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Han Qian's most important thing in recent years is the training of grassroots generals and military attachés, which makes Daliang's small groups of troops dispersed and capable of independent combat.
The cavalry tore through the defenses on both sides of the enemy's forward line. Tens of thousands of elite soldiers and horses, in the heavy fog with visibility of only 70 to 80 feet, even with a sentry unit of a hundred people, passed through the valleys and bumpy roads.
As they advanced rapidly northward in the field, they could not see the beginning or end of the team.
Occasionally, a chaotic enemy army rushes in, or is blocked by rivers or villages. The array advancing north will inevitably be stretched further. Even if the sentry unit is marching north, the array cannot take care of both the beginning and the end.
If this were the armies of other forces in the world, it would definitely be a military disaster.
Even if Daliang soldiers and horses are broken down into small teams, they will not lose their combat effectiveness.
Under normal circumstances, the enemy's cavalry force has an absolute advantage in the open Fenshui River Valley. Wenbo would never dare to let his troops disperse too much to fight. He must ensure a sufficient dense formation to prevent the enemy from possible attacks from all directions.
An impact launched in a roundabout direction.
However, the foggy weather completely suppressed the enemy's cavalry's ability to fight in roundabout ways, while Liang's soldiers could unscrupulously conduct scattered marches and fights with sentries or even smaller units.
Before the war, necessary mobilization and preparations were made for marching in the fog.
The first soldiers and horses to advance forward, each sentry team carries one or two guides who are familiar with the terrain, and obvious signs will be left along the road to guide the subsequent soldiers and horses forward.
Even if a battle breaks out when an enemy army is defeated, the focus in the early stage will be clearly on defeating and dispersing the enemy, and the queue will be reorganized every once in a while before continuing to move forward.
The whole process, to put it bluntly, is a test of the military's organizational capabilities and whether it has penetrated to the grassroots level.
There are no clear flags to convey combat orders. The passwords and whistles and drums in the fog are mainly used to distinguish ourselves from the enemy. This is the time to advance, retreat, and rest, even when facing a sudden defeat of the enemy or the entire team still maintains considerable combat capabilities.
The enemy forces all need grassroots military attachés to make independent and decisive judgments.
As a small group of soldiers and horses temporarily lose contact with the main force, it is more necessary for grassroots military attaches to overcome it, calm the panic of their soldiers, decide how to defend nearby, assemble and contact the main force, or confirm a new march direction on their own.
Liang Jun has been expanding at a great rate in recent years, and not all grassroots military attaches can become elite military attaches after receiving certain training. However, since Han Qian started his career in Xuzhou, he has not only attached great importance to the cultivation of grassroots military attaches, but also paid more attention to guerrilla warfare. These two
The two can even be said to complement each other, which makes Liang Jun have a large number of grassroots military attachés with the ability to independently lead troops in combat.
Even if this ratio is only one-third of the entire army, in such heavy fog, when the two armies meet and are destined to fall into a melee, Liang Jun has already established an absolute advantage.
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The main infantry brigade, under the cover of the cavalry brigade, quickly charged north, leaving behind a considerable number of elite soldiers and horses to disperse and attack the rioters on both flanks of the enemy's forward line, preventing these scattered enemy soldiers from regrouping.
possible.
As for the main force of the forward troops assembled along Jiangyuan Post Road, although Wenbo replaced the reserve brigade with weaker combat effectiveness before the decisive battle, it does not mean that they can sit back and watch the main combat force causing chaos in the enemy's hinterland.
And they have no new combat missions.
If you want to succeed in one battle, you need to penetrate the enemy's defense line from the frontal battlefield at the same time and completely destroy the enemy's will to resist.
Otherwise, even if the surprise troops and horses advancing deep into the enemy's hinterland can destroy all the camps on both sides of Jiang County, the actual amount of damage will be quite limited.
Such a surprise attack would only be able to defeat the enemy troops in the rear and disperse them, making it difficult to complete the arduous task of severely damaging the labor force.
If a breakthrough cannot be made from the frontal defense line, the cities in the north such as Jiangxian, Wenxi, Quwo, and Yicheng are all under the absolute control of the Mongolian army. Usu Dashi can gather the scattered troops based on the speed of these cities and even organize a counterattack.
The speed will be extremely fast.
This not only greatly limited the expansion of the results of the battle, but this battle may not even succeed in forcing the Mongolian army to retreat from the Fenshui River Valley.
