Chapter 408 Feng Shui Treasure Taiwan
The rogues want to run, but of course they can't escape the eyes of the sky.
So Wang Yue left a platoon of Tiance soldiers and two hundred Ming troops to defend the camp, carriage and artillery positions, and the rest of the troops attacked with all the troops.
The rogues have been defeated, and they don't need too many troops to stay, not to mention that the artillery of the Fifth Regiment and the artillery of the navy, as well as the health team, all have individual weapons.
The two hundred Ming troops were used to clean up the battlefield just now, and not all the five or six thousand fallen rogue cavalry were dead, and the wounded needed to be gathered up and handed over to the Tiance Army medical team for treatment.
The artillery continued to fire at the Rogue, targeting the Rogue's retreating infantry ranks.
These infantrymen were also unlucky, running back and forth and doing nothing, and running back had to be baptized by shells.
The artillery of the Tiance Army was really too fast, it was really like a rain of bullets, and the rogues who were blown up cried wolf howl, and soon suffered heavy casualties, they only hated their parents for having two legs missing, and rushed forward lifelessly.
The southbound detachment's shelling of the rear of the hungry soldiers has continued to this day, and there are fewer and fewer targets available for shelling, and the soldiers of the old camp of the rogue are either killed or scattered.
With the issuance of Zhang Xianzhong's retreat order, the gang ran more happily, so the southbound detachment divided forty mortars to support the artillery bombardment of the fifth regiment. In addition to the 30,000 infantry who were retreating, the target of the southbound detachment's artillery bombardment was also the seven or eight thousand troops that Zhang Xianzhong's Chinese army used to observe the battle, in fact, this part of the troops was a reserve.
The maximum span of the shelling distance of the southbound detachment has reached about four kilometers, which shows that hundreds of thousands of troops occupy a wide area.
In fact, this distance was not all occupied by the Liukou, the Liukou's infantry ran back, more than a mile away from their starting position, and the artillery position of the southbound detachment was set up more than a mile before the Liukou hungry soldiers, which was almost a point and a half kilometer.
The southbound detachment joined the artillery bombardment, which further intensified the speed of the escape, and developed from order to disorder. The rogues did not have much strict order in the first place, and once they were defeated and fled, chaos would arise, and the fierce artillery bombardment of the Tiance army accelerated the formation of chaos.
The infantry of the 5th Battalion of the 30,000 Ge Left Battalion evolved from retreating to fleeing, and finally blew up the nest and scattered, and everyone had only one thought, not to let the shells fall on their heads. Liu Guoneng couldn't restrain him no matter what, so he had to go with them, the violent explosion covered the shouting, and it was difficult to convey any orders, so only a small number of these infantry followed the established retreat route.
Any retreat must have a rear-end force, even if it is an escape. It is said that these 30,000 infantry are the most ideal force to break the rear, and under normal circumstances, a group of people should be left behind.
After Zhang Xianzhong ordered the retreat, the first thing he thought of was them, but when he saw it, he immediately dispelled a thought, and quickly galloped away with his Chinese soldiers and horses.
It was not that the 30,000 infantry were scattered and unable to perform the task of breaking the rear, but that Zhang Xianzhong saw the scene of 30,000 people being devastated in the artillery fire, and he knew that everything was in vain. And the shells also fell on his Chinese army one after another, and he didn't run at this time.
The 5th Regiment and the Nanjing Jing Battalion quickly caught up with this part of the infantry of the 5th Battalion of the Revolution, and the shelling immediately stopped and the direction of the shelling was reversed.
While firing, the Tiance Army shouted through a loudspeaker: "Put down your weapons and spare you from death!" ”
Some of these rogues saw that they could not escape, so they threw down their weapons and surrendered on their knees, some still fled without their lives, and some were killed on the ground.
The Ming army in Nanjing's Beijing camp rushed up, and when they caught one, they tied up the ropes, which was all money.
More than 30,000 infantry were killed, more than 10,000 were killed, more than 3,000 were captured, and about 7,000 or 8,000 of them fled in all directions.
The Tiance army suppressed bandits to save people, not to kill people, and Wang Yue didn't have the heart to chase these people. The scene of the collapse of hundreds of thousands of rogues is the Hetian people, and there are people running in a panic everywhere within a radius of dozens of miles, and the mountains and fields are full of people, and the chaos of the scene is unimaginable.
Wang Yue commanded the troops to continue to rush towards the Liukou array, and as soon as Zhang Xianzhong ran, not only his old battalion followed, but also the people who were coerced by him.
The hungry soldiers of the Liukou reached more than 300,000, and the southbound detachment propagandized while advancing, and it was not until Zhang Xianzhong retreated that about 100,000 people were successively managed. The first hungry soldiers to flee were those in the rear, and the shelling of the old battalion in the rear by the southbound detachment had already made them tremble.
The flight of the hungry soldiers in the rear also drove other hungry soldiers, Wang Yue went to these people, and the southbound detachment left the security army to continue their work, and the fourth regiment acted quickly and cooperated with the fifth regiment to intercept the hungry soldiers.
The Tiance army attacked everywhere as a company, shouting everywhere, and where there were many people, they would go wherever they went. The Tiance army did not kill innocents indiscriminately against those of them who were armed with wooden sticks and dung forks, especially the effect of loudspeakers was huge, so most of the hungry soldiers who were intercepted gave up escaping.
The strength of the Tiance army was limited, and in the end, nearly 100,000 hungry soldiers ran away, and there were still 200,000 hungry soldiers within a radius of dozens of miles that needed to be collected and settled, so Wang Yue gave up chasing them.
This was a large group of hungry people, and the Tiance army temporarily placed them near Chaling, waiting for the 50,000 people captured in the battle of Shucheng.
So far, the Tiance army has captured nearly 300,000 people in the south, and the resettlement of these people will be the top priority in the starting point city in the near future.
Wang Yueyue had considered the work of rehousing prisoners, but the situation changed too quickly, and the coercion of Zhang Xianzhong and others was too fast, and the original 200,000 people quickly grew to 500,000.
Infrastructure construction in Shanghai County, Weihai Port, Tianjin Port, Hong Kong Island and even many roads near the starting point city require a lot of manpower, as well as the port of Incheon and Jeju Island, which can absorb the population, including the hungry people in Shandong Province caused by this year's drought.
But now the number of hungry people is nearly 300,000 more than expected, and those who ran away with Zhang Xianzhong, Wang Yue also counted them, and these people will eventually be chased back.
When the population grows, it is necessary to consider the problem of food, and it was originally intended to use these people for infrastructure and industrial construction.
Now in order to increase the amount of grain, it is necessary to increase the arable land, and the drought in the north is serious, and it will continue for several years, and the investment in the development of agriculture is too large, so we can only turn our attention to the south.
Although Wang Yue was the governor of Yingtian, it was impossible for him to get enough arable land for these 300,000 people in the Jiangnan area, unless he launched an agrarian revolution. This kind of thing is not an urgent task at the moment, so it is not considered.
If you want to get land in the south, you don't have to stare at the mainland, there is a feng shui treasure not far from the mainland, and it is Taiwan.