353.Battle of Korea (8)
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Although Tang Baoyi is not ready to fight hard with the Qing army's brigade, the Long Xiang army can't be idle in North Korea, after all, 10,000 people for a year are a lot of money, even if the expenses are borne by the South Korean side afterwards, you have to agree that you will eat and drink in the rear, so you must fight a battle to show the Zheng army's survival, so after weighing, Tang Baoyi's eyes fell on the Dongmeng cavalry in Donggangwon Province and Hamgyong Province.
It is also a coincidence that the coalition forces of the Eastern Mongolian princes did not have a unified command - this was actually specially arranged by the Qing court, everyone is a prince, each has a piece of heaven and earth, and no one will buy anyone's battle; Well, some of the princes of Dongmeng are on their way back to China at this time - you think, the things have been grabbed, and the snow on the road has melted, so they should be transported back to show off; Therefore, the Eastern Mongol Army in Gangwon Province and Hamgyong Province was at its weakest in terms of strength and command.
So, on 29 March, the transport fleet of the Beiyang Detachment carrying the 1st and 2nd Brigades of the 4th Division of the Longxiang Army arrived off the coast of Gangneung, and immediately marched forward under the guidance of the envoy of the Gangneung Metropolitan Protectorate, who was loyal to the Southern Dynasty, and drove north. Along the way, the North Korean forces in Yangyang, Goseong, Tongcheon, Anbyon, and other places were expelled, and by 20 April, the advance of the combined forces of Chung and North Korea had reached the bank of the Yongxing River in Hamgyong Province.
Hearing from the fleeing North Korean army, the Zheng army was attacking, and the Eastern Mongolian cavalry moved closer to Hamhung Province. On April 21, the princes of Eastern Mongolia, who had basically been assembled, held a meeting to decide whether to respond to Zheng's attack. At the meeting, the warring faction and the slowing war faction insisted on their own words, and the two sides quarreled fiercely.
However, under the invisible pressure of the Qing court, the war faction finally won the victory. Therefore, on 22 April, the East Mongolian coalition army drove more than 2,000 North Korean troops south to enter Yongxing Daduhufu, but the Mongol army was not accustomed to being stationed in the city, so the strategy of the North Korean army defending the city and the East Mongolian army making guerrilla attacks was set.
"My lord, there are Mongolian rangers in the north of the river from time to time, and crossing the river at this time will not be attacked by the half-crossing." Standing on the extremely low city wall of the county town of Plateau County, Liang Ying, the commander of the Fourth Division of the Longxiang Army, said to He Shuzhi, the commander of the division. "Is it to slow down, or simply use the capacity of the naval division to climb 6 south of the Xinshangjiang River and cut off the rear road of the Eastern Mongolian Army."
He Shuzhi is the cousin of He You and He Gan, and now he is only thirty-six years old, and he has climbed to the position of the division control.
However, He Shuzhi did not listen to Liang Ying's opinion, this was not his stubbornness: "Ligong, has the terrain of the new Shangjiang line been explored?" How do you know that the Eastern Mongolian army will inevitably turn back and attack immediately when it learns that our army has cut off the rear route? ”
Liang Ying was speechless by two questions, yes, the North Korean side provided some maps, but these maps are not even simple maps, how can they reflect the real battlefield environment, and deal with strange enemies who have never encountered in an unfamiliar environment.
Not to mention that Liang Ying's face was burned, He Shuzhi ignored the order and said: "Order the first brigade and the second brigade to cross the river according to the original plan, and once they encounter the enemy, the outpost units must be sticky." ”
Several eight-oared boats unloaded from the sea boat slowly approached the north bank of the Longxing River, and then Zheng Jun, who was on two posts, jumped off the boat one after another, and then stepped on the soft sand and mud and rushed onto the river bank. The infantry men of Zheng's army, who rushed ashore, quickly lined up in a thin array, while the rest of the white soldiers dug quickly and tried to slap a breastwork.
Under the cover of Xiandeng, more than a dozen rafts that took Zheng Jun two days to build also came ashore. In this way, more infantry men were put into cover, more white soldiers were involved in the rush to build, and the breastwork was gradually extended to the sides. However, instead of returning to the south shore the boats and rafts that should have turned back to carry the people again, the sailors on the boats and rafts vigorously drove the stakes, and then connected the rafts one by one with ropes, and at the junction of a certain section, they were fixed with two opposite anchor oars and provided additional buoyancy, and in this way, a pontoon bridge gradually took shape.
"The Southern Barbarians are building bridges!" Several Dongmeng princes who were riding horses on a hill north of the Longxing River looked at Zheng Jun's actions from a distance with stern faces, and they could not understand Zheng Jun's action of digging and building a chest wall, but the long dragon that gradually approached the two sides of the strait clearly showed Zheng Jun's intentions. "We can't let them get their way."
Since there was no clear authority present, and the temporarily elected leader could not command others, several anxious princes hurriedly urged their horses down the mountain, and after a while, two groups of cavalry killed the bridgeheads of the two brigades.
The galloping war horse and the ugly-looking royal hand on it are very visually impactful, you must know that the Zheng army forged by Zheng Kezhang has not yet encountered a large-scale impact of enemy cavalry, and the sailor Longxiang army has never encountered a decent horse team, so for a while, the neatly arranged infantry team is a little chaotic.
