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"If the Pang thief selects dozens of people from the captives, puts on the armor of the puppet thief army, and then kills them in public, it is probably not a difficult task, right?" Shang Kexi's eyes narrowed slightly. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Shen Zhixiang couldn't help but be shocked: "King Zhishun is saying that everything before was a Pang thief acting?" Did he deliberately set a trap to lure me into being fooled? But hasn't the matter of Yuezhou been confirmed by many parties? ”

Shang Kexi suddenly laughed, then put away his smile and said: "This is just my intuition, I always feel that Pang Thief's actions today will not be so simple." However, I don't doubt the truth of the Yuezhou Change, but even if the Yuezhou Revolution is true, and the thief army has really cut off the grain route, wouldn't the Pang thief cheat? The more he is short of food, the more he needs to seize every opportunity to turn defeat into victory as soon as possible. Otherwise, if you return south like this, even if you can retreat with your whole body, how can you be willing with the ambition of a thief? You know, dying wolves sometimes bite people to death. ”

"What does King Zhishun mean?"

"I still mean what I did before." Shang Kexi said, "In the past three or four days, we have been able to seek stability and wait and see what happens." No matter what tricks the thieves use, they don't have to pay attention. After these few days, when the thief army's food and grass are almost consumed, the situation will be completely clear. Now for Pang Thief, Jingzhou is equivalent to chicken ribs, and it is a pity to abandon it if it is tasteless. And for our army, how can the thief army outside the city not be chicken ribs at the moment? In the end, who eats whom, the key depends on the last few days. ”

Shen Zhixiang thought for a moment. Said: "What King Zhishun said is very true, but our army does not have to be blindly passive. In the old days. It is common for thieves to come and raid the city, so why don't we treat others the way they do? It's good to test its reality and reality. If the morale of the army really changes. That's great. Even if its morale is not disturbed, our army can disrupt it by constantly attacking and harassing it, and make some preparations for the final decisive battle. ”

Shang Kexi nodded: "That's fine, we will discuss it carefully at the military meeting in the afternoon, and if there is no accident, it will be implemented tonight."

Shen Zhixiang's proposal, Shang Kexi naturally agreed, although he had to be steady and cautious in the past few days, he couldn't do nothing. In the past, the non-stop night attacks of the Ming army really gave him a headache. Now that I have the opportunity, how can I not respond?

In the afternoon, the Ming army did not move. Shang Kexi arranged the task of attacking and harassing the temptation on the military council.

When night fell, the direction of the Ming army camp was still peaceful. The small groups of the Qing army responsible for the attack had already made all preparations in the barracks, and they would immediately dispatch as soon as they waited for the military order.

In the second half of the night, the Qing army began to leave the camp, with people and horses wrapped in hooves, quietly approaching the Ming army camp from multiple directions.

However, many Qing troops had only marched two or three miles before they were discovered by the sentinels of the Ming army and immediately warned.

Suddenly. The horns and gongs in the originally silent Ming army camp sounded loudly, and the already dimly lit camp was soon as bright as day. Groups of Ming soldiers grabbed weapons and got out of their tents and assembled in the open field. The men and horses in charge of the guard were already out of the camp as soon as possible to meet the attackers. Buy time for the build-up of the main forces.

Seeing that it had been exposed, the Qing army no longer concealed it, and launched an attack on the Ming army camp with great fanfare and pretense. Soon, they clashed with the small cavalry of the Ming army that came up one after another. After a while, there were casualties on both sides.

But the purpose of the Qing army this time was not really to attack the Ming army camp. Therefore, after the main force of the Ming army left the camp, the Qing army, which had already achieved its goal, attacked and harassed the troops without any war. Quickly abandon engagement and retreat.

Until the main force of the Ming army caught up, the cavalry chased to the camp outside the east gate and shouted and shouted, and the Qing army also closed the city gate and the walled gate, and no longer went to war.

Although the results of tonight's attack were not great, Shang Ke was pleased to see the Ming army outside the city, which was very embarrassed, and was still quite proud, and encouraged the officers who had just returned to the city with a smile: "You have behaved very well, this king thought that he would be discovered by the thief army as soon as he left the city, but unexpectedly he also achieved some results." That's a good start. ”

With the first time, there will be a second time, and it is estimated that in a few days, the military spirit of the Ming army will really float. At this time, Shang Kexi had a little more confidence.

