Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 890 Southern Theater ([-])

The shouting and killing all over the mountains and plains receded, Ao Guanhai breathed a sigh of relief, and found a piece of wet ground, no matter whether it was dirty or not, he sat down on his buttocks, and then used his trembling hands to give himself Lighted a pipe.

Not far away, a soaring flame ignited. It was a gentry's Zhuangzi. In the end, more than a hundred Qing soldiers hid in it to resist, most of them were even Manchurian Eight Banners.These people are skilled in combat and have a tenacious will to fight. Some officers and soldiers of the Fourth Division of the New Army Army suffered heavy casualties when they attacked, so they started the fire attack in a fit of anger.At this time, it was almost the end, and the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Division, who had fought in Shandong, were waiting in full force. Outside Zhuangzi, there were spears and arrows raining down, and all the Qing troops who broke out were killed on the spot.

Li Dashan, a local gentry who took refuge in secret and led the way for the Qing army, knew that he was unlucky, so he beheaded his wife and family members and set fire to himself. Their fate was also miserable, and the women's stand-up team set up outside Yinxian County is their future destination.

"The battlefield is finally cleared. It's a pity that another 57 warriors died. It's hard to explain to the banner owner when we go back." Ao Guanhai, who has already become the Grand Krall of the Eight Banners of South Africa, sighed sadly, and then ruthlessly After taking a puff of cigarette, he walked towards the field hospital set up in a rural clan ancestral hall.

The field hospital is full of wounded and sick (infectious diseases will be isolated separately). Thanks to the increasingly advanced medical technology on the east coast, the survival rate of the wounded and sick is getting higher and higher.With the application of medical methods such as disinfection technology, anesthesia surgery, bottle infusion, and painkillers (opium), and with the help of some "invited" Chinese medicine practitioners, this field hospital in Xikou Town was finally opened barely. .

As of today, the hospital has admitted and treated 579 wounded people and performed 201 operations; 32 patients have been treated. Except for 1 death and 3 people who are still hospitalized, most of the rest are fine and have either returned to the team or transferred to the hospital. Rest elsewhere.We can see from this that the establishment of field hospitals is of great significance to reducing undue casualties, and has also played a great role in maintaining the morale of soldiers.It is an exaggeration to say that more than 3500 officers and soldiers of the Fourth Division of the New Army, with the assistance of more than 700 heavy armored infantry from the Eight Banners of South Africa, were able to defeat the [-]-strong Qing army that broke into Xikou Town in one fell swoop. The hospital at least accounted for [-]% of the credit.

By the way, the Qing army that suddenly appeared in Xikou Town came from Xinchang County and Sheng County of Shaoxing Prefecture through the mountain road. They abandoned the iron armor and other armor that hindered the mountain crossing, and did not bring any luggage. , each with five days of dry food, walked along the rugged mountain roads, and finally arrived at Xikou Town after untold hardships - thanks to a well-known landlord Li Dashan, who was afraid Because of the land distribution policy implemented by the Dong'an people in Yin County, this time they acted decisively. They sent their confidantes to contact the Qing army and led them to come across the mountain trails and break into the stream in Fenghua County, which the Dong'an people regard as a safe rear. mouth town.

Their internal and external cooperation has been a great success from the very beginning. Li Dashan also organized his own servants, united with the Qing army, and went straight to the regiment training bureau set up by the people from the east bank in the town, defeating hundreds of unbearable soldiers. Attacked the regiment training, killing one "Pseudo-Puppet Team Training Director", one "Vice-Chairman of the Puppet Stability Maintenance Association", and three "Pseudo-section Chiefs".After doing this, the Qing army began to entrench in Xikou Town. While building fortifications and collecting food and grass, they sent people over the mountain to report the situation, and asked for reinforcements to quickly reinforce—thanks to the fact that the Qing army was not there before. He trusted Li Dashan, who acted as the leader of the party, so he only sent 2000 people with light clothes to test the water, and the large force was still raising food and grass in Shengxian County.

