Han’s Son is Not a Slave

A typo in the previous article: Wu Zhenhachao should be Wuzhenchaoha.

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The screams of killing in front of the sky shook the sky. Zhou Shixiang stood on the Daqing horse and looked coldly at the two sides, who were both Han Chinese, killing each other and taking each other's lives. They even belonged to the same camp not long ago, but now they are fighting here. You are dead and alive, and no one is willing to back down.

This is a disgrace to the Han nation. Since ancient times, those who have lost the Han are all Han people who have been moved for nine days!

Wuzhenchao, the Han army and those guarding the white flag soldiers will resist more strongly than the Han army under the Pingnan and Jingnan domains. Up to now, the A and C Brigades in the first town have suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and the cavalry The casualties of the brigade were also in the hundreds, and the casualties of the reorganized soldiers who were driven to rush into the formation were also in the thousands. This is still a record achieved when the opponent was caught off guard. If the Qing army was prepared, the loss in this battle would be even greater.

Wuzhenchao's Manchu language means "heavy soldiers". The officers and soldiers are all old Han soldiers. They are all Han people from Liaodong who joined Houjin during the Chongzhen period. They were earlier than the Han soldiers under the command of King Sanshun who came later. Some of this group of people are the three generations of grandfathers and grandchildren who worked hard for the Qing Dynasty, and they have long since ignored themselves as Han people. Although Wuzhen is a superhero of the Han army, he can see himself as higher than the Han army flag. This is not only reflected in the identity, but also It can be seen from the combat power. At least, in Zhou Shixiang's view, the tenacity of Wu Chaochao's Han army was by no means weaker than those of the Manchu soldiers led by Hahamu.

The Taiping Army who besieged Wuzhen Chaoha and guarded the Han army consisted of three brigades in the first town, one cavalry brigade, and the Iron Man Guard directly under the military commander's mansion, plus 4,000 reorganized soldiers, with a total strength of 13,000. The real Chaoha artillery and the 4 Niu Lu Han troops guarding it were only 4,000 people. The difference in strength between the two sides was more than three times. Even so, the Taiping army still did not win at a small price. Suna, who was the first to raid, paid half of the losses to disperse the Wuzhen Chaoha artillery, leaving most of the Qing army. The artillery rolls aside before it can be lifted from the carriage and becomes waste. Then the first town drove the adapted troops to overwhelm the panic-stricken Qing army with absolute superiority, and compressed the remaining Qing army on both sides of the official road that was less than two miles long.

Wuzhenchao and the Qing army carried a large number of mule and horse-drawn carts. In the chaos, many mules and horses dragged the artillery carts and ran down the official road. As a result, the thousands of kilograms of artillery pressed the wheels into the mud immediately. No matter how you pull it, you can't pull it up.

Although this battle has been firmly won, there are many problems that have been exposed. The first town made continuous mistakes in command. It should have been able to take advantage of the successful cavalry raid to defeat the Qing army in one fell swoop. However, due to the lack of coordination of the three brigades, it was unable to arrive at the battlefield in time, allowing the Qing army to breathe and organize a worthy line of defense. Let First Town pay unnecessary casualties.

The navy general Zheng Chengkui, who was watching the battle, was very satisfied with the situation and was very excited. It took him four days to transport the Taiping army from Jiexing Station in Huizhou to Jinghai Station in Chaozhou, more than 200 miles away. Two ships were also stranded on the way, one directly hit the reef and sank. The more than 400 Taiping troops on board fed the fish and shrimp in the sea without even seeing the shadow of the enemy. After disembarking from the Jinghai Station, the Taiping Army was slumped up and down, and had to rest for a day at the Jinghai Station. Zheng Chengkui thought that he would miss the Qing army artillery battalion, but he did not want his opponent to be still in Chaozhou.

At first Zheng Chengkui was surprised that the Qing army was moving so slowly, but after seeing the big guys on the gun carriages, it was no surprise. There is no reason for it. None of the cannons in the Qing army weighed two or three thousand catties. Such a big guy could not be pulled by a mule or a horse alone. This official road is not paved with bluestone. The foundation is hard enough, and some places are just paved with some gravel on the soil, and it is not a problem for people to walk and horses normally. But it's strange that a big guy weighing several thousand pounds walks on it without sinking, and it's **** if he can walk fast!

Zheng Chengkui estimated that the distance from Puning County to the Xitang River was only about seventy miles, but the Qing army's artillery team traveled for four days. It is hard to imagine how the Qing army transported these cannons from Beijing, thousands of miles away, all the way to Guangdong. It is estimated that most of them traveled by water. If they simply traveled by land, it would take at least two months to reach Guangdong.

When I received Zhou Shixiang's request to land in the rear of the Qing army with the water division warships. Zheng Chengkui was very puzzled by this request, and now he finally understands that the original navy can still use it in this way - the navy's warships not only attack the opponent's warships from the water. It can also transport troops on a large scale, and use the sea to transport the Ming army to any location along the coast. Kill the Qing army by surprise and make them impossible to guard against. If this tactic can be used flexibly, it means that the Manchu coastal areas are no longer behind their rear, and even the city of Beijing is under threat from the Ming army.

If the fleet is large enough, can I transport the Taiping army to Nanjing and Beijing?

Zheng Chengkui was very enthusiastic, but he didn't know that there was a prince in Xiamen a few hundred miles away who had the same calculus as him, and he had already started to implement it.

"Uncle Xingping, the artillery of the Tartars after this battle?..."

"General Zheng, don't worry, these guns are all yours, as long as you can transport them on board."

