Indeed, as the agents of the Military Intelligence Department have discovered, the 6,000 Jiangnan Army in command of Huai'an is really a scholar who has never fought a war, and because his family is not small, he has contributed a lot when recruiting the militia, and he also gave Sa Zai a gift, and was appointed as the commander, leading the ten battalions of people. The formation of the Jiangnan Army www.biquge.info different from that of the Green Battalion, and Sa Zai served as the commander to control all the Jiangnan Army. The chiefs of the localities were appointed commanders, commanding several battalions. The battalion was the basic tactical unit of the Jiangnan Army, with more than 500 to 600 people. Under the battalion is the sentry, which is equivalent to a company.

This Huai'an master consciously read a few military books, and then trembled. This time, he was ordered to lead the local militia to ambush the Wuwei army, thinking that he could win the battle.

He didn't know that Sazai had already treated them as discardable pawns, and even asked that men, women, and children all regard the Wuwei Army as enemies and "go into battle to kill the enemy". Sazai also spread rumors that the Wuwei army was all lackeys of the Tang people, and there was no grass everywhere they passed, and they did all kinds of evil acts of burning, killing and looting. If you want to protect your hometown, you can only fight to the death against the Wuwei Army.

Such rumors naturally fooled some people, but many more were either skeptical or simply left with their families. Naturally, the Tang people could not sit idly by and watch Sazai control the direction of public opinion, and a large number of locals who were employed by the Tang Military Intelligence Department became a fee-paying army, and they took the remuneration given by the Military Intelligence Department to spread some rumors that were beneficial to the Tang Army and the Wuwei Army, and at the same time attacked Sazai on a large scale.

The statements of the trolls are varied, some are true, some are false, and many will exaggerate the materials provided by the military intelligence service, and even take out everything. For example, on the issue of Sazai's intentions, some sailors proposed that Sazai was a Manchurian and clearly didn't care about the life or death of the Han people in Jiangnan. took the lives of the Jiangnan people to fight with the Tang Army and the Wuwei Army, but kept them all over the city, young and old.

Another important point is: The sailors vigorously emphasized the identity of the rebellious ministers and thieves. This was originally very direct, because Sazai was against the emperor and the imperial court, and this traitorous identity was natural. He is not a royal family in the first place, and he doesn't have any righteousness around him, so he uses an old-fashioned excuse, and most of the grass people don't care about the so-called Taoist problem.

The bribed sailors had a wide range of activities and venues. Ordinary teahouses and restaurants can talk loudly, and even in the fields, they may rely on private goods when talking to people. It doesn't cost a lot of money to buy these people to irrigate them, and a silver dollar can buy them for days.

It is precisely because of this that Sazai's attempt to incite the Jiangnan people to rebel against the imperial court did not have much effect, after all, opposing the imperial court requires huge psychological pressure.

The scholars and the landlord class still have some of their own so-called righteous concepts and interests to protect, but as long as more ordinary people are not instigated, they will not cause much harm.

At this time, the literati commander of the Huai'an Jiangnan Army said to his generals quite confidently: "When the Wuwei Army falls into our ambush, everyone will go side by side." Race to kill the enemy and win. The ambush site chosen by this commander is the point mentioned in the "New Book of Ji Xiao", our army is set up in ambush south of the river bank, and as soon as the Wuwei army crosses the river, we will attack the enemy at Bandu and destroy him in one fell swoop. ”

The Huanghuai Plain is almost endless, there is no undulating terrain, and it is not easy to set up ambushes. And this literati commander is at the level of a half-ass. Thinking about what to hit the enemy in Bandu. But they didn't even care, when they couldn't destroy the bridge. The Guards could slowly retreat and then rely on the bridge to counterattack them. Such an ambush did not achieve good results at all, but they thought themselves were wise.

Yu Pengxi could only sneer at these guys who didn't have the slightest military experience. On the one hand, he put the artillery in front and set up positions on the north bank of the river, at a time when there were simply not enough sentinels to know the situation of the armed guards. On the other hand. Yu Pengxi ordered two regiments of infantry troops with nearly 3,000 troops to cross the river more than 20 miles upstream and downstream respectively, and came to a large angle to trap both sides of the ambush.

Originally, Yu Pengxi didn't understand this, but in the training process of the Wuwei Army, he had been exposed to many advanced military tactics. The tactical system of the Don Army has always inherited the characteristics of the modern republican army, which emphasized mobility. Roundabouts and intersperses are compulsory subjects for all Tang Army. The Wuwei Army, which was inherited from the Tang Army, took this kind of tactics as the first thing to learn.

Yu Pengxi personally came to the front line of the artillery position and said with a smile: "Lao Tzu is also a scholar now, but I have to take a look, these scholars in Jiangnan are powerful, or Lao Tzu is a great reader." ”

Yu Pengxi used to be illiterate, but apparently after becoming an officer of the Wuwei Army, it was impossible for the Tang people to tolerate illiteracy. On the other side is obviously a layman who can't fight, and he is greatly despised.

"Fools, lie down in the vegetable patch on the riverbank, fire two rounds of cannons first, and scare them." Yu Pengxi knew that the main role of the shelling was not to kill and injure, but to startle the snake.

The artillery in a row bombarded the other side of the river, and sure enough, as Yu Pengxi expected, the militia group, which lacked actual battlefield experience, was so frightened by this artillery bombardment that they didn't care about the ambush at all, and began to flee for their lives like headless flies. The wise saying that recruits are afraid of artillery is aptly embodied here.

Even if the artillery bombardment of the Wuwei Army was not dense at all, and it was not the level of 105-mm howitzers of the regular army of the Tang Army, it still scared the militia enough. This formation was not something they could withstand at all, and even after the literati commander saw a cannonball fall a hundred meters away from him, directly blowing up several people brave, his original courage was completely lost. As the saying goes, Xiucai's rebellion has not been successful for three years, and the scholars with serious cowardice attributes are almost all potential deserters on the real battlefield.

"Hurry up, hurry up, the Wuwei Army cannons are powerful!" He was also the one who led the escape.

The commanders are about to run away, and the people will naturally follow. It's just that they didn't run a few steps, and from behind and left and right, they killed the soldiers of the Armed Guards in dark cyan military uniforms, and they shot at this group of people with S1 rifles, which made them even more confused.

An ambush seems to turn into an ambush in the end, and it is also intoxicating.

In the end, most of the people surrendered on their knees, even including the literati commander, but compared to the ordinary people, his fate was worse, Jiaqing hated them very much for those who fought against the imperial court, and he was obviously going to be sent to the capital for questioning. (To be continued.) )