Now the Taiping Army’s direct or indirect use of troops in the Pass has reached nearly 100,000 battle lines; at the same time, it is carrying out the combat needs of about three fronts in the city and outside the city: the north, the west, and the east.
Among them, the Taiping Army uses the First Army as the backbone. The existing old troops in the city and the subsequent input of troops have reached a combat establishment of 47,000 personnel; this does not count the use of those seized armor and materials. Auxiliary troops re-armed.
Among them, because the goal of the first stage has been achieved with the retreat of the officials and the army, and the weather is getting hotter, the main front in the north of the city will be temporarily turned to strengthen the defensive defensive position in the next step; in order to make adaptive adjustments to the rotation of the troops, and Consolidation operations such as rear order reconstruction and sanitation cleaning;
In the western suburbs battlefield, the chasing troops mainly composed of the cavalry of the Taiping Second Army also received good news; they defeated and dispersed several local troops of the official army with the coordination of more than a dozen cavalry battalions accompanied by reinforcement; In addition, he successfully bit one of the four main vassals who had fallen in the battle, the Pingxia Dangxiang vassal with Tuoba as the core.
Therefore, at present, eleven Dangxiang soldiers (minions), large and small, have been killed and captured, and more than 17,000 have been captured on the books, and the number of fleeing enemies has been more than that. Among them, more than a dozen sheep, horses, and livestock were captured. Ten thousand people, large animals such as cattle, horses, donkeys and mules alone accounted for one third.
But the results in the Eastern Suburbs battlefield are somewhat lacklustre. The heavy strike sequence with the car formation as the core of the combat effectiveness, in addition to the previous combination of defeating the more than 10,000 tribes of the Shatuo Anqing tribe in Lantian City, and the more than 20,000 allied forces of Tatar, Shatuo and Retire in the south of the city. There will be no more achievements in the establishment of the system.
Although they cooperated with the offensive in the city, in the relatively frequent small-scale encounters with cheats, they advanced to the vicinity of Longshouqu and Nanwei Bridge; but they were not able to capture the remaining Shatuo with Zhuxie as the core. The main force of the cavalry, and the biggest result was only in the former royal stables, capturing a few herds that were too late to escape.
It wasn't until the reinforcements from the Kanto area were exploded under Huayin City that clues were revealed again; therefore, as the situation in the city eased and the balance of power improved, Zhou Huaian also needed to face new choices and branches;
After all, with the logistics channels brought about by the completion of the Wuguan-Shangluo Road, plus the material preparations accumulated in Shangluo and other key points in advance; it may continue to support the current combat scale in the autumn harvest season three months later, but this is It is also the most ideal upper limit.
The Taiping Army’s operations in the city of Chang’an also reached a bottleneck of force deployment, especially after the officers and soldiers retreated to the northern end of the long case centered on Taiji Palace and Daming Palace in Beineri; the relative advantage of the Taiping Arms Forces in the attacking battlefield , Was severely weakened and offset just in front of the thicker palace wall.
This has been clearly manifested in the rehearsal and tentative raiders against Nannei Xingqing Palace. Although the officers and soldiers who guarded it seriously underestimated the power of artillery and explosives, and they fell apart or were completely defeated; but this also exposed many detailed problems.
For example, there are too many points for the scattered officers and soldiers to hide and defend in the palace complex and the gates, the walls, and the corridors; and the people who are somewhat indefensible need to be cleaned up again and again after being attacked and harassed, but to varying degrees Consume and block the energy and time of the offensive troops.
In some relatively narrow and enclosed places, although artillery and blasting can be used to open the situation, these technical weapons and operators, which were originally tightly protected, are also exposed to the enemy's sneak attack and killing range; It is inevitable that a relatively high percentage of casualties since the start of the war will begin to appear.
Once the attack sequence composed of the artillery and combat engineers is frustrated or the casualties are obvious, it will in turn affect the morale and course of action of the assault troops, and even rescue them impatiently, so as to delay the corresponding attack window and the best effect of the immediate pursuit. .
In addition, in the complex terrain and unfamiliar environment, the follow-up technical weapons to support and cover the assault troops are prone to disconnect, communication delays and poor communication, and so on. They are only temporarily covered up by the final victory result. And this is the smallest of the three major inner palaces, and it is only the Nannei Xingqing Palace, which has fallen into disrepair for a long time and the palace is in decline.
According to the assessment results of those staff, if the Hedong Army, which is still intact, is the leader of the army and continues to stick to the Taiji Palace or Daming Palace; even if the Taiping Army has technical weapons and advanced military systems, it will have tactical advantages in systems and organizations. It's really going to be a fierce war of attrition.
After all, although a lot of viable power was consumed by the Taiping Army in the early stage, coupled with the results of a full-scale counterattack after the arrival of reinforcements; there are seven army orders that can be clearly identified, and two of them are captured. Of the flags.
