Because it was already the beginning of spring, the snow on the road had melted. The entire dirt road looked muddy. The soldiers' shoes were filled with frozen muddy water, which made it painful to the bones. Therefore, Qin Liangyu could only walk for a while.
After the march, the soldiers were asked to warm themselves over the fire and put on dry foot socks to prevent their feet from frostbite. Therefore, the army could not move faster.
At this time, the army had entered Luanzhou. The surrounding area was completely deserted. Wu Shigong often saw corpses exposed after the snow melted on both sides of the road. Because of the cold weather, these corpses were
There was no decay. These corpses were covered with a layer of ice, and the entire corpses seemed to be sealed inside by ice. The expressions on the corpses' faces looked particularly ferocious.
The spies sent out by the army began to encounter a large number of spies from the Later Jin Army. Because the spies sent out by Wu Shigong's army were in small teams, the spies they encountered from the Later Jin Army basically turned around and ran away.
Of course, they were also afraid of an ambush by the Hou Jin Army and had some psychological shadow over the Hou Jin Army's riding and shooting skills, so Wu Shigong's spies did not pursue them.
The spies sent by Qin Liangyu's army were not so lucky. They had already lost five or six people in the strangulation battle with the spies of the Later Jin Army.
Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers are basically infantry, and they have very few cavalry that can be used as spies, just over two hundred. In addition, the horses used by the white pole soldiers' cavalry are all southern horses, and the horses are relatively small.
, so in the strangulation battle, they are basically at a disadvantage.
Therefore, Qin Liangyu had no choice but to order himself and Wu Shigong's spies to conduct reconnaissance within about ten miles of his army. He only wanted these spies to serve as an early warning to prevent the Jin army from sneaking attacks. Anyway, Luanzhou City was there. Once there, it was always
We can catch the Hou Jin army fighting. Now we just need to ensure the safety of the army while marching.
It can be seen from this that in ancient battles, it was quite painful if the cavalry did not have an advantage. At least, the reconnaissance of one's own army was greatly hindered.
What Wu Shigong didn't know yet was that Qin Liangyu's order to withdraw all the spies was issued very promptly. Because at this time, in response to the spies that Wu Shigong sent out in small teams, the Hou Jin Army had also increased the number of spies, and
Taking the team as a unit, we want to strangle Wu Shigong's team of spies.
It was only because those spies had shrunk around their own army that the spies of the Later Jin Army did not go further, for fear of arousing the enemy. This was because the Later Jin Army was already preparing to launch a night attack on Qin Liangyu's vanguard army.
At that time, for the Ming army, there was basically no practice of night marches and night raids. Because at that time, basically all the soldiers of the Ming army were malnourished, so many soldiers suffered from night blindness. Therefore, there was no practice at all.
Methods include night marches and night raids.
On the contrary, because the staple food of the Later Jin Army was meat and milk, their nutritional intake was relatively balanced. Therefore, there were fewer people suffering from night blindness. Therefore, during the war at that time, the night always belonged to the Later Jin Army.
However, different from the romance, in ancient battles, there were quite few cases of night attacks and night marches. This is because: as long as the enemy is well-trained, the results of night attacks are actually not great.
Human casualties may exceed those of the enemy attacked at night, unless the enemy breaks or roars their camp;
Secondly, if there is a battle the next day, those soldiers who participated in the night march and night attack will definitely not be able to participate in the battle the next day. Because in ancient times, fighting was a manual labor. Besides, people may be able to grit their teeth and resist.
But if the horse doesn't rest, it will definitely not be able to resist. Isn't this a disguised reduction of its own combat effectiveness?
Therefore, unless the enemy is an amateur and builds his camp as if it is undefended, or his army is desperate, night marches and night attacks will generally not occur.
This time, the Hou Jin Army's night attack on the camp of Qin Liangyu's vanguard army was nothing more than to test the combat effectiveness of Qin Liangyu's army and harass Qin Liangyu's army. Of course, if there is a chance, these Hou Jin Army would not mind giving Qin Liangyu
The army dealt a fatal blow.
That night, Dang Baduli led 1,800 Houjin troops and walked for most of the night. After midnight, they arrived at a place four or five hundred steps away from Qin Liangyu's camp.
Badu Li and several generals of the Hou Jin Army watched from a distance. A general beside him said to Badu Li: "The trees next to the camp have been cut down, and there is an open space in front of the camp. This is far away from the camp.
There is a brazier placed a hundred steps away, so it will be difficult for us to reach it!"
Baduli nodded and said: "It's too far away. I don't even know if there are trenches around the Ming army's camp. Let's send two soldiers forward to investigate."
The two soldiers with blue flags immediately hunched over and trotted towards the camp. But when they reached the brazier, there was a sudden sound of firecrackers shooting in front of them, and one soldier was immediately beaten to the ground.
On the ground. Another soldier couldn't figure out which direction the firecracker was shooting from, so he turned around and ran away.
About twenty steps behind the brazier, a hidden whistle from Qin Liangyu's army was hiding in the pit. He also ran back to his camp with a blunderbuss. As he ran, he blew the whistle hard in his mouth.
