The ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This sentence is used to describe the mood of Li Huayu and Duoduo who are facing off in Zhangde Mansion, Henan, but it could not be more appropriate.

When Li Huayu had a feast and fell asleep for less than half a time, there was an urgent military situation from the front, and the Liao thieves took advantage of the night with elite daredevils and axes to go to the helmet without iron armor, but wore cotton armor and quietly climbed into the trench captured by the Nanyue army. With a shout, they waved their short knives and sharp axes together, killing the Nanyue army in the trenches by surprise.

These Qing soldiers are all selected veterans of night battles, and when they slash and kill, they do not shout or scream. When there are few people, just slash in all directions. If there are too many people, mixed in one place, they will reach out and grope in the night, if they touch the tentacles of cotton armor, is money rattail braids, then gently tap the arm and put it over, if you touch the breastplate, or the bald head, you will be a knife in the past.

The soldiers of the Nanyue Army are good at military discipline and are good at battle battles, but they are very lacking in this kind of chaos that completely relies on individual skills and tactics in combat. For a time, the more than 800 people sent by Cao Zhenyan captured two trenches in a row, losing hundreds of soldiers and five artillery pieces.

I planned to take advantage of the victory to pursue and recapture the four trenches lost during the day in one fell swoop, but unfortunately, the east showed a touch of fish belly white, and the third and fourth trenches in the southern Yue army had already woken up and prepared for battle. Cao Zhenyan's eldest son, Cao Eryu, who led the team, had no choice but to lead the selectors back into the trenches with hatred.

When he led more than 600 Xuanfeng and carried dozens of wounded people back to the camp to give orders, the entire Qing army camp was crazy, and the entire camp was like a pot of boiling water, boiling to the extreme.

It turned out that the Nanyue Army, which everyone was afraid to talk about, was not an incorruptible body of King Kong, and also had its own weaknesses. Finding his weakness, they turned from man-eating tigers and wolves into a flock of fat lambs to be slaughtered!

With the acquiescence and encouragement of Duoduo and Hong Chengchou, the cheering and crazy people lined up on both sides of the gate to welcome their heroes with the highest courtesy. The entire Qing army camp swept away the decadent and disgraced mood of the past few days, and the morale was greatly boosted!

"It turns out that Nanban is nothing more than that!" Looking at the pickers who walked all the way from outside the gate with their toes proud, carrying captured Nanban cuirasses, fine firearms, swords, and all kinds of good things that were coveted but unavailable on weekdays, such as water bottles, life-saving bags, helmets, and even binoculars, as well as two heavy cannons dragged by more than ten mules and horses, the Qing officers and soldiers on both sides of the road had this idea in their hearts.

As long as they are mixed with the Nanban and mess up their formation, these guys who will only surround more and less will be vulnerable! This is something that many generals can't help but think about in their hearts.

In front of Duoduo's big tent, General Pingnan, Prince Yu Duoduo and Jinglu envoy Hong Chengchou personally greeted in front of the steps and welcomed the return of this group of warriors.

"Slave Cao Eryu, I have seen the master of Prince Yu!" Seeing Duoduo and Inspector Hong personally greet him, Cao Eryu couldn't help but feel overjoyed and proud. What an honor is this as a general?

"General Cao went out to fight this time, and his achievements were impressive, and he raised the prestige of our army, and this king is very happy." Duoduo praised Cao Eryu a few words, but it made Cao Zhenyan's face red, "Sure enough, it is a tiger father without a dog." Hong Jingluo also helped on the side, and immediately made Cao's father and son grateful, kneeling on the ground and thanking the master for his deep kindness.

Duoduo stood in front of the big tent and received the more than 600 people who had returned from the battle in high spirits.

And he did not say much, but commanded that the reward should be brought out.

"When you Lord Cao first summoned you, the reward you promised was still issued! This king and Lord Hong are also icing on the cake, and another reward will be sent to you! With a smug wave of his hand, there were already hundreds of people with heavy steps, holding large wooden plates in their hands, all of which were columns wrapped in red mulberry paper.

Duoduo took one casually, and with a force of both hands, the white silver dollar suddenly sat down on a wooden plate, shining in the morning sun.

