Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1649 Rising Storm ([-])

"This situation seems to be impossible to survive!" In the Denglai Security Command in Yantai County, Liao Xiaoyao said to the generals who came to participate in the military meeting: "Zhejiang, Shandong, Liaodong, and Heishui are everywhere!"

It is now May 1673, 5, and Yantai has received a lot of news from all over the world.As the nominally highest military officer of the three major feudal towns in the Far East, Liao Xiaoyao, the captain of the Denglai Exploitation Team and Denglai Security Commander, also paid close attention to these news, and held meetings with senior military officers and staff officers at all levels still in Yantai every three days to analyze the situation. All kinds of intelligence and deduction of the trend of the situation can be said to be exhausting.

Among them, the situation in Zhejiang seems to have stabilized somewhat.After the Second Division of the Zhejiang New Army broke through Sheng County, the main force of the Qing Army, who felt that its flanks were threatened, had to withdraw troops from the front to screen its own logistics transportation lines. This gave the King Lu regime a valuable respite, and They began to adjust their deployment, rectify the army, contact the localities, and tried to expel the Qing army from the west of Jinhua Mansion—they were not without opportunities. After the Second Division of the Army captured Shengxian County, it was completely possible to go northward along the Cao'e River and directly attack Shaoxing Prefecture. This shocked the Qing court even more. They could not bear the blow of losing Shaoxing Prefecture, so the siege of Jinhua Prefecture was lifted. , is already a matter of time.

In Shandong, due to the special geographical situation here, although the Qing army stationed a large number of soldiers and horses in the neighboring Qingzhou Prefecture, they still refused to break through the defense line of the people on the east coast and enter Dengzhou, unless they wanted to experience being played by the enemy in the rear. The bitter fruit of the "Incheon Landing" cutting off the long transportation line - of course, they are not without a solution, that is, they mobilize 20 troops from other provinces to march to Qingzhou Prefecture to fill the gap in the rear and protect the logistics line, but how is this possible? ?

Therefore, recently, the Qing army has frequently mobilized troops and horses in Qingzhou Prefecture, and sent a small group of rangers to break through the so-called canal defense line that the people on the east bank are building. Liao Xiaoyao has not paid much attention to it. Will not dare the whole army to attack and attack the Denglei area.

However, although it is judged that the Qing army in Shandong is just a feint, given the extreme importance of the Denglai area, the people on the east bank still have to gather most of their armed forces here. While having enough local defense troops, It also has a strong counterattack force to ensure Denglai's safety.

This kind of arrangement naturally occupied a large number of troops, and let the weak underbelly of Liaodong and Heishui be seized by the enemy. Liao Xiaoyao was a little annoyed by this, but he had no choice but to find a way to ensure Denglai's safety. A certain amount of troops will support the other two battlefields.

"Actually speaking, the Qing army really didn't mobilize too many troops!" Looking up at the map hanging on the wall, Liao Xiaoyao said: "Zhejiang is part of the more than 6 troops that used the Hangzhou camp. It is their mobile force, plus the local regiments and miscellaneous armed forces, a total of 2 to [-] people, which is really not many, but they almost achieved the goal of the campaign; in Shandong, their Qingzhou camp did not even move at all, and is currently active on the front line , the total strength of the infiltrated Qing army, I estimate that the total number is only more than [-] people, and the characteristics of the feigned movement are very obvious; the real move of the Qing army is actually in Manchuria. The elite armed forces of Wan, relying on the food and grass accumulated in advance, launched a fierce attack on Dandong, Kuandian, and Jiulian City, which allowed them to take advantage of it; in addition, in the Harbin and Model Fort areas, the Qing army mobilized two thousand The remaining Eight Banners soldiers and horses, as well as three or four thousand temporarily recruited tribesmen, got mixed up with our local guards and the third infantry regiment of the first division of the Liaodong New Army. Calculated in this way, the soldiers and horses that the Qing army was fully prepared to dispatch were also There are less than [-] people, and we have fallen into a very passive situation without consuming too much national power. Everyone, why is this happening?"

