Chapter 1837
Procrastination
Chapter 1837 Procrastination
Although the Independent Regiment is good at fighting in the mountains, but it is necessary to use more than 2000 multinational coalition forces scattered in the mountains and forests to deal with the tens of thousands of Qing troops in the mountains and valleys. His current tactics still intend to focus on harassment and delay the progress of the Qing army as much as possible.
The officers in this unit sent by Annan had all received training in the Haihan Army, so there were no compatibility issues in communication, command system, and tactical style, and Gao Qiaonan could be directly commanded.The Portuguese were a little more troublesome, and could not seamlessly connect with the Haihan army like Annan's army. Takahashinan gave Simao, who led the team, the right to act independently, but he still reminded Simao to keep his peace of mind when fighting with the Qing army. distance to avoid being surrounded by the Qing army.
As for the weak North Korean army, considering that the combat environment is almost all in rugged mountainous terrain, Takahashi-nan didn't even intend to use the North Korean army as cannon fodder. The North Koreans messed themselves up.Except for the guides assigned to the grassroots units, the remaining North Korean troops were dispatched to the rear to take charge of logistical tasks.
Due to the large amount of manpower invested by the Qing army, the construction of the wooden bridge crossing the river in the valley was progressing very quickly. Gao Qiaonan was unwilling to delay any longer, so the battle started two hours after the coalition forces arrived at Xiangshan.However, Gao Qiaonan's first target was not the main force of the Qing army camped in the valley, but the people assigned to the tree-cutting task.
Almost at the same moment, musket shots sounded from many places in the Xiangshan River Valley, and several logging teams were attacked from the dense forest.Although some fearless Qing soldiers tried to counterattack with the logging tools in their hands, they were knocked down by the bullets fired from the forest before they could even see the enemy.
In order to ensure work efficiency, the Qing army did not use captured North Koreans as loggers, so that there was no need to assign more people to act as guards.But this arrangement is cheaper for the coalition troops. As long as they see those who are cutting down trees, they can fire directly, and they don't have to worry about accidental injuries that will dissatisfy the North Korean officers and soldiers in the army.
In just a short moment of fighting, the Qing army caught off guard and lost nearly a hundred men, and the survivors had to give up the work at hand. In this situation, the most important thing is to escape from the woods first to save their lives.However, the Qing troops outside the forest responded relatively quickly. In a short period of time, several thousand-man teams were assembled to set up a temporary defense line, and they even raised a few small cannons to aim at the mountain forest where the accident occurred, preparing to meet them. possible enemies.
But how could Gao Qiaonan give up the cover and rush out to fight the Qing army head-on. After the initial goal was achieved, the coalition forces immediately took the initiative to terminate the battle and returned to the dormant state.
The Qing army waited for a long time without seeing any further movement in the forest, and also expected that this might be just a harassment operation, so they sent a small team into the forest to investigate, and sure enough, the enemy army had disappeared without a trace.
This strategy of fighting and running caused a headache for the Qing army, which was not good at fighting in the mountains and forests. The most combat-effective cavalry in the formation was completely useless in this special environment, and only cold weapons were dispatched. The infantry on their feet entered the forest, and it seemed that they were delivering food to the enemy.Although there were many Orion-born soldiers in the Qing army, they were familiar with the mountain environment, but in large-scale battles, it was almost impossible for individual bravery to change the trend of the battle.
However, the task of building a bridge and crossing the river cannot be delayed. The Qing army only stopped for a moment, and then sent a logging team into the forest again. The rest of the infantry guarded the perimeter, while the logging team operated under armed protection.
Of course, such vigilance was not enough to deter the coalition troops who were watching in the mountains. Not long after the Qing army resumed work, the coalition forces in the forest launched another attack on the Qing army.However, the Qing army received very clear instructions, that is, to defend the perimeter of the logging area as much as possible to prevent the enemy from shooting the logging team nearby, so as to ensure that the projects in the valley have a steady stream of timber available.
Therefore, although these Qing troops were unable to resist the stray bullets shot from the mountains, they did not dare to retreat without permission. They used the branches of trees as cover, and they huddled up and waited for the enemy to approach before looking for opportunities.Although many Qing troops were shot and fell down during the period, most of the Qing troops successfully avoided the cold guns in the forest by virtue of the dense natural bunkers around them.
