Chapter 388 The Southern Expedition and the Northern War 53 North Korea Liaodong Nine
Just as the Chinese Army's cavalry brigade was confronting the main force of the Xianglan Banner, Yin Feng led his old battalion's combat department staff team, the Royal Guards Battalion and an infantry battalion of the 2nd Division, the Artillery Regiment of the 2nd Division, and the Artillery Corps. A battalion of the brigade left behind in Lushun rushed to Sanlipu Pao Village. Yang Dacheng, Zeng Rui, Zeng Qing, Colonel Cootere, director of the operations department, and others all advised him not to be so close to the front line, but he was worried about the danger between the Chinese Army and the Eight Banners soldiers. During the first battle, I decided to fight in person.
Along the way, he saw that there were still countless refugees who had not left the area around Sanlipu, which was about to become a battlefield. He was very anxious. He issued an order halfway to mobilize the Ryukyu Independent Battalion, the Independent Taiwan Aboriginal Battalion and other troops from the Jinzhou garrison. Immediately go north to assist the refugees to evacuate the battlefield. The remaining troops plan to establish a temporary defensive position at Sansanlipu. If the Eight Banners soldiers break through the cavalry brigade's blockade, they can rely on the field positions to resist for a while, and at the same time hold off the Eight Banners at Sansanlipu. soldiers.
The original defense-oriented Jinzhou strategy has been overturned; because the expected main force of the Eight Banners soldiers did not go south, only the Xianglan Banner force went south. Therefore, the current Chinese army's campaign plan is to attack Sanlipu and surrounding areas. The main force of the Blue Flag troops was severely damaged in the area, and then they were waiting for an opportunity to be annihilated. The sailors and marines of the First Fleet were gathering on the Bohai Sea. At that time, they would stab the Eight Banners soldiers in the abdomen and back. The commander of the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Division guarding Jinzhou and the Black Mountain Fortress Group Zhao Cheng is assembling the main force of the regiment, which will then go into battle as the Sanlipu Infantry Reserve.
Zhao Cheng got his wish and was finally able to go to the battlefield to fight the enemy. He very actively brought out all the main forces of his troops and assembled them while marching. The defense of the Jinzhou Defense Line was all handed over to the Second Regiment of the Second Division and the Second Regiment. The Lushun and Dalian fort groups that were originally defended are now all garrisoned by the student barracks and the direct battalion of Yin Feng's old Chinese Army camp. It can be said that the defense is empty. Fortunately, it is unlikely that the enemy will attack Lushun from the sea at this time.
The nominal captain of Yin Feng's personal guard is still Lin Yue. In fact, Lin Yue is busy with the work of his own gendarmerie. The personal guard is now mainly served by deputy captain Zhong Bin, who was also one of the members of the Eighteen Zhi in the original historical time and space. In this time and space where Yin Feng changed the direction of history, Zhong Bin was one of the survivors of the Manila Massacre. His parents were all killed by the Spanish under the city of Manila. He himself was one of the "shipowner orphans" adopted by Yin Feng and was loyal to Yin Feng. dedicated.
Now he took the lead and entered Sansanlipu. At a glance, he saw more than a thousand people in messy clothes busy in the fort. Some were reinforcing the city walls and some were carrying supplies.
Zhong Bin immediately raised his right palm, and the fifty guardsmen behind him all raised their flintlock muskets on horseback, and lined up in two rows on the roadside. Zhong Bin shouted loudly: "Who is the supervisor of the fort?"
The sentry commander of the Second Division stationed at Sansanlipu quickly stood up and saluted. Before he could speak, Zhong Bin said sharply: "Who are these idle people? Didn't the king order all the refugees and civilians to be transferred to Jin?" Are the state guards going?"
The sentry commander hurriedly explained: "These people are not ordinary people, they are defeated soldiers of the government and army, who were screened out a few days ago."
