From ancient times to the present, when two armies are fighting, there are only a few ways to obtain the enemy's information. In addition to the much-talked-about "Guxu Technique", there are many other methods mentioned in military books, such as using space, battlefield reconnaissance, tongue grabbing, etc.
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The intelligence that Fu Bao worked hard to get was correct. The key was that the Northern Navy's completely different tactical system and endless equipment made it impossible for the Qing army to use the old method to accurately estimate the strength of the opponent. In addition, Qianlong left Beijing in Baoning.
At that time, he was instructed not to reveal the true combat power of the Northern Navy to the Zhasak banner owners in Khalkha, lest these people have second thoughts about the imperial court.
Even though forty years had passed since the "Removal of Posts", Qianlong had always been wary of these princes of Khalkha, Taiji; he asked them to go to Rehe every year for an audience, both for marriage and for checks and balances.
It can be said that he has a carrot and a stick in one hand.
Although the senior officials of the Qing court knew that the Northern Navy's combat power was terrifying and that various methods were used on the battlefield, they did not dare to tell the truth to the Khalkha ministries.
First of all, it is difficult to explain. There are many things that the Manchus and Qing dynasties themselves still don’t understand and are confused about. For example, the eighteen-bead strong light flashlight, in the eyes of the Manchu and Qing dynasties, this thing can’t be found except as a “witchcraft”.
to any reasonable explanation.
The second is that once it is made too clear, it will definitely have a blow to the morale of the military. For example, the machine gun. From the military aircraft department to the Ministry of War, the Qing government knew that the Northern Navy had a "spark gun" that could be fired continuously, which was more commonly used by Northern Navy soldiers.
The rapid-fire rifles were a hundred times more ferocious. However, for the Khalkha Mongolian tribes that had never fought against the Northern Navy, speaking too clearly would have the opposite effect.
As for the cannons of the Northern Navy, this is even more true. If the Zasak Taijis of various Khalkha ministries knew that the cannons of the Northern Navy were more powerful and fired faster than the "Wucheng Yonggu General Cannon" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it is estimated that many princes and Taijis would
They will all retreat.
At the very least, Tsarist Russia still had a flintlock gun and regimental artillery. The Mongolian archers in Khalkha had only bows and arrows, and they were perfect cannon fodder.
Now, whether it was Qianlong or the minister Wang below, they were extremely afraid of the Northern Navy's move to send troops to Outer Mongolia from the bottom of their hearts; because some people had already guessed that Zhao Xin's move was probably intended to cut off the Manchus' retreat to the west.
After capturing Khalkha Mongolia, you can directly take Urumqi and Ili along the southern route of Khovd. The northeast is gone, and the northwest is gone. If Zhao Xin leads his army ashore from Dagokou, the Manchu monarchs and ministers will have no choice but to
It ended up like the Southern Ming Dynasty; but the problem is that the Northern Navy has large iron ships and various types of gunboats, and the Yangtze River's natural moat is just like paper.
As a result, the Manchu and Qing monarchs and ministers could only go to the land of Sichuan, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou. It is a miasmatic land. It is sheer suicide for northerners to go there!
By the way, just when Baoning was in a dilemma, messy gunshots came from the northeast. His heart suddenly skipped a beat. Needless to say, Ailong'a was already at war!
"Commander, what should I do?"
The night wind suddenly blew by, and Baoning's whole body shivered, and his face instantly turned pale.
"It is a disgrace to the country to lose an army and to die if we go back." At this time, he had completely figured it out. In order to deal with the Northern Navy this time, the imperial court had already used all its strength to deal with the Northern Navy. If it were to withdraw tonight, tens of thousands of troops would be in vain, and he
There will be no way out.
Now he can only be sure that there is no problem with Fu Bao's intelligence. No matter how powerful the Beihai Navy is, it is not the Eight-Armed Nezha. He has used more than ten times the force to attack. How can he defeat half of them even if half of them are killed?
Thinking of this, he drew his sword and said to the captain of the soldiers: "Send my order, the whole army crosses the river! We must bring down these two mountains tonight!"
This night in the Chahan Tuoluo Sea was destined to be uneventful. Although the 4,000 Qing troops who attacked at night on the south road were defeated, the Qing army still had 9,000 troops on the middle and north roads. What’s more, due to the communication conditions in this year and year, the Qing army in the north was defeated.
It was impossible for Lu Qingjun to know the specific situation in the south, so Ailonga launched according to the prescribed time.
As the reconnaissance platoon fought and retreated, the ground began to tremble as if explosives had been ignited. The running footsteps of countless people startled the tired birds to fly up, flapping their wings and swaying in the night sky.
dance.
As the flares lit up in the air again, the Northern Navy soldiers on the hilltop position on the north side could see with the naked eye that large areas of black soldiers were rushing toward the hill where they were, like waves of black, quickly rushing to the foot of the hill.
