Chapter 464: Finding Kangxi, Don't Let Kangxi Go! (Ask for a monthly pass, ask for a subscription)
"Hooray! Banzai! Hooray! β
When the dragon flag symbolizing the Qing Emperor and the Mongolian Great Khan appeared on the south bank of the Beisha River, the cheers resounded in the sky, and for a moment they even covered the gunfire on the battlefield on the north bank of the Beisha River.
Many soldiers on both sides of the battle heard this sudden cheer, because the "long live" was shouted in Manchurian, so as long as they listened carefully, they knew that a large Qing army had circled to the south bank of the Beisha River
Li Zhongshan, who was directing the battle on a bucket car, had actually received a report from Tanma and knew that many Qing cavalry were crossing the river from a shoal in the upper reaches of the Beisha River to the south bank of the Beisha River, and might be going to attack his old camp.
Therefore, he immediately ordered Li Zhongyi, who had outflanked the left flank of the Qing army, to intercept the cavalry of the Qing army immediately, and transferred a 25th division from the reserve (two divisions each on the left, center, and right roads of the Ming army, and two divisions in the reserve) to support Li Zhongyi.
The 25th Division had just crossed the river here, and the Qing army, which had already completed the crossing, suddenly began to shout long live!
What's going on?
Li Zhongshan was also born in the white flag, and he also knew some Manchurian dialect, of course he understood what it meant that the Eight Banners soldiers were shouting long live in the mountains? Could it be that Emperor Kangxi personally crossed the river with cavalry to carry out a sneak attack?
Thinking of this, Li Zhongshan hurriedly raised his binoculars and looked in the direction where the cheers came from, searched carefully, and found a square yellow dragon flag that hunted and fluttered in the wind, of course he knew that this yellow dragon flag was the banner of the Qing Emperor and the Great Khan of Mongolia!
Can't you? It's really Kangxi! This Kangxi is so brave now? Dare to take the lead? It's the age of rifled guns and Mini bullets that take the life of the Admiral!
In addition, shouldn't a sneak attack be "secretly crossing the river" and "don't let go of the gun"? How do you shout hooray as soon as you cross the river? Why is this? Pull hatred? Didn't Kangxi know that he had picked up the Yellow River, and he had already been the enemy of the two Huai, and the Huai Army was the main force of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty. Isn't this a "clear attack"?
No, there is fraud?
But where is the deception?
Rao is Li Zhongshan, a general who will immediately fight the world, was also stunned by the operation of "Kangxi crossing the river to carry out a clear attack", and he didn't know how to adjust the deployment all of a sudden.
On the other side of the battlefield, Emperor Kangxi, who was immediately directing the battle on a mound of earth, was also confused by the sound of the mountain shouting long live from the south bank of the Beisha River, of course he knew how this long live cheer came from. It must be Chani, Li Guangdi, and Xiao Guizi who have played their own Yellow Dragon Banner!
Where the Yellow Dragon Banner is, it means where the emperor is!
Just near the mound of Kangxi's horse, there was also a high flagpole, on which hung a yellow dragon flag symbolizing the Qing Emperor and the Mongolian Great Khan.
However, soldiers are not tired of deceit, and it is not surprising that one or several "shadow emperors" appear on the battlefield. Therefore, Kangxi asked people to pretend to be supervising the battle on the frontal battlefield, and he quietly followed the roundabout troops deep behind enemy lines, and played the Yellow Dragon Banner at a critical moment to show his identity to boost morale and launch a general attack, which is also possible. Vice versa.
But Kangxi himself doesn't quite understand what . Now is the moment of truth? But they didn't get close to the Ming army camp, and they didn't even reach the Jinggou River, could it be that they encountered the Ming army's troops?
The commanders of both sides were confused, and the officers and soldiers who were fighting below certainly didn't know what was going on?
The morale of the Qing army was a little low, and this morning the Qing army had already lost a battle between the Jinggou River and the Beisha River, and the losses were not small, and the Ming army rushed across the Beisha River, and let them dig a trench on the north bank of the Beisha River and build a low wall.
