?On April 24, the Fifth Army began to attack Sishui County.《》
However, the Chinese army in Sishui County also encountered an unprecedentedly stubborn resistance since the start of the Shandong Campaign. Although the Qing army stationed in Sishui County was not a new force of the Qing army, a lot of preparations were made based on the tactical characteristics of the Chinese army.
Abatai was the first Qing general who fought against the Chinese Army. He was also the Qing general who suffered heavy losses under the modern firepower of the Chinese Army when the Chinese Army was still called the Muling Army. After the Qing government entered the Pass,
Abate and his son have always taken responsibility
Stationed in Shandong, there has been no major war in Shandong in the past few years, because Abatai not only escaped the disastrous defeat of the Qing Dynasty's two southern expeditions, but also escaped several political storms of the court. He was able to develop his own business in Shandong with peace of mind.
strength.
Moreover, Abatai's two sons, Bolo and Yue Le, also have considerable military talents. With the hard work of the three father and son, Abatai now has more than 100,000 troops, and Shandong has also become his
After Daishan and Jierhalang lost power, Abatai, who was not prominent in the Huangtaiji era, became the most powerful clan force in the Qing court. Even Dorgon did not dare to deal with him.
Look down upon.
However, Abatai has no political ambitions. He is very satisfied if he can hold on to this small half of Shandong Province and be a free king of Xiaoyao in this three-thirds of an acre of land. Therefore, Dorgon is relatively reassured about Abatai.
At the same time, we must rely on his strength to defend Shandong and protect Henan and the capital area. When forming the new army, we also did not forget to form the Shenwei Battalion in Shandong and appointed Yue Le as the commander of the Shenwei Battalion.
Abatai is well aware of the power of the Chinese Army, and he is facing the Shandong Military Region of the Chinese Army. Sooner or later, there will be a big battle. Therefore, in the past few years, Abatai and his son have been working hard to train troops.
On the one hand, he is also studying strategies and tactics to deal with the Chinese army and defend Shandong.
In terms of the grand strategy of guarding Shandong, Abatai and his son formulated a plan to abandon Ludong, shrink their troops, and guard the Jinan-Yanzhou line. In terms of tactics, Abatai has also been studying and studying the tactics of the Chinese army in order to learn from them.
A way to deal with it was actually found much earlier than the Qing government established a new army. Therefore, although the Qing army in Shandong did not have a large proportion of the Eight Banners Army, its overall combat effectiveness was not bad.
The biggest advantage of the Chinese Army is its sharp firearms. Whether in forward attack or defense, it can distance itself and cause damage to the enemy. Therefore, when fighting the Chinese Army, you must first not be suppressed by the Chinese Army's firepower. And Ah
Batai was unable to manufacture large quantities of guns in Shandong, but Abata made up for it by manufacturing a large number of bows and arrows. As a result, the proportion of bows and arrows in the Qing army in Shandong was very high, accounting for more than half.
In addition, after many battles with the Chinese army, the Qing army did accumulate a lot of experience and knew that just by sticking to the city wall, it was impossible to withstand the attack of the Chinese army, because the Chinese army could use artillery bombardment, blasting, etc.
The tactics used to blow up the city wall. And Shandong established Shenwei
After the camp, the Qing army began to truly and systematically study the tactics of the Chinese army. The Qing army also basically correctly mastered digging trenches outside the city, building mud and sand bags, and then combined the defensive tactics theory of the city wall with practical application knowledge, instead of just doing it as in the past.
Learn an image, and the result is the actual thing.
In the defense of Sishui County this time, the Qing army also began to use this tactic to defend the city. Not only were the trenches dug completely designed in accordance with the standards of the Chinese army, but behind the trenches, two lines of mud and sand bags were also built.
The protective wall formed.
Facing the defensive tactics that they used in the past, it really caused great trouble for the Chinese army. Because trench defense and mud and sand bags were indeed much better than simple wall defense.
At the beginning, the Chinese army still used artillery bombardment, but the soldiers of the Qing army hid in the trenches, and the lethality of the artillery was greatly reduced, because the power of the explosion at this time was very limited, mainly relying on the shells after the explosion.
fragments and bullets
The iron sand in the shell can kill the enemy, but it is difficult to penetrate the mud and sand bags. Unless the shell can fall into the trench, it will not do much damage. Although the power of a solid bullet may penetrate the defense of several sand bags,
But it can only cause two or three casualties at most.
After a period of artillery bombardment, Army Commander Qiao Keyu soon discovered that the effect was not good, so he ordered the 52nd Regiment of the 10th Division to launch a ground attack on the Qing army's position. And although the muskets used by the Chinese army had a range of
It was above the Qing army, but the Qing army had trenches as cover. Since the Chinese army did not enter its range, they hid in the trenches and did not show their faces, and the casualties were greatly reduced.
After the Chinese army entered the firing range of the Qing army, the Qing army began to show its head and launched a blockade against the Chinese army. Although the Qing army did not have many muskets, after adding a large number of bows and arrows, the Qing army's firepower was indeed improved.
It has been greatly improved. Although the batch of bows and arrows made by Abatai in Shandong are very rough, the range is not far, never more than fifty meters.
