Dragon Sea Empire

Yan Siqi raised his head and pointed to a major sent by the Northern Corps of the Marine Corps: "You, it's you, your troops didn't fight much last night, so please leave your troops immediately, and someone from the Military Information Department of the Eastern Route Army will tell you You lead the way, immediately go to the direction of Gulezhai, and assist the second regiment in defense,"

The major of the Marine Corps stood at attention to take the order, and he was very dissatisfied in his heart: the Marine Corps only arrived at the Hetuala camp at noon yesterday, and was dragged up to participate in the siege at night. The war, but after all, I didn't sleep a night, and the other troops participating in the war can rest for a whole day, but the Marine Corps has to keep spinning...

However, the provisional regiment of the Marine Corps has been placed under the command of the East Route Army, and Yan Siqi, who is directly in charge, is a general of the infantry army. There is no way for the Marine Corps to suffer a little bit. Now, the infantry army and the naval army are competing for merit. There are already many, the Marine Corps is doing the work of the infantry, and it is subordinate to the command of the Navy, and it always feels that the two sides are not pleasing.

Yan Siqi didn't have time to think about the mentality of the Marine Corps officers. He just thought that the infantry was the main force in the final decisive battle and had to rest and go to the battlefield later.

Yan Siqi was busy dispatching troops, and the military supervisor of the East Route who was in charge of the militia battalion came to complain: The militia battalion and the Ryukyu regiment had a fight in the city of Hetuala in order to compete for spoils.

"When the hell is this? These guys from the pioneering group are really going to make trouble. Take my guards. If there are troublemakers, they will be killed. All the spoils will be collected by the old battalion commander. Tell them: Nurhachi is coming. He has the gold and silver treasures of the entire Jin Kingdom, and all the things looted from the entire Liaodong are with him. If you want to get rich, you just need to win this battle."

Yan Siqi walked away with a wave of his hands, cursing and swearing non-stop. Those militia regiments led by veterans of the Chinese Army were reckless in fighting and grabbing trophies. Yan Siqi and other senior officers of the Chinese Army were very tired of the pioneer militiamen. The military discipline and weapons are not as good as the regular Chinese army, and it is the only thing that can be used.

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At this moment, Zhang Pan is using the five rapid-fire firearm posts that have just arrived at Gule Village to violently shoot at the Zhenghuang Banner cavalry who are trying to rush through Gule Village. He rushed south on the flat ground, probably planning to support the troops in Hetuala City.

Zhang Pan used five rapid-fire firearm posts, a total of fifteen honeycomb guns and more than 30 six-sub-revolver guns, to shoot fiercely at the flanks of the Zhenghuang Banner marching column, knocking down the Eight Banners soldiers who were trying to pass quickly.

After the Battle of Sanshilipu, Zhang Pan was very interested in volley guns and rapid-fire burst guns. At this time, he used them to shoot the densely packed Eight Banners marching columns. The firepower of the rapid-fire guns was maximized. Cavalry, Zhang Pan finally felt the pleasure of revenge.

The Eight Banners soldiers soon realized that if they wanted to cross Gule Village and go south, they had to occupy Gule Village, at least to prevent the Chinese army in Gule Village from firing firearms along the Suzi River.

Mang Gurtai led the troops of the headquarters and joined the Zhenghuangqi cavalry who had arrived earlier. A total of 10000 people acted as the vanguard of Nurhachi's main force and formally launched an attack on Gule Village.

Nurhachi also wants to rescue Hetuala City, the old nest he started from, and the first capital of the Houjin Kingdom. For Nurhachi himself and the entire Houjin Kingdom, it is a place that must be preserved. Now, the Eight Banners of Manchuria has a country The ethnic group is no longer the jungle tribe that used to be fishing, hunting, nomadic, and farming. None of the Eight Banners children want to go back to the dense forest to live a hard life, so they have to fight the Chinese army.

Moreover, large areas of farmland in the hinterland of the Houjin Kingdom were destroyed before they could be harvested. The large amount of grain and grass stored in Jiefan City and Hetuala City became the only food for the Eight Banners of the Houjin Kingdom this winter. If the Chinese army is not defeated, Nurhachi and His people would not be able to plunder Liaodong's grain, and the day of famine would be imminent.

Regardless of politics, or just for the survival of the tribe, Nurhachi must send troops to fight the Chinese army head-on. At the beginning, Nurhachi took the measures of not sticking to the city, shrinking and concentrating troops, and avoiding a decisive battle, which aborted halfway. However, the reality that the Chinese Army's three-way march made the hinterland of the Houjin rotted, forcing Nurhachi to make a decisive battle with the Chinese Army.

Gule Village has now become an outpost of the Chinese Army and an obstacle in the direction of the main force of the Eight Banners of Nurhachi.

Nurhachi's actions were always fast. It took only two days to reach Jiefan City. After the main force of the Eight Banners basically gathered around Jiefan City, Nurhachi immediately launched an attack. He firmly defended strategic points such as Shangjianya and Jiefan City to resist the Chinese Army West Route Army approaching Sarhu; The river is approaching the Tumen River Task Force of the Chinese Army in Jiefan City.

