Chapter eight hundred and thirteenth encounter surrounded
As soon as Yu Zilian used several violent and resolute methods, Yang Wenyue, who had been watching on the sidelines, was filled with admiration. At this time, Yang Wenyue also understood that Yu Zilian's reputation was well-deserved and admired that he indeed had the means to run an army.
However, these methods cannot be learned by other officials, nor do they want to learn them. In addition to Yu Zilian's extremely high prestige in the army, which makes it difficult for the soldiers to rebel, his actions have offended the entire officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, and will also offend the entire Ming Dynasty in the future.
Countless targets were set up for Yan Guan. Therefore, Yu Zilian was completely betting on today. Therefore, Yang Wenyue, who was watching, could only admire him.
However, praise is praise, and when it was time to argue, Yang Wenyue would not let go. When they were discussing the next step, Yu Zilian and Yang Wenyue had a fierce argument.
Yu Zilian's view is: Anyway, we have won a great victory, so we should give it up as soon as possible. Yu Zilian wants to withdraw his troops and still maintain a wandering fight on the periphery of the peasant army.
For Yu Zilian, the purpose of sending troops this time has actually been achieved. The victory has built up the confidence of the new soldiers; the military management methods have helped the new soldiers develop discipline. As long as there are a few more small victories like this, Yu Zilian will
He has the confidence to train the Heiyun Army to be like the original Ruzhou Army, so that the soldiers will worship him and become fanatical about fighting. As for whether it can really relieve the siege of Kaifeng City? Yu Zilian means that you can do your best, and there is no need for it.
Forced.
Yu Zilian is not arrogant. Although he has a strong gambling habit, he definitely does not think that his current Black Cloud Army has the strength to leapfrog the Li and Luo coalition forces.
But Yang Wenyue hoped to pursue the victory. He believed that the defeated peasant army should be pursued closely, trying to defeat the Li and Luo coalition forces like a snowball, and at least open the road to Kaifeng City.
To be honest: Yang Wenyue does not know much about military affairs. He seriously underestimated the strength of the Li and Luo coalition forces. But this cannot be blamed on Yang Wenyue, an amateur. Because the Ming army has been waiting for many years to win the victory over the peasant army, which is to be beheaded.
Hundreds of people defeated thousands of peasant troops in the battle. Reporting to the court was a great victory. So Yang Wenyue was dazzled by the victory.
But Yang Wenyue's choice was also a helpless one. Because the crime of defeat he committed in Zhuxian Town was too great. If he could not rescue Kaifeng, Yang Wenyue would never be able to balance his merits and demerits. Therefore, the starting point is different.
This caused the two coaches to have different views on the next step.
But just when the dispute continued, a reinforcement force came to join and broke the balance.
To be more precise, this is not a support army, but a Minzhuang armed force with nearly 200 people. However, the leader who leads this Minzhuang armed force is very famous. He is the former Minister of the Ministry of War, supervising the army of the world.
Ma’s Lu Xiangsheng’s chief aide—counselor-in-charge Yang Tinglin.
After going to Gao Qiqian's army to rescue troops but failed, Yang Tinglin took several of his followers to the battlefield in order to fulfill his duty of assistance, hoping to live and die with Lu Xiangsheng. However, Dorgon did not
Yang Tinglin fulfilled his wish. When Yang Tinglin arrived at the battlefield, the Qing army had retreated to pursue Gao Qiqian's army, and what was left to Yang Tinglin were the corpses of Tianxiong Army soldiers all over the ground. After that, Yang Tinglin did some burying.
corpse, escorting Lu Xiangsheng's coffin back home, and other such things.
Later, because he refused to give in to Yang Sichang's demotion and humiliation, Yang Tinglin resigned and returned to his hometown in Qingjiang. But by this time, his reputation for being knowledgeable about military matters and having a noble character had spread throughout Yunei. Indeed, as Lu Xiangsheng
Yang Tinglin, the chief staff officer, was by no means a military novice, and his willingness to live and die with Lu Xiangsheng also proved that his character was first-rate.
After that, Yang Tinglin stayed at home and recuperated. He refused several calls from the imperial court to resume his career. Perhaps Yang Tinglin was saddened by Lu Xiangsheng's death and was a little discouraged by the imperial court; perhaps he wanted to raise his hopes. Anyway, Yang Tinglin did not return to the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, but only traveled from time to time.
The world is looking for relatives and friends.
When Kaifeng City is besieged, the officials in the city will definitely ask for help from the Beizhili Government on the other side of the Yellow River. But now if the Beizhili Government sends reinforcements, they will definitely be powerless. But this does not prevent the officials from asking
We sat down to discuss it. At such a "retreat", Yang Tinglin, who happened to be traveling here, was also invited.
Facts have proved that Yang Tinglin's blood was not yet cold at this time. When he learned about the crisis in Kaifeng, he volunteered to recruit troops, hoping to strengthen the official reinforcements by joining the army on his own initiative.
The Tianxiong Army was founded in Damingfu, so Yang Tinglin easily recruited some veterans of the Tianxiong Army. So just like that, after crossing the Yellow River, Yang Tinglin encountered the coalition forces of the Heiyun Army and Yang Wenyue. And Yang Tinglin
With his arrival, he naturally joined the coalition's decision-making team.
As for the original Yu Zilian and Yang Wenyue, in terms of official position, Yu Zilian was slightly higher; but in terms of qualifications, Yang Wenyue was far superior. So the two could be said to be equally matched. But as soon as Yang Tinglin joined, the balance immediately tilted.
