Chapter 089 Rescue Qingyuan (Final)
Contrary to his wishes, when Zhu Youlang led his troops to the secret wharf on the west bank of the Beijiang River, the Qing army's more than 20,000 battles and auxiliaries had all crossed the Beijiang River and reached the east bank. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The battle of Qingyuan lasted for nearly two months, the Qing army finally retreated due to lack of food and salary, and returned to the base camp in Guangzhou, but although the final defense battle was won, the Ming army, especially the guards of the Son of Heaven, suffered heavy losses, and in the battle of the night attack, because he accidentally fell into the trap of Li Chengdong, the commander of the Qing army, he lost nearly 3,000 cavalry at once, most of which were Jiao Lian's old troops, and the overall combat strength was higher than the average level of the guards and the army. Although the Qing army suffered even greater losses in this battle, not only did it lose thousands of land divisions and cavalry, but also the 5,000 main naval divisions, except for the hundreds of men and horses that broke through and escaped at the end, and dozens of warships, almost all of them were wiped out.
After the war, in addition to leaving some necessary manpower to be responsible for the aftermath of Qingyuan City, Zhu Youlang took thousands of remnants of the righteous army of Sanzhong and thousands of guards to return to Zhaoqing by boat along the Beijiang River to the south, and at the same time issued an order to relocate the center of the line to Zhaoqing, the capital of Lindu, and all the ministers of the Wuzhou cabinet moved into Lindu to work, and the palace dependents in the palace of King Gui also welcomed Zhaoqing.
After this battle, Guangdong took Sanshui City as the dividing line, was divided into two by the Ming army and the Qing army, within a month before and after the siege of Qingyuan, Zhu Youlang had divided part of the troops and horses in Zhaoqing, non-stop, and successively recovered the empty Zhaoqing Mansion, Luoding Prefecture, Gaozhou Mansion, Leizhou Mansion and Qiongzhou Mansion and other state capitals, and swept away the Qing army forces in these places, but the remnants of the Qing army still firmly occupied Chaozhou, Huizhou, Guangzhou, Nanxiong, Shaozhou and other state capitals, and the power should not be underestimated.
First of all, they could not flexibly use the tactics of military formations, the technique of cavalry shooting and stabbing was not as good as that of the Qing army, the physical strength of protracted combat was not as good as that of the Qing army, the victory was arrogant, and the defeat was scattered, and the combat discipline and combat will were still a little lacking, and the actual combat experience was now available, and it was necessary to formulate reasonable training regulations and continue to strengthen training, and the army must not only train its strength and art, but also train its courage and morale.
The maintenance of discipline, only relying on strict punishment and strict law, Liwei Lixin is far from enough, but also should accumulate morale, cultivate a sense of honor, its function is still in Liwei Lixin, the commander to talent as the foundation, talent to hold, lies in the accumulation of majestic vitality. The most taboo is to dye the twilight qi, the root of the qi, then rely on a certain strong will, have a strong will, have a strong and chaste will, long can support or restore vitality, because it is sharp or suffer a heavy setback, it is still not a failure, the ambition festival, the cultivation of a sense of honor is particularly important, do well to obtain permanent continuous strength.
When the generals under his command studied the specific regulations, Zhu Youlang also began to reorganize the righteous army of Sanzhong, after the defense of Qingyuan, there were still more than 8,000 volunteers left under the command of Sanzhong, at the beginning they were in order to fight against the invasion of the Tartars, they were all volunteers who volunteered to enlist in the army, and there were many scholars and scholars who were full of enthusiasm for serving the country, and even the children of businessmen and squires, these young men were all hot-blooded men, good seedlings of soldiers, after a series of bloody battles and elimination, the rest were mature and stable. Every move has a faint killing atmosphere, the only thing lacking at present is the experience of the battle formation, as long as the training is correct and the food is sufficient, you can definitely become an elite soldier in a year.
After more than 8,000 volunteers eliminated the old and weak, there were still more than 5,300 strong, and Zhu Youlang scattered these strong into the guards and pro-army horse infantry army, and led the old to the new, reorganized and trained. The guards originally had more than 10,000 soldiers and auxiliaries, and after several battles, especially after the night raid, they suffered heavy losses, and there were more than 6,700 soldiers and auxiliaries left, and after adding more than 5,300 strong, they immediately became more than 12,000 people, plus the more than 1,000 guards and soldiers who were originally left in Wuzhou, and the total number of guards and soldiers exceeded 13,000. It's not that he doesn't want to recruit and expand the army, it's that the central financial resources are limited.
This is also a helpless thing, the monthly campaign, the rear food consumption is huge, the original Ding Kuichu left more than 800,000 taels of stolen money, all used in the war, the household has long been bitter, pro-conscription of the army's armament, military salary, military food, try to see these expenses, which one can be saved? Which one can be mitigated? Moreover, every expenditure is a large head, and the army in the campaign is a bottomless pit, and now there is not much left of the household government's inventory of silver and grain, and the provincial governments of Guangdong have just recovered, and they are still in the process of taking over and familiarizing, and the tax revenue has not yet been confiscated, if the center cannot open up financial resources in time and find a way to get enough money and food, let alone expand the army, it is difficult to say whether it can maintain the existing number of troops. If the imperial court does not have enough money, it will inevitably be paralyzed, and the lack of a material basis for war will also lead to defeat, which is an iron law that no one can change.