Chapter 112: The Cry of the Heavens
The New Year is approaching, Guo Xing'a is busy compiling teaching materials for Tan Shaoguang, Sai Shang'a is busy preparing for the New Year, and the Qing army that has just been promoted is preparing for a fat year. However, the constant military order of the Jiangnan battalion has broken all this harmonious situation.
"Rubu takes cruising and standby as the key, and allows Rubu to cross the river, enter the north of the river to cruise, wait for the opportunity to regain the lost ground."
A simple military order gave Guoxinga the opportunity to enter Jiangbei for development. Guoxing'a, who had been suffering from the fact that he would have no base after the Jiangnan camp was broken in the future, immediately decided to send troops to Jiangbei for a long time. The troops also had no resistance, and they also wanted to go to the ground in Jiangbei to see and see, and walk around to make the year fatter.
Guo Xing'a left without raising his legs, he had to finish the reorganization of the troops. In the past, the establishment of the Qing army was not reasonable, and the strange structure of 442 was implemented. Although the company platoon was numerous, there were only two infantry squads per platoon, and the firepower of a single platoon was too weak in the era of front-loading guns. Therefore, using the captured prisoners this time, Goxinga made adjustments to the structure of the infantry. Each class has been adjusted from the original 14 to 12 people, with one principal and one deputy class leader. Each platoon has three infantry squads and a four-man communications team, one of each of which is a chief and deputy platoon commander. Each company still has four platoons, a communications squad and an artillery squad with a company commander and an instructor. The infantry battalion has four infantry companies and a 24-man guard command platoon, with one battalion commander and one deputy battalion commander and one chief of staff. In this way, each infantry platoon can reach 42 people, with a certain degree of independent combat capability, and the infantry company can reach 192 people, and the firepower density has been greatly improved.
Others, such as cavalry, baggage, reconnaissance, and medical care, have not changed, not because Guo Xing'a does not want to change, but because there is really no one left. Of course, there were exceptions, and although the artillery was only replenished with six people, it was also reorganized according to the infantry squad. Three artillery platoons of forty-two men were formed, as well as an ammunition supply platoon of thirty men. Guo Xing'a melted all the brass he could find, even the captured Taiping Tongbao, and finally made up twenty Napoleonic runs for the artillerymen. After reorganization, the Guoxing Asuo Department absorbed all the people who could absorb it, and the total number of people reached more than 1,800. Guo Xing's heart is happy, if he wins a few more battles and recruits some useful people, he will be able to be the head of the regiment.
Guo Xing'a, who was in a good mood, left Tan Shaoguang to Sai Shang'a, and also left Sai Shang'a teaching materials for more than a month to ensure that Tan Shaoguang could also accept fatigue bombardment in the days without Guo Xing'a. Then he left Cezanne and a company of cavalry to stay behind, and set off happily with an army of more than 1,600 people.
There is also a reason why the cavalry company was left instead of the infantry, first of all, the Qing army in the Jiangnan battalion entered the carnival before the end of the day, and the current situation is very good, and there is no danger in the base camp. The first cavalry company is the old foundation of the entire cavalry battalion, and it is good to work hard immediately. But these buddy rifles, who are accustomed to rushing and killing, just don't understand that the rifles of the other three companies are no longer weaker than the infantry, and the cavalry company still has no progress. Goxinga deliberately kept them at home to practice the use of rifles. The second reason is that the cavalry plays a small role in siege warfare, and in the geographical environment of the dense water network in the south of the Yangtze River, the infantry with leggings is not much slower than the cavalry, of course, it is still cost-effective to bring more infantry.
Guo Xing'a studied the map given to him by He Chun for a long time, and drew the offensive route on the map with a pencil made of carbon rods wrapped in rice paper, and the first stop this time was Tianchang, the extended position of the Tianping Army. Tianchang is located in the northeast of Liuhe and northwest of Yangzhou, which is the outer barrier of Tianjing and an important stronghold of the Taiping army in Jiangbei. However, after Li Zhaoshou and others surrendered to the Qing army, the position of Tianchangdi became a little awkward, and it was only connected to the Taiping occupied area through Liuhe, which became a salient department. In the case that Pukou and other places have not yet been completely cleared, the main attention of the Taiping army is still focused on the banks of the Yangtze River, and Tianchang has nothing particularly eye-catching. After Guo Xing'a borrowed the boats of the Jiangnan camp to cross the Yangtze River, he bypassed the official road between Liuhe and Yizheng, and doubled the road and went straight to Tianchang.
The battle of Tianchang was very dull, and Changlu's reconnaissance company was guided by dozens of Taiping soldiers, disguised as the Taiping army, and opened the south gate of Tianchangdi. And perfectly showed Goxinga their learning progress for special warfare, and after controlling the city gate, they went all the way to the command of the Tianchang defenders. Although he failed to capture the guard, he also completely disrupted the Tianchangdi command system. Guoxing Aqin led the main force of the headquarters and entered the Great Wall of Heaven from the south gate and occupied the commanding heights of the city wall. The artillery and infantry fire made it impossible for the defenders to gather, and the cavalry clashed directly back and forth in the city, turning the Great Wall upside down. The Tianchang defenders, who were disrupted and lost their command, and did not know the number of Qing soldiers, had to open the west gate and fled in a swarm.
