Although three generals, Guo Junzhen, Li Hao and Liu Rukui, were in charge of the invasion of Yuzhou, Liu Rukui was the deputy commander of Zuobiao and had the highest status, so the nominal command power was in the hands of Liu Rukui.
Fortunately, Guo Junzhen was also one of the old brothers who broke into the camp. He had known Liu Rukui, the "Soap Eagle" for many years, and finally persuaded him to accept his own set of combat strategies.
At that time, there were no defenders in Yuzhou itself. The closest official force to Yuzhou was the Zuozhen generals Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing who stayed in Ye County.
Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing were originally powerful commanders in the rebel army. One was known as "Crossing the Falling Sky" and the other was known as "Shooting the Falling Sky". The two were very close and cooperated with each other tacitly. They were by no means ordinary and easy-going people.
Therefore, Guo Junzhen proposed to Liu Rukui that they use light troops to rob Yuzhou City and use heavy troops to block the two "collapsed sky" reinforcements at the junction of Wuyang County, Ye County, and Yuzhou.
Li Hao also agreed with Guo Junzhen's deployment, because he was a local hero with wide connections and reputation in Yuzhou. Li Hao easily found a large number of internal agents from Yuzhou City who were willing to help open the city gate. He and Yuzhou
The inner court in the city agreed that when the time came, all the defenders in the city would turn their clothes on, set fire to the city gates, and shout "The city is broken" to greet the intruders.
The three hit it off immediately and agreed on the deployment arrangement of Li Hao deceiving the city, Guojunzhen to block Ye County's reinforcements, and Liu Rukui as the backup reserve team. Liu Rukui was also worried that Guojunzhen had insufficient troops, so he ordered his heroic general Zhang Hong to lead 200 troops.
Cavalry assists in battle.
It is one hundred and twenty miles from Yuzhou to Ye County, and there is a place in the middle called Baodian. This Baodian is sixty miles away from both Ye County and Fangcheng. It developed in the Qing Dynasty and was renamed Baodian Town.
Twenty miles southwest of Baodian there is a passing shop with only about twenty households. Because there is only a single big tree beside the street of this passing shop, people call this place Dushu.
Although these two places are both on Wanye Avenue, which is a must-pass for pedestrians, it was not until the middle of the Qing Dynasty, when peace prevailed and the population gradually increased, that solid earthen fortresses were built. Several years later, Bao'an Town
Two earthen fortifications were built, forming the horns of each other.
However, during the Chongzhen period, this area only saw undulating hills, dilapidated villages, sparsely populated areas, weeds everywhere, and swarms of foxes and rabbits, creating a desolate scene.
Guo Junzhen chose the mountains near Baodian as a line of defense to block the Yexian army's reinforcements of Yuzhou. Due to successive years of natural and man-made disasters, this area was very sparsely populated, and Guo Junzhen was not worried that the ambush he arranged would be attacked by the army.
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He estimated that Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing were restrained on the flanks by Xiao Yuan's camp, and it was impossible to send too many troops. At most, there would be reinforcements of 1,000 to 2,000 people. Guo Junzhen himself had 900 infantry and 5 cavalry guards at his disposal.
Ten men, plus the 200 cavalry from Zhang Hong's command reinforced by Liu Rukui, were not much less powerful than the possible reinforcements from the direction of Ye County.
Therefore, Guo Junzhen was very confident. He said to Zhang Hong: "Zhang Laohong, please leave a cavalry to cover my flanks and expose them to the Ye County officers and soldiers. The main force of the cavalry will be as we planned before.
, hidden in the Ma Tou Mountain, the remaining branch of the east wing of the Funiu Mountain Mountains."
Zhang Hong is actually only five or six years older than Guo Junzhen, but he has a particularly old appearance, so the military does not call him by his real name, and calls Zhang Hong Zhang Laohong.
Although Liu Fangliang's Zuo Biao lacked generals with military inspiration. However, with the personal training of Liu Fangliang, the chief instructor of Chuangying, there was no shortage of cavalrymen with outstanding martial arts skills among Zuo Biao.