If this is the case, this battle also means that it will not end smoothly.
The basic soldiers of the reserve brigade are all new recruits, especially the 40,000 young men who were recruited from the people who fled eastern Henan to join the battalion. They have weak penetration combat capabilities, weak dispersed operations and independent combat capabilities. It is difficult to expect them to fight tough battles.
However, the backbone of the reserve brigade, from senior generals to grass-roots military attachés, are all elite military attachés and veterans. After organizing training for new recruits for three to five months, their ability to form battle formations and attack cities and seize strongholds is still better than that of ordinary places.
The state soldiers came out strong.
The barracks on the Mongolian army's forward line are slightly stronger, and the war equipment is well-equipped and densely deployed, but in any case, they are far from comparable to Jiangxian's city walls that are more than three feet high and the deep trenches that are more than seven or eight feet wide.
Compare.
What's more critical is that after the two wings were broken through, the Mongolian troops on the forward line didn't know how many Liang troops would attack their flanks and rear, nor did they know how many Liang troops would outflank them from the rear and attack their flanks and rear. They were confused.
In the chaos, some people even fell from the simple defensive wall.
People were in a panic, and some people shouted in the chaos that "General So-and-so" opened the camp and surrendered to Liang Jun.
Listening carefully to the name, it turned out that he was really Tian Weiye's general. However, when Yuanqu fell, this man stayed in the north of Lishan to guard Anyi City.
In the chaos, it is difficult to distinguish between true and false news, and people become more panicked.
Although Wusu Dashi has been sending orders to the troops in the forward line to stabilize their position, under such circumstances, how can ordinary generals have such a strong psychological quality to truly stabilize their position without panicking.
After midnight, the visibility in the fog was slightly better.
Wenbo ordered a main infantry brigade to garrison the front base, and two reserve brigades, surrounded by trench trucks, cave houses, bumpers, and ladder trucks, rushed toward the front base of the enemy camp like a torrent.
The front fortress of the enemy camp was built across the Jiangyuan Post Road and its two wings. The terrain here was already quite open. The front fortress of the enemy camp stretched for about four miles from east to west. It was composed of trenches, protective walls, and obstacles such as horses, antlers, and ground nails to form a defense line.
On such a narrow defense line, 15,000 soldiers were immediately deployed to annex the city. The intensity can be imagined. It was almost a battalion unit. More than 40 siege channels were opened at the same time to attack the enemy camp using human sea tactics.
The front base charges over.
The attacking troops and horses in the attached city were so dense. Faced with the arrows and stones thrown and fired by the enemy from behind the fortifications, and the spilled kerosene, the initial casualties were destined to be extremely tragic.
However, Wenbo ignored the arrows and stones thrown by the enemy camp, which were as dense as a swarm of locusts, and completely ignored how tragic the casualties would be in front of the enemy camp's front base. He ordered more than a hundred drums to be lined up in a row, and selected powerful soldiers to beat the war drums, demanding
If the charging troops and horses hear the drums, they will continue to advance, and those who retreat will be killed in front of the formation.
It was said that the visibility was slightly higher, but the scenery ten feet away was still blurry.
Liang Jun had been prepared for a long time. During the night battle, he left clear marks and signs in front of the enemy camp to guide soldiers and horses to the city. On the offensive route, he also used strong vehicle formations as interruption points.
In addition to dividing attack channels, it is also responsible for delivering information, military orders and supervising operations.
The enemy generals were not fully prepared, but in the chaos, they had to enter the wall where the fighting was fiercest in order to grasp the changes on the battlefield in a timely manner.
This is also the biggest advantage of being prepared to kill the unprepared.
Wenbo opened more than 40 channels at the same time to organize soldiers and horses to surround the city, and carried out a saturation attack using human sea tactics regardless of casualties. This required the generals on the enemy's forward line to not be able to take care of both ends in order to ensure that the opening was opened in the shortest possible time.
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There are many experienced veterans and veterans in the enemy's forward camp. After all, even the generals who were still determined to follow the Mongol army when Jin surrendered, they were all professional soldiers who had been in the army for half their lives, and there were many people around them.
Few elite Yajun guards can fight bloody and tough battles.
However, in such a chaotic situation, with a distance of more than ten feet between the left and right and no clear understanding of the situation, how could the enemy be able to cover all aspects of the front base defense line that is more than four miles long?
