The Surname of the Country is Stealing Chapter 21: After leaving, I still want to trick the enemy.
The reason why He Jin was willing to withdraw temporarily was because he always felt that he still had a chance.
Every defeat was partly due to bad luck, poor intelligence work, and the fact that the army had sharp weapons that were well hidden.
In this case, the losing side will definitely not be willing to accept the defeat.
There are only three things to do, and we have to fight the last battle! This time, we must be extremely cautious and fight steadily! We must go into the dark and completely destroy the peripheral defenses!
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That night, in the army camp, there was naturally laughter and celebration again.
Four days ago, Shen Bingbei was in charge and could fight so beautifully.
Now the Lord of Military Preparation is temporarily absent, but he has deployed a strategy. The left guerrillas are rigorous in running the army and use troops in a measured manner. If they win again, what else is there to fear from the rogues?
"Brothers! Everyone has fish and meat tonight! But no drinking is allowed! There is no wine! Zuo Guerrilla said, and finally captured 1,600 thieves. According to the reward previously offered by Lord Armed Forces, the total is 16,000
Thousand taels of commercial silver!
This credit is divided equally among the entire army! You will be given money immediately after returning to the city! The credit for other gains will be calculated separately!"
At the celebration banquet, the officers separately promoted the reward policy, which made the soldiers cheer and cheer. Many people had already begun to calculate that each person would receive at least three taels of silver from this battle, not counting the gains of each department.
After being tempered one by one, although the officers and soldiers suffered hundreds of casualties in each battle, the remaining soldiers have become increasingly tougher and tougher in nerves and will. Given time, they can definitely use this as the backbone to expand an army.
A powerful steel army several times the size.
The celebration banquet lasted for an hour or two, and finally it was over, and everything that needed to be tidied up was also tidied up.
Zuo Zixiong and other generals did not dare to rest immediately. They had to discuss follow-up arrangements overnight and take stock of the battle profits and battle losses in order to adjust their deployment.
Late at night, when these daily tasks were finally completed, Zuo Zixiong and others suddenly heard the sound of cannons in the Chinese army's tent. At the same time, some rogue soldiers approached in the dark, throwing torches and shooting rockets indiscriminately.
"Fire back immediately!" Zuo Zixiong did not hesitate and immediately asked Zhang Minzhen to arrange the musketry team to go up the wall, and at the same time asked the Spanish instructor Pizarro to take command of the fort.
Instructor Pizarro was recruited by the Zheng family last year and joined Shen Shuren. He has been supported by a high salary of three hundred taels of silver, allowing him to help train musketeers and artillery.
Pizarro would not be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, so he only took money to do things and never fought on the dangerous frontline battlefield. But this time, Chen Shuren gave him another two hundred taels of allowance and asked him to temporarily command the artillery team, saying
It promises that he can stay away from the enemy's strike range.
Pizarro felt that there was no danger, so he worked overtime in exchange for a salary increase. The reason why the artillerymen of the army were so brilliant during the day was inseparable from the foreign instructors who were familiar with the original cannons.
At this moment, after the official firearms team fired back, naturally another hundred or so scouts from the bandits' side were wounded and killed, and fled in embarrassment.
However, the lighting set up by the bandits outside the camp was difficult to eliminate for a while. The firelight provided was enough to guide the bandit Fo Langji to penetrate the dark and blast the wall from a distance.
It is impossible to see clearly from a brightly lit place to a dark place at night, and the occasional flash of muzzle flash is not enough to measure the distance.
Pizarro's cannon fired blindly for a while to build up its courage, and it was not known whether it hit or not. Considering the precious ammunition, it could not be fired casually for a long time.
After a stalemate like this for a while, Yang Jinjue, the commander of the right camp, found Zuo Zixiong and took the initiative to ask for a fight:
"Guerrilla, why don't you let me take some people out of the camp, or I can send Lu Datou to extinguish all the rocket torches left by the rogue sentries, and then search for the enemy scouts so that the rogues can't observe the effects of the shelling. I don't know where.
The wall collapsed!"
