Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 643

Because ten people are bundled into a team, if they are not careful, they will fall to the ground together, so the porridge is distributed to each person.The bowl that Jiang Yougong got was very light in his hands, and upon closer inspection it was the coconut shell.The cook poured a spoonful of ginger soup into everyone's bowl.

It was obviously because they were afraid that they would get sick. Jiang Yougong knew that the thief would never want them to die, so he drank the soup boldly and fell asleep.

"Master!" the soldier tied up with him asked in a low voice, "Why did the thief take off our clothes?"

"I don't necessarily want you to be a rabbit!" Jiang Yougong said.He also felt suspicious. He hadn't heard that a prisoner would strip off his clothes—what were the thieves going to do with a few tattered jackets?Besides, those jackets were all thrown under the earth embankment, and they didn't go to get them.

Jia Mofei, who was in charge of logistics and transshipment, counted that this unsuccessful sneak attack provided more than 300 healthy prisoners.

"As soon as the rain stops tomorrow, we'll put them on a boat and transport them back to Lingao." Jia Mofei said, "I'm afraid they will be intercepted by officers and soldiers on land. Anyway, there are boats, so transporting people is fast and convenient."

"Put it together with the wounded?"

"Of course not. There is another ship for the wounded, and the condition of the captive ship is much worse. There is a large steerage below the deck, and the mesh hatch above can be closed. Anyway, it only takes half a day."

The fiasco of the entire night attack almost happened under the noses of He Rubin and others. The beams of light shaking on the embankment, the volley of guns and the loud voice of people all made the general very uneasy.He was no longer shocked by the fact that the gun thief's firearm could be fired in rainy weather.The sudden bright light and the white beams of light lingering in the dark sky and fields on a rainy night far surpassed his level of cognition.He Rubin's hands and feet are cold: how can we fight this battle?
Ye Zhengfang and Yan Zungao, who had escaped back, added many details, including that the enemy was obviously well prepared, and the enemy's lights were extremely bright.It made the officers and soldiers dizzy all of a sudden, and they couldn't even open their eyes...

The whole city tower fell into a long silence.Everyone is wondering: How else can this battle be fought?Everyone expects someone else to come up with a solution.

"My lord! The students thought Ying Lizhai would stick to it!" Qian Taichong had never found a chance to speak up, and now he finally had the chance to speak up.He watched the battle from the top of the city several times today.The stimulation given to him by the battle was very great.The "sharp firearms" and tactics of the Kun bandits left a deep impression on them.

Obviously, the Kun bandits are not Zheng Zhilong or Liu Xiang, but they are good at sea battles, and they are not inferior in foot battles.He realized that there were not many thieves infantry fighting today, but in the face of so many officers and soldiers fighting so tenaciously on the wall of the stronghold, it was obviously not just because of the words "sharp firearms".

Could it be that overseas thieves like Kun thief also have a heart of loyalty.He immediately dismissed his opinion.According to Tang Bao, most of the kun thieves are fake kun cast by "traitors from Fujian and Guangdong" and "traitors".Does such a generation without father and king have loyalty?It must be Zhen Kun's promise of great profit that made them risk their lives so much.

Thinking of this, he felt a little relieved.In Qian Taichong's view, the term "loyalty" has nothing to do with barbarians.After the battle, he knew whether his "Six Strategies for Rehabilitation" would be of any use for a while - there was very little confidence in continuing to attack tomorrow to win.He had already made plans in his mind, and when he heard that He Rubin did not want to stand firm, he felt that it was necessary for him to speak out.

According to him, it is beneficial for the officers and soldiers for the two sides to set up strongholds against each other. After all, He Rubin has the power of the whole province to support him, while the Kun bandits only own a county, and Lingao is a place with few people. barren place.The [-]-strong army of the Kun bandits was concentrated in Chengmai, and a lot of manpower was needed to transport food and grass. It was bound to be difficult to supply over time.After a stalemate for several months, when the food and grass of the Kun bandits gradually become unsustainable, they will inevitably lead to chaos without a fight.

"...No matter how strong the artillery fire of the Kun bandits is, there are only more than 20. We can't bombard our village all the time. We have a large number of soldiers, so we can spend a lot of money to recruit more dead soldiers and plunder the bandits' food. There must be no war!"

