Chapter 6 The Tartars Are Few Soldiers, I Will Survive
Update time:2012-09-23
Watching the soldiers of the Wuzi camp carrying a piece of wood every day, sometimes laying it down and sometimes lifting it upright, the Yongzi camp, the cavalry camp, the baggage camp and the civilians who came to transport food were all very happy and watching the fun.
He also pointed at Wu Ziying.
Inside the door to see the door, the layman to watch the fun.
The officers of Wuziying also expressed their opinions. Chief Qian Huang An asked him several times, but Shi Dayong did not tell him what the purpose of such training was, and only strictly ordered him to continue training. It was not until the afternoon of the fourth day that Shi Dayong asked him
Tell the generals the purpose of training in this way.
"The Tatar cavalry are powerful, and our military method is to fight with them in the field. They charge head-on and rely solely on guns and spears to control the enemy. If the array is in chaos, our army will collapse. Therefore, I thought of this method of using wooden points to control the enemy. The wood I cut,
They are all one foot long. If the Tatar soldiers come, the soldiers will hold the wood upright and use the birch wood to stop the enemy in front of the formation. In this way, we can protect our soldiers in the formation." [
"Is this method feasible?" Huang An didn't believe that a mere piece of wood could withstand the Jiannu cavalry.
Shao Wu, Jiang Wanli and other generals also expressed doubts. After so many years in the army, they had never seen anyone using wood to resist cavalry attacks, but they had seen someone using chariot formations to resist the enemy.
Seeing this, Shi Dayong stopped talking and waved his hands to the generals to follow him out of the camp. He ordered the Wu Ziying camp to form a formation with wood. He also sent his own soldiers to bring in four old and weak horses, blindfolded them with cloth, and drove them wildly towards Wu Ziying.
Ziying stepped away.
When the horse was dozens of steps away, he was ordered not to move, and it remained still for nearly ten steps. But when he was ten feet away, and the soldier in front was about to be collided by the frightened horse, he suddenly gave the order to lift the wood.
Immediately, the soldiers who had been nearly numbed by the drill instinctively squatted on the ground and quickly raised the wooden sticks in their hands on the ground diagonally forward. In an instant, wooden sticks stood up. The four horses were killed by the wooden sticks before they could rush into the formation.
He thrust hard into his stomach, fell down with a "thump", and screamed loudly. The knight on the horse also jumped off the horse due to the force of inertia. Fortunately, it was just a drill and not a real charge, otherwise he would have been trampled to pieces by the horses behind him.
mud.
"What a trick, sir!"
Jiang Wanli was a cavalryman, so he could see the purpose of those wooden points at a glance, and immediately gave a heartfelt praise.
When he praised him, Huang An and the others cheered in a hurry:
"With this method of warfare, why fear the Tatar cavalry charging into battle!"
"Birch wood is hard and not easy to break. It can withstand a horse. As long as one horse blocks the front of the formation, the Tatar cavalry behind will be in chaos!"
Ma Zhong raised his own question: "Sir, what if the Tatars attack from the two wings instead of the front?"
This question was a good one, and it got to the point. Shi Dayong glanced at Ma Zhong appreciatively, nodded and said: "I have also taken this into consideration, so when we march in the future, the three teams of Wuziying will line up in front, left
, on the three right sides, the Yongzi camp is in the middle, and the cavalry camp is behind the formation. No matter which side the Tatars come from, we can always have room to maneuver."
The generals thought about it and agreed that it was good. However, the cavalry commander Sun Youjin raised another question: "The Tatar cavalry are very powerful with bows and arrows. If they arrive first with arrows and disrupt our formation, what should we do?"
Hearing this, Shi Dayong pointed at the cards on the left hand of the soldiers and asked him: "Do you think the hundreds of shields I asked the governor for are just for viewing?"
Sun Youjin hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said: "My lord, this method is indeed clever. It uses long wood to neutralize the advantage of the Jiannu cavalry. However, I thought that if the war breaks out, the Jiannu will gather heavy troops. By then, thousands or even thousands of soldiers will come."
Tens of thousands of cavalry are swarming in, can our troops really resist it with Chang Mu?"
