Young Yang Qi was a pirate by birth. He has been making a living at sea since he was a teenager. He has always been very quick to kill. The small Jurchen village in front was taken over by Yang Qi's men without even realizing it. The Seven Killers were no less powerful than Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong back then. Only a dozen women and children were left in the village of more than a hundred people. An old Han man volunteered to be a guide. He was spared one life. This old Han man was from Haizhou, Liaodong. He committed a crime and killed someone in his early years. He fled to this deep mountain and old forest to avoid being pursued by the Ming Dynasty officials. He has lived in seclusion for decades. He speaks Jurchen words and is dressed like the Jurchens around him. If he hadn't been in the Marine Corps When the machete hit him, he shouted for mercy in Chinese. No one could tell that he was Han.
The old man's surname was Song. He told Yang Qi that this place is Naluwoji. It is the source of Suzi River, Tumen River, Yajishan River, Santun River and other rivers. It is the deep mountain center area of Changbai Mountain. It is inaccessible.
Yang Qi immediately wanted to kill the Han hunter who had led the way. They were supposed to attack Jiefan City to the west, but now they turned to the deep mountains and old forests to the east.
More than 1,000 elite marines still have a few days of food rations left. How can we highlight this mountain forest?
Old man Song said in Chinese with a Jurchen accent: "General, don't worry. I know a small road that can directly reach the Suzi River north of Hetuala. Back then, King Laohan, oh no, Nurhaci attacked Haixi. The Jurchens have walked this road."
Yang Qi burned the village to the ground. He asked the original guide to bring dozens of people to escort the women and children back the way they came. He ordered Old Man Song to be the guide. He only rested for one night and then set off on the road again.
After eight days and eight nights of marching, when more than 1,000 marines from Fujian, Zhejiang, Shandong, and Ryukyu had eaten their last dry food, they finally saw the remains of a large area of farmland at the end of the dense forest.
It is said to be "farmland ruins" because the crops on this farmland have been completely burned and then completely destroyed by horses and people.
At this time, bursts of artillery, gunshots and shouts came from the front of the dense forest. Needless to say, a battle was taking place in the front. Listening to the sound, you knew: one of the parties must be the Chinese army. There is no doubt that in today's land of China, it can be made The only army that makes such battlefield noise is the Chinese Army.
Yang Qi looked at his men. Everyone was exhausted. They were all wrapped in linen and animal skins captured along the way. They looked like an army of beggars. Although the battle ahead seemed very fierce, the reality of the Marine Corps told Yang Qi: Everyone The guys needed to rest. He ordered him to rest for half a day and rectify his weapons and equipment.
The Marines arrived at the north bank of the Suzi River. On the south bank, 10,000 Mongolian cavalry were attacking the city of Hetuala.
At this time, it was half a day after Zhang Pan took the lead in launching a counterattack. It was just past noon.
Yan Siqi was gathering the militia camp in the city of Hetuala in the south fortress. At this time, the Mongolian soldiers, who had previously been very passive in fighting, suddenly launched a large-scale attack. The Chinese army was caught off guard. Thanks to the heavy artillery of the Chinese Army's Eastern Route Army, all the heavy artillery was at the top of the city of Hetuala. They bombarded fiercely regardless of the cost. When they bombarded the Mongolian cavalry with heavy siege artillery, they even collapsed a section of the city wall. Then a team of Marine Corps pushed five lightning strike honeycomb guns to block the gap. They fired thousands of rounds of bullets continuously and damaged it. It took two honeycomb guns to repel the Mongolian soldiers.
The problem Yan Siqi now encounters is that the Second Regiment of the 5th Division under Zhang Pan, who was the first to launch a pursuit and counterattack, was surrounded by nearly 15,000 Eight Banners elites including Zhenghuang Banner and Xianghuang Banner at the foot of Zaotu Mountain. At the same time, the Eight Banners Cavalry Brigade had already surrounded them. Arriving at the rear of the central front, they were attacking the south fort; while the two regiments that had left the parapet fortifications were arrayed in preparation for a counterattack. At this time, they were attacked by tens of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers from the front.
The facts are very clear. Nurhachi is fighting back. Or maybe he has no intention of escaping from the battlefield. Instead, he is luring the Chinese infantry to leave their established positions and then defeat them.
"Send cavalry to rescue the Second Regiment." Zheng Zhihu and several staff officers requested.
Yan Siqi ignored this suggestion and asked the three regiments of the central infantry troops to move out of the parapet fortifications. They used artillery bombardment to withstand the Eight Banners soldiers' renewed attack. The Chinese infantrymen listed three regiments in front of the parapet position. A hollow square formation. The 1st Regiment of the Fifth Division of the Chinese Army on the southern front has begun to advance slowly in the form of a square formation.
Yan Siqi insisted on maintaining the strength of the three regiments after the parapet fortifications, and controlled the troops transferred from Hetuala. The cavalry troops were also recalled and assembled behind the three phalanxes.
Three red warning signal rockets have been fired in the direction of Zhang Pan's second regiment. This is Zhang Pan's request for help.
