Chapter 381 The coalition army also has cavalry

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The British army, which rushed back to Tianjin to help, continued to attack the positions constructed by the cavalry regiment of the New People's Army, and the rounds of attack were fierce in time, one side defended and the other side had the superior forces, and the fighting was inseparable, and the casualties continued to increase.

The pressure on each is very great, one is anxious to return to Tianjin, and the other is accustomed to the rogue style of fighting and is good at guerrillas, and now it is also very passive to switch to positional warfare.

"Captain! Head! Good news, good news, the handsome man has an order, let us let the foreign ghosts go over, and Tianjin has come down. ”

Li Yutai was ecstatic and took the letter, and then asked people to pass on the order: "Inform Lao Niu, we will withdraw!" ”

The cavalry regiment took the initiative to give up its position and feigned invincibility as ordered, which made the British army also feel pardoned, and they could not care about pursuing the scattered cavalry regiment, packed up their equipment and continued to hurry.

However, it did not go five miles, and soon the cavalry regiment came back, this time the cavalry regiment rode on war horses, divided into several teams to attack once, fired a few shots, and then left, so that the British army was very uneasy.

mistakenly thought that this was because the New People's Army had changed its blocking tactics and prevented them from going to Tianjin, so they walked faster, and they didn't care about the harassment of the cavalry regiment, and tolerated it again and again.

As a result, Ruci was hunted and killed by the cavalry regiment more than 300 people, and when he arrived at Jinghai, he was physically and mentally exhausted and demoralized.

"Bastard, there's the county town ahead, some people have to be left behind to deal with these damn cavalry, they're so annoying." The British commander said indignantly, and soon they were outside the city pass.

However, this commander was also cautious, and let the accompanying Qing army enter Jinghai County to have a look, in case this place was conquered by the New People's Army, and the precedent of the Mongolian cavalry made them a little afraid, for fear of being ambushed.

The Qing army Qian, who soon entered the city, said that there was no problem, that there was a lively fight in Tianjin, and that the temporary concession was safe.

Only then did the British army relax and drive into the city, ready to rest and eat something, and rushed to Tianjin, preparing to get in touch with the coalition forces in the concession, and attack from behind the New People's Army at the right time to achieve some results.

It's a pity that they didn't know that the Qing troops who entered the city were all controlled by the 18th Division that arrived here in advance, and the British front team had just entered the city gate, when suddenly gunshots rang out in the city, and the British troops who wanted to enter the city were shot one after another.

The British army, which had a bad premonition, hurriedly withdrew, but new Nationalist troops kept popping up in the barren grassland of the two sides of the city, with more gunfire and shouting on three sides.

The British army was in a mess for a while, and they were so frightened that they ran away.

"Brothers, it's our turn!"

The fleeing British army was confronted by the chasing cavalry regiment, the cavalry regiment held a saber, rushed into the crowd, the horse stepped on the knife and slashed, the British army screamed again and again, more than 2,000 British troops were wiped out in less than half an hour, and no one escaped.

The main reason is that the British army ran for a long time, and the physical consumption was great, and after the rout, there was no strength to walk at all, not to mention the mobile cavalry.

So much so that the Guangzhou 25th Brigade, which had just set off from Tianjin, missed this battle and did not use Jinghai.

"Commander Feng! Happy working together! ”

"Captain Li, you have also worked hard!"

Although Feng Zicai and Li Yutai have two divisions, one is the original Hunan army and the other is the original twist army, there is no enmity between the two divisions, there is no fighting, and there is no festival.

So after cleaning the battlefield, the two of them sat politely at a table, after all, they were now working for the New People's Army and serving the commander.

After greeting for a while, Feng Zicai said: "Commander Li, now that you and I have wiped out 3,000 British troops, Cangzhou only has 1,000 British troops, and 2,000 Qing troops, what do you think, do you need to take a break?" ”

Li Yutai asked: "Commander Feng, is there any other new order from the marshal, if you attack Cangzhou now, I'm afraid there are still some difficulties, there are only more than 600 people in our department, help the 13th Brigade to contain Yinghan, there is no problem to prevent this guy from escaping, if you attack the city, you have to take action from your infantry." ”

"Cangzhou is not in a hurry! Yinghan can't run, and the marshal is worried about the French army in Baoding. ”

"The French? I heard that the equipment of this French army is not as good as ours, if the 4,000 French troops also return to Tianjin, I believe that the fate will definitely be the same as the 3,000 British troops, and Commander Feng, your 18th division is adding our cavalry, and it should not be inferior to these 4,000 French troops. ”

Feng Zicai nodded and smiled: "If this French army is the same as the British army, then I still have confidence in eating him, but there are 2,000 cavalry in this French army, equipped with the same carbine as the cavalry regiment, of course, they are still front-loaded, but I heard that the combat effectiveness is extremely strong, and the elite of the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry back then did not dare to match it." ”

"So the marshal means that he wants our cavalry regiment to contain this group of French cavalry?" Li Yutai probably guessed what Feng Zicai meant, and felt a little uncomfortable, and secretly said that Yang Dongfang is so unkind, his own people are fighting less and less, and they are fighting with the French cavalry, which will be exhausted.

