Chapter 59: The Battle of Sichuan and Tibet 5 Anqu
Dalai Ubash arrived at night.
At night, the Hanhai Army naturally had no need to cover up for fifty miles, nor was it possible - in the northwest Sichuan, in addition to the endless grassland, there were also a large number of aquatic grasslands, that is, swamps that existed in large quantities at this time.
Think about the snowy mountains and grasslands in later generations.
As the nephew of Chen Jisheng, one of the two most powerful generals under Mao Wenlong, the former general of Dongjiang Town, Chen Wensheng is also 33 years old this year. At the age of 33, he is already a veteran in the Hanhai army, and this is even more so for Chen Wensheng, who joined the army at the age of fifteen.
The Hanhai Army has always been dominated by cavalry and infantry as its auxiliary. Even so, it has been divided into three or six.
At the beginning, Li Yongfang's eldest son Li Yangeng was the chief representative of the infantry army and the first to be named marquis after the founding of the Great Xia Kingdom. He gathered Han people, Wu Zhenchao, infantry and other characteristics, and his strength was also good, Nikan always trusted him very much.
Later, Li Yangeng was transferred to civil servants. He first served as the governor of Liaoning Province, and later transferred to the deputy envoy of the Privy Council. Since Zhu Ketu still liked to lead troops to fight on the front line, the affairs of the Privy Council were actually managed by Li Yangeng.
The other representative figures of the infantry were naturally from the three Korean guerrilla heroes - Qu Chengen, Lin Maochun, Wang Chengluan, and Qu Chengen's subordinate Guo Tiancai. Who knew that Guo Tiancai had emerged later and his achievements were still above the three heroes. Despite this, because the three heroes were proficient in infantry and cavalry, they were at least the commander of the legion, and Guo Tiancai was once at the commander of the Anxi Legion.
Next are Chen Wensheng, Leng Yun, Wu Yinglong, Leng Yun and Wu Yinglong, both of them were rescued by Nikan in the Battle of Qingshan Laohe. Leng Yun is the Thousand General of the Ming Army, Wu Yinglong is the slave of Aha. Chen Wensheng has always been the leader of Nikan's core infantry. He also shared life and death with Nikan in the Battle of Tianjin, and his respect is still above Leng Yun and Wu Yinglong.
After Chen Wensheng joined the Hanhai Army, he was young and immediately studied in schools at all levels. With such a background and his identity was naturally different. Moreover, his background like him would also attract Nikan's attention in marriage. When he was twenty-two years old, he married Nikan's uncle Sun Chuanlang. Since Sun Chuanlang was the Prince of Yanxi of the Great Xia Kingdom, his daughter was naturally the princess. In this way, Chen Wensheng became the royal relative again.
Eighteen years of military service have intertwined Chen Wensheng's two characteristics, including Dongjiang Town and Hanhai Army. However, in Chen Wensheng's view, the extremely tenacious and hard-working mountain soldiers unique to Dongjiang Town are no less than the Hanhai Army. In the past, in the era of Mao Wenlong, they could set off from Pi Island and arrive at the Liaodong Peninsula for 200 miles a day and night from the mountains, and within three days they could reach the western Liaoning Plain and remove the Qing army's stronghold along the way.
When they arrived at the western Liaoning Plain, both Nurhaci and Huang Taiji were confused because such marching speed and silent actions were too rare. They did not know whether Dongjiang Town had only this little force or had other secrets. Therefore, they were generally allowed to rage on the plain.
At this time, Mao Wenlong was engaged in the tactic of "going deep into the enemy's backbone and mobilizing the masses". Wherever he went, people informed them everywhere. Therefore, when Mao Wenlong was alive, neither Nurhaci nor Huang Taiji dared to leave his nest in person. At that time, the combat power of the soldiers in Dongjiang Town was almost the same as that of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and they won the hard work.
At that time, Dongjiang Town had strong combat power and ranked first among the Ming army. The Guanning Army and Baigan Army were not worth mentioning in front of the elite Dongjiang Town.
Unfortunately, this situation did not last long. As soon as Mao Wenlong died, Dongjiang Town was a mess. However, as long as there were appropriate rewards and punishments and sufficient food, soldiers from Dongjiang Town still stood out without any suspense.
This is particularly prominent in Chen Wensheng.
The infantry corps under his command, not to mention anything else, marched a hundred miles in the daytime and eighty miles at night is a common thing. This is not counting. After a hundred miles, you can still camp calmly. When you suddenly encounter an enemy, you can still be calm and you can still encounter changes. After surviving a brief chaos, you can quickly launch a counterattack.
Chen Wensheng's legion is still the strongest among the Hanhai Army Infantry Legion, no doubt about it.
If there was no drag from the artillery team, his infantry army could have kept up with the pace of Yang Tingyu's cavalry army.
This is the scene when Chen Wensheng suddenly encountered the Dalai Ubash army surrounded by the army after setting up camp near the small fort (later Hongyuan County) as Yang Tingyu told him at night:
At the easternmost end, there is the cavalry brigade of Zuozhi, and at the westernmost end, there is the cavalry brigade of Hao Yaoqi. The cavalry brigade he himself led is in the middle, with four infantry brigades interspersed among them, all located on the south bank of the Baihe River, forming seven camps based on brigades.
The seven camps had more than 20,000 people. Not to mention the 30,000 tribal cavalry of Dalai Ubash, even if Gushikhan was still there at this time, 40,000 were sent to the Eight Banners in full force. Their best choice was to use the Hanhai Army to carry not much food and grass to encircle the Hanhai Army.
