The Heyuantian team led by Hirasaburo left the Jinzhou Acropolis and marched on the official road to Gaizhou. He was the only one in the team. The scouts and a few messengers had war horses, and the group of more than 500 were infantrymen.

As part of the security army, the Hayuantian team expanded in Jeju. A large number of Chezhidan samurai from Nanyang joined in. Japanese ronin recruited from the Shandan trade. Of course, the larger one was the liberated Korean slaves. After seven months of training and reorganization, the Hayuantian team reached 2,500 people, including three musket brigades, a samurai brigade (equivalent to the jumping team), an artillery squadron and 600 cavalrymen.

The artillery, military judges, quartermasters and military police of the Heyuantian team were supported by the 6th Army of the United States. There were also Chinese officers in the musket team and cavalry team. As for the other officers, they all conducted at least three months of shift training in the infantry, cavalry and combat departments of the United Front School, and conducted four months of field internships on the Shandong battlefield.

At this time, the vanguard general Heizaburo had 400 musketeers and 100 samurai soldiers under his command, and as an advance team, he carried out military search work northwards, while the same unit was formed by the 6th Army to advance along the coast. The military search team did not join the cavalry because the horses transported from Dengzhou were a little sluggish due to the sea transportation and took half a month to recover.

The terrain of the roads in the mountains was complex, and surrounded by trees that had just sprouted. The military search team, who was quietly marching, heard a few bird guns coming from the front. Hirasaburo immediately ordered the stop to advance. A young officer came from the back team on a horse and saw Hirasaburo commanding the soldiers to line up to guard him and asked, "Hisanro Hirasaburo, what happened to the front?"

Heizaburo said: "We must have encountered the enemy's forward or scout."

Immediately afterwards, several scout cavalry from their side rushed from the mountain road in the distance. Their number was two fewer than when they were sent out. A sallow-faced Korean cavalry said to Hirasaburo: "Your Highness, we have encountered Qing cavalry and many cavalry."

Seeing his nervous look, Hirasaburo whipped his face with a horse whip: "You idiot, you have been wasting your care for you so much. You have been studying in the United Front School for four months, but you can't even figure out the situation of the enemy and only know how to escape."

The scout lowered his head in shame. As a Korean, the Qing cavalry was the most terrifying nightmare in his heart, so when he was in battle, he threw away all his daily learning.

Heishanro did not denounce the scout captain too much, but gathered all the scouts and asked them about the news they received. The answer was that the Qing army's cavalry suddenly appeared in the jungle beside the road, with a number of more than fifty. The scout encountered a round of bird gun shooting, causing two people to be lost, and then fled back.

There was a shortage of news, and important news, such as the number of enemy troops and the composition of troops, was completely out of the way. Hirasaburo had no choice but to choose the most conservative strategy. He ordered the soldiers to form formations to defend.

In less than two quarters of an hour, the enemy's screams came from the woods on both sides of the road, and the sounds came one after another. Hirasaburo realized that his military search team had been ambushed. Fortunately, the soldiers under his command had all experienced battle formations and were not panicked at all in the face of the enemy's harassment. Instead, he slowly moved closer to the central army and faced the mountains and forests on both sides.

Hirasaburo took out his telescope and observed a sparse pine forest. At least one hundred cavalrymen appeared there, but they had no intention of rushing to the original formation. The group of cavalry came down from the horse and handed the horses to a few people for care, or simply hung the reins directly on the branches next to them, and then took off the skillful loading medicine of the bird gun.

Hirasanlang carefully observed their clothes, wearing cotton armor common to the Qing army and a lightning rod-style helmet on his head. Judging from the appearance, it was obviously the Qing army, but Hirasanlang felt something was wrong. Because these Qing army's bird guns were all in all, only a few officers and cavalry bows, they were thinking that the Qing army's cavalry had already arranged a hundred steps away. They formed a relatively neat three-row formation, and soon launched a round of bird gun volleys. With a howling and terrifying cry, at least four soldiers in the formation were hit by lead bullets, and the formation was in chaos.

The officers of the infantry brigade have begun to command soldiers to fight back. Kawaharada, where Heizaburo is located, looks at the leader of the public security army, with deep qualifications, so the ordnance obtained is more advanced. One of the three musket brigades has been equipped with flints, and this brigade is under Hirayamaro.

Of course, they were only equipped with flints, but they did not undergo strict systematic training and could not be called line infantry. The counterattack of the musket brigade was very fast, and two rounds of volleys were fired within a minute. However, after the first round of volleys, the Qing army boarded the horse and left, and the hit rate was not high. The Qing army quickly retreated into the pine forest. Just as Heizaburo was considering whether to enter the pine forest to pursue, the sound of bird guns sounded again in the dense forest on the other side.

