Chapter 107 The second stage of the cross-sea raid
After the news that the cross-sea raid troops captured Shengjing reached Dengzhou, Zhou Shaohuan, who had returned to Dengzhou to preside over the situation, immediately began to carry out the second phase of the cross-sea raid, crossing the Bohai Sea and landing in Dagu.
The one who made the landing operation this time was the merchant army from Shandong.
Since the Qing army began its southern expedition, Shandong has become a secondary battlefield. Although the Qing army has about 70,000 troops in Shandong, the most elite Manchu and Han flag troops have less than 15,000 people, and the rest are surrendered troops.
There are very few firearms, with only more than forty cannons and only more than one thousand muskets. Therefore, Abatai's father only sits in Jinan, and then divides his troops to defend Qingzhou and Yanzhou, only saves himself and rarely takes the initiative to
The merchant army launched an attack.
Abatai also knew that although Shandong had a large number of troops, most of them were mobs, and they were vulnerable to the battle. However, it was unreliable to rely on Beijing and could only tap potential within itself. Therefore, in more than two years
Abatai, Boluo, Yue Le and his son selected strong personnel from the surrendered soldiers and carried out strict training. At the same time, some young and middle-aged people were recruited to join the army. Now more than 30,000 elite troops have been trained. And this
More than 30,000 people were neither the Eight Banners of the Han Army nor the Green Camp, and they almost became private soldiers of Abatai and his son.
However, in the past two years, the merchant army has also made great progress in Shandong. Now the Fourth Army has three infantry divisions, two infantry brigades and one special forces brigade, with a total force of about 53,000.
The Fifth Army has two infantry divisions, one infantry brigade and one cavalry brigade, with a total force of about 35,000. There are also three reserve brigades. It also has a population of more than 2.6 million and basic food.
Weapons, ammunition, and military supplies can be self-sufficient.
Although the strength of the Shandong merchant army has long surpassed that of the Qing army, in the past two years, the Shandong merchant army has been cooperating with the Jiangbei merchant army in the southern Shandong region to fight, so it did not take the initiative to take the lead in Qingzhou and Jinan.
What kind of big battle has happened? Of course, small-scale battles of about a thousand people are inevitable, because both sides need to use battles to train new recruits.
Therefore, Shang Yi also handed over the second phase of the cross-sea raid to the Shandong Shangjia Army to complete. After receiving Shang Yi's order, Zhou Shaohuan immediately drew elite soldiers and prepared to complete the task. First, from the Fourth Army
The Second Division and a Special Forces Regiment were drawn to form a landing force that raided Dagukou. The Second Division was the army that Zhou Shaohuan started, and it was also an old army of the Merchant Army. The former could chase the First Regiment of the Merchant Army from south Shandong.
In Shandong, it is also an ace army. The current division commander Teng Yinyu is also a veteran of the merchant army. Letting such an army be responsible for the sudden attack on Dagukou can also show Zhou Shaohuan's importance to this mission. After all, this
It is an important combat mission accepted by Shandong region in more than two years.
After receiving the battle report from Shengjing, Zhou Shaohuan also formed the second phase of the cross-sea raid fleet as the main force as the plan, set out from Dengzhou and headed towards Tianjin Wei. At the same time, he immediately ordered the fourth, the second, and the second, and the second, and the second, was also ordered.
The Five Armies gathered three infantry divisions and two infantry brigades, with a total of 45,000 troops, and launched an advance towards Qingzhou to restrain the Qing army in Shandong and could not return to Beijing.
In fact, most areas of Qingzhou Prefecture were occupied by merchants at this time. Only Qingzhou, Linfeng, Linzi, Le'an, Boxing and other five or six prefectures and counties in the northwest of Qingzhou Prefecture.
, and a few surrounding areas.
Abatai also knew very well that the foundation of the Qingzhou Prefecture was actually very weak, and now his own troops were insufficient, so it was impossible to closely deploy all places. Therefore, he did not place too many troops in Qingzhou, but defended.
The focus is on Jinan Prefecture and Yanzhou Prefecture. Because Jinan Prefecture is the core area of Shandong.
Therefore, after the merchant army sent troops, it did not suffer too strong resistance and successfully captured Qingzhou. Then the Qing army in Linyi, Linzi, Le'an and other places also fled one after another, and the merchant army also occupied the entire Qingzhou Prefecture.
Then take advantage of the victory to march towards Jinan.
At this moment, Abatai also received Dorgon's order, and then he realized that the merchant army had raided Liaodong and captured Shengjing. Abatai was also shocked. He had no idea of competing for power with Dorgon.
He hurriedly sent Boro to lead 10,000 troops and immediately rushed back to Beijing for reinforcements, while he arranged defense in Jinan. Fortunately, he had trained more than 30,000 soldiers, so his troops were not short of strength.
Attacking Jinan would not be as smooth as attacking Qingzhou. First of all, the city walls of Jinan were high and the Qing army was heavily guarded. Moreover, in the past two years, the Qing army had been strengthening the city defense of Jinan and the artillery of the merchant army was against Jinan.
