Chapter 322: Battle of Jining

The current Liu 13 and the rebels who heard the knife were not in a hurry, and they were moving towards Jining in all directions, which was also a matter of no choice, the march of the army must ensure that the team behind it maintained a similar speed, and could not be left behind, and the defeated army of the knife needed to be sorted out.

The wounded were mercilessly discarded, this kind of thing was originally an act that greatly damaged morale, but Liu Shisan issued an order, saying that the battle of Jining was already a decisive battle that had to be won, and it had to be so.

They hoped to use this method to arouse the determination of their subordinates to fight against the water, but among the 30,000 people they brought, there were about 22,000 people who were coerced, and even the horse team and Liu 13's foot soldiers had nearly 4,000 so-called converted soldiers.

Except for more than 4,000 people who followed two people with dead hearts, the rest of the people had different intentions, but the core force of the rebels could still deter these coerced people, but this kind of news of the last battle did not arouse everyone's courage at all, but made people panic.

On the day of the fire in Yantai Mountain, the rebels came to the city of Jining after a night's rest, and the spring morning was undoubtedly refreshing.

The climate in Lunan is the best time at this time, and there is green everywhere, but all of this is washed away by the atmosphere of the impending big war, Liu Shisan sat on his horse, observing the other party's military town, which was extremely surprising to him.

Since the battle with the official army, except for Liu Shisan's field battle with the men and horses led by Zhou guerrilla outside Linyi City, the rest are battles to siege and defend the city, and strictly speaking, the rebels have never suffered a big loss, even under the city of Zoucheng, the casualties of Wendao's troops are much smaller than the defenders.

In the battle of attacking and defending the city, the proportion of casualties on the besieging side is far higher than that of the defenders, and the above are all very high with the proportion of soldiers who have undergone strict training in the rebel army and soldiers who have been bandits for many years, so they have the quality and courage to fight far higher than that of the Ming army.

Wen Dao had already recovered from the defeat, and looked at the Ming army lined up on the side of the city wall, and couldn't help but laugh:

"I can't see it, the Ming army also has brave soldiers, and there are still troops who dare to go out of the city with us to fight, which is left with the strength to attack the city."

Liu Shisan was much calmer, and he always raised his hand to look at the large array of officers and soldiers in front of him, and while watching, he turned back and asked the leader in charge of exploring the horse on the side and said:

"In the past few days of investigation, are you sure you haven't seen the military flag of the tiger head?"

The leader replied solemnly:

"The subordinates dare to use their own heads to vouch for it, and there is absolutely no tiger head military flag among the gathered officers and soldiers in Jining."

Without waiting for Liu 13 to continue asking, the leader pulled the horse closer to Liu 13, lowered his voice and said:

"General, we have already used the relationship on the local green forest road to make sure that no soldiers from Dengzhou came here......"

Wen Dao on the side looked at the leader who inquired about the news and whispered to Liu Shisan, although he was dissatisfied in his heart, but the current situation is like this, his influence has decreased a lot, and this dissatisfaction can only be suppressed in his heart, Liu Shisan over there listened to the leader's statement.

The originally nervous expression relaxed a little, and looking at the officers and troops opposite, Liu Shisan suddenly said with a smile:

"These officers and soldiers are dressed in shabby, and the formation is scattered, Jining should be sure this time."

In the training of the Jiang family army in Dengzhou, the most important thing is the stability of the formation, and Jason Hogan's training has extremely strict requirements for this, and there is such strictness: I would rather lose the speed of progress than let the formation be chaotic! This kind of demand is already deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

The following four battalions, because the officers and soldiers themselves have nothing to do with the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, so the way of training and training is to use the methods of the Dengzhou battalion, when fighting, do not pay attention to speed, just pay attention to the neatness of the formation, it has been proved that the existence of this formation has a great effect on the battlefield.

In the chaos of war, as long as their formation is not chaotic, they can protect each other, increase the ability to kill, and especially stabilize their psychological state, so as not to panic, in fact, the existence of this tactic, in fact, is similar to the soldiers defending the city, the companions around him are his fortifications, he is not worried about his back and sides, he can rest assured to kill the enemy boldly.

Liu Shisan has tasted the sweetness of these trainings, and when he fought with the 10,000 officers and soldiers of Zhou's guerrillas, he almost won the victory with the two thousand iron armor he pulled out in the Jiang family's army, and the iron-armored phalanx was like a reef in the wind and waves, and it never fell, so he also used this training method for the young men who came over, and I have to admit that Jiang Feng's queue training methods from modern times really made people feel a sense of teamwork, and some of the soldiers who came in the coercion began to gradually accept the rebels. Maybe it has something to do with this.

