Li Dagou has lived in this small coastal village belonging to the Jinzhou Wei Zhongzuo Institute since he was a child, and is very familiar with the neighborhood.
Soon he led a group of Chu soldiers in gray military uniforms to chase them all the way back. It didn't take long for him to catch up with the several Donglu people who had escaped in front.
When they chased after them, the Dongjiao people saw that they could not escape and even tried to kill them.
Especially the leading middle-aged Dongjiao leader, waving his sword and making strange screams as he rushed forward, so frightened that Li Dagou almost turned around and ran away.
But what happened next surprised him.
In his eyes, the leader of Dongluo, who was extremely brave and could easily defeat several people in unarmed combat, jumped to the ground before he even took two steps. Not only him, but also the other two Dongluo soldiers also directly jumped to the ground. Falling to the ground, one of them was only hit in the leg and let out a shrill scream after falling to the ground.
And tens of meters in front of the Dongzhao leader, were a dozen Chu soldiers who had just fired!
After this group of Chu soldiers fired, more than a dozen Chu soldiers behind them opened fire on the remaining Dongjiu soldier!
The Dongjiu soldier wanted to follow him just now, but he was lucky enough not to be hit by any bullets.
A distance of sixty or seventy meters is considered the effective range of a 2-year-old flintlock gun, but after all, it is still a smoothbore gun, and the hit rate is still very impressive. Most of the time in combat, it relies on numerous bullets to cover the damage, and the fired With a relatively small number of muskets, the hit rate against small targets is still not very good.
That's why such a fish slipped through the net. At this time, he still had the courage to fight back, so he quickly tried to escape.
But this time, the remaining Japanese soldier did not have such good luck. This time, more than a dozen flintlock guns were aimed directly at him and fired.
All of a sudden, three bloody holes appeared on his back, and he fell down motionless!
You can't die any more!
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Seeing that the four pursuing Japanese soldiers had been killed, Captain Shi Yuankai, the sentry commander of the Sixth Grenadier of the First Battalion of the Ninth Division Infantry Regiment, did not look relaxed at all. Instead, he remained cautious and directed the soldiers to face the enemy. The injured but not dead Dongli soldiers fired another round of musketry, and then nodded slightly after seeing that the man did not move.
Only then did he say: "
Keep alert on the left and right, and go up with a few people to check and clean the battlefield. Be careful when you go up. When you go up, you need to touch up first to prevent false damage. "
Having said that, he put the pistol in his hand back into the gun bag on his waist and looked at Li Dagou, who was still looking frightened. Shi Yuankai showed an unnaturally kind expression and said, "Thank you for this time." Lead the way.”
"Go home quickly, this is a battlefield, it's very dangerous!"
Li Dagou did not move, but gritted his teeth, then raised his head and asked: "Master, are you from the other side of the sea? From the Ming Dynasty?"
Shi Yuankai laughed after hearing this!
Ming dynasty? The Chu Empire has long been swept into the garbage heap of history. Not to mention the orthodox Ming Dynasty, even the Xi Ming Dynasty after Chongzhen's death has now become history.
However, the people in front of me are just the Han people in Liaodong who live under the control of the Dongchu people. It is normal to not know the situation in the pass. Let alone the people here in Liaodong, even in the inland hinterland of the Chu Empire, people in many places still don’t know about this world. There has been a change of dynasty.
Especially those living in remote mountainous areas where the grassroots tentacles of the Chu Empire have not yet been involved. Due to the lack of information, the mountain people may not know that the surname is no longer Zhu but Luo for more than ten years.
Therefore, Shi Yuankai did not find this man's words strange, nor would he blame him because he regarded himself as a soldier of the former Ming Dynasty. Instead, he said: "No, we are soldiers of the Chu Empire Army. There is no Ming Dynasty on the other side of the sea. Now it’s our Great Chu Empire!”
The Ming Dynasty died?
