Chapter 58: Advance and Retreat
Wang Jiayin personally commanded, led the army to attack six or seven rounds, intending to defeat the 5,000 officers and troops blocked in Fuhupo, the brave and fearless charge of the Changsheng army that was put to death and then born, and it did make the officers and troops be shocked for a time, if it was replaced by other Ming army generals to command the battle, it is estimated that it would have collapsed long ago, but it is a pity that the commander of this Ming army is Sun Chengzong.
Sun Chengzong is the second sergeant in the thirty-second year of Wanli, awarded the Hanlin editor, and then turned to worship the five products of Zhongyun, the standard civil official background, during the Apocalypse, the war situation in Liaodong was erosive, he was an official to worship the military department of Shangshu, and also the East Pavilion University Scholar, supervising Liaodong.
During this period, Sun Chengzong wrote to Emperor Tianqi, the Ming Dynasty has not trained in recent years, the military salary is difficult to verify, and the military generals are used to fight in the war but are commanded by civilian officials, the power of civilian officials is too great, and it is not conducive to the war.
During the period when Sun Chengzong sat in Liaodong, he took a series of measures that were beneficial to the Ming army and the people, and won the support of the soldiers, and defended Liaodong as impregnable, and the Jin army knew that it was powerful, so it did not launch a large-scale attack, but only made a small fight, so it did not make any outstanding achievements, but the life of the people in the pass was at least much better.
Sun Chengzong has strategy, knows military affairs, has actual combat experience in commanding large corps operations, has clear rewards and punishments, has the support of soldiers, crushes weapons and equipment, takes advantage of the time and place, waits for work, morale is like a rainbow, even if he is dizzy and makes command mistakes, the big gap in various comparisons is enough to make up, not to mention that he is not dizzy at all, and he is more sober than any moment.
Under his command, more than a dozen Francophone cannons bombarded incessantly, and one shell exploded in the black-pressed Changsheng army, and the shrapnel fired everywhere took away the lives of each one, which not only caused a lot of lethality and deterrence to the Changsheng army, but also greatly boosted the morale of the party.
After the soldiers of the victorious army rushed through the death blockade built by the artillery, they had to face the ferocious blows of the dense rain of arrows and musket barrage, many soldiers fell on the way to the charge, and finally rushed to the front of the battle, and were blown up by a large number of grenades thrown by the officers and soldiers, and suffered heavy casualties.
The roaring sound of gunfire, the earth-shattering roar, the choking whistle smoke, the corpses all over the ground, the severed limbs, the broken weapons and equipment, the painful and miserable wails of the wounded and undead soldiers, and the blood flowing into streams, constituted a tragic and tragic battle picture.
In another battlefield, the 3,000 vanguard troops of the Changsheng Army desperately resisted the fierce attack of the officers and troops, but when the frontal defensive position was violently bombarded by several Franc machine guns, the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the formation was scattered, and after being penetrated by 1,000 light cavalry and chiseling through the formation, the 3,000 Changsheng Army finally collapsed and fled in all directions.
The soldiers of the victorious army were either cut down, or surrendered on their knees, and they also got into the dense woods on both sides of the official road and escaped for the time being.
On the battlefield of Fuhupo, although Wang Jiayin personally commanded, although the soldiers were desperate, but the morale was again and again, again and again, three exhausted, after several rounds of crazy onslaught in a row, after paying heavy casualties, morale was low, and after Sun Chengzong commanded the army to launch a counter-charge, the Changsheng army finally collapsed.
There were scattered and fleeing soldiers everywhere, but there were officers and soldiers in front and behind to chase and intercept, either resisting and being cut down, or kneeling and surrendering, or fleeing into the dense forest, Wang Jiayin wanted to rush up and die in despair, but was pulled by the generals and personal guards around him, and drilled into the dense and boundless woods.
The two armies met victoriously, cleaned up the battlefield, collected the prisoners, buried the corpses, and counted after the war, among the more than 10,000 people in Wang Jiayin's Changsheng army, more than 3,000 casualties and more than 2,000 prisoners, and the rest all fled to the dense forest, some people got lost in the dense forest, died of thirst and starvation, and some died from the mouths of poisonous insects and beasts.
Sun Chengzong scattered the captives and incorporated them into various armies, and then divided the main force into two armies, one army swept the civilian army in each county, and he led 5,000 soldiers and horses to Shenmu County with a large amount of grain and grass to support Sun Chuanting's partial division.
When the prisoners were arraigned, he remembered Zhu Jian's repeated confessions, and interrogated whether there were Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Zongmin and others, he didn't know why the Son of Heaven was so concerned about these people, but if he could be caught, the credit would be greater than winning ten battles.
Li Zicheng and several of his good brothers are indeed in Wang Jiayin's ever-winning army, but he is just an unknown small leader who has no chance to show his ability, and naturally he has not been discovered and reused by Wang Jiayin.
When the official army launched a counteroffensive and the entire Changsheng army collapsed, Li Zicheng saw that the situation was not good, and took his brothers who worshiped the son to escape into the endless dense forest, causing Sun Chengzong to beat his chest for a while, and the great war exploits in hand flew away.
Shenmu County.
Due to the serious shortage of food, the people's hearts were unstable, Sun Chuanting did not dare to send troops to sweep the nearby counties, in addition to sending people to Sun Chengzong for help, he also sent troops out of the city, collecting food everywhere, but basically in vain, heard that Gao Yingxiang led the army to kill, had to order the city gate to be closed, according to the guard.
Gao Yingxiang and Wang Jiayin have contact with each other, seeing that Wang Jiayin has made the Chang Shengjun impressive, powerful, and has long had the intention of defecting, but he couldn't let go of the hundreds of thousands of disaster victims who followed, and took them to Shenmu County to join Wang Jiayin.
The disaster victims dragged their families with their mouths, the marching speed was already slow, coupled with the lack of food and grass, he desperately collected food, along the way to attack the village and trap the village, beat the local tyrants to grab food, the marching speed was seriously affected, and before he arrived at Shenmu County, he had received a scout report that Shenmu County had been lost.
Gao Yingxiang is advancing and retreating at this time, his head is as big as a fight, he brought all the family money over, as a result, Shenmu County was lost, the official army cut off his rendezvous with Wang Jiayin, and then turned back, the food in his hometown was looted by him, and he could only starve to death when he went back, only to capture Shenmu County and open up the channel with Wang Jiayin.
After discussing with his brothers, Gao Yingxiang personally led 6,000 soldiers to Shenmu County first, waved his army to attack the city, and the rear army in charge of logistics and heavy transportation slowly followed with hundreds of thousands of disasters.
Gao Yingxiang led the army to arrive at the city of Shenmu County, camped outside the city to rest, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to cut down trees, make some heavy siege equipment, and led the army to attack the city early the next morning, the offensive was extremely fierce, and once captured the city's head position, but unfortunately failed to hold under the fierce counterattack of the officers and soldiers, and lost the opportunity to break the city.
The Gao family army attacked several rounds and suffered considerable losses, but under Gao Yingxiang's supervision, the Gao family army continued to desperately launch a strong attack, he couldn't help but be in a hurry, followed by hundreds of thousands of victims, and the looted food was only enough to support ten days and a half months, if he didn't recapture Shenmu County as soon as possible, it would be a big trouble.
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