Chapter 934: The Boring Offensive and Defensive

By October of the 14th year of Wanli, a hundred miles around Mantaer Gold Mine had become a war zone, and all the escorts of the merchant regiment were ordered not to leave the town at will.

Only those cavalrymen who depended on the naturalized city were active outside. They often had small-scale conflicts with the Tartar cavalry in the Mantaur gold mine. The merchant armed forces stationed on Mantaur were trained under the management of General Tan to fight tough battles. Moreover, the opponent had an advantage in number and was not suitable for the development of the large chariot formation on the terrain. The cooperation and cooperation of the armed forces of each caravan must be improved.

The actions of the Korqin tribe were not just to strengthen Manta'er's power. In the area eastward of Manta'er, there were aquatic grasslands, alkali lakes, and trade points occupied by caravans. After October, these trade points were attacked by the Korqin tribe's cavalry and suffered heavy losses.

Firearms are limited, and not every settlement will be equipped with firearms, because the front line is in the east, and they all think they are safe in the rear.

After all, the Korqin tribe was familiar with the terrain here. They knew how to pass through the border without being discovered by the armed forces of the merchant regiment. Even if they were discovered by the cavalry near the city, the power of too small could not stop the large number of cavalry. And even if they went back to inform them, the speed of the cart was not as fast as that of the cavalry.

I thought I was the rear, and many of the strongholds that were negligent in the precautions suffered a great loss. Cavalry roared over, and many of these strongholds did not even have wooden walls, so the other party rushed in directly.

At best, their weapons were big swords and spears, but in the battle of such cold weapons, there was no advantage over the cavalry of the Korchin tribe, and it was inevitable that there would be heavy casualties.

In fact, after five of the strongholds were destroyed, the merchant armed forces on Manta'er received the news that it was difficult to escape because they were surrounded and killed by Tartar cavalry on the vast grassland.

These strongholds actually have no power. The business bank's guards are a considerable expense. Merchants are pursuing profits. If it weren't for Wang Tong's mandatory regulations, and these armed forces could plunder the benefits, some merchants would have complained about giving up. However, expanding the scale is still something that big merchants do. Many merchants with insufficient scale even handed over their guards to the big merchants to be trusted, and they would have named themselves.

This time, when attacking the gold mine, according to the rules that the more power it invests in the naturalized city, the more benefits it gets, the rich merchants who can send as many armed forces as possible were sent.

The armed forces of the merchant group are limited. If they use more on this side, they will naturally use less on the other side. Those newly built aquatic grasslands and alkaline lakes do not arrange many guards, or even no guards are placed.

Since there is no defense, the ending can be imagined. The occupied area was removed one by one by the Tartar cavalry, and many casualties were injured.

For such a situation, small and medium-sized businessmen beat their chests and stamped their feet with heartache, but the big businessmen made up their minds to take down this full set of gold mines. After they were killed, the losses could be made up from here.

For Sanjiang Business Company, which follows the rules and does not greed for too much, naturally there is no such thing, and everything is still intact.

Now that this situation has come, General Tan does not care about the chaos in other places. A lot of supplies from the armed merchants have accumulated, and the logistics route is transported from Longmen Station and Gubeikou. The escorts are all private soldiers of the border generals and merchants, so there is no need to worry about harassment.

General Tan simply let you do whatever you want. I will fight one side. He doubled the reward for the enemy's head level, allowing the cavalry to go out to privateer the city armed by the merchant regiment to go out to guerrilla privateer, and let the cavalry deal with the cavalry. The merchant regiment, which mainly carts and firearms, were concentrating on training and preparing to attack the full gold mine.

Because for the Korqin tribe, other places can be ignored, but this full gold mine is a great source of wealth and a geographical portal, so it is impossible not to compete.

No matter how much power he arranged on the grassland, as long as the merchant armed forces attacked the Mantaer gold mine, these guerrilla forces would inevitably go to rescue, and the battle situation would become a positional war that the merchant armed forces liked.

In the second half of October, another team came to Datong Town. This team was said to be guards of Datong's business companies, but in fact it was recruited by private soldiers from the Ma family and Datong military generals and local wealthy merchants. With the addition of this team, the number of armed forces of the merchant group was close to 7,000.

The battle started at this time, and a large group of people came out in a row to the gold mine. The strategy situation was really close to the battle, which was simply a simple comparison of strength.

More than 4,000 cavalry entourages were around the armed forces of the merchant regiment, and the light cavalry scattered on the grassland of the Korqin tribe rushed to the full house. At this distance, only one day of march, and the large army was operating, and the small cavalry nuisance was no longer useful. If they approached, they would be eaten by the cavalry entoured in one bite.

