Chapter 203: The Russian army lands
Chen Hao received authorization from Jin Chang and began to recruit a large number of players to participate in the battle within the Yingkou area, and the number of players he could recruit was 14,000. Many players who were unable to participate in the mission in Haicheng went south to Yingkou to look for mission opportunities, Chen Hao asked Yang Du to take full responsibility for recruitment, and Yang Du's "eyesight" stunt can ensure that powerful players are recruited.
After recruiting good men, Chen Hao began to move troops frequently, and Wu Peifu developed a beach defense plan to paralyze the enemy. The soldiers of the six battalions of the Yingkou patrol battalion began to deploy according to the demarcated area, and at the same time, more than 10,000 players also received the defense task and stationed at Yingkou.
Brigade Brigade Tsarist Russia Southern Route Army Headquarters, Lieutenant General Alekseev is busy transferring troops. Originally, he had to launch an attack a long time ago, but because of the defeat on the northern route, he had to postpone his plan.
Tsarist War Minister Kulobatkin planned to use the First Siberian Army as the main force on the southern route, and the first part of the landing army to cooperate in the operation. After the defeat of the Northern Route, Kulobatkin learned his lesson, and constantly increased the strength of the Southern Route Army, and the landing force of more than 30,000 people was all sent to the brigade.
Now that the landing force has all been assembled in the brigade, Vice Admiral Alekseev has begun to arrange the battle on the southern route, and the vice admiral's stunts are all related to the navy, but now he has commanded the land battle. Out of naval habit when arranging the attack, the first thing he thought of was that the landing force would land from Yingkou, and he had an amphibious landing stunt, which could play a role when landing operations seized the beachhead.
Alekseev had drawn up a plan for the army to advance north along the railway, and just as he was almost finished, he suddenly received a report from his adjutant that a Manchu Qing had come to take refuge. After meeting with the Chinese, the lieutenant general learned that he was the envoy of the Qing Dynasty official Ortai, and this time he brought information on the defense of Yingkou.
Ortai definitely didn't want Tsarist Russia to know that he had leaked the information, but if he didn't make it clear, he couldn't trust the Russians by sending a random subordinate. Lieutenant General Alekseev was very interested in Yingkou's intelligence, and after carefully inquiring about the situation in Ortai through an interpreter, he rewarded the Qing people who brought the information, and then ordered the warships patrolling the sea to go to Yingkou to test it.
Lieutenant General Alekseev quickly confirmed that Hosaku's information was accurate, but he still didn't dare to believe it and let the Qing people continue to investigate. After confirming the accuracy of the information several times in a row, the lieutenant general sent people to Shengjing to inquire and learned that Ortai was indeed the former commander of Yingkou, so he was convinced of the information provided by Ortai.
Alekseev's focus was on Yingkou, but when he launched the attack, he first had the First Siberian Army attack Xiongyue along the railway to test the reaction of the Qing army. After the 1st Siberian Army moved north, the lieutenant general soon received information from Ortai's men that four of the seven battalions stationed at Yingkou were heading for Gaiping in the southeast...... The four battalions of Yingkou began to drive towards Gaiping, accompanied by a large number of players, because the Tsarist Russia launched an attack on Xiongyue from Luda. The four battalions soon joined up with the Yuzi battalion led by Jin Chang at Gaiping, and were followed north by four Ortai's fine workers, who leaked Gaiping's arming to the Russians.
After confirming the emptiness of Yingkou's defense, Tsarist Russia immediately ordered the landing force to attack Yingkou, and then went north to attack Haicheng. After receiving the order, the advance team of the landing force of more than 33,000 people marched to Yingkou under the escort of warships, and in order to cover the landing force at Yingkou, Lieutenant General Alekseev ordered the First Siberian Army, which was attacking along the railway, to intensify the offensive and increase the pressure on the Qing people in Xiongyue and Gaiping.
After the fine work arranged by Ortai sent the information of Jinchang and Chen Hao's troops in Gaiping, they were quickly arrested by Ouyang Yu and his people, and Chen Hao handed them over to Jinchang. Jin Chang's surprise interrogation soon got a confession of Ortai's collusion with Tsarist Russia, and Jin Chang, who was furious, was about to report to Zengqi, but was stopped by Chen Hao.
In history, Zeng Qi was also an unscrupulous person, who dared to sign a traitorous agreement with the Russians behind his back. Now his determination to resist is not firm, tell him about Ortai's collusion with the Russians, maybe he will treat Ortai well, and if Chen Hao and Jinchang lose the battle, he can negotiate peace with the Russians in private.
If you want to completely kill Ortai, you can only win a big battle first, and then report the Ortai collaboration with the enemy when Zengqi has firm confidence in resistance, then Zengqi will inevitably be furious, and Ortai will not escape death. This person was originally a reckless man, but he thought of a plan to collude with the Russians to regain his position, and there must be someone behind him to guide him, and the surprise interrogation of Ortai may be rewarding.
The time has come to August 3, and two days ago, Chen Hao had reported the plan formulated by Wu Peifu to Jinchang, which was appreciated by Jinchang. After arresting the fine work arranged by Ortai, Jin Chang left the fine work to force them to pass on the false news to the Russians, and at the same time led 12,000 people from the Yuzi Battalion and 24,000 players south with Chen Hao.
Chen Hao's subordinates recruited 14,000 players, and in order to facilitate his command, he appointed Lin Xiaofeng, Bai Hu Demon, and Yu Die as division commanders, deputy division commanders, and chief of staff, in fact, he also wanted his subordinates to have more opportunities to earn military merits.