The sound of the alarm whistle immediately caused a commotion among Qin Liangyu's army. Seeing the shaking figures in the Ming army camp, Baduli sighed and said: "The Ming army is ready, let's go back."
Although the Hou Jin army who came to attack at night had already left, almost all the soldiers in the camp gathered together. It was not until the sky became brighter that Qin Liangyu sent spies to confirm that the Hou Jin army had left around the camp.
Under Qin Liangyu's arrangement, the soldiers took turns sleeping again.
This unsuccessful night attack by the Jin Army attracted Qin Liangyu's considerable attention. While letting the soldiers who had worked hard for most of the night rest in place for a day, Qin Liangyu asked the Shanxi commander-in-chief Ma Shilong and Ma Shilong who were following him on the left and right.
Yang Shaoji, the commander-in-chief of Shandong Province, sent a messenger to prepare them for a sneak attack by the Jin army. He also asked them to speed up their march and move closer to him.
After receiving the news, the two armies immediately accelerated their speed. Because the original Shanxi King Qin's army collapsed, the Shanxi army now led by Shanxi Commander-in-Chief Ma Shilong is composed of part of the defeated troops, part of the transferred military households, and part of the temporary recruitment
It is composed of soldiers. Therefore, the military quality of the soldiers is very low.
In addition, Shanxi Commander-in-Chief Ma Shilong, like Qin Liangyu, recruited a large number of young and strong troops. Therefore, when the army speeded up, the entire army could not maintain its marching line and scattered.
After the cavalry of the Hou Jin Army appeared, Shanxi Commander-in-Chief Ma Shilong had just arranged his troops into a formation, but the young men on the periphery were pursued by the Hou Jin Army and fled towards the direction of the Shanxi Army's formation.
And because these Shanxi soldiers were inexperienced, when they saw these young men running over, they all raised their weapons. At this time, the young men who rushed in suddenly disrupted the formation of those soldiers. Seeing them
The formation of his own soldiers was disrupted, and Shanxi commander-in-chief Ma Shilong turned his horse and ran away. As soon as the commander ran away, all the soldiers also ran away.
However, because the Hou Jin army failed to attack Qin Liangyu's camp last night and spent most of the night, their horsepower was not enough. Therefore, these Hou Jin troops did not pursue a long distance.
Moreover, because the young men were blocked from the outside, although Shanxi's army collapsed, the losses were not great. After escaping for a long distance, Shanxi's commander-in-chief Ma Shilong also gradually gathered his soldiers.
However, there were almost no young men left. Except for some who were killed by the Hou Jin Army, most of the other young men ran back home. As a result, the army of Shanxi Commander-in-Chief Ma Shilong could no longer
He dared to move forward, but retreated back.
After Yang Shaoji, the commander-in-chief of Shandong Province, received news of attacks by two Ming armies one after another, he was caught in a dilemma. He didn't want to just retreat, but he didn't dare to move forward.
So after the Jin Army rested for a day, when they arrived at the Shandong Army led by Shandong Commander-in-Chief Yang Shaoji the next day, the Shandong Army was still almost at the same place. But your Shandong Army simply camped on the spot.
But they are still on the road, maintaining a marching posture. It is really ridiculous. If you are not marching anymore, what is the use of maintaining a marching posture? Are you trying to perform a standard self-deception?
However, this Shandong army was of much higher quality than the Shanxi army. When they saw the Hou Jin army, they immediately lined up their formation and waited for the Hou Jin army to charge.
The Hou Jin Army had been fighting against the Ming Army for N years, and they were quite familiar with the Ming Army's tactics. They dismounted about 120 steps away from the Ming Army. They formed a group of ten, with one of them riding a horse.
They held the stakes and held the reins of the ten horses. The remaining nine men used longbows to fire rounds of volleys.
The arrows shot by the Hou Jin Army caused chaos in the formation of the Shandong Army. The gunmen and archers standing in the front row of the Shandong Army also blindly shot out of range, causing almost no casualties to the Hou Jin Army.
Seeing that the Shandong army's formation was in chaos, the Hou Jin army immediately mounted their horses and launched a charge. The fire gunmen, who were poorly trained, had no time to make a second round of shooting. Only some archers shot some sparse arrows.
.Those arrows only caused casualties to a few unlucky men of the Hou Jin Army.
When the cavalry of the Jin Army broke into the formation of the Shandong Army, the entire army also collapsed. Yang Shaoji, the commander-in-chief of Shandong, also fled under the protection of his own soldiers.
Fortunately, just when the Hou Jin Army wanted to expand its results, more than 1,300 Liaodong cavalry vanguards led by deputy generals Zu Dale and Zuk Kefa arrived. After joining the Shandong army, they gradually stabilized the situation.
position.
After a confrontation with each other, neither side dared to attack the other, so they retreated. In this way, the two armies on the left and right sides of Qin Liangyu's army, instead of moving closer to Qin Liangyu, actually collapsed after being defeated.