Chapter 726: The Shocked Guan Ning Army
The pace of modern warfare is very fast, especially the use of quasi-mechanized troops such as the Tiance Army against medieval cold weapon troops, the effect is like a knife cutting butter.
In the absence of a trench system like the Gaizhou defense line, it took two years to build a trench system, and the offensive of the Tiance Army was all the way flat.
The armored forces quickly extended forward, and the tactical aim was to divide the Qing army into several sections.
Ninety-six self-propelled howitzers, 192 Type 38 guns and 282 mortars of two calibers were fired one after another by two divisions.
The 120 Z-18 transport planes and 16 Wuzhi-9 helicopters of the HNA were divided into several formations and took off from the aircraft carriers one after another and pounced on the Qing troops in Songshan, Xingshan, and Tashan.
Most of these 100,000 Qing troops joined the army after the expansion of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they used to only hear how fierce the Tiance Army was, but today they finally saw the perverted side of the Tiance Army.
There are many old, weak, sick and disabled people in the Qing army who are of the older generation, who have already retired, and were arrested by Huang Taiji. If you want to talk about fighting and cutting people, these old guys are indeed decades of old soldiers, from Nurhachi's generation to fight against the Ming army, and the glorious deeds are indeed worth boasting about.
During this time, it was still a routine operation to fight Jinzhou, attack Tashan, and take Songshan, and the Ming army still gave up field warfare as it did, and hid in the city and did not come out.
The old guys' understanding of war is still stuck in the glorious days of the past, and with the sudden arrival of the Tiance Army, their worldview has been completely turned upside down.
I'm dripping mom! Where is this war, this is clearly a massacre.
Shells rained down, all of them were flowering shells, and the power was not at all comparable to solid bullets, especially the 155 heavy grenades, and every explosion would clear a no-man's land within a radius of 100 meters.
The huge number of steel chariots is not a monster that can be stopped by manpower at all, it is really injured when it is touched, and it will die if it hits.
The most devastating thing is the big bird that lays eggs in the sky, and the hundred-millimeter mortar shells fall at high speed with a whistling sound, and it seeps people when they listen to it. Wherever there are many people, the big birds fly to wherever they go, and the fire is everywhere they pass, which is earth-shattering.
This Nima is still a fart! The Qing army had no choice but to run away, they had no means of countermeasures, and they also did not have the courage to face such a blow.
The two divisions and four brigades of the Tiance Army, with 12 regiments as combat units, were like 12 arrows to quickly cut off the 100,000 Qing troops and encircle, suppress and eliminate them in different regions.
Before the Qing Yu prince Duoduo asked about the Qing army's military situation, the overwhelming artillery fire descended on the Chinese army camp, and the violent explosion shot out countless shrapnel, and the strong shock wave was like a gust of wind blowing in the camp, and the continuous camp tents, wooden guardrails, stone horses and deer barricades were all crushed and swept away.
Dordor was tossed to the ground by the blast, and his own soldiers, Goshha, scrambled to dig him out from beneath the broken tent.
"Prince Yu go quickly, it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time!"
Duoduo's ears were buzzing, his head was dizzy, his left shoulder was still gurgling blood, just now a 155 grenade exploded near the Chinese army's tent, and before he fell to the ground, a shrapnel took away a large piece of his flesh.
After being helped onto the war horse, his sanity was a little more sober, and Duoduo endured the severe pain and saw that the entire Chinese army camp had become a sea of fire, and the ground was full of fragments of people and horses, and there were Qing troops scurrying everywhere.
It all happened so suddenly, and before Duoduo could clear his mind and find a way to deal with it, the loyal soldiers of Goshha had already pulled the reins of his horse and fled.
At this time, the Tiance Army of the two regiments, accompanied by dozens of combat vehicles and tanks, was coming from both sides to Tashan, where the main camp of the Chinese army was located. Under the ferocious and effective blows of the Tiance army, the Qing army has been completely disorganized.
Jinzhou, Ming Liaodong General Soldier Zu Dashou led more than 16,000 troops stationed here, as the leader of the Guanning Army, Zu Dashou's soldiers and horses are the main force of the Guanning Army, but in the face of Duoduo's army, they can only do it and wait for help.
The Guanning Army was founded by Sun Chengzong adhering to the idea of "Liao people guarding Liao soil", and a total of 120,000 Guanning troops were organized and trained (the actual strength was 108,000 after re-examination).
The only time in history that the Guanning army took the initiative to attack and engaged the Houjin in the Battle of Liuhe, the 60,000 Guangning army was wiped out, and since then, the Guanning army has been on the defensive against the Qing army.
The annual Liao Xiang of the imperial court was 6 million taels, far exceeding the GDP of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it still reached 3 million taels in the hands of the Guanning army.
Due to abundant financial resources, the Guanning army gradually recovered, and the total strength reported to the imperial court was still 108,000 people, according to the fine tradition of eating empty salaries within the Ming Dynasty, the actual strength of the Guanning army was 57,000 people, of which there were more than 40,000 real Guanning iron cavalry.
After Hong Chengchou became the governor of Jiliao, he brought another 30,000 Qin troops, which was also a very effective force, which was tempered in the war to exterminate the Liukou. In order for these 30,000 Qin troops to stay in Shaanxi to suppress bandits, Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, was also imprisoned.
Therefore, the Ming army in the Ningjin area was not a lot, but it was still in a passive position, after the loss of Songshan, Wu Sangui, the general soldier of Tashan, was defeated again and fled to Ningyuan for help, and Jinzhou was besieged.
Jinzhou has been besieged for more than a month, and the Ming and Qing dynasties are in a stalemate stage, and no one can help anyone.
Duoduo's army was originally a feint force, and it was also unable to take Jinzhou, and the Ming army in the direction of Ningyuan was strong, which played a role in diverting the Qing army, so Duoduo did not launch a strong attack on Jinzhou. Although the Qing army made a move to encircle the point and send reinforcements, the treacherous and cunning Hong Chengchou was not fooled at all.
If you want to talk about the ancestor of Jinzhou, it is also a general who is often besieged, if he is not really out of ammunition and food, it is really more difficult to break through the city he defends.
The sound of artillery shook the sky, shouts of killing were everywhere, and the outside of Jinzhou, which had been quiet for more than a month, suddenly boiled, and the strange thing was that it was not Jinzhou that was attacked, but the Qing army suddenly collapsed.
"It's the Tiance Army here!" After observing the city wall for a while, Zu Dashou said to his shocked subordinates.
The tactics of the Tiance Army are indeed too bizarre and perverted, the planes flying in the sky, the chariots rampage underground, and the cannonballs falling like raindrops are all unimaginable existences of the Ming Army in Liaodong.
The Guan Ning Army fought with the Tiance Army, but those Guan Ning Army who had been to the Starting Point City were all invited by Wang Yue to be workers, and here Zu Dashou had been to the Starting Point City, so only he could recognize that the Tiance Army was coming.
"This is the Tiance Army?"
The generals at all levels of the Guanning Army were shocked, no wonder Wu Sangui and Zu Dabi came back as commanders of the light pole, and when they met such an army, they still fought a lot?