At dawn, the moon was dim, and the weather was the coldest at this time. The sentry riders on the outskirts of Xiaobotou Village all retreated to the walls of the village, dismounted, and lit campfires to keep warm.
Although Na He Xiongqi was cautious, the subordinates and subordinates were accustomed to winning battles. They only wanted to pursue the Jiangdong left army who was running south and avenge the blood of the people in Cangnan who were lured and annihilated.
People like Na He Xiongqi believed that the main force of the Jiangdong Left Army dared to hide on the island.
The counselors who were forced to stay in Xiaobotou Village were filled with resentment. Although Na He Xiongqi told them to be careful in the direction of the island before leaving, they only placed sentry posts on the seawall east of Xiaobotou Village and could only monitor the seawall.
After arriving in the narrow area of Xiaobotou Village, after the main force left, the generals who could not participate in the southward pursuit checked the sentry posts as usual, drank wine and fell asleep, and relaxed their requirements for the sentry riders on the periphery.
The Cangnan people left the village empty, let alone the big girl, they couldn't even find a female dog. This is a dog's day.
Twelve or three miles south of Xiaobotou Village, the Xiaomi River looks like a long plain white strip under the moonlight. It is frozen solid. The ice in the river is three to four feet thick. It is difficult for a brave man to smash it with a sledgehammer. Only the ice on the edge can be broken.
The layer is more fragile.
Taking advantage of the deeper waterway at the mouth of the river, the five-masted ship parked directly close to the river ice. The ship's side sides crunched against the edge of the river ice, and the sound of the river ice cracking was unusually clear in the night.
Hearing the noise, Zhao Qingshan was startled, but he couldn't care too much. There were concealment tactics, and alarm tactics. They couldn't completely seal off the area around Xiaobotou Village, which would require too many troops.
Their goal was to delay as much as possible the time for the main force of the counterattack to know that Xiaobotou Village had been attacked, so as to gain more time to lay siege to Xiaobotou Village and completely annihilate the enemy.
The sailors on the ship handed down the ten-foot long nail boards and firmly grasped the river ice near the embankment. Four boards were arranged side by side and sixteen long nail boards formed four disembarkation channels. Zhao Qingshan had already arrived on the deck.
The cavalrymen on standby from both capitals disembarked with their horses and quickly deployed along the Xiaomi River to block the channel. Then the armored soldiers disembarked from the boats and boarded the embankment, forming formations along the south embankment of the Xiaomi River in preparation for the sudden return of the main cavalry force.
After the fourth battalion landed and deployed and sent back the light signal, Zhou Pu and Ning Zechen took the fast oar boats to carry the third battalion, the fifth battalion and some of the labor and supply battalions that coordinated the attack, a total of more than 1,400 generals.
The soldiers landed on the seawalls on the north and south sides of Xiaobotou Village, approached Xiaobotou Village as concealed as possible, and were prepared to suddenly attack Xiaobotou Village.
The first battalion was led by Ao Canghai as a reserve team and would not land until the third and fifth battalions launched an offensive against Xiaobotou Village. Ma Pohou and other sentry officers, all the soldiers and commanders were full of opinions, first
The battalion is undoubtedly the most elite combat force of the Jiangdong Left Army. How can they not have any objections when they attack Xiaobotou Village and treat it as a reserve force? However, in front of Lin Fu, there is no chance for them to act arrogantly. Even Ao Canghai suppressed them to death.
dead.
This situation certainly has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that everyone fights and has high morale, which will greatly make up for the shortcomings of lack of training and combat experience. The disadvantage is that just like the captive cavalry at this time, the generals below will inevitably rush to win and advance rashly.
However, the scale of the Jiangdong Left Army was still small, with only 3,000 men. Ao Canghai, Zhou Pu, and Cao Ziang were all veterans who had gone through many hardships and experienced hundreds of battles. Only Ning Zechen and Zhao Qingshan were slightly inexperienced.
