The first day of October is the birthday of Chen Ming's eldest daughter, and why is it said to be the eldest daughter, it is because the Shi family just gave birth to a little daughter to Chen Ming not long ago. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoToday, the prince's mansion in Nanjing must be lively, and in the open field of Yangliuqing Town in the west of Tianjin across the canal, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses on both sides of the Han and Qing dynasties are facing each other, and the war is about to break out.

Beijing never thought that the Fu Han army would fight all the way up from Shandong along the land route, and they looked at the superiority of the Fu Han army's naval division and the activity of the Fu Han army's naval division, and they were a hundred hearts convinced that the Fu Han army would definitely fight Tianjin. So Yangliuqing is still an ordinary town.

Of course, even if Yangliuqing Town was a military point, Chen Ming would not be afraid. It's just that in this way, he saved a lot of trouble, and immediately sent a battalion to cross the canal, and occupied the empty town of Yangliuqing without blood.

After the Fu Han army occupied this place, Chen Ming also specially asked people to find a few New Year painting engravings from the local area. Yang Liuqing in the Qianlong period, this is its prosperous time. The inconspicuous gadget of New Year's pictures has been used in the textbooks of later generations along with Yang Liuqing.

But no matter how wealthy the town is, it is also small and ignored in the face of the overall situation of the military strategy, and no one will take a Yangliuqing town to heart. The local people fled one after another, and the entire Yangliuqing Town almost became an empty city. The only role it could play in the ensuing war was to cover the flank of the Fu Han army from across the canal.

When the Grand Canal reached Yang Liuqing, it was a big turn of seventy or eighty degrees, and Yang Liuqing was on the top of that turn.

The Fu Han army on the south bank also relied on this bend to set up camps.

The Qing army did not expect that Chen Ming would fight all the way from Shandong to Tianjin, but at the same time, to their surprise, Chen Ming's troops. The total strength of the Fu Han army that appeared in Yang Liuqing was only 13,000 people, hahaha, isn't it ridiculous? 13,000 people came to Beijing and Tianjin? Of them there were a thousand cavalry.

But for Chen Ming, this is really a helpless thing. Starting from Wuding Mansion in Shandong, Dezhou - Dongguang, Dongguang - Nanpi, Nanpi - Cangzhou, Cangzhou - Xingji Town - Qingxian, Qingxian - Tangguantun - Jinghai, Jinghai - Liangwangzhuang - Yangliuqing, along a straight line north of the canal, although it cannot be applied to the canal itself, Yinglian has long ordered people to sink ships in many places, not large-scale dredging and cleaning, and now the canal in Hebei is abandoned.

But in this series of strongholds, if the Fu Han army doesn't want the back road + logistics line to be cut, then every place must be guarded. Moreover, the troops left behind are not pure defense in the form of military stations, but also have surplus troops that can take the initiative to attack the enemy. This cut off too much of Chen Ming's strength, if it weren't for the emergency northward movement of the First Division of the Shandong Army, Chen Ming's troops arriving at Yang Liuqing would definitely be less than 10,000.

The Qing army opposite Chen Ming, from more than 10,000 foot cavalry at the beginning, quickly gathered 30,000 people, including a small 10,000 cavalry in the light horse team.

Every day, a large group of horsemen were blatantly sent south from outside the Han military camp to cut off the transportation line of the Han army. But I didn't know that Chen Ming didn't expect a string of 'beads' behind him to really play the role of a 'transportation line', and the division of troops to stay behind them was more to have a response and foothold when retreating in the coming day, and further information came from the dark camp, the Qing army's Eight Banners New Army not only dispatched, but also dispatched at least 20,000 people in one fell swoop, and carried more than 50 new cannons, and now it has descended from Tongzhou to Wuqing.

Gao Jinghui and Lu Long were very interested in the 20,000 Eight Banners New Army. "The Tartar is willing to take out the old book."

