Chapter 812 Destroying the peasant army
When Yu Zilian's Heiyun Army and Yang Wenyue's troops joined together, the two briefly discussed it and then unanimously decided to join forces and attack the peasant army together.
Now Yang Wenyue has done meritorious service, while Yu Zilian has some unknown origins. Therefore, they have no other choice and need to actively fight against the peasant army to show their "aggressiveness". However, their "aggressiveness" has immediate results.
It worked.
Although the coalition forces of Li and Luo have millions of people, the number of soldiers capable of fighting is only 40,000 to 500,000. In addition, the encirclement is actually an "eggshell" formed outside Kaifeng City. The coalition forces of Li and Luo
The troops are evenly distributed on the "eggshell", so there are not many troops at a certain position.
In addition, the Li and Luo coalition forces have been keeping a close eye on the Runing Army and Zuo Liangyu's Department in the south. They have also arranged their main forces in this direction. Therefore, they were somewhat unprepared for the sudden appearance of the Heiyun Army and Yang Wenyue's Department in the east.
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When this large army entered Lankao County, it immediately ushered in a partial division of the Li and Luo coalition forces. The troops led were not the core troops of Chuangying and Luo Rucai's tribe, but a side branch that later joined. This army
The leaders of the army are all called "Daqi", which can also be seen that this army was doing business without capital before becoming attached.
Although he was doing business without capital, what this big counter did was also on a "high level". When he joined the camp, he had more than 10,000 men. And after several great victories, he
The army has gained the support of more small groups of refugees and bandits, so the number of troops now is close to 20,000.
Now Chuangying is undergoing regular construction. They all have a peek at their own coalition forces - Luo Rucai's department, so of course they also have actions on the various troops of their own Chuangying. Chuangying wants to do this.
The peripheral troops were dispersed and integrated into the core troops of the camp to strengthen Li Zicheng's unified command.
And this big cabinet was afraid that he had made some mistake and would be caught by the superiors. As a result, his troops would be disbanded and he would lose all his rights. Therefore, he made up his mind: if he repels this official army, then
Just report it and ask for reward; if you come back in vain, then suppress the matter and don't let the superiors know. In a word: it is deceiving the superiors and concealing the truth from the inferiors.
But this can also be seen. How confident are the current generals who rush into the camp. Even a general from the side line still dares to fight with the army in the field even though the troops are weak. You know, without mentioning equipment, soldiers
The difference in quality, if civilian men are included, the number of soldiers of the coalition forces of Heiyun Army and Yang Wenyue has exceeded 30,000. And this big cabinet still wants to eat up this official army. He is so confident and arrogant
One word difference!
As soon as the two armies met, there was no doubt that they would line up and start fighting. As soon as the battle started, the big cabinet used the "classical" tactics of the peasant army, asking his three bosses to lead 3,000 people to rush in front. According to the peasant army
The idea is that as long as these three thousand people rush to the front of the official army, there is no need to engage in battle at all. The official army may be frightened. Not to mention that there are more than 10,000 peasant troops behind them who will continue to charge into the battle.
Who would have thought that just after three thousand people rushed into a distance of a few hundred steps, the opponent's artillery would be fired. Yu Zilian also learned a lot from the Runing Army. Although he did not have the craftsmen in his hands who could make such sophisticated artillery as the Runing Army,
But there is always no problem in finding some people to build some gun carriages.
Therefore, Yu Zilian received dozens of Folang machine guns and Tiger squat guns from the Nanjing arsenal. Although these have relatively small calibers of about one pound, they can be set up on artillery carts and fired quickly.
.It avoids the disadvantages of digging pits and burying pegs for artillery for a long time before the battle.
Then, of course, after the peasant army entered a hundred steps, they were greeted by intensive fire and cannon fire. They immediately knocked down the three thousand people and routed most of them.
If the main force of the camp was led by Li Zicheng's trusted generals, the shelling by the Black Cloud Army just now would not have caused such great damage. Because the core troops of the camp had long been reborn, they had been upgraded from "classical" to "classic".
"Modernists" will use firearms and bows and arrows to shoot at the enemy before charging into the formation, and will not charge blindly. Even when charging, the formation will become very scattered.
Similarly, the damage caused by such artillery bombardment and fire cannon firing was not enough to stop the charge of the main force of Chuangying. Because the Laoba team of Chuangying, which is directly related to the old camp, all have a very tenacious will to fight. And because they are all veterans
Having been born and fought in many battles, their fighting skills are also quite superb.
But the scale of this army is so large that the phenomenon of uneven quality will inevitably occur. And this time the 20,000 troops led by the big cabinet are a group of armed bandits and farmers, and they have no fighting will at all. So.
It was defeated in one blow.
As soon as these three thousand people were dispersed, more than a few thousand peasant soldiers ran towards the main unit behind them in a chaotic manner. But in this way, they directly rushed into the main unit and became a mess. At this moment,
In Yang Wenyue's tribe, two thousand cavalry led by General Hu Dawei began to charge and cover up the killing.
This was also decided upon by Yu Zilian and Yang Wenyue before the war. Yu Zilian's Black Cloud Army will be responsible for frontal battlefield battles, while Yang Wenyue's troops will be responsible for cavalry cover and cover-up. That is because Yang Wenyue's cavalry ratio is higher. But also, in
After Zhuxian Town was besieged, the officers and soldiers who could break out of the encirclement basically had "four legs."
It was a clean and decisive victory. In the end, the army beheaded more than 1,300 people and took over 3,000 prisoners. If the officers and soldiers had not looted and captured them later, the results of this battle would have been much greater.
Then Yu Zilian and Yang Wenyue briefly distributed the captured and prisoners, and then began to reorganize their own troops.
The first step was, of course, to integrate all the more than a thousand prisoners assigned to Yu Zilian into the Black Cloud Army.
Then, they captured the soldiers who had retreated in the previous battle and the soldiers who had been captured by looting. Including their company members, more than 300 people in total were beheaded. They were summoned back to Nanjing and all the family members of the beheaded soldiers except the company members were ordered to the Yi tribe.
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After repeatedly implementing harsh military laws, the appearance of the Black Cloud Army was completely new. And Yu Zilian also established the discipline of the Black Cloud Army as quickly as possible. However, this method was also a double-edged sword. That is to say, the southern soldiers were timid.
, they were used to blindly following the climb up the mountain and did not dare to make any resistance. If they had encountered some unruly northern soldiers, under such strict military law, they might have fled in large numbers or mutinied.
Then, Yu Zilian announced the capture of the entire army, and after leaving military supplies and a portion of public property, he distributed them equally to each soldier. Although this average distribution did not result in much for each soldier,
Chapter completed!