Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 554 Bloody Battle of Chahan Toro Sea
From ancient times to the present, when the two armies are fighting, there are only a few ways to obtain the enemy's information. In addition to the "solitary and empty technique" mentioned by the gods and gods, there are many other methods mentioned in military books, such as using time, battlefield reconnaissance, tongue grabbing, etc. Wait.

The intelligence that Fu Bao obtained with all his might was fine. The key lies in the completely different tactical system and endless equipment of the Beihai Navy, which made it impossible for the Qing army to use the old method to correctly estimate the strength of the opposing troops.In addition, when Qianlong left Beijing in Baoning, he had instructed him not to disclose the true combat power of the Northern Navy to the Zhasak banner owners in Khalkha, lest these people have second thoughts about the court.

Regardless of the fact that it has been 40 years since the "removal of the station", Qianlong has always been wary of these princes and princes in Khalkha; every year they are sent to Rehe for an audience, which is a marriage and a check and balance. Carrot in one hand and stick in the other.

Although the high-level officials of the Qing court knew that the Northern Navy’s combat power was terrifying and that various methods emerged endlessly on the battlefield, they did not dare to tell the truth to the Khalkha ministries.

First of all, it is difficult to explain. Many things are still unclear to Manqing himself, and he is confused.Just like the [-]-bead flashlight, from the perspective of the Qing Dynasty, there is no reasonable explanation for this thing other than "witchcraft".

The second is that once it is said too clearly, it will definitely have a blow to the morale of the army.Just like machine guns, the Qing government knew from the military aircraft department to the Ministry of War that the Beihai Navy had a "sports gun" that could be fired continuously, which was a hundred times more fierce than the Lianju quick guns commonly used by soldiers in the Beihai Navy.But for the Khalkha Mongolian ministries who have never fought against the Northern Navy, speaking too clearly will have the opposite effect.

This is especially true for the cannons of the Northern Navy. If the Zasak Taijis of the Khalkha ministries know that the cannons of the Northern Navy are stronger and faster than the "General Wucheng Yonggu Cannon" of the Qing Dynasty, it is estimated that many princes and Taijis They will all retreat.

Tsarist Russia at least has a flintlock gun and is equipped with regimental artillery. The Mongolian arrows in Khalkha are bows and arrows in addition to waist knives, which are proper cannon fodder.

Now whether it is Qianlong or the ministers below, they are extremely terrified of the Northern Navy's move to send troops to Outer Mongolia from the bottom of their hearts; because some people have already guessed that Zhao Xin's move is probably intended to cut off the escape route of the Manchus fleeing westward.

After taking Khalkha Mongolia, you can go straight to Urumqi and Ili along the Kebuduo South Road.The Northeast is gone, and the Northwest is gone. If Zhao Xin brings a large army ashore from Dagukou, the Manchu rulers and ministers can only end up like Nanming. But the problem is that the Northern Navy has large iron ships and various gunboats. , the Yangtze River natural moat is just like paper.

In this way, the Manchu monarchs and ministers could only go to the land of Sichuan, Shu, Yungui.A land of miasma, northerners would commit suicide if they went there!

It is said that when Baoning was struggling in every possible way, messy gunshots came from far to the northeast.His heart skipped a beat, no need to think about it, Ailonga's side is already on fire!
"Master, what should we do?"

The night wind suddenly blew past, Bao Ning shuddered all over, and his face instantly turned pale.

"If you lose your teacher and humiliate the country, you will die if you go back." He had completely figured it out at this time. The court had already used all its strength to deal with the Beihai Navy this time. There will be no way out.

Now he can only be sure that there is no problem with Fubao's intelligence. No matter how powerful the Beihai Navy is, it is not an eight-armed Nezha. He has already attacked with more than ten times the strength.

Thinking of this, he drew out his knife and said to the captain of the soldiers: "Pass my order, the whole army crosses the river! Tonight, we must bring down these two mountains!"

This night in Chahan Tuoluohai was destined to be unsettled. Although the [-] Qing troops who attacked at night on the south road were defeated, the Qing army still had [-] troops on the middle and north roads.What's more, due to the communication conditions of this year, it was impossible for the Qing army on the North Road to know the specific situation in the south, so Ailonga launched according to the prescribed time.

As the reconnaissance platoon fought and retreated, the ground began to tremble as if dynamite was ignited, and the tired birds "hula" flew up from the footsteps of countless people running, flapping their wings and swaying in the night sky. dance.

As the flares were lit up again in the air, the soldiers of the Northern Navy on the hilltop on the north side could see with their naked eyes that large swaths of black soldiers were rushing towards the hill where they were, like black waves, and soon rushed to the foot of the hill .

