Chapter 41: Advice
"Since the officers and soldiers have no chance to take advantage of it, it is better to leave as soon as possible while there are not many losses. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info "Seeing that Li Tianwang rejected his opinion, Gao Chenghe was not discouraged, and then persuaded Li Tianwang to take the opportunity to collect troops and return to the camp.
"What's the hurry, as long as we want to go, we can't leave when." Li Tianwang rejected the proposal to withdraw from the army, and he couldn't hear Gao Chenghe's means of retreating two into one. Speaking of which, the idea of beating this team of officers and soldiers was decided by him by all the people, and everyone disagreed with it at that time. There were few of them, less than 400 people, and this time more than 200 people were brought out at once, and the nest was almost empty. But in the face of the elite border army of the imperial court, it is really a little powerless.
"But, I can't beat it." Gao Chenghe persuaded in a low voice, "The border army has been fighting for a long time, it is difficult to break the car formation, and it will be a hard battle if it continues to fight, and the losses will not be small." ”
Li Tianwang was silent, he still couldn't let go of the fat in his mouth. However, the officers and troops are not weak, and it is a bit unrealistic to defeat them without much loss, but they can't even accept a slightly larger loss. It seems that the army still has to be expanded, Li Tianwang sighed secretly.
"In fact, as long as you get close to the car formation, you can break it in a parry." Li Tianwang said softly, not only to cheer himself up, but also to ask for advice. They are the most elite group of people in the Shanxi border army, much stronger than the officers and troops opposite, and they really want to fight face-to-face, I believe that they can quickly crush these officers and soldiers - people who have been in the army for a long time know that most of the officers and soldiers at this time have a very poor will to fight, and they rely very much on the sense of security brought by various weapons and equipment, such as chariots, such as artillery, once these things cannot play a role, the officers and troops will quickly collapse. There are very few exceptions, and all of them are the lion powerhouses in the epicenter.
"However, there are many firearms in the officers and soldiers, and the power is strong, and the armor leather on the sons and daughters can't stop it." Gao Chenghe said helplessly, he is also from the Ming army, how can he not know the weaknesses of the Ming army. At this time, most of the Ming troops relied too much on the protection of chariots and artillery during the battle, but lost the bloody courage to fight the enemy. There are only a few elites, as well as some high-ranking generals, who still dare to fight with the enemy.
"Actually, there is a good way to get close to the enemy." Xu Zhengze, who followed the brigade, was relatively close, he naturally heard the conversation between the two leaders, and knew the headaches of several leaders, so he began to think of a way, and fortunately, he knew a good way to restrain the firecracker.
"What's the method?" As soon as he heard Xu Zhengze say that there was a good way, several leaders of Li Tianwang immediately turned their heads and asked him eagerly. Speaking of which, Li Tianwang brought this team out, just to let them exercise and see things on the battlefield, and he didn't want these rabble to fight, mainly because he was afraid of bad things, so he didn't think to ask Xu Zhengze if there was a way.
"Do you really have a solution? Don't brag. Even Miss Yang, who didn't like Xu Zhengze, didn't give him a look anymore, but she was a little skeptical that this person had a really good way, but don't make everyone happy.
"Dare to ask the king of heaven, are the weapons of the official army less bows and crossbows and more firearms? Can only shoot directly, it is difficult to eject? Xu Zhengze was not in a hurry to say his solution, but asked questions first.
"Yes, exactly." Li Tianwang replied, "The officers and soldiers mostly use three-eyed guns for long-range shooting, and the range is only twenty or thirty paces, and there are about twenty or so bird guns, which are farther, about fifty or sixty paces. As for bows and crossbows, there are very few, and melee combat is all kinds of knives and guns. ”
"That's going to be easy." Xu Zhengze said with a smile, "Why don't the Heavenly King choose the elite and approach the officials and soldiers with thick planks, the fire gun should not be able to break the thick plank." ”
"Huh." Li Tianwang slapped his thigh and shouted, "Damn, such an easy method was actually thought up by your son-in-law, who has never been in battle, quickly, let people collect thick planks." ”
"The planks can be draped with more felt, quilts, and more sure to prevent firecrackers." Shi Ping, the leader who had not spoken, interjected, and everyone who said a sentence nodded in approval.
"You can pour some water on the felt and quilt, and the protection effect will be better." Xu Zhengze added that during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in later generations, the Eighth Route Army, which lacked guns and ammunition, wanted to attack the brick and stone bunkers built by the Japanese puppet army. The good method that the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians behind the enemy line who grew up in blood came up with, and the "soil tank" with a lot of bitter tears in his mouth was shamelessly plagiarized by Xu Zhengze.
"Good way, good way." Li Tianwang pinched his beard happily, and urged repeatedly, "Chenghe, among the brothers, you are the best at shooting, select all the elite soldiers in the team who are good at shooting, let's give this group of officers and soldiers a ruthless." ”
"Okay." There can be a good way to lay down the car formation of the official army, Gao Chenghe will never object, this battle is really successful, there are not a few captures, their strength will undoubtedly swell sharply, and it will be a lot easier to fight Puzhou in the future - these 500 officers and soldiers were sent to Puzhou by Xu Dingchen, the governor of Shanxi at the time, to assist in the defense, so that they could get to Puzhou smoothly, and Puzhou will be even more difficult to fight in the future.
