Chapter 297: Fang Cheng Suppresses Bandits and Rings Horses

The mobilization documents of the soldiers and horses arrived faster than the surrounding troops, and now there are only more than 6,000 soldiers outside Linyi City who can enter the mountains to encircle and suppress, which is all the horses that the two guards can dispatch. Originally, the soldiers and horses that were transferred from other places gathered more people and set out to suppress the bandits.

But after Wendao played the banner of King Jing, the supervision army of the imperial court rushed to Linyi with unprecedented efficiency, and ordered to be suppressed immediately, the reason is very simple, the current bandit is still hastily established, it is a good time to exterminate, if it is strong and troublesome.

How could the two local guards restrain the will of the imperial court, and although they were full of reluctance at the urging of the prison army, they still set off.

It was the governor of Shandong who led the troops, Deng Pu, he received the will of the imperial court and rushed to Linyi day and night, this incident happened in Shandong, as the governor of the party he is already a big crime, if not in this suppression of bandits to wear the crime and make meritorious contributions, I am afraid that the rebellion has not yet come to fruition, and the black yarn on his head is not guaranteed.

The Jinyi guards and various officials around Linyi City are not eating in vain, and the news from all sides is summarized, and it is concluded that this remnant bandit should have the strength of two or three thousand people in his hands, and now he is entrenched in the Yimeng Mountains near Fei County, although the cavalry dispatched is many, but it is also the scale of seven or eight hundred people.

According to the common concept of bandits on the mountain, whether it is the garrison leading the team or the thousand generals, they all feel that the two or three thousand people on the mountain can fight these seven or eight hundred cavalry, and the more than 6,000 officers and troops themselves are attacking and suppressing, although they are a little uncertain, but they are not in any danger.

Six thousand versus three thousand, such a comparison of forces still makes the officers of the guard feel uncertain, and it can also show what kind of combat effectiveness these soldiers are.

There is a place called Fangcheng in the middle of Linyi to Fei County, which is a rare flat land in the nearby mountains, and the army that has walked for two days is thinking about taking a rest in this place.

The generals also understand very well, walking in the official roads in the mountains, killing evil water on both sides, if they are ambushed, I am afraid that the whole army will collapse, and then the governor will be lost, and at that time, even if he wants to make meritorious contributions, there will be no chance. The garrison, the highest-ranking among the officers, told Governor Deng Pu very frankly about these things, although Deng Pu did not know about military affairs, but he also knew the state of the local officers and soldiers.

Originally, this time to suppress bandits, Deng Pu was ready to mobilize the soldiers and horses of Shandong guerrilla Jiangfeng, and everyone knew the combat effectiveness of the Jiang army, it was a first-class strong army, not to mention that the 2,000 soldiers from Tengzhou were transferred to the vicinity of Fei County, and the distance was also very close. However, this transfer was directly denied by the above.

If the Jiang army is not mobilized, then there will be no available army in Shandong, when Chen Deaf rebelled, the two guards near Linyi played a combat effectiveness, but then because of the defense of the vassal king was transferred to Qingzhou garrison, originally wanted to wait until about 15,000 soldiers and horses were gathered in the mountains to suppress bandits, but the documents of the imperial court urged one after another, and he had no time to wait.

I had to gather 6,000 soldiers from the nearest place to enter the mountain, and the common practice in the Ming Dynasty was that civilian officials led the troops and eunuchs supervised the army. Military generals are all executors, but there are so many civilian officials who understand military affairs, so there are a lot of inexplicable and unreasonable things in military orders. Governor Deng Pu was quite self-aware this time, anyway, before the promotion, he made it clear to the generals of the guard:

"This time King Jing fell, and then rumored to rebel, no matter what, the civil and military forces in Shandong Province, I'm afraid they will not be able to escape the responsibility, if this attack fails, the head of the official and your Xiang Shangshang may not be able to be saved, the official does not move the military of the march, just ask the generals here."

These words were really true, and several officers did not say anything else, but said that although the governor could rest assured, this was a matter of vital importance to our lives, and we should naturally do our best.

When Governor Deng had nothing to do in the past, he also read a few military books, and knew that walking on the official road in the mountains, the places with poor mountains and bad waters were the most easy to be ambushed, and he was worried about walking along the way, until the soldiers in front said that they were going to get out of this mountainous area, which was relieved.

I didn't expect my heart to settle down just now, and the family I sent in the team came back in a hurry to report the news, and the tone at this time was not as relaxed as the wonder just now, but a little angry, and said breathlessly:

"Master, master, the thief army is in front of the formation, waiting for the army!"

If you go into the mountains to suppress bandits, the bandits should be honestly waiting to be suppressed, of course, if they are not honest and run from the sky and the earth chased by the officials and soldiers, it is also possible.

