After forcibly arranging manpower to contain the puppet Tang rebel army and take charge of breaking up the rear, Zhu Zhihai also began to arrange troops to enter the city.
It is not an easy task for more than 30,000 people to enter the city. They must be organized and orderly!
Otherwise, it will easily lead to chaos in the troops!
However, now that someone has cut off the queen, the next arrangements for entering the city will be much easier. Zhu Zhihai cut through the mess quickly and directly arranged the order of entering the city. At the same time, in order to prevent these warriors from being too disgusted with him and being afraid of fighting, they would not obey.
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He also didn't want to push them too hard, so he generously allowed the ordinary guardsmen to advance into the city, and then arranged for his troops to move quickly from behind. As for the last ones, they were naturally the young and strong civilians.
This will also prevent any unexpected events from happening later. After all the troops die or run away, the unlucky ones will be the young civilians, not the regular army troops.
Song Tianbiao naturally didn't know what was happening in the Ming army camp at this time. According to the temporary plan, he led his troops to conduct large-scale battlefield maneuvers, trying to get around to the rear of the Ming army's left wing.
It was used to threaten the Ming army's flank and rear position, but the main reason was to delay the Ming army, and at the same time to preserve its own vitality.
It didn't take long for him to find that the Ming army on the opposite side began to move. More than 5,000 people from those Ming troops first came out, but these 5,000 people could tell at a glance that something was wrong.
Because among the more than 5,000 people, only about 1,000 people were wearing Ming army uniforms and marching in formation with complete weapons, while the rest were all wearing ordinary clothes and only holding a rotten iron knife in their hands.
The youthful strength of spears and other worn-out weapons.
What on earth were these Ming troops thinking?
Even if they sent people out to contain themselves, they should have sent thousands of regular troops. Why did they send thousands of regular troops and thousands of young men?
They are seeking death!
After seeing these Ming troops mixed with a large number of young and strong Ming troops slowly approaching, Song Tianbiao also looked at the main array of the Ming troops. The Ming troops also began to move, but they continued to move forward, not towards him.
As expected, they wanted to leave thousands of troops to contain themselves, and then the main force entered the city!
But Song Tianbiao did not expect that the Ming army would send these cannon fodder to die!
Since the Ming army came to die on his own initiative, Song Tianbiao would naturally not be polite!
Not to mention that there were only a few thousand young men and a thousand regular troops, he would dare to fight even the previous five thousand regular Ming troops!
Immediately he gave the order: "Send the order: All troops stop!"
"Prepare to meet the enemy!"
Song Tianbiao spoke to the messengers beside him. The messengers waved the flags in their hands in time, conveying Song Tianbiao's orders in the form of flag language. At the same time, in order to ensure the effective transmission of the orders, his messengers also rode horses and ran quickly to the direction of each battalion.
Formation, personally delivered Song Tianbiao's orders to the battalion commanders.
After Song Tianbiao's order was issued, the huge square formation of the 3rd Infantry Regiment stopped immediately, and then each battalion began to adjust their formation to ensure the best frontal formation to meet the enemy.
The formation for this battle was similar to the last formation. The only difference was that this time Song Tianbiao placed the three main infantry battalions on the front line, and only placed one reserve battalion in the middle platoon.
Because this time, Song Tianbiao had no intention of preventing the Ming army from attacking him from the flank. With these thousands of young men, he still wanted to go around and attack his flank? What a joke!
What he had to do was to defeat this young Ming army that dared to contain him in the most direct, effective and fastest way.
He wanted to tell the Ming generals on the opposite side through an uncontroversial and clean defeat: This is not how battles are fought, let alone by a group of young men with no training or even intact weapons.
Otherwise, the Tang Dynasty would have captured countless young men and sent them to the battlefield with a sword or a spear.
As the third infantry regiment quickly changed its formation, the Ming army on the opposite side stopped!
At this time, a Qianhu asked the commander of Xinglong Guard: "Master Shen, why did we stop?"
Mr. Shen looked like he was looking at an idiot: "Why are you rushing? You are so eager to seek death!"
Although Mr. Shen had no way to refuse Zhu Zhihai's military orders, he was able to obey and disobey them. Zhu Zhihai just allowed himself to contain the enemy and cut off the rear.
But there is no rule that we must fight against the puppet Tang bandits!
The more than 2,000 puppet Tang rebels on the opposite side knew at a glance that they were not easy to mess with. Chang Pingchang and nearly 5,000 regular troops went up and did not get any benefits.
He currently only has a thousand guardsmen, and they are all old, young and weak. The remaining four thousand are young and strong. How can he fight like this?
If he could defeat the puppet Tang bandits on the opposite side, he would just write his last name upside down!
If you still fight if you can't beat him, wouldn't you be a fool? You must be hiding if you can!
The Pseudo-Tang rebel army on the opposite side stopped and formed a fighting formation. Why should I stupidly rush forward? It was quite good for both sides to stare at each other from a few hundred meters away!
