Li Ziying rested for a day, and the next day all the troops marched towards Lijiapu in a mighty way. Along the high loess slopes, various military flags were fluttering. (.Pure text) The great victory at Xiao Kongtong boosted the morale of the Qing army, and the military drums
Powerful knocking and bugle sounds echoed on the high loess slopes. The huge fires on the stretched carriages were
Cannons indicate that the Qing army is strong and has no opponents in field operations. Those returning troops huddled in the forts, stubbornly resisting and waiting to die. No returning army can overwhelm the Qing army's battle formation. Now the Qing army passes by
Baptized by blood and fire, he is not afraid of death and moves forward indomitably. Looking at the entire east, he has no opponents.
Two hundred soldiers from Li Ziying who had participated in the death squads were astride their horses, waving their blood-stained swords and cheering with thousands of soldiers. A tall fortress was in front of them. Lijiabao was bound to be destroyed by the Qing Dynasty.
Even if the army is destroyed, no one can stop the pace of national reunification.
The tall stone walls fluttered with flying eagle flags. Can the soaring eagle really lead the Hui people to fight against the Qing Dynasty, eliminate the Han people, and establish a single-ethnic country?
Those who say that the Hui people's uprising is just, don't know what kind of country the Hui people want? If the Hui people are given local autonomy, the next step is to fight for independence, clear out the Han population, and establish an Islamic kingdom. The Hui people's uprising is not only anti-Qing,
Moreover, they were hostile to the Han people. The core idea of the Hui uprising was anti-Manchu and anti-Han.
Looking at the flying eagle flag symbolizing independence, the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty looked angry. They wanted to destroy this flag and re-insert the Yellow Dragon flag on the land of the motherland. The northwest belonged to the Qing Dynasty and Xinjiang belonged to the Qing Dynasty.
The Qing Dynasty and the motherland will never allow division.
"In the past ten thousand years, the great empire of Yadong has formed independent banners in March. The rivers spread the waves of civilization. There are 400 trillion people and gods, and the land is vast and rich in products. Uncover our yellow dragon imperial flag and sing our imperial song!"
Thousands of soldiers from Li Ziying stood under the Yellow Dragon Flag and sang military songs. They were soldiers of justice. For the cause of reunification of the motherland, they came to the northwest to start a civil war. This war was definitely not what they wanted to see. But
No matter which nation dares to split the motherland, it will be destroyed in the most ruthless way. This war has nothing to do with the nation or faith, but is only for the unified motherland. Those who betray the motherland and collude with the Russians will forever be condemned.
On the pillar of shame of history.
Lijiabao is entirely built with blue bricks. There are 14 towers on the entire city wall. There are urns at the east gate and west gate, and a thousand-jin gate, which together with the city wall forms a complete defense system. On the city wall, you can see a large, dark gate.
Artillery, as long as the Qing army enters the range, it will fire. Lijiabao is the gateway to the east of Dong Zhiyuan. After occupying Lijiabao, the Qing army can have an offensive bridgehead and tear apart the entire Dong Zhiyuan's defense system.
Although the high loess slopes in February were still freezing cold and the ice and snow had not yet melted away, countless soldiers of the Qing Dynasty dug ditches and built fortifications one after another in the cold wind to surround Lijiabao, a loess
The fortress built on the high slope could not stop the heroic Qing soldiers. Every Qing soldier believed that as long as the fort was built, the entire Lijiabao fortress would surely collapse.
A thousand meters away from the east and west gates of Lijiabao, Qing soldiers and civilians built tall forts. They didn't care about the enemy defenders inside Lijiabao. The cowardly enemies had already blocked the city gates.
Just waiting for the attack by the Chinese officers and soldiers, the returning troops and rebels in Lijiabao had no future.
Deputy Commander Xu Zhanbiao didn't even bother to send a messenger, and there was no need to negotiate with the returning troops. Either surrender or die? The Qing Dynasty would never allow another regime to emerge in the country. The so-called national awakening of justice was a slogan that only the Han people could use.
Xu Zhanbiao looked at a flag on the walls of Lijiabao and wrote: The word "Cao". He let out an angry snort in his nose, clenched his fists tightly, and secretly vowed to slaughter all the chickens and dogs in Lijiabao.
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Cao Kezhong was originally the battalion officer of Guyuan Admiral Lei Zhengwan. He led a battalion of soldiers and horses to "blow up the camp" on the front line. Later he joined the returning army of Fourth Commander Cui Wei. On the way to escape into Dong Zhiyuan, he burned, killed and looted, committing heinous crimes. The Qing Dynasty's
The rebels are more hateful than the returning army. The prisoners of the returning army still have a chance to survive. The rebels have no way to survive and will be disembowelled and their hearts gouged out.
