Chapter 114: From Uiju to Bocheon
After crossing the Yalu River in Andong County, on August 24, He Changying ordered the entire army of the Korean reinforcement army to go north along the river, and arrived at Yiju City on the opposite bank of Jiulian City on the afternoon of the 25th. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
At the end of July, Wei Rugui took the cavalry of the Sheng army and more than 6,000 infantry to cross the city of Yizhou.
Originally, the people of Yiju City were happy that the army of the suzerainty came to help them fight the Oriental Japanese invaders, and every household shouted in favor, and they walked out of Yiju City one after another, and came to meet the heavenly soldiers of the Heavenly Kingdom.
As a result, the crying in the city of Yiju shook the sky that night, and when the heavenly soldiers pulled out the camp the next morning, the city was in shambles.
Therefore, the people of Yizhou City, as soon as they saw that the heavenly soldiers of the Qing Kingdom were coming again, Yizhou City near night was suddenly full of chickens and dogs.
Every household hurriedly extinguished the stove that was cooking, packed up the valuable things in the house, held chickens, ducks and geese, led cows, horses, donkeys, sheep and dogs, and rushed towards the north gate of Uiju City with their families.
Especially the young yellow flower girl, the plump big-breasted young woman, and even the little girl who has not grown drooping hair, all smeared black pot ash on their faces, and their faces were terrified.
The officials of Uiju City, North Korea, who got the news, reluctantly told their subordinates to hurry up and protect their wife, concubine, and eldest lady, and slip out of the north gate to avoid the limelight, while scolding their mothers out of the city with a strong smile on their faces.
After they hurriedly left the city, they were surprised to find that this group of Qing soldiers had been waving south without stopping, leaving a road of mule and horse dung outside the city gate.
Because he had just come from Andong County, the food and materials brought by the Korean aid army were still very sufficient, so He Changying was not in the mood to enter Yizhou City at this time.
The reason why he deliberately spared this large circle and set out from Uiju was to familiarize the soldiers and officers with the terrain along the way and prepare in advance for the future ambush of the Oriental Army.
In the history of He Changying's time and space, after the Qing army abandoned the city of Pyongyang on the night of September 15, the Sixth Route Army fled all the way north, taking the route from Pyongyang to Anju, and then continuing to the north through Guicheng, and finally arriving at Yizhou.
Then, after a little breath break in Uiju, he began to cross the Yalu River on the 21st and fled back to China.
From Pyongyang to Yiju, the entire 400-mile mountain road, along the way, there was a lack of food, drink, wind and food, and the duck soldiers who fled for their lives actually took only five days.
Before, Ye Zhichao and Nie Shicheng retreated from Asan to Pyongyang's 500-mile mountain road, and they walked for more than half a month.
Therefore, in He Changying's view, these military trainings are not without combat effectiveness, nor are they physically inadequate, but 'will be brave for soldiers', as the so-called 'soldiers will be a nest of bears'!
In normal times, these officers were corrupt and corrupt, colluded with cronyism, and regarded the soldiers as slaves, and when they arrived at the war, the officers and sentinels of the battalion first thought about how to save their lives, and how to 'die and not die in poverty'.
But to expect the soldiers to fight to the death spontaneously and consciously is simply a pipe dream!
Since the reinforcement army crossed the Yalu River on August 23, He Changying has made strict arrangements for the daily progress of the army.
Every morning, the 'Mao Shi Exercise' begins at 5 o'clock in the morning, first singing military songs, and then training 15 miles ahead.
Once you arrive at your destination, take a break to cook.
This was followed by intense live firing in the jungle in the morning.
After lunch, either He Changying explained the essence of guerrilla warfare to the officers, or the soldiers discussed freely in squads and platoons, and the company and platoon commanders went with He Changying to familiarize themselves with the nearby terrain and find suitable ambush sites in the future.
Then, beginning at three o'clock in the afternoon, the whole camp was drawn out of camp and marched thirty miles to the next camp.
After camping and settling down, after dinner, the whole camp lit a bonfire and gathered together to sing military songs.
Then He Changying preached some less sensitive principles for protecting the family and defending the country, Wu Weiyang murderously emphasized military discipline, and Shen Zhaoao stated some emergency principles in future wars once soldiers fall behind or cannot find their own squad platoon company.
After saying these things, all the reinforcement troops took the temporary camp as the center and carried out a simulated night march of 3 to 5 kilometers.
After doing all this, almost all the officers and soldiers stripped off and took a shower, washed the thin military uniforms covered with stinky sweat, and hung them outside the tents, which lit dried mugwort to repel mosquitoes and slept.
In this way, the army marched southward, and by the evening of August 30, the troops had approached Anzhou City and came to the south bank of the Daning River outside Bochuan City.
Also not long ago, the people of Bochuan City, who were trapped by Wei Rugui's Sheng Army's Mabu Thirteenth Battalion, also repeated the scene in Yizhou City one after another.
Soon after, the officials of the small city of Bochuan saw that there was not a single soldier of the heavenly kingdom who came in the wide open city gate, and they went out of the city curiously to take a look, and were surprised to see that these heavenly soldiers actually set up tents and made rice.
None of the military masters had any intention of going into the city to find silver, chickens, ducks, geese, and flower girls.
The officials of Bochuan Town, who felt that they had escaped, all had tears in their eyes, and praised loudly again and again: "This is the great power of the suzerain, and this is the real heavenly soldier!" ”
He Changying asked Lu Zhaomei to invite several North Korean officials who asked to see him into his temporary tent, and the simplicity inside immediately moved these vassal officials, and they all persuaded He Changying to go into the city to rest.
He Changying asked Xu Ru, a young man of the Korean ethnic group, to translate, and declined the somewhat insincere invitation of these Bochuan City officials.
Then he asked curiously what was going on at the east gate, why did the people run out of the city in the dark? You must know that the tigers, wolves, and poisonous snakes in the mountains at this time are not a joke.
In the words of these officials, He Changying quickly understood the reason.
He Changying was stationed outside Bochuan City this time, mainly because the grain carried by the mules and horses was empty, and he needed to purchase it in Bochuan City.
At that time, he approved the slips and asked Xu Ru to take someone to Shen Zhaoao to get a box of Guangyang, open the box in person, and ask the officials of Bochuan City to help buy rice, noodles, soybeans, vegetables, pork, eggs and poultry.
Moreover, He Changying directly set the price according to the price of Jinmen.
Looking at this covetous box of white silver dollars, the officials of Bochuan City were all shocked and stammered.
Buying things not only gives money, but also gives a price nearly twice the market price, where in the world is there such a soldier?
It's really the style of the heavenly kingdom!
In the evening, the temporary camp of the Korean reinforcement army sang loudly, attracting the North Korean people who had returned from the mountains to stand and watch from a distance.
Then an official in Bochuan City asked his subordinates to raise the fat pigs in their pigsty and prepare to kill and eat for the New Year, and drove them over to test the temptation.
As a result, the Korean reinforcements did not hesitate to buy it at a high price.
At this moment, the whole Bochuan City was boiling, and every household ran home to catch the poultry in the house, and took the vegetables, rice and noodles in the house to sell.