However, there are three cavalry brigades in the Hanhai Army, and they can still take time to fight back. Needless to say, it is difficult to trap them to death.
But they still did it.
As mentioned earlier, although there are grasslands along the Baihe River, there are not many open areas, and there are many swamps. If you leave the main road of Baihe River, you will fall into mud if you accidentally. In addition, although Baihe itself is a place for drinking water, it also restricts the actions of the Hanhai Army. Therefore, the Hanhai Army seems to be a 7th Brigade camp on the south bank of Baihe River, but in fact it is compressed by the swamp. The Baihe River is compressed into a narrow area about ten miles long and three or four miles wide.
Fortunately, the cavalry brigade at the western end was the cavalry brigade. After receiving Yang Tingyu's order, Hao Yaoqi immediately set out. At this time, the Heshuo Special Cavalry had crossed the river one after another. Therefore, Hao Yaoqi kept breaking through the blockade of the Heshuo Special Cavalry at night, but the camp behind was arranged alternately because the cavalry was arranged, and it would not be possible to continue breaking through the enemy's blockade like Hao Yaoqi to aid Yang Tingyu.
Of course, it's different to say that when it's day.
It's now a clear day, the second day after Hao Yaoqi went out.
Chen Wensheng's camp.
On the lookout in the middle, when it was just dawn, Chen Wensheng couldn't wait to climb up.
In the camera, on the other side of the Baihe River, both ends of the camp were all the camps of Heshuote cavalry. In the former camp of Hao Yaoqi, Hu Rumushi, the seventh son of Gushikhan, guarded with five thousand elite cavalry. At the easternmost end of the Hanhai Army's camp, near Zuozhi Camp, there were five thousand elite cavalry led by Hadan Batel, the eldest son of Gushikhan, who died at the hands of the Hanhai Army.
On the other side of the Baihe River, there is still an army of 20,000. It is the nominal leader of the Heshuote people in Qinghai, the camp of Dalai Ubash, the fourth son of Gushikhan. He has taken over a total of 20,000 elite cavalry!
On the south of the Hanhai Army, there is a vast swamp (grassland) that is about ten miles long and ten miles wide. Of course, those who are familiar with the path can pass through it. However, on the surface there are all water puddles, with water plants, shrubs, and small earth buns intermittently exposed. At first glance, you can walk along these obvious reference objects. In fact, it is a slight difference that can be greatly mile. If you are not careful, you will be doomed.
Breakthrough? Chen Wensheng, who had a 20,000 army, never thought that the scale of this military power was actually far beyond the previous heyday of Dongjiang Town. During the heyday of Dongjiang Town, it was claimed to have a military power of 100,000. Yuan Chonghuan supplied food and grass to him at a scale of 50,000 people, but in fact, only 10,000 or 20,000 were elite.
But only one or two thousand will firmly attract the Qing army to Liaodong and cannot move.
Chen Wensheng took a rough look and then got off the lookout. When he returned to his big tent, several of his infantry and military commanders and Zuo Zheng came over.
Li Sigong, the grandson of Li Chengliang, who had surrendered to the Hanhai Army in Liaodong, was also among them. He was still in the west and directly faced the infantry and military brigades of Hurumshi Camp.
The camp of the infantry brigade belonging to Yang Tingyu's army was next to Chen Wensheng's cavalry brigade. The commander was the youngest general who surrendered to Huang Taiji with Zu Dashou. He was only nineteen years old at the time and now he is only twenty-eight years old.
Hu Yousheng.
Although it was not stated clearly in the Hanhai Army, "the cavalry is higher than the infantry, and the infantry in the cavalry corps is higher than the infantry in the infantry corps" seems to have become a theorem. Therefore, Hu Yousheng, who was born in the Yang Tingyu Army, was still very proud, but he had to stop after meeting Chen Wensheng. In addition to Chen Wensheng's qualifications, his status as a princess and son-in-law is also an existence that cannot be provoked.
No surprise, although facing a large number of Heshuo special cavalry and there was no idea whether there were more cavalry coming on the outside, the generals of the Hanhai Army looked relaxed. After everyone talked for a while, Chen Wensheng had already made a decision in his mind.
"General Yang's troops are too few, General Zuo"
Zuo Yi stood up and said in his heart that he was unwilling to follow Chen Wensheng to confront the enemy here. Now that he has a mission, he is naturally very happy inside.
"The last one will be in"
"I will let the infantry and military brigades next to you take over your camp in batches, and your cavalry brigades will also advance to the westernmost infantry and military camp in batches. After my order sounds, I will immediately dispatch to break through the enemy camp and continue to go south to aid General Yang."
"yes!"
"Hu Yousheng"
"The last one will be in"
"Your infantry and military brigade follows the left brigade. After the left brigade defeats the enemy's cavalry blocking the road, you can follow it slowly with the side vans."
"yes!"
Chen Wensheng was originally affiliated with the cavalry brigade of Yang Tingyu's army and sent out the infantry brigade. Although there were a large number of enemies around the funds, he did not want to plunder the beauty.
The Hanhai Army is still an army with a serious sense of consciousness. Needless to say, it is impossible to reach the level of a certain army in later generations.
An hour later, the artillery in the infantry camps of the Hanhai Army began to roar. The range of the Nebchu bronze cannon (five miles) and the Hesot cavalry could not escape the attack of the artillery (they could not be arranged too far, as it would lose its meaning).
An hour later, it was about ten o'clock in the morning, and the left-handed cavalry brigade began to attack. At this time, the walls of the camp on the west side of Heshuot Hurumus near the Hanhai Army were broken, and Hurumus was also panicking and heading west, preparing to find another suitable camping place.
Chapter completed!