Chapter 1489 Han Army Flag

"Look carefully at the changes in their military flags." Seeing that Li Nai couldn't figure it out, Qian Tiandun reminded him.

Li Nai observed for a while and finally understood what Qian Tiandun meant. Then there was a flag with a big word "geng" written on it in the formation of the Hou Jin army. Obviously, this was the Han army flag in the Hou Jin army.

. And the only general with the surname Geng in the Han army banner was Geng Zhongming, the rebel general of the Ming Dynasty.

Geng Zhongming was a Han from Liaodong, but he joined the Hou Jin Dynasty as a soldier in his early years and rose to the rank of General Qian. Later, he defected to Pidao and worked under Mao Wenlong. He was highly used by him and was promoted to the rank of general in Dongjiang Town. Mao Wenlong died in the second year of Chongzhen.

After serving under Yuan Chonghuan, Geng Zhongming refused to obey the jurisdiction and went to Dengzhou, Shandong Province to defect to Sun Yuanhua, and then became a staff general of the Chinese Army. After Kong Youde launched a mutiny in Wuqiao in the fourth year of Chongzhen, Geng Zhongming served as Kong Youde's internal agent in Dengzhou, and he cooperated with others to win Dengzhou.

Zhoucheng.

In the sixth year of Chongzhen's reign, the Dengzhou rebels finally couldn't hold on anymore. Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming abandoned the city and fled to the sea, and then surrendered to the Hou Jin Dynasty. Emperor Taiji of the Hou Jin Dynasty came out to meet Shili, awarded Geng Zhongming the post of chief military officer, and sent them away from the Ming Dynasty.

The rebels brought out were called "God's Blessed Soldiers".

According to the original history, after Huang Taiji proclaimed himself emperor this year, Geng Zhongming would be named King Huaishun. Together with King Kong Youde and King Zhishun Shang Kexi, they would be known as the "Three Shun Kings". Including Huang Taiji's personal expedition to North Korea later, Geng Zhongming would be the capital of North Korea.

He was one of the senior generals who followed him, and his position in the Later Jin Army was very important. However, the intervention of Haihan changed the original historical trajectory. The Later Jin Army suffered consecutive defeats in Jinzhou, and Huang Taiji ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor.

In such a mood, Geng Jingzhong's appointment as king was naturally postponed indefinitely.

Azig has always been defeated in Jinzhou and cannot open up the situation. Even the general Yangguli died on the battlefield here. Huang Taiji naturally cannot be satisfied with such a record. But the Manchurian and Mongolian flags

The troops are all based on cavalry, and sending reinforcements to Jinzhou is just a tactic to improve the opponent's record. Huang Taiji thought twice and decided to transfer the Han army flag, which was equipped with a higher proportion of muskets and artillery, to Jinzhou to deal with the mysterious enemy.

The powerful Haihan army.

The status of the Han military flag in the Later Jin Army was quite special. On the one hand, the Han people were often treated as slaves in Liaodong and their social status was extremely low. On the other hand, the troops brought to Liaodong by the rebels of the Ming Dynasty were valued by Huang Taiji, and they were also valued by Huang Taiji.

A special organization was set up called the Han Army Flag. The Manchu generals actually looked down upon these surrendered generals, and only respected them because they were intimidated by Huang Taiji's majesty. But as a soldier, his status must be maintained by his performance after all.

Whether the Han Army Banner has combat effectiveness commensurate with its status, being transferred to Jinzhou to deal with the Haihan people is actually a test.

Geng Zhongming actually did not want to take this mission. Before he fled to Liaodong to pay gold, he had already heard that a group of very impressive armed maritime merchants had emerged from the south. They not only established a country on Qiongzhou Island, but also claimed that

The powerful Shibazhi in the South China Sea was also defeated by him.

Shortly after Geng Zhongming paid gold in the sixth year of Chongzhen, he heard that the Haihan army went north to capture Zhoushan Island outside Hangzhou Bay. Another year later, the Haihan army's tentacles reached Dengzhou, Shandong. Geng Zhongming originally thought that the Ming Dynasty would attack this

There was a relatively violent response to this invasion, but unexpectedly the Haihan people quickly established a foothold in Dengzhou and began to turn their attention to Liaodong.

When Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde fled across the sea from Dengzhou to Liaodong, they also took a group of naval personnel and a large number of ships with them. It can be said that they were the first organized professional naval force in the post-Jin Dynasty army. But the Haihan people did not

Wushi District sent a fleet to sweep up and down the Liaodong coast, but within a few months they destroyed most of the warships they finally brought here, and the remaining ships had to hide in the upper reaches of the inland river to avoid the Haihan warships.

Strike. Haihan's surface armed force was invincible. This was also Geng Zhongming's first intuitive impression of the Haihan Army.

