Chapter 227 The fake Tang thief army is so cunning
While everyone was still arguing, Li Xuan had already made a decision directly, which made Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren couldn't help but look up at Li Xuan.
Even Qian Mengjiu glanced at Li Xuan!
Because Li Xuan at this time is different from usual!
In the past, when major events happened, civil and military officials would usually discuss it. After the discussion came out with a unanimous result, Li Xuan would make the final decision. Or the two sides could not argue, and the ministers could not come up with a unanimous decision after the discussion.
After the results, Li Xuan will make the final choice.
But today, Li Xuan did not give his civil and military ministers much time to debate. He even directly planned their debate and made his own decision.
This kind of thing seems a bit strange to Qian Mengjiu and the others.
Li Xuan didn't care about what everyone thought.
As time went by, the longer Li Xuan was emperor, the more control he had in the Tang Dynasty. He became more and more accustomed to it, and even liked to be arbitrary.
Well, in the words of Liu Bagou and Qian Mengjiu, he is the Holy Judge!
This is not only because his desire for power is getting bigger and bigger, but also because although the total number of civil and military officials in the Tang Dynasty is not large, their origins and knowledge are different, and they often have different opinions when facing the same thing.
dispute.
Many times, none of these officials could convince anyone, and in the end, Li Xuanlai had to make the decision himself.
At the beginning, in order to avoid irritating Fang Dongquan and Liu Bagou, Li Xuan just let it go and pretended to be stupid. But today, Li Xuan no longer needs to look at the faces of Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren and others, so Li Xuan is becoming more and more angry.
They were impatient and kept arguing.
This led to Li Xuan, when he encountered a major and urgent matter such as the Ming army's night attack today, he directly planned the discussions with the ministers, without even asking any ministers for their opinions, and directly made his own decision
Choice, and this choice is different from what Qian Mengjiu and Fang Dongquan debated.
However, Qian Mengjiu and the others were strange, but they would not stupidly ask why or express any protest.
Li Xuan is the emperor. In theory, such military and national affairs require Li Xuan to make the final choice. But now Li Xuan has just moved the decision-making time forward, and the decision he made is different from the decision debated by the ministers.
It's just too much the same.
After Li Xuan finished speaking, he looked around and naturally saw the surprise in the eyes of Qian Mengjiu and others, but now he no longer cared.
Just listen to him continue: "General Huang, you take the baggage team and go first. There are more than forty baggage soldiers in your baggage team and two hundred young men. There shouldn't be any problem in setting off alone!"
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Huang Xueren said: "Your Majesty, there is no problem with the baggage team. I will definitely take the baggage team away safely!"
Li Xuan nodded slightly, and then looked at Wang Shanxu and Fang Dongquan: "The remaining generals should be ready. After a while, each will lead his headquarters to fight with me!"
Fang Dongquan and Wang Shanxu were slightly stunned, and then they said in unison: "I obey the decree!"
The military order has been issued. Although generals Fang Dongquan and Wang Shanxu still have doubts, but now that the military order is overwhelming, they have to put down many doubts in their hearts and make preparations with their respective subordinates!
As soon as Li Xuan's order to prepare for war was given, the small valley instantly boiled. A large number of torches were lit, the soldiers were called up, and then began to prepare weapons and armor in a panic.
Among them, Wang Shanxu's musketeers were the quickest to prepare. The training of these musketeers was far better than that of other bandits. At the same time, they always kept their guns close to their bodies, and they slept with their clothes on at night.
After that, you can immediately gather with the muskets.
The slowest ones are the heavy-armored sword-and-shield soldiers led by Butcher Chen. They are tough bandits who are relatively loose to begin with. At the same time, if they want to prepare for battle, they must wear armor.
This armor is not so easy to put on. Even if someone helps to put it on, it will take several minutes. It will be even more troublesome if you put it on alone. This is the simplified iron armor or cotton armor of the King of the Tang Dynasty. These armors
They are relatively suitable for wearing. If it is the full-body knight armor of medieval Europe, it will take more than ten minutes to put it on with help. If there is no one to help, I'm sorry, you can't put it on by yourself!
Wearing armor takes a long time, and at the same time, you cannot march for a long time wearing armor. Therefore, if some heavily armored units are attacked while marching or camping, and a battle breaks out in an instant, these heavily armored soldiers simply do not have enough strength.
When time comes to put on your own armor, you can only fight as a light infantry.
But then again, unless they are ambushed at close range, even if they are attacked, it will take time for the enemy troops to rush over, so these heavily armored units will have enough time to put on their armor and fight.
By the time Butcher Chen and his men arrived in formation, the musketeers, archers and spearmen were all ready.
Li Xuan, who was riding on the horse, glanced at it, and then nodded slightly to Wang Shanxu beside him!
Although he personally directed the battle, except for the time when he led the musketeers to charge in Zhengtai County, he had never personally led the soldiers to fight.
It was the same this time. He, Qian Mengjiu, Zeng Ziwen and others were behind, while Wang Shanxu rode forward from Li Xuan, and then commanded the troops to start deploying defenses along the camp.
