Chapter 523: Twenty Thousand Against One Hundred
Yue Tuo was the eldest son of Daishan, and after Huang Taiji became emperor, he was named Prince Cheng, but he was implicated in the Mang Gurtai case and became a victim of the Manchu political struggle and was demoted to Baylor. For this reason, he has always been obsessed with it, hoping to rely on military merits to be crowned king again.
Yue Tuo had never fought against the Tiance Army, but he was not a reckless person, and he still had a lot of experience in battle formations. He also knew how the Tiance Army fought. It's a pity that even if he is as smart as Dolgon, who has personally experienced the firepower of the Tiance Army, he still delusions that there is a possibility of defeating the Tiance Army, let alone Yue Tuo?
Ye Keshu also understood Yue Tuo's feelings, in addition to the resentment of seeing the banner people being killed, he also hoped to prove his mind by killing a part of the Tiance army.
Since the Qing army and the Tiance army fought many times, let alone captured, the Qing army has not once proved how many Tiance troops have been killed, and this situation is unimaginable. Even though the Qing army always had the advantage against other Ming armies except the Tiance army, it did not fight a war with zero casualty rate.
If you can get lucky to kill a small force of Tiance Army this time, it will be a huge breakthrough for the current Manchu Qing Dynasty. If some of the weapons of the Tiance Army can be captured, it will be a great thing.
The first stage of the sweeping mission has been completed, and the troops who went out to sweep have basically returned to the Arthur Peninsula through the Isthmus of Jinzhou.
The unmanned reconnaissance planes of the Tiance Army have been patrolling and reconnoitring to the north, and the news of the arrival of Yue Tuo's vanguard army has been conveyed to all departments, and at the urging of the headquarters, the sweeping detachments have accelerated their withdrawal across the Jinzhou Isthmus.
On 22 April, a number of scouts sent by Yue Tuo touched the vicinity of the Isthmus of Jinzhou, and sporadic gunfire continued to ring, and after losing more than 200 scouts, Yue Tuo did not find nothing.
"Depending on the situation, Minggou in front of him did not step down heavy troops, only a small force?" Yue Tuo asked, touching his beard.
"Lord Belle, it's true, there are less than a hundred enemy troops in front." The leader of the scouts replied with a bitter face, in order to get this bit of information, his loss was not small.
"Excellent! You go down first and continue to find out where the dog is moving. Yue Tuo waved his hand.
"Huh!"
"Ye Keshu! Ordered the whole army to attack, and we went to slaughter these Ming dogs. Yue Tuo said.
Ye Keshu reminded: "Lord Belle, will there be fraud ahead, this place is a must-defend place, why did the Tiance Army arrange such a few people?" ”
Yue Tuo smiled and said: "Taizu once said, 'I will only go all the way', and it can also be applied here." No matter what tricks the Ming Dog makes, my 20,000 army is not very demanding, as long as I kill the 100 Ming Dogs used as bait in front of me, I will have made the first contribution. ”
When Ye Keshu heard that this was indeed the case, he couldn't help but feel a little sad, when did my Daqing fall to such a point? Killing a hundred and ten enemy soldiers turned out to be a great achievement.
The 20,000 Qing army cavalry suddenly accelerated three kilometers away from the Jinzhou Isthmus and pounced on the defenders of the Tiance Army on the Jinzhou Isthmus.
According to Wang Yue's idea, he originally wanted to learn from the Japanese devils on the Jinzhou Isthmus to build a few turrets or simply build two fortresses, but later he rejected this idea.
The best defense is to attack, with the firepower and mobility of the Tiance army, there is no need to engage in passive defense, because the defense line of the Tiance army in southern Liaoning will gradually advance to the north, and the Jinzhou Isthmus will soon lose its due role.
There was indeed only one company of three regiments near the Isthmus of Jinzhou, and one hundred and ten Tiance troops were defending.
However, the company was not as vulnerable as it seemed, with two tanks and ten armored vehicles, it was a fully mechanized company. To defend the Isthmus of Golden State, they occupied almost a quarter of the armored forces of the three regiments, just to increase mobility.
In addition, in order to improve the guard force, there are two coast guard warships and two coast surveillance warships on the sea on the east and west sides of the Jinzhou Isthmus as fire support.
The surprise attack of 20,000 cavalry was enormous, and the vibration caused by the 80,000 iron hooves striking the earth was very staggering.
The company commander of the Tiance Army and the naval warships guarding the Isthmus of Jinzhou were preparing to launch an attack, when the order from the command headquarters arrived. The command ordered the naval warships to stop the attack, and the company's army units resisted while retreating ten kilometers, and reinforcements would arrive later.
Armed with armored vehicles and tanks, the company was fearless in the face of an attack of 20,000 cavalry, but the orders of the command had to be strictly carried out.
"All board, get out!" As soon as the Qing army approached about two kilometers, the company commander gave an order, and all the soldiers boarded the chariots and slowly retreated.
Seeing that the Tiance army got into the chariot and began to retreat, Yue Tuo shouted: "Quick, catch up and surround them!" ”
After several wars with the Tiance army, the Qing army already had a relatively clear understanding of armored vehicles, and they knew that this kind of car was made of steel and was difficult to destroy by manpower.
For this reason, the Qing army's top brass conducted in-depth research on armored vehicles, and finally came to the conclusion that the only way to restrain armored vehicles was to dig pits and bury them or bombard them with artillery. Among them, it is more practical to dig pits and bury them, after all, the mobility of armored vehicles is too strong.
Yue Tuo's idea was to encircle and bury the armored vehicles, because he had an absolute advantage in troops.
The war drums rumbled, and the cavalry of the Qing army suddenly accelerated en masse and rushed forward.
"Tong!" "Tong!"
The two Type 99 tanks in the retreat suddenly launched an artillery attack on the Qing army from a kilometer away, and after the shells were bombarded to an altitude of more than 20 meters above the heads of the Qing army, "Bang! "Bang!" Two shells exploded in mid-air, forming two clouds of black smoke.
Like pouring rain, 6,000 steel balls shot out at the Qing cavalry on the ground.
The Qing cavalry in the high-speed gallop turned over on their backs for a while, and the Qing army running in the front seemed to have poured cold water into hot oil, and suddenly boiled, but anyone who was hit by steel balls fell to the ground one after another. The cavalry behind still rushed forward quickly, and the Qing army that fell to the ground was quickly trampled into pulp.
"Tong!" "Tong!"
The Tiance army continued to retreat unhurriedly, firing one or two steel ball shells from time to time, delaying the pursuit of the Qing army.
Every attack of the steel ball shells may bring seven or eight hundred casualties to the Qing army.
The artillery of the Tiance Army was able to fire in motion, and it exploded in the air, but the power was so huge that Yue Tuo almost gritted his steel teeth in anger.
"Let them all disperse, disperse, chase after them, kill them!" Yue Tuo roared repeatedly.
"Lord Belle, this Tiance army is too evil, are we ......!" Ye Keshu wanted to speak and stopped.
Yue Tuo shouted angrily: "Ye Keshu, don't say it anymore. Our strength is 200 times that of the enemy, if we can't even deal with this little bit of Tiance Army, is there any hope for our Qing Dynasty? ”
"Alas!" Ye Keshu sighed, and said with tears in his eyes: "Okay, I'll fight with Lord Baylor." ”