Lu Ming

Chapter 582 The Battle of Daling River ([-])

From the receipt of the first batch of materials, during the next period from late August to early September, Yongping Li Jichun Department began to receive strategic materials continuously.

A steady stream of private caravans set out from Tianjin, bringing a large amount of food fodder, quilts, weapons and horses.

As of now, the actual number of registered soldiers in the Chunlei Battalion is 1200, including 300 recruits who have been trained for less than 3 months.In other words, the training time is more than half a year, and the number of soldiers who are qualified to go into battle is 900.

However, the armaments stored in the Acropolis today can arm 3000 people.The grain stored in it can support 3000 troops to fight for half a year and defend the city for 10 months.

The above are calculated according to the consumption quota of the new army stipulated in a certain logistics regulation.According to the old army's combat mode calculated privately by General Li Shen, these supplies are enough to allow 1 Ming beggars to defend the city for one and a half years and still be rich.

So Master Li, who is a bit nervous, often lingers in the warehouse recently.

Rows of muskets, tubes of compressed iron biscuits, bags of military uniforms, a pair of knives and spears, and those fat and strong horses. Lao Li has never seen such luxury since he joined the army. material reserves.

After checking the mountain of military supplies in the warehouse with his own hands again, General Li Shen was full of ambition and laughed with his hands behind his back.

From this moment on, Yongping Acropolis, and even the Chunlei Camp entrenched in it, have been reborn, and have officially become one of the important military fulcrums of the crossing forces in the north of the Ming Dynasty.

There are some things that Li Shen will not know now at the level of General Li.According to the plan, Yongping Acropolis will continue to build warehouses to secretly store military supplies.In the future, at least it must be able to support the high-intensity combat needs of the first-level troops.

So the current material reserves, in fact, can no longer scare people in the southern industrial zone where the traversers are working hard. It can also shock the northern poor ghosts like Li Jichun who have never seen the market.

In addition to regular supplies, considering the narrow terrain and non-water network characteristics outside the pass, Tianjin Station also specially dispatched cavalry from the Independent Cavalry Battalion in early September to escort a batch of special combat materials: landmines to the Chunlei Battalion.

As for the cast iron mines with simple craftsmanship, with the current industrial capabilities of the traversers, it is natural to make them if they want to.

The reason why this thing has not been used on a large scale in the south is mainly because the opponents are weak - landmines are a defensive weapon. In the south, there is currently no force that can beat Marshal Cao's trilogy to the point of laying landmines for defense. I saw that the crossing people bullied others everywhere every day.

Coupled with the humidity in the south, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to store landmines. If they get wet accidentally, they will become an unpredictable killer like mine squibs, so they have not been promoted until now.

That is to say, this time, in order to deal with the affairs outside the customs, and because the general staff wanted to test the combat capabilities of various new weapons in the north in advance, they ordered the arsenal to produce a batch of cast iron landmines and sent them to Li Jichun's department thousands of miles away.

The landmines sent to Li Jichun's department were very few, and there were only two types, "Warm Type [-]" and "Warm Type [-]".

The size and appearance of the two mines are almost the same, the difference is only the way of detonation: one is pressed and the other is pulled.

All in all, the production process of Nuannuan brand landmines is quite high-end. With the support of later industrial theories and formal industrial production lines, even old-fashioned cast iron mines are enough to surpass those rough border areas on Tuba Road.

Warmer brand mines, shells are cast iron sheets produced in a non-uniform casting pattern.During the explosion, the cast iron fragments of different thicknesses can be scattered more easily, causing more damage to the enemy.

Considering that the enemies in this era are all in dense formations, and the outsiders are not familiar with the mine combat mode, the warm series are generally too big.The black lump with the size of a child’s head is stuffed with special black gunpowder—this is different from the gunpowder that requires a stable burning of nitrate and sulfur. This one is dedicated to the violent instant burst effect, so-called fierce gunpowder.

In a landmine, the part with the highest technological content is the fuze.

The fuzes of the Warmth brand series are all the simplest to start the fuzes.This is not difficult for the military system that has produced countless flash caps.What really needs to test industrial capabilities is the aspect of moisture resistance and accidental explosion prevention.After all, the current chemical production capacity of the traversal system is still very weak, and some chemicals that are not widely used have not yet been listed on the production list.

Based on this, it was a whole squad of instructors who came with hundreds of landmines this time.In addition to training the soldiers of Li Jichun's department to use landmines safely, the instructors also went out with the army to collect information on the use of new weapons in the northern region.

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Military supplies are the foundation of a war.When Li Jichun's department was almost ready, the time had already come to October.And on October 10th, Li Jichun, General of the Yongping Guards, officially received a call-up order from Shanhaiguan from Shanhaiguan Sun Chengzong, a scholar.