Now the problem has returned to the side of the coalition forces. In a dense forest environment, facing an enemy force that is clearly superior in strength, if it advances rashly without strict organization, it is easy for the Qing army to close the combat distance and form a close fight. In that case, the advantages of the coalition forces' weapons and tactics will be greatly weakened. Once they fall into a dogfight, they may be quickly surrounded by the Qing army, and the passive side will become themselves.
However, if no adjustments were made to the response of the Qing army, it would be difficult to pose a threat to the logging team hundreds of meters away in the current environment.As long as the Qing army can delay this situation for another day and a half, so that the bridges in the valley can be built, and the main force has a channel to retreat to Jiangbei, then it is cost-effective to kill 800 people in this forest.
The coalition forces that have been chasing all the way here have almost given up all their heavy weapons, and there is no need to expect artillery to open the way at this time.If you want to open up the situation, you can only adopt a more adventurous strategy.
Although the Independent Regiment is good at fighting in the mountains and forests, it specifically refers to guerrilla warfare in the forest to wear down the opponent when it has the initiative.However, if you want to take the initiative to shorten the combat distance due to the situation and focus on launching an offensive in one area, then experienced opponents will soon notice this change, which means that they will face the risk of their opponents launching a counterattack.
Of course, the Independence Regiment is not incapable of fighting tough battles, but with the current strength, the commander must weigh the pros and cons of how much sacrifice will be made to fight against the Qing army, and whether it can achieve its combat objectives.
Time is limited, and if you delay for a while, the chances of the Qing army retreating will be one point higher.Take a look at the sky at the south of Gaoqiao. It will be dark for at least two or three hours. Although the Qing army may not stop logging after dark, at least the coalition forces will have more opportunities to get close Launch a raid.And as soon as tomorrow, the second battalion and third battalion of the independent regiment should be able to rush to the vicinity. After the increase in strength, there will be more choices for tactics, and it may not be a disadvantage to open up the formation and confront the Qing army head-on.
Gao Qiaonan quickly straightened out his thinking, at least to delay the time for the Qing army to cross the river until tomorrow, and the phased goal is to make it difficult for the Qing army to continue logging operations before dark.Although it is inevitable that there will be some battle damage when actively pulling out to fight the Qing army, the possibility of achieving the combat goal is still very high.
After weighing things up, Takahashi Minami issued a new combat order to launch an attack on the logging area under the protection of the Qing army in three directions, with the goal of preventing the opponent from logging, but he must pay attention to the enemy's movements. , to avoid getting into close combat with the enemy.Takahashi-nan knew very well that once they entered into a dogfight, the speed at which the Qing army would deploy troops to the battle zone might make it too late for its own side to escape from the battlefield. This would be a very dangerous operation for the Haihan army.
As soon as the battle started, casualties began to appear on the coalition side.When the Qing army realized that the combat distance had been shortened to the point where they could launch a counterattack, they decisively began to jump out of their hiding places and shoot arrows at the place where the gunshots sounded in the forest-this is the only long-range attack method currently available for the Qing army up.
When the Qing army shot their arrows, they might not have seen the location of the target. To a certain extent, they relied on luck to hit them according to fate, but they couldn’t stand the large number of arrows. If seven or eight arrows shot over after a gunshot, there would always be blind cats Hit a dead mouse.
It's just that the coalition forces can't care so much now. Now that they have received the order, they must carry out the tactics.Although shortening the combat distance will increase the combat risk of coalition soldiers, the corresponding hit rate and killing efficiency will also increase accordingly. Clearing soldiers who want to use trees as shelters will not be so easy to hide when the distance is shortened. .Most of the rifles equipped by the coalition army are made in Haihan, and their shooting accuracy within [-] meters is much higher than that of the bows and arrows of the Qing soldiers. In addition, the seven-shot rifles of the independent regiment shoot at an astonishingly high frequency, and only a few guns can be used against many A large area forms effective fire suppression, so the efficiency of killing the enemy is still much higher than that of the opponent.
The sudden strong attack from several directions did disrupt the deployment of the Qing army, because the previous action of the coalition forces retreating after a wave of harassment made the Qing army think that this was just a spying behavior by a small group of troops, but they did not expect that there was an ambush in the mountains More than two thousand enemy troops with live ammunition.Even if the soldiers are divided into three groups, the intensity of their firepower output is by no means what the scattered Qing troops in the forest can resist.