The humiliation that Cao Kezhong's troops inflicted on the Qing Dynasty made Xu Zhanbiao even more furious. Thinking of the surrender of more than 400 people led by Yang Dawazi, it just happened to make the two groups fight each other, and it also allowed Yang Dawazi to prove that he sincerely surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.
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This was a test of the Qing Dynasty for those who surrendered. The expansion of Dong Fuxiang's Dongzi Three Battalions was based on the consciousness of the Hui people to aim the butcher knife at their own nation. Yang Dawazi wanted to expand the establishment into two battalions, that is
To fight with blood
To prove his loyalty to the Qing Dynasty, Xu Zhanbiao said angrily: "Order Yang Dawazi and Mu San's troops to attack the west of the city as the first echelon. Tell them to work hard. As long as they put the military flag on the head of Lijiabao City, the first echelon will be
The merit is theirs."
The commander took the order and left. The other generals beside him were all awkward. They dared to be angry but dared not speak out. The "first achievement" was coveted by everyone, but they were allowed to go to a surrendered general. But on the battlefield,
The military order fell like a mountain, and Deputy Commander Xu Zhanbiao's plan made sense.
Chieftain Peng Dingyue and Chieftain Mo Baoguo looked at each other. Peng Dingyue took a step forward with understanding, clasped his fists and saluted: "Deputy Commander Xu, our attack on the east gate of the city should be regarded as our first achievement. We have the powerful artillery support of Xunzi Camp."
, the Snow Mountain Lion Flag must be flying in the sky above Lijiabao. The sky can tell us, and the loess can prove it, we are the most loyal servants of the Qing Dynasty, and we are willing to die for the emperor."
Xu Zhanbiao happily helped up the two chieftains from ethnic minorities and praised them greatly. This made Li Guolou who was accompanying him very curious and kept looking at the two chieftains. The native soldiers and the Li soldiers were more loyal to the Ming Dynasty in history.
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The main force fighting the Manchus. Two hundred years later, these two ethnic minority armies have become the minions of the Manchus. Shi Dakai, who attacked the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, spared no effort and wiped out 300,000 Taiping Western Expedition troops on the banks of the Dadu River.
Nowadays, the native soldiers and soldiers have come all the way to the northwest to drive out all the returning troops. Those captured by these two ethnic minorities will be slaves for life and will be no different from pigs and dogs in the future. The ethnic minority barbarians like to skin and dig.
Heart, Li Guolou cannot say much about such barbaric behavior. Even the emperor does not care about the internal policies of these ethnic minorities. He is not the savior of liberating the working people, and there is no need to reason with the barbarians.
Li Guolou looked up at the east gate of Lijiabao. The Lijiabao built on the high loess slope was so majestic and towering, and he wanted to destroy this historic fortress. History has turned a new page.
With the new artillery, siege warfare is not just about attacking a city gate, any city wall can become a breakthrough. It no longer matters how many enemies are defending in Lijiabao. In the face of powerful artillery, all enemies will be reduced to ashes.
In wars in the past, a castle could be defended and resisted for a long time. Nowadays, without strong artillery support, it has become difficult to defend a castle. Besieging a castle does not require an advantage of several times the number of troops. All you need to do is block the enemy's gates.
If you die, the enemy's troops will not be able to deploy, and it is not advisable to defend the city, especially a castle with no retreat.
Li Guolou couldn't help but think about Tianjin Wei's fortifications. It was also an extremely defensible city. In any case, he would not start a war with the Eight-Power Allied Forces in Tianjin. He should launch an offensive directly in the suburbs. As long as he had strong financial resources and established a powerful artillery group
, no country dared to launch an offensive battle with the Qing Dynasty on land. Artillery and infantry fighting together were the future combat model of the Qing army. Coupled with the Qing Dynasty's unique cavalry, it would be perfect.
Soldiers are made by fighting. Years of wars have created batches of generals. Zuo Zongtang's Chu army is countless times better than Li Hongzhang's Huai army. They understand the importance of army construction. Although these armies also engage in smuggling and corruption,
If the money earned can be used to build the army, this army is the hope for the country's revitalization in the future. With the greedy generals of the Huai Army, the Qing Dynasty will be hopeless.
Li Guolou was thinking about messy things by himself. He had no right to take matters into his own hands. He was not at all interested in Deputy Commander Xu Zhanbiao standing in front of the frontline fortifications to point out combat plans. Officers are not omnipotent, and commanders and fighters on the front line know how to make specific arrangements.
