Win the Ding 1617

According to Murphy's law of the devil, whenever something has the possibility of developing to the bad side, it must develop faster and worse than you imagined.In fact, Hong Chengchou's worries were not unfounded. When his letters and inscriptions were sent to Beijing and Nanjing by Kuaima Clippers, the Eastern Route Army of General Luck Dehun, who conquered the South, had already been defeated.

And the defeat was miserable, not only the soldiers and horses suffered heavy losses, but all the supplies, grain, grass, carts and horses were lost, and even the coach Luck Dehun died on the battlefield.However, his death was not heroic, even a bit useless.However, with his death in battle, according to Dorgon's continuous sitting method, officials and generals at all levels of the Southern Expedition Army must kill a group!

We turned our attention back to Hongqiao Town, the junction of Shanghai County and Qingpu County.

This area is full of plains, with dense water networks, criss-cross ports, fertile land and dense population. It was originally a wealthy village near Shanghai County.Not far from Hongqiao Town is the Shanghai Business District after the expansion, and the proximity to the water is the first thing to do. Hongqiao Town has also made a lot of money over the years, and many people have already become extremely rich.Ordinary people, relying on the convenience of coming and going, can bring in and out a lot of small items and a small amount of goods from the business district every day.

As the flames of war approached, this Hongqiao Town, also serving as an important support base for the defense of Shanghai County, sent a newly arrived garrison brigade to take charge of the defense.

Ji Kaiming, the brigade commander of the garrison brigade, stood on the tower of the town and looked west.The city wall under his feet was about eight meters high, and the circumference of the city wall was only about two miles.At this time, the people in the town, the old and the weak, women and children, have basically been mobilized into the business district, and those who stay in the town are all young people who have been screened and received simple training, and are working as urban management and other auxiliary law enforcement errands in the business district. prime of life.

Below the city, almost close to the city wall, is a river with a width of more than ten feet winding around the town.In order to prevent the Qing army from taking boats or setting fires on rafts, several wooden fences were laid on the upper reaches of the river about a few hundred steps away from the town, cutting off about one-third of the river. Slow down and pass slowly.What's more, how many wooden fences are in a row?In this way, the Qing army fleet can be prevented from breaking into the city under the suppression of artillery fire from the tower's gun positions.

Outside the river, there is an official road with a width of three feet that can accommodate two carts side by side, paved with ashes.At the junction of the official road and the river is a wide stone bridge.

The bridge was also built in the past few years. The wide bridge deck is enough for two large vehicles to run side by side.On both sides, there are pedestrian passages for trolleys to pass through, which can be regarded as separate passages for pedestrians and transport vehicles.The tall arched bridge hole can allow ships with the maximum draft to pass through.There is also a stone tablet at the head of the bridge, engraved with the list of people who donated money to build the bridge and the amount of donations.

On the other side of the bridge, all you can see at a glance is farmland.It was already late autumn, and the war was approaching again. The rice straw that had been planted sporadically in the farmland had been harvested, and the straw bales were placed one by one here and there, randomly placed here and there.In the eyes of outsiders, it looks messy and abnormal.However, in Ji Changming's eyes, these straw bales are excellent markers in this plain area.Through the lens of the telescope, he could clearly see the hidden markings on the straw bales, which were used to show the effective killing distance from the city walls and defense lines, and various firepower.

"It's a pity that the large areas in this area are all vegetable fields, and there are too few rice fields!" Ji Changming was a little unsatisfied, smacking his lips, looking at the straw bales scattered in the wilderness. "Otherwise, our firepower network will be deployed better! Right now, not only are we not enough for ourselves, but we also have to reserve some for the guerrillas!"

Qi Tianyue, the guard battalion officer beside him, was grinning: "Hey! Brigadier, you are out of your mind! Without such a large vegetable field, our tens of thousands of horses are still withdrawing from the direction of Nanjing. With 10,000+ people, eating food is a problem. Although Jiangnan is much better than Jiangbei, it is also much colder and drier than Nanzhong Lingnan. If the brothers don’t have enough food, they can’t let them eat grass. ?”

