Chapter 111: The Battle of the Han River VI

Although most of the soldiers were killed in the scattered phalanx, the remaining soldiers quickly withdrew to the phalanx behind.

The formation began to be very loose, and there were large gaps between the small squares. But in this gap, the more you rush inside, the smaller the space is, and when the war horse can't run, the two sides are scuffling together for a while.

Under such a scuffle, when the two sides just started, the Qing army had the advantage, but as time dragged on, the advantage of the Qing cavalry was eroded little by little.

Before the modern cavalry, the cavalry was not very organized.

After such a battle, the cavalry fell into a situation of fighting separately for a while.

And although the Xia army suffered no fewer casualties than the Qing army, or even a little more, the organization of the Xia army was still maintained, under the command of powerful junior officers, no matter how many casualties there were, hundreds of households at all levels, captains, captains, and even chiefs, these officers all completed Liang Huafeng one after another.

To be honest, even Liang Huafeng himself was a little shocked.

"The world will return to summer." Liang Huafeng said secretly in his heart. He became more and more convinced that Zhang Xuan would definitely unify the world, even if the Qing army had the upper hand for a certain period of time in the future. The reason and simplicity are that he studied before, for the victory above the imperial court. Not too well understood.

But during this period of time in the Xia army, he became more and more aware of what victory was over the imperial court.

Zhang Xuan has always grasped three major things in Nanjing, the first is military rectification, the second is financial rectification, and the third is to raise military spending.

Because of the battle to attack Taiwan and the war between Korea and the current outbreak of Korea, it seems that Zhang Xuan spent most of his time on this. But in fact, Zhang Xuan is not like this, and fiscal consolidation is related to raising military spending. The two can even be said to be disposed of together.

But from the beginning to the present, Zhang Xuan has always adhered to the principle of only doing and not talking, and never making a big noise to deal with things, that is, military affairs.

From Zhang Xuan's accession to the throne, the fourth year of Wuxing to the first year of Zhaowu, within more than a year. Zhang Xuan has been silently promoting the reform in the army. Whether it is the empty amount in the air force. or adjusting the layout of the army and the placement of generals, Zhang Xuan adheres to a silent situation.

After all, everything in the army is a major matter, and Zhang Xuan's rule is based on his own descendants, with Cao Ying's various departments as wings, and various departments as allies.

This is Zhang Xuan's power base, Zhang Xuan seems to be expected, but he himself understands that some of these things are not as stable as outsiders think. Zhang Xuan's rectification of the army. It is based on two purposes, the first of which is to consolidate the foundation of Zhang Xuan's rule. The whole country's armies will be deployed to each other and mixed. At the very least, there should be no threat to Zhang Xuan's rule.

So such a thing, it is better to be quiet. This is one of the purposes.

The second purpose, of course, was to prepare for the Northern Expedition. Improve the combat effectiveness of the army.

And both purposes are mixed together. So Zhang Xuan has always wanted to be silent.

And the most important thing is to talk about martial arts.

Zhang Xuan divided the lecture hall into three levels, the first level was a crash course for junior officers, and junior officers were selected from the army for short-term training of two or three months, with military skills and ideological education of loyalty and patriotism. In a period of more than a year, three or five batches were cultivated in the army, and within these three or five batches. Most of them are in the camp in Jiangbei and the garrison in Nanjing.

And the battalions under Zhou Fuchen's command were all drawn from the two large battalions, so most of these people overlapped together.

The second batch is the senior class, that is, the senior generals, mainly the battalion officers, and Liang Huafeng, as one of the representatives of the generals, has also entered, but the battalion officers, as a solid force in the army, cannot leave for a long time, otherwise it will make people suspicious, so this batch of training is also based on short-term training.

The third batch is the normal general training, and from Zhang Xuan's lineage, young and potential generals under the age of 20 are selected, including Gao Yuanjue.

They go through four years as generals who have been formally trained.