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"Kill!" Seeing his men fighting bravely one by one, Ailonga, the counselor and minister of Uriyasutai, shouted with arms raised: "Kill all the pirates in the North Sea, and each person will be rewarded with thirty taels of silver! Whoever gets one head will have three additional levels of military merit.
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A dense rain of bullets fell from the mountainside. In an instant, dozens of Mongolian soldiers who were at the forefront were knocked to the ground. The traps buried at the foot of the mountain and on the slopes during the day were triggered from time to time by people touching them.
What followed was the flash of a grenade exploding.
At this moment, to the west of the Northern Navy position, the sound of the earth shaking and shouts of killing came, and the middle Qing army led by Baoning was forcibly crossing the Tesi River.
The light and heavy weapons on the positions of the 1st and 2nd Battalions were on full fire, and the cooks responsible for cooking were helping to transport ammunition into the trenches. The commander of the 2nd Battalion, Zhou Zhong, loudly ordered the two companies going down the mountain to come back quickly through the walkie-talkie. He
There was no time to worry about self-blame. No one expected that there would be so many Qing troops attacking at night.
Hearing the gunshots from the north, and seeing the Beihai navy present suddenly abandoning their men and turning around to leave, the thousands of captured Qing troops on the south road secretly rejoiced, and many of them untied their legs.
The rope, and then fled into the darkness.
The sound of killing at the foot of the mountain was loud, and the bright and dark light and shadow reflected on Michelang's iron-like face. In the field of vision of the telescope, densely packed Qing troops arrived at the foot of the mountain one after another, and then rushed up.
Xingfu, the deputy capital commander who led the attack of Zhasak Tuhan's troops, suffered heavy losses after several rounds of charges. He retreated in embarrassment with seven or eight of his guards, and shouted to Ailonga as he ran: "
Military Gate! The North Pirates' guns and cannons were too powerful, and more than 800 of my men were killed..."
Ailonga stood motionless, with two hundred Eight Banners Mongolian soldiers behind him. He turned a blind eye to the stray bullets whizzing around him. After listening to Xingfu's words, he asked after a while: "How many people do you have left?"
"There are more than a thousand."
"You dare to withdraw when there are still more than a thousand? Have you forgotten what was said in the military meeting before? There is no way forward in this battle!"
"Military Gate!"
Xingfu had noticed that Ailong'a's tone was wrong, but he claimed to be a member of the clan and a third-level auxiliary to the country. Ailonga should not dare to do anything to him, so he took a few steps forward and was about to explain, but Ailonga
He raised his hand and the cold Yan Ling knife penetrated his chest.
"Which general dares to desert his army? This is an example!" Under the light and shadow, Ailonga kicked Xingfu in the stomach and drew out his knife. Seeing a yellow-belted clan member killed like this, he was frightened.
Dexingfu's guards and several Zasak Taiji who led the retreat retreated continuously.
Ailonga held the bloody saber and shouted sternly at the Zasak lords: "The great emperor has always treated you with great kindness, and today is the time to repay the favor! Mongolian men who are not afraid of death, follow me!"
All the Jibeles present were stunned for a moment, and suddenly they shouted in unison, and with their retreating men, they turned around and charged towards the mountain again.
When the Qing army entered only fifty meters away from the Beihai Navy position, grenades as dense as raindrops fell from the night sky, and clusters of flames and smoke rose up, making the Qing army howl like ghosts and wolves.
"Don't stop! Keep charging!" In the smoke, Ailonga, who was squatting down, suddenly stood up, roared, and rushed into the smoke with more than 20 guards. Behind him, there were waves of Mongolians.
He also followed.
At this point, both the ordinary archers and the Zasak lords knew that there was no way out, otherwise the whole army would collapse.
The barrels of the Beihai navy's machine guns had been red-painted. The machine gunners had no time to change the barrels. They just tightened the triggers and kept firing left and right. The deputy shooter on the side used a loader to load the empty magazines like crazy.
, but still can’t keep up with the speed of his companions.
"Click! Click!" The machine gun with a red barrel suddenly stopped, and the shooter shouted: "Bullet!"
"Lighted up!"
The same scene was played out in other machine gun positions on the front line. The machine gunner who had run out of bullets picked up the only two grenades, pulled the fuse and threw them out.
The eight mortars located on the artillery position have been firing like crazy. The directions of the ruler at the foot of the mountain have been measured in advance. Load and fire! Load and fire...
At this time, the Qing army attacking from the north had reached a position only fifty meters away from the trenches of the Northern Navy. The archers and the few gunners hiding behind the pile of corpses began to shoot. The Northern Navy on the position immediately
There were casualties. As the firepower weakened, a dozen Qing troops finally entered the first trench.
By this time, many Northern Navy soldiers had exhausted their ammunition, and the bloody hand-to-hand combat began.
There was a hail of knives and arrows, screams and howls. Some soldiers had their arms cut off, their necks chopped off, and their Tianling Caps flying away. There were also Mongolians who had bayonets pierced into their chests and abdomens, with blood raining all over their intestines.
