Chapter 105: Ci is not in charge of the army

Cai Jing, an official who came here, has been an official here for many years, and he is a rare good official and good general, and his familiarity with the people is even stronger than that of the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level, and he is even more aware of the terrain. The imperial court has had such a system since ancient times, and if you have been an official in one place for a long time, you will have to be transferred.

This is done in order to prevent the local officials who are far away from the Tiangao Emperor from casting an unshakable foundation in a certain place and becoming the emperor of the soil, and also to prevent the local government from colluding to do some illegal things because of the collusion of officials and businessmen who have been in politics for many years. If he is transferred, the new official will naturally turn over the old accounts, so no one in the previous official dares to go too far, for fear of leaving a mess and being involved in the book by the later official. The most important thing is to prevent people from living in one place for a long time, and the power is huge, and they set themselves up as kings to lead troops to rebel.

Mo Qi, the newly transferred general soldier, felt unaccustomed to the water and soil not long after he arrived, and thought that he could get better slowly, but he couldn't afford to get sick, and he died half a year later. The supreme commander died, and there was no general who was familiar with the rebels, so he was defeated in successive battles and created the Gutian rebels.

In Lu Bing's view, although Cai Jing is a good official, he is also a failure. Now Lu Bing has many old subordinates of Cai Jing, but most of these people are waste, and they can't govern the military and politics at all. It is conceivable that Cai Jing did everything himself back then, and most of his subordinates did not need to use their brains to do things step by step, so that although Cai Jing's personal ability was strong and the overall effect was there, as long as he was gone, the problem would appear. Moreover, due to the poor adaptability of the grassroots level, everything has to be reported to Cai Jing, so the efficiency of work is reduced.

Lu Bing was thinking wildly, and suddenly heard an urgent report outside: Wang Zhenhu drove from the depths of the dense forest. The gods unknowingly attacked Lu Bing's camp.

Lu Bing grabbed the tiger head sword and walked out of the big tent, and the soldiers around him were not in a hurry because of the sneak attack, because it was the most elite elite soldiers who guarded Lu Bing. In the face of such a raid, they did not pay attention. I don't know how many times the anti-sneak attack contact has been drilled on weekdays, and both sides are well-equipped and highly qualified elite soldiers, now in the face of the poor Gutian rebels who can't even afford to wear pants, what is there to fear?

Despise the enemy strategically and attach importance to the enemy tactically are words that Lu Bing often talks about, so although the elite soldiers of Bailian despise this group of rebels a little, they also know the power of this group of rebels. They are as slippery as loaches. I can't catch it, I can't get it. The rebels relied on their familiarity with the local terrain and the physique they had cultivated since they were young, and they often made their elite soldiers unable to use their strength. There is a feeling of a punch hitting the cotton and missing the punch.

However, for such a one-sided defense, it is the strength of a hundred elite soldiers, Lu Bing can't figure out what is happening outside now, and it is already dark. I couldn't see what was going on outside. Therefore, Lu Bing did not command randomly, and relied on well-equipped to deal with it. In this regard, some generals once complained that Lu Bing was a waste of public money, and that he could defend it with the advantage of his own troops, so why waste money and spend ordnance to garrison it, but Lu Bing sneered at this remark and said that the lives of soldiers are priceless, and even if they spend ten times more silver taels, they must protect the lives of every soldier.

Of course, such remarks are frequent in Lu Bing's mouth. Therefore, Lu Bing's reputation in the army is also extremely high. Lu Bing's set is indeed a bit of a loser, such as dealing with night attacks now. That's it, the fireworks are constantly being set off, and there are many Kong Ming lanterns floating in the sky, and the ground is as bright as day, unless you will escape to the sky and the earth, there is absolutely nowhere to hide. When encountering the situation that the enemy is hiding in the dense forest and the light is not clear, the fire gun hand is on, and there are dates without dates to hit three poles, and the non-stop fire is sprayed, who can stand this thing.

Lu Bing sighed in the big tent just now, in fact, how could the rebels not be like this, in the face of Lu Bing's defensive policy, every time they recaptured the walled city, it was their life to fill. In the past, when there were few people, they could fight guerrilla warfare, burrowing into the mountains and forests to go around with the imperial court, but now that the rebels have developed more powerful and more people, this kind of guerrilla tactics is not suitable at all, and the enemy will always find out about the dynamics. Therefore, the rebels changed from the usual and fought a tough battle like a regular army, but in the face of the previous group of court waste firewood, it was okay, and now the imperial court reinforcements have arrived, plus Lu Bing, a natural general, is in charge, and there are inexhaustible materials that seem to be built without spending money, and the rebels are a little unbearable

Wang Zhenhu knows very well that everything is the opposite of everything, and now it seems that the rebels are huge and have reached their peak, but in fact, they are just fierce and introverted, and their hearts are already rotten. Every rebel leader was not too confident in his heart, and I heard that in addition to himself, Wei Chaofeng, Lin Yinhan and Wei Yinbao, the four big bandit leaders, there were already many small leaders who began to write letters to the imperial court, hoping to submit to the imperial court.

