"The Qing army is staying in Gaoyang, and it seems that they are going to engage our army in Anping!"

"Is it possible to wait for the Northern Expeditionary Corps to join forces before advancing?"

"Nope! No, if this is the case, the Qing court will not fight, and no one will fight a battle that will be lost! ”

"Is there enough food for our army?"

"There are only three days left after arriving in Gaoyang, and if you want to engage in battle in Anyang, there is a lot of pressure on military rations!"

"How long does it take to get grain from the recent grain war?"

"If there is no fighting, it will take two days."

"It is recommended to stay for a few days before moving towards Gaoyang."

"The fighter plane is fleeting, and the Qing court army may flee at any time when the situation is not good!"

"But you can eat the enemy! The Qing army's hundreds of thousands of troops also need to rely on food warfare to operate! ”

"I don't think so, it's too risky!"

"The enemy army must be coming for our grain route, once the grain route is cut off, our army will be in danger!"

"With the combat strength of our army, the enemy army cannot surround our army, and our army can use the grain road as bait to lure the enemy army into a field battle!"

After Qianlong put on the posture of garrisoning Gaoyang.

The staff of the Guards Regiment was in a state of arguing.

The young staff officers who graduated from the Daming Army Military Academy expressed their opinions.

There are brave fighters who believe that the opportunity must not be lost, and that they should immediately pounce on the enemy and defeat the enemy.

There are also those who believe that the Qing army must have premeditated to lengthen our army's grain routes, attack and disturb our army's grain routes with superior forces, and that it is prudent to suspend the advance and wait for the Northern Expeditionary Corps to join forces to ensure that the grain routes are worry-free before continuing to advance.

The two sides argued.

The military advisor Tao Biquan and the great tomorrow son Zhu Daohua did not stop the staff officers' arguments, but stared at the map.

"Your Majesty, the Tartars must be attacking and disturbing the grain road, forcing our army to pay attention to the lack of food, and it is indeed a bit risky to pounce on it now."

Tao Biquan said.

"Do you think it's safe to do so?" Zhu Daohua asked.

He knows.

If he follows the steps, he will kill Zhao Si's Northern Expeditionary Army again.

Then Qianlong must have run away.

And this is not the situation that Zhu Daohua wants to see, because even if Qianlong wants to run.

He would not allow him to run away with a hundred thousand cavalry.

He won't let Qianlong's capital be so thick.

Otherwise, it would not be a big trouble for him to go to the Western Regions and collude with Tsarist Russia again.

Therefore, it is necessary to defeat the opponent as much as possible in the Central Plains battlefield, and if possible, wipe out all his hundreds of thousands of cavalry - but Zhu Daohua also knows. The difficulty of annihilating hundreds of thousands of cavalry is comparable to ascending to the sky.

It's nice to be able to destroy as many opponents as possible while defeating.

"No, I think it's an opportunity, just. We certainly can't be too aggressive. ”

Tao Biquan was also staring at the map.

"Your Majesty, now Qianlong has six of the eight flags on hand, each of which has infantry, cavalry, artillery, etc., including eight infantry towns, each with 10,000 people, and five associations, each with 2,000 people, and the degree of synthesis is very high!"

That's right.

Now in the Eastern Battlefield, the degree of synthesis is also emphasized.

The so-called synthetic reading is a combination of musketeers, artillerymen, cavalry, baggage soldiers, and engineers.

Due to the insufficient firepower density of the Qing army, it did not synthesize 5,000 people according to a brigade of the Ming army, but synthesized a town, with 10,000 people in each town, two infantry associations and two cavalry associations, and another association for baggage and artillery personnel.

It can be said that it is quite progressive in terms of establishment.

Such a "high-level synthetic army town", Qianlong has eight on hand!

Among them, he brought out two yellow flags, and the other five flags each had one.

Besides.

It was 90,000 Mongol soldiers.

Among them, 50,000 Mongol soldiers have also undergone "mule-transformation".

It is to give up scimitars, bows and arrows.

Switched to equipping flintlock pistols.

Comprehensively learn the combat methods of the Ming army's mule soldiers.

In this way, there were 50,000 Mongols who underwent the "mule transformation".

The remaining 40,000 Mongols do not want to be reformed and do not want to seek progress.

Mainly.

There are not enough firearms.

Although it is said that the Qing Dynasty was supported by British craftsmen, it made great progress in the production capacity of flintlock pistols and artillery.

However, no matter how great the progress is, it is still a government-run handicraft industry that stays in the handicraft era.

In terms of production efficiency, it cannot be compared with the Ming Dynasty, which has entered the era of industrialization.

So it can't be helped.

Of the 50,000 Mongols, 10,000 were scouts, and the other 40,000

Transformed into shock cavalry.

This was the advice of a British adviser in the Qing army.

The current Qing Dynasty has advanced to the point where there are Western advisers.

It's really progressed for almost two hundred years

It's really amazing.

On the advice of Britain's military advisers.

These Mongol cavalry abandoned the light cavalry tactics of harassment with mounted bows.

Instead, he pursued shock cavalry that specialized in hand-to-hand combat and charged into battle.

It's greatly Europeanized.

is so Europeanized, Qianlong Ye feels that it is normal for him to be lucky.

