Chapter six hundred and fourteenth lost the first move
Seeing this, we can know that even now, there are still quite a lot of elites in the Ming army. We can assume that if the Ming Dynasty transferred half of these elites to Liaodong and solved their military pay and supplies.
Coupled with a commander who knows soldiers and is good at fighting, and these elites work together, the Manchus in Liaodong can't find a chamber pot even if they want to urinate.
Of course, this assumption is a bit too much, and it is obviously a fantasy.
In the original history, when Wu Sangui released the Qing troops into the Pass, some of the elite Ming troops disappeared in the battle with the peasant army and the Manchus; some, although their designations were still there, had long since become human beings.
No, the veterans who could fight had long since been exhausted. That’s why the Manchu Qing Dynasty unified the country with almost no effort. Therefore, although foreign enemies are terrible, internal fighting is fatal.
Without further ado, let’s take a look at the battle between Luo Rucai’s tribe and Lu Jiude’s tribe!
Because it was necessary to fight in a measured manner and because Lu Jiude's troops were considered to be quite weak, frontline commander Yang Chengzu set up a top-heavy defensive formation.
This is a very contradictory formation. Generally, the top-heavy formation is to place the most combat-effective troops in the front. Of course, it is to defeat the enemy with one blow, so it must be an offensive formation. But Yang Chengzu
A defense came. So before this battle, Luo Rucai and Yang Chengzu did not know themselves and the enemy.
In fact, Yang Chengzu has his own reasons for placing it this way. To use an analogy: just like a strong man is attacked by a child, if the strong man does not want to hurt the child, he only needs to protect his vitals with his hands and feet. So Yang Chengzu is like this
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But when Liu Liangzuo led his men into formation, the frontline commander Yang Chengzu knew something was wrong, because he saw from the flag that the enemy of the peasant army was Liu Liangzuo, who came from the same sect. So Yang Chengzu immediately ordered a change of formation to restore Luo Rucai.
The usual attacking formation.
The core of the peasant army in Luo Rucai's battalion is veterans from all three sides. The characteristic is that the soldiers are particularly desperate and their personal combat skills are also particularly outstanding. Due to the geographical location and harsh living environment, these soldiers have taken the initiative to go out to hunt Mongolians almost since they reached adulthood.
heads, so the cavalry and shooting skills of some soldiers were as good as those of the Qing army and the elites of Mongolia.
As a powerful force of the Ming army that is as famous as the Guan Ning cavalry, the armies of the three sides also have unique characteristics in fighting. Unlike the Guan Ning cavalry, which pays attention to large-scale group operations, the troops of the three sides do not like to form formations. They often arrange themselves freely into battle.
But the strange thing is that when they fought against well-disciplined and well-organized armies, the trilateral army did not fall behind at all, because when a trilateral soldier fights alone, the soldiers around him will naturally protect him
.will also cooperate with him in fighting; when a group of three-sided troops fight, the remaining troops will immediately cooperate with him.
In fact, this is discipline without discipline; organization without organization. This is based on the high military quality of the soldiers on the three sides. Coupled with their escape, they did not fall behind at all in the confrontation with other first-class armies.
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From this we can see that the armies of the three sides are particularly good at attacking.
However, Yang Chengzu used this force that was good at offense as defense, and then changed the formation because he found out that he was facing Liu Liangzuo. This involved a problem: changing the troops.
Because the weapons used by the soldiers in the first few rows are different from those that need to attack and those that need to defend, there is no way to change weapons at this time, so Yang Chengzu had no choice but to remove the most capable soldiers from the first few rows.
Obviously, the reason why Yang Chengzu would take such a rash and dangerous move was because he knew the combat effectiveness of Liu Liangzuo's troops and knew that pure defense could no longer stop Liu Liangzuo's attack.
When Liu Liangzuo went into battle, he was a little nervous because he knew that his troops were inferior to Luo Rucai's troops. But when he went into battle, he found that Luo Rucai's troops had put up a purely defensive formation. Liu Liangzuo couldn't help being overjoyed and immediately commanded his troops.
Go and attack. Taking advantage of Luo Rucai's front and rear rows not being in place to defend, he immediately grabbed the upper hand.
This initiative is so important, because for the defender to gain an advantage, it must have superior long-range firepower. This can also be seen from the defense of Huang Degong's Ministry on the other side of the Yangtze River.
However, no matter how well-equipped Luo Rucai's troops were, they could not compare to Lu Jiude's troops, who had the support of the entire Nanjing armaments depot. Therefore, as soon as the war started, the peasant army fell into a passive position of being beaten.
Originally, according to the normal strength of Luo Rucai's troops, they should have suppressed the long-range firepower of the Ming army with fierce attacks. However, due to errors in formation, they were passive, so Yang Chengzu was in a hurry to adjust the formation. He didn't know.
Is Luo Rucai, who is watching the battle in the Chinese Army, regretting it? Has he deepened his understanding of "the best defense is offense"?
Although Liu Liangzuo's troops were inferior, they were not weak, and the gap between the two sides was not huge. So as soon as they saw an advantage, the Ming army immediately launched waves of attacks under Liu Liangzuo's command.
The attack, with each wave getting higher and higher, did not allow the peasant army to catch its breath. If Yang Chengzu had not sent troops several times to plug the leaks, and if Luo Rucai's soldiers had not really fled, the peasant army's formation might have been broken and formed.
The army was defeated like a mountain falling.
"Lao Wu, Lao Ninth! This won't work. Hurry up and bring a thousand cavalry to attack. You must suppress the official dog so that the boss can relax."
"Yes! Godfather!"
Although Luo Rucai's explanation was very vague, the Fifth Taibao and the Ninth Taibao knew very well that Luo Ru was the one who was going to fight. They immediately arranged the thousand cavalry into a triangle formation and were about to charge to the death.
"Hurry up and follow General Liu to open the gap. There must be..." As soon as Lu Jiude saw that his side had the advantage, he immediately mobilized his troops and generals, hoping to expand the advantage into victory.
But just in the middle of Lu Jiude's order, the little eunuch beside him interrupted him. The little eunuch pointed at the cavalry troops gradually pulling out from behind Luo Rucai, and exclaimed: "Grandpa Lu! Look."
Lu Jiude and the Ming army generals looked in that direction together, and their expressions changed. Lu Jiude knew soldiers, so he understood what the cavalry in a triangular formation meant.
So Lu Jiude immediately changed his order and said: "General Zhang, also arrange your cavalry in a cone shape. You must stop the rebels from charging at General Liu."
"Eunuch Lu! This...!" General Zhang Shen couldn't make up his mind. Once the triangle formation was laid out, it was life and death, so General Zhang Shen couldn't make up his mind.
"Didn't the Zajia make it clear?" Lu Jiude's eyes widened immediately, "Anyone who dares to disobey the order will be executed immediately. If you can't stop the bandit army, just commit suicide!"