In fact, this plan is still the old strategy of prudently advancing troops.Originally, He Rubin just ignored the young scholar's proposal, but now he suddenly ignited hope: That's right!However, retreating from the enemy in Changwei was originally an opportunity for the governor.It's just that the original plan was to besiege the enemy's camp in Bopu and force them to retreat in the end.Now the place is changed to Chengmai——

However, if we want to stay here for a long time with the thieves, we must ensure the safety of food transshipment.Once there is a shortage of food in the army, the morale of the army fluctuates, and the collapse of the entire army of [-] troops will only happen in an instant.

He held a meeting with the generals and asked them to dig trenches and stand firm in preparation for a long-term stalemate with the Kun thieves.Shishan is an important midway grain platform between Qiongshan and Chengmai. He Rubin ordered Yan Zungao to take 2000 troops there to protect the grain platform and the transportation of military grain along the way, and sent his staff to Qiongshan to handle the grain and grass transfer.He also wrote a letter to Wang Zunde, reporting that the officers and soldiers had broken the siege of Chengmai and had captured many Kun rebels. Mai, I hope to send more than a dozen Hongyi Cannons.As for the food and wages, they have to be transshipped as soon as possible.

Early the next morning, instead of launching a full-scale attack as expected, the officers and soldiers dispatched the entire army to dig trenches and build strongholds under Chengmai City to reinforce the fortifications.

He Ming saw that the officers and soldiers were busy reinforcing the fortifications, and knew that the enemy had lost their vigor and did not dare to come out to fight again, and was ready to fight them for a long time.This is certainly a good thing, but if the enemy's [-] troops are gathered together, and his own strength is less than half of the opponent's, it may be difficult to form an effective encirclement.

"Our army cannot fight the enemy in a stalemate in Chengmai for a long time. The result of the stalemate is that we will suffer." At the combat meeting, Dongmen Chuyu said, "Although the enemy's logistics means are backward, they have the financial and material resources of the entire province of Guangdong. Support, as long as Wang Zunde wants, he can confront us for as long as he wants. This will be catastrophic for our finances."

"I originally expected He Rubin to attack again today to disable his main force. It seems hopeless to take the opportunity to defeat his entire army." He Ming shook his head and said, "Now we have to fight a siege."

It is certainly not uncommon in the history of war for the side with fewer people to besiege the side with more people, but the strength of the Fubo Army is too small after all.He Ming was very worried about this.

At this time, the special investigation team sent a report that about 2000 people had left the camp and moved towards Qiongshan.

"The enemy is about to start retreating?"

"No, He Rubin absolutely dare not retreat just like this." He Ming judged, "He rushed to repair the fortifications in order to confront us for a long time. This group of people is probably used to defend the grain station."

"The enemy may also be Mingxiu Plank Road." Someone reminded.

"It is possible. But since the enemy wants to protect the grain road, we will cut off the grain road." He Ming looked at the map and made up his mind. "Call me the 1st Battalion and 4th Battalion of Tong Infantry!"

Just after noon, He Rubin and others were planning to deploy the defense system.Suddenly, I received a report from the horse: thousands of thieves had cut off the road between Chengmai and Shishan, and Yan Zungao's troops were defeated, and they are now fleeing in the direction of Chengmai!
"Where's General Yan?"

"Life and death are unknown!" Tan Ma tremblingly said, "General Yan's banner was not seen in the rout."

"Explore again!" He Rubin turned pale for a moment, and the bandits cut off the rear road by surprise. He immediately ordered the Chinese army's garrison guerrilla Sun Changzuo to follow his order and lead 500 troops to collect the defeated soldiers along the way.Then he ordered people to invite Zhao Ruyi and the main generals to a meeting for discussion.

"If General Yan Shen is defeated, our army is in danger," He Rubin said in a deep voice, "The enemy army will break through General Yan's troops, and when they turn around, they will attack Shishan and take my food platform!"

The Kun bandits defeated Yan Zungao's subordinates in one fell swoop, and the next step must be to capture Shishan.There are only [-] soldiers guarding Shishan, and the enemy can defeat [-] troops, and it is not difficult to capture Shishan.As soon as Shishan lost his food, the road was broken.Once the food road is broken, the collapse of the whole army is in sight!
This dire prospect sent chills down the spine of all present.

He Rubin immediately arranged the defense of each battalion, and ordered all the troops to guard the camp, not to run around loudly, and not to leave the defense line without authorization.

