In this kind of frontal field battle on the plains, it is difficult to have all kinds of legendary tactics, and in general, they are all in a position to fight, and the fight is for whose capital is thicker. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Battle of Changping was a kind of encirclement and annihilation battle of a heavy army group, and there were few battles in the entire history of mankind.

It is impossible for the Ming army to replicate this kind of example again and again, the last time it bullied the US army was inexperienced, and this time after the US army began to be cautious, there was not much advantage to take advantage of.

After Lu Yunqi crossed the Pecos River, he quickly captured the cities of Pecos, Odessa, and Big Sprin along the railway line, and had already shown a clear situation of attacking Dallas along the railway.

The purpose is nothing more than to hope that the US military will divide its troops, and even if it does not divide its forces, it will not give them the ability to rescue San Antonio.

The main direction of the attack was between Zhang Kaishan and San Antonio, which was much closer, and within ten days the forward had already appeared on the outskirts of San Antonio, setting up camp, building fortifications, and waiting for the follow-up troops.

The U.S. forces were very cautious, and after several tentative attacks, they returned to their positions and waited for them, and immediately sent reinforcements from the direction of Houston, one to Austin and the other directly to San Antonio.

At this time, the U.S. military was quite strong, with a total of 800,000 troops in this area, of which 500,000 were veterans from the last war, and the remaining 300,000 were new recruits and newly recruited militiamen.

The Ming army can use troops, in fact, it is 800,000 people, half a catty and eight taels, but one is composed of veterans who have been in battle for many times, and the other is just a recruit corps.

After the 200,000 men of Zhang Kaishan's forward approached San Antonio, the U.S. military soon increased to 300,000 troops here.

And Zhang Kaishan really didn't seem to have any strange tricks, and he began to dig trenches in an area twenty kilometers away from San Antonio, outside the artillery garrison. This reassured the U.S. military a lot, time and location were on their side, they fought on their own soil, and the transfer of materials was convenient, they could afford it, but the Ming army could not afford it.

After Zhang Kaishan's 200,000 troops arrived in San Antonio, they built fortifications to confront the American army. The U.S. military built targeted fortifications at a distance of about five kilometers from the city and 15 kilometers from the Ming army's position. In this way, the artillery of the Ming army could not threaten the safety of the city.

Zhang Kaishan's 200,000 troops are obviously unable to encircle San Antonio in the plains, and ten are encircled, although it may not really take ten times the number of troops to fight an encirclement battle, but in short, it needs to be much more than the enemy's troops, and now the enemy's forces are still superior, how to encircle.

Can't even make a detour from the flank, because Zhang Kaishan tried to outflank the past from the north, and the U.S. army immediately arranged fortifications-for-tat, and also built defensive positions in the northern suburbs of San Antonio to confront the Ming Dynasty.

The ensuing battle was extremely difficult, and the two sides seemed to have fallen into a stalemate, and there were tentative attacks on each other, but they did not achieve any results, and the troops were lost in vain, and they soon fell silent.

The rear of the Ming army was only vigorously transporting supplies to the front line, and the Ming army built a large number of warehouses on the outskirts of San Antonio, as if intending to fight a protracted war. But if you want to fight for supplies, the U.S. military will not lose to anyone.

A month later, the standoff was still going on here in San Antonio, but the feints of Lu Yunqi to the north had achieved a lot of success and had captured Colorado City, a city on the banks of the Colorado River in Texas, which is not the same as the Colorado River, which originates in the Grand Canyon and flows into the Gulf of California in Mexico.

After Lu Yunqi took this place, it stands to reason that he should continue to march into Abiline, but what people didn't expect was that he suddenly turned around and marched along the Colorado River, bypassing American towns and cities, and approaching Austin.

Austin is located on the west bank of the Colorado River, nearly 400 kilometers from the city of Colorado, and it takes four days to march quickly.

Originally, I thought that they were attacking on the northern front, firstly, to be responsible for the role of containment, and secondly, to protect the flanks of the Ming army, who would have thought that they would actually go south, and in the way of a rapid march, abandon the previous marching path, abandon unnecessary baggage, what are their combat goals? For a time, the attention of the American commander was attracted by this strange move of the Ming army.

At this time, the 800,000 troops of the US army were distributed, 300,000 remained in Houston, 300,000 were in San Antonio on the front line, and Austin had 200,000 as a countermeasure, and Lu Yunqi's troops were only 50,000 or 60,000, whether it was attacking Austin or San Antonio, it was not enough, so the American commander really couldn't see through his approach.

