Chapter 1838
Chapter 1838
Chapter 1838
In the past two years, Takahashi Minami has actually rarely taken the lead in participating in front-line combat operations, because he also understands that his most important function at present is to command operations, not to personally kill the enemy on the front line.But the current special combat environment made him rekindle his passion to participate in the battle.When he was swimming in the Qingchuan River, the scene of the war in Annan even appeared in his mind. Armed swimming was one of his strengths at that time. The chiefs even joked that throwing him in the sea in Annan could swim all the way Back to Sanya.
After so many years, Gao Qiaonan's physical condition is definitely not as good as before, but it is not a problem to swim across the Qingchuan River, which is more than [-] meters wide. Acting as his bodyguard during the process.
Gao Qiaonan successfully landed on the opposite bank of the Shitan River, and immediately ordered the assembly of troops to distribute weapons as soon as possible.The hundreds of Haihan soldiers who did not cross the Qingchuan River were scattered on the banks of the Dalixu River due to differences in swimming ability, and it took quite a while to regroup at night.In the end, after counting, three people still disappeared in the Qingchuan River, but the situation was better than Gao Qiaonan expected.There was no time to look for these missing persons at the moment. After finishing the assembly, they rested on the river beach for about half an hour, and then went upstream along the river bank.
Although it is not easy to swim and assemble at night, it is not so difficult to find the target. In order to complete the bridge construction as soon as possible, the Qing army also lit fires at night and continued to work. The light in the Xiangshan River Valley can be seen from a long distance.The logging team that arrived on the north bank of the Qingchuan River by raft before dark also carried out logging operations overnight by relying on the lighting of the fire.For the Haihan army, this is the most conspicuous goal.
The outskirts of the bridge construction site in the river valley are protected by tens of thousands of Qing army camps, and there is no need to worry about the Haihan army in the mountains and forests on the south bank of the Qingchuan River attacking it.However, due to the limited transportation capacity on the north bank, apart from the logging team, only a small number of Qing troops served as guards.
The troops led by Takahashi Nan slowly approached the logging area in the dark. In order to prevent the Qing army from setting up an ambush in the dark, he specially arranged for the troops to advance slowly, and put the scouts who were skilled in platooning at the forefront to open the way.And such an arrangement did achieve remarkable results. The scouts saw through several secret sentries of the Qing army along the way, and used crossbow arrows and personal assassination methods to quietly take down these secret sentries.
It was not until the Haihan army advanced to the edge of the logging area that the Qing army finally discovered their existence.But at this time, the Qing army was in the Ming Dynasty, and the Haihan army in the dark had already formed an arc around the periphery. As soon as the battle was fought, it showed a one-sided scene. Hundreds of defenseless Qing soldiers quickly fell to the ground. They fell under the cover of crossfire, and although the remaining people were determined to resist, the enemies hidden in the dark made them unable to use their strength, and they continued to fall under the cold gunfire one after another.
Takahashi Minami also personally took part in the battle with a gun. Although he was not a sharpshooter, he spent more time handling guns than most of the army during his military service. His combat experience was first-class and rich. But back in this environment, it can still exert its due combat effectiveness.He is also very aware of his own strength, so he specifically looks for the kind of clear troops in bright places to attack. In the current relatively short combat distance, he can achieve a very high hit rate, and he has hit several targets in a short time.
By the time the Qing army thought of putting out the fire to hide their whereabouts, the overall situation of the battle here had been settled, and it was too late to turn off the lights.Some Qing soldiers who escaped by chance did not dare to turn back and fight, so they could only jump into the river and swim towards the rocky beach in the middle of the river.
The Qing army had already noticed the battle on the north bank, but they were unable to rush to rescue in time due to lack of ships. They could only watch helplessly as their companions on the other bank rushed out of the forest, and then jumped into the river to escape with the sound of gunfire.
No one can answer the question of why there were enemy ambushes in the mountains and forests on the north bank, but one thing is certain, the Qing army's plan to log on the north bank will definitely be delayed because of this.Huang Taiji was also very annoyed when he heard the news, thinking that he should try his best to send more troops to the north bank to serve as guards, so that perhaps the Haihan army would not have the courage to launch a night attack.
