Chapter 162: Suspicious and Suspicious (Thank you for the monthly pass of Jingfeng, Great Country Ancient Style, etc.)
"Report!"
"The new army of the Ming Dynasty, about 15,000 men and horses, is coming straight to our Anshan post defense line!"
After a while, another group of scouts galloped back to report.
Ao Bai and Yue Tuo looked at each other and confirmed that this incredible information was true.
Ao Bai and Yue Tuo couldn't help but be stunned, and then thought:
Over the years, they have fought countless big wars with the army of the Ming Empire, and they know better than anyone what the combat effectiveness of the Ming army looks like.
Although they have also heard rumors from many people inside, the new army of the Ming Empire is quite powerful.
In December of last year, he defeated two white flags in one fell swoop, causing heavy losses to the two brothers, Dorgon and Dord.
In the end, after the two brothers were greatly injured, they actually took the soldiers of the two white flags and hundreds of thousands of troops to escape from the Houjin territory, all the way to the west, and set themselves up as kings.
In addition, they also listened to a lot of information collected by various parties:
In the territory of the Ming Empire, this new army of the Ming Empire has no one to deal with, and it has never encountered defeat at all!
But so what?
In the eyes of Ao Bai and Yue Tuo and others, the new army of the Ming Empire is still the army of the Ming Dynasty.
These warriors who grew up on horseback have always been brave and ruthless, skilled in bows and horses, when have they ever been afraid of the army of the Ming Empire?
What's more, now nearly half of the main forces of their two banners are on the front line of this Anshan Station, with 30,000 soldiers and even more clothed minions, reaching about 100,000.
The new army of the Ming Empire in front of them, even those logistics soldiers combined, is only 15,000 people, and they are afraid of these Houjin warriors!
In the current situation where the enemy army is advancing in a big way, if you don't want to run away and want to defeat the other party, you must fight!
On both sides of them and the new army of the Ming Dynasty, one side will definitely lose, unless the new army of the Ming Empire automatically retreats.
Otherwise, this battle cannot be avoided.
This Ming Empire will actually take the initiative to attack and seek a great war?
This is simply about to subvert the perception of the Later Jin soldiers of the Ming Empire.
What a fallacy!
In December last year, a series of failures of the two white flags, because of the lack of information, they did not think that the Ming Empire had changed so much.
Except for the immortals, who can make the Ming Empire become irresistible in just over half a year?
It was definitely the two brothers Dolgon and Duoduo at that time, who were so careless that they were captured by the new army of the Ming Dynasty.
Most of their successive defeats were caused by enemy sneak attacks or surprise attacks.
Even in the past three months, the two sides have maintained a situation of confrontation on the Liaoshen Great Plain.
There was no big war, the battle continued, and the two sides also won and lost each other.
However, both sides had their own casualties, and even the casualties were about the same.
This proves that the new army of the Ming Empire is not so terrible, and it does not match the rumors.
These Tartar soldiers didn't know at all that the two corps of Liu Zongmin and Lu Xiangsheng had been using Tartars to train their troops from beginning to end, and they were conducting rotational combat training for each division and regiment of the two field corps.
In almost every battle, the soldiers who participated in the battle were not the same brigades and brigades.
The most important thing is that the White Tiger Legion and the Blue Dragon Legion, in the past three months, have not used cannons and new double-barreled muskets at all.
Since you can't figure it out, you just don't want to.
For these two post-Jin Meng, they advocate a force to reduce ten.
Under absolute force, any conspiracy and trickery are vulnerable.
Hum!
No, the divine book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", I have not only read it, but also listened to Mr. Book!
When it comes to the 36 strategies and various classic tactics, such as encircling the point to send reinforcements, burning the red cliffs, etc., you can also be catchy, even if there are some conspiracies against the enemy, what are you afraid of?
Ao Bai and Yue entrusted these generals, believing that they had an absolute advantage in strength, and the Houjin army under their command was brave, and they were not afraid of the new army of the Ming Empire at all.
Since they dare to come in a big way, then just put these new troops of the Ming Empire to a pot!
If you don't get it right, you can still take the sheep with your own hands, and then capture 10,000 strong slaves and go back to be coated slaves, which are very suitable for coolies and cannon fodder.
Anyway, after the departure of the Dorgon brothers, Houjin is now a large shortage of people, which is just right.
Moreover, now the equipment of these Ming soldiers, those black clothes and black armor are excellent, and they are good goods at first glance, if they get another batch of soldiers and armor money and food back, it will be better!
