In fact, both Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai guessed wrong. The Runing Army commanded by Xue Yongli arranged these four thousand-man square formations to break up the rear, not to block the pursuit of the peasant rebel army, but to defeat or even completely eliminate Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai.
Nearly 100,000 peasant rebel troops.
The previous series of actions that despised the peasant rebel army were completely deliberately carried out by Xue Yongli commanding the Runing Army. In fact, for the Runing Army, the nearly 20,000 prisoners now are not important at all. Those who are worth more than 20,000 taels
Property was not of concern to Runing's army. The only thing they were interested in was eating the big fat pieces of Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai in front of them.
In fact, the results of the Runing Army so far can be regarded as brilliant. Not to mention the Ming Dynasty, in all wars at home and abroad in ancient and modern times, more than 20,000 enemy troops were killed, injured and captured (of course a large number of them were
Some of them were local people in Henan who were forcibly captured by the Runing army.) Their own casualties were less than a hundred. This kind of great victory is completely unquestionable.
But for the Runing Army, a group of officers with excess testosterone, this is not enough. Think about it, how many famous ministers and generals in the Ming Dynasty have been encircling and suppressing the Shaanxi bandits for five years, but they have suppressed the Shaanxi bandits getting bigger and bigger, only to be defeated by the Runing Army.
Defeat, or even defeat in a battle. This kind of pleasure of being superior to famous ministers and generals has established the reputation of Runing Army and the possibility of being famous in history... There are too many factors that attract men, which makes you
Everyone in the Ning army couldn't wait to eat Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai.
Of course, this is also the reason why the current Runing Army is not commanded by Wu Shigong. No matter how ignorant he is of history, Wu Shigong knows that it was the peasant rebel army that finally invaded Beijing and destroyed the Ming Dynasty, so the peasant rebel army will not be so simple at all.
The battle between the Runing Army and the Peasant Rebel Army will also be a long and arduous battle, so it cannot be decided in one battle. Then it is better to just accept it as soon as possible.
Therefore, if Wu Shigong knew that his Runing Army had suddenly become so arrogant, he would have shouted to Xue Yongli and the others with a bitter face: "Grandpa!"
In fact, this is also the reason why the peasant rebel army's combat effectiveness was too poor in the previous battle with Xing Yan Wang and Pili Zhen. This made the Runing army somewhat underestimate the enemy. Xue Yongli and the others did not know at all that in the previous battle,
That kind of ragtag group of people with farm tools in their hands and no long-range weapons such as firecrackers and bows and arrows cannot represent the true combat effectiveness of the peasant rebel army.
However, although he underestimated the enemy, Xue Yongli's combat deployment was still quite thorough.
In Xue Yongli's battle deployment, as soon as the battle begins, the three thousand cavalry will stop escorting prisoners and property and immediately form an array on the spot. The task of guarding the prisoners, property, and the Runing Army's own food, grass, and baggage will be left to Nanyang
More than 300 soldiers guarding Li Lu, a dozen soldiers from Qiao Song and two companies of Runing troops left by Xue Yongli completed the task.
To be honest, it is simply wishful thinking for more than 500 people to guard nearly 20,000 prisoners. However, Xue Yongli also asked them to take good care of their property, the Runing Army's own food, grass and baggage. As for the prisoners? It would be good if they could guard them.
If they can't be guarded, let them escape. Anyway, after winning, we can capture all these prisoners. Even if we can't capture them, then forget it.
Xue Yongli never considered whether these prisoners would rebel. They were all unarmed. It was good to be able to escape. No one would flee to the Runing Army, which was armed to the teeth, and die.
The four thousand-man phalanxes at the rear, supported by artillery regiments, will gradually retreat to resist the attacking peasant rebels.
In Xue Yongli's vision, under the powerful firepower of artillery and muskets, it would be difficult for the peasant rebels to rush in front of the four thousand-man phalanxes when they retreated to the cavalry formation. This made the two
The army fell into a state of hand-to-hand combat.
And when the Runing Army's formation is completely in place, even if there is hand-to-hand combat, the cavalry in the rear will launch countercharges again and again to defeat the offensive momentum of the peasant rebel army.
But only these can only guarantee the undefeat of the Runing Army, but Xue Yongli has another trick: yesterday, Xue Yongli had already fought with the Guide Army led by Xue Yong who set off from Guide Prefecture and passed through Kaifeng Prefecture.
Got in touch.
The Guide Army will arrive on the battlefield at noon, and the 2,300 men of the Guide Army will launch an attack on the flanks of the peasant rebels. At that time, Xue Yongli will also have 3,000 cavalry form a cavalry charge formation for a counterattack
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And when that time comes, then...then become famous all over the world and go down in history!
Okay! The pre-war assumptions of both sides are wonderful, let’s take a look at the specific battle process!
Commanding Luo Rucai's cavalry was Luo Rucai's chief general Yang Chengzu. Under his order, two hundred cavalry formed a charge formation and charged towards the thousand-man square formation in the middle of the Runing Army. The other cavalry were also ready to charge.
preparation.
This is a tentative attack, mainly to test the range and power of Runing's artillery. Of course, if the two hundred cavalry charge succeeds, the cavalry brigade in the rear will immediately continue to charge and completely overwhelm the four units of Runing's army.
A square array of thousands of people.
