Chapter 1456: Piecemeal
readx; By the time Li Laiheng led his troops to launch a hand-to-hand battle, there was no suspense about the outcome of the battle. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Please search! The fastest updated novel, both mentally and tactically, the rogues have completely collapsed, and all that remains is to harvest the battlefield. In the end, the battle ended with more than 1,000 thieves scattering and fleeing, and the officers and soldiers had almost zero casualties.
After the battle, Li Laiheng learned from the captives that what he had just encountered was the main force of the famous "Reincarnation King" Xu Chang. It turned out that Xu Bian Zaiyi Zhen was defeated by Guan Ning Tieqi, and even lost his own family members in the old camp, and he was very angry in his heart, and he felt shameless to go to see Lao Huihui and other leaders.
After finally collecting the defeated troops, Xu Chang felt that since Yizhen had such a strong official army, let alone Yangzhou and Nanjing. At this time, he regretted it, he shouldn't believe Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's words, and he didn't want to attack Yangzhou anymore. After thinking about it, I felt that it was better to kill the horse pistol, take advantage of the opportunity that the officers and soldiers were attracted to the front line of the Yangtze River by the old Hui Cao Xiang and other departments, and return to the Pengcheng area to try their luck, maybe there is a chance to enter Shandong and fight a new situation.
Unexpectedly, Xu Xu turned out to be really unlucky, and bumped into Li Laiheng halfway and became the first victim of this firearms cavalry unit. After suffering two fiascos in a row, the troops of the license change finally dispersed in a hurry, and they could no longer be gathered, and the permission change himself only led a few dozen remnants of the army to flee.
Because of this encounter, Li Laiheng arrived in Yangzhou nearly a day later than planned. However, there is also good news, when Lu Xiangsheng's urgent performance was sent to Beijing, Zhu Youzhen was afraid that Lu Xiangsheng's troops would not be enough, so he urgently transferred Liu Quanzhong's 3,000 infantry troops from Henan Guide to come to reinforcements. Since the reconquest of Kaifeng, this unit has been stationed in the rear as a reserve, with strong firepower and sufficient ammunition.
Lu Xiangsheng was worried that there were too few troops to reinforce Yangzhou, so he asked Liu Quanzhong to go directly to Yangzhou to join Li Laiheng, and now Liu Quanzhong's troops are coming at the same time. Li Laiheng was anxious, and after consulting with Yang Tinglin, Yang Tinglin led a small number of men and horses to clean up the battlefield and go to meet Liu Quanzhong, and he himself led the main force to Yangzhou City.
A city is still holding on, and Li Laiheng finally put his mind at ease. After easily repelling Lao Huihui's tentative attack, he immediately set up camp, seized the time to rest, and waited for Liu Quanzhong to arrive. Because he knew very well that although the firearms cavalry unit won two battles, the number of troops was too small for the thieves, and the ammunition was not enough to deal with such a large-scale battle. So now as long as it plays a leading role, after Liu Quanzhong's infantry arrives, it will be different.
However, rest is rest, and officers and soldiers are not all rest. Of the three thousand, two thousand five hundred slept, and the remaining five hundred were left to keep watch in the camp, and fifty were sent out to reconnoitre. Originally, these soldiers were all scouts, and it was not a problem to engage in their old professions, not fifty people, but they closely monitored the perimeter of the entire thief camp in Yangzhou, and as long as there was a disturbance in the enemy army, Li Laiheng would know immediately.
There are still 350 people left, and Li Laiheng's fierce general Hei Youli Power Leader continues to harass and attack the bandit camp. These three hundred and fifty men had a division of labor: with every ten men, that is, a squad, as a small team, a total of ten squads were sent out, scattered far across the battlefield, and each approached the camp of the thieves as a luring force; The remaining 250 men formed a small phalanx and prepared in front of the camp as a support force.
The camp of the thieves is said to be a "camp", but in fact it is not as strict as the camp of the regular army, and there is no wooden fence on the outermost periphery, so even if you want to stand up, you can't stand up, because there are too many people, and the camp is too big, and there is not so much wood available. Of course, now that there are officers and soldiers to reinforce them, Lao Hui still sent a team of men and horses to patrol and guard outside the camp.
Because the officers and troops were camped far away, these people also took it for granted that the officers and troops were probably not in a hurry to attack, and they were relatively lax in spirit. By the time they discovered that the small force of the officers and soldiers was quietly approaching, the distance between the two sides had been shortened to eighty paces, and they were within the range of the birds.
"Bang! Bang bang bang! ”
With a few crisp gunshots, several thieves fell from their horses. The thieves were panicked at first, but only ten people came when they fixed their eyes, and then they were angry, thinking that the officials and soldiers looked down on people too much, and ten people dared to come to rob the camp?! Their patrol cavalry team has two or three hundred cavalry, and they can't beat the large army of officers and soldiers, so can't even these ten people handle it?
As soon as the leader of the thieves led the team was hot-headed, he led his men to rush towards the official army, releasing arrows indiscriminately as he rushed. But their archery skills are really not very good, and they can't even touch the side of the officers and soldiers.
As soon as the ten-man cavalry squad of the officer army saw that the enemy was being lured out, they immediately turned their horses and retreated. Their horses had just been well rested, and were faster than the thieves' horses, and they quickly retreated to the phalanx, retreating from one side of the phalanx to the rear.
The enemy has a hatred for the enemy, and the sun and the moon are hateful
The small phalanx, like yesterday's against the troops who had changed the plane, marched in an orderly formation, firing their guns in rows as they advanced. The thieves' pursuers were originally patrols, and there were not many troops, which was enough for the officers and soldiers to stuff their teeth, and they were put down by one or two dozen people in an instant, including the little leader. The rest were frightened and fled in panic. The official and military formations did not chase after them, and soon re-arrayed them.
However, when these patrol cavalry fled back to the vicinity of the camp, they found that while they were chasing the small group of officers and soldiers, another small group of officers and cavalry approached the camp from another direction. And the thieves in the camp had already escaped from the camp tent, and were now scurrying around in the camp, embarrassed.
Hou Ke is not an enemy, Hou Xuezhan coldly pointed at Sun Xing
As soon as the patrol cavalry returned, the officers and soldiers of this small group did not say a word, and immediately turned their horses and retreated. Some thieves were so angry that their eyes were red, and they wanted to chase after them, but they were hurriedly stopped by their accomplices and said, "You don't want to die, do you dare to chase it?" Have you forgotten how the one who was in charge of the plate just now died? ”
However, this small group of officers and soldiers did not pursue, and also restrained the war horse from a hundred paces away, so that they could reload the ammunition in a timely manner. The thief's bow and arrow could not reach others, so he had to stare wide-eyed. After a while, the officers and soldiers loaded their ammunition and leaned up unhurriedly to fire a few shots. I didn't dare to chase it out, so I simply stopped where I was and loaded my ammunition!
In the face of the tactics of the officials and soldiers who were close to scoundrels, the thieves were mad with anger, but there was nothing they could do. On the other hand, the officers and soldiers took turns to change shifts, and this group of people was tired and changed to the next group, from day to night, and from late night to dawn, without stopping for half a moment. Lao Hui had already received a reward, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, and decided that no matter how much it cost, he would first wipe out or repel the official army on the periphery.
It's a pity that his decision was too late, because Liu Quanzhong's department finally arrived...
The enemy of the earth is the early owner of the ball