Great Qing Dynasty talker

Chapter 259 The emperor’s fifteenth son Yongyan’s first battlefield experience
Hundreds of people finished the exam and left the former Liangjiang Governor's Yamen exhausted, as if their souls had been hollowed out.

Today, two vertical signs with red characters on a white background are hung at the entrance of this mighty government office: "Prince Wu's Mansion" and "Li Jiajun General Headquarters".

Although people in Jiangning think the style is strange, they feel it is quite majestic.

Hu Xueyu even asked Li Yu privately whether he wanted Jiangning to replace Suzhou as the best district under his rule?

Li Yu shook his head and said it was just for the convenience of combat command. They also asked people to replace the sign on the door of the original governor's office in Suzhou Prefecture and make two copies.

In short, the name of Jiangnan Team Training has been officially swept into the trash heap of history.

……

Grading took two full days.

Li Yu corrected it himself and never did it for others. He was not sure whether others could understand his concept of a general staff headquarters.

In the end, the dwarf chose the general and picked out the 49ers by pinching his nose.

"Father, do you want me to be a death squad?"

Elaborate on the backgrounds of summer and winter respectively.

"Meet the adoptive father."

After a while he asked suspiciously:

Li Yu was speechless for a moment, which seemed to make sense.

How to arrange the proportion of portable durable food and fresh food that needs to be processed?

When marching and fighting, some time will also be delayed due to accidents.

"Which camp do you have your eye on?"

Humans are not machines and cannot be fully deduced using theory.

He used to be the leader of the Caobang and the New Soviet Union, escorting the Cao ships, and has rich experience in long-distance business trips.

……

Li Yu smiled happily, and Ergou felt a little nervous.

"Father, I want to be a battalion commander."

"The 3st Battalion of the 1rd Army Corps is being formed. But I have a small request."

The person with the worst answer was Li Ergou, who was full of nonsense.

He estimated the loss for each question.
Loading gunpowder is bound to spill some.

"Forget it, you're not made to be a staff officer. Why did you come to me?"

"I'm very normal, that's what I think. If I lead an army to fight, the people and gentry who are loyal to the prince will respond enthusiastically. I will give them money and they will give me food. If they are not loyal to the prince, I will surround them with troops. Grab food.”

One of them had surprisingly good results and ranked first. He was Tan Muguang.

"Okay. I'll make an exception for you. 150 horses, 50 mules, 25 four-wheeled carriages, 4 3-pound cannons, 6 6-pound cannons, plus 50 large guns. The number of troops is 1000."

"Ergou, can you be normal?"

"Father, for the sake of the bond between father and son, it's not too much to open a back door for your family."

When transporting grain, it will also become moldy and soaked in water.

"Yeah."

"Your battalion nominally belongs to the Third Army, but the name needs to be changed. The name of the 1st Musketeer Battalion does not match its reality. Let's change its name to the 1st Mixed Battalion."

……

"How about I give you two more ships? And some sailor gunners."

A father's love sparkles with lightning!

"speak."

problem:

Li Yu smiled and said:

"No, I just suddenly came up with some bold ideas. Let me test them here."

Li Ergou scratched his head in embarrassment and begged softly:

If you are the commander of a battalion and command the march to fight, how will you arrange food and drinking water?

"The ordinary battalion has a strength of 500 men, but I want 800 men, 200 war horses, 10 light cannons, and a four-wheeled baggage carriage made by old Uncle Kuai."

I immediately realized that this was a sneaky change of concept.

Li Yu was very satisfied with what he saw, and with a stroke of his pen, he was ordered to temporarily act as the newly established minister of the General Staff Headquarters. Observe their performance and then decide whether to correct them or replace them.

"You're dreaming!"

Happiness came so suddenly that Li Ergou was dumbfounded.

Others don't know who his adoptive father is, but he himself doesn't know either. It was obvious that he had touched some dangerous idea in his mind.

Answer: Buy it with money, and grab it if you can’t buy it. With a gun in hand, you will never be short of food wherever you go.

