Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 340 Bullying
His gaze turned back to Ninggu Tower.

The commander of the Ningguta Camp of the Qing Army and General Jilin Mingliang received the sentry report on April [-]. When the Beihai Navy arrived at the military depot in Dongning Village, the Qing Army's checkpoints along the way began to light up beacon fire alarms.

On April 25, the vanguard of the Northern Navy Liu Sheng finally arrived at a position thirty miles west of the old city of Ningguta, and exchanged fire with the scout troops of the Qing army.

This time, the Beihai Navy dispatched two regiments and two battalions, plus logistics and supply troops, a total of 8000 people. It is not difficult to defeat the [-] Qing troops in the Ningguta Camp. Just bomb it.

This time, Zhao Xin's request to Liu Sheng and Fan Tong was not only to defeat them, but also to capture more prisoners.

It is said that the current recruitment ratio of the Beihai Navy is high enough, and it is a waste to leave tens of thousands of Qing troops and civilians without it.Besides, since occupying Lingjia Jinshan, Zhao Xin is not very interested in grabbing meat tickets for money.

Fan Tongtong took advantage of his free time on the road to rummage through the military materials he carried on his head, drawing pictures and arranging formations. After Liu Sheng heard about it, he came over curiously the first day, but he looked at it blankly. After a while, he turned around and left.

A few days later, Fan Tong took a stack of plans he wrote, and told Liu Sheng excitedly that we can use "interspersed" and "outflanking" to completely annihilate the Qing army on the east bank of the Huerha River.

In order to show respect, Liu Sheng patiently finished reading, but he only replied with eight words: "Whimsical, self-defeating."

How could Fan Tong accept such an answer, he insisted on pulling Liu Sheng to give an explanation.He obtained this plan by reading seven or eight war-related books and by "absorbing nutrition" from the war movies he watched before.He has seen the discipline and marching ability of the Beihai Navy, so why can't it be interspersed with encirclement?
Liu Sheng actually likes Fan Tong, a fat man, otherwise he would not have agreed to let him be his deputy. When he had enough teasing, he said to Fan Tong: "I know that your plan is based on the classics in those books. It was copied from the battles. But Xiao Fan, those battles are called classics precisely because they cannot be copied!
What's more, the Central Plains Dynasty in the feudal society used troops in the plains to fight in an array of large corps, with strong camps and clear echelons.For this kind of situation, it is enough to bombard his mother, what kind of tricks are you playing!Fighters are to be discovered during combat and cannot be preset. "

"But Zhao Xin told us to take more prisoners."

Liu Sheng said disapprovingly: "If you defeat them, you will naturally have prisoners. If we come up and engage in interspersed combat, once the Qing army realizes that it must be surrounded by heavy troops, no matter how fast our soldiers run, can they run as fast as war horses?"

Fan Tong thought for a while and said, "Then let's break through head-on and find an opportunity to divide the encirclement?"

"Yes! We are called bullying, so we have to fight head-on and look for opportunities in the battle! Otherwise, how do you think we caught Fukan'an in the first place?"

On the other hand, at the Qing army camp, General Jilin Mingliang's heart has been raised in his throat since he knew that the Beihai Navy had thousands of people coming.He knew very well that the guns of the Beihai Navy were extremely sharp, and if he stuck to the camp, he would definitely be beaten.

So he ordered Dai Senbao, the Mongolian deputy capital of Zhengbai Banner, and Wei Bobin, the deputy capital of Xianghuang Banner of Manchuria, to lead 3000 people from the Musketeer Cavalry Battalion. Fight in formation to prevent bombardment by Northern Navy artillery.

At the same time, he also ordered Shuo Yunbao and Wan Ting to lead the Xiangbai Banner guard army, lead a thousand bowmen and pistolmen each, outflank the left and right wings of the Northern Navy, and attack with cold arrows in the hilly forest. , forcing the North Navy's forces to move closer to the center.

The remaining [-] soldiers entered the trenches dug in advance and waited. If the Beihai Navy came up and fired, the soldiers in the trenches would swim to the north and south ends of the trench in order to avoid the artillery fire and go around to the two wings of the Beihai Navy to annihilate them.

And Na Qitai, the deputy governor of Ningguta, hurriedly sent someone to check how much silver and ginseng leather goods were in the warehouses in the city. They are not allowed to leave the city.

"Why use guns and cannons? If you are short of money, send someone over and say, make an appointment, and I will send it to you!" Na Qitai stood on the gate of Ninggu Pagoda, looking at the east side nervously. The busy Qing army camp muttered.

The co-leader behind him was transferred from Sichuan, and he had never seen the power of the Beihai Navy.Looking at the nagging Qitai, Xie Ling wondered if this person was a demon?
Only a few thousand people from the Northern Navy came, but there were tens of thousands of people on the other side of the river; besides, there were more than [-] Yaksa warships on the Huerha River, and the cannons on them were not vegetarian!

