Chapter 464: He Shen

The Second Battle of Cangzhou took only seven days from start to finish. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

First, the Qing Zhili Governor Yinglian joined forces with Shu Hede, and at the same time launched an offensive in Cangzhou and Wuding, blocking the logistics line of the Fu Han army. And Chen Ming also pushed the boat down the river, immediately transferred troops back to Cangzhou, and then on the scheduled battlefield, the Fu Han army, which was less than a brigade, bumped into the Qing army that gathered 30,000 people and was ready to fight, but it was useless, although the Qing army was numerous, it was still hard to fight day and night, but in the evening of the next day, it was suddenly killed by the Shandong Cavalry Regiment of the Fu Han Army.

The 13th Brigade of the Second Garrison Division of the Fu Han Army played an important role in this campaign, and it had one battalion of the remaining troops in Wuding, Shandong, and two battalions of the Fu Han Army in Cangzhou were also subordinate to it. Although the left-behind troops of the battalion of the 13th Brigade did not make any contribution after Shu Hede launched an attack on Wuding, the 1st Division of the Shandong Army, which was responsible for garrisoning Wuding Mansion, would not push the credit for sending it to outsiders. And Shu Hede himself did not really want to fight Wuding, after he pretended to be a gesture, he immediately led the main force to the north, converged with the Yinglian Division, and the two armies of 30,000 people waited for the 13th Brigade of the Fu Han Army to come back to the reinforcement 20 miles north of Cangzhou City, lacking a regiment.

From the afternoon to the evening of the next day, the Qing army attacked and failed; offense, defeat; Attack again, fail again!

The number of Qing troops was as high as 30,000, so that the two battalions of the Han army in Cangzhou City did not dare to go out of the city easily, but the 30,000 Qing army was a dog biting hedgehog for the main force of the 13th Brigade that was shrunk into a regiment - there was no way to say anything.

There were guns and cannons, and the 4,000 soldiers of the 13th Brigade with sufficient ammunition were on the flat field, easily supporting for a day and a night, and the battle was stalemate for a whole day, and then when the twilight came, Chen Ming and the Shandong Cavalry Regiment also suddenly arrived.

The Qing army was caught off guard, who let Shu Hede and Yinglian use too many horse teams on Shandong Wuding in order to completely strangle Cangzhou and Wuding, especially the latter? The horse team on the battlefield of the Qing army is less than 1,000 horsemen in total, except for the two bigwigs' respective Goshha, there is only one horse battalion, which is mainly used for combat, rather than spreading out and closely monitoring everything around, plus Shu Hede and Yinglian did not expect that the men and horses of the Fu Han army would come so quickly, from Cangzhou to Jinghai, one way back, even the cavalry will take two days, right? Therefore, they were lax in their defense, and they were rushed by the cavalry of the Fu Han Army at the beginning.

Shu Hede and Yinglian, who thought that they had strong troops and could quickly eat the reinforcements of the Han army, were caught off guard, and the 13th Brigade also took the opportunity to kill, and the Qing army was defeated by the inside and outside, and the two fled in embarrassment. The 30,000 Qing troops did not die directly in battle, and there were not many who were captured, and their greatest loss was the deserters who fled and fled.

The red tassel on the top of the lightning rod on his head turned into a lock, and the cotton armor on He Shen's body was covered with a layer of dust, and He Shen, who had been running all night, was not stained with any blood, but the endless anxiety and worry made the handsome and handsome face of Lord He become slightly distorted and hideous.

Yinglian is his biggest backer. He Shen's wife Feng Wenwen is Ying Lian's only granddaughter, and Ying Lian, who lost her son in middle age, loves her granddaughter to the extreme, and personally selected He Shen, a poor boy with excellent character and learning, as her grandson-in-law, and then supported He Shen all the way, and easily sent He Shen's younger brother He Lin into the Eight Banners New Army.

Whether it is in terms of interests or family affection, He Shen does not want to be hurt by Yinglian.

