Yang He, the governor of the three sides, summoned the generals and issued an order for a full-scale attack.
He asked General Ding Deyao to take some old, weak, sick and disabled military households to disguise themselves as the main force and continue to maintain the previous status of the camp.
Yang He also ordered You Shilu to send troops to surround the yellow-robed bandit fort.
Block the road outside the fort to prevent the thieves in yellow from escaping.
He brought the real main force and followed the route of General You Shilu to support the surrounding fort.
As long as the yellow thief fort is surrounded, the yellow thief leader Su He can be captured.
General Jiang Sheng went to attack Baoji County to prevent the yellow-clad thieves in the city from supporting the fort.
Ding Deyao also wanted to do meritorious service on the front line, but he thought for a while and did not speak.
After the Guyuan Mutiny, most of the military households fled.
The soldiers under his command were all young men recruited later.
These young men usually do not have enough training. They are good at defending in the city, but not strong enough in field battles.
Now his strength is not as good as that of a guard with many elite servants.
He himself was a foreigner and could not compete with this group of hereditary generals in Shaanxi.
"Master Headquarters, it is winter now and there are no big boats on the Wei River.
The Hongyi cannon was too heavy to walk on the wooden bridge and could not be transported across the Wei River.
Leave me the Hongyi cannon and artillery.
I can't just pretend to be the main force.
I can also guarantee that the thieves in yellow will not dare to unload the cannons on the fort to defend themselves."
Yang He agreed to the request of General Ding Der Yao.
That night, Yang He quietly left the military camp with his army.
As long as he hides the truth from the yellow thief for a day or two and prevents Su He, the leader of the yellow thief, from escaping, his goal will be achieved.
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At the Weihe Defense Line, Su Hu heard the soldiers' report.
The officers and soldiers drove away the big black pig and broke the mine array.
The officers and soldiers from the west came to the Weihe River Defense Line, and the officers and soldiers from the east went to Baoji County.
He immediately reported the news to Su He and Li Fengming.
When Li Fengming heard the news, he sighed with emotion: "There are still capable people among the officers and soldiers, and they actually thought of this method to crack the mine array."
Su He was not surprised and said: "The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, especially the generals of the border army.
Those are veterans who have gone through many cruel tests of life and death.
Their keenness on the battlefield is beyond the comparison of ordinary people.
If the Ming Dynasty could really make good use of them, they would not be beaten by Jiannu and flee in embarrassment, not even daring to go out of the city to fight.
Civil servants control the promotion and merit evaluation of military generals, and can even directly impeach generals and confiscate their homes.
A seventh-grade civil servant can directly ask the commander of the third-grade guard to kneel to him.
This level of emphasis on literature over military affairs was not achieved in the Song Dynasty.
Unless the civil servant leading the army is a person who knows the military well, he can share the joys and sorrows with his generals.
Otherwise, if we give blind orders, we will definitely lose more than we win in the war."
Su He briefly talked about the shortcomings of the Ming army's command system.
The military system of the Ming Dynasty Guards Station has developed over hundreds of years.
It has been completely corrupted, and except for a few border troops, it has no combat effectiveness at all.
But there are still a few nails in the rotten ship. Even these frontier troops are very powerful in combat.
It was only the blind command of civilian officials that completely ruined them.
A sheep leads a group of lions. They can only eat grass and cannot hunt.
Su Hu worriedly said: "They have almost broken through the mine array. Should we ask my brother to send some people to defend the Weihe defense line?
Commander Su and Staff Officer Li, go to Dashan Pass to take shelter."
"No need, I can attract the main force of the army here.
Tell Su Xiong that if the number of officers and soldiers going to Baoji County is small, they will be wiped out as much as possible.
If the main force of the Ming army goes to Baoji County, they will defend the city according to the original plan.
We are responsible for annihilating the official troops besieging the Wei River defense line.
It's best if there are the same amount on both sides.
Just use the city defense battle to consume the officers and soldiers.
Believe in the solidity of the concrete fortress.
The officers and soldiers simply have no ability to capture us.
As long as we find an opportunity to concentrate our superior forces and eat up part of the official army.
Even if our overall military strength is inferior to that of officers and soldiers.
You must maintain superior force strength on local battlefields before you can fight outside the city.
Try to annihilate the officers and soldiers as much as possible. As long as we win a few battles, the officers and soldiers will definitely be defeated."
After listening to this, Li Fengming praised: "Commander Su's military tactics are simple and easy to understand.
It is easier to win by concentrating the superiority of troops and attacking with more and less.
