The tactics adopted by Huang Degong were also very simple. If he relied on the quality of his soldiers to fight an offensive war? Huang Degong was afraid that he would vomit blood again, so he could only choose a defensive war.
Huang Degong first divided the second-class soldiers into three wings, left, middle and right, blocking them with carts, carts and other vehicles, shooting with bows and arrows and firecrackers from a distance, and fighting hand-to-hand at a short distance. Such a large number of people can always make them brave!
Huang Degong divided the 3,000 cores he had carefully prepared into three teams, each with 1,000 people, and prepared for a counterattack if there was a crisis ahead.
However, no matter how careful the arrangements were, the rookies still had stage fright. So after the battle started, Liu Guoneng's troops didn't spend much effort, and they were able to push aside the obstacles and kill the rookies despite the fire of muskets and bows and arrows.
Seeing that something was wrong, Huang Deqiu led his elite team to counterattack.
Huang Degong was born in a military household in Liaodong and was a member of the Kaiyuan Guards. He rose from a soldier to a general step by step. Huang Degong's father died early, and he was very bold when he was young. Since the military household system in the Ming Dynasty was inherited from father to son, so
He was also drafted into a soldier.
When Huang Degong was twelve years old, his mother brewed wine and he drank it all secretly. When his mother scolded him, Huang Degong smiled and said, "It's easy." Later, when the Liaodong War broke out, Huang Degong came with a knife.
He went to war in the army, was beheaded twice, and was rewarded with fifty taels of silver. When he returned, he gave it to his mother and said, "I will use these to pay for the wine."
What a legendary story! Even better than the young hero Wu Sangui. You know, he was only a few years old at that time. A primary school student wearing a red scarf actually killed two Tatars in hand-to-hand combat. He must have been taking drugs.
Due to Huang Degong's outstanding performance, he began to serve as a pro-army manager, and later made many military exploits. His accumulated merits rose higher and higher. Therefore, Huang Degong always took the lead in combat.
"Bang!" A head shattered like a watermelon, blood and brain matter splashed everywhere, and Huang Degong also splashed a few drops in his mouth, but this aroused his greater ferocity. He raised the iron whip in his hand
, and smashed it into the back of the peasant soldier beside him. With a crisp sound, the peasant soldier's spine was broken, and he bent at an exaggerated angle and fell down.
"Clang, clang, clang", Liu Guoneng's central army heard a sound of gold, and the surviving peasant army immediately ran towards their own formation.
Liu Guoneng took a look and saw that the fleeing peasant army was already sparse. Liu Guoneng's formation was also ready to respond. He reined in his horse and shouted: "Stop chasing!" The Ming army also suspended the pursuit and returned.
Your own formation.
The Ming army was cheering, and the rookies were also jumping for joy. In front of the Ming army's position lay hundreds of peasant army soldiers. But the Ming army's casualties were less than a hundred. Such a small victory also made the rookies confident.
A lot.
Huang Degong took the clean white cloth handed over by the soldiers around him, wiped it on his face vigorously, and then shouted: "Stop howling! Pile the carts neatly, the bandits are coming."
But at this moment, the captain of the soldiers beside him pointed into the distance and exclaimed: "Commander! Look, the bandits are really coming up."
"Eh!" Huang Degong looked over in surprise and found that Liu Guoneng's troops had indeed formed their formation and launched the second round of attack.
Huang Degong's brows furrowed. In such a short period of time, he launched the next round of attack. It seems that the bandit army in front of him is very determined today. There are really some bad intentions!
So Huang Degong immediately turned around and shouted to the thousand-man team who were preparing for the second round of counterattack: "Listen up! Wait for the order and charge, and follow closely when you charge. If you come back alive, you will have wine and meat.
We will use military law as soon as Jin Jin comes back. Don't be nervous. The bandit army is just a dish!"
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Huang Degong jumped off the sweaty horse, and he himself was dripping with sweat. Huang Degong shook his sore right arm, took the Lizu horse brought by his own soldiers, and asked: "How many times have the thieves charged?"
"Seven times!" the soldier replied.
In fact, Huang Degong also knew the number of times Liu Guoneng had charged. The reason why he asked again was just to be more sure.
"You're a brat. You're acting weird today!" Huang Degong began to curse.
It’s not surprising that Huang Degong had doubts. The modern army that has undergone rigorous training can launch more than three consecutive charges while suffering huge casualties. That is the ace army. And Liu Guoneng actually launched seven charges without collapse.
That is the trump card among trump cards.
Huang Degong was puzzled. When did such a desperate army come out this morning? And it was not an official army, but an army of mud-legged thieves who had just thrown down their hoes. Did the sun come out from the west?
What made Huang Degong vomit blood even more was, how could such an army be staring at him? Didn't he read the almanac when he went out today?
However, Huang Degong is still very satisfied with the performance of his troops today. After the first few smooth counterattacks, even the rookies in the front row were also in high morale. They fully demonstrated their training level and blocked the third and fourth attempts.