But even so, Geng Zhongming did not expect that the Haihan Army would one day send troops to land in Liaodong, and put on a posture of never leaving once I came. In his opinion, almost all the Han people in southern Jinzhou were moved to

In the north, even if the Haihan people occupied such a sparsely populated area, it would be difficult for them to survive. Besides, this place originally belonged to the Ming Dynasty. What motivation did the Haihan people have to fight such a thankless battle for the Ming Dynasty?

As the war that started last winter gradually progressed in a direction unfavorable to Hou Jin, Geng Zhongming gradually realized that the purpose of this opponent's coming to Liaodong was not to avenge Ming or regain lost territory, but that the Haihan people themselves planned to

Liaodong occupied an area - just as they had done in the south.

Azig and Yangguli fought very hard in Jinzhou. From last winter to now, they have hardly achieved any good results. Many of their subordinates, Jia La E Zhen and Niu Lu E Zhen, were killed in the battle. In the end, Yang Guli was also killed.

Gu Li also joined in. Under such circumstances, Huang Taiji was transferred to support him. Geng Zhongming believed that his situation was actually not much better than that of Azig. In the past few months, he had fallen into the hands of the Haihan people.

His troops already had at least a dozen Niu Lu, and a considerable proportion of them were cavalry. Geng Zhongming was not arrogant enough to think that his troops could defeat such a large number of Hou Jin troops.

What Azig gained during this period was only less than twenty prisoners and an unknown but certainly not much more number of enemies killed. Geng Zhongming even thought with some malice, if Azig had not been Nurhachi's

My own son, who has made many achievements in the past, would probably have been punished by Huang Taiji long ago if he had such a record.

The military information obtained by the Jin Army through interrogation of prisoners and other reconnaissance methods had been delivered to Geng Zhongming a few days ago, but there were not many useful parts. Among the few prisoners, there were not even officers, which resulted in the inability to

The information obtained from the prisoners' mouths is of little use. Apart from knowing that the number of Haihan troops deployed in Liaodong will not exceed 5,000, and the names of several Haihan generals who commanded the battle, there is no other valuable information.

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As for the rifles distributed by the Haihan Army that he had luckily seized, Geng Zhongming had personally inspected them. However, the structure of those rifles was obviously different from the matchlock guns and Lumi guns equipped by his troops. The gunpowder used

, the projectiles are also completely different. Even the gun craftsmen in the army could only shake their heads after seeing it, saying that it is difficult to imitate in batches. Apart from anything else, the steel used in the barrel and body is not what it is today.

It can be made by Hou Jin. But its range, lethality and accuracy are indeed far beyond the weapons equipped by its own troops. It can even fire several rounds of bullets continuously. It is no wonder that Azig's cavalry can't get rid of them on the battlefield.

It got cheaper by half the time.

Geng Zhongming believed that the main reason why Hou Jin and Hai Han presented a one-sided situation on the battlefield was that the performance of the weapons between the two sides was too different, and it was difficult for his own side's existing tactics to eliminate the disadvantages in weapons. He originally had high hopes

Yu was able to find some technologies that could be used in Haihan's weapons, but the fact is that the technical generation gap between the two sides is so great that even if there are samples in front of them, it is difficult to completely imitate them. This is a problem for those who want to shorten the time

This is undoubtedly a huge blow to Geng Zhongming given the disparity in weapon performance between the two sides.

Geng Zhongming was very dissatisfied with this. The reason why Huang Taiji valued his original gold offer was because he brought a large number of military craftsmen to Hou Jin and brought the technology of making guns and gunpowder to this backward civilization. And Huang Taiji

They attach great importance to the advancement of weapons and equipment. They do not look down on firearms tactics just because the Ming army is defeated by them. They also give craftsmen the authority and sufficient funds to develop new weapons. But now when these technologies are really needed,

He was told that the arms manufacturing technology his side possessed could not even reach the threshold of his opponents, and he did not even dare to tell Huang Taiji the news, lest he be disappointed with Han Junqi's weapons research and development and manufacturing capabilities.

Even if there was no way to imitate the opponent's weapons, the battle would still have to continue, so Geng Zhongming had no choice but to bite the bullet and bring his troops to Jinzhou to confront the legendary Haihan army that had never been defeated on the battlefield.

Geng Zhongming's troops waited outside Jinzhou City for two days before waiting for the opportunity for Haihan's army to leave the fortress and come out for activities. Although he knew that this might be another trap set by Haihan, Azig still ordered the assembly.

Troops, including the Han Army Banner, launched an offensive against the Haihan Army. Of course, because Geng Zhongming’s department was involved in this operation, the mission of other Houjin troops became a feint attack and coordination operation, leaving the task of acting as the main force on the battlefield to

He joined Geng Zhongming's department.

