Chapter five hundred and seventy seventh Xiangyang victory
As the battle line advanced backward, the Runing Army's square formation began to divide into two teams. One team moved forward to meet its cavalry, and the other team stayed in place to protect the artillery position and the main formation. In the end, even Qin Yiming's
Two thousand cavalrymen all passed through the Peasant Army's positions and came to the Runing Army's main formation to join together.
Seeing that Runing's army had established its victory, Qin Yiming also volunteered: "Xue Shoubei, let me step forward to help too!"
But Xue Yongli shook his head and said: "You don't have to work hard, General Qin, our Runing army can deal with these thieves." Then, Xue Yongli saw Qin Yiming's face was somewhat resentful, and knew that he had a misunderstanding, so he quickly smiled and said:
"Today's great victory was achieved by our Runing Army fighting side by side with Commander Qin. Commander Qin is a family member with our uncle, so we can talk to him about everything. The last general also wanted to support the troops who robbed the camp. Commander Qin
The soldiers still need to recuperate and regain Xiangyang, so they must reserve their strength."
Xue Yongli's explanation immediately made Qin Yiming's face look much better.
Feeling that the cavalry had been chasing for more than half an hour, Xue Yongli also felt that he was almost done. He immediately ordered: "Mingjin withdraws the troops!" Now the peasant army was killed, and the rest were already scattered. Let's pursue again.
If you keep killing, there will be results, but the results won't be much.
Besides, this battle of the Runing Army is mainly to consume the strength of the peasant army, not to wipe out the peasant army, so it is still necessary to leave a way for the peasant army to survive.
But officers like He Fei didn't know that this battle needed to be measured, so He Fei asked in surprise: "Master Li! Why don't you wait for the phalanx to come up? If the cavalry pursues and double-teams, many thieves can be captured."
Where is the army!"
Xue Yongli couldn't explain the real reason to He Fei and the others. He could only say: "Just let it go! I don't know what the situation is in Sanhe."
This is also a sound truth, so after hearing the explanation, officers like He Fei saluted and accepted the order, and then went down to deliver the order.
In this Battle of Xiangyang, the Runing Army's night march and night attack, skirmishing, hand-to-hand combat, infantry square melee, cavalry formation battle, artillery concentrated shooting and cavalry cover-up were fully practiced, which later became the "Ru Ning Army".
Classic battle examples from Ningjun’s tactical textbook.
However, it is not that there are no "Weng Hum" people. Many later generations of amateur military "experts" criticized Xue Yongli for not taking advantage of the victory. Some of them believed that the entire army should advance and completely defeat Zhang Xianzhong;
He believed that Ma Shouying and Luo Rucai's troops should be outflanked and eliminated.
Therefore, later generations also performed such scenes: Xue Yongli acted arbitrarily, He Fei and others cried bitterly and remonstrated, and almost got into a fight.
To this, Hefei's answer later was very representative. He only said two words: "Grandma!"
While being bombarded, a group of cavalry sent by Luo Rucai had already fled in the direction of Ma Shouying and Luo Rucai's camp. On the way, they met spies sent by Luo Rucai to check the combat situation. So they immediately reported to Ma Shouying,
Luo Rucai is here.
As soon as this news came, the leaders of the peasant army battalions immediately exploded. Unexpectedly, Wu Butcher's troops were so strong. They easily defeated the peasant troops of Zhang Xianzhong and other battalions.
What's even more frightening is that the battle is progressing too fast. Seeing that Wu Butcher's main force is about to outflank his flanks and rear, he doesn't need to think about the officers and soldiers who are hijacking the camp. He should first think of a way to make his troops retreat.
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But the leaders of the peasant army discovered something very wrong. In order to capture Xiangyang and fight Wu Butcher, they brought more than 200,000 soldiers and horses across the Han River and placed them near Xiangyang. If now
If we want to retreat, there are only two ways: one is to go north to Nanyang; the other is to cross the Han River again.
But if they choose to go north to Nanyang, they will immediately have to fight fiercely with Yu Zilian's Ruzhou Army and Zuo Liangyu's tribe who are pursuing them, and they will also be attacked by Wu Butcher in the back. It is a situation where they are attacked from two sides.
Then the only choice was to cross the Han River again. But after the peasant army crossed the Han River a few days ago, they never expected to return the same way. Therefore, there were still the same two pontoons on the Han River, and there were no more ships to collect more than 200,000 people.
It is absolutely impossible for people to cross the Han River again in a short time. Therefore, who comes first and who comes last has become a big problem.
After thinking about this, the leaders of the peasant army fell silent. At this time, it is not a good thing for anyone to speak first. After a moment of silence, the leader of the alliance, Ma Shouying, spoke first: "I will take the lead! Brothers, go first.
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Even the hard-hearted leaders of the peasant army were excited after hearing Ma Shouying's words, and the scene immediately became lively. Luo Rucai said: "I will go to meet the eight kings, brothers, go find more boats, and then draw lots to cross the river!"
Luo Rucai also chose a very dangerous task. These leaders did not know that Xue Yongli's main force was not chasing Zhang Xianzhong, so what if Luo Rucai's troops were entangled by Xue Yongli's main force while assisting Zhang Xianzhong?
