Chapter 498 Artillery Battle Across the River (I)

At the time of Chen, Wang Dou's Chinese army and infantry camp were not far from the southwest of the Twin Mountains. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

He rode on a tall Yuanrong car, with his tall Daxu flag in front of him, and not far behind, a pole car with a pole as high as 20 meters, and then a big drum car.

He looked out the window, and through the sturdy knight of the guard battalion beside him, the figure of his infantry battalion soldier loomed. They were marching in great strides, sweating profusely, but still in high spirits, and their hands holding weapons did not tremble at all.

Although everyone's armor is not heavy, the whole suit is about thirty pounds, and after it is distributed to the whole body, it feels even more relaxed. But after all, it was a long-distance emergency march, dozens of miles away, and the hard work can be imagined.

However, they still persevered, and the soldiers looked resolute, and they only marched forward, and the consolation officers of the various departments were from time to time shouting loudly, and each time they received a full echo of the spirit.

Seeing their energetic appearance, Wang Dou was relieved that this was his army.

In fact, when he set off from the camp at that time, Wang Dou also wanted to walk with the soldiers to show his side of leading by example. There are also opportunities to do activities to see if their physical endurance has declined, since the higher the status, all day is either riding a horse, or riding a car, and even walking less.

However, his subordinates persuaded him bitterly, and General Yan was still sitting in the car, without any signs of danger, so they could march and fight with peace of mind.

He also said that as a general, if he walked with ordinary soldiers, he would inevitably lose his dignity.

Wang Dou had no choice but to give up, why didn't he know the national conditions of this era? Those who are in high positions, as long as they are not excessively extravagant, the more luxurious and atmospheric their living and eating, the more proud their subordinates are. If you dress shabbyly, your subordinates will feel that it will damage their face.

For obvious examples, after Wang Dou's Daxu Banner and the luxurious atmosphere of Yuan Rongche stabilized the armies, the Jingbian Army, from the generals to the soldiers, all felt that their faces were bright.

In this era, it is undesirable to be approachable, mingle with soldiers, and your subordinates fight with you, don't you hope that one day, you can also enjoy this kind of honor?

** It is the pace that pushes human beings forward, and there are gains and losses.

It's just that sometimes I feel that the life of ordinary people is getting farther and farther away from themselves.

When the army marched, they rushed to and fro from time to time at night, passing the battle report from the front.

The smoke and dust were billowing out, and at this time, another night did not collect the galloping horses, and stopped urgently beside Yuan Rong's car, and he reported loudly: "General, the thieves and slaves stopped crossing the river and dug a trench frantically three miles on the north bank. The Maojiagou thieves have retreated, the number of soldiers and horses in the Twin Mountains has increased, and the Han Shen generals on the north bank are attacking hard! ”

Wang Dou immediately looked at the sand table in the car.

His Yuanrong cart pulled by four large horses has a sturdy appearance and can be protected against Hongyi heavy artillery. The interior is wide and comfortable, with a sand table, and on one side of the inner wall, there is also a map. At this time, several important praise paintings in Zhongying, such as Qin Yi and others, also lived in the Yuan Rong car.

There are also Chi Dacheng, Wen Daxing, and Zhong Tiaoyang, who are also standing on the edge of the guardrail.

This Yuanrong platform is three meters high, with a wide field of vision and thoughtful protection, which is really a necessary equipment for generals to travel and fight.

Wen Daxing said happily: "Thieves and slaves are not allowed to cross the river, our army's first victory, this is all the work of the general!" ”

A few praise paintings next to him, the same laughter, Qin Yi stared at the sand table, no matter when he sits, he is like an upright green pine.

He pondered: "The thieves and slaves are hindered and retreat, and the towns and camps have arrived, so that they can sweep away the enemy on the south bank!" However, the slaves and thieves dug trenches in the north bank for three miles, but it was not good for our division. If the towns cross the river, the soldiers and horses are not allowed to use them, and they will become thieves and slaves and attack me halfway. On the north shore, there is a buffer of at least five miles. ”

Zhong Tiaoyang also looked at the sand table and said steadily: "If there are ten miles, it is the best." ”

Wang Dou nodded slowly, in fact, the best strategy for this battle was to confront the Qing army in his daughter Nanhe. But if you can't put enough pressure on them, I'm afraid that you won't be able to attract the main force of the Qing army to the north bank of the Daughter River, and you can only fight the north bank of the Daughter River.

