Chapter 6: The Raid (1)
"Urgent report ahead! -- The slave generals Nikan, Tulai, and Tunqi led more than 30,000 people from the Eight Banners of the Manchu and Han Dynasties, with nearly 20,000 of the traitors Liu Liangzuo, Zhang Tianlu, and Zhang Tianfu as the forerunners, and have already gone down the river, and have now passed through Jiangning Town, and are coming towards the Taiping Mansion. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
As soon as Huang Degong returned to the Wuhu camp and settled down, the recitals in front of him followed.
"Hmph, as I expected, the group of birdmen such as Huama Liu and Zhang Tianlu are really not left behind when traitors sell themselves for glory! But since these birdmen dare to come, it would be rude for me not to greet them. In the handsome tent, Huang Degong said disdainfully, and then his finger poked heavily in a certain area on the map: "I was already here a few days ago, and I prepared a table of wine banquets for Huama Liu and other birdmen, just waiting for them to come!" ”
Standing next to Huang Degong, Lu Daotai, who was standing next to Huang Degong, looked towards the place that Huang Degong was pointing to, and saw that the area was the area around Taiping Mansion. Lu Daotai couldn't help asking: "Dashuai, the troops of the traitors of Liu and Zhang who went down the river were no less than 20,000, and then there was a Jiannu army to follow. And our army only has the headquarters of the general soldier Deng Linzu and the general Pang Yue in the Taiping Mansion area, is this force too weak? ”
Huang Degong smiled: "Zhuo Yuan is too worried, I am not deploying like this, not to defend it." This battle is to defeat the enemy's spirit. Second... Hum! I have more than one banquet, there is a bigger one in Wuhu, as for how to invite Hua Ma Liu and his master to the banquet, it depends on Deng Linzu. ”
After listening to Huang Degong's words, Lu Daotai seemed to have understood, twisted his beard and smiled.
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While Huang Degong and Lu Daotai were discussing, the vanguard led by Liu Liangzuo and Zhang Tianfu had already arrived thirty miles north of Taiping Mansion.
"Report - everything is normal for ten miles ahead"
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"Report - there is no trace of the enemy in the front 20 miles, everything is normal"
After listening to the report of the team of probing horses, Liu Liangzuo, who was riding on a variegated war horse, raised his eyebrows, cleared his throat again, and commanded loudly to his side: "Order the army to speed up!" Be sure to rush to Wuhu City before sunset today! ”
During this time, Liu Liangzuo can be described as high-spirited, and after selling himself to seek refuge, he relied on his outstanding performance in Yangzhou and won the appreciation of the new master (at least in his own opinion, otherwise, how could the master put such a glorious and arduous task in his own hands this time?). )。 This departure from Nanjing, it was also quite smooth, there was almost no decent resistance along the way, and now the Taiping Mansion is already in sight, and it seems that it is also within a snap of a finger to capture it.
It seems that he has to add another heavy stroke to his credit book! Thinking of this, Liu Liangzuo was even more proud. However, just as he was sketching out his bright prospects, a discordant voice came: "General Liu, this Taiping Mansion is almost here, should we send a few more scouts to investigate in case the Ming army ambushes them?" ”
Liu Liangzuo raised his eyes and looked, it turned out to be Zhang Tianfu, and a nameless fire suddenly rose in his heart.
Although Liu Liangzuo has had a good time during this time, there are always two things that keep him haunted. The first is that the 60,000 or 70,000 troops under the original command have been dismantled by the new master, and their own strength is not as good as before. The second is that some of the original small roles have gradually had a tendency to catch up with themselves. Like this Zhang Tianfu in front of him, his elder brother Zhang Tianlu is just the leader of the township soldiers who was incorporated in the middle of the Chongzhen Dynasty, just because he defected to the new master a little earlier than himself, his strength was not suppressed but expanded. Even Zhang Tianfu, an unpopular character, had to respectfully call "Liu Shuai" when he saw him a year ago, and after taking refuge, he actually became one of the general soldiers and led the army alone, and now he dares to speak to himself in the tone of a colleague. What's the matter? …,
"Mr. Zhang, do you have a bad memory? Just now, the Tanma has reported back, and everything is normal ahead. After speaking, Liu Liangzuo clamped the horse's belly and took a few steps away from Zhang Tianfu with a look of disgust.
"But ......"
"It's nothing, since General Zhang is so afraid of ambushes, just stay here and wait for Belle Ye's army. If you want me to say, Brother Ling is still a cheerful person, and he stays with Lord Belle when he knows that he is afraid, how easy is it? Liu Liangzuo's words were a bit yin and yang.
