Chapter 55: The Battle of Luoyang IV

The front lines are already entangled. Although Cao Zongyu is very confident in the ability of the soldiers under his command.

But he didn't want to test them with the vacillation of the Chinese army.

Cao Zongyu immediately ordered and said, "Anyone who retreats will be killed." Then he moved a Taishi chair and sat on it, looking like he was supervising the battle.

Cao Zongyu acted like this, and the soldiers below naturally knew what to do.

For a while, the two sides fought fiercely in front of Cao Zongyu.

Cao Zongyu also became the main direction of attack of the Qing army.

For a time, the scuffle in front of Cao Zongyu's battle became the focus of the battle between the two sides. However, above the width of hundreds of steps, Cao Zongyu filled in one battalion after another.

The Qing army also sent the Liaodong Han Army and the Ganshan Green Battalion one by one.

At this time, after the explosion, the Xia army was not in an array at all, even if it was barely in a column, dozens of people, or more than a hundred people formed a small formation, and the formation of the sentry battalion was too late at this time.

At this time, Cao Zongyu had to thank Xu Du.

There is a special course in the martial arts hall to fight small formations, and Xu Du is the professor of this course, of course, Xu Du does not have time to lecture in Nanjing, but there are not a few people under Xu Du who are proficient in the Mandarin Duck Array.

In particular, there are some disabled old people in the Zhejiang army, placed in the martial arts hall, although there is no future at all, but in any case, it is also a good food, plus the teaching of disciples, not to mention the peach and plum all over the world, but can also establish contacts in the army, which is beneficial to future generations.

It's also a great place to go.

Among these old pawns, the oldest had even seen General Qi Jin.

They have been immersed in the Mandarin Duck Formation all their lives, and it is not without that no officer is proficient in this course in the lecture hall, but they changed the Mandarin Duck Formation, mixing long and short weapons and firearms, and formulated the standard of combat in the army.

It is probably that the cold soldiers are in front, the firearms are in the back, the cold weapons are the bunkers, the firearms are the attack, the formation is fighting, the big formation is the big knot, and the small array is small.

Never fight alone with the Qing army.

Overall, this set of fighting methods is not yet mature. But it was still effective, after the Xia army was dispersed, even if there were only two people, they had to lean together and fight according to the principle of cold weapons in front and covering the firecrackers.

One or two people can't show anything.

But there are more than a dozen people. It shows the difference.

Although this approach has too many flaws, it is vaguely systematic. Even in the midst of the melee, there is a context to be found.

The two sides bit each other to the death, and they did not fall behind in the melee.

Not to mention, Cao Zongyu smashed into it as if he didn't want money, battalion by battalion.

Because caught in the melee, a battalion lined up

It is impossible to go in, and behind him is where Cao Zongyu's handsome banner is, and there is no room to retreat and line up at all.

Only one battalion could be dismantled, with a hundred people as a team, and one team broke into the melee.

In this way, it is not good for Xia Jun.

Because in the melee, the Xia army wanted to suffer a lot, hand-to-hand combat, although the Xia army also had a good performance in the battle with the Qing army, but it was never a small casualty.

But Cao Zongyu was willing to bear the casualties.

Cao Zongyu is the closest to Zhang Xuan's military philosophy, and when facing the enemy, he must win by surprise. But it's the positive that really determines the outcome of the game.

Zhang Xuan adheres to the idea of suppressing people with national strength.

I'd rather die three or five Xia soldiers than replace one Eight Banners soldier.

It's not that the Xia soldiers are inferior to the Eight Banners. It's that both sides can't afford it.

Cao Zongyu led an army alone, and he also had the title of privy deputy envoy, so he had the right to know anything in the military affairs of the Xia Dynasty, and of course he knew that the method of military training created by Zhang Xuan had been rolled out throughout the country.

Almost at the time of the Northern Expedition, Zhang Xuan had already ordered the commanders of the provinces to recruit strong men of appropriate age into the army, and according to the population size of each county, there were more battalions and fewer posts.

Zhang Xuan has just checked the household registration of Tianmu, and the household registration mastered by each county is a real number.

But the South was already more populous than the North, and now every county in the South has recruits, adding up to hundreds of thousands.

Although the weapons are incomplete and the training is not perfect, it is possible to use them to replenish the losses at the front.

