Chapter 485: The Southern Rejection of the Ming Army and the Northern Attack and Reinforcement

The number of the Shun army is not large, but the camp is quite large, although the main force to the main force of the fight has ended, but there may also be scattered Shun soldiers hiding in the dark.

The Ma Army Brigade of the Jiaozhou Battalion gathered in the center of the camp, on one side it was in full swing to build fortifications and arrange defenses, and on the other side it was gathered in the direction facing Gao Jie's soldiers and horses, doing a good job of blocking and defending.

It was already a damp and muddy ground, and even if the equipment in the tents and barracks burned, it was extinguished much faster than normal, and in the part of the barracks on the south side, in fact, the details of Gao Jie's side could not be seen, and only the brigade with torches could be seen slowly approaching this side.

The speed is indeed very slow, and the soldiers of the Jiaozhou Battalion Horse Army in the camp gate here have to keep their eyes open and observe several times to judge whether the other party is moving or not, and where it is almost stationary.

Gao Jie, the general soldier of Yansui, is also a veteran, and he is actually cautious to such an extent, but Gao Jie is also very nervous, just now the people and horses were noisy, thinking that the opposite side was going to attack, but he also knew what kind of virtue his own soldiers and horses were, even if the other party attacked at night, he could gather soldiers and horses to resist and the camp collapsed, not to mention that the situation was unknown to go to the sneak attack.

Now Gao Jie couldn't stand the risk a little, so he mobilized the soldiers and horses with trepidation, lit the torches, promised a reward, and arranged for his own soldiers and direct troops to wrap around the periphery, which was to gather more than 5,000 soldiers and horses, ready to come over and see what was going on.

If there is no cheap to make, then withdraw first, if you can take advantage of the fire to rob, then it is naturally the best, but it is too late for Gao Jie, the general soldier of Yansui, to come out.

The Jiaozhou battalion horse army was not so cautious, and it opened and closed the camp at the beginning, completely defeating Liu Fangliang and Liu Tichun's Shun army soldiers and horses.

When Gao Jie's soldiers left the camp. The battle has been over for a while, and watching the shouting and killing of the Shun army camp stop, the fire is gradually decreasing.

Looking at it from a distance, it is natural to tell whether it is the Shun army that controls the situation, or the army that came to disrupt the situation and controls the situation, or whether it is a trap to lure the enemy.

The judgment was not clear, Gao Jie was afraid that his tired division would rush to the front, but he was caught off guard by the ambush set up by the other party, and he was fighting with his old life during the day. It's just that the other party is beaten back, and if it takes such a risk in the middle of the night, if these more than 5,000 backbones are thrown in, I'm afraid the whole thing will collapse.

Stop-and-go, the more he walked, the more bottomless he felt in his heart, and sent people to watch from afar, watching the military camp of the Shun army becoming quieter and quieter, Gao Di, the general soldier of Yansui, was already ready to give the order to retreat.

It's good to die. happened to walk into the firing range, and the general of the Ma army behind the camp fence also looked at the shadow of the ground, and could vaguely see that the opponent's torches entered the firing range, anyway, there could be no more big battles at night, and the cannon could not be fired. It's also good to scare.

The artillery and guns on this side were already in a state of being loaded and ready to fire, and with a loud shout of "open fire", the seven guns opened fire one after another.

The metal projectile flew with a whistling towards the torch cluster opposite, precisely because of the darkness of the night. So let the Shandong soldiers on the side of the camp gate see a strange scene.

The whistling stopped, the cannonballs fell to the ground, and the screams burst out, and the light points of the torches that gathered together could be seen, and the exhalation dispersed at once.

When it was dark, I couldn't see anyone, I could only see torches, and the "light dragon" quickly turned into a "firefly", and the effect was really like a dream. The Jiaozhou battalion horse army was stunned, and everyone immediately became elated, and without waiting for the officer's order, the artillerymen began to clean the chamber and load the ammunition.

Preparing to fire another cannon to see the effect of the next round of shelling, Tang Er, who had already come to the edge of the camp fence, saw those torches scattered, and immediately withdrew towards Gao Jie's camp on the opposite side. This round of shelling has already achieved the intended effect. There's no need to add to it.

However, you can also see that there are still a lot of ground torches running in both directions. These people are probably deserters, and if they run away like this, they will definitely not come back the next day.

As the direct subordinate unit of the supreme commander of Shandong, the horse army has the best equipment, high training intensity, known as the elite of the elite, there are iron cavalry that can assault and charge into battle, there are light cavalry that can reconnoiter and plunder, and there are fast and mobile horse infantry, and the probability of entering the pro-military camp to study in the horse army is much higher than that of ordinary infantry troops, which also shows the sophistication of cavalry.