But soon the U.S. army was surprised to find that the main force of the Ming army attacked, and a large number of main forces of the Ming army began to march from Daliangcheng and advance along the railway line to San Antonio, while Lu Yunqi's troops were stationed between San Antonio and Austin to build positions here.

The U.S. military immediately accurately judged that the Ming army intended to cut off the connection between Austin and San Antonio and concentrate the main force to attack San Antonio, and the main force of the Ming army was observed to attack most of them, with a strength of up to 300,000 troops, and after combining the front-line troops, the strength of the siege of San Antonio could reach 500,000, plus the attack on Lu Yunqi, there were 550,000 people.

Suddenly, the U.S. military felt that San Antonio's forces were somewhat empty.

Myers, the commander of the U.S. Army who had only taken office after the Rio Valley War, was in Houston at this time, and he thought San Antonio should be reinforced, but a new officer named Pershing was opposed by a small officer before the war, in the name of suppressing the Indians.

After the outbreak of the war, the U.S. military underwent a major expansion, he was promoted to the rank of brigade commander, participated in the battle of the Rio Grande Valley, and later after the outbreak of the Battle of the Valley, his unit fought hard against the Ming army on the Pecos River defense line, after the war, a large number of senior American officers were removed from their posts, as a scapegoat for the Battle of the Valley, Pershing was further promoted to the Army Staff.

Myers thought that reinforcements should be needed, while Pershing believed that the Ming army was likely to aim for Houston, and that it was just a feint in San Antonio, with the aim of getting reinforcements from Houston and then attacking Houston. Miles felt that the main force of the Ming army's sortie position, Daliangcheng, was more than 600 kilometers away from Houston, and it was impossible for the Ming army to travel a long distance to raid Huston.

Pershing corrected Myers's judgment, he believed that the Ming army had built a large number of warehouses in San Antonio before, the purpose was to reserve supplies, as a transit, so their advance base should not be the Great Grain City, but should be counted from San Antonio, that is, more than 300 kilometers, he also reminded the Ming army of the rapid march from Colorado City, once the Ming army continued to use this rapid march, it would only take three days to arrive in Houston.

Myers thinks Pershing's opinion is reasonable, and Pershing says it's just simple tricks that only the weak, such as the Indians, and now the Chinese, like them.

Pershing guessed correctly, the Ming army was indeed supplied with San Antonio, but who said that the army must go to Houston for a sneak attack, isn't Austin, with fewer troops, a better target?

As a result, to the great surprise of the US military, the 300,000 troops of the Ming army did not go south, but went north instead of resting in San Antonio, bypassing San Antonio and heading straight for Austin.

At this time, Austin only had 200,000 troops, 300,000 in the Ming Dynasty, plus Lu Yunqi's 50,000 partial divisions, a total of 350,000 troops, and the advantage in troops was not obvious.

But soon the U.S. military discovered that the Ming army had mobilized a large number of troops in the western suburbs of San Antonio, where there were 200,000 people, and the Ming army had transferred half of them, leaving only half to continue to confront the defensive forces of San Antonio, and the other half had strengthened Lu Yunqi's forces.

Now the Ming army had 450,000 troops around Austin, more than twice as many troops, and soon launched a fierce attack on Austin.

The Sons of Infantry digging trenches kept approaching and soon came within range of the artillery, and the artillery began to bombard the Austin Line.

After more than ten days of fierce attack by the Ming army, the outer defense line of Austin was broken, and then the Ming army began to shell the city of Austin.

At this time, Miles in Houston could not sit still and decided to send reinforcements, and Pershing did not object.

100,000 reinforcements reinforced Austin, but unexpectedly it was blocked halfway, and a field battle broke out on the banks of the Colorado River, and 100,000 people were routed.

The Ming army took advantage of the victory to pursue, went straight to Houston, and even did not hesitate to withdraw from the siege of Austin, concentrating 300,000 troops to attack Houston, but this time Houston needed reinforcements.

Neither Austin nor San Antonio dared to see Houston fall, which would mean they would lose their supply lines at sea and would be without reinforcements.

So the two cities sent 100,000 troops to reinforce at the same time, but they suffered the same fate as the Houston reinforcements, and they were defeated in the field battle, and 200,000 men were scattered.

300,000 people were scattered in the field battle, and the total strength of the three places suddenly dropped by 500,000, Houston only 200,000, Austin only 100,000, and San Antonio had 200,000.

