Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

In this day's battle, both sides suffered heavy casualties.The Daping Army suffered nearly 1 casualties, while the Qing Army suffered more than [-] casualties.Judging from the numbers, it seems that the Qing army suffered more casualties.However, most of the casualties of the Qing army were the Han Army Banners and the Mongolian Eight Banners that surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, but there were not many real Manchu Eight Banners.However, the casualties of the Daping Army were all their own main forces.Therefore, in terms of strength loss, the Daping Army suffered a bit.

In particular, the Qing army originally had [-] more soldiers and horses than the Daping army, so after this consumption, the gap in strength between the two sides became even wider.

What is more disadvantageous for the Daping army is that their purpose of fighting is to block the Qing army and prevent the Qing army from rushing into the pass.Therefore, the defense of the Daping Army is rigid and cannot retreat.Once retreating, the arc length of the half-surrounding defense line will be greatly increased, and the defense line of the Daping Army will also be weaker.To be honest, if Shumo's reinforcements hadn't arrived in time, it would have been the current casualties of the Daping Army. If they wanted to maintain a complete line of defense in the future, their strength would be a bit stretched.

For the same reason, the Daping army could not arrange several lines of defense along the way from Shanhaiguan to Beijing to defend section by section.In a word, the current Daping army is trying to force the Qing army inside Shanhaiguan.

However, the Qing army also had its own difficulties.After all, the Daping army was defending, and the Qing army was attacking.In terms of long-range firepower, especially firearms, the Qing army has a great disadvantage.In order to break through the defense line of the Daping Army, they had no choice but to fill it with their lives.For the Qing army with scarce manpower, this was completely painful.Not to mention that the longer the delay, the stronger the defense line of the Daping Army will be built.

so.This battle is difficult for both sides.therefore.After a short day of passion, the two armies began to be tepid again.They go out to camp every day, but every day is after a few tentative confrontations.Withdrew the troops and returned to the camp, and no longer dared to fight rashly.And this kind of fighting situation lasted for nearly 20 days without knowing it.

On the surface, both armies seem to be playing too conservatively.But in secret, both sides are actually dispatching troops.

Dorgon has sent Kuaiqi to Abatai's army, asking him to lead the army through the Great Wall pass and threaten Beijing first.The Daping Army near the capital did not dare to act rashly, and then rushed to Shanhaiguan at high speed, and flanked back and forth with the Qing army in Shanhaiguan.Completely wipe out the main force of the Taiping Army.

In addition to leaving a minimum amount of troops to defend Beijing and Tongzhou, Wu Shigong also deployed [-] Imperial Forest Army stationed in the capital, plus [-] "elite soldiers" selected from the auxiliary soldiers, ready to support at any time Shanhaiguan front line.

also.Wu Shigong also urgently ordered the Western Army, the Sichuan Army, the Southern Army, the Zhejiang Army and the Shandong Army.Let them mobilize the elite to go north and join in the decisive battle with the Qing army.And these Daping armies have also mobilized the first batch of [-] cavalry, and marched towards the capital in several groups.And larger-scale reinforcements are also being assembled and set off.

The Pegasus Town in Zug has 4000 riders, and nearly [-] peasants are being replenished. There are also more than [-] carts and pack horses that pull the carts, preparing to transport grain to Liaodong again.To know.Although Zuge once brought some redundant populations of Ningyuan and Zhenyuan back to the pass, the grain and grass in these two cities are still not enough.It can also be supported until October and November at most.No matter how late it is, it will kill horses and eat people.And now it's late May, and counting the battles and delays during the food delivery, the time in Pegasus Town is already very tight.

At this time, the Daping army did not know that Abatai had assembled an army and would enter the customs on the front line of Xuanda.And the Qing army didn't know that Feima Town would return to the carbine again and leave the customs again to rescue the two cities of Ningyuan and Zhenyuan.As for Wu Shigong gathering another mobile corps, and the Daping armies from all walks of life in the south also sent reinforcements to the north one after another, the Qing army was even less aware of this situation.

So now in Shanhaiguan, the main forces of the two armies have been stalemate.But in other places, both sides seem to be blindfolded, playing chess on their own, making mistakes, and it is not known who will have the last laugh.

Temporarily move your eyes away from the frontal battlefield, and look at the corner first-the battle in North Korea!

On May 24, Anju.

Looking at the Daping Army in front of him, Duoduo asked, "Have you counted it? How many people are there?"

"A little over [-]." Bodun, who was standing next to Duoduo, the white flag officer leader, replied.

"Did you really see it clearly?" Duoduo turned his head and asked again.For Bodun's quick answer, Duduo had some doubts in his heart.

"It's true! Lord! How dare this slave talk nonsense in front of you?" Bodun hurriedly bowed and smiled at Dodo, "Look at the Han army on the opposite side. They are all in the early [-]s, what a count!"

