Chapter 92 Jingzhou Dingbei North Rebellion
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The republican raided Hubei during the chaos of the Red Turban Army in North China, and the whole process went very smoothly, when the troops of the two divisions arrived at Xinyang, the Huainan part of Henan Province, and received the heavy weapons and equipment that had been prepared from Xinyang. Huonan sent troops to Suizhou, the town guard of Suizhou was a great Mongolian nobleman, his family had great interests in the local area, it was impossible to surrender to the republic, and all the local gentry were also united around him to prepare for stubborn resistance. began to pay people to defend the city, and the republic had no intention of playing inside and outside. Now the word revolution has taken root in the hearts of the people of the republic. The so-called revolution is to eliminate the old rules for the distribution of unfair labor fruits, in the process there is no human humanity and no compromise, the whole republic will not accept the loss of the old rentier class to retain their privileges to gain strength and win quickly, and now the power of the republic can protect itself, and there is no need to change the interest camp on which it stands for the sake of quick victory.
The republic already knew that there was no benefit to the gentry on the other side of the country, and they still had to be divided, so they never expected the city to be opened automatically. So the heavy siege artillery fired, the caliber of 150 shells and the weight of 50 kilograms of artillery fired siege blasting shells, this kind of artillery is not as terrifying as the original Beiping cannon, but it is better than the trial. Three siege guns smashed the northern city wall of Suizhou into a mess, and the city gate had already been destroyed in the first round of artillery bombardment, and there was no siege during the day. At night, under the cover of machine-gun and other fire, the Republic carried ladders and began to attack the crumbling walls. At the same time as the Combo army attacked, a row of searchlights hit the city, where the enemy had one more bright light swept over, and then the bullet beckoned to the enemy on the city wall, this cheap trick was thought up by He Feng, imagine a few dazzling strong lights on the opposite side at night swaying towards you, as a human instinct reaction is to cover your eyes, of course, even if you overcome the instinct to force the light to come, your eyesight will be greatly affected, if you put it in the future this is light pollution. Under the fire of more than a dozen arc searchlights, the archers and musketeers on the opposite side basically shot with little accuracy. Under the searchlight, the defenders' pupils stimulated by the bright light suddenly dilated, and they could not effectively detect the fact that they were hiding in the unlit Light, and the Allies saw the defenders shining like actors illuminated by the stage lights, and unceremoniously drove them off the stage with bullets. This method of using light sources to cover up was useful until the days of aircraft carriers, such as a carrier-based aircraft diving towards an enemy ship with its back to the rising sun.
The searchlight appeared in the Battle of Dadu a few years ago and attracted the attention of all the forces on the land of the Central Plains, in the eyes of the general, having this thing is equivalent to not worrying about being attacked at night, but unfortunately this thing is not sold in the Republic, and self-made, it is an insurmountable technological gap for other forces without supporting industries. Now the Republic is using this thing in offensive warfare to great effect. Although some of the leading officers desperately advertised that this was a man-made object, not too platinum, more and more people died, and rumors spread throughout the city as the soldiers who retreated from the city walls. The news of "Republican Tennosuke" was spreading. It is also strange that these gentlemen only study the orthodox road that has been passed down from the republic in their own circles, or they still do not pass on the knowledge to the masses as before, and now they have to rely on the army composed of illiterate and ignorant low-level workers to resist the communist army, and the republican army now has n many ways to make these illiterate armies think that they are gods and men to help each other.
A siege battle was won at the slight cost of thirty republican casualties. Then when the sun rises, the cannon is mounted on the city wall and shot at the most ornate house, the republic does not intend to fight street battles, although the defenders on the opposite side who have been frightened are almost no longer organized and have no combat effectiveness, but it is not excluded that some families who are not long-sighted want to use street fighting to have a rhapsodic defeat into victory. In the eyes of He Feng, the commander of the communist army at this time, the loss of destroying a few mansions was far lighter than the loss of sacrificing dozens of soldiers in street battles. In fact, this is all He Feng's blind thoughts, how can these big families who are used to being powerful in Suizhou City have the heart to resist now, and they are ready to flee or surrender to save their lives. After the artillery destroyed several houses, the city guards of Suizhou surrendered. By the time the Allies found the city, the guy was shivering in the cellar of the bombarded mansion.
After the Republican Army took Suizhou, it completely cut off the retreat of the Yuan Army in Hubei to the north. On 16 August, the two republican armies that had entered Jingxiang had basically wiped out other forces on the vast Hubei Plain. The lightning-fast attack of the republic and the powerful siege force terrified the warring forces in the world. Taking Jingzhou in a month, attacking the city together is like stabbing window paper. At the beginning of August, the armed forces of the republic launched an offensive against Xiangyang, which was once the strongest city in the world. Xiangyang is on high ground, close to the river, surrounded by moats. Facing this kind of scene. Cheng Pan arrived. The communist army once again sacrificed the ultimate weapon of the Beiping cannon, twenty siege shells smashed into the city wall, a hundred years ago the solid iron hit Xiangyang trembling in front of industrial science and technology, the ten-meter-high Xiangyang city, was opened a gap, these gaps have no ladder can be climbed directly with bare hands, just the next day the communist army is ready, forced to cross the Han River, and spend a lot of ammunition to cover the forced siege, Xiangyang surrendered. It turned out that after the Beiping cannon, the generals of the Yuan army defending the city that night abandoned the city and fled. Xiangyang has fallen, Fancheng is difficult to support alone, under the tactics of the republican army's blasting canister, the two major cities were pushed by the republic from the south.
