Chapter 416: Wheel Battle
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There are talents in the peasant army, there is a very popular saying in China, called peasant cunning, which is enough to explain everything, the whole camp has reached its heyday, there are not too many literati, and they are all broken scholars such as Niu Jinxing, and the best is just a Song Xiance, in the process of seizing the world, the role played by cultural people is naturally there, but it is definitely not a particularly big kind, more often it is those working people at the bottom of the general who play a role in promoting the development of the situation.
This habit actually started from the time of Gao Yingxiang, at this time there are no scholars who will follow them, everyone thinks that they will be exterminated by the imperial court sooner or later, at most it is a matter of length of time, and there is no second explanation for the final solution, so there will be no scholars who are stupid to follow them, feel that they can finally settle the world, feel that they can follow to become the founding hero, and finally worship the prime minister, with this kind of thinking, there is no such thing as a scholar at all.
In the absence of the support of readers, when the camp encounters problems that are difficult to solve, it is usually Gao Yingxiang who sets up a stall, Luo Rucai uses storytelling to tell various methods, and others brainstorm under this stall, and finally pick out the best way, or simply put together the ideas of the big guys, and then use the method of rain to use all the tricks, not to mention that this method is very effective, many officers and soldiers are defeated in this kind of mud-legged resourceful collection, and even their lives are taken away.
Therefore, the wisdom and ability of the working people are very great, and now Song Qing is facing the challenge of the working people, and he also found himself standing on the opposite side of the 200,000 or so army after he drove to the front, becoming a species similar to a dog official.
Fortunately, he has a big heart, and he doesn't care about any dog official or other name, history has always been written by the winner. As long as he keeps winning, and defeats all opponents after the most lucrative, he doesn't have to worry about reputation or anything, and his reputation in Xuzhou is very good now, if the territory expands in the future, all kinds of propaganda methods will naturally follow the past, as long as you don't toss around, this kind of fame will also continue, so you don't have to worry about this kind of problem at all, and you can fight a good battle with peace of mind.
But for the opponent in front of you. He really didn't underestimate him, not that he looked down on the combat effectiveness of the peasant army, but that the number of the other party was too much, as the saying goes, more than 10,000 people, boundless, Song Qing's own soldiers and horses were over 10,000, and when he was in Xuzhou, he often experienced this boundless feeling. The hills, fields and school grounds were all full of people, the kind of gongs and drums were noisy, firecrackers were ringing in unison, and flags were waving. The scene of a sea of people, he felt that he was already very immune, but it was not until today that he saw the formation of the peasant army that he found the kind of crowds of people he had seen before. It's completely trivial, far worse than others.
Although the peasant army was poorly equipped, many of them did not even have a single piece of clothing. The hands are also sharpened wooden sticks, even the leaders are only wearing a tattered leather armor, holding a waist knife that is not very well-made, but all these weaknesses and shortcomings, after multiplying the huge number of more than 200,000, have all been successfully suppressed, which is also the reason why the officers and soldiers north of the Yellow River have nothing to do with them, because there are too many Liukou people, even if the drills and equipment of the officers and soldiers are above them, but against such a huge number, few people dare to block their sharpness head-on, They are all dealt with in a piecemeal and driven manner.
This method also further made the peasant army gradually bigger, because many magistrates and local generals are in line with the style of driving the Liukou out of the city, as long as there is no problem in their own territory, it has nothing to do with him, and the imperial court has only recently begun to realize this situation, and is organizing the armies of several provinces to suppress the peasant army, but the scale of the suppression has not yet been formed, the Cao family's uncle and nephew and Zuo Liangyu have just joined the division, and they are still waiting for the trilateral governor Hong Chengchou's army to join.
