In fact, within the court, there have always been differences on whether to pursue the Chinese army. Fang Congzhe, the chief assistant of the cabinet, was hesitant; the main battle was the supervisor of the censor, and the right-level consul for the Ministry of Revenue. Wang Huazhen, a group of radical civil officials who were not of high rank and mainly censors, were mainly censors.
The people in charge of the reconciliation were Huang Jiashan, the Minister of War, Zhao Xingbang, and other civil servants who had experienced the battle formation and knew that the Chinese army was powerful.
Many of the censors on the main site belong to the Donglin Party, and the debate between the two sides has been quarreled at the moral level of traditional gentlemen and villains. No one can come up with a practical and effective method. It is still Emperor Wanli who was angry and ordered The troops of each royal army pursued and ended a quarrel.
Shanhaiguan General Du Song led more than 10,000 infantry and cavalry to attack. He was supposed to be the veteran in the rear battalion, and the infantry and cavalry led by Li Xibi to be the vanguard in front of the veteran camp.
As a result, his troops arrived south of the capital from Shanhaiguan for a long distance. The march was slow and did not meet with the guerrilla Gong Niansui's troops in Nanhaizi on schedule. As a result, the Liaodong Cheying troops marched nearly a hundred miles alone, setting off five days earlier than the Sichuan Baigan soldiers. , but finally fell behind Bai Gan soldier near Hexiwu.
However, this allowed the more than 7,000 soldiers in the car camp to avoid head-on battles with the First Brigade of the Chinese Army.
Huang Lue took his direct personal guard post and 300 cavalrymen to set out urgently, crossed a small village, and after walking less than five miles, he had already discovered a large group of Chinese cavalry.
"Captain Lu, what's going on?" In the chaotic cavalry group, he successfully found Lu Xiaotian under the blue-bottomed Chinese-font-speaking banner. The latter was playing horses with a group of original horse thieves, formerly Liaodong Mongolian horse bandits, The officers who were originally from the cavalry of the Liaodong Border Army were discussing. When they heard the question, they were very upset and cursed: "This group of fat demons learn tortoises, huh, don't come out, just throw fires out, damn,"
Huang Lue widened his eyes and shook his head.
Lu Xiaotian jumped off the horse, and then remembered that Huang Lu had no experience in the Jianghu Green Forest and did not understand his slander, and quickly explained: "I mean that these cowards were huddled in the car city and couldn't stand it, just set firearms out. I The armoured guns and grenades owned by the troops must be within 40 steps of the enemy's army to play a role. If you cannot suppress the enemy's firepower and rush to the car city, you will not be able to solve this group of enemy troops."
Huang Lue is the lieutenant colonel brigade commander, Lu Xiaotian is the major regiment commander, and his qualifications are relatively shallow than Huang Lue, so he dare not take advantage of Huang Lue. The unruly cavalry officers under his command also dismounted to Huang Lue. Salute, Huang Lie replied casually and said, "Take me to see the car camp,"
Under a ridge of a field, there were a group of cavalry and their horses. A mile southwest was the official army's car city, which was black and a large siege of siege and a hollow car array. It was quite powerful and was all firing firearms outwards. Hundreds of steps away from Checheng, a group of Chinese light cavalry were surrounding Checheng. With a horn, a team of cavalry rushed out in the official military chariot camp, trying to rush westward. The cavalry behind the ridge of the field called the order at the whistle. Next, he stood up with his war horse, flew onto a horse, and rushed out. Soon, the cavalry who was trying to break through was shot by a rifle, and was caught up by the Andalusian war horses and Arab war horses who were good at sprinting in a short distance. After the fierce collision and fighting, hundreds of officers and cavalrymen left with only more than ten cavalry fled back to Checheng.
"Our current plan is to restrain the imperial army here and prevent them from having the chance to slip away," everyone lay on the ridge of the field together. Lu Xiaotian pointed to the direction of Checheng and said: "We have already headed southwest, southeast and west Send reconnaissance cavalry to prevent the subsequent reinforcements of the officers from suddenly coming,"
Huang Lue held up a telescope and observed the official army's Checheng, and kept muttering to himself: "I heard that this thing was thought of by General Qi Shaobao and Qi. Does it seem useful?"
Lu Xiaotian spat: "This broken car is just a suitable turtle. If I hadn't underestimated the enemy at the beginning and rushed directly to their firearms, how could it have lost more than a hundred brothers? However, this team of officials It is also well-trained. The reconnaissance cavalry sent several miles away and discovered my troops in advance. I didn't understand their origin at first and thought they were the troops transporting food and grass, so I didn't launch a charge immediately. If they were not given a warning Time, our cavalry will surely attack and destroy them while they are moving, before they form a car city.”
