How should the battle be fought?

In Liu Shiqi's mind, fighting a war was initially a matter of desperate swords and guns, and then about discipline and strategy, but this thing was quickly captured by foreign guns and artillery, and no matter how good the strategy was, it was destroyed in front of foreign guns and artillery. After that, Western military science entered the Huai Army, that is, they lined up neatly and were shot and killed.

In the southwest battlefield, Liu Shiqi and Shi Dakai had many bitter battles. The latter was on the thigh of the British, there was no shortage of guns, and at the same time the troops were also trained by British officers.

The Taiping Army and the Xianghuai Army fought many frontal field battles, defensive battles, offensive and defensive battles in Yunnan, and Liu Shiqi was not a rookie in modern warfare.

The emergence of Liu Xian has moved the long river of Chinese history. The Chinese armed forces at the present time are far more deeply Westernized than those of the same period in the original time and space.

For the battlefield, whether offensive or defensive, in Liu Shiqi's heart, it is a contest of firepower and human life.

First there was artillery bombardment, then the troops lined up and charged.

As long as the attacking force can continue to move forward against the bullets fired by the defenders, it will be able to rush into the enemy's defensive position when the density of soldiers exceeds the density of the enemy's casualties.

If the offensive and defensive battle on the other side of the river in the evening and dusk had been replaced by Liu Shiqi's attacker, then the corpses on the battlefield would definitely have fallen to the ground. Liu Shiqi didn't have a small-scale skirmish assault in his mind at all, and there was no concept of a sharp knife squad + demolition group. As far as the Qin army's attack = the fortress that the squadron sharp knife squad fell, put it in Liu Shiqi's hands, there were only those countless lives to pile up!

The soldier who picked up the explosive bag and rushed to the fortress to blast it, a series of skillful tactical actions shocked Liu Shiqun, who saw this scene with his own eyes. Then it also shocked Liu Shiqun's brother Liu Shiqi.

From this war, Liu Shiqun saw too many differences between the Qin army and the Huai army. He also learned a lot of things that didn't exist in his mind before. For example, artillery cover, shells can not only kill the enemy. It can also kick up gunsmoke and dust to obscure the enemy's vision. Cover the movements of your own soldiers.

On the battlefield in Yunnan, the Liu Shiqi brothers used to be proud of their platoon shots and neatly lined up, but now they are so outdated and backward. Compared with the tactics of the Qin army, any officer in the Qizi battalion could feel a huge gap.

Just like when the Huai Army transitioned from the weapon-only theory of foreign guns and foreign artillery to the Western-style military training, it seems to have a sense of gap between the times!

But the battle still has to be fought!

It's just that Liu Shiqi's department has completely become a defensive posture. As for the construction of several foreigners in the odd word camp, Liu Shiqi didn't bother to listen to it.

The period of modern firearms in the Chinese army is quite short, so there are not many stubborn ones in the army. For example, take Liu Shiqi as an example, his military thinking has changed three times, and it is easy to change it a fourth time.

Like the European military circles. Whether it is a breech gun or a breech gun, how many years have weapons been invented, but they have never been universally recognized, and only by relying on real examples of war to speak, this phenomenon is simply impossible to happen in China.

Several foreigners in the Odd Word Battalion were all veterans of the British Army, and the youngest was thirty-five or sixteen years old. They could not accept the fact that the combat mode of the Qin army's skirmishers was stronger than that of platoon guns. Insist that Liu Shiqi believe in them, believe in his army, and launch a large-scale frontal attack. Liu Shiqi will listen to them only when he has something wrong with his brain.

So the Huai army launched this counteroffensive, Liu Shiqi this way. After three days of fighting with the Qin army, he completely withered. The troops completely turned into a defensive posture, and Liu Shiqi still vigorously beckoned reinforcements backwards.

At the same time, Zhang Shusheng and Zhou Shengbo's main force are in Kaihua Mansion, Yunnan. Along the Red River, he clashed with the main force of the Qin army in Hongji City led by Liu Zhuo, and the situation was the same as Liu Shiqi's, and he suffered a big loss in several battles. At the same time, Liu Yongfu and Huang Chongying's Black Flag Army and Yellow Flag Army were also marching along the Panlong River and Pumei River to the central and eastern part of Kaihua Fu. The local Qing army could not resist at all.

That is to say, many princes and important ministers of the Qing court had high hopes for the battle of Qinhuai, and the Huai army had just begun. It hurts and I don't dare to take the initiative anymore. Although Yunnan and Guangxi have many mountains, the terrain is complex. The three divisions of the Huai army only fought defensive battles, but they could delay the Qin army for a lot of time.

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Northern.

An official road winds from north to south, and because of the thick snow, the road almost merges with the white field, and if it were not for the ruts on the road, it is almost impossible to tell which is the road which is the field.

A four-wheeled carriage stopped on the side of the road, one of the wheels on the right was deep in the snow, the axle had been damaged, several soldiers in German army uniforms were gathering around the wheels, hurriedly replacing the wheels, not far from them, more than a dozen Yanhorses were standing leisurely in the snow, from time to time a few snorts.

The carriage was lavishly decorated, with badges painted on the doors, a gilded flagpole at the tail, and a black, white and red flag at the top. [The national flag of Germany in this era, black, red and yellow is the flag after World War II]

There were several men sitting in the carriage of the carriage, except for one of whom was a foreigner with a western face, the others were all oriental faces, and from the analysis of the braids on the back of their heads, they were naturally all Chinese.

