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Chapter 176 Abnormal Security Thief
Zuo Liangyu was very interested in He Renlong's proposal!

He knew that the thieves' army was different from ordinary thieves, but he also didn't think that the thieves' army had the ability to fight head-on in the wild with his own army.

Not to mention, the bandit army is at an absolute disadvantage.

There are only 2000 defenders in the city of the thief army, which is estimated to be less than [-] people.

As for the source of bandits, it is said that there are tens of thousands of bandits, but thousands of them are civilian husbands. According to the reconnaissance report, it is estimated that there are only about 6000 or [-] bandits.

The addition of the two parts killed 8000 people.

When he and He Renlong's coalition army first arrived at the city of Yuzhou, there were more than [-] troops. Leaving aside the young and strong civilian husbands, there were more than [-] official officers and soldiers.

It seems that the losses in the previous offensives were not small, but in fact the total losses of the soldiers were actually thousands of people. At the same time, they also selected elite supplements from the young and strong civilians who accompanied the army to enter the army. Once, in fact, the total number of troops is not very small.

The comparison of the strength of the enemy and ourselves is one to two!

Our side has an absolute superiority in military strength!
Under such circumstances, Zuo Liangyu didn't think that the bandit protection army could still beat his own side in a frontal battle.

After all, if their [-] officers and soldiers are facing Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other thieves head-on, Zuo Liangyu is not bragging about it. Soldiers are not incapable of fighting, and they can protect themselves no matter how bad they are.

It's hard to fight thieves, not because officers and soldiers can't beat them, but because they can't catch them.

At the same time, there are too many thieves and mules and horses, and their mobility is too strong. They often concentrate a large number of troops to ambush the partial divisions of officers and soldiers.

If the liu thieves foolishly put up a stance to fight the officers and soldiers, they would have been wiped out by the officers and soldiers long ago!
Although he has great confidence, he is still afraid of capsizing in the gutter, so he plans to send more scouts to find out the news, and look back at the situation before making a decision.

After all, one of the soldiers under his command is the soldier of someone on his left, and it has nothing to do with the court.

Even if he wins against the thieves, if there are too many casualties, the loss outweighs the gain.

Why can't Yuzhou City be defeated like this? It's not that it can't be defeated, but that Zuo Liangyu is reluctant to pay the huge price of casualties.

Desperately losing thousands of men just to take Yuzhou City, no matter what the loss...

Because Hong Chengchou won't take Yuzhou City because he lost thousands of people, and he won't send him a large amount of money and food to restore Zuo Liangyu's strength, let alone expect Hong Chengchou to directly replenish his troops.

Don't ask, even Hong Chengchou doesn't have so much money and food.

As for the strength of the army, every soldier in the army has a senior general above him.

Hong Chengchou can directly order the senior generals to lead the headquarters to fight, but he must not directly transfer the private soldiers of the senior generals, and then give them to another senior general as a supplement.

Soldiers will have!

This is not empty talk!
Also before, in order to reinforce Zuo Liangyu, Hong Chengchou could dispatch He Renlong's troops to reinforce Zuo Liangyu, and then formed a coalition to go south.

However, he absolutely couldn't transfer He Renlong's army directly to Zuo Liangyu.

If he really wanted to do this, he would have to kill He Renlong first.

So Zuo Liangyu was very cautious. After learning that the bandit army was coming from the west, he gave up the attack and sent more scouts to continue the investigation, trying to get more detailed information about the bandit army.

In the future, he will decide whether to surround the spot for reinforcements based on the detailed information collected by the scouts.

However, what Zuo Liangyu didn't expect at all was that he hadn't waited for him to decide whether to play a large-scale field battle with the rural protection army.

The Township Protection Army on the opposite side had already made the decision.

At noon of the same day, Zuo Liangyu's reconnaissance cavalry reported that, except for the thousands of civilians who entered Yuzhou City through the west gate, the other six or seven thousand rebel troops did not go towards Yuzhou City at all, but They bypassed Yuzhou City and were heading towards their base camp three miles outside the east gate of Yuzhou City.

Half an hour later, the reconnaissance cavalry reported that about 500 rebels in Yuzhou City suddenly left the city and joined the rebels who came around the city for reinforcements.

In the afternoon of the same day, the reinforcements led by Luo Zhixue and the defenders in Yuzhou City, a total of about 8000 people, had already reached the front of the Ming army camp!

After hearing the news, Zuo Liangyu had a very bad premonition that these security guards actually bypassed Yuzhou City directly, in order to rush in quickly and head straight for their own camp.

Even the remnant defenders in Yuzhou City took the initiative to leave the city.

This is not normal!

He couldn't understand why the Xiangbao Army would choose this way.

According to his estimation, after the rural protection army came, either their own side would directly encircle and fight for reinforcements, or their own side would not fight, and then let the opponent enter Yuzhou City.

In the end, everyone stared wide-eyed inside and outside Yuzhou City, and the situation remained deadlocked.

However, he never thought that these bandits did not go towards Yuzhou city, but directly bypassed Yuzhou city and came straight to his camp.

Judging from that posture, it is obvious that he intends to fight to the death with his side outside Yuzhou City.

But why are these thieves?
Where did they have the confidence to directly defeat their own army that was twice their size?
Not to mention, our side still has a camp to rely on at this time.

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When Zuo Liangyu had a bad premonition in his heart, Luo Zhixue had already led the army to the front of the Ming army's camp, and boarded a nearby small hill to observe the opponent's Ming army's camp from a high position.

The camp of the Ming army was very large, with densely packed tents, surrounded by wooden walls and many defensive fortifications.