"What you said makes sense! You guys, go to the town and get a few buckets of red paint, and in those fields, look for a marker every [-] steps and mark it with red paint!" He arranged Several officers around me went to do it.This is not difficult. In the field, any boundary stone monument, ground stake, and tree stump felled to clear the shooting boundary can all be used as signs.

"Our place is an outpost, and it is the only way to the county seat of Shanghai. The Qing soldiers will definitely attack in large numbers. As long as the Qing army doesn't arrive for a day, our fortifications will not stop for a day!"

In fact, not only did the fortifications continue to be built and the terrain improved, but the river channel that passed through Hongqiao Town also brought in various supplies day and night.

The reason why Li Huabao did this was not only the strategic significance of Hongqiao itself, but also because of what Li Shouhan said back then.

"This is our giant deer, our Hongqiao!" These are the inspirational words Li Shouhan yelled at the foot of Hexi Wucheng when he went north to King Qin.Back then, he used Li Hongzhang's Battle of Hongqiao as an example, but he didn't know that many people didn't know where Hongqiao was, and Li Shouhan could only deal with it vaguely.However, when Li Huabao deployed defenses around Shanghai County, he suddenly discovered the importance of Hongqiao.

On the one hand, the meaning of Hongqiao itself lies, and on the other hand, the inspiring slogan that the father yelled back then has long been known, and the political significance is different.Li Huabao gathered 12 points of energy to deploy troops and arrange material reserves.

Naturally, the material reserves are easy to talk about. Anyway, the materials evacuated from Nanjing all the way to Shanghai, plus the materials stored in the business district, not to mention piles of mountains and seas are almost the same.This huge amount of supplies cannot be pushed into the Huangpu River, let alone cheapen the Qing soldiers.Food, ammunition, medicine, clothing, non-staple food.As long as the supplies are needed or may be needed, they are all shipped by the whole ship.In Hongqiao Town, fortifications and bunkers have already begun to be built with grain and rice bags.

However, it took Li Huabao's brains a lot to send which troops to garrison here.

Everyone knows that this place is registered in the heart of the lord, and it is also used to inspire the whole army.As long as you stay here and fight well, what is meant by simplicity in the emperor's heart, what is meant by wealth and glory, what is meant by conferring a wife and son, and passing it on to your descendants, it is not a matter!Therefore, the land and water ministries stationed in Shanghai are about to start fighting for the task of stationing in Hongqiao.

In the end, it was Zhang Xiaohu, a veteran of the navy, who came forward and suppressed the generals of the navy's battalions, "Stop me! The place where you made meritorious service is not just Hongqiao! Tartars are everywhere, I just take you to fight them!" Grab a bird!"

"Sixth Master, where are we going to fight the Tartars?" The officers of the navy and land battalion were still a little unwilling.

"Bullshit! My lord gave us an errand to escort and escort the supplies to the various ministries of Heilongjiang to the north. Aren't there a lot of tartars along the way?! I'm so happy. When I return, I will take you to land from Beitang and go along the Tianjin Wei Take a trip to Beijing! Give that badger in Beijing a good look! I don’t know if it will frighten him so much that the thing in his crotch is so soft that he can’t get on his sister-in-law’s kang!”

Zhang Xiaohu's rude joke immediately excited the officers of the Navy, and many of them couldn't stop applauding at the top of their voices.

"Okay! Let's go north with the sixth master, first finish the master's errand, then go to Beijing city, Shenyang city, burn the grave of the wild boar skin first, and then make the badger unable to get on his sister-in-law's bed!"

The generals of the navy said that we would not get involved in such a small matter in Shanghai, and Li Huabao's work would be much easier.

After fiddling and fiddling, the task of stationing Hongqiao fell on Ji Changming, the newly opened security brigade.The public reason, Li Huabao said, is high-sounding, "Lao Ji's brigade has just been compiled in Nanzhong. All the students of Nanzhong are well-equipped and morale is high. Moreover, the organization is complete and the physical strength is abundant. Originally in Shanghai, in Jiangnan The various ministries in the army retreated from Nanjing to Shanghai, and fought a lot of battles, big and small, and lost their physical strength and organizational system. It happened to be able to take a rest in Shanghai County to recover their physical strength and replenish their troops."