"The thief is busy, what do you want to do?" Looking at the ghost of Kou Qi not far away, Wang Jiang's heart has been hanging, he is also glad that he is fortunate to bring dozens of carts to follow the march, otherwise, under the harassment of Kou Cai, the team will collapse nine times out of ten, and his own family knows that the official army can beat the thieves at this time, not because the officials and soldiers are so powerful, but because the thieves are too wasteful, but it is not that there is no news that the entire army of the official army is trapped in the thieves, and he doesn't want his name to be the next to appear in the newspaper that tells the thieves that the thieves are surging and uncontrollable.
"Do you still have to call in reinforcements?" The cronies behind him said in shock, causing the king to glare at him dissatisfied, they all hit this time, and recruited a fart reinforcement, and the reinforcements were used just now.
"Do you want to retreat? Did Jiezhou or Anyi send reinforcements? It shouldn't be, there is still an official who is so anxious for justice and justice now. It's true that each sweeps the snow in front of the door. Wang Jiang was puzzled by his conjecture.
"Brother Xu's method reminds me of the style of the Jurchens." Over there, Li Tianwang, who had finished assigning the task, said leisurely that they were in Shanxi Town, and had never fought with the Jurchens in Liaodong, so they were not familiar with it, but they had heard some news, "I heard that in the Jianyu battle, it is customary to use a kind of chariot, which can resist the guns of the officers and soldiers, and every time they deceive the officers and soldiers one or twenty steps in front of the formation, they cast arrows, killing and injuring a large number of officers and soldiers, and then sending foot soldiers wearing two or three layers of heavy armor to rush into the formation, and the result is that the formation is broken every time." ”
"I also heard about it, so I thought of this method." Xu Zhengze said with a smile, but thought in his heart, could it be that the Qing army also used this method, and it was really the same as the hero. He remembered that some articles he had read before said that the Ming army could often hold out in the face of the Qing army's guns, but it was heavy arrows fired at close range, as well as hand-to-hand combat, which often could not be supported.
Judging from the performance of the Qing army, it can be seen that it is quite tricky, an organization that is good at learning, good at using brains, and overcoming all kinds of difficulties can never be underestimated, and it is said that the new regimes are probably like this, but the Ming Dynasty, which has enjoyed the country for more than 200 years, is very rigid.
"Xu Zhengze." Seeing that Li Tianwang and the others were busy assigning tasks, arranging manpower, and selecting sharp pawns, Miss Yang, who had been at odds with Xu Zhengze, ran over and asked him, "Have you ever been in Liaodong?" Otherwise, how can you know the usual tricks of the Jurchens? ”
"Nope." Xu Zhengze shook his head, in his previous life and in this life, he had never been to Liaodong, it was too far away.
"Then you have been in Jingshi?" Thinking of her father, they said that Xu Zhengze's accent was a bit like that of Jingshiren, and she couldn't help but ask.
"Nope." Xu Zhengze still shook his head, in his previous and current lives, the capital of China was in one place, but he had never been there.
Seeing that she couldn't ask anything, Yang Wan stopped talking and walked away to observe the chase on the field. At this time, their cavalry rarely scurried around the car formation, and they only stared at it from a distance, but even so, the speed of the official and military vehicle formation could not move fast, and they had to stop and rectify from time to time. Looking at their turtle speed, I don't know if they can walk to Anyi County, which is only ten miles away, when it gets dark.
"How, the reinforcements from Jiezhou haven't arrived yet." The impetuous Wang General always asked anxiously, being stared at by a group of tigers and wolves, he felt that he was thorned in the back, and realized that the thief was very difficult, so he sent his cronies to break through the enemy siege and go to Jiezhou City to move rescue troops - there are too few soldiers in Anyi County, I am afraid that it will be difficult to protect myself, let alone rescue him. Although he knew what the official army was like now, he was still a little anxious when he waited for reinforcements to arrive.
If this continues, will they spend the night in the wilderness? Just thinking about it, the king always has a headache, the night is not as good as the day, under the siege of the thief army, a bad end is the collapse of the whole army. However, the nearest county seat of Anyi is also ten miles away.
In this way, another half an hour passed, and the cavalry of the officers and soldiers moved forward to two miles of road, and they were getting closer and closer to Anyi City, and the team was obviously relieved, as long as it was at this speed, it would not be a problem to rush to Anyi County before dark, and there was no need to enter the city, as long as there was a city wall to rely on, this gang of thieves could not help them.
"Send more sentry cavalry, and pay close attention to the movements of the officers and troops in Anyi, Jiezhou, and Siyan Zhucheng." Li Tianwang turned his head and instructed his subordinates, "Also, send someone to urge, let the people in the village in front of them hurry up." It's not far from Anyi County, and it's not easy to fight if you let the officers and soldiers get closer. ”