Chapter 166: Wu Sangui
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"Wu Sangui! It's Wu Sangui who is here! Hehe! I really want to see it, this Wu Sangui's ability! Xiao Tianjian still stayed on the roof of the village, observing the dynamics ahead with a telescope, when he saw the big "Wu" word recognition flag appear in the official army array, Xiao Tianjian was a little excited, although he couldn't meet this Wu Sangui face-to-face, but he was still looking forward to this Wu Sangui can have a good performance!
There are still two battalions of men and horses behind the village that have not moved, these are the reserve men and horses used as a rear hand, this time Xiao Tianjian led a small number of soldiers and horses to cross the Jindi River, Chen was stationed on the south bank of the Jindi River, and the rest of the soldiers and horses retreated to the area of the Tuxiao River in advance, avoiding the main force of the official army, when the official army arrived at the Jindi River, the entire flank was exposed to the main force of the Xingtian Army hiding in the area of the Tuxiao River.
Xiao Tianjian and Li Xin's revised battle plan is actually not complicated, that is, to continue to lure the enemy deeper, and never give up the idea of fighting an ambush war, although Xiao Tianjian has also wavered, planning to give up the original idea of ambush warfare, and simply bump into a dignified fight with Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui, but later was persuaded by Li Xin, after Li Xin proposed this plan, Xiao Tianjian immediately happily adopted it.
His purpose was to make Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui give up too many thoughts, and believe that his main force was besieging Jining Prefecture, so that they could relax their vigilance and cross the Jindi River to the south.
The first two ambushes failed because of Sun Chuanting's excessive vigilance, but this time Xiao Tianjian saw that Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui had already relaxed their vigilance and began to step into the trap he set, so although he was in danger at this time, he was in a pretty good mood, and when he led the four guard division's battalions to cross the river to the south, all the generals in the army also objected, and felt that Xiao Tianjian could not take the risk with his body, and he could stay in the Tuxiao River area with the main force, and it would be a battle to command. However, Xiao Tianjian still insisted on personally going to the south bank of the Jindi River to supervise the army to block a large number of officers and soldiers, in his opinion, although his troops were not much, but they were enough, and he knew that the more he was in danger, the more he could stimulate the fighting spirit of his subordinates, so in the end he crossed the river with Li Xin and came here.
Because Sun Chuanting had already relaxed his vigilance, there were not many people who did not collect at night after crossing the river, and the ambush of the scout team arranged by Liu Yaoben in advance killed the two official and military teams that came towards the village where they were hiding, so the officers and soldiers did not discover their hiding place in advance.
When Wu Sangui led his troops to kill and rushed over, they didn't know that behind this village, there were more than 2,000 men and horses of the Heavenly Army waiting to go into battle!
The reason why Xiao Tianjian did not let more than 4,000 people and horses pull out was to show weakness to the enemy first, so that the other party felt that Liu Yaoben's men and horses were just a small number of people and horses who came to contain them, so as not to frighten Sun Chuanting, who had become very vigilant, so in this battle, Liu Yaoben must first block the official army with a small number of troops, so that the official army continued to increase troops, and finally when the attention was on the south bank of the Jindi River, Luo Li and other troops killed behind them, and finally surrounded and annihilated the official army in the area of the Jindi River.
And Wu Sangui really didn't think much about it, after all, the surrounding terrain was basically flat, and they didn't find that there were a large number of people and horses of the Xingtian Army nearby, with a force of four or five thousand people, to deal with the two thousand men and horses of the Xingtian Army, he felt that it was enough, so he led his troops to kill them violently.
Wu Sangui, who was far away, gathered his soldiers and horses, began to line up, and looked at the Xingtian army that appeared on the opposite side, after taking a look, Wu Sangui was quite surprised, although the number of this Xingtian army was not much, but it was very neat, and the equipment was very well-equipped, almost everyone was wearing a very peculiar style of armor, the iron helmet was nothing special, and the eight-petal iron helmet equipped by the current official army was basically the same, and it could even be said that it was simply captured from the hands of the official army, and the style was the same at all, The difference is that the feather on the top of their heads is of different colors, which is obviously used to distinguish the different levels of the thief officers, but the iron armor worn by the thief army is very peculiar, basically a combination of several large areas of iron armor, mainly covering the vital parts of the thief's torso, and lining it with a cotton armor, which is both warm and strong.
And almost all of the thieves are wearing armor, which even these Liaodong soldiers under his command have not been able to reach, let alone the officers and soldiers in ordinary places, so he can judge at a glance that this 2,000-strong Xingtian thief must be the elite of the thief army, so he was a little vigilant and ordered the soldiers and horses under his command to stabilize, but think about it, his strength far exceeds the thief army a lot, although the thief army is well equipped, but he still occupies the advantage in strength, so he is not afraid.