"One hundred silver dollars each! In addition, Lord Hong said to this king that anyone who fights in this battle, regardless of life or death, will add half a future to each person! The deceased can be inherited by the family! The injured will be given an additional 50 yuan for decoction and medicine! Lord Cao, your son is a military officer, so this king naturally wants to add another grace and give him a future! I wanted to explain this matter to the regent again after Song Kai returned to Beijing, and asked him to give him a little grace, so that Xiao Cao could add this future credit when he inherited your title in the future, but Hong Jingluo said that it was better to ask the regent for this grace now. Your father and son will wait for a long time, and after the reward of this king is over, he will order someone to draft a question book for Xiao Cao and the soldiers to ask for credit! ”

Hong Chengchou, who was standing behind Duoduo, couldn't help but feel moved in his heart, these things that Duoduo said were purely imaginary. He also just found out how many rewards were awarded, adding half of his future to each selector. However, in front of the soldiers of the whole army, Duoduo kept saying that among the rewards was his share of the strategic appeasement, and in addition, the so-called half-way future was also proposed by him.

"It is said that this Prince Yu is more than brave, his wisdom is insufficient, and his leisure time is ridiculously tight, and now it seems that it is purely a rumor. This means of employing people is not something that ordinary people can imagine. ”

Hong Chengchou also knew that Duoduo's pretentiousness was also to establish his prestige in the army, so he naturally nodded and cast a "I understand what you mean" look at Duoduo.

However, this reward not only made the officers and soldiers below Cao Eryu grateful and overjoyed, but also made all the officers and soldiers present salivate.

"Damn! As long as he goes out to fight and cuts off the head of the Southern Barbarian, his armor and weapons belong to him, and the reward given by the general still has half a future. It's a good deal! ”

Countless people have secretly made up their minds in their hearts, and if there is anything to fight against the Nanban, they must move forward desperately and cut off a few Nanban heads!

You must know that at this time, half of the future, this kind of military merit index point is quite valuable. It's not at all like any officer of the Xianghuai Army in the late Qing Dynasty who was wearing a first- or second-grade top, with a yellow jacket, and even a Batu Luyong who cried for an era when he couldn't do his job.

The future of the early Qing Dynasty was very golden. In the early years of Tiancong, the Eight Banners only had more than 40 Jiala and more than 200 Niulu. Together with the emperor, Baylor, ministers of parliament, the six ministries and the officials of the inner three courts, there were more than 500 middle- and upper-class rulers in total.

And the extremely dangerous special feats such as capturing the city, breaking the formation, beheading the general (enemy commander) before the battle, completing the established task of holding the set under the siege of the enemy army with absolute superiority, and breaking the savior after the break, are worth half or a future, and half a future can make ordinary bannermen enter the sequence of members of the hereditary ruling group.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty (Nurhachi to the early years of Shunzhi), there was never any hereditary official position of the white body flag ding, as long as the meritorious service got half a future, you can get the "Tuosha Lahafan", the Chinese called "Yun Qi Wei", derived from the Han official's "foreign commission thousand general", this is the lowest level of the Manchu title, can be promoted to the Pashiku (Lingqi), linked to the grade system, for the positive five products.

Jiang Liangqi "Donghualu? "Four years of Shunzhi": "In December, he changed his position to Ang Bang Zhangjing to Jingqi Nihafan...... Niu Lu Zhangjing is to worship him Rabul Hafan, and half of the future is to drag Sha Lahafan. ”

Someone once calculated that at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, it would take a total of twenty-four prospects from coating to Baylor. Even Cao Zhenyan himself, who only relied on half of his future to change from a coat to a leader under Dolgon, Niu Lu Zhangjing.

In the eyes of everyone who were so jealous and jealous that their eyes were red, the father and son of the Cao family were pulled by Duoduo's left and right hands, and rushed into their big tent.

In the spacious tent, dozens of tables of banquets have already been set up.

After everyone had drunk for three rounds, they listened to Cao Eryu, who was the chief, tell about the experience of this battle at the suggestion of Duoduo.

