Chapter 457: Ambush and Night Attack

"You can set up an ambush in Mengjiazhuang!" Niu Jinxing spoke, his plan was actually very simple, that is, to show weakness and lure the enemy, and the elite to ambush and wait for the fighters. It's all. If an ambush is detected, it cannot be called an ambush. The problem is that the Ming army was repeatedly defeated by such ambushes.

After listening to Niu Jinxing's plan, Li Zicheng immediately said: "It's so decided." ”

There was a large pine forest in Mengjiazhuang for the first generation, and soldiers could be hidden here. Li Zicheng used more than 10,000 people as bait and took the initiative to attack Xincai. Hu Dawei and He Renlong faced each other, and according to Ding Qirui's meaning, the two armies should work together to reinforce each other. As a result, Hu Dawei beat the people's army and ran away, Hu Dawei and He Renlong chased to Mengjiazhuang, and Hu Dawei, who rushed in front, the troops were exhausted, rested overnight, foraged for food, and waited for tomorrow to fight again. He Renlong camped five miles away.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Zicheng led the main force out of hiding and rushed to Mengjiazhuang. Hu Dawei led his troops to meet the battle, and Ding Qirui, who followed He Renlong, urgently ordered He Renlong to reinforce. As a result, He Renlong sat back and watched, and Li Guoqi, the general soldier of Shaanxi, was ordered to reinforce. The two sides fought for a day, Li Guoqi was blocked and couldn't get by, Hu Dawei was defeated and fled, He Renlong coerced Ding Qirui to flee to Jiangbei overnight, and ran to Shouzhou in one go. Chen Xie walked to Xuchang to learn that Ding Qirui had suffered a defeat. It must be said that at this time, Li Zicheng's strategic plan has completed the first step. His purpose was to divide the Dengzhou battalion and create an opportunity to besiege a small number of Dengzhou battalions. That's why there is an action to the east, if Chen Xie refuses to divide his troops. The group of troops came to Runing, just turned around and went west, and hit Xiangyang.

At this time, the situation in the country was like this, and Sun Chuanting was blocking in Shaanxi to prevent the thieves from returning. Zuo Liangyu was in Huguang, staring at Zhang Xianzhong. Hong Chengchou, under the operation of Zhou Yanru, returned to Shanxi again to sit in Datong and the governor of the three sides.

Ding Qirui suffered a defeat, and the whole situation immediately changed again. Chen Xie called a meeting of his subordinates. Deploy operations.

"Jiangbei. The thieves can go to the front line of Luzhou at most, Wang Qinian is in Fengyang, even if he can't beat it, it's no problem to defend it. Now the key. How to deal with the mobile warfare of thieves who have no strategic goals? Wherever you go, it counts. It doesn't look like a long-term target operation. As an officer and soldier who suppresses thieves, it is difficult to catch the opponent. Therefore, it is necessary to change our combat habits. I command. From now on, the soldiers will be divided into two routes, and the first Jiazi battalion will be one combat unit. Give full play to the mobility of the mounted infantry, and drive Li Zicheng out of Henan from north to south. At the same time, Wang Qinian was asked to move westward and not to give Li Zicheng too much room to move. Give Su Haochen an order to send five A-shaped battalions to the west to block the direction of Shaanxi without too many combat missions. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Xie paused for a moment, looked at the crowd and continued: "Lin Ya, you are responsible for commanding the five Jiazi battalions, enter Runing Mansion, pay attention to maintaining the distance between the five battalions, do a good job of reconnaissance, and don't give people a chance to break through." I took five A-shaped battalions, such as Nanyang Mansion, to continue to clean up the thieves in Henan. That's it, everyone has no other opinions, just do it. Lin Ya remembered that when fighting, the most important thing is to be improvised. Runing is close to the Dabie Mountains, so you must be careful when marching. ”

Lin Ya received the order and immediately took the five Jiazi battalions on the road, and Chen Xie continued to Nanyang.

Lin Ya, who commanded five A-word battalions for the first time, was quite high-spirited. After entering Runing Mansion, he immediately convened a meeting of five battalion officers. "Our unit was ordered to enter Runing, and in my opinion, the five battalions were lined up, and the distance between them was kept at thirty miles. In this way, as long as one battalion is in trouble, the other can be reinforced. Within a hundred miles, in one day, our army can gather. Don't say anything if you can't hold it once you are surrounded, the thieves don't have the ability to eat a battalion in one day. That's it, I personally take a battalion in the center, every half day, to make a positioning contact with each other. ”

Lin Ya's position is very domineering, and it can even be said that she is quite a bully. A battalion with a strength of only 2,000 troops, even if it is a friendly army of 30 miles to the left and right, it is difficult to contact it in a short time.

On March 5, Lin Ya led his troops into Mengjiazhuang, where there are still traces left by the battlefield. Although the scouts were all released, it was still difficult for a battalion of scouts to find the enemy troops hidden in the large pine forest, not to mention that Lin Ya was indeed a little careless.

