Chapter 1774: The Battle of Xiaowen River
Because Wu Zheng deliberately delayed, the negotiation seemed a bit ridiculous.
The conditions proposed by Wu Zheng were also shocking. For example, Wu Zheng proposed to the east of Shanxi and north of the Yellow River as the conditions for the border of the Qing Dynasty, and even Wu Zheng proposed to make Fulin abdicate and become a vassal king under the Jianxing Dynasty, and so on, which made Suksaha and Sony no longer have to live.
If they really bring these conditions back, they may have to move.
But Suksaha, Sony dared not leave because Wu Zheng "wanted to talk". As long as Wu Zheng still wanted to negotiate, they had to talk. This was a strict order given to them by the Qing court.
Suksaha and Sony knew that Wu Zheng had spoken out at the Lion without any sincerity in negotiating, but they still had to make sense. For example, Prince Ying of Runing Prefecture, Ajige, still had 60,000 elite troops, such as the court promoted Wu Sangui's title, and promoted him from Prince Pingxi to Prince Pingxi, and ordered him to lead his army to reinforce the battlefield immediately, such as Yue Le's army in Qingzhou, and Prince Duanzhong Boluo, and General Boluo, led a 100,000 new army south to reinforce, etc.
However, every time I talked about it, I found that Wu Zheng either yawned or dozed off.
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There was a verbal battle in Xuzhou City, but the Xiaowen River blocking battle started irreversibly.
Obai is not as brave as the joke, and his intelligence is insufficient.
On the contrary, Obai was extremely cunning. A man who could fight Dorgon for several years and was at the time when Dorgon was in great power. He was so blind to say that he was not wise.
In the entire Qing court, Jirgalang was the only one.
Hong and Fan Busheng were not dead because they were powerful, but because they practiced Tai Chi with their erratic and disobedient skills.
Even Dorgon expressed his loyalty in person, and then he survived until Dorgon died, which was considered successful in his practice.
But Oboi was indeed not prepared for it, and the enemy would set up an ambush on the south bank of Xiaowen River.
First, the intelligence work was not available, the cavalry scouts sent by him did not reconnaissance the other side of the river, and third, Oboi relied on decades of fighting on the battlefield, and ordinary situations were no longer difficult for him.
That's right, it's really impossible for Song An to set up an ambush on the south bank.
Xiaowen River is a small tributary. After manual development, it has been established that the current stable river channel has been established.
But even so, the river surface is not wide. The ambush section is only six or seven meters wide. This distance is enough for the Qing army to cover the ambush on the south bank by riding and shooting.
The ranger's motor is powerful and the ambush is difficult to aim, which means that the ambush cannot be set up and will be eaten by it.
Oboi also believed that even if there were ambushes, there would not be many troops. He did not know that Ziyang had fallen. Since he was still fighting, it would be impossible for a large number of enemy troops to bypass Ziyang.
This is true, Song An brought three thousand people.
For Oboi's more than 10,000 troops, this was like hitting the stone with an egg.
But what Oboi didn't know was that these three thousand people were not ordinary three thousand people?
Although it is a simple continuous shooting gun with a continuous shooting speed and is often stuck, it is a continuous shooting gun after all.
I don’t know the enemy, this is the main reason why Oboi suffered a great loss in this battle, and it is not related to his command mistakes.
When the battle began, the Qing army was caught off guard.
Song An himself had a bad personality. The Qing army crossed the river at the north bank at a distance of six or seven meters. Needless to mention firing guns in succession, ordinary muskets could hit the opponent in a messy way.
But Song An kept holding on, and even hundreds of Qing army forwards landed in the first wave, driving piles on the shore to assist the army behind him to cross the river, but Song An did not move.
It was not until the first wave of the main force of the Qing army crossed the river with more than 100 small boats to the center of the river that Song An gave the order and fired at hundreds of Qing troops who had already landed, and a hundred consecutive guns shaped like tiger squatting cannons were shot saturated on more than 1,000 Qing troops reaching the center of the river.
This continuous gun fires at a low rate, and can have large bullets, fills with enough medicine, and the pellets are oval, shaped like olives that bit off the butt. During the trial production of the military workshop, it can shoot through seven layers of leather armor with 500 steps outside, and it is full of strength.
At this time, more than a hundred steps away, fighting these Qing soldiers with only single-layer leather armor was equivalent to killing chickens with a cattle knife, and the projectiles were like splashing water to tear up everything they could see on the river. How could those small sampans stop such powerful projectiles? They were beaten to pieces and shattered.
In just a few minutes, the river surface was already in chaos, and there was no more ship floating on the water.
On the contrary, hundreds of Qing troops who had already landed ashore "supported" for a long time, and that was caused by the survivors of them who ran around after a volley. However, with the second and third rounds of target shooting, they all returned to the north of the desert.
The speed was too fast, so fast that there was no time to give Oboi to react.
Song An quickly ordered to shoot at the Qing army on the north bank, but a large number of Qing troops had taken the initiative to stay away from the river bank, and the results were not great.
Then, Oboi quickly rectified the withdrawn troops. In just a short incense stick, the Qing army began to spread to the left and right, widen the distance, and fought on a large scale and long front, and wanted to cross the river.
This is very fatal, the firearm is sharp because its density and accuracy are second.
But when the front line is opened, how can three thousand people defend the river bank for several miles or even dozens of miles?
If this is just an ordinary blocking battle, the results will be very fruitful. As long as Song An orders to retreat, he will return with all his might.
But Song An’s task is to stop it, at least a few days, right?
After crossing Xiaowen River, it is Sishui. The middle terrain is suitable for cavalry combat. Once the three thousand musketeers are bitten by the cavalry, it will be a disaster.
How could Song An retreat?
Fortunately, Song An made preparations in advance and built a simple fortification at the ambush site, which was to pile up sand and stones with sacks.
There are also techniques for stacking. The more you pile up the sand and sacks, the more you put them in, and you can use wood to hold them in.
This kind of fortification is not very useful for cavalry impact, but it is very effective in dealing with the riding and shooting of Qing army rangers, which means that there is no need to be wary of the enemy and hitting their heads with a raised shot. The piled sand and stone bags leave shooting holes to kill the enemy.
As long as there is constant ammunition, this circular fortification can deal with the attacks of enemies from all directions.
Song An led his troops to detour on the river bank and sniped the Qing army crossing the river.
It was not until the next morning that two Qing soldiers who had successfully swam from further ashore that Song An ordered the team to withdraw into the built fortifications.
Therefore, this blocking battle turned into an offensive and defensive battle.
During the crossing of the river, Oboi lost 2,000 troops and suffered a loss.
When Oboi got ashore and swore revenge, he brazenly ordered an all-round cavalry charge against Song An's troops.
Chapter completed!