Chapter 174: Choice (First Update, Asking for Support)
In the woods, Sun Quanguo was coldly watching the neatly arranged team on the battlefield slowly and mechanically walking in the field, he was born as a horse bandit, and he has always looked down on this style of play.
However, although he didn't look down on this kind of fighting, he also knew that if he rushed towards the gun formation with cavalry, he would definitely squeeze a pimple.
The cavalry attack should be timed.
Perhaps Sun Quanguo was born as a horse bandit, but from the time he defected to the Chuang army and later in Huguang, Henan and other places, with hundreds of horsemen under his command, while making the Manchus have a headache for this horse bandit, he also accumulated a lot of experience and tactics in the use of cavalry, which is also the fundamental reason why he is in charge of the cavalry of the Tang Army - in the Tang Army, no one is better at using cavalry than him.
In the past, the cavalry under his command was only a few thousand horsemen, and after the capture of Shanxi, the horses exchanged from outside the pass made the cavalry of the Tang army swell rapidly, and under his training, the tens of thousands of cavalry under his command were not only the expansion of horses, but also the combat effectiveness was also improved in continuous training.
From early morning to afternoon, the battle lasted almost a whole day, and as the most elite cavalry of the Tang army, Sun Quanguo has been waiting, but he is not just there to stare, when the army is fighting, he sent dozens of cavalry teams, while searching the surroundings, he is also clearing the Ming army's rangers, according to his experience as a horse bandit, the enemy's scout cavalry will be eliminated, and the other party will become blind.
Because of the relationship between horse bandits, many of the habits of horse bandits were also brought to the army by Sun Quanguo, and because of this, the cruelty of the cavalry under his command is well-known. In order to obtain a security password - this is a habit that the loyal and righteous army has formed in Jiangyin back then, and now the Tang army also has a security password. He directly dug out his heart with a knife, and then roasted his heart with the noodles of another captive, and the captured Ming army was frightened stupid, and obediently explained the password clearly.
But even so, the captured Ming army did not survive, and after receiving the password, they killed the captive with a single sword, and these passwords were carefully corresponded. Although I know that this method is not a good method, the password is coming after all.
It was precisely with the safety order that Sun Guoquan would lead thousands of cavalry to the woods only two miles away from the Ming army camp in the middle of the night.
The completely defenseless Ming army camp in front of him, although it was blocked by a thick earthen wall, still aroused the fighting spirit in Sun Guoquan's chest. Occasionally, he turned around and looked around at the eight thousand cavalrymen behind him, all of whom were already armed with sabers and quietly waiting to fight. The castrated horses are very docile and do not neigh because of the dryness of the animals.
All he needed now was to wait, to wait for the opportunity to attack, for the order to attack, and of course, he wouldn't be stupid enough to ram the earthen wall with his cavalry, which would not be used to attack the city. Although the earthen wall was not a city wall, it was still an insurmountable obstacle for the cavalry.
"Hey, Zhu Chengren uses soldiers, it's really leaky!"
In Funing City, the battle during the day made Li Ziyuan a little disheartened, the casualties had been counted, after the end of the day's battle, the casualties of the Tang army exceeded 12,000 people, and if this kind of fight continued, as long as it took ten days, the Tang army would almost be wiped out.
Originally, Li Ziyuan thought that at least when all firearms were used, the Tang Army might still have some gaps with the Loyal and Righteous Army, but the gap should not be big, but who would have thought that today was just a battle, and he found that the Tang Army was far from being the opponent of the Loyal and Righteous Army, whether it was firearms or artillery.
Not only is the rate of fire of the firearm far inferior to that of the other party, but even the Tang army can't support three rounds of fire, it will collapse, whether it is offensive or defensive, it is often after a few rounds of fire, the troops will collapse, on the other hand, the Ming army, it seems to be crumbling, but it can always hold on to the end, such a result makes him really headache.
"If you continue to fight like this, it will definitely not work!"
"Great King, the cavalry led by General Sun is already in place."
"Got it......"
Li Ziyuan just sighed helplessly, and then closed his eyes, and he once again thought about how Zhu Mingzhong used his troops when he attacked Liang Huafeng on Chinese New Year's Eve.
Thinking of Liang Huafeng's fiasco in the end, Li Ziyuan's eyebrows raised slightly, and then he thought to himself.
"It should be okay to brew like this, right?"
The reason why he was a little nervous was not that he didn't know how to make it in the same way, but even that he had used similar methods countless times in the past few years, and he had already used it perfectly.