Hirasaburo turned around and saw that two hundred Qing troops appeared in the dense forest. Their mounts were guarded in the flat places in the distance. The cavalry also held bird guns and relied on the trees, stones and bushes in the woods. They attacked the force search team's own formation. They did not shoot volleys but attacked their own.

The infantry brigade fired again, but most of the Qing army had cover, so the effect was not good. Heizaburo finally couldn't help it and asked the combat staff from the Beiyang War Zone Staff: "Mr. Chen, why does everyone have a bird gun on average?"

The Lord Chen looked pale at this time, and he could not answer this question. After the 6th Army landed in Liaodong, he thought that the Qing army had encountered the original Qing bows and arrows, heavy armored infantry, etc. But they did not know that the Qing army had long abandoned those useless traditions, and the flag camp outside the pass was the Manchurian army with the highest firearms in the Qing army. The reason was that their enemy was the United Kingdom Army from the direction of Ningguta.

In the direction of Ningguta, almost everyone had a flint-spike, whether it was infantry or cavalry. After the Battle of Ningguta, although the Qing army did not have a large-scale battle with the 6th Army students in the Yongning Chief Executive District, small-scale battles continued.

The Qing bow and arrow were at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the flints. The white armored soldiers regarded as absolute defense as a double-layer armor vulnerable in front of the flints bullets. They could kill the Ming army's long-shot bows, but they could not hit a satisfactory exchange rate when facing the flints.

After countless failures, muskets and muskets became a consensus among the Qing army. In the original historical process, Russia taught the Qing army this lesson. The flag camp outside the pass was the first to abandon the Mandarin riding and shooting that the Manchu court had always praised and got excellent bird guns from various channels.

This group of heavy horse-riding infantrymen who were in Liaodong, Mongolian grasslands and northern China threw away their useless long-shot bows, picked up bird guns, and turned into a rare mobile infantry in the Qing army.

Their combat method has already appeared when dealing with Hirasaburo, that is, ride horses to the battlefield quickly, find favorable terrain, and then hand over the horses to a few people to guard them, then gather troops to attack, attack the enemy with volleys, or use terrain cover to harass. This tactic is quite similar to the task force against Ningguta, but the difference between the two sides is that one side uses a clamp gun and the other side uses a flint rifle.

Hirasara's military search team had 400 flints, and they were not afraid of shooting at the Qing army's bird guns, but the harassment of bird gun soldiers in the other direction made the casualties increasingly serious. Hirasara knew that it was impossible to continue to advance and conduct a force search, and what he needed to do was to retreat.

Hirasaburo quickly assembled his troops and retreated to the Jinzhou Acropolis in the south on a marching state. More and more Qing troops had arrived. Bird gun soldiers riding horses appeared in various terrains such as mountains, forests and gullies, harassing the retreating military search troops. After entering the surrounding plains of Jinzhou, harassing attacks became more frequent.

This group of Qing troops has already appeared. Even after huge casualties, the military search team of Hirasakuro still maintained a serious formation, so they were not prepared to directly attack the cavalry, but constantly dispatched small-scale cavalry to harass them. This tactic of waiting for work was very effective. The commander of the Qing army was obviously an experienced old guy. He could even assemble three or four hundred bird gun cavalry to block the road that the military search team must go through, forcing Hirasakuro to change the marching route. This caused the physical energy of the military search team officers and soldiers to consume a lot of energy. They took the road they had taken four hours, but it took a whole day and a half to return. In this process, the military search team fell at least one hundred times, becoming the 6th Army failed to board the battlefield in Liaodong.

The force search team retreating into the Jinzhou Acropolis finally got a chance to breathe. Hirasaburo sent a liaison officer to contact the main force of Lushun to report the situation, but was surrounded and intercepted by the Qing cavalry outside the city, and eventually ended in failure.

On the third night of his life in the battle, Hirasaburo sent infantry scouts to cross the mountain road and headed towards the sea. He knew that all the ships brought in the Liaohai belonged to the United States Navy. As long as the company contacted a ship, the news could be sent to Lushun. This is the safest method. The combat report written by the combat staff was handed over to Umu, deputy commander of the war zone in Lushun.

Wu Mu did not directly send infantry assistance because the enemy's cavalry was only about 1,500, and there was no artillery and siege equipment, so it was not enough to capture the Jinzhou Acropolis. Ten days later, the cavalry was rested, and the 6th Army sent a cavalry team of thousands of people to support the Jinzhou Acropolis, and had a large-scale conflict with the Qing army in the plains near the Jinzhou Guard.

