Four hundred and thirty seventh chapter wolves around the flock
The biggest advantage of the peasant rebel army is that it has a large number of people, and its biggest disadvantage is also that it has a large number of people. Because it has no base and no output, the peasant rebel army can only keep moving around to grab food.
Of course, some necessary cover-up work still needs to be done. After robbing the grain, the peasant rebel army will still distribute a small part of the grain to the local refugees to attract those refugees to join them.
Of course, there are also some people who have been robbed of the last remaining food around them and are coerced into the peasant rebel army for their own survival. Therefore, the peasant rebel army is not the thieves they claim to be at all. They want to rob the money and food of the government gentry.
They still want to rob the people's money and food. This is why the peasant rebel army recovered so quickly.
The second phase of the Runing Army's combat goal is to deprive the peasant rebels of food. As long as these peasant rebels are entangled here for a month or so, and then the cavalry is sent to cut off the peasant rebels' access to nearby areas to grab food, the Runing Army is not needed.
If you take action, the murderer of grain can completely defeat the behemoth peasant rebel army.
Since the number of the peasant rebels exceeds 300,000, there is no way to conceal their actions. Moreover, they are now located in the Great Plains. Even if the peasant rebels unexpectedly escape a certain distance, they will still be able to carry pots and pans with them.
Even if they don't move fast, the Runing Army can catch up with them quickly. Therefore, the current peasant rebel army has only three options:
The first option is: launch an entire army attack and completely repel the Runing Army. But in this way, the offense and defense are reversed. The Runing Army with fortifications and powerful firepower can just kill a large number of attacking peasant rebels, and
However, he can hide behind the fortifications and be less likely to be harmed. In this way, the numerical advantage of the peasant rebels will be completely offset;
The second option is: to ignore the large group of troops, the leaders quickly flee with their 30,000 to 40,000 elite troops. The rest of the peasant rebel army will be used as cannon fodder to hinder the pursuit of the Runing army.
However, the leaders of the peasant rebel army would never take this option unless they had to. Half a year ago, these leaders were encircled and suppressed by Chen Qiyu. At that time, they only had ten thousand troops at most, but now they have suddenly become rich.
There are tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people. If they are asked to resolutely give up their current income and return to the past? Then they will definitely not be willing;
The third option is: send an army to break up the rear, and the rest of the peasant rebels retreat. This should be the most reasonable option, but it is also the least likely option for the peasant rebels.
Which of those leaders is willing to put themselves in the most dangerous place? They are all old people. It is okay for others to stand up for themselves, but for themselves to stand up for others? Then forget it.
So on the night of the meeting, the leaders of the peasant rebel army also celebrated. But after thinking about it the next day, they all understood the intentions of the Runing Army. There was no need to say anything. First, they thought of a way to defeat the people in front of them.
Let the Ming army be driven back.
Because of the arrival of Zhang Xianzhong, the leaders also had some understanding of the Runing Army. So they immediately decided to send more than 20,000 people from each battalion to serve as cannon fodder in the front, and then arranged 10,000 elites behind them to prepare to overwhelm the Runing Army like last time.
line of defense.
But this attack ended before it even started. The Runing Army that went on this expedition had more than 150 artillery pieces, large and small, including more than 60 pieces that were over three pounds. In addition to muskets and rockets, it was the first time.
After the stormy blow, the charging cannon fodder fled back in disarray. Even the supervisory team of the peasant rebel army could not stop this decline.
In the age of cold weapons, people who have not been baptized by artillery fire will definitely not be able to bear it mentally when they suddenly encounter such fierce artillery fire. It is indeed true that some peasant rebels who fled back have indeed lost their minds.
The soldiers killed several soldiers in a row to stop the chaos. But in this way, the plan to repel the Runing army was ruined.
Then it was time for the Runing Army to take action against the peasant rebels. They did not get close to the camp of the peasant rebels. Instead, they divided the cavalry into groups of two hundred to five hundred. They gathered to attack the peasant rebels when they went out to collect grain and even
The troops fetching water, and later defeated the peasant rebels' counterattacking cavalry several times, completely restricted the peasant rebels to their own camps.
In cavalry combat, the quality of the war horse can be said to play a decisive role. Not to mention the huge difference in cavalry equipment, training level and tactical application between the Runing Army and the Peasant Rebel Army. Just look at the war horses!
The Runing Army all purchased and carefully selected war horses, while the Peasant Rebel Army basically used pack horses stolen from the people. Whether in terms of size, strength, or speed, they were very different from the Runing Army's war horses. So.
When the number of cavalry was about the same, the peasant rebels could not gain the upper hand.
Besides, in addition to cavalry horses, the Runing Army is also equipped with a considerable number of mules and horses, including more than 2,000 pack horses. Those pack horses are also equipped with harnesses, as long as they are paired with some Runing soldiers who can ride horses.
Soldiers are also a great supplement to the cavalry of the Runing Army.
So it can be seen from here that although this peasant rebel army of more than 300,000 people is already the largest among all peasant rebel armies, among their leaders is the world-famous Eight King Zhang Xianzhong. But their strength
But it's not the most powerful.