He personally led the main force of the Eight Banners: seven banners, 250 troops of nearly 8 Niulu, plus [-] Chahar Mongolian cavalry from the Allied Army, a total of [-] people marched towards the city of Hetuala.

Zhang Pan in Gule Village had only two battalions of infantry and one battalion of cavalry. The cavalry unit from the West Route Army was ordered to go to the Hetuala camp to join Yan Siqi's few cavalry, leaving only one militia cavalry battalion He supported him to guard Gule Village, with a total of less than 1500 defenders.

More than [-] people from Manggurtai, the main forward of the Eight Banners Army, flocked to Gule Village.

The Eight Banners infantry, with their shields on their backs, pushed the anti-cannon shield carts, hitting the civil structure of Gule Village one after another. The wall of the village was only one person high. , Some Eight Banners cavalry rushed out of the range of the Chinese army and ran towards the city of Hetuala.

The shield chariots of the Eight Banners Army can block the solid artillery shells of the Ming Army, but they cannot stop the explosive bullets of the Chinese Army. The Eight Banners repelled seven charges within the period, and the last attack occurred before dusk. An Eight Banners firearms unit participated in the attack, but there were no cannons, only arquebus shooting. Zhang Pan held up his binoculars and watched for a long time. The origin of the Firearms Unit: This is a team of Koreans, probably formed by members of the North Korean Firearms Unit who surrendered in the Battle of Sarhu.

Every time the Eight Banners soldiers attack, it will develop into hand-to-hand combat on the edge of the wall. The soldiers of the Chinese army can only block the desperate attacks of the Eight Banners soldiers by throwing down grenades without money.

Zhang Pan counted the number of people at night, and found that there were only more than 600 people left in his army, and only less than 500 people could continue to fight. Zhang Pan has already seen Nurhachi's golden tent and the "Bayal" soldiers in heavy armor in the telescope. It is very likely that Nurhachi and the main force of the Eight Banners have all arrived here. In any case, Gule Village can no longer be defended. up.

He called the battalion commander of the cavalry battalion of the fifth division, and found out that the cavalry battalion still had more than 500 horses locked up in the stockade. Breakout.

Huang Linzhong, the supervisor of the second regiment, is the nephew of Huang Cheng, the director of the Zhonghua Company. He was originally a fisherman along the coast of Quanzhou.

Fortunately, the soldiers of the Eight Banners fought fiercely all day, and the main force of the Eight Banners arrived one after another in the evening. Although the Gule village had been surrounded, the road by the Suzi River heading towards Hetuala was not tightly sealed. Focusing on the seriously wounded, he set off first, and he was delayed. When passing through the woods on the bank of the river, he encountered a small group of cavalry from the Chinese Army who came to investigate. Under the support, he successfully returned to the Hetuala Camp of the Eastern Route Army of the Chinese Army's gold cutting army at dusk the next day.

At dawn, the Eight Banners soldiers broke into the deserted Gule village. The forward soldiers accidentally stepped on the mechanism, and the gunpowder in Zhang Pan's ambush exploded. Ten grenades and three hundred catties of gunpowder were piled together, and in the end they all turned into scraps of copper and rotten iron. At the same time, they also took the lives of more than 30 Eight Banners Zhengbai Banner soldiers.

After returning to the camp, Zhang Pan, who hadn't slept for three consecutive days and nights, was really sleepy. After reporting to Yan Siqi, he fell asleep on the haystack behind Yan Siqi's tent.

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Boom boom boom.

Zhang Pan was awakened by the sound of gunfire in his sleep. He got up and was surprised to find that he was sleeping on a big bed covered with tiger skin, and the big bed was located in Yan Siqi's old camp tent.

Zhang Pan was taken aback. He heard the continuous sound of rolling guns and a series of fire guns in the distance. He jumped up and rushed out of the big tent. One of his personal guards was standing outside the tent. He then shouted excitedly: "Brother Zhang, you finally woke up, you slept all night and half a day..."

"Where is Director Yan, has the battle started yet?" Zhang Pan hurriedly tightened his belt, and took over his own gun and command sword from the personal guard.

Zhang Pan's personal guard is from Liaoyang like him. He joined the Chinese Army with Zhang Pan as a refugee, and regarded Zhang Pan as his elder brother. The soldiers drove to Qiyun Mountain in Xitou in the morning. The Shandong No. [-] Militia Battalion found them. Our people rushed over immediately. Now most of them have started fighting across the board. Here is the order of Manager Yan. Our regiment is now a reserve team. The general manager said, you have to set off as a team as soon as you wake up..."

Zhang took stock of the remaining soldiers of the second regiment: he still had two complete battalions under his command, the 400 men who were still able to fight were withdrawn the night before, and the remaining soldiers of the second regiment plus the temporary supplementary militiamen, a total of 2100 people , he sighed. In just a few days, most of them were the second regiment and cavalry battalion composed of Liaodong people, and almost half of them had been damaged.

Zhang Pan, who had just tasted the sweet taste of revenge in Gule Village, was filled with hatred again at this moment.

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