Everyone knows that the trenches and low wall fortifications of the Ming army are difficult to fight, and there are not many Ming troops on the mountain, and the attacking Qing army has suffered heavy casualties by relying on the trenches and low walls!
Now the 100,000 Ming army is digging trenches and building walls against the Beisha River, and they are all ready to stand! And the Qing army was a little less numerous than them. How does this impress? If the Qing army and the Ming army fought inextricably between the Jiehe River and the Beisha River, would there still be a large number of Ming troops coming over to participate in the battle? If the Ming army brigade comes over again, will the Qing Dynasty be defeated by Li Zhongshan again?
If Kangxi loses again in Shandong. So next, is the Ming army going to fight Beijing?
If Beijing can't hold it, will the Qing Dynasty still have it?
Just when the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners all felt that the Qing Dynasty was coming to an end, the south bank of the Beisha River in the rear of the Ming army suddenly sounded in Manchurian "Long live, long live, long live".
They don't have Kangxi's "height", of course, they can't see the Yellow Dragon banner waving in the wind, but this "Long live, long live, long live" is not shouted casually.
Could it be that Emperor Kangxi himself rushed behind the butt of the Ming army with his cavalry?
Is the Qing Dynasty going to win?
Thinking of this good thing, the momentum of the Qing soldiers, who were originally a little weak, rose all of a sudden!
The two Red Banner Infantry Corps closest to the Ming Army just launched an infantry attack, and the first-class public friend of the Qing Dynasty had already put on double armor, holding a red flag in his hand, surrounded by a group of "old women really wild flags" leading horses, and in front of them were four infantry battalions that formed a column, arching forward with the smoke of gunpowder that permeated the battlefield.
Behind them, the artillery of the two red banners of the Qing army raised their muzzles to the highest and threw solid bullets onto the Ming positions.
Although it took a lot of spitting stars just now for the first class of Gong Pengchun to mobilize these small 4,000 Red Banner Infantry to coax them to the front line, the momentum of these Red Banner Infantry is still not very strong, even if they are held by Peng Chun's Goshha, they are not willing to move forward happily.
Just when Peng Chun was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and he didn't know how to force these advanced Eight Banner disciples below to send them to death, he suddenly heard the Manchurian chant from the back of the Ming army!
Of course, Peng Chun knew that Kangxi had sent 10,000 cavalry of the New Army of the Eight Banners to make a detour to the rear of the Ming army through the shallows of the Beisha River. However, he didn't expect Kangxi himself to return to the south bank of the Beisha River among the thousands of Eight Banner cavalry, and it seemed that he had won the battle!
If you don't win the battle, now instead of shouting "Hurray, Hooray", you will shout "Defeated, defeated".
Thinking of this, Peng Chun waved the red flag vigorously, pointed forward, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, the army led by the emperor has gone around to the back of the Ming army and won a great victory!" Brothers, go ahead, don't let the Ming army go! β
The group of "wild Jurchen Goshha" who followed Peng Chun also shouted together: "The emperor led his troops around the back of the Ming army!" The emperor has won a great victory! Brothers, rush! Don't let the Ming army go! β
This group of "wild Jurchen Goshha" shouted, just now because they heard the Manchurian word "long live" from behind the Ming army, and the morale of the Qing army's two red flag flintlock pismen had risen a little, and now they finally boiled a little, and they also let out a loud shout, and they accelerated their pace one after another.
These Eight Banners New Army, whether in terms of equipment or training, is also among the best in the world today! The reason for the low morale before was that they had met many and strong opponents this time, and it seemed that there was no hope of winning.
Now that I see the hope of victory, the fighting spirit is immediately visible to the naked eye!
This is a magnificent lineup of four battalions, all the flintlock muskets are bayonet, and under the leadership of the officer, they began to move forward quickly, first slowly, then quickly, with their heads covered, as if they were going to use their huge impact to break through the low wall trench line of the Ming army in one fell swoop, and rush all the way to the bottom of the Beisha River!
Four battalions of nearly 4,000 bayonets lined up in a shining dense infantry line, more than ten columns in depth, rushing forward like a tide, as if they were going to counteract the firepower of the Ming army with the number of lives under the cover of gunsmoke! Then use flesh and blood, and use white blades to spell out a victory. If such "4,000 bayonets" appeared on the battlefield of "One Crow", the British lobster soldiers would probably have a numb scalp, right?