"The army is defeated. Are they reliable? What if there are Jurchen spies inside? The king will be here soon,"
The sentry commander looked at the officers and soldiers who were busy working in embarrassment: "But we can't just let them go. If we lock them up, we lack people to guard them."
Suddenly, a tall man wearing an official uniform stood up from the busy ranks of the defeated soldiers and said loudly: "I'm not a spy, I'm an officer of the imperial court. If you don't believe me, give us weapons and we will fight." Kill the enemy before your eyes,"
This person was Zhang Pan, a new soldier in the army who talked back in front of Lu Xiaotian.
Zhong Bin sneered: "The imperial court is nothing but a bird. It knows how to run when fighting. Aren't you faster than the common people? Come here and escort them all to the warehouse in the walled city."
"Why should we be locked up?" Zhang Pan angrily stepped forward to argue with Zhong Bin. In Zhong Bin's eyes, besides the King of Heaven, Yin Feng was the biggest. How could he put others in his eyes? Zhang Pan will be trampled under the horse immediately...
"Xiangping, stop,"
When Zhong Bin heard someone calling his cousin, he stopped quickly and looked back. It was Yin Feng who entered the gate of the city on a white horse.
"I've seen it all, Zhong Xiangping, when will you change your bad temper? The officers and soldiers were defeated one after another. The fact is that those officers are incompetent and have nothing to do with these small soldiers. Let them assist the Second Division Artillery Regiment in transporting arms to the front line. That's it. It’s up to this person to pick the people,”
Yin Feng came to Zhang Pan with an angry look on his face: "What's your name?"
"Zhang Pan and Zhang Xiu, who are from Liaoyang, have seen you from afar." Zhang Pan used his keen sense to instinctively see that this person in front of him was no small matter.
"Okay, you are a local. The group in the north burned, killed and looted your hometown, and now they are coming here again. Do you know what to do? Select 200 trustworthy ones from among your brothers to help us. Go to the front line and kill the enemy, what do you think?"
Zhang Pan's blood surged, his face flushed and he knelt down and said: "As long as I can go into battle to kill the Tatars, Zhang Xiuyuan is willing to obey your orders."
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To the north of Sansanlipu, there was a sound like rolling thunder. Yin Feng stood on the north gate of the walled city, put down his binoculars, and said to the people around him: "Lu Xiaotian has taken action, are the artillery units ready?"
The artillery staff of the Operations Department immediately replied: "Reporting to the President, the artillery battalion, the Second Division Artillery Regiment, and the cavalry artillery battalion directly under the cavalry brigade have been deployed. The new cannons from the trainee artillery battalion directly under the old battalion have been transported to the fort and are being moved to the fort. ,"
"Let the garrison of the Second Division protect the trainee artillery camp, which is full of new gadgets invented by the Weapons Research Department," Yin Feng gave a few instructions.
He turned to the other side: "How are the Marines preparing?"
Liu Xiang, a staff officer from the Naval Command Department of the Ministry of Operations, stood up and said, "Reporting to the President, our messengers at the seaside just saw the signal rocket of the First Fleet. They have already moved towards Pulandian, and a bombardment ship has followed them. "
Yin Feng nodded, and another loud thunderous noise came from the north. He raised his telescope and looked north. Since this area is close to the sea, it has been shrouded in fog from morning to now, and the battlefield five miles away cannot be seen clearly.
Yin Feng sighed in disappointment, put down the monocular telescope in his hand, and Zeng Rui took a step forward and said: "The Beibei came too fast, and the troops of the newly formed Sixth Division have not had time to arrive. We have too few infantry on hand, or We will resist here for a while, and after the refugees have evacuated, we will retreat to the Jinzhou defense line and then attempt to counterattack."