Feng Zicai shook his head and said: "In fact, not only the French army has cavalry, but also the British army, among the 10,000 British and French troops who went to Beijing, there are 2,000 British cavalry, they all use breech-loading rifles Enfield, riding skills are more skilled, and the cooperation is more tacit. ”

What does this mean!

Li Yutai was a little confused, and it didn't look like letting the cavalry regiment deal with the cavalry regiment.

"That's right, I heard that you have wiped out 800 Mongolian cavalry in Qingxian and captured a large number of war horses, so there is one thing that I have to trouble you."

This old guy doesn't want to think about the idea of fighting war horses, the captured horses are all used for the expansion of the cavalry regiment in the future, although there are only six hundred people now, but this manpower is easy to replenish, and the horses are not easy to handle, so Li Yutai was vigilant, and only said: "Commander Feng can say what he wants to do, but this war horse was captured by our cavalry regiment alone, and it was fought by the lives of the brothers." ”

Feng Zicai said: "Don't get me wrong, I don't want your horses, it's like this, we brought a batch of mines, specially used to deal with the French cavalry, so I would like to ask your cavalry regiment to take extra horses, carrying the people of the engineer battalion, to go to Bazhou to lay mines before, not to annihilate the French cavalry, as long as they continue to consume them, wear down their sharpness, and let them be soldiers, then this group of French troops will be useless even if they go outside Tianjin, and they can be defeated with a bluff." ”

"Oh! Is it another exhausting ploy? Still did not want to give the British and French cavalry a chance to converge. ”

Li Yutai muttered, and then nodded in agreement, since you don't have to do it head-on, dig a pit and bury mines, of course, you can, and by the way, you can learn how to lay mines from the sappers.

In the future, I didn't prepare the cavalry regiment to be able to use it, I heard that this thing is very easy to use, but I haven't had a chance to see each other, and I don't know how powerful it is.

On the city of Baoding, Liu Mingchuan looked in the direction of Tianjin and asked Wei Rugui: "Where should you say that the French army should be now!" ”

Wei Rugui replied: "It's almost time to Bazhou!" Why did the military ask this? ”

Liu Mingchuan suddenly laughed twice, sighed and said: "This red hair is really not a thing, when I returned to Tianjin, I didn't leave a single soldier, you said that I could defend Baoding with my thousands of remnants?" ”

Wei Rugui frowned and didn't speak, he roughly guessed what his boss meant, and only listened to Liu Mingchuan and said: "The French army will either die or work in vain, and the New People's Army will either encircle Tianjin and send reinforcements, or really occupy Tianjin, no matter which one it is, they have mobilized the coalition forces and tricked us and Yinghan, you see, Yinghan doesn't know how to die, he must be stupid to stay in Cangzhou, guarding the border and protecting the country for the court or something." ”

"Since the New People's Army has the ability to fight Tianjin, it has the ability to eat our and the British and French armies, hum, staying in Baoding, I will also be a fool like Yinghan, to gather troops, we will go to fight Beijing state by state, and support the commander of the coalition army, Lord Balin." Suddenly, Liu Mingchuan's eyes flashed with a strange light, and he turned around and sneered:

"Yang Dongfang thinks I don't know he's playing tricks on me? This Baoding was clearly deliberately given to me by the New People's Army, and these guys always want to surround it in a roundabout way, and then end it in a pot. Now that the French cavalry is gone, if the cavalry regiment of the New People's Army in the river goes around behind me, it will really be that there is no door to heaven and no hole in the ground.

Take advantage of the fact that more than 1,000 new foreign guns have just been replenished, and you can safely pass through Beijing and Tianjin, otherwise you won't have a chance in the future. ”

Soon Liu Mingchuan only took 2,000 strong people out of Baoding City, along Dingxing County to Zhuzhou, and then turned east and walked on the official road to Langfang County, and finally reached Shanhaiguan.