Zhang Yong suddenly heard Liu Chengzong's question and was stunned for a moment.
The reason why he was stunned was not because he was afraid, but because he never expected that such a powerful job would fall on his shoulders.
Although he was recruited into the Yulin camp because he was proficient in horse archery and archery, this expedition was his first time on the battlefield.
Moreover, the entire battle took place after the march, and the Chinese army did some chores for the generalissimo, such as leading horses and putting stirrups on them. Not to mention that he had never been in battle, even the first time he killed someone was to hang the assassin of Liu Chengzong.
But in fact, Zhang Yong himself was not sure whether he had hanged the assassin named Deng De.
After all, being hit by Liu Chengzong like that would have meant that he would not have survived. He had to order Deng De to be dragged out and he might have been dead by the time he tied a bowstring around his neck.
Zhang Yong didn't know either. He was in a panic at that time. Later, he couldn't recall the details at all. He only knew that the bones were being twisted until Li Qiluan, who was also Yu Linlang, called him and told him that he was already dead.
Your head just fell off, don't make it difficult for the commander.
As for whether he killed the person, Zhang Yong didn't ask, and Li Qiluan didn't say either.
They all thought it was him who killed him.
When Liu Chengzong saw Zhang Yong in a daze, he couldn't help laughing and said comfortingly: "It's okay, everyone is afraid of going into battle for the first time. Go and call Liu Tichun."
He didn't necessarily let Zhang Yong rush into the battle, but when he saw the curtain, his hands itched uncontrollably - he wanted to rush into the battle himself.
But now it was impossible for him to charge into the battle in person, so he asked casually on a whim.
Only then did Zhang Yong react. He hesitated for a moment and missed the opportunity he had been pursuing for a long time. He quickly blushed, stood up straight, held his head high and said, "Commander, I dare you!"
"It's good if you dare, but you can't do this with courage alone, so go ahead."
Liu Chengzong nodded and still said: "Call Liu Tichun here, and then call all your friends in the army."
Zhang Yong's reaction made Liu Shishi realize that although his Yulinlangs were all superhuman in martial arts, many of them were like Zhang Yong, who had practiced hard for ten years without ever seeing a battle.
It's time to send them to the battlefield to gain knowledge.
Zhang Yong missed the opportunity and felt infinite regret in his heart. But since Liu Chengzong had already decided, he would not change his mind again and had no choice but to go out and call for help.
Not long after, Liu Tichun entered the inner courtyard of the embroidery building, raised his head, cupped his fists and saluted: "Commander, here comes the humble duty."
Liu Chengzong waved him to the room, handed him the telescope, pointed at the distant camp and said: "I heard that you were flying tiger in the army. There was a big general in the camp, can you see clearly?"
Liu Tichun was Zhang Xianzhong's subordinate earlier. Although he was given the rank of General Zhaoyi after his surrender, he never did anything serious.
During the annexation of Xiying by the Marshal's Office, Liu Tichun took the blame.
People know that when the Generalissimo conferred the rank of general and colonel in Xiying, he did not know much about them. Who was conferred was entirely dependent on Liu Tichun's introduction.
Those who do not have official positions will naturally blame and resent them.
The truth of the matter was naturally not the case. Regarding the canonization of Xiying, what he said did not count at all. It was all based on Liu Chengzong comparing the list of generals, distinguishing them one by one, and specifically skipping those recommended by Liu Tichun.
For example, Wang Ziqi, who used to play the leading role next to Zhang Xianzhong, was deliberately jumped over by Liu Chengzong.
Liu Tichun was very loyal and honest, and did not excuse others' misunderstandings, so his life was not easy.
After listening to Liu Chengzong's words, Liu Tichun looked at the enemy camp with a telescope. It was easy to understand Liu Chengzong's thoughts. He said with extra caution on his face: "Commander, if you want to attack the camp..."
He first looked at the environment near the camp, then looked up at the sky, and then said: "In half an hour, it will be dark, so we can send three or five groups of horsemen to approach the enemy camp two or three miles along the Kushui River beach.
To guard against enemy artillery, I have to hire five, no, three hundred additional war horses for my humble job. Three hundred is enough to create chaos."