After the battle, Takahashi Minami ordered the team to gather, count the number of people and then clean the battlefield.The Haihan army suffered a total of more than 300 casualties in this battle, but the results were relatively satisfactory. More than [-] Qing soldiers were killed or injured. And know.The logging team sent by the Qing army to the north bank only cut down about [-] trees before being interrupted by the battle. Takahashi Nan ordered to throw all the logging tools picked up on the battlefield into the river, and then led his troops back to the distance to fight. The location is about two miles away, in case the Qing army followed suit and launched a night attack.
At this time, the Qing army did not dare to use rafts to forcefully cross the river. Otherwise, the Haihan army with unknown strength on the north bank would attack them halfway across the river.Even if they want to make a comeback, they can only wait until dawn.
At this time, besides the Qing army, there was also the coalition forces remaining on the south bank of the Qingchuan River.Gao Qiaonan's decision to go into battle in person was disapproved by the officers of the first battalion, because after he left, the coalition forces lacked an authoritative commander to deploy and deploy. If it goes well, Gao Qiaonan cannot rejoin the main force, then the next battle will be difficult to fight, and there may even be chaos due to the lack of him as the former commander-in-chief of the enemy.
Fortunately, the Qing army did not expect this cross-river night attack at all, so the operation was relatively smooth. After the battle, Gao Qiaonan sent messengers back to the south bank with their own passwords to issue combat orders to the coalition forces.
With the current strength of the coalition forces, it is a very dangerous choice to divide troops on both sides of the river to fight against the Qing army. If one is accidentally entangled by the Qing army, the troops on the other side of the Qingchuan River will not be able to rush to rescue.Therefore, Gao Qiaonan's order to the troops on the south bank was not to advance rashly. After dawn, the Qing army's movements should be considered before launching a surprise attack, but not to get into a dogfight with the Qing army.
After daybreak, the Qing army couldn't wait to organize a wave of cross-river assaults, but they were in vain. There was no trace of the Haihan army in the logging area, only the corpses of Qing soldiers scattered on the ground.Of course, all the logging tools that were supposed to be left on the ground also disappeared.
At this time, the Qing army has no time to organize to clear the surrounding forests, so it has to organize the next logging team quickly. Although there are not enough logging tools, they can only send more people to use the swords first.This war knife is used to chop thick trees, it is naturally not as good as an ax saw, and the blade will be broken soon, but there is no other way to think about it at the moment.
But Haihan's offensive would not stop there. The Qing troops on both sides of the Qingchuan River were constantly being attacked from nearby forests throughout the morning.Although the strength of these attacks may not be too great, and they will often retreat after a while, but after all, it is difficult for the Qing army to concentrate all their attention on the operation of building bridges and crossing the river.
If you ignore it, the sneak attack of a hundred people will soon turn into a thousand-man assault, forcing the Qing army to mobilize a large force to attack, but when the Qing army really puts on a posture and is ready to fight a big battle, the enemy But quietly disappeared into the mountains and forests again.This kind of guerrilla warfare made the Qing army very uncomfortable. Huang Taiji wanted to order the troops to disperse into the mountains and forests several times to carry out the suppression, but his rationality reminded him that this might be what the enemy army wanted to achieve, so he could only endure it forcefully. .
Even under the embarrassing situation of being intercepted before and followed by pursuers, the Qing army successfully penetrated the marching passage across the Qingchuan River at noon that day. Two simple wooden bridges connected from the north and south banks to the rocky beach in the middle of the river, allowing The Qing army on the south bank was finally able to withdraw to the north more calmly.
After all, the follow-up troops of the coalition forces from the lower reaches of the Qingchuan River failed to catch up with this opportunity. Although Gao Qiaonan was unwilling, he also knew that his troops were limited and could not take the risk of forcibly charging the Qing army's passage across the river. It is still only possible to conduct harassment operations on the periphery.
Although the Qing army seems to be in a passive state of being beaten, tens of thousands of troops can still take turns to deal with the harassment of the Haihan army.However, the troops led by Takahashi Minami are already in a very fatigued state after days of marching in the field, and there are not many combat supplies left. The combat effectiveness is slowly declining, but the battle damage is constantly increasing.