However, there were also a very small number of Qing soldiers who forbearance did not attack, until the coalition forces advanced close, they jumped out of their hiding places and used knives and guns to fight close to each other.However, the effect of this combat method is very limited. Those who can hide until the end are often individual soldiers, and it is difficult to form a sustained combat effectiveness. However, most of the coalition forces advance in squads and platoons. And if they fail to withstand the fighting of the Qing soldiers, the companions next to them will immediately step forward to rescue them, and together they will kill the fish that escaped the net.
Gao Qiaonan quickly realized that the defense line of the Qing army was not as strong as he had expected, and the number of troops invested was not too much. He immediately commanded the troops to break through the defense and kill the logging team first, and took away the logging tools of the Qing army as much as possible.After all, although some logging tools such as big axes and saws will be prepared in the army, they cannot be too many-this is also the main reason for the limited size of the logging team sent by the Qing army.
Realizing that the troops sent to the forest had failed to hold the line of defense, the Qing army quickly sent additional troops to the logging area in the forest. Three thousand Qing soldiers poured into the forest about ten minutes after the battle started.It's just that this action was a little slow. Because their logging team had received a death order not to evacuate, there were already a lot of casualties at this time. What's more, the enemy army who retreated immediately after a successful blow actually took away some logging tools.
After hearing the news, Huang Taiji was very angry, and ordered to gather all the remaining logging tools and adjust the original logging arrangement.When the enemy launched a surprise attack just now, Huang Taiji thought of a more secure method, that is, to use the existing rafts to send some people to the opposite bank, and then cut wood on the opposite bank to complete the construction of the other half of the bridge.He didn't believe that the Haihan people could deploy defenses on both sides of the Qingchuan River at the same time. As long as the bridge was built in one more day, tens of thousands of troops could quickly retreat to the north of the river and get rid of the pursuit of the Haihan army.
Gao Qiaonan, who retreated to the forest, first confirmed that the Qing army did not launch a pursuit, and then asked the various ministries to count the battle damage and rescue the wounded.In the previous short confrontation, the coalition forces had lost nearly a hundred people, and more than [-] people were lightly or severely wounded. This also shows that the Qing army was not easy to pinch in close combat.
However, judging from the combat effect, this assault basically achieved the combat goal Gao Qiaonan expected to achieve. The logging team of the Qing army was destroyed, and the number of Qing troops injured and killed should be around a thousand.Although there was a certain element of luck, fortunately, the damage and results of the battle were within the acceptable range of Gaoqiaonan, and the Qing army had indeed stopped logging operations in this area, so it seemed that they had to find another way.
The Qing army's use of rafts to cross the river did not escape the surveillance of the coalition forces, but Gao Qiaonan did not realize the real intention of this move at the first time.It wasn't until the sky was getting dark that the Qing army still hadn't sent a logging team to resume work. Only then did Gao Qiaonan suddenly understand the Qing army's plan.
Gao Qiaonan's coping strategy was very simple and rude, that is, he personally led some people to swim across the Qingchuan River overnight, and went to the opposite bank to destroy the Qing army's logging team, and delay their bridge construction progress.
The most risky part of this plan is not the battle with the Qing army, but the swimming at night.Although the river surface here has been narrowed to less than [-] meters, it is still extremely risky to swim and regroup at night, even for an elite unit like the Independence Regiment, it is by no means an easy task.At this time, he somewhat missed the existence of the Marine Corps. After all, almost all the soldiers in that troop came from the Navy, and their water skills were much better than those of the Independence Regiment.
In order to avoid being noticed by the Qing army, Gao Qiaonan led the selected hundreds of soldiers to detour to the downstream first, wrapped all the guns and ammunition with rain-proof tarpaulins, fixed them on several small rafts temporarily tied, and then carried them to the bottom of the river by water. The best soldiers steer the raft in the water and wait to re-release their weapons when they are on the other side.Soldiers who swim in this way can focus on their swimming direction and physical strength distribution without worrying about the problem of guns and ammunition entering the water.
After everything was ready, these hundreds of people descended into the Qingchuan River in the dark night, and swam to the opposite bank silently.