Although Wu Sangui is not very old, but he was born in the army since he was a child, he followed his father Wu Xiang in the army to train, and his vision is still quite good, after he saw the soldiers and horses of this torture thief, he immediately found that this torture thief is definitely composed of a group of soldiers who have survived a hundred battles, and these people have undergone very strict training, just standing in formation, it makes people feel like a mountain, so Wu Sangui immediately put away his contempt and added a caution.
And Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses did not move, and the soldiers and horses of the Xingtian Army did not move, the two armies were separated by a distance of two or three hundred steps, facing each other from a distance, Wu Sangui watched the opponent's army formation, and felt that the other party's army formation had not been seen before, the class of troops was very simple, that is, the pikeman, the sword player and the fire hand, these three kinds of soldiers were composed, such a simple composition of the troops, so he couldn't understand it, and it was the first time he saw such a soldier and horse, so he secretly made a mistake in his heart, and felt that such a soldier formation, how could he exert a powerful combat effectiveness?
So after thinking about it for a while, he immediately ordered a thousand generals under his command, and first led the troops to test the reality of the other party, so this thousand generals immediately named more than six hundred subordinates, opening the way with sword players, archers and firecrackers followed, and armored soldiers were at the end of the formation as an assault force, discharging a common formation and driving towards the Xingtian army.
Liu Yaoben looked at the performance of the officers and soldiers opposite, sneered secretly, and said to a battalion general named Yan Ting next to him: "It seems that this is the official army from outside the gate, and it is better than the local officials and soldiers!" At least in terms of equipment and training, it should be stronger than the ordinary officers and soldiers in the mainland! This platoon is still in the middle of the range! ”
This Yan Ting is also a young general, a distant nephew of Yan Chongxi, who joined the Xingtian Army a few years ago, first trained in the juvenile battalion, and then followed Liu Yaoben when he joined the army, and now he has also been promoted to a battalion general, but one of Liu Yaoben's favorite generals, he sneered and said after hearing Liu Yaoben's words: "That's!" The imperial court threw millions of taels of silver every year on them! If they couldn't even compare with the officials and soldiers in the mainland, these people would have died a long time ago! The people's fat and ointment that Daming sucked were all wasted on them, even if they trained a group of pigs, the pigs could win a few battles with the Tartars, and their guys were just silver-like wax spear heads! Forget it! We'll see how we kill them in a moment! ”
Liu Yao could have said that he was disdainful of the fact that the official army had sent hundreds of people to test it, and he didn't even invite the light artillery in the army to come out, but just waved his hand lightly and said: "Don't talk nonsense!" them back! ……”
This Wu Sangui's Qian Zong is also unlucky, he also saw that the opposite Xingtian thief seemed to be not easy to provoke, but under the military order, he did not dare to disobey, so he could only lead his troops to rush over, dozens of steps away, became his nightmare, they Liaodong soldiers are also equipped with some bird guns, but there are not many of them, there are a lot of three-eyed guns, and there are some archers in between, if this kind of firepower against Jiannu dares to fight, it is not weaker than the Jiannu army, but against the Xingtian army can suffer a big loss.
After approaching the distance of receiving the fire, the firecrackers of the Xingtian Army were not polite to them, and as soon as the guns passed, the officers and soldiers of these hundreds of people were left behind, and when dozens of corpses and wounded soldiers were lost in front of the battle, they fled back.
Wu Sangui was secretly taken aback, although he didn't expect this team of people to defeat this thief army in the past, but he didn't expect them to lose so quickly, the other party's bird gun was so sharp, so accurate and so ruthless, that it was beyond the scope of his cognition of the bird gun, when did the bird gun become so powerful?
So he remembered the things that Sun Chuanting told him about the Xingtian Army, Sun Chuanting has fought with the Xingtian Army many times over the past year, and he has suffered enough losses from the Xingtian Army, and he knows how powerful the Xingtian Army's bird guns are, and these generals outside the Guanxi have mentioned to Wu Sangui and these generals outside the Guanxi many times these days that the Xingtian Army's bird guns are extremely sharp and abnormal, and they fight far and hard, so they must not be careless, but Wu Sangui and their group of Liaodong generals all know about the bird guns, and think that this thing is actually chicken ribs, and the Xingtian Army relies on these chicken ribs. Those officers and troops who can fight the customs must be too bad, so they don't pay too much attention to it.
But today, he knew that Sun Chuanting was not exaggerating, this kind of bird gun of the Xingtian Army was indeed quite powerful, not only far but also fierce, so he became more vigilant, and immediately ordered to change the tactics, sent cavalry to flank the Xingtian Army's large array, and the main force attacked head-on with shields, and took out the methods that had been tried by both the officers and the Jiannu Army in various places before, and used it again.
This battle is not too carefully described, Wu Sangui launched a strong attack on Liu Yaoben's army formation, the battle lasted for about half an hour, and then it was defeated, in short, Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses suffered a big loss in front of Liu Yaoben's group of Xingtian army.