Yang Tinglin's meaning is very simple, that is to continue to move forward and relieve the siege of Kaifeng. Otherwise, Yang Tinglin will have a full and bloody fight? Yang Tinglin inherited the hot-blooded style of the Tianxiong Army founded by Lu Xiangsheng. His idea is to be hot-blooded and then hot-blooded.
, we must use uninterrupted attacks and uninterrupted hand-to-hand combat to completely defeat the Li and Luo coalition forces.
To be honest, several years of idleness at home have made Yang Tinglin divorced from the actual situation. He did not know: the current Li and Luo coalition forces are no longer the peasant army that Tianxiong Army dealt with a few years ago. But the official who made such a misjudgment, Yang Tinglin
Not the first and won't be the last.
And Yang Tinglin's words carry a lot of weight. Although he is no longer an official, no one in the world dares to treat him as an official. Coupled with his great reputation, the weight of his words is actually no less than that of Yu Zilian and Yang Wenyue.
Another point is that General Hu Dawei and others were also Lu Xiangsheng's original subordinates. They were also willing to listen to Yang Tinglin, so Yu Zilian's opinions were suppressed, and in the end he had no choice but to continue the attack.
The initial attack was still quite smooth. Without the partial division of the peasant army, a large gap in the encirclement circle had actually appeared here. After the Heiyun Army and Yang Wenyue's troops defeated several small peasant armies one after another,
We advanced smoothly to the Pingcheng Township area.
At this time, the big cabinet who finally couldn't hide it had to report it to Li Zicheng. Hearing that an army suddenly appeared on his east side and that the defenses here were empty, Li Zicheng was shocked and immediately ordered Yuan Zong
He led 10,000 troops to block the gap first.
After Yuan Zongdi arrived, he first gathered the nearly 10,000 remnants of the big cabinet, and then launched a battle with the Yu and Yang coalition forces. However, the result of the battle was a series of defeats. After all, Yuan Zongdi led a hasty attack and only temporarily assembled.
Among the troops, there were quite few troops in the old battalion. If the combat performance of the Heiyun Army was not very unfamiliar and Yang Wenyue's troops were also timid in fighting, Yuan Zongdi might have suffered another disastrous defeat.
Fortunately, after losing three to four thousand men and horses, Yuan Zongdi finally withstood it. He finally waited for the support of the 6,000 Laobao cavalry led by He Yaoqi. As soon as He Yaoqi arrived,
He also immediately took over the command of the peasant army.
At this moment, Yu Zilian once again proposed an overnight retreat, but was rejected by Yang Wenyue and Yang Tinglin. They believed that an army retreat at night could easily turn into a rout. Moreover, the phenomenon of night blindness among the army was also very serious, even if
Even if they retreat smoothly, the losses of the army will be heavy.
Therefore, Yang Wenyue and Yang Tinglin proposed that in tomorrow's battle with the peasant army, they should first repel the Heyao Banner Division, and then retreat calmly. This decision deprived this army of the last chance to escape intact.
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In the battle on the second day, the cavalry who broke into the camp showed their power. This was an era when the cavalry was king. When the cavalry group began to charge into the formation, it was a posture of either you die or I live. So
The battle between the two armies relies on the courage of the soldiers on both sides.
But when the cavalry that broke into the camp began to charge, the soldiers of Yang Wenyue's tribe took the lead to escape. Anyway, they had already escaped once in Zhuxian Town, and there was no shame in escaping again. But in this way, the officers and soldiers immediately formed a formation.
The shape is in chaos.
Yu Zilian was unlucky to meet a pig teammate. When he saw that the situation was not good, he immediately restrained his troops, formed a tight group, and marched backwards while fighting.
In this battle, the performance of the Heiyun Army, which was mainly composed of new recruits, was remarkable. Under Yu Zilian's lead, the Heiyun Army carried out several counterattacks and killed a large number of peasant soldiers, leaving them unable to resist.
Dare to push too hard. Moreover, Yu Zilian's training day and night to train the Heiyun Army in a good formation also had an effect. Although the cavalry that broke into the camp were circling around the Heiyun Army, they still could not find a place to attack.
In addition, the cavalry of the Peasant Army also wanted to pursue Yang Wenyue's troops, which resulted in insufficient manpower to attack the Heiyun Army. In the end, the Heiyun Army successfully withdrew from the battlefield.
After that, it was a battle where the official army fled and the peasant army pursued. After two days of retreat, when the Heiyun Army retreated to Yangguan Town, they found that the surrounding peasant troops had surrounded them. So Yu Zilian ordered
Camped on the spot and built fortifications based on the buildings in the town to resist the encirclement and annihilation of the peasant army. Yu Zilian also sent a fast horse to Runing for help, hoping that Wu Shigong would save him from fire and water again.
Yang Wenyue's tribe collapsed into two large pieces. One group of more than 4,000 people followed Yang Wenyue and Hu Dawei and fled into Lankao County. The other group of nearly 2,000 people fled with Yu Zilian's Black Cloud Army.
When he arrived at Yangguan Town, he took control of the town and received it.
More than 8,000 men from Tian Jianxiu's tribe, 3,000 cavalry from Li Guo's tribe, and more than 7,000 men from Liu Tichun's tribe gradually arrived. Together with He Yaoqi, they surrounded the two official armies again.