This is what Zhang Xuan hopes to show his hand in the Northern Expedition, and the future will be more than ten years later. Replace today's veterans with them.

If this kind of short-term training wants to spread all over the army, it will also take time. Just like the financial consolidation, it also came according to the timetable of the Northern Expedition. When everything is done, it's time for the North. And Liang Huafeng's battalion is almost the future demonstration battalion of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Liang Huafeng was born in the Qin army, and he knows a lot about the army, and after entering the Qing army, he understands one thing more clearly.

The military system of the Qing Dynasty has too many similarities with the military system of the Ming Dynasty. Liang Huafeng is almost like a fish in water in the army, and has risen to a high position for several years. This is of course Liang Huafeng's own ability, but he also has his familiarity with the Qing military system, no matter what the Manchus say, how to get rid of it, but they can't get rid of one thing. That is the origin of the relationship between the Qing army and the Ming border army.

Liang Huafeng grew up in this military culture. Liang Huafeng almost instinctively thought that this was the case when the world was fighting. But among the Xia army, he felt a different military atmosphere. More important is the military training system.

The appearance of the martial arts hall almost shook Liang Huafeng's three views.

Prior to this, the appearance of a general was very occasional, either from the lower-level soldiers who relied on their own talents, or relied on the ears of the elders to teach face-to-face. However, the lecture hall announced some confidential tactics of war. Batches of cultivated generals.

Even if it's a year

Among them, there are two or three talented, but among the generations, there are also thirty or fifty usable generals, which is already better than the Qing army.

Now the generals that the Qing army relies on are some people, the heirs and relatives of the old slaves. Even so, since the death of Huang Taiji, the children of the old slave have also died one after another, especially the death of Duoduo, which made Dolgon obviously feel the lack of senior generals of the Qing army.

At this point, the Xia army was better than the Qing army.

Maybe you can't tell for a while, but if you fight for decades, the difference between high and low will come out.

There is also a large-scale training of junior officers, and there is a hard requirement that junior officers must read and write. This one-size-fits-all requirement certainly restricts many fierce talents. But with the cooperation of so many capable junior officers, Liang Huafeng was able to operate in a formation like showing off his skills today.

This is also the military generals that Zhang Xuan has been cultivating for so many years. The military system has taken shape.

may not be without flaws, but the Qing army encountered the current situation for the first time, and it lost its hand.

Azig saw it clearly, although his face was much calmer, but he would not make a fuss about the small defeat now, but after all, this is a small battlefield, thousands of soldiers have been killed, and most of the battlefield has been spread, even if the Qing army wants to increase troops, it will not be able to send it for a while.

Azig said, "Let them withdraw." ”

"Wow." Someone immediately responded.

Immediately, the flag was waved, and the Qing cavalry, who were charging into battle, breathed a sigh of relief.

Now the brigades on both sides are lined up to watch, and under the eyes of everyone, even if these Qing soldiers die alone, they will not retreat when they do not receive the order to retreat.

However, at this time, it is not necessary to retreat, so you can retreat.

When the two armies are fighting, sometimes it is better to die than to retreat easily, because once they retreat, they lose their grasp of all the situations. It's like now. Once the Qing army retreated, the only remaining breath was dispersed, and for a while it was in a trance, like a water dog and a lost dog.

And the retreating cavalry was only 300 cavalry, because the Xia army was approaching on both sides, so he could only turn around and go back to the camp of the Qing army. At this moment, Liang Huafeng's pupils shrank, and he suddenly saw two words: "Opportunity." His breath suddenly became rapid.

A green tendon kept beating in the neck.

In a matter of moments, he made up his mind. said: "Pass the order, abandon all formations, and charge towards the Qing army camp." ”

This order was used to reach the hands of every hundred households, and all the hundred households did not hesitate to rush to the north, and the attack and defense were changed for a while. It was so fast that it was overwhelming, and for a time it went from defending to attacking, from static to moving. Shocked everyone on the field.