Last night, when the situation was at its most critical, he asked Ying Lian's Goshha to send half of his men to follow him, and let the others force Ying Lian to take him first. As a result, the pursuit of the Fu Han army was only thunder and rain, and He Shen, who was unhindered, turned west, followed Yinglian's whereabouts all the way, and met Shu Hede at the agreed place in Dulin Town, on the Laozhang River in the northwest of Cangzhou, but did not see the old lady Yue Yinglian. He Shen didn't hesitate for a moment, turned the horse's head and led the people back to look for Yinglian.

A night of running, a night of anxiety, He Shen's face was stained with a layer of dust, his lips were dry and white, and the night breeze of late autumn on his face was no better than winter. Only a pair of eyes were dark and shining, and the determined look did not fade at all.

"Tell them to go northwest to Doolin." The team stopped under a forest to rest, and a group of defeated Qing soldiers fled from a distance. He Shen casually ordered someone to go. Schuhd is now sheltering the defeated soldiers in the town of Doolin.

"We're getting more and more defeated. It seems that Chen Wei did not pursue it wantonly. ”

"How many people are there in total? Do you dare to chase it at night......"

"Don't dare to chase at night, don't you dare to chase when it's dawn? If Chen Wei's horse team kills Dulin Town, do you think Shu Hede dares to stay in Hedong? The soldiers in the team were talking.

When the voice came, He Shen did not reprimand, but closed his eyes helplessly. The morale is low, and this person's heart will be scattered. Goshha was a brave soldier, known for his money and rich rewards, and in an old saying in the army, this is a soldier who is well fed with money, and is absolutely reliable. But if he can't find Yinglian again, I'm afraid that even the flag soldiers in the team will be shaken. Don't think that the team led by He Shen is a very rewarding Goshha, and then there are no deserters in the team, just a relatively few. The flag soldier in Goshha, and Shen can be trusted; However, the flag soldiers only accounted for one percent of Goshha, and the main body of Yinglian's personal guards was still Han soldiers! And the current loyalty ...... these people is ridiculous to say.

Twenty-three-year-old He Shen couldn't imagine how 'brilliant' he would be in history and what a huge contribution he had made to Daqingguo. Now he is just a small second-class guard, walking in front of Yinglian, no matter how smart and clever he is, his vision and knowledge are also limited.

He only knew that the Manchu was in danger.

The 40,000 troops of Shu Hede and Yinglian were the most important forces of the Manchu Qing in southern Hebei, and once they were scattered, they didn't know that the Year of the Monkey and the month of Ma Yue could re-form their combat effectiveness, and at that time the Fu Han army had reached Beijing, right?

To resist the Fu Han army, or to defeat the Fu Han army, curbing their transportation lines is the most important link. However, the collapse of Shu Hede and Yinglian's 40,000-strong army, Manchu cleared the cavalry and sent the cavalry south, and he could only count on the soldiers and horses returning from Henan. And in doing so, it also weakened the military power of Beijing and Tianjin......

Of course, He Shen is still very confident in the current Beijing. In the end, the number of the Fu Han army led by Chen Ming is too small, and he has to stay behind along the way, and now he has less than 20,000 troops in his hands, and it is impossible to capture Beijing. The long overland transportation line from Shandong to Jinjing is also too easy to cut off, so the current catastrophe is not the final catastrophe. What gives He Shen a headache is the battle situation after the ice and snow melt in the coming year, and now He Shen, who looks extremely calm on the outside, is in a mess in his heart! Standing in his current position, he looked up ahead, and the sky was 'pitch black', and there was no light.

But he couldn't help but stand opposite the Fu Han Army, who made the Fu Han Army's methods of the Manchu Eight Banners so fierce?

Even Zhu Hongwu and Zhu Ming recruited a lot of surrendered Mongols and Semu people, but the Fu Han army insisted on 'being incompatible'! For the flag people, there is no way to live. Yes, in He Shen's view, ten or twenty years of hard labor is purely a dead word, compared with war death, it is just an early death and a late death.

"My lord, my lord, there is news of Lord Chengtai...... shouted from afar, but it was a person who was sent out by He Shen just now, and his voice was full of endless surprises. The calmness on He Shen's face shattered instantly, and he jumped up from the ground with an uncontrollable look of excitement.

