Chapter 64: The Battle of Longshan (Part II)
There was a faint smell of seawater wafting through the air, as if it were the smell of blood before the Great War.
Longshan is located in the southeast of Cixi, the terrain is flat, easy to attack and difficult to defend, it is the first fortress of the whole Guanhai defense area, it has always been a place for soldiers to fight, Longshan is the coastal defense military town of the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty, because of the danger of the sky on all sides, it makes it the bridgehead of the Japanese invade Zhejiang.
The local people in Cixi have long been evacuated and have been resettled in the surrounding counties and townships one after another.
The main roads in Longshan were full of troops early on, and the camps were intertwined, forming a corner of each other, firmly guarding this fortress into the hinterland of Zhejiang. Dozens of small sailed boats carrying scouts were sent out to sea to collect enemy information; The officers and men of the guard station were nervously busy, making the final preparations before the big battle. The atmosphere was oppressive, and the salty air was even more dreary, as if boulders were pressing down on everyone's chest.
As the landlord of this place, Zhang Mingyuan's hundred households became the guards who inspected everywhere, and after ordering Hanpi and Sha Huo to lead their respective teams to patrol, Zhang Mingyuan came to the command tent alone.
It is said to be the headquarters, but in fact, it is a wool felt tent temporarily set up halfway up the mountain, which is slightly larger than the ordinary camping tent.
Handing over the hundreds of tooth cards, Zhang Mingyuan flashed in---- General Qi Ming's order, Zhang Mingyuan can freely enter and exit the headquarters staff and military information.
This upcoming battle made Zhang Mingyuan very excited, it was the excitement of being excited and eager to try. In the previous life, special operations mainly relied on secret infiltration and surprise attacks by small groups of top soldiers, with the aim of 'beheading' the enemy's important targets. Like this operation, the scale of the battle of tens of thousands of people really made him excited, not to mention the combat method in the era of cold weapons. He prides himself on being strong in force, and he is absolutely confident that he can win the battle, and besides, even if he can't win, it is no problem to protect himself.
The tent was crowded with people, and staff officers and scouts at all levels came in and out, passing military intelligence orders back and forth. In front of a huge table with a makeshift sand table from the Yongsan region, several high-ranking generals stood solemnly, analyzing something. Qi Jiguang, the general of the capital division, is in the center, Wang Fulin is on the left side of the command of Guanhaiwei, Sun Bowen and Lei Wenlin are on the right side, Huo Hefang, the magistrate of Cixi, Du Wenming and his son are on the left, and there are Jinyi Wei stationed in Guanhaiwei Baihu Wu Dayong.
Not far from the command seat, there were several thousand-household chiefs with solemn expressions, ready to receive instructions from several superiors at any time, including Chen Haotian of Longshan Qianhu and Liang Biying, deputy of Qianhu, among them.
Seeing Zhang Mingyuan coming in, everyone greeted him with a smile, and the conversation was very intimate. Zhang Mingyuan's name is now a household name in the entire Guanhaiwei, especially the creation of the 'Mingyuan-style physical training method' has made a name for itself and resounded in Guanhaiwei.
Qi Jiguang was discussing with the generals with great interest the plan to encircle and annihilate the Japanese invaders, his face was full of hesitation, and his eyes were full of excitement. It is no wonder that he was so excited, in the past, the invasion of the Japanese invaders was often broken into pieces, with small teams flowing back and forth, and their whereabouts were erratic, causing great trouble to the encirclement and annihilation of large troops. But this time the situation is very different, according to intelligence, this time the Japanese invaders seem to have been kicked in the head by a donkey, and they have moved the real character, not only the number of invasions is huge, but also the direction of the attack is clear, and there is a great tendency to take Guanhaiwei in one go, which gives Qi Jiguang, who is eager to seek a decisive battle for the main force of the Japanese invaders and is eager to make meritorious contributions, a dose of stimulant.
