Chapter 230 Don't play cards according to the routine
The Ming army had not left for long when Wang Zhitan shouted to keep the formation and not to mess up. Then when he saw that the formation was a little chaotic, he immediately pretended to be angry, rode his horse directly to the front of the array, and then
He shouted loudly: "Stop, stop, stop for me. What a mess this formation is. Are you going to rush forward like this and die? Why don't you stop and reorganize the team!"
As soon as Wang Zhitan spoke, the Ming army, which had just walked for a few minutes, stopped again.
And what he did next was to make Li Xuan on the opposite side frown even more: "These Ming soldiers are so weird, is there some conspiracy?"
Qian Mengjiu on the side also looked puzzled and said: "What on earth are these Ming troops doing? Could it be that the Ming troops are ambushing the rear forces on the flanks and want to attract our main force head-on, waiting for the Ming troops ambushing on both sides to kill
come over?"
Zeng Ziwen shook his head and said frankly that he could not understand the Ming army's approach. He could only suggest that Li Xuan should be cautious and cautious to prevent the Ming army from cheating. It was best to enhance the protection capabilities of the two wings to avoid the Ming army coming from the flanks.
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The reason why Li Xuan and others could not understand the Ming army's path was because the Ming army did not follow the normal path at all.
It would be fine if the Ming army on the opposite side simply organized their formation. After all, when troops were fighting in the cold weapon era, it was very important to have a tight formation. If Wang Zhitan had to stop his troops to organize their formation in the middle, there was nothing anyone could do.
When you say something wrong about him, not only can't you say something wrong about him, but you also have to say that he did a good job.
However, Wang Zhitan personally walked through each queue and then arranged the formation himself.
In the eyes of many discerning people, this is unnecessary. What are you doing, Wang Zhitan? If you want to organize the formation, just give the next order. Why do you have to organize one team after another in person? Those hundreds of households below, the general flag
their work.
You are a member of the fifth rank with a thousand households, and you are also the frontline commander of this army. If you steal the jobs of your subordinates, can you still save some face?
Obviously, Wang Zhitan was shameless in order to delay time.
Wang Zhitan was shameless and refused to attack. Li Xuan and others on the opposite side didn't know about it. They thought the Ming army had some conspiracy to deceive, such as wasting the match ropes of the musketeers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty!
When the forwards of the Ming Army first arrived, the musketeers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty had already lit the match ropes. Although the match ropes burned slowly, the soldiers would not carry too many match ropes, usually only five, and they were
Many battles have to be fought with these five match ropes, and many soldiers do not have enough five match ropes on them.
Once a battle lasts for a long time and the opponent keeps attacking without fighting, the match rope will be consumed. Once too much match rope is consumed, it will be quite fatal for the musketeers.
Therefore, this behavior of the Ming army, which was obviously delaying time, made Li Xuan a little worried. Could it be that they wanted to consume the match ropes of his musketeers?
Li Xuan and others suspected that the Ming army had a conspiracy, but Su Jiakang in the back bowed his head and said a few words to Luo Mazi with a dark face. Luo Mazi in the back said: "Don't worry, sir. I'll let you go now."
General Wang speeds up the attack!"
In less than two minutes, Luo Mazi trotted to Wang Zhitan's side. For the distance that he had covered in two minutes, Wang Zhitan and the others had already walked for a full quarter of an hour, and they still stopped and had no intention of starting again.
Luo Mazi walked up to Wang Zhitan, snorted coldly at first, and then said: "Wang Qianhu, I have an order for you to lead the people to speed up!"
Wang Zhitan's face instantly turned extremely ugly when he looked at this fake and powerful thing. This Luo Mazi relied on the fact that he was Su Jiakang's personal follower, and he also had close followers. He had always been extremely domineering in front of outsiders, especially when he knew that Su Jiakang
Ieyasu originally looked down on warriors like Wang Zhitan, so he didn't have a good look towards warriors like Wang Zhitan. Every time he saw this man, Wang Zhitan wanted to give him a few big slaps.
But if someone really slaps him, Luo Mazi will immediately run to Su Jiakang and cry with snot in his nose, and he will also confuse right and wrong, and say the true is false, and the false is true.
Even if Su Jiakang would not really punish Wang Zhitan and the others for this, it would still make Su Jiakang feel unhappy, and Su Jiakang would feel unhappy, and he might lose his life when the time comes.
For example, what should you do if Su Jiakang has a bad impression of you and you are cut off when you are running away after a defeat?
Wang Zhitan endured the feeling of nausea, forced a smile and said: "Please report back to Mr. Su, I will lead the army to set off immediately!"
After hearing this, Luo Mazi snorted again, and then turned around and ran towards Su Jiakang. As soon as he arrived at Su Jiakang's side, the domineering look on Luo Mazi's face had completely disappeared, and what appeared instead was
With a flattering look like a pug: "Sir, I have already conveyed all your words. Mr. Wang said that he will attack immediately!"
Su Jiakang nodded slightly after hearing this, but had no intention of speaking. He just waved his hand and told Luo Mazi to roll aside and watch the battle next to him.
Luo Mazi bent over, lowered his head and quickly moved out of the way, standing behind Su Jiakang.
At this time, Su Jiakang also saw that the army in front finally set off again. Seeing this, he felt relieved a lot.
He could already tell that Wang Zhitan and the others seemed to want to delay time. This war-fearing state made Su Jiakang very unhappy.
