Bringing Military Supplies to Ming Dynasty - Chapter 1692
He called Yang Xuan, Li Hanyi and others to discuss the breakthrough. As a result, Li Hanyi took the vanguard and opened the road in front with 50000 soldiers, followed by Yang Xuan and other civil servants. They will be protected in the middle, and finally Guan Ying followed with the main force. If the five-star army catches up, he will take the army to meet him, and he will have to delay enough time to create opportunities for everyone to break through.
After hearing that Guan Ying was going to lead the army, Yang Xuan and Li Hanyi disagreed and wanted to say something. “Well, it’s settled. With the character of King Wunan, he won’t give up until he catches me. That is, he can’t escape anyway. It’s better for me to stay. I just hope if you can see the emperor, you must tell him that I Guan Ying didn’t surrender to the enemy and fought to the last minute.”
Guan Ying said like this. What else can they say? Everyone can only nod and agree. Then they opened fire to cook and let the soldiers eat, because no one knows how long this run will last and where the next meal will be eaten.
There was a constant sound of artillery in the city. This is what Yang Chendong means. He doesn’t want Guan Ying to think more because the artillery stops. As long as the other side has the Guangzhou turtle shell, the next thing is not the other side has the final say.
It was another artillery attack in the afternoon. More than 1000 people were killed and more than 2000 wounded in the Nanming army. Guan Ying left all the wounded and told them that the five-star army would not embarrass them. Then they sat down and waited for dark.
In order not to let the five-star army find out their plan, Guan Ying did not order to burn the food and grass accumulated in the city. What he had to do was to go out of the city unknowingly. As long as the five-star army can be caught unprepared, even if the other party wants to pursue itself, it can’t catch them all with the other party’s strength.
In anticipation, it was finally dark. After another round of artillery bombardment. Outside the city came the sound of the five-star army’s iron trumpet, which was to persuade them to surrender and let them send out the wounded and sick. They promised to treat them well.
“Well, that’s when the army leaves the city.” Guan Ying said decisively. He was well aware of the shelling law of the five-star army. Often, such cries will continue for less than half an hour, and then there will be a new round of shelling. What he wants is to take advantage of this time to let more people rush out of the city.
The east gate opened from the inside and creaked in the dark. Next, countless shadows rushed out of the east city and went straight to the hinterland of Nanming.
Just 300 steps away from them, several five-star scouts were watching the scene with night vision. Seeing that the enemy really began to break through, the monitor in the middle said, “report the situation here immediately. The sheep are out of the circle.”
Yes, in front of the powerful five-star army, the Nanming army is a flock of sheep. Even though there were some veterans in the army led by Guan Ying, they didn’t put them in their eyes.
With weapons inferior to people, morale inferior to people, security inferior to people, and treatment inferior to people, how difficult it is to turn the tables. At this time, the soldiers had no firm will. Even they didn’t know who they were fighting for. All they thought about was how to live on the battlefield.
It is really difficult to say that such an army can win a war.
The vast team walked out of Guangzhou in the dark. In order not to be found that they didn’t even hit the torch, the direct consequence was that there were people falling or spraining on the road. This is true even for Li Hanyi’s vanguard army.
This army is a veteran army based on guanghaiwei. It can be said that he is a veteran, but his years as a soldier have only increased, and he has no practical combat experience. This is to blame for the five-star army. Because of their strength, the nearby forces have been wiped out. Now the Nanming army has nothing to do, not even ships. It is impossible for them to participate in actual combat.
So don’t look at the fact that they have been in the army for many years, but it is the first time for many people to really go to the battlefield. When they see that the war is so cruel and that many of their colleagues are killed and injured in the gunfire without even seeing the appearance of the five-star army, they know what a powerful opponent they are facing this time.
Only then did I know that this battle was much more difficult than they thought.
It’s just that people have come to the battlefield and it’s meaningless to think about those. Now what we need to do urgently is to leave Guangzhou government and reach a safe area first. As for what to do next, many people have their own thoughts, that is, escape, and even a few people have such thoughts.
As guanghaiwei soldiers near the coast, they know much more than ordinary people in Nanming. From time to time, they saw the merchant ships and warships of the Yang system passing in front of them, which indicated their economic prosperity and their military strength.