Liu Chengzong was greatly surprised when he heard this: "Can you get closer to three miles?"
"Well, walk a few more steps."
Liu Tichun responded, still looking at the target environment in the northeast, nodding his head one after another: "The river bank is low, and there are solid earth and willow embankments. Each rider carries an earth bag. Walking slowly and rushing quickly can avoid officials... Ha,
To prevent the officers and soldiers from hearing the sound of hooves."
Liu Chengzong's eyes were full of admiration.
Liu Tichun's entire camp attack plan was not based on the enemy not being able to discover it, but was planned with the enemy in mind, and even if it was discovered, he would not be able to prevent it.
Three hundred war horses are used to simply make noises from east to west, and use their hooves to create noise in other directions, trying to deceive the enemy generals into shifting the direction and even position of the artillery. Earth bags are used to fill in the trenches, and the probability of success in attacking the enemy camp is very high.
Obviously, Liu Tichun must have done camp raiding work in Xiying in the past and had rich experience.
"Since you can touch the ground two or three miles away, it will save you trouble."
Liu Shishi said: "I will select 300 forwards and 600 war horses from the first brigade, and then let Ma Xiang's Tang cavalry bring twelve rocket vehicles to cooperate to cover the battlefield and disrupt the enemy. In addition, I will bring dozens more
A Yulinqi, let them see the world."
After that, Liu Shishi looked at the sky and said, "How about you have a moment to prepare?"
Knowing that he would be supported by Xuanfeng, Tang Cavalry, war horses and rocket vehicles, Liu Tichun's confidence in the success of this attack greatly increased.
Only when he heard that he was going to lead the well-equipped and powerful Yulin Cavalry into the battle, Liu Tichun was in trouble.
"Commander, Yu Linqi was killed in the raid. I'm afraid that his humble position will have a bad impact on the army."
But Liu Chengzong just smiled, nodded and said: "I know what I'm doing, you go down and prepare."
He knew what Liu Tichun meant, which mainly referred to the composition of Yulin Camp's soldiers.
The main source of troops for the Yulin Camp came from the Children's Camp. Just like its name, Liu Shizi's original intention was to take in the orphans of the war, similar to the Yulin Orphans of the Han Dynasty.
Their basic education was completed by the Children's Camp. With good cultural level and martial arts, they entered the Yulin Camp to learn the daily affairs of the Marshal's Mansion, and after a period of time, they entered the Huben Camp to learn military affairs.
This itself is the wartime talent reserve training system established by Liu Chengzong.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, during the establishment of the Marshal's Mansion, the supply of additional troops for the Yulin Battalion was gradually disrupted and became polarized.
Some are still war orphans, while the other are supplemented by the descendants of nobles such as Oirat, Monan, and Southwest chieftains, as well as descendants of generals.
Several sons of the deputy commander-in-chief of the brigade are in the Yulin camp.
The addition of these personnel changed the nature of the Yulin Battalion and became a proton regiment to a certain extent, which had a strong influence on the entire Marshal's Army.
It can even be said that Yulin Camp and Huben Camp are like Liu Chengzong's battlefield palace.
In this case, if someone comes to attack Liu Chengzong's central army, and any young man dies in battle to protect the generalissimo, the compensation afterwards will definitely satisfy his subordinates.
But it is very unwise to send them out to fight, especially to do such dangerous work as charging into the formation and beheading generals.
When it comes to Liu Tichun, he is even less willing to accept it.
The old father of these Habayashiro was either a foreign feudal lord or a powerful general who established his own family, and his son died fighting with him. This kind of scapegoating can scare people to death.
Liu Chengzong wouldn't let him carry it either.
That's why Zhang Yong was asked to find his friends.
Zhang Yong has only been in Yulin Camp for a short time, and his friends in the camp are mainly from poor families.
These people are not ordinary people, otherwise it would be difficult for them to become proficient in bow and horse at the age of eighteen or nineteen.
Some people were similar to Liu Chengzong, who came from small bureaucrats or big landowner families, and some, such as Li Qifeng and Li Qiluan, were brothers. Their father was Li Weixin, a Gansu native who suppressed the She'an Rebellion, and served in Sichuan and Guizhou successively.