Although there is no cuirass.

But riding guns and scimitars are enough.

Although it is difficult to train to the level of the cuirassier brigade of the Ming Army.

But the Mongols were born to ride horses, so it was okay to line up in a dense cavalry formation that looked like that.

Eight infantry towns.

Four dragoon towns.

Four shock cavalry towns.

There is also a hussar town.

Such troops.

It has also undergone such a big transformation.

It is very understandable that Qianlong wants to touch the Ming army again.

"It's really a strong army." Zhu Daohua said, "So I can't let him escape with so many soldiers and horses!" ”

"Your Majesty, our recent grain war is in Jingzhou, Hejian Mansion, so we can let Song Guogong send people to guard the grain road and stock up on grain in Suning, Hejian Mansion! In this way, our army only needs to withdraw from the battlefield to reach Suning, thinking that it is the back road! ”

Tao Biquan pointed to the Su Ning limit on the map and said.

Suning's handover of Hejian Mansion and Baoding Mansion is only 100 miles away from Gaoyang.

And if the Ming Guards wanted to go, the distance of 100 miles would be easily arched.

"Don't miss the opportunity!" Zhu Daohua saw that the back road was arranged, and he no longer hesitated.

Immediately ordered the army to quickly pounce on Gaoyang!

Two days later.

March 12, 1794.

The armies of both sides were already facing each other on the plains south of Gaoyang.

Qianlong was watching his enemies with a telescope.

Since two years ago, Ganzhou was defeated.

He never led his troops to fight the Ming army head-on again.

And these two years.

Qianlong was not idle.

It's a bit too much to say that it's a bit of a lie.

But it must have been exhausted.

At this time, after two years of exploration and transformation.

Plus the assistance of British friends.

His "Big Eight Banners" military prestige far exceeded that of two years ago.

At this time, it is placed on the front.

It was three infantry towns of 30,000 people

Divided into left, center and right wings, each town also has its own foot, cavalry, artillery deployment, the three wings have the ability to fight independently, as if three fists are placed in the front.

In addition, he had five towns as reserves.

When the time comes, it will be tried again depending on the situation.

At this time, next to Qianlong, Fukangan and other high-ranking generals of the Qing army, several foreign advisers who also wore the top of the Qing Dynasty were also holding binoculars to observe the military formation of the Ming army.

"Calm and brave, but there are too few of them!"

"They have a lot of artillery, and they also have rockets."

"We also have rockets on our side! It is possible to harass them with rockets. ”

"Is that barbed wire? What does the head of this Ming Emperor think, how can he think of anything to pay attention to? ”

These foreign advisers didn't learn much about the rules, and they dared to stand upright next to the emperor, and before the emperor could speak, they shouted first.

It's really a barbarian style, and I don't know anything about the elegance of the Celestial Empire.

But Qianlong didn't care.

He is not his grandson Daoguang.

Don't really blindfold yourself - the blindfold is okay for the Mongols and Han people, and it's okay to blindfold yourself, isn't it a big fool.

But Qianlong really never expected it.

His grandson Daoguang was the one who was fooled and lame by himself, and he took the initiative to blindfold himself with the Han people, so that the Britons knocked on the door and didn't know where the British country was

"Your Majesty the Emperor, I think you should order an attack immediately, because the Ming army is now small, but they have reinforcements, and we must complete the encirclement of them before their reinforcements arrive!"

Britain's ambassador to the East, George. Staunton suggested.

Since there was no way to get any benefits from the Ming Dynasty, the Eastern Fleet of Britain was completely annihilated by the Ming Dynasty.

George Staunton had only one mission left in the East: to help the Qing Empire resist the Ming Empire's offensive.

But now it seems.

George. Staunton's job was poorly done.

In just over a year.

The Qing Empire first lost the "ancestral land" in the northeast.

Then there are Huainan, Huaibei, Henan, and Shandong.

Defeated all the way.

It can be said that the situation is quite bad.

But now, the opportunity has finally arrived.

The Ming Emperor was a general who liked to personally lead his troops into battle.

This gave the Qing Empire a godsend opportunity - the opportunity to surround the Ming Emperor on the battlefield!

As long as the encirclement of the Ming Emperor is completed.

Then the Qing Empire and Britain could take the opportunity to negotiate with the Ming Empire.

Get what you want at the negotiating table.

At this time.

It's on the plain south of Goyang.

The 27,000 troops led by Emperor Zhu Daohua of the Ming Dynasty immediately built a military village after arriving.

The position, which is made up of barbed wire and trenches, is scary to look at.

"You can bombard their positions with artillery and clear their barbed wire, and then send infantry to press on them and fight the line wall."

George. Staunton was clearly a soldier.

This set is also a common tactic used by Europeans.

It's just a change from a cannon that fires a solid pellet into a mortar that shoots flowering shells and Congreve rockets.

"Then launch the rocket first! Let the reverse Ming see the power of my Daqing rocket! ”

It is different from integrating rockets into brigades and artillery brigades and using them as needed.

Qianlong chose to concentrate all the rockets.

A rocket army was formed.

As soon as you hear this name, it is magnificent.

(End of chapter)