"I think—" Liao Xiaoyao didn't wait for others to speak, and asked himself and answered: "It's because we exposed too many flaws, were too proud and conceited, and took it for granted, and then we suffered! Land reclamation, because of North Korea's strong assistance, has been very smooth in the past few years, so that nearly [-] Shandong disaster victims were resettled at one time, which can be described as a large scale. But we all underestimated the determination of the Qing court. Spend a lot of money and energy to hoard supplies on the front line, and then try to support an army of [-] to [-] to attack? I think this loss is not unfair at all, and I will learn from it in the future. The Russians are the same, and the foreigners In the Northeast and Heilongjiang areas, we have always been the only ones who bullied others these years. When did we get bullied like this? The three counties of Udi, Jieya, and Hailanpao, which are currently in dire straits under Russian attacks, were honestly the same back then. We snatched it from the Russians by force or diplomatic blackmail? I think it is very common for the Russians to keep these enmities in their hearts, especially when we are involved in other affairs in the mainland—such as the Crimean Khan. China——When the Russian Empire turned against the Russian Empire, the Blackwater region in the Far East was very vulnerable to strong backlash from the Russians. You must know that the reason why the Russians were willing to give in to us here was because we were strong in force, but could it be that There is no reason for the Russians to ask us because they are in the honeymoon period of their relationship with Russia?"

Liao Xiaoyao's words caused a commotion among everyone, and there was a buzzing discussion in the meeting room, Liao Xiaoyao didn't care, but walked back to his seat, took a sip of tea, and the old god was watching everyone from the ground.After seeing that they were almost done discussing, he said again: "Of course, now that something has happened, we have to take measures. Wang Shichuan, why don't you get up and talk about what to do?"

Wang Shichuan has been working with Liao Xiaoyao since he was in Temple Street. He has worked in the Heishui area for many years. He is currently the commissioner of the Laizhou District Administrative Office, the commander of the Jiaozhou Fortress and the Laizhou River Defense Commander. He is a first-class general under Liao Xiaoyao's command and is the most trusted As a confidant, he was the first to be asked to answer by name.

Wang Shichuan was wearing a woolen overcoat, with a serious face and piercing eyes. At this moment, he stood up and said: "Commander-in-Chief, Liaodong and Heishui can still be saved, and the problems that have been exposed need to be improved urgently. Although we Shandong is also facing a lot of pressure from the Qing army, but this force can be evened out by squeezing. Besides, the two reclamation counties in Liaodong are also under the jurisdiction of our Denglai pioneer team, and it is also our duty to rescue them. It is suggested that a cavalry brigade be transferred from Denglai to Dandong. In addition, the Dong Dalang Department of the Fifth Division of the New Army can also transfer part of it to Liaodong as appropriate. North Korea can also urge them to send some soldiers from the imperial camp. Let’s pretend it’s nothing serious. To put it bluntly, even if we can’t drive away the Qing army, we can always drive them away!”

What Wang Shichuan said was actually what Liao Xiaoyao thought, but he just said it through his mouth.Moreover, he was the river defense commander who was directly facing the front line of Qingzhou Qing army, so he knew more about the situation of the other side, so it was obviously more convincing for him to come out.Therefore, after another discussion by the people, Liao Xiaoyao made the final decision and agreed to transfer a cavalry brigade (one thousand cavalry) and Dong Dalang's troops to Liaodong for reinforcements, and implement it immediately after the maintenance of the ships that had just completed immigration was completed.

In addition, Liao Xiaoyao focused on the establishment of the third and fourth divisions of the Denglai New Army.In the past, the formation of these two new military divisions has been relatively slow, and the skeleton has not even been set up, perhaps considering the intricate relationship of interests among the servant army, the stand-up team, the local garrison, and the militias in various places.But when the enemy launches such a large-scale surprise attack, it is natural not to look at it from the old eyes of the past. Therefore, the formation of these two divisions is on the fast track. Which brigade and which servant army were annexed, will those army leaders complain or even rebel.

Even at the meeting, some people proposed to form the Sixth Division of the Blackwater New Army with the Third Infantry Regiment as the backbone, because the huge outer Northeast really needs a regular army of a certain size. It is absolutely impossible for the reserve forces to fight the world. After all, they are not professional soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is too poor.As for the vacancy of the first division, it can only be made up by reorganizing a new third infantry regiment. As long as there are officers and non-commissioned officers, this is not so difficult.

Another point worth mentioning is that the meeting did not actually propose any plan to send additional reinforcements to the Blackwater area. This may be because the current force is relatively scarce and must be used in more critical places.However, in some people's opinion, the situation in the Blackwater area is actually not that bad, and the need to send more soldiers is actually a more important factor, because the entire Yakutsk Governor's Mansion only supports [-] soldiers on weekdays. Cossacks, even if they get some reinforcements from other places, the number must be extremely limited. In fact, they cannot pose a long-term threat to the people on the east coast.As long as the people there respond calmly, do not make major mistakes, and do not suffer irreparable military defeats, regaining lost ground should be a high probability event.