The four bandit leaders held a small meeting a few days ago, first of all, between their ancestors and family background, it is impossible for them to surrender. Rebellion is a great crime that cannot be forgiven, and even if you want to recruit the court, you will not be willing. What's more, he is now the king of grass, although he is not glorious and rich, but he is also a popular and spicy person, but what can he get after submitting to the court, he was slowly stripped of his real power, and he was slowly killed after the worst, and even life is worse than death. They don't want it and don't allow it to happen.

In the end, the struggle is the only way out for the four of them, and the road of rebellion is a road of no return. In the face of the numerical and equipment advantages of the Ming army, as well as the advantages of the masses and terrain they mastered, the four of them studied a set of separation strategies, connected them in series, attacked the east and the west, dispersed the strength of the Ming army, and then captured the thief and captured the king first, and beat Lu Bing's camp, killing Lu Bing, thus making the Ming army in turmoil.

What followed was not the recovery of large tracts of land, but the tightening of the front to resist to the death and defend to the death. Because once Lu Bing is dead, the Ming army will definitely be in chaos, and it will also cause a fatal blow to the war around the country, and shrinking the front by himself is to preserve strength. In the northwest of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese will consume the strength of the Ming Dynasty, and the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind, and he wants to reap the benefits of the fisherman. The strength of their own four people is very clear, there is no chance now, and there is no strength to directly compete with the Ming army, even if they can fight the country, they will not be able to hold the country.

Wei Yinbao, Wei Chaofeng, and Lin Yinhan were responsible for leading the main force of the Ming army to attract the main force of the Ming army, so there was the status quo of many battles blooming everywhere before. In order to confuse the Ming army, Wang Zhenhu also sent a small group of men and horses to fight, saying that they were also busy fighting the Ming and had other ideas.

Indeed, the Ming army, who had an inadvertent understanding of the rebels, made a sneak attack on the camp of the Ming army through the battle line, and used all his family resources to charge Lu Bing.

Kong Ming's lamp was on, as bright as day, but Lu Bing found that something was wrong today, the sound of fire guns in the south of the camp had not been heard since the beginning of the alarm. Sure enough, someone came to report that the enemy was fierce, and this time it was not like the previous one-touch collapse, but the successive servants fought with the Ming army as if they did not want to die.

Lu Bing frowned slightly, and immediately decided to attack with artillery, but do not defend with fire oil, there is a large dense forest in the south, once the fire spreads into the dense forest, regardless of whether the trees are damp or not, it will cause an unimaginable fire, which will cause immeasurable damage to the Ming army rebels and the people.

The strategists dissuaded Lu Bing from transferring the other three defenders to garrison, but Lu Bing did not agree, and the order was inevitably strictly guarded. At this time, there were 5,000 soldiers and horses of the imperial court in the camp, and the rest of the army was scattered and scattered in all directions to carry out the cause of suppressing bandits in full swing. Lu Bing has realized his mistake, but the mistake has been made, and he can only correct it slowly. In addition to these 5,000 soldiers and horses, more than 1,000 elite soldiers are also the main force of the battalion, and the rest of the elite soldiers have also been dispersed to be assault knife troops in other aspects, assisting other people and horses to do fire support.

That's a total of 6,000 soldiers and horses, and the remaining 3,000 mercenary horsemen have become waste in this battle, at least for now. In the face of the changeable terrain and the environment of dense jungles and swamps, their war horses cannot be used, and the war horses cannot go up to the temporary wooden wall. Therefore, their usefulness is nothing more than rushing to kill Dazhai after it is breached, so in other words, Lu Bing can only use 6,000 soldiers and horses. Of the 6,000 people, 1,000 people are in the center to respond, and the remaining three sides have 2,000 people, and there are 1,000 people on each of the other three sides, which is not many but not many.

Lu Bing personally led a thousand men to the southern wall. The walls are made of wood and silt, which has both a frame mechanism and fireproofing, and is a common method of soil for local stockade construction, but it is really useful. The stockade used by the Ming army's camp was even larger, not only on the wall where people could patrol, but also every ten steps there were guard towers to lookout. In order to prevent the enemy from attacking with fire oil, there is also a fireproof strip one zhang wide inside the wall.

Lu Bing climbed the highest arrow tower, and couldn't help but be surprised when he stared at it, and there were enemy troops as far as the eye could see. This group of strong men of the ethnic minorities shouted and rushed to the camp of the Ming army, they were very poorly equipped, some did not even have shoes, and the siege equipment was only a simple crossbow except for the bamboo ladder.

Under the wall, corpses like a hill have been stacked, Lu Bing is a little unbearable, they are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, why are they like this? But after thinking about it, I gave up, and if I was not in charge of the army, I was not in charge of the army, and I was not in charge of the wealth, and my kindness to the enemy was cruelty to myself. They don't think they are big celebrities, and their rebellion against the Ming regime is caused by the people's misery, and even more so because they have always refused to obey discipline because of their different races. However, since it is the power of a country, it cannot act according to the will of individuals, or even the wishes of a small number of people, otherwise anyone who is unhappy can raise a banner and rebel.

In troubled times, heavy codes are used, and chaotic wars are murderers. Lu Bing sighed and ordered: "Artillery fire crossbow preparation, shoot!" (To be continued......)