"What a pity! What a pity! What a pity!" Luo Rucai said repeatedly.
Zhang Xianzhong knew what Luo Rucai meant, so he asked: "Will this happen again? This time you and I will each pick a thousand old soldiers from the battalion, and I will also send another team of troops, or let those troops charge first
, you and my old pawns follow closely behind, maybe we can defeat the official dog on the opposite side."
"No way! Look!" Luo Rucai pointed in the direction of the Runing Army. At this time, the Runing Army had begun to close up the square formation. The four square formations merged into two to form two large square formations, and the artillery regiment
The more than twenty artillery pieces have also been set up.
"The formation of the officers and soldiers on the opposite side is very strange. I, Lao Luo, have never seen it before." The performance of the Runing Army has caused Luo Rucai's title to be unknowingly changed from "official dog" to "official army":
"But no matter what, this formation has front and rear protection and is very deep, so it must be a defensive formation. And now that the officers and soldiers on the opposite side have merged the two square formations into one large square formation, then we will be even more
It is difficult to break. In addition, their artillery is already in place. As long as all this firepower comes together, it will be difficult for our people to rush in front of them. Unless you and I don't want to come back, we are willing to leave all our belongings here."
Zhang Xianzhong knew that Luo Rucai was right, so he frowned and asked, "Then what should we do?"
Among the leaders of the peasant rebel armies, Luo Rucai is recognized as one of the best field experts, so when various peasant rebel armies cooperate with each other in field operations, Luo Rucai is usually in command.
Luo Rucai smiled and said: "It's okay. Since this army is difficult to attack, let's go another way. The world is so big, where can't we go? Although the army formation on the opposite side is thick, it has shortcomings.
It must be that the moving speed is too slow. Besides, with so many of us walking together, they don’t dare to do anything to us."
Luo Rucai's vision was indeed very vicious. This was the first time he had seen a smaller version of the Spanish phalanx, but he talked about the advantages and disadvantages of the Spanish phalanx in detail.
The peasant rebel army has been rebelling for five or six years. But now, they have not changed their habit of rogue bandits. Although they have captured some cities, they have never established any base areas. The battle with the Ming army is also like hide and seek.
In terms of fighting style, they never fought head-on with the Ming army, and only chose areas where the Ming government's defenses were weak to flee.
This is also the reason why the Ming army had only more than 33,000 troops north of the Yellow River at that time, but it was able to surround more than 200,000 peasant rebels. Of course, among the more than 200,000 peasant rebels at that time, they were able to produce two
Qualified soldiers who can fight are already pretty good.
After crossing the Yellow River, the number of peasant rebels swelled like a balloon. This gave them the confidence to fight the Ming army. Therefore, the first to bear the brunt, the Runing army commanded by Xue Yongli encountered such a situation.
A tough battle.
But tough battles are also mutual. After seeing the strong strength of the Runing Army, Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong immediately returned to their true nature as rogues, wanting to avoid the powerful Runing Army and flee to other areas.
And for Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong, the more than 4,000 cannon fodder who died in front of the thousand-man phalanx just now are not a loss at all. What can really be regarded as a loss is the 400 people who were killed by the Runing army before and after.
For Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong's many elites, this loss was quite affordable for these two people, so they immediately left Qingshan behind.
So Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong began to issue orders everywhere, and first sent people to call back Li Dingguo's two thousand cavalry. Then they asked Li Dingguo and Yang Chengzu's nearly five thousand cavalry to retreat, and the rest of the troops immediately prepared to break away from the battle with Runing's army.
Seeing the peasant rebels making a retreat posture, Zhang Biao asked Xue Yongli in a low voice: "Sir, are you just going to watch them withdraw?"
At this time, Xue Yongli felt bitter in his heart. He just made some rough statistics after the battle. The Runing Army had killed more than 220 people and injured more than 270 soldiers, and many of the injured soldiers had died.
The injury was very serious, it was likely to cause death and disability, and there would be no way to recover in the future.
Among the injured, Xue Cunyi, the leader of the engineering regiment, suffered a serious head injury. His left eye was blind and he was still in a coma. If the peasant rebel soldier who injured him had not used a wooden gun, Xue Cunyi might have been killed long ago.
Then he saw the King of Hell gone.
Let us now analyze this battle:
First, let’s take a look at the strategic goals of the Runing Army: The battle of the Runing Army this time is nothing more than to ensure the security of their control areas. Even if they defeated the peasant rebel army, even if they recovered many lands occupied by the peasant rebel army
It was impossible for the Ming Dynasty court to assign these territories to be stationed by the Runing Army, because Emperor Chongzhen and any minister would not tolerate the emergence of a warlord called the Runing Army in the hinterland of the Central Plains.
Therefore, we can analyze the gains and losses of this battle from the perspective of strategic objectives. At that time, the Runing Army took the initiative and attacked from its own control area to inflict pain on the peasant rebels so that they would not dare to move near their control area. This military
There is nothing wrong with your actions. The best defense is offense!
Then, the Runing Army commanded by Xue Yongli fought a very exciting battle to annihilate King Xing Yan and Pili Zhen. All the military steps were remarkable. But by this time, the Runing Army had the idea of underestimating the enemy.
They began to deviate from their original strategic goals. The Runing Army wanted to make a final decision and completely eliminate the peasant rebel armies of Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, and completely eliminate the threat of the peasant rebel army to the areas controlled by the Runing Army in a short period of time.
With constant luring and provocation, the Runing Army indeed attracted the target and formed a situation of fighting with Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai.
However, battles are not the best way to fight against an army like the peasant rebel army that coerces a large number of people. This is because the peasant rebel army can unscrupulously use the people to carry out human sea tactics. If they win, they will win a big victory, and if they lose, they will win.
It doesn't matter, it can be coerced again, and it will be difficult to dampen the vitality of the peasant rebel army.
The most correct way to fight is to constantly entangle the peasant rebels without fighting decisively or letting go. You must know that the peasant rebels have held so many people hostage and consumed a lot of food, so they will one day be dragged down by you.
Broken.
For example: During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao used 5,000 men and horses when he started his career. He used this tactics to hold back nearly one million Yellow Turbans, and finally forced the millions of Yellow Turbans to surrender to Cao Cao. Cao Cao used these people to farm,
And organized and trained the Qingzhou Army, thus establishing the hegemony of three-thirds of the world.
The Runing Army has already obtained more than 5,000 shi of food from Qingshuiwan, and can completely deal with the coalition forces of Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai. Of course, it does not need to worry about the prisoners at all. This can ensure the flexibility of the army and sufficient food and grass.
But having said that, there is no problem in the battle. To be fair, with the good equipment of the Runing Army and the excellent quality of the soldiers, it still has an absolute advantage against the nearly 100,000 peasant rebels of Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai. I dare not say that in the annihilation battle , but there is absolutely no problem in defeating the battle.
But at this time, Xue Yongli's command encountered several problems. (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!