Although the generals and officials present were not very literate, and they did not have the habit of carrying notebooks with them to record, everyone raised their ears high, stretched their necks, and tried to take every word Cao Eryu said in their ears, lest they miss a word. And then keep it firmly in mind. In the big tent, only the slight sound of breathing was intertwined, and the rest was Cao Eryu's voice echoing in the tent.

"The minions also followed the prince and fought against the Nanyue army from the time of Tashan. In all fairness, the Nanyue Army is indeed a fierce opponent of our Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty! Military discipline is strict, the equipment is excellent, especially good at the use of artillery fire, often as soon as the shells land, the lead of the infantry hits your eyes, followed by the bayonet when the red is seen. ”

"My Eight Banners soldiers, speaking of it, are all heroes, and they are all elite soldiers who have fought on the battlefield for more than ten years and have been cultivated. When it comes to martial arts, it is many times stronger than these farmers who have only been practicing for a few months! If it's a one-on-one, one-on-two battle, don't say that the Bayala soldiers, the white-armored soldiers, even any Yu Ding and Bao Yi among my eight banners, can easily win! ”

Cao Eryu's words made everyone present burst into laughter. However, Cao Eryu paused slightly. "But people don't fight you like that. The soldiers and horses of the Nanyue Army are the best at it, with the humble opinion of the slaves, not firearms, but strict military discipline, so that three, five, ten, hundred, and ten thousand people can fight in a formation! ”

Cao Eryu's words immediately resonated. Many people have listed their own personal experiences, from the last few battles to the battles in Songshan, Tashan, Jinzhou and other places, and those with more qualifications even took out the battle examples of several times when they entered the customs and plundered as a footnote to Cao Eryu's thesis.

"That's right. It doesn't matter whether the Nanyue army is holding spears or firearms, and it is infantry or cavalry that is fighting against us. Whether they fought under the banner of the authentic Nanyue Army or the model brigade of Wu Biao, their tactics and combat effectiveness were all based on this foundation. ”

"Therefore, my Eight Banners soldiers and horses, every time I fight against them, I suffer this big loss! In fact, it is not only us, Wu Biao, the anti-bone boy of the Nanyue Army back then, fought all over the inside and outside the Guan, and successively fought against the thieves Zhang Xianzhong, Cao Cao, and Li Zicheng, and rarely lost. When I arrived in Liaodong, I suffered a lot from the Qing Dynasty soldiers. The slave gradually realized from him how to deal with the Nanyue army. ”

"You found a way to deal with the Nanyue Army from that barbarian Wu Biao?" Duoduo didn't care about the subtle muscle twitching on Hong Chengchou's face beside him, he only saw a few Eight Banner generals, the Mongolian prince's face changed greatly, and the wine glass in his hand was about to be unstable.

"Yes! On the same day, the ancestral general soldiers of Jinzhou brought people to surrender. The minions were ordered to receive the surrendered and install the surrendered troops of the model brigade. This was the errand that the master gave to his slaves that day. In a trance, Duoduo remembered that the two white flags had also snatched about 200 people from the troops of the Model Brigade.

"Keep talking!"

"The minions and the people under the Zu General Army, as well as these people from the former model brigade, have talked separately." Hundreds of eyes in the big tent stared at Cao Eryu's face together, hoping to get an answer from his mouth immediately.

"The people on both sides of the Zu General Soldier and the Model Brigade said that if it weren't for the fact that the streets of Jinzhou were full of heavy vehicles, the soldiers of the Model Brigade were divided everywhere and could not fight in formation.

"So, you learned this trick when you went out to fight the night raid this time?" Hong Chengchou thought of Wu Biao, the right-hand man under his command back then, and couldn't help but feel a little like a world away. However, he immediately strangled this feeling to death. Just rubbed his beard and asked Cao Eryu questions.

"My lord, the trench dug by our army before was only wide enough to accommodate three or four people in parallel, and at most two people were side by side in narrow places. In this way, how can you fight in formation? ”

Cao Eryu began to slowly explain the details of this battle to Duoduo, Hong Chengchou and the Qing generals and officials present one by one.

On the day of the third watch, under the leadership of Cao Eryu, these commanders quietly climbed all the way to the first trench controlled by the Nanyue Army along the battlefield during the day.

