Although there was no cavalry battalion in the temporary fourth regiment, it did not prevent Gu Shizhong from continuing to pursue the Ming army. He even threw in the few dozen reconnaissance cavalry he had on hand. Of course, he just let them cover up and harvest the results.
, let them see blood to increase their war experience.
The main force of the pursuit must rely on the infantry units. However, the pursuit speed of the infantry is limited, and in order to prevent the enemy from killing a carbine, the pursuit units cannot open their feet and pursue quickly, they can only trot, and occasionally have to stop and organize themselves.
Formation.
After all, the strength of the temporary fourth regiment was already at a huge disadvantage, and the only troops that could pursue them were only more than 2,000 lightly-armed troops.
Although the Ming army that was escaping at the front ran away and fell out of formation, after all, they did not directly collapse on a large scale during the battle, but retreated directly under the leadership of the generals.
Therefore, if we pursue rashly, accidents may occur. In order to avoid capsizing in the ditch, and the task of the temporary fourth regiment is not to kill many Ming troops, we only need to drive the Ming troops back to Chenzhou City.
So Gu Shizhong was more cautious when pursuing!
Ever since, a very interesting scene occurred outside Chenzhou City. More than 3,000 people were chasing the more than 10,000 people in front of them. This situation continued until the remnants of the Ming army who fled in front of them fled into Chenzhou City.
!
In this battle, the temporary fourth regiment defeated a large-scale Ming army of more than 13,000 people at the cost of killing less than 20 people and injuring less than 100 people, killing more than 300 enemy soldiers and capturing 1,000 people.
If there are too many, all the remaining ones will be defeated, a super victory!
Judging from the number of casualties of the Ming army, it can actually be judged that the two sides did not engage in hand-to-hand combat at all, and the casualties of the Ming army were not actually heavy. About half of them were in the early stage of shelling and mine explosions.
Of the casualties, half were caused during the pursuit.
Because of the lack of cavalry, the temporary fourth regiment did not cause too many casualties to the Ming army during the pursuit.
It can also be seen from this that in fact, the defeat of the Ming army was largely due to their own wavering and collapse.
In other words, the victory of this battle was not due to how good the temporary fourth regiment was, but because the Ming army on the opposite side was too weak, and its morale and fighting will were too weak.
Unlike the temporary fourth regiment, which won easily and successfully drove the Ming army from the Chenzhou direction back to Chenzhou City, Sun Shuangxi, the leader of the First Infantry Regiment from the Yizhang direction, felt that he had encountered a rather difficult opponent.
Since the 1st Infantry Regiment and other auxiliary troops, a total of nearly 5,000 people, attacked, relying on the strong peripheral reconnaissance capabilities of the 1st Cavalry Battalion, they have always maintained their movement towards the Ming army coming out of the direction of Yizhang.
And on the third day, they carefully built an ambush encirclement, but the Ming army on the opposite side was very cunning. They suddenly turned on the planned route.
Went with the Fourth Transportation Group.
After noticing the news, he immediately knew that the Ming army must have detected the movements of the Fourth Transportation Group and was going to attack the Fourth Transportation Group.
While muttering about bad luck, he also led his troops in pursuit, and at the same time sent out fast horses to ask the Fourth Transport Group to leave the place immediately to evade.
But on the second day of the pursuit, the First Cavalry Battalion reported that the main force of the unit was discovered by the Ming Army's peripheral cavalry. Although the First Cavalry Battalion defeated and annihilated most of the opponent's cavalry, there were still a few Ming Army cavalry who broke through.
And go.
What does this mean?
This means that the Ming army in front already knows that a large number of Tang troops are chasing behind them, because the size of the first cavalry battalion is relatively large, and more than 400 cavalry are not a small number in the southern Huguang area.
What does it mean that there are so many cavalry near Yizhang? Any sensible Ming army general can guess that there must be the main force of the Tang army nearby.
The First Infantry Regiment is undoubtedly the main force of the Tang Army!
In order to capture the 8,000-strong Yizhang Ming Army, Sun Shuangxi led his troops on a mad dash for three days. However, another message came from the First Cavalry Battalion in front, indicating that the army had turned and headed in the direction of Yizhang.
You can tell with your toes that the Ming army must have sensed the crisis. They no longer care about intercepting the transport team of the puppet Tang rebel army, but want to return to Yizhang as soon as possible and hide back again.
These Ming troops are extremely cunning!
After traveling for many days, not only the ordinary soldiers of the First Infantry Regiment, but also Sun Shuangxi were exhausted. After reading the report from the First Cavalry Battalion, he said with a ruthless face: "I want to hide back."
How can it be so easy to go to Yizhang!"
"Send the order, the whole army will set off immediately and turn around to Yizhang!"
"Since these pseudo-Ming thieves want to return to Yizhang, then we will wait for them directly outside Yizhang City!"
