Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 610

Yang Mingyang got off his horse, and with the help of the orderly, he took off his drenched armor. He had just led his troops to fight for a while, and drove back a group of Qing troops who were trying to demolish the East Coast artillery building.More than [-] people were beheaded in this battle, which can be regarded as a rare big harvest recently.Although the Qing army and the people on the east bank have been playing this little trick of harassing each other almost every day for nearly a year, the general casualties are only a few or a dozen people. After a surprise attack, they were caught off guard and almost wiped out. They should stop for a while in the next few days.

However, the cessation of the Qing army does not mean that the people on the east coast will also stop.In the wilderness south of Yantai Fort, eight blockhouses have been added to stand firmly under the scorching sun in midsummer, and in the middle of the blockhouses stands a wooden fortress made of Sakhalin fish scale pine, in which five hundred soldiers are stationed. Volunteer soldiers.These soldiers had a mixture of hot and cold weapons, and were under the crossfire of the gun towers, so they were not afraid of the enemy's attack at all.On the contrary, when the enemy attacked a certain artillery tower, they could still go forward to support and defeat the invading enemy, which caused the Qing army a lot of headaches.

After the eight gun towers are completed, the firepower can basically cover an area of ​​more than five square kilometers, making the scope of activities of the Qing army less and less.They were still working hard to fill up the swamp area on the west side of Yantai Fort before, but after the artillery towers came into play, they disappeared from there.At this time, if the people on the east bank fired 18-pound long-barreled heavy artillery from the two gun towers arranged in the front, the shells could almost touch the wall of the Qing army that was still under construction-of course, the people on the east bank have not yet Install this artifact on the turret.

A total of 400 soldiers were stationed in these eight artillery towers, and 500 soldiers were stationed in the middle city wall. With these people, the Qing army could no longer comfortably advance to the Yantai Fort city.Their formation will be split by the fire clusters of these gun towers, which will undoubtedly be fatal for large-scale field battles between the two sides.But in fact, the Qing army had long since given up its plan to take Yantai Fort by means of war. They had not even organized a team of more than 2000 people to attack Yantai Fort for more than a year, and they had more than 4 troops in hand. Chen Jin and others can only build a city seven or eight miles away every day, trying to trap the people on the east bank inside through this long wall.

They have indeed achieved this purpose before.However, after more than a year of painstaking efforts by the people on the east coast to build eight gun towers, the system of the Qing army seems to be in danger of collapsing.For example, the cavalry of the people on the east bank can gallop across the vast field between the fortresses and city walls on both sides, but those cavalry of the Eight Banners dare not do so.For no other reason, I was afraid of being bombarded by cannons!

In fact, it is not that the Ming army did not use this method to deal with them in Liaodong in the past.But firstly, the cost of building the fort towers for the Ming army was high, secondly, their artillery was not as powerful as that of the people on the east coast, and thirdly—and most importantly—that is, the Ming army did not have the ability to fight in the field.At that time, the situation in Liaodong and Liaoxi was often tens of hundreds of Eight Banners cavalry standing outside, and the Ming army, whose number was several times or even ten times larger than them, would hide in the fort like quails in fright, while the Qing army roared outside. .

But the god damn yellow-clothed thief is different!Their color-eyed cavalry are not afraid of the Eight Banners force with the reputation of "Incomparable Riding and Shooting". They dare to fight and are well equipped. The soldiers of the Mongolian Eight Banners had a great headache.They were used to fighting the weak Ming army, and they were not used to it when they suddenly faced a cavalry force that was not inferior to them. On the other hand, they were used to the Polish cavalry. They used to fight the world-famous Osmanga The Nishali Guards Corps and the Mamluk cavalry fought against each other, and even fought guerrillas with the Cossacks and Tatar herdsmen.

At this time, when they met these Manchurian Zhenglan Banner soldiers, they simply treated them as ordinary opponents, so the psychological gap was not as big as that of the Eight Banners soldiers.And once people don't have so many miscellaneous thoughts, they will of course be able to better display their combat effectiveness.Even the Tatar herdsmen in the cavalry formation on the east bank, although their war skills and fighting will are not as good as the Poles, they are superior in riding skills, and it is no problem to deal with the Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers.The Mongol descendants (Tatars) fight the authentic Mongols, and this battle scene is quite joyful.

Closer to home.One month after the artillery building was repaired, it happened that Marshal Mo led his army back from Jiangbei triumphantly. Yantai Fort had a three-day carnival and held a small military parade and honor ceremony, which made the Qing army generals on the opposite side feel bad after seeing it.After the award ceremony, on July 7th, with the order of Marshal Mo, who had become more and more prestigious, the East Coast Army, which had just rested for less than ten days, began to gather: 15 squadrons of the second brigade with 16 soldiers and 4000 soldiers in the wing headquarters; 500 soldiers from the 102nd, 104th, 105th companies of the East Coast Army, and 900 soldiers from the Yantai Artillery Company (the vacancies have been filled); 2300 soldiers from the three infantry battalions of the Eight Banners Soldiers: 2000 soldiers from the cavalry wing and 300 scouts from the newly trained security team, totaling 800 soldiers.In addition, there are still [-] soldiers from the military team. The total number of [-] troops lined up hundreds of meters in front of the artillery cluster on the east bank, challenging the Qing army behind the city wall about [-] meters away.

The red-clothed cannons placed by the Qing army on certain towers fired a few times, but the weak shells exhausted their kinetic energy before reaching the army formation on the east bank, and fell powerlessly to the ground.The artillery at the top of the city can't hit the opponent, and his own field artillery (does the Qing army have field artillery?) are extremely cumbersome and inconvenient to move, but the enemy's field artillery can easily destroy the unprotected formation in the field outside the city. There are holes everywhere, how can this battle be fought!