Several Liaodong officers arrived and requested to lead an attack to rescue the second regiment. Yan Siqi strictly ordered: "No one is allowed to attack in violation of the order." Officers in the East Route Army Supervisory System were strictly ordered: "No one is allowed to launch a counterattack without authorization." "
The Chinese army could not advance at all in the form of a square formation. Therefore, it remained in place to resist the attacks of tens of thousands of Eight Banners cavalry. The three square formations were roughly in the shape of a "pin" and had just enough firepower to support each other. The Eight Banners soldiers swarmed in. They fell to the ground one after another in the intensive crossfire. The blood of the men and horses flowed on the land with crisscrossed ditches, forming streams of blood. The Eight Banners cavalry had completely lost their speed and mobility advantages in the fields that were soaked in blood and turned into mud. They became the target of a continuous massacre by the Chinese army with musket bullets and artillery shells.
While Yang Qi's troops were resting in hiding on the north bank of the Suzi River, the Eight Banners soldiers had been furiously attacking the Chinese army's center line and leaving the fortified infantry formations. However, the muddy land made the Eight Banners soldiers the target of a unilateral massacre. Yang Qi didn't know these things, but he kept his composure. He knew that he didn't have many troops. In such a large-scale battle, they had to be used at key moments to be effective. He patiently sent out hunters to investigate the situation on the front line. . remained hidden at the edge of the dense forest until the sun set in the west. A series of low horns sounded. The gongs sounded immediately behind the Eight Banners soldiers. The Eight Banners cavalry turned their horses and retreated. The Eight Banners soldiers now know: China after the parapet fortifications They cannot attack the military positions. Even the hollow square formations of the Chinese Army are powerless.
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Zhang Pan's second regiment was mainly composed of people from Liaodong. Most of them had a bloody feud with the Houjin Eight Banners. They were the first to start a counterattack. With the help of cavalry, they fought all the way to the foot of Zaotu Mountain. When the cavalry was recalled, Zhang Pan found out that he had been fooled: A large number of troops with yellow flags and yellow flags poured out from the mountains and behind the mountains and surrounded the second regiment.
The Chinese Army is an army that Nurhaci has never seen or heard of. Their infantry commanders work hard to train their subordinates. The purpose is to enable the soldiers to reach the point where even if they know that they are facing death, they will still be indifferent. The state of advancing without hesitation. Later, during the American Civil War, Pickett's Charge faced death. The regular infantry units of the Chinese Army could launch at any time. Therefore, although Zhang Pan's subordinates included members of the original Ming Army, they had already been trained. He has become the standard professional soldier of this era. And he is training continuously every day according to the super-era disciplines and tactics designed by Yin Feng. The Chinese army is not the Ming army. In strict discipline and day-to-day training, they are all becoming more confident. The standard of hard work is to fight to the death. However, the Ming army that Nurhaci encountered before only used gunpowder as a life-protecting weapon in the army. In addition, they could not use guns, swords, arrows and stones. They had no ability or courage in melee combat.
The soldiers of the Second Regiment of the Fifth Infantry Division of the Chinese Army rarely panicked in the face of the swarming enemies. Most of them were able to change from a four-way column to a four-way combat formation in time. They concentrated their rapid-fire firearms first. He blocked the Eight Banners soldiers in the middle, and then used continuous rounds of fire and volleys to block two charges from the elite troops of the two yellow flags.
Then, the second regiment promptly converted into a hollow square formation. A battalion line was deployed on each side of the four sides. More than 1,000 Marines lined up in the center of the hollow square formation, becoming a reserve team and a second-line defense team.
From the morning to the afternoon, the second regiment withstood multiple attacks by soldiers from the Two Yellow Banners and the Eight Banners whose strength was nearly ten times greater than their own.
However, Zhang Pan also discovered a problem: when the Eight Banners soldiers attacked his troops, they basically only tried briefly. Once they encountered heavy firepower, they immediately retreated. If they failed to charge, they retreated quickly. They seemed not to eat them at any cost. The meaning of group.
Zhang Pan ordered the old battalion guards of his regiment to stop firing distress rockets.
"Brother Zhang, does Mr. Yan not care about us?"
A brother who joined the Chinese Army with Zhang Pan came to ask Zhang Pan. Zhang Pan smiled bitterly: "No, reinforcements will be here soon. Everyone, go back to the front. Keep shooting..."
"Captain Zhang, we don't have much ammunition left." The supervisory officer of the second regiment came with a junior officer from the regiment's logistics department to report: "The ammunition we brought with us when we set out has been basically used up."
Zhang Pan smiled bitterly again. Then he said sternly: "After the bullets are fired, everyone put on the bayonet. Remember, kill one to get enough money, kill two to earn one."
A brother from Liaodong shouted: "Everyone in my family died at the hands of the Tatars. I have to kill five to make up for it."
Zhang Pan laughed loudly: "So, I have to kill a dozen of them to be enough. Which brother is willing to help me kill a few."
"Captain Zhang, don't worry. I'm here to help you."
Amidst the laughter of all the brothers, Zhang Pan fixed his bayonet and fired the last bullet at the Eight Banners soldiers who were swarming again. Then he charged forward with his bayonet straight.
Zhang Pan's troops began to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Eight Banners soldiers after noon. After several fierce battles, the formation was cut into many gaps by the Eight Banners cavalry. When the Eight Banners soldiers rushed into the hollow square formation, the Marine Corps, which had been practicing close combat tactics according to Qi Jiguang's Yuanyang Formation for many years, met them. Went up.
Nurhaci waited behind Zaotu Mountain for most of the day. Still no good news came.
Huang Taiji, who was responsible for the reconnaissance at the front, rushed back. He Fudi reported: "The pirate troops in front of the low wall maintain a square formation and move forward slowly. They are not dividing their troops to rescue the pirate troops surrounded by us."