Chapter Eighty-Nine: No Regrets (4)
This is no longer Sukh Saha's one-man opinion, but the consensus of all the generals.
In this case, with the help of Hu Yousheng, the Qing army in the city readjusted the defense, and let those city defenders replace the towns, while the Qing army that came to help was also seizing all the time to rest. The Eight Banners Army came to help, and Su Ke Saha and Hu Yousheng could realize that Chen Kai would get the news sooner or later even if they thought about it, so what they could do was to take the lead in settling the battle situation in Ganzhou before Chen Kai returned from Yingde County.
The sound of artillery outside the city was still the same, and the Ming army always relied on the range advantage of the Hongyi cannon to bombard the city wall. The walls of the city are no longer just mottled marks, and the cracks leak more or less fine particles with each cannonball hit. Such a process will surely end in a short time, and it will come to an end in collapse and fall......
Seizing all the time to rest, Sukh Saha quickly formulated a relevant battle plan. There is really no time to squander it at the moment, and even the plan to delay the plan can only be abandoned. Two days later, after the fatigue of the boat and car, and the fact that he was not sure that the city wall could continue to hold on, Sukh Saha gathered all the generals and scheduled to send troops early the next morning to directly try to fight the Ming army.
After nightfall, the world outside the city returned to silence, and the Ming army collected its troops and returned to the camp as usual, and continued to line up and shell outside the city after dawn the next day, and so on, as if they were waiting for the moment when the city wall collapsed. Before that, I didn't plan to do anything more.
The strategy of the Ming army tended to be conservative, and it may have been a last resort. Early the next morning, the sky was bright, and the Ming army mobilized troops as usual to push artillery to the south of the city of Ganzhou. It's just that when it came to this encounter, the scouts who came out quickly fed back the sudden changes, so that the Ming army had to readjust its deployment.
With the town as a unit, the Ming army poured out from the company camp a few miles southeast of the capital city of Ganzhou. The army was in a formation out of the company camp, and the soldiers and horses of several towns of the northbound group were led by Ke Chenshu to control the left flank of the army, while the right flank of the army was commanded by Huangshan of the westward group.
As the saying goes, there are no boundaries for a person. During this period, the two divisions of the Ming army left a large number of reserves, which still made people unable to see the edge at a glance, and even appeared in the ears of Suke Saha's scouts, and the front of the Ming army almost added a stopper to the mouth of the water bottle-like area carried by Zhangshui and Gongshui in the capital city of Ganzhou, only there was still a gap at the joint, as if a small hole was drilled in the cork.
These actions of the Ming army were all seen in the eyes of Sukh Saha. In this regard, he was also relieved, and still lined up the towns in the southeast of the city like the Ming army according to the formulated deployment, but as always, he left the Eight Banners Army and some more elite troops as reserves, and held them firmly in his hands.
The two sides opened up a position here, and there were many light riding dog fights in front of the formation, boosting their morale, and scolding their opponents at the same time. Next, the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties, as always, continued to close the distance between each other, accompanied by continuous approaching, cannonballs, arrows, and lead bullets wantonly swayed towards each other's battle lines, in order to continue to kill and injure the closer and closer enemies. When they reached a distance of twenty or thirty paces, the two sides seemed to have agreed, and the sharps in the front row threw javelins, throwing knives, throwing axes and other close-range throwing weapons at each other, and then collided together.
Belonging to an era of alternation and coexistence of hot and cold weapons, there was almost no big difference between the tactics of the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the words of later generations, Nurhachi was the godson of Li Chengliang, the Liao marshal of the Ming court, and the skills were all learned from the godfather, with the blood and courage of the barbarian tribe at the beginning, the organization of the Eight Banners, the hunger for Han goods, and the decay of the Ming court itself, he created the myth of conquering China with hundreds of millions of people with hundreds of thousands of people.
During this period, the strategy and tactics of the Qing army changed in the course of development, and they were more manifested in firearms. On the side of the Ming army, the tactics of the Zheng group that they were fighting against had been implemented for several years, but the fighting style before the engagement had not changed much, and the enemy on the opposite side was like looking at each other in a mirror.
