Chapter 681: The Battle of Zun and Yong
Negotiations between the two sides broke down, and war clouds once again covered the entire Shanhaiguan and beyond. But both sides are thunder, rain is small, the Manchu Qing also had a few small-scale sieges, but in order to reduce casualties, only the use of mighty general artillery, the artillery of Shanhaiguan closed the gate from afar.
No matter how the Manchus reformed the Hongyi cannon, before the invention of the breech gun, the range of the cannons on both sides was almost the same. The Hongyi cannons of the Xuanjia Army had a condescending advantage on the city walls, and their firing range was much higher than that of the Manchu artillery positions.
After three or five days of mutual bombardment, the Manchu artillery suffered greater losses. Seeing that if it continued like this, it would not take more than a month for the dozens of artillery pieces he had accumulated in the past six years to be lost, so he stopped the bombardment with the Xuanjia Army.
After the shelling stopped, the two sides again fell into a dull confrontation and did not attack again. Because the battlefield that the two sides are concerned about is not in Shanhaiguan, but in Zunhua and Yongping.
The results of the battles of Zunhua and Yongping were transmitted to Shanhaiguan a month later.
In recent years, due to the position of the previous Daishan Emperor Taiji line, the two flags of Zhenghong and Red were suppressed by Dolgon. Whether it is the selection of soldiers or the equipment for combat, they are all rations that belong to the five banners under the standard.
The soldiers of the Second Banner themselves are far inferior to the two flags of Zhengbai and inlaid with white, and they are fighting in the Guannai Away Battle, and they also encounter a mixed combat group of Xuanjia Iron Cavalry and Tanks, so they are undefeated.
The first battle between the two sides broke out in Yongping.
The 10,000-8 Banner Iron Cavalry inlaid with the Red Flag Terhu faced the mixed army of Xuanjia Iron Cavalry and Tank.
Liu Yiliang's tanks had already trained in the tactics of coordinating with the cavalry, and the 25 tanks were arranged in a formation of three or three, and the three tanks were in a group to fight, and they could shoot at the approaching Eight Banners Iron Cavalry without dead ends.
The Tartars had never seen a steel monster like a tank on the battlefield, and as soon as they clashed, twenty-five tanks broke up and cut through the formation of the Tartars.
A hundred Tartars fought around a tank, unable to cut or poke, but they were constantly being killed by bullets from the shooting holes of other tanks.
The tank was surrounded by Tartar soldiers who had died in battle, as well as the corpses of war horses, which were piled up, which greatly restricted the movement of the tank, and it was very difficult to move back and forth, and it could only rotate in place.
This side of the Tartars was overwhelmed by the tanks, and that side of the Chigutai also led the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry to charge, slaughtering the scattered Tartar soldiers.
The individual combat ability of the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry is not inferior, and there is also a numerical advantage, plus the Tartar soldiers have long been out of formation, and they were hit by the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, and they immediately fell behind.
Telhu, the second generation of the Eight Banners, relied on the merits of his father and brother to inherit the position of the flag owner with the red flag. I have never been on the battlefield a few times in my life, where will there be the courage of the ancestors. When he saw that something was wrong, he was so frightened that he hurriedly withdrew his troops and ordered the Tartar soldiers with red flags to retreat immediately, and they didn't even dare to return to Yongping City, so they fled to Zunhua.
In the battle of Yongping, the red flag lost 4,000 Tartar soldiers, and 6,000 escaped, and all the looted grain and silver were left in Yongping City, which was regarded as a reward for the Xuanjia army.
Chigutai arranged for the Guanning army to defend Yongping, so he led the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry to chase and kill the rout soldiers with red flags, and killed them all the way to the city of Zunhua, killing one or two thousand people along the way.
The two flags of Zhenghong and inlaid red converged in Zunhua City, and there were 15,000 soldiers and horses.
Telhu was defeated by the mixed cavalry and tank army of the Xuanjia Army, and repeatedly exaggerated the horror of the Xuanjia Army's tanks, and strongly demanded that the Xuanjia Army immediately withdraw from the pass before the Xuanjia Army pursued Zunhua. It is better to bear the responsibility of the defeated army than to keep the seedlings of the two red flags.
Shuotuo is a battle-hardened general, who has always regarded the Ming army as a mustard, plus two red flags and 15,000 soldiers and horses, how could he be scared back without a fight? This has never been seen in the history of the Manchu and Ming wars. Shuotuo insisted again and again in Zunhua to fight the Xuanjia army, and if it failed, it would not be too late to withdraw.
Telhu was afraid of the tanks of the Xuanjia Army, and he was unwilling to accompany Shuotuo to Zunhua to die. It happened that Zhou Yuji's Jin army got the news from Fang Yuan, and immediately sent 20,000 people to block the Great Wall checkpoint again, wanting to snipe the Tartar soldiers in the Great Wall, close the door and beat the dogs.
Telhu found an excuse and asked the only remaining 5,000 Red Banner soldiers to go north to break through the blockade of the Great Wall Pass, and Shuotuo wanted to meet the Xuanjia Army and stayed in Zunhua.
On the second day of Telhu's hasty northward advance, the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry was killed under the city of Zunhua. Since the Tartar soldiers did not leave the city, Chigutai did not rush to attack the city, but stationed under Zunhua City, while starting to dig trenches and start blockading Zunhua City, while waiting for the support of follow-up tank troops.
