He doesn’t have time to talk nonsense with these people here. He is a decision maker, and he doesn’t have to be close to everything. Besides, he doesn’t have professional military literacy. It is a blind command to give advice.
The navy agreed happily, and they finally felt that the battle was like this because they failed to destroy the Xiang navy before, which gave the other side a chance to capture the two mountains. Although the army didn’t think so, the army recognized that the two mountains were lost in the hands of their defenders, and the other side laid explosives and blew up the position before attacking, but the navy still felt that if they could destroy the Xiang navy before, even if Xiang captured the two mountains, it would be meaningless, but it was just two lonely peaks waiting to be surrounded.
At present, the atmosphere of being responsible in the army is still good. The navy promised to be willing to sacrifice, so we can make plans boldly. Through investigation, they think it is easier to attack Guiding Mountain, which is closer to Zhaoqing City and more dangerous.
Therefore, it is agreed that the five pits army will withdraw from the south bank to the north bank, and the Xin’ an army will attack Guiding Mountain together.
It is necessary to attack this mountain on both sides in one day. The sooner the navy can evacuate, the smaller the loss will be.
After reading the military plan, Zhu Jinglun felt that there was no other good way at present. The motor ordered the infantry to take the Xiang fortress in one day, which was a dead order. Either they took the position or they all died in the position.
The hardest battle was the Xin ‘an army took the lead in launching the attack before dawn. Hou Jin instructed the troops to fight Guidingshan before the Wukeng army. Did everyone enter or retreat? One team died, the other one died. One was a battalion, and the other one died until the army was wiped out. Win or die.
But he still lost. He attacked before dawn. The Wukeng Army left at midnight last night.
Hakkas who are good at climbing mountains found a hidden mountain path yesterday. Maybe no one came out, but wild animals came out. The trail was hidden in the wild grass. All the way was very steep, but the advantage was that Xiang didn’t guard against going straight through a small cliff. Although the cliff was not connected with Xiang’s position, cannons could be set up here to cover the whole Xiang’s belly and cover the main attack from the front.
The Wukeng army touched the cliff in the middle of the night and sent a hundred cannons one night, and then when the main attack came in the morning, their artillery covered it. This small advantage made them attack the main peak position in front of Xin’ an army for three hours.
Defend the position. 3,000 Xiang troops were killed.
Zhu Jinglun suffered heavy casualties here. Hou Jin lost more than 500 people in the battle. It was that hour, with an average of more than 100 casualties. The black dog suffered so many casualties there. Although he attacked more fiercely, although he was covered by artillery, he also made Xiang aim his main fire in his direction. Only then did the two sides add up and lose thousands of soldiers.
Compared with the army, the navy suffered more losses. A total of 30 gunboats took part in the battle. Ten boats in one group and three groups took turns to block the Dading Gorge. Because they couldn’t let the other boat go to support them, they had to stay close to the two mountains at all times. In the most urgent time, they directly bombarded the two mountain batteries in the river.
Although the Qing artillery is small in power, it still has a great firepower advantage, and its power is enough to tear the ship’s hull. The British and French allied forces’ fleet at Dagukou was sunk by the guns equipped by the Qing army in Sangrinqin. If the Qing army had not fled, it would not have been so easy for the British and French allied forces to attack Dagu fort. If the Xiang army had stayed there, they might not have been able to attack at all.
Therefore, the navy paid a terrible price. Thirty gunboats were blocked in groups until later, and all of them entered the Dading Gorge. Because of the last move, there were ten. Ten of them were directly sunk by battery cannons. Compared with the loss of warship personnel, it was even more distressing. More than 2,000 water troops died. One gunboat, more than 2 officers and men died, and even an American consultant died.
However, they finally won. In the final analysis, they still had insufficient combat experience. If they could see through Xiang’s plot, Xiang was attacking the two mountains. The army was not unaware of it, but they didn’t inform the navy. The navy also lost the two mountains and made the situation passive.
There is also the fact that the navy is really not strong enough for gunboats to break through the Dading Gorge in one day. If they could have killed the past before capturing the two mountains, Xiang could have retreated. Without the navy, it would be of little significance for them to protect their retreat first.
The Dading Gorge is a lock. If you hit a mountain, you will hit this lock. Don’t say that after you get this highland, the battle will be over. Because the artillery can bombard the artillery on the other side of Dading Mountain, Zhu Jinglun is confident to crush the Xiang army.
The Xiang army fought stiffly, but it was not mindless. After a few shots, they retreated on their own.
Section three hundred and forty-one Megatron
The army was very happy to win a battle, but Zhu Jinglun was unusually silent. He didn’t expect that the fighting capacity of Xiang was so strong. If Xiang’s fighting capacity was so strong, Zhu Jinglun was not sure that he could get away with it.
Before, he underestimated Xiang’s opponent’s battle with Taiping rebels for more than ten years, and now he has been able to occupy an absolute advantage. Li Xiucheng was able to beat up the marine gun team, but when Xiang didn’t have any temper, he didn’t organize 13 kings and more than 100,000 troops to rescue Tianjing and Ceng Guoquan, and there were 20,000 or 30,000 people who just let Taiping military law break through his defense.
