Chapter 76 Answers
After this battle, the Qing army won a complete victory, and Wu Sangui had not been arrested yet, but his main force was wiped out, so the fight against the rebellion was basically settled.
However, while the new army was almost crushing in this battle, the Eight Banners Army, which used the old tactics of the right wing, suffered heavy losses, and even the fifth town of the new army was greatly affected.
The Eight Banners on the right wing all came from Manchuria and Mongolia. The fifth town of the New Army was like other towns. Manchurian iron armored spearmen were accompanied by Han army Lumi gun shooters. The right wing defeated, casualties during the battle, and the killing and injuries caused by the Guanning army during the fleeing. In addition, the shooting when the New Army forced the defeated troops to turn, it seemed to be Manchuria at first glance. Mongolia and Han army suffered a lot of losses, but the most severely damaged Eight Banners were still the Manchurian Banners.
Moreover, their respective population bases are very different. If Mongolia does not mention it, they can recruit from the south and north of the desert. Not to mention the Han military flag, there are only the number of Han people. Even the Baoyi slaves brought more than 200,000 from Liaodong that year. With the few men in Manchuria, this victory can be regarded as a crushing defeat.
Seeing the auxiliary soldiers moving away the bodies of the Eight Banners Army on the right wing, Liu Cheng got off the horse and helped the Eight Banners Army close their eyes and speak loudly. Hearing the new army, ordinary Eight Banners Army and even the auxiliary soldiers around him, this Liu Huiban loved soldiers as much as his son, and was really a general.
"If you want to break the Spanish phalanx, Chen Wen's method is the most simple and rough. But, I have only heard of the principle of jumping and shooting in the training camp, and it is normal not to teach the artillery to the new army. As for the grenadiers, it is the Jesuit monk who said that Tessie did not have such a strange army. Sony also thought that Manchuria was not good at firearms and was too dangerous, while the Han army was not brave enough to have no organization. Should I blame Sony for being slippery?"
He laughed wildly in his heart, but he looked compassionate. Liu Cheng had too many days of kneeling down and licking the powerful people of the Qing Dynasty in recent years, and his acting skills were also increasing day by day.
Defeating the Spanish phalanx, whether in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army or in Europe, all took strengthening firepower output as the core idea. Chen Wen's method was more convincing, jumping and shooting to cause a large amount of damage. After entering hand-to-hand combat, he would use grenades to finalize the battle situation when the phalanx approached the zero point of collapse. If Hong Chengchou had not noticed that the front row of the phalanx was severely damaged and temporarily adjusted the formation, the casualties of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army would have been greatly reduced.
The new army originally had Chen Wen as its army in this regard, but Liu Cheng did not take out all his abilities. This hidden private life was originally to strengthen the selfishness of the troops in the headquarters after independent command of the army. As a result, the Qing Dynasty defeated the Spanish square of Guanning Army with the new tactics of the new army. However, this unintentional piercing willow not only doubled the losses of the Qing army, but also severely underestimated the Eight Banners of the Manchus.
"Is it because I slaughtered the whole city, I was afraid that the Qing army would vent my anger? The Guanning Army's fighting will have been strengthened. Alas, it's so dangerous. This group of useless Eight Banners Army almost made me take off."
Originally, Liu Cheng had absolute confidence in the combat effectiveness of the new army, but now he realized that no matter how strong his combat effectiveness was, he might not be able to withstand the power of dragging his back.
The specific numbers seized took a lot of time to count. Liu Cheng knew that Jidu sent him over to make him appear less in front of Fu Shou, so as not to cause more conflicts. After turning around on the battlefield and making a full gesture, Liu Chengcai hurried to the temporary storage of the seized place in the city.
As Liu Cheng's aide and the documentary of the Xinjun, Li Zhifang was conducting statistics here. Seeing Liu Cheng coming, Li Zhifang put down his work and hurriedly stepped forward to salute.
In this battle, Liu Cheng's contribution will not be small, and the new army will definitely recommend more official positions. First, it is to reward merit, and second, it is to expand, which is indispensable. Previously, Liu Cheng promised to recommend Li Zhifang to defeat Wu Sangui's army and quell the rebellion. The overall situation has been decided. Li Zhifang was also sincerely happy and became more diligent.
After reminiscing about the narration, seeing that there was no one around, Li Zhifang softly mentioned to Liu Cheng that he had just seen Oboi, the first Manchu warrior sighed there as he looked at the body of the Eight Banners Army.