"We have already hit Yang Liuqing, will Tianjin be far away? Tianjin is not far away, will Beijing be far away? The whole of Beijing and Tianjin is shaking, and even in terms of calming people's hearts, the Tartars will send people to fight us. ”

"Your Highness, then let's have a big fight with them here. I'm worried that they are bent on pinching us back, but they don't fight on the front. Lu Long's eyes sparkled. The Second Garrison Division of Cangzhou in the First World War showed a big face, not only putting Shu Hede, who escaped from Shandong, into it, but also the Zhili Green Battalion under Ying Lian was finished. But the honor is even greater in the prince's cavalry in Shandong, and if you take a step back, it was also won by the 13th Brigade, and Lu Long's subordinates were the 14th Brigade.

This time, although Gao Jinghui led the 13th Brigade to come, the division of troops along the way was serious, and there was only one regiment left in the total, while the 14th Brigade basically remained intact.

Lu Long also wanted to show his face, if he could have the brilliance of Gao Jinghui once, and the Han army would be greatly expanded in the coming days, his position as the commander of the division would be certain. What's more, this is Beijing and Tianjin, Beijing City is in front of you, this is a battle to destroy the country!

It's like Chen Ming's Spring Festival Gala in his previous life, such a grand stage, who doesn't want to make an appearance? Roaring? This is more face-saving than bouncing on a small stage for ten games.

The confidence of the Fu Han army, whose confidence has skyrocketed, has really entered the realm of 'not asking how many enemies there are, only asking where they are' for the Manchu Qing Dynasty. 12,000 infantry and 1,000 traditional cavalry against 20,000 or 30,000 Qing infantry and a large group of horses, and the latter soon had 20,000 new troops of the Eight Banners as reinforcements. Gao Jinghui and Lu Long didn't think about the question of 'winning or not winning'!

With such a high morale under his subordinates, Chen Ming naturally would not extinguish his prestige. With the strength in his hands now, even if the Manchu Qing army's 50,000 or 60,000 troops attacked together, he was not afraid at all. "Of course it's good to fight a decisive battle." Fighting for both defeats, the Fu Han army is making a lot of money, "I'm afraid that if they don't fight or retreat, they will consume with us." ”

It's still not the right year, if this time is an ice-free period, Chen Ming is now pulling the team to the beach. Even if the transport ships of the Fu Han Army could only stop in the far sea and could not dock, Chen Ming was not afraid of anyone by relying on small boats and small boats for transfer.

And now, the various ammunition reserves in his hands "should be able to fight two or three high-intensity battles." ”

Chen Ming was about to speak, when the sound of rumbling horses' hooves suddenly came from in the distance. He thought that it was another horse team galloping like the Qing army's routine, and Liu Wu walked in quickly outside and reported: "Your Highness, the Qing army has another horse team." did not merge into the large army of the Qing army, and remained on the other side of the canal. "Now I'm moving along the canal to the camp of the Fu Han Army. Although across a canal!

"The Qing army can't hold its breath?" Chen Ming's face was happy, knowing that the Qing army's movements were about to begin, his eyes swept over the faces of the officers present on his left and right hands, "Everyone, do you have the heart to defeat the enemy and win a decisive victory?" ”

Lu Long jumped up first, "Your Highness, as long as the Tartar dares to come, we will keep and kill it without leaving a piece of armor!" "Lu Long, as the deputy commander of the Second Garrison Division, is a part-time commander of the 14th Brigade. But now it seems that he, like Gao Jinghui, who also commanded the 13th Brigade, regards himself more as a brigade commander than a division commander.

The first large-scale contact between the Han and Qing dynasties was on the afternoon of the first day of October. The team that moved from the north bank of the canal to the flank of the Fu Han army was none other than the horse team led by Hailancha.

In today's contact, in addition to Hailancha's departure, the chief general of the Qing army in Tianjin, Fu Sheng, and the chief general of the reinforcement army, Fuerle, were also all present.

The two sides were arrayed eight miles apart, and the Fu Han army was in front of the turn of the Grand Canal, with Chen Ming in front, and in the east with geographical location, and arranged positions. The Fu Han army did not build any fortifications, and when they arrived here, they did not build fortifications at all except for a few camps. The Qing army was the same, with a field formation on both sides, separated by eight miles. There is no way, the range of the cannons of the Fu Han army and the Qing army is clear, and five miles is no longer an absolutely safe number, and eight miles is about the same.

