From the very beginning of the battle, the main force of the Ming army commanded by Liu Yulie fell into a slow rhythm.

At first, Governor Liu Yulie did not feel that the rebels were going to march out of the camp.

In fact, in ancient times, it was very simple to judge whether an army would go out of the camp to fight today, that is, to look at the smoke in the enemy camp in the early morning. If the enemy's cooking smoke appears earlier than usual, and the amount of cooking smoke is large, then it is basically certain that the enemy will go out of the camp today to fight against him.

The reason is actually very simple, soldiers always have to eat a full meal before fighting. Of course, this phenomenon also reflects another situation: in ancient wars, except for those small number of elite soldiers, ordinary soldiers in the army could hardly eat enough on days when they were not fighting. The army will not provide them with enough food.

And this point is almost the common sense of the Ming Dynasty at that time. But Liu Yulie, who was born as a civilian official, may have turned over several military books, but Liu Yulie does not understand this kind of military common sense that will not be recorded in military books.

But Liu Yulie doesn't understand, among the military attaches he brings, there are always people who understand? But those that Liu Yulie brought with him were a group of high-ranking military attaches of the Ming Dynasty!

For those military attachés, they may not know everything about war, but everything in the officialdom is clear. Who would say to Liu Yulie without opening his eyes: "I see you don't understand, so I'll tell you." The rebels were about to leave the camp after breakfast. So we should also hurry up and have breakfast and arrange our troops as soon as possible. ”

Isn't this a naked slap in the face of the Governor in public? Aren't you afraid that the Governor will settle accounts afterwards and use himself as cannon fodder? Let's wait for which stunned young man will come forward to talk to the Governor first.

But facts have proved that the quality of those military attaches in the Ming Dynasty is very high, and none of them are stunned, they are all smart people. So it wasn't until Liu Yulie saw the rebels leaving the camp and starting the formation that he suddenly realized that he immediately ordered the Ming army to leave the camp and line up.

But in this way, most of the soldiers of the Ming army only gnawed a few mouthfuls of dry food, and some did not even eat a bite of breakfast, so they started fighting hungry.

Unlike what we used to imagine, in the Ming Dynasty, this kind of frontal battle took a lot of time to deploy the army before the war. It's actually quite simple, just think about the athletes' entrance ceremony at the opening ceremony of the modern Olympic Games. Just a few thousand athletes, they have to walk for more than an hour.

And now the Ming army and the rebel army have tens of thousands of people each, and they have basically not received queue training, so the time for this battalion to deploy the army is quite long.

It wasn't until more than an hour later that Kong Youde's rebels lined up. As soon as they were lined up, Kong Youde immediately ordered a force of 2,000 men to be sent from the right flank and began to tentatively attack the left flank of the Ming army.

At this time, because of the large number of Ming troops and the fact that the military attaches were not subordinate to each other, the troops of the Ming army were not fully deployed. When Liu Yulie saw that the rebels had launched an attack, he hurriedly ordered the Ming army to meet the battle.

The rear army of Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing was more than fifty miles behind the battlefield at this time. They are gathering all the military attachés and listening to the news of the spies sent to the front.

When they learned that the two armies had already left the camp and lined up, all the military attachés knew that there would definitely be a big battle between the two sides today. So what should this rear army of its own do?

After the spies retreated, Liu Zeqing asked, "Everyone, what should we do?" ”

Wu Shigong, who is the de facto second-in-command of this rear army, of course, first expressed his opinion: "General Liu. We're also in an awkward position right now. It is more than 50 miles away from the battlefield, and it will definitely not be able to catch up in a day. Even if we throw away all our baggage and march to the battlefield, our sons and daughters will not have the strength to fight. ”

"Besides, it's not much of a difference for us to rush over here. If the Governor wins, it won't even be our turn to clean up the battlefield. So what are we doing here? Do you want to take credit with friendly forces? That's a big taboo! ”

"If we want to play for a few days, then we have a day or two in the evening, and there is no big problem."

"But what if the front is defeated? If we are so rushed by the defeated and chaotic army on the march, our own rear army will be more than lucky. ”

"It's better to set up camp on the spot first, and set up a solid camp. Anyway, we have a lot of men and auxiliaries in our hands, and they can't play a role in the war, so let them all stay and camp. In this way, in the event of a loss in the front, at least we can save it ourselves, and we can also let the defeated army in front have a foothold to retreat. ”

"As for the Governor, tomorrow the official will take my cavalry and the cavalry drawn out by my colleagues here to gather so many thousand horsemen and rush to the Governor, which is at least an explanation to the Governor."

To tell the truth, after such a long period of military study and war training, Wu Shigong's military literacy is indeed qualified, and even among the military attaches of the Ming army, it can barely be said to be outstanding.

After listening to Wu Shigong's methodical analysis, none of the military attaches present raised any objections. They are all waiting for Liu Zeqing to make a decision to zuihou. And in Liu Zeqing's heart, he actually agreed with Wu Shigong's opinion a long time ago.

However, in order to be cautious, Liu Zeqing still asked other military attachés. See that there are no objections. He immediately decided: "Just do what Wu Shoubei said!" ”

Liu Zeqing was the house slave of Guo Yunhou, the head of the household department during the Apocalypse. When he was twenty-one years old, he was arranged by Guo Yunhou to join the army. In a short period of seven or eight years, he rose to the high position of a general.

In the original history, Liu Zeqing, as one of the four major military towns in the Southern Ming Dynasty, actually did not fight any major victories in his life, and his military talent was not outstanding.

Liu Zeqing's only strength is that he is entrenched in his hometown and refuses to go out to fight. Moreover, he had a very good relationship with the local officials and gentry in his hometown of Caozhou, so he was able to wantonly annex land to collect wealth and recruit soldiers to expand his strength. So much so that at that time, the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, and Liu Zeqing was able to save an army with a considerable number of people, so that Nanming had to give him a high position.

It can be seen from this that he has a natural sensitivity to preserve strength. also knows that his command ability is indeed inferior to Wu Shigong. So, of course, it's good!

In addition, the relationship between Liu Zeqing and Qiu Lei, the general soldier of Shandong, is also very bad. This can't be blamed on Liu Zeqing. That Shandong General Soldier Qiu Lei did things even more excessively.

At that time, when the Ming Dynasty court allocated food and salary to the army in Shandong, because the food and salary had to be allocated from Tongzhou, it had to pass through Qiu Lei's garrison - Jinan Mansion.

And Qiu Lei always withholds these pitiful salaries that have been stripped of by civilian officials to serve as the salaries of his own direct army. And he is not afraid of a lawsuit afterwards, Qiu Lei's yamen is in Jinan City, and it is quite convenient to contact the yamen in Shandong. Moreover, Qiu Lei stuffed enough of those yamen officials, so this kind of lawsuit is not enough.

For this reason, some Shandong generals even put down their figures, begging Qiu Lei not to be too dark-hearted, and to discuss a ratio, so that Qiu Lei could deduct part of the salary. And Liu Zeqing also suffered too much loss from Qiu Lei in the past, and the relationship between the two has reached the point where water and fire are incompatible.

Therefore, if the main forces of the rear army and the Ming army converge, at least the troops directly under Liu Zeqing in the rear army must obey the command of Qiu Lei, the general soldier of Shandong. And falling into the hands of his rival, Liu Zeqing thought about it with his ass and knew what would happen to his direct troops. So he thought that dragging it out for a day would be a day.

By the time the rear army was camped on the spot, the rebels' 2,000-strong troops had already approached the left flank of the Ming army. The battle began.

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