Yin Feng shook his head: "No, the Eight Banners soldiers are mainly cavalry, and they are advancing too fast. Today's battle must hold off the Eight Banners soldiers for more than a day, otherwise the refugees will not have time to move to the Jinzhou defense line. In a day's battle, no matter what the situation, It can happen. The Xianglan Banner's strength is only about 12,000. I have assembled cavalry artillery, marines, etc. here with more than 11,000 troops. If the Chinese army cannot defeat the Xianglan Banner's main force with the same force, then there is no need to fight with them. Nurhaci is fighting for Liaodong,"
The commander of the second division, Yang Dacheng, loudly said: "One hundred thousand Ming Dynasty official troops, we defeated them with only two divisions. The Jurchen Tartars only had ten thousand people. Let's see how my second division can kill them. How can we defeat them?" Commander, I will urge Zhao Cheng of the first regiment to speed up their march,"
Yin Feng thought for a while and said: "You might as well go there and make sure to gather the brothers from the Taiwanese Aboriginal Camp and Ryukyu Camp who are helping the refugees to evacuate and bring them all over."
Yang Dacheng left after receiving the order. Everyone was a little surprised that Yin Feng attached so much importance to the battle against the Jurchen Tartars. In the minds of the generals and officers of the Chinese Army, the Chinese Army's combat methods were unprecedented and invincible in this world. On the contrary, Yin Feng Because in the original historical time and space, I heard too many legends about the invincibility of the Eight Banners cavalry, I attached great importance to the first battle between the Chinese army and the Eight Banners soldiers of the Later Jin Dynasty.
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In the Xianglan Banner camp, which is ten miles north of Sansanlipu, it is now a time of chaos with people jumping on their backs and horses neighing. Fires and smoke are rising from many places in the Xianglan Banner camp, and panicked crowds are coming. often.
The cavalry units with blue flags and Niulu units that gathered outside the camp in the morning were also nervously reorganizing. Although the team was not very neat, they still maintained their basic formation.
The main culprit causing all this chaos is the cavalry rocket artillery sentry unit of the Chinese Army Cavalry Brigade.
There are a total of 200 people in the two cavalry rocket launchers. The spear in each person's hand is the tail stabilizer of the Thunderbolt rocket. During the battle, the cavalry rocket launchers took off the warhead of the Thunderbolt rocket hanging on the left side of the horse's neck and put the spear in their right hand. Insert the prefabricated socket at the tail of the rocket, place it on the stand or on the horse's back and light the fuse. The thunderbolt rocket is launched, and then the cavalry at the two posts become saber cavalry.
As soon as the forward of the Chinese Army's cavalry brigade arrived at the predetermined location, these 200 Thunderbolt rockets were launched, bombarding the camp with a blue flag 1,000 steps away. The maximum range of the Thunderbolt rockets could reach almost 1.5 kilometers. Erbeil Amin and his The general had never heard of a firearm that could launch an attack from such a distance. Therefore, this round of Thunderbolt rocket bombardment caused quite a bit of chaos among the troops with blue flags. Many rockets with explosive warheads were fired at The Eight Banners soldiers' heads exploded, causing their horses to run around in panic; the thunderbolt rockets burning the warhead ignited more than ten fires in the Xianglan Banner camp.
This resulted in the delay in the Xianglan Banner army's formation to launch an attack, and also gave the Chinese Army's cavalry brigade time to form its team. Then, with the 600 heavy armored cavalry of the Heavy Cavalry Regiment as the center spearhead, the Chinese Army's 5,000 cavalry brigade The light cavalry soldiers spread their wings back in a three-dimensional formation and launched an attack on the Xianglan Banner camp.
Amin and other generals with the blue flag, who had just hurriedly organized their troops, were so surprised that they were speechless.
The Chinese cavalry actually launched the attack first.
In the past two years of battles of the Ming Army, whether it was the Battle of Sarhu last year or the Battle of Liaoshen this year, no unit, regardless of infantry or cavalry, was able to carry out such an active attack in front of the enemy.
The pirate army in front of them, which was said to be composed mostly of Nanbarbarians, actually dared to launch a frontal attack during a head-on confrontation. This was simply unheard of for the arrogant Eight Banners soldiers, and it also aroused their enthusiasm. fighting passion,