368. The first battle of Huguang
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Although it was not clear to see the depth of Zheng Jun's city, in view of Kangxi's rebuke and the upcoming reinforcements of more than 40,000 troops, Nertu and Shanahai, who commanded the Zhennan army, finally decided to use their lives to break through the defense of Zheng Jun. Of course, it was certainly not the Manchurian, Mongolian, and Han 24 Banner Army, which had a total of only more than 7,000 people, and the more than 5,000 Mongolian cavalry troops who were not good at attacking fortifications.
However, cannon fodder also has the use of cannon fodder, and it cannot be damaged aimlessly, so how to attack the camp of the Zheng army has become a problem. Generally speaking, a siege must first fill in the outer trenches, but in this way, a considerable number of ants will inevitably be lost before attacking the Zheng army's earthen walls and horse faces. Of course, using the mobility of the cavalry to quickly fill the land is also a way, but there is no need for anyone to waste it with such a high-level class as cavalry.
In addition, due to the uniqueness of the Zheng army's walls, the Qing army could also choose to attack from several passes specially set aside by the Zheng side, but the Zheng army would never be kind enough to facilitate the Qing army's attack - although the Zheng army also needed these passages to attack, but in the case of outnumbered enemies, the use of these passages should probably be traps - so it can be inferred from this that the Qing army will pay what price it will pay when attacking these passages.
After weighing it again and again, anyway, there are enough cannon fodder in his hands, and the next wave of reinforcements will arrive soon, and Shanahai, who is actually in charge of military affairs, still decided to attack a few passages first.
At the beginning of June 17, the 36th year of Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, under the early white sky of early summer, the Qing army camp opened the door with cannons, and tens of thousands of Qing troops rushed out of the formation, and soon lined up outside the strange city of the Zheng army. At that time, the wind was light and the clouds were light, the scorching summer sun had not yet risen, and the Qing army lined up neatly under countless banners was in order, and the evil spirit soared into the sky from afar.
As several heralded cavalrymen marched through the large formation, several small phalanxes broke away from the home team. At the same time, the Wucheng Yonggu General Artillery Team and the Shenwei Invincible General Artillery Team of the Xi'an Banner Firearms Battalion also entered their own firing positions, and all kinds of artillery made by the Qing army from various provinces were also placed on the ground.
Although the sound of artillery is intense, but the effect is very scarce, because the Qing army's green battalion has a provincial artillery is not as good as the Eight Banners equipped with the bureau and imperial artillery, so the Qing gunners who carry out the shooting do not dare to fill the gunpowder at all, and the gunpowder of the green battalion is still old-fashioned powdered gunpowder, so the farthest cannonball is only in the trench dug by the Zheng army, stirring up a burst of water, and even the earth wall and the Zheng army's horse face have not touched the edge.
After confirming the facts, Shanahai was quite annoyed and ordered the provincial artillery teams to push forward. As a result, these green battalion artillerymen were still working hard to push the heavy artillery forward, and the artillery fire of the Zheng army's counterattack arrived. A division of the Zheng Army originally had nine two-inch guns and nine three-inch guns, but the five divisions in Shatou City all increased their regimental artillery teams according to the new system before the battle, which means that the Qing army now has a total of 90 two-inch guns and 45 three-inch guns. Although the entire defense line had to be taken into account and was not centrally arranged, the seven-pound and twenty-pound shells fired diagonally from the adjacent horse faces of several passages still smashed the Qing artillery that was moving forward.
"It's now." Ba Lin, who was shirtless, saw that Zheng Jun's firepower was attracted by the green battalion artillery team, and he roared at the moment. "Fire!"
The artillery of the Xi'an Banner Army, which opened fire intensively, immediately sent out a metallic storm on the Zheng army's position. Of course, in this era, it can only be a probabilistic shot, so there are not many direct hits on the horse's face, and even those shells that occasionally fall on the horse's surface are offset by the bulletproof short wall that the Qing army has never seen.
Seeing the fires splashing and bullets raining down on Zheng Jun's side, the leaders of several green battalions who were selected to become death squads began to slowly dispatch. These Qing troops rushing to the passage were all divided into three formations, the front formation was the white soldiers, the middle formation was the bird gunners, and the last was the archers.
In fact, Zheng Jun's door stopper is divided into two layers, the front and back layers, bounded by a towering concrete lintel, the front row obliquely pointing to the trench is a low wall that is more than half a person high, the latter row is a high wall nearly half higher than the front low wall, and as for the gate, it is a large hugging tree that has just been cut down.
Seeing that it was about to approach, the adjacent horse face was also blocked by the door plug, so the Qing army rushed up with a shout. At this moment, countless human heads suddenly appeared on the walls of the two gates, and at the same time, there were weapons in their hands that shone with cold air.
"Ahh Before the Green Flag soldiers could make a terrifying cry, they saw a cloud of gunpowder rise, and the double salvo knocked the bravest white soldiers in the front of the Qing army to the ground at once.
The Qing army that survived in front of the queue was heartbroken, but the back rushed up and pushed it, and as a result, many people stepped on the pond formed by the bodies of their fallen comrades and the rushing blood. So slipping and slipping, tripping and stumbling, the formation was in a big mess, and several people were screaming hoarsely.