"Generals, we are now in an unpredictable situation!" He Rubin sternly said, "Our camp is firmly established, and the overall situation has not yet reached the point of no return. The gangsters are just relying on their excellent equipment to take the lead! The gangsters eat less food At least, as long as our army retakes the stone mountain and protects the grain road, we can turn defeat into victory!"

At that moment, he ordered the guerrilla Sha Jianbi of the Fubiao Battalion stationed in Xiaoyingchang to lead the whole army to withdraw from Xiaoyingchang immediately.

"You lead your troops to Shishan, defeat the bandits, and ensure the safety of Shishan." He Rubin said, "If the enemy takes Shishan, you also have to take it back."

"The humble general understands!" Sha Jianbi knew the importance of it.

"I'll give you another 2000 troops."

Sha Jianbi had just led the troops out.The bad news came soon: Shishan has fallen!After the Kun bandits defeated Yan Zungao's troops, they immediately turned around and captured Shishan, taking away all the rations stored in Shishan.

"Three thousand thieves have lined up on Shishan!" Tan Ma came to report again, "And there are cannons!"

"cannon?!"

"Yes, according to what the soldiers said, the Kun bandits had cannons, which were extremely powerful. General Yan didn't know that he had cannons, so he was caught off guard, and was killed by the cannon!"

He Rubin didn't want to listen any more, this series of bad news made him almost fall into despair.But he tried to keep calm and continued to deploy his troops to prevent the Kun bandits from besieging his camp.Because he heard that the enemy had cannons, he ordered Li Guangsu to lead 2000 people to reinforce Sha Jianbi.

Sha Jianbi led 3000 people to open the gate of the camp and hurried along the post road to Shishan.Of course, such a big movement cannot be concealed from the observation posts and special investigation team members.A few minutes later, the news was received by the [-]st and [-]th Infantry Battalions, which had established their positions near Stone Mountain.

朱鸣夏和第1步兵营营长熊茂璋正在打扫战场修筑工事。这2个步兵营一早接到命令之后即刻以急行军速度赶到石山。熊茂璋的第1营用带来的3门12磅山地榴弹炮的炮击加上一次坚决的刺刀冲锋就夺取了石山的明军营寨，抓到300多名俘虏，缴获在粮台积存的粮食七八万斤并几百辆运粮的鸡公车。随后第1步兵营在石山脚下列阵。

The 2000 troops led by Yan Zungao rushed all the way, and were constantly harassed and attacked by the special investigation team on the road.Many generals died.People are in turmoil.Fortunately, the soldiers knew that they were going in the direction of the safe Qiongshan Mountain, and they all rushed on the road desperately thinking that as long as they could get to Shishan Mountain, they would have more chances of survival.Yan Zungao urged the troops to march all the way because he wanted to arrive at Shishan before the Kun bandits finished their defense, and many infantry fell behind.In the end, he rushed to Shishan with only 200 people.

The red flag was waving, and a gray line of battle was already in full swing at the foot of the stone mountain.Yan Zungao saw that the enemy had not yet built a camp, only a trench covering the entire army, and the number of soldiers was only about 1000.But he has no military advantage.He had already seen the advantage of the gun thief's firearms yesterday, and the chances of fighting immediately were extremely slim.

At the moment, he retreated to a small hill opposite the stone mountain, preparing to set up camp, and waited for the arrival of the follow-up troops before making any plans.

But Fubo Jun has no time to give him this chance.At 11:2 noon, with the support of two 12-pound mountain howitzers, Zhu Mingxia commanded the [-]th Infantry Battalion to burst out from the flank of the stone mountain with a company column and launched a fierce attack on Yan Zungao's troops.

Yan Zungao was caught off guard - under the constant harassment and shielding of the special investigation team, he could not grasp the movements of the nearby enemy troops at all.At this moment, the soldiers were exhausted and the morale of the soldiers was low. Suddenly, a new force came out from the flanks to attack. He quickly ordered a general to lead 300 people to fight, in order to temporarily delay the enemy's momentum and gain time to form an array.

The 300 men were defeated after the onslaught of the [-]th Battalion. Yan Zungao had no choice but to lead the main force to fight in person.His troops couldn't withstand the firepower of the Fubo Army and were forced to retreat. Ye Zhengfang took his soldiers and servants to supervise the battle everywhere, barely maintaining the order of the troops, but all the troops were still forced to retreat to the foot of the rocky mountain.

