565.The Battle of the Qing Dynasty (4)
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"The Mongolian Tartars are out." The sentry who was desperately fighting the horses could not pay attention to the wailing of his crotch mates, and eagerly urged his exhausted comrades, until he rushed into his own camp and breathed a sigh of relief. "Hurry up and report that the 60,000 Mongolian troops have come to Gu'an." Before the words fell, the legs of the war horse, which was already powerless to support, weakened, and directly overturned the sentry detective. "Tiger girl!"
But it was too late to redeem it, and the foaming war horse glanced at the rider with very human eyes, stretched out his tongue and licked the rider's face, and then lowered his head.
"Tiger girl, wake up!" Tanma shook the horse's corpse in five internal burns, but at this time it was too late for him to continue to be sad, the Chinese army who ordered him had already notified him to enter the tent and report carefully, Tanma had to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, and approached the big tent with his chest high. "Chen Qi, the leader of the first squad of the first squad of the first squad of the first squad of the lowly rangers, see the ?????? of the commander"
After ordering Tanma to retreat, Tao Yue turned to the staff detective beside him and asked, "What do you think we should do now?" ā
A military commander immediately replied: "My lord, the Mongolian army has been mobilized, and the mission of our army has been completed. ā
"Gu'an City is small, not enough to accommodate a division." Another military Sima engaged in building yƬ road. "Each brigade should be dispersed to Xiongzhou, Bazhou, and Yongqing counties, and the division should stay in Gu'an."
The previous staff officer retorted: "The Mongol army is already within a hundred miles, with its horses, how can we let our army disperse into the cities safely." What's more, once the troops are divided, they will inevitably be weak, and they will be self-defeating, so it is better to stick to one place. ā
"Of course, you can't withdraw to Bazhou and Xiongzhou, but Yongqing is close to the left, how can you not enter before the arrival of the Mongolian army." The staff officer who proposed to divide the troops accepted his colleague's argument that the troops would not have time to withdraw into Xiong and dominate the two cities, but continued to insist on his own idea of dividing the troops. "The chess game is cloudy, and the one-eyed is not alive, and the division of our division into two cities can be each other's horns."
Tao Yue listened to the arguments of the staff officers, and her eyes quickly fell on the head of Sima Gujie, a regent from the Bingchen period: "Yufu, what do you think, whether to defend Gu'an alone or to defend Gu'an and Yongqing." ā
Gu Jie was also thinking about the pros and cons of the two plans just now, so when he heard Tao Yue ask, he quickly replied: "Although Yongqing is close, first, our army has a lot of baggage, and it may not be able to enter Yongqing safely before its vanguard arrives. My intention is that the division of troops should still be divided, but don't go far, just set up a wall outside Gu'an City, so that they can take care of each other. ā
Tao Yue nodded: "This official thinks the same way, just stand outside the firing range of the eight-point cannon, and take care of each other at that time." ā
Gu Jie thought for a while and denied: "According to the lower officials, it is better to move the position of the outer fortress a little further, so that once the Mongolian horse team breaks through between the fortresses, it may be hit by artillery fire from both sides." ā
Tao Yue was taken aback: "In this way, the pressure on Waiqi will be greater, and the Mongols will definitely take Waiqi as the first target." ā
"It is precisely because the Mongols have the desire to win that they can be dragged back." Gu Jie is not blindly strong. "Your Excellency, please rest assured, the Mongol soldiers' siege skills have always been very poor, and it is impossible for the 60,000 troops to be completely pressed on the outer side."
Of course, Tao Yue knew that Gu Jie's words had some truth, in fact, not to mention 60,000 cavalry, even if 60,000 infantry were arranged on the battlefield, the area occupied was also amazing, and it was impossible to gather them on the periphery of a small temple. But don't say that there are 60,000 people around, even 6,000 is not a lot, after all, the Sixth Division of the Xuanwu Army has fought all the way, and the losses are also thousands, and after deducting the auxiliary troops such as the middle base and the baggage, there are less than 8,000 soldiers who can really go to the front line, and they have to be divided into two handles, which is really a little uneasy.
Perhaps seeing the hesitation of his commander, Gu Jie smiled gloomily: "In fact, we can also use the method of the upper and lower horses, and put the main force on the outside, and only put a small number of troops in Gu'an City." ā
Tao Yue was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "Good idea, just do it??????"
Since the battle strategy has been decided, Tao Yue sent people to the rear to report to the rear on the one hand, and arranged for the division to take action on the other hand. Therefore, the construction and repair of the city, the construction of the city, the repair of the city, the defense of the city of Gu'an, the deployment of the defense of the city of Gu'an, in the face of the urgent enemy situation, the sixth division of the Xuanwu Army began to work hard as if on the line.
"Fooled, this small stone outside the city can be built overnight?"
Looking at the dead and silent Gu'an City in front of him and the Xinqi outside the city fluttering the Chinese national flag and military flag, as one of the commanders of the Mongolian army, Marhun, the king of Doroan County, has already woken up, but what can he do if he wakes up, the Huaxia side has worked hard to design and transfer them out, is it possible that they will easily let them return to Dongchang Mansion?
The answer is definitely no, then there are only two ways in front of the commanders of the Mongol army, one is to return to the steppe to avoid unnecessary losses, and the other is to go north to the capital to serve as the last garrison of the Qing court.