From a traditional point of view, this is a very standard, but also very strong camp.

If it is a traditional cold weapon that wants to attack such a camp, although the difficulty is less than that of directly attacking the city, it will also require a huge price.

But Luo Zhixue smiled when he looked at the Ming army camp on the opposite side!
Traditional cold weapons can't help this kind of traditional camp, and even the traditional light short-barreled artillery has limited effect.

However, there are field artillery in his rural protection army!
This time he came here, but he brought a full three artillery posts, a total of eighteen six-hundred-jin long cannons.

For front-mounted field artillery like the [-]-jin long cannon, there is naturally no good way to use tall and thick walls, but it is a piece of cake to deal with this kind of wooden wall and distance horses.

The Ming army's wooden walls, distance horses and other fortifications on the opposite side can block ordinary cold weapon troops, but they can't stop their own [-]-jin long cannon.

And this kind of thing has happened before. When Lu Xiangsheng retreated to Sanyuanzhuang, he also had these wooden walls for practical use, and even had a large number of buildings that could be used as fortifications.

However, under the fierce shelling of the rural protection army, it could not play any role at all.

After observing the opponent's camp, Luo Zhixue turned around and said to An Yong: "You have been fighting with them for so long, you should have figured out the opponent's strength, are you sure there is no Hongyi artillery on the opposite side?"

An Yongduo said in a firm tone: "There is absolutely no Hongyi artillery, or they would have pulled out to attack Yuzhou City!"

"Not only do they not have Hongyi Cannon, but they don't even have larger General Cannons, the biggest of which are only two or three hundred catties General Cannons and Franc Machine Cannons!"

Hearing Ernst and Young reply in such an affirmative tone, Luo Zhixue nodded slightly and didn't ask any more questions.

On the opposite side, Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong's troops did not have long-barreled artillery such as the Hongyi Cannon, and it was not beyond Luo Zhixue's expectations. The reason why they asked Ernong Duo was just for the final confirmation.

Based on the information collected by Luo Zhixue in the past year or so, plus the experience gained from many actual battles with the Ming army.

He discovered that the Ming army in the hinterland of the Central Plains was more inclined to use traditional cold weapons, and there were not many old-style traditional guns. As for the Hongyi artillery, to be honest, he has not seen a single one until now...

In fact, there were Hongyi artillery in the Ming army, and there were quite a few, but most of them were deployed in border towns or coastal areas, or in super-large cities like the capital.

Among them, there are the most Hongyi artillery in the strong cities of Jiliao.

But in the hinterland of the Central Plains, there are not many Hongyi cannons.

After all, although there are rogues in the hinterland of the Central Plains, the rogues seriously lack the ability to attack fortified positions these days, and their field combat capabilities are not very good.

On the contrary, the Eastern captives in the Jiliao area were too much of a threat, and the Ming army could not fight in field battles, so they could only defend the city. Therefore, they attached great importance to the Hongyi cannons. Most of the Hongyi cannons in the Ming Dynasty were basically deployed in various places in Jiliao. The city was used to resist the captivity from the East.

This is still talking about the Hongyi cannon used to defend the city.

As for the Hongyi cannons used in field battles, don't even count on them.

Due to the extremely heavy disadvantages of the Hongyi cannon, coupled with the Ming army's extreme backwardness in gun mount technology, the Ming army seldom used the Hongyi cannon in field battles, and it would take a lot of time to use it occasionally, and it was impossible to achieve fast speed. maneuver.

Even if there is an improved gun mount on Dongyao's side, it also has more power to drag the Hongyi cannon, which is very difficult to use in actual combat. It is often tried to pull down a city stationed by a Ming army, and then Conduct siege operations.

Strictly speaking, the Hongyi cannon after the improved gun mount of Dongyao is not considered a field artillery, but a heavy siege artillery.

As for field artillery, one of the core elements is to be able to march and fight with infantry, even if infantry cannot follow, it is not a field artillery.

The Hongyi Cannon is really too heavy!
Although the [-]-jin long cannon produced by the Township Protection Army was born out of the Hongyi cannon, it has a smaller diameter.

Ordinary Hongyi cannons generally have a multiple diameter of more than 22 times, and can even reach more than [-] times.

But the [-]-jin cannon of the Township Protection Army has only [-] times the diameter.

Because the multiple diameter is smaller, the requirements for the thickness of the barrel are lower, so the barrel of the [-]-jin long gun is also thinner.

Even in order to reduce the weight of the artillery, the proportion of the standard charge of the [-]-jin artillery of the Baoxiang Army when firing is smaller than that of the Hongyi cannon.

Because the Township Protection Army does not require the maximum range of this artillery, nor does it require how powerful it can be after a kilometer.

The Township Protection Army only needs this kind of artillery to maintain a certain lethality at a distance of 600 meters.

Farther away, no matter how powerful it is, it's useless if you can't hit it!

After all these things, it can also lead to the [-]-jin long cannon of the Baoxiang Army. Although the appearance of the barrel is similar to that of the traditional Hongyi cannon, and it also has a strong brand of Hongyi artillery, it is actually two completely different types. Different types of artillery.

After finally confirming that the Ming army on the opposite side did not have long-range cannons, Luo Zhixue was really relieved.

Because in this way, our side will have an absolute artillery advantage!
In addition, there are [-] elite cavalry on our side, even if we can't beat Zuo Liangyu's [-] elite cavalry, it is not a big problem to contain them.

As for infantry combat, the [-]st Infantry Brigade has never let him down, and there is also the [-]rd Infantry Brigade, the Personal Battalion, and the [-]st Supply Battalion to help!
This battle is very stable!
(End of this chapter)