At this time, Li Zicheng, with more than 30,000 elites of the old battalion, lurked among the mountains and forests five miles away from Mengjiazhuang. And sent two troops to cut off the way of the two wings. Judging from the newspaper, Li Zicheng's main force has entered Jiangbei, but this information is from Ding Qirui's side, and the purpose is to ask Chen Xie for help, which can be said to be very unreliable information. In fact, Li Zicheng was a small number of troops in Jiangbei, all of which were less than 10,000 men.

Li Zicheng, who refused to admit defeat, decided to use 30,000 people to eat the Dengzhou camp of more than 2,000 people in Mengjiazhuang to avenge his revenge.

Although she was a little careless, Lin Ya, who entered Mengjiazhuang, still camped carefully every day according to her habits. Mengjiazhuang is a big town, the people are clean, and housing is not a problem. Before dark, Lin Ya still checked the fortification. The sappers pulled up the barbed wire, and on it hung cans filled with stones, which would make a noise at the slightest movement. Sentinels also have light and dark sentinels to ensure that they are not attacked by enemies. And outside the town, trenches were dug and enough torches were prepared, and if necessary, torches were lit to light the battle.

In the silence of the night, Li Zicheng quietly set off with his 30,000 yuan and surrounded Mengjiazhuang tightly. Looking at the flickering torches in his sight, Li Zicheng said to the people around him a little proudly: "I guess, Chen Sihua's subordinates must not have thought that I would still set up an ambush here." The surroundings were immediately full of sycophants, and Li Zicheng was fiercely proud.

I thought I could quietly approach Mengjiazhuang, and then attack fiercely. When they were more than 500 paces away, the people's army, who were quietly going up to the earthen fence, suddenly made a loud noise, and some people kept screaming.

In the darkness, it was hard to see a wire pulled under your feet, and there was a canned box hanging from it. The sound of the rattle immediately alarmed the sentinels. Alertly, the sentry immediately opened fire, and with a thud, shattered the dead night.

The approaching people's army found that the sneak attack plan was exposed, and Liu Zhongmin, who took the lead, immediately made a decision, raised his big knife and shouted: "Rush with me!" "The people's army changed from a sneak attack to a strong attack, and against the ordinary Ming army, it may have worked, but this time the luck was a little bad.

The Dengzhou battalion had a complete set of countermeasures to the night attack, and the moment the guns rang out, a small team as a fire support for the sentry post immediately entered a combat state. Rifle fire from behind the earthen wall knocked over five or six people at once, and the momentum of the assault was halted. No one expected that the Dengzhou battalion would react so quickly.

The moment Lin Ya was awakened, her first reaction was not to say "it's broken" in her heart, but to be a little excited. actually came to gnaw on a town with earthen walls, or was it garrisoned by the Dengzhou battalion, isn't this looking for death?

"Flare!" The first order Lin Ya gave was this. Four infantry units, stationed in four directions, immediately moved into their respective combat positions. Lin Ya also had a reserve in his hand, and as the gunfire became denser in various places, Lin Ya came to the north of the town, where the gunfire was the most intense, and it was obvious that the battle was the hardest.

When she raised her eyes and saw that in the darkness, the screaming thieves rushed forward, and when they had already climbed over the first barbed wire, Lin Ya was also taken aback. There were no less than three thousand thieves in the north, and two hundred riflemen were constantly firing from behind the earthen enclosure, and the aim was superfluous. Only a few minutes had passed, leaving corpses on the ground and human bodies hanging from barbed wire.

"Grenadier! Rockets cover a predetermined area in the north! Lin Ya was unhurried and gave another order. Two hundred grenadiers waited in their predetermined positions, and when they saw the flag, they fired rockets at the predetermined area to the north. When two hundred rockets fell in the crowd, in the continuous explosion sound, the thieves who were charging intensively, and the bombed people turned on their backs. At this time, in front of a trench at a distance of 100 meters outside the wall, a flame suddenly burst out, and with a snort, a fire of straw on the ground appeared in front of the trench, shining clearly on the thieves who had climbed over the first barbed wire.

The thief in the firelight screamed and didn't know what to say, or maybe it was an instinct, and he was rushing forward with his life anyway. When they rushed to the second barbed wire, they instinctively climbed up and wanted to cross the barbed wire in the face of the fire in front of them. But the platoon guns on the opposite side entered the optimal killing distance at this distance. The platoon of guns was like peeling off a cocoon, and the rows of guns left a layer of dead and wounded on the ground. With a distance of only 100 meters, it usually doesn't take a minute to run over, but at this time, there is a trench and two barbed wire fences in front. The guns rained down, the rockets were whizzing down, and they were exploding everywhere, and everyone was worried that they would be killed next time.

When he saw the situation outside the town clearly, Li Zicheng felt a pain in his heart. Dengzhou green skin, it's really vicious. Unexpectedly, just one hour before dark, there were so many famous halls on the periphery. At this time, he knew that he was also careless, because he was afraid of being discovered in the ambush plan, he did not dare to send someone to investigate, so he suffered a loss.

At this time, there could only be no advance or retreat, and 10,000 people were invested at a time to launch attacks from four directions. Li Zicheng really can't afford to lose, and if he loses this battle, the morale of the army will fall to the bottom. (To be continued......)