Chapter 85

On the battlefield, indiscriminate coverage shooting is often carried out.

It is a good deal to exchange a hundred for three hundred or even five hundred.

It sounds cruel, but it's the truth.

A hundred lives, if under a fair engagement, you can't kill 300 or even 500 enemies under any circumstances, and you can annihilate an enemy many times your own in one fell swoop with this cruel method, why not?

Anyone who has been on the battlefield knows that this is an unspoken rule tacit by generals at all levels.

Therefore, Gao Zhiping thought that the Ming army was still eyeing the other side, and if it was delayed any longer, I was afraid that this Duan army, which had become the meat of the mouth, would come to the rescue.

Afraid of long nights and dreams, Gao Zhiping resolutely gave the order to shoot indiscriminately, believing that as long as all the people in the area where the two sides were holding each other were killed, then the soldiers of the "Farmer" Army who had stopped would launch another powerful attack on the enemy.

This army must be solved before the Ming army on the other side can increase troops and rescue, so that even if the Ming army is strong and loses the main force of the Duan army, it will be difficult to support it alone.

Thinking of this, Gao Zhiping was full of confidence, and he even guessed that he had made such a great contribution, and if he wanted to have a position in his father's heart, there should be no brother who could reach it.

But when the order was quickly executed, Gao Zhiping fell into confusion.

He was caught off guard by this.

Dense arrows don't have eyes, but they faithfully perform where they should be aimed.

Round after round of arrows killed everyone in the stalemate area between the two sides, including the Duan army and the Gao army.

This sudden tragedy stunned everyone present.

The soldiers of the Duan Army are fine. They died at the hands of the enemy, and as a regular army, they can still understand it.

But for these "farmer" soldiers, arrows from their own people behind their backs. Shoot your own people, this can't be figured out anyway.

I fought hard in front, but in the end I had to die in the hands of my own people behind me, what is this?

Gao Zhiping didn't expect the situation to get so bad, because the soldiers of the "Farmer" Army were in a panic after a moment of stunnedness.

Brilikang didn't think about replacement, he knew. Even if the 20,000 soldiers who have been purged are sent up, they will not solve the plight of the 10,000 troops.

The first wave of attacks was originally used to break through the opponent's defense. Then send the second wave of 20,000 men, and if the first wave does not achieve the goal of breaking through the defense line and occupying the beach, then continue to send the second wave of 20,000 reinforcements. In addition to being a target for the enemy. Except for a few more deaths, it has no effect.

Bai Likang was also anxious, if he let the three thousand Ming army go up at the beginning, even if he hadn't broken through now, he wouldn't have become so bad.

Bai Likang also considered whether to reinforce the 3,000 Ming troops who served as reserves to relieve the 10,000 troops in trouble.

And the generals of the Duan clan army also completed private contact and prepared to mutiny.

At this moment, everyone saw the abnormal situation on the other side.

Indiscriminate shooting.

Who is in command?

Bai Likang couldn't help but admire the other commander. Under this stalemate, dare to shoot indiscriminately. It not only requires absolute control over the army, but also courage, and Bailikang himself is such a person.

The sudden chaos of the enemy at the junction of the Duan clan made Bai Likang suddenly realize that the other commander did not have the ability to control the army, but made a faint move without consideration.

True, this indiscriminate shooting works very well, but there are several prerequisites when using it.

First, the commander must have absolute control over the army; The second is that the object of implementation must be completely annihilated, that is, you cannot carry out local indiscriminate shooting on a large army, because the surviving soldiers will look for your life; The third is that the results achieved must be double or even several times the losses, so that you can escape military trial.

Obviously, before the other commander gave the order, he did not have any conditions, and he was playing with fire.

Bai Likang seized this opportunity and ordered the 3,000 Ming army, which had been waiting for a long time, to immediately attack and launch an attack on the west bank.

At the moment when the generals of the Duan army launched the mutiny, they suddenly heard Bailikang's order to attack the 3,000 Ming army, and the mutiny ended in nothing, which I don't know if it was Bailikang's luck or the luck of these generals.

However, when these generals saw the combat effectiveness of the 3,000 Ming Army when they broke through the defense line on the west bank in an instant, they were glad in their hearts that they did not launch a mutiny.

Because even if Bai Likang has more than 100 guards around him, it is not something that hundreds of Duan Clan soldiers can handle.

The firearms that each of the guards wore on their waists alone were enough to crush the approaching foe.

The advance of the 3,000 Ming army was very smooth, because the Duan army that landed first on the beach, and the enemy who was in a stalemate with the Duan army had fallen into a state of chaos, and many soldiers had turned around and ran back, and Gao Zhiping could not control this chaos at all.

And the six thousand crossbowmen did not get Gao Zhiping's order at this moment and stopped shooting.

It was not until he found that another army had been sent to cross the river on the other side that Gao Zhiping gave the order of the crossbowmen to block the river beach again in a panic.

But these had nothing to do with the Ming army in the center of the river, and the arrows could not hide in the middle of the river, and could only control the landing area of the Zhanì river beach.

Gao Zhiping obviously made another mistake in the panic, in this chaotic state, since he did not have the noun and strength to control the army, he should use iron-blooded means to immediately suppress the chaos.

For example, 6,000 crossbowmen were ordered to immediately shoot the fleeing soldiers, and the soldiers of the "Farmer" army were temporarily deterred by death, even if these soldiers were dissatisfied and resentful, but at least they could quickly defuse the chaos and organize the defense of the enemy again.

After all, most soldiers can tell the difference between the enemy on that side.

However, Gao Zhiping did not immediately give an order to deal with it, but he himself was in chaos, and he hurriedly did not issue an order to block the river beach until the Ming army swam across the center of the river.

This order was correct, but it was for the Ming army in the center of the river.

He forgot what to do with his chaotic "farmer" army and how to deal with the Duan army trapped on the river beach.

When the 6,000 crossbowmen carried out Gao Zhiping's order, extended the crossbow and spread the crossbow, and blocked the river beach, the Duan army, which had been suppressed, breathed a sigh of relief, and the sudden reduction of pressure caused several insightful commanders to launch a small counterattack against the chaotic enemy.

This made the disorganized army of "peasants" even more confused.

Then the Duan army of the brigade also joined the sequence of counterattacks, and the "farmer" army was already in chaos to the extreme.

When the 3,000 Ming army approached the shore, Gao Zhiping's crossbowmen were no longer able to effectively suppress the river beach.

Because the chaotic "farmer" soldiers fled backwards in large numbers, not only disrupted the formation of the crossbowmen, but also caused many crossbowmen to fall into confusion unstoppably. (To be continued......)