Hu Yigun heard the sound of Shanhu Banzai in Manchurian dialect behind him, and immediately knew that the front line was about to be tested, and now he could not stay in the bunker, and regardless of the obstruction of his own soldiers and staff officers, he turned around and rushed to the outside of the bunker, and jumped into the sandbag next to the bunker, and raised the telescope to look at the opposite side.
At first, it was still thick with gunsmoke, and I couldn't see anything clearly. I only heard the sound of the Manchurian people whistling from the opposite side.
The officers and soldiers of the Ming army who were taking refuge in the trench in front also got up and set up their rifles. A light breeze blew, blowing away a layer of smoke, and finally seeing the opposite formation clearly, everyone gasped, and then became excited.
Dense flintlock musketeers, dressed in blue jackets and caps, formed rows and rows of bayonet-mounted flintlock muskets undulating forward. It's all a credit!
One of the officers inside the trench had already reacted and shouted: "All infantry. Free Fire! β
The officer was also followed by a trumpeter, and when he heard the officer's order, he immediately took out a suona and blew it vigorously.
The piercing suona sound was still echoing, and rows of large and small fires suddenly flashed on the line of the Ming army's trenches! The officers and soldiers of the two red flags of the Qing army, who were walking in the forefront, suddenly fell in large pieces as if they had been suddenly struck by lightning. The screams also rang out uncontrollably, and everywhere there were dying officers and soldiers who had fallen down!
However, these Qing troops are really ruthless, the front falls, and the people behind immediately come up, and then continue to move forward!
The Ming army, which relied on trenches and low walls, adopted the "three-stage attack" method of warfare, with one soldier in charge of firing guns, and two men in a kneeling position behind them to be responsible for loading ammunition. The regular cavity bullets that the Ming army is now equipped with are very quick to load - the cavity bullets are actually a smoothbore gun version of the Mini bullet, which can be made slightly smaller than the standard caliber of the flintlock pistol, so it is easy to reload, and you don't even need to poke the strip, just use the butt to smash it on the ground a few times.
The flintlock pistols of the Ming army have already hit row after row, and bullets are pouring out! But the Qing army still did not stop, and continued to flock to the Ming army's position. However, their formation has been disorganized, but it has also doubled down. Without the queue, there would be no queue to shoot, and everyone roared in unison, turning from walking directly to charging!
Thousands of people, with their heads covered, rushed straight to the Ming army's position, and in the blink of an eye, they rushed into the rejecting horse gun line in front of the Ming army's formation.
These repulsors are effective against cavalry, but they are of little use against the infantry, and can only be delayed for a moment - the infantry will knock them down or dismantle them.
The Ming army took advantage of the fact that they were delayed and desperately opened fire and threw grenades! Although their firepower was fierce, they still could not stop the tide of the New Army of the Eight Banners.
The flintlock musketeers of the Qing army died one by one, and they could not be counted. But there were still more people who pushed down the horse rejecting pistols, trampled on the corpses of their comrades, roared, and surged in groups on the positions of the Ming army.
Hu put down the binoculars with a shot, turned around and yelled at the staff officers below: "Beat the drum. Blow the trumpet! β
"Yes!"
The drums and the shrill trumpets sounded!
The Ming troops in the trenches of the front line heard the drums and trumpets of the attack, and most of them stopped shooting and reloading, and drew their sleeve bayonets and put them on the barrels of their flintlock muskets. Then I saw that the team leaders, team deputies, and platoon leaders of each team first climbed out of the trenches and low walls, and then the soldiers.
The officers were all wearing swords in one hand and pistols in the other, and they shouted one after another: "The Ming People's Army advances!" β
The soldiers, with their bayonet rifles in their hands, shouted for slaughter and launched a bayonet charge!
For a while, the gunfire and artillery at the front of the right flank of the Ming army suddenly fell silent, and was replaced by earth-shattering shouts from soldiers on both sides!