Geng Zhongming is mute and cannot explain the hardships of eating coptis. He is not as arrogant as a warrior like Azig. He will think that the Hou Jin Army is already the best in the world. If Haihan's record in the south is not fraudulent, then the Hou Jin Army may

It is difficult to be qualified to be on an equal footing with the opponent on the battlefield. Moreover, the few maritime armed forces of Houjin were almost wiped out by the Haihan navy, and they were almost defenseless against the harassment campaign launched by Haihan on the rear coast. Here,

Fighting under such a situation of extremely asymmetric strength, trying to defeat a well-prepared opponent is tantamount to wishful thinking.

Geng Zhongming had seen all the previous and subsequent Golden Cavalry battles. Although the offensive was fierce, it failed to cause real trouble to the Haihan Army in almost the entire process. However, the opponent's artillery strikes easily tore apart the cavalry.

The attack formation made it difficult for the Houjin cavalry to shorten the fighting distance to their advantage. After suffering hundreds of cavalry casualties, the cavalry responsible for the feint attack could only withdraw from the battlefield in frustration and return to the rear to regroup.

Geng Zhongming knew that the time had come for him to appear on the stage. Although he was not sure of defeating his opponent, the current situation did not allow him to choose whether to fight or not. Azig's order had been sent, asking the Han army to attack immediately. Geng Zhongming

He could only act in accordance with military orders and summon soldiers to fight. Now he just hoped that his opponent would not be too excited and give himself some time to react, at least not to be defeated as ugly as the cavalry.

But it is a pity that his wish could not be accepted by the commander on the opposite side. After Qian Tiandun identified the identity of this enemy force, he had already decided to give the other side a little pain. For Geng Zhongming, this

Qian Tiandun doesn't even have the slightest affection for a villain who is a treasonous traitor and surrenders to the enemy. Since he met him on the battlefield, he doesn't mind spending more time educating him - it would be best if he could kill Geng Zhongming directly.

Already.

Qian Tiandun immediately issued an order for the two mobile companies that were originally assembled nearby to mount their horses and prepare to attack. These two mobile companies were recently transformed from the special operations battalion's subordinate units. The biggest change is that each soldier

They received a war horse, which upgraded them from an infantry unit to a more mobile light cavalry unit. Although the equestrian skills of these soldiers are far less proficient than those of the veterans who have been practicing for several years in the cavalry battalion, they can at least cooperate with the cavalry battalion to perform some quick tasks.

The tactic of advancing and retreating quickly. After previous dealings with the Jin Cavalry, they had been on the defensive to lure the enemy to attack, so they did not use cavalry troops. But now that the opponent has sent Han military flags also equipped with muskets and artillery, Qian Tiandun no longer intends to hide his secrets.

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Of course, Harugong would not miss such an opportunity. When he pulled the reins, he planned to go into battle personally to direct the next battle. Qian Tiandun did not stop him, but only reminded him not to charge too hard and to pay attention to the enemy troops.

They must keep a safe distance from each other. With their current status, it is not worth getting injured on the battlefield just for fighting bravely.

Qian Tiandun also ordered to notify the sniper team in the formation to look for the enemy general Geng Zhongming. Once his identity is confirmed, he can shoot and kill Geng Zhongming without asking for instructions. If anyone can snipe Geng Zhongming, he will ask for help immediately after the war.

Reward. It happened that Bai Kesi was also near Sujiapu at this time, and he fully represented the executive committee, saving even the time of sending a telegram to ask for instructions. Qian Tiandun regretted that Morgan did not follow him out today, but went to the field hospital for treatment.

A surgical operation, otherwise with Morgan present, the chances of killing Geng Zhongming would have been much greater.

Geng Zhongming really didn't expect that the Haihan Army's reaction would be much more intense than before. Before his troops entered the battlefield, he saw hundreds of riders coming out of the opponent's formation, slowly coming out from the left and right wings.

He actually seemed to be planning to form a three-sided attack on himself on the battlefield.

Geng Zhongming had been carefully watching the opponent's movements. When he saw that the momentum was not good, he immediately ordered the troops to stop advancing, and at the same time dispatched cavalry to both sides of the infantry formation to serve as guards. Although he also knew that his cavalry might not be able to block the opponent's offensive, but

Even if it is just psychological comfort, it is better than exposing one's flanks to the enemy cavalry.

It was not until his own cavalry was in place that Geng Zhongming felt a little relieved and ordered the army to continue to advance. His troops had guns and artillery, but he was not too afraid of Haihan and the cavalry launching a charge. He just looked at these Haihan.

The cavalry were all equipped with rifles, which made Geng Zhongming still feel a little uneasy.
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