open sea

1178 Intercept
In Poitier, Marshal Mattion of the Royal Army changed his defensive tactics against Chen Jiujing and assembled the most elite mercenary troops in France over the years in an attempt to stop the Ming army that penetrated into its territory.

The 3000-strong army was reduced to include [-] heavy cavalry, [-] light cavalry, and [-] artillery, three thousand-man brigades composed of French veterans, and a [-]-strong German and Swiss mercenary phalanx. The [-] troops of the brigade headed south along the banks of the Kelan River for a long time, going against the marching route of the Ming army.

The first general of the Ming army who learned of their march was Li Dai, a hundred households of the Beiyang Army under the command of the guerrilla general Wang Youlin. , was recommended to the cavalry department of the Xuanfu Lecture Hall. After graduation, he entered the Beiyang Military Mansion as a military trainer for hundreds of households, and was ordered to practice the second phase of Beiyang infantry and cavalry coordination.

This was supposed to be a story about the expansion of the warlordization of the Li family in Liaodong. As a result, Ye Mengxiong, the important minister of Beiyang, ordered Li Dai's whole family to move to Baoding, followed by a hundred military training officers who were transferred to Dongyang with the fourth phase of Beiyang.

Originally, Li Dai was very nervous when he was transferred to the Dongyang Military Mansion. Because of his background, he was quite unpopular among the Liaodong cavalry, but Liaodong is already the closest place to Jianzhou. Suddenly the imperial court transferred him to Dadongyang. Discrimination should not be more serious?

As a result, when I came to see, there was everyone in Beiya.

Mongolian soldiers, there are; Japanese soldiers, there are; Korean soldiers, there are; North Asian soldiers, there are; Jurchen soldiers, there are; All in all, who cares about that.

The military government only looks at the military position and not the race. He is a lieutenant Zhaoxin, and all the treatment is the same as others. He immediately brings a greater sense of belonging than the Li family in Liaodong, and even this battle across the sea is a Li Dai himself gave Fu Yuanshang the opportunity to report and invite him to come down.

Originally, the Dongyang Army had no plan to use the Beiyang [-]rd and [-]th Phase Banner Army, after all, the [-]st and [-]nd Phase Banner Army was about to retire, but he couldn't hold back his begging, so he was allowed to join the battle with Fu Yuan along with his family.

Li Dai was on the left wing of the central army among the eighteen hundred households. His marching route was to raise supplies along the east bank of the Kelan River to the north, and sometimes he would cross the Kelan River to the west bank to harass the enemy garrison on light cavalry.

It is said to be Qingqi, but in fact there are only [-] cavalry, all of them are Li Dai's family and clan, and they are private soldiers. According to the past, they are "Yiding Tuqi". Wearing a war horse, the person only has a cotton-padded breastplate, but the weapon is not bad, except for the waist knife bone, there is only a Liaodong Fran machine rear-mounted cavalry gun-a gift from Li Rubai.

Thanks to the coordination of the infantry and cavalry of the Beiyang Banner Army organized by the twenty cavalrymen and hundreds of households, and supplemented by the extremely high ability of the Beiyang Army to build pontoon bridges, Li Dai dared to treat the river as nothing. Today is on the east bank and tomorrow is on the west bank. However, the harvest turned the whole way upside down, almost using the power of a hundred households to raise the food and grass needed by Wang Youlin's entire guerrilla general headquarters.

But towards the end of the year, Li Dai once again noticed different signs after crossing the river. There were signs of a large army moving by the side of the valley road. Although they tried to hide their whereabouts, they were discovered by experienced hunters in Jianzhou-this is extremely rare in France, although this The winter here is much warmer than that of Daming Jiubian, and there is no ice on the road, but the climate near the sea is humid, which makes people uncomfortable.

According to the intelligence, when the war in France was the most intense in the past years, the war would cease in autumn, and the war would start again in the spring of the next year. There would never be such a large-scale march and mobilization as at this moment.

