Chapter 666: Field Battle
Obviously, Qiwei secretly assisted Jinyiwei to strictly investigate the spies and spies, standardizing the warehousing and production processes to improve safety.
The explosion of the gunpowder depot of the Anmin Factory, which occurred again in September of the seventh year of Chongzhen, which was recorded in history, caused thousands of casualties among the military and civilian officials and eunuchs, did not come as scheduled.
The enemy is everywhere, and it is possible for Jiannu and Liukou to send spies into the city that the Ming Dynasty is still holding on to destroy, and it is too difficult to screen the homeless people one by one, so they simply adopt strict control and are not allowed to enter or out.
Therefore, Huang Han led a small 100,000 horses out of the Bauhinia Pass, and not long after they were discovered by too many people, the red flag fluttering, and thousands of hungry and cold people stumbled and ran to join the "Red Flag Army" to find a way to survive.
Fortunately, Huang Han was mentally prepared and had already done his homework, and this time he carried more than half of the 15,000 wheelbarrows and 3,500 four-wheeled carriages were grain, with a total of 60,000 stones.
Because there are still a large number of sea fish and canned meat products transported with the army, the soldiers can supplement protein, and 60,000 stone of grain can manage the consumption of 100,000 troops for 70 days, or can allow 300,000 people to maintain the basic survival needs of more than three months.
Huang Han was not afraid that the "Red Banner Army" would go hungry, as long as the Qing army had something to eat, the "Red Banner Army" would never be hungry.
When you are really facing a desperate situation, you can consider killing Jiannu and Tartar for barbecue.
There is no need to worry about the food problem, and the Jiannu robbed a lot of grain, and it is conservatively estimated that there will be no less than 500,000 stone in Shuozhou City.
After taking Yanmen Pass, more than 5,000 stone wheat and miscellaneous grains have been seized, and there is actually beef, which should be the Tartars and Jiannu who killed the Han people's ploughing cattle.
Liu Zaiqi organized 10,000 young and middle-aged people who had passed the screening to set up a township self-defense force to participate in management and labor, and gave them the treatment of eating three meals and two cooking cakes a day.
All the villagers wore a numbered red armband on their left arm and a spear with an ash pole in their hands.
The simplest and most effective weapon is a spear, which is cheap and easy to master, and Liu Zaiqi, who is mentally prepared, carries a full 50,000 spear heads mass-produced by the Tiger's Den City Arsenal.
There were so many carpenters, blacksmiths, and plasterers that it was not difficult to find the right guns.
With the "Red Banner Army" providing protection, two meals and seven or eight full meals, tents that can shelter from the wind and rain, and 10,000 people with ash poles and spears patrolling non-stop, the more than 100,000 refugees in the camp were finally able to sleep soundly.
Even the infant child seems to have a comfortable feeling, and he no longer cries.
The villagers are enthusiastic, everyone is serious about their work, and they are looking forward to being looked down upon by the propaganda team members or the town magistrates, getting the opportunity to join the Weisuo Army, and becoming a member of the "Red Flag Army" from now on.
Huang Han did have the intention of recruiting a large number of Han people who had been poisoned by Jiannu to serve as supplementary soldiers, and assigned Liu Zaiqi's propaganda team and town officials at all levels the task of inspecting the township bravery.
The three armies that attacked were all four standard battalions with 16,000 men and horses, and the garrison army with 8,000 households and 9,000 men and horses to undertake the task of auxiliary troops, and a semi-firearms army with 25,000 men and horses was no longer something that the Tunguska savages could defeat.
The infantry and artillery cavalry of the three-way army fought together, and the next day there was good news that Song Pengfei's group defeated the Qing cavalry group in the field battle.
At this time, Huang Han also led the guard battalion, Yang Hanwei battalion, and baggage battalion on the official road to Shuozhou.
The men and horses led by Huang Han personally carried 7,000 people, so that the two thousand households of the guard army and more than half of the coachmen did not need to bear the labor of miscellaneous labor, and most of them carried the self-generated guns that were allocated.
Both the guards and the coachmen belonged to the category of auxiliaries, not regular soldiers, and they were all looking forward to participating in the war, hoping to be able to use their self-generated guns to kill Jiannu to gain military merit and directly get the opportunity to become regular.
The advancing Song Pengfei group reported to the Qing army and organized more than 20,000 men and horses to form a formation 30 miles ahead, which was already the boundary of Yingzhou in Datong Prefecture.
The preset battlefield is an open field, which is more than 100,000 acres of frozen hard wheat fields, and the flag guards who are familiar with this area confirm that the Qing army is also assembled there today, and it is impossible to do anything in advance, and the Qing army will try to fight the "Red Banner Army" here.
Song Pengfei was accustomed to using tricks, and if he was the first to arrive at the battlefield, he would definitely arrange for sappers to dig bunkers and ambush cannons, and use special sapper shovels to hit a small pit one foot deep with the mouth of the bowl in the frozen wheat field, so as to trip and break the legs of horses galloping at high speed.
Often calculating the enemy, he is always worried that he will be calculated, so Song Pengfei asked the terrain in detail.
If the preset battlefield of the Qing army is not ideal, he will not rush to that area to fight, as long as he chooses to attack Yingzhou City or Shanyin County, which is occupied by Jiannu, he can mobilize the Qing army to meet the battlefield he presets.
found that the Qing army seemed to be more confident, and was still superstitious that the Jurchens were not satisfied with 10,000 and were invincible, and they were superstitious about the field combat ability of the cavalry.
Song Pengfei decided to take the initiative to lead the men and horses to meet the battle, in order to maximize the one-time killing, the four battalions of the "Red Banner Army" slowly approached the battlefield preset by the Qing army.
Due to the slowdown in the pace of the march, all the one-pound Furlong cannons were able to keep up, and when it was close to five miles, the "Red Banner Army" began to spread out step by step, and the concentrated use of more than 5,000 cavalry to protect the left and right flanks was carried out.
What do you do during training and drills? Engaging the enemy, unfolding, responding, moving and encircling are all subjects, and the officers and men of the "Red Banner Army" at this time completed it unhurriedly.
The tactics of the Jiannu field battle were also very simple, and it was a good time for the cavalry to assault from a distance when the Ming army came all over the mountains, the array was not formed, and the artillery was not in place.
5,000 men and horses as the first shock wave overwhelmingly pressed, including 2,000 Jiannu and 3,000 Tartars without traitors Guanning Iron Cavalry, but unfortunately the Qing soldiers were too wishful thinking.
The one-pound Furlong cannon was simple to load, the commander Sun Yuanhua was calm and calm, and the gunners did not panic when they found the enemy cavalry charging, but laughed toothlessly one by one.
The Qing soldiers were sad, and the group charge of several thousand horsemen launched should be invincible in the field battle, and they had never seen the Ming army that had not had time to form a formation and was still advancing, which could withstand such a thunderous blow.
In the earth-shattering roar, in the sound of guns and gunshots like popping beans, thousands of lead bullets poured out, and Jiannu and Tatar felt the critical attack of the firearms unit 160 years in advance, and they were killed and wounded.
The gunners of the Fran one-pound guns were very good, and after three rounds of fighting, they found that the enemy cavalry had collapsed, and then pushed the gun carriage and tried to pursue.
It's so funny, even the artillery thinks about pursuing the remnants, and the morale of the Ming army and the mood for battle can be imagined.