In the early morning of the next day, the Ming army cut off a few more heads in front of the camp, which was estimated to be the sentry cavalry that had not been well reconnoitred last night. Shang Kexi saw it from a distance and sneered.

In the morning, the battle resumed. It's just that this time is different from the past, and the initiating side is not the Ming army, but the Qing army. Under Shang Kexi's order, most of the main forces of the Qing army went out of the north gate and put on a posture of going north to attack the camp with Tikhamu. At this time, the Ming army seemed to have no choice but to fight in the battalion.

After the engagement, the men and horses of the Qing army out of the north gate and the men and horses outside the east gate launched an attack on the Ming army. The ensuing battle also showed that Shang Kexi's arrangement was really killing two birds with one stone. Most of the main force went out of the north gate, not only transferring the Ming army out of the camp, but also forming a flanking attack with the men and horses outside the east gate, so that the Ming army had to deal with attacks from two directions at the same time.

The early advantage was obtained, and the Qing army's fear of Huguang Town also subsided little by little, and most of the people, regardless of the officers and soldiers, could be said to be more and more courageous. After the frontal front was stabilized, the cavalry of all divisions took turns to launch a fierce assault on the relatively weak flanks of the Ming army. Although Huguang Town is still able to cope with it with the advantage of firearms, it has shown that it is overwhelmed. This was also the first time since the Ming army arrived in Jingzhou that the two sides fought in a large-scale field battle.

The battle situation ahead, Shang Kexi can see it clearly, and he is secretly happy. He had clearly felt that both Pang Yue's Huguang Town and Gao Yigong's Loyal Battalion were no longer comparable to those of a few days ago in terms of the intensity of their attacks and the speed of their reactions, and even the frequency of their firearms firing had weakened considerably, and it seemed that the stockpile of firearms and ammunition was running out.

After achieving the goal, Shang Kexi ordered Mingjin, and the various departments disengaged from the Ming army in turn. The Ming army didn't seem to want to fight, and they also withdrew their troops back to the camp cleanly, completely losing their aggressive momentum.

"It seems that there is a sentence that is really not wrong at all." After the battle. Shang Kexi said with a smile when he met with the generals of the army, "The people take food as the sky. In my opinion. Not only can the people be fed, but what about the soldiers? Cut off the army of the grain route. How will Heaven bless it? ”

When the generals heard this, they also laughed proudly.

In the afternoon, neither army launched an offensive. The Ming army, which was short of food, needed to save physical strength, and Shang Kexi, of course, had to accumulate energy for the final decisive battle. But he did the same, and sent several cavalry to the Ming army camp in turn to shout and curse, as if he wanted to return the attacks he had received.

Of course, the Ming army would not be so easily fooled, but after listening impatiently, they drove away the Qing soldiers who were scolding.

Meantime. There was a Qing army scout to report, and another group of Ming cavalry left the camp and hurried to the southeast. In the last two days, this is the third batch. Shang Kexi listened to it and smiled.

In the evening, the Qing army went to attack the camp again, but the time was changed to the first half of the night. Although the Ming army also discovered it early, its reaction was even slower than the night before.

After two consecutive nights of harassment, the Ming army seemed to be unwilling to remain silent. On the night of the third day, men and horses were sent to attack and harass. At this time, the Qing army apparently also strengthened its vigilance, and sent sentry cavalry to also spot the enemy's traces and watch the police several miles away. And it was very coincidental that the raiding troops sent out at this time also happened to be out of the camp.

In this way, there is no need to hide anything on both sides. There was no need to exert that effort, they rushed closer to each other, and after a while of scolding, they each went back to the camp.

The next day. That is, on the fifth day after Shang Kexi learned of the change in Yuezhou, the Ming army completely became a shrunken turtle. There was no further action against the Qing army, but more and more messengers were sent to the south. At this point. Shang Kexi really tasted the thrill of firmly grasping the initiative on the battlefield in his hands, and he was constantly improving the attack plan with his subordinates, waiting for the arrival of the last moment.

That night, the Qing army went to attack the camp as usual. At this time, the Qing soldiers were becoming more and more bold, because the Ming army had already known their true intentions, and even if they found out, they didn't bother to send the main force out of the camp to meet them, but just waited for these small groups of harassing troops to approach and then repel them one by one.