"The master of the Taiwan system is stopped in a village in the southwest, the master of the Taiwan system is fine, the master of the Taiwan is not hindered......" Goshha, who was still depressed, demoralized, and distracted, smiled on his face again, and everyone's body was immediately overflowing with fighting spirit again.

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Chen Ming led the cavalry back to Jinghai and immediately raised troops to march towards Yangliuqing Town in the west of Tianjin. The iron should be struck while it is hot, and with this breath, as much damage can be done to the Manchus, as much damage can be inflicted on them.

Shandong's garrison also wanted to enter Hebei, instead of setting up military stations along the way, which would be too slow and time-consuming, they would go north along the canal and scatter all the way to the cities along the line to strengthen the strength of the original defenders. The land transportation line from Shandong to Beijing and Tianjin, no matter how cautious it is, should be, as for whether it is useful or not, that is another story. At least when Chen Ming returned from Tianjin, that could be used as a response point, right? And the city of Beijing under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, after receiving the news of the defeat in the battle of Cangzhou, seemed to be swept by the cold air of Siberia, and there was a silent silence!

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Sichuan, Chongqing. Chen Yongsheng had already received a news from the flying pigeon a few days ago that Qianlong was dead, and this news that made the entire Fu Han army excited quickly spread throughout Sichuan, and then spread to Yunnan, and spread throughout the entire southwest in a short period of time. Chen Yongsheng didn't care about how the Altai and others in Chengdu were going to be, his eyes were now all on Kuizhou Mansion.

In mid-September, Chen Yongsheng, who had done a good job of 'communication' with Ben Jinzhong, led his troops from Zunyi to Sichuan, and conquered Chongqing, an important town in eastern Sichuan, in one fell swoop, which became a great victory for the Han army and the Manchu Qing in the southwest battlefield in the autumn and winter. What he didn't know was that it was his great victory that induced the frail Qianlong to fall into a coma in a hurry, and Qianlong's own death definitely had the effect of this news.

It's just that even many Manchu ministers don't know about this news, let alone the Fu Han army.

Chen Yongsheng, who captured Chongqing, with the strength of one brigade of the First Division, plus the mountain infantry brigade of the Fuhan Army that had entered the battlefield for more than half a year, and a part of the garrison army in Guizhou, more than 10,000 main forces turned around and attacked Kuizhou Mansion in the east. This intention is not to annihilate how many Qing troops and how much money and food they have captured, but to occupy Kuizhou Mansion and communicate the speed of Hubei's Fuhan Army!

Communicate their direct connection to Hubei. In this way, the supply line of the Fu Han army can be changed from the distant and tortuous land route to the Yangtze River waterway.

As for the treacherous Three Gorges waterway, no matter how difficult it is, haven't the people of Sichuan also walked for 2,000 years?

Weapons, ammunition and all kinds of food supplies, when they can 'float' along the Yangtze River from Hubei to Chongqing, that is when the whole of Sichuan will kneel at the feet of the Fu Han army. Gao Qiao, the overseer of western Hubei Province, has long sharpened his knives for Sichuan, although his team is not very high in combat effectiveness, and there are also Shi Nanrongmei's native soldiers, but so what? As long as it works!

When the Fu Han army that was killed from behind [Chongqing] was storming Kuizhou Mansion, the Qing army in front of Kuizhou was tightly glued by Gao Qiao. By the time Fan Shishou and Zhu Jue realized that the general trend had gone and they had to leave, the main force of the mountain infantry brigade had already stopped at the silent pass north of Fengjie.

In a battle that was not fierce, the infantry of the mountain brigade won a great victory, and more than 7,000 Qing troops fell apart.

In the mountains north of Fengjie Silent Pass, a thin gray line winds its way through the narrow mountain road. In front of them were all mountains, and in late autumn, the mountains were full of gold. And in addition to the beautiful scenery, of course, there are ambushes in yellow military uniforms one by one. The number of these people is not too large, and they are evenly spread between the peaks and valleys. The specks are connected to the backbone of the mountains, and it is a dense web!

