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Mulberry Town?

Liu Sheng remembered the map he had memorized in his mind and thought to himself: Didn't he meet Qinglu just after entering Hejian Mansion?

It seems that the pace of the Qing captives moving south is as fast as ever in history.

Then read the battle report carefully.

This battle report was signed by the fifth brigade commander Zhang Xin, brigade deputy Hua Jiehai, brigade political officer Zhao Sinian, and brigade staff officer Zhan Dong.

In this battle, the fifth brigade beheaded (killed) the Qing captives Gushan Erzhenturge with a white flag in Manchuria, and the Manchurian Niulu Zhangjing Muchia, Borge, and Haosen.

In addition, two people, Mongolian Jia La Zhang Jing Shu Lun and Mongolian Niu Lu Zhang Jing of the Eight Banners were killed. He also killed three people from the Eight Banners Han Army, Niu Lu and Zhang Jing, and captured two others.

In addition, a total of 5,328 generals and soldiers below Niulu Zhangjing and other Qing captives were killed and 872 were captured.

Among the Qing captives killed, how many of the Eight Banners Manchurians, Eight Banners Mongolians, and Eight Banners Han troops accounted for each, as well as how many were Baoyi and slaves, it was not yet clear when the Fifth Brigade wrote this battle report.

Because this was the first time that the Yi army fought against the Qing captives, they had no experience in distinguishing these people. It may be difficult to distinguish them later. At most, they could only identify some Qing captive generals.

In the end, this battle also captured more than 1,300 war horses, more than 1,000 stones of food and grass, weapons, armor, etc., and several horse corpses.

The fifth brigade encountered about 12,000 to 3,000 Qing captives in this battle. However, because the Qing captives had a large number of horses, although the fifth brigade defeated them, they were not able to annihilate them all.

The fact that he was able to kill nearly half of them in battle was already due to the Qinglu leader's iron head.

Liu Sheng was quite happy to see the capture data at the front of the battle report, but when he saw the casualties of the fifth brigade behind him, he couldn't help but frown slightly and his expression became heavy.

In this battle, the Fifth Brigade of the Standing Army lost 793 people on the spot!

Three hundred and twenty-one people were seriously injured!

More than 3,000 people were slightly injured!

Generally speaking, even if the seriously injured recover, most of them will not be able to return to the battlefield and will have to retire.

Therefore, it can be said that the Wei army lost more than 1,100 troops in this battle!

Such attrition data may be nothing to other armies of the same era, but to the Yi army, it can be regarded as a large number of casualties.

Because in previous battles against the Ming and Shun armies, the Yi army had only lost a few hundred men at most. Most of the time the casualties were less than a hundred, or even counted in single digits.

As far as the organization is concerned, after this battle, one regiment of the Fifth Brigade will probably be temporarily severely damaged in combat effectiveness. It will need to recruit a large number of troops and train for a period of time before it can restore 80% to 90% combat effectiveness.

Of course, if we compare the casualties between the Yi army and the Qing army, as well as the results of the battle, the Yi army was indeed a great victory in the battle at Sangyuan Town.

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Zhang Guowei, Wang Gongbi and others diverted their attention when they heard that the soldiers at the front encountered the Qing army and achieved a great victory.

They were all ministers of the Ming Dynasty in the past, but after Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, the Ming Dynasty rarely won against Jiannu, and even allowed Jiannu to invade the invaders several times, looting wantonly in the pass, as if entering an uninhabited land.

Although the Ming Dynasty was now dead and they had surrendered to Damei, they were still very excited when they heard that the Yi army had achieved a great victory in the battle against Jiannu.

They stared at Liu Sheng closely. They wanted to hear the detailed battle report and share their joy, but when they saw Liu Sheng's face turning from sunny to gloomy, their hearts suddenly became excited and they couldn't help but make random guesses.

'Since it is a great victory, why is Your Majesty unhappy? '

'Could it be that the good news is false? Did His Majesty get the clue? '

'This victory shouldn't be a tragic victory, right? '

Although the few people were anxious, they remembered the rules of Da'ei civil servants not to interfere with the military affairs at will, so they did not dare to speak for a while.

I can only watch helplessly.

After a while, Liu Sheng read the general description of the battle, and finally put down the battle report and said: "The Qing captives are indeed powerful. The carriages can block muskets and tiger cannons, and the heavy arrows of the infantry bow can break armor. The Eight Banners There are also many soldiers who are fierce and willing to die, so it’s no wonder that both the Ming and Shun armies find it difficult to defeat them in a field battle."

Hearing what Liu Sheng said, Zeng Ying, who had a relatively upright personality, finally couldn't help it and asked urgently: "Your Majesty, could this battle be a tragic victory?"

Zeng Ying was just asking, but it couldn't be called intervening in the military.

Liu Sheng glanced at him and said, "Although it's not a tragic victory, we still lost thousands of troops."

"How many casualties were there among the slaves?" But Zhang Guowei couldn't bear it anymore.

At the same time, he had made psychological preparations and thought to himself: The so-called great victory probably means that the Jiannu were defeated, and the number of troops was reduced by thousands. If two to three hundred Jiannu could be killed, it would be worthy of the saying of a great victory.

This is entirely based on the experience of previous Ming army battle reports.

