Chapter Seventy-One: When the War Goes On
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The war near Luzhou did not have any suspense. Mozhigen was determined to defend the city, but the 20,000 holding troops outside the city were defeated without engaging in the battle in the face of covering fire from 200 guns. The Mozhigen army, which was lined up in dense queues, was bleeding from the bombardment of shrapnel shells. And Mo Rigen, who was in Luzhou City, saw this scene, and a mouthful of blood rushed to his throat. Mo Ri thought that he had copied the cannon, although the number was insufficient, but relying on the city, the victory or defeat was unknown. But now in this scene, he really told him that he has not only not narrowed the gap with the communist army over the years, but has moved farther away, and the lethality of solid bullets is too inferior to that of shrapnel shells. After several years of hard work, it is useless for a while, and no one can maintain a normal heart with this kind of blow.
Losing the mobile troops outside the city, Mo Rigen could only suffer from the city, as if he was breaking a jar and breaking his heart, Mo Rigen ordered the cannon. 25 bronze cannons were loaded with a quantity of gunpowder. Twenty-five iron balls flew towards the Republicans, but they didn't seem to have enough momentum and didn't hit the Republicans nine hundred meters away.
At this time, He Cheng, as the commander-in-chief of the north, was worried about the artillery on the city wall of Luzhou. Although it is a smoothbore cannon, the accuracy is not enough, but who can guarantee that it will never hit the soldiers. In He Cheng's original plan, he was going to use the skirmish line to get closer, and after paying a certain amount of sacrifice, he would test the approximate location of the enemy's artillery, and then counterattack, but he didn't expect that the artillery at the head of the city was the first to fire, and counted exactly 25 guns, which was the same as the number of enemy artillery in the intelligence. In other words, Mozhigen's impulse exposed all his gun positions.
So, ten minutes after the opening of fire from the Mozhigen artillery, 5o mortars began to counterattack with flowering shells. This kind of shell, which exploded on the ground, once again showed off its ammunition to Mozhigen, who only had solid shells. At this time, Mo Rigen was in no mood to study. Fifty mortars burst into a storm of shells, which greatly reduced the protection of the defenders from the anti-artillery facilities on the city's head, which had been prepared against solid shell bounces. The operation of the copper cannon was badly damaged, and the dense rain of shells also caused the destruction of ammunition on the head of the city, and Mozhigen miraculously survived this round of blows. But when the bombardment was over, looking at the ravaged walls, Mozhigen knew that his artillery was over.
After the shelling was completed, the demolition team, dressed in armor and under the cover of the fire of the musketeers, pushed the wheelbarrow across the moat, which had long since dried up in winter, and made holes in the city walls and stuffed dozens of kilograms of blasting pipes into it. In a few earth-shattering explosions, the city wall of Luzhou collapsed.
In the end, Mozhigen fled in a hurry with fifty horsemen under the escort of his men. The two thousand cavalry that followed followed were chasing unhurriedly behind, and a general who had been broken was better off staying behind after conquering Luzhou City. The communist army did not rest, continued to attack Shouchun north, along the way Mo Rigen has been on the run, Shouchun as his base camp a total of 30,000 literate workers here to Mo Rigen to make zuò armor weapons, although the products are very low-level, but they are indeed workers, he has a certain discipline, will cooperate, have hands-on experience, after a simple training can fully integrate into the industrial workers of the republican territory.
For the safety of these workers, He Cheng specially left a division to protect them. After a full meal and a large vat of salty fish, dozens of factory representatives from the republican territory were allowed in, and a movement to pull people began, and for the first time these slave-like workers showed themselves so popular. For the first time, I knew that there was money for work, not only was there no problem with money, but all factories also had food subsidies and accommodation. 30,000 people quickly signed labor contracts and were distributed.
At this time, the Northern Army of the Communist Army advanced all the way to Huainan, and on November 10, the entire south of the Huai River had been planted with sickles and hammer flags, and Mo Rigen, the supreme commander of the Huainan West Road, had been driven all the way to the south of Henan today, on the south bank of the Huai River, in Huaibin County, on the south bank of the Huai River, surrounded by a cavalry battalion. Mo Rigen is not Cheng Pan's pervert, who can run out freely in the army of a thousand people. Under a series of shots from a rifle, Mozhigen committed suicide.
Since then, the military group on the Huainan West Road has been completely wiped out, all the 40,000 troops of Mo Rigen have been wiped out, and the 50,000 workers' group has been completely eaten by the republican territory. Since then, the republican territory has occupied all the target territory of this war, and the next step is to fight back against the Yuan Dynasty.
After learning the news of Cheng Pan's rebellion, the Yuan Dynasty and the opposition, which were originally overwhelmed by the Zhejiang Fang Guozhen Rebel Army, had a feeling that the house was leaking and it was raining, and now the government and the opposition began to have a debate about whether to exterminate the Fang family army or the communist army, and one side thought that the weaker Fang family army should be extinguished first, but the slogan was very radical. However, the other side confirmed that the strength of the Communists was strong and their potential was greater than that of the Fang's army, and they should give priority to gathering all their armies to strike.
At this time, the prime minister showed his courage and directly allocated funds to transfer 80,000 troops from the province of Shushu to the south, and at the same time let the province of Henan and Jiangbei dispatch 50,000 troops to attack together. Now the policy of exterminating bandits is being carried out very smoothly, and now the two anti-thieves in Jiangnan want to kill all the Mongols, and the other is to directly confiscate a large amount of land. Both sides greatly damaged the interests of the upper Mongolian aristocracy. At this time, Tokhtar canceled the annual benefits for the Mongolian nobles, and when the country's financial resources were fully encircled and suppressed against the thieves, every Mongolian nobleman did not say anything, and Cheng Pan now divided the land that originally belonged to the Mongols equally in Jianghuai, which can be said to have angered the Yuan Dynasty.
