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Volume 1: Invasion of the Capital Chapter 944: Another Cannon Fodder

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    In this day's battle, both sides suffered heavy casualties.  The Daping army suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, while the Qing army suffered more than 10,000 casualties.  Judging from the numbers, it seems that the Qing army suffered more casualties.  However, most of the casualties of the Qing army were the Han Banners and the Mongolian Eight Banners who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, but there were not many real Manchu Eight Banners.  However, the casualties suffered by the Daping Army were all its own main troops.  Therefore, from the perspective of strength loss, the Daping Army suffered a bit.  Especially since the Qing army already had 50,000 more soldiers and horses than the Daping army, after this consumption, the gap in strength between the two sides became even wider.  What is more disadvantageous for the Daping Army is that the purpose of their battle is to block the Qing Army and prevent the Qing Army from rushing into the pass.  Therefore, the Daping Army's defense is rigid and cannot retreat.  Once it retreats, the arc length of the half-encircling defense line will be greatly increased, and the Daping Army's defense line will also become weaker.  To be honest, if Shumo's reinforcements had not arrived in time, or the current casualties of the Daping Army, if they wanted to maintain a complete line of defense in the future, their troops would be somewhat stretched.  By the same token, the Daping Army cannot arrange several lines of defense along the way from Shanhaiguan to Beijing City to defend section by section.  In a word, the current Daping Army is trying to pin down the Qing Army in Shanhaiguan.  But the Qing army also had its difficulties.  After all, the Daping army defends and the Qing army attacks.  In terms of long-range firepower, especially firearms, the Qing army had a huge disadvantage.  In order to break the Daping Army's defense line, they could only use their lives to fill it.  This was a real pain for the Qing army, which had few manpower.  Not to mention that the longer the delay, the stronger the Taiping Army's defense line will be.  So, this battle is difficult for both sides.  therefore.  After a short day of passion, the two armies began to fight again.  They go out to camp every day to form formations, but every day it is after a few tentative confrontations.  Withdraw the troops back to the camp and never dare to risk a decisive battle again.  And this fighting situation lasted for nearly twenty days without knowing it.  On the surface, both armies seem to be playing too conservatively.  But secretly, both sides are actually deploying their troops.  Dorgon has sent fast cavalry to Abatai's army.  He was asked to lead his army to enter the pass through the Great Wall, first threaten the city of Beijing, so that the Daping Army near the capital did not dare to act rashly, and then rush to Shanhaiguan as quickly as possible, and attack front and back together with the Qing army in Shanhaiguan, completely wiping out the main force of the Daping Army.  And Wu Shigong left only the smallest amount of troops to defend Beijing City and Tongzhou City.  Ten thousand Yulin troops stationed in the capital were also mobilized, plus 30,000 "elite soldiers" selected from the auxiliary troops, ready to support the Shanhaiguan front line at any time.  In addition, Wu Shigong also urgently ordered the Zhengxi Army, Sichuan Army, Zhengnan Army, Zhejiang Army and Shandong Army to send their elite troops north to join the decisive battle with the Qing army.  And these Daping armies.  The first batch of 7,000 cavalry has also been mobilized, and they are marching towards the capital in several directions.  And larger reinforcements are also gathering and setting off.  "The 26,000 riders in Pegasus Town in Zug are being supplemented by nearly 10,000 civilians, and there are more than 4,000 carts and pack horses pulling the carts, preparing to transport grain to Liaodong again.  You know, although Zug once brought some of the excess population from Ningyuan and Zhenyuan back to the pass.  However, the food and grass in these two cities can only last until October and November at most.  If it's too late, the horses will be killed and the people will be eaten.  It was now late May. Counting the battles and delays during the transportation of food, time in Pegasus Town was actually very tight.  At this time, the Daping Army did not know that Abatai had assembled a large army and would enter the border at Xuanda.  The Qing army also didn't know that Pegasus Town was about to turn around and come out again to rescue Ningyuan and Zhenyuan cities.  As for Wu Shigong, he gathered another mobile army, and Daping armies from all over the south also sent reinforcements to the north. The Qing army was even less aware of this situation.  So Shanhaiguan is now.  The main forces of the two armies have been in a stalemate.  In other places, both sides seemed to be blindfolded, playing chess on their own, making mistakes and not knowing who had the last laugh.  Temporarily move your eyes away from the frontal battlefield.  Let¡¯s take a look at the corner first¡ªthe battle taking place in North Korea!  May 24th, Anzhou.  Looking at the Daping army arrayed in front of him, Duduo asked: "Have you calculated it? How many people are there?" "A little over ten thousand." Bo Dun, the leader of the white flag beside Duduo, replied.  "Did you really see it clearly?" Duduo turned around and asked again.  Regarding Bodun's quick answer, Dodo had some doubts in his heart.  "It's true! Master! How dare this slave talk nonsense in front of you?" Bo Dun quickly bowed and smiled at Duduo, "Look at the Han army opposite, they are standing in blocks, and the number of people in each block is  They are all in their early 2000s, what a good number!" Duduo turned his head and looked at the formation of the Daping Army, and smiled and scolded Bodun: "You are a smart slave, I don't wonder why I appreciate you.  Okay! We have the advantage in numbers, not to mention we are all national athletes. I wish I had known that.?Taking these burdens away can also save time.  I can still find time to return to Shengjing, and several Fu Jin people in the mansion are looking forward to it.  "    "Hahaha¡ª¡ª!  "The surrounding Qing generals all laughed immediately. "In early May, after Duduo received 5,000 Eight Banners and 10,000 Han military flags, he went to villages near the Yalu River and collected more than a thousand Eight Banners who were left behind.  With the bannermen of the Han army and more than 300 people who escaped from Korea, Duduo had more than 16,000 troops. Although Duduo was very frivolous in appearance and conversation.  In fact, he was very cautious in fighting the war. Before setting off, Dodo carefully analyzed the Daping Army's troops in Korea. He believed that the main purpose of the Daping Army was to control Seoul and the King of Korea.  To cut off North Korea's important support. Therefore, the most likely strategy for the Daping Army is to defend Seoul with a small number of troops. It can only push forward slowly, so the Qing army will need a lot of cannon fodder coolies.  They dispersed their troops to capture nearby Korean civilians to use as dead soldiers in the attack on Seoul. But this capture would definitely take a lot of time by the time Duduo gathered his troops.  In more than ten days, the "harvest" of the Qing army was not bad. The general offensive captured more than 20,000 Korean people. So the Qing army escorted the Korean people south, but they met in Anzhou after only a few steps.  There were 12,000 Marines heading north, so the two armies deployed their troops one after another to prepare for battle. "Master!  In fact, those cannon fodder also have a role.  "Bo Dun stepped forward and offered advice, "We also fought against these Han soldiers and horses in Xuzhou.  There's nothing wrong with them, that is, their firearms are relatively powerful.  We can drive the cannon fodder into the formation, disrupting the Han army's formation first and wasting their ammunition in vain.  When the Han army is tired, our Qing cavalry will charge like this again, sir!  Just wait for your big win!  "    "Hey!  Duduo suddenly became happy. He pointed at Bodun and said, "I didn't expect a slave like you to be able to use your brain!"  good!  It¡¯s you who step forward to take command.  If you defeat the Han army, I will guarantee you a future.  " "Cha!  " Seeing the Qing army on the opposite side pushing the Korean people to the front of the formation in a chaotic manner, Gonzalez and Huang Ding couldn't help but smile at each other. Because when they were in Xuzhou, the Runing army suffered the disadvantage of the Qing army driving the people first,  So after the war, Wu Shigong had already summarized this. In fact, there was only one summary: the Runing army was more cruel than the Qing army, so these cannon fodder would rather flee back than dare to face the Runing army.  . Especially the current Marine Corps. What they will face is North Korean cannon fodder, which is not their comrades at all, so the Marine Corps will have less psychological pressure to kill them. And before this expedition, consider.  The Marine Corps was far away overseas and fighting alone. Although it was limited to the carrying capacity of the ship, only more than 300 war horses were sent over. However, artillery, armor, and fire guns were all doubled for the Marine Corps.  In particular, there are many gunpowder warehouses in North Korea, so the Marine Corps does not need to consider saving ammunition at all. Therefore, if the only ones rushing over are cannon fodder, the Marine Corps will not be afraid at all.  The artillery was ready in the middle and on both sides, and there were a lot of swarms of bees placed. Huang Ding smiled and said to Gonzalez: "Using artillery against these scum is a bit too much!"  A swarm of swarms only kills each one, so we should save some.  " Gonzalez shook his head. He now speaks Chinese very fluently: "Kill a chicken with a cleaver!  If you don't beat them painfully, these people will go crazy.  It will take a lot of effort to deal with them then.  "Hearing what the commanding Gonzalez said, Huang Ding just smiled and stopped talking. Gonzalez turned his head and ordered to the soldiers beside him: "Ask the artillery commander to suppress it. Don't worry.  Then fire, place the cannon fodder as close as possible, and hit them hard all at once.  " "No!  " Several soldiers immediately galloped forward to deliver the order. Bodun commanded a group of Qing soldiers and drove the Korean people forward. Seeing a few who were dawdling, he immediately rushed to the front of the Qing soldiers who were driving them.  , made a gesture of cutting their throats, and the Qing soldiers in front immediately chopped down several people with understanding. Seeing the brutality of the Qing army, more than 20,000 Korean civilians ran towards the Marine Corps on the opposite side in tears.  Among all the Korean people, only a few held tattered knives and guns issued by the Qing army. The rest all held hoes and other farm tools. Many of the farm tools were even made of wood and did not even have iron heads.  The pitiful ones were those who were holding wooden sticks or using bare hands. Some of them were accidentally killed while running and huddling together for courage.They fell to the ground, but as soon as they tried to get up, they were chopped down to the ground by the Qing soldiers supervising the battle behind them.  Feeling the footsteps of the Qing soldiers behind them, the Korean people ran faster.
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