As a graduate of the Xuanfu Lecture Hall who focuses on land warfare, after receiving the report from his subordinates, he immediately made a textbook-style arrangement, dispatched cavalry to follow up, reported to the Hedong guerrilla general Wang Youlin, and led the banner army of the headquarters to take five days Ration ambushes beside the road.

When the guerrilla general Wang Youlin heard the news, he immediately assembled seven hundred households under his command and marched towards the Kelan River. As soon as he reached the river bank, he saw Li Dai leading the Beiyang Banner Army to fight and retreat on the pontoon bridge. The pontoon bridge was burned with oil, and immediately led the troops to join in the blocking. The two sides continued to shoot, but in fact no one was targeting the other. They kept shooting because they didn't want the other side to dismantle the fortifications.

It wasn't until night that the pontoon bridge was completely burnt down that the troops stopped across the Kelan River.

"Intercepting the grain road, was it successful?"

Casualties were not great for the guerrilla general Wang Youlin. Of the eight hundred households, only Li Dai's tribe killed two people and injured nine others. At the same time, four servants were missing, and the other seven were unscathed. With more than half of the loss, the guerrilla general headquarters was no longer able to build a pontoon bridge on the Crane River.

"It's not good to do things in a humble position, and I can't cut off its luggage."

The brief meeting during the voyage let Li Dai know that this guerrilla general does not like to listen to excuses. He bowed his head and replied: "The enemy came to help, so they had to burn the looted luggage and carriages, but only one or two tenths of their luggage."

"Twelve out of ten?"

Wang Youlin frowned. Li Dai's men had been robbing supplies all the time. Basically, he knew how much they could rob at one time. He looked worried and said, "How many troops do you think they have?"

"There are no ruts and hoof marks in the first trace, and the number of footprints is more than two thousand; there are also two thousand people guarding the luggage, and there are horse troops in front. Their morale is higher than that of the soldiers seen before. It's not good to cooperate alone."

Li Dai was much more troubled than Wang Youlin. He never expected that the enemy would send out so many troops to protect the luggage. The robbing of this ticket would have won a lot of things. Although the infantry guarding the luggage carriage at the end of the team would not suffer once like those in the past Bursts scattered and fled, but the chaos encountered in the attack was real, and they were quickly killed and scattered.

He grabbed more than a dozen carriages at once and ran away. There were food, clothes, even coins, armor, and gunpowder in the carts, not to mention how happy he was.

As a result, the French's baggage carriage was too large and contained a lot of things, which exceeded the load-bearing capacity of the Dadongyang prefabricated pontoon bridge.

Originally, the European army in this era marched far less fast than their wheels, and the Beiyang army marched with a baggage carriage, and the wheels couldn't keep up with the two legs of the Beiyang Banner Army, which became a burden. In the end, no one thought of the reason why they were caught up It would be that the baggage cart was too heavy.

The carts are big, and the horses are also big. A big cart creaked everywhere when it was on the pontoon bridge that they could use for two carriages. It was more cargo than their three carriages. It was impossible to get through it. With a strong heartache, they drove the horses to the opposite bank. The winter clothes, food and gunpowder were gathered together and set on fire. The weapons and armor were pushed into the river along the river bank... The last cart with long swords and muskets hurried onto the pontoon bridge before it could be pushed. .

Some big horses were driven by idiots who didn't want to be horses. Some ran into the fire, some jumped from the pontoon bridge into the river, and some were killed by muskets. In the end, only seventeen French horses arrived on the east bank and were restrained. stand up.

The rest is all wasted.

Li Baihu curled his lips and said, "General, I will come back next spring. There are things in the river that need to be fished out. There are weapons and armor, as well as copper cannonballs."

Wang Youlin's eyes lit up when he heard it, he frowned and thought for a moment, then he suddenly raised his hand and patted Li Dai and said, "I'm afraid you have done some meritorious service, this sentence is more meritorious than the grain truck you burned today - we are surrounded !"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)