Hearing that Yang Xuan had returned to the army and the front-line military information had been delivered, Duoduo had already led his troops to the front line of Yaoting, and was currently leading 10,000 Manchurian cavalry, 7,000 Han army cavalry of Zhengbei Banner and Beiqi cavalry stationed in Yaoting, and Cai Shiying led Xia Yiyu and other troops to storm Liu Wenxiu's department.

Wang Xiang pointed to the map and said: "Lord Wang, the Qing army is attacking very fiercely, and General Liu Wenxiu's troops are limited, and they can't be prepared, and now they have shrunk the defense line.

But now that our naval army has defeated the Tartar naval army, after hearing the news of the defeat of the naval army, the Tartars will be terrified, if the prince leads our army to kill the past, he will definitely be able to decide the situation in a battle, and open the passage out of Sichuan in one fell swoop."

Wu Yanghu sighed and said: "Lord Wang, Duoduo is the most outstanding general of the Barbarian Qing Dynasty, and his department not only commands the two Han Army Banners, but also has the Barbarian Qing Zhengbei Banner, the Mongolian Zhengbei Banner, and the Mosaic North Banner, which can be said to be quite powerful. ”

Yang Xuan stood up, walked back and forth for a few steps, and said: "Everyone, have you seen it, in the past, the Tartar cavalry often took the lead, and as soon as the two sides came into contact, the Tartars immediately used the cavalry to attack our army, and then the Han army and the green battalion followed behind to expand the results of the battle."

But this time, Duoduo actually let Cai Shiying, an old traitor, take the lead, which is a very unusual move. ”

Wang Fuzhi shook his head and said, "Duoduo is like this, Lord Wang, tell me what is the reason?"

When everyone heard this, they used their imagination and said their reasons for being happy, and the reasons were nothing more than these points:

The Volunteers defeated Hauge and Nikan one after another, and Duoduo was afraid to face the battle.

The vicinity of the pavilion is mountainous, which is not conducive to the battle of the Tartar infantry army.

It's the height of summer, and it's not good for the tartars

The Tartars are deployed and are preparing for a decisive battle with the Volunteers.

The Tartars felt that the Volunteers were strong and were ready to fight the Volunteers.

Diseases appear inside the tartars

The supply of food and grass for the Tartars was not in time

……..

Yang Xuan listened and nodded from time to time, then asked the staff officer to summarize and then stood up and said: "Everyone, let me tell you a fable, everyone has seen elephants in Yunnan time, and elephants can be said to be the largest animals on land that this king has ever heard of.

In ancient times, a man brought an elephant to him, and several blind men ran over to touch the elephant to see what the elephant really looked like.

Some touched the elephant's ears and thought the elephant was like a fan.

Some touched the teeth of elephants, and the elephant was like a big turnip

Some touched the body of an elephant, like a wall

Some touched the elephant's leg and thought the elephant was like a pillar. ”

When everyone heard this, they burst into laughter.

Yang Xuan said with a smile: "Everyone, the enemy situation on the battlefield is unknown, judging the enemy situation is a bit like a blind man touching an elephant, we touch the elephant's trunk, body, thighs, etc., although this is the truth of the Tartar, but the situation of the Tartar should not be limited to these points." ”

Wu Yanghu looked quite puzzled and asked, "Lord Wang, since this is the case, how do we judge the situation of the Tartars?" ”

Yang Xuan said with a smile: "That is, through verification, through continuous testing, detection to find out the situation of the Tartar, and then as the situation is basically figured out, launch a counterattack according to the situation of the Tartar, so that it can be won by battle."

Take this time as an example, there is no doubt that midsummer is not good for the Tartars, and the hilly terrain is not conducive to the Tartar war, but it is not known whether it is the most real reason.

In this case, we still prioritize the decisive battle between the two sides to deploy our troops.

Didn't Cai Shiying lead 30,000 soldiers and horses to besiege Liu Wenxiu Town? Liu Weiming was sent to relieve the siege, and the prince led 5 towns to follow in order to deal with the possible attack of the Tartars.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Tartars are only relying on the Manchurian cavalry, and although there are many mountains on this road, everyone needs to make considerable arrangements to prevent the Tartar cavalry from sneaking up. ”

When everyone heard this, they clasped their fists and said yes.

Liu Weiming town in front, along the way every 10 miles to leave a division of soldiers and horses at the pass to prepare more stones, rolling wood, set up a wooden spur formation, to resist the horse formation, in case of the Tartar cavalry attack.