(End of this chapter)
Although the Independent Regiment is good at fighting in the mountains, but it is necessary to use more than 2000 multinational coalition forces scattered in the mountains and forests to deal with the tens of thousands of Qing troops in the mountains and valleys. His current tactics still intend to focus on harassment and delay the progress of the Qing army as much as possible.
The officers in this unit sent by Annan had all received training in the Haihan Army, so there were no compatibility issues in communication, command system, and tactical style, and Gao Qiaonan could be directly commanded.The Portuguese were a little more troublesome, and could not seamlessly connect with the Haihan army like Annan's army. Takahashinan gave Simao, who led the team, the right to act independently, but he still reminded Simao to keep his peace of mind when fighting with the Qing army. distance to avoid being surrounded by the Qing army.
As for the weak North Korean army, considering that the combat environment is almost all in rugged mountainous terrain, Takahashi-nan didn't even intend to use the North Korean army as cannon fodder. The North Koreans messed themselves up.Except for the guides assigned to the grassroots units, the remaining North Korean troops were dispatched to the rear to take charge of logistical tasks.
Due to the large amount of manpower invested by the Qing army, the construction of the wooden bridge crossing the river in the valley was progressing very quickly. Gao Qiaonan was unwilling to delay any longer, so the battle started two hours after the coalition forces arrived at Xiangshan.However, Gao Qiaonan's first target was not the main force of the Qing army camped in the valley, but the people assigned to the tree-cutting task.
Almost at the same moment, musket shots sounded from many places in the Xiangshan River Valley, and several logging teams were attacked from the dense forest.Although some fearless Qing soldiers tried to counterattack with the logging tools in their hands, they were knocked down by the bullets fired from the forest before they could even see the enemy.
In order to ensure work efficiency, the Qing army did not use captured North Koreans as loggers, so that there was no need to assign more people to act as guards.But this arrangement is cheaper for the coalition troops. As long as they see those who are cutting down trees, they can fire directly, and they don't have to worry about accidental injuries that will dissatisfy the North Korean officers and soldiers in the army.
In just a short moment of fighting, the Qing army caught off guard and lost nearly a hundred men, and the survivors had to give up the work at hand. In this situation, the most important thing is to escape from the woods first to save their lives.However, the Qing troops outside the forest responded relatively quickly. In a short period of time, several thousand-man teams were assembled to set up a temporary defense line, and they even raised a few small cannons to aim at the mountain forest where the accident occurred, preparing to meet them. possible enemies.
But how could Gao Qiaonan give up the cover and rush out to fight the Qing army head-on. After the initial goal was achieved, the coalition forces immediately took the initiative to terminate the battle and returned to the dormant state.
The Qing army waited for a long time without seeing any further movement in the forest, and also expected that this might be just a harassment operation, so they sent a small team into the forest to investigate, and sure enough, the enemy army had disappeared without a trace.
This strategy of fighting and running caused a headache for the Qing army, which was not good at fighting in the mountains and forests. The most combat-effective cavalry in the formation was completely useless in this special environment, and only cold weapons were dispatched. The infantry on their feet entered the forest, and it seemed that they were delivering food to the enemy.Although there were many Orion-born soldiers in the Qing army, they were familiar with the mountain environment, but in large-scale battles, it was almost impossible for individual bravery to change the trend of the battle.
However, the task of building a bridge and crossing the river cannot be delayed. The Qing army only stopped for a moment, and then sent a logging team into the forest again. The rest of the infantry guarded the perimeter, while the logging team operated under armed protection.
Of course, such vigilance was not enough to deter the coalition troops who were watching in the mountains. Not long after the Qing army resumed work, the coalition forces in the forest launched another attack on the Qing army.However, the Qing army received very clear instructions, that is, to defend the perimeter of the logging area as much as possible to prevent the enemy from shooting the logging team nearby, so as to ensure that the projects in the valley have a steady stream of timber available.
Therefore, although these Qing troops were unable to resist the stray bullets shot from the mountains, they did not dare to retreat without permission. They used the branches of trees as cover, and they huddled up and waited for the enemy to approach before looking for opportunities.Although many Qing troops were shot and fell down during the period, most of the Qing troops successfully avoided the cold guns in the forest by virtue of the dense natural bunkers around them.