The blood of the collision bloomed as expected, and the desperate fight of the sharp warriors returned to the battle formation in an instant, and the rattan players in a group of three cooperated tacitly, and quickly suppressed the offensive of the Qing army, as it did in the north of Yingde County some time ago.
The battle was officially staged, but the Qing army in Southern Jiangxi was not as experienced as the Jingbiao, and once it was suppressed by the Ming army, it was extremely difficult to slow down. Sukh Saha looked at the offensive situation in the distance and seemed to have fallen into the control of the Ming army, and the rumors of the use of tactics by the Ming army in the southeast began to vaguely begin to be heavy in his mind.
Due to the Eighth Banner Army's contempt for the Green Battalion, especially for those in the south, most of the Eighth Banner Army officers did not care too much about this. Not to mention that the rapid expansion of the Ming army in the southeast in recent years is more hidden under Chen Kai's brilliance, which makes others unable to objectively understand the growth of combat effectiveness achieved by the Ming army by adjusting its tactics.
However, at this moment, it seems that the glory of the Ming army in recent years is not entirely due to Chen Kai's intrigues, and the improvement of the Ming army's own combat effectiveness is also obvious. At this moment, Sukh Saha secretly scolded Hu Yousheng for missing this most important point in the information he had painstakingly collected, but he had already left behind the confrontation between the towns of the Zheng group and the Nangan Green Camp in the past two years more of an offensive and defensive battle in the city, rather than an upright field battle like the current one.
Anger was inevitable, originally, Sukh Saha planned to use the Green Battalion to consume the living force of the Ming Army, and then invest in the Eight Banners Army and those more elite Green Battalions he brought, so as to achieve a breakthrough in the battle situation. This is a common trick used by the Qing army, and they will not feel distressed if the Han people die anyway, but now the situation has changed, so that Sukh Saha has to make those necessary adjustments.
At the forefront of the battle, the rattan players of the Ming army worked in groups of three, attacking and defending, and the cooperation was very tacit. When the Qing army attacked with a sword, the opponent immediately turned to defense, and at the same time, the other Ming troops in the same group launched a counterattack; If the Qing army defended, the Ming army attacked it from multiple angles, and it could be said that it was impossible to defend against it.
In this way, the exchange between the two sides has always kept the Ming army in a very favorable situation from the beginning of the battle, and often the Qing army is hacked to death and wounded by the current Ming army, and there may not be a casualty on the side of the Ming army that affects the continuous fighting. However, once such casualties appeared, the other two Ming troops in the same group often suffered casualties very quickly. Because, the array, broken!
As the minutes passed, about 30,000 or 40,000 people from both sides were fighting on the battlefield at the same time, and someone would be injured or even killed at every moment.
This is already the most commonplace content here, and if you read it too much, you will become more numb. Sukh Saha has been fighting for many years, and the scenes of battlefield fighting are much more familiar to him than his parents, wife and children. At this moment, he coldly watched the casualties of the Qing army continue to stack, and his brows tightened more and more, but he still refused to let go and transfer the reserves. Because he knew very well that it was not the right time, but he didn't know if he could wait until the right time.
"Send the pikemen up and hold the position hard!"
The gap between the battle losses of the two sides was too large, and the Ming army had already taken the initiative at the forefront. Seeing this, Sukh Saha had no choice but to transfer the pikemen in the formation, relying on the advantage of long troops and distance to slow down the offensive of the Ming army, and give the front line, which had already shown a one-sided situation, breathing space.
The timely adjustment made the Qing army finally breathe a sigh of relief, and Suke Saha ordered the generals to replace the follow-up troops and readjust the deployment of the battle array. Soon, the confrontation with the Ming army was achieved again, and the Qing troops who came up were obviously more conservative than the earlier ones, trying their best to avoid mistakes, and at the same time began to consciously cooperate with the Qing army around them.
In this way, the situation of the offensive has changed, and the battlefield has shown a state of attacking by the Ming army and counterattacking by the Qing army. However, even this only slowed down the casualties of the Qing army, and could not reverse the entire battle situation.
The fierce battle continued, and Sukh Saha continued to watch the situation unfold. The conservatism of the Qing army reduced their damage, and gradually the Ming army on the opposite side began to replace the Ming army that showed fatigue, and at the same time replaced it with more fresh troops to continue to bleed the Qing army.