Not to mention that Li Zhifang had never seen it, even Liu Cheng had never heard of Obai's hot temper and sighing. However, both of them had a heart with a slight heart, so how could they not understand the truth and what they meant? At this time, Li Zhifang deliberately told Liu Cheng about this matter, and his intention was even more self-evident.
"Yeyuan, do it well. All the principles that I have promised you before will not be fulfilled."
"Student thanks Sima for help."
After chatting for a few words, Li Zhifang was once again involved in the work of counting the seized seizures. However, Liu Cheng walked around the seized warehouse, especially the weapons of Guanning Army, which seemed to have a greater charm to him than gold, silver and jade.
"This spear can be used directly for the new army. Forget bows and bird guns, it's destined to be eliminated..."
The new army won a great victory, but it also destroyed the old tactics of the Eight Banners Army to pieces. Unlike Mongolia, Manchuria is a path, dismounted and studded, and raided and pursued. This is the traditional tactics of Manchuria. However, now, the Eight Banners of Manchuria were crushed by the Spanish formation in the formation and infantry battle. If the new army had not appeared, the country would have been destroyed for a few months, but relying solely on such a new army was far from enough. Previously, there were traditional resistances in the court, finance, etc., but now at this point, expansion has become a foregone conclusion.
Among this new army, Liu Cheng was the minister of the association and the third nominal figure, but in fact he was the head of training and the chief of staff in the war. He had no right to lead troops and fight. Only by expanding the new army could he control the military power, and this was what he wanted most.
Although the current situation is far from returning to the capital, Liu Cheng has already begun to plan for expansion. However, he also knows that the road has come out step by step, and the smooth sailing in the past two years has not made him relax his vigilance. Today's whip is a lesson.
"Fu Shou, please wait for me. When I hold the power of the world, I will definitely cut off my Lingchi to break it out to relieve my shame today."
The ferociousness overcame the pain, but in just a short moment, but before the approximate seizure data was obtained, a cavalry officer of the new army rode back to the city.
"If you go back to Liu Huiban, you just found several detailed works that were peeping at the battlefield on the way when the army came. They were taken down from them and were about to give them to the prince."
The officer was born in the Zhenghuang Banner of Mongolia, with a lower class than Liu Cheng. He was just a Niulu Zhangjing. However, he was a man of Manchuria and Mongolia, so he did not look down on the Han military flag. However, Liu Cheng had been in the new army for two years and was still a senior official in charge of training. Over the years, he also had some prestige. This officer did not doubt that he would explain to Liu Cheng clearly.
Unexpectedly, when Liu Cheng saw the thing handed over by the officer, he was stunned and snatched it over. He looked at it carefully, stroked the metal texture of the object in his hand, and his brows couldn't help but frown.
"A few people make a few things, capture a few people alive and kill a few people, but you can escape, tell me!"
Liu Cheng was so excited that he was scolded by a Han military flag. The officer was secretly angry, but Liu Cheng's accumulated power was still there, and he did not dare to attack. He just looked at the thing called the telescope and couldn't help but reveal some doubts.
"If we go back to Liuhui, we found four people, who ran away from all over the place, shot and killed two people. One of them knew that he could not escape, so he killed his life on his own. Only one person was injured, but he had not caught it yet."
Those who can act as meticulous are all smart people. They can kill three people and injure one person, especially when the war has just ended and it is even more rare. Unexpectedly, the officer's answer was not only not only that he did not receive Liu Cheng's praise, but also made him furious.
"Idiot! This thing was made in the workshop of the Military Industry Department in Jinhua. Those people were Zhejiang bandits, and they were sent by Chen Wen to spy on the truth of the new army. You even let them run away, bastard!"
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In the next few days, the new army's probation team went out everywhere, but they were unable to find the detailed work of fleeing with injuries and ended up leaving it alone.
This caused Liu Cheng's furious Xiaozuo to cross mountains and ridges with injuries. After working hard, he finally fled back to Yunyang Prefecture in Huguang. Then he took a boat to the east and rushed to Nanjing overnight. When he arrived in Nanjing, even though he was strong and had a military intelligence department sent personnel to take care of him on the boat, he had already survived to only half of his life.
"The Gustav phalanx, no wonder the Qing court had to prevent the leak of information so closely."
The Spanish phalanx began to appear and ran rampant on the continent for a century and a half, clearing all the old tactics of the Middle Ages in Europe into the garbage dump of history. However, this phalanx was born in the era of heavy cavalry rampant, and it emphasized too much protection and even at the expense of firearms' killing ability. This led to the later Morris phalanx and the epoch-making Gustav phalanx created on the basis of the Morris phalanx.