During these days of continuous pursuit, Colonel Sun Shuangxi felt that he had been tricked several times. Damn it, if the eight thousand Yizhang Ming army were not blocked, the anger in his chest would have nowhere to vent. Maybe it would be him.
Suffocate yourself to internal injuries!
Several times, he couldn't help but want to let the 1st Cavalry Battalion rush up to entangle the enemy, and then lead the infantry to catch up. However, although the 1st Cavalry Battalion had more than 400 cavalrymen, they could not face enough.
Most of the Ming army, which numbered more than 8,000 people, was actually unsustainable. If one mistake was made, the First Cavalry Battalion would be heavily surrounded.
Therefore, he could only hold back and let the First Cavalry Battalion maintain continuous tracking and monitoring, and eat the Ming army's rearguard units whenever possible, mainly harassing them, and did not let the First Cavalry Battalion directly launch a charge!
Now that the Ming army gave up attacking the supply line and returned to Yizhang, he gave up the pursuit without hesitation and turned around directly to Yizhang.
Even when he arrived at Yizhang City, he would most likely face a double siege from multiple enemies inside and outside the city, but he would not hesitate.
He has confidence in his First Infantry Regiment!
The First Infantry Division is the ace unit of the Tang Dynasty Army, and its First Infantry Regiment is the core infantry regiment of the First Infantry Division. Its combat effectiveness is definitely the best in the entire army.
He was fearless even against tens of thousands of Ming troops, not to mention that he had the support of many auxiliary troops!
The First Infantry Regiment turned around and headed toward Yizhang, but at the same time, Hao Bainian finally noticed something was wrong.
Because he had received reports from the First Infantry Regiment, the temporary Fourth Regiment and other troops one after another, and based on the reports from many frontline troops, he could already see a huge encirclement on the map heading towards
Our own First Infantry Division has arrived.
But Hao Bainian's reaction was definitely different from what the Ming army generals expected!
"Well, they are finally willing to give it up!"
"And the whole army came out at once. It looks like they want to eat up our first infantry division and the temporary fourth regiment in one go!"
When Hao Bainian said this, his expression was relaxed. Instead of showing any trace of fear or panic, he showed an expression eager to give it a try!
At this time, several officers nearby also said one after another: "What the general said is absolutely true. We tried our best and failed to drive them out before. Now it's better. They all came out at once. In this way,
We don’t have to work hard to attack Hengzhou or Chenzhou or Yizhang, we can directly defeat them in a decisive battle in the wild and settle the situation in one battle!"
"That is, although the enemy army is huge, with their communication capabilities and command system, how can they coordinate seven or eight troops, large and small, and the battlefield is hundreds of kilometers wide? Such a battle is impossible even for us
Done!
Therefore, although the enemy army may have hundreds of thousands of people, they must have poor communication with each other. If there is an error in any link, it will lead to the collapse of the overall situation!
Such an army of pseudo-Ming thieves are just like the paper tigers Your Majesty mentioned, they can be broken with just one poke!"
"What your colleagues and officers said is very true, but we also need to pay attention to the fact that the enemy troops are not only coming from Guiyang Prefecture in the south of Hengzhou Prefecture, Linwu, Yizhang in the direction of Chenzhou, and Chenzhou City. They are coming from the direction of Chenzhou City.
The troops in Hengzhou City also began to move south, and such a large-scale battle for the Ming army, with the core goal of encircling and annihilating the main force of our army, was impossible without reinforcements, so the Ming army in the direction of Changsha was also extremely powerful.
Maybe it went south!"
"It is said that there are a large number of Ming troops in the direction of Changsha, and there are also supervisors and border troops under Zhang Yue. The number of this group of Ming troops is probably 40,000 to 50,000, and their combat effectiveness will definitely be higher than what we are encountering now.
These Ming armies are stronger than ever!"
"What are you afraid of? It will take time for the Ming army in Changsha to come over. With this time, we can completely defeat the Ming army in the direction of Guiyang Prefecture first, and then join the headquarters of the 1st Infantry Regiment in the rear and the temporary staff.
The fourth regiment advances to the northwest and then joins the third infantry division. In this way, our army will have more than 25,000 troops, enough for us to fight the main force of the Ming army near Hengzhou!"
"But what if the Ming army saw that our army was strong and directly retreated to Hengzhou City?"
"Then let's take Yizhang, Chenzhou and Guiyang first, then control other areas of Hengzhou Prefecture, and then divide our troops to go north to Changsha. It's just an isolated city of Hengzhou. What's the harm in giving it to them!"
From everyone's discussion, it can be seen that in fact, instead of feeling fear when the Ming Army took the initiative to attack, the First Army saw an opportunity. Through a large-scale frontal decisive battle in the wild, the first battle established the situation in southern Huguang.
Chance!
The Ming army voluntarily abandoned the fortified city and came out to fight with them in the field, just relying on its superiority in strength. The Tang Army has always had a tradition of defeating more with less!
Fighting with inferior forces and superior enemy forces is something we have become accustomed to!