In fact, Li Dagou had no idea about the Ming Dynasty. He had only heard about it before. This place used to be under the control of the Ming Dynasty, and the other side of the sea also belonged to the Ming Dynasty.
Now it seems that the owner has changed over there.
Li Dagou wanted to ask a few more questions, but it was clear that Shi Yuankai was not in the mood to talk nonsense with a young farmer who was being carried to the battlefield, so he led the team and left directly.
Anyway, the reward has been given, and he was allowed to leave this battlefield, and he even answered a question from him.
This means that in the military, to use the words above, we must always pay attention to the impression of soldiers!
If he had not applied for the military academy before and was still staying in his hometown, he would not have said a word of nonsense to this kind of mud-legged guy, let alone talk, even if he was close to him, he would not come close.
After all, he, Shi Yuankai, is a son of a serious scholarly family. In many villages near his hometown, nine out of ten households are tenants of his family.
And his character is far from kind.
But that was all in the past... Now, no matter how disgusted I am, I can't beat or scold him casually, and I even have to smile against my will.
After all, he is an officer of the Da Chu Imperial Army, and everything he says and does represents the image of the Imperial Army in front of the people.
No one cares about you in private, but in public if you dare to act like I am an official, beating and scolding people at will, you will be criticized or even punished every minute.
He, Shi Yuankai, is the hope of the Shi family in the military, so he must be extremely cautious in his words and deeds!
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Ever since the emperor's army swept across Huguang, Huguang was shaken at that time. A large number of aristocratic families were uprooted overnight, but the Shi family was lucky.
Shi Yuankai's third uncle used to be the county magistrate in northern Chu. When the emperor raised his army, he followed the general trend and followed Long. Before the army marched south to Chunan, he sent a letter to his hometown to let them prepare.
What preparation?
Naturally, he was preparing to welcome Master Wang.
At the same time, his third uncle also told his family that the only consequence for not welcoming him was to confiscate his family and exterminate his family!
Even if you don't resist, it's the same...
During the time of changing dynasties, it is very dangerous to stand on the wrong side, and it is equally dangerous to not stand on the same side!
Who made the Shi family rich and land-rich, making them the leading wealthy family in Hengyang Mansion!
Ordinary people, you do whatever you want, no one pays any attention to you, even those notorious tax officials don't bother to look at you!
But for a local wealthy family like the Shi family, he must make a choice!
There is only one way to survive: voluntarily defect to the Chu Empire and pay taxes obediently!
There is no problem with life in such a short period of time, but if you want to avoid being targeted by subsequent tax officials, you have to sell or simply donate the land. It is best to use part of the money and food. This will be regarded as active cooperation. In the end Only then can we keep our family business.
Especially the issue of land is basically non-negotiable!
What can I say about the land policy of the Dachu Empire... Change will involve bloodshed, let alone such changes that affect fundamental interests!
If you want to keep thousands or even tens of thousands of acres of land under the rule of the Dachu Empire, it is actually possible according to the current laws of the Dachu Empire.
The Dachu Empire has never issued any legal provisions or official documents, so it is impossible to say that it owns a large amount of land.
It's just that those goddamn tax officials will slap you with a tax evasion label every minute.
That’s not right, tax matters will be found out through strict inspection, and if found out, you will be fined a high fine.
If you refuse to pay the fine, then it becomes a tax resistance...it will become an enforcement action, and your home will be ransacked.
If you still dare to summon the guards to resist, then you are armed to resist the tax... Then you will basically be exterminated and not run away.
The Shi family didn't want to be ruined, so they had no choice but to follow the policies of the Chu Empire and took the initiative to spend a large amount of money and food to welcome the king. Later, they actively responded to the empire's land policy and sold large tracts of land, and sold it to the government at a low price. , the installment payment type...basically no different from giving it away for free.
The head of the Shi family, Shi Yuankai's father, was very courageous. After the Chu army arrived, he gave away all the more than 8,000 acres of land that the Shi family had accumulated for hundreds of years.