In this case, more than 200,000 peasant troops rushed head-on, Song Qing really didn't know what mood to use to face it, even if he has always been a very optimistic person, this time he really felt very tricky, fortunately, the peasant army has no signs of attacking for the time being, can give him more time to arrange, and finally repel the other party is a little more certain, as for the complete defeat of this army of more than 200,000 people, he really didn't think about it for the time being, after all, there is a huge gap between the numbers of the two sides that is difficult to overcome.
Gao Yingxiang was also hesitating at the moment, because they didn't come up with any good way for two days, but the Xuzhou soldiers on the opposite side happily went out every morning, singing all kinds of military songs, and after finishing their work, they were still carrying all kinds of things like diligent worker ants, making the entire army more solid and powerful, and after watching it for two days in a row, the leaders from Gao Chuang Wang and below felt that they couldn't go on like this, if they continued to spend here, the food and grass of the 200,000 army would be an unsolvable problem first, And the morale on the other side seems to be getting higher and higher, and the tension when I first saw them is almost gone, but the morale of the homeless people on their side is getting lower and lower.
Helpless, Gao Yingxiang had to announce a direct attack, the first one to come out of the battle was his Chuangzi battalion, after all, to fight this kind of battle that is not too sure, he must take some blood capital out, otherwise don't expect others to contribute, fortunately, he still has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the Chuangzi battalion, first take 10,000 people out to touch the other party's confidence, and it is still within the range of bearing, initially he planned to choose Li Zicheng to come out, but later he felt that the other party seemed to be very powerful, in order to avoid his nephew being killed, or changed to other leaders.
The team of 10,000 people came out of the battle, even if most of them were holding the most rudimentary weapons, or even weapons at all, but the momentum was still extraordinary, after all, there were only so many Xuzhou soldiers now, and when they saw the same number of people rushing over from the opposite side as themselves, they had to be nervous a little, but it didn't take long for them to find that this tension was completely superfluous, and the peasant army on the opposite side was a completely chaotic formation, shouting like no flies, Wuyang Wuyang rushed towards them.
Although everyone will be chaotic when charging, this chaos also has to be graded, and the worst army is like this. In addition to the formation to be as strict as possible, and change the formation according to the battlefield situation at any time, the best thing is to pay attention to speed and acceleration, the most basic thing is not to rush too fast at the beginning, otherwise there will be no strength when it is time to sprint, which Song Qing often emphasized.
And the displaced troops in front of them gave the best negative teaching materials, and as soon as they came out, everyone ran forward with all their might, and some even screamed. This is all invisibly consuming their own strength, when they rushed halfway, the formation has been completely chaotic, the best physical strength is still rushing to the front, the poor physical strength is sparsely followed behind, the worst ones are dragged to the back, the beginning of the not very neat charging team, at this time completely scattered.
The leaders of the team are used to this kind of thing, and they all know how to do it. Many people abandoned the front line and rushed to the back to urge those with poor physical strength to catch up, but as soon as they reached the back, they heard a violent sound of fried beans in front of them. It was as if there was a somewhat intermittent thunderbolt in the clear sky, and then the thunderclap could not be stopped, and a white smoke appeared in front of their eyes, and the smoke was billowing in the middle of it. Those who rushed to the front danced in various positions.
What's going on here? There are few people in the entire peasant army who have seen firearms, and even if they have seen the Ming army use this thing before, the scale is not too large. And the power is not the same as the one in front of him, almost just in an instant, the first two thousand people have all been reimbursed, and the people behind are stupidly continuing to rush forward, continuing to fall in the rain of lead bullets that are constantly flying, Gao Yingxiang and the leaders in the distance were dumbfounded, and the most shrewd Luo Rucai suddenly spoke: "Did the eight kings say this before, and after a burst of smoke, thousands of people will be gone, it should be this thing, right?" ”
"Let people try it again, Cao Cao, this time your people are on!" Although Gao Yingxiang is only a horse dealer, he has always been the material for being the boss, and his strategic vision is not bad, knowing that his 10,000 people are afraid that they will not be of much use, he immediately ordered Luo Rucai's people to attack, and also named several other people.
