The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 769
Kong Youde concentrated his troops to guard the Pyongyang defense line, but he was afraid of insufficient troops, so he did not divide his troops to guard the Quartet.

Except for the Pyongyang defense line, the defenders in other areas are actually pretending.

The main task of the limited number of Qing troops was to manage Aha for production, and there were even no troops stationed in some cities.

Facing the attack of the "Red Banner Army", most of the defenders dispersed in a rush, and Ahadu returned to Daming happily.

This is not surprising. Jiannu expropriated and extorted money. They never regarded slaves as human beings. They treated the Han people like this, and they treated Korean slaves even more cruelly.

The "Red Banner Army" treated Ahha who surrendered well, at least giving them two meals to [-]% of their fill, and basically did not beat or scold them.

In this way, tens of thousands of Ahas willingly served the "Red Banner Army", and they took on too much heavy physical work.

On the same day that the Yalu River Front Army took Yizhou, it continued to attack the city to the north. At the same time, the Marine Corps, under the command of Shen Ming, Yu Fei and other generals, sailed on a flat-bottomed inland river sailing boat until it landed at an inaccessible place and continued northward.

The task of the [-] or so Marine Corps is to cut off all the roads that can be found to the east.

Estimated the route of Doduo's retreat, he built a solid stronghold in the mountainous area and prepared to fight a dull battle. With a strong stronghold to rely on, the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry who hastily retreated here needed to break through the area garrisoned by a battalion of marines. can't do it.

It’s not that the Martial Gods of the Marine Corps are possessed, but that the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry can’t have attacking equipment and artillery. Attacking under the attack of Franco cannons and two or three thousand self-generated blunderbusses and miniguns is no different from committing suicide .

North Korea has many mountains and poor countries, and the road conditions can be imagined. With the deliberate sabotage of the "Red Banner Army" that had been investigated in advance, it only took half a day for the engineers to choose a few bombing points in prominent places to collapse a section of the mountain road.

If it is necessary to clear this section of the road, it is very possible to be busy for a month or two, and this must be under the command of skilled engineers. Otherwise, blindly doing it will not only fail to improve efficiency, but will also face too many casualties.

Most of the defenders and generals left in Pyongyang came from the Denglai rebels, and the Koryo soldiers also followed him to kill and set fire for three or four years. These people had countless bloody cases.

Kong Youde knew how to defend the city, and knew that the biggest hidden dangers were internal mutiny, water shortage and food shortage.

There are fewer people left in Pyongyang, only [-] soldiers and civilians, but there are [-] soldiers with combat effectiveness, and the food can last for a year.

More than [-] soldiers and civilians crowded into the outer defense line of Pyongyang. In fact, these were people whom Kong Youde didn't trust and was about to abandon, and drove them out of the city without even giving them a grain of food.

Of course, Jiang Xin would not be trusted. He was tasked with leading thousands of soldiers and civilians to guard a trench in the west of the city.

And Zhou Hongmo, Yang Huazheng and other generals whose families were in Shengjing were allowed by Kong Youde to take his family members and direct descendants into Pyongyang to guard the city.

Seeing that Kong Youde withdrew so much that he didn't even keep the servants who supervised the war, Jiang Xin cursed in his heart. He thought that resistance would have no chance of winning at this point, so why not surrender the city and gamble on the extrajudicial favor of the general who conquered the captives!
As soon as the "Red Banner Army" appeared to build slaves, the Tartars ran away, and King Gongshun retreated into Pyongyang City. How could the soldiers and civilians on the defense line outside the city be willing to be cannon fodder?Soon Jiang Xin had dozens of generals who had been in contact with him around him.

Raising hands and surrendering is the only way to go. The good thing that I thought I could turn over and gain some military exploits seems to be hopeless, because even if there are generals in the second line of defense who are not willing to surrender, they know that the situation is over at this time.

It is impossible for them to stop the trend of the army's collective surrender. Even if some generals are out of their minds and want to resist stubbornly, it is impossible for their subordinates to follow.

Jiang Xin sent Dou Kuai and 30 people to run to Kaesong to look for the "Red Banner Army". However, they didn't even have a mule here, and all the big animals were led into Pyongyang by Kong Youde's servants.

The last time when Jiang Xin was waiting to surrender in the trench network outside Seoul, he saw the artillery fire, and he still has lingering fears.

He urged Dou Kuai to make it clear when he saw the "Red Banner Army" that there was no resistance outside Pyongyang, and all the soldiers and civilians were waiting to surrender, and asked the "Red Banner Army" not to continue to use artillery fire to open the way.

Huang Han, who led the army to attack and advance, received two pieces of news, one good and one bad.

The good news was sent by Jiang Xin sent by Dou Kuai, who learned that the outskirts of Pyongyang City would be defeated without a fight. At that time, more than [-] soldiers and civilians would be accepted to surrender, and rations had to be provided for these more than [-] people.

Jiang Xin also reported that Kong Youde is now stationed in Pyongyang, and Duoduo has left Pyongyang to go north. Now most of the horses on the Pyongyang defense line have been taken away by Duoduo, and there are less than [-] war horses in Pyongyang.

Whether Duoduo can escape depends on whether the big net that Song Pengfei, Sun Chuanting, Chen Qiyu and others have painstakingly arranged for half a year is effective.

It is certain that Kong Youde is a boiled duck that cannot fly, because even if Kong Youde has no less than seven or eight hundred servants who can fight, and his direct lineage will not be less than three thousand, but even eggs, most of them have no horses. Where would they go? ?
With less than 100 people riding a battle to break through, a hundred generals who encounter the "Red Banner Army" may all be killed.

When the cavalry attack the entire infantry formation, the calculation of combat effectiveness does not count as one.

With the same combat effectiveness, if the infantry did not have time to build strong fortifications when they encountered the cavalry in the wilderness.

Three thousand against three thousand, the infantry of the "Red Banner Army" will definitely be crushed, and they may all die in battle in the end. The enemy's casualties should be around one thousand.

One thousand against one thousand, the outcome is unpredictable. Even if the "Red Banner Army" suffers a defeat, it can be expected that the enemy's battle losses will exceed [-]%.

One hundred against one hundred, the infantry of the "Red Banner Army" is completely capable of winning.

All in all, the cavalry attack the infantry formation with only a single front-loading gun in their hands. If the opponent does not have the means to effectively curb the speed of the cavalry, the more large the army fights, the more the cavalry can win. Small fights, the winner is the hot weapon infantry.

The bad news I got was that the six-hundred-mile express ship sailed day and night to deliver it.

On July 25th, Jierhalang and Azig led [-] to [-] banner soldiers and [-] to [-] Mongolian light cavalry from outside the domain to enter Yansui Town.

At this time, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, was playing hide-and-seek with the rogue bandits who were once again fragmented in the mountainous area in the south of Hanzhong.

In fact, Jiannu only dispatched [-] regular troops this time, because the Manchu Qing Dynasty was responding to Emperor Chongde's call to smelt steel, and the more strong labor was needed, the better, so most of the armored men did not bring coated slaves with the army.

Therefore, this time Jiannu dispatched troops with the smallest proportion of slaves, only 5000 people in total.

(End of this chapter)