Zuo Zixiong refused very carefully: "No! In the dark night, who knows if there are bandits ambushing nearby waiting to take advantage of the chaos. If they are mixed up and thrown into a trap, then the situation will be over!"
Yang Jinjue was right when he thought about it.
It was indeed reckless, so I gave up on the idea.
So far, there is still a six or seven times difference in strength between the enemy and us. The one with more people can get bitten several times, while the weaker one loses once and it's all over.
As the bombardment continued, some of the official musketeers who stood firm on the wall and did not retreat began to be injured because the wooden piles on the wall were blown apart by Franco machine shells and splintered wood flew away.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
Zhang Mingzhen had been patrolling the wall. When he saw this, he asked all the musketeers to lie down again and hide on the reverse slope of the rammed earth mound. If they could not hear the enemy's attack, they would not show their faces. At the same time, he also reported the latest situation to Zuo in real time.
Zixiong.
Zuo Zixiong pondered for a long time, finally made up his mind, and showed his cards to the generals: "When Master Bingbei went to ask for help, he originally asked us to resist continuously in order to preserve our strength and consume the enemy's troops.
Now that the bombardment has continued all night, the camp will definitely not be able to be saved. We will abandon this camp tonight and take advantage of the fact that we still have the ferry to cross to the south bank of the She River. With the lag of the She River, we can still delay it for at least two or three days.
When Master Bingbei comes back, we will return to Xiaogan County as appropriate. I believe that with the reinforcements brought by Master Bingbei, we may have the strength to counterattack at any time!
In addition, you should prepare to pack up the baggage first, send a fast-horse scout to the county seat, notify the magistrate Yan to prepare for the response, and move the prisoners away first. We will hold on until midnight and then withdraw."
It is not easy for a large army to retreat. The prisoners, artillery, and baggage and food must be withdrawn in the first half of the night, and the rest of the soldiers can be withdrawn in the second half of the night. Fortunately, Xiaogan County is less than twenty miles away from this camp, and it takes one night.
Two batches are also available in time.
Other generals could not think of a better way, and since Shen Shuren had indeed explained this at the beginning, they decided to implement this flexible defense.
I believe that the bandits have come a long way, and they don’t bring too much gunpowder and cannonballs. Tonight, as long as the officers and soldiers stay hidden and sneak around, and don’t let the bandits know in advance that “there is no need to continue the bombardment,” then
It is very likely that the gunpowder of the bandit will be almost consumed!
On the other side, Yan Yingyuan, who was stationed in the county seat, heard that Zuo Zixiong was about to retreat, so he came to support him personally. He also consulted with Zuo Zixiong and worked together to come up with some tricks to confuse the enemy, which was the icing on the cake.
Zuo Zixiong didn't want to listen to laymen like Yan Yingyuan talking about military aircraft at first. After all, he had the impression that Yan Yingyuan was just a civil servant with a background in classic history - this is like a police chief who talked about war in front of a genuine field army officer. The field officer would definitely disdain it.
listen.
However, people who specialize in the field and have a background in security know better about the psychology of criminal investigation, and are indeed unique in their cleverness in devising crimes.
Zuo Zixiong listened patiently for a while, and after leading Yan Yingyuan to inspect the camp that was about to be abandoned, Yan Yingyuan actually gave him some feasible tricks.
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The officers and soldiers spent the whole night quietly retreating to the other side of the Jishui River.
Early the next morning, after it was dark, Erhe went to the front line again to inspect. Seeing that at least dozens of sections of the wall of the army camp had been blasted, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
They tried their best to reward and boost their morale, and said a lot to the whole army: "The officers and soldiers were able to win before because of the geographical advantage and trickery, but now the geographical advantage has been destroyed by us overnight." Finally, the soldiers were able to return the favor.
I was willing to take another gamble, so I launched the third attack in a mighty manner.
Unfortunately, the officers and soldiers once again surprised them.
The officers and men fought in fear, but did not receive any muskets or crossbows. After a while, they found that the camp was empty.
