Chapter 642: One Attack and One Defend Complement Each Other
Wu Xiang, Wu Sangui, Zu Kuan, Zu Dabi, etc. had a total of 6,000 cavalry, plus 6,000 cavalry from Zu Dashou's original garrison in Jinzhou, and 3,000 cavalry in the Dalinghe garrison that surrendered in Chongzhen's fourth year, and defeated 3,400 of Zhang Chunbu's containment.
With nearly 20,000 cavalry, this former Guanning Iron Cavalry should be the strongest fighting force in the Han army, and it can be defeated against the Tartars.
Reuse the Han army to guard against the Han army, the red gang is full of self-confidence, he did not hand over the Guanning Iron Cavalry to anyone to lead, but concentrated around himself to call, Ge Bush Xianchao Ha was responsible for supervising the army.
This time, only 2,000 cavalry were left to participate in the defense of Jinzhou, and all 17,000 cavalry followed the red flag and the yellow flag to fight.
At the beginning of April, the Qing army, which had finished spring ploughing, formed an unprecedented cavalry team, of which there were 40,000 children of the Eight Banners, 60,000 Mongolian tribes, and 20,000 traitor Guanning Iron Cavalry.
Coupled with the 40,000 Yu Ding, Qiding, and Baoyi minions who took the initiative to follow the army to the Ming Dynasty to rob, the total number was close to 160,000, the horses exceeded 170,000, and the elite cavalry was known as 200,000.
At the same time, the traitor generals such as Zu Dashou, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Zhang Cunren, and Shi Tingzhu drove more than 200,000 Goryeo sticks that had just been busy with spring ploughing to reinforce and build fortifications, and waited for the offensive launched by the "Red Banner Army" at no knowing when and where.
Emperor Chongde strictly ordered all the traitor generals to find that the "Red Banner Army" was only allowed to hold their positions when attacking, and did not seek to take the initiative to attack and kill them, but only to take advantage of the geographical advantage to drag down Huang Han's men.
The Nu chieftain believed that this arrangement of one attack and one defense complemented each other, and the Qing Empire would definitely be able to obtain a large number of people, materials, gold and silver, and large livestock from the plundering of the Ming Dynasty in the first year of Chongde, and quickly improve its national strength.
Half a month after the army left Shengjing, the unrelenting Red Gangsters were still thinking about breaking through directly from the Great Wall of Jizhen to the land of Gyeonggi, because this would save time and effort and have an incalculable political effect.
He was not worried about startling the snake, thinking that even if Jizhen had no chance to take advantage of the temptation, it would not hurt, and the Ming State should strengthen the defense of Jizhen, which would be more conducive to the Qing army to attack the border walls of Xuanda and Shanxi Town for more than a thousand miles.
The Red Gangsters sent Duoduo and Dolgon to lead two white flags, Manchurian and Mongolian coalition forces, to try to attack Xifengkou and Dushikou to explore the reality of the "Red Banner Army".
The slave chieftain was scheming, using two hundred banners to try to attack the Jizhen defense area, if he could break through the men and horses that consumed the two Dolgon brothers, and broke Huang Han's promise to the Ming court, the next should be a good show.
Huang Han, who has been in Pingliao for five years, will definitely not escape the blame, and if he is not arrested and imprisoned by the emperor, he is afraid that he will also be pushed to the end.
If the Jizhen defense area where the "Red Banner Army" is stationed is really tight, impeccable, and not tight, it is enough to prove that the "Red Banner Army" has left heavy troops to operate the 800-mile border wall.
Huang Han's total strength was so much, and it was natural to favor one over the other, and it was natural for the Qing soldiers to try to attack, and it was natural to strengthen the strength of the Jizhen defense line again, which undoubtedly reduced the pressure on the defense of the Great Qing State.
The Red Gangsters can rest assured that they can boldly detour another one or two thousand miles, and they might as well break through from the Hetao area and fight until Xi'an kills Luoyang and Kaifeng can enter Huguang.