In the first trench, heads and severed limbs were kicked and rolled around. Occasionally, there would be an explosion, which was when a wounded soldier of the Northern Navy fired the grenade on his body.
"Withdraw! Withdraw quickly!"
The remaining soldiers of the Northern Navy in the first trench retreated along the communication trench. The soldiers in charge of the rear thrust their bayonets into the chests of the Qing troops who rushed up from time to time. As thousands of Qing troops rushed to the position, the first trench was lost.
Already.
"They are all good! Keep killing! Leave no one behind!" Ailonga jumped into the trench and shouted excitedly.
Just when the Qing army thought victory was in sight, some unknown objects suddenly rolled out from the edge of the second trench more than 20 meters away. As the spindle-shaped shell rolled on the hillside, it made a clanging sound like metal hitting it.
When these strange-shaped things twisted and rolled into the first trench, the Mongolian soldiers crowded in the tunnel dodged to both sides.
"What is this?" Someone touched it with the knife in his hand, and there was a metallic crunch. "Iron?"
Just when the Mongolian soldiers were confused, fire suddenly burst out in the trench. Boom! Boom! Boom...
"What a pity..." A brief thought flashed through Ailon'a's mind, and then he was thrown into the air.
Hundreds of lives were wiped out in an instant. The huge explosions one after another made the entire hill look like a volcano erupting. Such a scene made thousands of Mongolian soldiers at the foot of the mountain scared to death. When the blood rain mixed with soil, gravel and residual limbs fell from the sky,
When it swayed down and covered the faces of the Qing army at the foot of the mountain with blood, the entire Qing army on both sides of the northwest collapsed immediately.
That night, the North Navy's "Southward Detachment" faced 13,000 Qing troops with 800 men, killing and wounding more than 6,000 people, and capturing more than 1,500 people. Baoning, who was defeated and returned to his camp, was defeated early the next morning.
He ordered the entire army to retreat seventy miles.
As for the two battalions led by Mi Shilang, two companies on the hilltop position on the north side suffered heavy losses in hand-to-hand combat; on the south side, one company under Zhou Zhong was almost wiped out, and Zhou Zhong himself also received a knife in the hand-to-hand combat. Fortunately, he had been killed before.
The two companies sent rushed back as hard as they could, and then they pushed back the Qing army attacking in the middle. The most important thing is that if Mislang hadn't ordered the artillery to use the mortar shells as explosives at the critical moment, the bullets would almost have been fired.
The entire Northern Navy might be completely wiped out.
Looking back in hindsight, Mi Shilang's actions in the Chahan Tuoluo Sea completely disrupted Qianlong's entire deployment. The Qing army in the west of Hang'ai Mountain failed to provide support to the Agui army in the east. After this battle, the Qing army in the west of Hang'ai Mountain failed to provide support to the Agui army in the east.
The Zasak lords never launched a large-scale offensive against the Northern Navy again, laying a solid foundation for the "Southern Detachment" to finally occupy Khovd.
On the third day after the battle at Chahantoro Sea, the radio station of the "Southbound Detachment" finally restored contact with Chiyan City. In the evening of that day, Zhao Xin, who had only arrived in Khabarovsk for a day, saw this telegram.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Great!" Zhao Xin excitedly slammed the table after reading the telegram.
Wang Zhenyi, who was playing Go with A Miao, asked curiously: "What are you so happy about?"
"Military Secrets."
When Wang Zhenyi heard this, she rolled her eyes at Zhao Xin, wondering who would know that. But she also knew that the thing that made Zhao Xin happy at the moment probably had something to do with Khalkha.
She has been inspecting with Zhao Xin for more than ten days. Although the relationship between the two has not reached a breakthrough point, they are still a lot closer. As they get closer, Wang Zhenyi has a better understanding of Zhao Xin's character.
Understand; even in private, he never mentioned military matters to himself or A Miao.
Zhao Xin laughed after hearing this, took out a map from the desk, looked at it carefully for a moment, and then said: "I have to leave for a few days for something. Should you two wait for me here, or take a boat first?"
Going to Heilongjiang City?"
Wang Zhenyi was silent for a while and said softly: "How many days?"
"Five to seven days."
"Then we'll wait for you to come back." Wang Zhenyi blurted out without thinking, and then her cheeks turned a little red.
"Well, originally I wanted to visit Mr. Ziping, so I'll leave it to you and Mr. Rong Fu."
Considering the situation on Huji's side, Zhao Xin felt that he had to go there. Although the troops could not be replenished, food and ammunition had to be replenished. After all, the Chahantuoluo Sea was still more than 900 meters away from Ulia Sutai.
As for Li Di. Transporting supplies from Red Rock City is too much, so I can only go there myself.
In addition, Hu Ji and the others also captured more than 1,500 prisoners. If they can be reformed and won over, they can become civilians instead of soldiers. This will expand the influence of the Northern Navy in Tangnu Ulianghai and Zhasak Tuhan.
In the future, at least one regiment of troops will have to be deployed in Ulyasutai and Khovd, and the problem of troop sources must be solved locally.