After learning of the strategic intentions of the Japanese Invaders, Qi Jiguang was out of sight for three days and three nights, and had been staying in front of the map and thinking hard about tactics, and the perfect encirclement and suppression plan formulated in his heart was also freshly released.
The method of using soldiers, ten is to surround it, five is to attack it, and the multiple is divided, the enemy can fight, and if it is less, it can escape, and if it is not, it can be avoided.
Qi Jiguang is excited, and he is even more excited about his ambition to raise;
There are only three or two thousand Japanese soldiers, and the army of the Daming Guard that can be requisitioned here has reached an unprecedented number of more than 10,000 people, and it is an unobstructed battle on the plains, with three enemies and one or five enemies, how to look at it is a battle in which the Japanese are slaughtered by others, 'I am a sword, and the Japanese are fish and meat', how can there be a reason for not being victorious?
Accustomed to seeing the small-scale invasion of the Japanese invaders into pieces, and having had enough of the bitterness of the Japanese coming and going like the wind and difficult to chase down, Qi Jiguang was depressed and painful; Now, the Japanese took the initiative to send it to the door shamelessly, and even held the idea of seriously underestimating the Ming army, how could they not make General Qi angry?
The right time, place and people are all on our side, come on!
Longshan will be the burial place of a bastard like you.
Washing Longshan with blood and burying the Japanese people will be a glorious moment for me to protect the country and the people and go down in history.
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Zhang Mingyuan stood next to him and didn't say a word, just stared at the faces of the generals......
Qi Jiguang was full of ambition, but the faces of the generals didn't seem to be very good, and there was a deep melancholy in their eyes, Zhang Mingyuan knew that it was a look of serious distrust of his own strength.
Zhang Mingyuan expressed sympathetic understanding of this, according to the historical records, combined with the description on the Internet in the previous life, it can be seen that although the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese in Longshan finally won the victory, it was not completely annihilated according to Qi Jiguang's vision, and it would be a strange battle.
"In July of the 34th year of Jiajing, Qi Jiguang, a military theorist, was transferred to the Zhejiang Bei Japanese Capital Division. Coincidentally, the Japanese invaders came, and the target of the raids was placed in Cixi, Zhejiang, and the landing place was Longshan Guanhaiwei.
After receiving the warning from the Wa Du Division, Qi Jiguang was very excited, and many years of penance were finally going to bear fruit, and he decided to take this opportunity to fight with the Wa Kou to avenge his blood revenge. According to the intelligence, the Japanese soldiers were divided into two routes, and there were only more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers attacking the Longshan area, and in order to ensure the complete annihilation of the main force of the Japanese invaders, he immediately decided to recruit more than 10,000 soldiers, preparing to defeat the Japanese with more victories and fewer with strong force, so as to achieve the first good start since taking office.
More than 10,000 officers and soldiers of the Daming Guard Station marched into the Longshan area southeast of Cixi, where they were about to face the large-scale invasion of the Japanese for the first time, and the famous Battle of Longshan began..............
The reason why this battle is famous is not that there is a tragic story to sing and cry about, but because it is so inexplicable, inexplicably began and ended inexplicably. ”
Of course, Zhang Mingyuan knew the consequences of this battle, and he also knew that after this war, Qi Jiguang began to reflect on the shortcomings of the Daming Guard's system, and he also knew that after this battle, Qi Jiguang finally embarked on the road of strengthening the army with a 'recruitment system'.
Since then, Qi Jiguang has begun a painful and brilliant escalation process.
From an ordinary general to a real generation of famous generals.
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Of course, although he knew that the battle situation of the Longshan Battle would not be good in the future, Zhang Mingyuan still decided not to tell Qi Jiguang the result, after all, the process of upgrading requires a painful experience, and only a heart-wrenching experience can go directly to the depths of people's hearts and awaken the long-dormant dream-chasing consciousness, which will be engraved in his heart and will never be forgotten for the rest of his life.
People have to have dreams, but dreams don't come casually, they need the experience of nirvana rebirth.
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