Huang Luan looked for a while, put down the telescope and said, "The biggest problem with the car camp is that it needs to form a formation to exert combat power. If it is suddenly attacked during the march, it is probably a big deal. It seems that the troops I brought will be suppressed. The firepower of this car city is also very difficult. When we were fighting Sichuan soldiers in the morning, we used almost all the thunder rockets and artillery shells. For the sake of the present, we had to drag the enemy first and wait for Brother Zhao's troops. Come up and find a way,"
He pointed to Checheng and said, "Actually, Checheng is in trouble now. How much ammunition can they carry? I see that they keep firing out muskets and cannons, regardless of whether they can hit the target or not, and they don't pay attention to the coordination of firepower at all. And save ammunition, how long can they fight like this? Moreover, without the cooperation of infantry and cavalry, do they really want to hide in the turtle shell for the rest of their lives, and where is the intelligence staff?”
A small officer with dirt ran over and saluted the report.
Huang Lue asked him: "How is the organization of the government army's chariot camp, troops, and firearms?"
"According to the information of the headquarters of the Military Intelligence Department, each battalion of the van battalion has 128 vehicles, one central army's rod car, one trolley, two drum car, one seat car, and four generals' vehicles. , Four Zi Yao carts and Four Rockets, a total of 16. Except for the spectacular chariots in the camp, they don’t need to go to the battle, the rest must be sent to the battle. The ranks must be assigned to each car, and each team must use four brigades, ten brigades Two, totaling forty-eight, the quota for each battalion of the official army is only 3,000, and the number of chariot camp is 2,700. In front of us are the chariot soldiers and the chariot soldiers of the Liaodong general and the chariots and the vestige soldiers of the Houying camp. According to observations, There are also a small number of cavalry under Dusong, the general of Shanhaiguan, and the total number of enemy troops is estimated to be more than 7,000."
"The government army used it as a side van, with one wall facing outward, and surrounded by a car city on all sides. Each car, Buddha and wolf machine, 18 game guns, 60 kilograms of gunpowder, 200 leads, and craters. Ten; four bird guns, one hundred and twenty medicine tubes, four lead bags, four gun snails, twenty four pounds of fine gunpowder, one thousand two hundred leads, twenty fuses; one hundred rockets Twenty branches, six fuses,... This is shown in the information of the Military Intelligence Department. We can only know the actual situation of the official army opposite our army. Now we can know that the official army has a general gun with a range of one mile, and there are about Four generals, one car on each side of the city. According to the rules of the government army, the generals have three guns, one gun for each gun, and a jaw for each jaw, and a jaw for the requisition of medicine. Oh, it means that the medicine is fired out ten, and a total of thirty, Each four kilograms of gunpowder was produced, a total of 120 kilograms, 365 iron pieces, a total of 1950 kilograms, thirty horses, and thirty stones,"
Huang Lei nodded and said, "They have been fighting for so long, but it seems that their firepower has not diminished. However, you said they still have a baggage battalion, so the reserve of gunpowder bullets..."
The staff officer unfolded a piece of paper and continued to recite: "According to the information, the official army had a baggage battalion, with eighty baggage chariots, ten mules, two drum chariots, one Yuanrong chariot, and each Buddha wolf
There were two machines, each with three soldiers, each with nine guns, each with three taels of gunpowder, three hundred gunpowder, a total of twenty kilograms, one hundred large leads, and five bullet ropes.
Eight bird gunners in each car: each bird gun is one, one strip is one, thirty medicine tubes, one lead bag, one gun sieve, three cents of gunpowder are given for every three cents, three hundred, and other
Six taels of medicine, a total of six kilograms, three hundred leads, and five fuses. In addition, we found that the official army's baggage battalion should be mainly food and grass... We estimate that the official army's firearms can maintain such a launch frequency.
After a long time of shooting, I personally suspect that the official army's bird guns and Folang machine guns could not have been able to fully charge 300 rounds of ammunition. They had already exploded before this. Moreover, the carts used manpower and the baggage battalion to pull them.
Donkeys and mules are not fast and have poor mobility.”
Huang Lu and Lu Xiaotian looked at each other, laughed, and made up their minds. Lu Xiaotian said, "I will take people to Baoding, the capital, and Tongzhou to guard the light cavalry every once in a while."
Huang Lue nodded: "Okay, I'll take my own guard to come for a feint attack, consume their ammunition, and in half an hour, Brother Zhao Tie will arrive. If there is no accident at that time, we will wait for the official army.
Use up your ammunition and rush in and kill them,"
The official military vehicle camp was setting off guns and cannons in a lively manner. The Chinese cavalry kept circling around the Checheng, consuming the enemy's ammunition. They kept outside the maximum range of the Folang machine gun and bird gun, and occasionally rushed towards the Checheng.