The Liukou of the Ming Kingdom were able to kill Shaanxi, Shanxi, penetrate Huguang and kill until Fengyang, the central capital, threatened the city of Nanjing, Nanzhili, could it be that the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry with combat effectiveness more than ten times stronger than the Liukou were not as good as those thieves?
When the slave chieftains gathered, they told their own analysis, not only the traitors made a big fuss, but even Dolgon, Abatai and several other brothers secretly admired it.
Most of the generals of the Eight Banners were murderers with well-developed limbs, and after hearing the many pros and cons of Fa Ming, they rolled up their sleeves and asked for battle.
At the end of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Huang Han killed Chao Pichang, the chief military officer of Tianjin, with the sword of Shang Fang, and sentenced more than a dozen Tianjin generals to labor reform ranging from three to ten years.
A general military officer said that if he killed, he would really show his head to the public, and the generals in Tianjin were much more honest, and they were all trying their best to do their jobs well, and strive to get the forgiveness of the captured generals, and they really did not blame the past.
Tianjin Wei has an important port, which is the closest to Beijing, and has the best road conditions in Daming at present.
There are 12 supply stations with post station functions and the nature of highway service areas operated by Sifang Express along the way, which are convenient and fast to transmit military information, transport food, and put troops into the army.
It is one of the plans to run Tianjin Wei into a strong fortress like Tiger's Den City, and never give up.
With power, talent, and money, there is naturally no disadvantage in doing things.
Huang Han took the seven eunuchs of the supervising army to hold a meeting in Tianjin Wei to mobilize the army, and more than seventy percent of the generals of the "Red Banner Army" participated, because there was no need to confront Jiannu, more than eighty percent of the generals of Dongjiang Town and Denglai came, and all the generals of Tianjin Wei attended.
Reform is the trend of the times, for this people to block the killing of the Buddha and the killing of the Buddha, Dongjiang Town, Denglai, Tianjin Wei people and horses will be completed within a few days, all those who do not meet the standard of regular soldiers will be transferred to the Wei Army, and all the regular soldiers will immediately be mixed with the "Red Banner Army".
The "Red Banner Army" no longer needed to hide and tuck, and Huang Han announced in a high-profile manner that it would reorganize and expand the units to be based on battalions.
A fully manned army battalion is roughly three thousand generals, and under normal circumstances, there are one cavalry thousand generals, one infantry thousand generals, and one infantry artillery logistics mixed thousand generals.
The cavalry number does not include the scouts in the battalion and the officers who have war horses, and a cavalry commander has three generals, and the full number is one thousand and eighty. One has three hundred flags, one has two flags, one has five small flags, and there are 56 chief and deputy flag officers.
An infantry commander has three commanders plus a hundred infantry archers, the full number of which is one thousand one hundred and ninety-six, and each of them has an ironclad warrior who uses cold weapons such as swords, shields, and spears.
This configuration is because the foot archers are difficult to practice, and they can't abandon their roots to seek the end, and the ready-made foot archers in the original Ming army can't let them change to practice their own guns, but set up a separate hundred generals.
Although the bow and arrow lag behind the firearm, the infantry archer can basically shoot ten arrows with effective damage in a row, which can better make up for the gap between the musketeer's reloading, and the arrow is slightly different from the lead bullet line, and the enemy's defense surface will increase a lot.
Sometimes it is necessary to complete a sneak attack, and dozens of armor-piercing cones can be fired to silently turn several enemies into hedgehogs, avoiding the sound of gunfire and gunfire from alarming a radius of several miles.
The standard configuration of the mixed thousand generals is four hundred general artillerymen, one general engineer, one hundred general propaganda soldiers, one general commander of the battalion headquarters guard musketeer, one general soldier directly under the army, and one hundred general of the scout cavalry team......
The total strength of a battalion plus a field hospital did not exceed four thousand.
Battalion officers are held by generals with various ranks, such as commanders, governors, commanders, generals, guerrillas, and so on.