Cao Zongyu had already scattered the county soldiers of Nanyang Prefecture and replenished them to the battalions with heavy losses, although these battalions were still not as good as before after they were replenished, but it was okay to undertake secondary tasks.

It only takes a few battles to get back to the old look.

But what did the Qing army look like?

The soldiers that the Qing army can really fight are all veterans.

Whether it is the old pawn of the former Ming Dynasty, or the old pawn of Liaodong, or even the old department of the camp, and so on. From a common man to an elite soldier, it takes at least more than a year to train in the Qing army, and it will only take more than a year to kill people and get bloody.

Although there are a large number of scattered pawns among the people in the north. But compared to the endless stream of soldiers in the Xia Dynasty, it can't be compared at all.

If Zhang Xuan's opinion is that he would rather use a few Xia soldiers to fight for one Eight Banners soldiers. In Cao Zongyu, there is another play, that is, this kind of war of attrition, even if it suffers a little loss. Cao Zongyu is also willing to do it.

Of course, he will face many orphans and widows, but when fighting, Cao Zongyu is absolutely calm, because Ci is not in charge of the army.

Everything has to come after victory.

The greatest pressure to do so is not the front, but the rear. Accurate is the quality of the presiding cabinet.

It costs money for recruitment, money for training, money for preparing weapons, grain and grass, and even money for pensions

I haven't slept for months, and the first thing I do when I open my eyes is to think about money, and after I close my eyes, I think about gunpowder, grain and grass.

There is no need for Zhang Xuan to speak, Zhang Zhen has already begun to sell treasury bonds.

However, these Cao Zongyu don't care, he just needs to win.

Originally, the two sides were in a scuffle, and Zilharang was still happy.

He has always believed in the ability of Qing men to fight hand-to-hand.

When he first fought the Ming Dynasty, he was always a disciple of the Eight Banners, wearing heavy armor, and rushed into the Ming army, and the Ming army did not collapse.

Now he believes that this battle has become a hand-to-hand battle. The next situation is naturally to force Xia Jun into Luoshui.

See Xia Junyi** sent reinforcements. He also sent the people around him.

It's just that this fierce battle lasted from morning to noon, and then into the afternoon.

After more than three hours, he still didn't listen.

What Zilharan had hoped for never happened.

This battlefield is like a bottomless abyss, an invisible mouth, and there are several stubbles of people who enter it, but there is no movement.

All the effects are only on the ground that is raised. It was raised by a corpse. The battlefield that is being fought more and more, because of the large number of people, the battlefield naturally spreads to both sides, and it was originally a battlefield hundreds of steps wide, but now it has almost eaten all the battlefields in the south of Luoyang City.

The Qing army sent over to support in the morning was still elated and wanted to make meritorious contributions, but the Qing army sent over at noon already had a solemn face. By the afternoon, the Qing army sent over was already in two wars, and they almost wanted to go first.

Even Zilharang had to send his own headquarters, that is, several Niu Lu of the Zhenglan Banner, to show the people below that they would be treated equally.

It's just that even so, the Eight Banners elite smashed into it without making any splashes.

The feeling of uneasiness in Zilharang's heart grew stronger and stronger.

An ominous cloud loomed over my heart. But it was impossible for him to pull it down.

Because the capital he invested was too great.

Although there were victories and defeats between the Qing and Xia before, the Qing army was never convinced by the Xia army, and there were also statements in the army that despised the Xia army, thinking that the Xia army would only play with firearms.

He has always despised hand-to-hand combat for the Xia army.

But now that he can't even fight hand-to-hand combat, Zilharang is worried that from now on, the Qing army may have to get a fear of summer.

He knew this influence too well, when Dongyu raised his army, in fact, some of the elite of the Ming army were not much worse than the Eight Banners. It's just that Wan Wan was infected by the morale of the fear of the Eight Banners in the army, and many times it collapsed as soon as he fought.

And the Eight Banners also played with spirit, only the Eight Banners were less than 10,000, and they were invincible.

Now this famous name is buried under Luoyang City, and the aura of the Eight Banners has retreated. The Manchu Qing Dynasty, which had no other in the world, immediately transformed into Jianzhou Wei.

Who in the world can surrender?