Six days after occupying Dengzhou, Dayong changed his previous decision to defend and decided to attack instead of defending. The reasons that prompted him to change his policy were two points. One was that more and more rebel officers secretly surrendered to the Jinzhou Army;
The second one is the more than 1,200 war horses in Dengzhou City.
The rebels' mood swing gave Dayong the confidence to attack, and the more than a thousand war horses in the city made the Jinzhou Army itself stronger.
There are many soldiers in the army who know how to ride. During the fifth reorganization of Pingdu, many soldiers from the left and right battalions of the infantry were transferred to wolf cavalry and light cavalry. Although there were heavy casualties in the subsequent battles, the entire army
There are hundreds of "half cavalry" that can be pieced together.
After discovering that there were more than a thousand high-quality Mongolian war horses in the city, Cao Bianjiao wept with joy and tried his best to persuade Shi Dayong to expand the wolf cavalry army and recruit soldiers who could ride horses from each battalion to train them in the hope of forming a powerful cavalry force.[
Strength is relative to Denglai. Looking at the entire Denglai territory, except for the servant cavalry brought by Zu Dabi and Wu Sangui from Liaodong, the rest of the troops are not even called cavalry, and there are not even a few war horses. The Beijing camp is better, with more
To some extent, they have always taken advantage of the Royal Forest Army. The war horses of Taipu Temple and Yumajian are always replenished in time. A battalion of troops can have six to seven hundred war horses available. Unfortunately, the Beijing camp has been eroded. No matter how many horses there are, no matter how sophisticated they are,
Weapons cannot change the fact that the Beijing camp is invincible. Those brave soldiers have been seen in Xianghe, and they are stunned. With such a Yulin Army and Jinzhou Army, one is more than ten.
The ancestral family's three thousand cavalrymen are quite capable. Dayong admitted that in terms of strength, the overall strength of the ancestral family's cavalry is far superior to that of his Jinzhou Army. The Wolf Cavalry Army is somewhat better than him, but
Since the number of people is too small, if there is a real confrontation, there won't be much to gain.
Dayong considered the unknown secrets that happened during the Battle of Xiaolinghe. Whether public or private, the future confrontation with his ancestral family was inevitable. Wu Sangui's sudden shot in Xiaoguanzhuang was actually
It has been announced that the Zu family and Ta Yong are already in conflict.
It may be said that I was too careless. I was too relaxed after the victory in Jinzhou. I only wanted to go to Beijing to show off the victory as soon as possible, but I did not plan for the remaining power of my ancestral family. Now I have become a duckweed without roots, but my ancestral family is deeply rooted in Liaodong.
There is a huge difference in the power that the two can mobilize.
The strength of the Zu family can be seen from the three thousand cavalry in Zu Dabi's hands. Dayong's cavalry was only a thousand at most, but the Zu family was able to easily form a cavalry of three thousand even when the master of the family died and lost many of their backbones.
, this kind of foundation is not what Dayong can have now.
Therefore, when Cao Bianjiao advocated using the civil war horses in Dengzhou City to expand the wolf cavalry army, Dayong immediately agreed. In addition to hoping to use offense instead of defense, he was probably also afraid of Zu Dabi and Wu Sangui's three thousand cavalry.
The lessons learned from going south taught Dayong that if he wants to no longer be controlled by others, he must have the power to make others afraid.
Dayong is optimistic that the emperor will recognize him and the Jinzhou Army again, but he has to be on guard. What if the young emperor does not recognize him? What if he cannot get the emperor's forgiveness by climbing to the city?
Prepare for the rainy days, and always think of the bad side in everything. There is always no harm in preparing in advance. Dayong did not want tens of thousands of Ming troops to descend on Dengzhou City after Kong Youde's death, and he would become a word of mouth among the high officials in the court.
"Reverse head".
