Volume 1 Beacon Creep Chapter 495 Crossing the River
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When the Ming army went out of the camp to assemble, the Qing army under the city of Jinzhou also went out to camp and set up formation.
The large and small arrays of Qing troops fluttering various flags spread to the north and west of Jinzhou City, as well as the south across the Xiaoling River.
At this time, the city of Jinzhou has already been besieged by the walled walls and ditches, and the layout of the Loess Ridge and Rufeng Mountain is the same, and the walled walls and ditches in the wilderness outside the city of Jinzhou are also the kind of two ditches and three walls.
A main wall and a deep trench, plus two smaller moats, the first of which was preceded by thick stakes with ropes and bells, and at night hounds were arranged around many stakes.
Because it is on the Pingchuan wilderness, these walled walls and ditches are actually excavated and built higher and deeper than Rufeng Mountain and Loess Ridge, and the curved main wall, plus the ditch in front of the wall, surrounds the entire Jinzhou city for dozens of miles.
In particular, the side of the main wall, facing the city, also built countless battlements, so that the besieging army could calmly defend the battlements.
Because the three trenches were not far away, they were all within the range of the Qing army's bows and arrows and birds' guns, so it was very difficult for the Ming army in the city to storm out.
And behind the main wall, there is a large camp of the Qing army's banners, in front of the big camp, the same low wall trench is dug, and if you besiege Jinzhou City, there are four barriers.
In addition, a large number of hunting dogs were arranged in front of the trench to guard, and these Manchurian dogs were extremely cautious, barking in groups every time they heard the bell ring at night. Make a night sneak attack by the Ming army. It often becomes an empty talk. Zu Dashou in Jinzhou City has tried to break through countless times, but it is difficult to break through the siege of the Qing army.
And the Qing army is surrounded by dense ventilation, making it difficult for the defenders in the city to go out of the city to collect firewood, in fact, Jinzhou City is currently full of grain and grass, that is, the lack of firewood, the defenders have already demolished the house and destroyed the door, used to burn the fire to cook, and developed to the end. Many chariots were chopped for firewood.
Not only that, after the Qing army withdrew its troops from Shimen Mountain and other places on a large scale, it was in the east and north of Jinzhou City. A few miles away from the daughter river, the same arc-shaped wall rises from the ground. It is also the kind of two-ditch and three-walled type, and the wall is higher, the deeper the trench, and each trench is densely covered with sharp wooden thorn traps.
And there, many artillery pieces of the Han Army's banner Wuzhenha Super Artillery Battalion are arranged on high earthen walls, and the range of these artillery pieces mostly covers both sides of the Daughter River. If the Ming army wanted to cross the river from there to rescue, they would have to face these terrible defenses.
If the Ming army crossed the river from the Baigu River section, in addition to facing the impact of the Eight Banners of the Eight Banners stationed in Liangjia Mountain and on both sides of the Baigu River, the artillery fire of the Han Army's Wuzhenha Chao Battalion could also attack them from the side.
It is conceivable that if Wang Dou had not changed his attack strategy, the two sides of the Daughter River, the east and north of Jinzhou City would be in the wilderness. The corpses of the Ming army must have been strewn all over the field, and blood was shed there.
In particular, the south bank of the daughter river is narrow, with many mountains and few flat rivers, and the troops cannot be arranged. can only endure the ravages of the Qing army's artillery on the other side of the river, using refueling tactics. Little by little, the troops were transported over.
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The Qing army was well arranged, they crossed the main road, and when they spread out their military formation, it seemed that the entire wilderness outside Jinzhou was covered by a sea of their banners and armor. The flags were in full array, waiting for the Ming army to cross the river.
With the crescent moon sign of the Han army solid mountain Ezhen dragon fluttering, next to the eight-pole weaving gold dragon curtain, there is a tall Taiji diagram flag, below these flags, the eight banners of the Han army each flag Gushan Ezhen, the right of the Korean state to discuss the government of the gold from the point, is looking at the daughter river.
At this time, at the battlement of the Tucheng, there were many Han soldiers of the Eight Banners who were no different from the Manchurian soldiers, as well as Korean armor soldiers who were also wearing red foam cotton armor and a three-pronged pole on the top of the helmet.
After Huang Taiji formed the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, the total number of Eight Banners of the Han Army reached more than one hundred and dozens, and the number of Dingkou was more than 30,000, which was more than the Eight Banners of Mongolia.
These Dingkou are all counted as soldiers, and Yu Ding, and many coated slaves are not counted in the Niu Lu Dingkou.
They were also not qualified to participate in combat, and at most they were used as wartime handymen, doing some hard work such as transporting grain and grass, digging trenches, building equipment, and feeding horses. If you work hard, you may be selected into the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty.
At this time, there were about 18,000 soldiers in the Han army banner, distributed among the Han army banners, and the rest were sword and shield spearmen. The most powerful force is a 3,000-strong army under Kong Youde, which fought against the Shunxiang army in Pinggu.
In addition to these Han military flags and Korean soldiers, the huge artillery group of the Uzhenha Super Artillery Battalion is also all arranged here.
Even the Tianyou Cheering General Artillery cast in the future, some of the artillery brought by Kong Youde from Dengzhou, and the Shenwei General Cannon cast by the Qing Dynasty later, at this time, the Wuzhenha Super Artillery Battalion had more than 150 large and small Hongyi cannons.
For example, a few days ago, the Qing army fought against Bai Guangen's Jizhen army, and many chariots were captured at one time, as well as hundreds of Franc machines of various colors. However, due to the lack of gunners, these captured Franc machines and other guns have always been unused, and have been piled up in the warehouse to accumulate dust.
