How big is fifty square kilometers? It's about the size of seven thousand standard football fields.
Deng Fei pretended to study the map for a long time, and finally circled a location on the south bank of the Kollidam River, 65 kilometers away from the local governance.
The largest town in this area is Pazhayarai, which is located south of the estuary of the Kolidam River. This place was originally called Ayiratalli, which means "the place of a thousand temples". It was the ancient capital of the Chola dynasty in the Middle Ages.
In fact, he and Zhao Xin had already planned this. If they wanted to cooperate with Tipu Sultan in attacking the British in the south, the Northern Navy could march straight in along the Kolidam River.
When Leclerc saw that Deng Fei had chosen this place, he thought it was pretty good. He considered it from his own perspective. Once the British in the north launched a sea attack, the Northern Navy ship could arrive in more than three hours. In addition, if he wanted to go to the Kingdom of Mysore
If so, you can reach the royal capital by walking more than 300 kilometers west from the local government.
Since he wanted to aid Tipu Sultan, Deng Fei had to go to Mysore and meet the Sultan before setting off. He decided to leave without further delay before the British reacted.
Governor Clare wrote a personal letter to Tipu Sultan, boasting about Butterworth Town.
Beihai No. 1 had previously performed an artillery display when the Governor visited the Thor. It only used three rounds of fire from two 75mm cannons to blow up a wooden house set up on the beach three kilometers away as a target.
The power really shocked the French. When they learned that the price of each shell of this kind of artillery was as high as 100 livres, which is 388 grams of gold, Governor Leclerc and his officers were stunned.
Later, when Deng Fei and others brought a 12-pounder gun carried by the Thor ashore for display, the French thought it was pretty good, easy to move and easy to copy, so they bought twenty of them at once.
On June 30, 1792, Deng Fei and his party of more than 500 people followed the envoy and translator sent by Governor Leclerc, plus a troop of 300 indigenous soldiers, carrying 200 Beihai Town firing rifles and
Two 12-pound cannons embarked on a journey to the Kingdom of Mysore...
Beihai Town fought fiercely with the French in South India, plotting against the British, and the Qing army in the north also launched. The second Qing Dynasty War officially started five days ago.
In order to quickly annihilate the Kuomintang troops on the Tsamu Mountain Pass (today's south of Zongkha Town, Jilong County) and achieve the unexpected goal of combat, on June 24, 1792 - that is, on the night of the sixth day of May in the fifty-seventh year of Qianlong's reign, five thousand Qing soldiers
Under the cover of dense drizzle, the army divided into five teams and left the camp.
Fukang'an asked Batulu's guards Zhang Jingzhe Senbao and Weng Guoerhai to each lead a team, march along the east and west sides of Camu Mountain to the mountain ridges on the left and right of the Kuo Army camp to intercept them; he also sent another team to bypass the mountain ridge and enter the Kuo Army's rear.
Cut off the way; Taifei Ying'a led Amantai, Erdenbao and other guards led the army to attack from the front; Fukang'an led Helin, Delengtai and others as mobile troops, waiting for opportunities to kill. To their northeast
, as well as more than 2,000 Tengpai soldiers and garrison troops led by Hui Ling and Green Battalion Commander Zhang Zhiyuan as reserve teams.
Due to the rain, the stream in the valley of Camushan changed from the usual gurgling trickle, and the water became rushing and turbulent. When the Qing army waded through the river, and encountered steep and dangerous places, they always used the light of torches to climb up, but in this way
The terrain was simply fatal for the firearms battalion carrying several 12-pound guns. By the time each team arrived at the attack position, it was already dawn the next day.
Camushan Mountain is steep and densely wooded. The Kuo army built two stone blockhouses at the pass, with stone walls on three sides. Only a gate was left on the north side. If the Qing army wanted to attack, they could only rush up along a trail on the north slope.
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"Commander, do you want to fire a few shots first?" He Lin was quite confident in the two Beihai Town 12-pound cannons she brought. Their power was many times more powerful than the Qing army's mountain-splitting cannon.
