12-57 Border chaos

Some of the warships of the Beiyang Naval Division were in the Wa Kingdom, and some were in Goryeo, and there were less than 50 gunboats left, which was enough in terms of firepower, but the gunboats could not go ashore after all, and the battle on the ground on the 6th ground had to be solved by the infantry, and the infantry mastered by Li Yan was really insufficient.

The foundation of the old Red Shirts is long gone, the old people either disarm and return to the field, or become high-ranking officials above the general, the later Red Shirts are composed of simple young people in Luyu, Jinji and other places, after strict training, the combat effectiveness is much higher than the general forbidden army, but most of these main soldiers were sent to Gansu and Shaanxi in the Western War, and the army left in Hebei is about 20,000 people, compared to the hundreds of thousands of troops in the imperial court, it is indeed a drop in the bucket.

When Liu Ziguang fled Qingdao, he once wrote a letter to Li Yan, instructing him not to start a war without permission, and that it was best to maintain the status quo. Li Yan thought so, and was moved by it, he didn't rebel when he was a powerful minister, and he didn't rebel when he was driven out and expelled overseas, how could such a person be Cao Cao? It can only be Yue Wumu, who is loyal and courageous.

The northern army is under the command of Xu Zengshou, although the ability of this grandfather to command the army is not high, but the main right and wrong are very clear, with him, the forbidden army will never make trouble, even if Zu Dashou, Man Gui, the former generals of the Xuzhou army, and the relationship with the red shirt army is not bad, at least tens of thousands of taels of offerings are sent to them every year, if nothing else, just buy a group of harmony.

The northern grassland is the territory of Zamuhe, which is not enough to worry about, the west is Shanxi controlled by Zhao Chengcheng, and there is no need to take precautions, the Manchu Qing in the east has shrunk to Heilongjiang, and there is nothing to worry about, the only thing that needs to be paid attention to is the imperial army in the north, so Li Yan just put his attention and a considerable part of the 6th Army in the south, monitoring the movements of the imperial court, so that Yuan Chengzhi killed all sides in Beijing, and when the siege of Tianjin was besieged, the Red Shirt Army had no troops to send, and Li Yan, who was far away in the Dagukou Fort, could only order the troops to shrink, Cover them with gunboat fire.

The remnant sun was like blood, the battle near Dagukou continued, and the forty-seven brothers of the Firebird used their flesh and blood to resist the 30,000 forbidden troops for half an hour, and bought time for the main force to move to the gunboat fire cover, and the assembly call was never sounded, because Liu Deshui was also killed in battle, and died under the artillery battle of both sides, and there was no body.

The predecessor of the Hebei Forbidden Army was the Xuzhou Army, and it was also the most capable unit in the Southern Ming Dynasty, after coming to Hebei to garrison, it was not put in Nanshan, and it was really transferred to be active, and it still had some combat effectiveness, coupled with Yuan Chengzhi's excellent incitement ability, high-ranking officials and treasures, beautiful treasures, who doesn't love it, as long as the Red Shirts are killed, all the officers will be promoted to one level, and the soldiers will be rewarded with three months' salary.

The young marshal's speech also lifted his spirit: Why is the Red Shirt Army dominant, which of our old Xuzhou Army men is more cowardly than them? are all raised by their parents, who is less than whom, it is a man, go and get back the honor that should belong to you!

The words have come to this, the brothers are naturally screaming upwards, the red shirts eat and drink spicy, the military salary is surprisingly high, wearing a half-worn red robe and proudly carved with a stroke, but everywhere they go, there are big girls and little daughters-in-law to give them flattering eyes, the forbidden soldiers have long been holding back a belly of fire, call you proud, tell you to drag again, I beat you and can't take care of yourself, see how you drag?

The Han army has always been an insider in the civil war and an outsider in the foreign war, these forbidden troops fought the Red Shirt Army, which was much more concerned than the Manchu Qing people, tens of thousands of troops swooped up, and no number of shells could not be stopped, according to the airship reconnaissance report, the forbidden troops everywhere were mobilized, and the whole hundred thousand people rushed towards the various cities where the Red Shirts were stationed.

Li Yan hurriedly ordered to shrink the battle line, Dagu Kou is a coastal defense battery, it is not easy to deal with the enemy of the Inner 6, there is no great need to hold on to this, it is better to board the ship and transfer to another place, under the cover of naval guns, the Red Shirts withdraw to the ship, and drive in the direction of Shanhaiguan.

But as soon as he sailed off the coast, he was hit by the flying wing troops of the imperial court, don't think that only the Red Shirts have an air force, the originator of this thing is Zhu Youxiao! The imperial court secretly transported 20 power parachutes from Beijing, which were specially used to deal with the naval warships, because the Ming naval division had absolute air supremacy, so the ships were not equipped with anti-aircraft firearms, and it was best to bomb them with parachutes.