Over there, Li Meng faced the hundreds of thousands of troops of Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, of course, he had to gather all his strength, but he sent the Ma army here.

Of course, this arrangement was not to rescue the Ming army and open a way for the Ming army to go west, but to completely block the Ming army and the Shun army south of Jiaxian County here, so as to achieve the goal of complete destruction.

The Jiaozhou battalion is also arranged in the Shun army, knowing that the mobilization system general Tian Jianxiu went to Jiaxian to tactics, Tian Jianxiu is a general in the Shun army, and his subordinates are many veterans and elite cavalry, which is very piercing, plus the Ming army in the south, in addition to Gao Jie's department, there may also be a few other general soldiers to join this direction.

After capturing this camp, the army of the Dijiaozhou battalion may have to face a flank attack from two directions at the same time for a period of time, which will definitely be extremely difficult.

And in order to rush to Jiaxian County before Tian Jianxiu's arrival, to ensure the suddenness to the greatest extent, the number of this group of troops can not be too much, after all, the momentum of the large army is too large, and the mobility will be affected by the scale, and there is enough strength to send the troops here, only the horse army of the Jiaozhou battalion.

Tang Er knew that he had a heavy responsibility, so he was careful every step and didn't dare to be cautious in the slightest, if the artillery firing was too dense this night, Gao Jie's side would definitely find out that something was wrong.

Since the other party has been defeated, then no more actions will be made, and the night time will be used to re-strengthen this camp, and then a more difficult battle.

What really felt the loss was Gao Jie, the general soldier of Yansui, pulled the troops back, counted in the battalion, and found that there were almost a thousand fewer people, Gao Jie had also seen the world, and the round of shelling just now could kill more than 100 people at most, and because the weather was humid and the ground was wet and soft, the shells did not produce any ricochets, and the reason why there were so many fewer people was nothing more than to leave the camp late at night. The whole army was much dispersed in panic.

What made Gao Jie even more annoyed was that the generals under him came over and said that the troops below had fled many people in the disturbance on the opposite side, and this night attack was so unbearable.

According to the convention, Gao Jie should have caught a few unlucky ghosts and cut off his head on the spot to deter the already panicked soldiers below, but this time Gao Jie did not move. After strictly ordering the generals of each camp to take care of their soldiers and horses, they returned to their military tents.

That night, the lights of Gao Jie's military tent were turned on late, and for the reason of being disturbed in the middle of the night, the cavalry and backbone troops of the entire army were transferred to camp near his camp.

The subordinates of Gao Jie, the general soldier of Yansui, are not fools, of course they know that such a transfer is not good because their own main general will lead them to run fast first, and they can't beat the other side, and those who can fight and run have to flee first. How can this be reassuring.

Although the Shandong soldiers and horses on the opposite side left the guard troops after completing the fortifications and defense arrangements this night, the brigade went to rest.

The night was quite quiet, but the camp of Gao Jie, the general soldier of Yansui, was full of panic, and he didn't know what to do. Many people didn't sleep at all, they were just listening to the movement, if there was a night attack or the main general Gao Jie was going to lead people to run, they couldn't be stupidly left here.

Nothing happened overnight. Many people can't fall asleep until the second half of the night, but they are awakened by the slight shaking of the ground in the early morning.

People with a little experience, at this time, their faces are like earth, and they don't know what to do, this is a signal of the arrival of the cavalry, is it possible that the Shun army on the opposite side has increased its troops again, how is this good.

All the envoys of the various armies who stayed in Gao Jie's camp to observe the wind hurriedly ran back to their own army, and the direction of Jiaxian looked like a gap could be made. Things will turn around, but now the road has been completely blocked.

Gao Jie, the chief soldier of Yansui, was finally ruthless, he calculated that the soldiers and horses in his hands were about more than 4,000 horse troops and personal soldiers, whether these people were in the direction of Shenwu Mountain or in the direction of Baofeng Lu Mountain, most of them would be scattered, and he would not need those generals of the Ming Dynasty.

If he ran out with a few hundred or even fewer people, the Ming court would definitely not restore himself to the title of chief soldier. Nor will they allow themselves to revert to their original formation. It's not good that a thousand always sent away the general title. Gao Jie himself figured out that he also did a lot of evil in Shaanxi. If you don't have the position of chief soldier, maybe there will be a lot of public and private grudges coming to you, and if it really comes to that point, it will be better to live than to die.