"Panic bird!" The voices of the commanders were sounded one after another, and although there was a hint of trilling in their tones, it undoubtedly reassured the two somewhat nervous troops. "I'm aiming at them, as the old saying goes, shoot people first and shoot horses, and if you knock down the war horses of the Tartars, they're just a mess!" As he spoke, the Mongols rushed closer a dozen paces, and the thousand-handed, who were no longer nagging, immediately ordered. "Put it on Lao Tzu!"
The instant explosion of the sound of the guns drowned out the roar of the thousand generals, as if encountering an invisible barrier, the first few war horses neighed and fell, and several riders who had no time to dismount were either overwhelmed by the war horses or flew out directly, smashed to the ground, and then did not wake up. Fortunately, the Mongol soldiers who had been trained in Manchu firearms knew how to plug the ears of their horses, so more horses did not waver like thunder, and the momentum of the charge continued.
However, the familiar sound of guns also gave Zheng Jun's side a fierce force, and the team that completely rotated according to the habit spit out fire in turn in the form of three blows -- because Zheng Jun has always been strict in drill training, coupled with the standard requirements for decomposition actions, although Zheng Jun's platoon is only three columns, the firing degree is not below the Seven Seas Guanjiang Array (Seven Arrays, the same below) and the Nine Into Ten Consecutive Array of the Eight Banners Firearms Battalion, and the number of projectiles per unit is even farther above.
Therefore, the closer the Eastern Mongolian cavalry came to the fore, the more the dead riders multiplied, and by the time they reached within fifty paces, the two teams of about one hundred and fifty horsemen were each less than one-third of their original size.
Seeing this situation, the princes of Dongmeng who were watching the battle on the mountain were all like ashes, and some of them were still whispering: "I'm afraid that these two families have lost a lot this time, and they don't know how to explain to Qili after they go back." ”
However, there are also young princes who are not convinced: "The southern barbarians are also a little sharper, as long as they break in, they are not afraid, look, they break in, and now it is time for those southern barbarians to suffer??????"
The words of the young princes were not wrong, but after advancing fifty paces, the Mongol soldiers one by one drew their horse bows and fired arrows at the Zheng army's array, and the flying bows and arrows shot down a row of Zheng officers and soldiers, and even some officers and soldiers in the inner row were wounded by the oblique bows and arrows.
In the face of casualties, the military attaches of the Zheng army played the role of the mainstay, and under their leadership, the Zheng army stabbed the outside with guns. In the face of the sudden thorn forest, the Mongolian horses, whose ears were plugged but not blindfolded, did not do anything, and they drove diagonally towards the outer ring despite the spur of the imperial hand, only to be exposed under the mouth of the inner row of the Zheng army??????
"How so!" At the beginning, some of the young princes who were still very proud when they saw the commotion in the Zheng army column were dumbfounded at the moment, looking at the scene that was almost completely wiped out. "It must be some kind of witchcraft performed by the Southern Barbarians, hurry up and invite the lamas to chant and exorcise demons." They did not dare to believe their own vision, and they did not dare to accept the fact that the war horses, who had the same heart as the Mongols, suddenly did not listen to their drive. "As long as you break the witchcraft of the Southern Barbarians??????"
"Enough!" Zarut's left-wing banners, Zasak, and Dorobelle Sangar, who were pushed to be the leaders, shouted loudly. "It's true that the southern barbarian's bird is sharp." Sangar is fifty-six years old this year, and he inherited the identity of the left-wing master of Zarut as early as the Shunzhi period, and he definitely belongs to the old-timers in this southward team. "I, Zalut's left flank, a total of sixteen leaders (sumu), 2,400 arrowmen, 150 south to Korea, if I toss like this, how many people can go back."
As soon as these words came out, all the princes were silent, they had a record in their hearts, from charging to rushing close to the Zheng army, basically two-thirds of the troops had to be lost on the road, of course, now the attack is only two ways and less than three hundred, and the firepower allocated to each head is a little more, but the Zheng army still has a brigade that has not crossed the river, and the remaining Eastern Mongolian cavalry is only 14500 people, according to this calculation, even if the so-called Zheng army witchcraft is driven out and the Zheng army is rushed into the Zheng army's array, I am afraid that there are not many remaining Mongols.
Although Ding is the shepherd slave of the banner owner, he is also wealth, and he can't squander it in the sacrifice of Wuwei at will, so someone asked on the spot: "According to the meaning of King Sang, is it time for us to retreat now, and how will the Qing Emperor explain it." ”
The war was because of the pressure of the Qing Emperor, and of course the pressure of the Qing Emperor had to be considered to avoid the war, so Sangar pointed to Yongxing City not far away with the whip in his hand: "We Mongolians don't have the habit of defending the city, so we can only fight in the field, but we can't waste our blood in vain, those Koreans can divert the attention of the southern barbarians for us." ”
"Good idea." The fourth-generation Weng Niute Left Banner Zasak Doro Duling County Wang Cangjin laughed. "The Han people have a saying that ginger is still old and spicy, and King Sang is really a good hunter, and when the Koreans attract the attention of the southern barbarians, let's give them a knife from behind??????"