Chapter 512: A Fierce Battle

"The artillery concentrates on the opponent's cavalry, the musketeers on both flanks pay attention to the defense, don't be broken through the camp by the opponent's cavalry, the throwers of the servant army are ready, and when the opponent's cavalry rushes closer, use grenades to break the opponent's cavalry formation!" When the two armies faced each other, one military order after another was issued from Li Anliang's mouth, and the herald next to him was also very busy, not only to convey Li Anliang's orders as soon as possible, but also to ensure that there would be no mistakes, otherwise it was likely to cause a war to fail.

The three guards of Jianzhou joined forces, although the left guard of Jianzhou was disabled, but the other two guards still maintained a complete strength, adding up to more than 30,000 people, plus the remnants of the left guard of Jianzhou, the three guards together organized nearly 40,000 troops, although their strength is still a little different from the army under Li Anliang, but this gap has been narrowed a lot.

The Jurchens mainly live on hunting, the so-called hunting, in fact, is more primitive than nomadism, literally can be understood as hunting everywhere, in order to obtain food, when the prey in one place is almost eaten, and then migrate to another place. However, although this way of life is primitive, it has created a strong body and excellent hunting skills of the Jurchens, so as long as they are adult Jurchen men, they are excellent warriors, and the Jurchens also like to hunt on horseback, their riding and archery skills are not worse than those of the Mongols, plus they are not short of war horses, so when fighting in the field, the Jurchens are mainly cavalry-based.

It is precisely because of this that at the beginning of the battle between Li Anliang and Jianzhou Sanwei, he encountered a cavalry raid by Jianzhou Sanwei, but fortunately, Li Anliang had already explored the situation of the Jurchens clearly. Before the war, he had already envisioned the various situations he would face. So in the face of the cavalry raid of the Jurchens. He was well arranged.

Although the cavalry of the Jurchens is powerful, but they actually have no experience in large-scale battles with the Ming army, when they went south to plunder, they were generally like robbers, and they fled when they encountered a large number of Ming troops, and the Ming army of small groups chased and ate them, and when the Ming army's defense had a loophole, they would immediately kill it. Then after looting, after getting enough food and money, they will go back, and they will definitely not face the Ming army head-on.

It is precisely because of the above reasons that although the Jurchen cavalry is strong, they have no experience in fighting with the Ming army, especially in dealing with artillery, it is a blank, so when the Ming artillery bombarded the cavalry camp, the Jurchens on the horse were better, but the war horses under them were frightened. After all, the fear of loud noises is the instinct of animals, and even some war horses are frightened on the spot. They don't listen to the controls at all, but they run around.

Although Fuman had also fought with Li Anliang's army for two days before, it was mainly a battle to defend the city, and he did not send Jurchen cavalry, so he didn't expect this to happen, and in comparison, the leaders of the other two guards were even more overwhelmed.

Li Anliang saw that the effect of the artillery was far beyond his expectations, and he seized the opportunity to immediately send a musketeer to charge, disrupting the Jurchen cavalry formation that rushed in the front, and the Japanese grenadiers in the back also began to step forward, using grenades to disrupt the Jurchen cavalry again, and finally the Japanese army launched a counter-charge against the cavalry, although the infantry against the cavalry charge would suffer some losses, and even bring unplanned casualties, but Li Anliang didn't care about the casualties of the Japanese at all, in his opinion, as long as he could defeat the Jurchens, Even if all the 50,000 servant troops were wiped out, it would be worth it.

The Ming and Jurchen sides together nearly 100,000 people, gathered on this small plain to fight desperately, the battle on the battlefield was extremely tragic, people died in the first second, the Jurchens were fierce, the Japanese people were ferocious, both sides had already killed the red eyes, the short Japanese people would even drill under the horse's belly, first hurt the horse and then kill the enemy, although this may make themselves seriously injured or even killed, but at this time no one cares at all.

Li Anliang stood at the rear of the battlefield with a cold face, he didn't pay attention to the casualties of the servant army of the Japanese state, after all, the purpose of this army was trained for this day, and then when he saw that there were Jurchens dying in the hands of the servant army, an indescribable relief rose in his heart, as long as this Jurchen army was defeated, then the entire Jianzhou Jurchen army would no longer have any defensive power, and then the other party would be like a woman who was stripped naked, and she could retaliate as much as she wanted, and even the court would not interfere with anything, Because this was one of the conditions for him to dedicate Korea to the imperial court in the first place.

"General, the morale of the Jurchens is very high, and they dare to fight hard, if they continue to touch it so hard, I am afraid it will cause us a lot of casualties!" At this moment, Xu Cheng next to him suddenly spoke, although most of the people who died on the battlefield were servant troops, but in Xu Cheng's opinion, the combat power of this Japanese servant army was not bad, and it was really not cost-effective if it was lost to the Jurchens like this.

