Chapter 100: Accident in Accidents
"General, there is something wrong..." Zhou Shuyuan, who was standing behind Wei Zheng, frowned and subconsciously exclaimed.
With the help of monocular telescope, Wei Zheng clearly saw that thousands of infantry soldiers were driven away by the Tartar soldiers, like a wave, sweeping towards the battlefield quickly.
Because the Tiger and Leopard Army had given up its front-line positions, thousands of infantry followers paid almost no price, so they easily advanced to the front line where the number of White Tartars was hidden.
What shocked Wei Zheng even more was that after entering the battlefield, these infantry soldiers did not want to climb up the earth wall as recklessly as before, climb over the earth wall and continue to attack forward.
Instead, under the eyes of the Tiger and Leopard Army, they pulled out a shovel from their backs and prepared to use the shovel to flatten the earth wall blocking in front of them and open the attack passage.
As the earth walls blocking the enemy became thinner and thinner, but he had no way to attack the Tartars. Wei Zheng's already solemn expression became even more ugly at this moment.
After taking a deep breath, he said to Zhou Shuyuan: "I didn't expect that the Tartars, who have always been thinking about it, could even find a way to unearth and dig it. Now it seems that the role of our first line of defense will end here."
Zhou Shuyuan nodded first, then shook his head, and finally said, "General, the situation is much worse than what you said."
"I don't know if you see it. All the main forces attacking us were Tartar infantry. The real Tartars did not even show their heads except hiding behind and shooting arrows at us. I'm worried..."
Zhou Shuyuan just said this and was about to continue talking, Wang Feng suddenly said, "Military advisor, you suspect that the Tartars used infantry followers to attack us and consume our troops..."
Zhou Shuyuan nodded and affirmed: "Although the real Tartar soldiers in the Later Jin army are limited, there are many infantry and soldiers composed of Han people. What's more important is that no matter how many of these infantry and soldiers suffer, the Tartars will not feel heartbroken."
A gloomy flashed quickly on Wei Zheng's solemn face, and he said firmly with a firm tone: "Using the infantry and the followers to launch a human sea tactic on us is the only way Dorgon wants to defeat our Tiger and Leopard Army at the lowest cost..."
"It seems that our Tiger and Leopard Army will face an unprecedented crisis."
After confirming Dorgon's specific method of disposal, especially when he heard the last sentence Wei Zheng just said, the few people seemed to have agreed, and their faces also showed a heartfelt worry expression.
Military advisor Zhou Shuyuan said with a heavy face: "General, although we have relied on the sharp firearms to defeat the Tartars on the battlefield many times. However, our troops are limited after all. After the Tartars launched the human sea tactic, even if we exchanged one life for ten infantry followers, the Tartars only need to consume 10,000 infantry followers to defeat us completely."
"In addition, as long as the Tartars are in our Ming Dynasty, they can obtain a steady stream of Han people to form infantry and attack us. However, our Tiger and Leopard Army is not good. Even if we add more than a thousand young and strong people in Moguyu, we will have more than two thousand soldiers and forces. Compared with Dorgon, we cannot afford to consume at all."
Wei Zheng said with a silent expression: "So, we must do everything possible to reduce our own casualties, and control the casualties ratio of enemy and us from ten to one to fifteen to one, or even twenty to one."
Then, a trace of confidence quickly flashed from Wei Zheng's face and continued.
"Infantry and military service are also humans. As long as they are humans, they will be afraid and fearful."
"When we eliminate enough infantry followers on the battlefield, the battlefield is covered with corpses of infantry followers, so that the infantry followers will be more afraid of us than the Tartars. At that time, the Han people arrested by the Tartars will not attack us, but will attack their masters in order to survive under the threat of fear."
"At that time, the infantry will no longer be enslavement of the Tartars, but we are buried beside the Tartars and may be detonated at any time, blowing the Tartars themselves into pieces."
The idea is good, but it is difficult to implement it.
The arrows shot by the Tartars have no eyes. Even if the Tiger and Leopard Army has shields to cover them, there will always be a few arrows passing through the gaps in the shield to kill the Tiger and Leopard Army soldiers hiding under the shield.
Therefore, in the battlefield where bullets and arrows fly, it is almost impossible to artificially control the casualties of several parties except for withdrawing from the battlefield.
So, the expectant eyes of several people gathered on Wei Zheng again as if they had agreed.
It did not disappoint everyone. Under everyone's attention, a very unexpected and bold decision blurted out from Wei Zheng's mouth.
"The biggest threat to us is arrows... As long as we take the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield before the Tartar archers enter the range, the Tartar archers cannot exert their power at all. Then our losses on the battlefield will plummet, and there will be no casualties..."
"Yes, just fight..."
"In the next positional battle, the artillery replaced the spear camp and played the leading role on the battlefield..."
"As long as the enemy enters the range, the artillery scattered on the front line of the position fires immediately and use shells to kill the enemy's attacking troops as much as possible. As for the musket battalion, take advantage of the range advantage of the new type of mesh rope gun, and together with the artillery battalion, shoot the enemy as much as possible and have vitality."
"However, as long as the enemy enters the effective range of the bow and arrow and starts shooting arrows at us, the participating troops must withdraw from their positions as soon as possible, go to the second line of defense to deploy, and continue to block the enemy..."
As soon as Wei Zheng finished speaking, Zhou Shuyuan reminded him with a worried look on his face.
"General, in this way, the defense lines we have placed outside Moguyu will not kill too many Tartars..."
Wei Zheng shook his head and retorted: "No, relying solely on artillery and muskets to shoot the enemy at a long distance can also cause great casualties to the enemy..."
"We have a total of ten defense lines outside Moguyu. According to this method of playing, the previous defense lines cannot kill too many enemies. However, as the battle continues, the morale and confidence of the enemy continues to fade, and their attack speed will become slower and slower."
"At that time, the longer the enemy stays on the battlefield, the greater the results we will achieve with artillery and muskets."
"Besides, our Tiger and Leopard Army's real reliance is not the trench group under its feet, but the city wall fortifications that have been built. The reason for building such a huge trench group is to gain time for the construction of city wall fortifications."
Chapter completed!