"No! If we alert the enemy, we can only attack from our backs. This battle can only be fought at close range!" Fukang'an had done enough homework beforehand and was very familiar with the terrain here. He said to his soldiers: "Go and tell Taiwan
Fei Ying'a, let them climb the mountain quickly and open the gate of the village! Let the musketeers aim at the door and come out and kill each one!"
"嗻!"
Because they were conquering a dangerous mountainous area, Tai Fei Ying'a led troops from the Jinchuan garrison. These Tibetan soldiers were extremely tough and fought bravely one by one. When they arrived outside the wall of the Kuo military camp, Tai Fei Ying'a personally led others to climb over the mountain.
He broke through the wall, first chopped down a few guards on guard, and then opened the gate of the village.
Hundreds of firearms battalion officers and soldiers holding Beihai Town firing rifles swarmed forward, divided into five rows, and blocked the entrance of the village. When the Kuo troops rushed out of the watchtower, there was a loud roar of bullets and smoke, and hundreds of Kuo troops were killed on the spot.
.After that, the Jinchuan garrison troops rushed into the first stone watchtower, shouting to kill and making loud clashes of weapons. In less than a stick of incense, the northern watchtower had been captured.
The Kuo army's second watchtower was built on the high ground in the south. There were two stone walls on the outside. There were musket shooting holes on the wall. The outside of the wall was densely covered with wooden piles and antlers. It was easy to defend but difficult to attack. The Kuo army inside the fort saw that
The towers in the north fell, and they discovered that there were Qing troops on the east and west mountain ridges. They knew they had nowhere to escape, so they defended the towers and fired guns and stones to defeat the attacking Qing troops.
Upon seeing this, Fukang'an immediately ordered his men to push a 12-pound cannon up the mountain pass and blast it from a distance of five to six hundred meters. He also ordered Tai Fei Ying'a to lead his troops to attack from the outer wall on the west side of the watchtower.
While most of the army was resisting desperately in the western wall, Delengtai led 20 Sauron soldiers to blow up a large gap in the first wall on the east with a 12-pounder cannon. Then the Qing army in the middle followed
The gap rushed in like a tide. In a fierce hand-to-hand battle, nearly a hundred Kuo troops were killed and 18 captured. Fukangan did not interrogate them and ordered them all to be beheaded.
The Qing army won the first battle and their morale was high. Fukang'an immediately sent an order to Sichuan Admiral Cheng De. Zhang Zhiyuan, the commander-in-chief of the Green Battalion, led a partial division of 3,000 troops to contain the Kuo army on the Nyalam front. He himself led the main force to attack Jilong immediately.
Attack. When they marched to the deep forest-covered Magarhaerjia area, more than 300 Kuo troops who had followed Jilong ran into them head-on, and a fierce battle broke out immediately.
This time, the Kuo troops finally showed their fierceness in combat. They attacked from the bottom of the mountain and killed and wounded dozens of people without giving in. Even though they were shot through the shoulder blade by an arrow from Sauron soldiers, they still fought to the death with their swords.
Seeing this, Fukang'an led most of Sauron's troops to ambush behind the big rock halfway up the mountain. He Lin and the Firearms Battalion, a dozen Batulu guards, and Zhang Jing stayed on the mountain to lure the Kuo army to attack.
Sure enough, they were fooled and rushed to the middle of the mountain with a large red flag. Fukangan led his troops to fight out, shot and killed the leading general of the Kuo army on the spot, and seized the enemy flag. At the same time, He Lin ordered the firearms battalion and Zhongba
The Tulu guards and Zhang Jing launched an attack. For a moment, muskets roared in the forest, arrows rained like rain, and there were swords and swords everywhere, and blood flowed in the ditch.
At this time, the power of the Beihai flash capper gun became apparent. The brown bass bought by the Gurkhas from the British was no match in terms of distance and accuracy. The Gurkha army's musketeers were beaten until they ran away.
The Qing army pursued them for more than ten miles, during which the Kuo army relied on the dangerous pass to hold on. So when 300 officers and soldiers from the firearms battalion arrived, the two sides launched a large-scale musketry exchange.
Taking advantage of the opportunity for the Kuo troops to reload, the Solunda Hur soldiers hid behind rocks as big as door panels and kept firing arrows, causing heavy casualties to the Kuo troops. When the remaining Kuo troops fled to the Jilong camp, only about 20 soldiers were left.
people.
