The characteristic of Li Rusong's leadership and use of troops, as Gao Pragmatic commented, is that "he is as fast as the wind."
Even if it was over mountains and ridges, he wanted to go as fast as possible. Thanks to the Shaanxi soldiers who were relatively hard-working frontier troops, he did not cause him to lose several percent of their troops just by marching.
At this time, Li Rusong himself got off his horse, hid in the mountains, and asked the mountains and valleys in front of him: "Which of you has been here before? What is the name of the place in front of you?"
Behind him, a servant and bodyguard chuckled.
Li Rusong frowned and said: "Why are you laughing?" Li Rusong had a bigger temper than his father Li Chengliang. Although the Li family's servant had a high status, when he saw Li Rusong frowning, he quickly stopped his smile and replied: "In reply to the eldest young master,
That mountain is called Brain Gua Mountain, and that valley is called Big Butt Valley." [Note: Both of these places are still there. If you are interested, you can visit them on Baidu Map.]
The corner of Li Rusong's mouth twitched and he cursed angrily: "...Who chose such a stupid name?"
Obviously no one could answer this question. Someone speculated: "Maybe they are Mongolians. They choose place names very casually and are not particular at all."
Of course this is all just guessing. Maybe they are from the Liao Dynasty, but what about the Jin people?
Li Rusong was too lazy to ask any more questions and said directly: "We will divide our troops later. Li Pinghu, you lead the Shaanxi squadron through the ditch and attack Dong Fox's camp from the front, attracting Dong Fox's attention so that he has no time to care. If necessary,
You can raise my flag. The Shaanxi troops in Jizhen will be led by this general in person, and they will climb over the Naogua Mountain. After the battle between Dong Hu and Li Ping's Hu tribe becomes tense, they will rush down the mountain and defeat Dong Hu's main force."
He looked around at all the servants and said: "Dong Fox's camp is not in the right place. It is surrounded by either mountains or valleys, but he stays in the middle. As long as we attack each other from both sides like this, he will definitely be defeated."
.Hmm... However, if he wants to run away, it will be difficult for us to chase him, so we will try our best to surround Dong Fox himself later. This requires you to move quickly. This wave of rushing down the mountain does not necessarily have to be
We must completely defeat it, but we must complete the penetration or outflank. We will see the situation later..."
Obviously, Li Rusong does not rely on "temple calculations" in commanding battles. He seems to be better at making decisions on the spot.
At this time, the sky began to lighten up. Li Rusong didn't want to wait any longer and took action immediately.
Ten thousand soldiers and horses were not too many, but he divided them into two of five thousand, which shows that he was very ambitious and confident.
Of course, Dong Fox had been attacked by Qi Jiguang many times before, and his morale was relatively average. As for the number of people, Dong Fox's headquarters sent troops to harass the Ming Dynasty, and usually only sent 10,000 cavalry, which was not particularly strong.
Not long after, 5,000 Shaanxi soldiers led by Li Pinghu appeared in Dabuigou. The sentry detectives under Dong Hu's command immediately discovered them. The sound of horns immediately sounded in the camp, and not long after, the sound of war drums sounded.
Soon, Dong Hu personally led more than 3,000 cavalry to kill them. Unfortunately, this was a mountain valley, and it was inconvenient for the cavalry to perform, especially around the camp, so Dong Hu had to lead his men to shoot.
Who knew that this group of Shaanxi soldiers had been equipped with Longqing II muskets before this expedition. Although their marksmanship was very ordinary, Li Pinghu was one of Li Chengliang's most capable generals and was sent to follow Li Rusong in the Shenji Camp.
After all, he learned to form a formation and fire volleys. After a few volleys that were not very volleyed, Dong Hu was shocked to find that he had actually lost money - his volleys hit at most thirty or forty Ming soldiers, and most of them were only wounded.
, and although the frequency of the Ming army's volleys was far less than the frequency of their concentrated shots, they actually shot about fifty people or horses.
"Damn it, stop shooting at the Jinghua muskets used by the Ming army!" Dong Fox was furious and immediately wanted to launch a charge. However, after comparing the strength of the two sides, he felt that it was not feasible to charge at this time.
It was a good deal, so I had to suppress my anger and wait until three or four thousand more cavalry arrived in the camp, then I roared and launched the charge.
The momentum of six to seven thousand cavalry charging into the formation was absolutely huge in this canyon, but Li Pinghu insisted on following the method he learned in the Shenji Camp and continued to arrange the three-stage attack without seeing anything - this tactic was
It was Mu Ying's favorite weapon in the early Ming Dynasty. Although almost two hundred years have passed, the Longqing II musket is much more powerful than it was in the early Ming Dynasty, and its power is not bad at all.
During Dong Hu's charge into the battle, the Ming army killed more than eighty people.
Li Pinghu was excited and thought that this place was really a good place tailor-made for infantry battles.