At the same time as receiving this transfer order, a telegram from the General Staff also arrived at Li Jichun's desk.The middle-aged man once again tasted the huge advantages of informatization, and he instantly understood the cause and effect of Sun Chengzong's order.

Since the Houjin army besieged the city in early September, Zu Dashou's tribe retreated in the Daling River Fort, confronting the Houjin army, and the two sides launched a tug-of-war.

In this process, Sun Chengzong, who was in Shanhaiguan, organized three groups of reinforcements to rescue Zu Dashou.

The first wave of reinforcements was in mid-September, consisting of 9 Matsuyama defenders.Due to the disparity in numbers, this group of people was easily defeated by Jin Bing.

A few days after the defeat of the first wave of reinforcements, the second wave of reinforcements was led by the famous teammate selling maniac/father of Wu Sangui/general soldier Wu Xiang led [-] soldiers from Jinzhou.As a result, Wu Xiang's troops were defeated by the later Jin general Azige and retreated to Jinzhou City.

At the beginning of October, after Wu Xiang's troops licked their wounds, they came to help again.This time Huang Taiji came to fight in person, and the result of the battle was very good. More than 10 people from the Wu Xiang Department of Guan Ning Army were rushed to death by two hundred white armors of Huang Taiji's personal guards. The 6000 people of Wu Xiang's troops were defeated and fled back.

After hearing the news, Sun Chengzong was extremely anxious, so the old man studded.On the basis of the already assembled army, he once again ordered the deployment of all Ming army troops in the north that could arrive in time, and prepared to set out to rescue Zu Dashou.

This time, Yongping Counselor Li Jichun also received a transfer order.

In fact, theoretically speaking, General Yongping, who is close to Shanhaiguan, should have received the transfer order long ago.However, due to some high-level political reasons—Peng Runan, the minister of the Ministry of War, is a member of Wen Tiren's party, so the military reports involving Yongpingwei before this were suppressed intentionally or unintentionally by the Ministry of War.

This time, if Sun Chengzong hadn't been anxious, probably Li Jichun would have stayed in Yongping to train troops to avoid disaster.

Of course, at this point in the matter, it would be impossible for Li Jichun to go to Shanhaiguan.Fortunately, preparations were complete in advance, so on the day after receiving the transfer order, Lao Li called the senior officers and staff officers of the entire battalion and held a mobilization meeting.

Yes, it is the mobilization meeting.Regarding the military strategy after going outside the customs in the future, Li Jichun had already been "taught face-to-face" by the telegram sent by the general staff.General Li Shen even knew that in the distant, turbulent sea, there was even a fleet of reinforcements, and the target was said to be the Empress Jiannu.So for the Chunlei Battalion, the more important military meeting has already been held in the core team.

After the mobilization meeting, on the second day, the Chunlei Camp, which had already made preparations, held an oath meeting.After the meeting, General Li Jichun packed up his luggage, and on the morning of the third day, with his well-trained men, with full confidence and warmth, he went to Shanhaiguan to go to the countryside.

On October 1631, 10, 14 elite cavalry from Yongping General Li Jichun's department entered the Shanhaiguan gate.

And on the same day when Li Jichun's department entered Shanhaiguan, Zu Dashou's department was lured out of the city by fake reinforcements played by Houjin's troops, and suffered a major defeat again!This attack was Zu Dashou's last attempt to break out of the encirclement throughout the entire campaign.

In fact, as early as a few days before Zu Dashou broke through, Zhang Chun, the army supervisor, led by Zhang Chun, the number reached 5, the last and largest group of reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty, had already set off from Shanhaiguan.

Today's Shanhaiguan is actually an empty shell: whenever an army comes, it will be sent out by the big boss Sun immediately.Li Jichun's department who rushed to Shanhaiguan was no exception. After only a day's rest, he was hurriedly sent to the battlefield by the anxious university scholar Sun Chengzong.

All of Li Jichun's troops are high-speed cavalry, and one man and three horses have brought enough supplies. It stands to reason that they will be able to catch up with Zhang Chun's troops soon after leaving the customs.However, General Li Shen dawdled all the way, not to mention viewing the scenery along the way, and was still running around in the Liaoxi Corridor. It seemed that 400 people were "left behind" because of this, and the quality of the troops was worrying.

In the end, it was already October 500, 1631, when Lao Li led the remaining "10 troops" to catch up with the tail of the authentic army outside Jinzhou City.

At that time, the front line was tense.The Ming army, whose number reached 5+, had already left Jinzhou City and headed north, ready to seek an opportunity to fight Jiannu decisively.

Bringing his personal guards to drive directly to the Chinese army, Li Jichun, the general of Yongping who came in a hurry, finally met the leading brother this time in the north of Jinzhou City: Zhang Chun, the supervisor of the army.