In combat, the top commander only needs to take advantage of the strategic layout.
As for the configuration plan of each gun on the battlefield, who can control it? One person cannot command an army. Only the collective efforts of everyone can lead an army to victory. Cultivating talents is not about finding a few people, but
A large number of talented people must be available, so that such an army can march forward to victory.
Xun Xi kept nagging, praising the configuration of the artillery battalion to the sky, boasting that the construction of the artillery battalion made him work hard and exhausted all he had learned in his life. It was the first time in his life that Xu Zhanbiao heard that there were so many details about the construction of the artillery battalion, and he was very interested.
Asking all kinds of childish questions.
The corners of Li Guolou's mouth twitched slightly, and he was secretly angry. Without his financial support, there would be no artillery volley, let alone the artillery extension to establish a safe area. War means burning money. If there is no money to fight a war, one can only rely on one person to risk his own life.
He climbed the city wall and paved a bloody road with corpses. It was he who saved Xu Zhanbiao's army from dying by thousands, and he was the main contributor to this siege.
But who is Li Guolou? How can he compete with the younger generation for credit? Silence is golden! Standing upright without saying a word, Li Guolou raised his binoculars and looked at the head of Lijiabao, a thousand meters away. Can he
I saw someone taking it from the top of the city
The monocular telescope looked at the fort where they were. Li Guolou sneered three times. Cao Kezhong, Tao Maolin, and Zhang Hua, the three traitors of the Qing Dynasty, were waiting to die. He also wanted to taste what it felt like to have their bodies disemboweled and their hearts removed.
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Yang Dawazi, He Mingtang and Mu San are also the remnants of the Ge Laohui. They are much smarter. At the critical moment of life and death, they abandon their beliefs for many years and return to the embrace of the motherland. Those who understand the current affairs are heroes! Those who hold a purpose until death are destined to die.
It is the tragedy of life.
The face of the enemy leader could be vaguely seen in the telescope. As expected, Cao Kezhong looked ferocious. His broad face was covered with beards. How long had he not shaved? Li Guolou murmured to himself: "Cao Kezhong, you don't want to die, I want to too."
Be a hero of Liangshan."
Next to him, Fan Dahui imitated Li Guolou, pretending to be aloof with his hands behind his hands. The silent Fan Dahui was like a roundworm in Li Guolou's stomach, and blurted out: "Master Li, you are a civil servant and your influence is not good. You should not do this kind of thing."
Yes, be strict with yourself and be lenient with others. Witnessing history does not mean participating in it."
"Hehehehe!" Li Guolou laughed three times, turned around, and said unbearably: "Mr. Xun Qian, please stop bragging. I helped you save all this money.
I also sent people to transport the cannonballs. You are just a prodigal boy, wasting cannonballs like this, how are you going to attack the next three hundred forts?"
Xun Xi was very dissatisfied when Li Guolou interrupted the topic. He squinted and retorted without hesitation: "Master Li, don't worry about this. As long as I completely destroy the three fortresses and turn them into ashes, that's it."
It destroyed the enemy's confidence in resisting to the end. When the earth recovers in the spring, surrender factions will appear one after another. The rebels are by no means monolithic. The 18th Marshal will surrender with his butt sticking out. Wow...
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Xun Xi put his hands on his hips, stood in front of a Krupp cannon and laughed to the sky. His demeanor was unforgettable. This is the demeanor of a general. He is worthy of Xu Zhanbiao's newly appointed artilleryman of the Guoyong Battalion.
Qian Zong of the camp.
Li Guolou touched his nose and fell silent again. There was no need to be angry with Xun Xi. From the first day he met Xun Xi, this man had been so rude. Manchus have their own superiority.
In other matters, the Han people have already outnumbered the Manchus. Usually, these Han generals do not take the Manchus seriously. Only in the construction of artillery battalions, they cannot do without the support of the Manchus. They are not concerned about the arrogance of the Manchus in the artillery battalions.
He turned a blind eye and laughed off the behavior of people like Xun Xi who dared to speak disrespectfully to his superiors.
Xu Zhanbiao stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Mr. Xun Qian, I am optimistic about your performance. Tomorrow I will see the Yellow Dragon flag planted on the wall of Lijiabao. Do you have confidence?
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"Yes! If you don't succeed, you will succeed!" The soldiers on the artillery position stood with their chests raised and their bellies protruding, expressing their determination to move forward to Deputy Commander Xu Zhanbiao.
The Qing army accumulated all its strength to capture Lijiabao, Dong Zhiyuan's bridgehead, which would open the door to victory for the Qing army.