Chapter 321: Guerrilla Warfare
There was no traitor who had no military discipline in the first place, and in order to survive, he actually waved his weapon at the officer next to him.
Several generals in a row who wanted to stop everyone from retreating were hacked to death by ordinary traitors with knives. The traitor general, who had lingering palpitations, also followed the tide and fled for his life to the rear.
In the blink of an eye, on the west bank of the Yellow River, where there were still 5,000 traitors just now, there was not even a single one alive except for the corpses of the traitors who were killed by flowering bombs.
Dozens of ferries rowed towards the west bank of the Yellow River like arrows from a string, but they did not even receive the slightest resistance, and they approached the shore.
The soldiers, who were already a little dizzy on the ferry, quickly boarded the pier and rushed towards the position that the traitors had abandoned...
In this way, because of the emergence of 'gunboats' and mortars, the traitors, who were almost in a passive state of being beaten, did not hold on for even half an hour, and gave the Yellow River defense line to the Tiger and Leopard Army in vain....
Nearly 20,000 tigers and leopards completely crossed the Yellow River and climbed the mountain after belonging to the land of Shaanxi.
Wei Zheng, who had a heroic face, knew that with the existing traitor forces in Shaanxi, it would never be possible to stop the offensive of the Tiger and Leopard Army.
In this case, the great Shaanxi is equivalent to being in its own hands.
However, what Wei Zheng didn't expect was that Dolgon, who had been frustrated in his attack outside Zuoyun City, was not willing to fail. Relying on the high-speed mobility of the cavalry, a day ago, he led the main force of the Mongolian cavalry under his command to secretly enter Shaanxi, preparing to give Wei Zheng a sound attack from the east to the west, and on the Loess Plateau, use cavalry to kill and injure a large number of the living forces of the Tiger and Leopard Army.
As for the Mongolian cavalry still besieging outside Zuoyun City at this moment, there are less than 10,000 people left.
Only, because of the abundance of a large number of Mongolian herders. Wang Feng, who adheres to Zuoyun County. I don't know what happens.
A few days before entering Shaanxi. The battle situation was as expected by Wei Zheng, under the attack of the strong soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Army, they broke through all the way, entered Yulin, and took the entire northern Shaanxi.
And just when Wei Zheng moved his tent into Yulin and began to take Yulin as the center, dividing his troops to take various counties in Shaanxi, an accident happened.
Attack and advance to the southwest of Yulin. The two musket battalions that were about to take Hengshan County suddenly disappeared on the way to Hengshan County...
When the scouts found them on the way to Hengshan County, the more than 800 musketeers of the two musket battalions had all turned into corpses. Not only that, but the flintlock muskets and grenades that these soldiers were equipped with disappeared completely.
More than 800 musketeers, in the eyes of Wei Zheng, even on the field battlefield, encountered enemies several times their size. You can also get out of the way. However, the musketeers did not withdraw from the battlefield. And it was completely annihilated ....
Faced with this result, Wei Zheng didn't believe it much at first.
It wasn't until he went to the battlefield and saw the bloody battlefield with his own eyes that he believed this fact.
After taking a deep breath and suppressing the anger that kept surging in his heart as much as possible. Wei Zheng asked Zhou Chenguang directly: "Do you know who did it..."
Zhou Chenguang shook his head and replied, "Handsome... The entire battlefield of engagement was wiped clean by the enemy, leaving no trace of the engagement. However, judging from the wounds of the soldiers who died in battle, the last general must have destroyed them by a cavalry..."
"Because, the fatal wounds on the soldiers' bodies are basically caused by sabers. And some horseshoe prints were found on many soldiers..."
"Cavalry—" Wei Zheng's brow furrowed quickly.
Then, with a thoughtful face, he analyzed: "According to the combat effectiveness of the two musket battalions, if the enemy wants to destroy them, he must at least send more than three times as many cavalry....that is, three thousand cavalry elites..."
"However, according to Ben Shuai, the limited 5,000 cavalry in the hands of the traitors has been wiped out by us on the battlefield of Shanxi... In such a situation, where do they still have so many cavalry...General Zhou, you are not mistaken......"
Zhou Chenguang replied with a firm face: "Dashuai, the last general dares to vouch for that head, there is absolutely no error in judgment...."
"If the enemy attacking the musketeers is an infantry, with the combat strength of eight hundred musketeers, it is not a problem to hold off tens of thousands of enemies armed with cold weapons. And looking at the whole of Shaanxi, there are no traitors with a scale of more than 10,000 people..."
Wei Zheng nodded, quickly falling into deep thought.
At this time, Zhao Yun, who had returned from the battlefield, suddenly spoke: "The last general....The last general just looked at the fatal wounds on the front-line soldiers... One thing is certain, these fatal wounds came not only from the cavalry, but also from the Tartars and the cavalry scimitars reserved for the Mongols..."