Fortunately, the people on the east coast did not react too slowly. After receiving an urgent report from a rich businessman and a member of the Stability Maintenance Committee in Xikou Town, Huang Yi, who was still transporting tea in Fenghua County, immediately took over the command and mobilized to station In the county seat, the newly-built Fourth Division of the Army, the Supplementary Battalion of the Eight Banners New Army, and some local regiments trained troops (the local anti-riot troops set up after the "Bang Bang Army" in Busan, with very limited combat effectiveness), rushed to Xikou, and then after a day In the fierce battle, the Qing army entrenched in Xikou Town was finally defeated under the artillery bombardment at all costs.

Lacking armory, protective equipment and supplies, they could not fight against the army on the east bank with enough soldiers and food. Chen Zhilong, the fourth division of the new army, was an old army, and often acted as the vanguard when fighting in Shandong; the Black Eight Banners supplementary battalion led by Ao Guanhai It is a strong force. With their concerted efforts and under the cover of the firepower of the artillery brothers, this force of about 4300 soldiers defeated most of the green battalion of the Qing army after a short and fierce fight. Two or 300 people from the Mongolian Eight Banners were compressed into one place, and finally most of them were wiped out in Li Dashan's mansion, and more than a dozen people were captured. They seemed to be generals. They will soon be handed over to the military police team for interrogation.

After annihilating the Qing army that had entered from the mountain path, the army on the east bank did not dare to neglect, and could only continue to stay here to prevent accidents.In Ninghai County in the south, the Sixth Division of the New Army is also dealing with the aftermath of the landlord clan riots, and it may take a while longer.As a senior officer of the local east coast army, Ao Guanhai has no obstacles in learning and understanding Chinese for many years, and he has never been absent from every combat meeting, so he is naturally clear about these news.

This time the Qing army found a mountain road from the Siming Mountains and broke into Fenghua. From Ao Guanhai's point of view, it was actually a very serious matter.Because this means that the Qing army has found a new breakthrough. There must be more than one mountain path. It is hard to say where the Qing army will attack next time. Is it possible that these troops have to stay here all year round?Isn't Yinxian county, which is now only guarded by hundreds of troops from the east coast, extremely empty?Is Shangguo Chief Liu probably going to transfer the more than 1000 students stationed in Dinghai County here?

Those student soldiers, Ao Guanhai, have also seen them. To be honest, they are so elite that they are rare in their life. Almost everyone is equivalent to a senior non-commissioned officer. If they are used as the backbone to expand the army, the combat effectiveness will be formed very quickly, but I am afraid that it is Mr. Liu. I dare not do this yet, because it seems to violate "organizational discipline."

Still short of major generals!Ao Guanhai sighed, turned and walked out of the field hospital.

The sky at Xikou is very high and blue, just like the sky in my hometown in South Africa, but the land here is much more fertile than South Africa, and the water source is even more incomparable to my hometown in aridity. All in all, everything here compares to South Africa .The service period will be over in two years, and it is self-evident how to choose by then. South Africa's Eight Banners Klarer really has nothing to do with it, even if it is the son-in-law of the banner owner.After several years of fighting abroad, I have seen the vast world outside and the civilized and prosperous society, so I naturally lost interest in everything on the arid and barren grassland.

If I rely on my merits after retiring, I can obtain the official nationality of the East Coast Republic of China without accident.However, I have no interest in the unfamiliar East Coast. Instead, I have more affection for the Far East where I have been fighting for several years. If possible in the future, I should stay in the Far East and settle down—of course it is unlikely to be Ningbo. The veterans who were wounded and retired from the army lived together—then became the colonial residents of the East Coast Republic of China.

There was a sound of horseshoes in front of them. It was some officers of the Sixth Division who came to the hospital to visit the wounded and sick.They gave a military salute to Ao Guanhai, and then rushed into the hospital, whispering about the military situation they heard while walking.Ao Guanhai knew what they were talking about, it was nothing more than the news brought back by the naval gunboat from Baling County.