After a while, Geshha of Chitai ran up the tower, knelt down on one knee and said, "My lord, all the merchants in the city have been guarded, and all four doors have been confessed, and none of them can get out!"

After hearing this, the co-leader transferred from Sichuan exclaimed, "Your Excellency Vice President has great foresight! If the army on the other side of the river does not have enough food and grass, these businessmen can also make donations."

"That's right! That's right!" A group of co-leaders and assistant leaders around praised in unison, how long would it be if they didn't pat the horses at this time.

Na Qitai smiled, but he let out a sigh of relief: "This time Bandit Zhao's ransom fee should be enough!"

Others don't know how powerful Beihai is, but he knows best. The gun demonstration of Beihai two years ago under the city of Ningguta made him dream back at midnight, and he was sweating profusely when he woke up.

In the early morning of April 27, the Beihai Navy began to dispatch, with the two battalions of the Beihai Navy Regiment as the vanguard, advancing towards the Qing army camp thirty miles away.

One kilometer behind the first regiment, there are columns of the second and fifth regiments covering the advancing artillery, and the artillery is arranged in the middle of the second and fifth regiments.This time Liu Sheng brought ten 75mm field guns newly built in Beihai Town. The maximum range of these guns is only 500 meters, and there are not many shells made in the arsenal, with a total of more than 400 pieces; as for the 82mm guns deployed by each regiment Mortars have a maximum range of no more than 3000 meters.

In order to prevent the Qing army from escaping to the other side and the reinforcements sent by Ningguta City, the artillery positions cannot be set up six kilometers away from the Qing army camp, and they need to rush all the way to a position two kilometers away from the Qing army's front line.

In order to prevent the enemy's sneak attack from the two wings, the two regiments drew out a battalion of troops, and deployed fire groups with ranked units on the two wings of the column.

"My lord, the bandit army is attacking!"

"Oh? How many people are here?"

"Hundreds of people, but the thieves who opened the way ahead are all in twos and threes, and they are very scattered."

After hearing this, Dai Senbao rode up to the mound with his own soldiers, took the binoculars handed by Ghoshha and looked eastward, and saw the North Navy in the grass-green military uniform dotted across the wilderness in the distance, almost all of them with three People form a group and advance alternately.

"The brains of the bandit army are swollen, how dare they arrange troops like this?" Dai Senbao was a little confused. He estimated that there were more than 100 people in the Beihai Navy walking in front.

At this time, Sanin, the third-class guard beside him, said: "My lord, the last general is willing to be the vanguard. I only need 200 people! The bandits are too arrogant, they must be taught a lesson!"

Dai Senbao pondered for a moment and said: "Even if the bandit soldiers have sharp weapons, they scattered the soldiers like this, they are purely looking for death! I will give you five hundred soldiers, and you must kill them because of their prestige!"

Thanks to the unremitting basic teachings of these veterans from Wang Yuanfang, the Beihai Navy strictly followed the "three-three system" infantry tactics. It can fight independently, but also cooperate to cover.In fact, the tactics of the Beihai Navy are simple, direct and rude, covering, attacking, covering again, and attacking again.

Dai Senbao and Sanin'a didn't know what kind of monsters they were facing. They mistakenly thought that the scattered formation of more than 100 people in front of them could be surrounded and wiped out by the impact of cavalry.

"Squad leader, look, the enemy is coming out!"

Ma San, a former veteran of the Qing Army and now the squad leader of the Second Battalion of the First Regiment of the Northern Navy, saw a cavalry of the Qing Army with banners and banners emerging from a hill a mile away.

In fact, after the First World War in Fuerdan City, not all the prisoners of the Qing army were willing to go back. After screening, there were still more than 300 people left, and Ma San was one of them.At the beginning of last year, Ma San was recruited to join the Beihai Navy because of his outstanding performance in the construction team.And the reason why he was willing to serve as a soldier was because of the food and [-] acres of land in the Beihai Navy.

Because of the long-term and lasting training methods, these Eight Banners Musketeers transferred from Ili still use the old-fashioned cavalry and shooting tactics; that is, to conduct intensive impacts in small waves, and stop firing or archery when they are 100 meters to 80 meters away from the target.

Don't underestimate the bow and arrow shooting of these Tianshan Banner Battalion soldiers.

In the Qing Dynasty, "force" was used as the pulling force unit of the bow, and one force was nine catties and 14 taels.The pulling force of Sauron's soldiers' bows is basically more than eight strengths, and eight strengths are only 93 catties, which is more than 104 pounds on modern bows and arrows.

Is a man who can lift ninety pounds with one hand a macho?

As a veteran of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, Ma San knew very well the power of Sauron's soldiers' bows and arrows, so when the Qing army's cavalry was still 200 meters away from the Beihai Navy, the rifle in his hand fired first, and then the squad's light machine guns also started. Burst.At the same time, the two squads behind Ma San and the others also approached and joined the battle.

"Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!"

Ma San saw that several horses in the Qing army's cavalry were shot, and cursed angrily: "These losers! You can't see such a big living person? Those are all good horses!"

A soldier beside him shouted: "Squad leader, the enemies are all lying on horseback, so they can only fight horses!"

Ma San kept firing and said, "It's such a pity for these horses!"

Sanin'a thought very well. He divided the 500 people into two groups, one to lure the enemy from the front, and the other to outflank the enemy.The 200 people in the front were spread out widely, and they were all lying on horseback, and there were even a lot of bullshit people who came to hide in the stirrups.With these people's riding skills, even if the horse is injured, they can quickly get off the horse and attack as infantry.

The problem is that soldiers in the musket era couldn't understand what a machine gun was
A company with three platoons and nine PKM machine guns formed a 90-degree fan shape, like a huge sickle. Wherever it passed, the Qing army was turned on their backs.As for the Sauron soldiers who jumped off their horses and were about to rush up to bend their bows and shoot arrows, they were called out one by one by their rifles; as for the Qing troops hiding behind the corpses of their horses, they were too heavy to raise their heads to shoot due to the heavy rain of bullets.

Sauron's soldiers are brave, and this kind of bravery comes from the fact that the relatives of the same clan in the same village are all comrades in arms around them.The relatives and friends of Paoze encouraged each other during the battle, and the blood and bravery of the Saurons could be brought into play.

When the outflanking cavalry of the Qing army was 100 meters away from the right wing of the Beihai Navy, they all slowed down their horses and started shooting.

"Boom tom tom" muskets roared, puffs of white smoke rose from the cavalry and scattered, disturbing the cavalry behind them so they couldn't see clearly, so they had to instinctively shoot out the feather arrows in their hands.

Without the support of the positions and trenches, Ma San's squad suffered casualties. Several soldiers who were standing and shooting were shot to the ground by the feather arrows shot out from the gunpowder smoke, and fell to the ground in pain, screaming hoarsely. .

"Follow me!" A squad leader shouted to his subordinates, and seven soldiers rushed to the right front of Masan squad, squatted down and kept shooting at the place where the gunpowder smoke was.Then the machine gun followed, found a good position and began to shoot violently.

Sanin'a, the third-class bodyguard in charge of leading the outflanking team, was about to ride his horse forward when he suddenly felt the horse's body shake under his crotch, and the horse's head tilted to the left.

After he rolled twice on the ground and was about to get up, he felt a fiery stream of fire passing through his left arm, and the whole left arm became numb all at once; Dodging behind the corpse, the pain from the wound on his left arm had made him sweat profusely, and he almost fainted.

"Kill them all!"

After the gunpowder smoke, with a roar of anger, a hundred Sauron soldiers with bows and arrows and spears in their hands shouted and killed them.

"Load the bayonet!" With a few shouts, some Bei Haijun who had run out of magazines also showed the bayonets under the muzzles of their guns.

Seeing that the distance between the two sides was still 30 to [-] meters, when they started running, there was a sudden burst of gunfire from the left side of the Qing army, and several Sauron soldiers who rushed to the front were immediately knocked to the ground; On the other hand, Beihai Haijun, who was about to fight the bayonet, was afraid of being hit by his own people, so he immediately fell to the ground.

The two companies behind the first company arrived.

Dai Senbao and others standing on the mound heard the gunshots like popping beans. They didn't take it seriously at first, but after a while they felt something was wrong.

What's that buzzing thing?How can there be such a musket in the world? !

"Mingjin! Hurry up! Let them all withdraw!"

That's too late!

"The bow and arrow can't be used anymore!" Sanin'a let go of the hard bow in his hand, covered the wound with his right hand, and grinned in pain.He thought to himself that this battle was too aggrieved!The bandits must have used sorcery, but he was shot in his left arm, why did it hurt so badly!

Saning'a was injured during the suppression of the rebellion in Gansu. At that time, an iron bullet from the rebels hit his thigh, but he still gritted his teeth and rushed forward, hacking the Muslim who shot him to death. up.

At this time, the dense gunshots around gradually subsided, and occasionally a "bang" was heard.The wailing of the wounded around and the neighing of war horses became clearly discernible.After the ambulance soldiers of the Northern Navy finished bandaging themselves, they also began to rescue some Sauron soldiers who were injured in front of the battle.

Sanin'a knew that the situation was over, he gritted his teeth and pulled out his waist knife, and peeked out from behind the dead horse's head, who knew that just half of his head was exposed, suddenly his eyes went dark, and he fell headfirst.

The ear-piercing gunshots rang out after Sanin'a's head exploded. Ma San lowered his gun, bent over and ran over to take a look, and was immediately overjoyed.

"I killed a senior official!"

(End of this chapter)