And Denglai's judgment, in fact, almost confirms the current situation on the battlefield in the outer northeast——

On May 1673, 5, just a few days after arriving in Zeya County, the army on the east bank was still panting, and it took a lot of time to finally gather the Russian army. To be fair, this was not an easy task, because before The Russian army is scattered, God knows where they went, coupled with the inconvenience of information transmission, so these people can be gathered slowly, which shows the ability of Yugovich and Stepanov and others-outrageous Appeared outside Jieya County, but there was no figure of Chief Gentemur among them. Perhaps he was too deep in Udi County, and it was inconvenient to contact him, so he hadn't had time to return yet.

There were more than [-] Russian soldiers who appeared outside Zeya County, of which less than [-] were Russians, and the rest were armed by Tungusians.A troop of this scale, if there are more than [-] troops in the Third Infantry Regiment, they will naturally not be timid. Naturally, he didn't dare to go out to fight in the city, fearing that if these troops were lost in the first battle, the whole territory would be corrupted. He couldn't bear this responsibility. Of course, perhaps the bigger reason was that he didn't have the confidence to defeat the enemy—like many As the officer complained about him in private, he was scared.

But no matter what, he still decided to rely on the city to stick to it and see the situation first.Anyway, there are not many villages left in the wild that can be plundered by the enemy. It is meaningless to be busy trying to calm down the local situation. Instead, it will put the troops looted from Temple Street, Jiangdong, Gonghe, Khabarovsk and other counties in danger. In the middle—after all, he still didn't trust the militia unit he commanded, he didn't have an intuitive understanding of the enemy's combat effectiveness, and he was cautious by nature, so he huddled in the county seat.

Anyway, he also figured it out. There are so many soldiers stationed in Zeya County. Although it seems that they dare not fight the Russians in the field, do you Russians dare to let them go to the east with confidence?Do you still need the logistics line?In the future, counties like Zeya, Udi, and Hailanpao in the east will be robbed by you to get supplies by surprise?Moreover, this time they brought some supplies with the army, and collected some cured meat, dried fish and rye in some villages along the way. There is also a lot of food in Zeya County. If you stick to it, you can still last for more than two months. Do you Russians dare to fight with me?You know, in another month or so, the area around the mouth of the lower reaches of Heilongjiang will also thaw. Whether it is an inland river shallow water gunboat or a 72-ton small steamer, they can go upstream to resupply some strongholds along the river. By then You can't consume me any more!

Therefore, Liu Jianguo is now determined that the Russians are in a dilemma, so he has made up his mind to consume them.Although many officers under his command actively sought to fight, hoping to avenge their shame, all of them were vetoed by him.Of course, in order to appease the mood of the military, Commander Liu Jianguo also agreed that after the beginning of the spring, the reinforcements from other places would be assembled. After that, he would consider the next step to advance to the Albazin Castle area. Of course, relying on the superiority of the navy, along the Heilongjiang marched.Although the officers were somewhat reluctant about this, but who made him a "jiedu envoy", so in the end they all obediently obeyed and became tortoises.

The commander of the Russian army, Peter Yugovich, was also scratching his head at this move by the people on the east coast, because with their strength and equipment, if they storm Zeya County, the chances of winning are really not great, and even if they can be captured, the casualties will be extremely high. Seriously, this is also unacceptable to the Russians—he originally planned to use his superior force to surprise the opponent in the wild, but how could the East Coaster, the general of the army, be so timid and hide back? It's done—and if you give up Jieya County, you can't do it anyway, because there are a lot of soldiers in this fortress. Don't think they dare to come out now, but if you only have a few hundred soldiers outside the city, see if they can come out to fight you!

After thinking about it, Yugovich didn't have a good idea.After discussing with his deputy Stepanov, he finally decided to lead the army back to the original starting point with the looted supplies, food, gold and silver, ammunition and slaves.There is indeed no need to continue this battle, because the Amur River has thawed, and the land has once again returned to the people on the east bank.Besides, they have initially achieved their strategic goal this time, which is to weaken the outpost expansion of the east coast people such as Udi, Zeya, Hailanpao, etc., and severely hit their prestige among the Tungus people. This is enough, It is impossible to drive all the people from the east bank out of the Amur River at once, and Yugovic is not so arrogant.

(End of this chapter)