Chapter 152: The glory is gone, and the eyes are on this world
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Could there be a rioter who escaped from the Huangshui River?
After all, the Huangshui River is more than ten zhang wide, and so many riot prisoners were so frightened that they jumped into the river, even if bullets rained down on both sides, it didn't necessarily kill everyone.
"It would be nice if they were all tied up on skewers beforehand."
Huo Guang said in Liu Xian's ear with a little regret, but Liu Xian didn't care at all. Is it his purpose to kill a few more people and a few fewer people?
What is his purpose?
Kill the chicken and the monkey!
With the most brutal slaughter, the most extreme revenge is presented to warn the 'world'.
He has done this task perfectly!
What's wrong with a few captives who can't run? Fortunately, someone escaped with their lives, and they just happened to spread the bloody light on the banks of the Huangshui River through their mouths. It is best to let Ma Guiyuan in Xining City jump like thunder, and before our army can drive to Xining City, he will first join forces with Ma Gasan to kill.
"Let the squadron leaders and squad leaders pay attention to the mental state of the soldiers under them. The instructors of each squadron should pay attention to enlightenment, and do not let some soldiers have knots in their hearts. "Although this possibility is extremely small, the one who slaughters and kills can indeed extremely stimulate people's psychology, and Liu Xian should also be careful.
Besides, it was said in the forums of later generations that slaughtering and killing can turn soldiers into beasts, which has a heavy impact on the military discipline and military regulations of the army in the future, Liu Xian for the first time! To do this work, you have to be careful.
An army of beasts, no matter how strong their combat strength is, is not what he needs.
"Yes." The soldiers were ordered to go down.
After dark, a large number of Mongol cavalry drove towards the city of Dangar. The water source of the Huangshui River is completely polluted. The 6,000 Mongol men and their horses had to move into the city of Tangar to spend the night.
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The next day, the Mongolian Zhuangding of the 500 Huitnan Banner stayed behind to garrison the city of Dangar. And guard the remaining thousand prisoners of war. The 5,000 expeditionary army, together with the remaining 5,500 Mongolian strongmen, drove out of the city of Tangar and went straight to Xining along a road to the east.
Dorzishamu's face was filled with joy. As the first staunch supporter of the expeditionary army, the benefits came immediately.
Liu Xian directly left half of the number of Huitnan Banner in Tangar, and the losses identified by Huitnan Banner on the battlefield after that were definitely much less. And the seizure, not to mention anything else. Even those in the city of Tangar are not mentioned, only that the thousands of prisoners in the prisoner of war camp are a rare wealth.
Like the Tibetans, they believe in Lamaism. Qinghai Mongolia, which has close ties with Tibet, is no stranger to the word slave.
The rest of the Six Banners could only look at Dorzishamu with jealousy. That's a ...... Treat them differently.
The distance between Dangar City and Xining is ninety miles, which is almost the same distance from Xining as Weiyuan Fort, where the rest of Xining Town is stationed. The day after Liu Xian took the city of Dangar, he sent people to contact Weiyuan Fort. Huang Wuxian was overjoyed after getting the news. One promised to send troops jointly.
Although Liu Xian did not have much expectations for Huang Wuxian's army, which only had two or three thousand soldiers left, it was finally a friendly army that could share a little of the strength of the riot army.
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The army marched eastward. The avenue is completely along the Huangshui River, and the further east you go, the wider the Huangshui River becomes. Usually there is a distance of 20 zhang, and the widest one should be more than 40 zhang. This would spread all the way to Zhenhai Fort, where the Huangshui River would suddenly narrow. The width of the area from the city of Tangar is even narrower.
Zhenhai Fort is also under the control of the rioters. This is a large gathering place for believers of the True God Cult in Xining, and thousands of residents are all True God believers. The seven or eight hundred defeated soldiers who had escaped from the defeat of Tangar City were also gathered here, and together with the reinforcements of the three divisions of Maga, Zhenhai Fort, as a barrier on the west side of Xining, had gathered the main force of the three thousand rebel army, and the number of supporters far outnumbered here.
Liu Xian garrisoned Dadunling, ten miles away from Zhenhai Fort, and in one day, there were already corpses floating down the Huangshui River to Zhenhai Fort. In order to wait for the matter to ferment, the army deliberately stayed in Dadun Ridge for another day the next day, except for the scouts, not a single squadron of soldiers moved.
However, in addition to the increase from 3,000 to more than 4,000 people, the young and strong rebel army in Zhenhai Fort did not see most of the rebel army come out of the fort to take revenge. Liu Xian's abacus didn't start, and Ma Guiyuan or Ma Gasan suppressed the impulse of the rioters.
It was also on this day that there was a small group of riot horse teams on the back road of the army. The terrain of the surrounding mountain peaks gave these riotous cavalry the best cover and convenience. Even if Liu Xian clearly saw their activities on the virtual map, it was difficult for him to send troops to catch them accurately.
The terrain was complicated, and there were too many passages and hillsides for these violent cavalry who were familiar with geography to gallop on.
The purpose of these riotous horse caravans was obvious, to harass the back roads of the army.
Liu Xian's army only carried military rations for ten days, and the march had been two days, and at most three days, sweeping the uneven surroundings of Xining, he had to send people back to Dangar City to escort grain and grass.
But it was obviously impossible to sweep around Xining in three days. Liu Xian's original plan was not so exaggerated, all he wanted was for the fierce army to go out of the fort and take Zhenhai Fort by himself. The military rations were from Tangar City to Zhenhai Fort and then to the Xining front, which was safer.
