Chapter 117: Meat, Bones, and Soup

Soon after the rebel scouts passed, the Chinese outpost under the banner of Anzi came up, and after inspecting this rare open and flat terrain, they stopped.

"Lu Shuai is right, these thieves are really going to camp here, but it's still half an hour before dark, so there's no need to be so early."

The leader of the New Army's scout team muttered to his comrades next to him.

"It's not early, for these rabble, from now on, it would be good to set up camp before dark, if they are all like our new army, then the rebels can't walk less than twenty miles a day."

When the squad leader heard this, two rows of big white teeth leaked out of his tanned face.

"The Chinese army will arrive in about half an hour, I will continue to monitor here, and you two hurry back to report the situation of the rebels preparing to camp here."

The team leader then pointed to the two and ordered them to go back and deliver the letter.

Soon, Zhu Xieyuan's case received this information a few years ago.

Because the new dynamics of the rebels are the same as those analyzed by Lu Xiangsheng before, everyone's eyes are on him.

After the previous battle, Zhu Xieyuan had a deep understanding of the combat power of the new army, and put aside the idea of tying up the Son of Heaven to get close to the former celebrity, after Zhu Xieyuan put down his arrogance, he also paid more attention to Lu Xiangsheng's talent

"Jiandou, what do you think?"

Zhu Xieyuan leaned his back on the Taishi chair and looked up at Lu Xiangsheng.

According to the previous plan, the Ming army was ready to encircle and suppress the rebels in this rare open area, but because of the presence of rebel scouts, the Ming army could only lie in ambush from a distance, and wait until the rebel army arrived before charging and destroying the enemy.

Because the rebels have more than 30,000 people, and the Ming army has less than 13,000 people, it should be no problem to suddenly attack and defeat the rebels, but if you want to annihilate them all, it will be very difficult.

However, as time passed, Lu Xiangsheng later analyzed that the rebels should choose to camp here, if it is really as he said, then the plan will change, so there is the previous scene.

Seeing that everyone was waiting for their plan, Lu Xiangsheng was not afraid and arched his hand to everyone.

"Since the rebels are really in the urn, then let's eat them in one bite."

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The sky gradually got dark, and the rebel camp was finally set up, but An Bangyan in the big tent of the Chinese army was a little worried.

The contact with Xuan Feng was cut off in the afternoon, although there was a report from a horse back before, saying that Xuan Feng had arrived in Yongping Valley, but there was no news for half a day, which still made An Bangyan a little worried.

Fortunately, the extravagant Chongming Department behind the complex hall did not report the news of the Ming army's pursuit, and An Bangyan's heart was a little calmer.

'Wait until the army captures Yongning, take a good rest, clean up those disobedient Dong villages by the way, and then find an opportunity to inflict a heavy blow on the Ming army. โ€™

An Bangyan thought so, and after dinner, he went out of the tent to inspect the military camp, and then went back to bed.

Under the clear starry sky in winter, the rare wide area between the dense forests of Guizhou was covered with camp tents, and it was the second half of the night, and there was silence in the camp, and even the patrolling sergeants found a place to carry people and squinted for a while.

But in the dense forest not far away, groups of soldiers quietly marched on the mountain path by moonlight, and slowly surrounded the rebel camp.

In order to completely annihilate the main force of the rebels this time, according to Lu Xiangsheng's plan, the Ming army adopted the tactics of early morning and night attack, first set fire to the rebel camp, and then took advantage of the chaos to shoot and kill, and finally charged and annihilated.

Zhu Xieyuan, Du Wenhuan, Qin Liangyu and others then finalized the details of the operation, and of course the help of the staff of the New Army was indispensable.

The time of departure, the route of march of each team, the time of arrival, the position of each team's attack, the time of attack, the order of attack of each team, and so on, were all worked out with the help of the staff of the New Army.

Such a fine military counselor, Zhu Xieyuan and others were very envious, and when they knew that this was not Lu Xiangsheng's personal staff, but the same as the big soldiers who needed to go into battle, they were all sergeants, and they were even more surprised.

Regarding the questions of Zhu Xieyuan and others, Lu Xiangsheng gave them a detailed introduction to the staff branch and the division of labor among the various staff officers.

Although Zhu Xieyuan and Du Wenhuan also have praise paintings under their accounts, if those literati and strategists are subject to the same constraints as martial artists, it is estimated that they will soon run out.

