Chapter 290: Red-Eye Tactics

Wu Shigong is hated again. However, there are too many people who hate Wu Shigong now, and even the first assistant Zhou Yanru indirectly hates Wu Shigong. So Wu Shigong is also a lice now.

It seems that the old lady is also tired, and the night seems to be particularly quiet. In this field, there are indeed no fingers to be seen, only the flickering torches in the distance.

Wu Shigong watched the distance while drinking the broth in his hand. When I drank this hot broth into my stomach, the feeling of happiness immediately spread from my stomach to every pore on my body.

Now Wu Shigong is facing the rebels across the Sand River. After rushing to the west bank of the Shahe River at dusk, Wu Shigong had to wade through shallow places to cross the river several times. This move caused a wave of tension among the rebels. Seeing that there was such a Ming army taking the initiative to attack, the rebels did not know if another Ming army had arrived, so the rebels also gathered their troops, and they only left some scouting spies on the east bank of the Shahe River, and the main force of the rebels retreated, and they accepted it when they saw it.

Wu Shigong's several crossings of the river were of course a bluff. He just wanted to make it unclear to the rebels about his purpose. Wu Shigong certainly had no interest in forcibly rushing across the Shahe River and fighting hard with his cavalry and the main force of the rebels when the back road was cut off.

However, when Wu Shigong was crossing the estuary, he shot at each other with firearms several times across the bank with firearms with the rebels who blocked the attack, because Wu Shigong's firearms were more powerful, but caused certain casualties to the rebels.

When the rebels saw that there was such a well-armored cavalry, such a fierce firepower of firearms, and such a strong desire to fight, they did not dare to slack off, and immediately took the initiative to shrink the army that was covering the killing, and wanted to find out the situation of the Ming army on the other side.

Wu Shigong wanted the rebels to spend their time investigating the situation. He only had to delay the rebels for one night, half a night to be exact, and before the rebels came to their senses, he led his cavalry and the rescued Ming army to retreat together.

After bidding farewell to the governor Liu Yulie, Wu Shigong met and interrogated several fast-legged Ming troops in the following time. Seeing that the number of the defeated Ming army had decreased, Wu Shigong immediately ordered the cavalry to advance in reverse.

At this time, the total number of Wu Shigong's cavalry had reached more than 1,200. The defeat of an army does not mean that there are no brave soldiers in these armies.

Seeing that Wu Shigong's cavalry took the initiative to rescue the backward Ming army, some brave military attaches and soldiers also joined Wu Shigong's cavalry.

And when Wu Shigong arrived at Shahe, he only saw a miserable scene of the Ming army. On both sides of the Sand River, the defeated Ming soldiers were slaughtered like lambs by the rebels.

The Ming army on the east bank of the Shahe River, Wu Shigong, of course, had no way to rescue. Wu Shigong had no choice but to rescue the Ming army who had fled to the west bank of the Shahe River.

At this time, the number of rebels who crossed the Sand River was not large, and they were mainly cavalry. They mainly entangled the footsteps of those Ming infantry, waiting for the arrival of the main rebel force to eliminate these Ming troops.

At this time, there were only two Ming armies that resisted as a whole. One group numbered more than 600 people, and the other team numbered more than 1,300 people.

Seeing the arrival of Wu Shigong's cavalry, the rebel cavalry that was entangled with the two Ming armies also immediately abandoned their respective opponents and immediately converged, preparing to defeat Wu Shigong's cavalry first, and then clean up those two-legged Ming infantry.

The cavalry of the rebel army also numbered more than 1,500 people, and after the two sides lined up, without saying a word, they immediately charged each other.

Although the rebels did not dare to fight with the cavalry of the Later Jin army. But they had a psychological advantage in fighting the cavalry of the Ming army. In the end, these rebels from Dongjiang Town are also from Liaodong. They can barely be called Guanning Iron Cavalry.

But what the rebels did not expect was that this battle was completely one-sided, and it was a mountain of defeat.

Wu Shigong lined up the cavalry of his Runing battalion in front of the formation. If you don't preserve your strength at all, you will crush the rebel cavalry on the opposite side at once.

