Zheng Kaicheng looked at the Tartar cavalry on the horizon with a telescope and frowned. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

There were about 15,000 Tartars, all of whom looked like vest soldiers. In order to delay the Northern Expeditionary Army, the Tatar Qing paid a bloody capital and sent the most elite vest soldiers to carry out harassment tasks. These armoured soldiers come and go with skill, and they always put pressure on the prisoners who transport grain and grass.

These vest soldiers are really no match for Zheng Kaicheng's 10,000 Broken Capture Division riflemen. What is really difficult is the maneuvering of these vest soldiers. At this time, these vest soldiers took off two layers of heavy armor and had a much higher mobility than the Breaker, constantly harassing the Breaker.

The Broken Division was always entangled by the Tartar cavalry, and it took another fifteen days to send grain and grass to the front.

The 34,000 soldiers and horses on the front line had been waiting for Zheng Kaicheng's food supplies, lying in the area of Sacha Hewei and unable to advance. If Zheng Kaicheng's grain had to travel on the road for another fifteen days, the progress of the entire Northern Expedition would have to be slowed down by fifteen days.

And this is just a simple grain shipment. I don't know how many times this kind of grain transportation will be carried out in the future, if every time it is entangled by the Tartars like this, then when will the Northern Expedition go?

It's early July, three months before the windy north winds of October. If the Northern Expedition dragged on until October and did not bear fruit, then the army of the grandfather of the country would have to turn back to the south and retreat all the way to Jinzhou.

In fact, the gentry Jiangbei Army in the south was also attacking Shandong, and there was really not much time for the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Zheng Kaicheng was pondering there when he heard a desolate conch in the distance. Then a large cloud of smoke and dust suddenly rose in the distance, and the sound of the rolling hooves of more than 10,000 war horses galloping came from a distance.

Zheng Kaicheng waved his hand helplessly, the trumpet of the Chinese army sounded, and the 10,000 soldiers of the Broken Capture Division gave up the long snake formation when they were advancing, and instead formed a circular formation, holding rifles in their hands, and protecting all the grain and grass in the middle of the circular formation.

After about twenty minutes, the Tartar armourers gradually galloped in from a distance. Seeing that the soldiers of the Broken Division here were neatly arrayed and distinctly formed, the vest soldiers did not approach the front of the Broken Division. More than 10,000 Tartars were like a gust of wind, separated from the front of the Breaker for a mile and a half, like the left and right wings of the Breaker.

The billowing smoke and dust raised by the horses' hooves were like a sandstorm, gradually encircling all sides of the Breaker. The Tartar howled loudly as he galloped, making all kinds of provocative sounds on his horse, which made the adrenaline hormones of the Tianjin soldiers continue to rise.

The military discipline of the Broken Division was very good, and even if it was provoked like this, no one shot without permission. The soldiers stood in three rows of wheel-firing formations, and the cavalry staring at the Tartars was ready to enter the battle at any moment.

In the face of more than 10,000 Tartars sweeping formation, it is impossible not to put out a circular formation to deal with it. The long snake formation on the march was weak on the flanks and could be overwhelmed by a single rush of cavalry. In the face of the cavalry sweeping formation, Zheng Kaicheng must be ready for battle.

And once a paper formation is formed, advancing with a well-loaded rifle, the march speed is extremely slow. This is still the premise that there is an advantage in troops, and there is no steel armor when engaging the enemy.

So what Tartar wants is Zheng Kaicheng's strict battle. A formation, a confrontation, and an hour passed.

The Tartars hid a mile away, and the Breaker was delayed but could not hit the Tartars. Zheng Kaicheng was a little annoyed and shouted: "Set off the artillery car!" ”

The flag was unfurled, and the artillery of the Broken Division began to twist the mechanism to unload the gun wagon, and arranged the gun carriage as quickly as possible.

But it takes time for the cannons to be unloaded from the gun trucks, and these vestmen are very nimble and skillful. As soon as they saw the cannons erected here, the Tartar cavalry immediately shouted left and right, and came out in the most sparse formation. At the same time, the cavalry galloped out, gradually avoiding the distance.

By the time the artillery wagon loaded the shells and aimed them at the Tartars on the periphery, the Tartars had already taken refuge three miles away.

If it is an ordinary infantry soldier, I am afraid that he does not have such a strong ability to deal with the battlefield. However, when encountering these elite vest soldiers, the captive breaker really had a sense of powerlessness to fight mosquitoes with cannons.

Fifty cannons could only shoot Tartars in the distance, and after two rounds, the killing effect was very limited, and probably only a few dozen Tartars were killed.

The cannons were erected, and the Breakers were even more unable to advance and were nailed to the spot by the Tartars.

Fifteen thousand horse-armored soldiers galloped back and forth on the periphery of the Broken Division for half an hour, probably a little tired, and then sounded the golden sound of the troops. More than 10,000 Tartars galloped away like a gust of wind, gradually disappearing on the horizon.

If the cavalry gallops at full strength, it can maneuver 200 miles in one day and one night. It only takes a day and a half to kill from the control area of the Tartars three hundred miles away, and the Tartar vests are all one person and two horses, and they can load several days of dry food and beans on another pack horse, and the power is extremely high.

The pack horses of the Tartars hid in the distance, and the captives fled as soon as they approached. The Breaker was carrying heavy baggage and could not chase it.

In short, the captive breaker was wrapped around this fifteen-thousand-vest, and it was really difficult.

Zheng Kaicheng looked at the Tatar cavalry in the distance and sighed.

"Someone! The horse rushed to Sacha Hewei and reported the situation here to Grandpa Guo. ”

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On the eighth day of the seventh month, Li Zhi listened to Zheng Kaicheng's soldiers' report on the situation and was silent.

The hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Tartars are not a problem now, and Li Zhi's 44,000 tiger army can completely win the battle. The key question now is the timing of the success of the Northern Expedition.

Originally, the method of building a camp and gradually advancing was already time-consuming, and according to this strategy, if everything went well, Li Zhi would be able to settle the battle in the fall. And the Tartars continued to harass Li Zhi's supply lines, which was to further delay Li Zhi's advance and drag the war into winter.

As soon as winter came, Li Zhi's Tianjin soldiers could not stand the severe cold in the northeast and had to withdraw their troops. If it is not possible to kill the main force of Alchuka to annihilate the Tartars, this Northern Expedition will be meaningless. If Li Zhi retreated from the army, and the more than 100,000 people of the Tartars continued to plunder Liaodong, Liaodong would not only fail to bring benefits to Li Zhi, but would also become a quagmire for Li Zhi.

Liaodong, which Li Zhi had managed to occupy, would fall back into the hands of the Tartars.

Supply has become the number one problem that Li Zhi needs to solve.

Xue Sanku saw that Li Zhi was embarrassed and said, "Grandpa Guo, can we transport grain from the river to the front line." ”

Hong Chengchou said: "No. The river is so narrow that our gunboats will run aground when they come in. If the private boats were requisitioned for transportation, the Tartars swarmed up in small boats, and the boats had no defense capability at all. ”

Li Zhi thought for a moment and said, "The crux of the problem now is that these fifteen thousand vest soldiers are cunning and fierce. If we defeat these 10,000 vests, the other Tartars will probably not be able to continue to harass our grain routes. ”

Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard this.

Zhong Feng asked: "Commander, the Tartar vest soldiers see that we have strong troops and do not come up to engage in the battle, how can we defeat these vest soldiers?" ”

Li Zhi said: "If you are strong, you will show that you are weak, and if you are weak, you will show that you are strong." As long as we put on a strong soldier that looks weak, the Tartar armor soldiers will definitely be fooled. ”