Soon, under the planning of the General Staff of the Forces nouvelles, all the divisions arrived at the preset ambush sites.

Seeing that the east was showing the whiteness of the fish's belly, the 1,000 elite family members under each general's tent galloped out of the forest.

These elite soldiers were either carrying torches or large grenades sponsored by the New Army, and the rebel camp was instantly plunged into a sea of fire with the sound of explosions.

The more than 10,000 soldiers of the Ming army who were ambushed in the surrounding area also bent their bows and arrows and loaded their bullets, just waiting for the panicked rebels to rush out of the camp and give them a meal.

Just before dawn, when people are at their deepest, many of the rebels were killed by the large grenades of the Forces nouvelles in their sleep.

The rebels who escaped from the camp alive also lost their lives in round after round of bows and muskets fired by the Ming army.

And the battalion, which had been organized with great difficulty and was ready to charge, also collapsed in an instant with the musket salvo of the new army.

The rebels who did not form were like lambs to the slaughter in front of the elite of the Ming army, and some rebels who wanted to break out of the encirclement with their martial arts were quickly shot to the ground.

After several times, the rebels also learned to be obedient and began to move closer to An Bangyan's Chinese army tent, ready to fight to the death and survive in death.

An Bangyan's Chinese army tent was also in chaos at this time, and the surviving generals from all walks of life gathered in the tent, waiting for An Bangyan to come up with an idea.

But An Bangyan didn't have any idea at this time, he was attacked in his sleep, and then there was a report of defeat and retreat, and An Bangyan only had to break through desperately at this time.

After beheading a staff member who had surrendered, the minds of all the generals were unified, and after determining the direction of the breakout, the rebels began to break out in the east.

Surrounded by the guards, An Bangyan had just walked out of the camp tent, and by the way, he was shocked by the scene in front of him, only to see that the camp was surrounded by a sea of fire, and the camp tent that had still had some order had been rushed and killed, the sound of arrows breaking through the air and the roar of muskets were endless, and there were many corpses scattered on the camp.

Although the battle situation was very passive, An Bangyan's appearance quickly organized a large number of troops, but just as he was about to charge, a group of cavalry howled and rushed up.

Zhu Xieyuan, Du Wenhuan and Qin Liangyu are all breadwinners, with sufficient salary and good training, coupled with long-term combat formations, the combat effectiveness of the family is not inferior to that of the towns in the nine borders.

The cavalry, composed of more than 2,000 soldiers, after a few charges, destroyed the morale that An Bangyan had finally mustered.

In the era of cold weapons, the cavalry in full armor was a disaster for the infantry without special training, and the momentum of thousands of horses galloping was not something that these mountain and wild people could bear.

Several cavalry charges made these soldiers who had never seen a horse a few times completely frightened, and it was almost impossible for An Bangyan to organize an effective charge, and the Ming army did not give the rebels a chance to breathe.

After the cavalry completely suppressed the morale of the rebels, the 8,000 Ming army rushed up with a howl.

For this kind of melee, the new army naturally has no intention of participating, and this is not the strong point of the new army.

Although the Mini rifle was also equipped with a bayonet, it was for emergency use, and this was the moment when the officers and soldiers were harvested, and Lu Xiangsheng did not want to add fearless casualties to the officers and men of the new army.

The 3,000 Forces nouvelles were on the periphery of the battlefield, providing long-range fire support from time to time and hunting the rebels who tried to escape.

Yesterday's battle of Yongping Valley, basically the new army set up a stage to sing, and the other Ming troops who watched were a little breathless, but today they seized the opportunity to show their faces, and they were all like tigers in the mountains, and they rushed up to bite them.

In fact, Li Tengjiao and others did not understand the arrangement of the new army not to participate in the decisive battle, according to their previous plan, the new army came to a few rounds of three-stage salvos, and the battle was over, and there was no need for other Ming troops to fight hard.

But this plan was still rejected by Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng has been in officialdom for several years, and it can be seen that Zhu Xieyuan and others have been holding their breath for the past two days, if the new army has another one-man show, Zhu Xieyuan will have to turn his face with him.

If you eat meat yourself, you have to leave some bones, minced meat, and soup for others.

Lu Xiangsheng and several members of the staff quietly watched the battle in the center of the battlefield, and realized the difference between cold weapon combat and hot weapon combat as mentioned by the Son of Heaven.

As the sun rose, the sound of fighting on the battlefield gradually subsided, and An Bangyan's body was found.