Chapter 331: Lure the enemy deeper, and the Jedi counterattacks
A.D. 1650 (in early March of the 4th year of Yongli, with Liu Wenxiu's 13th town as the vanguard, Yang Xuan personally led a large army to approach Yuanzhou, and the Qing army in Yuanzhou was heavily fortified, far from being comparable to other cities. (In history, Feng Shuangli led 80,000 troops, and it took eight years to conquer)
The Manchu Dynasty Shun Cheng Gonghui County King Luck Dehun is the grandson of Prince Li Daishan, and is also the most capable of fighting among the descendants of Nurhachi in this generation.
In the past two years, Haoge, Luo Luohun and others have been defeated one after another, although some Qing generals have changed their colors, but generals such as Luck Dehun and other famous generals are quite unconvinced, and have been thinking about competing with each other.
Five days earlier, when Luckedhun had received the news of the Volunteers' great eastward expedition, he was cautious and repeatedly sent scouts to inquire about the news.
Different from everyone's imagination, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was very good at using fine work, the battle of Sarhu had mastered the Ming army through fine work, Nurha Chifang said "depending on how many ways you come, I only go all the way" famous sentence, concentrated superior forces to break the Ming army
In the subsequent battles of Liaoyang and Shenyang, they all used the internal and external alliances to conquer important places and occupy cities in one fell swoop.
Even in the change of Jisi, Huang Taiji quickly invaded the pass three months after Mao Wenlong was killed, and took the Mongolian Karaqin cavalry as the front to enter the pass, and accurately ambushed Zhao Shuojiao's department between Santun Camp and Zunhua (Santun Camp is the Ming Army's Jizhou Town Town Government Station, and it is only thirty miles away from Zunhua, such a short distance can be accurately ambushed, far from being explained by the detailed betrayal, as long as normal people probably think that it is a collective framing of traitors. )
It can be said that an important reason for the victory of a hundred battles on the battlefield of the Tartars is that they are good at using fine work, or that the traitor is very successful.
At that time, the Tartars did not know that the Volunteers were building fortresses under the city to defend, but because the Tartars won consecutive battles, and the army was filled with an arrogant atmosphere, everyone believed that "the Jurchens were not more than 10,000, and more than 10,000 were invincible in the world", thinking that the Tartars were invincible in the world, and finally suffered frustration under the Shunqing City, and counterattacked for the volunteers, and the whole line was defeated, resulting in the annihilation of most of the Qing army in Sichuan.
The battle of Hanzhong was only a continuation of the battle of Sichuan, the Qing army was defeated in Sichuan, the morale of the whole army was low, and the personnel were seriously insufficient.
In the face of the Qing army's successive defeats, the forces in this situation were so scattered.
Although Luckedhun has sent many detailed personnel to understand the general situation of the Volunteers, there is now an intelligence department in the Volunteers to strengthen intelligence collection and counter-espionage activities, and truly secret military intelligence is very limited.
Yang Xuan took Guo Chonglie's 3rd town and Liu Wenxiu's 13th town as the vanguard, and the two towns crossed cover and killed Yuanzhou.
The two towns are sometimes one in front of the other, sometimes one on the left and one on the right, changing each other, the two towns are only more than 20 miles apart, crossing each other to cover, different from the past march route, in the past march in order to avoid being broken by each other, everyone huddled together.
Twenty or thirty miles behind him, it was the main force of the volunteer army led by Yang Xuan, including the guard town, the cavalry association, Yang Bingyi's 5th town, Feng and Youqing's 10th town, and Wang Zhibang's 11th town.
The volunteers drove straight in, and the local officials along the way sent men and horses to respond, and their vanguard reached the city of Yuanzhou.
Although a few years ago, the volunteers were defeated into the Sichuan Qing army and recaptured Sichuan and Hanzhong from the Tartars, but Luckedhun's subordinates loved these Eight Banners generals and were not vegetarians.
If you can defeat the volunteers on the battlefield, you can boast of your achievements, and now you see the volunteers approaching.
Luck Dehun shook his head and said: "Everyone in the world thinks that Yue Fei and Qi Jiguang are alive, but looking at their marching and fighting, the distance between the beginning and the end is a hundred miles, and there is also a distance of twenty or thirty miles from the left and right, and the troops are so scattered, just like the battle of Liu Bei Yiling back then.
This king still feels that this matter is quite strange, Yang Xuan's ability to defeat Haoge is by no means in vain, how can this march be so scattered, the front and back are hundreds of miles apart, and there are also twenty or thirty miles left and right, the momentum is huge, but it also causes the head and tail to be ignored, and it is difficult for the left and right to rescue each other. ”
In the battle of Yiling that year, the Wu army was in danger, Liu Bei camped for a hundred miles, the troops were scattered, and it was broken by Lu Xun, and finally died of illness in the White Emperor City, regretting it for life.