Guoxing'a, who took Tianchang lightly, was in a very unbeautiful mood, firstly, because the Tianchang Holy Treasury, which was a war zone, was too clean, as if it had been robbed by Goxinga, and secondly, because of the unfriendliness of the people of Tianchang. Proud, he sat on the ocean horse and entered the Great Wall of Heaven, but he was greeted not by awe-inspiring eyes, but by rotten eggs and rotten leaves. Except for the time when Huang Daping was scared to pee his pants, Guo Xing'a had never been so embarrassed, and when he entered the Tianchang Shou General's mansion, Guo Xing'a still had egg whites dripping on his forehead. Guo Xing'a, who didn't grab the money and food and suffered rotten eggs, gave the order to search for the remnants of the Taiping Army, and then sat alone in the guard's mansion and sulked.
When Guo Xing'a gave the order, he was only angry for a moment, but when the Qing army heard the order, they all cheered. There is an unwritten agreement between the officers and soldiers, if it is an order to hunt down the remnants of the enemy, it is to really search for the remnants of the enemy, if it is an order to search for the remnants, it has only one meaning - to do whatever you want. And the Qing army's doing whatever they want is tantamount to slaughtering the city for the people, and the red-eyed Qing soldiers killing their families for half a bowl of rice are just ordinary things.
The following day, the Great Wall turned into a living hell. After sending out the vigilance troops, the Qing army closed the four gates and began to rape and plunder unscrupulously. Moreover, this time the Qing army was particularly bold, and the order to search for the remnants of the party was no longer a verbal agreement of the officers, but an order from the supreme leader. The man who was supposed to represent the military law personally gave the order to do whatever he wanted. The Qing army let go of the last scruples, and the last barrier in front of a group of devils was removed.
The cries and pleadings of the Great Wall never ceased, and the streets were littered with bloody corpses and ragged and sluggish women. The woman wandered like a lonely ghost, and then met another group of demon kings again, and fell into the pain of not being able to survive but not to die. The last bowl of grain was put into their pockets, and a copper plate would be the bane of destruction, and countless people cried and pleaded for God to come and save them, but all they could see was the devil with a musket.
A Taiping soldier who had not been able to escape from the city hid under the bed of a porridge shop, and he knew the owner of the place well, so the owner of the pro-heavenly kingdom hid him. However, he could not escape the catastrophe, and three or five Qing soldiers burst in with muskets, and after some laughter that he did not hear clearly, gunshots rang out in the house. Lying under the bed, he saw the corpse of the porridge shop owner lying on the ground, and then his ears were filled with the sound of a woman screaming. The bed board shook as if someone had smashed it on it, and the young soldier did not want to sit still, so he rushed out with the dagger he had with him. But the Qing army's strain training and hand-to-hand combat training were very sufficient, and before he could see the situation outside, he was smashed on the knee by a son, and then he was kicked to the ground, and the snow bayonet was already against his chest.
"Chen Yi?" The bayonet did not penetrate his chest, and a familiar voice called his name in surprise.
"Luo Wei?" Chen Yi, who opened his eyes, saw a familiar person, his fellow countryman Luo Wei.
The two were fellow villagers and participated in the Taiping Army together, but later Luo Wei was selected into the elite army because of his physique. Chen Yiwan didn't expect that when they met again, Luo Wei had already put on the uniform of the Qing army.
"Why are you ......" Chen Yi didn't finish asking, because he found that he was a little familiar with the Qing army in front of him, and these people seemed to have seen it.
"We have joined the official army, our adults are Guoxing, but it's amazing......" These officers and soldiers who entered the Qing army with Tan Shaoguang have not yet memorized the confidentiality regulations, and they laughed unbridled when they saw the old man.
"When the long hair has no future, you can also vote for it! We will introduce you to be an officer and soldier! What do you think? Luo Wei sincerely pulled Chen Yi into the gang.
"I'm in a hurry to get home! My mother is seriously ill! Chen Yi, who had been frightened by the bloodthirsty Qing army, casually said nonsense.
"The password is "Yu Dang", you hurry up, it will be changed in a while, you ...... like this" Luo Wei enthusiastically planned an absconding route for his fellow countrymen.
Chen Yi trembled away, and his fellow villagers pressed the poor mother and daughter down on the bed before he could go out of the door. Chen Yi wanted to save them very much, their father and the man were his friends, and they kindly took him in, but Chen Yi still left without looking back.
Guo Xing'a, who was in a bad mood, was looking at the map, studying the direction of the next march, and he had an indescribable pleasure at the crying that came. Let you hit me with eggs, and now you regret going! This is a kind of pleasure that only comes from fantasy after being bullied in a previous life.
Goxinga drew his march on the map, and he prepared to circle around the Taiping army's outer barrier of Tianjing. He didn't dare to touch heavily fortified places like Pukou and Hexian, but he could bypass them. went around in a circle and then went to attack southern Anhui, and then fled back to his base camp through Ningguo for the New Year. The next morning Goxinga was ready to leave, the people of Tianchang were not friendly, and he did not like this place. But he can't go straight away, this is also a somewhat strategic place, and he has to hand it over to other Qing troops.
The remnants of the search for a day were brilliantly fought, and Goxinga's baggage cart was once again full. Of course, Guo Xing'a would not take so many supplies to go around in circles, he had to go to the port near Yizheng and transport his harvest back to the base camp. bought a favor for Zhang Guoliang, Guo Xing'a notified Zhang Guoliang's subordinate surnamed Zhou to pick up Fang Tianchang, and then took his subordinates to transport things home without any guilt.
Leaving the world in a dashing manner, Guo Xinga didn't know that his good luck was running out. If the battle of capturing Tan Shaoguang and Zhong Wanxin Guo Xing'a overdrew his character, then he should repay the debt next.