Moreover, the head of the Shi family recommended himself to serve as an official in the Great Chu Empire, and also brought a group of Shi family's children to join the officialdom.
If we talk about the losses, they are huge!
The risks are huge. If the Chu Empire was wiped out by the Ming army, the Shi family would be wiped out in a matter of minutes.
But if you want to talk about the harvest, it’s huge!
The Shi family became the only local wealthy family left in Hengyang Prefecture that could retain many industries besides land. At the same time, it was appreciated by the military and political officials of the original Great Chu Empire who were in Chunan, and was listed as a typical gentry.
Subsequently, they were given many benefits, such as helping the government-run industries purchase raw materials, transport goods and other orders. They also guided them to set up an agricultural machinery workshop and use the iron materials provided by the government-run steel plants to make various agricultural tools and cooking utensils for sale. These days, it involves Iron things are basically very profitable.
Over and over again, the Shi family discovered that instead of losing money, they actually had more money...
At the same time, a large number of people from the Shi family have also successfully become officials. Although most of them are low-level officials, they are still officials.
Later, the imperial dynasty called on aspiring young people to apply for military ranks. As a typical gentry, the Shi family first gave away several people from the second room. After another year, when Shi Yuankai turned sixteen, they also sent Shi Yuankai, the eldest son of the eldest family member of the Shi family. Sent to Army Officer School.
The Shi family was basically completely tied to the Chu Empire at that time.
There are more than a dozen people from the third branch of the direct family and the various branches of the collateral family who have entered the court as officials, and five people have joined the military academy and joined the army. They also mobilized a large number of ordinary young people from nearby villages, well, that is, they were the children of their former tenants, to protect the courtyard. of joining the army.
And the Shi family who did this also received huge rewards!
His third uncle has now been promoted to the rank of Chief Envoy of Guangxi, a third rank, and there is a high probability that he will go further in the next year or two.
This is the highest level that the Shi family has reached in the political arena in the past hundred years.
However, compared with being relatively smooth in the political arena, the children of the Shi family did not do well in the military world. Four people had joined the army before Shi Yuankai, but unfortunately they did not do well. Now the Shi family has put its hope in On Shi Yuankai!
However, the four of them did not do well before. Their academic performance in the military school was not good, and they did not do well after graduation. Although they climbed up quickly in the large-scale expansion of the army, they have never been able to find a battalion leader in the main force. official position.
His second cousin is relatively well off, but now he is only a lieutenant colonel, and he is still in the second-class division...
A lieutenant colonel commander in a second-class division is not as valuable as a major commander in a first-class division...
Nowadays, the second-class divisions in the Chu army have basically been reduced to second- and third-line troops. The second-class divisions deployed concentratedly in key areas in border towns are relatively good, and they can still get some credit, but the second-class divisions stationed scattered in various places are relatively good. Waiting for a teacher is basically a place for retirement, or a place for losers.
Where did those officers who made small mistakes in the Class A Division, or had no hope of promotion, and were looked down upon by their superiors, end up?
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the number of officers in the army was relatively lacking, so large-scale retirement was unrealistic.
In fact, these people were basically assigned to the second-class division and local garrison headquarters.
Let these people work in the local garrison headquarters and the second-class division for a few years. During the transition period, if they perform well, they can continue to work in the army. If not, they can only be transferred to the reserve force. Then I arranged to change my job.
Luo Zhixue basically doesn't know how to kill donkeys. Even though the abilities of the generals who followed him in the early days were far behind, Luo Zhixue would still arrange a meeting for them. A sinecure is rewarded with a title.
Power cannot be given, and if it is given, it will harm others and ourselves.
But Luo Zhixue would never give them less wealth and glory.
From this point of view, the large number of second-class divisions in the Dachu Empire Army actually shouldered the army's role in reorganizing and upgrading the main force, accepting a large number of unqualified officers and even ordinary soldiers who could not keep up with the times. .