It cannot be compared with the two or three stone hard bows used by the Qing Army in the past. Moreover, most of the Qing soldiers learned bows and arrows after learning gun and knife martial arts. At this time, they could only point arrows in the general direction.
When shot, there is almost no accuracy, but the advantage is the large number. The impact of thousands of bows and arrows fired together is still very significant.
On the other hand, soldiers of the Chinese army generally only have an armored vest and helmet. The rest of the body, such as arms, legs, etc., are not armored. Therefore, the penetration requirements of bows and arrows are not high. Although these bows and arrows
Beyond thirty meters, it is basically impossible to
It can penetrate iron armor, but if it is directly aimed at a person's body, even if it is 60 to 70 meters away, it can still cause certain damage. It just depends on the severity of the injury. And although these parts are not fatal, after being hit by the arrow, the soldier will
It basically lost its combat effectiveness.
At the same time, there were also some artillery pieces in the defensive positions of the Qing army. Although the gunmen of the Qing court did not belong to the new army, they had undergone rigorous training for quite a period of time and had at least become very proficient in three-stage continuous shooting.
Therefore, the firing row after row seemed to have a bit of the style of the Chinese army.
The artillery of the Qing army simply did not fire any solid bullets. Except for a few mortars used to fire flying thunderbolts, the rest of the cannons fired shotgun shells. Although the range was not far,
One shot hit a large area and caused a lot of damage to the Chinese army.
And in this battle, the Fifth Army did underestimate the enemy. They thought that they had easily won the previous attacks on Teng County and Yixian County. Isn't it easy to attack this small Surabaya County? But they didn't expect to encounter the past here.
A blow I have never experienced before.
The 52nd Regiment, which was in charge of the offensive, was hit hard by the Qing army as soon as it entered the field. When it rushed to a distance of only more than fifty meters from the Qing army's defense line, it was fired at indiscriminately by the Qing army's arrows and artillery. The firepower was so great.
The density was truly unprecedented, so the 52nd Regiment was caught off guard, and the formation was not fully dispersed. As a result, a large number of attacking soldiers fell to the ground, and the attack was immediate.
He was pushed back.
Then the 52nd Regiment made slight adjustments and launched another attack on the Qing army's position. This time the 52nd Regiment learned from the lessons learned from the first time and fully deployed the offensive formation. However, the Qing army's firepower was still very intensive.
Because they were arrows, almost as dense as raindrops, and they were shot straight, thrown, and all kinds of shooting methods were used. Although the Chinese army launched a scattered attack, they were still wounded and killed by the Qing army for half a day.
After many hours, he still retreated.
When the commander of the 52nd Regiment counted the losses of the entire regiment, he found that although the casualties of the entire regiment exceeded 1,000, there were not many soldiers actually killed in the battle, only more than 200, and there were actually many injured soldiers.
There are more than 800 people.
Qiao Keyu, the commander of the battle, couldn't help being a little surprised at this time. It seemed that the Qing army in Sishui County was fully prepared for defense. This battle was not that simple. He did have some excesses before the battle.
Optimistic.
But now that the attack has begun and the battle has reached this point, no matter how tight the Qing army's defense line is, they can't just give up. Moreover, Qiao Keyu doesn't believe that the Qing army's defense line is really impregnable. So Qiao Keyu ordered again,
Replacement of the 10th Division Sixty-one
regiment, continued to launch attacks on the Qing army's positions. At the same time, the artillery regiment was ordered to fire at the Qing army's positions regardless of whether it was effective or not, to cover the attacking troops. He also reminded the 61st regiment not to blindly attack by force, but also to pay attention.
Strengthen fire suppression and cover.
Although there was artillery support and the 61st Regiment arranged troops to suppress the Qing army's firepower. During the attack, they also paid great attention to spreading out the troops. However, under the intensive attack of the Qing army, the 61st Regiment was still unable to break through.
The Qing army's defense line launched three attacks in a row, but all of them were repelled by the Qing army.
And this day's battle ended like this. In the first day of the offensive and defensive battle, the Qing army became the victor. Not only was the defense line outside the city safe and sound, but only 309 people were killed in the entire army, and two more were killed.
One hundred and eighty-seven people were injured. Such a small number of casualties is unique in the history of battles between the Qing army and the Chinese army.
In the past battles with the Chinese army, the Qing army had not never won a city defense battle. However, in every city defense battle, the Qing army would be beaten by the powerful firepower of the Chinese army and suffered huge casualties.
The attacking side is even bigger and can completely defeat the defending side.
The losses of the attacking side will be far less than the battlefield rules of the attacking side. There are many cases of defending the city. It was not that the Qing army could not defend the city, but that the Chinese army exhausted the strength of the city defender, and the city was lost.
This time the Qing army finally experienced a defensive advantage.
Therefore, Chen Jin, the defender of Sishui County, was also very happy and immediately sent a report to Gunzhou about the results of the day. However, Chen Jin did not dare to think that Sishui County could be defended just because of the results of this day, so he asked Li Shutai to send troops to support him.
Surabaya County.
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