The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 745
It is simply unrealistic to rely on these 1 cavalry to complete the encirclement and annihilation of the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry with almost the same number of cavalry.

Therefore, Huang Han agreed to Sun Chuanting's tactical concept of using infantry as the main force to fight against the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry, and ordered the General Zanhua Department to brainstorm and come up with a specific implementation plan.

This is not an idiot's dream, but a targeted one, because if Sun Chuanting, one of the general praise paintings in the painting department, hadn't encountered Huang Han's cutting off Hu, he would have completed such a bold concept last year.

In history, he led a group of rotten soldiers with infantry as the main force, and used favorable terrain at the right time to kill the seven or eight thousand old battalion cavalry that Gao Yingxiang painstakingly accumulated for seven or eight years.

Sun Chuanting was in high spirits during this time, seeing most of North Korea being captured, and the common people who immigrated from Shanxi and Henan could own 25 acres of dry land or [-] acres of rice fields for cultivation.

He used to do research in the mainland of Ming Dynasty often, and he knew the importance of people's livelihood.

The fields on the newly seized North Korean territory are cultivated land, and more than half of the population was lost due to the massacre of the Koreans by the Qing army.

There are too many acres left uncultivated because no one cultivates them, but the time is not long, only three or four years.

These lands have been rested for two or three years, but they have been nourished enough. Once they are re-cultivated, it will not be a problem to have a good harvest that year.

It can be seen that if there are 100 million people in reclamation this year, it not only means that these 100 million people can eat enough food, but the food produced is enough to feed another 50 people.

Taking over the entire territory of North Korea completely solved the contradiction of the "Red Banner Army" system in the ninth year of Chongzhen with a large number of people and a small amount of land, making the system become sparsely populated.

Now with the "Red Banner Army" marine corps, mountain infantry, and dog search team, which are far more powerful than the Ming army in the mainland, Sun Chuanting is commanded. With a perfectly disciplined army, Sun Chuanting is of course even more powerful.

In order to strengthen Sun Chuanting's self-confidence in completing the concept, Huang Han specially held a general-level senior military meeting, and all the generals and assistants who participated in the battle except the officers on duty were present.

Huang Han presided over the meeting, and after briefly introducing Sun Chuanting's tactical concept, he led everyone to watch an actual combat exercise.

Civil officials such as Sun Chuanting, Jin Sheng, Gao Youmou, Zheng Xiaowen, Liang Tingdong, Zhang Fengyi, etc. saw how a chief engineer, a chief musketeer, and a hundred artillerymen moved quickly to block a thousand cavalry.

It was Sun Yuanhua who commanded the interception, and Liu Fenyong, a battalion officer with more than ten years of cavalry experience, who led a thousand cavalry to imitate the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry and tried to break through the "Red Banner Army" defense line and escaped.

Civilian and military generals saw more than a thousand cavalry trying to pass through an open field, and the engineers responsible for intercepting them formed a roadblock in only ten minutes.

Barricades are simple and effective. They use horses and a prefabricated wooden stake with a gun point to drive into the ground, and pull out the barbed wire. Unless such an obstacle encounters a tank, infantry and cavalry will be entangled.

With the simple fortifications that prevent the cavalry from galloping, the musketeers don't have to worry about being killed by the cavalry, and they calmly aim their guns at the back end of the barbed wire, and the engineers continue to dig the trench reinforcement fortifications.

Civilian and military generals who watched the exercise saw dozens of war horses rushing into the barbed wire formation and then being entangled and blocked by the horses, and they screamed "sloppy".

The knight's clothes and armor were also hooked by the barbed wire, and then he was hit by the drill-specific bullets wrapped in white ash and declared out of combat effectiveness.

Seeing this, Sun Chuanting scratched his head and was overjoyed. In his mind, he had already perfected the drawbacks of taking advantage of North Korea's many mountains and rivers that were not conducive to cavalry raids, and completed the tactical concept of using infantry as the main method to trap and eliminate [-] Mongolian cavalry in North Korea.

The unicycle array of the "Red Banner Army" has its own characteristics and can quickly block open areas.

Now the engineers have practiced using deer villages, rejecting horses, and barbed wire to hinder the passage of the enemy troops, and won the time for the led laborers to dig trenches and completely trap the enemy cavalry.

After practicing the tactics of quickly forming a blocking position in the wilderness, Sun Chuanting became more confident in trapping the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry in order to capture Duduo, Prince of Yu alive.

Sun Chuanting, who is practical in business, can't be satisfied just looking at the blueprints and sand table formations provided by Shen Ming, Yu Fei, etc.

In the following days, he and Song Pengfei followed Mao Chenglu back and forth on the Yalu River many times, and sneaked into the mountains fifty miles away from the river with the marines led by Shen Ming many times to observe the terrain.

They also often changed to an inland flat-bottomed boat with a displacement of [-] to [-] tons and went up the river to check the terrain on both sides of the river, and use the method of elimination to estimate the possible route that the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry would take when they fled.

Mao Chenglu carefully selected dozens of former soldiers from Dongjiang Town to serve as guides and part-time guards for generals such as Song Pengfei and Sun Chuanting.

Dozens of them are already non-commissioned officers of the "Red Banner Army" who have fought guerrilla warfare in the Yalu River Basin for more than ten years. Half of them are miners in Liaodong, and they are quite familiar with the mountains and rivers in this area.

The generals who participated in observing the terrain and formulating plans were racking their brains, all eager to catch Duoduo, and a meeting to complete the plan was held at the request of Sun Chuanting one month later.

At the meeting, civil servants and military generals expressed their opinions and added many good ways to prevent the escape of enemy cavalry.

For example, control the upstream of a river and build a dam to store water. Once the Mongolian cavalry try to wade across the river, they will release the flood and rush to his mother.

Anyway, this is an attack on the enemy country, and the Ming army does not mind turning many areas into Zeguo after the flood.

It is also a good way to use mountains to intercept. The damage caused by man-made landslides by preparing a large number of rolling logs and boulders on the enemy's only way is also remarkable.

All in all, North Korea's terrain is not conducive to cavalry raids, and there are too many mountains and rivers that can be used.

When the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry approached Liaodong through hardships, there was still the Yalu River blocked by small warships and gunboats.

I don't know how tough Duduo's life is, can he escape the obstacles and return to Shenyang?

It is only April now, and the plan to attack Pyongyang is scheduled for the first day of August. The soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" and the Guards Army have enough time to conduct exercises.

Sun Chuanting, who was in charge of planning, also had enough time to preset the battlefield.

After all, North Korea is not Shaanxi. Sun Chuanting needs time to get familiar with the mountains and rivers near the battlefield, and he also needs to have a contingency plan and a contingency plan to make up for accidents.

He was very busy during this period. Not only did he often take dozens of people into the densely forested hills in the upper reaches of the Yalu River by fast boat, they also found a dozen nearby mountain people as guides to inquire about and record the hydrological conditions.

Huang Han treated the enemy very viciously, and the plan to launch the general attack on Pyongyang was chosen on August [-]st, which was the time when the wheat was ripe and ready to be harvested in a few days.

Launching a large-scale attack on the eve of the autumn harvest meant that the Manchu soldiers and civilians had worked for half a year, only to see that the harvest was about to come to nothing.

(End of this chapter)