However, Li Weixin had already died of illness when Gansu surrendered, and his eight sons except Li Qifeng were all low-level officers.
The children of civilians with lower backgrounds than them were the orphans of the battlefield who grew up eating the food of the Liu family in Hai'er Camp. After they came out of Huben Camp, they went to serve under generals in various places.
And the children of aristocratic families with higher backgrounds than them, such as Chechen, the son of Junggar Huitaiji, will have titles to inherit.
For people like Zhang Yong, it is just right for them to go to war and see the world.
Soon the army sent orders back and forth, and Gao Yingdeng from the rear sent 300 selected forwards, 600 war horses, and 12 rocket vehicles.
Liu Tichun also summoned Zhang Yong, Zhao Deshou, Wang Youjin, Wang Shouzheng, Wang Shangli, Feng Chaoyu, Yang Shichang, Chen Guoren, Wen Rugui, Guo Jiawu, Peng Xinjian, Nan Yikui, Nan Yicai, Li Qifeng, Li Qihuang, Li Qiluan and other feathers.
Lang.
Some of these people came from Xi'an Prefecture to recruit soldiers and take exams, some were Xiying warriors, and some were from general families in Yan'an Prefecture and Gansu Province. They formed a cavalry team of more than sixty people.
It is not so much more than sixty cavalry as it is more than sixty officers who are good at using force to attack.
They prepared their armor in the village, received additional war horses, shaved their sweat and hung their saddles. The whole process was orderly and quiet.
Liu Chengzong continued to observe the battlefield situation before nightfall.
At this time, he had already guessed that Zhang Xianzhong was among the troops on the battlefield.
Because it was easy to guess. He and Ren Quan'er had communicated earlier that Ren Quan'er would not move faster than him, and other troops were on the flanks, so this must be the partial division of the second brigade.
As for the partial teacher, Zhang Xianzhong is probably among them, and others will not have such a poor view of the overall situation.
In Liu Shishi's opinion, the battalion did not grasp the timing very well in fighting the Ming army at this time and at this place.
But it's not bad either.
During this Northern Expedition, the Marshal's army was overwhelmingly strong. The central defenders on the Western Front were completely defeated. Wherever the Marshal's Army went, local garrison troops were sent down. Ding Guodong on the Eastern Front also followed the plan to stop the rearguard troops and protect the flanks of the army extremely well.
The second brigade of Ren Quan'er on the center line even defeated five enemy battalions one after another. It is normal for the general to be a little eager to win.
Fortunately, their performance on the battlefield was not bad.
The cavalry of the Ming Army and the cavalry of the Marshal's Army tested each other on the battlefield. I retreated and you advanced, you advanced and I retreated. They had a brief confrontation and then withdrew.
The Ming army scattered on the periphery gradually surrounded the position composed of the two battalions in the middle, but the formation was a bit confusing to Liu Chengzong... The Ming army around the battlefield did not form a formation, they all dispersed in small teams.
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Afterwards, he realized that the Ming army was afraid of rockets and was forced to disperse, which made him laugh out loud.
However, the situation did not give Liu Chengzong the opportunity to sit back and watch.
Soon, Liu Shizi had just dispatched Liu Tichun's troops, and the Ming army's cavalry scattered around the outside of the battlefield discovered him, and exchanged fire with his Tangqi, and once broke through to the outside of the fortress.
It was actually quite dangerous at this moment, because all the Tang cavalrymen had gone to cooperate with Liu Tichun, and there were only about 200 soldiers and horses left with Liu Chengzong.
But Liu Chengzong didn't leave, he just went down from the roof.
Because he had clearly seen the battlefield situation, the surrounding Ming army cavalry were all scattered reconnaissance cavalry, and did not have the ability to quickly assemble a large group of troops in this direction.
At this time, the Ming army did not know that he was here, so there was no reason to invest a large number of troops. On the contrary, if he moved in the direction of Gao Yingdeng's 1st Brigade, it would make the enemy troops who did not pay attention to him suspicious and detect the incoming army.
direction.