When Zhang Tianfu heard this, he was angry, and his whole face turned red, but he was helpless. Facing Hua Ma Liu, one of the black-hearted and shameless former commanders of the four major towns, Zhang Tianfu was obviously a little lacking in confidence, and although he touched his nose, he could only return to his army without saying a word.
Seeing Zhang Tianfu's deflated appearance, Liu Liangzuo only felt a burst of relief in his heart.
After walking forward more than ten miles unharmed, Liu Liangzuo felt that Zhang Tianfu's reminder just now was completely nonsense, but the joy of entering the Taiping Mansion made him disdain to deal with Zhang Tianfu again.
"Woohoo! At this moment, Liu Liangzuo suddenly heard the sound of an arrow breaking through the air behind him without warning, and the sound was so dense that it was impossible to hear the rhythm, and he secretly screamed in his heart.
I saw a large rain of black arrows suddenly appear in the clear sky, roaring and rushing straight to the middle of the traitor army's marching column, and after intimate contact with it, countless clouds of blood mist were brought out. Countless people fell from the arrows in that instant, and the entire queue was dented in a large piece.
"Ahh "Don't mess around, shield hand forward, line up!" "Don't run, those who run away will be killed!" The wails and shouts of the soldiers and the shouts of the officers came and went, and the atmosphere at the scene was even more chaotic. At this moment, another overwhelming rain of arrows followed, completing the second round of strikes.
"Kill! - "With an earth-shattering shout, an ambush army came out from behind a small hill not far from the official road, and with the cavalry as the lead, it plunged straight into the middle of the traitor army like a sharp arrow.
The traitor army in the middle of the attack was Liu Liangzuo's subordinates, although the number was comparable to or even more than the Ming army, but almost all of them were infantry, and they had suffered the baptism of arrow rain on both sides before, so they suffered a big loss just after a short encounter with this Ming ambush. In the rain of swords and blood, a large number of traitor soldiers were cut down, and the cone attack formation composed of the Ming cavalry stabbed the ranks of the traitor army to the ground. The infantry that followed behind pushed forward, knocking the traitor army's line back again and again. The hand-to-hand combat, the flesh and blood flying, and the battle became more tragic.
At this time, Liu Liangzuo had already seen clearly that the cavalry in this Ming ambush was around 1,000, and the infantry would not exceed 2,000. Moreover, this group of people was also accurate, directly attacking the infantry in the middle of their own rank, taking advantage of the lack of offensive ability of the rear baggage battalion to avoid the situation of being attacked on both sides. Hmph, it's a bit cunning! However, the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses who dared to attack themselves with such a few people wanted to send them to death? Liu Liangzuo sneered, and ordered the heralds around him to quickly raise the flag to adjust their own people.
"Kill - kill all these bastards who sold themselves as traitors!" Shi Youliang, the general manager of the Ming army, rode on a horse and wielded a big knife to kill heartily, ordinary traitor soldiers could never go under his knife for a round, and a traitor officer who thought he was good at martial arts wanted to come forward to bargain and was killed by a knife after only six rounds. Covered in blood and flying broadswords, Shi Youliang looked like a high-speed killing machine. Soon after, almost no one dared to approach him except his own people. …,
"Hahaha, Zhou Ming (Shi Youliang's words) is a good knife technique." Pang Yue pulled the spear out of the body of a traitor general, and smiled at Shi Youliang. It seems that the battlefield is too loud, Shi Youliang did not respond, and he is still reaping human lives by himself.
That's right, it was Pang Yue's men who came to ambush Liu Liangzuo's troops this time. When he was hiding behind the small hill just now, Pang Yue was always worried about being discovered by Liu Liangzuo's scouts. Fortunately, the "momentum like a bamboo" in the past few months has caused a general psychology of pride and contempt for the enemy and empty eyes within this traitor army, believing that under the protection of the "Qing Dynasty Prince", no one dares to challenge their "fox might". It was under the influence of such a psychology that the traitor army's detectives relaxed their vigilance, and just now they just climbed the small hill and took a cursory look before going back to the errand. Therefore, there is a wonderful scene of the traitor army being ambushed.