On the ninth day of May, the Qing army was setting up camp in Bangxing. While waiting for the artillery from the rear to arrive, Fukang'an also led people to check the enemy situation on the road. The military camp built by the Kuo army in Jinong still had two protective walls made of stacked stones.
The stone wall is two feet high, with deer antlers and horizontal timbers densely covered under the wall. In addition, Kuo Jun also built a tall watchtower near the river in the northwest of the camp to protect the water source. In addition, there are two watchtowers in the northeast and southeast of the camp, and two towers at the foot of the mountain.
Fortifications were also built in the Lamasery and people were stationed there.
In the early morning of May 10th, several more 12-pound cannons and ammunition supplies from the rear arrived at Bangxing. At the same time, thousands of Qing troops arrived from Zongkha. In view of the sufficient strength of his troops, Fukang'an decided to
This is a combat plan to launch simultaneous attacks on various strongholds of the Kuo army so that they will be attacked everywhere and unable to take care of each other.
His tactics this time are exactly the same as Zhao Xin's previous methods, which is to use a sharp and powerful offensive to fight continuously and never give the enemy a chance to breathe!
Yes, after fighting Beihai Town for so many years, Fukang'an had long seen through Zhao Xin's tricks, which were just three tricks. However, the firepower of the Beihai Navy was too fierce, and the Qing army was often blinded as soon as they came up, causing casualties and casualties.
It was so heavy that the general at the rear could not resist it even with all his tricks. However, the two sides now fighting were the Qing army and the Gurkhas, and Marshal Fu immediately realized the beauty of it.
Of course, being able to do this must be based on strong logistical supplies. Fukang'an stayed in Houzang for two full months, and planned a large amount of grain and grass to be transported to Zongkha.
Rushing and fighting without hesitation. If it relies on the supplies of the Sichuan-Tibet Line... forget it, the grain transport team that set out from Dajianlu three months ago has just reached the halfway point!
On the morning of May 10th, tens of thousands of Qing troops were divided into seven groups. Under the cover of fierce firing from several 12-pound cannons, they simultaneously launched a fierce attack on various targets of the Kuo army. The Kuo army was condescending and soon realized that the situation was not good, so they immediately opened fire.
fight back.
The Qing army first attacked the Kuo army's blockhouse on the southeastern ridge. After the 12-pounder artillery blew up the tower, the remaining Kuo army rushed out. After a close battle with the Solundahur soldiers led by Tai Fei Ying'a, the Kuo army was defeated.
All were killed. Later, the Lamasery was also destroyed by the Qing army's artillery bombs.
However, when Balutu guard Bayantai led his men to attack the bunker near the river, the Kuo army, worried that the water source would be cut off, launched a counterattack like crazy. Facing rounds of artillery fire from the Qing army, the bunker was quickly bombed.
At a corner, the Kuo soldiers who were shooting from high places panicked and jumped into the river one after another from the towers. Most of them drowned, and those who were lucky enough to swim ashore were shot dead on the spot by Sauron soldiers patrolling on horseback with bows and arrows.
In short, with the assistance of the 12-pound cannon, the Qing army attacked the watchtowers much more smoothly. Each time, they used the explosive shells provided by Beihai Town to blow up the watchtowers, and then the musketeers and archers went up and fired several rounds. The officers and soldiers could
Those who rushed in rushed in, and those who failed to rush in used flying gourds filled with kerosene to throw and set fire. It was not until evening that all the watchtowers were conquered.
At this time, heavy rain was pouring, and the Qing army was extremely exhausted from several days of continuous fighting and was in urgent need of rest. However, Fukang'an did not intend to give the Kuo army a chance to breathe, so he ordered all units to launch an attack overnight.
The Kuo troops in the camp were not afraid of death. They relied on the stone wall to engage in exchanges with the Qing troops. After their muskets ran out of bullets, they threw stones to fight back, defending to the death.
When Fukang'an saw this, he ordered the other five officers and soldiers to attack together. He also sent the easy-to-carry mountain splitting artillery to the collapsed watchtower near the river, set up a fort, and fired continuously at the embrasures and lookout windows in the Kuo army camp.