Let the Mongolian soldiers return to the grassland without a battle, and it is said that if Kangxi does not agree, even the Eight Banners Sect nobles present will not agree.
As for letting the Mongolian soldiers go north to the Beijing Division, there is also a problem, who has heard that the Mongolian soldiers are good at defending the city? Moreover, the Mongol princes would not agree to let their steppe spirits ride off the city wall and fight on the city wall, not to mention that the Qing court was worried that the Mongols who saw the flower world would turn into robbers and sack the city of Beijing.
Since this is the case, then you can only fight. Isn't there such a saying, even if you know that there is a trap waiting for you in front of you, you must have the courage and determination to break through the trap and break out of the trap. Therefore, the relatives and nobles of the Eight Banners tacitly came to the conclusion that this battle must be fought, not only to be fought, but also to win and win quickly, so as to face the turbulent waves in the near future.
But having said that, it is impossible for the nobles of the Eight Banners to immediately drive the Mongols to knock on the city of Gu'an, after all, the Mongols are also people, no matter how tenacious and hard-working they are, they can't toss like this, not to mention that the art of war says that the generals will go for hundreds of miles, and let the Mongols who have galloped for hundreds of miles attack the fortifications of the Xia army that are waiting for work, only the deranged people will act like this, and the Mongolian princes and nobles who are traveling with them will never agree.
It's just that some people saw the reality of the falsehood, and Naqili, the deputy capital of Mongolia with the yellow flag, said to a group of Mongolian nobles with great suspicion: "The small stone outside the city repaired by the lowly Guanhai is like a huge stone base, but they have only been in Gu'an for a short time, how can they transport the boulder, it is nothing more than the art of cement." Although the technique of cement has the magic of turning water into mud, it takes time to become strong in the rocks. And our army is quite offensive, and I am afraid that the Xia army will not have enough time to wait for the mountains and rocks to solidify??????"
Naqili's words woke up the dreamer, in order to control the Yellow Flood in China over the years, the river work continued, which used a large amount of cement, naturally could not hide the eyes and ears of the Qing court spies, although no one could successfully bring the cement back to the north for the imperial craftsmen to analyze the cottage, but the characteristics of cement are no longer a secret.
Luo Cha, the deputy capital of the Mongolian Banner of the Zhenghuang Banner, immediately built yƬ and said: "Attack the small fortress outside the city, and do not let it last for a ??????long time."
The Mongol princes were suspicious of Naqili's words, and refused to lose their capital lightly, and only the three of them, who had not long been the prince of Khalkha Town, Yan Zhubu Dorji, Heshuo Eju Dolji Selen, and the son-in-law of Adhaha Panjue Luo Changtai, Sebten Barjur, were willing to give it a try. Among these three, although Yan Zhub Dorji is the prince of Zhenguo, he is an inconspicuous little Taiji among the Khalkha tribes, and there are only a hundred horsemen in his hands, which is not enough even for the teeth of the Saixia army; There are more than 2,000 troops in Dolji Selen, and his strength is much stronger than that of Yanzhu Dorji, but he is Yinyu's son-in-law, who dares to let him be the first to fight; Although Sebten Barjur overstepped the rank and enjoyed the treatment of the son-in-law of the Zhenguo Prince, he was the son of Galdan, and he was only the thirty-fifth family member in his hands; So in the end, the matter is gone.
Seeing that the opportunity was about to slip away from between their fingers, the Eight Banners nobles had some complaints, but the artillery team of the firearms battalion outside the territory of the Mongolian army had long been pulled out of sight, and there were no soldiers in their hands and they didn't make a sound, not to mention that the Manchu clansmen did not have the courage to follow the example of their ancestors and dare to attack the enemy camp in groups of three or five, so after muttering for a while, they could only stop and watch the Mongols set up camp and rest on the spot.
It's just that the Mongolian army wants to recharge and fight again one day, but the Xia army does not give the Mongolian army this opportunity. That night, in the hazy night, the Xia army quietly opened the gate of Gu'an and dragged two eight-point light cannons to the camp of the Mongolian army.
Although the Mongol army also arranged manpower to be on guard, the weather at the end of July and early August on the Gu'an front line was still too hot for the Mongols on the steppe, so they felt that their own troops were strong, and the Xia army did not dare to offend the Huwei vigilantes after holding out for most of the night, most of them were tired and died, and as a result, the Xia army approached the camp of the Mongolian army unimpeded.
Before the hour passed, the somewhat worried Xia army fired four cannons at the Mongolian army's camp, which immediately caused chaos in the Mongolian military camp. It's just that the panicked Xia army didn't have time to look at the results of their artillery bombardment, and the only thing they remember was to hang the cannon on the towed horse and turn around and run, and finally returned safely to Gu'an City before the Mongol army left the camp to look for the attacker.
After a long day of noise, the Mongol army finally found out its own losses - only one shell hit a stable, dozens of horses were scurrying around, and the others were all hit in the open space - but the Mongol army could not relax their vigilance because of this, for fear that the Xia army would do the same, they could only strengthen the warning ring on the periphery of the camp, but such a fuss, time passed quickly, and the Mongol army obviously did not want to rest well that night.
Early the next morning, the Mongolian cavalry, who had not rested well in the middle of the night, appeared angrily in front of the Gu'an city, and they wanted to use the blood of the Xia army soldiers to vent their feelings, so the battle inevitably broke out.