Now the problem has returned to the side of the coalition forces. In a dense forest environment, facing an enemy force that is clearly superior in strength, if it advances rashly without strict organization, it is easy for the Qing army to close the combat distance and form a close fight. In that case, the advantages of the coalition forces' weapons and tactics will be greatly weakened. Once they fall into a dogfight, they may be quickly surrounded by the Qing army, and the passive side will become themselves.
However, if no adjustments were made to the response of the Qing army, it would be difficult to pose a threat to the logging team hundreds of meters away in the current environment.As long as the Qing army can delay this situation for another day and a half, so that the bridges in the valley can be built, and the main force has a channel to retreat to Jiangbei, then it is cost-effective to kill 800 people in this forest.
The coalition forces that have been chasing all the way here have almost given up all their heavy weapons, and there is no need to expect artillery to open the way at this time.If you want to open up the situation, you can only adopt a more adventurous strategy.
Although the Independent Regiment is good at fighting in the mountains and forests, it specifically refers to guerrilla warfare in the forest to wear down the opponent when it has the initiative.However, if you want to take the initiative to shorten the combat distance due to the situation and focus on launching an offensive in one area, then experienced opponents will soon notice this change, which means that they will face the risk of their opponents launching a counterattack.
Of course, the Independence Regiment is not incapable of fighting tough battles, but with the current strength, the commander must weigh the pros and cons of how much sacrifice will be made to fight against the Qing army, and whether it can achieve its combat objectives.
Time is limited, and if you delay for a while, the chances of the Qing army retreating will be one point higher.Take a look at the sky at the south of Gaoqiao. It will be dark for at least two or three hours. Although the Qing army may not stop logging after dark, at least the coalition forces will have more opportunities to get close Launch a raid.And as soon as tomorrow, the second battalion and third battalion of the independent regiment should be able to rush to the vicinity. After the increase in strength, there will be more choices for tactics, and it may not be a disadvantage to open up the formation and confront the Qing army head-on.
Gao Qiaonan quickly straightened out his thinking, at least to delay the time for the Qing army to cross the river until tomorrow, and the phased goal is to make it difficult for the Qing army to continue logging operations before dark.Although it is inevitable that there will be some battle damage when actively pulling out to fight the Qing army, the possibility of achieving the combat goal is still very high.
After weighing things up, Takahashi Minami issued a new combat order to launch an attack on the logging area under the protection of the Qing army in three directions, with the goal of preventing the opponent from logging, but he must pay attention to the enemy's movements. , to avoid getting into close combat with the enemy.Takahashi-nan knew very well that once they entered into a dogfight, the speed at which the Qing army would deploy troops to the battle zone might make it too late for its own side to escape from the battlefield. This would be a very dangerous operation for the Haihan army.
As soon as the battle started, casualties began to appear on the coalition side.When the Qing army realized that the combat distance had been shortened to the point where they could launch a counterattack, they decisively began to jump out of their hiding places and shoot arrows at the place where the gunshots sounded in the forest-this is the only long-range attack method currently available for the Qing army up.
When the Qing army shot their arrows, they might not have seen the location of the target. To a certain extent, they relied on luck to hit them according to fate, but they couldn’t stand the large number of arrows. If seven or eight arrows shot over after a gunshot, there would always be blind cats Hit a dead mouse.
It's just that the coalition forces can't care so much now. Now that they have received the order, they must carry out the tactics.Although shortening the combat distance will increase the combat risk of coalition soldiers, the corresponding hit rate and killing efficiency will also increase accordingly. Clearing soldiers who want to use trees as shelters will not be so easy to hide when the distance is shortened. .Most of the rifles equipped by the coalition army are made in Haihan, and their shooting accuracy within [-] meters is much higher than that of the bows and arrows of the Qing soldiers. In addition, the seven-shot rifles of the independent regiment shoot at an astonishingly high frequency, and only a few guns can be used against many A large area forms effective fire suppression, so the efficiency of killing the enemy is still much higher than that of the opponent.
The sudden strong attack from several directions did disrupt the deployment of the Qing army, because the previous action of the coalition forces retreating after a wave of harassment made the Qing army think that this was just a spying behavior by a small group of troops, but they did not expect that there was an ambush in the mountains More than two thousand enemy troops with live ammunition.Even if the soldiers are divided into three groups, the intensity of their firepower output is by no means what the scattered Qing troops in the forest can resist.
