Chapter 310 Ming Dynasty invades Sichuan!

Zhu Kezang was engaged in trouble in the south of the Yangtze River, but a Ming army secretly crossed the Yangtze River.

Huang Qing's Fifth Town only took a short rest in Xuyong, Sichuan, and then led his troops all the way north across the Yangtze River.

Looking at the turbulent river, Chen Mengwei, the imperial trainer of the Fifth Town, also felt emotional when he was crossing the river.

"Unexpectedly, we crossed the Yangtze River before the Emperor. Although we were in Sichuan, we still came over after all."

"Sichuan is a land of abundant fertile land for thousands of miles. It has been the foundation of kings and hegemons in the past dynasties. However, I, the general, have been traveling all the way, but there is no smoke for hundreds of miles, and the good farmland has been abandoned. It is really unbearable. After the Ming Dynasty pacified Bashu, it will definitely have to live with the people and restore this place.

The landscape of a land of plenty." Huang Qing sighed.

Chen Mengwei nodded. Today's Sichuan is really not a good territory for one party to achieve hegemony. Wherever they go there are large areas of no man's land.

Even if Zhu Kezang came, he would be shocked. Even though history books have read about the miserable situation in Sichuan, Zhu Kezang had been to this area before traveling through it. They were places with prosperous agriculture and densely populated areas.

But in such a place suitable for development, there is nothing without people. The terraced fields have grown into wild mountains, and animals and birds are walking around. Some villages are dilapidated, and there is not even a single living person when you walk in. You can still see it in some courtyards.

Bones.

In history, in order to alleviate the problems in Sichuan, the Qing government once launched a campaign to fill Sichuan from Huguang.

So Sichuan is really not a particularly suitable place to use troops now, and this was true for both the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

For example, the Chasseurs are relatively light cavalry. They mainly fight with sabers and flintlock pistols and are responsible for spying, harassment and hunting.

Liu Wenxiu, King of Shu in the Southern Ming Dynasty, did the same thing when he entered Sichuan. He passed through a large no-man's land in southern Sichuan and could not get any supplies at all. In this era, the army basically relied on local requisitions and distribution of food, without civilians.

A household means no food.

It can even be said that if you put an infantryman with a musket on a horse, you have a dragoon.

Then there was a scene on the battlefield that made Huang Qing feel dumbfounded. When he saw a large number of cavalry attacking, the Qing army's marching team actually collapsed on its own. There was no restraint from officers at all. A large number of Qing troops were running for their lives like this.

No one dared to try to resist.

The cavalry battalion of the Fifth Town is now an integrated professional cavalry unit, but in fact the internal cavalry is also divided into different subdivided tasks.

These war horses, which come and go like the wind, are not so much their weapons and comrades as their means of transportation.

"Sichuan now only has a population of 4.5 million, and Chengdu has a population of less than 100,000. It is still difficult to maintain a large army in this land."

"Select a group of reliable prisoners of the Qing army and disband them directly, put them in villages across Sichuan to cultivate land, and organize them into civilian households." Chen Mengwei shook his head and put aside these miscellaneous important matters. Now his

The first task is to defeat the Qing army in Sichuan.

Probably, military strategists generally believe that if your marching infantry encounters a sneak attack by cavalry, then it should die.

Fortunately, Ming Dynasty has the support of Nanyang Granary, so there is no food problem at present.

Huang Qing followed suit and continued to attack the Qing troops from other teams. In Huang Qing's opinion, this was not a battle. Only a small number of Qing soldiers thought of resisting, but most of them resisted when they were running for their lives.

But when the thundering sound of horse hooves came, the Qing soldiers saw a black mass of cavalry rushing up, and they lost the will to resist.

"Lao Huang, in addition to appeasing the refugees to cultivate and produce in Sichuan, we also need to bring over the fine seeds from Chengtian Mansion to plant more potatoes and sweet potatoes here."

Among the cavalry battalions, most are cuirassiers whose main function is to rush into formation. Their weapons are flintlock pistols and spears.

Huang Qing got the information and immediately led his troops to insert from the flank of the Qing army's march route.

For Sichuan, the Qing Dynasty spent a lot of energy to restore local production and even sent troops to carry out land reclamation in order to feed the local Qing army.

"Reconnaissance report shows that the headquarters of Governor Xi Fo of Sichuan and Shaanxi are now composed of two large columns, marching from northeast to southwest."

In fact, the classical Chinese art of war rarely includes tactics to resist a cavalry attack.

If a group of infantrymen breaks up, there will basically be nothing left to fight.

The massive defeat of the Qing army made Huang Qing feel a little troubled: "Mengwei's large army has not caught up yet, so we relied on the cavalry battalion to fight like this. The Qing army will be scattered in a short time. I still have to fight."

I hope to collect more prisoners."

At this time, the Qing army, which was marching, had been walking for most of the day, was very tired, and was ready to set up camp in a flat place ahead.

There are also a small number of people who are regarded as dragoons by Huang Qing. Dragoons are not real cavalry. At the beginning of their birth, they were just infantrymen who could ride horses.

It is not an unorganized army trying to evacuate in an orderly manner, but this type of army is also Huang Qing's priority target.

Therefore, the way dragoons fight is to mount their horses to attack and dismount to fight. Some dragoons will even bring engineering picks. When they arrive at the battlefield, they will directly dismount to build fortifications and then fight.

Because Huang Qing led all cavalry, they came and went like the wind, so the Qing army's detective horses who were responsible for reconnaissance did not find the Ming army at all. By the time they found out, they had been killed by the hunting cavalry who were operating outside the cavalry camp.

Their marching formation, without proper arrangement by the officers, had no chance of forming an anti-cavalry formation.

Xifo's men and horses are said to be fifty thousand, but the actual number is much less. The Jinyi Guards have also detected the size, which is around thirty thousand.

"Very good, Mengwei, I will lead the cavalry battalion to intercept the Qing army from the flanks, and you will lead the army to attack from the front. The key to this battle is speed. As long as the Qing army is caught off guard, success will be immediate!" Huang Qing was confident!

Full.

The imperial trainer Chen Mengwei was a person with a particularly strong divergent thinking. He considered that in the future, the Ming Dynasty would guard the southwest and confront the Qing Dynasty, and at least maintain the strength of two town defense forces in the surrounding areas.

The march of the Qing army was also relatively typical. It was divided into multiple teams and it was unlikely that tens of thousands of people would line up in a long snake.

Many Jin Yiwei are now engaged in battlefield reconnaissance work. Since Chen Weiguo's Nanzhen Fusi has been well trained, these people are used very effectively in the Fifth Town.

There was no other way, Huang Qing could only lead the main force to clean up the mess on the battlefield and collect and surrender the Qing troops, instead of strangling the Qing army's effective strength.

Most of the Qing troops led by Xi Fo did not fight much. The Guards cavalry attacked too suddenly and were defeated directly.

Except for some Qing troops who escaped, Huang Qing surrendered a total of more than 10,000 people.

Then, the Fifth Town was also very decisive and directly led the Burmese and Siamese soldiers to continue northward. A few days later, they arrived in Chengdu. The Qing army in Chengdu was not well defended. Seeing that the Ming army was strong, they did not dare to underestimate the enemy and went directly to the Fifth Town.

The town surrendered.
Chapter completed!