"Eight Banners Disciples. Launched! β
Hearing the sound of gunfire on the front line replaced by shouts, the first Gongpeng Chun knew that his opportunity had come, and hurriedly took the reins from the hands of a Goshha, and then shouted, the first one turned over and got on the horse, and pointed forward with the Pu knife in his hand: "Eight Banners Disciple. Rush with me! β
His goshkha were also very athletic, and they all turned on their horses, and then swung their sabers and slapped their horses forward!
More than 200 armored cavalry suddenly launched a charge, and there was no doubt that the Ming army, which was fighting a white-knuckle battle with the Qing army and obviously had the upper hand, was taken by surprise. The latter didn't have time to form a hollow phalanx at all, and was easily broken through the battle line by the cavalry led by Peng Chun!
Peng Chun, who broke through the defense line of the Ming army and crossed the low wall and trench of the Ming army, and his Goshha, did not fall in love, but rushed to the depth of the Ming army without hesitation!
His task now is to disrupt the Ming army's strict front as much as possible!
"Breakthrough, breakthrough, ancestor bless."
On the position of the Qing army, the veteran Lang Tan put down the binoculars, and he was already a little old and in tears. The old general wiped away his tears, turned his head and yelled at Ge Heha beside him: "Beat the drums, march and charge the whole army!" β
Goshha behind him was also extremely excited, and replied loudly: "Whew! β
Immediately afterwards, a tight drum beat sounded on the Qing army's position.
The four infantry battalions with a lot of losses in the shootout with the Ming army before were watching the battle while resting, and they were also excited when they saw that the front line had achieved a breakthrough, and they didn't need to be urged by the officers, so they picked up their flintlock pistols and began to form a horizontal formation, and then one team after another, beating the snare drum, and marched on foot towards the Ming army's position that was in the melee.
"The deputy general found Kangxi! That's the dragon flag of Kangxi, the dog emperor! β
On the south bank of the Beisha River, Li Zhongyi, who had just joined the 25th Division, was listening to a report from a sentry cavalry team rushing back from the front.
He had already approached the Qing army when the 17,000 cavalry had crossed the river before.
But seeing the numerical superiority of the Qing soldiers, he did not dare to launch a cavalry charge at the first time.
Instead, he sent people to Li Yat-sen to ask for reinforcements, and soon the elite 25th Division came - in fact, this division was sent to Li Zhongyi by Li Zhongshan immediately after learning that a large number of cavalry of the Qing army had crossed the river. That's why it came so fast.
It's just that I didn't expect this division to come over, and Li Zhongyi took great luck and met Kangxi.
"Kangxi? Is it really Kangxi? β
Li Zhongyi didn't dare to believe his ears.
Kangxi is the emperor of the Qing Dynasty!
If he chops off that pockmarked head, then he will not be the future of Guogong...... High and low to be crowned a county king!
"It's true! The humble position can also recognize the dragon banner of the Tartar Emperor by mistake. The sentry was saying, "And you listen, Adjutant...... Those Manchurian soldiers are shouting long live! Long live Kangxi on the Tartar side now! β
That's right, now the Qing Dynasty is a long live!
Who else could that be, not Kangxi?
Li Zhongyi also understands Manchurian, and he is now completely sure that he has hit the big luck...... There's a Kang Mazi in front of you!
So, he immediately tore open his throat and shouted: "Send an order down and tell the brethren that the Manchurian emperor Kang Mazi is ahead...... It is the Kang Mazi who picked up the Yellow River and drowned countless Huaixi fathers and villagers! β
The cavalry under his command and the infantry of the 25th Division are also extremely high!
Kangxi is now their biggest enemy.
It can be said that catching Kangxi, the dog emperor, is the biggest reward for them!
When Li Zhongyi's words were spread throughout the army by the heralds, his 8,000 cavalry and more than 10,000 soldiers of the 25th Division immediately boiled.
The shouts of "capture Kang Mazi alive" and "avenge the Huaixi folks" resounded in the wilderness!
Immediately afterwards, the 18,000 cavalry cavalry was like eating gunpowder and beating chicken blood. While shouting the slogan of arresting Kangxi and revenge, he trotted forward - this is really afraid that Emperor Kangxi will run away!
(End of chapter)