However, there were also a very small number of Qing soldiers who forbearance did not attack, until the coalition forces advanced close, they jumped out of their hiding places and used knives and guns to fight close to each other.However, the effect of this combat method is very limited. Those who can hide until the end are often individual soldiers, and it is difficult to form a sustained combat effectiveness. However, most of the coalition forces advance in squads and platoons. And if they fail to withstand the fighting of the Qing soldiers, the companions next to them will immediately step forward to rescue them, and together they will kill the fish that escaped the net.
Gao Qiaonan quickly realized that the defense line of the Qing army was not as strong as he had expected, and the number of troops invested was not too much. He immediately commanded the troops to break through the defense and kill the logging team first, and took away the logging tools of the Qing army as much as possible.After all, although some logging tools such as big axes and saws will be prepared in the army, they cannot be too many-this is also the main reason for the limited size of the logging team sent by the Qing army.
Realizing that the troops sent to the forest had failed to hold the line of defense, the Qing army quickly sent additional troops to the logging area in the forest. Three thousand Qing soldiers poured into the forest about ten minutes after the battle started.It's just that this action was a little slow. Because their logging team had received a death order not to evacuate, there were already a lot of casualties at this time. What's more, the enemy army who retreated immediately after a successful blow actually took away some logging tools.
After hearing the news, Huang Taiji was very angry, and ordered to gather all the remaining logging tools and adjust the original logging arrangement.When the enemy launched a surprise attack just now, Huang Taiji thought of a more secure method, that is, to use the existing rafts to send some people to the opposite bank, and then cut wood on the opposite bank to complete the construction of the other half of the bridge.He didn't believe that the Haihan people could deploy defenses on both sides of the Qingchuan River at the same time. As long as the bridge was built in one more day, tens of thousands of troops could quickly retreat to the north of the river and get rid of the pursuit of the Haihan army.
Gao Qiaonan, who retreated to the forest, first confirmed that the Qing army did not launch a pursuit, and then asked the various ministries to count the battle damage and rescue the wounded.In the previous short confrontation, the coalition forces had lost nearly a hundred people, and more than [-] people were lightly or severely wounded. This also shows that the Qing army was not easy to pinch in close combat.
However, judging from the combat effect, this assault basically achieved the combat goal Gao Qiaonan expected to achieve. The logging team of the Qing army was destroyed, and the number of Qing troops injured and killed should be around a thousand.Although there was a certain element of luck, fortunately, the damage and results of the battle were within the acceptable range of Gaoqiaonan, and the Qing army had indeed stopped logging operations in this area, so it seemed that they had to find another way.
The Qing army's use of rafts to cross the river did not escape the surveillance of the coalition forces, but Gao Qiaonan did not realize the real intention of this move at the first time.It wasn't until the sky was getting dark that the Qing army still hadn't sent a logging team to resume work. Only then did Gao Qiaonan suddenly understand the Qing army's plan.
Gao Qiaonan's coping strategy was very simple and rude, that is, he personally led some people to swim across the Qingchuan River overnight, and went to the opposite bank to destroy the Qing army's logging team, and delay their bridge construction progress.
The most risky part of this plan is not the battle with the Qing army, but the swimming at night.Although the river surface here has been narrowed to less than [-] meters, it is still extremely risky to swim and regroup at night, even for an elite unit like the Independence Regiment, it is by no means an easy task.At this time, he somewhat missed the existence of the Marine Corps. After all, almost all the soldiers in that troop came from the Navy, and their water skills were much better than those of the Independence Regiment.
In order to avoid being noticed by the Qing army, Gao Qiaonan led the selected hundreds of soldiers to detour to the downstream first, wrapped all the guns and ammunition with rain-proof tarpaulins, fixed them on several small rafts temporarily tied, and then carried them to the bottom of the river by water. The best soldiers steer the raft in the water and wait to re-release their weapons when they are on the other side.Soldiers who swim in this way can focus on their swimming direction and physical strength distribution without worrying about the problem of guns and ammunition entering the water.
After everything was ready, these hundreds of people descended into the Qingchuan River in the dark night, and swam to the opposite bank silently.
(End of this chapter)