Every time a hole was opened in the enemy's front line of defense, Wenbo sent an additional team of reinforcements to strengthen the offensive, and without hesitation penetrated deep into the enemy camp.
The generals of the reserve brigade were not very effective in attacking fortresses and were not suitable for scattered operations, so they advanced deep into the enemy camp in a dense formation like fish scales, shoulder to shoulder with their swords, shields and halberds raised, without any detours or divisions.
The enemy's tactics are just to kill the enemy camp and then defend on the other side of the enemy camp.
It is difficult to minimize casualties with this tactic. When the enemy crossbows fire at them, three or five people may even die with one arrow. If they are hit by stone bullets thrown by the enemy's cyclone cannon, there will still be heavy casualties. However,
Simple and practical.
In fact, it is not necessary to make progress in more than forty passages. After an intense hour, the thick fog before noon finally dispersed, and the scene within a hundred steps could be seen. However, at this time, Liang Jun had more than ten troops.
Killed through the enemy camps one after another.
The number of casualties among the more than 30,000 soldiers and horses at the front of the enemy camp is unknown. The remaining soldiers and horses were either completely cut apart and fell into chaos, or they ran away and fled north, abandoning their helmets and armor.
Zhu Zhen commanded groups of cavalry under his command to rush into the enemy camp through the gap, killing the enemy troops who tried to resist in the chaos, and clearing two main passages for He Liufeng, Tan Xiuqun, Zhao Ci and others to recharge their batteries.
Four infantry brigades and one cavalry brigade, which had not yet been dispatched at this time, quickly crossed the enemy's front line of defense and advanced towards Jiangxian City.
Wen Bo's plan was to use Cao Ba, Lu Ze, Su Lie, Huo Li and other troops who launched an assault from the two wings to the north in the early morning as the first echelon; He Liufeng, Tan Xiuqun and Zhao who were advancing towards Jiangxian County
Ci led his troops as the second echelon, and at the same time used the 40,000 soldiers and horses, mainly the reserve brigade, to wipe out the defeated troops on the forward battlefield of the two armies at this time, as the third echelon to control Jiangxian and the surrounding area of 30 to 40 miles.
The vast battlefield within.
Such a deployment is also to ensure that no accidents occur, and at the same time, it is also necessary to retain and kill the defeated Mongolian troops as much as possible.
Only in this way can the combat intention of annihilating the effective strength of the Mongolian army be achieved to the maximum extent.
Of course, when Wen Bo sent He Liufeng, Tan Xiuqun, Zhao Ci and other troops to Jiang County, it was not because Wen Bo hoped to catch Wu Su Dashi and Xiao Yiqing, but to keep an eye on them.
At this time, there were still 6,000 troops stationed in Jiangxian City led by Wu Su Dashi.
These six thousand men and horses can be said to be the most elite cavalry of the Mongols.
If Wenbo doesn't send out a strong enough force to keep an eye on it, once the fog completely dissipates in the afternoon, such an elite combat force with fast mobile combat capabilities will be almost at the core of the entire battlefield.
, there is still the possibility of turning the entire battle situation around.
With less than 20,000 elite infantry and less than 3,000 cavalry, and while the outer battlefield is still in chaos, it is an extremely difficult task to trap the enemy's 6,000 most elite cavalry in Jiangxian City.
After all, their cavalry is still too limited in size...
Almost all of the 12,000 cavalry were sent to the battlefield. Wen Bo and Zhu Zhen's troops could only defeat the enemy near the front base of the enemy camp, but he was strictly prohibited from leading his troops to penetrate deeper at will.
Wen Bo did this mainly because he was worried about any changes that might happen on the battlefield at any time.
At that time, he could only order Zhu Zhen to quickly gather some cavalry and rush over for reinforcements.
They are completely left in the rear army to serve as reserve troops. At present, there is not even one battalion of integrated cavalry.
Even at this time, as long as there are three thousand more cavalry for Wen Bo to call upon, he will consider keeping Wu Su Dashi, Xiao Yiqing and other enemy generals.
Although he now gives Feng Zhang, Tan Xiuqun and other generals the right to act as they see fit after entering the battlefield, in terms of arranging the entire battle situation, he does not have the luxury of thinking about keeping Wu Su Dashi and Xiao Yiqing...
