Section 453

The Qing army occupied the old border wall, and then advanced thirty miles to Baishui, and then stood still, presumably waiting for food and baggage or reinforcements, and the two sides had a rare opportunity to relax their nervous nerves before the battle.

The Senate and the House of Representatives are very satisfied with the course of the war, and the Datong Federation has gradually pushed the opponent into a desperate situation by means of military strikes, economic sanctions, and inducement and division, and this kind of game of cat and mouse is really fun, but the Qing State is not at ease and waits for death but has to make desperate efforts, which makes the parliamentarians very unhappy, and at the same time is worried that Bai Xianzhi will capsize in the gutter, and Bao Zhen, vice speaker of the House of Representatives, believes that the role of the House must be shown at a critical time, so the House delegation headed by Senator Sun Qifeng and House Member Wang Chong was sent to the Baishui camp.

The delegation of the House of Representatives was warmly welcomed by the officers and men of the whole army, and Sun Qifeng, a virtuous and respected Fengzhou sage, first made a speech: This is a war between freedom and slavery, equality and autocracy, benevolence and tyranny, the Datong Federation is fighting to defend justice and human rights, it is a move of the people to respond to the heavens, the Senate and the House of Representatives fully support the front, the militias of Datong, Naturalization, and Xinghe are about to arrive, and the militias of Baoketu and Dongsheng have also embarked on the journey, and with the strong Federation as the backing, we will definitely be able to win and must achieve victory.

Wang Zheng was very realistic, and made three commitments on behalf of the parliament: first, all food and military weapons would be preferential; second, military merit and bereavement pension are all preferred; Thirdly, the battle is so significant that the House of Representatives will erect a monument to commemorate it after the victory, and inscribe the names of all those who made meritorious contributions and those who died in the war for future generations to pay their respects.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have asked my colleagues to tell you that we may consider smashing the enemy with silver if there is a real need." Wang re-said the last serious book.

The audience burst into laughter, and Wang couldn't help laughing, beckoning to his entourage, and boxes of sugar cubes and tobacco were immediately carried to the front of the team, and the soldiers cheered thunderously.

In the midst of laughter, the delegation of the House of Representatives was welcomed into the big tent of the Chinese army, and Wang played a new trick again, took out a few flying tickets and put them on the Shuai case: "These are the five flying tickets of the naturalized silver banknote bank, a total of one million yuan, Bai Shuai can be distributed to the generals, do a good job, we can't treat everyone." ”

As soon as these words came out, Sun Shoufa, Hou Shijie, Jin Guoding and other generals all showed gloom on their faces, and Ge Curry sneered and asked, "Mr. Wang, what do you mean by this?" ”

"It doesn't mean anything else, the generals have worked hard, this is a little bit of the Liberal Party's heart." Wang replied with some embarrassment.

Bai Xianzhi picked up the ticket and played for a while, then threw it on the table casually: "Lao Wang, if it weren't for many years of friendship, I would think you were insulting us, put the ticket away, please tell the Liberal Party princes, we are not corrupt Ming officials and soldiers, we know how to fight the war, and we don't need to worry about it." ”

"Strong, General!" Sun Qifeng clapped his hands, the bosses of the Liberal Party made themselves smart and spent money to show their favor, this time they hit the nail, they deserve it!

That night, Sun Qifeng sent a letter to the House of Representatives to report the incident, and at the end of the letter, he wrote, "The federal army is not a corrupt Ming official army, and this battle will definitely be won."

The arrival of the House delegation greatly boosted morale, Adahai and Seng Ge led the cavalry of the two sentinels of the Wuxuan School to patrol routinely, and occasionally met with a green battalion cavalry, and they chased and rushed into the camp all the way, and easily captured more than 1,000 green battalion soldiers - Adahai and Seng Ge grew up on horseback since childhood, and entered the Wuxuan School to practice martial arts at the age of ten years, and their combat power was naturally strong, and a small victory was nothing, but the soldiers were full of confidence, and their desire to fight was instantly high, and they wanted to immediately trample the Qing army under their feet - in March of the third year of the RepublicThe Datong army crossed Baishui, with Bu Yi Town and Bu Er Town as the forerunner, and the Second Town of Guns and Artillery as the rear response, and put on a commonly used "Pin" character formation to attack first.

