"I have sent reconnaissance cavalry to search in the direction of Huang County," Zhu Mingxia said. "After the rebels captured Huang County yesterday, they are carrying out organized looting, burning and killing in the county. Most of the villages near the city have been broken. Now
It is estimated that the first wave of refugees has already formed. When we go out to take them in, we will at most encounter small groups of rebels, but not the main force."
Lu Wenyuan was no longer at ease: "But the refugee group is very slow. I'm afraid they won't be able to walk two or three kilometers in an hour. The queue is too long..."
"It doesn't matter, I just need to maintain the order of the army. The containment team will still act as a whole. Once I encounter a large group of enemies, I will immediately gather the formation to resist. The county seat of Huang County is not far from here, you can come at any time
reinforce."
Zhu Mingxia and Lu Wenyuan agreed on their contact information, and then he jogged all the way to the playground. The containment team had already assembled according to his order.
The reception team is more like an armed caravan than an army. Zhu Mingxia did a lot of work in order to carry out large-scale armed refugee reception in Shandong. In particular, he made several different efforts to protect the slow-moving and large number of refugees.
plan, tried different troop formations and equipment, and finally formed a system.
This system is roughly based on the concept of cart trains used by Eastern European armies in the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the Hussite Uprising, Eastern European armies have commonly used cart formations. Initially, carts transporting baggage were used as mobile fortifications.
. Only large vehicles were used as protective bunkers during defense and camping. Later, they gradually developed into vehicle formations that could move while fighting. The Cossacks, Polish and Russian armies used this tactic in the process of fighting against the Tatars.
Increasingly skilled. When encountering an attack, the large convoys used the firearms and spears on the carts to fight against the highly mobile Tatar light cavalry on both wings of the army, covering the movement of dismounted infantry, non-combatants and baggage.
This system is not available everywhere. It can only be used effectively in the flat terrain of Central and Eastern Europe. Although Huang County is a hilly area, there are many flat lands along the coast and not many rivers. The use of large vehicle arrays can indeed work.
to a certain effect.
However, Zhu Mingxia didn't have many carts - even if he did, he couldn't find enough oxen to pull them, so his cart array was made up of Zidian trolleys. It was somewhat similar to Sun Yuanhua's cart array. However, Sun Yuanhua's cart array was similar to Sun Yuanhua's cart array.
The immature firearms system relied on by the vehicle array, whether its light artillery or muskets, had problems of slow loading, short range and low accuracy - of course, the same problem was the same in Europe, but the Ming army's miserable use of firearms
Habit: Open fire as soon as the enemy charges, and then run away - so that the astonishing number of firearms owned by the Ming Dynasty have never been able to effectively play their due role.
Zhu Mingxia did not have this problem. Not only did he have enough high-quality firearms - much better than the British Brown Bess who defeated the Eight Banners' powerful army in 1840, but also the army was strictly trained.
Finally, he also has a secret weapon: several typewriters removed from naval battleships and temporarily installed on a blast-type two-wheeled trolley. Once this thing is fired, even hundreds of Manchu bagarai can charge together.
Press it down.
The reception team consists of three main parts: the escort team, which is responsible for armed protection and is composed of army soldiers from the northward detachment; the civilian team, which is all people who can speak the local dialect-most of them are recent refugees. Civilian personnel
Their job is to comfort the refugees and maintain order in the refugee team. Finally, there is the transportation team. They carry some transportation and livestock, transport the old, young, women and children among the refugees, and speed up the march of the entire team. What are the instructions Zhu Mingxia gave them?
There is no need to install anything, the main thing is to install people: especially children and women.
The transport team and the civilian team are mainly composed of Qimujima Xiangyong. Everyone has a standard machete, and some people also have standard spears. If necessary, they can engage in close combat. Although Lu Wenyuan feels that the spears are a bit in the way, but
Zhu Mingxia believed that spears were very useful - firstly, spears formed in formation could effectively deal with cavalry, and secondly, spears could be used as crutches, which were very useful when walking in the snow. They could also be used to assemble a stretcher when necessary.
In addition to the soldiers, each reception team member must carry three rations and drinking water to replenish the refugees at any time - of course, large amounts of portable rations are transported by the transport team's vehicles and livestock. In order to facilitate the refugees to eat while traveling
, the rations carried by the recovery team are biscuits from the relief rations: these biscuits are similar to rice cakes, baked with a mixture of rice flour, sweet potato flour, salt and sugar. The texture is crispy and crunchy. It is easy to digest and does not require a large amount when eating.
Drinking water - When large groups of refugees are moving, it is difficult to provide them with safe drinking water in a timely manner.
The containment team has a radio station, which is carried by a military four-wheeled light carriage made by Lingao. It can keep in touch with the base at all times. Due to its preciousness, a cavalry squad is specially equipped to protect its safety.
