Ming Zhengzhi, I am Zheng Kezang

Looking in the direction of the shadowy Weiyuan Fort gate in the distance, Yu Chang, the deputy commander of the front wing and rear army, said to Yun Yu who was also frowning beside him: "My lord, there is news from Fuqing Beizi that the emigration team has just passed. If Haini doesn't get the plan to return to the East Liaohe River, then we will be in big trouble."

Big trouble, no, it should be said to be big trouble.In order to bring back the Xia army who was moving northward quickly, the momentum to attack Fushun and Shenyang must be sufficient.For this reason, Yunyu had to send two deputy capitals with more than 3 troops to act with great fanfare.Deducting the more than a thousand auxiliary troops grazing in Ninggu Pagoda, Yunyu now has less than [-] troops, and the gap with Xia's army has further widened.

what to do?Should we retreat to the north of the Dongliao River and defend according to the river?Or fight Xia Jun on the front line of Weiyuan Fort?

After thinking about it for a long time and looking at the map again and again, Yunyu ordered: "Quickly inform Hai Duoli and Shirong to withdraw immediately, go straight to Liuhe and Yitong River, and return to Ninggu Pagoda to rest."

Yunti decided to fight the Xia army in the south of the Dongliao River, but in the situation where the enemy was outnumbered, Yunti also understood that the Qing army might lose more than win, so Yunti had to keep Hai Duoli and Shi Wing the two ministries as its final capital: "In addition, notify all the ministries to retreat to Burdu Kusubarhan Gate (near Siping Street) to stand by"

It is naturally reasonable for Yunti to choose to fight the Xia army at the Burdu Kusubar Han Gate. This is not because he intends to lengthen the Xia army's food road, but because he is fully aware that the Xia army's supply line mainly relies on the Liaohe and Hunhe rivers. The two major water systems use small ships to carry out water transportation to achieve the purpose of saving animal power and loss on the way.

The area near the Burdu Kusubarhan Gate is just the place farthest from the arc-shaped Dongliao River. The Xia army will either send troops to escort along the river alone, or simply march along the wicker side. In any case, the Xia army will inevitably be defeated. Divided by wicker borders, the problem of the inferiority of the Qing army's strength in the battle was no longer prominent and even had a relative advantage.

Conversely, if Yun Ti retreated further and started a battle with the Xia army near the Helsu Gate north of the Buldu Kusubarhan Gate, the result would be disadvantageous to the Qing army. Turning back to the northwest, the two separated Xia armies are bound to join forces again.

Almost at the same time that Yunti ordered the troops to retreat, Xi Daping left behind the headquarters of the [-]st Brigade of the [-]th Division of the Flying Cavalry Army, the [-]st Regiment of the brigade, and the supply regiment of the division, which had temporarily become infantry, to guard the military depot in Tieling County. After holding the [-]st Brigade Headquarters of the [-]st Division of the Japanese Army, the [-]st Regiment of the brigade and the Baibing Regiment of the division to stay in Kaiyuan County, the rest of the troops drove towards Jilin along the wicker side (Xin Bian) without stopping.

As Yunti expected, in order to protect the supply fleet on the Dongliao River, Xia Jun chose to divide his troops.

Among them, the Xia Army on the left side consisted of 6000 people, including the Fifth Division of the Dingsheng Army, the Third Brigade of the Fourth Division of the Flying Cavalry Army, the Second Regiment and the Third Regiment of the First Brigade of the Japanese Army, and a total of [-] people along the west side of the wicker border. The Liaohe River and the riverbank march on the east side of the East Liaohe River; the Xia Army on the right took the [-]st Division of the Tiger Wing Army, the [-]rd Division of the Huben Army, the [-]st Division of the Peng Japanese Army, and the [-]th Division of the Flying Cavalry Army. The remaining troops totaled more than [-] people Then march along the east side of the wicker edge.The journey between the two Xia armies was about a day apart, and because of the obstruction of the wicker border, the communications between each other had to be returned to Kaiyuan before they could be connected.