The Qing army also waited for the Han army to come to the Wuzhen Chao Harbin Army led by the Blue Banner Gushan Ezhen Tong Tulai, the Yellow Flag Gushan Ezhen Liu Zhiyuan, and the Blue Flag Gushan Ezhen Li Guohan also brought grain and grass, and the whole army was also high-spirited, and strode forward to the Datong Army to a distance of five miles and waited for the battle.

Duoduo inspected the 50,000 green battalion soldiers on horseback, and ordered the Han officials to send a message: This battle camp sits in a row, and the soldiers must be brave and first, and must not be slack. The guards immediately used sharp axes to split dozens of boxes, and the silver of white flowers was scattered all over the ground, and the green battalion soldiers suddenly became excited, and the shouts of "Long live the Qing Emperor, long live, long live, long live" rang out.

The Datong army is getting closer and closer, several cannons smashed into the Qing army's array, Tong Tulai quickly commanded the Wuzhen Chao Harbin army to return fire, Datong's eighteen-pounder new breech cannon and the Qing country's Hongyi cannon directly engaged each other, and the cannon rumbled continuously. Duoduo looked calm, waved his hand and ordered the cavalry of the Green Battalion to flank the two flanks of the Datong Army, and the foot soldiers attacked the junction of the Datong Army's Bu 1 Town and Bu 2 Town with all their might.

Bu Yi Town, Bu Er Town all boast of the world's first attack power, some are veterans of a hundred battles, guns take turns to fire salvos and rain of arrows to make up for the reloading gap, long-range attacks are almost impermeable, and the veterans on both wings also make a cameo appearance in the cavalry, and teach the green battalion cavalry a hard lesson. The infantry of the Datong army was solid as a rock, and the Qing army's attack came like a huge wave, and then smashed into pieces, and the cavalry did not dare to provoke the Datong veterans on both flanks, and turned to the front to assist the infantry attack.

The green battalion soldiers suffered continuous setbacks, but did not dare to retreat, and were driven by the Eight Banners to launch wave after wave of attacks, even the cavalry also rushed into battle, and the continuous crazy onslaught received results, the green battalion soldiers finally had a chance to fight hand-to-hand, and the spearmen of the Datong Army stabbed down countless opponents, but still could not block the repeated impact of the dense flow of people, and the junction of the two towns began to loosen.

Today's evil sect, these green battalion soldiers are as crazy as the thieves in the past, forget it, no one can stop the hooligans who know martial arts, Lao Tzu can't afford to die, let you make a move first - Sun Shoufa is a little passive, the Qing Army's Eight Banners Army has never moved, and his main force does not dare to move, only the Right Association is fighting alone in front, and if it continues to fight like this, it will definitely suffer, he shook his head and ordered: "Send arrows to inform Hou Madman, let the opening let the Qing army come in and fight." ”

Hou Shijie must not be uncomfortable, immediately responded, Bu Yi Town, Bu Er Town immediately separated about a mile wide opening, the Qing army rushed in, one head hit the two associations of the two towns of the guns that were waiting for the battle, 7,000 rifles continued to fire volleys, the Qing soldiers fell one by one, but the people behind continued to pour in, the opening was bigger and bigger, and the two associations of Zhu Wende and Zhang Yingyuan of Bu Er Town were besieged on three sides.

