Chapter 103 Defeated
After Luo Xu agreed to Liu Bao's request, he hurriedly prepared a plan to defeat the Qing army's Linyi troops.
The Linyi army came from near Jiaodong, and the number of people was not more than five or six thousand, and the quality was not very good.
Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, in addition to the Zheng Chenggong era, there were also sea disasters, and there was no strong enemy across the sea for decades, and because of the forbidden sea, the soldiers of Jiaodong have been reduced to the troops of the people.
Prevent the people from violating the forbidden sea, and now go to the sea without permission or go to the sea to farm.
This kind of army that specializes in dealing with the common people does not need to fight, and it does not need to have excellent military literacy to scare the people, so the quality of this soldier can be imagined.
Luo Xu wants to use 1,500 people to defeat the other party, this is all looking down on them, and this general level of army is basically no different from the peasants.
The Qing army does not train every day, and those who practice once in three days are elite soldiers, and it is common for ordinary troops to practice every ten years, and there are troops who do not train once a month, just like the army in Jiaodong, according to the description of the scouts, this march is like catching up with a large gathering, and the military camp is the same as a vegetable market.
Liu Bao went all the way west, and sure enough, he attracted the Qing army to pursue, and Luo Xu also left Yancheng from the west gate, but quietly went north in the middle of the night.
Liu Bao planned to stay here for two days until the Qing army in Linyi passed and went north, but after waiting for a day, the news came that the Qing army in Linyi did not pursue Liu Bao diagonally, but came straight to the direction of Yancheng.
Luo Xu was a little confused, what does this mean, to build a big encirclement? But isn't that a big hole in the north? Just when he couldn't think about it, his staff officer asked: "This group of Qing troops is not here to steal merit, right?" ”
Luo Xu smiled bitterly, but it's not a problem, why did he think that the advanced strategy and art of war was actually for the credit of recovering the city.
In this case, what kind of surrounds and what kind of reinforcement to fight, this group of people has hit their faces, how can they let it go.
Luo Xu directly formulated a simple attack plan in the woods, and the Qing army marched to Yancheng, although there was no way to set up an ambush here, but there were woods to give the Qing army a halving.
The march of the Qing army must be a long snake, and if you attack the handsome flag on its waist, the head and tail must not know how to act, and then attack the other half in a block, so it is much easier than hitting the Qing army head-on at the same time.
This is a skill, but also a manifestation of strength, if there is no strength to defeat the other party, then this plan is nothing more than harassment.
Luo Xu led people to lurk quietly, on the third day, the Qing army had reached thirty miles north of the woods, Luo Xu hurriedly sent a large number of scouts to rob the other party's sentinels, but the scouts came back ten miles before reporting that the Qing army had no sentinels at all.
Luo Xu sneered, don't blame others for your own death! Luo Xu waited patiently, intending to act according to the plan.
As a result, the Qing army, which had walked fifteen miles, did suddenly stop, Luo Xu was stunned, was discovered? How was it discovered? Luo Xu looked at the sky and looked around, there was no problem?
was hesitating to simply rush forward, but the scouts came to report that the Qing army was cooking on a fire......
Luo Xu had 10,000 grass and mud horses galloping over in his heart, this is for an outing, right? Isn't it all about preparing dry food on the march?
Obviously, the Qing army did not have this consciousness at all, and gathered together patiently to wait for the meal to be served, the so-called buried pot cooking is like this, how many people eat a pot of rice that there are rules, and counting the pots can roughly estimate the number of troops.
But Luo Xu is not in the mood to count the heads now, this group of Qing soldiers has something to eat, so they are still hungry!
Luo Xu now has two choices, one is to continue to wait, waiting for the other party to finish eating and then leave according to the original plan, and the second is to sneak attack the Qing army who are eating.
At this time, the Qing army was in groups, and it was the most chaotic time, as long as it was suddenly killed, the Qing army would definitely be chaotic.
It's just that once this strikes, won't the plan that you have carefully prepared be in vain?
Luo Xu's character has always been stable, but after he found several regiment commanders, he summed it up, and the other regiment commanders felt that it was better to fight now.
Just when Luo Xu couldn't make up his mind, the scout came to report again, and the Qing army began to cut down trees, as if they were going to camp.
Luo Xu looked at the sky, this is just Shenshi, right? But think about it, this point of eating is definitely not lunch!
At this time, there is nothing to hesitate about, waiting for a fart to wait for the night! Luo Xu immediately asked two regiments to send two musket battalions to be responsible for attacking the front and middle armies of the Qing army from the front and middle parts.
The movement of Luo Xu's troops, the Qing army was unaware, and at this time, the rice was about to be cooked, and the Qing army's eyes were staring at the pot!
After the various departments were in place, Luo Xu waited patiently, and the herald looked at him curiously, he smiled and said: "Let these turtle sons cook the meal and fight, let's just pick up the ready-made!" ”
The herald also smiled, but there are so many pots, how can they all be cooked together, and Luo Xu also thinks that when the rice is cooked, the Qing army will not be distracted by him.
When one-third of the Qing army began to eat and eat, Luo Xu raised his hand and shot and shouted: "Fight!" ”
Then the four battalions began to fight out of the woods, and quickly lined up two hundred meters away from the Qing army's camp, and then the Qing army was stunned with bowls and didn't know what to do.
By the time they reacted and began to put down their bowls to line up, the four battalions on this side had already finished marching.
How could Luo Xu wait for them here, and immediately shoot after the formation was completed, the Qing army immediately lost ground and became chaotic, Luo Xu saw this situation and immediately ordered the troops to attack and shoot in formation.
The so-called offensive formation shooting means that after the shooting is completed, the troops do not retreat and directly reload on the spot, and the troops behind shoot across the troops that have just shot, and the troops are moving forward after the ammunition is loaded.
As soon as the gun was fired, the troops advanced for a while, and this overwhelming momentum could put a lot of pressure on the enemy, and the enemy could easily collapse under such pressure.
At this time, the Qing army is the general situation, in the face of the continuous approach of the opponent's musket, the Qing army can only retreat under the instinctive trend, just watch the brothers around them fall one by one, this retreat is getting faster and faster, retreating and retreating, and retreating becomes a collapse.
Seeing the collapse of the Qing army, Luo Xu immediately ordered four battalions to pursue in battalions, and the Qing army became vulnerable in front of the muskets, and many soldiers threw away the gunpowder in their hands without even loading it.
There are also big knives and spears thrown away when they run, and they didn't forget to serve their own rice bowls, Luo Xu looked at the messy battlefield, there was no more food left that could be eaten without being kicked over, and it was impossible to pick up ready-made, and the battlefield was not cleaned, blood and dead people's intestines were rotten everywhere, and it was difficult to swallow food.
Luo Xu paid attention to the changes in the battlefield, and at the same time ordered the follow-up troops to clean up the battlefield, at this point, it is unlikely that the Qing army wants to turn the tables, but how much success the pursuit can have depends on whether Luo Xu's command is appropriate.