The narrow trenches are the best place for these individually skilled strikers to show. After stabbing the sentry on duty to death, the vanguard team jumped into the trench and slashed along the trench against the soldiers who were resting in the shelters of the concealed troops and warming themselves by the fire.

For a moment, the slashing flesh flew sideways. The long-legged and bold vanguard team even directly brandished a big knife and rushed into the tents, cantonment caves, and bunkers of the Nanyue Army's camp, and hacked to death the soldiers of the Nanyue Army who were sleeping in it in order to escape the severe cold. Because there were often more than a dozen or twenty soldiers of the Nanyue Army crowded into a cantonment cave, a fierce Qing army Xuan Feng actually blocked the entrance of the cave, wielded a sharp axe and killed 10 Nanyue soldiers in a row, and his body was covered with blood.

Before they set off, they removed their helmets, revealing their blue-shaven scalps and pigtails, and wore only cotton armor. When mixed with the Nanyue army, as long as you see people with "iron helmets", "cuirass", "full heads" and "bald heads" under the faint starlight, you will immediately distinguish between the enemy and us. When even a big knife and a sharp axe slash the past. If you touch the other person with a "helmet" or a "full head" in the dark, you will be judged as friend or foe. Or use Manchu as a password to identify friend and foe, and in the darkness there is also a clear distinction between friend and foe.

For a time, the blood of the Nanyue army killed in the first trench flowed like a river, and even the mules and horses carried by the army were also frightened one after another, and they kept neighing at the trough. After capturing the first trench, Cao Eryu ordered all the candidates not to stay, not to fall in love with the war, and not to be greedy for property, and to pounce on the second and third trenches!

Soon, the soldiers of the second trench, unknown of the situation, mistakenly thought that it was their defeated soldiers who were running from the opposite side, and did not have time to release the guns, so that these commanders had the opportunity to jump into the narrow trench and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Nanyue army.

It is a pity that the capture of these trenches during the day relied on the defeat and retreat of the Qing army, and the reason for the defeat and retreat of the Qing army was that the bayonet assaults and grenades of the Nanyue army were constantly thrown into the Qing army's formation, so that the Qing army did not dare to resist the Nanyue army head-on.

However, when it was darkest before dawn and people were sleeping soundly, the Qing army that suddenly killed really caught the Nanyue army by surprise. Moreover, in the narrow trench, how did the soldiers of the Nanyue Army, who were in chaos and had not yet come to their senses, form a formation and fight? In the dark, grenades don't dare to be thrown indiscriminately, what if you accidentally hurt your own people?

However, in comparison, there is still a gap between the Nanyue Army and the Ming Army, the Qing Army and the Dashun Army. They were a well-trained, highly disciplined, modern army, and it was impossible for them to have the kind of ancient army that would roar and scatter when attacked at night.

Although the battle situation was unfavorable, all the Nanyue troops still resisted hard, using the fire guns, spurs, and even iron helmets and fists in their hands to fight with the Qing army in front of them who did not know that they would suddenly emerge from the corner in the darkness. Until he was slashed by a blood-stained knife and axe, and fell to the ground unwillingly.

Cao Eryu is half boasting about his achievements, and half is indeed very respectful of these soldiers who will not retreat in his heart. In his impression, if the Qing army launched a night attack on the Ming army, perhaps his more than 800 people would be able to drive tens of thousands of Ming troops like ducks. However, in the face of these soldiers of the Nanyue Army, he could only capture two trenches, and immediately turned the offensive momentum to defense. Because, the third and fourth trenches were already vigilant and began to be on alert. Don't say whether they can rush forward under the dense rain of bullets and stabbing of the Nanyue Army, even if they rush up, in the face of the Nanyue Army that has already prepared in formation, these choices can only be sent to death in vain.

Although the scale and results of this battle are not large, the influence is huge. It made Duoduo and other high-level Qing army leaders see very clearly that fighting against the Nanyue army, simple defense, and firearms battles were undoubtedly self-defeating. It should be in the process of field battles to constantly maintain the firepower, and the distance between each large array should be widened, so as not to let people continuously break the formation when the Nanyue army attacks. (To be continued.) )