On the high ground behind the Qing army's big array, Haninga looked at the dead bodies everywhere in the distance, and said with some hesitation: "Lord Wang, do you want my Eight Banner soldiers to come forward to help, there are too many dead people in the green battalion, don't make any trouble!" ”

"Send cavalry to harass it, and none of the other departments can move, I don't know when Eru will appear? At that time, it will be the real decisive battle," Duoduo put down his clairvoyance and shook his head, seeing that Haning's face had an unbearable look, he lowered his voice and said, "The Qing Dynasty is weakening, and it is too dangerous for these people to stay, and they can't let them go back alive. ”

Bai Xianzhi was also observing the battlefield, and secretly complained in his heart - the Eight Banners Army was unharmed, but firmly controlled the initiative on the battlefield, but the Datong Army was tied hand and foot, and could only use part of the troops to fight against the green battalion soldiers who were several times their own, Duoduo This guy fought smartly, no wonder the president called him the first general of the Qing Dynasty today.

"Wu Laoba, withdraw the heavy artillery to those high ground by the river, be quick!" Bai Xianzhi pondered for a long time and then ordered, and Wu Zhili, the commander of the artillery team, understood and led the two artillery brigades to quickly retreat.

The battle became more fierce and bloody, and the guns of Liu Shuangxi and Tuyuan of the two towns of artillery fired together, so that the green battalion soldiers had almost no power to fight back, but a large number of back-up continued to fill in, and they refused to retreat to defend the opening. At the same time, Zhang Yingyuan and Zhu Wende were also attacked by tens of thousands of green battalion soldiers, and the Wuzhenchao Harbin army also continued to fire cannons to disrupt the formation, and the infantry formation was precarious, so they had to disperse the formation and fight separately, and the fierce battle lasted until the afternoon, Zhu Wende was killed, Zhang Yingyuan was seriously injured, and more than half of the officers and soldiers of the two associations were killed or wounded.

Wu Zhili's artillery team was already in place, and quickly supported the front with artillery fire, the firing range and accuracy of the eighteen-pounder cannon were much higher than that of the Hongyi cannon, and several rounds of artillery were fired over, and the Qing army suffered from chaos and chaos, and Bu Yi Town and Bu Er Town took the opportunity to launch a counterattack and retreat in response to the front drive and the two associations.

Bai Xianzhi understood that there was no chance of winning this battle, so he ordered Bu Yi Town, Bu Er Town to retreat and Gun Gun No. 2 Town to set up a "one" formation, and used the advantage of gun artillery to suppress the opponent's sea of people attack - the Green Battalion soldiers failed in continuous attacks, and after a bloody battle for most of the day, they were sleepy and tired, and they were unable to continue the attack, and the Eight Banners were dead and alive, and the two armies were stalemate until dusk and had to retreat separately.

Bu 1 Town, Bu 2 Town was each crippled a cooperative, the two associations were killed and wounded, the generals tasted the bitterness, no longer speak wild words, after nightfall, Ge Kuli led the militia across the river to respond, covering the whole army to retreat to the west bank of Baishui.

Duoduo didn't care about casualties, and waved his army to continue westward - the shallow river channel of Baishui was narrow, all within the range of the firearms of the Datong army, the green battalion soldiers waded across the river under the dense rain of bullets, and hit their heads in front of the ditches and fortresses on the west bank, and the Datong army continued to launch counterattacks to drive them back to the east bank, but the Eight Banners turned their faces and did not recognize people, and they killed the deserters when they caught them. Forward is dead and backward or dead, the green battalion soldiers went crazy, gritted their teeth and fought viciously for three days, relying on the strength of the crowd and finally gained a foothold on the west bank, at this time, the Datong scout cavalry suddenly appeared nearby, Duoduo did not hesitate to stop the attack, led the whole army to the east - the Qing army retreated, but the Datong army was unable to pursue, the battle was too tragic, more than 20,000 green battalion soldiers were dead on the battlefield, the Datong army also killed more than 5,000 officers and soldiers, the corpses on both sides of the white water were everywhere, and the river was red.