They were soldiers of a small part of the mountain infantry brigade of the Fu Han Army.

This brigade is mainly composed of soldiers from southern Jiangxi, western Hubei, western Hunan, and Guizhou, and after the completion of the training, it will be officially put into the southwestern battlefield this year, and it will obey Chen Yongsheng's command. Because of the background of these soldiers, they have been accustomed to climbing mountains and mountains since they were children, and after the physical fitness, discipline and various tactical training of the troops, they have really been able to climb mountains and mountains as if they were walking on flat ground.

Whether it was in the suppression of bandits and the pursuit of the enemy in Guizhou and Xiangxi, or in the war in Sichuan, the mountain infantry brigade played an extremely strong role. Its first brigade commander Huang Zicong was Chen Ming's personal bodyguard. At the beginning, he and Chen Dawei worked together as Chen Ming's personal bodyguard, but later the ruthless and brave Huang Zicong left Chen Ming, and he preferred the exciting reconnaissance unit compared to the calm bodyguard life, and Huang Zicong entered the reconnaissance unit very early. Then he was transferred from the reconnaissance unit to the mountain unit, and with the mountain infantry battalion composed of Shi Nan Rongmei's native soldiers gradually expanded to the mountain infantry brigade, his position also rose to the top, and he had few military achievements but had already sat in the high position of the brigade commander of the main force.

There was only a small company of mountain infantry ambushed in the mountains north of Silent Pass, because there were too many places for the Qing army in Kuizhou to penetrate in the lofty mountains north of Fengjie. The main force of the mountain infantry brigade of four or five thousand people is again at the Silent Pass, and it is already rare for this area to be able to assemble a team of troops.

The mountain infantry in the mountains were far fewer in number than the remnants of the Qing army, and they were scattered into small groups. But the 'quality' on both sides can be very different. The morale of the mountain infantry was at its peak, and the news of Qianlong's death was like a shot of chicken blood, which made everyone in the Fu Han army have adrenal surges. And their individual soldier quality may not be comparable to that of the reconnaissance troops, but they are also well-deserved elites in the Fu Han army. And what about the Qing army? Morale is low, morale is low, and completely vulnerable. Even when their morale is full, their combat effectiveness and will to fight are far inferior to those of ordinary soldiers in the Han Army. Not to mention now!

To describe it in a number, the current combat effectiveness of the remnants of the Qing army is 1, and the mountain infantry of the Fu Han Army is not to say 10, but also 7 and 8.

The air in the mountains is so fresh, and the mountains in the distance are still shrouded in mist. The sun shines on it, like a fairyland.

In the golden light, Fan Shishou and Zhu Jue led the team to continue the escape of their group. Now the number of remnants of the Qing army is still five or six hundred!

Zhu Jue, who has always paid attention to appearance, had a grain of rice on his beard, he didn't notice it, and the entourage around him was in a hurry, and lifted Zhu Jue up with a sliding rod, and he didn't look up again, and he didn't even pay attention.

On the way to escape, his life is at stake, and he can't take care of it.

They had to walk for at least four days on the mountain road before they could get out of Kuizhou Mansion and reach the Taiping Hall, which still belonged to the territory of the Qing army. Hurry west from the Taiping Hall and return to Chengdu.

The straight-line distance on the map is only sixty or seventy miles, and you can see the mountains running dead horses, let alone people? Whether these remnants of the Qing army can complete this journey in four days, no one dares to pack tickets. Fan Shishou and Zhu Qi can only hope that after the Fu Han army captures Fengjie, they will put all their attention on communicating with Hubei, and don't follow the official road to fight the Taiping Hall, otherwise they will really die.

The Qing soldiers like the lost dogs, a team of five or six hundred people, pulled out a line a mile long on the mountain road, and the people in front had already crossed the mountain, and the people behind had just left the foot of the mountain. Zhu Jue had an intuition that there would be fewer and fewer people in this team.

But as long as it doesn't endanger his life, be a deserter. If it weren't for the fact that Zhu Jue's family was in Beijing, Zhu Jue would also want to surrender.

