Griffin Commander in the Late Ming Dynasty

Lin Yuan is the second-in-command of the intelligence department. He was a talent promoted by the top leader who was personally trained by 45. He has sharp eyes and ears and a photographic memory. After systematic training, his talent has been brought to the extreme. As long as he glances at the information, the information will be engraved in his mind intactly.

"Everyone, through the active activities of our intelligence department's spies, we have preliminarily found out the composition of the Tartar army closest to us. They are the left vanguard of the Tartar army heading south. Their original route was to plunder from northern Zhili to the central plains of Henan. However, everyone knows the situation in Henan. After the Tartars wreaked havoc there, they found that they could not rob anything at all, so they had to continue to move south. Therefore, seven days ago, the vanguard arrived in Xuzhou. The total number of this army is about 15,000. The main general, Beile Ajige, is the twelfth son of Nurhaci. He is brave and good at fighting, but he is irritable and violent. He often massacres and abuses the people."

"As for their marching route, we have to wait until they enter Xuzhou to obtain detailed intelligence, and then hand it over to the comrades in the General Staff for calculation before we can draw a conclusion."

"Nurhaci's twelfth son is also a Beile. This weight should be enough..."

Wang Dang listened to Jiang Han mumbling something and was a little confused: "Brother Jiang, what are you talking about? What is enough?"

"I mean, we can use his head as a bargaining chip to make ourselves famous. This is enough. I will definitely kill this Ajige. Even Jesus can't stop him. I say it!"

He looked at Lin Yuan with a gleam on his face: "Lin Yuan, I need your intelligence department to act with all their strength and find out the enemy's marching route as soon as possible. Is there any problem?"

Lin Yuan stood at attention and saluted: "No problem, sir! I will complete the mission at all costs!"

"Everyone, I have a battle plan that requires your full cooperation. I have a brave general under my command who is more courageous than any other man. As long as he can lead the cavalry into Ajige's army, I am 90% sure that he can bring back Ajige's head. The problem now is how can we create an opportunity for him to advance?"

"Xu Hu, follow this idea and have the staff come up with a set of rules."

"I named this operation: Blitzkrieg on Poland!"

Volume 304: Chapter Chapter : Sir, you are so wise!

After the military restructuring, the Volunteer Army's General Staff Office has become the de facto brain of the army. The deployment of the army and the implementation of strategic plans all come from here. Such a group of think tanks ensures every tactical execution of the Volunteer Army to the greatest extent.

The first batch of graduates trained by the military academy have already joined. The advanced combat ideas brought by Parosa himself are now slowly bringing about a complete transformation from head to toe for the new volunteers.

"Everyone, new orders have come down, get ready, we are going to have a meeting"

Following an order from the chief of staff who had just returned from the general operations meeting, all the staff members immediately sprang into action, setting up the venue and sending others away.

"Let me first say that according to the latest intelligence I just received from the combat meeting, our current plan has changed. The speed at which the Tartar army is moving south has exceeded our expectations. The useless Ming army has not caused any form of obstruction or trouble to the Tartar. Now, according to the intelligence from the scouts, the Tartar troops have arrived in Fengxian County, Xuzhou. Not only that, Tartar cavalry have also been found in Wenshan and Yushan in Huai'an. The other party's intention to move south is already obvious, so this time, we must be prepared to fight the Tartar head-on."

When these words were spoken, everyone was excited and couldn't wait. Because of the education advocated and promoted by Jiang Han, these talented volunteers firmly believed that they had an unparalleled historical mission. They believed that they had to rely on themselves to save the entire Central Plains and China, and the Tartars were a hurdle they had to overcome.

Although they had been winning the previous battles, they were always unpleasant, because, to put it bluntly, the people they were fighting were all their compatriots, and many of the bandits were actually civilians, which was really heartbreaking. But fighting the Tartars was different. The soldiers’ duty was to defend their country, and they must completely destroy any foreigners who dared to enter the Central Plains and run wild!

How could they not be excited and excited when they heard that they were going to fight the Tartars head-on? They had been waiting for this day for a long time!

"In response to this, an overall combat plan was given, called blitzkrieg on Poland."

"Blitz Poland? What a strange name, does it have any special meaning?"

"Who is Poland? Why blitz him?"

