Chapter 115: Interspersed with detours
The Ming troops in Changpoling and Guiyang City have been quietly observing the movements of the rebels for the past few days, but the thoughts of the Ming troops inside and outside the city are different.
The Ming army in the city only hoped that the rebels would withdraw quickly, and they were indifferent to where to go, but the Ming army in Changpoling was nervously watching the movements of the rebels, hoping to retreat to Yongning as expected.
Half a day after the rebels left, the Ming army in Changpoling finally ushered in good news, the rebels were indeed retreating in the direction of Yongning.
It took three days for the rebels to withdraw from the city of Guiyang, until the last rebel army disappeared under the city of Guiyang, and the new army finally began to move.
After replenishing the military supplies from Guiyang City, the new army quickly interspersed with Yongping Fort along the mountain path.
Gao Chongming, who was in charge of the palace, walked for a long time in fear, but he didn't find that the Ming army was following behind, so he also put his mind at ease, feeling that the Ming army should have no intention of pursuing.
Yu Chongming was secretly happy in his heart, his bet this time was right.
Along the way, the rebels walked more slowly than Lu Xiangsheng expected, and they could not reach the march of twenty miles a day, and sometimes in rainy weather, they would not march at all, or they would slow down the march speed of the whole army in order to loot a few villages along the way.
Of course, during the march, there were a few small Dong villages that quietly dispersed at night.
Lu Xiangsheng has always admired people with a keen sense of danger, so after these Dong villages secretly escaped from the large army, they were annihilated by several small detachments of the new army one by one.
After seeing the evil deeds of the rebels towards the villages along the way, they will accept what they want, and the new army will not give them a chance to mend their ways.
After fifteen days of stopping and turning, the 50,000-strong rebels finally arrived at a day's journey from Yongping Valley, and the rebel vanguard had already camped at the mouth of Yongping Valley.
Five days ago, Lu Xiangsheng contacted Qin Liangyu, who had already arrived in Yongping Valley in advance, Du Wenhuan three days ago, and Zhu Xieyuan two days ago.
However, due to the rapid march, the three of them only brought a small number of elites, and the total was only 10,000 people.
But for the 50,000 rebels to be hunted, it was enough.
Zhu Xieyuan, as the imperial commander of Guizhou counterinsurgency, was very dissatisfied with Lu Xiangsheng's arbitrary move, and after converging the counterinsurgency armies, he also took over the command.
However, Zhu Xieyuan was not satisfied, and after looking at the terrain, he still supported Lu Xiangsheng's plan to completely annihilate the rebels in Yongping Valley.
After all, he is the counterinsurgency supervisor in Guizhou, and if he completely annihilates the rebels this time, this credit will naturally be his.
To be able to get a piece of the action in such a large-scale battle, Du Wenhuan has no opinion at all as a military general, and Qin Liangyu has no intention of competing with others as a soldier, as long as he can give enough military salaries such as salt and iron.
However, Qin Liangyu was very interested in how Lu Xiangsheng's new army helped Guiyang relieve the siege.
It is said that Lu Xiangsheng has 3,000 soldiers, and against the 50,000 rebels, he can only help defend the city, but it is impossible to defeat the enemy army.
And listening to Lu Xiangsheng's report to Zhu Xieyuan, more than 3,000 enemies were killed in Guiyang City, if it weren't for the fact that the head was all there, the rebels were also defeated and retreated to Yongning, Qin Liangyu would also wonder if Lu Xiangsheng was bragging.
Qin Liangyu married Ma Yuan, a descendant of the Fubo general Ma Yuan, Shi Zhu Xuanxuan comforted Ma Qiancheng, and later Ma Qiancheng was framed and died early, and his son was young, so Qin Liangyu temporarily took over as his husband.
When Ma Qiancheng was still alive, Qin Liangyu assisted his husband many times to help the imperial court quell rebellions in Guizhou and other places, and made many military exploits.
After the death of her husband, she was ordered to comfort the stone pillar, and in the first year of Taichang, he sent his brothers Qin Bangping and Qin Minping to Liaodong to fight against the Eastern Captivity. In the first year of the Apocalypse, Qin Bangping died in the battle of Hunhe, and Qin Liangyu personally led 3,000 white pole soldiers out of Sichuan to fight, and assisted the Ming army in Shanhaiguan and other places to fight against the Tartars.
Later, on the orders of the imperial court, he returned to Sichuan to recruit troops, and when the first Lu'an Rebellion broke out, he led the army to quell the rebellion.
This time, Lu Chongming and An Bangyan rebelled again, and Zhu Youzhen also thought of her for the first time for the female general who left a famous name in history.
Qin Liangyu is over fifty years old this year, he has been fighting on the battlefield for many years, and his vision is not bad, as soon as he sees the new soldiers under Lu Xiangsheng's command, he knows that they are all elites, and even the white pole soldiers he is proud of are not opponents.
But even so, she was still very interested in the battle of retreating from the enemy under Guiyang City.
Lu Xiangsheng did not dare to despise the female general who had outstanding achievements, so he recounted the battle of Guiyang and the battle of Changpoling in 1510.
Rao is Qin Liangyu has been in battle for a long time, but when he heard that the three thousand rebels were swept away under the Changpo Ridge, he was also shocked.
After listening to Lu Xiangsheng's narration, he asked for a Mini rifle to watch, and Lu Xiangsheng asked his sergeants to demonstrate the steps of charging and shooting, and Qin Liangyu then knew the reason why the rebels withdrew from Guiyang City.
Seeing that the rebels were about to arrive at the ambush site one after another, a new situation arose.
The 50,000-strong rebel army, divided into the front, middle, and rear armies, was stretched too long during the march, and it was impossible to enter the Yongping Valley on the same day, so the plan to completely annihilate the rebels in the Yongping Valley had to be revised one or two.
After the deliberations of Zhu Xieyuan, Lu Xiangsheng, Du Wenhuan and Qin Liangyu, it was mainly based on Lu Xiangsheng's proposal that it was decided to adopt the tactics of interspersed division and annihilation of the rebel army.
In fact, at the beginning, Zhu Xieyuan did not agree with this method of warfare, mainly because he had never heard of this tactic.
As for Lu Xiangsheng's idea of improving the mobility of officers and troops, forming a local numerical superiority, and fighting more and less in some parts, he did not particularly understand the idea of dividing the enemy and annihilating them one by one.
But in the end, he understood Lu Xiangsheng's words, which was the tactics that the Son of Heaven personally taught when he was lecturing to martial arts students, and the interspersed and divided tactics in the chapter of sports warfare.
With the tactics taught by the Son of Heaven in front, Zhu Xieyuan has nothing to say, anyway, according to his plan, it is almost impossible to completely annihilate the 50,000 rebels, but since this tactic has the endorsement of the Son of Heaven, if it can't succeed, he can shirk his responsibility.
Zhu Xieyuan has been in the sea for many years, and what he is best at is grabbing the greatest benefits without taking responsibility, so he has no opinion on this tactic.
And Du Wenhuan and Qin Liangyu are a military general and a general, and there is no possibility of opposition, so this tactic was quickly arranged.
As for Lu Xiangsheng's courage to adopt this tactic, he also saw the fact that the Ming army that came to encircle and suppress this time was all elite, and if they were all guards, this kind of tactics with high requirements for the quality of individual soldiers would not be realized.
At that time, the officers and soldiers were not as fast as the rebels, and the quality of the individual soldiers was not good, and it was impossible to say who would surround whom in the end.