Even so, because there are many Francophone gunners in the Qing Kingdom, in the past few years, the Hongyi represented by Eduardo has trained the Qing gunners, and in the past, Kong Youde also took away the most elite artillery troops of the Ming Dynasty built by Sun Yuanhua and the Portuguese, so the strength of the Qing Wuzhenha Super Artillery Battalion cannot be underestimated.
If it weren't for Wang Dou's appearance, with this unit's familiarity with the use of guns, rulers, rectangular meters, and artillery, no one in the Ming army's artillery unit would be their opponent.
In fact, when the Qing army entered the customs, Kong Youde's artillery unit made great contributions to the Qing country's siege of the city.
A few days ago, the Ming army piled sandbags in front of the artillery to prevent artillery fire, and these Qing gunners had already learned well.
High platforms were built on the earthen city. Those high platforms. There are heavy heavy artillery guns of the Qing army, and in front of each gun, there are layers of dirt bags, which are hit by the artillery of the Ming army, which can also effectively prevent the damage of the shells to the gunners and artillery.
The sound of hunting with various flags, standing here, you can clearly see the situation on the other side of the daughter river, the movement of the Ming army, and waves of Qing army sentry horses, and from time to time to send back the details of the Ming army on the other side of the river.
Kong Youde is the only person who has a clairvoyant mirror in the eight banners of the Han Dynasty. He held the clairvoyant mirror vividly, and looked at his daughter from time to time.
In the Qianli mirror, the Ming army on the south bank of the river was densely packed, and not only the river beach area was covered with their queues. Some gentle hills were also lined with their men and horses.
Looking at their banners, you can know that the objects who crossed the river first were the mountain navy and Miyun army of Ma Ke and Tangtong.
Crossing the river and grabbing the beach is actually a series of very complex tactics, which require a lot of organizational ability from all parties, and it can be seen that Ma Ke and Tang Tong lack this ability, and the performance of all parties shown is chaotic.
Because all the pontoon bridges on the Daughter River were burned down by the Qing army. So at this time, on the river, there were many Ming army ships floating, some big boats, some small boats, and many small sampans, these boats, rowed to the opposite bank by the people's sailors, and then lined up in a row, covered with wooden planks, connected by iron chains and ropes.
Ant-like craftsmen. Carrying wooden planks back and forth, or cutting wood on site, splitting some trees into planks, the materials used to build pontoon bridges are also varied, even door panels. Slogans. Cheers, roars. The daughter riverside is very lively, and for a time it was like a large market.
In order to cover the bridge of the Minfu craftsmen, it can be seen that the Ming army used some warships of the Longwu Naval Division on Juehua Island. These warships, traveling back and forth, transported batches of Ming troops ashore, and then these people, lined up some chaotic military formations on the river beach, nervously defending.
There are only a few places where the daughter river can be easily landed, some shallow water areas, the warships cannot dock, and some small sampans are put down from the warships, and each boat is on the members of the Ming army's death squads, and the ones they hold in their hands are all big swords and shields.
After they went ashore, they all had different images, or cursed, or shouted and shouted, and even some of them grew up in inland places, and even took a boat in shock, and after getting off the boat, they lay on the ground for a long time without moving.
Then, under the roar of Shangguan, he reluctantly lined up a defensive queue by the river.
On the whole, the progress of crossing the river between Ma Ke and Tang Tongbu was slow, and they did not get ugly for half a day, and after a long time, the people who crossed the river were also sparse, accounting for only a very small part of their total number.
Seeing that they were not in a hurry, the Qing troops on the other side were anxious for them.
Some of the Qing army sentry cavalry, as well as the artillery of the Wuzhenha super artillery battalion, occasionally attacked them on the way to the Ming army building pontoon bridges and crossing the river by boat, but those artillery roared over, and basically they were nine out of ten hits.
In fact, Eduardo, the commander of the Wuzhenha super artillery battalion, once surveyed the geographical topography of the north bank of the Daughter River in detail, as in the Loess Ridge, every dozens of steps, there are marks on the riverside section, and the gunners in the battalion only need to shell according to the mark, and the accuracy cannot be so low.
This is also the Qing army's intention to release the water, so as not to cause heavy casualties when the Ming army crossed the river, and scare them away and no longer cross the river. It is also impossible to hit a single shot, which makes the Ming army suspicious, and it is also possible to stop crossing the river.
When the Qing army attacked, the Franc planes on the warships of the Ming Army's naval divisions also fired back, and some Franc planes in the town of the Ma Ke Department and the Tang Tong Department on the shore also opened artillery to cover.
Because of the strong request of Ma Ke and others, Fu Tingfu, a guerrilla guerrilla of the Shenji Battalion who had originally supported Ma Ke and others, once again led a part of his soldiers and horses to support the river crossing troops with 20 mortars and 50 rocket vehicles. However, Fu Tingfu was shrewd, and refused to cross the river first no matter what, and only set up his artillery on the mountain ridge behind him to bombard the small force of cavalry forced by the Qing army.
In general, these artillery pieces of the Ming army could hardly pose a threat to the Wuzhenha Chao Artillery Battalion in Tucheng and the harassing Qing cavalry. The Qing artillery battalion, out of strategic considerations, was also basically frightened, and each other's artillery really caused very few casualties to both sides.
The slow movement of the Ming army in the clairvoyant mirror, Kong Youde snorted coldly, if it were not for the emperor's strict order, his own Wuzhenha super artillery battalion, a burst of artillery bombardment, would be able to beat the Ming army on both sides of the daughter river to collapse and flee.
At the same time, he regretted in his heart that Wang Dou's Jingbian army did not appear by the daughter river at this time, otherwise, under his own sharp artillery, he would definitely make his army suffer a lot, and let out a big breath of evil anger in Pinggu back then... )