However, the remaining officers and soldiers who have not been defeated or completely annihilated are not completely ignorant of learning and drawing lessons, but are making relative progress. At least they learned to use more barricades and shields to block and weaken the damage of Taiping arms.
In addition, the detection team and the catching team that infiltrated the past also found out. Just like the Taiping Army reorganizing the auxiliary barracks filled by locals, they are also using the young and middle-aged years of Chang'an North City to supplement their losses. Although this may cause a further decline in the overall combat effectiveness level, it has little effect when used to defend the wall.
On the contrary, it was because they retreated to the vicinity of Ouchi and rebuilt fortifications, but it greatly reduced the scope and activity of the Taiping Army’s intelligence reconnaissance; after all, the locals were led by the people to act secretly in the city where the people live. It is completely different from the need to go over the high walls of many mansions near Miyagi for reconnaissance.
Therefore, the next step is to dedicate more of the reserve team to the outflag and annihilation operation of the Party Xiangjun that has been bitten in the western suburbs; and strive to complete the task in the shortest time. Still continue to strengthen the expulsion and search operations of the Sha Tuo Army in the eastern suburbs, in order to relatively solve this long-term potential hidden danger once and for all.
Zhou Huai'an looked at the sand table model representing Chang'an with the canine tooth staggered identification flags already marked, and the radius division of the supply conveyor line and the mobile support formed by the many new and old strongholds along the horizontal and vertical streets, and thus fell into a certain dilemma. In meditation.
The majority of the generals headed by the advance leader Chai Ping and defending the locality almost all advocated that "rather than hurt the five fingers, it is better to cut one finger", and give priority to annihilating and destroying the already declining and targeted party army, so as to completely cut off the official army. One of the mobile power and important "arms" outside.
However, there were also a few people headed by Zhong Yi, the Second Lang General of the First Army in the advance army, who firmly supported Zhou Huaian's incidental emphasis on the Sha Tuo Army. As for most of the generals of the Second Route Reinforcement Army, they resolutely support all their decisions with unhesitating confidence and optimism.
However, this made Zhou Huaian a little uncertain. After all, the power and prestige of the superior has always been a consumable that is convenient to use and easy to accumulate; therefore, he does not want to develop a culture of relying on his own arbitrariness in all his subordinates.
And Zhou Huaian couldn't directly explain to them that the Sha Tuo army headed by the one-eyed crow was the main opponent and potential threat in the future. At this moment, I'm afraid that even most people in the camp on the official army side, including the leaders of the Shatuo tribe, may not believe that there will be such a thing.
At this time, the clamor of the performance of the outside teacher has just ended. It slowly silenced and revealed another voice; but it was the rain that dived into the night with the wind, and the sand began to fall on the ground. sound.
Zhou Huaian raised his head as if moved in his heart. Just as he wanted to say something to the outside world, he saw a voice of announcement sounded outside:
"Qibing Dadu Governor, the Xuanwei Group in the army has something to report..."
"Oh, what's the matter..."
Zhou Huaian asked casually:
"It's the rain in the camp. The on-duty and guardian Zhong (Yi) Lang will order the end of the rain shelter early. However, the gathering of soldiers on the scene refused to leave. Seeing this, the artists in the group decided to continue in the rain voluntarily. The performance goes on..."
"It is so?"
Zhou Huaian couldn't help being surprised, and suddenly understood Zhong Yi's embarrassment when he came to ask for instructions. After thinking about it, he ordered:
"Then let him go as he pleases, just let him do the maintenance and vigilance on the spot; in addition, notify the logistics fire chef and the sanitation and epidemic prevention team to prepare the corresponding hot water firewood carbon and decoction drink in advance, and strive to prevent the impact Minimize it... and then give the people who participated in the performance a prize of a silk and a general commendation..."
At this time, among the more and more obvious rain curtains on the pavilions of the temple, a Yuhou, who was soaked all over, rushed over again and hissed:
"Foreign Report, the enemies in Taiji Palace and Daming Palace have already been killed by the rain..."
And in the rain in the north of the city, Wei Zhuang, as one of the soldiers and missionaries, also made a song "In the Rain" based on his experience and feelings in Chang'an at this moment:
Fleas hurt spring dreams and rainy days, but the fragrant grasses are more beautiful.
The internal officials first gave a clear fire, and the Shangxiang spared no money.
Zi Mo chaotically hissed red, green Yang Gaoying painted a swing.
Visitors remember the Chengping incident, and the secret joy of scenery is like that of the past years.
Then he made another song, "Reminiscence of the Past" with great interest and enthusiasm.
In the past years, I traveled to the Five Tombs, and the building was full of songs in the middle of the night.
The front of the silver candle tree grows like daytime, and the peach blossoms do not know autumn.
The name of the son of Xiyuan is Wuji, and the name of Southern Beauty is Moshou.
Today’s chaos is a dream, and the setting sun only sees water flowing eastward! (End of this chapter)