And this is one of the results that Shang Kexi wants.

Tonight seems to be no exception, as usual, the Qing army attacked and harassed the troops only advanced two or three miles, and the direction of the Ming army camp reacted. The Qing soldiers, who had become accustomed to it, did not care about being discovered, as long as they disturbed the peace of the Ming army, they had achieved their goal. However, they soon realized that the movement in the direction of the Ming army camp tonight was a little unusual, and it did not seem to be aimed at them.

"What's going on?" At night, the sound spread far away, and Shang Kexi also heard that something was wrong, and quickly rushed to the battlement.

There was a scream from the direction of the Ming army's camp, and the number of people shouting at first was not too many, only about a dozen or even a few people, faintly unhearable. But then, more and more people participated, and the voices grew louder and clearer.

Shang Kexi, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, was stunned after only listening to it for a moment. It was not like a human being, but like the howl of a wild beast in despair. Immediately afterwards, there was fire and smoke in one of the camps of the Ming army, which was obviously a fire. As the fire grew bigger and bigger, you could vaguely see some figures running wildly in all directions.

Camp Howling! Shang Kexi quickly popped up these two words in his mind, but he didn't believe that the bad luck of the Ming army would come so quickly.

Like the prison (also known as "prison screaming" or "prison screaming"), the camp is a collective mental breakdown caused by an individual's emotional abnormality in a long-term closed and repressive collective environment.

For example, the initial cause of the prison scream may be that a prisoner suddenly screams in the middle of the night or early in the morning due to excessive pressure, and then a large number of prisoners go berserk, fight with each other and even bite each other, and even the jailer does not dare to suppress it.

And the military, as a hierarchical violent organization, is the place where such incidents are frequent. On the one hand, the non-commissioned officers have been subject to military regulations for many years, and mental repression is really unavoidable. On the other hand, the vicious deeds of officers and lieutenants in the army bullying soldiers and veterans ganging up to bully new recruits have squeezed down all kinds of contradictions year after year. In peacetime, there are constraints on military discipline, but order can also be maintained. And once it comes to a critical juncture, when everyone's life and death are uncertain, the contradictions accumulated over a long period of time are very likely to explode in an all-round way, triggering a roar.

For any army, the roar of the battalion is fatal, and at least it is a serious injury. At worst, it will fall apart and the whole army will be destroyed. At the same time, it is also the most taboo thing for a general. But for the enemy, it is an excellent time to break the enemy.

"Hahaha. Lord Wang, the thief camp roared. Hahaha......" Xu Erxian was the first to rush over and laughed heartily, "What are you waiting for?" Give the order to attack now! This is a God-given opportunity not to be missed. ”

At this time, Shang Kexi was surprisingly calm, and said lightly: "Why are you in a hurry?" The army of thieves is far from collapsing, so let's wait and see. ”

"But, my lord," Xu Er was anxious, and was about to say something more. met Shang Kexi's cold and fierce gaze, so he had to swallow the following back.

Immediately afterwards, the leading generals in the city, such as Shen Zhixiang, Zhang Yingxiang and others, also rushed over and asked to fight, but they were all rejected by Shang Kexi. Everyone had no choice but to let this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity be missed little by little.

However, subsequent developments in the situation also seem to reflect that Shang Ke Xi made the right choice.

The camp of the Ming army consisted of more than a dozen large and small camps, and the camp roar was only one of them. Pang Yue's reaction also seemed to be quick. While sending soldiers and horses to guard the direction of the city, he mobilized men and horses to surround the camp where the incident occurred, completely isolating the chaotic soldiers who had a camp roar. After tossing for more than an hour, it finally calmed down. The collapse of the whole army did not materialize.

When everyone was deeply sorry for missing such a good opportunity, Shang Kexi was casual, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. asked, "Which part of the thief army just happened?"

Xu Er glanced at the fire in the distance that had not yet been extinguished, and replied, "It seems to be rebelling against the remnants." That is, the so-called loyalty camp of the thief army. ”

This result was obviously expected by Shang Kexi, and he nodded. Say nothing more.

