Chapter 136: Strategizing [Seeking Collection]
Before Chen Ming arrived in Ruzhou City, he received a good news from Chen Jianbai's flying pigeon, and the independent brigade relied on the strong defense of Linru Town to fight against the Shaanxi soldiers led by Wang Tenglong for two days, and repeatedly won more with less, killing and wounding no less than 300 Qing soldiers, and capturing 26 Qing soldiers. There were few casualties.
Yang Ping and Feng Shaohua's ability to speak up is not lost in Ruzhen. Let Chen Jianbai rest assured, let the metropolitan governor Chen Ming rest assured!
Chen Ming, who was sitting on the boat on the Beiru River, smiled, Yang Ping and Feng Shaohua have such strong confidence, it seems that the independent brigade is really good in Linru Town. It's just that their troops are too small, and if Wang Tenglong is really determined to fight, the independent brigade will not last long in Linru Town.
A group of Henan officials in Luoyang City had already received news from the front line at this time, and the menacing Wang Tenglong had not even encountered the large army of the Chen family thieves, but he had touched a nose of dust in Linru Town. You must know that there are only more than 200 thieves in the Chen family in Linru Town, and there are 8,000 Shaanxi soldiers under the command of Wang Tenglong, the dignified commander.
But these Shaanxi Green Battalions, which were still coaxing a few days ago, are now asking Henan Mansion to raise people to support the army! Wang Tenglong couldn't bear the casualties, so he had to use the shield car to advance little by little.
After a series of battles in the past two days, Wang Tenglong could be sure that there were indeed not many soldiers and horses of the Chen family in front of him. However, the Chen Jiajun's fortifications are too strong, and the firepower is also quite strong, if you only rush and fight fiercely, even if you take the town in front of you, the casualties will be too great, and it will damage the morale of the army. So he thought of steady and steady, and he thought of the shield car.
For firearms warfare, the shield car is like a magic weapon, and there is always a time to use it.
Whether it's to cover your own side or to prevent the other party.
In the 18th century, when firearms were not yet mature, the thick and strong shield cart could block the gun and carry the gun. On the battlefield in China, as long as it is not a few thousand pounds of heavy artillery, a single bullet can only paralyze the shield car at most, rather than completely disintegrating.
The area of Linru Town is not large, and there are breastworks and pillboxes on the periphery, and Wang Tenglong sank down and found that he really underestimated Chen Jiajun. The Linru Town in front of me is a fragile grass nest, this is an iron walnut, with the strength of the Shaanxi soldiers, you have to bite it, and you have to break off two teeth.
He didn't care much about the deaths and injuries of his Green Battalion soldiers, but as a veteran, Wang Tenglong knew that too many soldiers would seriously affect the morale of the team. Therefore, he is now besieging Linru Town and not attacking, and he is trying to ask the rear government to send the people up, preparing for the shield car array, and sending a team into Yiyang and the capital county of Ruzhou, as for what to do, there is no need to say more.
For two days in a row, the morale of the Qing soldiers rose to its peak at a speed visible to the naked eye. Of course, Wang Tenglong also received the news that a large group of thieves was heading towards Linru Town.
Chen Ming led the cavalry battalion past the ruins of a village, and the atmosphere of the entire team was quite gloomy. Soldiers are like grates, what is called soldiers like grates, Chen Ming has seen it. The deliberate connivance of the main general and the inner tension and anger of the Shaanxi soldiers, of course, this is also the reason why they are located in other provinces, and the Qing soldiers released by Wang Tenglong are like hungry wolves destroying everything they encounter.
The Ganshan Green Battalion was certainly synonymous with elite in the Qing Dynasty, but it was also synonymous with military discipline. Or that there was a Qing Dynasty, and of all the armies that could fight, there was no one who loved the people like a son. Including the Hunan army, the Huai army and so on.