Because as long as the Ming army can kill dozens or hundreds of slaves, it will be considered a great victory. Just when Zhang Guowei was thinking this, he heard Liu Sheng say: "Our army killed more than 5,000 Jiannu on the spot and captured more than 800 people. In addition, they also killed Zhenturge of Gushan'er with a white flag in Manchuria, and seven or eight Niulu Zhangjing. "

After hearing this, Zhang Guowei and Zeng Ying were stunned with shock, even Wang Gongbi, who was not an amateur in military affairs, was no exception.

They never expected that the Wei army could kill thousands of Jiannu slaves in one battle!

After finally coming back to her senses, Zeng Ying, who was straightforward in nature, couldn't help but ask whether the generals at the front were falsely claiming their military exploits.

Fortunately, he remembered that the Wei army was not the Ming army, and had not yet had the habit of falsely reporting military exploits. In addition, the true and false slaves could also be seen through the scalp (if you killed the common people and shaved their heads to take credit, the scalp was relatively "new"), and then the words came to his lips. Swallowed.

After calming down again, the three of them looked at Liu Sheng and couldn't help but feel resentful.

With more than 1,000 battle losses, more than 5,000 Jiannu were killed, and more than 800 prisoners were captured. They even killed one Jiannu, Gushan Ezhen. With such a great victory, Liu Sheng's expression seemed dissatisfied.

If Chongzhen knew about this, he would be so jealous that he would crawl out of his grave?

Liu Sheng didn't seem to realize how Versailles his words sounded, and continued: "The military situation is urgent and needs to be dealt with first. Regarding trains, railways, and cement, I can only talk about it another day.

Not many people may know about trains and railways, but about the cement matter, almost all the ministers and workers from the Wei tribe know something about it. If Mr. Zhang can't wait, he can ask them first. "

"Yes." Zhang Guowei responded, and then said together with Zeng Ying: "I'll leave."

As for Wang Gongbi, he stayed.

Damei talks about the separation of military and government, but given the current hardware conditions and the level of government organization construction, it is difficult to truly achieve this.

In fact, even in later generations, there was not a complete separation of military and political affairs. Although the governor of a province cannot mobilize the army, he can apply for the armed police force to assist in handling affairs. In fact, he also has some military power.

At present, although the Yi army occupies most of Shandong, there are still many local bandits that need to be pacified.

Although the local security forces and civilian warriors were mainly responsible for suppressing bandits, food supplies, intelligence, etc. always needed to be dispatched by the governor of a province.

As for fighting the Qing captives, if the battlefield was in Shandong, Wang Gongbi, the governor of Shandong, would definitely be involved in some of these affairs.

Not long after, all the brigade-level generals who stayed in the palace (not a palace, similar to the governor's residence, but a special name for their status) and the accompanying Military Academy personnel arrived.

After the meeting starts.

Liu Sheng said: "In the battle of Sangyuan Town, the fifth brigade encountered and fought fiercely with 12,000 Qing captives. In the end, they defeated the Qing captives at the cost of more than 1,100 casualties and captured nearly half of the Qing captives.

Although not all of this Qinglu army are Eight Banners soldiers, there are many so-called Baoyi and slaves in it, but it is enough to show that with the same strength, our standing army has better combat power than Qinglu and can win in battle.

Of course, some problems were also discovered in this battle. How to deal with the Qinglu's infantry bows and heavy arrows? In addition to using grenades, is there any other way to break the Qinglu's chariot warfare method?

In other words, how should we take advantage of our army's muskets and squatting cannons when facing the Qing Dynasty's carriages..."

Liu Sheng took advantage of the opportunity of this military meeting to summarize the gains and losses in the battle of Sangyuan Town and discussed some of the issues.

It is really difficult to rely solely on the more rigid tactics of platoon shooting and killing in the face of Qing Dynasty caravans.

Therefore, Yan Yingyuan, who was accompanying the Military Academy as an observer, asked whether the squad could use more flexible musketry tactics to deal with it.

In addition, since grenades can restrain Qing Dynasty carts, we can also consider increasing the proportion of grenades in the army.

Another Guards general suggested that at the beginning of the battle, army cannons could be used to fire iron bullets to see if they could damage some of the carriages.

Everyone brainstormed and came up with many feasible ways to deal with the Qing Dynasty's tactics such as chariots and large bows and heavy arrows.

Finally, Liu Sheng added: "According to the latest information from the Capital Xunfengwei, the Qingqi Eight Banners Army that entered the customs this time was only over 50,000, and thousands of them were lost in the stone battle at Shanhaiguan.

Therefore, even if the Qing captives entering the customs include coats, slaves and invited Mongolian cavalry (non-Eight Banner Mongolians), they only amount to a few hundred thousand troops.

Our army currently has hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in Shandong, and part of the First Division and the Fourth Division have also been transferred north. If a temporary rapprochement with Li Zicheng can be achieved, two or three independent brigades can be transferred from Henan.

In other words, in terms of military strength, we are not inferior to the Qing Dynasty, and now we know that we can defeat them in battle.

Therefore, I decided to order the army to continue marching northward and strive to seize Hejian, Zhending, Baoding and other places that the Qing captives have not yet completely controlled! "(End of chapter)