A group of lowly warriors who have no overall view of the overall situation. How dare they not move forward at this time? After this battle, the puppet Tang rebel army will be annihilated and the puppet emperor Li Xuan will be captured. Let’s see how I deal with you!
After Wang Zhitan and the others went up, although they were not walking fast or even slowly, the distance was still only a few hundred meters, and they would not be able to get there no matter how long it took.
However, before and after Wang Zhitan led his army to the formation, he did not directly lead the entire army to charge as Su Jiakang expected. Instead, he first sent a forward force of about a hundred people.
It seems that they want to launch a test attack!
Well, this is definitely a normal tactical move, but the forward seems to have no courage to fight. He has just arrived less than a hundred meters away from the front of the Puppet Tang thief army, and the Puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side has just fired a round of firecrackers.
, I just didn’t know that someone shouted: Withdraw!
As a result, these people came back in droves!
Before they escaped, only one of the more than 100 people was hit by a musket bullet fired by the puppet Tang rebel army, and he was still slightly injured!
This scene made Su Jiakang behind him frown, and what happened next not only made Su Jiakang frown, but also made him angry.
The Ming army sent out three rounds of forwards one after another, but all of them were a hundred meters away. When the puppet Tang rebels fired the first round of cannons, they turned around and ran away.
Su Jiakang is not a fool. How could he not see the problem?
At this time, he took a deep breath, and then said to a group of soldiers around him: "You come forward to supervise the battle. If there is no Mingjin, anyone who dares to retreat will be killed!"
Su Jiakang's group of soldiers were all recruited by him in the past year. After the rebellion of the puppet Tang rebels, Su Jiakang began to prepare for the recruitment of soldiers in Zhengtai County. He originally planned to train at least 500 soldiers, but the cost of recruiting soldiers was not small.
, the small Zhengtai County cannot support these large expenses.
So in the end, Su Jiakang could only train 50 soldiers. There were only a few dozen people. Naturally, it was impossible to build a regular army with great fanfare. They could only serve as his own soldiers.
Since these are called personal soldiers, whether it is treatment or quality, they are naturally not comparable to those of ordinary guards soldiers, and are even better than ordinary recruits.
Yesterday, when they were outside Zhengtai County, Su Jiakang asked them to supervise the battle, but they killed many soldiers who escaped.
With his own soldiers going up to supervise the battle, he wants to see who dares to escape!
When he saw the soldiers behind Su Jiakang coming forward, Wang Zhitan's face darkened and he thought to himself, this is not going to be easy.
Sure enough, before and after the supervising team came forward, many people in the Ming army array, especially those who knew the cause of the matter and did not want to fight this battle in their hearts, were all in danger.
The Ming army had previously sent three waves of forwards to attack, but each time they retreated a hundred meters away. The total of the three times before and after was only one death and three injuries.
But now that the supervising team is watching to prevent them from retreating, wouldn't it mean that they will not be able to retreat if there is a fight from behind, and they will have to rush upwards. God knows how many people will die by then.
But in my heart I don't want to go forward to fight, but the war team is behind me, and each of them looks like a ferocious spirit. They are much tougher than the serf guard soldiers, so even if I am scared or even panicked in my heart, when my head is down,
After giving the order, the fourth wave of Ming army forwards still had to bite the bullet and launch the attack.
This time the Ming army was much larger in number, with more than two hundred people.
According to Wang Zhitan's previous plan, this wave of forward attacks will still be the same as the previous three. It is just a pretend attack. They will withdraw directly after the puppet Tang rebels fired the first round of firecrackers.
Then Wang Zhitan would bring other generals to Su Jiakang and cry, saying that the puppet Tang rebels had sharp weapons and that their own soldiers were exhausted, in order to force Su Jiakang to stop the attack, and finally let everyone rest for a night.
Say it again.
As for tomorrow, whether the puppet Tang rebels are still there or not is none of their business. It would be better if they leave, as they don't need to fight yet.
At the same time, in the formation of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, Li Xuan looked at the Ming army slowly coming up again. Now he was very sure that the Ming army on the opposite side just wanted to delay time.
These Ming troops who did not follow the routine were either trying to buy time for the friendly troops to bypass the flanks, or they were trying to consume their own matches and ammunition.
This can't go on like this!
Li Xuan immediately said to the ordering soldiers beside him: "The ordering musketeers must not fire until the enemy troops rush fifty steps!"
In the past, when the musketeers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty were fighting against the enemy, they would fire at close range unless the enemy was cavalry. If the enemy was only infantry, they would usually fire one after another about a hundred meters away in order to shoot.
More rounds of bullets.
But now, Li Xuan ordered the troops to reduce the distance from the first shot!
If he fired within fifty steps, the hit rate could be further improved, and he also wanted to use this to see what the Ming army's plot was.
When the more than two hundred forwards of the Ming army walked a hundred meters behind, they were ready to retreat at any time, but the puppet Tang rebel army on the opposite side did not fire as before!
Qianhu, the leader of the team, hesitated for a while and continued to lead the team forward to a place about eighty meters away. At this time, the puppet Tang rebels did not even fire!
what happened?
Do you want to continue to move forward?
It seems unreasonable to turn around and go back now. If we continue to move forward now, the fire blunderbuss of those pseudo-Tang thieves will really kill people!
One of the deputy Qianhu who led the team turned to Wang Zhitan to get the order to advance or retreat, but at this time Wang Zhitan was also a little dumbfounded!
Why don’t the pseudo-Tang bandits on the opposite side play their cards according to the routine! 89