Rather than that, it's better to fight to understand that yesterday's desperate fight didn't come out of the desperate situation of the deep ditch, then use the same way today, presumably there will be a very good effect.

Gao Jie's promise yesterday will be fulfilled today, although Gao Jie, the chief soldier of Yansui, is dripping blood in his heart, he still distributes all the gold, silver and jewelry he carries with him to those soldiers who are in front of the enemy and come back alive according to yesterday's promise, to be honest, this number is actually not much.

A handful of real money was issued, the atmosphere in Gao Jie's camp was really different, and his mood at least looked much higher than yesterday, all the cattle, horses and livestock used to carry the cart were slaughtered, and then the whole camp cooperated with yesterday's grain and had a full breakfast.

This time, there were no encouraging words, it was directly that the Ma army was pushed back, the foot soldiers were in front, and those who retreated were killed, and if the Ma army retreated, the last pro-soldier team to suppress the formation was killed.

This time Gao Jie is also completely shameless, it is said that such a charge, the main general needs to be in the front, at least in the Chinese army to be qualified, but this time Gao Jie and his personal guards are at the end of the team, looking at the posture of a supervising team, of course, they are also ready to fight but not run first.

The violent shaking in the early morning shows that the other side also has a large number of reinforcements coming, it is better to take advantage of the fact that the opponent's soldiers and horses have not yet entered the camp, launch a large-scale charge, and take advantage of the chaos to open up a situation, which is the same as taking advantage of the opponent's unstable foothold on the battlefield to catch the opponent off guard.

"The artillerymen checked the equipment again, and the musketeers were in position as soon as possible!!"

This action in Gao Jie's battalion was naturally observed by the Jiaozhou battalion horse army opposite, and a regimental deputy garrison of mounted infantry stood on the slope and shouted orders loudly.

The oilcloth jackets covering the artillery last night were removed, and the large wooden barrels sealed and dried were transported by horse-drawn carts, and the artillerymen were brushing the barrels with wet and dry brushes, and the loaders opened the barrels and wooden boxes, took out the medicine bags and shells and filled them into the barrels, while on both sides of the guns, the soldiers with the guns were based on the barracks. Stand behind the barracks and set up the fire in your hand.

Because most of the fighting last night took place in the north of the camp, Gao Jie's gang in the south was bombed back from a distance, and the barracks erected by the Shun army were still quite complete, and the soldiers in Shandong happened to use the barracks as a firing position, and the front of the artillery was opened.

Compared to last night's battle, some light cannons have also been erected today, but these cannons are loaded with iron sand from shotguns. Prepare for a shot at close range.

The non-commissioned officers were loudly urging the soldiers with muskets to get into position, and checking their ammunition loads and equipment settings, and everyone was very busy.

But this is only about 30% of the Ma army, and the rest of the troops were mobilized to the north by Tang Er, which is indeed a coincidence, Tian Jianxiu's troops arrived a day later than Tang Er.

From the early hours of the morning, the horses and secret posts arranged by the Jiaozhou Battalion Horse Army on the official road began to pass on the news in turn. It seems that the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses led by Tian Jianxiu, the general of the Dashun system, also knew that the soldiers were fast, although in such a muddy road and cold weather, they were also rushing overnight.

That is, when the sky is about to dawn, according to the Tanmadi saying. Tian Mixiu's soldiers and horses suddenly slowed down and began to form a team.

This situation is very easy to analyze, most of Liu Fangliang and Liu Tichun's soldiers and horses were surrounded and annihilated, and many soldiers fled in all directions. There will definitely be someone who will go to report to Tian Jianxiu.

Tian Jianxiu's troops rested for about half an hour on the way before continuing to set off on their way, but this time the speed was obviously much slower, and many troops in the middle army and the rear began to rush forward, which was clearly to prepare for battle. Now it is slowly driving, and it is still about two miles away from the main camp.

Tang Er, the commander of the Ma Army, had red eyes and were bloodshot, and he slept for less than an hour last night. In the first half of the night's battle, the camp was built, and in the second half of the night, when I received the news that Tamihide's army was coming, I was arranging the arrangement, and the soldiers at the bottom were very well rested.

Tang Er, the commander of the horse army, was already completely clothed on his horse, and his heart was now full of remorse, if he had finished this camp last night. It was directly arranged for the cavalry to set up an ambush on the way to Tian Jianxiu. Take advantage of the night to set him up in an ambush and catch him off guard. It's sure to work wonders.

But now, it can only be hard-hitting, Tang Er knows that he has been under the wing of the big marshal for too long, and he obeys the orders of the big marshal in everything, and lacks the experience of his own independent command.

