Chapter 413: Murder is Death III

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"On the bayonet ..."

"Aliyan... Let Shi Guozhu lead people to attack from the right flank of the Ming army..."

"Master, the Ming army has arranged obstacles on the official road, and they are still digging trenches."

The Ming army, who was desperately blocking in front of him, had already loaded their bayonets and charged towards their side at this moment, Yue Tuo burst into flames and shouted: "Look for death, break through them..."

The purpose of Li Yan and Liu Shun taking people out of the city was to stop Yue Tuo who was about to escape, and the first to arrive was to block the 8th Battalion's manpower with his body, and their task was only one, waiting for the large army, but Yue Tuo also launched a fierce battle, and the soldiers of the 8th Battalion had a fierce battle, and in the end, the 8th Battalion used up all the ammunition brought out of the city, and under the leadership of the battalion commander, he got on the bayonet and launched a charge.

It was impossible for a foot soldier to fight a cavalry, not to mention that the bayonet on the rifle was only one meter and seven meters long, which was not comparable to the normal wax shaft spear of nearly three meters.

Under the cavalry charge, the soldiers of the 8th battalion used flesh and blood to block the cavalry's offensive, and there were no survivors under the impact of the war horse, but the sharp three-sided bayonet was not a good man or a woman, although the bayonet that stabbed into the war horse was taken off from the soldier's hand, but it was still powerful, and the war horse also died under the bayonet, and the cavalry who fell off the war horse was also killed or wounded.

However, the manpower of a battalion was no match for large-scale cavalry after all, and in less than half an hour, the 8th battalion was completely annihilated.

However, fortunately, the 8th battalion used the lives of all the soldiers in the battalion to bring enough time to Li Yan's follow-up troops.

The 195th Regiment galloped forward, with a large army of Li Yan and Liu Shun behind it, and thousands of people took advantage of various terrain to form positions around the not wide official road.

Li Yan also just learned the news of the annihilation of a battalion under the command of Chong Junxi from Liu Shun, and after being silent for a while, he said: "The war is urgent, now is not the time to be sad, the Tartars divide their troops and leave, we can block one by one, Brigade Commander Liu, now it depends on you." ”

It is rare for the whole battalion to be killed, even when the battle of Siwu Mountain did not occur in this kind of situation where the whole battalion was destroyed, but Liu Shun had not completely arranged, and the cavalry of the Tartars had already launched a charge again.

Yue Tuo is not stupid, once the Ming army arranges a defensive line, they can't bargain at all with the kind of foreign guns that they have in their hands, and no matter how bad their luck is, they can leave all their tens of thousands of people here.

Under the command of Yue Tuo, Shi Guozhu led his cavalry to attack Liu Shun's department who was arranging the position, and the two sides had a fierce battle in the middle, the fight was inseparable, and the rifle was extremely powerful, but the cavalry who wanted to escape also threw out all the throwing weapons that could be shot.

In addition to short weapons such as throwing guns and gold borings, there are also 'heavy' weapons such as axes, and both sides have suffered casualties.

"Rush over, don't stop, rush..."

In front of him was a cavalry of thousands of Han army flags to open the way, Yue Tuo's more than 1,000 cavalry with red flags in the middle, and Shi Guozhu was ordered to attack from the right flank of the position.

It's not that Chen Jiming is unwilling to reinforce, but because Beicheng is also surrounded and attacked by the Tartar army, and he can't pull away at all, and now the soldiers of Liu Shun's department plus the 195th Regiment are together on the position, but there are more than 5,000 people, and the Tartar army charging on the opposite side is full of 30,000, even if it is less than 30,000, the cavalry charge launched by this number is impossible for this defense line to completely stop.

A large number of cavalry in the forward charge fell, but it took time for the rifle to be reloaded after all, and with the blessing of several rounds of time difference, Yue Tuo, who had paid nearly 2,000 cavalry casualties, finally rushed to Liu Shun's position.

However, Yue Tuo had no idea of attacking the big position at all, but rushed out of a passage in front of him, and went straight out of the formation, heading towards Haizhou in the northeast without looking back.

This is also a matter of no choice, after all, the opponent is all cavalry, although Li Yan occupies a favorable terrain, but after all, because the number is too small to cause a favorable attack on Yue Tuo's cavalry.

Although Yue Tuo's Chinese army passed through the formation, but at the end of nearly 10,000 cavalry was still blocked by Liu Shun who reacted outside the position, the two sides broke out a fierce battle again, this time Liu Shun was shirtless, commanding the army and Chong Junxi together to launch a counter-charge towards the Han army flag cavalry that did not run away, just when the battle was stalemate, the Longwu Army chased the troops, and the 28th Division Liu Xiang rushed to the end, and Li Yan Liu Shun and others surrounded the remaining cavalry, when the battle was more than half, Seeing that there was no hope of getting out, the Han army's flag cavalry dismounted under the leadership of a deputy general and asked for surrender.

After the battle, Li Yan learned from Liu Shun that it was Daishan's son Yue Tuo who ran away, which made him regret it for a long time, but he couldn't run away from the credit for killing and wounding so many enemy soldiers in Shuyang.

The arrival of the Longwu army also made the Abatai troops who attacked the northern city choose to withdraw urgently.

A day later, Li Yan received an order from the Military Commission from Suqian, asking him to join the troops arriving in the Longwu Army and accompany the Longwu Army to fight north to Xuzhou.