The four military intelligence departments sent personnel, two of whom were followed by Beijing Station, and the other two were sent personnel from Xi'an Station. The one who fled back was the former Southeast Economic Counter. Because they made meritorious service as prisoners, they were absorbed into the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army because they made contributions when they assisted in the war.
These four intelligence personnel observed from different locations. Unexpectedly, before they got together for communication, a team of defeated soldiers attracted the new cavalry, which was exposed. However, the four people communicated and sent the information back, but they fled in scattered all over the place, three died and one injured, but they also recorded the process of this battle truthfully.
The Spanish square formation used by Wu Sangui was improved on the version used in the Southeast Economic Standard, but the improvement was limited by weapons and equipment. Wu Sangui could not provide more muskets, and could only be replaced by step bows, which invisibly reduced the lethality of the firearm troops occupying 75% of the entire array.
Such incompleteness is still crushing when facing the old tactics, because the core ideas and tactics of the phalanx have not changed, but they are completely exposed when they encounter a new army.
The new army learned through the Jesuit missionary learning that the Swedish lion Gustav II relied on to rampant continental China and replaced the tactics of modern troops into the Gustav phalanx of linear tactical systems. Today, the most advanced tactics of continental China shine in the Thirty Years' War, and the Spanish phalanx was quickly eliminated. The Battle of Weinan is just a replica of this process.
In his study, Chen Wen summarized the information about the new army sent back by the Military Information Department over the past few times, and wrote and painted on the manuscript paper. The tactics of the two sides in that battle gradually appeared in Chen Wen's writing.
"Sure enough, the actual firepower utilization rate is stronger."
According to the arrangement of the two armies on the manuscript paper, Chen Wen changed the paper and solved the problem in just one math problem. However, he suddenly realized it. Chen Wen looked up and saw Zhou Yueying and Chen Xinruo, the mother and daughter, confused eyes. He seemed to not quite understand what Chen Wen saw from the messy words and graphics on the table.
"Madam, let's take it and take a look, my daughter will come and let my father hug you."
The daughter was picked up by Chen Wen and placed it on her thigh. Her pair of agile eyes were aiming at Chen Wen's manuscript paper, looking very experiencing.
Chen Wen's eldest daughter has a strong desire for knowledge and her ability to receive knowledge also makes Chen Wen ecstatic. However, her mother seems a little worried about this, as if she is afraid that her daughter will repeat her mistakes.
Compared to Zhou Yueying's random thoughts, Chen Wen did not think too much about it. He was busy with official duties on weekdays. During the break, Chen Wen would also teach his daughter to write, count, and raise, both to raise and inherit knowledge and thoughts. Although according to the tradition of this era, he should also teach his son, not daughter, compared to his son who is still learning to speak, his daughter's intelligence has already revealed signs.
"Come on, my daughter, Daddy's debut and counting the problem, and there will be rewards for solving it."
"Dad just asks for the questions, and my daughter will definitely answer them seriously."
"Okay, okay, my good daughter is here to listen to the question."
Holding her daughter, Chen Wen laughed loudly, and then said to the little girl who was less than four years old: "Suppose there are two armies, the first army..."
"Husband, Xinruo is a daughter, why are you talking about those weapons?"
Zhou Yueying was a little dissatisfied, and Chen Wen quickly changed the topic. But changing the soup but not the medicine was nothing more than changing the soldiers to money.
"Suppose dad and your mother each have 10,000 taels of silver. Dad promised to give three-quarters of Xinruo a dowry, while your mother promised to give two-thirds of Xinruo a dowry, but half of the silver promised to pay interest in the liberation number, and the two-thirds of your mother are all in your hands. Xinruo told dad, is it because dad gave Xinruo a lot of dowry, or is it that your mother gave?"
The little daughter didn't seem to understand what the dowry was. However, after pouting and thinking about it, Chen Xinruo quickly answered: "Dad gave more."
"ah?"
This answer made Chen Wen stunned. Even Zhou Yueying put down the documents in her hand and frowned and looked at her daughter.
"Why?"
"Because my mother said that my father would do what he said and did what he did, there was no vain. Xinruo thought that since his father had promised, he would definitely give it to Xinruo, and he would not care if he couldn't get any money."
I thought my daughter was not guessing, but unexpectedly there would be such an answer. When I looked up at Zhou Yueying, the latter was shy and flashed away, and then I gently tapped my daughter's little head.
"This girl is so smart at such a young age. This is not something I taught me."
Haha, Chen Wen then asked Chen Xinruo: "What if Dad must have the money to eat?"