At present, the rebel army in Zhenhai Fort is holding the castle and not coming out, and the city is full of supporters of the riot army, and the manpower is abundant. When Liu Xian stormed Zhenhai Fort, he was not only faced with the rebel army, but also with the supporters of the rebel army.
Whether it is Wangge Village, Qiangbai Town, or Cangtou Town, Sujiagou, and Weicheng Bay, this is not the case.
Seeing that the riot army was closed, Liu Xian set up troops to approach Zhenhai Fort early in the morning of the third day.
The twenty-four six-pounder cavalry guns carried by the army were lined up one after another, and the heavy weapons of the army with a metallic luster were so shining in the early morning sun.
The rebel army on the opposite fort, after seeing the arrival of the expeditionary army and the Mongol coalition army, continued to shout and howl, until this moment, twenty-four cavalry cannons were lined up in front of the line by ninety-six war horses, and a huge pressure on the heart and lungs made the rebel army instantly silent.
Wars are not fought by mouth. Victory or defeat depends on hard work and real strength. There are seven or eight hundred defeated troops in the Battle of Tangar in Zhenhai Fort, how do they not know the strength of the artillery fire of the expeditionary army. The Battle of Tangar at the beginning. The expeditionary army had only taken out six pieces of artillery, but now it was twenty-four.
As for the more numerous mortar cannons, because they are too small, they have always been regarded as small mountain splitting artillery by the riot army. Didn't look at it.
It is not known that in terms of pure destruction, mortar shells are not inferior to cavalry artillery shells.
"Today's battle is a rehearsal for the war in Xining. May all armies fight hard and break through the tyranny. "Liu Xian is not afraid of killing. Xining, a hard bone that he must win on the way to Xinjiang, in order not to 'kill all the bullets' in the future, why not follow the second 'Battle of Weicheng'! [Duolong Asujiagou Weicheng Bay decisive battle. In order not to alarm the river crab god, I won't mention it. If you are interested, you can search on the Internet. Dorona, although he is full of people, is definitely a hero. Gan Shaanxi's work. No less than Zuo Zongtang. 】
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"Boom......... Rumble...... Boom ......"
After every cannon shot. The same roar will be heard from the artillery positions: "Adjust the shooting of the Zhuyuan, adjust the shooting of the Zhuyuan............"
"Angle of fire 1 degree 12 minutes!"
"Left deviation 0 degrees 20 minutes!"
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"Angle of fire 1 degree 15 minutes!"
"Left deviation 0 degrees 30 minutes!"
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After "Boom ......" I don't know how many times the test firing was located, finally a cannon rang out, and the shell hit the upper edge of the city wall of Zhenhai Fort, directly smashing a battlement. The artillery position sounded the excited cheer of the captain Xie Fei: "Hit the target, the training is complete." ”
"Each gun position is subject to the No. 3 gun position of the second squadron, and the spacing is subtracted."
"The first squadron is ready."
"The second squadron is ready."
"The third squadron is ready."
"The fourth squadron is ready."
"All squadrons, all artillery positions, all of them. Fired sequentially in squadrons, ten rounds of bombardment. Get ready. ”
"Prepare ............"
"Prepare ............"
"Putting ......"
The rumbling explosion completely resounded through the heavens and the earth, and every shell exploded like a thunderbolt from a sunny day, shattering people's eardrums.
The concentrated bombardment of twenty-four modern artillery pieces was simply unimaginable in the Xining area at this time.
Among the Seven Banners of Zasak who fought with his entourage, except for Dorzi Shamu, who had seen before and is now much calmer, the rest of the Mongolian princes of the Six Banners were full of panic one by one, and the eldest old man's legs seemed to be a little weak, covering his ears with both hands, and running straight to the rear under the support of his entourage.
And the more than 5,000 mighty Mongol cavalry also lost the momentum they had at the beginning, and they became a mess not long after the cannon fired. Because their horses had not been trained in modern battlefields at all, they were frightened by the sound of cannons. If it weren't for the fact that they were not attacked by foreign enemies at this moment, and they all really had super riding skills, they finally calmed down the war horses, and today's first appearance, the Mongolian coalition army would be out of the ocean.
Every Mongol prince noticed this. They looked at the neatly arranged cavalry on the side of the expeditionary army, and then at the chaotic crowd of men and horses on their side, and their faces were red with shame.
The Mongols are a people on horseback, and they are all skilled in riding. In the two days that the entourage of the expeditionary army was fighting, some people talked about the cavalry battalion of the Qin army. Degrade the cavalry battalion and exalt your own people. Even Liu Xian has heard of it. But Liu Xian ignored this matter.
He knew very well in his heart that the inland Qinghai Mongolia was still living in 'history', so he naturally looked at the problem from the perspective of old history, and was proud of his cavalry, which was far more powerful than the Han in his 'history'.
Especially in recent years, the influence of firearms has been increasing, and after the Battle of Dangar, under the sharp guns of the expeditionary army, these Mongols are even more proud of their 'historical' strength.
Because that's the only thing they can be proud of now.
Just like countless Chinese in previous lives liked to talk about the power of the Celestial Empire in history. It's all a state of mind. The only difference is that in later generations, China has climbed to the point of being the first opponent of the United States, and the current Mongols have never had time to rise again. (To be continued......) R1292