Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 276 Is this a remnant of the Qing army?This is clearly the elite of the Ming army!
In the Gobi Desert, the temperature at night in autumn is already very low.

At this moment.

A procession of torches moved rapidly north through the night.

Most of this team is the military uniform of the Russian shooting army wearing medium gray cloth cotton clothes, and there are also Cossack cavalry dressed like Santa Claus, who are marching away under the moonlight at this time.

Although it has already entered autumn, the temperature difference between day and night on the Mobei prairie is still very large, and the sun is very hot at noon, so it is usually necessary to avoid repairing.

In order to buy more time.

Russian commanders Repnin and Mikhail arranged the rest time at noon, but chose to march at night, early morning, and evening.

at the same time.

The reconnaissance cavalry sent by the Western Capital Division of the Ming Dynasty have also caught up with the huge Russian Siberian garrison.

"This Rakshasa ghost is really fast enough. He can run hundreds of miles every day. With such a running method, he can run back to Irkutsk within a few days!"

Lu Fuhai, a veteran who finally became an officer, sat on the horseback, holding the rein with his right hand, and muttering to himself while stuffing naan bread with his left hand.

As a veteran who joined the army during the Battle of Nanxiong Prefecture.

A Hakka hunter from Nanxiongzhou County, Shaozhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province, is now skillfully controlling the horse, staring at the helmet, and covering his face with gauze to resist the yellow sand all over the sky.

Take a bite of naan bread.

I don't know if I ate more sand or more bread
"bah bah bah"

Spit out a mouth full of yellow sand.

Lu Fuhai began to regret coming to this ghostly place.

He is a Hakka who has been hunting in the mountains of Lingnan since he was a child.

What I am used to eating are glutinous rice cakes, stuffed tofu, landscape fish, braised duck, Meiling goose, and Hakka rice wine.

And because the West Commander was going to fight in the Gobi desert, the only rations he was equipped with were flour, beef, and mutton jerky.

At the beginning, you can still eat it fresh, but if you eat too much, you will feel tasteless.

Moreover, the Gobi desert is full of yellow sand and the temperature difference is huge.

It's really not a place to raise people.

I really don't know what the emperor thinks, what's so good about such a broken place?We must also send an army to fight.

It’s better to occupy all of Nanyang. I heard that most of the rice grain in the Ming Dynasty now comes from Nanyang. A place that can produce so much rice is a good place.

But no way.

Whoever made him born to take the exam will not do well.

I failed to pass the minimum pass line after taking the exam several times, so I couldn't be promoted to an officer.

In the end, his old superior, Luo Dingshan, was the security guard, and he was transferred to Zhengxi Dusi, which was in urgent need of officers, as a platoon leader. After he made contributions, he could be transferred back to the mainland as a company commander or battalion commander.

When the time comes to retire, how can he get a title with his credit.

At that time, his family can be regarded as developed.

But now it seems that the errand of enlisting Xidusi is not easy to handle.

"Platoon leader, I think the Rakshasa ghost is really going to retreat. They haven't sent cavalry to drive us away these days, so we just let us hang like this."

A man with a gray beard, a cavalryman who used to be in Qianlong's coat army, approached Lu Fuhai and smiled.

"That's what they did on purpose." Lu Fuhai has been a soldier for many years, and he still has some battlefield experience.

"You mean the Rakshasa ghost wants to lure us into the bait?"

"Hey, that's the case, they definitely want our men to chase after us, and when our horses are tired, we will turn back and look for battle!" Lu Fuhai laughed, "But this is none of our business, we just follow That's it, these Rakshasa ghosts all look like ghosts. They look fierce, but in fact it's the same thing. A single shot is a hole. They go back to the bastard in Irkutsk, and this battle won't last a year or two, so we have to deal with them quickly, and I want to go back to my hometown in Nanxiong!"

As he spoke, Lu Fuhai gave loud orders to the left and right.

"Fire all the torches, since the Raksha ghosts don't mind letting us follow, then we won't be sneaky! We are soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and we are afraid of a dog egg Cossack!"