Gao Qiaonan used a telescope to observe the traffic conditions of the wooden bridge built by the Qing army from a distance, and quickly calculated that its traffic capacity was about 4000 to 2000 people per hour, but the rafts that the Qing army kept launching could still deliver at least every hour. One or two thousand people crossed the river, so at most after dark tonight, the large forces of the Qing army can basically move to the north bank.
Gao Qiaonan waited patiently until the afternoon, and finally got the news of the reinforcements. An infantry battalion who came from the downstream by boat had arrived at the place where they swam last night. After discovering the marks they left on the rocky beach on the river bank They have landed on the shore and rushed over.However, due to the limited navigation conditions in the upper reaches of the Qingchuan River, all the combat ships of the coalition fleet could not reach here, so there were only a few troop carriers provided by the North Koreans, so there was no need to expect heavy firepower output from the river.
But objectively speaking, in front of tens of thousands of Qing troops, just one battalion of reinforcements could not completely change the balance of strength between the two sides, nor was it enough to kill the Qing troops in this river valley.What Gao Qiaonan can do now is to use the two infantry battalions in his hand plus more than 1000 coalition soldiers to cause damage to the Qing army as much as possible and increase the various consumption on the way back.
From the Xiangshan River Valley to the Yalu River in the northwest, the straight-line distance is about two hundred miles. However, the Qing army has penetrated into the inland area of Korea in order to escape across the river. From here to the Yalu River, there are continuous mountainous areas, so the actual itinerary is at least About three or four hundred miles.
However, the supply of the Qing army is about to bottom out, and at most there are only four or five days of rations left. Right now, we can't expect to get a lot of supplies in this sparsely populated mountainous area. We can only evacuate north as soon as possible to return to the territory of the Qing Dynasty as soon as possible. .
In fact, the Haihan army is also facing the same problem. Due to the rush to catch up with the Qing army, the two troops that rushed here successively did not carry too much supplies. Set up a logistics transportation line for them in a short time.So in the next battle, the troops led by Gao Qiaonan will probably have to struggle for a few more days.
Although there was no good way to capture the large forces of the Qing army, the coalition forces still succeeded in capturing the [-] soldiers and horses left behind by the Qing army.After the two Jiala Ezhen who led the team died of stray bullets, the remaining Qing army quickly became a mess, and they had no intention of fighting the coalition forces any longer.Some of the Qing soldiers couldn't wait to cross the river on the wooden bridge, so they jumped into the river and swam forcibly, while others chose to escape into the nearby mountains and forests, probably with the idea of waiting for the limelight to pass before finding a place to cross the river and return home.However, a considerable number of Qing troops were besieged on the rocky beach on the south bank of the Xiangshan River Valley. After a futile resistance, it quickly turned into a one-sided killing.
At least a thousand Qing soldiers were shot and killed by the coalition forces with muskets and other weapons on the rocky beach. The blood even stained part of the river downstream.The red-eyed coalition forces, especially the North Korean soldiers who had been suppressed by Takahashi Nan and failed to go to the battlefield a few days ago, broke out with uncontrollable ferocity at this time, killing the Qing army on the bank of the river. .
Gao Qiaonan did not give any special instructions after hearing about this matter. He knew that the North Korean army finally had a chance to vent, so he naturally wanted to pour all his long-suffering anger on the Qing army who was powerless to resist.If these Qing soldiers were kept as prisoners of war, it is estimated that North Korea would not be easy to deal with, and Hai Han did not want to take this hot potato, so killing them all might be a way to make it easy for all parties to deal with.
In the next few days, the two sides fled and chased each other, and launched a brutal tug-of-war in the mountains and forests of northern North Korea.In order for the main force to escape smoothly, the Qing army frequently resorted to tail-docking to survive. Each time, a few powerful Qing soldiers were assigned to serve as death squads to slow down the pace of the pursuers.Although such a tactic is simple, it is indeed effective. When the coalition forces encounter these desperadoes, they can only move forward by cleaning them up.After two or three days, the main force of the Qing army has pulled away the half-day schedule, and basically no one can be seen.
However, the marching route of the Qing army did not go directly to the Yalu River, because the opposite bank was also uninhabited and uninhabited mountains, even if they crossed the river, there was still no supply, so they planned to go to the lower reaches of the Yalu River first, looting North Korean villages and towns along the way to obtain supplies, and wait for the march. Go to Yizhou and cross the river to return home.