Of course, as long as the Xia army captures the Burdu Kusubarhan Gate, the connection between the two Xia armies will resume unimpeded, but what Yunxi is planning is the only opportunity

In the 15th year of Wucheng in Huaxia (the second year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty), it was half past four days on April [-]th. The Xia army who was advancing along the Dongliao River suddenly found a large number of Qing troops in front of him.Caught off guard, Xia Jun quickly drove the transport fleet on the east bank into the middle of the river after hearing the news, but the Dingsheng Army and other troops had no time to get rid of the Qing army's siege, so they could only send alarms to Kaiyuan and the Right Route Army respectively. After the courier, choose to block on the spot.

Fortunately, Xia's army was well-trained, and quickly transformed from a marching column to a horizontal team, and except for the division's [-]-point artillery that had no time to set up artillery fortifications, the rest of the regiment's eight-point light artillery were lined up in front of the formation, so that he wanted to fight Xia. Yun Yu, who was caught off guard by the army, couldn't help but think of the overwhelming artillery fire that Linxi faced during World War I.However, Yunyu could not order the Qing army to withdraw from the front of the formation, otherwise the strength of the Qing army could be preserved, but the morale of the army would definitely disappear.

Thus, with both sides having no choice but to do so, the Battle of Sanjiangkou broke out.

At the end of noon, the Qing army, which had completed its deployment, slowly approached the Xia army.

At the appropriate time, Yunti took 25 vests and infantry led by [-] regular troops from the four deputy capital command departments as the forerunner, and [-] auxiliary troops led by [-] auxiliary troops as the relay. The Yala soldiers participated in the leadership and the remaining [-] regular army leaders and [-] auxiliary army leaders with more than [-] people as the backing, making a desperate move, leaving only the artillery assistant leader, the bird gun assistant leader and other departments with more than [-] auxiliary troops to hold the line .

For the Xia army, 84 eight-point light guns from [-] infantry regiments were in the forefront, followed by more than [-] infantry gunners standing in two horizontal rows. The unarmored white soldiers composed of more than one armored white soldiers and some gunners sat behind the rifle team to rest, and the [-] cavalry troops of the six horse detection posts belonging to the division and brigade became the final reserve team.

The Qing army quickly rushed into the range of the Xia army's eight-point artillery, and the Xia army's artillery opened fire immediately. This time, it was not to break up the Qing army's formation, but to slow down the Qing army's advancing speed and destroy more of the Qing army's vital forces. To reduce the threat of the Xia Army's infantry team, the Xia Army's artillery units quickly switched to grape bullets and shotguns after the first two rounds of solid bullets.

In the dense rain of bullets, the most powerful vests and infantry of the Qing army were knocked to the ground one after another. However, the Qing army had a large number of troops, and Yunxi had ordered that those who retreated would be cut off in advance, so all the Eight Banners outside the pass still gritted their teeth and went Straight ahead.

Seeing that the Qing army was close at hand, after the Xia army gunner fired the last cannon, he dragged the artillery and ran towards his camp.At this time, the disadvantages of the Qing army without the help of horses were fully exposed. Wearing thick armor, it took a lot of energy to rush to the front of the Xia army artillery. I can watch Xia Jun dragging the artillery into the passage specially left by the rifle team and disappearing. Only a few artillery pieces have been abandoned in front of the formation because of the wheels getting stuck.However, what made Yunti sigh even more was that none of the Qing troops in the front team were gunners, so even if these cannons were captured, the Qing army would not be able to turn them around against the opposing Xia army.

After passing through the artillery positions of the Xia Army, the Qing army had already appeared in front of the horizontal formation of the Xia Army. After hearing an order from the Xia Army, two rows of riflemen opened fire one by one, and gunpowder smoke enveloped the entire queue in an instant.

For the Qing army, at a distance of ten (Chinese) Xia steps, the single-layer cotton armor worn by the infantry armor could not stop the penetration of the Xia army's two-step rifle bullets. As for the double cotton armor of the vests, although It can block the incoming rifle bullets, but the impact of the bullets on the human body is like a heavy hammer, so the forward momentum is stagnated.