In the middle, he did not even let the elite counter-chargers do anything, and through their own efforts, they repelled the attack of Liu Guoneng's troops.
But when faced with the next few attacks, the rookies couldn't stand it anymore. It wasn't a matter of physical strength. They also followed the pre-war arrangement and took turns taking turns to rest in the front and rear rows.
The most important thing is that the psychological pressure is too great. Such endless attacks make people's nerves tense. Coupled with Liu Guoneng's indifference to death, no matter how thick the nerves are, they are about to be broken.
Huang Degong knew that his troops could no longer bear it. Not to mention the rookies who were already timid, even the veterans of the border army were a little hairy. As long as Liu Guoneng launched one or two more attacks, his troops would definitely collapse.
Huang Degong doesn't feel well here, and Liu Guoneng doesn't feel well either. In today's battle, Liu Guoneng has suffered more than 3,000 casualties, and these people are not cannon fodder, but Liu Guoneng's old camp troops. Otherwise, with such heavy casualties, Liu Guoneng would
No matter how capable you are, you can't restrain the troops from attacking.
However, although the people in the old camp also obeyed Liu Guoneng's orders, they were also quite puzzled by Liu Guoneng's abnormal behavior.
What is the purpose of the peasant army's rebellion? Of course it is to survive. If they are forced to a dead end, there is nothing they can do about it, but as long as there is a glimmer of hope, the peasant army will never fight head-on with the official army. They follow the principle of fighting if they can.
The principle of running if you can't fight.
The big and small leaders of the old camp also knew that Liu Guoneng wanted to join the Runing Army. Their own families were also in the hands of the Runing Army. So for their king, Chuang Tatian, Liu Guoneng obeyed the orders of the Runing Army and attacked Hanshan.
The leaders of the army and the army can still understand, so today they also restrained the troops and launched attacks again and again.
But those leaders couldn't understand that Liu Guo could consume his old camp men in such a way. Without these precious treasures, they would not be able to sell them at a good price in the future. What did the king think? Is it crazy to want to join the army?
No more? You don’t even know how to preserve your strength?
And Liu Guoneng also had troubles that he couldn't tell. Of course he knew that his men were complaining in their hearts, but Liu Guoneng had already arranged the order of attack during the war. Out of prestige, Liu Guoneng could not change the battle plan, otherwise, it would be disrupted.
If your troops are in trouble and lose their prestige, which will lead to command failure in the future, then it will be a big deal.
So when Liu Guoneng discovered that something was wrong, the backbone of his old camp was already too depleted, and he was already in a difficult situation. At this time, Liu Guoneng was hoping that someone would be around to give him some advice, so that he could just get off the slope and stop.
Fighting. But on weekdays, Liu Guoneng's prestige was too high, and the leaders did not dare to dissuade him because of his insufficient status. Jin Xiong, the only one with sufficient status, was in Huanggang, so Liu Guoneng became more and more irritable.
At this moment, a round of sunset shone on Liu Guoneng, and he finally got the reason. So Liu Guoneng immediately ordered: "It is getting late, all the troops should return to camp!". Liu Guoneng's order also made Liu Guoneng, including Liu Guoneng,
All the leaders secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
When leaving the battlefield, Liu Guoneng was still muttering to himself: "I should be able to explain it now!"
Huang Degong was relieved when he saw Liu Guoneng's troops returning to camp. At this time, he had gathered all the elites and was waiting for a big counterattack when Liu Guoneng's troops attacked. He hoped that this counterattack could buy some time.
Pull back as many of your troops as possible.
So when Huang Degong also withdrew his troops to the camp, he still felt like he was surviving a disaster. But when he took stock, Huang Degong's heart was lifted again. The Ming army's casualties also exceeded 1,500 people. And these casualties were large.
Most of them were caused during Liu Guoneng's later attacks.
A modern well-trained army will lose its combat effectiveness if it has more than three casualties, and it will be completely disabled if it has more than five casualties. It is not enough to just replenish personnel after the war, but also requires a long period of rest and psychological adjustment. Because those surviving soldiers
After all, they are human beings. When they see so many comrades who have been with them day and night losing their lives, they will always be afraid of death and develop a phobia towards the battlefield.
For an ordinary Ming army, 10% casualties would be enough to collapse the entire army. Although today's battle was too fast-paced, many Ming soldiers had no time to be frightened, but the performance of his troops on the battlefield was enough to make Huang Degong proud.
, after all, the proportion of rookies in this team is too high.
But as the soldiers who went to collect the corpses on the battlefield returned, a depressing atmosphere immediately filled the entire barracks. The battlefield was so miserable. There were so many corpses piled up in a small area, and the ground was covered with blood and flesh.
There is no place. Moreover, it is still summer, the body rots quickly, and the disgusting corpse smell spreads in the air, making people want to faint immediately. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation at Qidian.
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