Sure enough, the enemy troops only made a near-miss test attack. After two attacks and failed to break through the outer perimeter of the fort, they withdrew outside the fort, leaving only a small group of cavalry to watch from a distance. It seemed that someone was returning to the army to report a message.
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Only then did Liu Chengzong order the people in the fortress to prepare for a retreat, and also issued a mobilization order to the people in the entire village to take them away together.
After that, he waited for a while, and after guessing that the enemy cavalry had arrived at the camp, he suddenly ordered a transfer, and more than 200 cavalry and hundreds of villagers retreated westward.
The Ming army scouts who were watching them from a short distance away were greatly surprised. Some of them hurriedly ran to the northeast, trying to report their movements to the camp.
But by this time it was too late.
It's getting dark.
Under the protection of Tang Qi, twelve rocket vehicles moved between the camps of Zuo Liangyu and Ouyang Gun. At a suitable location, they aimed at the northwest direction of Zuo Liangyu's camp and set fire to it.
Twelve rockets spit fire, tremble, and scream on the launcher until they are powerful enough to break away from the frame and swish into the sky.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Tang Ma, who was near the vehicle, reloaded the frame repeatedly. Before the first batch of rockets landed, the second batch of rockets had already taken off.
Subsequently, rockets fell near Zuo Liangyu's camp, and explosions continued to sound.
Zuo Liangyu shouted and rushed out of the curtain, looking up at the rockets piercing the sky under the night sky. He was shocked and stunned. On the contrary, his servants had already planned for this.
More than a dozen flag officers carrying the command flag picked up their shields from outside the curtain and protected Zuo Liangyu in a dense formation to avoid being injured by the bullets exploded by the rockets to the greatest extent.
Unexpectedly, Zuo Liangyu, who reacted, pushed several people away, grabbed a long card, and cursed: "Why the hell are you protecting me? Give me the shield. Go and give the order to defend against the enemy's cavalry attack!"
At this moment, a rocket exploded dozens of steps away, startling everyone.
In the smoke, a man was shot in several places and stumbled out. He staggered to his knees and propped up his knife on the ground. He raised his head and pointed to the north despite the huge pain: "Great, Commander, to the north, the sound of horse hooves is dense to the north."
Zuo Liangyu hurriedly pushed out a flag officer and ordered: "Quickly go to the north of the formation to pass the order, be careful to guard against the enemy's cavalry!"
"You, gather the cavalry army and seize the enemy's rocket car!"
The servant who was stopped couldn't help complaining: "All the horses have been given to General Xu. Commander, how can there be any horse troops?"
At that moment, Zuo Liangyu didn't care much. He cursed and had no choice but to lead his servants to the north with shields on their backs to support him.
The road becomes more and more scary as we go.
For a time, the military camp was in chaos. The first wave of rockets had just exploded everywhere, and the next wave of rockets had already rushed into and around the camp, causing roars and smoke everywhere.
The soldiers were running around scrambling for shields to avoid the explosion. All the flags and drums were useless.
Suddenly, someone rushed across the curtain, chasing Zuo Liangyu, shouting as he ran: "Commander, the enemy cavalry has entered the camp from the south!"
"South?"
Zuo Liangyu looked at the hurried and chaotic formation of troops in the north of the formation, as well as the mighty sound of horse hooves in the north, and then turned to look at the reporting soldiers with confusion.
At this moment, he heard shouts of death coming from the south, and the sound of horse hooves became increasingly clear.
Zuo Liangyu saw feathered arrows shooting in the formation, a brazier was flipped over in the air, and in the firelight they all wore bowls and armor, and the red-armored cavalry rushed in with their swords and strong bows, rushing left and right as if they were disappearing.
The human realm.
Tear!
The blade penetrated the curtain, and then the huge horse head rushed out of the cracked curtain, bringing the entire curtain down.
Liu Tichun, who was holding a long sword, rushed out of the empty Chinese army tent, chopped down two soldiers who were blocking the way, reined in his horse, looked around with his sword, and met Zuo Liangyu's eyes.
The moment Liu Tichun saw him, he was confused at first, then laughed loudly, pointed the knife directly, and shouted: "Hahaha, Zuo Liangyu is here!"