Zhang Hong has a strong physique, and the muscles on his arms are as rugged as rocks. He is no better than Hao Yaoqi, the previous number one general. He holds a long gun with red tassel and black lacquer in one hand, and inserts the tail of the gun into the right side of the saddle.
He maintained his balance on the iron ring, then clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and the war horse started galloping carrying the neatly equipped fighting general.
There are more than 200 capable cavalry trained by Liu Fangliang himself, closely following Zhang Hong. These cavalry are divided into three teams according to the organizational structure established by Liu Fangliang. Each team of cavalry wears smocks of different colors, including red, white,
Black tricolor.
These three groups of majestic cavalry have different specific combat tasks depending on the color of their coats.
Some cavalry are responsible for rushing ahead of our main force and launching a sudden attack on the enemy as a test and containment; if the enemy is not strong enough, three teams of elite cavalry can be used to eliminate them in a rush; if the enemy's combat effectiveness is very strong, it cannot be used
The cavalry will defeat it, and the three teams of cavalry will charge at the weak points in the enemy's front before the main force arrives, that is, at the gaps, the flanks that are not tight enough or slightly exposed, and the parts with relatively weak combat effectiveness.
The specific tactics of charging are that one team charges and then retreats, while the other team advances again. This is done many times, trying to disrupt the enemy's formation. After all, it is important to maintain a complete front in battle.
If there is the cooperation of the infantry, these cavalry will take advantage of the gap between the two armies and rush to the enemy's flanks or rear to attack in a roundabout way at the right time.
Guo Junzhen looked at the backs of Zhang Hong's cavalry and recalled that when the Intruders annihilated the officers and soldiers of Yansui Town, Yu Chongxiao, the commander-in-chief of Yansui, shockedly called the elite cavalry of the Intruders the "Three Walls" and couldn't help but sigh: "
Since the defeat of Taohe and Hanshui, there are no more elite cavalry in the camp. Now across Zhongzhou, we have made many gains. This can be regarded as the reconstruction of the 'Three Walls' cavalry!"
It turns out that the sun was blocked by a few dark clouds, making it look bleak, as if the mountains, hills, withered grass and cold forests were dyed with a desolate yellow color everywhere. But under the reflection of the three walls of cavalry armor and spear points, Guo Junzhen
Suddenly I saw that all the scenery changed: the sun was beautiful, and the earth was showing bright colors.
"Get your antlers and cards ready, and be sure to wait until the shooter approaches before firing the gun together!"
Guo Junzhen led the infantry team to set up the defense line as quickly as possible. He relied on the terrain at the front of the team to set up field fortifications such as antlers and side shields for defense. The antlers need not be explained. A side shield is a large shield with a bracket. Generally, it is a large shield with a bracket.
It is a five-square shape, which is commonly known as a shield.
Outside the two mounds, Guo Junzhen saw the flags and troops of officers and soldiers all over the mountains and plains. "Shoot the Sky" Li Wanqing personally waved his iron halberd and charged towards Baodian's position.
Guo Junzhen gave an order: "Fire the gun!"
The gunmen who had received strict training from Fang Yiren and Li Shiwei in the front bid methodically loaded the gunpowder and lead bullets and fired almost simultaneously. In the gunmen's team, there were also three hundred sub-cannons and two prisoner-killing cannons, which also fired at the same time.
It fired shotgun shells that were extremely lethal to infantry, and iron pellets and cannonballs slightly smaller than a child's fist flew out, immediately knocking down a group of officers and soldiers.
But Li Wanqing is known as "shooting the sky". He was a famous tiger general in the peasant army. After taking refuge with Zuo Liangyu, he was even praised by Zuo Liangyu as having "the courage of thousands of men" and relied on him as the Great Wall in the army. Li Wanqing
Not afraid of death, he took his close servants with him and rushed through the fire net created by the gunman, and rushed to the front of the antlers in one breath.