The people below were whispering. Although the names of many operations could not be said to be closely related to the actual content and were more or less irrelevant, the name of this operation, sir, was indeed too strange. Even though everyone had read books, they could not understand the meaning of the word made up of these four characters.

"Be quiet!"

After knocking on the table to quiet everyone down, the chief of staff continued, "The target of this operation is Ajige, the vanguard general of the Qing army and the twelfth son of Nurhaci."

"Sir, what you mean is that you are going to use your special forces to charge and decapitate Ajige. To this end, let our staff department make overall plans in this direction."

"Charge and behead?"

"what?"

Everyone present was stunned when they heard the news. What was going on?

"Aren't firearms our advantage? Why are we competing with the Tartars in cavalry charges? Are you crazy, sir?"

Someone murmured quietly that the order was really unbelievable, but before he could even utter a word of complaint, he was harshly rebuked by the person next to him.

"Shut up! How can you guess the master's talent?"

I have said before that in Yangzhou nowadays, especially in the Volunteer Army, everyone is Jiang Han's fanatic. The degree of fanaticism is so high that the light on the walls of Yangzhou shines in all directions. Mr. Jiang is like the golden sun. If you dare to say something bad about Jiang Han in front of them, do you want to eat oil cakes? Are you going to die?

This is because they are actually also confused, otherwise they would have slapped you in the face and kicked your uniforms apart.

"Blitz....Blitz....I got it!"

Liang Tiancheng, a staff officer who had just graduated from the academy and joined the General Staff, suddenly clapped his hands, attracting everyone's attention.

"What do you know? Tell me now!"

"Yes, yes, tell me now!"

Liang Tiancheng felt something was wrong after he shouted. What was his identity? He was just a newcomer. It was really a bit... He looked at his colleagues anxiously, and saw eager faces. The chief of staff sitting at the top was even more encouraging: "You young people have just experienced advanced education and training. Your thinking must be more active than us old guys. Whatever you think of, just speak up. It doesn't matter if you are wrong. Brainstorming is a good way to get ideas from all sides."

"Yes!"

Liang Tiancheng was delighted to receive the encouragement. He stood up and saluted immediately with great excitement, then quickly came to the large map of the General Staff Headquarters.

"Everyone knows that the Tatar army is mainly composed of cavalry, with outstanding field combat capabilities, and their ability to fight on horseback is unparalleled in the world."

If you want to defeat the enemy, you must first understand the enemy. Although most people look down on the Tartars, believing them to be a group of black-haired gorillas with human skins, on the battlefield, they will give their opponents twelve points of respect. If they can shoot their opponents twice in the head, they will definitely not just shoot once, in order to prevent the opponent's head from being too hard and suddenly counterattacking. Only dead Tartars are good Tartars.

"And in the continuous victories over the years, the Tatars are extremely clear and confident about their own advantages. They believe that they will not be afraid of any enemy on horseback, nor will they be afraid of fighting any enemy in the field. This has become the main premise of your battle plan, sir. You are playing a big game."

Everyone was attracted by Liang Tiancheng's words, and the chief of staff also became interested. "Oh? Tell me in detail?"

"Everyone, before this plan, what is our combat goal?"

"We will take a warship with a large amount of equipment and cross the sea directly to the heart of Liaodong to strike a devastating blow to the rear of these dogs of Tartars, so that they will be distracted. But there is a problem with this plan. That is, once the Tartars discover our actions and immediately retreat and start defense, the results we can achieve will not be too great. In this way, our input-output ratio will be disproportionate, because the level of that group of Ming troops is obvious to all. It is better to expect a sow to climb a tree than to expect them to be reliable."

"Therefore, after discovering that the Qing army was heading south, you must have come up with this idea and proposed a solution. Since the Ming army is unreliable, we have to rely on ourselves. This is why you did not set your target on the Tartar vanguard army, but on the Tartar vanguard general Ajige."

"Sir, you want to arouse the wrath of the Tartars."

His words made everyone present suddenly realize. Ajige, as the vanguard general of the Tatars, was killed in the battle. This situation was enough to make the Tatar army feel threatened and provoked, but would not make them feel too much danger. If you are really that capable, why don't you just defeat my vanguard army directly?

"Once Ajige dies in Huai'an or Xuzhou, the Tartar army will definitely come to support us. Once the army advancing southward is pinned down by our army, the movement northward into the heart of Liaodong will be unimpeded. The Tartars will have no way to quickly return to defend! This is a plan to build a stronghold in the open and march through Chencang in secret!"