This is what is said in public.In private, the generals of various ministries don't understand it that way.

"The second son is right. In war, you can't pull out all the big names as soon as you come up. How can you use a butcher's knife to kill a chicken? For things like defending the city, let the new troops of the old season go up, and the old battalion like us , we still have to wait until the critical moment, for example, when Old Ji can't handle it, let's kill him again!"

"My father followed the lord in the first battle against the Tartars at Wucheng, Hexi. At that time, we fought the Liaodong Tartars in a serious manner. Back then, we only had 3000 men and horses, and we faced tens of thousands of Tartars! At that time, my father was still the lord. One of the team officers under him has become a brigade commander after all these years! You are the same, we have won the battle here in Hongqiao, and there will be opportunities to get promoted and make a fortune in the future!"

"That's right! Our team is full of people. The brothers are full of energy and morale, and they are eager to fight! In this battle, let's call the friends and neighbors to see, and let the Qing soldiers in Jiangnan and Jiangbei get to know each other. we!"

The benevolent see benevolence and the wise see wisdom.However, they are full of confidence and pride.

Ji Changming was one of the [-] soldiers who followed Li Shouhan thousands of miles north to King Qin, but he was just a team officer in charge of dozens of pikemen.Because of his outstanding performance in the First Battle of Hexiwu, he was promoted after returning to Nanzhong. He has made military achievements in suppressing bandits and suppressing chaos.Although most of the subordinates are conscripts recruited from various places, such as the strong man team and the watch team.However, Ji Changming was full of confidence in his army.

Among his subordinates, in addition to the three infantry regiments, one guards battalion, one artillery team, and one cavalry signal team, which were fully staffed, there was also an artillery battalion reinforced by Li Huabao, with twelve guns and twelve pounders. Cannons, fifteen eight-pound guns, ten Dafolang machines, and twenty groups of rocket launchers.

"We still have more than 2000 young and strong people in this town. Although they have not experienced battle, they have been trained and know military discipline! If they can't go to battle, they can carry ammunition, transport wounded people, and patrol the town to fight fires. of!"

These more than 2000 young and strong men were organized by Ji Changming into an auxiliary team of ten battalions according to the establishment of a team of 50 people and a battalion of 200 people. They are unifiedly managed by his brigade headquarters and can be used as supplementary soldiers when necessary. Supplement the lack of organization caused by excessive casualties.

"Qing Bing, you'd better come quickly. I can't wait! However, I still hope you come later, so that I can repair the fortification better!"

Ji Changming held the binoculars and looked towards the road to the west, muttering to himself.

"Brigade Commander, are you looking forward to the arrival of the Tartars, or do you not want them to come?!" Lan Wei, the general manager of the brigade's battalion affairs department, smiled and found fault in his words.

"Come early, and we can have a good fight. Come late, and our fortifications can be repaired better and more! Brothers can shed less blood!"

Ji Changming was deeply impressed by the field fortifications that played an important role in Hexiwu back then.Therefore, after he accepted the task, he built fortifications and transformed the terrain in Hongqiao.

When several sluices in the upper reaches are closed, several unimportant river channels will gradually dry up, and the silt in the river channels will be picked out to form natural barriers and trenches.Relying on these ditches, they were reconstructed, and part of the river course was filled with earth and rocks, covered with civil engineering, forming a section of ditch.In addition to digging trenches outside the town and stacking earthen walls with the excavated soil, artillery forts were set up to line up the battalion's six-pound guns. On average, each gun has two to three gun positions, ready to be transferred at any time. Cannon positions, use shells to greet those braided soldiers.Drawing on Dorgon's experience in Tashan, bunkers, dark forts, and artillery positions were set up in the trenches.Prevent the Qing soldiers from losing their advantage after rushing into the trench, and quickly enter the situation of one-sided hand-to-hand combat.

"You can rely on the fortifications to kill and injure a large number of enemies, why should you let the brothers use their lives to fight with guns?" This is Ji Changming's opinion.