Shen commanded the five thousand Ming army led by Tongzhi to stop. At first, Song Tianbiao thought they were going to stop to organize their formation and make final battle preparations. At the same time, Song Tianbiao also wanted to delay the attack and did not want to rush in too early.
Go up and fight.
So there was no rush, but the troops were ordered to form on the spot to meet the enemy.
But what he didn't expect was that after waiting for two quarters of an hour, the Ming army on the opposite side was still motionless, as if his feet were growing on the ground, and he didn't move a step for a long time!
At this time, Song Tianbiao felt that things might be different from what he expected!
At this time, the chief of staff next to him reminded him: "Commander, look, those Ming troops have started to set off, and it looks like they are about to enter the city!"
As soon as he heard this, Song Tianbiao suddenly realized: "Damn, these Ming soldiers are just like him, they want to delay time!"
While they were talking, the main force of the 30,000 Ming army, led by Zhu Zhihai himself, had already begun to move towards Liping City. At the same time, Liping City also opened the city gate, and more than a thousand Ming troops came out of the city to meet them.
These Ming troops are about to enter the city, and the Ming troops in front of them are obviously used to block the rear. No wonder they don't take the initiative to attack. They are delaying time to cover the army's entry into the city.
Want to enter the city? You have to ask me whether Song Tianbiao will agree, and you also have to ask my Third Infantry Regiment whether they will agree!
Even if we really enter the city, I will still have to bite off a piece of flesh from these Ming troops.
And this piece of meat is definitely not the young and strong Ming army in front of you!
Immediately he said: "Send the order, the reserve battalion is left to guard against the enemy, and the rest of the troops turn left and advance at a trot!"
He was still preparing to execute his previous plan and continue to circle to the rear of the Ming army. As for the Ming army in front of him, they were just a group of young men. It was enough to leave five hundred people to deal with it!
He will take the other main forces to attack the Ming army's rear area!
It was not easy for the Ming army to escape. Entering the city did not just mean that people entered. They also had to bring a lot of baggage with them.
Especially the various weapons and food needed for combat!
You must know that Liping City was completely plundered by Sun Yawei before, but there was not much food left for the Ming army. Now tens of thousands of Ming soldiers have entered, and if there is no food, they will all starve to death in less than four or five days!
Therefore, when the Ming army entered the city, they had to bring a large amount of baggage with them!
The baggage trains were not advancing that fast, and they were lagging behind. After all, the Ming army's entry into the city this time was said to be unpleasant, but it was actually a retreat, and no one would be willing to do so during the retreat.
Bring a lot of baggage with you to slow down your escape.
The new army of the Tang Dynasty was like this, and the Ming army was also like this!
Song Tianbiao, who was riding a horse, quickly found the Ming army's rear area. There were thousands of people pushing and pulling various supplies and following the army. Many of them were vehicles pulled by animals, and there were also civilians and young men.
Zhuang just carries it by hand and shoulder.
That scene can be described as grand!
And they are Song Tianbiao’s targets this time!
"Hurry, hurry, keep up!"
"Keep formation, don't mess up!"
The three main battalions of the 3rd Infantry Regiment are at the front. After trotting, the momentum seems huge, but it will inevitably cause the formation to start to scatter.
Therefore, the previous officers frequently rode in front of the formation of their troops, urging their soldiers to maintain their formation.
The three infantry battalions are in front, and the battalion artillery team, cavalry team and other troops are behind!
The battalion artillery teams of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty were equipped with shotguns of 150 kilograms and 100 kilograms. They were light in weight. If they were pulled by horses, they would not be slow even in the field and could basically keep up with the infantry.
The pace of progress.
The ability to maneuver quickly was also an important reason why Li Xuan equipped the infantry regiment with a large number of battalion artillery.
Otherwise, simply speaking of power, it is definitely not as big as those 500-jin or 800-jin artillery pieces. Even the 300-jin small cannon is stronger than the existing shotguns!
But Li Xuan did not choose those heavy artillery, but chose these small shotguns that only weighed 150 kilograms. What he valued was the ability to maneuver quickly on the battlefield.
When the Third Infantry Regiment was divided into two, Master Shen, the commander of the Xinglong Guard, squinted his eyes and watched, but did not make any reaction!
Others didn't understand, and someone asked: "Master Shen, now that the bandit army has rushed over, I'm afraid they are going to attack the army's baggage troops!"
Lord Shen still didn’t speak!
In his heart, he secretly thought: "The bandit army has escaped, and it is none of my business!"
"Besides, if you step forward and intercept it, you will be the one who dies!"
As for the rear baggage troops when they attack the main force, they will naturally have a large number of soldiers and horses from the main force to respond, and it is better for them to focus on the enemy in front of them!
Although the rebel army ran away, they only ran away partially. There were still 500 people in front!
There are still strong enemies ahead of you, so you must not act rashly!