Chapter 27 The Three Sides and Four Armies, Confused
When Li Weiqun sent Li Laiheng's order back to Gu Kecheng, it took a lot of time to go back and forth. Although the entire Chuang Army thought that they had paid special attention to the Qing Army, they did not expect that the Chuang Army would waste time on the Qing Army.
How to handle When the Qing army arrived, Tan Tai's main force had already crossed the Yellow River and was marching westward, approaching the direction of the Chuang army.
But this is not purely due to Tan Tai and Oboi's brilliant military strategies, but the result of a series of accidental factors.
Obai proposed that the Qing army bypass the Chuang Army to prevent crossing the river. The purpose was not to obtain a favorable opportunity to surprise the Chuang Army, but just to gain a stronger negotiating position in the subsequent negotiations using the Chuang Army.
Therefore, although the Qing army relied on Liu Liangzuo's escape without fighting, avoided the eyes and ears of the Chuang army, and successfully arrived at the south bank of the Yellow River, Tan Tai did not make full use of this very powerful situation to launch a campaign against the Chuang army.
Surprise attack.
At this time, Li Laiheng's troops were divided into three parts. Gu Kecheng led 3,000 troops to guard the south bank of the Yellow River near Yucheng County. Li Laiheng himself led 15,000 main troops to attack Ma Muji, and there were about 2,000 troops.
He stayed in Bozhou and defended the back road in Yongcheng area.
The Ming army had actually given up on Guide. Chen De and Yuan Shitai, with more than 2,000 soldiers and several times the number of Guide gentry and civilians, had stumbled into Mamuji. Chen Yongfu and Yuan Shizhong were able to escape.
Ma Mu gathered together and gathered a force of more than 10,000 people.
The Xuzhou Suppression General had a total of 30,000 troops. Among them, 10,000 troops led by Liu Liangzuo fled without a fight and disappeared. However, Shi Kefa received reinforcements from Lu Zhenfei, the governor of Huaiyang, and cobbled together a force of 10,000 troops.
The rescue team is heading towards Mamuji from Xuzhou via the main road.
The 5,000 Qing troops commanded by Tan Tai, Ao Bai, Li Guohan and Ye Bilong crossed the Yellow River east of Dangshan County and then went south to enter the highway from Xuzhou to Guide. Their purpose was to march westward.
The purpose is to find the location of the main force of the Chuang Army.
Among the three parties and four armies, Chen Yongfu and Li Laiheng knew each other's ins and outs, but the Xuzhou Suppression General's reinforcements set off with a blind eye and advanced in confusion, knowing neither themselves nor the enemy.
Although the Qing army obtained an extremely favorable battle situation due to accidental factors, in fact, Tan Tai and others relied entirely on Hong Chengchou's outdated information to make up for the details of the military strength and combat strength of Li Laiheng, Chen Yongfu, Xuzhou Suppression Headquarters and other departments.
Speaking of which, their understanding of the battle situation may not be as profound as Shi Kefa's.
The thick fog after the heavy rain further intensified the chaos among the three parties and four armies. No one party has all the information and can make the right choice from an overall perspective.
In this small corner of eastern Henan, either accidentally or inevitably, four armies from the Chuang Army, the Ming Army, and the Qing Army were shrouded in a cockfighting cage full of fog.
The Qing envoy sent by Tan Tai was the first factor that pushed the situation forward and started to roll wildly. What further intensified the situation was Li Laiheng's storming of Ma Muji.
The strength of the Chuang Army was divided into three parts. Although Li Laiheng directly controlled the most powerful force of 15,000, when he launched an all-out attack on the Ma Muji defenders, the Chuang Army's main formation was naturally in a difficult position.
In a very fragile and vulnerable state.
Li Laiheng also believed that the Qing army was still on the north bank of the Yellow River, and Gu Kecheng, who had always been able to keep an eye on the Yellow River, would not be attacked by the Qing army. As for the Xuzhou Suppressor General's rescue troops, the intelligence collected from the Red Team and Kendeji
From the looks of things, the Xuzhou Ming Army did nothing at all. Even if Shi Kefa could piece together a relief force, they would hardly pose any threat to the flanks of the Chuang Army.
Under this judgment, Li Laiheng dared to launch a full-scale offensive against Ma Muji without leaving any reserve troops. In his view, this was the last window for the Chu army. He must completely eliminate Chen Yongfu and Yuan Shizhong before the Qing army crossed the river.
, no matter whether it is to be incorporated or eliminated, such a powerful enemy must not be left in the heart.
All of Li Laiheng's judgments were based on the premise that the Qing army had not yet crossed the river.
Due to this wrong judgment, the Chuang army was undoubtedly on the verge of suffering heavy losses. At this time, if Tan Tai traveled west quickly, he could immediately catch the Chuang army by surprise.
In the original history, when the remnants of the Chuang Army accepted Du Yinxi's adaptation and entered the battlefield against the Qing Dynasty under the name of Zhongzhen Battalion, Li Guo, who commanded the Zhongzhen Battalion to attack Jingzhou, faced the same situation as Li Laiheng. At that time, the Zhongzhen Battalion attacked
Jingzhou, while He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, led his troops to garrison in the Yueyang area to guard against the Qing army.