After a day and a half of marching, they arrived at a small mountain col five miles west of Gubei, where the large group of men and horses stayed to rest, and Liu Weiming received the envoys sent by Liu Wenxiu for dinner, or watched the situation of the Tartars with a telescope.

The ancient back is composed of two Hengduan mountain ranges, Cai Shiying commanded 30,000 green battalion soldiers and horses are besieging the 13th town under the command of Liu Wenxiu, after 3 days of fierce fighting, Liu Wenxiu town suffered heavy casualties, and is now retreating to the ancient back of the two small mountain villages in a radius of stubborn defense.

Looking at the Tartars from afar, the two small mountain villages on the ancient back were surrounded, and a team of soldiers and horses were stubbornly killed, while the volunteers shouted, lined up in a mandarin duck formation, opened the way with earth-shaking thunder, and killed them.

Putting down the binoculars, Liu Weiming sighed: "After all, General Liu Wenxiu is a famous general on the battlefield, and his troops are brave in battle, but everyone doesn't pay much attention to the formation and the cooperation of various departments.

Yang Wei, the 24th guerrilla general, used to be a subordinate general under Liu Wenxiu when he was in Daxi, and now he is quite dissatisfied with Liu Weiming's order for the whole army to stop marching and rest for the whole army, and he arched his hand and said: "Now the Tartars are fighting with Liu Wenxiu Town, and our army is suddenly killed.

But rescuing soldiers is like fighting fire, what about waiting for me to eat and rest? ”

Liu Weiming shook his head and smiled: "General Yang, the prince has always warned us that we must be cautious when we should be cautious in using troops, and we must be bold when we should be bold. We are warned that we should not take many things for granted, and that we must comprehensively analyze the enemy's situation and then make a correct judgment.

Cai Shiying used to be a general of the ancestral life, and he fought for many years, so he was not an ordinary person.

It is impossible for Cai Shiying, who has tens of thousands of troops and water troops stationed in Yiling, not to know that now he is leading 30,000 soldiers and horses to attack Yiting, and his army must be more prepared.

Along the way, although we sent scouts along the way to protect the security of the 10-mile area, during which the scouts and the Tartar scouts fought many times, and the scouts on both sides suffered dozens of casualties.

Besides, my town is moving all the way, leaving a brigade every 10 miles to defend the pass to guard against the attack of the Tartar cavalry, so that there are still 4 brigades of soldiers and horses behind, and we can also wait for these soldiers and horses when we take the opportunity. ”

Yang Wei pointed to the battlefield of the battle blankly and said: "Even so, why do the Tartars still attack the ancient back, if our army kills out, the two sides should be united inside and outside, so what should we do?"

Liu Weiming handed over the telescope and said, "Yang Guerrilla, didn't General Liu say that there are 30,000 soldiers and horses in Tartar?" You see, there are only more than 20,000 Tartars who have been put into battle.

In this way, it seems that there must be tens of thousands of people around the Tartars, and when our army launches a counterattack, they will kill again, and when the time comes, they will end my back road.

Brothers can also take advantage of this to take a break, we can send a fast horse to let Jin Tongwu behind speed up the pace, and then counterattack, even if the Tartars ambush the soldiers, everyone doesn't have to worry, so the adults just lead the main force to encircle and annihilate Cai Shiying, this old boy. ”

Yang Wei smiled and said: "Of course, the brother family is just raising sperm and animals, Cai Shiying, a fake Tartar, is going to come to Yin, so we will give him Ming, see if he dares to lead an ambush to kill?" ”

The 6th town is the earliest established town, and now it has reached the establishment of the second type of town, with a total of 14 battalions of soldiers and horses.

Yang Wei led the 15th Regiment to storm the left flank of the Tartars, and Liu Weiming led the main force to attack the middle road, forming an internal and external attack with the ancient back of the volunteers, so as to defeat the Tartars and attack the cottage people.

Five miles away, the army arrived in a moment, when the news of the arrival of the volunteer reinforcements had already spread throughout the green battalion, seeing the volunteer army looking around, the green battalion soldiers and horses were worried that the volunteers would come to an inside and outside, and the internal and external attacks were to kill themselves on their backs, and everyone did not dare to attack the ancient back in this half an hour.

Seeing the reinforcements arrive, Liu Wenxiu was quite depressed at first worried that the reinforcements had been ambushed, but now he saw that Liu Weiming had discovered the mechanism and deliberately delayed time, and now he suddenly led his troops to kill, like three sharp blades, and attacked Xia Yi'e, the chief soldier of the green battalion besieging him.

Seeing this, Liu Wenxiu was overjoyed, pulled out his sword and commanded everyone to kill.