"Your Highness, it seems that the Tartars don't plan to take the initiative to attack, and they are lined up so far away from us. Could it be that they still have reinforcements to arrive? "In that case, it will be able to boost the morale of the Qing army to a certain extent. Shen Shiying put down the monocular that had been held for a long time and said to Chen Ming.

He is the son of Shen Guozhen, who graduated from the Military Academy with the first place in the summer, was transferred by Chen Ming to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and then entered the General Staff, and is now one of Chen Ming's staff officers.

"So what? Can a lamb still turn into a tiger? "Chen Ming is now looking at the 'morale' of the Qing army, cotton wool. This morale is very low. On the other side of the canal, the morale of the horse team looked like 'white chocolate', which was much stronger than the Qing army on the other side.

Gao Jinghui snorted: "It's good to have reinforcements!" It would be great if all the soldiers and horses in Beijing could be attracted to Yang Liuqing and all the battles were defeated. "This time, the army has a full 1,000 rockets, except for 400 small rockets and 100 special shells, the remaining 500 are all medium and heavy rockets. And in addition to rockets, there were 1,500 rounds of rocket artillery shells.

Fifteen six-barreled rocket launchers!

Although the latter has a short range and poor accuracy, as long as it is fast, dense and powerful, it is a perfect weapon in this era.

Perrier also had the Spaniard, Chen Ming didn't take them, but left them in Jinghai.

"I don't care if the Tartar is going to wait for someone, first arrange the thistle terrestris and the horse repellent." Chen Ming can't make a large amount of wire, for the current era, the speed of manufacturing wire is too slow, and it is too labor-intensive. The economic benefits are not good!

Chen Ming could only pick up the thistle terrestris again. As for the horse rejection gun, the traditional Chinese protective equipment, as long as it is useful, then use it.

"Your Highness, I'll take the lead this time."

"Yes. But I must win! ”

"If I can't win the battle, I won't come back to see Your Highness."

The two sides lined up for an hour, and seeing that the arrangement of the Fu Han army had been completed, the Qing army did nothing except send two groups of horses to visit from afar.

"The clouds are from the dragon, the wind is from the tiger, and the dust and earth are fame. Looking at Shenzhou, the people are bitter, and thousands of miles of fertile land are barren. Look at the world, as much as you want, and make up for the ...... of the broken way of heaven"

The soldiers of the 1st Regiment of the 14th Brigade sang the "Battle Song of the Red Turban Army" and pushed towards the right flank of the Qing army's position, leaning against the canal. In front of them, a full twelve eight-pound cannons were slowly pushed forward by the artillerymen; Behind them, dozens of flatbed carts pulled by old oxen were loaded with ammunition, and a smaller proportion of wagons were loaded with rattan baskets and sacks.

The three battalions of the 1st Regiment of the 14th Brigade were arranged in a zigzag arrangement, with the regimental headquarters sandwiched in the middle. The movement of the entire army was very slow, but the soldiers of the Fu Han Army who went to the battlefield, their morale was like a burning fire, which was not as stable and dignified as before, but it was more inclined. As for the Qing army on the other side, when the action of the Fu Han army began, their morale dropped by a level again.

The death of Qianlong, the defeat of Cangzhou, and the defeat of Shandong before, a series of 'failures', the Manchu Qing Dynasty was a real house leak, and it was raining, and their morale was too low.

Of course, this may also be because the Fu Han army has not really hit the city of Beijing.

In this way, such a team should be held in the fortifications, not pulled out for field battle.

Chen Ming once again felt helpless about his family's bad luck, how good would it be if spring started? Fifty, six, seventy or eighty thousand people were transported by sea, even if Chen Ming waited at the beach for a month. The army gathers and presses it with dignity! He really has absolute certainty that he will crush the Qing army!

Now, it can only traumatize the Qing army, not a fatal blow.

The Qing army in front of him had so many horse teams in hand, even if their infantry collapsed, would Chen Ming dare to chase after them?