The 24,000 people under Jin Chang, the player who served as the commander turned out to be Chen Hao's acquaintance, Xuanyuan Sword, who had a grudge against him.
Xuanyuan Jian took the initiative to step forward to greet Chen Hao, and said jokingly: "Lord Tongzhi, this time we are going to fight side by side." ”
Chen Hao didn't know how to answer, he thought that Xuanyuan Jian would be sarcastic, but he heard Xuanyuan Jian laugh and said: "Chen Baxian, the grievances between us will have to be settled sooner or later, but don't worry, I will cooperate with you before defeating Lao Maozi." ”
Chen Hao also smiled, and he said lightly: "I'm waiting for you to settle the balance at any time, I can win you twice, and I will continue to win you in the future." ”
Xuanyuan Jian said confidently: "That maybe, my competition with you is unfair competition, and the resources in my hands are unimaginable to you, and you will understand when the time comes." ”
Although he had a displeasure with Xuanyuan Sword, Xuanyuan Sword's honesty still made Chen Hao quite favorable, in fact, his thoughts were the same as Xuanyuan Sword, and the grievances between them would be settled after the war was over. Xuanyuan Jian served as the commander of the players under Jin Chang, and if he didn't cooperate with Wu Peifu's battle plan, he couldn't complete it, and Chen Hao was relieved to hear his statement. ”
Jin Chang's players and aliens totaled 36,000, and Chen Hao had 21,000 men, with a total strength of 57,000. In addition, there are a large number of militia groups and horse bandits on the Chinese side, and these militia groups and horse bandits have not yet received news, and if the Tsarist Yingkou landing army is surrounded, these horse bandits will definitely be willing to come and beat the dogs.
The ratio of the number of players that Huaxia can recruit to the number of NPCs is 1:2, so most of the troops are players. The troops that landed from Yingkou in Tsarist Russia had more than 33,000 people, and China was in an advantage in terms of numbers, but all the troops landed by Tsarist Russia were elite NPCs, and if it was a frontal battle, the Chinese side would not have an advantage.
Tsarist Russia has assembled more than 70,000 players in Luda, and because the player attributes are not as good as NPCs, there are no players in the troops that Tsarist Russia landed from Yingkou. According to Wu Peifu's plan, the Tsarist Russian command believed that there were only three battalions left to defend Yingkou, so the three battalions left behind pretended to build beach fortifications, which were about to collapse under the attack of Tsarist Russia, and induced the Tsarist Russia to advance lightly.
Jin Chang led his troops to set up an ambush at Dongchang Fort, surrounded the Russian advance team and then encircled the point to send reinforcements, and if the follow-up troops of the Russian army were reinforced, they would immediately let a player cut off the retreat of the Russian army.
The battle of the Russian reinforcements on the northern route to attack Belogorsk has begun, and the Chinese players have adopted a five-layer defense, and the Russian army reinforcing the northern route has fallen into a bitter battle, and the attack has not been able to achieve results for five days, which is also the reason why the tsarist Russia is in a hurry to launch an attack from the southern road.
Asking the player to cut off the enemy's retreat is Chen Hao's suggestion, and you can do this on the north road, and you can do the same on the south road. This maximizes the stat gap between the player and the NPC, but the player sacrifices a bit more.
After Lieutenant General Alekseev led the troops to the mouth of the camp, the naval guns began to bombard the beachhead. Since he had already received Chen Hao's order, Du Lisan, who was in charge of the defense, abandoned the beachhead after the cannon sounded, and the Russian army landed without much effort.
Lieutenant General Alekseev personally commanded the landing force, because he had landing stunts, and after taking the position with one round of artillery fire, a contemptuous smile appeared on his face. However, at this moment, he also confirmed that the information he obtained was accurate, and there were only three battalions in the Qing Dynasty's defense camp, so he gave an order to Mo Liujin, the commander of the First Brigade of the Landing Army: "Major General Mo Liujin, after landing, your troops will march quickly before the Qing people react, and take Haicheng for me in three days." ”
After receiving the order, Major General Moryukin led 6,000 men of the 1st Infantry Brigade to the north lightly, but was ambushed by the Chinese army at Dongchangbao. The ambush was 14,000 aliens, and there were three battalions of aboriginal troops to cooperate, and the first brigade was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses under the attack of the Chinese aliens-dominated army.
Major General Moryukin immediately sent someone to break through to report to the lieutenant general, and the lieutenant general was not surprised after receiving the report, the information he got was mainly about the aboriginal army of the Qing Dynasty, and he did not pay attention to the alien army. The ambush of the 1st Brigade was mainly Inhumans, and the only Aborigines involved were the three battalions that had just been defeated, proving that the information was accurate.
Lieutenant General Alekseev ordered the cavalry and the 3rd Brigade of the 2nd Brigade to rush north, demanding a counter-encirclement of the Huaxia Yiren and total annihilation. In order to quickly complete the division and encirclement of Huaxia Yiren, the three brigades did not carry artillery, and the fourth brigade escorted the artillery battalion and the engineer regiment to the north.
Thirteen companies of cavalry of the Russian landing army, about 3,000 people, set out first, but before they could get close to Dongchang Fort, they were fiercely ambushed by the Huaxia army. The Cossacks, of 3,000 men, were ready to charge from behind the Huaxia Yiren to relieve the encircled 1st Brigade, but they were completely unexpectedly ambushed in the middle.
(To be continued)