"The dragoons under your command are temporarily disbanded. You can pick 50 of them to take away. The rest will be put into the light cavalry battalion of Wusimai."

"We need veterans for artillery and baggage. You can pick 30 people from the Guards."

"Your battalion is tentatively stationed in Taicang Prefecture. Get ready for combat as soon as possible."

"Remember, on the battlefield, you must cooperate with infantry and cavalry, as well as infantry and artillery. The four-wheeled carriage is for you to transport gunpowder and guns."

Li Ergou took two steps back, held his gun in salute, and said solemnly:

"I obey my orders."

Then he strode away from Prince Wu's Mansion.

He has many acquaintances in the Guards Corps, and picking people is a matter of words.

The soldiers of the 3rd Army came from all over the world and came to Chongming for the same goal (to make money) and received high-intensity training every day.

The final number of troops is expected to be around 8000.

Recruiting troops in northern Anhui is no longer feasible.

The Qing army mobilized officers and soldiers from Yanzhou Prefecture in Shandong, Guide Prefecture in Henan, and Xuzhou Prefecture in Jiangsu to attack northern Anhui via the north and east routes to encircle and suppress the "Shun Dao Sect" rebel army led by Shi Yikai.

At the same time, Hailancha also mobilized 10000 soldiers from Jiangbei Camp to station in Luzhou Prefecture.

Shun Dao Sect can also be regarded as a derivative sect of White Lotus, belonging to White Lotus in a broad sense.

Hong Dachang, the leader of the White Lotus Sect, who was running around in panic, also had this idea in mind, and joined the group to keep warm.

……

The Qing court was very afraid.

The three groups of rebels must not join forces, otherwise there will be endless troubles.

In reality, merging is impossible.

How could the three people headed by Shi Yikai be willing to hand over military power to Master Hong. Li Yu couldn't get involved with Bai Lian, for fear of damaging his own reputation and damaging the team.

After receiving the information, he only commented:
"Shi Yi is finished."

In the vast plains of northern Anhui, with endless fields as far as the eye can see, any tomb is the commanding heights.

What did he use to fight the Qing cavalry?
……

1 Qing troops faced off against 1 Shun Dao believers.

The emperor’s fifteenth son, Yongyan, is in the formation!
Following Huang Ama's orders, he came out of the capital in simple disguise to direct the battle.

Qianlong knew that his sons were too young. Nothing but the Forbidden City can be seen. His contacts are limited to those of princes, ministers and Confucian masters. What they have learned is nothing more than Confucian classics and principles of governing the country.

You will suffer big losses in the future.

So Yongyan, escorted by 20 imperial guards, came to this real battlefield to smell the smoke.

"Your Majesty, Xuzhou Town is ready. Can you attack the religious bandits?"

Yongyan nodded, pointed forward like an adult, and said seriously:

"Any merit must be rewarded."

"Whoo."

The commander-in-chief of Xuzhou Town left excitedly. He was going to personally lead the town's 500-man cavalry team and launch an attack together with 1000 infantrymen, serving as the vanguard of the entire army.

Thanks to the prince's arrival, he gave me, a depressed awl, a chance to break through the bag.

……

"Brothers, His Royal Highness Prince Jia is watching us."

"If you want to earn money or change your job, follow me. If anyone rushes behind me, as long as I am not dead, I will kill his whole family with my own hands and dig up his ancestral graves when I go back. Do you hear me?"

The morale of the 1500 Xuzhou soldiers was so mobilized that their blood boiled. Chanting "Kill, kill, kill."

Even Yongyan was infected and excitedly said to the guards around him:

"Military morale is available."

The guard immediately complimented:
"Your Majesty is here in person, and the officers and soldiers dare not die. Our army will definitely win this battle."

Boom, a cannon shot.

The 1000 infantrymen from Xuzhou Town took the lead in charging into the battle.

Two miles away, there was the Shun Dao teaching army in formation, with a large flag flying with the word "stone" in the air.