After dawn, the fire that had ignited in the camp of the Ming army had been completely extinguished. The Qing soldiers in charge of the lookout saw through the clairvoyant mirror that a large number of Ming troops escorted dozens of people out of the camp, probably to deal with the relevant people who made a disturbance in the camp last night. Just as they were about to be executed, a group of people gathered around a Ming general arrived and talked vigorously to the officer who was incarcerating. But it didn't seem to say anything, the man brushed his sleeves away, and then dozens of heads fell to the ground.

In the morning, Shang Kexi received another report: a group of Ming army heralds left the camp and headed north of Jingzhou. In the camp, the Ming army has begun to dismantle the tower.

Just as Shang Kexi was about to send someone to investigate carefully, the Ming army suddenly strengthened its vigilance, and almost all the cavalry was dispatched to block the scouts of the Qing army far away.

Based on the above situation, it is not difficult for Shang Kexi to make a judgment that the Ming army is about to retreat.

For the Ming army, retreating at this time was indeed the best choice. Jingzhou could not be attacked for a long time, the rear grain road was cut off, and the whole army almost collapsed last night due to the roar of the camp, and there seems to be a crack in the army today. Staying where you are any longer is no different from waiting for death. Any sensible commander-in-chief would probably have to make the decision to withdraw.

Although this is the reason, Shang Kexi vaguely feels that something is wrong. As for what was wrong, he couldn't say. After carefully recalling and combing through the events of the past few days and the information learned, no abnormalities were found. Perhaps, the biggest potential threat is Pang Yue's last fight before he fails. This man has always liked to go off the beaten path, and the biggest trouble with him is that he never knows when his killer weapon will be used.

His thoughts wandered for a while, and Shang Kexi came back to his senses and couldn't help but laugh self-deprecatingly. What's wrong with you? Is it true that when people get older, they become timid? Or are you afraid of suffering in front of Pang Yue? I clearly have the initiative, so why be so timid?

If the Ming army wants to withdraw, Shang Kexi will certainly not let it do so easily. The sortie plan that had been drawn up earlier has been gradually refined and is waiting to be finally implemented. And after a few days of adjustment, the mentality of his own soldiers has almost reached the best, while the Ming army has begun to decline. If such a great opportunity is lost, I don't know when I will have to get it next time.

However, Shang Kexi also knew that no matter how eager Pang Yue was to withdraw his troops at this time, he couldn't just leave if he wanted to. Because north of Jingzhou, there is also a battalion in Huguang Town, one of the most elite infantry battalions. Pang Yue got up in the middle of the micro end, rose in the ranks, and it was really not easy to form tens of thousands of horses under his command, and it was almost impossible to leave the most elite thousands of foot soldiers and retreat south. Even if Pang Yue could be ruthless, he would have to take into account the feelings of the rest of the people. Therefore, as long as the battalion can't be withdrawn, Pang Yue will probably not be able to leave, and he will still have time.

Thinking of this, Shang Kexi ordered a messenger to be sent to the Titicham army in the north, telling him that he must continue to drag the Ming army of that battalion, and if he needed reinforcements, he could also say bluntly that he must not let it go south to join the main force. On the other hand, the generals were summoned to make final revisions to the plan for the decisive battle.

Success or failure is here.

On the day of the westward slope, the messenger brought back a reply from Titakamu, saying that the Ming army of that battalion had been short of food for several days, and its combat strength had declined tightly, and today it did launch two desperate assaults, trying to go south to join its main force, but they were all repulsed and retracted into the camp, so there is no cause for concern. As for the reinforcements, they are not needed for the time being, so that Shang Kexi can deal with the main force of the Ming army with peace of mind.

After receiving this reply, Shang Kexi was relieved.

In the evening, after eating the most sumptuous dinner in more than ten days, the various units of the Qing army in Jingzhou began to take turns to rest and be on guard, quietly waiting for the arrival of the military order.

Before the big war, everything was ready, only the east wind was owed. At this time, Shang Kexi relaxed, and fell asleep after arranging all the matters. After that, I don't know how long I slept until I was gently awakened by the Commander of Goshha.

"Lord Wang, there is movement in the camp of the Ming army again, and Duke Xu Shun and others are waiting for you to come over."

Shang Kexi didn't ask much, got up directly, and walked out of the city tower surrounded by the Goshkhas. (The novel "Kyushu Rivers and Mountains are All Chinese" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued.) )