This is also the reason why the Great Chu Empire planned to build a second-class division on a large scale. From a few at the beginning, to more than 20, the scale has now expanded to more than 40.
In fact, most of these more than forty second-class divisions have little combat effectiveness and can only be used for internal pressure and low-intensity battles. However, their role is still important, so the Chu army still attaches great importance to them.
Moreover, the combat effectiveness of these second-class divisions is a bit poor now, but as time goes by, and a large number of officers and soldiers in them gradually retire, it will be almost time for reorganization and re-equipment. After reorganization and re-equipment, the combat effectiveness will naturally increase. will gradually improve.
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While Shi Yuankai on the shore was leading his men to pursue the fleeing Dongjiu people, many soldiers from the 90th Infantry Regiment also set foot on land one after another.
At another place not far away that was suitable for landing, the leading troops of the 2nd Marine Regiment had also begun to land.
For this large-scale landing, the Chu army chose to conduct it at two landing sites at the same time, which were not far apart. In order to reduce accidents as much as possible, they did not choose to directly break into Port Arthur, but directly landed on a nearby small beach. Beach landing.
According to previous naval investigations, Port Arthur has now become the main naval port of the Eastern Captives in the Liaodong Peninsula. There are many ships and even coastal defense forts in it. It would be risky to break in and land directly. , especially for those troop transport ships with little protection and little firepower.
If a troop transport ship was sunk during landing, the loss would be huge.
Therefore, for the sake of safety, the Chu army directly chose the deserted beach for beach landing.
The location where the 90th Infantry Regiment landed was such a deserted beach. There was only a small area suitable for landing. However, there were no enemies here. There was only a small coastal lookout fort with some Japanese soldiers inside. Just a few dozen people.
The entire landing process was as expected. Without the use of most of the 90th Infantry Regiment, the first batch of soldiers from the First Battalion who rushed to land on the beach simply took over the small fortress and killed all the soldiers. He captured and collected troops, and by the way, he also captured or rescued more than a hundred young men who were forcibly recruited by the Eastern captors.
After the leading troops successfully landed and cleared the enemy forces on the beach, a number of specialized ships from the rear, loaded with timber and other construction materials as well as a large number of engineers, quickly came forward.
At the same time, a group of boats with special shapes in the fleet also began to approach.
These boats are specially designed to build temporary floating docks. The hulls are specially designed and can be easily buckled together. After being reinforced with special tools, they can be connected into one piece.
At the same time, its mast and sail are also easy to disassemble and assemble.
The reason why the Chu army specifically chose to land at sea when the wind was calm was because the navigation capabilities of these pontoon ships were particularly poor. Not only were the ships small, but their seaworthiness was not very good. If the wind and waves were slightly stronger, it would be impossible to survive this period. More than 100 kilometers of sea journey.
The engineers quickly used the tools they carried to connect these specialized pontoon ships. Soon, a temporary trestle dozens of meters long was built at the landing site, and there were also a large number of engineers on the other side of the land. Thick wooden boards, wooden piles and sand and gravel were used to forcibly build a road dozens of meters long from the mud.
Immediately afterwards, more soldiers began to quickly land through the trestle.
The engineers began to construct a second, larger temporary trestle for artillery and a large number of baggage to be disembarked.
For these temporary trestles, the navy and army engineering units have been preparing for several months, specially built a batch of ships for pontoon bridges, and also modified a number of large ships as construction ships to carry materials and directly Simple light lifting operations at sea.
Only in this way can two floating temporary trestles be built in a short period of time. Otherwise, landing by wading on the beach and transferring by boat... It would take several days for more than 20,000 people.
More importantly, the artillery cannot come down in a short time!
But now with these two temporary trestles, landing has become much easier.
Groups of Chu soldiers wearing gray military uniforms and bald heads staring at a military cap were directly transported by boat, or quickly disembarked on the first temporary trestle.