(End of this chapter)
In the past two years, Takahashi Minami has actually rarely taken the lead in participating in front-line combat operations, because he also understands that his most important function at present is to command operations, not to personally kill the enemy on the front line.But the current special combat environment made him rekindle his passion to participate in the battle.When he was swimming in the Qingchuan River, the scene of the war in Annan even appeared in his mind. Armed swimming was one of his strengths at that time. The chiefs even joked that throwing him in the sea in Annan could swim all the way Back to Sanya.
After so many years, Gao Qiaonan's physical condition is definitely not as good as before, but it is not a problem to swim across the Qingchuan River, which is more than [-] meters wide. Acting as his bodyguard during the process.
Gao Qiaonan successfully landed on the opposite bank of the Shitan River, and immediately ordered the assembly of troops to distribute weapons as soon as possible.The hundreds of Haihan soldiers who did not cross the Qingchuan River were scattered on the banks of the Dalixu River due to differences in swimming ability, and it took quite a while to regroup at night.In the end, after counting, three people still disappeared in the Qingchuan River, but the situation was better than Gao Qiaonan expected.There was no time to look for these missing persons at the moment. After finishing the assembly, they rested on the river beach for about half an hour, and then went upstream along the river bank.
Although it is not easy to swim and assemble at night, it is not so difficult to find the target. In order to complete the bridge construction as soon as possible, the Qing army also lit fires at night and continued to work. The light in the Xiangshan River Valley can be seen from a long distance.The logging team that arrived on the north bank of the Qingchuan River by raft before dark also carried out logging operations overnight by relying on the lighting of the fire.For the Haihan army, this is the most conspicuous goal.
The outskirts of the bridge construction site in the river valley are protected by tens of thousands of Qing army camps, and there is no need to worry about the Haihan army in the mountains and forests on the south bank of the Qingchuan River attacking it.However, due to the limited transportation capacity on the north bank, apart from the logging team, only a small number of Qing troops served as guards.
The troops led by Takahashi Nan slowly approached the logging area in the dark. In order to prevent the Qing army from setting up an ambush in the dark, he specially arranged for the troops to advance slowly, and put the scouts who were skilled in platooning at the forefront to open the way.And such an arrangement did achieve remarkable results. The scouts saw through several secret sentries of the Qing army along the way, and used crossbow arrows and personal assassination methods to quietly take down these secret sentries.
It was not until the Haihan army advanced to the edge of the logging area that the Qing army finally discovered their existence.But at this time, the Qing army was in the Ming Dynasty, and the Haihan army in the dark had already formed an arc around the periphery. As soon as the battle was fought, it showed a one-sided scene. Hundreds of defenseless Qing soldiers quickly fell to the ground. They fell under the cover of crossfire, and although the remaining people were determined to resist, the enemies hidden in the dark made them unable to use their strength, and they continued to fall under the cold gunfire one after another.
Takahashi Minami also personally took part in the battle with a gun. Although he was not a sharpshooter, he spent more time handling guns than most of the army during his military service. His combat experience was first-class and rich. But back in this environment, it can still exert its due combat effectiveness.He is also very aware of his own strength, so he specifically looks for the kind of clear troops in bright places to attack. In the current relatively short combat distance, he can achieve a very high hit rate, and he has hit several targets in a short time.
By the time the Qing army thought of putting out the fire to hide their whereabouts, the overall situation of the battle here had been settled, and it was too late to turn off the lights.Some Qing soldiers who escaped by chance did not dare to turn back and fight, so they could only jump into the river and swim towards the rocky beach in the middle of the river.
The Qing army had already noticed the battle on the north bank, but they were unable to rush to rescue in time due to lack of ships. They could only watch helplessly as their companions on the other bank rushed out of the forest, and then jumped into the river to escape with the sound of gunfire.
No one can answer the question of why there were enemy ambushes in the mountains and forests on the north bank, but one thing is certain, the Qing army's plan to log on the north bank will definitely be delayed because of this.Huang Taiji was also very annoyed when he heard the news, thinking that he should try his best to send more troops to the north bank to serve as guards, so that perhaps the Haihan army would not have the courage to launch a night attack.
