Chapter 397: The Great War of Huai'an IV

"Hahaha..."

Xiao Yongguang laughed and said: "Brothers, it's time for our 21st Division to show its skills, the order, the 61st Brigade will launch an attack on the Tartars from the southwest city wall, and the engineer company will immediately prepare the explosives and ammunition transferred from the military headquarters, hehe, this old boy Daishan, you have to let him taste good things..."

The actions of the 21st Division were seen by Chen Cao, but as far as his eyes could see, it was already a chaotic battlefield in the south of the city, with tens of thousands of people on both sides densely scattered on the battlefield in front of the city gate that was less than a hundred steps, until the Qing army at the end of the city could not use artillery to fire at close range, and could only use sharpshooters to attack at the head of the city.

"Emperor Ming, is this going to take my Huai'an City one day?"

Dai Shan sat on the handsome seat, and then looked at Li Yongfang on the right: "Horses, the outer city can't be lost." ”

Li Yongfang said: "The prince doesn't have to worry, Huai'an has been an important town for soldiers since the former Song Dynasty, and it was also a place for soldiers in the early Ming Dynasty, the city wall is strong and abnormal, and our army is prepared to defend, and the artillery counterattack is no worse than that of the Ming army. ”

Dai Shan nodded thoughtfully: "Now we are attacking from three sides, but it is obvious that the focus is on the southern city, and now the two armies are stuck in front of the city gate, and the fierce fire oil and earth and thunder canisters are not used, but what is the best way?" ”

"Newspaper... Lord Wang, the Ming army divided its troops to attack from the southwest city wall. ”

"Send another 5,000 soldiers and horses to guard the southwest city wall."

"Tsk..."

Yue Tuoda strode into the hall: "Amma, the Ming dogs are very hateful, they charge in front, and behind them are sending people to fill in the trenches we dug one by one. ”

Dai Shan frowned: "The Ming people have a large population, and it doesn't matter if they don't fight with human lives, but I'm Qing..."

"Ama..."Yue Tuo said coldly: "There are still many Han people in Huai'an City, I think we should use the strategy of driving the tiger and devouring the wolf, and then implement the old law of Liaodong." ”

Li Yongfang didn't speak, Dai Shan glanced at him, then became silent, and then muttered: "The emperor reuses Ning Wan, Fan Wencheng and other Han ministers, and after entering the customs, he even wantonly used the civil officials of the original Chongzhen Dynasty, if the Han people are used as human walls, will the court be..."

"Oh Amma, what are you waiting for at the moment?" Yue Tuo said anxiously: "The Han people often say that you can't be kind to women, let's do this for the future of my Qing Dynasty, whether my Manchuria can enter the Han people's hearts depends on this battle, and I must not let the Ming Dog Emperor break through my Huai'an City." ”

"What do you think?"

Li Yongfang arched his hand: "Yue Tuobeile is reasonable, but it is all up to the prince..."

Yue Tuo saw that Li Yongfang echoed his idea, and was immediately overjoyed: "Ama, even the horse thinks it is feasible, so you can't wait any longer." ”

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"Lao Ding..."

Niu Shiquan was shocked when he saw Ding Yishan lying in a pool of blood, and hurriedly went up to check, but found that Ding Yishan had been shot several times in his body, and there were five or six broken arrows stuck in his chest, obviously he couldn't survive.

"Come on, quickly send Commander Ding to the rear, quickly..."

As soon as the words fell, an explosion sounded in Niu Shiquan's ears, and then the advance footsteps of the Wuhan Iron and Steel Vehicle were five or six meters away in front of him.

"And are there any grenades and bullets, throw them at Lao Tzu..."

"Tuanza, look..."

Niu Shiquan tried to calm his mind, but saw that the sound of crying began to sound at the city gate, followed by the people who were driven out of the city by the Qing army, both men and women, young and old, and dozens of old people in the front led a large group of children.

Niu Shiquan clenched his fists, his whole body trembled, and he scolded angrily: "The Jiannu mongrel of the dog..."

Driving the people into a human wall is a common practice of the Qing army in Liaodong, and this trick is tried and tested, which is also the reason why Jiannu can win battles in Liaodong every time.

"you, mom..."Chen Cao threw the clairvoyant mirror on the ground: "Order, the front-line troops immediately disconnect from contact with the Qing army, give up the frontal battlefield, and in addition, strictly guard the trench that has been filled, if it is..."

Chen Cao didn't finish speaking, Huang Chunyao immediately answered: "Your Majesty has an order, if the Jiannu Tartars drive the people to dig trenches, let the Longwu Army send people to grab those people." ”

As long as there is a clairvoyant mirror in his hand, he can clearly see the team of people coming out of the south gate at this moment, and the brigade commander Liao Zhun saw this situation, and had to scold angrily a few times, and then ordered the troops to retreat immediately.

As soon as the two sides disengaged, the Qing army at the head of the city immediately opened fire and fired arrows to strike, causing huge casualties to the retreating troops.

The battle lasted from early in the morning to after two o'clock in the afternoon, and if it weren't for the Qing army taking the people as the front, this battle would still have been fought.