Knowing that Zhou Shi valued each other's faith, Zheng Chengkui couldn't help but ask more questions. After getting the other party's reassurance, he immediately let go of his mind again. After all, this battle was fought by the Taiping Army, and there were so many captured artillery pieces. Zhou Shitian regretted it, and he was embarrassed to insist on it. The lawsuit hit the old general, and the old general's liking for Zhou Shixiang was definitely not as good as Zheng Chengkui's good fruit.

Just how to transport these cannons to the navy warships and bring them back to Zhaoqing is a tricky matter. Zheng Chengkui has a bit of a headache, and those cannons weighing a few hundred kilograms are nothing more than hanging them with ropes and getting more people to pull them together. Get on board. But it is much harder for the big guy weighing several thousand pounds to pull with the rope alone.

When Zhou Shi met Zheng Chengkui, he seemed to be thinking about how to transport the guns to the ship, so he asked Xu Yingyuan behind him to give Zheng Chengkui the drawings of the pulley he had drawn a few days ago and installed on the ship. I can't help but thank Zhou Shixiang for helping him a lot.

Zhou Shixiang didn't take the Qing army's cannons seriously. These cannons were too heavy and mostly solid bullets. They could be used for a simple siege, but field battles were simply cumbersome, not only inconvenient to move, but also inconvenient to use.

The artillery battalion of the Taiping Army is now equipped with small cannons weighing several hundred kilograms, such as the tiger squat cannon and the big gun cannon. Human use. If you really want to assemble the Hongyi Cannon into the artillery battalion, you don’t know how much mules, horses and manpower to serve these big guys. Fighting is nothing but scary. Zheng Chengkui's eyes were hot on these big guys, and he just let go of his hands to reward him for his troop transport. With these hundreds of artillery pieces, the strength of Chen Qice and Zhu Tong in Zhaoqing can also be higher, at least the defensive ability of Zhaoqing City is by no means inferior to Guangzhou.

To siege the city, Zhou Shixiang already had the best choice, which was the blasting method he had done once under Xinhui City.

Bao Jing and Zuo Yuan led Wuzhenchao Ha soldiers and guards the Han army and the reorganized soldiers who were driven up by the Taiping army to kill them on both sides of the official road. People kept falling in the Xitang River, and the bodies were floating one by one. above the river.

Under Ge Yi's command, the first town gathered up and slowly moved forward. Suna led the remaining 400 cavalrymen to leave the battlefield for a short rest. In the raid just now, Suna's subordinates suffered heavy casualties. Suna's face also bloomed, but it was the gun called Wu Zhenchaoha who cut off a piece of meat on his chin. If he hadn't subconsciously lifted his head up and down, he would have been blown away by the gun. , now that I think about it, I am terrified. However, Suna didn't care about his injury. Instead, he led someone to drag out a dozen soldiers who were afraid of the battle when they charged, and chopped off their heads in front of everyone. This made Suna's subordinates very afraid of him. , Suna enjoys the eyes of his subordinates looking at him, this is the army he is used to.

Shen Yongxing commanded Wu Zhenchaoha's gunners to fire silently there. With Bao Jing and Zuo Yuan's reckless retreat, the Qing army's gunners were already in the formation, reaping the lives of both the enemy and the enemy. Shen Yongxing's eyes were red, and he no longer cared about his family members who were still fighting with the Taiping Army.

Relying on the large number of soldiers and the Taiping army behind them, and the clear signs of the Qing army's defeat, the reorganized soldiers marched forward like chicken blood, and pushed the Qing army to the artillery formation. Seeing this, Shen Yongxing ordered his own soldiers to carry him and lead the remaining hundreds of gunners to charge at the Taiping Army as a last-ditch effort. The hope of reinforcements' arrival has been dashed, and the battle has been fought for almost an hour. If there are Qing troops who come to support them, it would be long overdue. Now there is no sign of the reinforcements, either Jieshiwei and Lu Feng's Qing army did not know that Wuzhenchaoha was besieged, or the Taiping army divided up and blocked the Qing army who came to help. Only a few hundred battalions of Wu Liuqi were stationed in Puning City~www.NovelMTL.com~ I can't count on them at all.

Shen Yongxing was unwilling to fail and refused to surrender, so he could only fight to the death. The battle of the trapped beasts actually made the Huaxian soldiers who were rushing in front couldn't stop them from retreating. As soon as the Huaxian soldiers retreated, Cong Huabing also retreated, but Zhao Ziqiang's Nanhai soldiers did not retreat.

Zhou Shixiang, who was watching the battle from a distance, put down the telephoto lens and felt very uncomfortable. These Nanhai soldiers were the culprits of the Chaoyang **** case, but the loyalty and combat effectiveness they showed at this moment were better than those of the Huaxian soldiers, Conghua soldiers, Xin'an soldiers. To be strong, I really don’t know whether to be happy or angry. Could the massacre of the city really help improve the combat effectiveness of the army, or else why explain the current performance of these Nanhai soldiers.

Li Chengdong in those days was not like this. When he was in the Ming army, he couldn't even defeat the peasant army, but after he became the Qing army, he became the vanguard of the Qing court's suppression of Jiangnan. It can be said that Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong provinces are all Li Chengdong's soldiers. He was defeated by himself, Li Chengdong can be said to have made great achievements in the Qing Dynasty. However, after Li Chengdong returned to Ming Dynasty, his subordinates seemed to have changed overnight. From a dragon to a worm, he would lose every battle. For such an abnormal thing, Zhou Shixiang couldn't think of any other reason that could be explained, except that the massacre could help blood, improve combat effectiveness, and inspire soldiers to work hard. (To be continued.)

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