You know, because he was preparing to escape, Liu Guoneng placed the cannon fodder on the front line. But even those cannon fodders made Nanjing Jingying retreat steadily. In fact, the reason for this is also very simple. The appearance of Nanjing Jingying is really good-looking. , but like modern urban honor guards, they look beautiful, but their combat effectiveness is still far inferior to that of the field army.
So as soon as Liu Guoneng saw something going on, he immediately mobilized the soldiers and horses of the old camp.
Moreover, there were also problems with the command of the Nanjing Camp.
You know, the previous Nanjing garrison eunuch was sent to guard the cold palace because of the fall of Fengyang. Therefore, the current garrison eunuch is quite sensitive to the invasion of the peasant army, so he will immediately attack the enemy as soon as there is a situation. The situation of going on an expedition and personally leading the army.
There is nothing wrong with attaching such importance to the situation, but the guarding eunuch first brought in a layman to command an expert and took over all the command rights for this campaign.
It should be said that the reason why Emperor Chongzhen appointed this guard eunuch was because he had a reputation in the inner court for knowing military strategy. However, this situation is a bit like asking a famous person on the modern military forum to immediately command the army.
It’s not that those celebrities don’t have some real materials, but military science is a very serious science after all. Special universities have even been set up for this science, and they are divided into elementary and advanced. It depends on We can see how profound military science is. Therefore, even if you memorize all the posts about Du Niang studying military science, you may not necessarily know how to fight.
Of course, this guarding eunuch must have no self-awareness. But you can't blame him. The system of the Ming Dynasty was like this. A civil servant or eunuch who seemed to be able to fight was appointed as the commander. But don't say that, either There is indeed such a kind of person who has two skills in everything, such as: Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng, and Sun Chuanting. However, this system seems to be a gamble on luck. Unfortunately, the guarding eunuch was in the hands of Emperor Chongzhen. A bad deck of cards.
So at the beginning of the battle, the guarding eunuch committed the common problem of an amateur "military strategist" - he was impatient, wanted a quick victory, and wanted to become fat in one bite.
According to the idea of the guarding eunuch: the battlefield is small, and the number of people fighting in the front will not suffer; the armor is complete and the weapons are sophisticated. It also has a great advantage in the battle; there are also a large number of cavalry, firearms, archers and other technical arms, then Just crush it as soon as possible.
In fact, this idea is correct. However, the guarding eunuch never thought that he was simply using his own shortcomings to defeat the enemy's strengths. He did not take advantage of the long-range firepower of the Nanjing Jingying camp, and launched a head-on confrontation with Liu Guoneng's department. The hand-to-hand combat really made Liu Guoneng overjoyed!
In fact, according to the normal routine, the Ming army should keep a distance from Liu Guoneng's troops, slowly grind against Liu Guoneng's troops, and use firearms and bows to kill the enemy troops from a distance. In case Liu Guoneng's troops counterattack, they should use cavalry counterattacks to suppress them, so that After a few attempts, I was able to hit him. If he couldn't hit me, even the Iron Warrior would still collapse.
The subsequent cover-up and pursuit can only be done by one person. Anyway, it is easy and the casualties are small. The only disadvantage is that the battle may last longer and some of the enemy troops may escape.
But with this result, would the guarding eunuch care? The answer is of course no, because his original purpose was to prevent the peasant army from invading Southern Zhili. There was no hard target for how many peasant troops could be eliminated.
But the guarding eunuch just said no. Maybe he wanted to annihilate Liu Guoneng's troops, or maybe he wanted to test the military theory he had learned. Anyway, no matter what the purpose, the guarding eunuch ordered the entire army to attack.
But the guarding eunuch seems to have forgotten the classic motto "Know yourself and know the enemy". This is also inherited from the Song Dynasty: soldiers who don't know the generals will be killed by those who don't know the soldiers. Therefore, when the city's honor guard encounters the barbarian soldiers in the poor mountains and rivers, then
That's tragic.
The scene of limbs flying around and blood splattering immediately caused chaos among the soldiers in the front row of Nanjing Jingying. Moreover, the soldiers on both sides were so tightly entangled that it was impossible to exert the power of Nanjing Jingying's cavalry and firearms. When the soldiers engaged in the battle began,
Fleeing, the Ming army's formation was overwhelmed.
Moreover, we also encountered problems during the retreat. There were dense water nets near Chaohu Lake, and the Nanjing Camp was heavily armored. We couldn't even swim, so the situation became a mess.
If the garrison leader in Hanshan County hadn't responded in time; if Liu Guoneng hadn't transferred the main force of the old battalion in time because happiness came too quickly, this Ming army might have been crippled.
But even so, the number of soldiers gathered by the guarding eunuch in the end was still only more than 8,000. However, there were more than 6,000 pieces of armor left on the battlefield. Although most of them were the most common cotton armor, it can also be seen that
The equipment of this Ming army was so sophisticated. In addition, horses, firearms, and other weapons captured by Liu Guoneng's department were piled up in huge piles. When news of this defeat was reported back to Nanjing, the entire Jinling City was in an uproar.
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The guarding eunuch did not insist on saving face. He immediately sent urgent letters to all directions for help. However, it was impossible for the soldiers and horses left in Nanjing to move again, and it was impossible for Zhu Dadian's troops in Fengyang to throw away sesame seeds.
The watermelon in Fengyang was taken away. And in Runing, the Runing army returned to Germany? Let’s not mention it again! Seeing this Ming army had to flee back to Nanjing in despair, and then watched Liu Guoneng’s troops in Nanjing
Come to the carnival!
But the road is boundless. At this time, another Ming army arrived in Yangzhou, and the leader of that Ming army turned out to be a eunuch, and that man was Lu Jiude.
Why did Lu Jiude arrive so coincidentally? It was also because he wanted to prevent Wu Shigong in Runing from rebelling. Although Emperor Chongzhen continued to appease Wu Shigong, it was impossible not to make any preventive preparations. Therefore, he ordered
Lu Jiude, leading the Wuyong Battalion of Beijing Camp and the frontier army of General Huang Degong, totaling more than 6,600 troops, went south along the Grand Canal to Fengyang to strengthen Fengyang's defense, because Wu Shigong's Runing left Fengyang.
It's simply too close.
But when he was in Yangzhou, Lu Jiude was asked for help by the guarding eunuch. He made a prompt decision and immediately changed his direction and directly aided Hanshan County. So, who said that there is no comradeship among eunuchs?
Lu Jiude was one of the few eunuchs who had a military vision. Moreover, he was a courageous person, so he dared to kill him first and then punish him later.
In fact, it is reasonable to make such a choice in the military. Fengyang only has strong political significance, and its importance is definitely not as important as that of Nanzhili and Jiangnan, the wealth centers of the Ming Dynasty. (To be continued. If you like this
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