Everyone immediately started talking, marveling at Jiang Han's brilliant ideas and foresight, but the doubts in their hearts were still unanswered: "But... you also said that the Tartars' field combat capabilities are unparalleled in the world, and their cavalry is even more powerful. So how do you interpret your charge and decapitation tactics, sir?"

"Everyone, the master has a magical weapon. I believe everyone already knows this."

The volunteers didn't know much about the female dolls under Jiang Han, but they all knew that there was such a force. Especially those in the Intelligence Department and the General Staff Department, who had received personal instruction from Parosa and 45 and were more aware of their existence.

"Their firepower, tactics, and capabilities are unparalleled in the world. To be honest, although the Tartars are known to be invincible in field battles, they are probably not good enough in front of your troops. Therefore, the decapitation tactic is definitely feasible, but the key is not here."

"not here?"

"Yes, remember the master's macro strategy I mentioned before? He didn't want to take Ajige's head directly, but to attract the Qing army here. Therefore, the purpose of this operation is not to behead, but to lure the enemy. This also leads to the name of our operation: Blitzkrieg on Poland."

"Is there a meaning for this name?"

Many old people in the General Staff felt that their world views had been refreshed again and again. How could we never realize that Mr. Dao was so well-planned?

"Yes, Ajige is a violent and tyrannical man, and he is easily angered, but he is quite reliable in commanding troops, and he protects himself very strictly. He is under the heavy protection of the Tartar army, and our scouts have found that this is the vanguard of the vanguard army, and they are only in Fengxian and Huai'an. If we want to kill them, we need to lure them to the position we have arranged. How to lure them and attack them quickly."

"Thunder rumbles in spring, but lightning flashes across the sky and disappears in the blink of an eye. The name of lightning strike comes from this. Our army only needs to keep in contact with the enemy's troops, and quickly fade away after the battle. We want to win, but not completely. We give full play to the advantages of our firearms, and they will leave immediately after a slight touch. We only need a relatively important victory to completely attract Ajige's attention, and we only need to wait for his army to arrive and then strike with thunder!"

Liang Tiancheng waved his hand heavily, as if Ajige's life would be destroyed in his palm. The young man was in high spirits, staring at the people in front of him: "This is the meaning of the blitzkrieg against Poland. Sir, he has already told us the solution, but we just haven't been able to understand it!"

The crowd suddenly realized: "Listening to your words is better than a speech!!"

"The last time I heard something so sensible was last time!"

"Sir, you are so talented, but we are so stupid and don't know your business. It's really shameful."

"Yes, yes, fortunately you are here, Xiao Liang. People who graduated from this military academy are different."

Liang Tiancheng felt a little embarrassed by the encouragement from everyone: "I am just picking up Mr.

“No need to be modest”

The chief of staff nodded appreciatively: "Sir, you said that the future of the country ultimately belongs to the young people. I have seen it today and I deeply agree with it. Come on and watch carefully, the future belongs to you."

"Well, everyone, do you have any additional suggestions on tactics? The blitzkrieg against Poland has officially begun!"

"Ahhhhh! Chao! Pinching Mama's broken star Ratan! You deserve to die!"

Jiang Han sneezed, and in the blink of an eye, General Shattering Star used a set of gravity magic and two sword strikes to send him to see God. He was so angry that he gritted his teeth.

Huai'an Prefecture, a small village near Pi County.

The once prosperous village had now turned into a sea of ​​fire. The old man lay dead on the roadside, his blood staining a large area of ​​the land red.

"My child, please don't kill my child."

A woman in disheveled clothes ran out of the room. In front of her, a sturdy Qing soldier was holding a baby like a chick.

"noisy"

He kicked the woman away and said, "Zabul, can't you even hold a woman?"

Inside the house, a soldier came out of the house while holding up his pants, cursing: "Damn it, this bitch ran away while I was taking off my pants."

He walked up to the woman in two or three steps, grabbed her hair and dragged her into the house. As the woman cried out in despair, she watched her child being thrown onto the millstone by the Tartar soldier, turning into a piece of bloody dead meat.

Such tragedy is happening in every household in this village.

"Tie up the strong men and women, kill all the old people and children, and load all the food and property onto the trucks and take them away!"