Liu Fei walked at the forefront of the team dejectedly, he regretted it, he sincerely regretted it.

At that time, why was he blinded by lard, and he didn't take the bright road, looking for a dead end?

The so-called natural danger in Xiangxi could not stop the artillery of the Fu Han army, and the cottages that he thought were impregnable were turned into ashes one by one under the indiscriminate bombardment of the Fu Han army. This was also one of his tasks, to 'eliminate' the Xiangxi bandits.

But while Liu Fei cooperated with the Fu Han Army to complete the task, he also stood opposite the Fu Han Army. In desperation, Liu Fei fled, and he fled to Guizhou with his people, where he worked under Ben Jinzhong. But as soon as he stabilized his footing, the Fu Han army came to kill again.

The Qing army gathered the elite of the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan in the southwest, and the Fu Han army in Guizhou, which was complex and changeable, rugged and difficult to travel, for more than a year, and finally Guiyang fell, Zunyi was lost, and Liu Fei fled to Sichuan in embarrassment, and there were only 100 people left under his command.

But what made Liu Fei most depressed was that Ben Jinzhong had surrendered!

Ben Jinzhong, who received Qianlong's great favor, surrendered!

The knife that cut off the head was only an inch short of Liu Fei's neck, and Liu Fei, who had narrowly escaped the catastrophe, was so frightened that he turned towards the east of Sichuan with his subordinates. However, that 'one dodge' seemed to use all Liu Fei's luck, as soon as he arrived in Zhongzhou with his front foot, the Fu Han army was killed with the back foot; he had just made contact with the Qing army in Kuizhou, and the Qing army in Kuizhou was finished.

Less than half of the last 100 men under his command remained, and now he was arranged by the Qing army to do a good job and explore the way in front.

Liu Fei turned around the foot of the mountain, and a lush valley appeared in front of him, the slopes on both sides were covered with trees, and some steep, not far ahead, a protrusion of the mountain on the right side made a big bend in the back of the mountain. As a result, the road behind is completely blocked, and if you don't go over to see it yourself, you can't see what the mountain road behind the big bend looks like.

This kind of terrain is too good for ambushes. "If the Fu Han army sends a team of people to ambush here, none of us will be able to get out." But Liu Fei didn't think that there would really be a Fu Han army ahead. So Liu Fei didn't stop, and walked forward by himself.

When Fan Shishou looked at this mountain road for the first time, he was also amazed by the good terrain. But like Liu Fei, he felt that there was no way for the Fu Han army to ambush ahead. "God forbid. If the boy can escape this time, he will see the Buddha and worship the Buddha in the future, and see the gods burn incense. ”

He moved his legs with some difficulty, and Fan Shishou was also sitting on a sliding pole, not purely because he was weak and difficult to walk, but also because he had a wound on his leg, which was blown up by the flowering bomb of the Fu Han Army.

The mountains and forests are very calm, and soon Liu Fei walked to the place where he turned, the already narrow mountain road was suddenly broken by this mountain, and the mountain road was even narrower, and it completely blocked the view, if there was really a Fu Han army guarding here, it would not take many people, twenty or thirty, it would be enough to defend it impregnably, and it would be difficult to break through with the current combat strength and fighting spirit of the Qing army.

On the crowded mountain road, Liu Fei couldn't stop, but kept turning around and urging his subordinates to go quickly. This kind of military loss, regardless of whether there is an enemy or not, it is better to leave as soon as possible.

Suddenly, Liu Fei had a feeling of being targeted, and he subconsciously turned around to look at the side hillside, because that feeling came from there. It's like walking down the road and feeling like someone is staring at you behind you. But before he could determine where the danger came from, Liu Fei had already heard a crisp gunshot in his ears......

"Are you dead? Hadron, did I kill it? ”

After a sniper in the dense forest opened fire, he didn't bother to check the results of the battle, so he quickly reloaded his ammunition and asked his companions with only his mouth.

No answer was heard, only a gunshot rang out to answer him. The hadron also pulled the trigger of the rifled gun in his hand. [A dragon set collar box lunch] (to be continued.) )