Inside the big tent, Chen Cao tried his best to calm his mood, and the crown prince Chen Boxing on the side opened his mouth and asked, "Father, does Jiannu often do this?" If this is the case in every battle in the future, how will we deal with it? ”

Chen Cao showed a smile and touched Chen Boxing's head: "All my territory in China, the people are the people of China, our Chen family became the emperor and became the monarch's father, the first thing is to seek the welfare of the people, now we expel the Tartars, but also to restore the Zhengshuo of China, Jiannu takes the people as the human wall and meat shield, if we are for the sake of victory and do not care about the life and death of the people, do you say, have we become characters like the tyrant of Mengyuan?" ”

Chen Boxing nodded thoughtfully: "Erchen understands, but father, how should we deal with them?" ”

"When dealing with such cruel people, do not speak of righteousness to them, but expose the treachery of human nature to them, and let them fall into sufficient traps, so that they will be restrained."

Huang Chunyao arched his hand and smiled: "Your Majesty, the prince, the minister thinks that Jiannu will definitely treat the people as a card in his hand when he sees us taking the initiative to avoid it, so that our army will be bound;

If you exchange with them, they will definitely not, and even let our army retreat as a condition, our army is on the way, it is expected that it will arrive one after another tomorrow, and it is only a matter of time to encircle Huai'an, but the key to this problem is whether Daishan will rely on the people and let go of the encirclement;

However, once this happens, His Majesty's plan to surround and annihilate Dai Shan in Huai'an will be frustrated. ”

Chen Cao took a deep breath, this situation is really difficult to deal with, this is the simplest rogue trick, how do you know that it is played by Jiannu.

"First, make a plan first, the Long Wu Army is on guard at any time, once it is found that Jiannu drives the people to dig trenches, they must quickly rob people; Second, from the evening, the artillery bombardment of the head of Huai'an was carried out, waiting for the arrival of a large army. ”

"Yes..."

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"What's going on?"

Li Yan grabbed the scout who had just returned and asked.

"Report to Lord Li, I found the Tartar rangers on the north bank of the Shu River, the number is only ten, it should be their sentinel horses on guard along the way, in addition, I also found that there are more than a dozen fast horses rushing to the north, looking at their appearance, it should be a team to report the news, if it is not for the people under my command are too scattered, they should be able to intercept this group."

After listening to the scout's report, Li Yan frowned, then opened the map to check carefully, and Liu Shun, the commander of the 66th Brigade, who came up, looked at it and said: "The only way to go north is to Shandong, our army has been away from the large army for too long, and the news of the overall situation must be lagging behind, but I don't know what Tartar reinforcements are there in Shandong now." ”

"They must be asking for help, but it will definitely not be the people who are acting for good, it must be Tan Tai, the prisoner who was captured earlier provided the news that Abatai is in Xuzhou, if my expectation is correct, Tan Tai must have gone to ask Abatai for help, then he must have seen through our intentions by doing so;"

Li Yanwu said to himself: "Senior Commander Chen's pressure in Liujiazhuang will definitely increase, but I don't know if they can arrive in Liujiazhuang before Tan Tai's defense, or reach Shuyang City." ”

Liu Shun said again: "Master Li, although Xuzhou is only three hundred miles away from Shuyang, there are many vertical and horizontal rivers along the way, if they go south along the canal, it will be to give up Shuyang, in this way, wouldn't they give up Tan Tai?" ”

Deputy division commander Wu Quan also nodded: "Tan Tai has 30,000 cavalry, he can come and go freely, he will definitely not defend Shuyang, and that is not Jiannu's marching style, they will definitely choose to confront our army in the field." ”

Li Yan frowned, stared at the map, and pointed with his hand: "There are two roads from Shuyang to Xuzhou, and Tan Tai is all cavalry, so he will definitely not choose the road on the first line of the canal, only take the official road in the northwest, and if you go this way, you must pass Siwu Mountain, and we will go there to ambush and strive to annihilate Tan Tai's troops in one fell swoop." ”

Li Yan set off first, and Liu Shun looked at his boss Wu Quan and said, "Deputy division commander, what do you think?" ”

Wu Quan laughed: "You kid, the order of the division is to let us listen to his orders, my task is to supervise, once things are not harmonious, you will listen to my command again, now let's listen to Staff Officer Li first." ”

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"Shu Heha, what's the situation ahead?"

"Back to the master, the Ming army broke through the trench formation, their firearms are extremely fierce, a hundred steps away from the city, the gun can still hit our soldiers, and many marksmen can't shoot them."

Tan Tai looked at He Luohui: "It's not okay to be a hundred steps away, what about Ashan?" ”

Ah Shan strode into the hall and threw the horsewhip in his hand: "It's those people, the firearms in their hands are different from the usual Ming army, they hit far and accurately, the marksman can only shoot at the target one hundred and twenty steps away, and those Ming soldiers actually stand one hundred and fifty steps away, shooting like hunting, as long as our warriors show their heads, they will immediately die with a headshot." ”

He Luo would look at Tan Tai, Tan Tai sat on the chair, his hands rubbed repeatedly on the armrests: "We are all cavalry, and it is feasible to defend the city, if they do this, the army's morale is unstable, He Luo will..."

Tan Tai looked at He Luohui on the side: "Defending Shuyang is a stupid move, and now we don't wait for the news of King Li, we are also leaving." ”

He Luohui said: "In this way, we will ruin King Li's plan, Tan Tai, once Huai'an is lost, you and I can't afford it." ”

Tan Tai took a deep breath and said: "If the 30,000 elites are defeated in Shuyang, you and I are equally guilty, rather than this, it is better to use what we are best at." ”