The reason why he was nervous was that he felt that such an axe would not have the opposite effect. After all, this method was made by Zhu Mingzhong, and he would have any countermeasures.
"There shouldn't be a way to counter......"
Again, after determining the length of the deer rock and trench in the outer circle of the Ming army's barracks, Li Ziyuan suddenly gritted his teeth and said.
"Order the infantry to attack, and attack on time!"
Just after the ugly hour, the gate of the Tang army's camp was quietly opened, and thousands of soldiers quietly walked into the night, they quietly walked towards the predetermined position under the cover of night, and the winter fog obscured the light of the snow, providing an additional layer of guarantee for their march. Almost half an hour later, after stumbling and marching, these Tang soldiers who were advancing in the dark finally came to an offensive position less than two miles away from the Ming army camp.
Then everyone was there to endure the bitter cold of winter, to endure the biting cold wind, and then quietly waited for the order to attack.
Looking at the exhausted and huddled soldiers in front of him, looking at the unusually quiet enemy position in the distance, Shi Mingli's heart seemed a little irritable, he seemed a little hesitant, and occasionally his heart was a little flustered.
He was born as a scholar, and he originally joined the army to expel the Tartars, but he never imagined that one day, he would become a rebel.
The king of Tang killed the Yongli Emperor in a vain attempt to establish himself as the emperor!
And he held a military position under such a usurped rebel minister, isn't this also a chaotic minister and thief?
Every time he thought about this, he inevitably felt a little upset. After all, this was not what he hoped for, and he had imagined that one day, when the Qing captives were driven out of the Central Plains, what would happen to him? He will even study the article painstakingly for the title of the next year's gold list.
And now...... He didn't see a glimmer of hope, and he even saw the possibility of ruining his reputation.
However, he is powerless to change all this, he is in the army, all he can do now is to obey the order, just like now, leading his soldiers to prepare to launch a night attack, the reason why he launched a night attack is because Tang Wang knows that he must defeat the loyal army, otherwise his own future, including the future and life of everyone in the Tang army, will end here, Tang Wang is now desperate, he vainly tried to break through the Ming army's camp with superior forces, which has even become Shi Mingli's only choice. In this regard, Shi Mingli has no choice. He could only go all the way, because his villagers also knew that he was Tang Jun...... He's already a rebel and a thief.
While Shi Mingli was wandering around in distraction, hundreds of feet in front of him, a group of soldiers in white cloth were lying in the snow, digging a projectile crater there.
Gunpowder ejection!
This was the secret method of the Loyal and Righteous Army, of course, the Tang Army was no stranger, after all, Li Ziyuan was the deputy commander of the Loyal and Righteous Army, he naturally knew how to use gunpowder projectile, and when he conquered Jiangxi, Wuchang and the Northern Expedition, he used the projectile method again and again to throw dozens of catties of gunpowder boxes into the city and camp hundreds of zhang away.
This time, he just used this projectile method on his main master. I don't know what the outcome will be, but at least it won't be bad. Because they knew very well that the power of these gunpowder boxes weighing 20 catties, the power of one gunpowder box may be limited, but a hundred, a thousand, or even four or five thousand gunpowder boxes, they were all thrown into the camp of the Ming army at once, and the destructive force produced was devastating, and thousands of people would be blown up to death in their sleep before they even had time to put on their clothes.
"Pass me the word! After the tea, all the soldiers finished resting and recuperating, and kept the same according to the original plan, and attacked the Ming army as soon as the time came! ”
Shi Mingli gritted his teeth violently and ordered his subordinates, but in his heart he was secretly praying there, praying that God would see that they had driven away the Tartars and bless them with victory this time.
Of course, he will not give all his hope to God, while praying, Shi Mingli specially ordered the soldiers to drip oil on the axle of the gun car, the so-called "gun car" is not a real gun car, it is equipped with a powder cabinet, the powder box has 500 catties of gunpowder, when attacking, it will be pushed by the soldiers in armor, all the way to the side of the earthen wall of the barracks, maybe this kind of gunpowder car can not blow up the city wall, but it can blow up those only two or three feet of the barracks earthen wall, those earthen walls are only temporarily built, blocking the gun is acceptableCompared with shelling, the artillery cart can blast a hole several zhang wide in the wall, and thousands of infantry can directly pour in, without giving the enemy a chance to backhand at all.
"Wait, wait a little longer, just take these forts......"
Thinking like this, Shi Mingli found that his mind became more and more anxious, and even began to become uneasy......