The Sun Never Sets Great China

Zhang Huahan opened his eyes slowly, and saw Ding Rou who was sitting beside the bed holding his hand and weeping secretly, and the officers with anxious faces standing around, and the expressionless Zhang who stood nearest. Chao and Zhang Gao stared at him with a sad face.

Seeing that Zhang Huahan woke up, everyone became happy. Zhang Gao and Ding Rou helped Zhang Huahan up. In fact, Zhang Huahan was a little lack of blood. After Zhang Chao injected some salt water, he felt much better. The wound was also cleaned and stitched up by Zhang Chao. up.

Zhang Chao said: "Master, you should have known that pulling out the arrow would aggravate the injury. Why did you do that?" Zhang Huahan shook his head and said, "I was dizzy at the time. I should have retreated and defended, resulting in heavy losses. The battle What happened afterwards? Did the army retreat?" He saw Wang Hong standing behind with a face full of guilt, as if he was okay, and he hurriedly asked: "I saw you blocked an arrow for me, are you okay?" Wang Hong He knelt down and said: "It's okay, I failed to protect the chairman, I ask the chairman to come down." Later Wang Hao and a dozen guards also knelt down and said: "We didn't protect the chairman well, please ask the chairman to come down."

Zhang Huahan hurriedly said: "Get up quickly, haven't I already said that? In our Chinese army, there is no etiquette of kneeling and worshiping. I also remembered it here. We don't have military salutes yet. Zhang Chao, you can formulate military salutes when you are done. The military salute next to your hand is enough, you are not guilty, it is unreasonable to be guilty if you saved me, I am guilty, I did not retreat in time. By the way, how is the battle going?"

He was eager to know how the battle was going. Zhang Gao said: "Master, I was watching carefully from the tower at that time. At that time, about 700 Manchu cavalry rushed into the large army and rushed everywhere. The three regiment leaders organized They couldn't attack effectively. Later, Battalion Commander Zhang Chao brought out three iron-clad vehicles with wheels, and inside were people from the special battalion with muskets. He asked the soldiers to hide behind the iron-clad vehicles. They organized their respective gun companies to shoot, and they couldn’t smash the armored vehicles even if they came on horseback, but we killed and wounded more than 700 of them. Many Manchu cavalrymen snatched the body of the Manchu cavalry general and fled, and we shot and killed more than 100 people."

Zhang Huahan said: "Iron-clad vehicle? Chao, is it a tank? When did you get it?" Zhang Chao said, "It's a thin-skinned armored vehicle that has no internal devices and is propelled by human power inside. They are all experimental products. used."

Zhang Huahan immediately asked: "How many people have we lost?" Zhang Chao said: "750 people died, 73 people were disabled, and there were 410 people with minor or serious injuries. One thousand 320 people, the money for subsidized shirts was distributed under the discussion between Zhang Gao and I. We captured 53 people who surrendered from the Han Eight Banners, and captured 98 injured prisoners of Manchus. Look at those prisoners. deal with?"

Zhang Huahan thought for a while, and said with a firm heart: "The 98 Manchus were captured and all were killed. The 53 Han Eight Banners who surrendered went to the coal mines to do hard labor first, and let them do the most dangerous and hard work. In the future, when the whole of China is built , need this kind of person even more." At this time, he was the first to think of the Japanese population that he hated the most in his blood.

Zhang Huahan paused, and said: "Zhang Chao, I can't command the army. I'm too emotional. This time, the soldiers are desperate. Huh? There are 320 people who can fight after the treatment of minor or serious injuries. Can't they die from wound infection? Can you be so sure? Have you developed penicillin?"

Zhang Chao nodded and said, "Yes, I have also developed some new medicines. We don't have to be afraid of getting hurt. Even if we are seriously injured, we can still be saved."

Zhang Huahan said: "Look who can command the army, I will hand over the military power." As soon as he finished speaking, everyone knelt down and begged Zhang Huahan to take back his order, saying that they would not listen to anyone except Zhang Huahan's command.

Even Zhang Chao said: "You can't be wrong about your command this time. Through this battle, our army's strength has been tested and their combat effectiveness has been improved. You can't expect the Chinese army to fight defense battles in the future. In fact, they have passed After modernized training, the fighting power is stronger than that of the Qing army. The main reason for the heavy casualties this time is that we do not have a strong force to restrain the opponent's arms, and the muskets we are used to are not well equipped, and we have not practiced shooting moving targets. That's why there were heavy casualties, but don't worry, I will make them healthy soldiers who can go to the battlefield within a month. You should continue to be your military commander, as long as you pay attention to your own safety in the future. , I made a light body armor weighing eight catties, and I used a stamping machine to press the military helmet, and our future casualty rate will be much reduced." Zhang Huahan could only nod his head.

In a heavily guarded large tent surrounded by densely packed Qing military tents in Lingbao area not far from Tongguan, the British king Azig threw the battle report in his hand on the ground and said angrily: "This Chinese army bandit is very disrespectful." It’s simple, the people led by Shanqi are all elite, it’s a pity. Have you passed the battle report to the regent?” A person below said: “Yes, the regent is summoning the troops in Jinzhong and Jinnan, waiting After the troops in southern Henan, eastern Henan, and northern Henan have wiped out the rebels, they are ready to destroy the Chinese army, and the regent still wants us to concentrate on dealing with Li Chuang."

