Chapter Eighty-Four: Victory and Defeat

Fu Youde couldn't wait.

Because of his limited logistics, this battle is not a breakthrough, but it is not much different.

If you miss this time, you don't know when the next time will be.

Ye Shen was actually not as incompetent as he thought.

Fu Youde wanted to seize Ye Shen's vacancy, and used a lot of means. But they were all cracked by Ye Shen one by one. In the end, Ye Shen believed too much in the result of not collecting at night, and was deceived by Fu Youde, so he found this opportunity.

It can only be said that Ye Shen is still young and inexperienced, and he is still too young in front of Fu Youde.

However, Fu Youde was still a little surprised by Ye Shen's department.

After all, it is difficult for the army to hide its whereabouts, not to mention that on the Hebei Plain, the traces of the army were found from a distance. Although Fu Youde took the cavalry as the lead and advanced quickly, Ye Shen also had cavalry, and the cavalry of the two sides clashed first. Give Ye Shen a little time to straighten out the army.

But not much.

Fu Youde had already calculated.

It's impossible to leave too much time for it.

It's just that Fu Youde found that he only left Ye Shen's department a short time, and nearly half of Ye Shen's department actually had nearly half of the troops, which had been transformed from marching army columns to battle queues, so fast that Fu Youde couldn't believe that it was at least more than twice as fast as the elite under his command.

It was unbelievable to him.

Fu Youde's headquarters, as a descendant of the country, I don't know how many vicious battles he has fought. Such an elite is rare in the entire Ming Dynasty. And Ye Shen's department, Fu Youde has also investigated, and most of them are recruits.

Of course, the recruits that Fu Youde is talking about are relative.

He Xi of Ye Shen's department has been preparing for a long time, and the least of all the soldiers have served for three years. As for the officers, they were also drawn from various ministries, not on bravery, but on literacy and arithmetic.

But such talents, in the Ming army, are not absent.

Such an army cannot be considered a new recruit in later generations.

It's just what Fu Youde is like?

Not to mention anything else, Fu Youde's headquarters is elite, many of them are old people who have followed Fu Youde for many years, and they can't move anymore, so they recommend juniors to take over. And these juniors have been supervising and practicing martial arts since childhood, and they are all bowed and horseed, and it is rare to make decisions.

Most of them are around 30 years old, when they are in the best physical condition, and since they have been in the army for ten years, almost everyone has seen blood and killed people.

is even more loyal to Fu Youde, and can fight for Fu Youde to the death.

Of course, there are not many such troops under Fu Youde's command, just his own guards.

But every commander of the guard post is a small version of Fu Youde.

To tell the truth, the cruelty of cold weapon combat far exceeds that of hot weapon fighting. The impact on the psychology of firing from a distance is never as good as a face-to-face fight, where the white knife goes in and the red knife comes out. When the Qing army fought with the British, the formation could maintain the position, but in the face of the British army's white-knuckle assault, the Qing army collapsed.

Although because of He Xi, the popularity of armor is particularly high, and even now all the Ming army has armor, and at worst there is a chain mail. Cheapest.

However, among the Ming army, there may not be many people who can be called armor.

The two sides are completely different training ideas.

And when fighting, it is a completely different idea. Ye Shen wholeheartedly exerts the power of firearms, but Fu Youde wants to give full play to the strength of hand-to-hand combat, and the elite armor soldiers who have only been trained in these ten years are Fu Youde's biggest hole cards.

Fu Youde spent so much energy just to create a fair opportunity to fight.

As far as the current battlefield situation is concerned, Fu Youde has succeeded.

Although the speed of the whole team of Ye Shen's department exceeded Fu Youde's expectations, Fu Youde's speed was also very fast, hundreds of cavalry, no, not cavalry, but foot soldiers on horses and mules, under the escort of the cavalry, dismounted in front of the northern army formation, put down the tiger squat cannon, and immediately ignited.

For a while, more than a dozen tiger squat cannons sprayed out countless iron sand and hit them

In the midst of a dense military formation.

The army, which had not yet completed its rectification, immediately fell into chaos.

Immediately, these hundreds of people rushed in directly, and the killing sound shook the sky for a while.