But he stopped laughing soon, because after Dong Fox's cavalry came to the front, the muskets were useless, and the simple knives equipped by these Shaanxi soldiers were not very useful against the cavalry - they were not long enough -
—Casualties quickly increased.
Fortunately, after the pikemen attacked, Dong Hu was reluctant to let his cavalry die with the cheap pikemen in such a place, so he turned around and retreated, so the Ming army's casualties were not further expanded.
But how could Li Pinghu allow Dong Hu to withdraw so easily? If he withdraws him, his mission will fail!
So Li Pinghu didn't care about the casualties, and ordered the musketeers to come forward again, chasing Dong Fox's tail.
There was a burst of "bang bang bang bang" gunshots. Dong Fox subconsciously looked back and saw that he had lost more than a dozen cavalrymen. He suddenly became furious. He took a look and saw that the Ming army was afraid of accidentally injuring friendly troops with muskets, so the musketeers stepped forward.
By that time, the pikemen had already retreated.
Dong Hu gritted his teeth and turned around again with his cavalry to charge.
This time, Li Ping and Hu did not dare to continue to be arrogant, and quickly ordered the change of formation. However, the cavalry was cavalry after all, and the speed of turning around and charging was obviously faster than the Shaanxi soldiers' change of formation. Before the pikemen could come up to take over, the musketeers again
Dozens of them were hacked to death by Dong Hu's tribe.
If it were an ordinary Ming army guard, the battle would have been on the verge of collapse at this level. However, the resilience of the Shaanxi Ban Army exceeded Dong Hu's expectations.
, the musketeers retreated back with angry faces.
Dong Hu was still unwilling to fight hand-to-hand with the pikemen. Seeing that they were pressing forward again, he had no choice but to order another retreat.
But this time, it was not as easy to retreat as before. The pikemen held on to Dong Fox's troops, and some even desperately threw themselves on the horses of Dong Fox's cavalry, trying desperately to pull the knights away.
Get off your horse.
The more the Ming army behaved like this, the more frightened Dong Hu was. He subconsciously felt that staying here was not the best idea. He became furious and ordered his subordinates to retreat quickly.
But it was too late. A Ming army suddenly rushed down from Naoguazi Mountain, which was a hundred times more energetic than the Ming army in front of them. They shouted the slogan "Defeat Duoyan Wei and eliminate Dong Fox" and rushed over with murderous intent!
Dong Hu's intuition told him that he was in a bad situation now, and if he didn't leave, he might not be able to leave.
He suddenly thought: Anyway, he only brought a few thousand cavalry out. Now that the Ming army's offensive has been contained by him, wouldn't it be natural for him to leave? As for the critical situation - no, the situation is a little bad, leaving some parts behind.
It is very common for him to lead the main force to retreat in exchange for the retreat!
He found an excuse for himself and no longer cared about other people or other things. He led his bodyguards and shouted "Retreat the whole team and prepare to charge into the formation" while leading the cavalry who could still find time to follow him.
Just pull your horse and go.
There is a retreat, but preparing to charge into battle is obviously just a slogan.
However, when Dong Hu finally withdrew from the anxious and difficult-to-separate front line with the Ming army, before he could take a breath, he saw dozens of knights approaching to support his retreat. He was overjoyed and shouted: "What little kid?"
You are so discerning, you know how to save me? You will be rewarded when you go back!"
The first person to come was very fast and looked very big. Dong Huxu thought to himself: "Is it possible that my eyes are dazzled? Whose good boy is this? His size is so amazing?"
The "good boy" replied in a deep voice on the horse: "It's good to give a reward, but it's not as good as me coming to get it myself..."
Dong Hu saw only thirty or forty knights. How could he know that these were the servant knights of the Li family, who were usually the absolute elite guarding Li Rusong. He thought they were people from a side tribe that he was not familiar with. He suddenly frowned and thought to himself.
:Where did you come from, a country bumpkin, talking to me like this? You can take whatever reward I give you. How can there be any reason for you to take it yourself?
But as Li Rusong's horse approached, his face that was fifty-six times similar to that of Li Chengliang appeared in front of Dong Hu. Even the murderous intention on his cold face was even more intense than that of Li Chengliang whom he had seen several times.
How cold and severe!
"Who are you?" Dong Huxu was shocked and asked, while swaying on his horse, hoping to avoid Li Rusong.
He was answered with an angry shout: "The man who sacrificed his life for this Ming Dynasty border gate has so many bones!"
How could Li Rusong be so easy to avoid? He didn't even give Dong Hushu and the guards around him a chance to get far away before they were like a gust of wind. He suddenly thrust out the spear in his hand. Dong Hushu subconsciously raised his machete to block it.
, but it has already been a step slower.
"Ah -" Li Rusong's spear was like a strange python coming out of its hole, and suddenly pierced Dong Huxu!
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Thanks to book friend "lavayen", "ordinary people picking up fish on the beach" for their monthly support, thank you! I fell asleep while I was about to write, so that's all for today, I can't bear it anymore...