Sure enough, in the face of the enemy coming and going in the air like the wind, the soldiers of the boat division had nothing to do, the elevation angle of the cannon was not so large, and the fire gun was not so fast, so high, so it could only be bombed hard, fortunately, the air force of the Red Shirt Army arrived soon after, and the two sides fought in the air, shooting each other with fire guns, and finally the Red Shirt Air Force was superior in skill and knocked out the parachute of the imperial army, saving a little face for this defeat.

The victorious Red Shirts were stolen from the old camp and thrown out of the house, and the other party was still a forbidden army they looked down on, the atmosphere on the ship was dull, everyone leaned on the side of the ship to smoke, in the cabin, Li Yan was discussing the next countermeasures with several generals, most of the generals were indignant, and wanted to gather the troops of Shanhaiguan and Liaodong to kill back, but Li Yan disagreed, he meant that even Shanhaiguan had to give up, because Shanhaiguan was just a thin pass, relying on the support of the pass to resist the invasion of foreign enemies, It's just a dead city without backup.

"So what do we do? Don't you want all this vast tract of land? The generals asked with a glare.

"After receiving the soldiers from Shanhaiguan, the whole army withdrew to Goryeo, and the brothers in other places, let them go to Shanxi and find a solid foothold to fight back, but now it can only be like this, there is no food, grass and ammunition, what to fight with the imperial court." Li Yan shook his head again and again, Liu Ziguang's foundation in the north was destroyed almost overnight, which was inseparable from his missteps against the enemy, but now it is useless to blame himself, only to preserve his strength and wait for a counterattack.

Seven days later, in Beijing, Yuan Chengzhi's marshal was holding a feast, and the young marshal received the seal letter of the governor of Jiliao at the age of 24, and was awarded the title of Earl of Jingbian.

Yuan Chengzhi ran over the shoulder, the young man who couldn't hide his face was oblivious, and he bowed his hand to everyone in the hall, in the past, he was always covered up under his father's halo, and now he finally got what he wanted, and made great achievements, topped the capital, fought Shanghai, fought Beijing, and became famous in three battles, trampled Liu Ziguang and the red-shirted army under his feet, and climbed to the top of the highest peak of the Ming military generals.

The height is unbearable, Yuan Chengzhi feels that everyone looks at him in fear, worship, no wonder, he is ruthless, strict military law, more powerful than his father Yuan Chonghuan, he will kill people at every turn, majestic, no one dares to risk the tiger, yesterday my father wrote to say, do not underestimate Liu Ziguang, Yuan Chengzhi just laughed, my father is old after all......

Now that Shanhaiguan is in my hands, the rebels have fled south to the territory of Goryeo, and the next step is to march into Shanxi, and then Ningxia, to seize the last stronghold of the Red Shirts. In these seven days, a large number of silver taels of ammunition were transported from the south, Yuan Chengzhi rewarded the three armies, and beheaded a few disobedient generals, and used both grace and power to firmly grasp the forbidden army in his hands, the army was in hand, and he was familiar with military books, resourceful, what is there to fear.

Yuan Chengzhi was very reserved to hold a wine glass and drink with his subordinates, others were bored, he just took a symbolic sip, this kind of arrogant style is diametrically opposed to Xu Zengshou, and it can bring out the outstanding heroic posture of the young marshal.

The general brought from the capital quietly came up, muttered in Yuan Chengzhi's ear, Yuan Shaoshuai's face did not change, put down the wine glass and came to the study, a ragged man was kneeling on the ground, and when he saw Yuan Chengzhi coming in, he cried: "Young marshal, the fifty brothers who were ordered to sneak into Shanxi are all hanging!" I was the only one who ran out. ”

"How is the intelligence being heard, the garrison situation of the Shanxi Army and the armament of weapons." Yuan Chengzhi asked expressionlessly.

"I was arrested before I even got to the edge of the camp, and I didn't see anything, but they have been recruiting troops, and there are banners everywhere."

"Enough! Everyone knows this, useless waste, dragged out and chopped. Yuan Chengzhi said angrily.

Two personal soldiers came over and dragged the fine man out, leaving only the voice begging for mercy all the way, Yuan Chengzhi was still angry, and when he saw that the general wanted to speak again, he asked, "What else is going on?" ”

"There are also two side newspapers, please take a look at the young marshal."

"Oh" Yuan Chengzhi picked up the two telegrams on the table and looked at it, the more he looked at it, the worse his face became, the Mongols really moved, Chahar Khan Zamu and gathered 100,000 grassland athletes, swore to march south, to avenge Anda, the Manchus were also ready to move, after more than a year of recuperation, they seemed to have regained the feeling of the prancing horse white mountain and black water, and actually raised 30,000 horses, and began to go south cautiously.

"Xiaoxiao, do you think that if Liu Ziguang is gone, there will be no one in Daming?" Yuan Chengzhi smiled contemptuously.

"Young marshal, look at the next one." The family will whisper.

Yuan Chengzhi unfolded the next telegram, glanced at it, his face changed suddenly, and asked, "Who else has seen it besides you?" ”