Hearing this, all the generals were startled. Shi Dayong was also stunned. After staring at the Wu Ziying in the field for a while, he turned back and said to the generals: "If the Tatars attack me with heavy troops, I will not be able to survive."
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After hearing this, the generals suddenly felt sad, but then they heard Shi Dayong impassionedly say:
"But if the Tatars have few soldiers, I will survive! As long as you are of one mind with me, our Songshan Army will continue to grow in the future. Today it is a thousand people, and it may not be able to expand to ten thousand people in the future. By then, why should we fear the Tatars?"
The soldiers are coming! I am not a rash person, nor a person who wants to fight. How can I make our army trapped in a heavy siege by the Tatars? You can rest assured. As long as I am not here, our Songshan Army will be destroyed.
The danger will only get stronger!"
When the generals heard the heroic words of the garrison master, their spirits were lifted, and they hurriedly clasped their fists and responded loudly: "We swear to advance and retreat together with you!" [
Waving to indicate to his subordinates that they did not have to stay like this, Shi Dayong's eyes fell on Jiang Wanli's face and said in a deep voice: "Although the defense is important, it is only a small part. To win on the battlefield, you still need to attack. Your troops are all cavalry, which are powerful offensive weapons.
, if our Songshan Army wants to make achievements, your troops have a long way to go. I hope that Jiang Qianzong will take the Ming Dynasty as his mind and the Emperor as his priority. In the future, he will fight bravely on the battlefield to kill the enemy, promote the prestige of our Ming Dynasty, and strengthen the power of our Songshan Army!"
Hearing this, Jiang Wanli said suddenly: "I will swear to serve the imperial court and the emperor to the death. Don't worry, Lord Guards. On the battlefield in the future, our troops will fight bravely to kill the enemy. We will fight until every soldier is killed, and we will not retreat a step!"
Shi Dayong did not speak anymore, but slowly moved his gaze to Jinzhou in the northeast. When the generals saw it, they thought that the guard was looking in the direction of Jinzhou, but they did not know that what the guard was thinking about at this moment was Daling River City.
Daling River, the tragedy of the Ming Dynasty in the white mountains and black waters!
On May 18th, Shi Dayong was ordered by the governor's office to escort grain and grass to Daling River again. After an incident, he returned safely.
On June 3rd, it was still a matter of taking food and grass to the Daling River.
I thought I would have to wait half a month before sending food and grass next time, but I didn't want to go back to Songshan, so I received another military order and ordered me to escort another three thousand stones of food and grass to Dalinghe City.
"I've just come back and I'm going to go, even if I'm urging you to die, you're not in such a hurry, right?"
The subordinates were very angry at the governor's yamen's order. They just returned to Songshan yesterday and were going back today. Could it be that the soldiers in Dalinghe City were all useless and had eaten up half a month's grain reserves in one go!
Shi Dayong didn't have any complaints. Firstly, it is the duty of soldiers to obey orders; secondly, he was promoted by Qiu Hejia. If it hadn't been for him, he would not have been able to sit in the Songshan garrison position, and the Songshan Army's reorganization and equipment would not have been implemented.
.In addition, there will be many places where Qiu Hejia will be relied upon in the future. Unless he rebels or joins Huang Taiji, he must listen to the governor's yamen's orders. In this case, what's the point of complaining.
After appeasing the generals, Shi Dayong ordered the Second Battalion of Wu, Yong, and the Cavalry Battalion to participate in the escort. The transport battalion immediately recruited 500 civilians, prepared food and fodder, and set off immediately.
The convoy set off at noon on June 4th. In addition to the 1,200 soldiers of the 4th Battalion of the Songshan Army, there were also 500 civilians and 160 carts accompanying it.
The only people left behind in Songshan were a dozen old and weak soldiers and dozens of military households from the original Songshan Fort. These people were all removed during the reorganization and could not go to the battlefield. It was fine to stay at home and look at things. Fortunately, although Songshan was
The military garrison is an important place, but with Jinzhou in front and Ningyuan in the back, there is no need to worry that the Jin army will fly in behind.
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