They are like a group of extremely skilled robbers. They not only want your wealth, but also all your surplus value. To them, people are more like goods, but if you resist fiercely, they will kill your entire family.

Under the order of Huang Taiji, the Qing army's attitude towards the Central Plains was that as long as they encountered resistance, they would massacre the city after attacking it.

Hidden behind their brutality is their fatal weakness: insufficient population.

Liaodong is a small place, and even with the help of Mongolia, the population is not large. This makes every soldier of the Qing army very precious and cannot afford casualties. In order to reduce casualties and deter the enemy, it is a very necessary way.

"The south is still rich, damn, those northern bastards are so poor that you can't even find a hair."

As they looted, the Qing soldiers sighed.

"Speed ​​up, we have to keep moving forward"

They laughed happily as they killed and looted, and not far away, an army was marching towards here quickly.

Volume 305: Chapter Chapter : First Confrontation

"Boss, we found the Tartar cavalry."

As several scouts investigated, an officer quickly rode his horse to the front and took out a telescope.

This is one of the standard military equipment that Jiang Han customized for the Volunteer Army, a monocular telescope. This thing used to be very expensive because the glass-making technology was not yet mature. The glass made by Ming Dynasty craftsmen had very low light transmittance and could not produce the high-transmittance convex lens effect required for the telescope, so they could only find natural crystal for polishing.

But under Jiang Han's leadership, Yangzhou's industrial system has been comprehensively strengthened, including the glass manufacturing industry. After changing the formula to quartz sand, limestone, feldspar, soda ash, and boric acid, the fired glass has been greatly improved in both output and quality, which can just meet the conditions for manufacturing glass products to replace crystal.

With this, Jiang Han was able to equip the volunteers in batches with telescopes, an important piece of equipment, especially the vanguard scouts. Every member needed this item, and it was very useful for surveying the enemy situation.

And through the telescope, these Qing soldiers were acting recklessly in the village.

"These damn beasts..."

Some young soldiers saw this scene and were so angry that their hair stood on end. They wished they could draw their swords and fight the Tartars to the death on the spot.

"Calm down, it's not time to take action yet!"

The squad leader stopped the excited soldier and turned to ask the scout next to him: "Have you found out how many people there are?"

"We counted them and found that there were about twenty Tartars inside and outside the village. This was a small cavalry unit, mainly sent out to plunder. The main force should be not far away."

"Very good, send a message to the rear troops, these bastards, don't let any of them escape"

"Yes!"

The scout ran to the rear, took off the communication rocket on his body, opened the fire starter and blew it to light the rocket. With a crisp bang, a firework bloomed from the sky.

The Qing army naturally could not fail to see such a loud noise. They noticed something unusual the moment the fireworks went up into the sky. With the whistling of the squadron leader, many Qing soldiers stopped their work and ran out to gather.

"What's the noise?"

"It's a signal arrow. We must have been discovered by the Ming army. Everyone, pay attention and get ready to mount your horses."

The sergeant was very cautious about the upcoming battle and directly ordered his cavalry to prepare for battle. The team members followed his orders but did not take it seriously.

"So it's the Ming army, I thought it was something else."

"That's right, these Han dogs, killing them is like killing sheep, they have no ability to resist at all"

"Haha, I thought I could only capture a few Han dogs and bring them back, but I didn't expect to get military merits. You are really generous, Ming people."

They didn't take the Ming army mentioned by the sergeant seriously at all. The Ming army's crappy record was there, and they would be severely humiliated.

"Don't let your guard down. Although they are not the Ming army, the warriors of the grasslands must not capsize in the gutter again."

The sergeant has already determined that the army that is arriving at this moment is definitely not the main force of the Ming army. If it is, there is no need to send any signal at all. He can just start with firing arrows, and then the main force will just press forward. The signal proves that it is a small reconnaissance force. As long as the number difference is not too big, the sergeant has enough confidence in fighting in the field.

"This group of Tartars must have seen our signal, but did you see that they were not nervous at all and were even eager to try. What does this mean? It means that they don't take us seriously at all! This is a humiliation!"

Riding a horse to the front of the troops, the squad leader looked at his soldiers seriously: "These foreigners came to our land, burned, killed, and looted, treating us as nothing. The Ming army is a bunch of trash, and we are looked down upon by others. However, all this will come to an end today, because we want to show them what a volunteer army is! Everyone line up!"