The various units of the Datong Army in Liaodong went south in early February, Chang Shu led Tulichen's cavalry town, Subutai's cavalry six towns through Jinzhou, Ningyuan drove directly to Shanhaiguan, Sun Fuhu led the naval army and the Shandong army, and the new army to threaten Tianjin by sea, and Li Yu led Hadari's cavalry to the second town, Chaolu's cavalry four towns, and Ashu's cavalry seven towns across the Daling River valley to attack the Jizhen border wall - this is the old road for the Qing army to march into Gyeonggi, the thousand-mile border wall is full of loopholes, and it is impossible to prevent it, Dolgon definitely did not think that the doom of the Ming Dynasty would fall on his head, but the Qing Kingdom does not seem to have reached the endAs soon as Li Yu came out of the Daling River Valley, he heard the news that the Qing army had left the fortress, and he had to change his plan and ordered all his troops to chase after the Qing army at full speed.

The Datong Iron Cavalry galloped through the Karaqin grassland, and Shuolei, Tengjisi, Gulusiqib, and Sergulun immediately came out and sent people around to shout "Hutuketu Batulu is back, follow him to fight the Qing army", and the grassland people had confidence again and reunited together. However, the Datong Iron Cavalry went fast and came back faster - the Iron Cavalry had been sleepy and tired for more than 40 days, and when they reached the east of Heishui, they found that Duoduo pounced and desperately attacked, and it was a fool not to run at this time, Li Yu did not hesitate to order the whole army to turn around and retreat north, and the Mongolian troops saw that the situation was not good, and they also followed behind in a swarm.

The Qing army drove away the Datong Iron Cavalry and stopped, and then retreated south to the side wall to replenish the troops and food, the Han army is the Yellow Banner Gushan Ezhen Zu Zerun, and the Red Flag Gushan Ezhen Wu Shoujin was ordered by Dolgon to reinforce Juyong Pass, and is leading 20,000 green battalion soldiers to attack Badaling in Beikou, Duoduo unceremoniously transferred them to his command, on the grounds that if the war outside the pass is not conducive to Juyong Pass, it is useless to fight, and the emperor will go to him to say - the Qing army rested for three days before continuing to pursue the Datong Iron Cavalry to the north, and the Datong Army in Baishui was relieved after replenishing the battle losses, and hurriedly pulled out the camp and set off, The two armies walked north for three days without offending each other, and the Jinlianchuan prairie appeared in front of them, and the Datong army stopped first.

In the camp of the Qing army, the envoy of the Datong army, Yehe Gekuri, proudly threw a sharp arrow at the feet of Duoduo, and then read out the war book aloud - the two countries have been at war for a long time, and the people in the world are uneasy, it is better to decide the victory or defeat in a battle according to the rules of Zhushen, can you dare to fight?

"This is like my brother's words, since the victory is determined by the rules of Zhushen, I defeated the Great Qing Kingdom and handed it over to him to deal with, and if I win, he will have to give up Liaodong, Shandong, Nanzhili, and Zhejiang, does he dare to agree?" Dodor nodded in reply.

"Prince Yu, you have also learned to do business, okay, I am willing to lose the bet, I agreed for the president." Gekuri replied with a smile.

"Fight to the death in three days," Dodor laughed, grabbing an arrow and throwing it at Gcuri's feet, before beckoning to the guards, "Bring me the wine, I'll have a drink with Brother Gcurry today." ”

This kind of war to destroy the country, the commander of the losing side will definitely not steal his life, no matter how much promise is nonsense, the Qing country is obviously weak, and Prince Yu has the heart to become benevolent if he does not succeed - the veteran Haninga and Arzin looked at each other and smiled bitterly, picked up the wine bowl and shouted: "We also have a good drink with Brother Gecuri!" ”

On the prairie, the military flag is unfurled, the trumpet is continuous, the Datong army camp stretches for dozens of miles from south to north, the Shangdu River flows through the camp tents dotted around, and the Chinese army tent by the river is full of joy - the three main forces of Liaodong have arrived, and the elite of the three towns in Baishui has also arrived, and it is not too difficult for more than 60,000 elites to deal with the 70,000 Eight Banner Army, plus 50,000 local defense troops and militiamen, and 10,000 Mongolian young and strong people, Datong generals and Mongolian leaders are convinced that this battle will be won.