It only took half a day for the 90th Infantry Regiment and a large number of engineers to successfully land ashore. It was not just the soldiers who came ashore, but also artillery and ammunition, food, water, horses and other large quantities of combat materials accompanying the army. The engineers also A large amount of wood, sandstone, iron bars and many other building materials and tools came down.
The landing operation is not something that people can just run up to.
Soldiers need weapons and equipment when they go ashore, especially artillery and ammunition, otherwise how can they fight...
The Dongqiu people have artillery.
According to the intelligence of naval reconnaissance, the Dongjiu people are stationed at Zhongzuo Point, including at least two to three thousand ground troops in Port Arthur. At the same time, there is also a navy in the port that although the ships are not powerful, the number of people is not small, and there are Coast defense battery.
If you want to capture these Japanese troops, how can you do it without artillery?
You don't need artillery. If someone changes hands, they can pull out a bunch of artillery to hit you.
When the main force of the 90th Infantry Regiment landed one after another, the Dongji garrison troops from the Zhongzuo Station also hurried over.
A general in armor from the Dongji people looked at the overwhelming Chu fleet on the sea and couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. How many fucking ships are there, hundreds of them!
Then he said in a panic tone: "Quick, send someone to report to Jinzhou immediately, just say that the Chu barbarians have landed, at least three to four hundred ships, tens of thousands of people!"
After ordering people to go to Jinzhou to report the news, this person was also busy commanding formations to prepare for battle.
Although the Chu bandits on the sea have a large number of troops, it seems that they have only a few thousand people ashore now, and he also has 600 to 700 Dongjia soldiers and more than 2,000 auxiliary soldiers under his command. If the battle goes well, it will be said that Maybe we can even drive them into the sea.
The system of capturing people from the East was actually similar to that of the Ming army's border troops.
There were personal soldiers and servants in the Ming army, and there were also white-armored soldiers and ordinary soldiers among the Dongjiu people.
There are a large number of ordinary guardsmen in the Ming army who have relatively poor combat effectiveness, and there are also a lot of auxiliaries among the Dongji people.
These auxiliary soldiers are not directly part of the official establishment of the Dongji people, but are the domestic slaves of the soldiers...
When Jianzhou warriors went to war, they often selected a number of loyal and strong domestic slaves to go with them. These domestic slaves usually helped build tents, carry weapons and food, and went to fight together in wartime.
Zhongzuo is the southernmost place in the Liaodong Peninsula, and is adjacent to the eight islands of Changshan controlled by the Chu army. Across the sea is Shandong controlled by the Chu army.
At the same time, the Chu fleet was very powerful and completely suppressed the Donglu navy. Therefore, in order to ensure coastal security, the Donglu actually deployed a lot of troops in some coastal cities suitable for landing.
For example, Gaizhou, several fortresses along the coast near Jinzhou, and even North Korea, they have asked the Koreans to increase their precautions against coastal areas or islands such as Pidao.
Under such circumstances, there were actually quite a lot of Japanese troops on the front line of the center and left.
This was also an important reason why General Dongli wanted to counterattack immediately.
Regardless of other circumstances, we must have enough troops to fight back. Otherwise, Potian will not be able to fight without troops.
When the Dongji people appeared and began to form a formation to counterattack, trying to drive the Chu army into the sea, the 90th Infantry Regiment, which the Chu army had successfully landed, also left the seaside and began to form a formation to move forward!
But their formation looks far weaker than that of the Donglu people on the opposite side!
The Dongji people's array basically starts with six columns and looks extremely thick!
However, the Chu army's infantry formations only had three lines, and some even had two lines, which looked very fragile.
Looking at the thin formation of the Chu army on the opposite side, the general of the Donglu people who led him no longer panicked as before!
He had a hunch that he might be able to win a battle today!
The opponent didn't know why they were crazy, and they actually put up such a thin formation, and it was also a formation of musketeers.
Facing such a thin formation of the Musketeers, I am afraid that when our own soldiers rush over, the Chu barbarians on the opposite side will collapse on the spot!
He is confident about this!
