Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 310 The Great Ming Enters Sichuan!
Zhu Kezang was doing things in the south of the Yangtze River, but a side of the Ming Dynasty quietly crossed the Yangtze River.

Huang Qing's fifth town only took a short rest in Xuyong, Sichuan, and led troops all the way north across the Yangtze River.

Looking at the Taotao river, Chen Mengwei, the emperor trainer of the fifth town, also felt emotional when he crossed the river.

"Unexpectedly, we fought the Yangtze River before the emperor. Although we were in Sichuan, we still came over."

"Sichuan is a land of abundance and fertile fields thousands of miles away. It has been the foundation of kings and hegemony in the past dynasties. However, this general has traveled all the way, but there is no smoke in the hundreds of miles. It is really unbearable. After the Ming Dynasty pacified Bashu, it must live with the people and restore this place. The land of fish and rice." Huang Qing sighed.

Chen Mengwei nodded. Today's Sichuan is really not a good territory to achieve one's dominance. Wherever they go is a large area of ​​no man's land.

Even if Zhu Kezang came, he would be shocked. Even if he knew about the tragic situation in Sichuan in the history books, Zhu Kezang had been to this area before crossing. It was a place with prosperous agriculture and dense population.

But it is such a place suitable for development, there is nothing without people, the terraced fields have grown into wild mountains, animals and birds are walking around, some villages are dilapidated, and there is not even a single living person in some courtyards. bones.

In order to alleviate the problems in Sichuan in history, the Qing government once carried out a campaign to reclaim Sichuan from Huguang.

So Sichuan is really not a particularly suitable place to use troops now, this is true for both the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

For Sichuan, the Qing Dynasty spent a lot of energy to restore local production, and even sent troops to cultivate fields, just to support the local Qing army.

When Liu Wenxiu, King of Shu in the Southern Ming Dynasty entered Sichuan, he did the same thing. He passed through the large uninhabited land in the south of Sichuan and could not get any supplies at all. A household is tantamount to a lack of food.

Fortunately, Daming has the support of Nanyang Granary, so there is no food problem at present.

"Sichuan now only has a population of 50 million, and Chengdu's population is even less than [-]. It is still difficult to maintain a large army on this land."

Chen Mengwei, the trainer of the emperor, is a person with a particularly strong divergent thinking. He considers that in the future, the Ming Dynasty will guard the southwest and confront the Qing Dynasty, and at least maintain the strength of the National Defense Forces in two towns around this area.

"Old Huang, in addition to appeasing the refugees to cultivate and produce in Sichuan, we also have to bring the good seeds from Chengtian Mansion to plant more potatoes and sweet potatoes here."

"Choose a group of reliable captives of the Qing army, and we can disband them directly, put them in villages all over Sichuan to cultivate land, and make them into private households." Chen Mengwei shook his head, putting aside these miscellaneous important matters, and now his The first task is to defeat the Qing army in Sichuan.

"The reconnaissance report shows that Xifo, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, is now in two large columns, marching from northeast to southwest."

Many Jinyiwei are currently conducting battlefield reconnaissance work. Since Chen Weiguo's Nanzhen Fusi is well trained, these people are still very effective in the fifth town.

Xifo's troops are claimed to be [-], but the actual number is much smaller. The Jinyiwei also detected the size, and it was around [-].

The march of the Qing army is also relatively typical, and it is divided into multiple teams to march, and it is impossible for tens of thousands of people to line up in a long snake.

"Very good, Mengwei, I will lead the cavalry battalion to intercept the Qing army from the flanks, and you will lead the army to attack from the front. The most important thing in this battle is speed. As long as the Qing army is caught off guard, success will be achieved immediately!" Huang Qing is confident. full.

Huang Qing got the information, and immediately led his army to insert from the flank of the Qing army's marching route.

Because Huang Qing led cavalry, they came and went like the wind, so the Qing army scouts who were in charge of reconnaissance did not find the Ming army at all.

The cavalry battalion in the Fifth Town is now a reorganized professional cavalry unit, but in fact the internal cavalry is also divided into different subdivision tasks.

For example, the Chasseurs are relatively light cavalry. They mainly fight with sabers and flintlock pistols, and are responsible for spying, harassment, and hunting.

There is also a small part that Huang Qing regards as dragoons. Dragoons are not real cavalry. At the beginning of his birth, he was just an infantryman who could ride a horse.

These war horses that come and go like the wind are not so much their weapons and comrades-in-arms as their means of transportation.

It can even be said that if you put the infantry with muskets on the horse, you will have a dragoon.

Therefore, the combat method of the dragoons is to get on the horse and run, and then dismount to fight. Some dragoons even bring engineering picks. When they arrive at the battlefield, they directly dismount to build fortifications, and then fight.

In the cavalry battalion, most of them are cuirassiers, whose main function is to charge the battle, and their weapons are flintlock pistols and spears.

The Qing army, which was marching at this time, had already walked for most of the day, was very tired, and was about to set up camp in a flat place ahead.

But when the loud sound of horseshoes came, the Qing soldiers saw a mass of cavalry rushing up, and they didn't even have the will to resist.

Their marching formation, if the officers did not arrange it properly, there was no chance to form any anti-cavalry formation.

In fact, China's classical art of war rarely uses tactics to resist when being raided by cavalry.

Probably, military strategists generally believe that if your infantry on the march encounters a sneak attack by cavalry, then they should die.

So there was a scene on the battlefield that made Huang Qing dumbfounded. When he saw a large number of cavalry attacking, the marching team of the Qing army collapsed by itself. There were no officers to restrain them. No one dared to try to resist.

If a group of infantry is scattered, there is basically nothing to fight.

Huang Qing did the same and continued to attack the Qing troops of other teams. In Huang Qing's view, this was not a battle. Only a small number of Qing soldiers wanted to resist, but most of them resisted when they were running for their lives.

It's not an army that has no organizational system and is trying to withdraw in an orderly manner, but this type of army is also Huang Qing's priority target.

The large number of defeated troops of the Qing army made Huang Qing feel a little troublesome: "Mengwei's large troops have not caught up, so they rely on the cavalry battalion to fight like this, and they will be scattered by the Qing army in a short time. I hope to collect more prisoners."

There is no way, Huang Qing can only lead the main force to clean up the mess on the battlefield, and take down the Qing army, instead of strangling the Qing army's vital forces.

However, most of the Qing army led by Xifo did not fight much. The cavalry of the Guards fought too suddenly and were defeated immediately.

In addition to the escape of some Qing troops, Huang Qing surrendered a total of more than 1 people.

Then, the fifth town was also very decisive, directly led the Burmese soldiers and Siamese soldiers to continue northward, and arrived in Chengdu a few days later. The Qing army in Chengdu was not well defended. The town surrendered.

(End of this chapter)