The battle meeting ended quickly, everyone flocked to the river, where a bonfire had been set up, a few fat sheep roasted to the aroma, the table was full of pastries, spices and wine, and Adahai and Seng Ge each brought a group of children to play polo for fun - it was indeed a child, the two cavalry posts of the Wuxuan Academy were composed of cadets who had reached the age of sixteen in the junior post, and Ada Hai and Seng Ge were only eighteen years old.

Wine and food to enjoy the game, it's really enjoyable, some people quickly revealed their original form, Shuo Lei thought that the new recruits Gulusi Qibu, Teng Jisi, and Sergulun did not eat well, and they had to teach people how to eat, Aobai and Kupilon also forced Sony and Huaisu to learn to use tableware, after all, everyone should be a civilized person - Shangdu River is leisurely, without the slightest atmosphere of the coming war.

Li Yu sat by the river with Bai Xianzhi, Wang Chong, and Xifu while basking in the sun while eating slowly, Bai Xianzhi complained that Vice President Batur was too soft-hearted, and actually approved a group of hairy children from the junior sentry of the Wuxuan Academy to go to the front, causing him to worry about them all day long.

"However, the Datong Decree stipulates that when the enemy enters the country, men who have reached the age of sixteen have the responsibility of defending the territory, and it is not illegal for them to participate in the war, and they kicked a large battalion of green battalion soldiers is enough to show that the combat strength is strong, it is good to experience it as soon as possible, anyway, the Datong Army will be theirs in the future." Wang drank red again, waved his hand, and said.

Xifu also said: "Some of us Manchurians who set out at the age of fourteen or fifteen are not a big deal. ”

"These children are either the orphans of fallen soldiers or the sons and nephews of high-ranking officials, I can't explain the loss of one person, president, you take them with you, I don't dare to care anymore." Bai Xianzhi shook his head vigorously.

Li Yu nodded, but his eyes glanced to the side and asked, "Gordon, you follow me all day long, and you keep memorizing things with a notebook, do you plan to write a book?" β€”Gordon ran to the army with the Datong militia, and followed his ass for the past two days.

"Yes, President, I intend to write a book about the revolution," Gordon wrote for a moment, then looked up and explained, "England made the Petition of Rights about the same time as Toyoshu made the Naturalization Oath, and the content was almost the same, but Toyosu succeeded, and our king dissolved Parliament, and I will tell the people of England how to make a revolution." ”

The king smiled again: "Father Cui Erding told me that the countries of Europa are inferior to us, there are not many factories, trading companies and banknote shops, the tools are poor, the roads are dilapidated, most of the nobles and commoners are illiterate, and they don't like to take a bath, and they are smelly, so you should really learn from us." ”

Gordon blushed and defended: "But we have the idea, if we give freedom to the people through the revolution, we will definitely be able to catch up with Datong in the future." ”

"You must mention in the book that the revolution is dangerous, and it will be a river of killing and bloodshed." Li Yu reminded.

"But the revolution will shed blood, and this is the price that must be paid to win freedom, and you are not the same?" Gordon shook his head.

"You are wrong, mutual compromise is the only way to win freedom, revolution is only a last resort, and it is more likely to produce tyranny."

"You may be right, but England needs a strong revolutionary leader to change the status quo."

Gcuri is back, this guy must have drunk bad wine and walked staggeringly - President Lee didn't care about the Europa Revolution, he stood up and shouted to the crowd: "When you are full, go back and prepare, there will be a war soon!" ”