Chapter 178: Pouring Out of the Nest

Disregard!

This kind of act of ignoring makes Mang Gultailai even more angry than slapping him on the spot.

Since he started his army with his father, he has fought no less than 100 battles with the army of the Ming Empire, and he can also be said to be a battle-hardened soldier.

Although each has its own victories and defeats, on the whole, it is still their Houjin army that wins more and loses less.

At most, it is a loss in the battle, and in the field, there has never been such a contempt as now.

There has never been a situation like today, when their more than 100,000 troops came and were completely ignored, seeing this scene, Mang Gurtai and his generals were suddenly red-eyed.

Generally speaking, what kind of commander will bring out what kind of soldiers.

Mang Gurtai is brave and good at fighting, and he always takes the lead when he encounters the enemy, so he also created his blue flag soldiers, all of whom are brave and abnormal.

Every battle must be the first, which is the motto of the warriors of the blue flag.

They often beat the 10,000 officers and soldiers of the Ming Empire before August last year, and now they see these new Ming troops dressed in black clothes and black armor, as if they don't exist!

This is simply a big insult to the warriors of the blue flag!

They didn't know that it was Lu Xiangsheng, the commander of the Blue Dragon Legion, who, after studying the situation in many aspects, knew that this was the blue flag and the temperament of Mang Gurtai, and specially explained a good scene performed by the soldiers.

In fact, even if Lu Xiangsheng didn't deliberately tell the soldiers to act, the soldiers of the Blue Dragon Legion would not think of this enemy with the blue flag as very powerful.

You must know that in the more than three months of confrontation with the enemy, the officers and men of the new army did not even use muskets and artillery, and in the large-scale clashes with these Tartars, not only did they not suffer losses, but they gained the upper hand in the big battles.

Even if you don't use firearms, you are not afraid of the other side, and you still have the upper hand, and now that the army is out, the guns are complete, and even the ban has been lifted, where will you be afraid of these Tartars?

Moreover, the Tartar army in front of him had no more than 30,000 soldiers.

The rest of the 100,000 or so people are all soldiers and clothed servants of the Eight Banners of the Han Army who have no combat effectiveness.

Compared with its own side, it not only has 90,000 regular field troops, but also 10,000 logistics troops.

In the rear of his own army, more than 200,000 royal construction brigades and labor reform teams have been gathered.

In this way, you are better than the Tartars in all aspects.

Even the number of people has exceeded the total number of Tartar army in front of him by about two or three times.

Crushing the enemy on all fronts, where is there any fear of these Tartar armies coming out of the city to meet them?

At this time, feeling that he was being ignored, Mang Gurtai, who was furious in his heart, immediately ordered to bring up a group of ordinary people from Liaodong who numbered about 5,000 from behind and recruited them.

Then let the three Niu Lu's soldiers, with swords and guns, threaten them, gather in front of the formation, and let them take the lead to test the attack on the opposite side of the Ming New Army's large camp defense line.

He wanted to see how the opponent's combat effectiveness and armament were, so that he could formulate a plan to destroy the enemy.

This is the usual routine of Houjin, cannon fodder tactics, and it is quite effective.

Those Liaodong people and clothed minions in the occupied areas who were brought up by a team of Tartar soldiers have now also seen these new Ming troops under the banner of the Ming Empire.

They were very surprised at the same time, but they also realized what these blue flag tartars were going to do, and many of them panicked, not knowing what to do, and their hearts were terrified.

Especially these soldiers of Tartar soldiers Niu Lu, when they were ordered to walk towards the front of the new army of the Ming Dynasty, they understood what the Tartar master wanted them to do.

Some of them are absent and will not do it!

These Tartars, this is forcing them to die!

Immediately, the men began to stir up.

Seeing this, Mang Gurtai was furious, and immediately ordered to pull out some Liaodong people who were unwilling to come forward from among them, and immediately slashed them in front of the battle!

He just waved his hand, and more than a hundred weak-willed Liaodong people soon fell in a pool of blood and became the souls of the Tartars.

As a result, the remaining people know that they may die as cannon fodder, but if they don't become cannon fodder, they will die now!

As a last resort, everyone had to take a slow step in a state of panic, and the 10,000-strong army of the Han Army's Eight Banners and Blue Flags was driven in the rear and walked towards the defense line of the Ming New Army.

The place where the two armies are now facing each other is exactly ten miles from the west bank of the river outside Gushan Xinbao.

Originally, when the army came, it was possible to cross the river and go to the east bank of the river to camp and prepare for war before the Tartar army attacked.

However, Lu Xiangsheng overrode public opinion, so the soldiers were stationed on the west bank.

In this way, it is convenient for him to sit and command the war in the West Bank, and it is necessary to do his best to ensure that his own logistics are unimpeded.

Now he has clearly known that although the Blue Dragon Legion is extremely combative, it is becoming more and more dependent on logistics supplements.

Considering defeat before a battle is something that a qualified commander needs to take into account.

In the world, there is never a foolproof situation, and there are countless examples of capsizing the ship without intention, which dynasty and generation.

Even if Zhuge Liang is so powerful, won't he be careless about Jingzhou?

