Chapter 403: Confrontation
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As one of the most prestigious leaders of the peasant army, Zhang Xianzhong naturally has his own ideas, and also has his own pride, for King Gao Yingxiang, he admires it very much, and feels that this is a very loyal fight, and he is also an old-timer of his fellow villagers, and he is the guiding light on the road of his rebellion, and the helmsman of navigation.
But even so, he never planned to serve the king all the time, but planned to make a career by himself, just like saying that he did not follow the brigade in this attack on Weihui Mansion, but took 50,000 people around to the south, on the one hand, looking for an opportunity to attack Weihui Mansion City, on the other hand, robbing the grain transportation teams of officers and soldiers everywhere, piggybacking on destroying a few more villages, sweeping away some homeless poor, or creating some homeless poor people to roll away, in short, it is such a routine, a routine that works for Liukou, Relying on this routine, they don't have to worry about the problem of soldiers at all, as long as the thousands of core brothers are there, the rest of the troops can be recruited at any time.
In addition to these, he also wanted to make another great achievement, so that his position in the entire peasant army would continue to improve, so he deliberately sent people everywhere to search for news of the officers and soldiers of the brigade, intending to fight another battle like the previous defeat of Zuo Liangyu's troops, and then he found Song Qing's team, and the 50,000-strong army quickly rushed to this side.
Both sides are quickly attacking each other's position, so they quickly got together, Zhang Xianzhong took a long-pole Pu knife, rode on a yellow, and waited for the report of the sentinel detectives, and at the same time calculated what kind of people and horses the other party was, and what method should he use to defeat it, and it has been a few years since he unveiled the rod, he has run away from the first time he saw the officers and soldiers, and has developed to fight with the officers and soldiers indiscriminately, and now he can fight with the officers and soldiers without fear. Even thinking about how to beat the other side.
From this point of view, the development of the peasant army is indeed fast enough, and it is about to approach the combat level of the regular army, and even more powerful than some relatively useless guards, which is why they can gallop all over the Central Plains, as long as they do not encounter those few very strong soldiers and horses, they can cope with it.
Of course, Song Qing was not worried about anything, this group of peasant troops was basically chased by Hong Chengchou and others, and they had been to Sichuan before. Just in time for Qin Liangyu to return to Sichuan, he was also defeated by the white pole soldiers for a while, and had to withdraw to the Central Plains, according to this kind of combat effectiveness, Xuzhou soldiers and horses are not a problem to deal with them, to some extent, it can't even be regarded as a battle, as long as the number of opponents is not too much, it should be able to use the word crushing, or the idiom of overwhelming.
It's just that Zhang Xianzhong obviously doesn't know these things now. The sentinel found out the situation and immediately reported to him, saying that the front should be soldiers and horses from Xuzhou, led by Song, Hu, Kong and Geng. He also thought that it might be Song Qing's soldiers and horses, but he didn't take it too seriously, because there were only more than 10,000 officers and soldiers, and he had more than 50,000 soldiers. In addition, Zuo Liangyu, who was defeated before, can also be regarded as the elite of the official army, and it is estimated that the level is about the same as that of Song Qing, as long as you are cautious. Should be able to achieve victory.
With such a careless mind, the 50,000 army encountered Song Qing's Xuzhou soldiers, when the two sides were infinitely close, Song Qing's fighting spirit was also successfully stimulated, he had not fought such a large-scale battle for a long time, since the rebellion on the Shandong side was quelled, he had never fought such a big battle, seeing the dense crowd in front of him, he began to tremble, this similar state of snake spirit disease, he himself did not know what was going on in the Dao, and seemed to fall in love with the war unconsciously.
Zhang Xianzhong on the opposite side is also very excited, in the years of the southern and northern wars, he has seen a lot of Ming troops, so he is very clear about the difference between high and low, seeing that the Xuzhou soldiers are in strict array, the military uniform temperament is also new, and the weapons are shining, and suddenly the idea of grabbing a vote was born, if his subordinates can have even a few thousand people to replace this weapon, the combat effectiveness is estimated to be more than doubled, this Ming army is really his own lucky star, rush to send him weapons, if it is a time to wait for the war, The one named Song Qing on the other side can get away with it, and he can also consider sparing his life, as long as the other party can be loyal to his eight kings.
It's just that when both sides stopped advancing, the two sides behaved completely differently, although the rogues had fought a lot of battles, but in essence they were still chaotic and coaxing, and after the fight, they were mainly based on irregular charges, anyway, they were numerous, and they didn't take those newly promoted camps seriously at all, and when the time came, just rush up, except for Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers who met Qin Liangyu in Sichuan, no one can not be afraid of their way of playing, even Hong Chengchou is no exception.