At this time, there were not many Qing troops stationed here, but there were only 500 Han soldiers from the [-]th Green Battalion led by Ke Yongsheng and others, and [-] Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry.And not far away in Dengzhou City, there are still more than [-] people under Chen Jin, the governor of Denglai appointed by the Qing court.As for the more than [-] members of Li Shitai's department who were also guarding here, they have already been transferred to Binzhou.

The whole army has less than 5000 people. Even though the proportion of defensive soldiers is higher, the Qing army still dare not go out of the city to fight in the field.Except for one-third of the green battalion under their command came from Ningxia, Shaanxi and other places with some combat effectiveness, the other two-thirds were basically armed with local miscellaneous Ming troops, bandits, and regiment training landlords incorporated in Shandong, and their combat effectiveness was very average.If it is used to defend the city, it is so-so. If it is to go out to fight in the field, judging from the high morale of the yellow-clothed bandits who have won many victories, they probably don't know how they died.

Since the Qing army did not dare to go out to fight in the city, the people on the east bank were no longer polite. Under the protection of the field troops, a large group of soldiers began to build fortifications, vowing to use this as a forward base to break the tortoise shell of the Qing army.When they were in Yangzhou, the Shi Tingzhu Department they faced was more numerous than the Qing troops in front of them. At the same time, there was also a Yangzhou city wall with a high city and a deep pool, but they still pushed it to the end.They will not be ambiguous in the slightest when they fight against the green battalion of the Han army!

In this way, until July 7, when the people on the east coast roughly built a wooden combined camp that could accommodate 20 people, the Qing army did not dare to go out of the city to fight in the field except for a few medium-scale attacks at night. I watched helplessly as the military men on the east coast built this camp.

After the camp was built, the troops on the east bank had a place to stay.Especially their artillery, under the escort of the field troops, can go out to find the weak spots of the Qing army's city wall and concentrate fire. However, the Qing army's red cannons are very few in number, their coverage is limited, and it is very inconvenient once they are installed. Move (especially when on the city wall), so you can only sit and watch the cannons of the yellow-clothed thief bombard the city wall.After a few days, some city walls that were not built very well (brick and wood mixed structures, all brick and stone can't be played with) were blasted open several times.

Although the Qing army sent people frantically to seal the gap overnight, how could it be possible to seal it?Under the bombardment of the cannon, the bricks and stones would be turned into powder, not to mention the sandbags and stones that blocked the gaps?In this way, after losing three artillery pieces and more than a dozen gunners, the people on the east coast took the lead in opening a large hole of one to more than 30 meters in a weak point.

After opening the opening, everything was carried out according to the experience summed up in previous battles.People on the east bank had a lot of artillery. The shells first washed the ground at the gap without money, and then hundreds of musketeers searched and attacked the other side of the city wall under the cover of a large number of heavy armored spearmen.The cavalry troop was cruising around the periphery, as if waiting for the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry to go out of the city to fight them decisively, but they never received the invitation to fight from these Eight Banners soldiers.

The ensuing battle was the same as before. The troops of the people on the east bank flexibly formed small formations, with artillery firing long distances and muskets firing close at hand. Very depressed.They don't have field artillery, and firecrackers are just a joke in front of East Coast muskets, and bows and arrows are not very good.It took only one day for the people on the east bank to capture two small city towers and seize two cannons. The Qing army was gradually defeated in an almost irresistible way.

On July 7, after the most intense battle since the start of the war, the First Brigade, the most elite team, finally captured a city gate and repelled two counterattacks by the Qing army after paying more than 27 casualties.After conquering the city gate, some of the east bank infantry and cavalry who were still outside the city, as well as a large number of soldiers, also began to enter through the city gate, giving strong support to the battle on this side.

On July 7, the 29th Battalion of Ke Yongsheng's Department in Jiaozhou, the most capable of fighting in the Green Battalion of the Qing Army, was severely damaged. Ke Yongsheng himself was also shot and injured.At a critical moment, He Tuoqin led the Eight Banners cavalry to try to delay the offensive of the East Bank army, but was soon stopped by the East Bank cavalry who had been waiting for many days.At that time, the cavalry on the east bank charged the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia in the midst of the battle in a prepared manner. As a result, the enemy's formation was destroyed in the first battle, and the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia were immediately defeated.During the melee, the Qing army Mele Erzhen Emengge was shot dead by the pistol of the cavalry on the east bank, and several other officials such as Jiala Ezhen and Niu Luzhangjing died under the sword of the Polish cavalry. The Qing Manchu Eight Banners cavalry There are more than 8000 corpses left on the battlefield, which can be described as extremely tragic.

From the end of the war to July 7, except for thousands of Qing troops who abandoned their allies and fled at night, more than half of the more than 30 Qing troops defending the city wall were lost, and they were almost wiped out outside Yantai.Chen Jin, who was staying in Dengzhou, felt like a mourner after hearing the defeat. Although six or seven thousand Qing soldiers fled back to Dengzhou one after another, Chen Jin was still in panic all day long.Because he knew very well that the people from the east coast would surely go straight to Dengzhou City, which was at their elbows, with the power of a great victory. By that time, Chen Jin would only have more than 2 remnants and defeated generals. How should he resist this?

And Marshal Mo, who had just won a big victory, immediately put forward the slogan of "fight to Dengzhou City and capture Chen Jin alive" after killing and wounding more than [-] Qing Army Green Battalion.More than ten thousand soldiers with high morale under his command responded with a bang, and then followed the fleeing Qing army straight to Dengzhou City, and it was only less than three days later than the fleeing Qing army. The state Qing army fell into chaos.

(End of this chapter)