At this time, if you look down from the sky, you will find that with the Bronze Drum Acropolis as the center, the armies of both sides are surrounded by layers, and the phalanxes are intertwined with each other.
In the middle of the battlefield between the two sides was Tonggu Guard City and there were about 3,000 Ming troops in the city.
But on the north side of Tonggu Acropolis, that is, on the side close to the Ming army, there is the Second Infantry Regiment led by Li Chunjing. Each infantry battalion is a square formation, and its three square formations are basically in the shape of "pin".
It blocked the contact between the Ming army in the city and the main force of the Ming army in the north.
The Fifth Infantry Battalion is located just 300 meters outside the north gate of Tonggu Acropolis. If the Ming troops in the city want to break out, they must first defeat the Fifth Infantry Battalion.
However, about a hundred meters to the left and right in front of the 5th Infantry Battalion are the 4th Infantry Battalion and 6th Infantry Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Regiment. These two infantry battalions can support the 5th Infantry Battalion at any time.
About two hundred meters above and to the left of the Second Infantry Regiment is the First Infantry Regiment. Its three infantry battalions are in a relatively concentrated formation, and the most elite First Infantry Battalion is on the far left. This is to prevent
The Ming army's cavalry attacked the flank of the army.
A hundred meters ahead and to the left of the Second Infantry Regiment was the Fourth Infantry Regiment, also in a dense formation.
The artillery battalion and the two pike teams temporarily reinforced and used to protect the artillery battalion are directly behind the first infantry regiment!
These three infantry regiments and an artillery battalion, with about 6,500 people, are located in the north of Tonggu Acropolis, blocking the main force of the Ming army from joining the Ming army in Tonggu Acropolis!
On the right side of the Bronze Drum Acropolis, there are the 3rd Infantry Regiment and the 5th Infantry Regiment, which also present a Z-shaped formation layout.
However, on the left side of the Tonggu Acropolis, there is nothing. However, on the left rear of the Tonggu Acropolis, there are the guard battalion, baggage regiment, cavalry battalion and other auxiliary troops led by Li Xuan himself.
The more than 300-meter-wide gap on the left side of the Bronze Drum Acropolis can be seen by a discerning person at a glance. It is not a trap. It is uncertain whether the Ming army inside the city wants to rush out, or the Ming army outside the city wants to rush out through this passage.
Entering, you will be under the firepower of most of the Tang Dynasty's new army!
The artillery battalion's artillery turned around and fired shotguns, which could cause heavy damage to the Ming army passing through this passage. The musketeers turned around, and they could also cause a lot of damage to the Ming army passing through this passage.
If the personal guard battalion and cavalry battalion led by Li Xuan launched a charge, they would also be able to cause heavy casualties to the Ming army passing through this passage.
Therefore, no Ming army general with a little military knowledge would choose to attack or break through from this channel!
Qiu Yu naturally had basic military knowledge. On the city wall, he could almost clearly see the deployment of most of the puppet Tang rebels. He could tell at a glance that the passage to the west on the left seemed empty.
But in fact it is a dead end, whoever goes there will die.
If he wanted to rush out to join the main force, or to cooperate with the main force in fighting, he actually didn't have many options left. It was just to rush out and fight from the three directions of east, south, and north.
It's not that easy to mess with over there. There are at least 300 cavalrymen of the Pseudo-Tang rebel army there. The cavalry he saw was a cavalry team from the Guards Battalion and nearly 200 cavalrymen from the cavalry battalion. This adds up to just enough
It's three hundred cavalry.
Launching a breakout charge against the cavalry looks stupid no matter how you look at it!
And if he breaks through from the south, the main force in the north will not be able to support him, because even if the main force in the north wants to go around, he must first break through the main defense line of the pseudo-Tang thief army, and the main defense line of the pseudo-Tang thief army is so
What a breakthrough?
Others may not know this, but Qiu Yu has already had a profound experience of the strength of the Puppet Tang thief army. The main phalanx of more than 6,000 people in front of the Puppet Tang thief army is not that easy to break through.
Even if you want to go around, you know that if you go around, the pseudo-Tang rebel army will follow suit, so you can go around so easily.
If you move around from the back to the south, the main force will also move to the south. At that time, the formations of both sides will still be the same. The only change is that the names of southeast, northwest and northwest are changed.
Because the troop mobilization of both sides has lasted for a whole morning. During this morning, both sides were running around the Bronze Drum Acropolis. There is a reason why the current pattern was formed. That is because both sides have found
There is no better formation, but now this formation is barely acceptable, so it will stop and officially enter the battle stage.
Of course, during the battle, the formations of both sides will continue to change, and the positions of each square cannot remain unchanged.
And one more thing, there are a large number of heavy armored units in the armies of both sides. The New Army of the Tang Dynasty has a large number of heavy armored spearmen and heavy armored sword and shield fighters. The Ming army also has a large number of heavy armored infantry. You let these soldiers
It's okay if they can move hundreds of meters while wearing heavy armor, but if you let them run around and change formations all the time, it will be exhausting.