At this time, the communist army occupying the entire territory on the south bank of the Huai River had stopped, and He Cheng, the commander of the Northern Front, was ordered by Cheng Pan to stop crossing the Huai River. In the face of the Supreme Commander's handwritten orders and explanations, several generals stopped themselves from continuing to take the initiative to attack. Shift to a defensive policy.
At this time, Cheng Pan released the four generals and sat in charge of logistics in the central government, and he was facing huge consumption at this time of the war. Now the front cannot continue to push north in any case. Swallowing the current territory with the current form of a republican government is already the limit. In terms of supplying the Northern Army alone, the consumption of tens of thousands of people is extremely large, and now it can be supported by four-wheeled carriages to maintain logistics, and once the army crosses the Huai River and enters the Huaibei to fight, the consumption of the territory will not be able to sustain it. So now He Cheng only has two cavalry for a total of 1,200 people. They were released to Huaibei for limited operations, and the Yuan Dynasty counterattack troops in the north could only annihilate them south of the Huai River.
In Cheng Pan's eyes, it is not only a matter of logistics supply, but now the occupation and defense of the territory by the Communist Army has also reached the limit. If it continues to expand, there will be a gap in the deployment of the army on the existing occupied land, Cheng Pan will never think that he is unlucky, although the war is a gamble, but artificially it must be 100% prepared. Now the Mongols still have cavalry, and because of Cheng Pan's rebellion this time, the Mongol legions in various provinces in all directions were intimidated by the huge combat effectiveness of the communist army and began to hold their troops. But the same began to gather troops and confront the Communists. There's no guarantee what they'll do next, but as long as the Communists show the slightest sign of defeat, they'll come like wolves.
Therefore, this kind of flaw in the defense gap must not appear in front of this group of wolves.
Once the enemy army seizes this gap, a cavalry rush inside and destroy it on a large scale, which will not only delay the establishment of order in the newly occupied territory, but also threaten the entire logistics line. So now Cheng Pan only decided to occupy the current area equivalent to the entire Anhui Province in the future. Cheng Pan did not dare to formulate a strategic plan for small Japan to sweep the whole of China in three months. It's not good to play around.
Now that the current strategic plan has been realized, the question now arises of how to end the war. In this regard, we can refer to the table xiàn of the early Manchu Qing Dynasty against the Ming Dynasty. The premise of ending the war is to directly eliminate the enemy's living forces, and the wild boar skin directly eliminated the 400,000 troops that the Ming Dynasty will suppress before the Ming Dynasty enters the strategic defense stage.
The next step was to defeat the ability of the Yuan Dynasty to continue the war, and the Huai River War was about to begin.
As soon as Prime Minister Tokhtar gave the order for the troops of Zhongshu Province and Henan Jiangbei Province to move south, five days later came the bad news that the Huainan West Road and the entire Jiangnan East Road had fallen. In addition, the Communist Army has blocked the sea route, and after the news that all this year's shipping imperial grain has been lost, there was a period of depression. Prime Minister Tokh had long anticipated the huge damage caused by Cheng Pan's rebellion. But after the thing was really born, I still couldn't help but feel lost. He originally wanted to be the minister of Zhongxing of Dayuan, but it was a pity that there were natural disasters in the north every year. Now the wealth of the imperial court is heavily enriched, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang are completely eroded. Zhejiang was thrown into a mess by Fang Guozhen. The land of Suzhou and Hangzhou is now being harassed by the Communists. Now that I think about it, giving Rugao County to Cheng Pan, this anti-thief, is really the biggest failure of Henan Jiangbei Province. Now this place in Rugao County relies on a few fortresses to almost contain the 100,000 troops of the Soviet Union. Relying on the Yangtze River for supplies, the Rugao fortress was able to fight 50,000 troops with 10,000 troops, and often sent a division to harass everywhere.
On November 25, 1348, the generals of the local army of Huainan East Road, Huainan Province, Pingzhang Gouer Sandao and Dazhi Timur, could not stand this situation. It was decided to storm the second of the three fortresses in the Rugao territory.
With only 1,800 men in the fortress at this time, the Dash Timur was determined to break the city within three days before the Communists could react. But the results were tragic. The fortress fully wielded its firepower, and as for its strong defense, it was not reflected, and the enemy's siege equipment was named by the artillery at the beginning. The Yuan army had to adopt the method of ant-attached siege. Under the shotgun of the 56 guns on the fortress, patches of blood bloomed in the crowd, and after two days and one night of strong attack, the No. 2 fortress still spewed flames. Under the city walls is already a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. As for the city walls, there were only a few more scratches and shotgun bullet holes, and the thick walls still showed their strong defense in front of the enemy army, when 10,000 Republican troops from upstream came to support. The Yuan army, which had long been pushed to the limit by the bloody siege scene, suddenly bombed the camp when the communist army arrived.
After the incident, the Yuan army directly killed at least 15,000 people in the tragic siege of these two days. Pingzhang Gou'er Sandao in Huainan Province later gathered more than 10,000 troops 5o kilometers to the north, but this force never dared to approach the walls of the Communists again.
After this defensive battle, the result was that Huainan East Road completely lost the courage to take the initiative to attack. The initiative on the Eastern Front was completely given to the Compatriots.
After learning of the disastrous defeat of the Yuan army under the fortress of Rugao, Tokhtok completely dispelled the hope of quickly resolving the chaos in Jiangsu and resuming shipping.
Now both sides have turned their attention to the upcoming battle of the Huai River. Once the Communists were victorious, the Yuan Dynasty would be helpless against the Republican government in the short term. Once the Yuan army made a breakthrough, Cheng Pan had no choice but to transfer to Taiwan.