"General Xu doesn't have to worry about the servant army, the purpose of this army is to be established for this moment, and the Wa State should not maintain a strong army, even if this army is in our hands now, but this is not safe, so this war against the Jurchens will not only destroy most of the Jurchens, but also consume this servant army." Li Anliang looked at the cruel battlefield in front of him and said softly at the same time.

Xu Cheng heard Li Anliang's words, but he couldn't help but shudder, originally he thought that after the experience of the battlefield, his heart had already been as hard as iron, but he didn't expect Li Anliang to be more cruel than himself, the servant army in front of him was obviously brought out by him, but he didn't expect that the other party had planned to let this army die in Liaodong from the beginning, this kind of behavior can no longer be described as iron-hearted, and even Xu Cheng felt that he was standing next to Li Anliang, and he couldn't help but feel a little cold.

Li Anliang also noticed Xu Cheng's expression, but he didn't explain, but said with a smile: "In addition, General Xu doesn't have to worry that we will consume too much in the battle with the Jianzhou Jurchens, as long as we can destroy the Jianzhou Jurchens, several state capitals on the Korean side will also send troops at the same time to attack the savage Jurchens with us, as for the Haixi Jurchens, His Majesty intends to let the Duoyan Sanwei after surrender deal with them, especially Funingwei, although they have not surrendered yet, they are not far away." ”

"The Admiral understands!" Although Xu Cheng has a great future, in the army of this expedition against the Jurchens, the real commander is still Li Anliang, there are many military arrangements for the sake of secrecy, and only Li Anliang knows, and now the other party tells him the next military deployment, on the one hand, it is to calm his heart, and on the other hand, it is also to let him think about the next military action.

Li Anliang's 50,000 servant army of the Japanese state plus 10,000 regular army of the Ming Dynasty met with the 40,000 Jurchen cavalry of the three guards of Jianzhou who were united, and then fought for several days on this small plain, the battle situation was extremely tragic from the beginning, and the battlefield was full of corpses, among which they were wearing leather jackets, bare heads, as long as there was a piece of hair braided in the back of their heads, it was the Jurchens, and those wearing simple leather armor and short stature were servant troops, which were also mixed with the corpses of some Ming regular troops, but the number was not much.

A few days later, both sides with heavy casualties are already exhausted, and now the Jurchens and the Ming army are like two giant beasts that have been fighting for many days, although they are scarred, but they are unwilling to retreat, so now the two sides are competing for endurance and the degree of tolerance for the pain, only if one side can not bear this casualty and retreat, the war will end.

In this way, it was another few days of tragic fighting, almost everyone in Li Anliang's army was wounded, including more than 10,000 servants killed, the injuries were extremely serious, and it was almost impossible to survive There were thousands of people, and even the regular army of the Ming Dynasty was killed more than 1,200 people, as for the Jurchens of the other side, although there was no exact statistics, Li Anliang estimated that the casualties of the other party would definitely not be small by them, and there may even be more, after all, the army of the Ming Dynasty is equipped with many doctors, and the wounded can be treated in time. And the Jurchens did not have such good medical conditions.

The Jurchens have more than 20,000 casualties, which is simply a miracle, you must know that they have a total of only 40,000 people, and now the death rate has reached fifty percent, although this is the cumulative number of casualties in a few days, but it is also very remarkable, after all, for the general army, as long as there are more than 20,000 casualties in the army, then this army is generally either broken up or surrendered directly, but the Jurchens rely on a determination to defend their homeland, as well as the tenacity tempered by the mountains, and withstood such a large casualty.

Of course, the servant army of the Wa State also performed well, but they are not an ordinary army, at the beginning of the establishment of this army, Li Anliang has instilled in them a belief, that is, after they join the servant army, the whole life of the person no longer belongs to the individual, but belongs to the Ming Empire, and as long as they die in battle, their families will be best taken care of in the Wa country, and their descendants will become the new nobles of the Wa country in the future, so they are not afraid of death, On the contrary, there are still some people who hope that death will bring them honor and a happy life for their families.

The two armies each have their own beliefs, and there are enough reasons to fight, so the fighting on the battlefield is becoming more and more tragic, but the number of Jurchens is relatively bad after all, plus their equipment and supplies are also very poor, especially after so many days of fighting, their supplies can't keep up, and their physical strength naturally declines quickly, on the other hand, the Ming side has enough supplies, so the situation on the battlefield slowly begins to fall to the Ming side, in addition to the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, the next team is recuperating, Prepare to strike a fatal blow at the Jurchens at the right time. (To be continued......)