If Lin Fu were to detach an independent army to fight, the first candidates that would come to mind would be Cao Zi'ang, who is resourceful and cautious, Ao Canghai, and Zhou Pu are the second best candidates. Ning Zechen and Zhao Qingshan should still be gathered around for training.
When marching and fighting, knowing and using generals is the first priority. After all, all strategies and tactical intentions must be executed and implemented by specific people. Generals with different personalities and different abilities have different abilities to execute specific strategies and tactical intentions.
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Those who are both wise and courageous and able to assess the situation and have a little luck can be called famous generals. After all, famous generals are rare animals and can only be encountered but not sought.
After the great victory in Cangnan, Lin Fu was also guessing what kind of generals Yejier, the king of Donglu, would send to counterattack Cangnan.
In the past two days, after seeing the caution and vigilance of the generals who counterattacked from the direction of Dezhou, Lin Fu knew that King Yejier of the East had made an accurate judgment on the direction of Cangnan.
Lin Fu may not be qualified to compete with Ye Ji'er, the king of Donglu Khan, but Ye Ji's tactical intentions against Cangnan must be implemented through the generals he sent. Lin Fu is confident that he can tease Ye Ji's subordinates.
of the general.
The outposts and cavalry on the outside of Xiaobotou Village shrank to the vicinity of the village wall, which provided excellent conditions for the third and fifth battalions to sneak in. Ning Zechen led the fifth battalion to attack from the south, and Lin Fu was surrounded by dozens of guards.
I rushed to the 5th Battalion and prepared to enter the position to see the 5th Battalion's attack preparations.
Ning Zechen was gathering the sentry officers, sentry generals, captains of the capital, and flag-heads of the forerunners of the fifth battalion. More than twenty people squatted in a low-lying area, surrounding a dim small oil lamp to build a stronghold.
The previous tactical arrangements.
Lin Fu walked over surrounded by guards. Ning Zechen and the generals came to greet him and said: "Please give me instructions..."
"I'm just here to watch the battle. I didn't come with my mouth. I won't interfere with your command. Don't let any of you have any psychological burden." Lin Fu said with a smile, found a pile of soil nearby, swept away a handful of snow, sat down, and let Ning Ze
I will continue the discussion with everyone.
Lin Fu pushed hard for the grassroots military attachés of the fifth battalion of the Jiangdong Left Army to conduct serious tactical discussions, mobilization and post-war experience summarization before and after marching, training and combat, and asked all battalion generals to fulfill his requirements to the letter. In addition to
In addition to trying to avoid unnecessary attrition and losses, we also use this method to quickly train grassroots military attachés to form a complete and reliable command system.
In addition, through this method, grassroots military attachés can fully communicate and contact each other, and a collective life with sufficient communication can help each other understand and trust each other better, and help to form a team of middle and low-level military attachés in the entire Jiangdong Left Army.
A more cohesive group.
This principle is actually very simple. In the civil servant system at that time, the township party and those who were elected in the same year (in the same period as candidates or Jinshi) were the cronies. They supported each other in the officialdom and advanced and retreated together.
Lin Fu had the experience of studying in later schools, military academies, and joining the army, and knew the importance of collective life. He used all means to promote collective life, cultivate team awareness, and severely suppressed the emergence of fellow countrymen and small collectivism, which greatly strengthened internal cohesion.
It is crucial to improve the military's combat capabilities.
Without these technical means, long-term war training and brutal elimination are the only means to cultivate the best middle and low-level military attachés, which naturally imposes harsh requirements on the generals.
The Eastern Fujian elite commanded by Li Zhuo had a large number of middle and low-level military attachés with qualified tactical literacy. They were trained and trained in this way and could be called a strong army in the world. The cost and price was the ten-year Eastern Fujian War, and both sides paid countless amounts.
One hundred thousand casualties and tens of millions of taels of military supplies were destroyed, and the central and northwestern parts of East Fujian, southeastern Jiangxi, and southern Zhejiang were completely crippled.
How could Lin Fu have the cost and time to train such a large number of qualified military attachés? The cost of training them through war is staggering, and the middle and low-level military attachés trained will naturally have various flaws in their tactical accomplishments due to the factors of the general.