Azige said: "There are few troops in the middle and south of Shanxi, and there are too many troops led by Liu Hongqi and Su Zixing in the south, east, and north of Henan to resist the Qing Dynasty. I sent spies a few times, either they couldn’t get in, or they didn’t get any news after they got in. It’s really strange. I’m really interested in this Chinese army. They didn’t have a good reputation when they got there. Just level them."

In the dark night, a group of 20 braided troops and the same number of food carts and carts full of food and braided men are advancing. They are responsible for the attack. The 1000 Qing troops in Tongguan, who transported grain, were on their way overnight due to time constraints. Just as they were in a hurry, there was a sudden loud bang accompanied by an earthquake, and countless gunshots rang out around them. Zhang Zhicheng, who was guarding the food team, said: "We heard the sound of gunshots and fifty thousand musketeers attacked our ambush. We have no chance of winning, so we retreat quickly." Ge Qilang, the leader of the Manchu cavalry in charge of one thousand Manchu cavalry, said: "You are useless, the enemy There are at most one thousand, they are scaring you with firecrackers, you are a coward, as I said earlier, Han people are useless soft bones.” Zhang Zhicheng scolded: “You bastard, is the sound of firecrackers like this? Listen With such dense gunfire, how long does it take for a soldier to reload gunpowder and bullets? Are you an idiot?" Gezilang scolded: "You Han dog, you are just a dog of our Manchus. If you dare to scold me, I will kill you. You." As he said that he was about to slash the opponent with his sword, but was stopped by the soldiers, the two Manchu and Han generals who were at odds with each other continued to curse, and the two thousand soldiers carrying torches all became living hands. Almost all were hit by dense bullets, and only a few smart people who threw their torches and got off their horses early escaped.

Suddenly there was an exciting trumpet sound, and there were shouts of killing everywhere accompanied by gunshots. The strong men ran away, and the two bickering generals didn't care so much, and fled with a few people around them. .

The regent Dole looked at the two men in front of him, and he was so angry that he wanted to cut them off, but he didn't think it was appropriate. After all, he heard that there were 30 well-trained musketeers, even if they were given to anyone. Definitely defeated, but the number really made him unbelievable. After all, the military strength against the Qing army in Shanxi was very small. Even if there was a bandit army called the Chinese Army, it took in a large number of refugees and bandits who couldn't survive and turned to them. There are only [-] people waiting, most of them are old and young women. Even if you pick out [-] strong and strong, if you want to quickly train and use firearms, you have to find a way to buy musket ammunition. The [-] most elite fighters in the Zhengbai Banner fled back and the [-] or so people said that the firearms of the Chinese Army are very fast, very fast. If they are combined, the Chinese Army must be making extremely fast muskets themselves. He was taken aback by his own thoughts. If there were really [-] skilled spearmen, the consequences of directly attacking Beijing would be disastrous.

He immediately issued a transfer order, asking South Henan, East Henan, and North Henan to mobilize [-] elite troops back to Shanxi, and then mobilize another [-] troops from Shanxi. He wanted to wipe out the Chinese army immediately.

Before the regent King Dorgun's transfer order was issued to the generals in various places, the artillery and another army ration that the Qing army was looking forward to attacking Tongguan were robbed, and [-] Qing soldiers were killed or captured.This incident shocked the warlords of various factions, and caused the Qing army under Tongguan to raise food everywhere. In the end, nearly [-] troops were sent directly to southeast Henan to grab food. The pressure on the Dashun Army was greatly relieved.

The arrival of the 50 Manchu Qing troops led by Duduo and Haoge caused Zhang Huahan a headache, because the expansion project of China City was underway. Because Li Yan was killed by King Li Chuang and separated from the Dashun Army and the Ming Dynasty was defeated and driven into refugees by various forces, there are now [-] people in Zhonghua City, and Although there is a lot of land, they are not within the protection range. If the enemy destroys the fields they planted, they will all be hungry. Therefore, after expanding the China City, all residents can be resettled, and they can be expanded. There is enough land to feed everyone in Chinatown.But during the expansion, there were defensive points everywhere, which made Zhang Huahan a headache.

However, with the expansion of the army, Zhang Huahan was relieved.Now the army has two divisions and one regiment. Due to Li Wenhua and Zhao Qiang's outstanding military talents, the three ambush battles of grabbing food and guns were planned and carried out by them, and Zhang Huahan only played a nodding role. , Unexpectedly, it succeeded smoothly, and also captured Zhang Cunren, a gunner traitor who can fire accurately.Moreover, the two of them were deeply impressed by Zhang Chao's military talents, so Li Wenhua was appointed as the commander of the first new division, and Zhao Qiang was appointed as the commander of the second new division. Each division was expanded into four regiments, two The first regiment of the division was directly commanded by the division commander, while the second regiment of the first division was commanded by Zhang Liang, the deputy commander of the first division. The head of the regiment was promoted by Zhao Gang, who was originally the battalion commander. The second regiment of the second division was commanded by Xu Jinjin, the deputy of Zhang Liang who was not very capable in assisting Zhang Liang, who was now promoted to the deputy commander of the second division. Gao Dawen is also a good fighter. The commander of the second division and fourth regiment is Wu Qi, who was also promoted from the battalion commander.The 3000 members of the special regiment are all highly skilled fighters, and the deputy head is Wen Gaofei, a seasoned civilian officer, and the head is Zhang Chao.Now Zhang Chao still has to take time out of his busy schedule to teach military knowledge to officers at all levels, and he is really busy.