Fu Youde found a breakthrough, naturally seized the opportunity, and threw almost all the soldiers and horses into this army, which collapsed in an instant. Immediately, the southern army followed this gap and inserted deeply into the northern army's array.

For a while, Ye Shen fell into passivity.

Because of the transformation from marching army columns to battle columns, Ye Shen's headquarters were lined up along the official road, and there was not much depth in the middle, and Ye Shen didn't have time to deploy, and he was almost cut off by Fu Youde's arrangement.

More importantly, the two sides are caught in a scuffle, and the power of firearms cannot be brought into play.

To tell the truth, the fire gun and the bayonet are actually the product of compromise. If you really start fighting, whether it is the length or the center of gravity, it is far inferior to a cold weapon. Especially in the face of this elite, it is revealed.

Although, although there are still some preserved armies in Ye Shen's hands, they can be put into battle at any time, and even have complete fortifications.

Nothing else, just a car formation.

Ye Shen carried the vehicle not only to transport baggage, but also to serve as a mobile fortification. Although it is chaotic now, because of the battle on the periphery, it has provided time for the layout of the car formation.

It's just that the outside is all scuffled, and in the middle of the car formation, there is no artillery to fire indiscriminately.

Ye Shen gritted his teeth in his heart and said, "Change weapons, tell the soldiers below, use the old guy."

The all-firearms army promoted by He Xi, even after having bayonets, Ye Shen didn't believe in their hand-to-hand combat ability too much, not only did Ye Shen not believe it, but among Ye Shen's subordinates, there were a large number of generals who originally came from the Ming army, and they didn't like it.

Therefore, almost all the soldiers have been trained in cold weapon combat, but they have not practiced military formation.

At this point, Ye Shen admits that the appearance of the fire gun, before the Ming army, the way of playing with a big gun and opening a large array was outdated, although back then, Xu Da and others, when the cavalry was scarce, used this way of fighting to sweep the world, and in the battle of Mobei, they used this kind of infantry formation to turn the tide, so that Wang Baobao was helpless.

But in the face of the fire gun, it is almost a live target.

Cold weapon military formation, fighting with individuals are two different things.

If you don't practice the military formation, you just train yourself in individual combat, but you save a lot of training.

Ye Shen had no choice but to grit his teeth and persevere.

At least the periphery was completely out of control after being caught in a scuffle. If you attack indiscriminately, there is no problem at all. But Ye Shen can't do this, do such a thing, and don't lead troops in the future.

Ye Shen could only play with Fu Youde's game rules.

It's just that Fu Youde thinks that if he fights with cold weapons, he can win. I underestimated the Northern Army too much, and I underestimated Ye Shen too much.

As a cold weapon, the bayonet is actually very inconvenient, far less than the spear and the big knife, but why are there many examples of bayonets fighting against cold weapons in hand-to-hand combat, but they are victorious. It's more because army battles, even if they are melees, are more of a test of the cooperation between soldiers and soldiers.

It's not that the guy in the hand is easy to use or not.

That is, a test, the organizational ability of the army.

In fact, Qi Jiguang's Mandarin Duck Formation against the Japanese Invaders, and even played a battle with zero casualties, which is very revealing. In fact, Qi Jiajun already has strong modernization characteristics. The Mandarin Duck Formation is very powerful, but except for the Qi Family's army, there doesn't seem to be any other army using the Mandarin Duck Formation, don't you want to? Yes, you can't.

It's the same today.

He Xi made great efforts in the training of the new army, especially strengthening the cultural education of middle and lower-level officers, which seemed useless, but at this time it showed its effect.

Fu Youde's middle and lower-level generals are all hard kung fu, dare to fight, and are very brave. However, the middle- and lower-level officers under Ye Shen are not better than the other side in hand-to-hand combat, but because they are educated, they have a high vision. In the midst of the chaos, weak tissues remain.

As soon as possible, he can pull his soldiers together. And even fight with all the other means, like grenades.

Of course, if pulled

If you open a little distance, you should use a firecracker, and you will definitely use it.

Not to mention, Ye Shen established a car formation, and he had a stable rear. Ye Shen sent reinforcements from time to time and tried to pull the wounded back. In this way, the possibility of the collapse of Ye Shen's department was greatly reduced.

After the initial collapse, it slowly stabilized.