Chapter 34: The Cavalry of the Battle

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Cheng Pan didn't expect him to farm with peace of mind in this era, although Cheng Pan was very careful not to violate the bottom line of the Yuan Dynasty, and so far he has not occupied a county town and paid taxes on time. However, the development of new forces must draw nourishment, and land and labor have always been the things that are the owner. If you want to take it, you must prove your strength. War and conflict are the stage for the new forces created by Cheng Pan.

In the early winter of 1342 A.D., the wind was bitterly cold. Mo Rigen finally prepared a matter and dispatched an army of 5ooo people from near Huaixi Road to Cheng Pan's sphere of influence. After learning that the Yuan Dynasty's bandit army was out, he led a total of 58oo people to ride and run towards Mo Rigen's official army.

Mo Rigen actually had a vague impression of Cheng Pan's forces, and when he got the power of Cheng Pan's forces to mobilize 2oooo people to wantonly persecute the squires and kill officials and soldiers in the land of the three counties. Mo Rigen really thought that Cheng Pan was going to rebel, and was ready to quickly recruit an army to extinguish it. However, due to the disappearance of grain and grass in the major warehouses, Mo Rigen could not take the initiative to attack quickly, so he had to order all localities to strictly defend it. But as time passed, the news of the fall of the prefecture and county that Mozhigen feared did not come, and there was no news of banditry in the counties outside the three counties. If it weren't for the news from the spies, Mo Rigen would have thought that the bandits in Huangzhou had fled out of the country. The county ordinances of the three counties all indicate that the city is unharmed. With the news coming one by one, Mo Rigen knew that this gang of bandits had not dissipated and was constantly grabbing land in the three counties, renting it to the mud legs at low rent. The bandits in Huangzhou seem to want to be the largest wealthy family in the three counties. This also explains why the cities of the three counties have not been lost, and the grain has been handed over as usual. After coming to such a conclusion, Mo Rigen's nose was crooked, you were born a water bandit, and you can honestly go ashore and be good. Last time, you grabbed so much land, given that it is a border between the two provinces, there are no big forces occupying it, and I didn't say anything about you because I knew you. Now you are a bandit who doesn't know what to do, and continue to enclose the land, not to mention that you look so ugly, even your appetite is too big, the land of the three counties, even the territory of the vassal king of the imperial court is not as big as you.

In Mo Rigen's heart, Cheng Pan became a two-stroke bun who didn't understand anything. At the same time, Mozhigen's dispatch this time was a little less light on the upcoming opponent.

To change the lens, in the land of the three counties, everyone paid special attention to this battle, whether it was the civilians who farmed the land or the squires who decided to take a step back. This time, the imperial army won, and everything was over. The regime established by Cheng Pan, which was dominated by the broad masses of workers and peasants, collapsed. Farmers who were given new land will be liquidated. The three counties will suffer a military disaster. If the Communists win, the nascent regime will officially stand in its own power between the Yangtze River and the Huai. The land of Jianghuai did not have any force to shake the order of the three counties in two years.

After all, this was the first time that Cheng Pan's forces had confronted the Yuan Dynasty army head-on, which was a psychological test for the people in the territory. Other forces in the territory are also watching, because the land war in October did not take the county seat in the territory, and the forces opposing Cheng Pan still exist. But they didn't dare to move. Because nearly 20,000 militias maintain order in the newly occupied territories.

The battle soon began on the northeast side of Chaohu Lake. First, there was the contest between scouts.

Mozhigen had two fully formed thousand cavalry teams in his hands. The mobile force is ten times that of Cheng Pan. Cheng Pan only formed two hundred-man scout cavalry teams. However, while the two centurians were transmitting information, they kept taking the initiative to attack the Mongol cavalry, which was outnumbered by them. But the side with fewer people completely suppressed the side with more people.

The reason for this was that Cheng Pan equipped Wang Tianzhu's cavalry with new weapons.

With the use of electricity in the territory, the production of chlorine began to increase, and the people in the chemical group came up with some unstable dìng compounds. Chloride and phosphorus are flammable and explosive, and they are dangerous controlled products in later generations. Cheng Pan made a kind of revolver pistol with impact fire as the agitated device according to the principle of the toy powder gun he played with when he was a child and the craftsmen in the territory, because the primer of the musket is chloride and phosphorus, and the propellant gunpowder is still granular black powder, so the caliber is large and the weight is not small. But the cavalry still came up with a way, so they fixed a few pieces of bamboo on the gun and sewed clothes. This pistol is quite powerful, with a range of about 4o meters. Thanks to the reel, it can play six at a time. A cavalry group equipped with such weapons can form a barrage in a short time. The cavalry on the opposite side was suppressed by this weapon.

However, chloride and phosphorus are too unstable, the amount of preparation is small, and it is not easy to preserve. It is not possible to upgrade the technology of the Musket. The scale of this cavalry battle is getting bigger and bigger, to be precise, Mo Rigen unilaterally expanded the number of scouts, and Wang Tianzhu went from the easy and pleasant target practice of facing the cavalry of the 2o team at the beginning, to the small friction of the 5oo cavalry regiment at the end. Fortunately, soon the main forces of the two armies faced each other. The scout battle is over.

In this pre-battle hors d'oeuvres, Wang Tianzhu's cavalry team lost 5 people killed and 10 wounded. The Mongol cavalry, on the other hand, suffered 342 casualties, and they were completely incapacitated due to the full-power bullets hit.

Mo Rigen looked at the strict queue of Huangzhou bandits in the distance, and his mood now was not as relaxed as when he first came. In the previous cavalry battle, Mozhigen felt that the battle losses of the two sides were terrible. Three hundred warriors were killed and wounded on his side, and he did not even kill a tenth of the people on the opposite side. He looked at the firearms his men had seized, and there was only this one. Mozhigen didn't see the firerope, but it was unexpectedly able to start, and it was able to connect. Its power can collude with hardwood planks up to an inch thick. It's a pity that only one was captured, and there was not even more ammunition. Morrigan solemnly accepted the firearm and prepared to go back and let the craftsman copy it. As for defeating the anti-thieves on the opposite side, now Mo Rigen has no bottom in his heart, even if he is defeated. Mo Rigen thinks that like this kind of sharp weapon, the Huangzhou thief will definitely take it with him.

Cheng Pan and his officers used binoculars to observe the deployment of enemy troops in the distance. For this kind of large-scale war, Cheng Pan, who was a pure otaku before the crossing, was completely new to this, and the peasants-born officers under him were not much better. Cheng Pan's advantage now is that his army has thrown out its opponents in terms of equipment and training intensity.

At this time, Wang Tianzhu came, and Cheng Pan said: "Tianzhu's task has been completed well, it's hard work, come and sit down and tell you about the layout on the other side." Wang Tianzhu saluted and said, "Report to the chief, it's not hard. Then he walked over to the simple to rudimentary military map and said, "Guys, gather most of the cavalry on the other side to the east flank." The large camp on the opposite side was stationed here, and a large number of archers were arranged. Cheng Pan and his officers listened. After Wang Tianzhu finished speaking, a group of people kept discussing.

After summarizing their opinions, this group of half-people always believed that the mobile cavalry on the opposite side was the most threatening. In the end, Cheng Pan ordered a battle plan to focus on shelling the enemy cavalry first, and then break through on the right flank.

After the discussion, Cheng Pan said: "The meaning of our army's existence depends on this battle." The subordinate officers replied in unison: "Yes, sir". A strange thought suddenly popped up in Cheng Pan's mind, and he felt that the rise and fall of the imperial kingdom was here.