After the battle, Takahashi Minami ordered the team to gather, count the number of people and then clean the battlefield.The Haihan army suffered a total of more than 300 casualties in this battle, but the results were relatively satisfactory. More than [-] Qing soldiers were killed or injured. And know.The logging team sent by the Qing army to the north bank only cut down about [-] trees before being interrupted by the battle. Takahashi Nan ordered to throw all the logging tools picked up on the battlefield into the river, and then led his troops back to the distance to fight. The location is about two miles away, in case the Qing army followed suit and launched a night attack.
At this time, the Qing army did not dare to use rafts to forcefully cross the river. Otherwise, the Haihan army with unknown strength on the north bank would attack them halfway across the river.Even if they want to make a comeback, they can only wait until dawn.
At this time, besides the Qing army, there was also the coalition forces remaining on the south bank of the Qingchuan River.Gao Qiaonan's decision to go into battle in person was disapproved by the officers of the first battalion, because after he left, the coalition forces lacked an authoritative commander to deploy and deploy. If it goes well, Gao Qiaonan cannot rejoin the main force, then the next battle will be difficult to fight, and there may even be chaos due to the lack of him as the former commander-in-chief of the enemy.
Fortunately, the Qing army did not expect this cross-river night attack at all, so the operation was relatively smooth. After the battle, Gao Qiaonan sent messengers back to the south bank with their own passwords to issue combat orders to the coalition forces.
With the current strength of the coalition forces, it is a very dangerous choice to divide troops on both sides of the river to fight against the Qing army. If one is accidentally entangled by the Qing army, the troops on the other side of the Qingchuan River will not be able to rush to rescue.Therefore, Gao Qiaonan's order to the troops on the south bank was not to advance rashly. After dawn, the Qing army's movements should be considered before launching a surprise attack, but not to get into a dogfight with the Qing army.
After daybreak, the Qing army couldn't wait to organize a wave of cross-river assaults, but they were in vain. There was no trace of the Haihan army in the logging area, only the corpses of Qing soldiers scattered on the ground.Of course, all the logging tools that were supposed to be left on the ground also disappeared.
At this time, the Qing army has no time to organize to clear the surrounding forests, so it has to organize the next logging team quickly. Although there are not enough logging tools, they can only send more people to use the swords first.This war knife is used to chop thick trees, it is naturally not as good as an ax saw, and the blade will be broken soon, but there is no other way to think about it at the moment.
But Haihan's offensive would not stop there. The Qing troops on both sides of the Qingchuan River were constantly being attacked from nearby forests throughout the morning.Although the strength of these attacks may not be too great, and they will often retreat after a while, but after all, it is difficult for the Qing army to concentrate all their attention on the operation of building bridges and crossing the river.
If you ignore it, the sneak attack of a hundred people will soon turn into a thousand-man assault, forcing the Qing army to mobilize a large force to attack, but when the Qing army really puts on a posture and is ready to fight a big battle, the enemy But quietly disappeared into the mountains and forests again.This kind of guerrilla warfare made the Qing army very uncomfortable. Huang Taiji wanted to order the troops to disperse into the mountains and forests several times to carry out the suppression, but his rationality reminded him that this might be what the enemy army wanted to achieve, so he could only endure it forcefully. .
Even under the embarrassing situation of being intercepted before and followed by pursuers, the Qing army successfully penetrated the marching passage across the Qingchuan River at noon that day. Two simple wooden bridges connected from the north and south banks to the rocky beach in the middle of the river, allowing The Qing army on the south bank was finally able to withdraw to the north more calmly.
After all, the follow-up troops of the coalition forces from the lower reaches of the Qingchuan River failed to catch up with this opportunity. Although Gao Qiaonan was unwilling, he also knew that his troops were limited and could not take the risk of forcibly charging the Qing army's passage across the river. It is still only possible to conduct harassment operations on the periphery.
Although the Qing army seems to be in a passive state of being beaten, tens of thousands of troops can still take turns to deal with the harassment of the Haihan army.However, the troops led by Takahashi Minami are already in a very fatigued state after days of marching in the field, and there are not many combat supplies left. The combat effectiveness is slowly declining, but the battle damage is constantly increasing.
