Chapter 1699 Encounter with the Renzi Juan

   Zhang Dingyuan was also extremely embarrassed when he received the order.

  The brothers below are already exhausted. If this order is issued, everyone must be full of resentment.

  Walking down more than a hundred miles, Rao has consciously strengthened the marching training since the formation, but that is training.

The highest intensity of the daily training march is only forty to fifty miles. Although the only few zippers have marched more than a hundred miles, they are not like this kind of full-armed march with all household items, and the time is also much stricter. There was almost no buffer in the middle of the break.

   But a military order is a military order, and there is no room for maneuver.

Besides, the generals treat everyone well, and most of the elite officers below are from the Liaodong elite, and the soldiers are selected from the best of Yongmin Zhuang and the old Beijing camp. After several rounds of elimination, no matter in terms of morale In terms of physical and physical fitness, it is several grades better than Lao Jingying.

Since the headquarters is fully equipped with firecrackers, it has adopted a new organizational system from the very beginning. For example, General He Huchen has three firecracker garrisons, and each garrison has three divisions, totaling nine divisions with 2,700 firecrackers. One of the generals is directly in charge of the gun department, currently equipped with matchlock guns, but it is said that it may be changed to a new type of self-generating guns in the future.

  Each department has a thousand generals, and each thousand generals governs three generals, with a total of three hundred gunners.

In addition, there are 1,000 heads of eagle-billed guns, which are directly under the leadership of the participating generals; the spear team has two guards and five divisions; the artillery team has 1,000 heads, which are directly led by the generals; Straight collar.

In this way, the army with the firecracker army as the core force is actually divided into three clusters, which are also the firecracker cluster, the second is the close combat cluster, and the third is the support cluster. The strange name was chosen on the suggestion of a big man, and the Lord Jiedushi seemed to ignore it, but after a while of discussions among the people below, he slowly accepted it.

   When the order came down, Zhang Dingyuan had no choice but to accept it. He also saw the reluctance of the other two spear team chiefs, but the eagle-billed blunderbuss chief seemed indifferent.

  Although Zhang Dingyuan knew the eagle-beaked blunderbuss chief, he was not familiar with him. He only knew that his surname was Zhou, and the two chief executives of the spear team were a little more familiar.

Because from the later period, the generals consciously began to organize the firecracker army and the spear army to conduct synthetic formation exercises, mainly to conduct formation change drills in marching and stationary states according to passwords and semaphore, the purpose is to fight in the field. In the middle, the formation can be adjusted quickly to achieve the optimization of the battle.

This is also the most difficult training for the Firearms Army and the Spear Army, because it involves formation change drills. It is difficult to understand the password and semaphore, which requires intensive training for the entire officer group, which makes people very frustrated.

And the key point is that many passwords and semaphores have no fixed rules, and they are all temporarily combined for discussion and study. The only booklet is said to be a basic regulation handed down from a certain department in Ji Town. There are also many fallacies, and it all depends on everyone to explore and correct them in actual drills.

  In the past six months of training, everyone has actually become proficient in the design and practice of firecrackers, so the later training is mainly to cooperate with the formation of the spear team, which makes everyone extremely tired.

  But as the general said, once the battle starts and the enemy cavalry breaks through the long-range strike range and rushes over, they must rely on the spear team to protect them.

   If you are not proficient in this period, and the formation change is not timely, then the big guy can only wait to be chopped melons and vegetables.

  It's about my own life, no matter how hard or tired I have to endure, no one thinks there is anything wrong.

"Three, the order has been issued. I know that everyone's brothers are very tired, but there is no way. They eat food and serve as soldiers. That's all. We have to go, this is our fate, anyway, it is much better here, let's discuss it and talk about the plan."

  Zhang Dingyuan naturally acted as the main general, and the two chiefs of the spear team Qian Qian and the eagle-beaked blunderbuss also had no objection.

"The order was given by the General in person. The Yuhe Stone Bridge must be taken down immediately and controlled in our hands. Now that the scouts have passed, we will probably be able to report back on the way. According to the prediction of the General, if the Xuanfu army has passed After arriving at Longhutai, even if their main battalion has not yet arrived at Hongqiao, but the forwards have already arrived at Hongqiao, the scout team must have reached our line. I don't believe that the Xuanfu army can carelessly go twenty or thirty miles away Even the scouts didn't come out,..."

   Regarding Zhang Dingyuan's judgment, the other three nodded.

  Accurately speaking, among these few people, only Zhang Dingyuan has actually fought on the battlefield.

As a member brought by Zuo Liangyu and the others, he was sent to He Huchen's department as the backbone to form the new Beijing camp, and later he simply entered the capital, and quickly grew from a member of Liaodong's personal army to Qianzong. The pressure is also enormous.

