the People's Army will be attacked by the Jieshi Weiming Army.
On the day that the Fangnan 1st Road People's Army captured the Qianhusuo of Jiazimen, the news that Yongan County was occupied by "anti-thieves" or that Haifeng County was "anti-thieves" had already spread out of Yongan County and Haifeng County, which was something that the People's Army could not completely prevent.
If it is confined to the county seat, then the People's Army can control more time, but the People's Army still needs to exterminate the big landlords who do evil outside the city, and also unite the poor people outside the city.
Perhaps there are poor ordinary people who want to get rich who bring news of the People's Army to the outside world, or it is possible that large landlords who have not been exterminated by the People's Army secretly send the news to the outside world.
It only took a few days for the government offices of Yong'an County and the surrounding counties of Haifeng County to get the news that Yong'an County or Haifeng County had been captured by "anti-thieves" and report it to Guangzhou layer by layer, but then it took a relatively long time to dispatch troops to encircle and suppress the People's Army.
Unlike sending a letter on a fast horse, knowing that the strength of the People's Army was not weak, with tens of thousands of troops, and even the entire destruction of the Jieshi Wei Ming army, it was impossible for the governor of Guangdong to send only a few thousand Ming troops to encircle and suppress it, and according to the usual practice, the Ming army could not gather less troops than the enemy's.
The governor of Guangdong wanted to mobilize tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of troops from the whole of Guangdong to encircle and suppress the People's Army, but the army needed to prepare logistics for the start, and the speed of the army's march was relatively slow.
The People's Army marched about 60 miles a day, not counting the cavalry, and the Ming Army's marching speed was definitely not as fast as the People's Army.
When the Ming army arrives outside Yong'an County or Haifeng County, it will take half a month to be faster, and a month to be slower.
What's more, Fang Nan never thought that the People's Army would stick to Yong'an County and Haifeng County, waiting for the Ming army to come to the door, after all, the territory of the People's Army was too small, and the population was too small.
The People's Army should expand the scope of its activities as much as possible, take the initiative to attract the Ming Army, and "the enemy advances and retreats, the enemy is stationed and disturbs us, the enemy is tired and we fight, and the enemy retreats and pursues us." Guerrilla warfare and movement warfare are the most suitable tactics for the People's Army.
After capturing the Jiazimen Thousand Households, Fang Nan would not stay here for long at all, and in a few days, the Jiazimen Thousand Households would be completely controlled, the Ming army prisoners would be ideologically educated, and some people would be absorbed into the People's Army.
In the two battles carried out by the Fangnan 1st Road People's Army, only the 100-strong Xiandeng Battalion made great contributions, and charged ahead during the pursuit and siege of the city, so more than one-third of the casualties of the Fangnan 1st Road People's Army were in the Xiandeng Battalion, and you must know that the 100-odd people who first arrived in the camp were less than one-fifteenth of the total number of the Fangnan 1st Road People's Army.
Not all the soldiers of the People's Army are suitable to enter the Xiandeng Battalion, which was originally composed of a large number of bandits who were born of hard labor, and the bandits have been living a life of licking blood on their heads, and they dare to fight more than the ordinary soldiers of the cold weapon unit who have only been trained for a few months, and many of the Ming army prisoners who have undergone ideological education are suitable to join the Xiandeng Battalion.
On September 18, three days after capturing the Qianhusuo of Jiazimen, Fang Nan led most of the People's Army to leave the Qianhusuo of Jiazimen, leaving only a battalion of the cold weapon unit stationed here.
A battalion stationed in the Qianhu Institute of Jiazimen, the main task is not to defend this small city, the strength of a battalion is not much, and they are all cold weapon troops, and the strength of a thousand households of the Ming army is not an opponent.
The main tasks of the remaining camps were to continue ideological education for the remaining Ming army captives, to unite the poor people around the Qianhu in Jiazimen, to raid the large landlords who had become evil, and to reconnoiter the movements of the Ming army.