Seeing this, we can know that even now, there are still quite a lot of elites in the Ming army. We can assume that if the Ming Dynasty transferred half of these elites to Liaodong, and settled their military salaries and supplies.

Coupled with a commander who knows how to fight and is good at fighting, these elites also work together, then the Manchus in Liaodong want to urinate a pot, and they can't find a night pot.

Of course, this assumption is a little too much, and it is obviously a fantasy.

In the original history, when Wu Sangui let the Qing army enter the customs, some of the elite of these Ming troops disappeared in the battle against the peasant army and the Manchu Qing Dynasty; Although some of them are still numbered, they have long been different, and veterans who can fight have long been finished. Therefore, the Manchu Qing Dynasty unified the whole country almost effortlessly. Therefore, although the external enemy is terrible, the internal fighting is deadly.

Let's not say much, let's take a look at the battle between Luo Rucai's department and Lu Jiude's department first!

Because it was necessary to fight in a measured manner, and he thought that Lu Jiude's department was quite weak, the front-line commander Yang Chengzu put on a top-heavy defensive formation.

It's a very contradictory formation. Generally, a top-heavy formation is to put the most combat-effective troops in front, of course, to crush the enemy army with one blow, so it must be an offensive formation. But Yang Chengzu came to a defense. So before this battle, Luo Rucai and Yang Chengzu did not know each other.

In fact, Yang Chengzu also has his own reasons for placing it like this. To use an analogy: just like a strong man being attacked by a child, if the strong man doesn't want to hurt the child, he just needs to protect his vital points with his hands and feet. So that's what Yang Chengzu did.

But when Liu Liangzuo led his men into formation, the front-line commander Yang Chengzu knew that it was bad, because he could see from the banner that it was Liu Liangzuo, the sworn enemy of the peasant army who came out of the same door. So Yang Chengzu immediately ordered a change of formation to restore the offensive formation that Luo Rucai's department was accustomed to.

The core of Luo Rucai's battalion peasant army was the veterans of the three sides. It is characterized by the special death of the soldiers. The individual skills are also very good. Because of the region and the harsh living environment, these soldiers took the initiative to hunt the heads of the Mongols almost since they became adults, so the cavalry and archery skills of some soldiers were even inferior to the elite of the Qing army and Mongolia.

As a strong force of the Ming army on the same level as the Guanning Iron Cavalry, the armies on the three sides are also very distinctive. Unlike the Guanning Iron Cavalry, which focused on large corps group operations, the troops on the three sides did not like to line up very much, and they often lined up freely into battle.

Strangely, however, when they fought against a well-disciplined and well-organized army, the trilateral army was not at all out, because when a trilateral soldier fought alone, the soldiers around him would naturally protect him. will also fight with him; When a trilateral force fights, the rest of the forces will immediately cooperate.

In fact, this is discipline without discipline; There is no organization anymore, and this is based on the high military quality of the soldiers of the three sides. Coupled with their outlaws, the confrontation with other first-class armies is not at all lagging behind.

From this we can see. The trilateral armies were particularly good at attacking.

However, Yang Chengzu used this offensive unit as defense, and then changed the formation because he found out that he was facing Liu Liangzuo. This brings us to the question of changing troops.

Because of the troops to attack and to defend. The weapons used by the soldiers in the first few rows were different, and there was no way to change the weapons at this time, so Yang Chengzu had no choice but to transfer the most capable soldiers in the first few rows.

Obviously, the reason why Yang Chengzu would take such a rash and dangerous move was because he knew the combat effectiveness of Liu Liangzuo's troops and knew that he could no longer stop Liu Liangzuo's attack by relying on simple defense.

And Liu Liangzuo was a little apprehensive when he came out of the battle. Because he knows very well that his soldiers are inferior to Luo Rucai's troops. But when he went into battle, he found that Luo Rucai's troops had put on a purely defensive formation. Liu Liangzuo couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately waved his army to attack. Taking advantage of the fact that the front and rear rows of Luo Rucai's department were not in place, he immediately grabbed a first move.

This first move is too important. Because for the defenders. To gain an advantage, it is necessary to have superiority in long-range firepower. This can also be seen from the defense of Huang Degong's troops on the other side of the Yangtze River.

However, no matter how well-equipped Luo Rucai's department is, it can't compare to Lu Jiude's department, which is supported by the entire Nanjing Arsenal. Therefore, as soon as the war began, the peasant army fell into a situation of being passively beaten.

Originally, according to the normal strength of Luo Rucai's troops, they should suppress the long-range firepower of the Ming army with a fierce attack, but because of the mistake in arranging the troops, it led to passivity, so Yang Chengzu was in a hurry to adjust the formation. I don't know if Luo Rucai, who was watching the battle in the Chinese army, is regretting it? Has he deepened his understanding of "the most haode defense is offense"?

But although Liu Liangzuo's troops were a step behind, they were not weak brigades, and the gap between the two sides was not to the extent that they were far apart. Therefore, as soon as they saw that there was an advantage, the Ming army, under the command of Liu Liangzuo, immediately launched a wave of attacks, and it was wave after wave, that is, it did not let the peasant army relax. If it weren't for Yang Chengzu's several times to send troops to plug the leakage, if it weren't for Luo Rucai's soldiers who really died, maybe the formation of the peasant army would have been broken and the army would have been defeated.

"The fifth, the ninth! That's not going to work. Hurry up and bring a thousand horsemen to fight over, and you must suppress the official dog and let the boss breathe a sigh of relief. ”

"Yes! Godfather! ”

Although Luo Rucai's explanation was very vague, the Fifth Taibao and the Ninth Taibao knew very well in their hearts that Luo Rucai was going to work hard. They immediately lined up the thousand cavalry in a triangular formation, and were about to make a death charge.

"You guys go up quickly, follow the gap opened by General Liu's soldiers, and you will definitely ......" As soon as Lu Jiude saw that his side had the advantage, he immediately dispatched troops, wanting to expand the advantage into a victory.

But Lu Jiude had just ordered halfway through when the little eunuch beside him interrupted him. The little eunuch pointed to the cavalry troops that were gradually pulled out behind Luo Rucai, and exclaimed, "Grandpa Lu! You see. ”

Lu Jiude and the generals of the Ming army looked in that direction together, and their faces changed. Lu Jiude knew the soldiers, so he understood what the cavalry in a triangular formation meant.

So Lu Jiude immediately changed his order: "General Zhang, also put your cavalry in a cone, and you must block the thief army from charging General Liu." ”

"Grandpa Lu! This......! "That Zhang Shen will be embarrassed. As soon as this triangular formation is laid out, you will live or die, so General Zhang will not be able to make up his mind.

"Didn't you make it clear what the miscellaneous family said?" Lu Jiude's eyes immediately widened, "Whoever dares to disobey the order will be killed immediately, and if you can't stop the thief army, you can cut yourself!" (To be continued......)