Gao Qiaonan used a telescope to observe the traffic conditions of the wooden bridge built by the Qing army from a distance, and quickly calculated that its traffic capacity was about 4000 to 2000 people per hour, but the rafts that the Qing army kept launching could still deliver at least every hour. One or two thousand people crossed the river, so at most after dark tonight, the large forces of the Qing army can basically move to the north bank.
Gao Qiaonan waited patiently until the afternoon, and finally got the news of the reinforcements. An infantry battalion who came from the downstream by boat had arrived at the place where they swam last night. After discovering the marks they left on the rocky beach on the river bank They have landed on the shore and rushed over.However, due to the limited navigation conditions in the upper reaches of the Qingchuan River, all the combat ships of the coalition fleet could not reach here, so there were only a few troop carriers provided by the North Koreans, so there was no need to expect heavy firepower output from the river.
But objectively speaking, in front of tens of thousands of Qing troops, just one battalion of reinforcements could not completely change the balance of strength between the two sides, nor was it enough to kill the Qing troops in this river valley.What Gao Qiaonan can do now is to use the two infantry battalions in his hand plus more than 1000 coalition soldiers to cause damage to the Qing army as much as possible and increase the various consumption on the way back.
From the Xiangshan River Valley to the Yalu River in the northwest, the straight-line distance is about two hundred miles. However, the Qing army has penetrated into the inland area of Korea in order to escape across the river. From here to the Yalu River, there are continuous mountainous areas, so the actual itinerary is at least About three or four hundred miles.
However, the supply of the Qing army is about to bottom out, and at most there are only four or five days of rations left. Right now, we can't expect to get a lot of supplies in this sparsely populated mountainous area. We can only evacuate north as soon as possible to return to the territory of the Qing Dynasty as soon as possible. .
In fact, the Haihan army is also facing the same problem. Due to the rush to catch up with the Qing army, the two troops that rushed here successively did not carry too much supplies. Set up a logistics transportation line for them in a short time.So in the next battle, the troops led by Gao Qiaonan will probably have to struggle for a few more days.
Although there was no good way to capture the large forces of the Qing army, the coalition forces still succeeded in capturing the [-] soldiers and horses left behind by the Qing army.After the two Jiala Ezhen who led the team died of stray bullets, the remaining Qing army quickly became a mess, and they had no intention of fighting the coalition forces any longer.Some of the Qing soldiers couldn't wait to cross the river on the wooden bridge, so they jumped into the river and swam forcibly, while others chose to escape into the nearby mountains and forests, probably with the idea of waiting for the limelight to pass before finding a place to cross the river and return home.However, a considerable number of Qing troops were besieged on the rocky beach on the south bank of the Xiangshan River Valley. After a futile resistance, it quickly turned into a one-sided killing.
At least a thousand Qing soldiers were shot and killed by the coalition forces with muskets and other weapons on the rocky beach. The blood even stained part of the river downstream.The red-eyed coalition forces, especially the North Korean soldiers who had been suppressed by Takahashi Nan and failed to go to the battlefield a few days ago, broke out with uncontrollable ferocity at this time, killing the Qing army on the bank of the river. .
Gao Qiaonan did not give any special instructions after hearing about this matter. He knew that the North Korean army finally had a chance to vent, so he naturally wanted to pour all his long-suffering anger on the Qing army who was powerless to resist.If these Qing soldiers were kept as prisoners of war, it is estimated that North Korea would not be easy to deal with, and Hai Han did not want to take this hot potato, so killing them all might be a way to make it easy for all parties to deal with.
In the next few days, the two sides fled and chased each other, and launched a brutal tug-of-war in the mountains and forests of northern North Korea.In order for the main force to escape smoothly, the Qing army frequently resorted to tail-docking to survive. Each time, a few powerful Qing soldiers were assigned to serve as death squads to slow down the pace of the pursuers.Although such a tactic is simple, it is indeed effective. When the coalition forces encounter these desperadoes, they can only move forward by cleaning them up.After two or three days, the main force of the Qing army has pulled away the half-day schedule, and basically no one can be seen.
However, the marching route of the Qing army did not go directly to the Yalu River, because the opposite bank was also uninhabited and uninhabited mountains, even if they crossed the river, there was still no supply, so they planned to go to the lower reaches of the Yalu River first, looting North Korean villages and towns along the way to obtain supplies, and wait for the march. Go to Yizhou and cross the river to return home.
(End of this chapter)