Zhang Chun, born in Juren, is favored by Sun Chengzong.In this battle of Daling River, Sun Chengzong first recommended this man as the supervisor of the army when he was sitting in Shanhaiguan, and then strongly recommended Zhang Chun as the commander.

Yes, you read that right, the last strategic counter-offensive against Hou Jin in the history of the Ming Empire was led by a man of culture.At this moment, Zhang Chun is commanding more than 3 elite Guanning Army, with more than 2 field troops from the north of Ming Dynasty.

These troops are the last organized field regiments of the Ming Dynasty, and they are the foundation of the country.

Li Jichun, the seemingly unremarkable second-tier local general, naturally couldn't arouse the interest of the commander-in-chief of the army, Zhang Chun.Hearing that the gentleman brought only 500 cavalry, Zhang Chun was even less interested in the 5 cavalry army.So when he was so busy, the leading brother arranged the most suitable job for Li Jichun who was late: guerrilla.

Next, there will be the battle of Dalinghe that determined the fate of Mingjin in history.

Two days later, on October 2, the Ming army crossed the Xiaoling River and approached Dalinghe City. Fifteen miles away from Dalinghe City, they met the Houjin army.

At that time, Zhang Chun used a large number of chariots to prevent the opponent's heavy cavalry from charging.These chariots are equipped with firearms, among which are some advanced front-loading rifles that Ming Ting bought from a certain uncle.

In this way, at the beginning of the battle between the two sides, the Eight Banners soldiers still suffered a bit.After rushing several times without success, the chariot formation slowly moved forward.

However, what the Ming army did not expect was that when the battle line advanced for a certain distance in the direction of Dalinghe Fort, the Hou Jin army stepped aside, revealing the Western-style smoothbore guns fixed on the mound.

Before and after Jin entered the customs, the artillery looted from Santunying and other places began to show their power, so the car formation was broken and the formation was in chaos.

Seeing the opponent's weakness, Huang Taiji immediately commanded the army to press forward. The Ming army was immediately lost and began to retreat steadily.

Zhang Chun saw that the situation was not good, so he used fire attack.Hou Jinbing, who was in the limelight, seemed to be forced back by the fire at this moment.However, at the next moment, another unbelievable mystical phenomenon happened: it rained suddenly in the sky, and the wind direction changed.

After the Jin army took advantage of the wind to cover up the attack, Zhang Chun's troops were suddenly defeated and defeated like a mountain. The familiar scene of the Ming army came: all broke up and fled for their lives.

At this moment, the Ming Dynasty is exhausted.

There is a regret in later generations: what will happen if this rain does not fall.

In fact, even if the rain did not fall, the Hou Jin army was only temporarily forced back by the fire, and there were still so many viable forces.It is impossible for Zhang Chun's army to wipe out the Houjin army through the fire, let alone break through the triple earth barrier blockade in the distance to rescue Zu Dashou. Zhang Chunbu couldn't run back to Jinzhou at all.

In a word: After losing the ability to face upright, no matter how the Ming army struggles, it will always be defeated by a strong enemy in the end, sooner or later.

On this day in history, Zhang Chun fled and was defeated.However, Huang Taiji had already predicted that this battle would be won, so he planted an ambush on the way of the Ming army's retreat.

When the fleeing Ming army encountered an ambush, most of them gave up resistance and surrendered naturally.In addition, more than [-] generals, including Zhang Chun, were captured alive. Only the escaped master Wu Xiang led dozens of people back by luck.

The last batch of reinforcements in the Ming Dynasty ended like this.Since then, the Ming court has completely lost its strategic initiative to Hou Jin, and has been permanently shrunk/beaten.

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The general trend of history is irreversible.In this plane, at least before the arrival of the army of traversers, with Li Jichun's mere 500 troops, it is certain that a battle of this scale cannot be reversed.

So what will General Li Shen do?

As early as the moment when Hou Jin's army charged, Li Jichun, who was wandering around the periphery of the battlefield at that time, saw the army's rout with the high-power binoculars in his hand for the first time.

The next moment, Li Canjiang's thin face covered with ravines showed a sly smile that "the telegram is really accurate".

Immediately afterwards, the fierce general, who had once slashed at him, suddenly pulled out the treasured sword from his waist, which was a small electric horn hanging on the saddle, and then raised the horn and shouted angrily: "Everyone is there, according to the plan, follow me. Enter!"

"Turn on, turn on, turn on!"

After hearing the order, the 500 fine riders from the Chunlei Camp quickly reined in their horses, shouted non-stop, and walked in a neat pace, leading the defeated army all over the mountains and plains behind them, and turned towards Jinzhou.

(End of this chapter)