Chapter 129: Stone Tower Rebels
In the end, Fukangan still broke through the low wall formation of the Third Division, but it did take five days, and this was still the rear to see that Fukangan was repeatedly frustrated and sent a partial division to make a detour behind the enemy, and the Third Division saw that it could not do anything before retreating.
Fukangan fought for five days and lost two or three thousand, took the mountain pass, and the army continued to move forward, but just after walking more than a hundred miles, the enemy set up camp on the other side of the river, preparing to block the Qing army from crossing the river.
Fukangan hated itchy, but fortunately, there were many of them, and they crossed the river at the same time, and the other party successfully allowed them to gain a firm foothold on the other side of the river. After that, he moved forward and sniped at the mountain, and on the way, Fukangan consumed more than 10,000 soldiers, stopped and walked for half a month before he could be considered a hundred miles close to the legendary base.
Li Qingyuan also used this half a month to urgently train these soldiers, ready to fight a decisive battle with the Qing army, but not long after Li Qingyuan set off, news came from Shilou County, Shilou squires secretly attacked Shilou County with the cooperation of the landlords in the county, and now Shilou County has been occupied by rebels.
For Li Qingyuan, these people are rebels, but for the Qing army, this is definitely good news, Li Qingyuan expected that after the army was withdrawn, the war would drag on for a long time, and some people would not give up, but he didn't expect that they would really succeed.
The only good news was that the soldiers of the two companies in the city reacted quickly and were able to withdraw from the city in formation, with few casualties.
Li Qingyuan was not nervous when he received the news, just like the original mood of suffering from gains and losses in his heart was gone, at first he was afraid that someone would make trouble and cause repeated land reforms, and he was afraid that everyone would lose confidence in them after the repetition, and he was afraid that it would tie his hands and feet.
Now that Puxian County has lost three-quarters of it, and Shilou County has also lost it, he has figured it out instead, if you win, that is, whatever you say is what you say, and it is useless to lose the rear defense.
Therefore, Li Qingyuan decided to defeat the Qing army in front of him first, and then turn back to quell the rebellion, the original 3,500 people increased by 500 after more than ten days, and now it has reached 4,02, plus the 1,500 people of the third division, Li Qingyuan already has nearly 6,000 troops in his hands.
When he was in Shandong, Li Qingyuan had already proved that when the musketeers reached a certain size, fighting against the cold-armed army was like chopping melons and vegetables.
What's more, after Li Qingyuan had the last command experience, he was more confident and more calm this time.
The third division retreated for the last time, and this time Fukangan still sent 2,000 men to rush up with shields as usual, but this time the opponent's artillery suddenly became dense, and before Fukangan could react, his 2,000 soldiers were driven back.
He was stunned, how did he teach the bandits to come to reinforcements? Sent another 4,000 people to charge, this time they were still beaten back, and the number of enemies really couldn't see any change, Fukangan fought for a day and gradually realized that something was wrong, this time the bandits seemed to resist very tenaciously, not at all like before, Fukangan felt that he must have entered the core area of the other party, so the other party resisted fiercely.
Then why hesitate to continue playing! Fukangan sent more people to attack in turn the next day, but after another day of fighting or no progress, the follow-up troops followed up the next night, and the main force arrived without Fukangan, this way Fukangan lost more than 10,000 casualties, and often could not attack for a long time to wait for the army to use artillery to break the enemy.
As soon as the bandits saw that the cannon arrived, they hurriedly withdrew, and Fukangan chased after him again, and was blocked again, so after several times, everyone had no respect for this young general, and felt that the other party was like a waste.
On the third day of the army, the artillery was set up, and the Qing army began to bombard, but this time the Qing army obviously miscalculated, and had not yet bombarded a few cannons, and the bandits did not retreat but advanced, and quickly engaged the troops in front, and the artillery just stopped for a while, and the front came to ask for help, and the Qing army saw that the other party came out of the low wall, and felt that the opportunity had come, and immediately sent more troops to try to annihilate this bandit.
Gradually, there were more than 10,000 Qing troops on the front line, and the two sides only saw the smoke of gunpowder and could not see the figures, just as the Qing army was waiting for the results of the front line, suddenly there was gunfire on the left, and then there were gunshots on the right, and the Qing army immediately panicked, and this formation seemed to be surrounded?
The panic did not last long, and the left and right flanks of the Qing army sent a signal for help, and the Qing army immediately mobilized manpower to support the two wings.
At this time, there were 20,000 people sent to the front line, and there were 15,000 on the left and right wings, and the commander of the Qing army only had more than 10,000 people left.
At this time, they finally remembered the transcript of Fukangan's interrogation of the bandit leader, this bandit had multiple musket troops, numbering more than 10,000, and this time it seemed that the bandit had come to reinforcements.
Everyone suddenly remembered a question that they had been ignoring, the other party's one or two thousand people had already beaten their own 80,000 people like this, what would happen if there were 10,000 people?
After the reinforcements in the rear were cut off, the front line was the most tight and retreated, and before the Qing generals had time to say, the fourth bandit army suddenly killed near the camp and began to attack the Qing army's camp.
Although there were more than 10,000 people near the camp at this time, most of them were logistics and wounded soldiers, and they were soon overwhelmed.
This battle came too suddenly, the Qing army was only ready to break through the interception of the bandits and continue to advance, how could it suddenly become a decisive battle, the other side had been planning for a long time, and their side was really unprepared, the Qing army began to take care of one or the other in the face of the multi-way attack of the bandits, and gradually the banner of the Chinese army began to retreat.
Li Qingyuan stood on the building car not far away and looked at the situation on the battlefield, the Qing army had been attacked and retreated, the Chinese army reinforced two battalions and then there was no problem in dealing with the 20,000 people of the Qing army, five on the left and right wings won the business and fought impressively, and the three battalions of the Qing army also forced the Qing army to retreat, and now Li Qingyuan was already in an advantage on the battlefield, but he still lacked a little fire to defeat the other party.
And Li Qingyuan only has two battalions in his hands, and it is difficult to change the situation of the battle in a short time wherever he invests, and in the end, Li Qingyuan gritted his teeth and decided to raid the opponent's Chinese army, and the victory or defeat is here!
Under the leadership of Li Qingyuan, the two battalions quickly inserted into the front line of the Qing army, and the Qing army fought for so long and gradually figured out Li Qingyuan's routine, so although he was retreating now, he did not panic, and when Li Qingyuan came, the other party could still use the bird gun to counterattack and shoot.
Li Qingyuan's last two battalions came up after the Qing army's formation was loosened, Li Qingyuan saw this opportunity and immediately ordered a musket battalion to attack the vacillating place, under the powerful firepower, that gap was finally too late to fill, the more it tore bigger, the Qing army finally began to retreat in great strides before dusk came.
The retreat of the Chinese army caused the other departments to lose confidence in resistance, and the Qing army began to retreat on all fronts, and retreating turned into a rout...