Sun Tzu's Art of War also said: Therefore, the method of using troops is to surround it by ten, attack it by five, divide it by double. If the enemy is small, you can fight it, if it is small, you can escape from it, if it is weak, you can avoid it."
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You Shilu's personal soldiers conveyed the Governor's order.
He was responsible for attacking the fort, and Governor Yang He arrived with his troops shortly afterwards.
General Jiang Sheng was responsible for attacking Baoji County.
You Shilu looked at his soldiers, who had been recharging their strength in the past few days and had pork for every meal.
The morale of the training soldiers is very high and their military morale is usable.
He summoned his servants and said loudly: "Brothers, the time has come for us to make achievements.
This time we are responsible for attacking the fort of the thieves in yellow.
Everyone has seen their forts.
Facing our back, there were no cannons at all.
As long as we rush to the foot of the fort, victory will belong to us."
You Shilu inspired the morale of the soldiers with a few simple words.
He immediately sent a large army to the yellow bandit fort on the south bank of the Wei River.
In order to prevent thieves in yellow from laying mines along the way.
He still sent the big black pig to explore the way.
Along this way, there are only a few scattered mines, which are not as dense as those on both sides of the Wei River.
You Shilu marched hastily, and he soon saw the fort of the thieves in yellow.
The cannons of these forts were still roaring, and they were firing against the army's artillery.
Under the fort, there are many stone buildings.
This is very similar to the nomadic yurt, with holes in it.
You Shilu was very surprised that bricks and stones could actually build such a building.
He saw that the soldiers' physical strength and morale were very good.
We can only let our men conduct tentative attacks to see what use these buildings have.
If we can capture the yellow thief fort before Governor Yang He arrives, it will be a great achievement.
Behind the big black pig's test turret, see if the thieves in yellow have buried any mines.
This was just as he expected, there were no mines here.
This is a passage for thieves in yellow to transport supplies, so it is impossible to lay mines.
…
Su Hu was in charge of commanding at the front line. The soldiers were hiding in the bunker, holding up their flintlock guns, waiting for the order to fire.
There are also artillery units hidden in bunkers, and the cannons are ready to go.
He found that some soldiers were still afraid of Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers.
It is estimated that only a few victorious battles can eliminate this fear.
Su Hu saw the officers and soldiers lined up and rushed forward in an orderly manner.
The crossbowmen of the officers and soldiers have already thrown rain of arrows at the position.
Even though there were bunkers to resist, most of the soldiers were not injured.
But there are crossbow arrows for bed crossbows and arrows for some marksmen.
Through the firing port and into the bunker, there were casualties among soldiers.
Su Hu did not give the order to fire.
Specifically, ask the artillerymen to stop firing and hide the presence of the cannons.
He waited until the officers and soldiers were fifty meters away from the bunker and already within the range of the flintlock.
"shot."
The order to shoot was given, and the soldiers pulled the trigger.
The flintlock guns opened fire one after another, and a dense rain of bullets hit the officers and soldiers.
Even servants wearing heavy armor cannot withstand musket fire at this distance.
They fell down one after another.
Seeing this situation, You Shilu immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops.
The muskets of the thieves in yellow are too sharp. If they want to kill the thieves in yellow, they can only get close to this kind of building and use sharpshooters to hit them.
The thieves in yellow were not afraid of muskets exploding their chambers, and everyone used muskets.
Fortunately, the range of muskets is less than half that of bows and arrows.
You Shilu sent out one of his most elite troops - the Archers.
Let them stand 70 meters away from the building, wear heavy armor, go through the shooting holes, and kill the yellow-clothed thieves.
Some people are good at using bows and arrows, and some are good at using crossbows. Their only specialty is that they can shoot very accurately.
According to his experience, at this distance, heavy armor plus the cotton armor inside can block muskets.
He had already tested out that there were no cannons in the yellow-clothed thief's house.
He is ready to fight to determine the outcome and completely defeat the resistance of the thieves in yellow.
The servants have been trained for a long time, and every one of them is a sharpshooter.
…
Su Hu saw the officers and soldiers sending out sharpshooters, and his plan succeeded.
Get the artillery ready immediately.
He didn't use cannons, but he saw that these sharpshooters could cause heavy casualties to them.
The officers and soldiers have this force and do not destroy them.
Let them spread out and hide behind other military households to shoot cold arrows.
At that time, if we used artillery to attack, we would not achieve much results.
When the marksmen get into formation and start attacking.
Su Hu gave the order decisively.
"Aim at the marksman and fire."
The 110 medium-sized artillery and the 75-meter light artillery fired a large amount of shotshells immediately.
These shotguns directly cover all marksmen.
The musketeers in the bunker also pulled the triggers one after another.