You won't be able to cross the river safely.
Ge Liyan He Yilong, King Zuo Jin He Jin and others also said to Ma Shouying: "Brother Ma, we are waiting by the river to help you cross the river." At this time, the close relationship between Zuo Ge's fifth camp was reflected.
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On October 29, the ninth year of Chongzhen, Xue Yongli defeated the peasant army in Xiangyang. In this battle, Runing's army beheaded more than 13,000 people, while his own casualties were only more than 400, most of them.
These are all losses incurred during hand-to-hand combat.
In the next three days, after Xue Yongli's main force joined Li Sanhe's troops, they waited in place for three days, waiting for the peasant army to retreat. The peasant army abandoned Xiangyang and left behind more than 100,000 old and weak soldiers.
A large amount of supplies are crowded on the edge of the Han River, waiting to cross the river.
It was not until the second day of November, when Yu Zilian's Ruzhou Army and Zuo Liangyu's troops arrived, that the Runing Army took action again, chasing the peasant army crossing the river. By this time, the Runing Army's seizures had piled up, and prisoners
The peasant army also reached 40,000 people. Qin Yiming also took the opportunity to recover the deserted Xiangyang. After hearing about the victory of the Runing army, Wang Jiazhen, the governor of Huguang, also led 5,000 troops to protect Prince Xiang and his family and rushed towards Xiangyang.
On the first day of November, in the Xinyang camp.
"Tang Liu! Don't look downcast. It's just more than 20,000 taels of silver! The most important thing is that you all are here." Wu Shigong smiled and said to Tang Liu while supporting him.
"What a mess!" Tang Liu still looked annoyed. Although Wu Shigong didn't blame him, this was the first time he worked for Wu Shigong after joining the Runing Army, so Tang Liu's heart
There is always something unpleasant.
"It's not a bad thing!" Wu Shigong still had a smile on his face, "It won't be long before you have to go to Huanggang again. At that time, let the person who took your money give us Runing even the skin and bones.
Jun spit it out."
Tang Liu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked curiously: "Sir! Are our Runing Army going to send troops to Huanggang?"
Wu Shigong smiled mysteriously and said to Tang Liu, "The secret must not be leaked! But when you go to do things, that person who likes our Runing Army's money, don't treat him badly. In the future, let others burn paper money for his family!"
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Tang Liu immediately nodded with joy. Under Wu Shigong's understatement, the countdown to the lives of the Huanggang rich man's family had begun.
Seeing that Wu Shigong was in a good mood, Tang Liu quickly congratulated him: "I just heard that Mr. Li won a great victory in Xiangyang. After this, your Excellency will definitely be promoted to a higher rank. I am here to congratulate him first."
Wu Shigong smiled and waved his hands and said: "It's not worth mentioning that you beat this kind of chickens and dogs. Besides, Uncle Yongli also gave me some trouble. When the heat is up, I'm afraid Uncle Yongli will cook a rice with raw material!"
Tang Liu was a little hazy when he heard this. He didn't understand what Wu Shigong meant. He could only laugh a few times with Wu Shigong. Tang Liu didn't know: when Xue Yongli discovered that there were many veterans of the frontier army among the prisoners
, immediately put Wu Shigong's arrangements behind him, and selected more than 3,000 people to add to the Runing army.
In this regard, Wu Shigong could only respect Xue Yongli's decision, but he was afraid that when he attacked Southern Zhili in the future, due to the insufficient strength of the peasant army, it would not be able to achieve the original effect of disrupting the situation. Of course, these words could not be compared with Tang
Liu Zhi said, so I can only complain a few words.
"But this time the ship is about to arrive, and the matter at the dock is about to be settled. How is your recruitment of water brothers going?" Wu Shigong asked.
"Sir! The younger ones recruited more than two hundred. Plus those dolls from the children's camp, it's barely enough." Tang Liu replied.
"First solve the problem of sailing the ship. This warship is somewhat different from the civilian ships you sailed before. Also, in the future I will find some people with water skills to hand over to you, and train them to sail the ship in the same way. Make sure that each ship has
Two shifts of sailors will make it easier to add more ships at any time." Wu Shigong ordered.
Seeing Tang Liu nod, Wu Shigong continued to give instructions: "One more thing to note: many of the people you recruit are your former brothers, but in the future, many people in the navy will be recruited from other places. You want a bowl of water
Duanping, you must use rules to control your subordinates."
"It's good to talk about loyalty, but you have to convince everyone when doing things. Remember: your official position was given by me, and your future promotion will also come from me, not from your brothers. People from the same ship
, what is important is to work together in the same boat, and not to cause any conflicts due to partiality, which is not beautiful."
"Although I am your lord in the officialdom, we have been friends for a long time. We are good brothers behind closed doors, so I will just say a few words here. Although the words are offensive, they are loyal advice. This is also for you, brother.
Prosperous and prosperous."
Wu Shigong gave Tang Liu a knock on the wooden fish here. The independence of the Navy is quite strong, and each ship is almost an independent unit. Therefore, Wu Shigong does not want to form cliques in the Navy and form a complete Runing as soon as possible.