On all levels, the militia group greeted by Sazai is better than the Green Camp in terms of appearance. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info But they still can't be the opponent of the Armed Guards, first of all, most of them have been formed for no more than half a year, even if it is a medieval cold weapon battle array, they are not proficient, and many scholars who train soldiers are things that are casually made out of the military books, which lacks actual combat significance. Secondly, the huge disparity in weapons makes these militia groups even if they face the armed guards with high morale, but after the armed guards stand still, a volley of guns will come over, and a large number of casualties will collapse them.

To a certain extent, the Jiangnan Army is actually similar to another local armed force in the late Qing Dynasty, that is, the Hunan Army of Zeng Guofan, the Huai Army of Li Hongzhang, and the like, and they are highly similar. They are all led by Han literati, influenced by traditional Confucianism, and maintained by the relationship between Sangzi classmates. It can be said that this is a typical old-style army, and there is no talent like Zeng Li in the Jiangnan army at this time, so there is nothing to say about the military. Even Zeng Guofan suffered a lot of defeats in the first battle, and in the end, it was the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's own internal strife, weakened combat effectiveness, and the intervention of foreign forces, that the Hunan army reversed the defeat.

The current Wuwei Army is a new-style army with an official background, advanced equipment, and even relatively well-trained, even if its tactics are a mixture of various ideas such as post-Napoleonic straggler line shock and World War I positional warfare, but it is undoubtedly several streets more advanced than the old-style army, and it is not the same as the Taiping Heavenly Army.

Therefore, the Jiangnan Army, which Sazai had high hopes for, was like Tang Woxue after facing the Wuwei Army. The rout was complete. Sazai's sinister thoughts were. Let the Jiangnan Army coerce the people of Jiangnan. He caused a large number of casualties in the battle, which made the court and the Tang people feel that the price was too great, and finally negotiated peace with him. This is also a very good analogy, and the other side of the plane has entered the right bank of the strait in the 21 st century, which is a similar idea, and in terms of military affairs, they must not be able to defeat the mainland, but their goal in forming an army is actually to make the cost of war greater, and then force the mainland not to easily move troops. Of course, this logic itself is very naïve. Compared to the determination of the other party, these are not worth mentioning. Moreover, due to the difference in size and strength, the right bank can increase the strength by one point, and the left bank can be strengthened by ten or even one hundred points, so the so-called cost is too great, and it is naturally not considered.

If the Jiangnan army faced the Wuwei army and fought regardless of casualties, it might really kill and wound more people, but even the Tang people didn't want the locals to suffer too many casualties. But as long as you stand on the opposite side of yourself, you are the enemy, and on the battlefield you have compassion for the enemy. That's complete idiocy. However, after the Jiangnan Army fought head-on with the Wuwei Army, it would basically collapse within ten minutes, even if the Wuwei Army was not equipped with weapons such as heavy machine guns, but under the guidance of Tang instructors, they used rifles and cannons to cooperate, which was also very deterrent and lethal.

After Xia Guinong and Yu Pengxi defeated the Jiangnan army in Huai'an, they then defeated the 20,000 Jiangnan army organized by Sazai on the shore of Gaoyou Lake. This Jiangnan Army unit was formed by Sa Zai who gathered almost all the strength of the Jiangnan military and civilian regiments that could be mobilized, and was led by Jiangning General Song Chun. Song Chun actually didn't want to go against the imperial court, but the new policy of the imperial court canceled the Eight Banners system, so that he had no way out, Song Chun had sent someone to secretly communicate with the imperial court, and the book said that the Tang people had made the Manchurians lose more than half, and then cancel the Eight Banners, which would make the Qing Dynasty no longer full of people. Song Chun hoped that Jiaqing would be able to restore the Eight Banners, and if Jiaqing could agree, he would encourage the Jiangning Eight Banners Army to take Sa Zai and show loyalty to the emperor.

It's a pity that the existence and abolition of the Eight Banners system, Jiaqing himself said that it doesn't count, this is a charter made by the Tang people himself, and there is no way to change it. And Jiaqing hates this kind of person who takes the opportunity to blackmail himself, so he directly ordered Songchun to surrender honestly, and now he can give him a way to live if he surrenders, if he is defeated and captured, then he has to cut off his head.

Like most Manchurian military attachés, Song Chun had no military talent, he received an order from Sazai, intending to attack the Wuwei army with only more than 5,000 people with superior forces, but even if he was numerous, he was not taken seriously by Xia Guinong. Xia Guinong ordered the Wuwei army to dig trenches near Gaoyou and set up positions, and Song Chun saw that the Wuwei army stopped marching, thinking that the Wuwei army was afraid, so he raised the army to attack.

But Xia Guinong is a high-ranking officer who has undergone strict command education at the Tang National Defense University, and the trenches he laid out communicate with each other and are easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Jiangnan army, which did not understand the principle at all, attacked in a hula, but was beaten back by the Wuwei army hiding in the trench with bullets.

Song Chun doesn't have a long memory, from what he can see, behind is the camp of the Wuwei Army, as long as he attacks it, the Wuwei Army will be finished. Therefore, he personally supervised the battle and asked the Jiangnan army to storm the defense line of the Wuwei Army in the front.

The Jiangnan Army did manage several charges, under the rain of bullets, they almost attacked the trenches several times under the great casualties, but the trench system that can support each other can support a group of soldiers in a very short time, and Yu Pengxi also concentrated most of the submachine guns and light machine guns in his sixth brigade, which made the Jiangnan Army suffer heavy casualties.

In the end, when the Jiangnan Army's fierce attack for two days did not achieve any results, and even basically did not kill any of the soldiers of the Armed Guards, Yu Pengxi ordered two battalions of Armed Guards soldiers to ride war horses and turn into incompetent cavalry to carry out a surprise attack on the Jiangnan Army. Even if these armed guards had no experience in shooting immediately, and even they did not have the sabers of the Tang cavalry, when they inserted bayonets into their rifles and assaulted the Jiangnan army, they still caused heavy losses and collapse of the Jiangnan army.

Xia Guinong took advantage of the situation to launch a counter-charge of the infantry and defeated the Jiangnan army in one fell swoop, in this battle, thirty percent of the Jiangnan army was killed or wounded, most of them fled, and more than 2,000 people were captured. And Song Chun, who unified the army, saw that the general trend had gone, and killed himself with a horizontal knife, anyway, after being caught, he would definitely die if he was sent to the capital, so it was better to die early now, so as to save so much humiliation. However, Song Chun was also extremely remorseful when he died, even if the Eight Banners system was canceled, he still had a solid family background and could still be an official, but for the benefit of other Manchurians, he ended up with a chaotic minister and thief and died, which was really bad luck for eight lifetimes.

After the Battle of Gaoyou Lake, the Jiangnan Army was greatly damaged, and there were almost no troops that could be mobilized except for the troops that Sazai left in Jiangning. Subsequently, the city of Yangzhou surrendered after the arrival of the Wuwei army, and Jiangning was completely exposed to the Wuwei army. (To be continued.) )