Luck Dehun and other Manchu and Mongolian generals have been familiar with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms since childhood, coupled with this expedition to the southwest, everyone pays more attention to the Shu Wei and Wu Shu wars, and is familiar with the battle of Yiling.
Liu Zhiyuan, the Han Army's Yellow Flag Gushan Ezhen, thought for a while, and said, "Lord Wang, is it that Yang Xuan deliberately bought a flaw to lure me into taking the bait?" ”
Lucketthun nodded solemnly and said, "It is very likely that the forces of the Volunteers are so scattered that it is very easy for me to defeat each of them. ”
Bei Zigong Ah Loan disagreed, shook his head and said, "Don't think about it, Lord Wang, you think Yang Xuan is too superb.
If Yang Xuan intends to do this, you can tell me, what is the benefit of him doing this? ”
Everyone was speechless for a while, and everyone was speechless.
Looking at the volunteers camped ten miles away, Gong Ayu arched his hand and said: "Lord Wang, the volunteers have won consecutive battles, arrogant and domineering, and now the morale of our army is low, everyone might as well go out of the city to fight, defeat the enemy in front of you, and then defend the city is not too late." ”
Luckedhun looked quite hesitant, not at all as confident as he was in the past against the other units of the Ming army, and the commander of the escort army, Borhui, asked for battle: "Lord Wang, the volunteer army is now so scattered that it is difficult to concentrate its strength, and it is easy for our army to defeat the enemy in front of it.
Besides, the volunteers are so scattered on the march now, and it is impossible for the siege to be so scattered in the future, and it is easy to break through each one. As the saying goes, if you don't take it, you will inevitably suffer from it.
Now, of course, we must take advantage of the successive victories of the Volunteers and the arrogance of all units to annihilate one of them first and improve morale. ”
Luckdehun's heart moved, and Fang ordered Xu Yong, the chief soldier of the green battalion, to lead his troops out of the city to fight, and ordered Bei Zigong Ayu to lead the Manmeng Zheng Red Flag in the rear.
The Manchurian and Mongolian people are small and noble on the battlefield, and the Manchu and Mongolian generals such as Luck Dehun are generally good enough to use on the blade. There are many soldiers and horses in the green battalion, anyway, they are cannon fodder, as long as there is money and food, they will come and go as soon as they are recruited.
Luck Dehun thought that this was a foolproof strategy, even if Yang Xuan had any conspiracy, it would only be the cannon fodder of the Green Camp that would be damaged.
After receiving the order, Xu Yong had no choice but to lead his troops to fight, facing the brave charge of the volunteers occupying more than ten mountains in the west of the city, but the volunteers on the opposite side had already been in strict formation, and the two sides fought for a long time around several small hills in front.
The opponent has few soldiers, and he has been attacking and killing for half a day in vain, and the department has suffered heavy casualties, looking at the Bei Zigong Ayu who is pressing the rear formation, and Bo Erhui, the commander of the Manchurian Zheng Red Banner Guard, and others are full of anger, Xu Yong can no longer sit still, and leads the pro-army battalion to rush to the front.
Seeing that the main general worked so hard, the soldiers of the green battalion under his command no longer dared to work and do not contribute, and everyone rushed to the front to take the lead in the charge, and under his leadership, the morale of the soldiers and horses of the green battalion was greatly boosted.
Gong Ayao swept the battle behind, and saw that the volunteers were oppressing the soldiers and horses of the green battalion, and now they were trying their best to resist, and felt that the opportunity had come, and led the two thousand Manmeng elite cavalry around him to charge.
After all, the main force is the main force, just like the previous campaigns, the Manchurian and Mongolian iron cavalry rushed to be unstoppable, and the volunteers who were still stubborn just now saw the Manchurian and Mongolian iron cavalry rushing over, one by one, like a deflated ball, they retreated.
Gong Ayao led a thousand Mongolian elite cavalry to rush forward, breaking through the tents of two volunteer soldiers in a row, and the other party was defeated, and everyone pursued all the way.
Along the way, the volunteers threw away their armor, the grain and grass were heavy, and the weapons were thrown all over the mountains, rushing down a hillside, hearing the sound of the mountain wind whirring in the ears, and the half-human-high thatch on both sides kept blowing.
A mile away in front is Liu Wenxiu's fashion, everyone can catch up with his fashion as long as they work harder, capture the opponent's town general alive, thinking of this, Gong Ayao waved a horse whip, shouted to his generals, and claimed that those who killed Liu Wenxiu were promoted to three levels and rewarded with a thousand taels of silver.