Chen Ming deliberately let his troops walk past the destroyed villages one by one, let them listen to the cries of the survivors of the villages, and let the anger in their hearts accumulate little by little, little by little.
The Tatar drama that prevailed in the Chen family's army, the most descriptive description of the Qing soldiers was beastliness, and when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the tragic massacres were simply a 'perfect match' with the scenes in front of them. Immediately, most of the soldiers of the Chen family army believed in the authenticity of the Tartar play.
Chen Ming could see the burning flames in their eyes, which was the boiling anger in the hearts of the soldiers of the Chen family.
The camp of the Qing army in front of Linru Town. Wang Tenglong's admiral tent was full of Green Battalion officers, and the matter they discussed was of course the upcoming Chen Jiajun.
The Qing soldiers' horse exploration express said that the Chen Jiajun was afraid that there were four or five thousand people, and all the officers present realized that the Chen Jiajun, which was about to drive to Linru Town, was the main force of the chaotic army. defeated this army, and the Chen Jiajun would not be able to stumble for long after the autumn.
However, the Shaanxi soldiers fought a few battles with Linru Town, and all the officers' impression of Chen Jiajun was 'refreshed'. The Chen family thieves in the opposite town can be called capable of fighting, although several battles are the main attack of the Qing soldiers, but as long as there is a little chance to defend, the Chen family army will launch a pursuit in the sharp whistle and trumpet.
According to the reaction of the soldiers on the battlefield, the shotguns in the hands of the Chen family thieves were loaded with spearheads, and after they fired, they could charge directly with the shotguns, and they all had iron armor hanging on their skins. This kind of real scene seen in battle is much more shocking than what can be heard by the ears before. Although there are 8,000 Qing soldiers, they have no armor. The entire Shaanxi Green Battalion has no armor, and the garrison flag soldiers in Xi'an City and Tongguan City have cotton armor one by one.
"It can't be. There are four or five thousand thieves, if everyone wears armor, where did the thieves of the Chen family get so many armor? It has been less than a year since they started last year, how can they make such a large number of soldiers? Xue Zong, the deputy general of the Tongguan Association, said in a resolute tone, and the deputy general of the Xi'an City garrison opposite him, Deleng, also agreed.
Wang Tenglong sat on the main seat, his face was not obvious, and his psychological face was also nodding secretly. Four or five thousand thieves are all equipped with armor, it would be terrifying. With the strength of the Chen family, even after conquering Ruzhou and other places, it is very ridiculous to gather blacksmiths to make weapons and armor, and it is already very remarkable that hundreds of armor can be produced all year round, and four or five thousand people are all wearing armor, which is simply absurd.
Since Wang Tenglong attacked Ruzhen, he regarded the Independent Brigade as the elite of the Chen family's army. Henan Mansion previously reported that the Independent Brigade was a miscellaneous card in the Chen Family's army, and Wang Tenglong also saw it this way at first, but the reality made him furious, and he personally wrote a letter to scold the prefect of Henan Prefecture for a bloody blood, and shouted to join him.
Wang Tenglong didn't think that the Chen Jiajun in Linru Town was a miscellaneous brand at all. In the two days of the battle, the fighting will shown by the defenders of the Chen family, as well as their armaments, were all thrown off the eight streets of the soldiers of the national economic system of the Shaanxi Green Battalion, if this is still the miscellaneous card of the Chen family, then the Chen family army is the Qi family army and the Yue family army have been resurrected. Wang Tenglong didn't forget that the commander of the Chen family's army was one of the two chieftains of the chaotic army, and he was just a young man who was not yet eighteen years old!
"Then we'll be waiting for them here in Linru Town. All ministries are ready to fight at any time. When the thieves arrive, we will be overwhelmed by the army. The thieves had to fight with us in the field.
Outside Linru Town, under the noses of the thieves in Linru Town, the main force of the thieves was completely destroyed in the first battle, and Linru Town was afraid that it would be able to go down without a fight......"