Seeing the performance of the peasant rebel army, Xue Yongli couldn't help but say "Hey". The movements of those cavalry were quite orderly, and they looked well-trained at first glance. Xue Yongli couldn't help but thought to himself: "This Shaanxi bandit is terrible
There are some skills, right? But defeating such an opponent gives you some flavor!"
There is no doubt that when the two hundred cavalry rushed to a distance of about 80 steps from the thousand-man phalanx, the Runing army's muskets began to fire. After two rows of muskets, Luo Rucai's cavalry was defeated by more than 30 cavalry.
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As soon as the Runing army's muskets started firing, Luo Rucai's cavalry turned around and fled immediately, so the total casualties were not large. Luo Rucai, who was watching the battle from the rear, said to Zhang Xianzhong: "Li Dingguo is right, this official dog's muskets
It does go a long way. It doesn’t look like this battle is going to be easy!”
Yang Chengzu waited until the cavalry who was testing the attack ran back to the formation, and immediately ordered: "It seems that the range of the official dog's fire blunderbuss is about eighty or ninety steps. Send the order, and let the men reach the place where they are one hundred to one hundred and ten steps away."
Dismount, ride a group of five hundred, and exchange arrows for ten rounds!"
The order was quickly passed on, and Luo Rucai's five hundred cavalry immediately stepped forward and walked quickly to a distance of 110 steps from the thousand-man phalanx. All the cavalry jumped off their horses, forming a group of ten, with one person serving as a horse.
The stakes pulled the reins of the ten war horses, and the remaining cavalry took their longbows and quivers from the saddles, and ran forward a few steps to prepare to release arrows.
At this time, He Fei, who was staying next to Xue Yongli, snorted contemptuously and said: "Although it looks decent, it's still the same old Tatar way!"
In the battle between King Qin of the Runing Army, the Houjin cavalry did use the charging tactic of shooting first and then riding on the Runing Army at that time. For this reason, the Runing Army at that time also suffered a lot. It was Qin Liangyu's white cavalry later.
The pole soldiers risked their lives to move forward and threw javelins to prevent the Hou Jin Army from unscrupulously shooting arrows outside the range of the muskets. Therefore, after the war, the Runing Army had already designed a set of tactics to deal with it.
This time Luo Rucai's cavalry fired arrows to draw hatred, which was very close to the method of archery used by the Later Jin Army at the beginning. Therefore, the Runing Army also believed that Luo Rucai's cavalry used the same method of shooting first and later used by the Later Jin Army.
Riding cavalry tactics.
There was no need for Xue Yongli, He Fei and other officers to take command. The officers commanding the Thousand-man Phalanx on the front line immediately issued the order. And the two hundred gunmen in the front row of the Thousand-man Phalanx immediately ran forward according to the training routine.
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The two hundred firecrackers were divided into groups of two, one of whom was the firecracker shooter, and the other carried four loaded firecrackers and held a shield as the firecracker's assistant.
The two hundred fire gunmen ran forward for twenty-five to thirty steps. The fire gun assistant immediately placed the shield on the ground in front of them. The wooden shield was rectangular, with a gap deliberately dug out at the top.
, so that the fire cannon can be set up on the gap in the shield. The fire cannon shooter and the fire cannon assistant immediately squatted down and let the shield cover themselves to prevent themselves from being harmed by the enemy's bows and arrows.
This distance of twenty-five to thirty steps was carefully calculated by the Runing army. If the enemy's cavalry covering the archers rushed over, they would have enough time to run back to their thousand-man phalanx.
Luo Rucai's cavalry was caught off guard by the Runing Army's rapid response. However, these cavalry had already jumped off their horses and ran forward about ten steps to prepare for shooting. In a short period of time, they had no time to run back to their horses, mount their horses and escape. Therefore, these cavalrymen
I can only bite the bullet and start shooting.
But after Luo Rucai's cavalry fired the first round of arrows, the Runing Army's fire cannons began to fire. Moreover, the fire cannons fired at a very high frequency, and they had shields as supports, so the aim of the shots was also very convenient, so the four-round
After the fire cannons were fired, Luo Rucai's cavalrymen who were shooting arrows were knocked down by more than 150 people, and even the horses were knocked down by more than 80 horses.
As soon as the gunmen of the Runing Army rushed out of the thousand-man phalanx, Yang Chengzu, who was commanding from the rear, secretly shouted: "No!" He immediately ordered loudly: "Let them come back quickly! Let them come back quickly!"
But Yang Chengzu's orders could not be conveyed to the cavalry in front for a moment, so Yang Chengzu could only watch as the Runing Army's muskets were fired at the roll call.
But Luo Ru, who was watching the battle from behind, felt really distressed! These 150 people were all his elites! To be honest, for these 150 Shaanxi soldiers with rich combat experience, Luo Ru could sacrifice his life without hesitation.
Thousands of rabble.
After shooting four rounds of firecrackers, the firecrackers in front stopped shooting. There was no way, the smoke caused by the intensive shooting of the firecrackers blocked the sight of these firecrackers. And the firecrackers assistants also
He was reloading ammunition and preparing for the next battle.
Luo Rucai's cavalry also reacted quickly. The 200 cavalrymen who were protecting the Shaanxi soldiers who were shooting arrows immediately bypassed the Shaanxi soldiers who were shooting arrows in front and rushed towards the Runing gunsmiths in front, hoping to recover some losses.