It is said that since the Qing army defeated the Dashun army in the Dengzhou area, it began to invade Huguang.Their fighting method was the same as when they first entered the customs, the Manchurian army was overwhelming, and the Green Battalion served as the main combat force, fighting fiercely with the Liu Fangliang Department of the Left Battalion of Dashun and the Yuan Zongdi Department of the Right Battalion, which now number as many as 30 to [-].The two sides fought in Xiangyang first, fought again in Gucheng, and fought three times in Chengtianfu. The Shun army lost three battles and lost tens of thousands of troops. Not to mention losing the city and land, the two battalions on the left and right were also split by the Qing army—now the left battalion It has been defeated and retreated to Yunyang Mansion, and Youying was defeated and retreated to Jingzhou Mansion.

However, the Shun army was not without record. At least the Manchurian army took several actions to turn the tide of the battle at critical moments. The accumulated casualties of these times amounted to hundreds of soldiers.Coupled with the reduction of personnel due to non-combat factors, the Manchurian army entered Hubei to fight in just a few months, and the loss has exceeded [-], which makes the Tartar court, which has lost some supplements outside the customs, very heartbroken.

This kind of mentality above will naturally affect the thinking of the people below. Coupled with the years of entering the customs, the spirit of the Manchurian soldiers is no longer what it used to be. Now facing the large number of Dashun armed groups that have built fortifications in some key areas, Qing Whether Ting can win easily like before is also a question.After all, the left and right battalions of Dashun still have about 20 soldiers, and the Gao Yigong Division of the former battalion also has [-] to [-] soldiers. It is not easy to eliminate them.All we can do now is to concentrate our forces and advance slowly. We must not allow the Manchurian army to suffer the heavy losses they suffered during the fierce battle with the bandits in yellow.

The situation faced by the Qing army in Sichuan was similar to that in Huguang.The Qing army headed by the Shaanxi-Gansu Lvying, Wu Sangui and other Han troops, under the pressure of some Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners, entered Baoning Mansion via Hanzhong, and fought against Zhang Xianzhong's troops who led the troops here.Zhang Xianzhong fought with all his life in this battle, but was still defeated by the superior Qing army, especially the thousands of cavalry led by the Manchurian Zhengbai Banner. Zhang Xianzhong's army was defeated in the first battle. Tens of thousands of soldiers were killed and injured, and they retreated all the way to Chengdu.

However, the Qing army also suffered heavy losses in this battle. The Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia also suffered hundreds of casualties, and Gushan Ezhen Li Guohan, Pingxi King Wu Sangui and others also suffered thousands of casualties.Coupled with the fact that some chieftains on the flanks who had a heart for the Ming Dynasty took advantage of the troubled waters to make trouble, the Qing army was unable to pursue them for a while, which objectively gave Zhang Xianzhong a breathing space to adjust his deployment.However, if the situation deteriorates like this, Zhang himself has obviously lost the power to recover, and all he can do now is to linger on his last breath.

"The fighting power of the Ming army, the Shun army, and the Western army is so unbearable. They can't even gain an advantage against the green battalion. The warriors I brought from my hometown, after putting on heavy armor, will be able to fight in a dignified battle formation." , The number of the two sides is similar, and our army can win eight out of ten times against these green battalions. I really can't figure out how they fought and lost consecutive battles!" Ao Guanhai shook his head, a little puzzled: "Maybe their weapons, food and grass They are not very sufficient, morale is also very low, and there is no local support for them? Perhaps there is also the factor of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia. Although I disdain these false flags of Manchu and Qing, I cannot underestimate them. If the two armies In the stalemate, these people find the right time and the entry point, and attack from behind, maybe they can turn the tide of the battle in one go. If my warriors meet, they probably won't be able to win..."

"Forget it, I don't want to worry about these troubles! I just heard that Commander Liu's application to expand the number of officers and soldiers in the Fourth Division and the Sixth Division has been approved. These two divisions can have [-] troops in the future. It’s a great thing to say, three or four thousand more soldiers all of a sudden, this is of great help!” Ao Guanhai pondered the news with some excitement.The [-]th and [-]th Divisions of the newly-built army are now bombarding the ground in Fenghua and Ninghai counties. Marshal Shao of Shandong allowed them to recruit more troops, which is definitely a great benefit.

(End of this chapter)