After the loss of Xiangyang, the Shaanxi Yuan army, which was originally sluggish, quickly turned around, and the order issued by the imperial court to aid Xiangyang has expired, and Xiangyang is lost, so don't send it to death, and Henan has been turned upside down by Liu Futong's rebel army, not to mention aiding Jingzhou, it is difficult to protect yourself now. The scale of this uprising is just too great. Like a spark on fire, the Yuan Dynasty originally relied on elite troops to drop the bucket in the midst of the vast sea of rebel armies. It can be said that the Mongol Yuan army at this time can be used as an army to break through the enemy's defense line and attack the enemy's strategic points, but it is really not suitable as a suppressive army. So the Yuan army, which opened the gap with a five-pound cannon, suffered a big loss when it charged in the contact battle, which was by no means a rout battle, and it was impossible to have low casualties in front of the army armed with a three-edged thorn.
The army of Badulu is a typical example, his 5,000-strong cavalry with 12 eagle cannons attached to defeat several Red Turban troops of more than 10,000 people, but under the counterattack of these Red Turban Army, more than 900 people were lost, and due to the excessive casualties, the army was slowed down, and there were no more horses to take care of the wounded. At this time, the red turban army surrounded him. Liu Futong had already ordered that this Yuan army should be eliminated no matter what. In the face of the 50,000 Red Turban Army that rushed in, Badulu asked for help from friendly troops while trying to stop the Red Turban Army from continuing to advance. The cannon of the Red Turban Army is also a smoothbore front-loading gun, which can shoot up to three solid shells weighing ten pounds at a time, these guns are made of steel, and there is no problem that the old artillery must be cooled down if it hits a few times, so in addition to being worse than the artillery on the opposite side in terms of mobility, the other performance is far better than the eagle artillery, but the skill of the peasant army's gunners is too poor, and the twenty guns and the eagle artillery on the opposite side are half a catty and eight taels. If it weren't for the opposite Eagle gun, it would take more time to cool down and there would be less ammunition. The artillery units on the side of the Red Turban Army will be tortured to death.
The artillery battle was very sad, but in the next battle, the Red Turban Army still fought very beautifully. Answer: Badulu couldn't help but curse when he saw the cannon firing on the opposite side, "Cheng Pan of the dog day". The experienced Badulu knew very well that the army on the opposite side had been armed by the republic, and now only the republican was willing to give this peasant army cannon. Because the Republican Army has money, and it has mastered more advanced shells than solid shells. Although the gunners on the opposite side operated poorly, they still pinned down the Yuan artillery, and the theory that the artillery from the republic must give priority to destroying the enemy's artillery is already common sense. Moreover, the number of cavalry on your side is small, and you must maintain a degree to effectively avoid artillery strikes. So he ordered the artillery to move their positions, and the cavalry charged from the chaotic direction that had just been shelled. This elite cavalry is like a sharp knife stabbing at the place where the order has not yet been restored in the Red Turban Army, and then the gap is enlarged, and the scene of riding and slashing appeared, but after breaking up these Red Turban Army, this cavalry is like hitting a wall, Liu Futong will be full of recruits who have just been recruited can also become cannon fodder, if the cannon fodder survives a battle, then it can become a formal army. The cavalry of the Yuan army scattered the cannon fodder troops, but behind them were Liu Futong's elite troops who were holding spears and wearing rattan armor, saying that this rattan armor was very popular. It is light and has a certain protection ability against knives and arrows. Deeply loved by these peasant rebel armies, now not only the republic, but even the Fang family army has begun to sell this strategic material. So the price is cheap. These Liu Futong's personal soldiers tried their best to keep a tight queue, holding spears in both hands, and the whole queue trotted towards the Yuan cavalry like a hedgehog, at this time the Yuan cavalry was very embarrassed, the degree of the first cavalry had slowed down, and in the face of this scene, the knight either blindfolded the horse and charged to the death, or retreated, but unfortunately it was too late to retreat, and the distance between the two sides was only about 30 meters, and then the U-turn was death. Only the hard skin on the head. , but most of the cavalry of the Yuan army had not yet practiced to advance blindfolded in front of their horses. The horses unconsciously slowed down in the face of the steel jungle of infantry. But in the end, they collided, and both sides suffered heavy losses, hundreds of knights were impaled, and more infantry were knocked away, and these flying infantry either broke their hands or collapsed their chests. But this time the infantry won, because the infantry held the line steadily. In the next battle between the long knife and the spear, the cavalry was picked off the horse one by one, and the answer was lost Badulu saw that the situation was not right, and the front could not break through, and the infantry group that had been scattered began to gather to surround the Yuan army.
In this battle, Badulu's more than 4,000 cavalry lost half of them, and all the wounded were abandoned. The wolf bèi fled back to Kaifeng in a fit of rage, and his vitality was greatly damaged. The Red Turban Army lost more than 5,000 men, and was immediately replenished by the poor people who came to revolt. After this battle, the Yuan army abandoned purely cavalry artillery attack tactics. This tactic could not deal a devastating blow to the massive Red Turban Army, and the large-scale formation of cold weapon troops once again became the main way for the Northern Yuan Army to exterminate the peasant army.
After this victory, Liu Futong's army was reborn, and Liu Futong's army that had participated in this war was the seed and began to expand the main force. The north was plunged into a three-year war.