The top brass of the US military was extremely angry, and some members of the US Congress even proposed to hold the commander accountable, but fortunately, not all members of the parliament went crazy, and the mainstream opinion was to hurry up and find a way to reinforce them, so that the congressmen reached a consensus, passed the conscription decree, and began to forcibly recruit soldiers, so that the United States could raise three million recruits.

But far water could not quench the thirst of the near, Texas would be in a hurry to wait for reinforcements, the Ming army took the opportunity to concentrate its forces to storm Austin, with 500,000 troops to attack 100,000 Austin, and finally took seven days to capture the city. The whole country in the United States was shaken, and public opinion demanded that Miles be replaced.

In fact, this cannot be blamed on the command problem of American officers, but a veteran like Zhang Kaishan, who commanded operations on the front line, has eaten to death the weakness of the inexperienced US officers, and inexperienced people often lack self-confidence and do not have the courage to insist on their own opinions.

Tactically speaking, it was the officers of the Ming army who made full use of the initiative of their own attacking side, gave full play to the mobile advantages of external operations, mobilized US troops, and then annihilated the enemy in field battles.

Technically speaking, in fact, the quality of the US military's own army is not high, and it is easy to find opportunities for opponents in large-scale field battles; if they can win field battles, the Ming army is very tactically clever, and there is nothing to be done.

Old thieves like Zhang Kaishan and Deng Shicai grasped this point and decided that a combination of recruits and militia like the US army, once they began to maneuver, would definitely show flaws, but on the contrary, they would not find a chance to defend the Ming army.

It can be said that the situation of letting the other side completely defend greatly reduces the quality of individual soldiers and the advantages of grassroots officers of the Ming army, and makes up for the shortcomings of the opponent's lack of experience, so we must try our best to lure the other side out of the old camp, and finally turn the tactical advantage of the Ming army into victory.

The final result was that the Ming army tossed and turned within a range of less than 300 kilometers between the three cities, ate 300,000 people of the other side, and then concentrated its forces to take Austin, cutting off the horn interaction of the three cities. Now the Ming army has the absolute initiative whether it is attacking Houston in the south or San Antonio in the west.

The choice of the Ming army was to concentrate 500,000 troops, move south to Houston, and occupy this land and sea hub before American reinforcements arrived.

At this time, the U.S. military had not many options, and the 500,000-strong army attacked Houston, and there would be no problem if there were strong troops stationed in Houston, but the problem was that the U.S. military itself had no confidence.

They either chose to use Houston's limited forces to hold on to reinforcements, or they could send San Antonio's troops to reinforce them, but the U.S. military must avoid a risk, that is, San Antonio's reinforcements will not be annihilated by the Ming army in the field like the previous two times.

In the end, the U.S. forces made a decision that the Ming army did not expect, they abandoned reinforcements along the railway line, and instead went directly south from San Antonio, retreated to the Gulf of Mexico, and took a ship from the port to reinforce Houston by sea.

The Ming army did not expect this, and it was impossible to encircle it for a while, but the 100,000 troops who had been held back in San Antonio chose to pursue, biting off the tail of the 30,000 broken troops of the US army, which was better than nothing.

Now Houston has more than 300,000 troops, and although the Ming army has the advantage in strength, after many hard battles, it has to be transferred to rest. Instead of launching an offensive against Houston, he withdrew his forces and focused on stabilizing the defensive line, with San Antonio as the center and Austin assisting in the flank to defend against Houston's counteroffensive.

Obviously, veterans like Deng Shicai and Zhang Kaishan are older than the young officers of the US army, and they are very bold when they attack, and when they should shrink, they are not ambiguous at all.

But Deng Shicai immediately began to ask for reinforcements in China, and he demanded at least a million additional troops.

After a period of rest, he planned to move from San Antonio and the Rio Grande, aiming at the mouth of the Nusses River, near the Mexican seaport city of Corpus Christi.

But at this time, it is really difficult to eliminate troops in the country.

The Ming army requisitioned a total of 2 million troops, of which 1.5 million were sent to the United States and handed over to Deng Shicai.

However, Zhu Jinglun still promised to continue to send more troops, and he didn't even ask the reason, it was already very difficult to recruit soldiers, because with the successive hard battles in the past few years, it was difficult to attract ordinary people to serve as soldiers through high military salaries, not to mention the dregs tradition in Chinese culture that good men should not be soldiers.

For a while, I wanted to be like the United States, switching to conscription, but it was still difficult for the Ming government to achieve efficiency, and it was difficult to ensure that the government's efficiency was accurate to the personal file statistics, and in addition, the voice of opposition to the war has been a bit loud recently, and public opinion has become more and more dissatisfied with the government's practice of launching wars at will.