"If the enemy cavalry used the official system of scolding, there must have been many musketeers whose heads would have been cut off. At the very least, these fatal wounds will be very large. However, not only did the last general not see a musketeer with his head cut off on the battlefield, but he also did not see too many fatal wounds with great trauma..."
"The last general had fought with both the Tartars and the Mongol cavalry, and knew very well the fatal wounds inflicted by the cavalry's scimitars..."
"Therefore, the last general can be sure that the cavalry that attacked the musketeers must have been armed with the cavalry scimitars of the Mongols and Tartars."
At this time, the doubts on Wei Zheng's face had been replaced by a sudden realization.
After slamming his clenched fist on a tree beside him, he affirmed loudly: "There are no cavalry in the hands of the traitors, and this cavalry all uses Mongolian scimitars....then this cavalry is either a Mongol or a Houjin Tartar..."
"I really didn't expect that the Houjin Tartars and the Mongols also came to Shaanxi. And as soon as he comes, he will give me a dismount, eat our two musket battalions, and seize all the equipment of the two musket battalions......"
Speaking of this, a thick murderous aura quickly emanated from Wei Zheng. He shouted to Zhou Chenguang and ordered: "General Zhou, this commander will give you two days to find the traces of this cavalry......"
"Since these Mongols and Tatars rushed to Shaanxi and killed so many of us, then we must make them pay the price and avenge the soldiers who died in the battle..."
After entering Shaanxi for such a long time, as the commander of the scout army, he didn't know that there was such a Mongolian cavalry hidden in Shaanxi that could bring a deadly attack to him at any time, which was originally his responsibility.
Therefore, in the face of Wei Zheng's order, Zhou Chenguang received the order loudly without thinking about it.
"The last general ordered....the scout army must find the traces of this cavalry within two days..."
Wei Zheng nodded, quickly shifted his gaze to Zhao Yun and Zhou Yuhong, and continued to order: "Before we find the traces of these cavalry and know their specific strength. All the soldiers who went out on the expedition immediately withdrew to the nearest county seat. Without the commanders, no soldier can leave the county..."
Wei Zheng, who was full of murderous and worried, had just returned to Yulin, and another bad news reached Wei Zheng's ears again.
Heading southeast of Yulin, a musket battalion preparing to attack Mizhi County was also slaughtered, and no one escaped the net.
A day later, another cavalry battalion, which was ready to withdraw to the county seat, was wiped out on the Loess Plateau, which was crisscrossed by ravines...
Without even touching the shadow of the enemy, he himself lost a musket regiment, a cavalry battalion ...
Faced with this result, the angry expression and murderous aura on Wei Zheng's face became even stronger.
Almost every half hour, I asked the scouts if there was any news coming back.
Just when the time stipulated by Wei Zheng was about to end, Zhou Chenguang with a solemn face finally appeared.
Before Wei Zheng, who had a murderous face, could speak, Zhou Chenguang, who was panting, knelt down on one leg in front of Wei Zheng and pleaded loudly: "The marshal....the last general has not completed the general, and he has also lost more than two hundred scout brothers, please condemn the marshal..."
Even the most elite scout army under his command was frustrated, not to mention the ordinary infantry commanded by Zhao Yun...
Looking at Zhou Chenguang who was kneeling in front of him, Wei Zheng quickly showed a shocked expression on his face.
However, as the overlord of one side, he was still calm at the first time. Then, in a heavy tone, he ordered: "Get up and tell Ben Shuai about the specific situation of the past two days....How did more than two hundred scout brothers lose." ”
"Yes, Sir..."
It turned out that after getting his own general order, Zhou Chenguang dispersed more than a thousand scouts under his command.
In order to avoid being too scattered, they will be wiped out by enemy forces several times their size. These scattered scouts also searched in teams at the request of Zhou Chenguang.
In Zhou Chenguang's eyes, with the combat effectiveness of the scout army, a scout team will not be wiped out even if it encounters a thousand Mongolian cavalry.
However, what Zhou Chenguang didn't expect was that the Mongolian cavalry faced by these scouts was not thousands, but tens of thousands...
In this way, in less than two days of scattered reconnaissance, two scout teams disappeared without a trace.
In this case, in order to prevent the scout army from being defeated again, Zhou Chenguang could only gather everyone together for search and reconnaissance.
You must know that on the Loess Plateau, where the ravines are deep, any ravine, can hide tens of thousands of troops.
Therefore, this kind of aimless search, except for the waste of the body, has no results at all.
Three units in a row were completely annihilated, plus the current two scout teams, that is, five troops were wiped out in just three days. If you continue to develop according to this momentum, even if you have twice as many troops in your hands, you will be eaten and consumed by the enemy little by little...
Faced with this result, in the face of Zhou Chenguang's warning, a picture immediately appeared in Wei Zheng's mind...
In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in later generations, our party was best at guerrilla warfare....
Yes, guerrilla warfare ...
Only attack enemies who are weaker than you, and you will fight and leave...
One small-scale battle after another, like cutting flesh, cut the enemy to the bone, and finally destroy it in one fell swoop... (To be continued......)