When the first platoons of the cavalry on both sides approached, Wu Shigong's cavalry first fired a volley with firearms. Of course, this kind of shooting was not very accurate, and the purpose of the shooting was only to disrupt the rhythm of the rebel cavalry.

Anyway, though, the shot had some effect. Seeing that some of his companions were shot off their horses, the rebel cavalry always unconsciously slowed down their horses, and the whole procession was a little scattered.

After the shooting, the cavalry of the Runing battalion immediately threw their fire guns to the ground, seized the time to pick up the cavalry spears, lined up in a tight formation, and rushed towards the cavalry ranks of the rebels.

This is a tactic summed up by the Runing Battalion after fighting with the cavalry of the Houjin Army in the last battle of King Qin, and the name of the tactic is "Red Eye Tactic".

Different from the meaning of red eyes in modern red-eye flights, the red eyes here in Runing Camp refer to the red eyes of the war.

In the summary of the battle after King Qin's return last time, Wu Shigong and others unanimously believed that the cavalry, who had only received one or two years of cavalry training, was definitely inferior to the cavalry of the Houjin Army who grew up on horseback in individual combat.

Therefore, in order to make up for his shortcomings, then he must let his courage suppress the cavalry of the Houjin army.

And inspired by the collision of death, Wu Shigong and they created the "red-eye tactic". The method of this red-eye tactic is to line up in a tight cavalry formation and constantly use your own cavalry to charge the enemy's cavalry formation.

The cavalry of the Runing battalion did not play any kind of drama with the opponent at all, where the two horses were staggered and the two sides fought 300 rendezvous. They just want to go through the rows of cavalry and the death of rows of cavalry and horses to see who can't hold it first.

This kind of cavalry tactic, which does not look at individual combat skills at all, is entirely based on the extent to which both sides are indifferent to their own lives. To be honest, using this tactic, although his cavalry must have suffered heavy casualties, the opponents were Zhao Zilong and Guan Yunchang, and they only had to hate the battlefield.

In the face of such brutal tactics, the first platoon of cavalry of the rebels could not hold up. When they saw the fierce momentum of the cavalry of the Runing battalion, the already scattered array immediately scattered, and the cavalry on both sides avoided the cavalry array of the Runing battalion and turned to flee. And the cavalry in the middle, who could not escape, was unsurprisingly trampled into pulp.

And the charge of the cavalry in front of the Runing battalion was like a hot knife cutting butter to the ground of the rebels' cavalry formation. As soon as the rebel cavalry leader saw that his cavalry formation no longer existed, and knew that he was defeated, he immediately ordered a retreat.

But then came the cavalry in the back row of Wu Shigong. Although those cavalry can't do the strict tactics of the cavalry of the Runing battalion, can't they still do the thing of beating the water dogs?

After a period of cover-up, the rebel cavalry threw down more than 400 corpses and retreated to the east bank of the Shahe River under the cover of the rebels on the other side of the Sand River.

Next is Wu Shigong's bluff across the river to attack. It was not until it was completely dark that the two armies left the riverbank, ending the day's fighting.

In this battle, Wu Shigong suffered only nine casualties. In addition to cutting off more than 400 heads of the rebel cavalry, more than 100 horses were also captured. In addition, there are several armor and weapons.

The two Ming armies rescued by Wu Shigong also joined Wu Shigong's cavalry. Among them, the Ming army of more than 1,300 people was the Henan Ming army that lost the Jiang guerrillas. In addition, seeing that the rebels had retreated to the east bank of the Shahe River, the Ming troops who had fled in all directions also concentrated here at Wu Shigong. When he arrived in Zuihou, Wu Shigong gathered a total of more than 3,200 Ming troops.

Wu Shigong did not rush to retreat to the rear. He simply lit a large number of bonfires, took out dry rations, and cooked soup with the dead horse meat left by the rebels. Eating horse meat, drinking broth, and having a bonfire.

This kind of action made the rebels even more confused, and after hastily cleaning up the capture, they retreated from the bank of the Shahe River and confronted Wu Shigong's army across the bank.

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