Chapter 8 Unique Firepower Configuration
After the discussion stopped, Jiang Chuan gave the final order:
Shanjia led the vanguard army to meet Hao Shaoqi's headquarters tomorrow, and Baishan's 30,000 right army responded as a reserve.
Di Qing's 30,000 left army avoided Hao Shaoqi's headquarters and marched towards Tianjin Wei, making a posture of attacking Tianjin Wei, attracting the attention of Li Zicheng's main force.
After the mountain armor defeated Hao Shaoqi's department, the right army of Baishan took over the battlefield and cleaned up the battlefield.
The 30,000 vanguard army of Shanjia and the 20,000 Guanning army led by Qi Wentai continued to approach along the official road Tianjin Wei, echoing Di Qing and exerting more pressure on Li Zicheng's side, forcing Li Zicheng to put more troops into Tianjin Wei.
Do not fall in love with the enemy after receiving it, quickly crush the enemy with the most fierce offensive, advance forward, keep contact between the front army and the left army and keep a distance, not too far.
After cleaning up the battlefield, Baishan's right army quickly took over the defense of Shanhaiguan, and at the same time disorganized the remaining 20,000 Guanning troops into various battalions.
Hu Zongxian led 40,000 Chinese troops to assist the right army of Baishan to assist in the defense of Shanhaiguan, and to incorporate 20,000 Guanning troops.
Jiang Chuan took the 3,000 personal guard battalion to the bay twenty miles away from Shanhaiguan to build a wharf and train sailors as soon as possible.
After the order was given, the four of them went back to prepare for tomorrow's expedition.
After Hu Zongxian and the others left, Jiang Chuan looked at the map for a long time, and after thinking carefully about the possible changes on the battlefield, he felt that there were not too many loopholes before he breathed a sigh of relief.
However, after a year of battlefield battles, he also understood that there was never a perfect strategy for battlefield mountain.
The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and many of the plans made in advance have turned out to be useless, and in the end it is the commander-in-chief's on-the-spot command ability and the quality of the soldiers and weapons and equipment that they rely on.
War has always been a matter of objective factors that outweigh subjective factors.
This first battle since entering the customs must be fought well, and it is necessary to show the prestige of the Jiang Jiajun, to completely hurt Li Zicheng's Dashun army, to let the prestige of the Jiang Jiajun spread all over the world, and to let Li Zicheng's Dashun army see the banner of the Jiang Jiajun in the future, and the morale will be weakened before fighting, and this can be regarded as achieving the goal.
In order to strengthen the firepower of the various armies, Jiang Chuan almost gave up his old roots this time and did his best to strengthen the firepower of the various armies.
Whether it was the forward army of Shanjia, or the right army of Baishan, Di Qing's left army, they were all equipped with at least fifty field guns and enough shells.
At the same time, each unit was armed with a thousand musketeers and a thousand grenadiers.
Such a firepower configuration Jiang Chuan dare not say that it is sideways in this world, at least it is unique in the land of Daming.
And Jiangchuan's own Chinese army has even more powerful firepower, and there are as many as a hundred field artillery pieces alone, not including twenty red-coated cannons.
In addition, there were two thousand musketeers and two thousand grenadiers.
Such a large firearms force is a huge burden on the logistics of the army. If it were left on the general army, at least tens of thousands of civilians would have to be requisitioned to complete such a huge logistical supply.
However, for Jiang Chuan, this problem does not exist.
Because there is a two-way exchange channel between him and the fortress base. As long as he is in the place, he can get the food, grass and ammunition in the base at any time by exchanging them.
Although the system also charges some handling fees, this is nothing compared to the huge loss along the way to requisition tens of thousands of people.
Therefore, it can almost be said that Jiangchuan's army is a force that does not need logistics, because his logistics warehouses are all carried with him.
Of course, if such a huge army does not have logistics and transportation troops, others will definitely be suspicious. Therefore, in order to hide people's eyes, Jiang Chuan let Li Yongnian, the general soldier of Datong, and Mu Zuo, the prefect of Datong, serve as the transfer envoy and deputy transfer envoy.