However, the current Wendao Department has set up a position in Fang Cheng with great fanfare, and it turned out to be a picture of preparing for battle, which is too bold. Things are abnormal, that is, demons, and Governor Deng naturally has no confidence in his heart, so he hurriedly urged the carriage and horses to go to the front of the battle to see what was going on.

After learning that the people outside had already formed a formation there, the generals of the Ming army almost fell from their horses, but when they went to the front of the formation to observe, and after reporting the results of the investigation of the horses, they said that the bandits who formed a formation in Fangcheng were less than a thousand cavalry, so could such a small number of men and horses be an ambush.

Not only the generals had this idea, but even the governor Temple thought so, but the scouts and sentries searched carefully, but they found no trace, and then the generals began to get excited, there were less than a thousand horse bandits in front of them, and there were 6,000 people here.

Less than a thousand horse bandits, this number is also the same as the situation reflected in Linyi and the surrounding looted cities, Governor Deng Pu and the garrison and several thousand always looked at each other, couldn't help laughing, Governor Deng Pu's nervous mood relaxed suddenly, and the garrison on the side said with ambition:

"Just eat the anti-thief here in Fangcheng, this is a great achievement!"

Seeing that the officers and soldiers on the opposite side gradually calmed down from the beginning of the panic, they gradually formed a formation under the shouting of the generals, and slowly pressed towards this side.

Wen Dao and the subordinates around him didn't have any panicked looks on their faces, whether it was the two hundred cronies he had brought with him when Chen was deaf or the four hundred family soldiers who came over from the Jiang family's army, they all looked calm. These people are all strong knights who have fought in thousands of armies.

On the contrary, more than 100 people from Yimeng horse bandits were quite nervous, Wen Dao sighed in his heart, after all, he can't always rely on these more than 600 cavalry, I don't know how many people his cousin has put in, and his two hundred cronies are only listening to the orders of the patriarch Liu 12 and Liu 13, but Wen Dao always feels that if the Liu family has the prestige of the past, they must do it alone, at least now they have a lot of momentum, and now they have played the banner of King Jing, and sent the seal of King Jing to the people around them.

Originally, the various forces that were very wary of themselves or kept their distance came over to curry favor one after another, it seems that the name of the Zhu family is really useful, under the banner of King Jing, recruiting troops and horses in Lunan here, wouldn't it be more and more powerful, why bother to defect to Jiang Feng in Dengzhou.

Although that person is fierce, he has been thinking about messing around at sea all day long, and he has not left Dengzhou and Shandong, which is a hero's work, and what future is there, but he never thought that everything he has now was given to him by Jiang Feng, and even the idea of capturing King Jing this time came from Dengzhou.

Under Wen Dao's order, the seven hundred cavalrymen all mounted their horses and lined up in a neat queue, controlling the speed of the horses and slowly advancing towards the formation of the official army, all holding the usual wooden poles in their hands, only sharpened their heads with knives, and the poles were about seven feet long.

The horses ran in small steps, the first few rows were quite neat, and the back ones were a little scattered, Wen Dao knew that this was also the tactic of the cavalry who came back from Dengzhou, saying that it was to save horsepower before the impact, and the pointed wooden pole in his hand was still when he came to Fangcheng, the leader of the four hundred people in Dengzhou, speaking of it, was suggested by his distant cousin, and he didn't know what it did.

The 6,000 officers and soldiers can spread out in this gentle area, that is, about 2,000 people, but it can also be arranged into a fairly thick phalanx, and the thick phalanx of the infantry often brings confidence to the soldiers, and the formation will not be scattered easily, especially this kind of soldiers who are not strong.

Compared with the thick phalanx of 2,000 people, and the large array of officers and soldiers behind these 2,000 people, the queue of seventy horsemen who heard the knife was much more sparse, and there was no majesty.

Seeing that the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, Wen Dao picked up the short axe hanging on the side of the saddle, and shouted loudly, the front of the horse team suddenly began to accelerate, and the body of the war horse was already hot after a period of jogging, and with a little spur, it was rushed.

The pointed wooden poles erected in their hands were all flattened, as if they were arrows from the string galloping forward, and the advancing soldiers looked at the horses rushing in front of them, as well as the sharpened wooden spears, they knew that the phalanx was thick and could withstand the charge of the cavalry in front of them.

So the men in the back row did not hesitate, but the soldiers in the first row turned pale, and in any case they were the first to bear the brunt of the cavalry.

The cavalry was getting closer and closer, and finally some of the officers and soldiers couldn't stand it anymore, they even forgot to put the spears in their hands flat, and ran to both sides with a panicked shout, and the second row naturally didn't want to do so, the third row, the fourth row......

The position of the officers and troops has been dispersed!