"Kill!" Seeing his subordinates vying for the lead one by one, Uliasutai Counselor Ailon A shouted: "Kill all the northern pirates, each will be rewarded with 30 taels of silver! Whoever wins a head will get three more ranks of military merit! "

Bullets rained down from the mountainside, and in an instant, dozens of Mongolian soldiers who rushed to the front were knocked to the ground.Those traps buried at the foot of the mountain and on the hillside during the day were triggered by human touch from time to time, followed by the flames of grenade explosions.

At this moment, to the west of the North Navy's position, the earth-shaking shouts of killing came, and the Qing army in the middle route led by Bao Ning was forcibly crossing the Tesi River.

The light and heavy weapons of the first battalion and the second battalion were fully fired, and the cooking soldiers in charge of cooking were helping to deliver ammunition to the trenches.Zhou Zhong, the commander of the Second Battalion, loudly ordered the two companies that had gone down the mountain to come back quickly through the walkie-talkie.He could no longer be bothered about blaming himself. No one expected that so many Qing troops would come to attack at night.

Hearing the gunshots from the north, and seeing the Bei Haijun who was present suddenly abandoning his men and turning around, the thousands of captured Qing soldiers on the south road were secretly delighted, and many of them untied the bandages tied to their legs. rope, and then fled into the darkness.

The sound of killing at the foot of the mountain shook the sky, and the bright and dark lights and shadows were reflected on Mishilan's cast-iron face. In the field of vision of the telescope, the densely packed Qing army came to the foot of the mountain wave after wave, and then rushed up.

Xingfu, the deputy governor who led the attack of Zasaktu Khan's troops, suffered heavy losses after several rounds of charges. He retreated with seven or eight guards in a panic, and shouted at Ailonga while running: " Junmen! The North Sea Pirates' guns are too fierce, and more than 800 elites of my men have died in battle."

Ailonga stood motionless, behind him were [-] Mongolian soldiers from the Eight Banners, who ignored the stray bullets whizzing by around them, and after listening to Xingfu's words, asked after a while: "How many people do you have left?"

"There are more than 1000."

"You dare to retreat when there are more than 1000 troops left? Forgot what was said in the previous military meeting? There is no retreat in this battle!"

"Army Gate!"

Xingfu has already seen that Ailonga's accent is wrong, but he claims to be the clan, the third-class assistant prince, Ailonga should not dare to do anything to him, so he took a few steps forward, and was about to explain, who knows that Ailonga Raising his hand, the icy Yanling Saber pierced through his chest.

"Which general dares to abandon his troops and run away, this is a role model!" Under the light and shadow, Ailonga kicked Xingfu's stomach and drew out his knife at the same time.Seeing that a yellow-belt clan was killed just like that, Xingfu's bodyguards and several Zasake Taiji, who had led the troops back, backed away again and again in fright.

Holding the bloody saber, Ailonga sternly said to the Zasak lords: "The great emperor has always treated you with great kindness, and today is the time to repay you! The Mongolian man who is not afraid of death will follow me!"

All the Jibels present at the scene were stunned for a moment, and suddenly they all gave a shout, and led the retreating men to turn their heads and charge towards the mountain again.

When the Qing army entered the distance of only 50 meters from the North Navy position, grenades rained down from the night sky, and clusters of fire and smoke rose, making the Qing army explode into ghosts and wolves.

"Don't stop! Keep going!" Ailonga, who was squatting down, suddenly stood up amidst the smoke, and rushed into the smoke with more than 20 guards.Behind him, a wave of Mongols followed.

It's all for this sake, whether it's the ordinary arrows or the Zasak lords, they all know that there is no way out, otherwise the whole army will collapse.

The barrels of the North Navy’s machine guns were already red, and the machine gunners had no time to change the barrels. They just squeezed the triggers and kept firing left and right; , but still couldn't keep up with the speed of his companions.

"Crack! Crack!" The machine gun with a red barrel stopped suddenly, and the shooter shouted, "Bullets!"

"Light up!"

The same scene was happening at other machine gun positions on the front line. The machine gunner who had run out of bullets picked up the only two grenades, pulled the fuse and threw them out.

The 8 mortars set up on the artillery position have gone crazy, and the scales at the foot of the mountain have been measured in advance.Reload, fire!reload, fire
At this time, the Qing army attacking from the North Road had already approached to the position only 50 meters away from the trenches of the Beihai Navy. Casualties occurred.As the firepower weakened, more than a dozen Qing troops finally entered the first trench.

At this time, many Beihai soldiers had already used up all the ammunition on their bodies, so the bloody hand-to-hand combat began.

There was a rain of knives and arrows, screaming and howling. Some soldiers had their arms cut off, their necks were chopped off, and the sky cap was cut off;Blood rained in the first trench, and human heads and severed limbs were kicked and rolled around. Occasionally, there would be an explosion. It was the wounded soldiers of the Northern Navy who pulled off the grenades on their bodies.

"Withdraw! Quickly withdraw!"