Shi Yikai was riding on a horse wearing a captured cotton armor with a serious expression.

He could see that today's battle was not easy. Among the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers on the opposite side, there were several very beautiful and mighty splendid banners with dragon patterns on them, indicating that the identity of the general was not simple.

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The Shun Dao Sect does not have many firearms, not many bows and arrows.

Therefore, facing the officers and soldiers of Xuzhou Town who were rushing into battle crazily, they could only rely on numbers to suppress them and the temporarily dug trenches.

After a few sparse rounds of bows and arrows, the two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

Xuzhou has been able to fight since ancient times, and there are no cowards in northern Anhui.

Hand-to-hand combat is extremely bloody from the first contact.

Wang Shiren, the commander-in-chief of Xuzhou Town, was talking loudly about his deployment:

"The art of war states that cavalry should not attack the infantry phalanx head-on. But I don't believe it, so today I decided to attack the bandits' infantry phalanx head-on."

"The men of Xuzhou went out with the town."

Wang Shiren squeezed the horse's belly with force and rushed out first. The flag bearer followed closely, only one position behind him.

The Zhenbiao cavalry gradually increased their speed, their horses' hooves running like thunder.

Yongyan opened the telescope and trembled slightly with excitement:
"The Great Plains of Northern Anhui is really a good place for cavalry to make achievements."

"Your Majesty is wise. When the Torgut cavalry from the northwest arrives, it will be a real galloping of thousands of horses, destroying everything."

"Xuzhou Town Cavalry Team, how do they want to break through the trench?"

"Your Majesty, please take a look. Each of Zhenbiao's infantrymen has carried a bundle of firewood and is filling a ditch."

Yongyan took a look and realized it was true.

About 200 soldiers were throwing firewood into the trench under the command of the officer, and finally threw down a row of planks. Quite organized!
……

The horse speed of the Xuzhou Town Horse Team has increased to the highest level.

Moreover, they narrowed the distance between the knights extremely crazily. From a distance, they seemed to be shoulder to shoulder.

Wang Shiren, the commander-in-chief of Xuzhou Town, stepped on the stirrups, bowed his waist and lowered his head, hung the saddle in the air, and raised his saber diagonally forward.

For eight years, his official career remained at the same level. Because of his poor relationship with the Military Selection Department of the Ministry of War, he was maliciously suppressed.

This time he wanted to break through this group of grandsons and reach Tianting directly.

kill!kill!kill!

The Shun Dao teaching army on the opposite side could not withstand the huge psychological pressure and huffed and made way for them.

Wang Shiren was ecstatic and rushed in through the opening.

When the saber slashes diagonally, I feel a slight sluggish feeling. Veterans know that this is the feeling of the knife cutting through the flesh.

A Shun Dao cultist holding a spear looked at the short spear shaft in his hand, blood spurted out from his throat, staggered and fell to the ground.

In just one cup of tea,
Shun Daojiao's formation was broken through in the middle and was penetrated by 500 Xuzhou Town cavalry.

Immediately afterwards, the cavalry rolled to the left wing again.

……

"Quick, intercept them."

Shi Yikai realized that he was in big trouble. With a command flag in his hand, he led 1000 of his most elite confidants on mules and horses to intercept Wang Shiren's cavalry.

Don't talk about war horses, but talk about mules and horses, which is consistent with the truth.

After collecting war horses, pack horses, big green mules, and even healthy donkeys, they managed to form this only mobile force.

The two cavalrymen collided hard, and blood and flesh flew everywhere.

Overall, the Qing army had the advantage.

The higher the horse's speed, the greater the advantage when hedging, and the sword's power is unstoppable.

In just one passing, Shi Yikai lost more than 300 brothers.

He glanced back and saw the infantry formations being disrupted by Xuzhou Town and the Qing army beating drums in the distance and launching a division-wide charge.

A difficult but right decision was made:
"withdraw."

He took the lone 600 horsemen and ran towards the west.