When the generals heard this, they cheered, and one by one they also dreamed of winning such an honor, and everyone rushed to the front and commanded all the troops to rush over.
It seemed that the other party couldn't run at all, and actually took a formation at the foot of a mountain opposite.
A young general stands under the big fashion, surrounded by more than 100 of his own soldiers.
Jiala, who rushed to the front, did not dare to make a mistake, hurriedly reorganized the soldiers and horses, and after gathering more than 300 horsemen, they were divided into five columns, each column was only thirty paces away, and everyone shouted and rushed over in unison.
Two hundred steps, one hundred and fifty steps, one hundred steps, the other party stood still, standing firmly in front, the soldiers pressed the realm to see the other side like this, some experienced soldiers felt that something was wrong, and some nervously stopped.
There must be a brave man under the heavy reward, and he is red-eyed on the battlefield, how can many people worry about him? Everyone shouted and rushed over.
Eighty paces away, fifty paces away, some riders had already taken off their bows and were about to bend their bows and shoot arrows, and everyone pondered that they would first shoot each other to disrupt the opponent's position, and then rush up to capture the opponent's general alive.
At this moment, a war drum sounded in front, and in the midst of everyone's surprise, a row of soldiers suddenly stood up in the grass in front of them from far and near, and suddenly released their guns at the Eight Banners riders who rushed over.
The slope of the hill formed a slope, and there were more infantry arranged at the same straight distance, and everyone used the latest flintlock pistol, which did not need to be ignited by the arquebus, and used the mountain grass on the side of one person as a cover to hide in it, so that the other party did not notice it at all, and now suddenly attacked, and the Tartar riders who rushed to the front row were either killed or wounded, and were shot by muskets.
The riders in the second row felt that something was wrong and tightened the reins of their horses, but because the horses were too fast, everyone was unprepared at first, and many people were also shot and fell off their horses.
While a few riders were lucky enough to escape, some hurriedly tightened the reins of their horses, while others were ill-prepared and let their horses rush forward.
About ten paces, seeing that the war horse was about to rush into the formation, suddenly there was a slogan in front, and everyone opened their eyes to see rows of sharpened branches erected in front of them.
Even in the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation, and the Korean War, where heavy machine guns appeared, it was difficult to resist the intensive charge of infantry and cavalry, and the idea of trying to completely defeat the opponent with the sharpness of firearms was almost whimsical.
Because most of the volunteers were selected from the young and strong people in the township, they were generous, and they had higher rewards after meritorious service, and there were spurs installed on the muskets, so they rarely fell behind in the face of the intensive charge of the local tyrants, rogues, and Tartar elite infantry.
However, Sichuan does not produce horses, and the cavalry of the Volunteer Army is less (now it is only two cavalry, less than 5,000 people), and the cavalry training is far less than that of the Liukou elite cavalry and the Tartar elite cavalry.
In order to stop the charge of the rogue cavalry, they tried to do everything they could, including surrounding the carriages as temporary fortifications, or sprinkling thistles after seeing the opposing iron cavalry rushing over, or even digging trenches, and so on.
Liu Wenxiu has experienced a hundred battles, this whim invented this kind of oblique bamboo row to break the cavalry intensive charge of the new formation, first sharpened, tied together, after the opponent's enemy cavalry rushed, everyone suddenly pulled the bamboo row, because one end is fixed in the back, after pulling the bamboo row obliquely on the ground, because the bamboo tip is aimed at the enemy, some are wrapped with sharp weapons, so that the fierce war horse crashes into the bamboo row or is injured or killed.
Even if the riders behind tightened the reins of their horses and did not hit the bamboo rafts, they were exposed in front of the musketeers at close range, and one by one they became live targets, and under the fire of rows and rows of guns, they fell and fell off their horses one after another.
Only two rounds, the Tartar iron cavalry momentum was repulsed, throwing down dozens of dead bodies, everyone desperately turned the horse's head to prepare to retreat, seeing that the other party was going to retreat, Liu Wenxiu ordered to light the beacon fire, thunder the war drums, and led the department to kill.
The soldiers cut the ropes, and the bamboo row that had just been blocking the Tartar iron cavalry in front of the formation collapsed on the hillside.
Standing on the hillside in the distance, Gong Ayu watched this scene in horror, especially after seeing the sky-high beacon fire in the opponent's formation, he felt that something was wrong, and was about to withdraw his troops, but it was too late.
With the beacon fire as the number, Guo Chonglie led the 3rd town from the left, and Wang Zhibang led the 11th town from the right to kill.