The remaining soldiers of the Northern Navy in the first trench retreated along the traffic trench, and the soldiers in charge of the rear stabbed their bayonets into the chests of the rushing Qing soldiers from time to time.The first trench was lost as thousands of Qing troops rushed to the position.

"It's all good! Keep killing! No one will be left behind!" Ailonga jumped into the trench and shouted excitedly.

Just when the Qing army thought that victory was in sight, some unknown objects suddenly rolled out from the edge of the second trench more than 20 meters away. When the spindle-shaped shell rolled on the hillside, there was a clang and metal impact sound.When these strange-shaped things twisted and rolled into the first trench, the Mongolian soldiers crowded in the tunnel dodged to both sides.

"What is this?" Someone touched it with a knife in his hand, and there was a crisp metal sound. "Iron?"

Just when the Mongolian soldiers didn't know what was going on, the trenches burst into flames.boom!boom!boom
"It's a pity." Ailonga had a brief thought in his mind, and was thrown into the air immediately.

Hundreds of thousands of lives were wiped out in an instant, and the huge explosions one after another made the whole hill like a volcanic eruption. Such a scene made thousands of Mongolian soldiers under the mountain fly away.When the blood rain mixed with mud, gravel and stumps swayed down from the air, pouring blood on the faces of the Qing army at the foot of the mountain, the entire Qing army on both sides of the northwest collapsed immediately.

That night, the "Southern Detachment" of the Beihai Navy faced 800 Qing troops with 6000 people, killed and injured more than 500 people, and captured more than [-] people. Baoning, who was defeated and returned to the camp, ordered all troops to fight against the Qing army early the next morning. The army retreated seventy miles.

As for the two battalions led by Mishilang, two companies on the hilltop position on the north side suffered heavy losses in hand-to-hand combat; on the south side, Zhou Zhong's one company was almost wiped out, and Zhou Zhong himself suffered a knife in hand-to-hand combat.Fortunately, the two companies dispatched before rushed back desperately, and only then did they beat back the Qing army attacking in the middle.The most important thing is that if Michelang hadn't ordered the artillery to use mortar shells as explosives at a critical juncture, the North Navy, which had almost run out of bullets, might have been wiped out.

In hindsight, Mishilang and his actions in Chahantuoluohai completely disrupted Qianlong's entire deployment, and the Qing army in the west of Hang'ai Mountain was completely unable to provide support to the Agui army in the east.After this battle, the Zhasak lords west of Hang'ai Mountain never launched a large-scale offensive against the Northern Navy, laying a solid foundation for the "Southern Detachment" to finally occupy Khobdor.

On the third day after the battle in Chahan Toro Sea, the radio station of the "Southern Detachment" finally regained contact with Chiyan City.In the evening of that day, Zhao Xin, who had just arrived in Boli Town for a day, saw the telegram.

"Great!" After reading the telegram, Zhao Xin slammed on the table excitedly.

Wang Zhenyi, who was playing Go with A Miao, asked curiously, "What's so happy?"

"A military secret."

Wang Zhenyi gave Zhao Xin a blank look when she heard the words, and thought that no one would know.But she also knew that the thing that could make Zhao Xin happy now might have something to do with Khalkha.

She has followed Zhao Xin all the way to inspect for more than ten days. Although the relationship between the two has not reached the point of breakthrough, they are still a lot closer.As they get closer, Wang Zhenyi has a better understanding of Zhao Xin's character; even in private, he never mentions military matters to himself or A Miao.

Zhao Xin laughed when he heard this, and took out a map from the table, looked at it carefully for a while, and then said: "I have something to leave for a few days, you two are waiting for me here, or take a boat first Go to Heilongjiang City?"

Wang Zhenyi was silent for a while, then said softly, "How many days?"

"Five to seven days."

"Then we'll wait for you to come back." Wang Zhenyi blurted out without thinking, and her cheeks turned red immediately.

"Well, originally I wanted to visit Mr. Ziping for a while, so I'll leave it to you and Mr. Rong Fu."

Considering Huji's situation, Zhao Xin felt that he had to go there.Although the soldiers cannot be replenished, food and ammunition must be replenished. After all, Chahan Torohai is more than 900 miles away from Uliasutai.It is too ridiculous to transport supplies from Chiyan City, so I can only go there by myself.

In addition, Huji and the others captured more than 500 captives. If they could be reformed and captured, they could serve as civilians if they could not be soldiers. This would expand the influence of the Northern Navy in Tangnu Wulianghai and Zasaktu Khan.

In the future, at least one regiment of troops must be placed in Uliasutai and Khobdo, and the problem of the source of troops must be resolved locally.

　Those who say that the Qing army did not dare to charge, think about how the Boxers faced foreign guns and cannons.No one wants to fly moths into the flames, and that's all they can do when they are forced to do so.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)