Before the Qing army could recover from the chaos, Zheng Jun on the door wall picked up the infantry that he had received from the back row and struck again, once again sweeping away the Qing army at the forefront. To be honest, the casualties of 30 to 50 people were actually only a drop in the bucket for a battalion of at least 500 people, but seeing the bravest soldiers fall beside him, the rest of the Qing army suddenly became timid and fled backwards with their own officers. Of course, the head of the Qing army camp that can be repelled by two platoons is not the mainstream, no, in front of the other gatekeepers, after enduring the initial losses, the Qing army's bird gunners and archers began to shoot at the Zheng army, so the Zheng army also suffered a lot of losses.
"Kill! Kill all these sea rebels. "Taking advantage of the fact that Zheng's infantry was suppressed, the Qing army roared and pounced on the low wall at the front and the plug gate with only big trees as a barrier." Quick, climb up, take down this door, and the adults will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver. ”
The low wall is only half a person high, but it is by no means light and climbable, and the Qing army, who is climbing up with his body support, only feels a pain in his chest, and suddenly falls on his back, but it is the Zheng army behind the wall who greets them with a spear. Because the white soldiers of the Qing army who rushed forward blocked the shooting range of the bird-gunners, and the archers who were hanging and shooting were afraid of accidentally injuring their peers who rushed forward, the Qing soldiers who were unable to parry because they climbed up became moths throwing fire, and fell to the ground one by one in the stabbing and pulling of the Zheng army.
The Qing troops who rushed to the big tree to act as a latch for the door, and when they rushed closer, they realized that the position of this big tree that had not had time to prune was a little special. The large tree across the waist gave the Qing army three options, the first was to climb in from below, the second was to find a way to climb over the tree, and the second was to cut off the big tree. But whether you climb in or turn over, you have to face the slashing of Zheng Jun's white soldiers. As for cutting off the big wood, some Qing soldiers tried it, but the waist knife in their hands didn't cut it twice and rolled up.
The Qing army, who was stunned in front of the big wood, was still at a loss, and the Qing army, who had come back to their senses by the low wall, began to stab Zheng Jun with spears. At this time, a black object was vigorously thrown from behind the high wall. These black guys emitting gunsmoke landed in the Qing army brigade and detonated in an instant, instantly blowing down a large number of Qing troops, and even the birdmen and archers in the rear column were also affected. Taking advantage of the disgrace of the Qing army, the Zheng army behind the high wall fired a dense volley, which immediately made the Qing army cry wolf at a very close distance. The Qing army, which left a corpse in a place, could no longer support it, and fled the way it came.
"Slash!" Although the original intention of Nartu and Shanahai was to test Zheng Jun's hypocrisy, the defeat of the striker inevitably dampened morale, so Shanahai unceremoniously raised the butcher's knife. "The Gwangju Battalion from the guerrilla level and below the officers of the battalion were all on display to the public, and the (Hebiao) Huaihe Battalion Division, the Caobiao Left Battalion Division, and the (Hubei) An 6th Battalion Garrison were also passed on to the three armies." Shana Hai commanded murderously. "Sue the battalion generals, this is the end of retreating without an order!" A few "chickens" were used to scare the "monkeys", but the remnants of these battalions should be cleaned up so as not to spread the words of defeat to other troops. ”
After Shanahai finished issuing the order, Ananda stepped out and said: "Lord Wang, Lord Sha, the smoke of gunpowder was thick just now, and the rear could not see clearly, I don't know how this was defeated, and I have to ask people to clarify the truth of the sea rebellion." ”
"That's right." Shanahai nodded, and sent a few Goshha to ask the surviving thousand-handed, because the bloody heads were still in front of them, the thousand-handed-in generals who were lucky enough to escape asked what to say, and in this way, the truth was quickly presented to a group of dignitaries. "All of you know what the battle has happened, and let's talk about what to do next."
A group of Manchurian nobles have not yet spoken, Xu Dingjiang, the chief soldier of Nanyang Town, took a step forward, and the Gwangju battalion under his command made a big mistake, and he naturally wanted to express it slightly: "This time it was caught off guard, in the opinion of the lower officials, the defense of the sea reverse in the passage is not strong, and the so-called big wooden blocking the door is also easy to solve, and it will be done next time with more axes, and please hand over the task of attacking the enemy to Nanyang Town, and the lower officials must personally lead the troops to wash away the shame." ”
"Lord Xu said this, and the lower officials disagreed." Gao Zhicheng, the chief soldier of Yunyang Town, Hubei Province, spoke out against it. "The defense of the sea reverse in the passage looks weak, but it is not necessarily not deliberately weak, if our army is bent on fighting for the passage, it will inevitably limit the number of troops, and the sea reverse can completely concentrate on the struggle for a few passages."
Gao Zhicheng's words are not unreasonable, if you blindly entangled in the battle for the gate, then the advantage of the Qing army's strength will not be able to wave, you must know that the advantage of time is on the side of the Zheng army, once the weather is a little hotter, not only the Beijing Banner and the Mongolian cavalry can not stand it, even the green battalions in Zhili, Shaanxi and other places are difficult to compete with the southern soldiers who are used to the heat.
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