At once, the government army ignored it. As long as the enemy cavalry appeared in front of them, they would set off guns and cannons together.
Checheng actually has two chariot arrays, and the baggage camp is in the inner circle Checheng.
When a group of Chinese infantry launched an attack, they used their flintlock guns to suppress the firepower of the officers on the east side of the city with their range advantage. The Chinese army assembled hundreds of cavalry and planned to charge under the cover of the infantry.
The guerrilla guerrilla Gong Nian mobilized all the guns of the generals on the other three sides, and bombed the shotgun, finally repelling the Chinese army.
Zhao Tie's First Brigade forcibly exploited some ammunition from a sailor musket team that had just arrived. The artillery battalion gathered the remaining ammunition and pushed only fifteen artillery trucks into battle.
When the sun was about to set in the afternoon, the official military vehicle camp began to shoot firearms on the periphery without any force, and gradually lost the momentum of continuous shooting. Finally, there were only intermittent shootings left, Zhao Tie, Huang Lue, Lu Xiaotian, waiting for others
It is this time that I look forward to.
The remaining shells of the First Brigade and Artillery Battalion could only be fired twenty times each of the fifteen field artillery; there were only more than eighty Thunderbolt rockets left.
The artillery positions and the vanguard troops of the First Brigade of the Chinese Army were both west of the Hexiwu Village, and the east of the official army chariot camp. The cavalry regiment gathered 2,000 cavalry here, all lying in a cold muddy rice field, and there were 1,000 more.
The famous cavalry was still circling around the Checheng City and harassing.
The sun sets west, the temperature is falling, and the cold wind is thrilling.
Zhao Tie took a breath and said to the officers around him: "Wait a minute, the artillery battalion will concentrate its firepower to bombard the east side of the city, and shoot all the shells in one breath."
The artillery battalion commander interrupted: "According to the artillery regulations, after firing ten times, you must water the cannon bore for a while, otherwise the cannon bore may explode..."
"Farting, if you don't work, use your urine to water it. Anyway, the bombardment is absolutely not allowed to stop. If you blow up the chamber, you have to continue shooting. Brothers, use the rocket volley as the number, and charge the whole person. Before the sun sets, the battle will end." Zhao Tie
He shouted: "Kill,"
"Kill," the officers responded, dispersed and returned to their own troops to command the battle.
A moment later, the Chinese Army's field artillery opened fire violently within three hundred steps from Checheng. "Boom boom boom," a continuous and dense volley. The 300 shells were all iron and solid bullets, with concentrated bombardment.
It is about three meters wide in the center of the east of the Guanjun Vehicle City.
The five side chariots in the official military vehicle battalion, together with the soldiers with the chariots, were smashed to pieces by dense shells. A large gap of five feet wide appeared in the Checheng City, and the shells rushed through this gap.
Entering the inside of the checkey camp, the dense crowds in the checkey city were beaten to the point of blood and flesh, and the broken limbs and wreckage splashed everywhere. Then, more than 80 thunderbolt rockets rushed towards the checkey camp with a whistle. At the same time, the Chinese infantry and cavalry launched at the same time.
charge.
The Pili Rockets ignited several fires in the car camp, adding to the chaos.
The Chinese artillery quickly finished all the shells, but luckily there was no bomb blast.
After the artillery was stopped, the official army began to react until the Chinese cavalry had rushed to 50 steps away from Checheng. They mobilized troops from the other three sides of Checheng to defend. However, there was chaos in Checheng, although the official army was still
Having the advantage of military strength but unable to quickly make mobile deployments, the Chinese cavalry used a grenade outside the Checheng to disrupt the official troops trying to block the gap, and then stepped on their bodies from the east of Checheng.
This big gap rushed into the car city.
The infantry of the First Brigade of the Chinese Army followed the cavalry and rushed forward. The firepower of the official army was already very weak. The Chinese Army soldiers used muskets to kill the bird gunners on the side vans and the Flang mobile phones.
Some climbed over the vehicles, some pulled away, and they also entered the car city one after another. In close combat, this official army was no match for the Chinese cavalry and infantry.
Before the sun sets, the Liaodong Cheba camp troops in the official army were defeated. Gong Nian, the guerrilla warrior in the back camp, then overturned several vehicles on the west side of the Checheng City and fled with his own soldiers. Li Ximi, the guerrilla warrior in the baggage battalion, was hacked to death by the Chinese cavalry. The chebat camp,
More than 7,000 officers and soldiers of the baggage battalion were killed, more than 1,000 people were killed, more than 1,000 people escaped, and the rest became prisoners.
During the battle to siege the Che Battalion, the Chinese cavalry and infantry also suffered more than 500 casualties, which is the largest single-war casualties in this Northern Line operation.