Now the only advantage is that the soldiers and horses in their own land have a period of rest, and the manpower and horsepower are much more sufficient than the other party, but when he got up in the morning, Gao Jie also threw out all the strength and prepared to go out of the camp for a decisive battle.

It is necessary to arrange all the firearms on the south side, and the firearms are extremely suitable for guarding, and the damage is large enough, but in this way, it is equivalent to the remaining horse army of the Jiaozhou battalion almost having to use pure cold weapons to fight with the elite of the Shun army led by Tian Jianxiu.

"My lord, all the cavalry teams have been assembled!"

The generals of the following teams all sent people to report to Tang Er's side, Tang Er took the helmet, put it on his head, buckled the armor, and said in a sullen voice in the armor:

"The Iron Cavalry Brigade rushed with me, and the light cavalry then covered and killed, and the Iron Cavalry did not stop, and they did not stop rushing and killing, although they died endlessly!!"

After this order was given, the whole army was purged, and the iron cavalry kept rushing and killing, which was to completely destroy the army of the Shun army, or else it would be completely destroyed by the Shun army, and it would be desperate to die.

Compared with the different officers and soldiers around him, the spear in the second hand of the soup is slightly longer in length, thicker in diameter, and is painted vermilion, the red tassel seems to be a hydrangea, this spear is extremely conspicuous in the cavalry array, in fact, this spear is similar to the command staff of the horse army.

It was given to Tang Er, the commander of the Ma Army, by Li Meng, the commander of the Qi State, similar to the Tiger Fu, Tang Er led the army into battle at this time, holding this red spear in his hand, and the whole army also followed the movements of his spear.

After saying the purpose of this battle, Tang Er pointed the spear in his hand forward, and he and the iron cavalry team behind him began to move forward slowly.

Under the orders of Tang Er. All the firearms were handed over to the comrades-in-arms who blocked Gao Jie's attack, and Tang Er remembered the teachings of Li Meng, the Duke of Qi Guo, very clearly.

As a cavalryman, don't shoot or shoot arrows on your horse, your battle is to wave your weapons and rush forward in formation, and courage, speed and your horses are the root of victory.

If you don't have any clever strategy or strategy, then you lead your troops to rush to the enemy and fight the enemy hard. As long as you have enough strength, you will definitely win.

Tang Er calculated his strength, the other party rode 10,000 people, and the cavalry he could use was almost 4,000, with the elite of the Jiaozhou camp, and the horse army was the elite of the elite, if it was tough, the disparity in numbers would not necessarily determine victory or defeat. I still have a few odds of winning.

If you stick to this small camp, there are enemies on both sides, and both sides are attacked, and the cavalry will have no great role in defending the city. At this level of attack on both sides, firearms can only deal with one side, and the camp is not solid enough, but there will be danger.

The cavalry of the Jiaozhou camp moved. Because of the uniform queue and formation, every few steps, someone on Gao Jie's side lay on the ground to listen.

Hearing the movement of Tang Er leading the cavalry out of the camp, he thought that it was the Shun army coming to reinforce the army, and Gao Jie, the general soldier of Yansui, had a green face, and urged the army to move forward regardless of the horse, and he must rush in first while the other party's foothold was not stable.

After all, it's the middle of September, and the weather is slightly cold. It has been raining and wet for the past few days, but it hasn't rained for two days, and the ground has dried out a lot and become a little firmer.

The army came and went, the ground was trampled flat, and the iron cavalry and light horsemen, though at their normal speed, ran a little easier than they had been in the previous days.

After running for a short time, I saw the soldiers and horses of the marching general, Tian Mihide. The Shun army troops led by Tian Jianxiu still maintained a marching state. He also had scouts and sentry scouts, and knew that there were not many soldiers and horses in Shandong. And he has to fight with Gao Jie, since there are few people, he must focus on guarding.

The Shandong soldiers and horses that suddenly appeared, and they were nailed to this key position, the Shandong soldiers and horses were still nominally the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty, but in this position they blocked the retreat of the Ming army.

Blocking the Ming army, but also actually blocked a passage of the Shun army, if the main force of the Shun army appeared behind the Shandong soldiers and horses, it would not be the Shun army in the Ming army Hou Sui Department of the matter is used on the Shun army itself, originally thought that the Shandong soldiers and horses were low-key, from the night attack on the Jiaozhou battalion of the second Liu soldiers and horses, it can be seen that Shandong has just been pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.

Thinking of this, Tian Jianxiu also had chills, and on the one hand, he sent his fast horse messenger to the area of Xiangcheng, and on the other hand, he ordered the army to advance quickly.