The atmosphere in the carriage seemed to be very silent, and everyone had a straight face and did not say a word.

The foreigner glanced out the window and said to the old Chinese man sitting beside him: "Your Excellency, I think that the German Tiyì will be of great benefit to you personally and to your army. 10,000 people is not a very high number, and the German Empire and the British Empire will pay a lot of money and a huge amount of munitions.

You should think about it and think about your gains and losses! ”

Germany and Britain wanted to buy the lives of 10,000 Chinese soldiers with a batch of arms and a sum of money. They would train this unit with the tactics shown by the Qin army, throw it into the battlefield, and see the results.

The foreigner's name was Barland, and he was the minister of the German Empire to China, and the old Chinese man sitting opposite him was none other than Li Hongzhang, the governor of Zhili, who had just left Beijing to go south to Baoding, and the other two people, one was an interpreter and the other was a staff member.

Li Hongzhang was silent for a long time.

The Huai army traded arms with foreigners, which was nothing. It is taboo to accept the silver and arms of foreigners.

And the 10,000 troops demanded by the Germans and the British were not the 10,000 troops that the Huai Army already had, but the newly recruited recruits. And the training power of this army on weekdays should be completely controlled by the British and Germans. Li Hongzhang never dared to make a rash decision!

The foreigners say it well, and the command is still in their own hands, and they obey their own orders. But can it really be so?

This is an army trained by Britain and Germany. On weekdays, eating, drinking, and Lazar, training and shooting, and distributing silver rings, all of them are covered by foreigners. These 10,000 troops eat foreigners' food, drink foreigners' water, wear foreigners' clothes, and take foreigners' silver rings, how can they become Huaijun people with a few fluttering words?

Li Hongzhang didn't hear a word from Barland that he wanted the Huai Army to send officers to form a skeleton.

There were no officers belonging to the Huai Army, and Li Hongzhang scoffed at what Barland said.

He needed to think about it.

……

Sichuan, Langzhong.

"Near-missed! Adjust the azimuth ×××, high and low angles ×××! …… Ready, put! ”

"Boom!"

With a cannon shot, a cannonball flew four miles away, hitting the target accurately, and a puff of black smoke rose into the air, obscuring the pitch-black building.

That building is a land temple outside Langzhong City, which is a small place.

Now, that small temple has become a support point for the Sichuan army on the battlefield outside Langzhong City.

Tang Yougeng made a bloody effort to protect Langzhong City, because the terrain of this place is too important. Located at the northern edge of the Sichuan Basin, the middle reaches of the Jialing River are converging by the Daba Mountains, the Jianmen Mountains and the Jialing River water system, forming a tightly entangled and protected place.

The river on three sides hugs the city outline, and the surrounding mountains lock the smoke. The mountain is surrounded by water on all sides, and it is a natural strategic place.

The Qin army that attacked Langzhong was Shi Donglai's battalion. Wei Ming gave him a brigade of cavalry to cooperate, and did not give a mandatory battle goal, just see how far Shi Donglai can fight. As long as Tang Yougeng has no time to raise troops, he will attack again.

The main force of Hanzhong, on the one hand, had to defend Fengxian against the attack of the Ganshanchuan army, and on the other hand, it had to deal with the invading Qing army from Henan and Hubei. The latter was in great need of highly mobile cavalry units, and Wei Ming's main battlefield was at the junction of Henan, Shaanxi, and Hubei.

Based on the Land Temple, the Sichuan army built two lines of defense in the north of Langzhong City, trenches, civil fortifications, and anti-artillery bunkers, and many modern military defense facilities can be found on those two defense lines.

Since the defeat of Zhaohua, Tang Yougeng gathered the remnants of the army and retreated, and when he arrived in Cangxi, he was met by the Sichuan army left behind, and he could be regarded as having a foothold. But the Qin army behind him was very anxious, and Tang Yougeng had no choice but to fight with Shi Donglai for a while, but unsurprisingly lost, losing seven or eight hundred soldiers.

The main force was defeated, the morale of the remnants of Tang Yougeng's army was low, the army had no fighting spirit, and it was not about to collapse at the first touch, which was already considered to have a position in the hearts of Tang Yougeng's subordinates.

Tang Yougeng gathered the remnants of the army for the second time and retreated to Langzhong.

At this time, the first training army in Sichuan had arrived in Langzhong, and this training army of more than 2,000 was originally Tang Yougeng's follow-up force, but now it has become a lifesaver. Because the geography of Langzhong is really important, Tang Yougeng cannot retreat, otherwise the Sichuan Basin will be equivalent to opening the door.

I don't know when, Wu Tang, the governor of Sichuan in Chengdu, came early in the morning and received the news that there were Qin cavalry haunts outside the city.

Tang Yougeng asked for help from Wu Tang, the governor of Sichuan, and at the same time built a position under the command of the foreigners in the training army.

In addition to the two defense lines in the north of the city, there are Tiantai Mountain, Baihe Mountain, Dayan Mountain, Yandong Mountain, Dapanlong Mountain, and Wencheng Town outside the city, two defense lines across the east and west of the Jialing River.

However, Tang Yougeng only had less than 5,000 soldiers on hand, and there were few artillery, and half of the troops were even more demoralized by the Qin army, and they were not able to fight at all. The two lines of defense outside the city fell one after another like the paper-tied ones, and Shi Donglai's camp was like a bamboo, and he directly killed under the city of Langzhong. (To be continued......) R1292