The other party suddenly showed such a strong strength, and the leaders of the other peasant armies did not dare to slack off, although everyone also had the intention of preserving their strength, but now the peasant army is still in the entrepreneurial stage, and these gang directors are also quite enterprising, plus Gao Yingxiang himself threw in 10,000 people, they are not easy to hide, and soon made up a team of more than 20,000 people to smash it, and continued to rush towards the camp of the Xuzhou soldiers. Falling into the dense crowd, several gaps were smashed in an instant, creating many corpses with severed limbs and stumps, as well as more screaming wounded.
"Yes, sure enough, it's fun to tease their large army out and fight again, and then bombard Lao Tzu!" Song Qing rode on the horse and looked into the distance, the other party was satisfied with the results of this round of artillery salvo, at first he planned to fire the cannon first according to the old rules, and then he felt that it was not worth it, the other party's more than 200,000 soldiers and horses, it is estimated that as long as it is a little teasing, the troops that come out will definitely be more than Zhang Xianzhong's, and the results of the artillery will be greater when the time comes, and now it seems that this is the case, everything is under his control.
The gunners obviously didn't expect such a big battle, just looked at the opposite side was still densely packed with people, a row of artillery passed, and even opened up several places, a few were almost hit by the shells almost turned around and ran, and then were forced back by the leader with a big knife, but they no longer dared to rush so fast, and the speed of the entire charging team also slowed down, invisibly giving the cannon more opportunities to fire, causing their losses to get bigger and bigger, and their courage became smaller and smaller, becoming a standard vicious circle.
"Hurry up, if you don't want to be blown up, rush up to Lao Tzu, and then cut you down!" The leaders finally began to erupt, because the cannonball is not long-eyed, it doesn't matter if you are a leader or an ordinary outcast, as long as you fly over, it is a puddle of flesh and blood, and many leaders are also killed in a confused moment, and the rest naturally do not want to follow in the footsteps of the former, they all take the back of the knife and slash indiscriminately, and when they encounter those who are too dragging their feet, they rush up directly to kill them, and finally improve the speed.
It's just that after increasing the speed, it just allows them to collect a few rounds of artillery attacks, and when they rush to fifteen zhang away, the firecrackers began to fire frantically again, and the four thousand firecrackers have been corrected to recover the initial effect, although the fight can't achieve the accurate effect, but the stability and ruthlessness are absolutely fine, and after this thing is sprayed out, in addition to large pieces of lead bullets, there are also some iron sand and broken iron pieces and other things, the lethality is actually more than a one-to-one bow and arrow, especially with the expansion of distance, The more powerful the firebolt is, because the bow and arrow are within range and need to be accelerated to increase their power, the firebolt has no worries about this.
Rushing to rush, the peasant army also found this, the other party hit almost nothing to dodge, many people only saw the black dense patch in front of them, and then they were covered in blood, and those who were hit in the head and face died directly, and those who were hit in the body were not dead, but they could only fall to the ground and struggle, and they didn't know whether Lu Dao was lucky or unlucky, but the leaders who had been supervising the battle in the back found that the casualties of this style of play were too great, not to mention that there was the most excessive thing behind, That is, those that they thought could only defend against cavalry and pits, and those things were actually used to stop their infantry.
Refusal of horses and big pits, in the past battles, is actually not very useful for the infantry, only need the people in front to carry the opposite bow and arrows, and the people in the back to pull things apart, but Song Qing's arrangement is very lacking in morality, the rejection of horses are scattered, you will encounter everywhere you go, and there are no rules in the big pit, so that after you rush over, unless you are not afraid of stumbling, you have to look at the past honestly, and the speed of the peasant army has gradually slowed down on these immoral things.
In the face of the attack of 4,000 firecrackers and 1,000 archers, there was only one consequence of the speed drop, and everyone became targets and was casually beaten by the Xuzhou soldiers. (To be continued......)