In fact, the time when the troops led by Tian Jianxiu encountered the rout, much earlier than the time detected by the Jiaozhou battalion horse army, Tian Jianxiu's troops had already set up camp and were ready to rest.

Of course, if you dare to come with a swagger, you are also sure that there are few soldiers and horses in Shandong, so you can only wait for the attack.

But on the way to the march, the soldiers and horses of the front team saw the cavalry of the brigade swarming from the south, looking at the momentum of the other party, Tian Jianxiu knew that he could not rely on the cavalry to hedge against them, although his cavalry was also the elite cavalry of Shaanxi, but after all, it was a tired division, and it was too late to come out of the formation, and he had to be crushed by the other party.

"Infantry formation, resist the horse to meet the enemy!!"

Infantry soldiers lined up in a tight formation, with long weapons to resist the enemy, this is the only way for infantry to fight cavalry, experienced generals know that the use of this tactic, the key to the problem, is only whether the soldiers can have enough will to hold on, whether they can hold on in the face of the enemy's overwhelming feeling.

Tian Jianxiu still had confidence in his soldiers, and as the order was given, the banner was spread, and the cavalry walking in front retreated to both sides, while the foot soldiers walked to the front with long weapons.

This trick is often used by the cavalry of the Jiaozhou battalion to deal with others, but at this time it was taken out against himself, and the vermilion spear in the soup did not hesitate to move forward.

Every hundred iron cavalry is a team, two teams in a row, a total of three rows, the direction of the impact is where Tian Jianxiu's Chinese army of soldiers and horses is located, and it is the most rigorous and thick place in the infantry army, but the horse army iron cavalry of the Jiaozhou battalion rushed here without hesitation.

Tang Er was in the gap between the two teams in the second row, followed by a small escort team of dozens of people, and the iron cavalry kept trotting forward without accelerating.

rushed forward more and more, and saw that Tian Jianxiu's array responded, but the vermilion spear in Tang Shuang's hand was flattened, even if the other party had a spear to resist the horse, he still had to rush.

The commander of the horse army had already made up his mind, for the Jiaozhou battalion, it was necessary to resolutely implement it, and after the spear was flattened, several of the dozens of cavalrymen who followed Tang Er took out a copper whistle and blew it violently.

Hearing the long and continuous whistle, the sound of the horses' hooves in front suddenly became intense, and the two teams of iron cavalry in the first row urged the horses to speed up.

The first row accelerated, and after a little distance, the second row also accelerated, and came in turn, until the last two teams of cavalry in front of them were sprinting.

Based on the second row of Tang Er, it still maintains a normal speed, and the same is true for the back team.

The cavalry spears in the hands of the iron cavalry who rushed to the front were already flattened, and the hands of many of the Shun soldiers in the forefront were already trembling.

The iron cavalry man is wearing iron armor, the horse is covered with leather armor and felt, the whole image seems to have no flaws, only the expressionless eyes are exposed, and the iron cavalry's horses and hooves fall to the ground, which produces a much greater shock than ordinary cavalry, not to mention the shock in the heart.

There was already a Shun sergeant who couldn't support it in his heart and turned around to escape, but as soon as he turned around, he was cut off by the captain behind him, and someone immediately stepped on top of him.

When charging, the horses were extremely fast, and soon they were about to collide and make contact, and the effects of the slippery mud continued, and some horses slipped and fell in the rapid running, causing a series of confusion, but the general trend of the whole team was still rushing forward, and they were about to collide.

The spears were like a forest, and the mounts of the iron cavalry instinctively turned to avoid them, but there were also heavy cavalrymen who kicked the horse's belly with their heels, and the spurs were tightly tied into the flesh, and the horses that were stimulated by the severe pain were in a state of madness, and rushed forward regardless of it.

The armor of the iron cavalry is mainly the plate armor on the chest, and the protection in the rest of the place is relatively weak, rushing into the spear formation of the Shun army, the horses and men are stabbed to death by the spears, but these iron cavalry regardless of the collision, or the spearmen in front of them are knocked away, and the spears are also stained with blood.

However, the Shun army blocked this wave of impact, and the array was only broken through a few small openings, and most of the cavalry either died under the spears or were thrown off by the horses.

This first wave was only the first row of the iron cavalry, and the second row, which had opened up some distance, followed and collided with the same point again, and the soldiers were also in a hurry, and the soldiers forgot their timidity, and desperately leaned on each other with spears against the cavalry's charge.

Third row, fourth row...... It seems that someone is holding a sledgehammer and constantly smashing the line of the Shun army, and it is gradually about to break