The Qing army's cavalry did not pursue, but concentrated on encircling and suppressing the remaining Shun Daojiao infantry.

Prince Jia Yongyan was eager to try and kill a cultist, but was dissuaded by the experienced guards.

What are you kidding me about? You can't take risks with this kind of thing.

Anyone who has been in a war knows that no one can guarantee that you will not be injured 100% on the battlefield, and guns and arrows have no eyesight at all.

Besides, are there not many cases where powerful generals are killed by pawns?

Maybe a field mouse hole broke the hoof of His Royal Highness the Prince's horse. If someone is thrown from a horse running at full speed, the mortality rate on the spot is as low as 4%.

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"Your Highness is a man of great wealth and cannot be put in danger."

"Yes, fighting on the battlefield is a soldier's bounden duty. All you need to do is strategize."

A group of guards in yellow jackets surrounded him.

They are all veterans who have fought at least three battles, have rich battlefield experience and have calm minds. Otherwise, he would not have taken on the task of guarding the prince.

The infantry of the Qing army were attacking crazily, splitting more than 1 Shun Dao believers into several segments, and the collapsed believers fled in all directions.

The cavalry of Yanzhou's general army was waiting for the opportunity to move.

They launched a chase across the vast plains, hacking each of the defeated soldiers to death from behind.

This war gave Yongyan a simple understanding of war:
"The cavalry is the king of war."

"First use a small group of fine cavalry to defeat the enemy, and then send out light cavalry to chase them north. Then you can completely annihilate the enemy."

The corpses spread to 15 miles away.

The Qing cavalry was exhausted, but the gains were huge.

There were a total of fifteen thousand religious bandits, except for the few hundred miscellaneous cavalry with oiled soles, the rest were all killed.

……

Those who surrendered were not spared.

In order to obtain the greatest military success as possible under the witness of Prince Jia.

All the generals went crazy and ordered that no one should be left alive.

A red sun gradually sets westward, and its edge has fallen into the horizon. Under the bloody setting sun, the fields looked particularly desolate.

Yong Yan, surrounded by guards, inspected the battlefield.

He suddenly saw a dark hilltop in the distance and sighed:

"This is the first hillside I have seen today. Let's go and have a look."

The war horse under his command is a good horse from the Royal Forest Park and is very fast.

After running for a mile, he suddenly reined in his horse.

After taking a closer look, I couldn't control the reaction in my throat and started vomiting violently.

This is not a dark mound, but a "Beijing Temple" with its head raised up.

The guards looked at each other in silence.

This is the first time Yong Yan, the 17-year-old emperor's fifteenth son, understands the true meaning of "chasing death and chasing north, beheading more than ten thousand people" outside of books.

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At the celebration banquet that night.

He only drank wine, ate only rice, and did not eat the next bite of meat.

He didn't even have the courage to take a second look at the fresh venison sent by the local gentry, fearing that he would be disgusted and smack someone else in the face.

If word like that reaches the capital, Huang Ama will look down upon it.

He has vaguely realized that he is likely to be the future successor of the empire, and he must restrain himself to the highest standards in everything.

"The king is prepared to personally nominate and recommend the meritorious soldiers in this battle. They will be rewarded with official positions and silver coins."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Everyone, get up, don't be rigid. I, the king, and the soldiers are having fun tonight, and they all raise their wine bowls to congratulate the Great Qing Dynasty!"

Hundreds of officers from the rank of Commander-in-Chief Qian and above hurriedly raised their sea bowls.

shouted loudly:

"Congratulations to the Qing Dynasty!"

The roar spread far away, frightening a forest 2 miles away. The returning bird took off hastily and did not dare to land for a long time.

The fast horse that reported the victory galloped back to Beijing overnight.

It only takes 3 days to be delivered to Qianlong's imperial records.

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After the banquet, Yongyan walked out of the camp alone and stood still in the dark night.

Suddenly, he turned around and asked the guard beside him:
"Both the government and the public say that the Green Battalion soldiers are unable to fight, but I think this is not the case?"

(End of this chapter)