Zhu Jinglun calculated that the overall combat effectiveness of Li Hongzhang’s foreign gun team with foreigners may be slightly weaker than that of his own army, so if his army touches the elite of Taiping Army, I am afraid it will be half a catty. When Zeng Guofan and Ceng Guoquan lead the main force of Xiang Army, it may also take less than any advantage.
At this time, it is the late peak of the Xiang army, and all kinds of accumulated problems have not yet arisen. Their biggest problem is also the lack of firearms and equipment. Once they realize this, they can buy rifles and cannons to arm their combat effectiveness.
Jiang Yili formed the Xiang Army. In the final analysis, it was just the branch of Xiang Army, Zeng Guofan’s brothers. Xiang Army was the main force. It was definitely stronger and the number was huge. There were more than 100,000 people with considerable fighting capacity. Zuo Zongtang’s Chang Jiejun’s Li Hongzhang’s Chang Shengjun cooperated with these troops. I really couldn’t figure out the countermeasures [oM].
He asked the general staff to carry out the war chess deduction on the combat effectiveness standard of the Xiang army in this battle, and asked him to simulate the odds of winning once Guangdong was attacked by the Xiang army. The result of the deduction was less than 30%. Zhu Jinglun chose to believe these officers’ scientific deduction, so how can he avoid a decisive battle with the main force of the Xiang army before he became stronger?
Zhu Jinglun didn’t know that when he was lamenting Xiang’s fighting capacity, Xiang was also lamenting Guangdong’s Zhu inverse army’s fighting capacity of 3,000. Xiang held on to the other side’s fortifications for more than an hour (three hours) and attacked them. They had never encountered such fighting capacity before.
Jiang Yili’s heart is very heavy. He has a good understanding of Guangdong. He knows that Zhu Jinglun’s strength is not so much as 20,000, but as many as 60,000. He used to be a big man. He counted the Guangdong Army as the elite of the Taiping Army to recognize each other. Now it seems that he has greatly underestimated this army.
Although Jiang Yili was not liked by the Tseng brothers, Zuo Zongtang appreciated him. He later presented Zuo Zongtang with the original description of the fighting situation. Zuo Zongtang was also afraid of the strength of the Guangdong army. Zuo Zongtang’s judgment would of course tell the Tseng brothers and Hu Linyi and others. As a result, they soon unanimously regarded the Guangdong army as they were going to face the enemy [oM].
This is another story.
Jiang Yili’s plan to come here is to imitate Zeng Guofan’s methods of strangling Taiping rebels step by step and advance to Guangzhou step by step. Finally, Guangzhou will be surrounded by an isolated city, and Xiang will be tough and grind away this army. But he didn’t expect that he didn’t even push Zhaoqing, not only didn’t push it, but now he has to consider the problem of leaving like a man.
It seems like a battle, but Jiang Yili knows that he has lost the Guiding Mountain, and 3,000 troops have died. The defense of Dading Mountain Law in Qixing Lake in the north of Zhaoqing City has not been necessary. He came to the waterway along the waterway, which is his posterior route. Once the posterior route was broken, he left more than 10,000 beaten army roots and had no chance to get out of Guangdong.
Zhu Jinglun’s officers also know this very well. Waterway is the main road for competition. Only ten active warships are left. After the enemy retreats, they are directly ordered to use the Dading Gorge to continue fighting. If the Xiang navy division blocks it, they will destroy the other side and keep going until they get ahead of the Xiang infantry to block them.
Jiang Yili gave his navy a death order, telling them to block the Guangdong navy from covering the main retreat of Xiang army. As a result, the Xijiang waterway was a series of meat grinders, and the Guangdong navy was paved with layers of wreckage of Xiang warships.
Ten navy divisions quickly became twenty damaged gunboats, and after emergency repair, they joined the battle. In addition, Zhu Jinglun got more orders, and the whole berth of Guangdong shipyard was filled with his orders. This time, no big boats were needed.
Few five foreign shipyards in Guangzhou can produce 5-ton ships, but few ten local shipyards in Guangzhou can manufacture them. These boats can be built by digging a deep pit in the sand without special dock mud dock.
Zhu Jinglun gave them a generous order, with a total price of 22,000 tons of warships. All of them were made of iron rib, wood shell technology, and all machinery factories could be found to order, including Guangzhou and even some repair factories in Hong Kong.
These small factories have low technical level, many of them have repair experience and have never built their own ships, so Zhu Jinglun also sent technicians to give them technical support and quality supervision.
Five large shipyards controlled by foreigners can all produce 1-ton ships, and now they produce 5-ton warships. They are not worried about the technology and have given them three warships with a total order price of 152,000 yuan.
These shipyards produce hulls, and the final weapons and equipment, even steam engines, are all from the arsenal, so the biggest order was actually left to the arsenal, which will produce a total of five steam engines, and the total price of various gun doors reached 32 thousand