Duoduo turned his head to look at the phalanx lined up by the Daping Army, and scolded Bodun with a smile: "You are a smart slave. It's no wonder that the Lord appreciates you. Alright! Our numbers are superior, and more Needless to say, they are all national athletes. If I knew it earlier, I would not have to bring these burdens, and it would save time. I can still find time to go back to Shengjing, and the Fujins in the mansion are all looking forward to me."

"Hahaha!" The generals of the Qing army all around laughed immediately.

At the beginning of May, after Duoduo received the Five Thousand Eight Banners and Ten Thousand Han Army Banners, he went to the villages near the Yalu River to collect more than 1000 left-behind Eight Banners and Han Army Banners.With the addition of more than 300 people who fled back from North Korea, Dodo has more than [-] troops in his hands.

Although from the appearance and conversation, Dodo is very frivolous, but in fact, he is still very cautious in doing things and fighting.Before setting off, Duoduo carefully analyzed the troops of the Daping Army in North Korea.He believes that the main purpose of the Daping Army is to control Seoul and the King of Korea, so as to cut off the important support of North Korea.Therefore, the most likely strategy for the Daping Army is to defend Seoul.

But to attack a fortified city with a small army, it can only be pushed slowly, so the Qing army needs a lot of cannon fodder coolies.So as soon as he crossed the Yalu River, Duoduo dispersed his troops to arrest the nearby Korean people and use them as dead soldiers when attacking Seoul.

But this arrest will definitely take a lot of time.It took more than ten days for Duoduo to gather his troops.However, the "harvest" of the Qing army was also good. The general attack captured more than [-] North Korean civilians.

So the Qing army escorted the Korean people to the south, but within a few steps, they met the [-] soldiers and horses of the Marine Corps going north in Anzhou.So the two armies deployed their troops one after another, preparing to line up for a battle.

"Master! In fact, those cannon fodder are also useful." Bodun stepped forward to offer advice, "We also fought against the Han army in Xuzhou. They are no big deal, that is, the firearms are more powerful. We can drive the cannon fodder to rush. If the formation of the Han army is disrupted first, their ammunition will be wasted. When the Han army is exhausted, let us cavalry of the Qing Dynasty charge like this again, sir! You just wait for a complete victory!"

"Hey!" Doduo suddenly became happy, and he pointed to Bodun and said, "I didn't expect that you, a slave, can use your brain! Good! It's you who stepped forward to command. If you defeat the Han army, I will give you one." future."

"twitter!"

Gonzales and Huang Ding couldn't help but looked at each other and smiled as they watched the Qing army chaotically push the Korean people to the front.When in Xuzhou, the Runing army had suffered from the Qing army's drive of the people first, so after the war, Wu Shigong had already summed up this.

The content of the summary is actually only one: the Runing Army should be more cruel than the Qing Army, so that these cannon fodders would rather flee back than face the Runing Army.Especially for the current Marine Corps, what they will face is North Korean cannon fodder, not their own comrades at all, so the Marine Corps will not have any psychological pressure to slaughter.

Before this expedition, considering that the Marine Corps is far away overseas and fighting alone, although limited to the carrying capacity of the ship, only more than 300 war horses were sent over, but the artillery, armor and firecrackers, etc. Marines are doubly equipped.In particular, North Korea has a lot of gunpowder warehouses, so the Marine Corps does not need to consider saving ammunition at all.Therefore, if what rushed over was just cannon fodder, the Marine Corps would not have any fear at all.

Seeing that the artillery was ready in the middle and on both sides of each phalanx, and a lot of swarms had been placed, Huang Ding smiled and said to Gonzales: "It's too much to use artillery for these scumbags." Yes! A swarm of swarms kills one less than one, so we should save some time."

Gonzalez shook his head, and he speaks Chinese fluently now: "To kill chickens, you use a bull knife! If you hurt them all at once, these people will go crazy. When the time comes to deal with them, it will be a waste of money." It’s going to take a lot of effort.”

Hearing what the conductor Gonzalez said, Huang Ding just smiled and stopped talking.

But Gonzalez turned his head and ordered to the soldiers around him: "Ask the artillery commander to suppress it, don't rush to fire, put the cannon fodder as close as possible, and hit them hard at once."

"promise!"

Several personal soldiers immediately galloped forward to send orders.

Bodun commanded a team of Qing soldiers, driving the Korean people forward.Seeing a few people dawdling, he immediately made a throat-cutting gesture to the Qing soldiers who were driving ahead, and the Qing soldiers in front immediately cut several people with understanding.Seeing the brutality of the Qing army, more than 2 Korean civilians ran towards the Marine Corps opposite, crying.

Among all the Korean people, only a small number of them held tattered knives and guns issued by the Qing army. The rest of them were all holding hoes and other farm tools. Many of the farm tools were even made of wood, without even an iron head.Even more pitiful are those with sticks or bare hands.

While running, those North Korean people huddled together for courage.Some people were accidentally squeezed to the ground, but just as they were about to get up, they were chopped down by the Qing soldiers behind them.Feeling the footsteps of the Qing soldiers behind them, the Korean people ran even faster. (To be continued..)