   It used to be a team of people, but now there are hundreds of people under him, and the tactics and tactics have also undergone tremendous changes, completely starting from scratch, so Zhang Dingyuan dare not be negligent in the slightest.

"We don't care how the Xuanfu army entered Beijing. Whether it's a rebellion or a rebellion, that's not our business. Our mission is one. Take and control the Yuhe Stone Bridge. If the Xuanfu army scouts don't Now, needless to say, according to the established formation, refuse to carry the horse up, and block the stone bridge. If the enemy has scouts or even a small amount of cavalry in the forward position, we will form an formation, force back, and take control of the stone bridge. It's as simple as that, but it's hard work work, so everyone has to follow the training procedures, marching in a mountain formation, and changing to a trapezoidal formation when stopping, is there any problem?"

  Several people nodded in agreement, but Wang Xian, one of the chief spearheads, expressed his concern: "Marching at night is not easy. If the enemy cavalry has crossed the bridge, they are very likely to attack and harass us. This must be guarded against."

This official road is wide enough for hundreds of people to march. The only worry is that it is getting dark. The worst result is that the enemy cavalry has already approached the stone bridge, or even crossed the stone bridge. Then they may face the enemy cavalry. Assault, this needs to follow the battle formation, although slower, but more stable.

"Brother Wang's words are reasonable, so we can distance our formation a little bit and maintain a combat state. Once encountering an enemy attack, the spear team can keep on guard, and the firecracker army can attack, but I believe the enemy should not have crossed the bridge yet, at least There won't be too many people crossing the bridge, enough to stop us from moving forward." Zhang Dingyuan replied with certainty.

  Another spearhead, Mr. Qian, also nodded in agreement: "Just proceed according to this plan, and we will deploy defenses at the stone bridge."

Zhang Dingyuan nodded in satisfaction, and added: "Brother Zhou, you don't have to worry about the road, just follow the march, but your brothers in the back may have to work harder. When you reach the stone bridge, you may have to form an formation. Use the range of your eagle beak guns, Covering the entire vicinity of the other end of the bridge north of the river to buy time for our side,…”

  Chief Zhou Zhanpeng nodded silently: "I have no problem here."

Although Zhou Zhanpeng is only the commander in chief, his status is different. He Huchen is directly in charge of the eagle beak gun department, and he may not be much lower than the other generals in the army. Of course, he also knows that in this situation, it is courting death , and the other party respected him very much, he was very satisfied.

  As for the need to deploy defenses at the bridgehead, his men and horses need to take on greater responsibilities, and he is happy to see the results.

He came here to fight. He was originally a civilian and a strong man. He was a guard at first, and he had practiced military affairs, but later he felt that it was meaningless to be a guard, so he fled to the west of Liaoxi. He was arrested and sent directly into the army. Who After Zeng Xiang entered the Beijing camp, he had a solid foundation and felt that the Beijing camp had a future, so he practiced very hard, was selected into the eagle beak gun department, quickly stood out, and was promoted to general manager.

  Because of the hard training for this part, He Huchen valued it very much.

  After finishing the arrangement in a few words, Zhang Dingyuan immediately issued an order, asking all the ministries to start marching according to the formation, raise fire in the dark night, and quickly go north.

More than two miles is not far away. According to Zhang Dingyuan's vision, he will arrive soon, but just after walking less than a mile, his idea was immediately shattered with the sound of horseshoes and some hoarse shouts: "Xuan The front cavalry of the government army has already crossed the bridge!"

   is the scout just sent out!

Zhang Dingyuan's heart sank, but he didn't panic. He also had the worst plan before, that is, the enemy striker had already arrived, but he thought that he might meet him on the bank of the river, but now it seems that the situation is worse than imagined , but the only luck is that Gonghua City is still there, so the enemy should have just arrived, otherwise it is impossible for the hundreds of people in Gonghua City to still be there.

  Zhang Dingyuan stabilized his mind, and immediately gave orders to the soldiers around him, and soon a deep voice sounded: "March in the mountain formation, lock the distance, and keep the speed unchanged!"

  When Zhang Dingyuan's order sounded, the two-wing spearmen who were still a little anxious immediately stabilized under the reprimand of the officers. As long as they have a backbone and there are so many companions around, their morale will not collapse.

But morale will not collapse, which does not mean that there will be no casualties. Soon, enemy cavalry and archers appeared on the left side. A series of throws caused screams in the spear army on the left side, and then the officers The scolding sound was a little confusing for a while.

Zhang Dingyuan also sighed in his heart. After all, he is still a new army and has not experienced the baptism of blood and fire. If he is in the Liaodong Army, such an itchy harassment is nothing to worry about. Even if there are casualties, they must be covered by me. Can't make a sound and affect the march. Of course, this refers to the governor's personal army.

  (end of this chapter)