The Kuo army artillerymen in the camp were beaten by shotguns and howled like ghosts.
After it turned completely dark, tens of thousands of Qing troops lit torches, illuminating the outside of the Jidongkuo military camp like daylight. The Qing troops tied thick wood into ladders and set them up on the first stone barrier. Jinchuan soldiers and ants climbed up.
Only then did the first stone barrier be demolished.
An unprecedented brutal hand-to-hand battle broke out immediately. The Jinchuan native soldiers and the Kuo troops were completely mixed together. Swords and guns were fired, and sparks were flying. From time to time, some people fell down with screams. Everyone was covered with blood, rain, blood and mud.
A mixture of broken limbs and broken bodies were kicked back and forth under the feet of both fighting parties.
Until late at night, when midnight was approaching, the two 12-pound guns were finally removed from the gun mounts and moved to the tower near the river. After only three shots were fired, the northeast corner of the second stone wall collapsed, and the Kuo troops in the camp were
They retreated in a panic to the southwest, but that side was full of steep rock cliffs at 75 degrees. The Kuo soldiers who were trying to escape could not care so much and rolled down the hillside. The Jinchuan soldiers also became red-eyed at this moment and followed.
He jumped down and chased them all the way to the foot of the mountain, killing all the fleeing Kuo soldiers.
At this point, it only took 5 days from the Qing army's attack on the sixth day of May to the capture of Jilong and the recovery of all the lost territory. Fukang'an ordered the entire army to rest for three days. While writing a letter to report the victory and take credit, he also urged the rear to supply grain, grass and supplies.
Ammunition supply. The firearms provided by Beihai Town are easy to use, but the rate of fire is too fast and consumes a lot of ammunition.
On May 14, the Qing army marched toward the Resuo Bridge dozens of miles away, and a battle across the Himalayas that was extremely rare in history began!
The Resuo Bridge spans a tributary that flows into the Jilong River from the east. Beyond this point is the territory of Gorkha. The Gorkha army built a pontoon bridge with wooden planks on the tributary and built it on the Solala Mountain three or four miles away on the north bank.
There is a stone watchtower and two large watchtowers on the south bank facing the river to avoid danger.
When the Qing army took the lead in capturing Shika on the north bank, the Kuo army on the south bank immediately withdrew the bridge planks to prevent the Qing army from crossing the river. Upon seeing this, Fukang'an ordered the army to retreat, allowing Bayantai to lead some Qing troops by the river.
As a feint attack, another 12-pounder gun was pushed over, and it fired from time to time, making the Kuo army on the other side of the river extremely nervous.
At the same time, he ordered Amantai, Zhesenbao, Mergenbao, Wengguoerhai and others to lead the Jinchuan soldiers from the green mountain in the east to the shallow water upstream and sneak along the river.
Six or seven miles from the bridge, they immediately cut down big trees and built rafts to cross the south bank. They rushed along the river and went straight to the Kuo army's stone fort along the river.
At this time, the Kuo army was preparing for a feint attack on the other side of the river. When they saw the Qing army suddenly coming from the south bank, they were shocked and rushed out of the fort to resist. The Qing army on the north bank took advantage of the situation and quickly built a bridge, advanced in two directions, and then captured the stone fort. After that, Kuo army
The troops collapsed one after another, and the Qing army pursued them all the way. By the time they reached Sedam, they had already entered Gorkha territory for more than thirty miles.
After entering the Gorkha border, the Qing army's offensive slowed down immediately due to the terrain. There are narrow mountain paths everywhere, and there are lots of rocks. The mountains are layered one after another, and all have steep slopes of more than 70 degrees. In addition,
There is lack of oxygen on the plateau, making traveling extremely difficult.
At this time, Bahadur, the regent of Gorkha, had received the battle report from the front. He and the leaders were all shocked, knowing that if the Qing army was allowed to rush out of the Himalayas, it would be a disaster for the country. So they all
On the one hand, he gathered his elite troops towards Dongjue, and on the other hand, he sent people to ask for help from the East India Company in the south.