The larger the army, the more perfect and smooth logistics are needed. If logistics can't keep up, the bigger the army, the greater the disaster.
Therefore, Li Zicheng's 500,000-strong army attacked the capital, which looked majestic and unstoppable, but in fact it also produced huge logistical pressure.
Logistics has become a major weakness of Li Zicheng, but Jiang Chuan does not have this weakness.
If Li Zicheng wants to fight Jiangchuan's logistics idea, then he is destined to be disappointed.
You don't have my advantages, I don't have your shortcomings, this battle is actually in a sense Jiangchuan is already invincible.
There was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, after breakfast, there was a scout to report that Hao Shaoqi's vanguard had arrived thirty miles away from Shanhaiguan.
This battle was completely commanded by the Shanjia, and no one else intervened.
Jiang Chuan took the guard battalion to the harbor twenty miles away early in the morning.
After Shanjia received the scout's report, he analyzed that Hao Shaoqi should not know that Shanhaiguan had changed hands now, and should still think that Zu Dashou was guarding Shanhaiguan, so he decided to let Qi Wentai send a Ming cavalry to meet the enemy.
Qi Wentai sent a thousand-strong cavalry team to meet Hao Shaoqi.
Hao Shaoqi's side really didn't know that Shanhaiguan had changed hands.
Hao Shaoqi followed Li Zicheng to start breakfast from Mizhi, and for so many years he also fought in the south and the north, because he was brave in battle, and he was brave and strategic, so he was deeply valued by Li Zicheng.
Of the 50,000 horses he brought with him this time, 10,000 were old camp brothers who started with Li Zicheng, and the other 40,000 were recruited eggs, to put it bluntly, they were actually just a group of farmers who had just put down their hoes and picked up knives and guns.
If such a soldier fights with the wind, it is okay, but if he encounters the enemy's instigation, he will be frightened when he sees so many black and oppressive heads.
However, once they encounter a tough battle, these people are also the first to collapse.
However, Li Zicheng fought for most of the Ming Dynasty, except for the big loss in the hands of the dead Yuan Chonghuan, he never encountered any hard opponents, so he slowly swelled up, and felt that with his prestige, every city everywhere he went only surrendered, how could anyone dare to resist.
This expansion naturally affected these generals under him.
Of course, Li Zicheng's feeling is actually not wrong, because it has indeed been verified in the process of conquering the city all the way.
Most of the defenders of the city opened the door and surrendered when they saw the banner of the Dashun army, and they were also expected to flee in the wind. Only during the attack on Kaifeng Mansion in Yuzhou encountered some resistance.
After Li Zicheng broke the city, he killed Ji Zhengmao, the blessed king of the Ming royal family in Kaifeng, and then stewed it in a cauldron and ate it.
This time, Li Zicheng's murderous reputation spread all over the world, and no city dared to resist anymore.
Therefore, the countless easy victories along the way made Hao Shaoqi have a feeling that as soon as the Shanhaiguan guards saw their 50,000 horses, they would definitely open the city and surrender immediately, and his mission on this trip would be easily completed.
So when he heard the scout report that there was a team of Ming cavalry rushing in front, Hao Shaoqi couldn't believe his ears.
It wasn't until he confirmed it again and again that he laughed wildly, and finally met a kind of one, and this time he could have a good fight.
In the long-term conquest and killing, the hearts of these people have been occupied by the violent and bloodthirsty factor, so when they heard that someone dared to take the initiative to seek death without long eyes, those old camp men and horses all howled excitedly one by one.
The recruits who followed behind also coaxed, and the 50,000 horses looked like a rainbow and no one could stop them.
"Zhu Dakui, take your people to Lao Tzu, and let these melons see how powerful our old camp brothers are." Hao Shaoqi pointed with a horsewhip and ordered loudly to a black man next to him.
"Okay, Brother Hao, just wait for the good news from Elao Zhu." The black man Zhu Dakui slapped his chest with a big grin in the local dialect of Shaanzhou, and led his men and horses to rush forward with a hula.