The forces on the grassland are used to horse riding and fighting, rapid assaults and looting, burning and killing. Few people can fight hard battles, especially offensive and defensive battles that require civil engineering operations.

But the miners of the Full Gold Mine understood these things. Before the land was frozen, they dug trenches and pits around the gold mine to strengthen the strength of the soil enclosure.

It is impossible to expect the cart to fall into the trench and pit, but these things can hinder the movement of the army on the road, not to look at the distance of one day.

The gold mines are far away from the foothills. The array of large trucks cannot be connected to the ends on the flat ground. They are both taken into account and often dispersed. Sometimes they need to be pushed or dragged by manpower, and there are slopes and woods on both sides of the road.

He walked very slowly, and there were often cold arrows shot from both sides of the road. After dozens of people were killed and injured, General Tan simply drew elite troops from various merchant groups and brave cavalrymen beside the city to form a team first, go to the woods on the road ahead to clear the guerrilla enemies, and then move forward.

There are flat and spacious places around the gold mine. When the carts walk out of the mountain road, they have to form formations and camp here. After all, this place is not a grassland. It is impossible to regulate the carts connecting the heads and tails into a circular array.

The generals sent by the Korqin tribe were obviously experienced and very familiar with the tactics of the merchant regiment armed forces. Just as the merchant regiment armed forces were leaving the mountain road in sequence and preparing to camp for preparation, the cavalry rushed out of the earth encirclement where the gold mine was located, and there was two other directions. Before that, the everywhere was quiet, and there was even no harassment on the road.

The other party is most unsuspecting and is harassed along the way, and then the harassment stops, tight and loose. In a relaxed and comfortable situation, the cavalry protrudes, which means that they are unprepared for attacking them.

And in this case, the horses on the cart have just been unloaded and the defensive positions of the cart cannot be formed. It is the best time. If you can take the opportunity to rush in, you will have results.

The reactions of the merchant armed forces were different. The newly recruited people ran in panic. The guards who had been practicing in the naturalized city for many years picked up muskets and attacked them with spears. For these guards, they were afraid that the Tartars would not come out, and that would be the dishes they sent when they came out.

A large group of more than 10,000 people was considered a large army, but at this time it was in chaos. One direction had already been rushed in by the Tartar cavalry, and the other two directions were covered in dust by muskets. Even if they got closer, the guards dared to climb into the carriage and fight desperately with spears.

The newly recruited brave men in various provinces may be considered desperate in the village. When they arrived at such a scene, they saw the horses of the Tartars cavalry like thunder, and the cavalry swung their swords and shouted, and the earth-shaking momentum rushed over. There were several people who rolled up their sleeves and waved their swords to fight for their lives. Originally, the squad was so majestic that the Tartars were not worth mentioning at all. Today, they saw the real scene. Some people were even so scared that they were trampled on the ground and were trampled to death by war horses. Some people were blocked in front of them while running, and they looked at their companions with the swords, and there were horses pulling carts without any care, running around and hitting around. The situation did not look like this.

But those who have experienced the grassland for a while and those who are from veterans are completely different. They are used to fighting for life. They will not panic at all when encountering such a scene. They gather together in groups. Under the cover of cavalry beside the city, they will set up large chariots in formation while killing the enemy, and quickly stabilize the situation.

Moreover, the border general servants sent by each border town are different, and they still have some rules. Since the general situation is stable, they will start fighting with the rushing Tartar cavalry under the dispatch of General Tan and drive them out of the formation.

Taiji, who was also the Tartars, was cautious and did not dare to invest too much power at the beginning. When he wanted to invest in the future, the cavalry in the city had been transferred out by General Tan for emergency response, and even if the investment was not effective, it would not be of much effect.

The first battle was calculated and the merchant armed forces suffered a loss. The atmosphere was a little depressed. General Tan was not finished. After the camp was set up, he found all the people who ran away from the war and captured more than a dozen leaders, and beheaded by the marching law. As a result, these people were familiar with each other and shouting, "This is not an army, so how can you talk about military law?" He thought it was reasonable, but he was also arrested by General Tan and chopped his head together.

After chopping, someone took a spear and took a walk around the team to shock the entire army. Whose industry is Sanjiang Commercial Bank, who is General Tan, who is General Tan, and who is the naturalized business group. General Tan said it is military law, that is military law.

On the second day, the boring siege battle began. There were no cannons or stone casters. If you wanted to open the city, you could only fight with your hands and climb the wall. The people of the Korqin tribe hid behind the earth wall. If you rushed closer, you would fight with your hands and fight with your musket. If you wanted to fight with your musket, you would shrink your head. The two sides could not stand stalemate, and one side of the naturalized merchant group that was sieging the city was more serious.
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