Of course, if the main force of the Qing army gathers on the north bank, the Ming army only needs to occupy the south bank. However, it is necessary to capture some strongholds on the north bank, so that they can attack and retreat, and they have strategic and tactical advantages.

Now that the Qing army is caught off guard, the preliminary strategy has been reached, the defenders of Maojiagou have retreated, and the Han Dynasty has also occupied a mountain range on the north bank of the Daughter River.

He stared sharply at a few key points in the sand table, and issued several orders in succession: "Order, Zhong Xiancai led the first-class army to immediately assist the Han and Korean departments, Zhao Xuan's artillery barracks, and artillery cover." The small Franc machine in its camp immediately crossed the river, assisted in guarding the mountains, and the key points on the north bank, so there must be no loss! ”

According to the information, there are several pontoon bridges on both sides of the Daughter River, especially near the Twin Mountains, the large pontoon bridge has been destroyed, and it is impossible to repair it under the threat of Ming artillery fire. At this time, the Qing army had stopped crossing the river, so the artillery could free up its hands to fully support the Korean and Korean Koreas on the other side.

The daughter river is not wide, the width of the river is only one or two hundred meters, and the Hongyi cannon is on the south bank, which is enough to cover the opposite bank.

Of course, if the army crosses the river, the cannons must also be pushed across the bank, but to expand the buffer area, the infantry artillery needs to cooperate with each other. At this time, the Yuzhen infantry battalion had not yet arrived, and if the Jingbian army all crossed the river to expand the results, there was a concern that the strength of the army would be weak.

Wang Dou's order was quickly passed on by Zhong Tiaoyang, who sent the heralds of the Shuai battalion to the front line quickly.

Wang Dou listened carefully, the previous Daughter River's side was still rumbling, but at this time, the sound was much sparser, obviously the Qing cavalry's attack on the Han Dynasty mountain range had slowed down, but at this time, it was quiet, and it was the brewing of the next big battle.

He asked, "Where have the artillery of the Shenji Battalion gone?" ”

Wen Daxing was in charge of the intelligence, and immediately replied: "The sentry has returned, and it has arrived at Gujiazhuang." ”

Wang Dou frowned, according to the speed of the Shenji Battalion, they would not be able to reach the front line until at least the hour.

And to attack the Twin Mountains, because now the mountain defense line trenches are everywhere, and many sections are also protected by sacks and earthen baskets. The bombardment effect of the Hongyi artillery may not be good, and the mortars and rockets of the Shenji Battalion are needed, and before they arrive, this offensive will not be easy to launch.

Because he maintained close contact with Yang Guozhu and others who were chasing closely behind, Wang Dou knew that Yang Guozhu's infantry was more than two miles away from him, and Wang Pu's infantry was about three miles. This is still their new army, those old-fashioned battalion soldiers, which are farther away, and when they march, they can't talk about any formation.

Li Fuming, the chief soldier of Shanxi, Zuo Guangxian, the general soldier of the reinforcement and suppression, not to mention the infantry army of Jizhen.

Those new troops, in terms of physical strength and endurance, in fact, do not necessarily surpass those battalion soldiers. It's just that their discipline is relatively good, so they can hold on, and between the marches, the two sides will be compared.

In particular, Yang Guozhu's new army performed well, but they were still inferior to the Jingbian army, and in terms of physical strength alone, they were much inferior.

After all, the food treatment and training of the Jingbian Army are the most reasonable and outstanding in this era.

As for the Divine Machine Battalion......

They were far behind, and dragging heavy artillery forward was a reason.

Advancing westward from Songshan Fort, although the terrain is undulating and the army marches, it cannot all take the official road. However, under the perennial drought, the wilderness is gentle and dry, except for the nearby tunzhuang, there are few obstacles such as acres and moats, and the ground is still easy to walk.

However, heavy artillery is difficult to walk after all, this is a thousand pounds light, a thousand pounds heavy, walking on the road, this speed is too much worse. In particular, the Shenwei General Cannon of the Shenji Battalion is even heavier, and the four-wheeled gun is more difficult to walk than the two-wheeled gun car.