Xia Jun, who was trained like a future robot, did not observe his shooting results at all, but just followed the commands of the officers, mechanically reloading, shooting, reloading, and shooting again.

However, the rhythm of the Xia army was finally disrupted by the Qing army who rushed up desperately.

Relying on the superior force, the Qing army rushed to the Xia army's formation one after another, and finally succeeded in killing it.Just as those Qing soldiers who were bleeding from their own bodies or splashed with the blood of their companions were about to massacre the riflemen of the Xia army under the dual effects of rage and fear, the Xia army retreated like a tide, revealing their armored soldiers. Bai Bing went up to meet him.

The fighting of the armored white soldiers curbed the Qing army's pursuit of unarmored musketeers, and the Xia army's armored white soldiers who had recharged their batteries before could be described as a new force, which was by no means comparable to the exhausted first echelon of the Qing army. turn around the trend.It's just that the Qing army had [-] soldiers in front, which was almost six times that of the Xia army's white soldiers. In addition, the auxiliary soldiers of the Qing army also rushed over, so the balance of victory and defeat was once again tilted towards the Qing army.

"Pass the order!" Xie Jiping, commander of the Fifth Division of the Dingsheng Army, said in a calm voice. "All the cannons fire!" The rearranged Xia Army's light artillery group burst into flames again, knocking down their own people and the Qing army without any difference.Taking advantage of the chaos in the weaker Qing army's auxiliary army, the reorganized Xia army's rifle team also opened fire, further exacerbating the chaos on the front line. "It's time, order the cavalry to attack!"

Although they were not professional cavalrymen, and although they were just ordinary Mongolian geldings, the vibrations from thousands of iron hooves still made the front-line Qing soldiers feel a huge threat.But at this time, some of the Qing troops on the front line were still fighting against the Xia Army's armored white soldiers, some were preparing to continue to attack the Xia Army's new line, and some were running around to avoid the Xia Army's artillery fire. The cavalry of the Xia Army, who were shooting left and right with short-fired guns, rushed in.

The Xia Army scouting team has always been composed of only the most alert fighters, so the chiefs of the outposts quickly targeted the unarmored auxiliary troops of the Qing army as the first targets. Some results were obtained, but more auxiliary troops showed signs of collapse under the key blows of the Xia army.However, what fell short was that the rear of the Qing army rushed up at this time, quickly stabilized the situation, and submerged the Xia army's Tanma and the few remaining Xia army's white soldiers again.

"Damn it!" Xie Jiping cursed, turned his head and asked. "Is the middle base and baggage finished here?"

The Marching Sima reported: "The middle base regiment and the baggage regiment have already formed the baggage carts into the car city, but the parapet is still being excavated."

Xie Jiping nodded: "It doesn't matter, let the artillery army withdraw first, and the rest of the troops retreat into Checheng one by one. In addition, let the two navy red single boats cover our backs, lest the Qing captives cross the river and attack us."

"My lord, great victory." After receiving the report from the front, congratulations were made to Yunti from left and right. "The annihilation of thousands of sea-defying armored cavalry in one fell swoop is already the only victory in the dynasty for several years."

"Is this also called a great victory?" There was no joy on Yunyu's face, it was not because he was pretending to be calm, but because his heart was bleeding. "Because of the more than 5000 sea rebellions, this king almost lost [-] to [-] troops. If there are so many victories, this king will be left alone." Even so, victory is victory. "Come on, Lubu Feijie along the way, to report to the imperial court that our army has won a great victory over Haini. As for Haini who escaped into the car city." Yun Yu waved his hands in a dispirited manner. "After cleaning up the battlefield, we will withdraw."

The aides asked puzzledly: "My lord, Haini is already in a difficult situation, why don't you take advantage of the victory and pursue it?"

"Take advantage of the victory to pursue? How many troops can I fill in?" Yunyu shook his head. "You don't need to be brave for a while, this battle still has to be fought. Besides, the task I received is to hold Xia Jun down, not to be held back by Xia Jun..."