He thinks that he can't compare with Zhuge Liang, of course, he has to act more carefully than Zhuge Liang, so that he can try to prevent accidents from happening.

He even ordered the reconnaissance brigade to assist the logistics engineering brigade in building two large pontoon bridges ahead of schedule, ten miles away from the other side of the battlefield, upstream of this small river.

In this way, the east and west banks of the river are connected, so that the two banks can move troops at any time.

This made it take him an extra time to complete the layout of this adjustment.

At this time, there was already a cavalry brigade of 10,000 soldiers who also crossed the river and mobilized to the east bank of the river to ambush as an ambush at a critical moment.

When Lu Xiangsheng's side had just completed the adjustment and arrangement, Mang Gurtai and Kubilong led the army of the Blue Banner and the two Yellow Banners, and more than 100,000 soldiers and clothed minions, poured out.

They lowered the drawbridge, crossed the moat, and marched straight ahead, and then reached the front of the camp on the west bank of the Ming New Army.

Seeing this, Lu Xiangsheng erected a command tower about five or six feet high, personally climbed the command tower, raised the new-style telescope in his hand, and looked in the direction of the Tartar army.

As far as the eye could see, a dense army of Tartars appeared on the west bank of the river a few miles away.

The flags that represent the positive blue flag and the two yellow flags in their eight-flag system are waving everywhere in the wind.

A group of Tartar cavalry and armored infantry troops, like ants, slowly walked in the direction of the new army of the Ming Dynasty, and there seemed to be a strong murderous aura in the air.

Lu Xiangsheng took a secret breath, although he had long known about the Tartar forces of these two lonely mountain forts, but the previous information was all on paper.

Now, when an army of hundreds of thousands of Tartars gathered from the two adjacent castles and appeared in front of them, this was a real reality.

The invisible coercion naturally produced by an army composed of 30,000 Tartars and more than 100,000 traitors and slave soldiers was definitely not something that could be experienced when thousands of people were fighting against each other before.

This is the first time that he, Lu Xiangsheng, has commanded a major war of this scale since the Ming Dynasty formed a new army.

This is different from the previous fights, and now the two sides have a huge force of more than 200,000 troops, placed on the west bank of this river.

This kind of pressure is so great that even Lu Xiangsheng himself feels a little frightened.

Now he realized that those great generals since ancient times had to bear tremendous pressure when facing 100,000 enemy troops when they were about to fight.

Not only him, but even Xiong Ba, the general under him and the commander of the Third Division, also put away the slightly contemptuous expression on his face at this time, and became serious.

"Fuck! There are really a lot of soldiers and horses in this Tartar! Half a year ago, if Lao Tzu had seen this formation, it was estimated that he would have been scared to pee his pants by this time! ”

Although the expression on Xiong Ba's face was much more serious, this old problem of flamboyance still revealed his true nature.

Lu Xiangsheng was about to turn around and kick this guy from the command tower of the Chinese army, but he still held back this thought and said to Xiong domineeringly:

"Xiongba, you guy, shut your mouth for me first!"

He cursed, and then asked, "I ask you, in your opinion, will we be able to hold off and defeat the army of the Tartars this time?" ”

Although Lu Xiangsheng had the bottom in his heart, he couldn't help but want to beat him when he saw Xiong Ba like this.

Lest this guy always look like Lao Tzu and my third division, and he is the first to burn the bun.

Xiong Ba hurriedly straightened up and replied immediately: "Metropolitan Governor! You didn't ask! ”

"What are we doing here? Isn't it to defeat these Tartars, to exterminate them, or to expel them? Now that we have successfully arrived at this proposed battlefield, where can we make it so easy for them to be majestic under our noses? ”

"Don't look at the fact that there are a lot of them, in the eyes of the last general, they are just some uncivilized people, a little bloody! It is just for the soldiers of each division and regiment to train their hands and use it as a live target! ”

"No matter how fierce the blue flag and the two yellow flag tartars are, they will still die if they shoot the crossbow muskets! I don't believe how good they are. ”

"Unless they don't care about anything now, they throw all the military supplies and goods here in Gushan Fort, and all the population and military supplies are discarded, and they immediately hurry around here and rush to Shengjing's lair."

"Their bow horses are skilled, for the time being, we can't compare, it is estimated that they still have a chance to slip away, we may not be able to drag them back, but as long as they are reluctant to give up these population, livestock, and military supplies, then they will definitely not dare to run away from the flanks!"

After listening to Xiong Ba's answer, Lu Xiangsheng nodded with satisfaction.

He secretly praised: The child can be taught.

This guy, since he made a bet with Liu Zongmin and suffered a big loss, has been working hard to improve, and he has made great progress.

Xiong Ba is a war maniac, he will be energetic when he fights, and the more he fights, the more excited he becomes.

This guy also represents the thoughts of those young Zhuang factions in the Blue Dragon Legion.

These guys, each afraid of chaos, have long sharpened their knives, and they want to have a good fight with the Tartars.

Now that everyone's long-awaited opportunity has arrived, they are not all extremely excited, thinking that they are going to fight with these hundreds of thousands of Tartar army.