So, after discussing with Yue Tuo, it was decided that Yue Tuo would be the vanguard, lead 10,000 elite soldiers, and go forward to meet the battle.
They plan to test the enemy's combat strength first, and puncture the opponent's unknown plan or what kind of backhand, preferably to be able to ambush or something.
By the way, look for fighters for the main forces personally led by Ao Bai for the follow-up.
If it weren't for the fact that in the past three months, they found that the new army of the Ming Empire was really difficult to deal with, and the army would have pressed on it together and annihilated the other party in one fell swoop.
In addition, Huang Taiji repeatedly emphasized that it is not allowed to attack rashly, and these new Ming troops must be taken seriously.
Therefore, the two of them did not dare to be careless now, although the scouts of both teams in a row came back to report that the other party did not ambush the soldiers, but they also acted with care.
After the two finished discussing, Yue Tuo immediately ordered 10,000 elite soldiers, and walked out of Anshan Post with great strength, and rushed towards the place where the army of the Ming Empire came from.
When Yue Tuo's army approached the enemy army for about ten miles, the scout team he sent out began to encounter the scouts of the new army of the Ming Dynasty.
The scouts and scouts on both sides immediately started a life-and-death struggle between each other.
In a short period of time, the various teams of scouts and scouts on both sides of the enemy and the enemy had dozens of large-scale clashes in a row.
It was only at this time that these Tartar scouts found that the scouts of the Ming New Army encountered this time were very difficult to deal with.
The scouts of the Royal Guard are all real elites.
They have a very solid kung fu at hand, they are good at riding and shooting, and their marksmanship is accurate, and they are the elite of the elite among the soldiers of the Guards.
More than half a year ago, the Ming Empire had not undergone drastic changes, and the scouts of the Tartars were really not afraid of the scouts of the Ming Empire.
But this time they met these scouts of the new army of the Ming Empire, and they found that things were not as simple as they thought.
These enemy scouts are actually quite capable of fighting!
Not only are they equally good at mounted archery, but they also have a very sharp double-barreled handcuff at hand, which can fire two shots in a row, and can actually kill the enemy from a distance of one or two hundred paces.
In addition, this is a somewhat mysterious scout of the Ming Empire, and he is also very good at ambushing.
For some reason, they were always able to spot the Tartar scouts in advance, and use the new muskets with long ranges to ambush the Tartar scouts from a distance of one or two hundred paces.
And it can often be fatal with one blow, and under the continuous random gun, the Tartar scouts of the team can be beaten to the point of losing their combat effectiveness.
Then, happily, he took away the enemy's warhorse.
Because the Royal Military Equipment Department of the Ming Empire, the newly developed telescope, is still in strict secrecy, so the current enemy does not know that the various scout teams of the Guards are the first to be equipped with this kind of big killing weapon.
So the two sides fought, and naturally the scouts of the Royal Guards took a big advantage.
The Tartar scouts also found that the scouts of the Ming Empire were all very fierce, cunning and insidious.
As soon as they saw that there were many people on the other side, they immediately called friends and engaged in siege-style battles, which did not mean to fight alone.
As a result, the Tartar scout battle fell sharply, and they were never able to catch the scouts of the Ming New Army to capture them, so they could not understand the details of the incoming enemy.
Such an abnormal situation made Yue Tuo feel a little inexplicably nervous.
After reining in the war horse and thinking for a while, it still didn't attract enough attention from him, and then he still led 10,000 elite cavalry and approached the other party.
When Yue Tuo led his troops to the predetermined battlefield where the two sides encountered, he raised his eyes and saw that an army of black clothes and black armor had blocked their way.
Moreover, this army of the Ming Dynasty has already built a fortification, with a whole row of rejecting horses in the front, followed by a trench that has just been dug and is quite wide.
On the other left and right sides of the trench were two long low walls, about six feet high.
These two low walls, which are extremely long but not very tall, look like they were made of the earth that had been dug in the trenches.
These two low walls just abolished Yue Ting's attempt to let the cavalry shoot from both sides.
Because the terrain here is not a plain area, but a slope valley area with a radius of only five or six miles.
Moreover, there is no problem with the length of this battlefield, which is used for cavalry charges.
However, the width is only about two or three miles, which basically cuts off the other party's tactics of wanting to use ranger hunting.
Therefore, this line of defense completely cut off Yue Tuo's way and lay in front of the Tartar army.
Yue Tuo frowned, and there was some confusion in his heart.
He felt a little uneasy about himself, and his heart was always very unstable.
Could it be that there is some kind of conspiracy that cannot be achieved?
He was temporarily caught in a dilemma