Therefore, there is a limit to the formation changes of the troops. It is impossible to say that the generals can change however they want. Many practical factors must be considered.
It was not easy to go to the east, because there would also be no support from the main force of friendly forces. On his own, he really did not have the confidence to break through the defense line of nearly 4,000 puppet Tang rebels and join the main force.
At this time, he didn't know that the puppet Tang rebel army east of the Tonggu Acropolis had only recruits in its third and fifth infantry regiments, and they didn't have any guns. Their combat effectiveness was the worst among the new Tang army
of.
Even the two garrison battalions in the Third Infantry Regiment are much stronger than them!
However, most of the time the strength of an army cannot be seen just by looking at the surface. At least now, from a few hundred meters away, Qiu Yu cannot say for sure that the puppet Tang rebel army to the east is a weakling. After he rushes out,
You can get a big victory.
In the end, Qiu Yu chose the direction that seemed the most difficult, but also had the greatest chance of success, which was to fight out from the north.
In this way, although they will encounter the main force of the puppet Tang rebel army, they will be able to get the support of the main friendly forces in the north, so the possibility of a successful breakthrough will be much higher.
Even under a forward pincer attack, they might be able to completely defeat the more than 6,000 main force of the puppet Tang rebel army to the north!
Seeing that the Ming army in the city actually rushed out on their own initiative, whether they wanted to break out of the encirclement or engage in a pincer attack with the main force of the Ming army in the north, Li Chunjing had a sneer on his face!
In the past two days, he has had many dealings with the Ming army in the city, and also launched a tentative attack. However, it was just a tentative attack intended to put pressure on the Ming army and force the main force of the Ming army to move south.
, but almost captured the Bronze Drum Acropolis.
This was enough for Li Chunjing to conclude that the Ming army in the city seemed to have 3,000 people, but in fact it was already like a frightened bird, its morale was extremely low, and it could be said that it was unable to fight.
They couldn't even defend the city, and now they actually wanted to take the initiative to fight in the field!
They are seeking death!
Immediately, Li Chunjing sent an order: "Instruct the 5th Infantry Battalion to stop them head-on and the 4th Infantry Battalion to move south!"
"Instruct the 6th Infantry Battalion to retract 100 meters to the rear!"
At this time, a staff officer he narrated said: "Do you want to request artillery support from the artillery battalion?"
At this time, Li Chunjing looked at the artillery position at the rear left. There was still heavy artillery fire there. They were continuing to shell the Ming army in the north, especially the artillery in the Ming army.
At this time, the artillery battalion had more important tasks, and it was impossible to distract ourselves from artillery support, even if it was just the support of one artillery piece.
So he said simply: "No, we can do it ourselves!"
His Second Infantry Regiment was the only two fully-staffed infantry regiment in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. His Fourth Infantry Battalion was an old unit. Although the Fifth Infantry Battalion was newly formed, its officers and soldiers were all
The veterans who were directly transferred from other battalions had a new designation, but the unit was an old unit. The predecessor of the 6th Infantry Battalion was the First Mixed Battalion.
Many of the soldiers in the First Mixed Battalion are veterans from the Huang Zhushan period. Most of the soldiers have been in the army for more than half a year or even a year. Their combat effectiveness was initially on par with the First Infantry Battalion, and later expanded to become the Sixth Infantry Battalion.
The combat effectiveness of the infantry battalion has declined, but in fact, the 6th Infantry Battalion is still the leading unit of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, and its combat effectiveness is much stronger than the 4th Infantry Battalion and the 5th Infantry Battalion.
This is why he used the 4th and 5th Infantry Battalions to fight the Ming army in the city, but shrunk the 6th Infantry Battalion and still faced the north, because if the main force of the Ming army in the north rushed up, he needed the 6th Infantry Battalion to block it.
them.
Qiu Yu rode a tall horse and rushed out with his troops!
He was still shouting something, with excitement and desire for victory on his face, but most of the Ming army officers and soldiers behind him had nervous or even desperate expressions on their faces.
The morale of the three thousand Ming troops in the city has been completely shattered after so many days of fighting against the puppet Tang rebels. The two thousand men in Qiu Yu's headquarters had already become frightened a few days ago, and originally
The morale of the thousand-man Ming army in the city was originally good, but under the influence of the two thousand men from Qiu Yu's headquarters, the morale would inevitably be affected.
And in yesterday's defensive operation, they really saw how powerful the Puppet Tang thief army was, especially the sharp firearms of the Puppet Tang thief army, which had left an indelible impression on them.
Now, Qiu Yu actually led them to rush out, saying that he wanted to break out of the encirclement and join up with the main force, or even join the main force in a flanking attack to confront the bandits.
But is this possible?
How can it be!
They themselves don't believe that they can rush out. At this moment, shouldn't the best thing to do is to hide in the establishment and watch the friendly forces and the puppet Tang rebels fight?
If the friendly forces win, then they are saved. If the friendly forces fail, then...