The scouts under He Jin quickly reported again: "Two kings! Our army has fallen into a trap again! Official Shen Gou gave up the camp last night! He has crossed the river and ran away!"
"Run away?" He Jin was furious. After being tricked three times, he had veins popping in his forehead. He got on his horse and ran forward, wanting to enter the camp to witness it with his own eyes.
He Yilong's situation is similar to his, both have a sense of anger at having their intelligence insulted.
The gunpowder shells of the Folangji are also very precious to the bandits! If I had known that the army had abandoned the camp, I shouldn't have spent more than half of the ammunition reserves last night!
This was originally done with the big goal of annihilating the entire army, so we invested so much money. If we just took an empty camp, we would have lost a lot of blood!
After getting angry, Erhe had no choice but to immediately lead the Chinese army into the camp for inspection. Even though he was here, he always wanted to boost morale and announce that his side had won a great victory.
But half a quarter of an hour later, He Jin and others arrived at the large tent of the Chinese army that had been abandoned by Zuo Zixiong last night.
When the officers and soldiers left, in order not to alarm the enemy, some buildings in the camp were not dismantled. Other buildings only tore away the tent cloth, but the heavy wooden frames were not moved. This made it appear that the Chinese army tent still had a curtain.
Conspicuous.
What's even more conspicuous is that the officers and soldiers piled up many corpses of bandits collected when cleaning the battlefield yesterday in front of the Chinese army's tent. They also specially selected the elite soldiers and officers of the old camp of bandits who had stripped off their iron coats and cotton armor.
Although he didn't do anything about beheading people and piling them up in Beijing, the humiliation was very obvious. He Jin was filled with rage for a while, but then he heard a soldier next to him come to report, saying that it was in a conspicuous place in front of the pile of corpses.
Several letters were seized and left scattered by the officers and soldiers. The contents were all the same and should have been left to "King Zuojin".
He Jin took it and took a look at it, and found that it actually contained some heartbreaking remarks, describing in detail the casualties of senior officers among the bandits in yesterday's battle. He also said that he had identified He Jin's nephew He Tianming from the prisoners' mouths during torture yesterday.
He was trampled to death by himself while leading his troops to rush through the gap.
Obviously, these little tricks were done by Yan Yingyuan, who came to support the retreat last night.
A general like Zuo Zixiong who only cares about military affairs, uukanshu.com www.uukanshu.com, will not do this kind of dirty psychological warfare. At first glance, he is someone with a background in criminal investigation and criminal psychology.
In the letter, Yan Yingyuan also tried his best to demoralize and humiliate, emphasizing that He Jin's people were all cowardly trash. With so many elite soldiers, they did not bravely kill the enemy in the charge, but were cowardly and wanted to hide and were eventually killed by themselves.
People were trampled to death and crushed to death.
Finally, He Jin followed the instructions in the letter and saw at a glance the first few wooden piles in the pile of corpses. There were several dead bodies stuck on them, and there were also cloth strips with many large characters written on them. They were used to humiliate and demoralize them at first glance.
It's a pity that many of the former soldiers of the bandits were illiterate, so they had only been in the camp for a quarter of an hour, and no one thought of dismantling these things, and kept them until the king saw them in person - perhaps, some people were afraid of moving the king's nephew.
The corpse will make the king unhappy.
"This piece of trash! He was trampled to death, and he wanted to expose it to the public! It's such an embarrassment to our old He family! You guys, why don't you chop down the wooden stakes that pierce the corpses! Burn all these corpses.
Gone! Buried!”
He Jin was so angry that his temples trembled, and he gave the order himself. He waved his sword bitterly and slashed at the wooden pile several times. The soldiers also stepped forward to help.
However, at this moment, as the wooden piles were chopped down and other parts of Jingguan were destroyed, a loud "boom" sound suddenly came from near the Chinese army's tent.
"Ah -" He Jin and a group of soldiers all let out pitiful howls like slaughtering pigs.
The troops in the distance and He Yilong were also shocked. They were stunned for a while before they realized: "God damn the army, they actually retreated and laid so many landmines!"