Shuotuo is also a veteran of the battlefield, and he learned about the power of the Xuanjia Army tank from Telhu's mouth, and he also saw through the weakness of this tank at a glance, that is, the mobility is very poor. Shuotuo gathered 6,000 soldiers and horses, and took advantage of the Chigutai siege of Zunhua City to sneak out of the city first and go to attack the less mobile tank troops.
In a hundred miles east of Zunhua City, Shuotuo's headquarters encountered a tank battalion that rushed to Zunhua City to support, and the Battle of Zunhua broke out again.
Liu Yiliang's tank troops marched, fed, and lived in the tank on weekdays, and only needed to go out of the tank for four hours every day when the tank was charging. Because the tank battalion was originally the unit with the strongest individual combat effectiveness in the establishment of the Xuanjia Army, there was no arrangement for the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry to escort them along the way.
When Shuoto's Tartar soldiers arrived, it was the time to rest at night, and they immediately ordered a surprise attack on Liu Yiliang's tank battalion. As long as this strange tank battalion is annihilated in one fell swoop, it can slightly save the situation of the two red flags that were beaten to the ground.
The officers and men of the tank battalion were also in a panic when they encountered a sneak attack by a large force of Tartar soldiers, and hurriedly put the guns of the guns, loaded with gunpowder and bullets, and threw themselves into battle one after another.
The two sides fought fiercely for two hours in the night, and the Tartars led by Shuoto used their strength to take advantage of the sneak attack, and used the advantage of the sneak attack to knock down and throw incendiary packets into the shooting holes, destroying three tanks with manpower.
But as the battle continued, the officers and men of the tank battalion gradually stabilized their morale from the initial panic, began to drive and start the tank, and launched a fierce counterattack against the Tartars.
After another hour of fighting, the tanks, which had the advantage of generational advantage, gradually gained the upper hand, shooting and killing at least one or two thousand Tartar soldiers, and the corpses were scattered all over the ground.
When dawn came again, Shuoto, who had fought fiercely all night, finally declared that he had not been able to do anything, and at the cost of losing 3,000 Tartar soldiers, relying on the advantage of a sneak attack, he only destroyed eight or nine tanks. If it continues to be consumed like this, the Zhenghong Banner will inevitably be wiped out.
Shuotuo can be regarded as a real comprehension of the power of the tank, Telhu is indeed not exaggerating, to defeat this kind of hard as iron chariot with flesh and blood, it takes at least more than 10,000 Eight Banners Iron Cavalry to be able to do it.
And this kind of consumption, he really can't hold on, so he can only choose to retreat helplessly.
In the battle of Zunhua, Zhenghongqi lost 3 or 4,000 soldiers and horses, but relying on the advantage of sneak attack, it finally destroyed nine tanks.
Shuotuo led the army back to Zunhua City, and no longer hesitated, and immediately led the army to flee north.
Chigutai also received the military report of the battle between the Tartar soldiers and the tank battalion, and saw that the Tartar soldiers had fled north, which was already at the end of the road, so he immediately ordered 20,000 Xuanjia iron cavalry to pursue and eliminate the evil.
Terhu's side attacked the Great Wall pass of Jizhen, Zhou Yuji fought with the huge casualties of the Jin army, and still sniped the Tartar soldiers under the pass, and for two days, the red flag still failed to break through the Great Wall defense line.
The two cavalry of Shuotuo and Chigutai chased to Jizhen one after the other, there was an interception in front and a chasing soldier in the rear, and the remaining 10,000 Tartar soldiers of Shuotuo and Telhu were already at the end of the road, so they could only choose to fight back desperately against the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry before the tank troops rushed to support, and fought the last battle with the 20,000 Xuanjia Iron Cavalry of Chigutai in Jizhen.
Before Chigutai set out on the expedition, he was strictly ordered by Fang Yuan, and he could only lead the army to fight head-on with the soldiers and horses of the two red flags who were trapped in the beast battle at all costs.
The 30,000 iron horsemen of both sides fought for two days and two nights outside the Great Wall Pass in Jizhen.
The two sides are constantly fighting back and forth, and the drums of war are shaking the sky. The spectacular scene of 30,000-level pure cavalry fighting was dumbfounded by the Jin army on the pass. Zhou Yuji was even more silent, with the combat power of the Jin army, he would never be able to go a few rounds on the battlefield of this kind of Jin Ge Iron Horse, and he would inevitably be defeated and scattered. In other words, with the powerful combat power displayed by the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry and the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry under the pass, no matter who wins or loses in this battle, it is impossible for the Imperial Court of the capital to have the power to return to the sky, so it can only sit back and wait for destruction.
Two days later, the results of this pure cavalry frontal battle between the Ming army and the Tartar soldiers were revealed.
In the battle of Jizhen, the two red flags and 10,000 Tartar soldiers were all wiped out, and the armor was gone.
Shuotuo and Telhu disguised themselves as civilians, and relied on the cover of more than 100 personal soldiers to flee over the mountains and mountains to the outside of the pass. The banner owner of the red flag, Shuotuo, the son of Daishan, accidentally fell into the deep valley and died at the bottom of the valley when he crossed the mountains and mountains. Telhu was spared and fled to the camp outside Shanhaiguan to report the defeat to Dolgon.