In the town, several ancestral halls and temples have become the warehouses of the Southern Guangdong Army, piling up horsetail grenades, sub-drugs, and cannons like hills.The Brigade Health Battalion set up a hospital in the Confucian Temple, and the directors of each battalion shuttled between the warehouse and the health camp with large and small vehicles to collect ammunition and bandage first aid medicine.

"Brigade Commander, the artillery emplacements on the top of the city and the shooting positions of the firecrackers have all been seen. The trenches, ditches, parapets, bunkers, and artillery emplacements below the city are basically ready. Only a few horse traps have not been completed yet. .”

Holding the blueprint in his hand, Lan Wei pointed out to Ji Changming one by one the fortification positions marked on the picture and the emotions in reality.He knew that he, the brigade commander, attached great importance to the Hongqiao battle, so he also put in 12 points of energy to do his job well.

On the top of the city, several reinforced [-]-pound guns were installed, and the gunners were cleaning the barrels and carrying ammunition in the fortress.The muzzle of the black hole pointed to the west, and the gunner was observing the firing range through the measuring stick at the breech breech.From his point of view, within a [-]-degree angle range and a distance of several miles, they are all within the killing range.

"It's a pity that Hongqiao is not a city like those in the north of the Yangtze River. There are no sheep and horse walls, and there are no gates. Otherwise, on the top of our city, under the city wall, ditches, parapets, bunkers, artillery emplacements, and wooden fences in the river, it would be enough for Qing soldiers to drink a pot. of!"

Ji Changming always felt that his fortifications were insufficient.Lan Wei, Qi Tianyue and the others exchanged glances, and curled their lips in unison.Because of Ji Changming's crazy hobby of repairing fortifications, they guard the 24th brigade, which has become a joke used by the military horses around Shanghai.

"Do you dare to fight? If you don't dare to fight, get out of the way! Let me do it! Don't always dig ditches!"

Ji Changming also heard a little bit of wind in his ears.However, Ji Changming just pretended that he never existed.Just kidding!As long as I finish the battle and win, what do you care about how I fight?Therefore, he came out early this morning to inspect the construction of the position.

It is already late autumn, and Shanghai County is adjacent to the river and the sea. The autumn wind and autumn rain are blowing, making people feel chills.

On the top of the city wall, under the city wall, all the soldiers of the Southern Guangdong Army, Ding Guanzuo, had already changed into winter clothes.The cotton produced in Tianzhu was made into thick padded jackets, and the livery of the Southern Guangdong Army was worn on the outside, and the breastplate was on the outside of the livery.Wearing a small wool cap on the head, and then wearing an iron helmet, with this wool cap, on the top of the shaved head, the coldness brought by the iron helmet is greatly reduced.

Because Qiu Yu hates being big and small, almost all of them are wearing tung oil ponchos and bamboo hats on their heads.

A gust of autumn wind mingled with rain, and Ji Changming and the others couldn't help but shiver, and a guard cursed in a low voice: "Damn it, this place in the south of the Yangtze River is much colder than Guangdong, Guangxi and Nanzhong!"

"Hey! You don't know much! If you go to the two brigades in Heilongjiang to see, it's really a world of ice and snow! Compared with the people of Sauron, we are in Shanghai, in the south of the Yangtze River. That is equivalent to being in Guangdong, Guangxi and Nanzhong!"

Lan Wei followed the battalion office to several fortresses at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River. He knew the terrain and weather there, and when he heard the complaints from the soldiers of the Guards Battalion, he had to teach him a few words.

"Lantou, everyone says it's cold over there, but how cold is it?" Several soldiers from the Guards Battalion asked Lan Wei with a smile.

"How cold is it? Have you ever seen a scene of whiteness when you go out? There is a snowfield for hundreds of miles and thousands of miles. If you want to go out, you have to wrap it up thickly, fur, fur Boots, fur gloves, and fur hats, you can only dare to go out if you cover them tightly. Otherwise, you will be frozen to death!"

Lan Wei was about to speak in depth, when a firework rose from the far horizon, drew a line of fire in the rain, and exploded in mid-air quickly.

"Alert! Be alert!"