What Lin Fu can do is to integrate the military thoughts and methods/theories of later generations with the current military practice. It's just a pity that he can't directly open a military attaché school. Although that would be more convenient, if he really does that, it will undoubtedly declare a separatist regime or
Rebellion.
With Li Zhuo's outstanding personal talents and prestige, if all the elites of Eastern Fujian were in his hands, and with the strength of the Eastern Fujian army, he should be able to quickly drive out the Donglu cavalry who broke through the border and invaded.
Sadly, the Eastern Fujian elite had already been torn apart in the central party struggle. Even Li Zhuo himself would have been restricted to Jiangning, and the Eastern Fujian Army was no longer a complete and powerful whole.
The tactics formulated by Ning Zechen are simple but effective.
Lying quietly until dawn, more than a dozen cavalrymen took advantage of the cover of the dim night and ran straight from the left wing of the exit position to the south gate of Xiaobotou Village. The prisoner sentry post under the wall of the village could not see clearly who was coming under the dim moonlight.
The armored men thought they were messenger cavalry coming from the south. Although they stood up and looked around, they didn't pay enough attention. It wasn't until they were a hundred steps away that they saw that the dozens of cavalry showed no intention of reducing their weight, so they shouted and questioned them in barbarian language.
The dozen or so cavalrymen were all in good health, and the horses advanced the fastest. The impact of more than a hundred steps only took a few blinks. The prisoner cavalry sentry post only had time to blow the whistle, but had no time to pick up the bow and pull the string. Two men in a group of five
The sentry post at the South Village Gate was trampled over by dozens of horsemen wielding their swords. Horse hooves trampled over the campfire, kicking sparks flying. The group of soldiers guarding the village gate hesitated whether to close the gate to block the dozens of enemy horsemen or to stop them.
When they rushed out to kill the attacking cavalry, dozens of strong cavalry rushed in, defeated them, and captured the village gate.
When the police sentry post blew the alarm whistle, the cavalrymen of the fifth battalion of the Sandu team quickly rode out to fight and galloped to the front of the village gate at the fastest speed. The cavalrymen of the first battalion dismounted and fought with the cavalrymen who were the first to seize the door.
Dozens of strong men gathered together and firmly controlled the village gate area. A cavalry team spread out to chase the Luqi outposts on the outside of the wall. Taking advantage of the chaos that awakened the Luqi, a cavalry team quickly passed through the village gate.
Cross directly towards the threshing floor in the center of the stockade, killing as much as possible the chaotic enemy. Considering that most of the captive cavalry soldiers are experienced soldiers with strong individual qualities, after the enemy defenders in the stockade can organize an orderly counterattack, the cavalry that rushes and intersperses will quickly return.
At the Nanzhai Gate, lure the captive cavalry to seize the Nanzhai Gate. Use a tight and well-equipped armored soldier formation to kill and injure the captive cavalry as much as possible in the relatively open Nanzhai Gate area to avoid the more difficult street battles that follow.
After Ning Zechen was firmly under control at Nanzhai Gate, he led the main force of the fifth battalion, a total of seven armored soldiers, and sixteen flying conflict vehicles, and pounced towards Nanzhai Gate from the departure position.
Since the north and south sides could not achieve absolute synchronization, and it was previously confirmed that Ning Zechen would be the attack force, when the police whistle at the south gate sounded, Zhou Pu led his troops to seize the north gate again and closed the gate in time for the guards to close the gate in time.
The sentry post outside Beizhai Gate was destroyed.
Zhou Pu directly blocked the Beizhai Gate with iron nail boards, iron caltrops, flying contradictory chariots and an array of soldiers from the Sandu team to prevent the superior cavalry from suddenly rushing out from the gate; the main force of the third battalion came from other places.
Find a place to break in.
The walls of Xiaobotou Village were already thin. The Jiangdong Zuo Army abandoned the village and went to sea. They had already done some tricks on the base of the walls in places that were not conducive to the cavalry. It was easy to knock down the walls with a wooden bumper, leaving the infantry with trouble.