Xuzhou soldiers but immediately began to arrange the formation after stopping, the 1,000 archers of the beggar army were in the front, to prevent the other party from playing cards not according to the rules, just lined up and began to charge, the rest of the fire team, pikemen, artillery team, etc. began to find their own position, when the entire army array was completed, the archers consciously withdrew to the third line, and gave the front to the artillery and fire guns, and when the other party really rushed over, it was the battlefield where these archers exerted their might.
The premise is that the other party really has the ability to rush over.
This is not blind self-confidence, after more than two years of expansion, Song Qing's troops already have twenty field guns, as well as four thousand firearms, such a powerful firepower, unless the other party is a cavalry charge, pure infantry attack, he doesn't believe that anyone can rush over, the other party can also use firearms artillery to fight him, but he absolutely does not believe that the eight kings Zhang Xianzhong can fight such a bold battle, you must know that he is saving this kind of battle, otherwise there are definitely more than 4,000 firearms, 10,000 is the number he wants.
His guess is also correct, Zhang Xianzhong on the opposite side is obviously impossible to fight such a bold battle, the eight kings don't even have much impression of what the fire gun is, most of the teams that fought before were Shaanxi soldiers, the economic conditions in Shaanxi are not very good, and there are not many officers and soldiers who use firearms, even if there are in the arsenal, they are still big swords and spears when they go out of battle, and the same is true for the Sichuan soldiers, although they have returned to their hometowns, the poverty of Qin Liangyu's department has not been solved, Rao is doing business with Song Qing, Most of the money earned was also used to buy other things for the soldiers, and there was still not much improvement in armaments, so naturally they could not afford to use firearms during war.
For various reasons, Zhang Xianzhong has never seen this thing at all, and he can't understand what kind of formation is on the opposite side, why thousands of people stand at the forefront with this burning stick, and he doesn't know what Lu Dao wants to do, in fact, he has heard about some fire guns, but he has no impression in his mind at all, so he is too lazy to ponder, with a wave of his hand, 20,000 homeless people with nail rakes and hoes and dung forks rushed up, from the momentum, it is relatively complete, but it is only the momentum.
The other side of the army charged, Xuzhou soldiers are all stupid, I heard that the other side has 50,000 horses, some recruits are still a little muttering, although under the leadership of the victorious General Song, they are unlikely to defeat the battle, but it is estimated that it will be very hard, but now seeing such a group of characters called Huazi rushing up, everyone is a little stunned, they are even wondering whether this is a war, according to the infantry discipline in Xuzhou, this is almost an out-and-out suicide.
The recruits muttered in their hearts, the veterans who had been promoted to officers didn't think so much, they had long been accustomed to everything on the battlefield, as long as Song Qing gave the order to start the war, there was only one thing left in their minds to kill the enemy, as for who the enemy was, and what kind of appearance he was, it had nothing to do with them, they only knew that when the battle was over, the enemy would become a corpse, as long as this goal could be achieved, the rest did not need to be considered at all.
20,000 soldiers and horses rushed in, the formation was dense so that the leading officer of the fire gun soldiers was overjoyed, he liked this kind of stupid group charge guy, which means that they and the artillery almost do not need to aim, you can easily harvest a lot of life, just a moment, the artillery has preemptively expressed its sense of existence, twelve cannons were dragged by them from Xuzhou to Henan, but it took a lot of effort in the middle, and now it can finally come in handy, and the artillerymen are also excited to shine on their faces.
The results of the first round of shooting were very good, all twelve guns hit the target, except for two that just brushed the edge, the remaining ten shells almost passed through the pile, like ten bowling balls hitting the pins at the same time, almost suddenly screaming, also successfully replaced the violent explosion, the stump and broken arm continued to fly in the air, the original neat charge formation, suddenly as if scraped by a rake, ten very obvious gaps in the cracks, bloody and blurred gaps.
Zhang Xianzhong was in the back formation, originally looking forward to the scene of his own people rushing to the opposite side to kill the special killing, who knew that Lu Dao actually saw such a scene, almost shocked him to fall off the horse, before the unusually full confidence, suddenly with the hollowness of the formation also decreased a lot, he suddenly felt that this battle may not be as easy to fight as he expected, the reason is mainly because of the twelve cannons on the opposite side, this object he still knows the way, although it has not really been bombarded, but he also knows in his heart that this thing is really not human to resist.
It's just that what he didn't know was that the strongest thing under Song Qing was not the twelve cannons that could only fire solid bullets and had a relatively slow operating speed, but the 4,000 firearms, which were enough to make the peasant army unable to rush up. (To be continued......)