Chapter 1600: Death
Jiang Quanyi studied the art of war?
I have learned, and nine times out of ten the scholars in the late Ming Dynasty have learned the art of war, but they rarely have the opportunity to go to the battlefield to experience it, and more are just talking about it on paper.
However, the tactic of "inverted bead curtain" is rarely recorded in the mainstream art of war.
It's not that this tactic is not easy to use, but the requirements for use are too high, whether it is the allocation of troops between the enemy and us, or the battlefield situation, as well as the training degree of soldiers, etc., all require extremely high requirements.
In other words, it is difficult for all battlefields to meet this more pre-set requirement.
This method of warfare appeared more in exercises and on paper, because at that time there was no need for human nature, only theory.
Jiang Quanyi didn't know it originally, and he didn't use it either, this was the first time.
He was just chatting with Wu Zheng when he heard it and felt very interested, so he asked a few more questions.
This time it was used very reluctantly, because the inverted bead curtain was only used in actual combat by Yang Shuang, the king of the Sui Dynasty, in history, and achieved great success, defeating tens of thousands of Turkic troops with thousands of cavalry.
The inverted bead curtain is a "fairy art" that wins more with less, strikes strong with weak, and turns decay into magic.
To put it simply, it is to drive the rout to attack the enemy's main position.
Use cavalry to drive away the enemy's army, scare back the enemy's forward surge, the front army becomes the rear army, ram your own Chinese army, and then make the Chinese army collide with the front army that was originally the rear army, causing the overall chaos of the enemy army until it collapses.
The task of your own cavalry is not to kill the enemy, but to keep driving away.
Its two most important prerequisites are that the enemy is outnumbered, which is very understandable, if I am outnumbered, then it is natural to be in harmony, and I can crush it with strength, so why engage in these tricks?
The second condition is that the enemy must be infantry, and our side must be cavalry, only in this way can the enemy infantry be frightened, because cavalry is inherently restrained infantry, which is the common sense of cold weapon warfare.
Otherwise, both sides are infantry or cavalry, so why should the enemy be afraid of you? There is no reason to flee as soon as they meet.
Jiang Quanyi was very reluctant, although the first condition was met, but the second condition was not met at all.
And it's the other way around, it's the other way around.
The enemy is cavalry, while the defenders are infantry.
Isn't it a joke to take the infantry to drive the cavalry? As long as you have a brain, you will not abuse this tactic.
Jiang Quanyi is an alternative!
He took advantage of the city and resisted to the death, so that the enemy gave the enemy the illusion that the defenders would defend to the death.
Then he suddenly retreated, led the enemy to break the city, and then planted explosives, blowing up the enemy and temporarily losing his judgment.
In this way, the enemy cavalry is actually equivalent to infantry, because there is no speed.
The huge explosion shocked the enemy's heart, and the defenders suddenly went out of the city to counter-charge, which really achieved the effect of deterring the enemy.
Thus, the prerequisites that could not have been met were reached.
Tactics that were originally impossible have become logical.
The enemy's retreat from the beginning slowly turned into a rout.
If there is really a tactical wizard in this world who responds to the situation and draws inferences from one another, Jiang Quanyi is enough to enter the list of famous generals with this battle.
However, Jiang Quanyi was a monk halfway through the end of the way, and after his tactics were effective, he was also unable to control the frantically charging army, and the soldiers drove the enemy crazy.
In fact, this is normal, the order is forbidden, and it will always be only before the battle breaks out, and no general can control the army that has red eyes in this white-hot situation.
At this time, the soldiers witnessed the defeat of the enemy in front of them, felt their "strength", even if they were beggars, they could draw their swords and look around, shouting "Sword in hand and ask who is the hero in the world".
The defenders were originally admiring Jiang Quanyi, so they were willing to risk their lives to follow and implement this tactic, and they did not follow orders, but blindly obeyed.
After summoning up the courage to fight to the death, it is not a human being who can control himself at this time to reflexively return to the city, but a god.
Therefore, the prerequisite created by means is not really up to the mark, if the defenders are cavalry at this time, then they can turn the horse's head from both sides with a roar.
But the infantry can't do this, they drive the enemy frantically, but if they stop, the enemy who reacts immediately will be able to counterattack in minutes, because the enemy is cavalry.
This battle is far from a complete victory as imagined, but a cruel and bloody battle!
Jiang Quanyi paid a terrible price for his "rustiness" with this tactic, and almost died in his country.
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The Qing army's forward was only caught off guard and frightened by the defenders' overwhelming grenades that they subconsciously retreated, but they did not expect that their own retreat was equivalent to abandoning the wounded soldiers in front.
The wounded soldiers became chaotic, disrupting the forward's originally unsatisfactory queue, which led to the phenomenon of "inverted bead curtains".
But this army was inlaid with yellow flags, and the Manchu cavalry was elite.
After a short period of chaos, under the angry reprimand of Lan Bai, they quickly settled down, yes, the number of defenders in the city is not much, and they are still infantry, they really can't fight, and the defenders can't catch up with them.
It's a "simple" thought, but it's very calming.
More and more people discovered this problem, and the Chinese army slowly stabilized.
The defenders were desperate, plunged headlong, and as a result, crashed into the iron plate.
Jiang Quanyi is really helpless, it's not that he doesn't want to withdraw, but he can't do it at all.
It was only when they realized that the resistance was getting stronger, and the defenders found themselves surrounded by enemies.
This kind of psychological gap can instantly crush a person.
If they are not veterans of a hundred battles, then there is only one ending, surrounded by enemies and slowly cannibalizing.
Fortunately, when the defenders realized this danger, they quickly stopped, and temporarily organized themselves on the spot in groups of three or five to keep warm.
With the arrival of Jiang Quanyi, small groups converged on Jiang Quanyi and formed a large group.
The enemy was also slowly shrinking the encirclement, but they did not attack immediately, because the Qing soldiers were still afraid of the firearms in the hands of the defenders.
It was a short and very unreliable stalemate, and at the slightest hint of wind and grass could lead to a fierce battle.
Since this defender is already a turtle in the urn, there is no need for senseless sacrifices, so Lan Bai specially ordered to send people to persuade him to surrender.
Jiang Quanyi did not agree, nor did he refuse.
He began to talk about the conditions, such as getting the official position of Huai'an general army or garrison, such as the army under his command must be independently formed into a battalion and expanded to 10,000 people, and for example, asking for a knighthood, the rank is no less than that of an earl, and so on.
After this battle, the nearly 3,000 defenders who were brought out of the city by Jiang Quanyi to fight a defensive counterattack were no more than 1,000 people who could still breathe at this time.
Jiang Quanyi no longer has the heart to fight again, and if he continues to fight, he will not fight hard, but die for death, Jiang Quanyi thinks it is not worth it.