Wang Dou knew that Fu Yingchong still tried his best in order to compete for a good performance, and it was useless to urge, so he had to sigh that the pace of war in this era was too slow.

He got up and walked to the guardrail in front of the car, and the officers followed him around.

Looking at the mountains and rivers, the land of Liaoxi is a little more slaughtering than that of Guannai.

Looking at the ground in front of you, there are countless soldiers tearing and killing, the sound of cannons, and the sound of shouting and killing can be faintly heard.

Wang Dou's heart calmed down, and he gave another order: "Order the battalion to march at full speed." ”

"Full speed ahead!"

The officers conveyed Wang Dou's orders layer by layer, and the tired soldiers roared loudly and trotted in neatly.

The entire military formation, like undulating waves, swaying iron helmets, and glittering spears and birds, shone dazzlingly in the morning sun.

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When Wang Dou led the infantry battalion to arrive, the south bank of the daughter river was cheering like a tide. The remaining Qing troops on the south bank no longer had the will to fight, and either retreated to the Twin Mountains area, or simply retreated to the north bank from some pontoon bridges. Some Ming cavalry were chasing them with high spirits.

Traces of the battlefield are everywhere, from time to time you can see the lost weapons and flags, the blood sprinkled everywhere, and the headless corpses of some Qing soldiers.

The head is precious, for many Ming troops, cutting off the head is the first priority, and some Ming horsemen from friendly towns even went deep into the river to fish up some of the drowned corpses of the Qing army.

When Wang Dou first arrived, he still heard the roar of artillery on the shore, the crackling sound of guns on the opposite side, mixed with the roar of some shotguns from the Franc machine.

The Qing cavalry on the other side attacked the mountains occupied by the Han and North Koreas in a wave, but because of Zhong Xiancai's reinforcements, the bombardment of the Jingbian Army artillery camp not far from the small pontoon bridge on the south bank, and the mountains on the opposite bank have been in the hands of the Han and the North Korea.

In addition, Zhao Xuan urgently pulled the artillery to rush to the artillery position to support, the Qing army on the other side could see it clearly, Wang Dou arrived in the camp again, and they finally had no choice but to retreat.

Presumably, the Qing cavalry on the other side had already thought clearly, their heavy artillery had not arrived, and if they attacked the mountains or crossed the shore to fight with the Ming army, they would only lose their men and horses in vain.

Therefore, they only had some rangers wandering around the side of the mountain, because the Jingbian military artillery battalion on the south bank occasionally shelled them, and they did not dare to get too close.

Wang Dou looked at the land on the north shore, and at this time, pieces of Qing army flags gathered, and as the horn sounded, there were Qing cavalry rushing to converge from time to time. Looking at the north shore from afar, the cavalry is stacked on top of each other, and I don't know how many Eight Banners reinforcements have arrived.

Will the main force of the Qing army gather on the north shore?

Wang Dou put down the clairvoyant mirror and thought again: "There are many cavalry of the Eight Banners, and they have an advantage in tactics, if it weren't for the surprise of this battle, it would be impossible to achieve such a result." Even now, the Twin Mountains are still occupied by the Qing army. ”

He looked at the side of the Twin Mountains, the east of the Twin Mountains, all the way to some mountains of Rufeng Mountain, and the northern part of the Seeming Mountain, there were many Qing cavalry. There is also a steady stream of Qing cavalry, who are crossing the river from the daughter river at the northern end of Rufeng Mountain, rushing to the Twin Mountains for reinforcements.

After the infantry battalions of various towns are gathered and the artillery of the Shenji battalion arrives, there will be a big battle around the Twin Mountains and even on both sides of the Daughter River.

When Wang Dou arrived, Zhao Xuan asked the Chinese army to take command and set up an artillery array near the large pontoon bridge on the left, and set up a sack barrier to prevent the Hongyi artillery fire of the Han Eight Banners.

He himself quickly came over to greet him, babbling to Wang Dou about how sharp his artillery battalion was, and greatly praised the effect of the silk medicine bag.

However, Wang Dou heard that his drunkard's intention was not to drink, but to let himself spend more money. (To be continued.)