However, before leaving, he still sent all the captured troops of nearly 10,000 Han military banners to Huai'an for reorganization, and then marched to Xuzhou with Tang Kainian, who arrived later.

Xuzhou's strategic position is very large, there are two roads into Shandong in the territory of Nanzhili, one is the sea route, and the other is Xuzhou, from a land point of view, you must pass through Xuzhou to enter Shandong, which is no way to do this era.

And Xuzhou is located on the south bank of the canal, the river is crisscrossed, if you march from the direction of Suqian, you will arrive at the territory of Xuzhou is on the opposite side of Xuzhou, at that time crossing the river is a troublesome matter, so after a brief discussion, it was decided to cross the river from Suqian, and after crossing the river, the troops will go directly to Xuzhou.

In addition, the inland river sailor troops rushed from Nanjing entered the canal waterway under the command of Pang Zhifan, and five new-style iron barge paddle steamers arrived in Suqian with great might, the reason why they were paddle steamers was because these fifteen iron barges were steam-driven, the most advanced ships, a 125 mm howitzer at the bow, the caliber was so large, the muzzle of the black hole was amazingly powerful, and an 85 mm howitzer at the stern was not far behind, and there were three 95 mm howitzers on each side of the ship. The hull displacement is also up to 500 tons, which is already enough for inland river driving.

"The draft of the hull is seven feet and one inch, and the shallowest channel of the canal is also more than seven feet and nine inches, Your Majesty has given an order, and when we arrive in Xuzhou, we will first use the cannons on the ship to hit his mother a few times, scare and scare the dog Tartars, well, the Qing army will talk about it."

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Xuzhou's strategic significance is very great, controlling Xuzhou is equivalent to controlling the road to the south, Chen Cao asked the shipyard to step up the production of troop carriers before the war, as long as the troops can be delivered to land in large quantities, they can directly lead people to attack Tianjin.

It's just that this situation is still a thought.

Xiao County is the seat of Xuzhou, and it is also the blessing of the ancient Xuzhou city wall, and it is a common practice for the county to govern a city together, so it is generally officially called the name of the place where the government is located.

In Xuzhou City, Abatai just learned about the situation in Huai'an from his son, he and Huang Taiji Daishan are brothers, but when he was knighted, he only fell to the title of Raoyu County King, not even the prince, what gave him a headache was that his good son-in-law Li Yongfang actually returned to Ming anyway during the Huai'an War, this is a big black cauldron, and he can't run away.

The thing that gave him more headaches was the news of Dai Shan's disappearance, the news that Abatai only asked Dai Shan to be captured was a rumor, but he had also heard about what his eldest nephew Yue Tuo was doing in Huai'an, but it was all for the sake of the Qing Dynasty, and this bit of was not impossible to do.

But now the news of the defeat of Daishan's army must be transmitted to Beijing as soon as possible, so that the emperor and all the nobles of the Eight Banners know the news, and the focus is also to appease the Shuo Zhi who stayed in Beijing, although the defeat of Daishan's army is an indisputable fact, but the strength of the two red flags cannot be ignored.

After Bolo returned to Xuzhou, he urgently arranged enough manpower in Zhenkou Gate and Lülianghong to guard against the Ming army heading north, and then returned to Xuzhou City to report the battle in Shuyang to his Ama Abatai, and told Abatai that Yue Tuo might have fled to Haizhou.

"The strength of the Ming people now cannot be underestimated, and I want to report the matter here to the emperor word for word, knowing that the defeat of the Daishan army is too serious, if the two red flag people have different hearts, it will be a bad thing for me to be in the Qing Dynasty."

Bolo heard this and said: "Amma, now is not the time to plan for the second uncle, but I heard the defeated soldiers who fled back to Xuzhou say that the second uncle seems to have defected to the enemy." ”

"Shut up..."Abatai scolded Bolo: "Don't talk nonsense about this kind of thing, your second uncle is a person who loves the Xinjueluo family, he knows the severity, he will not defect to the enemy, you have to help me think about the disadvantages of Li Yongfang's dog thief defecting to the enemy now." ”

"My aunt is also a person who loves the Xinjue Luo family," Bo Luo seemed to be a little unhappy Abatai scolded him: "Besides, Li Yongfang surrendered by the Han people after all, no matter how much he co-opted and promoted, he is not the person who loves the Xinjue Luo family after all, however, some people in the defeated army said that Yue Tuo severely punished Li Yongfang's third child when he was in Huai'an City, and I heard that Li Yangeng's death in Gaoyou was also Yue Tuo's means, not to mention Li Yongfang's return to Ming anyway, he Yue Tuo bullied the Li family like this, isn't this bullying us in disguise?" ”

Abatai felt that Bolo was not suitable to discuss the military situation with him, so he called someone to find Sun Degong.

"Mr. Sun, what do you think of Xuzhou's defense?"

Sun Degong hit a thousand, then lowered his head and said: "In front of the prince of the county, the little one dare not talk nonsense." ”

Abatai didn't look at Sun Degong directly, but just drank tea and said: "Is there any change in the people of the Han Army Banner?" ”

Sun Degong was shocked when he heard this, and immediately knelt down: "Since I surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the little one has always been grateful for the emperor's kindness, and he has done his best to go south to Shandong with the prince of the county, please check the prince of the county." ”