But knowing that the battle would only be a rout, and that it would not be a war of annihilation, Chen Ming still had to fight. It is a battle to be able to win a battle, a point of morale to be able to destroy the Qing army is a point of morale, and a piece of meat to be able to bite them off is a piece of meat.

The artillery of the Qing army did not move forward much, and when the artillery carriages of the Fu Han army advanced to about five miles away from the artillery of the Qing army, the general cannon of the Qing army and the Portuguese twelve-pounder cannon opened fire.

The first battalion of the Fu Han Army followed forward as an artillery escort, and the rest of the troops temporarily stopped advancing. At the same time, the escorts and logistics soldiers of the artillery unit urged the wagons to follow. Rattan baskets were placed in front of the gun emplacements, sacks were used to hold earth, and carts were loaded with shovels of the highest quality. It's such a hassle to lay out a full-fledged artillery position! Still under the guns of the Manchus!

When the artillery of the Fu Han army also fired, more than half an hour had passed. And the construction of artillery positions is still underway.

A regiment of scouts and snipers, acting as skirmishers, took the lead. Behind them was the main force of a regiment, a battalion returned to the sequence, and all three battalions, along with the regimental headquarters, had all been turned into three slender lines.

The stragglers, who numbered only forty or fifty people, were fearless in the face of the bombardment of the Qing artillery. If the iron balls want to hit them in a scattered formation on the wide battlefield, it can only be said that God wants you to die at this time. Soon, on the right flank of the positions of both sides, gunfire rang out sporadically.

When the flowering bullets fell one after another, and when the thin line of privates pressed over, the Qing artillerymen said that they were under great mental pressure.

As soon as the flowering bullet exploded, shrapnel flew everywhere, and its lethality and coverage were far more powerful than that of solid bullets. The artillery battle on both sides has been fought for a quarter of an hour, and there seems to be no damage on the artillery side of the Fu Han army, at most the logistics soldiers who are scurrying around have killed and wounded a few people, lost a horse and a cow, but the artillery position of the Qing army has already suffered casualties of twenty or thirty gunners. All killed by shrapnel!

When the soldiers of the Fu Han army continued to shorten the distance to the artillery positions of the Qing army, the rich monks also had to send a musketeer phalanx to respond.

The results are unmistakable!

The 3,000-strong Qing musketeers failed to shorten the distance between the two sides to 50 meters, and fled in a big way.

The 1st Regiment of the 14th Brigade did not pursue, for the Qing horsemen had already trotted in response when their musketeers were about to collapse.

The musketeers of the Fu Han Army did not occasionally discharge the hollow array, but still lined up in three horizontal columns, and only the regimental headquarters itself discharged a not very large hollow array. And very bravely walked to the front of the three columns.

In the middle of the hollow array, three four-wheeled vehicles each placed a six-barreled rocket launcher.

……

Chen Ming looked ahead intently.

"Whoosh ......" is different from mortars, and unlike cannons, the sound of rockets firing faintly reaches his ears. Chen Ming's eyes were fixed on the sky, and more than a dozen black shadows dragged a long tail flame through the air.

"Boom...... Boom ......"

"Boom...... Boom ......"

It was like a dazzling meteor sliding from the sky, accompanied by a deafening explosion, and puffs of smoke rose from the battlefield ahead.

Puffs of mushroom-like black smoke rose into the sky, and the fillers that flew on all sides—iron sand, broken iron nails, etc.—tore through everything in front of them with a kinetic energy that was so huge that flesh and blood couldn't stop it at all.

The flesh was blurry and dripping with blood. Every explosion felt like a rain of blood, and a Mongolian horse at the center of the explosion and the horsemen on horseback were crushed to pieces in the orange-red smoke of gunpowder.

"Charge, rush, rush to Chen Yi to live-" The deputy capital of the Mongolian white flag of the Ministry of Internal Affairs roared loudly.

It doesn't matter if his shouts can be heard by others on the noisy battlefield, or if his orders are correct, he will die the next moment and can't die anymore. A rocket shell landed less than a kilometer to his left, and the explosion of debris and smoke immediately enveloped Zig and his side...... (To be continued.) )