The peasant rebels with the strongest combat effectiveness were the three battalions of the Chuang King Gao Yingxiang, the Chuang General Li Zicheng in Shaanxi and Cao Cao Luo Rucai, because these three battalions had the largest number of veterans from the three sides and the largest number of cavalry. If this
If the Runing Army encounters these three battalions, their battle will definitely not be so easy.
In this era, the biggest enemy of the cavalry is the cavalry!
In addition, on the night of the second day, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the peasant rebel army, the artillery team of the Runing Army dragged ten three-pound artillery pieces to a place about one and a half miles away from the camp of the peasant rebel army, and bombarded the camp, causing
The peasants rebelled and the army was in chaos.
Fortunately, the Runing army did not take advantage of the chaos to attack the camp, so under the strong pressure of the leaders, the peasant rebel army finally returned to calm. But in this way, the 300,000 peasant rebel army were completely trapped.
This place can't move.
The current situation is completely like a group of wolves from the Runing Army guarding a group of fat sheep from the peasant rebel army. They only wait for the fat sheep to be too hungry to walk, and then the wolves step forward to bite off the completely useless sheep.
The fat sheep that lost its resistance.
What Wu Shigong and Zhou Xun saw now was a group of Runing Army cavalry returning from a killing spree. At this time, the morale of the Runing Army had completely improved. From top to bottom, no one doubted whether they would win this battle.
Victory. What makes the soldiers of the Runing Army even more excited is that the cost of obtaining this great victory is also very small, and the casualties of the Runing Army will also be minimal.
Wu Shigong himself was also very satisfied. He did not know the leaders of the entangled peasant rebel army. But now Wu Shigong did not care about this. In his mind: as long as the main force of the peasant rebel army in front of him was completely eliminated,
, even if Li Zicheng and the others escape with their elites, they will not make a comeback in a short time, let alone threaten the Runing Army's control area.
The Runing Army can take advantage of this opportunity to eliminate the great enemy Li Zicheng, and gain sufficient time to develop and strengthen itself, preparing to meet the challenge of another great enemy, the Later Jin Army.
Zhou Xun, who was beside him, yawned loudly and said, "Old commander! This battle was really boring! It was finished in three strikes, five divisions and two. It's a credit to our Runing army's son-in-law who trained so hard, but now he doesn't use it."
It’s so exciting.”
Wu Shigong burst out laughing. Zhou Xun looked like a militant this time. He said with a smile: "Don't be careless! We will be surrounding the Shaanxi bandits for a while. They are not fat sheep after all, and they will always be there when the time comes.
I'll jump over the wall a few times."
"This is not possible!" Zhou Xun categorically denied, "Don't say that our sons are all wide-eyed. Just look at yesterday, two groups of more than ten Shaanxi bandit cavalry came to surrender to us. I don't think so.
In a month, the Shaanxi bandits on the opposite side will surrender to us. If they are emboldened, they will not be able to fight us again."
"I told you to pay more attention! Where did all this nonsense come from?" Wu Shigong immediately scolded with a straight face. At this time, he was afraid that this kind of paralysis and carelessness would spread among the Runing army. "The closer we get to victory,
Now, you have to be more vigilant. As the deputy commander of the Runing Army, you have to give these boys a good beating these days. Do you understand?"
"No!" Zhou Xun immediately stood at attention in a standard military posture. But then he said to Wu Shigong with a playful smile, "Old commander, how about Yan Tongzhi from Ruzhou, do you keep throwing it away like this?"
"Why bother with him?" Wu Shigong was not happy when he mentioned the officials in Ruzhou. At that time, those officials were the main accomplices of Li Bingbeidao when he impeached the Runing army.
But this time the peasant rebel army arrived in Ruzhou, and the officials in Ruzhou city were frightened. As soon as they saw the arrival of the Runing army, they immediately sent Yan Tongzhi to the Runing army.
, hoping that the Runing Army will enter Ruzhou City to help defend the city.
But the Runing Army has its own battle plan. Besides, the peasant rebel army has been suppressed now, making it impossible for them to attack Ruzhou City again. In fact, the crisis in Ruzhou City has been relieved in disguise.
But this Yan Tongzhi didn’t understand military matters, and his family was in Ruzhou City, so after being sent here by Ruzhou Zhizhou, he circled around Wu Shigong like a fly every day, hoping that Wu Shigong would send some troops to enter.
Ruzhou City.
And this was not the only fly in the Runing Army at this time. After Zhou Junwu and Zhou Counselor saw the Runing Army fighting with ease, they were surprised and asked Wu Shigong: they should rebel against the farmers in front of them as soon as possible
After defeating the peasant rebel army in front of him, he immediately went north to help Henan Governor Xuan Mo stabilize the situation in Henan.
Wu Shigong was so annoyed that he simply put the two flies under house arrest and avoided their requests for permission. Then Yan Tongzhi and Zhou Counselor must have lost their minds. Did they really think that they could do this in the army? Wen Zhiwu? You know! Among the Runing army, the official positions in the Ming Dynasty don't count. The biggest one is Wu Shigong, a white man. (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!