Compared with Shi Youliang, Pang Yue's results were even slightly better. This seems to be a normal thing in the eyes of others, but it makes Pang Yue, oh, Pang Yue, who has the soul of the twenty-first century, excited. Just a few days ago, he unexpectedly discovered that he actually knew how to shoot, as soon as he took the spear, there would be a subconscious in his mind to guide his movements. At that time, he realized that this subconscious should be left over from the original "Pang Yue". This made him excited, and it also made him give up the idea of hiding in a safe place and become a Confucian general, and decided to go into battle to kill the enemy himself. In addition, Pang Yue, who had read history books in his previous life, clearly knew that Liu Liangzuobu, who was ambushed this time, was one of the culprits involved in the Ten Days of Yangzhou, which aroused his desire to kill the enemy and avenge his compatriots.
Soon, under Liu Liangzuo's adjustment, the men and horses of the front team of the traitor army who were not ambushed quickly listed the battle formation, and the baggage battalion of the rear team was also quickly prepared for defense. However, Liu Liangzuo did not immediately mobilize the infantry reinforcements of the front team, but just let them stand by on the spot, but directly transferred the most effective cavalry battalion used in peacetime to ambush the Ming army who was ambushing the traitor army in the middle section. Because in his opinion, as long as the men and horses in the middle can be stabilized, more than 2,000 cavalry will be enough to completely defeat this immeasurable Ming army in one fell swoop. Kill chickens, and use cattle knives? As for Zhang Tianfu's 3,000 people, Liu Liangzuo directly let them flash aside, if they had to rely on Zhang Tianfu's mud leg to help him with such a little thing, he would have no face to see people in the future.
Zhang Tianfu saw that Liu Liangzuo was so ignorant, so he naturally wouldn't do that thankless thing, and retreated to the side with a joke-watching mentality, and organized the people of the headquarters to retreat aside.
Although Liu Liangzuo's department is a second-rate character in the original four towns, not as good as Huang Degong's department and Gao Jie's department, due to the numerical advantage and the self-confidence of "destroying countless enemies and breaking through the bamboo" some time ago, coupled with Liu Liangzuo's usual black-hearted and fierce military law, the ambushed middle traitor army gradually struggled out of the initial chaos after twenty or thirty deserters were killed on the spot, and slowly stabilized the battle line. After the successful surprise attack of Pang Yue's troops achieved certain results, the offensive momentum was also stagnant. The traitor army was killed by the Ming army in the middle of the process, but there was still a steady stream of soldiers who were used as human shields by the grassroots officers and drove forward to plug the gap. The Ming officers and soldiers who were the first to insert into the traitor army array were so numb that their hands were numb, and their vision was blurred by blood, and they still made little progress, and even some of the brave traitor soldiers launched a counterattack under the organization of the officers, causing certain casualties to the Ming army. At this time, the reinforced traitor cavalry had also been killed, the purpose was obvious, to launch an attack from the flank of the Ming army, use the numerical advantage to defeat the Ming cavalry, and then join forces with the traitor infantry to eat the Ming infantry who were encircled. …,
It was hardly difficult for more than 2,000 cavalry to attack a mixed army of 3,000 infantry and infantry. Probably with just one charge, the enemy will be crushed! With such a kind of confidence, the cavalry of the traitor army let out shouts full of excitement and all kinds of strange screams, and rushed towards the Ming army ambush.
Seeing the more than 2,000 traitor cavalry galloping over, Pang Yue secretly pinched a cold sweat, thinking to himself, if he hadn't followed Zhang Yunli's advice before the battle and adjusted the cavalry to the flanks in time after the surprise attack was successful, then the more than 2,000 horses under his command would have looked good today. Even if you can explode your character and retreat with your whole body, you will definitely lose a lot.
Fortunately, Pang Yue, a military novice who had just come from the 21st century, had never been in the habit of treating arbitrariness as a personality, and he was also self-aware, and before the war, he deduced various situations that might occur with several subordinates with real battlefield experience, so he was somewhat prepared.
Since he had made a simple deduction beforehand, Pang Yue didn't want to talk nonsense, so he directly ordered the flag bearers around him to play the flag and adjust his own people.
"Hahahaha, brothers, those rats dare to come to us to bargain! Since the mongrels dare to come, we have to let them know what it will be like to be a traitor! After receiving the order, Shi Youliang, the officer of the horse team, was actually excited, and commanded his cavalry to wave bloody blades and directly launch a counter-charge towards the traitor army cavalry, and handed over the task of attacking the traitor army infantry to the two infantry teams behind him. Seeing this scene, the traitor cavalry was stunned at first, but then their faces were full of disdain, using such a little person to hedge against themselves, do they want to find death?
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