Dengzhou has been lost for a long time. Except for those former Ming Dynasty officials in the city who died, they were the so-called "bearing humiliation". The former Dengzhou Road Song Guanglan and the prefect Wu Weicheng and others knew it and could not leave their houses after the Jinzhou Army entered the city. There was no
The appearance of a bossy civil servant.
Dayong naturally accepted the knowledge of these people. Without the dictation of civilian officials, the Jinzhou Army's military control in the city was very smooth.
As for how to deal with these officials who had surrendered to the rebels, Dayong didn't worry, because it was them who should worry, not himself.
What Dayong has to do is to wait for these people to come to him. Now only he can save the lives of these people. If Dayong does not admit that it was these rebels who took the initiative to open the city to welcome the Jinzhou Army, then the heads of these people will be
It's not on my neck at all.
If you don’t care about your reputation, your face will naturally be worthless.
Before leaving the city, Song Guanglan and others came to see them as expected. Dayong was in a hurry and did not see them, but he gave them reassurance: "The day Kong Ni dies will be the day you see the sun and the moon again."
In return, Song Guanglan and others, after asking for Dayong's permission, reorganized the Dengzhou official system, borrowed a group of soldiers from the Jinzhou Army to serve as government servants, and began to maintain order in the city for the Jinzhou Army.
In response to this, Dayong smiled indifferently and gave the order not to interfere and to let these civil servants do their own thing.
After the wolf cavalry army expanded, the original leader Cao Bianjiao trained for a period of time before going into battle when the rebels came. Dayong, however, was impatient. As soon as the number of troops was expanded, he asked Cao Bianjiao to lead his army to fight with him.
Although Cao Bianjiao was bold, the Wolf Cavalry had just expanded, and the appointment of officers had not yet been completed, and most of them could only guarantee that they would not fall when marching on their horses, and could not be used as real cavalry at all. If they had to go into battle in such a hurry, I was afraid that the gain would outweigh the loss.[
Xiao Cao was reluctant to use these newly formed wolf cavalry as cannon fodder. He wanted to build a powerful cavalry that could rival the Eight Banners of Donglu. The cavalry was different from infantry in that they could go into battle with just a spear.
You have to devote all your efforts and time to training, otherwise you will not be considered a true cavalryman.
The Jinzhou Army has suffered a lot from rushing to this day. All the generals, including Shi Dayong, believe that as long as they are given a year and a half to recuperate, the Jinzhou Army can definitely be several times stronger than it is now. But from the day they set off from Songshan
, Accompanying the Jinzhou Army are constant battles. In addition to fighting, there are still fighting. There are fewer and fewer veterans, and the team cannot be expanded. Every step is to survive on the edge of life and death, and even rely on cannibalism.
Come live.
Dayong knew that his subordinates were suffering, and he was suffering too, so why didn't God give him enough time?
If possible, Dayong would like to rest in this Dengzhou city for a year, but he must get the heads of Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng, otherwise, he doesn't know what the emperor's mighty favor is waiting for him Jinzhou Army and Shi Dayong.
Still thunderous and furious.
Outside Laizhou City, Kong Youde directed tens of thousands of rebels towards Dengzhou with the intention of taking it one step at a time. Inside Dengzhou City, Shi Dayong also led a thousand wolf cavalry towards Laizhou with the intention of taking it one step at a time.
On that day, in order to go to the aid of Daling River, three thousand Changping soldiers performed a "living man tied to a horse" in the Jinzhou Army. Today, in order to save Kong Youde's head, among the cavalry marching, there were also soldiers tied to horses.
In the Battle of Zhaoyuan, it was not so much the strong intimidation displayed by the cavalry that gave them the upper hand, but rather the fact that the rebels who had no fighting spirit had disintegrated from within.
The Battle of Zhaoyuan further strengthened Dayong's confidence in success. When he learned from the prisoners that the main force of the rebels led by Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde was at Zhuqiao more than 20 miles away, Dayong immediately ordered the entire Wolf Cavalry Army to march towards Zhuqiao.
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He wanted to use these thousand cavalry to create a miracle.