The identity of the Great Tomorrow Soldier may really give infinite courage to these soldiers who used the original Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners as their main source of soldiers.

All of a sudden, they lit torches one after another, swaggeringly followed the Russian army brigade 200 meters away, watching them go north.

"Master Brigadier! The Russian army is stationed in Chakhta ahead, less than fifty miles away!"

Lu Fuhai stood next to Chen Liansheng, raised his hand and saluted.

anyway
It was Lu Fuhai who caught Chen Liansheng when he escaped from the green camp.

did not expect.
Now one of the two has graduated from a military academy and is an official brigade commander.

And Lu Fuhai finally became an official, although he was only a small platoon leader.

Chen Liansheng also didn't show the brigade commander's spectrum in front of Lu Fuhai.

Although Lu Fuhai's official position is low, he has friendship with many important people.

For example, Zeng Ada, the brigade commander of the 35th brigade, and the famous general Xing Luo Dingshan who is now a major general
"Finally caught up! Old Lu, how many days have they rested?"

"It's been two days now, and the water and grass in Chakta are abundant, and the Raksha ghost's war horses spread out and ate pastures for two days. They are well-groomed, much better than our horses." Lu Fuhai looked at Chen Liansheng's back panting. The rough war horse frowned involuntarily.

these horses.

It's gone.

Abandoned means that these horses are basically useless as war horses.

They can only be killed and used as military rations.

Chen Liansheng also saw Lu Fuhai's expression, and couldn't help laughing: "Old Lu, what's the matter? We can't win without cavalry?"

Lu Fuhai shook his head and said, "That's not true, it's just... how can we pursue the enemy without cavalry, and how can we expand the results of the battle?"

Chen Liansheng looked up at the sky.

"It's true, so this battle cannot be fought regularly, and we are not the only ones who want to fight this battle, why don't the Raksha ghosts want to fight! If they really don't want to fight, they can just go back to Irkutsk. "

"It seems that this time it's really going to be a fight! It's probably a night attack!"

Fukang'an said.

This marshal Fu made a mistake in his judgment last time.

This time a judgment was made.

I don't know if I will make another mistake.

Chen Liansheng murmured in his heart.

But he actually agrees with Fukang'an's judgment.

If he was the commander of the Russian army, he would not miss this evening.

Because the Ming army came from afar, the soldiers were exhausted, and the horses could not fight after running for so many days. They had to dismount and fight hand-to-hand, and there was no time to build any fortifications. It was the weakest time.

The Russian army has been repaired for two days, and there are also two regiments of cavalry, and the Russian shooting army of that division is also a mounted infantry with horses for everyone.

There are horses and no horses.

Who can pass the trial, uh, isn't it obvious who has the upper hand.

Marshal Fu finally got it right once.

Repnin stood on the horse with his binoculars and observed the Ming army brigade that was overtaking. After putting down the binoculars, he said: "Their horses are useless, and now they are all infantry!"

Although infantry is not easy to deal with, it is relatively safer to deal with infantry-without horses, even if you win, it will be difficult for you to expand the results of the battle.

But the Russian army can bear defeat, and they can retreat at any time with the advantage of cavalry.

Mikhail also breathed a sigh of relief. In theory, the Russian army really had the upper hand in this battle.

"Let's send five hundred cavalry to harass them first!"

Mikhail said.

Military order.

Five thousand Cossack cavalry moved quickly.

But when they appeared, the Ming army was also ready. Grain trucks were placed at the front, fixed and compacted with rammed earth and sandbags, forming a circle.

At the same time, artillery positions were also arranged.

In this way, these Cossacks did not dare to approach.

They circled around the formation of vehicles of the Ming army, and then fired harassing shots two miles away.

At such a long distance, the projectiles fired by the musket gun are not threatening at all.

The Ming army in the chariot formation did not respond either. Except for some sentries, most of the officers and soldiers were either eating or sleeping.

No one had even fired back at such a distance.

"These people are really the remnants of the Qing army?"

Repnin frowned.

such performance.

It must be regarded as an elite in the European battlefield.

These five thousand Ming troops.

Not easy to deal with!

(End of this chapter)