Wan Douni achieved a great victory in Yuncheng Mansion, annihilated all the troops and forces of Shang Kexi's department, and eliminated Shang Kexi, a traitor.

In this battle, Zhang Qiang gave him a medal and reward, and he promoted his temporary regiment of the field army to the independent brigade of the Merlin Fish Corps of the field army, with three garrison regiments and one field regiment, and at the same time a squad of an ordinary militia brigade was assigned to his command as a brigade headquarters baggage team, and a militia elite brigade squad served as an engineer team.

His independent brigade is larger than other brigades, with four regiments, two squads, plus a cavalry company, a communications company, and a personal guard directly under the brigade headquarters, with an establishment of 12,000 people.

One field brigade is still under the command of Wang Yuqun, and the other militia brigades and elite brigades are still under the command of Wang Yuqun, who is responsible for this direction.

The strength led by Zhang Qiang is now only the size of a brigade, about 5,000 people.

Some other temporarily transferred troops Zhang Qiang asked them to go back to you, they are all troops in the core area of the rear, and they can't let that place be vacant, the three garrison regiments know the strength of Henan Prefecture, and it can be regarded as normal use when used, and the field brigade is a brigade of Wang Yuqun's Eighth Field Division, which is also used normally.

If he didn't care about his own safety, Zhang Qiang also wanted to let a garrison regiment in Huguang also turn back, but Zhang Qiang couldn't do this, as a king, in case Wang Yuqun wanted to detain him or kill him now, he had a force of 5,000 people and could still hold on to help, no matter how bad it was, he would go out and flee back to Jinling Mansion.

Wang Yuqun had already gone to Yuncheng Mansion to inspect and arrange defenses.

Zhengzhou Mansion is now where he manages the army.

Wan Douni's next task Zhang Qiang has already arranged, and after adjusting the deployment, he will immediately attack Houma Mansion, and the Yuncheng Mansion behind will be defended by the field brigade.

After settling down here, Zhang Qiang began to pay attention to Merlin's side.

On the side of Meilinyu, they successfully attacked along the banks of the Yellow River, almost surrounded the coastal provinces, and advanced to Yulin County.

However, the Ninth Field Division, which was a descendant of Merlinyu, was attacked by the Qing army from the coastal province here, and Yao Qisheng may have sensed the purpose of the Huaxia Army and fought back desperately.

80,000 Goguryeo troops and 30,000 Mongol cavalry stormed the troops of the 9th Field Division, which had just taken over the position of the 10th Field Division.

At Gangu Town, a crossroads in the mountains leading to the ferry, a regiment of the 3rd Field Brigade of the 9th Field Division held out for three days, and then was driven out of the town by the enemy and seized this intersection, with two regiments in the rear guarding the road and one guarding the road in front, and the brigade headquarters was stationed in a village not far from the rear, and a steady stream of supplies was transported up by the militia elite brigade and stored here, because this is an important intersection and an important place to blockade the enemy, so a large amount of material guarantee is needed.

A battalion that had escaped and an elite squad of the militia that had escorted supplies were quickly dispatched by the brigade headquarters to various important points in the surrounding hills, and the artillery was sent to higher ground.

The enemy's cavalry arrived.

Three thousand Mongol cavalry crossed the mountain stream path in several ways to reach the outside of the village and rushed towards the village.

The cavalry company directly under the brigade headquarters quickly attacked, and after firing at the enemy for a while, they charged with sabers, and with half of them killed or wounded, they routed more than 1,000 Mongolian cavalry, and then returned to the brigade headquarters, followed by the enemy's cavalry, and the positions in the village were built during this time, and the enemy's cavalry could not rush into the village due to the crossfire.

Under the crossfire, the Mongol cavalry fled, and on the way they were attacked by artillery from the top of the mountain, suffering heavy losses, and were killed and wounded by the fire of the positions built on the mountain, and finally only 200 people fled back, and the rest were lost in the mountains, but this was not important to both sides, because there were not many of them.

The enemy's cavalry was easily routed, which made the officers and men of the 3rd Field Brigade very excited, and even the field regiment, which had previously lost two battalions, was very happy.

But then, under the cover of cavalry and artillery, with a battalion as the main force, they attacked Gangu Town along the mountain road, but they met with great resistance.

The enemy's cavalry came out to harass, and the enemy's cavalry retreated in the face of a dense barrage of guns, but not once, but nearly twenty times, so that the battalion suffered huge casualties, and there were always cavalry who sprang out from unexpected places to inflict heavy losses on the battalion.

After ten miles of marching, this battalion could not go, and the artillery behind could only find high ground and camp, and at the same time had to be covered by cavalry, and the brigade headquarters immediately sent a battalion of an ordinary militia squad to help this battalion consolidate its position, otherwise the battalion of only 300 men was likely to be surrounded and annihilated by the enemy.

The first day passed like this, and on the second day, the 3rd Field Regiment sent a battalion to occupy the hill on the flank, and the 1st Regiment also sent a battalion to detour from the flank to the enemy-defended town of Gangu.

It is also blocked ten miles away from the target.

The brigade headquarters sent a battalion of elite militia brigades to assist them, while dozens of cavalrymen were dispatched.

The enemy again began to attack the convoy of the militia elite brigade that was transporting in their rear, and the militia elite brigade was also nailed on the way to transport, dozens of miles of mountain roads.

According to reconnaissance, the enemy's soldiers and horses were slowly unfolding, and 30,000 Mongolian cavalry were attacking the troops of the Ninth Field Division on the road tens of kilometers long in this area.