There is also the policy of the Yang family towards the Han people, which makes them clear that if they can join the Yang family, their life and work will be much better than in Nanming. The pride in their hearts is dispersing little by little, and they take you instead of envy.
Just because they are the re enlisted soldiers of guanghaiwei, they dare not do anything even if they have ideas. If they really turn to the Yang family, it will only bring disaster to their families and relatives. However, it was different in the war. They met at any time to face the reduction and sacrifice, so if they had the opportunity, they would leave secretly. In this way, the Nanming court would not deal with their family immediately. When the other party investigated, they could find a way to bring their family to the territory of the Yang family.
Everyone has a selfish side, but some people are more obvious. Now, for the safety and better life of themselves and their families, many soldiers have made a decision in their hearts and made a secret decision.
For all this, as the commander of them, Li Hanyi can certainly feel it. He just pretended not to see it and didn’t think about it.
Think about it. Even ordinary soldiers can see the truth. How can he not know as a unified general. It’s just that he can’t do such a thing without fighting. He can’t do it, but he can give his brothers a way out, so he can’t see it.
With this mentality, he took other Nanming troops with guanghaiwei soldiers as the main force as the vanguard and walked at the forefront of the team, and the progress rate was very good. He had hurried for 15 kilometers by dawn, leaving the Guangzhou government behind.
Li Hanyi thought she was safe. She didn’t see the resistance of the five-star army all night. He thought that there must be no problem in escaping from Shengtian. What she was worried about now was whether general Guan Ying, who was in charge of the post-mortem, could escape. After all, there is no reason why so many troops have left Guangzhou. Up to now, the five-star army has not found it.
In fact, their every move has been monitored by the five-star army. The reason why they didn’t move them was to wait for the Nanming army to leave the city. Otherwise, once they attack, what should they do if they scare the other party back to the city?
This war has been fought for the longest time, and of course, the expected harvest is also the greatest. If the siege war is to be adopted in the end, it would be better to choose the way the new Third Army and the second Lengfeng division deal with Jiangxia mansion and attack directly when they come. In this way, although the losses are greater and the gains are less, the victory has long been in hand.
Waiting is often the most painful thing. Seeing that the sky was about to dawn, the vanguard of the Nanming army was about to run out of the encirclement. Finally, the news came from the radio. The last batch of Nanming army also walked out of Guangzhou government and was two miles away from the city government. Today’s Guangzhou government is afraid that there is no decent army except wounded soldiers and some elderly people who can’t walk.
Yang Chendong also saw the telegram sent by Wang Shan for the first time and immediately said, “order the whole army to attack and divide and surround the Nanming army according to the plan. The capitulators can live and the resisters die!”
Only 50000 people from the third army and 50000 people from the first division of foreign Russia are responsible for guarding the 18 kilometer siege, which is obviously empty. Fortunately, Lu Lengfeng’s second division was mobilized in time, and with their powerful firepower, they just filled the gap in the encirclement circle.
Every 30 meters, a machine gun was erected on both sides of the road to block the escape road of the Nanming army. It’s a bit risky, but at the thought of the fighting will of the Nanming army and considering the machine gun, a completely cross era product, Yang Chendong put his heart down again. Just to ensure that there would be no problem, he looked at his eldest son Yang Bo and said, “Bo’er, do you want to go to the battlefield?”
“Yes.” almost without any hesitation, Yang Bo answered quickly with excitement. As he spoke, he joined his feet together, as if a soldier had been ordered to stand at attention.
“Ha ha.” Yang Chendong was very satisfied with Yang Bo’s performance. “Well, that’s it. I’ll give you a chance. Take 4000 black cavalry dragon guards to the battlefield. But remember, you are only responsible for the periphery. Where there is a gap, you can block it. You can’t use you on the main battlefield. Also, these are Han people after all. If you can’t kill them, you’d better not kill them.”
Although it is only a peripheral task, Yang Bo is very excited. I thought this time I just came to feel the atmosphere on the battlefield. I didn’t expect to have a chance to go to the battlefield. Yang Bo didn’t agree. He immediately saluted like a model and replied, “ensure to complete the task.”
Yang Bo left. Along with them were Yang Er, Qiu Wu, leader of the first brigade of heiqi Longwei, Dao Xiao, leader of the second brigade, and Peng Yue, deputy brigade leader. Only Badaojiang left Yang Chendong with a thousand black riding dragon guards.