The same is true of the horse team that smells the knife, when he followed Chen Deaf, he trained the horses to charge and fight with the cavalry according to Liu Twelve's method, he thought that this was the secret method of the Liu family, but he didn't expect that this was also the means of the Dengzhou battalion.

It's just that this kind of training method has a very bad effect, that is, Wen Dao and Liu Shisan, and even many high-ranking leaders in the rebel army, vaguely regard whether the queue is neat or not as a guarantee of whether the army is strong or not, Liu Shisan, since the incident, has not lost the battle with the official army. It deepened his impression.

"Xiaodao, you take the horse team over and rush first, and my infantry team will follow, we can't afford to drag it off, and defeat them at once!"

Cavalry charging into battle this is already a common practice for rebels, the moment raised their arms, the soldiers around him immediately waved the big flag in their hands back and forth, the drum is also knocking to remember, the horse team at the front of the team began to break away from the big formation, slowly changing the formation to prepare to move.

This time, naturally, there was no room to return, except for the more than 100 personal soldiers around Liu Shisan, more than 1,500 horse teams were all in front, and the 300 cavalry team was assembled and began to run slowly in small steps.

The military formation of the Ming army on the opposite side also reacted, and when he heard the loud shouts inside, there were also some changes in the originally scattered military formation, but such changes were seen in Liu Shisan's eyes, which increased his confidence in victory, and there was no military order to talk about any combat power.

Wen Dao stood in the middle of the horse team, holding a spear in his hand, looking at the officers and soldiers who had not changed on the opposite side, the spear in his hand slowly slanted down, and turned to the front, the horse team roared, and the cavalry in the first row had thick wooden poles with spears in their hands.

This kind of carbine is about two feet longer than the spear of the official army, and it is much thicker than the ash pole, whether it is to impact the infantry formation or the cavalry formation, it is quite powerful, but the Mongolian horse is short and the load-bearing capacity is very poor, so these people are wearing horse armor instead of iron armor at most.

The heavy cavalry in Europe, whether it is Jiang Feng or Jason Hogan, is very important to build, but as long as the body is wearing iron armor, the speed and flexibility of the horse will be greatly affected.

Under the guidance of Liu Twelve's letterhead and the Liu family soldiers from the Dengzhou battalion, Wendao's cavalry team used a variety of cavalry tactics, of course, this was also an intention of Jiang Feng and Jason Hogan, using this horse team as a base for experimental tactics.

The use of this kind of heavy cavalry can be said to be quite effective, in the extremely lax armament of the various guards, in the face of a row of high-speed rushing cavalry spears, there are few infantry do not collapse, but the weight of this heavy cavalry also determines that the cavalry cannot wear too heavy armor.

At most, it is leather armor, but the price of leather armor is not cheap, the money looted by the knife and the supplies supplied by the Dengzhou battalion will definitely not be placed on the leather armor, and in the current battles, in all field battles, the heavy cavalry is basically defeated in front of it, and the damage of the cavalry is very small.

The Ming army's military formation looked at the cavalry slowly pressing over on the opposite side, and the sound of shouting loudly over there was already covered by the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, and in Liu Shisan's eyes, it seemed that the Ming army was already panicked, and many people ran out of the array in the military formation.

Liu Shisan's heart was faintly relaxed, thinking that if he occupied Jining this time, he would have to re-invest in Dengzhou Jiang no matter what, and he didn't know how expensive firewood and rice were if he didn't belong to his family! With a wave of his hand, the footmen behind him began to move forward

Wen Dao, who charged in front, completely flattened the cavalry gun in his hand, and the point of the spear spurted slightly drooped, which could save the arm strength of the cavalry, and the horse was condescending, and the flat end was easy to defend the horse.

When the cavalry charged, the direction of the cavalry spear of the sword was the command flag of the horse team, the cavalry was flattened, and each cavalry began to desperately urge the horses to charge forward, and the cavalry spears of hundreds of horses in the first row were flattened, the scene was extremely spectacular, and the rumbling sound was deafening.

As the distance got closer, the untidy-looking queue on the opposite side still did not look panicked, and if it was usual, the officers and soldiers had already fled in all directions before the cavalry of the brigade had approached.

There was a sudden rush of gongs in the official and military formation, and the soldiers standing at the front of the official army formation were ready to open their bows and arrows!

It was actually an archer, the distance between the two sides was less than thirty paces, the speed and inertia of the horses could not be stopped, and there was a loud noise in the military formation of the officers and soldiers.

Countless feather arrows roared and shot out quickly, strong bows and sharp arrows, such a close distance, there is no way to avoid it!!