Zhu Mingxia looked at the reception team gathered on the playground - everyone was fully dressed and all had cold-proof clothing. Although most of the refugees did not have enough clothing and relied entirely on the fire to survive the winter. But those who chose to go to the countryside were brave
All members of the team were issued cotton-padded clothes, pants, hats and gloves.
He randomly checked the equipment of some people to see if their leggings were strong. The soldiers in the northbound detachment had warm military boots to wear, but the country warriors had to be satisfied with reed sandals.
But this is not bad - how many refugees walked hundreds of miles barefoot in the cold wind to reach Qimu Island.
The clothing condition was what he paid the most attention to, especially for the northward detachment. Although northerners were drawn from the entire army to enrich the northward detachment, the majority were still southerners. After winter, a lot of personnel were lost due to frostbite.
"Have the troops had breakfast?" Zhu Mingxia asked Huang Xiong, who was following the inspection team. He served as the company commander of the northbound detachment. Because he was also a soldier in Dengzhou, the escort team selected his company as the backbone and he served as the backbone.
team leader.
"Report to the leader, I have already eaten." Huang Xiong, wearing a gray military coat, raised his hands and saluted.
"How are the soldiers doing?"
"Report to the head: Very high!"
"Can you leave immediately?"
"Report to the head: anytime, anywhere!"
"Very good." Zhu Mingxia said. The soldiers had been completely lightly equipped. In addition to weapons, ammunition and cold-warming clothing, they only carried one day's rations and water. The military flags were left in the camp. According to the instructions, they also
Do not bring identity documents or any documents. Zhu Mingxia has issued an order that all soldiers who died in the battle and their weapons and equipment must be recovered and are not allowed to be abandoned or buried on the spot.
He checked and didn't find any major problems. Just as he was checking, the scout cavalry who came back from outside brought new news: there was a group of refugees of about two to three thousand people heading towards Qimu Island.
Come on. There is no major rebel activity nearby.
"The main force of the rebels is moving around Huang County, and some of them are transporting the supplies and food they grabbed to Dengzhou." The scout reported, "They kidnapped a large number of women and young adults and went to Dengzhou to let the young adults transport the supplies.
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"Is there a small band of rebels operating nearby?"
"Report: No, small groups of rebels are mostly active in several towns and cities around Huang County, and no one comes to the seaside."
"You have completed your mission very well. Go and rest first." Zhu Mingxia ordered.
"The troops are ready to set off!" Zhu Mingxia looked at his watch and said, "We will set off in fifteen minutes!"
At 8 o'clock in the morning, an armed reception team composed of more than 400 people drove out of Willow Edge. The troops advanced in columns, and the cavalry company sent three times the search cavalry forward. In addition to being responsible for early warning of the enemy, it also had the task of discovering the refugee crowds in time -
―If it is a small group of refugees, the cavalry will bring them directly to the larger group.
The straight-line distance from Qimu Island to Huangxian County is only more than 20 kilometers. If you have enough food and good health, it will only take seven or eight hours to walk the entire distance. However, considering the status of the refugees, at least
After walking for two days, Zhu Mingxia decided to take the risk and advance to a place about ten kilometers away from the county seat of Huang County. At the same time, in order to facilitate the reception, he planned to find a village as a temporary camp at the midpoint of the entire journey, leaving some people and food as a reception and refugees.
A place to spend the night. Given the current temperature, many refugees would die after spending one night in the wild. He wanted to reduce the mortality rate of refugees as much as possible.
At the same time, this camp can also accommodate scattered refugees on the road without having to take them on long marches.
The troops marched on the land covered with ice and snow. Although the weather was sunny, the severe freezing still brought great difficulties to the march. Especially for the fully loaded carts, each cart had to be equipped with a few village warriors to use lasso in front.
Pulling the cart, Zhu Mingxia ordered the reception team to follow the rear of the team - the northbound detachment. He felt that there was not a big problem, but it was hard to say whether the newly established advancing column would suffer large-scale stragglers.
The land in Huang County outside Qimu Island was desolate. After walking for more than ten miles, I didn't hear a sound of chickens or dogs. The villages I passed were dilapidated and there was not a single living person. From time to time, you could see dead bodies on the road and in the wild.
He died of cold and hunger.
Zhu Mingxia did not ride a horse, but walked in the middle of the team on foot. He carried a SKS-D with a 30-round magazine on his back. Compared with many senators who did not like semi-automatic weapons, he was very fond of this weapon.
The cold wind stung his face, but Zhu Mingxia didn't feel cold at all. He stopped from time to time to check the map and compass to make sure that the marching route did not deviate from the route he chose.
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