"That's because my mother gave it too much, Daddy is so stingy."
“How much is it?”
"Dad only gives Xinruo half what his mother gives, and he is not stingy."
After getting this answer, Chen Wen and Zhou Yueying looked at each other clearly with the words "shock". A little girl under four years old can mix the five-digit calculations, which seems a bit abnormal. Seeing this, Chen Wen asked tentatively how to calculate it, but the answer he got made it even more difficult for him to sit still.
"Xinruo did not think it was money, but just thought it was the words my mother taught to Xinruo every day. Suppose my mother said she wanted to teach Xinruo ten words in the morning, and after three quarters of them were taught in the morning, the eldest aunt came to visit her for a day just after half of them. Then Xinruo only learned three words, plus a few strokes of the fourth word today. But if my mother taught two-thirds in the morning, and after lunch, the eldest aunt came to visit her, then Xinruo learned six words and was still rich in paintings. In this way, isn't the former only half of the latter?"
By drawing inferences from one example, Chen Wen had a new understanding of his daughter's IQ. But as Chen Xinruo calculated, after Wu Sangui's Spanish square array was arranged in the battle of Weinan, the cavalry of the new army could not pose a threat to him from the flanks. However, such spearmen were in the center, and the musketeers were in the square array of four corners. If they were only attacked by one side, the other two corner arrays could only be idle.
In this way, although Wu Sangui has an army of 20,000, even if he put aside the Five Battalions of the Volunteer Warriors and tried to defeat the Eight Banners Army brought by Fu Shou, he should have an army of 15,000 and 11,250 shooters, but in fact, only half of the number of shots against the new army on the front line, and the number of shots in the new army was only half of that number, more than 5,000. On the New Army, the total number of 7,200 shooters were all rotated on the front line, and the number alone was judged immediately. This has not yet calculated the comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of the weapons and armor of both sides.
"Wu Sangui's actual number of shooters participating in the battle is not as good as that of humans, and there are also a large number of archers mixed in here. The firepower of the Spanish phalanx itself was suppressed, let alone playing like this. In addition, the Lumi gun is superior to the bird gun in the range. Heavy armor and cloth armor have the ability to protect the bird guns, not to mention that the new army also played three rows of volleys and small-caliber cannons with grape bullets at the same time. Wu Sangui lost at all. It can even be said that if it weren't for slaughtering the whole city and leaving the Guanning army with no way out, Wu Sangui would have been beaten to the ground long ago. It would be a miracle to be able to hold on until the right wing of the Qing army collapsed."
A simple math problem can get a cruel answer. Judging from the performance of the new army on the battlefield, the fighting will of this new army is probably no lower than that of the Beiyang New Army in the late Qing Dynasty.
This is not an exaggeration. The training method of the Beiyang New Army came from Europe, and was trained by the teachings of the powerful army Germany; and the training method of this new army also came from Europe, and was the tactics of Sweden, a European army power of this era. In addition, it was mixed with many modern and modern armies that Liu Cheng learned from Chen Wen.
However, the soldiers of the Beiyang New Army joined the army to earn salary and eat the food of General Yuan, so they fought for General Yuan. This new army had a great sense of urgency. They were all bannermen, with a lot of welfare including hardcore crops, and were superior to others. However, the Qing Dynasty was now on the edge of a cliff. Once the Qing Dynasty was destroyed, their interests could not be preserved. The identity of the bannermen also made them revenge by the Han Dynasty. This is a major event that concerns the welfare of themselves and their families. In addition, Liu Cheng's brainwashing of the new army from the Beijing Station, such as the slogan that he must shout every day...
Suppose that the Beiyang New Army and this Eight Banner New Army use the same weapons, not to mention whether the tactics are suitable for the current weapon technology level, just talking about the fighting will and the ability to endure casualties, the former will probably be completely destroyed by the latter.
After all, this was still in the early Qing Dynasty. The corruption of the Eight Banners Army was relatively low. The rise of the Qing Dynasty was also forcibly interrupted by Chen Wen. Coupled with the training methods of modern and modern army and the Gustav phalanx that spread across Europe, monsters like the New Army were created. Even Chen Wen had never seen such a powerful Eight Banners Army in his online historical novels back then.
"Husband, is the new Tartars really so strong?"
Hearing this question, Chen Wen raised his head and saw the eyes of Zhou Yueying and Chen Xinruo, a sense of pride arose.
"This new army is indeed a rare elite, but whether it is Luting, Liu Cheng, or Wu Sangui, they know nothing about the real power!"
Chapter completed!