However, He Tengjiao's troops fled without fighting and did not inform Li Guo of the Qing army's arrival near Yueyang. As a result, the Qing army was able to calmly march in and raid the Zhongzhen Camp, which was attacking Jingzhou without leaving any reserves.
The rear wing caused the remaining troops of the Chuang Army to suffer an extremely serious blow.
However, Li Laiheng's situation at this time was not exactly the same as that of Li Guo later, and Tan Tai was also different from Luck Dehun who later attacked the Zhongzhen camp.
The biggest difference is that Tan Tai was not prepared for an immediate war with the Chuang army. He followed Obai's suggestion, bypassed Gu Kecheng's defense line, and crossed the Yellow River near Dangshan County.
The purpose was not to surprise the Qing army from the flank, but simply to try to strengthen the Qing army's position in the negotiations.
Therefore, after the Qing army crossed the river, they did not seize this rare opportunity to attack the Mamuji area with lightning speed. Instead, they first allowed the troops to scramble for the large amount of military equipment left behind by Liu Liangzuo when he escaped, and then slowly
Tuntundi first went south to the main road between Xuzhou and Guide.
There is another army on this road, also marching westward.
That was the Xuzhou General Suppression Siege Force that Shi Kefa put together in every possible way. This army was mainly composed of Fu Biao, the governor of Huaiyang, Lu Zhenfei, and Shi Kefa's supervisor. Their ultimate goal was to prepare to go to the vicinity of Mamuji and realize Shi Kefa's "simultaneous development of east and west"
"Strategy to rescue Chen Yongfu and Yuan Shizhong's corps.
But the immediate purpose at this stage is to prepare to go to the vicinity of Dangshan County first and meet up with Liu Liangzuo who is organizing river defense there.
Of course they didn't know that Liu Liangzuo had already disappeared, and now Tan Tai's five thousand Qing troops were heading south from Dangshan County and also entered this road.
All of this was so unexpected. The Qing army and the Ming army met on a narrow road on the south bank of the Yellow River, and the encounter was the biggest surprise of all.
Who would have thought that Shi Kefa really had a way to deal with Hou Xun in such a short time, and actually organized a relief corps to march westward?
If this siege relief regiment can successfully arrive near Mamuji, regardless of its combat effectiveness, it will still be a regiment with a strength of up to 10,000 people. It will cause a lot of trouble for Li Laiheng, and it will also cause more trouble for Chen Yongfu and Yuan Shizhong.
More confidence to break through.
But unfortunately, as soon as this siege relief regiment reached the vicinity of Dangshan County, they ran into the Qing army that had just slaughtered and plundered Dangshan County.
When the relief corps saw those countless braided heads, even their hearts felt cold. However, the Qing generals such as Tan Tai, Ao Bai and others who accidentally discovered the large Ming army were very excited.
After the battles across Zhili and Shandong, the Qing army had already become arrogant and arrogant. Abatai divided his troops three times in the Ming Dynasty, slaughtering and plundering the left and right wings separately. He no longer paid attention to the strength of the Ming army.
So when Tan Tai found out that he had accidentally bumped into the main force of the Ming army, he was naturally overjoyed to hear the battle. Those Qing army soldiers, regardless of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of the Han Army, were all overjoyed. They also regarded the Ming army as a weak force.
, I don’t think there will be any threat if five thousand people encounter the Ming army of ten thousand people.
On the contrary, I feel that I will gain another great victory!
The closest town to Shancheng Market in Dangshan County, where the Ming and Qing armies unexpectedly collided, was Hanjiadao, a small market under the control of the Chuang Army.
Li Laiheng left about 2,000 troops in Bozhou and near Yongcheng. Among them, about 200 troops were stationed in Hanjiadao. The officer commanding this army was Luo Bin, a graduate of the first phase of Suiying Academy.
He immediately discovered that a large number of troops had appeared in the mountain city not far from Hanjiadao. After all, the Ming army had about 10,000 people and the Qing army had about 5,000 people. Luo Bin would not be able to fight such a large-scale army.
Blind to the point of being unable to see.
At first, Luo Bin thought that the troops of the Xuzhou Suppressor General were coming to attack the retreat of the Chu army. While he sent detective cavalry to send the news to Xiayi County and Yongcheng County, he also organized soldiers to dig trenches in Hanjiadao.
Build civil fortifications.
However, Luo Bin soon discovered that the army to the east did not develop further in the direction of Hanjiadao, but suddenly engaged in a battle near Shanchengji. The scale of the battle was large, and the smoke and dust covered the sun. Luo Bin estimated that there must be a large number of cavalry or artillery participating in the battle.
The strength of the combatants cannot be underestimated.
"Who is fighting whom? Are the Xuzhou Suppressor General and some bandits from eastern Henan fighting?"
Luo Bin was puzzled.
"It seems to be a braided soldier..."
Some Tanqi replied, after hearing this, Luo Bin's eyes widened immediately, and he immediately waved: "Come on, let's get close in person and find out what's going on! ...Then, quickly send the news to the commander!"