The 1000th Battalion was like a hammer, and the 800st Battalion, which formed a horizontal line at the foot of the mountain, was an anvil. These more than [-] hungry and exhausted soldiers could not withstand such a front and back attack, and the whole army was crushed at the foot of the rocky mountain.The remaining [-] people were all taken prisoner.Only the stragglers managed to escape.

Xiong Maozhang sat on the low wall at the foot of the stone mountain and smoked a pipe. The soldiers under him were shirtless and digging trenches—the trenches need to be further deepened and widened to effectively contain the enemy's impact.In the distance, the ground is full of weapons, armor and flags seized from the battlefield.The bare-bottomed captives bundled up in a string were being escorted to the original Ming army camp on the mountain.It is now the temporary headquarters of 2 battalions.

Zhu Mingxia galloped back and forth on a captured maroon Mongolian horse, which was a general's mount, very handsome.Zhu Mingxia has dark skin and short shaved hair.It looks very capable.What he hangs around his waist is not the standard Fubo army officer's command knife, but a folding pattern steel Tang knife that he customized in the old time and space, which is very beautifully decorated.

"This horse is not bad." He rode the horse to the low wall and got off the horse. "It's just that the harness is not good. I'm not used to the old-fashioned saddle."

"We are infantry officers," Xiong Maozhang spit out smoke rings, "Why don't you become a dragoon."

"If I want to be a horse, I need a horse." Zhu Mingxia patted the horse regretfully, and asked a captured officer and groom to take the horse away and send it to the stockade on the mountain.

"It was said on the radio that another 5000 officers and soldiers came, 3000 in front and 2000 in the rear to respond. We have a total of 100 people, and [-] people were killed or injured just now."

"It's not a big problem." Zhu Mingxia opened his map bag and spread out the map, "The enemy was in a hurry and used the most taboo refueling tactics. Let's continue to beat him and wait for work. Three thousand against one thousand, we still have Odds are good."

In general, the tactics remain the same.The 1st Infantry Battalion relied on simple field fortifications to defend, attracting officers and soldiers to attack the front. After the battle entered a stalemate, the 4th Infantry Battalion broke out from the side and rear, directly swept its flanks, and severely defeated it.As long as there is a strong shielding of the officers and soldiers by the special investigation team, it will be difficult for the officers and soldiers to find such a simple tactical cooperation.They can only rush to the preset position of the 1st Battalion like a blind man riding a blind horse, and then hit their heads and bleed.

"As long as we don't let them go to Qiongshan, we don't have to wipe them all out, and we don't have to rush to catch the prisoners—there's no way to deal with them if we catch too many. The army camp is still there, let He Rubin flee to Chengmai. Send someone to contain it. If you disable the troops, it will be useless for a frightened bird, and it will drag down the morale of his entire army."

"That's it!" Xiong Maozhang nodded, "How much ammunition do you have now? I am running out of ammunition, and each infantry only has a hundred rounds of ammunition."

"I'll give you twenty rounds per person. I'm an assault force, and fifty rounds are enough for one person. When the time comes, the bayonet will be popular!" Zhu Mingxia wrote a note to the orderly: "Go, give the battalion supplies Officer, ask him to send over [-] rounds of ammunition immediately."

"It's a pity that there are not enough shells, and we still have a little less people."

Although the four 4-pound mountain howitzers that played a decisive role in the battle are light to carry and can be easily dragged by a few people, the weight of the shells and gunpowder is not small, and more than half of them have been consumed in the battle just now.

"It's okay, there are still grenades." Zhu Mingxia was full of confidence. In his opinion, having cannons was nothing more than smoother battles and fewer casualties, but there was no suspense about the outcome of the battle.

"Two battalion commanders! The body of the general of the Ming army has been found." A corporal hurriedly came to report.

"Oh? Go and have a look!" Zhu Mingxia regained his energy immediately, and the two of them walked together to the health team that was cleaning the battlefield.

A corpse in armor was lying on a stretcher, looking about 40 or [-] years old.The armor on his body is very delicate, it should be a kind of scale armor, not the rough armor worn by infantry, which is just connected with iron plates. He and Xiong Maozhang know little about the armor, but from the pattern, decoration and border of the armor As soon as he saw the brocade, he knew that this pair of armor was definitely not for ordinary officers, it must be a general.

At present, a few people were found among the surrendered soldiers and generals to identify them, and they quickly recognized that this was Yan Zungao, the Huizhou general who came to reinforce Liangtai.

(End of this chapter)