In this conflict, the Qing army was defeated for no other reason. The cavalry troops also chose the same combat method as the Qing army, which was to attack with muskets by riding horses, but the difference was that all the muskets in the hands of the cavalry troops were flints.

The cavalry's flints are carbines with shortened barrels to facilitate cavalry shooting on horseback. The cavalry of the 6th Army did not need to dismount. After shooting on horseback, they then opened up the distance to load, and then rushed to the battlefield again to carry out rotation shooting. This tactic achieved great results, and there were indeed few casualties, so that the commander of the cavalry unit collected all the flints in Jinzhou and reduced the cavalry unit to 500 people. In this way, almost every cavalry had three flints. After the loading was completed, the Qing army fired one round, while the United States cavalry could fire three rounds of volleys. The Qing army's firepower was completely incomparable to the cavalry of the 6th Army.

After about ten days of fierce battle in the Jinzhouwei area, the Qing army voluntarily retreated to the hilly areas, and the two sides broke off contact.

In the other direction, the military search team composed of the 6th Army also encountered the attacks of the Qing army on the beach, but the losses were very small. Because the 6th Army troops were supported by naval ships, two cruise ships used 12-pound naval artillery with long-barrel guns to bombard the Qing cavalry team on the shore season. The military search team of the 6th Army occupied a seaside village and defended the dangerous situation. They continued to obtain supplies from the sea through small boats. The Qing cavalry could not eat them and had to give up.

Tactically speaking, the United States Army won the victory, but strategically, the United States side failed, because for at least one month, the main force of the 6th Army was limited to the land south of Jinzhou, allowing the 6th Qing army in Liaodong to gather and the farm retreated. The order issued by the General Manager of Shengjing Ye Keshu was to strengthen the walls and clear the fields. All the villages took away all the livestock and food, and all the untaken ones were destroyed. A large number of villages were burned, so it was difficult for the 6th Army to catch prisoners locally when they headed north, and they could not obtain supplies, and there were not even a few houses to block the wind and rain.

In Beijing, the power center of the Qing Dynasty, Dorgon reached an agreement with the elders of the Empress Dowager Bumubutai royal family. He suppressed the restless Manchu relatives and nobles and announced to the world that Liaodong was the foundation of Manchu, and the Eight Banners would neither go to Liaodong to join China nor abandon China and return to Liaodong.

In order to stabilize the uncontrolled situation of Liaodong Yue, Dorgon authorized the Shengjing general manager Ye Keshu to recruit all armed forces within his jurisdiction, including all the soldiers of the Wu Sangui vassal of Jinzhou. At the strategic level, Dorgon had to seek assistance, and the one who was mobilized was the last reserve force of the Qing court, the outer vassal Mongolia.

The Qing court now does not have enough financial support and cannot take out bargaining chips that can impress the foreign vassal Mongolia. Forcibly recruiting will only make the foreign vassal Mongolia, which is already disinterested, and will also expose the Qing court's external strength and the middle-level action.

You should know that the Baoyi soldiers who supported Shanxi did not receive the silver to drive them out, so they left the capital and burned and killed them. Even if Dorgon could assume that the foreign vassal Mongolia had this authority, most of them had moved to Liaodong, which had already moved to the pass.

Since they can't afford to pay, they can only exchange land for it. As the hometown of Manchus, Liaodong, although the relatives of the Eight Banners no longer insist on fleeing back to Liaodong, they strictly refused to give their hometown of Liaodong to those slutty tatars who never took a bath in their entire lives.

In the end, the Empress Dowager Bumubutai balanced the matter. She first let her son Emperor Shunzhi marry her fiancée. The woman was Prince Korqin Zhuoliketu, Wu Keshan's daughter Meng Guqing, who is Bumubutai's niece.

Meng Guqing was directly named queen, and large areas of grassland and land in northern Liaodong were given to Korqin Mongolia as betrothal gifts.

The Lord of the Six Palaces and the plump grassland exchanged for Korchin and its affiliated units to send 15,000 troops, all of which were the elite cavalry of the grassland. In addition, Dorgon asked North Korea to gather 10,000 troops into Liaoning to participate in the war and provide 200,000 stones of food. If everything goes well, the Qing army will gather about 40,000 troops in Liaodong in July, and once again form an absolute military advantage over the United States Army.

In order to prevent the situation in Liaodong from worsening before the army assembled, Dorgon ordered the general manager of Shengjing Ye Keshu to not engage in large-scale battles with the United States Army. Except for Shengjing City and Hetuala, Liaoyang had the city where the Qing Dynasty capital, there was no place for other cities and villages to stick to.
Chapter completed!