Any army has a tolerance for casualties, it is nothing more than the number. Su Ke Saha has always been full of confidence in the Eight Banners under his command, but he has always been worried about these green battalion soldiers, like a bomb, he knows that it has been ignited, but how long the fuse is can only be estimated with years of experience.
Time is still going on, and the two sides are constantly replacing more new forces to ensure the stability of the battle line, but the casualties are still occurring, and they have not stopped.
Sukh Saha was always paying attention to the situation of the battle, and the Qing generals and colonels around him all believed that he was still worried about the unfavorable situation of the battle. As everyone knows, from the very beginning, his gaze did not leave the connection between the left and right flanks of the Ming army, and that small gap was the only place for him to let the Eight Banners Army with two white flags under his command rush out!
The battle has been going on for a long time, so long that it is difficult to estimate how long Sukh Saha has lasted. At this moment, the fatigue of the Qing army is getting heavier and heavier, and the lead is not far from drilling into the body of the bomb. On the side of the Ming army, the fierce fighting also caused a huge consumption of the physical strength of the soldiers, which could not be changed even if they were constantly replaced with new forces.
"Let the thieves see the power of our Manchurian Eight Banners!"
Such terrain, such a huge scale of engagement between the two sides, made the cavalry seriously lacking. However, Sukh Saha was well aware that the so-called mounted archery of the Manchurian Eight Banners was more of an exaggeration, and their best tactics were to dismount and line up in foot combat, and after defeating the enemy, they mounted and pursued in order to achieve a better exchange ratio. And this is the most familiar tactic he has since he joined the Eight Banners that year.
couldn't wait any longer, but with an order, the Eight Banners of the brigade jumped off their horses and poured into the battle array. How obvious that touch of white was in the gray-blue turbidity, when these Manchurian Eight Banners entered the battle, the morale of the green battalion soldiers who had been suppressed by the Ming army to the point of barely respite suddenly boosted.
The morale of the Qing army was greatly boosted, and the original conservative posture instantly became radical. With the cooperation of the Ming army, the Qing army still suffered a lot in the exchange ratio, but it was determined that victory was in sight, and the morale increase increased their tolerance for these casualties.
The battle became more intense, and the Eight Banners Army, which was bulging like dinosaur bone spurs, directly slaughtered from the center of the battle formation and went straight to the junction of the left and right wings of the Ming army.
There, it was the left-wing Houjin Town and the right-wing reinforcement of the Left Town. The Eight Banners Army came suddenly, and the two towns hurriedly extended the formation between each other, but the offensive of the Eight Banners Army was quite rapid, and those Eight Banners Army with superb combat skills and experience in a hundred battles were recuperating after the formation for a long time, once it broke out here, it was unstoppable like a tiger in the mountains.
The alliance of the two towns was already very timely, but it was still dented by the Eight Banners Army. These battle-hardened Eight Banners were much better than the Green Battalion in terms of combat skills and experience, not to mention that they were accustomed to victory, and their confidence in winning the battle was full of their hearts, and they did not feel that they might lose to the Han at all.
The Eight Banners are based on Niulu, which is concentrated for the people on weekdays, and fights together for the army in wartime, and the tacit understanding is far stronger than that of the green battalion. Once these Eight Banner Army entered the battlefield, with tacit cooperation, more exquisite martial arts and rich combat experience, they quickly contained the fierce offensive of the Ming army, and even turned to suppress the Ming army.
During this period, these Manchurian Eight Banners stormed the joint area, making it clear that they were trying to achieve a breakthrough in the central government. On the contrary, on the side of the Ming army, the left and right flanks did not seem to have any intention of transferring reserves up. Whether they are still communicating or hindering each other, Sukh Saha is completely unaware of this. However, as the dent became bigger and bigger under the fierce offensive of the Eight Banners Army, the smile of victory gradually climbed up the corner of his mouth.
Until, a moment later, the pattern of the central breakthrough gradually formed, behind the formation of the Ming army, a tall banner, compared to the general banners of the towns, and even the commanders of the left and right wings, the banners of the two admirals were a little higher than the banners rising from the ground, and the small characters on it were not very clear from a distance, but the big Chen characters in the middle were so dazzling that people couldn't look at them directly!