Chapter 421: The Crisis in Guangzhou (Fourth Update)
Of course, add to the strange abilities mastered by the strangers of the Qing court, which will exert incredible effects in some specific battlefields.
This is actually quite a huge strength, even Li Xian has to admire the Qing court's ability to hide his strength, if he doesn't understand these enough, or fight the world according to the idea of dealing with a million green battalion soldiers, the Huaxia army will suffer a big loss.
At the turn of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Qing court encountered many obstacles that were almost impossible to overcome, but in the end they were able to overcome them one by one, like divine help, if you count the existence of this unconventional army cultivated by the thirteen aliens, it is easier to explain.
Not to mention history, Li Xian remembered that in the history of his world, the Qing court was twice occupied by foreign troops, and finally was able to regain control of national affairs, which is also extremely rare in the 5,000-year history of China.
The history teachers just said that the Qing court sold the country very diligently, so it could be continued, and Li Xian preferred to think that the Qing court had a force in its hands that could not be underestimated, so that the great powers were jealous and finally willing to compromise.
If the Qing court really had no power in its hands, those powers that ate people and did not spit out bones would probably have wiped out the Qing court long ago, and then supported their own agents, which is probably much more cost-effective than the cooperation of the Qing court.
In short, through this battle, the Huaxia Army was finally able to get a glimpse of the true strength of the Qing court, which would be of great help in future battles.
The only good news is that the royal family of the Qing court and the Inhuman Hall do not seem to deal very well, the royal family only controls the Green Battalion soldiers, and most of the other unconventional troops are mostly in the hands of the Inhuman Palace, and there are probably countless discord and disputes between the two.
As long as you know how Nian Qianyao died, you will understand what kind of attitude the Qing imperial family will have towards the Inhuman Palace, which has the actual military power.
The area around Jiulian Mountain is not a suitable place to stay for a long time, Li Xian's first brigade and Qiao Daqing's naval special combat team stayed near Xianrendu for another three days to clean up the battlefield, burn all the corpses of the white-armored soldiers, and refine them into white bone relics beads before returning to Putian City.
Li Xian and the others paid attention to vigilance all the way, so as not to be caught off guard by the cavalry, but fortunately, this cavalry seemed to be lacking in the harassment with little effect, and did not appear at all along the way.
Soon after returning to Putian, a fleet of ships from Guangzhou arrived to replenish the army with ammunition and other supplies, as well as to bring the latest news from Guangzhou.
It turned out that Li Xian's side was attacking, and Guangdong's side was by no means calm.
Taking advantage of the fact that Li Xian led the troops of the Mixed Yuan Sect to attack, there were only Sanyuanguan's men and horses guarding Guangzhou, and the troops were relatively empty, so the Qing court took the opportunity to enter the army, and the momentum was still very large.
It turned out that Guangzhou was in the south-central part of Guangdong, and this time the Qing court attacked Guangzhou in three ways, among which Yang Fangbu of Chaoshan formed a foreign gun team of thousands of people and led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from Chaoshan to Bao'an County;
Guangxi's Xiang Rong Department led 780,000 Guangxi wolf soldiers to attack Guangzhou from the direction of Wuzhou;
Tens of thousands of Qing troops in Jiangxi also went down the river from Shaoguan and attacked all the way to Guangzhou.
"I don't know if this is a plan of the Qing court or the Yiren Palace, the strategic value is not easy to evaluate, but in terms of momentum, I can give a high score. Li Xian nodded, but his evaluation of the Qing army's practices was not very high.
At this point, the layout of the commander-in-chief of the Qing court jumped on paper.
That is, in Putian, he used heavy troops to surprise the 5,000 vanguard led by Li Xian, and after annihilating the most elite brigade with an absolute superiority of troops, he took advantage of the situation to inflict as much damage as possible on the other troops.
At the same time, the Qing army around Guangdong attacked Guangzhou, the general base of the Huaxia army, from three routes.
At that time, the Huaxia army was demoralized by the sudden defeat, and coupled with the menacing enemy, it could not help but panic and deal with it unpreparedly, and it was possible to suffer a painful defeat.
Even if the Huaxia Army is properly commanded, but the army is divided into two places, even if it is lucky to resist this wave of attack of the Qing army, it will inevitably suffer heavy losses, from personnel to material losses will be extremely considerable, and in the best case, it will be a miserable victory, and a lot of vitality will be lost.
After that, the Qing army will carry out the second and third waves of attacks, and the Huaxia army may not be able to withstand it.
After all, no matter how prosperous Guangzhou is, it is only a state capital, and the Qing court controls more than ninety percent of the country's resources.
Back then, Wu Sangui was powerful, the soldiers were wide, and the soldiers were old, but they were consumed to death by Kangxi's hard work.
It's just that the arranger thought very well, but he failed to estimate the true strength of the Huaxia Army, and attacked a mere brigade of the Huaxia Army with heavy troops.
In this case, the latter moves are not very meaningful.
It's just that communication in this era has always been very difficult, and the arrangers can only negotiate with people in advance about the approximate time of launch, and it is impossible to cooperate accurately when they are thousands of miles apart, and after the three-way army is launched, it is impossible for people to lead the troops back to the original station, even if they want to change the route of the march, it will be difficult.
Li Xian was very curious, after really seeing the actual combat effectiveness of the Huaxia Army, whether the Qing court's arrangers would try to recall the three-way army back to its original place and maintain the posture of leading but not triggering.
According to common sense, knowing that the Qing court was attacking on a large scale, Li Xian's troops should be in chaos, and at least they should pack up and leave Putian and return to Guangzhou to support Sanyuanguan's troops.
However, knowing that the situation was critical now, Li Xian and Qiao Daqing and other officers were still as stable as Mount Tai, and they didn't even have the slightest intention of going south to support.
"Now that the strategy of luring the Qing court to send troops has worked, let's just sit back and watch the storm surge and see how Wang Jiuxuan cleans up the enemy. Li Xian sat firmly on the high platform and said.
If the battle situation in the whole world is compared to a game of chess, then Li Xianbu's northward march is the first move, the Qing court's march into Guangdong is the second move of the game, and now it is the turn of the Huaxia army to make the third move.
As for the third move, it is not to rush back to assist in defense, but to drag the enemy's main force.
Li Xian chose to attack Putian before, which seemed to be an ordinary move, but in fact, it implied that the Qing court was forced to deploy heavy troops in Jiulian Mountain, that is to say, if the commander of the Qing army saw through the tricks of the Huaxia army, then he would inevitably deploy heavy troops in Jiulian Mountain, and then Li Xian's troops could choose to destroy this heavy army, or delay the other party with their own 20,000 troops.
According to the current situation, the idea of destroying the enemy's main force is shattered, the other side has about 70,000 cavalry, as long as they avoid and do not fight, Li Xian will have nothing to do with them.