The 9th Field Division quickly sent cavalry regimental cavalry to fight the enemy's cavalry, and had an ordinary militia brigade in the rear quickly catch up to support the militia's elite brigade.

and the cavalry drawn from the 1st Brigade in the front came back to protect its rear transport line, and the entire 9th Field Division stopped on the mountain road, and began to build camps, blockade and garrison this area, and launch an attack on the enemy.

After the 2nd Field Brigade sent a regiment of troops to reinforce the 3rd Field Brigade, the 3rd Field Brigade was fully strengthened and began to continue to advance, and another garrison regiment, with the help of two cavalry companies, crossed the camp of the 3rd Regiment and marched towards Gangu Town, where the troops finally reached a place three miles outside Gangu Town.

The field regiment quickly built fortifications, and met the enemy's counterattack with a wave of 3,000 Mongol cavalry, and repelled the enemy, but at night more than 10,000 Goguryeo soldiers pounced, fearless in the face of fierce fire, and at the cost of 2,000 dead and wounded, they entered the camp of the field regiment, and after a night of fierce fighting, the garrison regiment had to abandon the camp and retreat seven miles, retreating into the camp of the previous regiment.

A battalion of nearly 600 men was lost in one night, and a lot of supplies were discarded.

The next day, before they could breathe, the enemy pounced again, nearly 30,000 Goguryeo soldiers with backward Jingai-1 arquebuses, fierce and fierce, more than 3,000 dead and wounded did not retreat, almost into the camp, but they were finally repelled by the artillery fire on the top of the hill and the counterattack of the 3rd Garrison Regiment on the other side, and the position was full of Goguryeo corpses, with a preliminary estimate of more than 4,000 people.

In the afternoon, when the squadron of an elite militia brigade arrived, the strength was more sufficient, and the artillery position was put into the camp by a squad of troops to assist in the defense, and at the same time a squad of 1,000 troops was reinforced to the camp, and a thousand men were left for the battalion headquarters, and finally the strength of the militia elite brigade of 5,000 people was under the cover of artillery fire, under the opening of the cavalry company, bypassed the foot of the mountain, transported a lot of supplies to the second field brigade, and stayed there to strengthen the strength of the second field brigade.

The forces of the other two squads built supply depots along the way, defended them, and the task of transportation was entrusted to the cavalry regiment and the militia general brigade.

After sufficient troops, the 3rd Field Brigade gathered two unrelegated regiments with a total strength of 3,000 men, and at the same time, under the cover of a battalion of artillery, continued to advance towards the town of Gangu, where the enemy was entrenched.

Faced with the onslaught of the enemy's cavalry, the cavalry company continued to give back fire, and finally reached a place three miles outside the town, and entered the previous camp, which had been destroyed but was quickly repaired.

Seeing this, Zhang Qiang felt how difficult the battle of the Ninth Field Division was more than ten days ago, the enemy's strength was as much as five times theirs, and it could be seen that the enemy was worried and panicked about the cutting off of the rear road, so he actually dispatched 100,000 troops to attack the Ninth Field Division.

The arrival of the two militia brigades in the rear made the strength of the Ninth Field Division reach more than 38,000 people, and the reinforcement of the cavalry regiment made the strength of the strength just over 40,000, but Zhang Qiang knew that the enemy would not be satisfied with creating some trouble for the Ninth Field Division, and the loss of only 2,000 troops could not reassure the enemy, and the enemy's offensive in those days lost at least 8,000 cavalry and 8,000 infantry.

This was still a mistake caused by the 9th Field Division's panic and underestimation of the enemy, and if it had set up a serious position, the 9th Field Division could have completely defeated or defeated the enemy's attack of 100,000 troops.

However, at that time, the enemy will not have 100,000 troops, but 300,000 or even 500,000 or even 500,000 troops, because Shaanxi Prefecture has just been occupied by the Huaxia Army, and a lot of work has not yet been completed, and the enemy is likely to recruit the troops of the people and landlords around the coastal provinces to join, so the test of the Merlin Fish Corps is coming.

The strength of the eighth, ninth, tenth, and four field divisions is less than 50,000, plus two militia brigades, but more than 60,000 soldiers and horses, and a cavalry brigade has been assigned to the Baghyalu Corps, so only the rear garrison brigade can be used.

In this way, it is not enough to fill the 100,000 troops, and the enemy has nearly 500,000 troops, and the disparity in strength is huge.

If the enemy draws all his forces back to fight for the junction and wants to escape back to Shanxi Prefecture, then in the face of the fact that the Merlinyu Corps, which has five times the strength of his own, can not defend the banks of the Yellow River for nearly a few hundred miles, and the 10th Field Division is going to support the field division of Gaohui, it will definitely not be possible to retreat, then the pressure on the 9th Field Division will be greater.

Thinking of this, he asked Wang Yuqun to call back and ordered him to immediately gather all the remaining forces of the Eighth Field Division, and immediately go north to the Weinan Plain to support the Merlinyu and make the Merlinyu Corps complete.

Then he issued an order to the Hubei Prefecture in the rear, and immediately transferred two garrison brigades to take over the defense of Henan Prefecture, and after Wang Yuqun left, the troops of Henan Prefecture were empty.

The garrison brigade was transferred to Wan Douni by him and entered Shanxi Prefecture, another garrison brigade could not defend such a large place no matter what, and there was also a garrison brigade that could not be moved, and they guarded the eastern section of Sanmenxia to prevent the enemy from jumping over the wall and attacking the hinterland of Henan Prefecture.

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