When camping in the wild, it is naturally impossible to sleep on the ground. Even if there is no tent, there are still simple fences made of some wooden stakes or even branches.
Now they set up defenses along a row of wooden piles on the outside of the camp, especially in the relatively open terrain directly in front, where they had originally set up a lot of tree piles to form a simple distance.
The detailed formation they arranged was that the musketeers were in front, the archers were in the back, and the spearmen were further back.
The above three arms form the main defense line. The specific combat mode will be to intercept with muskets first, and then the archers will shoot arrows. When the enemy troops rush behind and behind them, the musketeers will continue to load and shoot or use bayonets according to the situation. The spearmen will
They would move forward to cover the musketeers, while the archers would abandon their bows and arrows and fight with swords, providing close cover and killing the enemy soldiers who rushed into their own formation.
Butcher Chen's heavy-armored sword-and-shield troops in the rear had to be used intensively because they were too small, so they acted as a strategic reserve as before, used to block gaps or launch counterattacks to attack the enemy's flanks.
As for Cao Mingda's cavalry, they roamed the periphery to provide early warning of the periphery, and could also charge and kill when necessary.
However, his dozen cavalrymen could not play any role in a battle involving hundreds or thousands of people. At most, they were used as reconnaissance cavalry, hunting down some enemy stragglers.
The new army of the Tang Dynasty in the valley lit a large number of torches in preparation for war. This situation was soon learned by Su Jiakang, who was several miles away.
"Damn it, these pseudo-Tang rebels are so cunning, they actually found us!" At this time, Su Jiakang didn't know that the whereabouts of the Ming army was exposed by Wang Zhitan and others on his own initiative. He thought that the scouts of the pseudo-Tang rebels were so awesome.
They were spotted several miles away.
"But that's fine. Since these puppet Tang bandits didn't turn around and run away, it's a good time for us to catch them all!" Su Jiakang still looked high-spirited and continued confidently: "We have more than a thousand elite soldiers.
, the puppet Tang traitor army is only half of the army, as long as the soldiers use their lives to defeat the puppet army, and capture the puppet emperor alive is a certainty!"
Hearing what Su Jiakang said, Wang Zhitan almost spit out a mouthful of blood!
You old bastard, you still want to attack under such circumstances. You are crazy. Even if you don't consider that your own soldiers are exhausted and unable to fight, you must understand that the puppet Tang rebel army is already fully prepared.
In this case, a night attack was launched, and it was a forceful attack. The main reason was that if it was successful, I would cut off the head and use it as a ball.
At this time, not only Wang Zhitan, but also several other generals had strange expressions on their faces, and then they all looked at Wang Zhitan.
Feeling the gazes of everyone, Wang Zhitan knew what they were thinking. Wasn't it just that he wanted to persuade Su Jiakang?
After a slight hesitation, Wang Zhitan said in a very cautious tone: "Mr. Su, you see that the puppet Tang bandit army is now ready. Although our soldiers are brave, they are already exhausted. If we attack rashly,
I’m afraid I’m powerless!”
Su Jiakang turned around and glanced at Wang Zhitan. He didn't say anything, but just stared at him coldly!
When Wang Zhitan saw Su Jiakang like this, his courage to persuade him disappeared without a trace in an instant.
He knew very well that the Su Jiakang he was facing was no ordinary person. Even though Su Jiakang was not even his immediate boss, Su Jiakang was a civil servant with a Jinshi background.
And although this kind of military affairs is said to be the responsibility of military generals, in today's era of nobles and military officials, the military has long been controlled by civilian officials. Therefore, Wang Zhitan is not the person in charge of annihilating the puppet Tang traitor army.
Or several other thousand households, deputy thousand households, but Su Jiakang, a small seventh-grade county magistrate, or online is Song Zhiwen, the grand master of the prefecture.
And civilian officials have never taken the lives of generals seriously. If he continues to persuade now, maybe Su Jiakang will say: "If the morale of the army is shaken, pull him out and kill him!"
The most important thing is that if Su Jiakang cuts him off with a knife, he will be cut off, but there is no big shot in the court to avenge him, and he might add insult to injury and put some messy shit basin on his head.
Well, just like Zeng Ziwen of the Qianhu Department of Qianhu in Tong'an, he was put in a shit basin and had the reputation of underestimating the enemy and advancing rashly, resulting in the disastrous defeat of the army.
Wang Zhitan opened his mouth, but he didn't dare to say the following words of persuasion. Finally, under Su Jiakang's gaze, he obediently lowered his head.
Seeing Wang Zhitan lowering his head, and the other generals also bowing their heads obediently, Su Jiakang let out a cold snort!
These warriors who are greedy for life and afraid of death have no idea how to take the overall situation into consideration!
The soldiers were exhausted after chasing for a whole day. Didn't Su Jiakang know? Not only did he know, but he also knew it very clearly.
Could it be that after the puppet Tang rebel army was well prepared, it would become more difficult to attack at night, and the soldiers might suffer heavy casualties? Didn't he know?