The role of the city wall is not very good. On the other hand, although the merchant army in Shandong does not lack battlefield experience, it has mostly fought guerrilla warfare, mobile warfare, encirclement and annihilation war, and there are not many opportunities to fight tough battles in recent years. Therefore, this aspect is indeed lacking.
As a result, after five days of attack, Wu Fa still attacked Jinan City. On the contrary, he lost more than 3,000 troops.
However, the merchant army was frustrated in Jinan, but the battle to raid Dagukou went very smoothly.
After the fleet set sail from Dengzhou, it sailed on the sea for two days and arrived at the waters near the entrance of the Haihe River. Because of the experience of raiding Beijing last time, it also had a good understanding of the hydrological conditions of the Dagukou route.
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The goal, like three years ago, is still Dagu Fort.
It should be said that the Qing court's defense on the coast of Tianjin Wei is indeed much stronger than that of Liaodong, because this is Beijing's portal for sea after all, but due to inertial historical experience and traditional concepts, the Qing court's coastal defense is basically the same
As an imaginary enemy, pirates never thought that the enemy would launch a large-scale attack from the sea. In another time and space, China will be truly threatened by the ocean, and it will take more than two hundred years to wait.
Therefore, although the Qing army arranged 1,200 defenders in Dagu Fort, there was no decent navy. The combat power on the water was only twenty whistle ships, and the largest one was only 200 materials, which was not as good as Ming in the past
military.
Although the outpost fleet of the merchant army was discovered by four Qing army's sentry ships on the sea near the Dagu Port, the merchant army's warships immediately slammed the Tao army's sentry ships and bombarded them in dozens of gates.
Under the intensive attack of artillery, two Qing army's urns were immediately sunk.
Although the other two escaped the bombardment of artillery, turned the bow of the ship, and sailed wildly towards the shore, they still did not escape. Because the two flying scissors of the merchant army immediately attacked and chased after them. In this era,
The speed at sea is nowhere to be the right of the flying scissors in the world. Therefore, within a while, the two flying scissors caught up with the Qing army's whistleboats with their absolute advantage in speed.
The Clippers were not used for combat, so they were not equipped with artillery, but there was an organ gun at the beginning and end. After the two ships were parallel, the soldiers on the Clippers immediately used the organ gun to shoot at the Qing army's sentry ship.
The wood chips were flying on the deck of the Qing army's ship, and the sailors were also injured and killed. The rest could only lie on the deck, motionless.
After the organ guns stopped shooting, the soldiers of the merchant army immediately called out to the Qing army, asking them to surrender. When the Qing army saw that they could not escape and could not defeat them, they all chose to surrender. The two whistle ships also
It became the spoils of the merchant army, capturing a total of twenty-seven soldiers and sailors from the Qing army.
After taking the prisoners back to the brigade, after some military questions, I found out the defense of Dagu Fort from the surrendered Qing army. Teng Yinyu, the commander of the Second Division, also decided to take Dagu Fort out of the wisdom. After getting ashore,
First, a platoon of soldiers was selected to put on the clothes of the purgatory soldiers, disguised themselves as Qing soldiers, hid their rifles, and found several prisoners of Qing soldiers to lead the way to trick Dagu Fort. And behind them
, and two battalions of soldiers were sent to support him.
Because the surrendered soldiers answered correctly under the city, the Qing soldiers in Dagu Fort were not suspicious of the soldiers who were disguised as merchants. After asking a few questions, they immediately opened the city gate and put them into Dagu Fort.
As soon as we entered the city gate of Dagu Fort, the merchant army immediately started attacking, threw away the hat and helmet, showing that it was not shaved, and then threw grenades at the Qing army in the fort one by one. At this time, Dagu Fort
The defenders inside were unprepared and were blown upside down, killing and injured. The other soldiers were also scared and found a place to hide. The entire fort immediately became in chaos. The merchant army also took the opportunity to take it out and hide it.
The musket fired at the Qing army and guarded the city gate with all his strength.
After a while, the Qing army realized that there were not many enemies in the slaughter, only forty or fifty people, so they felt a little relieved, so they reorganized the soldiers and began to attack the merchant army. But at this time,
The two battalions that were receiving it had already arrived at the edge of Dagu Fort, and immediately fought through the city and joined the battle. At this moment, the military forces and weapons of the merchant army were above the Qing army, and the Qing army could no longer resist and rushed forward.
Those who came up were killed and fell to the ground and died. When the others saw it, they dared to resist any more and immediately fled. The merchant army took advantage of the situation and captured Dagu Fort.
After capturing Dagu Fort, the soldiers and most of the artillery of other landing troops also basically landed on land. Teng Yinyu also ordered that only one battalion was left in Dagu Fort garrison, and the other troops set off immediately.
, to seize Tianjin Guards. At the same time, the Tuya Fleet also sent some small and medium-sized warships to go upstream from the Haihe River and support the landing troops from the water.