Chapter 25: The Battle of Lipu I
After the military parade, there were many more merchants and wealthy households in Jingyuan City, and the wave of southern flight in the south of the Yangtze River was better than one wave, and everyone thought that they would go to the south and Jingyuan, and the anti-Qing forces in the north were also greatly shaken, and even Li Zicheng's Dashun army had a faint tendency to seize control of Hubei
The most unlucky is Zhang Xianzhong of the Great Western Army, Zhang Xianzhong and the high-level leaders of the Great Western Army do not believe that Guangxi has such a strong army, but they don't believe it, and they can't stop ordinary soldiers from believing it, the Great Western Army that has already defeated Guizhou has already stretched one foot into Guangxi
A few days later, Zheng Jue ordered six thousand households to prepare to follow Zhu Zhijian's army to the north, this battle was the first battle since the establishment of Jing Yuanwei, although the opponent was not a Tartar, but also to win, not only to win, but also to win beautifully, to play the prestige of the Ming official army
In this battle, the Ming army was divided into two routes, Zhu Zhijian led 50,000 soldiers to attack Guilin from the west, Cao Ye's soldiers 50,000 from the east side feinted to attack Guilin, Zheng Jue's department was the vanguard of Zhu Zhijian, and as soon as the banner of Jing Yuanwei came out, the morale of the entire army was shocked, and everyone, including Sun Kewang in Guizhou, wanted to know how the combat power of this army that was so rumored to be so boiling was
100,000 troops pulled out, heavy soldiers and horses stretched for nearly 100 miles, the army went north to Hezhou first, and then the whole army continued to move westward, after arriving in Hezhou, Cao Ye's troops of 50,000 soldiers went to Zhaozhou first, since the fall of Guilin, Zhaozhou has become the front line, and the battle of Guilin will also begin
Cao Ye's troops feinted, so Cao Ye's troops had to attack Yangshuo County first, and Zhu Zhijian's task was to attack Lipu County and attack Yongfu County to form a siege of Guilin
Zhu Zhijian's troops had a long way to go, and Cao Ye needed to attract the attention of the Guilin defenders first, so Cao Ye's troops marched to the outside of Yangshuo to occupy Yangshuo, and Zheng Jue's side had to take Lipu County quietly first, and then take Yongfu County without Guilin's knowledge
Zheng Jue rode on the horse, and scolded Zhu Zhijian, an old thing that eats ready-made, every time he pushed Zheng Jue out, and then followed behind, but every time Zheng Jue had to go, because this was Jing Yuanwei's first battle, and he had to be beautiful
And Zhu Zhijian is still drinking and hunting cockfights in Zhaozhou, Zheng Jue is wandering, Lipu County and Yangshuo County are each other's horns, Zheng Jue is determined, after learning that Yangshuo is besieged, the defenders of Lipu County will inevitably go to the rescue, the truth of the cold lips and teeth, the officials and soldiers can not understand, if the rebel army does not understand, they will die
Zheng Jue first followed Cao Ye's army north to Yangshuo, and then turned along an official road to Lipu to the south, Zheng Jue's scout reported that a place called Zhailing in front was suitable for ambushing the army, Zheng Jue smiled and suppressed the information, Zheng Jue did not plan to ambush the Great Western Army, a county seat, at most 10,000 people will be stationed in wartime, if even the 10,000 Great Western Army can't be cleaned up, Zheng Jue might as well go back to Jingyuan and drill in the city and wait for the city to break his neck
Zheng Jue ordered the whole army to move slowly and leisurely without changing the speed, it is rare that Guangxi has such a good flat terrain, and it is not good to pretend to be worthy of anyone, so a large number of scouts were scattered, and sure enough, Zheng Jue soon received a report from the scouts, and about 10,000 Great Western troops were rushing to Yangshuo in a panic
"Zimo, take all the cavalry around about half a mile behind the enemy, and when my red signal flare is fired, you will lead the team to sprint and cover it, if it is a purple signal flare, you will take the team directly to take over Lipu County" After Zheng Jue gave the order, all the cavalry went out of the hundred households and followed Yang Zimo to go around behind the enemy
And Zheng Jue stopped on the spot with the rest of the people, let the artillery team follow, and the hundred black muzzles were aimed at the direction of the Great Western Army, and behind the artillery team was the musket team Zheng Jue led the infantry team to press the formation behind
Zheng Jue rode on a horse and held the telescope snatched from Zheng Sen and saw a burst of dust, and the Great Western Army "dragged the family with the mouth" and came, Zheng Jue saw in the telescope that although most of the Great Western Army was young and strong, there were also many old people and children mixed in the team
They don't necessarily volunteer to participate, but they won't charge ahead, so what Zheng Jue has to do is to defeat them, not eliminate them
As the Great Western Army approached Jingyuanwei, the Great Western Army also discovered that Zheng Jue's Ming army Zheng was waiting for them, and a one-eyed general on horseback rushed out of the Great Western Army's military array, brandishing a saber and shouting
"Sons, kill dog officials, when you sit on the country"
"Bang" "Bang" "Bang" ......
Before the goods finished speaking, a burst of cannon interrupted the general's speech, it turned out that Zheng Jue was still shouting something when he saw that he was a fool, and when he thought that he was so tossed, he would definitely waste a lot of time, and directly ordered the cannon to fire
The green smoke of the tiger squat cannon filled the entire battlefield, and a gust of wind blew away the gunsmoke, Zheng Jue smiled, the mighty one-eyed general was not dead, his horse was knocked down by the explosion, and the one-eyed got up instantly after the cannon stopped, stabilizing the military formation, Zheng Jue suspected that there was a possibility that the Great Western Army might directly break and flee after the girl was blown up
After the one-eyed got up, he retreated to the military formation, and it seemed that he could still jump, counting his fate, the musketeers gave an order, and the musketeers crossed the artillery position, lined up in line, and began to shoot
The artillery behind pulled the tiger squat cannon to retreat, and Zheng Jue ordered the infantry team to go around to the side of the Great Western Army
At this moment, the mood of the Great Western Army was broken, and as soon as the artillery bombed, some people began to plan to change their careers to farming
One-eyed is also about to collapse, this firearm will not stop as soon as it sounds, not to say that the official firearms are easy to explode, how can there be!
A burst of muskets came down, the Great Western Army killed and wounded hundreds of people, Zheng Jue only used a little gunpowder on his side, Zheng Jue watched the infantry team to the combat position, ordered the gun team to retreat, and fired a blue signal flare, the Great Western Army found that a large number of infantry with spears suddenly appeared on one side, and sometimes crossbow arrows came over
The Great Western Army could only retreat to the other side, but after taking two steps, he found that One-Eye was blocking in front, so he had to retreat again
One-eyed watched the soldier retreat and breathed a sigh of relief, he just wanted to supervise the battle, he ran with him, but he rode a horse, unconsciously ran to the front, looked at the front suddenly no one, stunned for a moment, turned around, and found that the soldiers were looking at him and then turned back, one-eyed's brain was actually dead for a while, but the soldier mistakenly thought that one-eyed was angry, so he retreated
Zheng Jue watched the infantry team come into contact with the Great Western Army, and left a red signal flare, after all, white-knuckle combat is the largest casualty, and unnecessary casualties should be minimized as much as possible.