Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1355 The Nancha Disturbance ([-]) Starts
When the Mongolian cavalry appeared from the south, all the Ming troops were stunned: the Mongols did not leave.

Only Gao Yimin, who was on the northern line, was a little surprised, staring at the binoculars for a while.

It is understandable that the Mongols did not run directly from the forest. After all, the distance from the forest to the place where the Ming army was arrayed is a bit short. If they directly came out of the forest to attack the Ming army, although the response time of the Ming army would be shorter, But it is also difficult for them to run and speed up the horses, which cannot meet the needs of charging.

If they were only facing ordinary guards of the Ming army, Brihatu obviously wouldn't mind this, because as long as the Mongolian cavalry charged in front of them in the wild, their morale would collapse on their own, and there was no need to think about charging The problem of not enough speed.

However, the Ming army fighting this time is obviously elite from the equipment alone, so they can't expect to fight like chopping melons and vegetables, and must give full play to their own advantages.

Gao Yimin could understand this, but he was surprised that the Mongols would choose to gather on the southern front.

The garrison on the southern front is Zhang Wanbang's department. The banner of "Liaoyang Zuoying Guerrilla General Zhang" flying high in front of the formation can be clearly seen from a long distance. It is not that no one in the Mongolian army can read Chinese characters. They have no reason Find the wrong opponent.

Liaoyang originally did not have left and right battalions, and the two positions of Liaoyang Zuoying Guerrilla and Right Battalion Guerrilla were newly added recently, in order to adapt to the changes that occurred due to the growth of Liaodong's troops again.Among them, the guerrilla general of the left battalion is Zhang Wanbang, and the guerrilla general of the right battalion is Ma Lin, but he has not yet taken office. Come over in time.

Even if Zhang Wanbang's name is not as famous as thunder in Mongolia, at least he is definitely not an unknown person.He defeated the Mongolian cavalry twice in front of the battle, which gave him the nickname "General Bayonet", and it was called by the Mongolians.

This time Tumen still aimed at Zhang Wanbang's troops and gathered on the southern line, this action immediately made Gao Yimin a little vigilant.

In wars, most of the time, it is important to fight the weak enemy first, because the weak enemy is easier to defeat, and after the defeat, it is easy to form a broken situation, so that the opponent has no time to adjust, and the defeat is like a mountain.

But there are also times when it is possible or even necessary to do the opposite, attacking a strong enemy first, defeating and deterring the enemy in one fell swoop.Before the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang had Chen Youliang upstream and Zhang Shicheng downstream. Chen Youliang was strong and Zhang Shicheng was weak. Most of the advisers believed that at this time, Zhang Shicheng should be attacked first to obtain the rich and prosperous Suzhou and Hangzhou, and then compete with Chen Youliang.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang disagreed, thinking that Zhang Shicheng was born as a salt dealer and was a small businessman at heart. Although he occupied a wealthy place, as long as he was not pushed into a hurry, he would not easily fight with others.Chen Youliang is not the case, he is ruthless and murderous, he doesn't know what righteousness is, and he will use any means to achieve his goals.

If I fight Zhang Shicheng first, Chen Youliang will definitely not sit idly by, and he will definitely take the opportunity to raise troops, and when the time comes, he will be attacked by the enemy, and his defeat will be inevitable.Conversely, if Chen Youliang was attacked first, Zhang Shicheng would at most try to send troops to see if he could take advantage of the opportunity, and would never attack desperately. Foundation.

If it is said that Zhu Yuanzhang's attacking a strong enemy first is more often "predicting people like a god", and it is not a purely tactical issue, then the Lunan Campaign during the Red and Blue War before liberation can better explain the problem.

At that time, the Battle of Subei had hurt and scared the Blue Army. The various units of the Blue Army that were attacking all suspended their attacks.Xue Yue, director of the Xuzhou Appeasement Office, ordered the reorganized 74th Division to capture Lianshui and attack northward.

However, Zhang Lingfu refused to move. He had to wait for reinforcements from all walks of life to arrive before he would advance northward. Moreover, the various troops were tightly attached to each other, covering each other and advancing northward.

At that time, the distribution of the Blue Army was as follows: the reorganized 74th Division on the southern front was in Suqian, and the reorganized 6th Division was in Chenshi'an.The 7th Army of the Blue Party is in Siyang, and the reorganized 7th Division is in Lianshui.

On the western front, Ma Liwu's Reorganized 26th Division and the Blue Party's Ministry of National Defense's 1st Rapid Column have advanced to the east of Yi County, preparing to attack Linyi, the capital of the Shandong Liberated Area. Zhou Yuying's Reorganized 51st Division is stationed in Zaozhuang, Feng Zhian's Reorganized 77th Division, The 59th Division was reorganized and stationed in Taierzhuang.

After the Battle of Subei, Chen Cheng, then chief of staff, went to Xuzhou to analyze the current strategic situation with Xue Yue, director of the Xuzhou Appeasement Office.Chen Cheng and Xue Yue believed: "The Eastern Front Corps has successively occupied Yancheng and Lianshui in northern Jiangsu after bitter battles. The Red Army in central China has lost its base and can only retreat to southern Shandong. The Shandong Military Region of the Red Army is based on the Shandong Peninsula. , The Shandong Peninsula goes deep into the sea, and the mountains such as Yimeng and Laoshan lie in it, and the terrain is intricate. The Red Army claims to have operated for eight years and is deeply rooted.

In addition, Yantai, Longkou and Luda are only separated by a river, and foreign aid is easy to obtain. Therefore, Shandong has become the best base of the Red Army and may also be the longest.The gains and losses of Shandong also play a decisive role in the domestic war situation. "

Chen Cheng and Xue Yue came to the conclusion: After the fall of northern Jiangsu, Chen Yi's Shandong field army will definitely defend Shandong.And the blue army can completely adopt the strategy of "attack what they must defend" and fight decisively with us in the Shandong field.

At the same time, our army's Chen Shuai and General Su discovered that the enemy's reorganized 74th Division, the Gui Army's 7th Army, and the reorganized [-]th Division joined forces to attack Shuyang in an attempt to pinch our army.

The Central China Field Army fought against the enemy's reorganized 74th Division several times in Huaibei.As a result, around "where to fight and who to fight", Huaye and Shanye's senior management launched a heated debate.

Huaye wanted to fight Zhang Lingfu's reorganized 74th Division in Lianghuai or northern Jiangsu, while Shanye wanted to return to Lunan, because the situation in Lunan was also very tense at that time: Lunan Ma Liwu's reorganized 26th Division and the first fast column all the way Moving forward, it is only 30 kilometers away from Linyi, the capital of the Shandong Liberated Area.

The lawsuit reached the center, and Mao instructed Chen and Su: "The Battle of Southern Shandong is related to the overall situation. Even if the victory of this battle is lost, there will be a way to recover. You must concentrate on the first, sixth, eighth, fourth, and ninth , the 26th Division, the [-]st Column, the Police Brigade and other departments, and have the necessary time for deployment and preparation, in order to fight a larger annihilation battle than Subei. It seems appropriate to fight the [-]th Division and three brigades for the first battle, because the division It is the main force in southern Shandong, the division was wiped out, and the overall situation has improved. If Feng’s troops are attacked first, the problem in southern Shandong may not be solved for a while. How to deal with it depends on the specific situation.”

In the telegram, Mao explicitly asked the Huaye and Shanye armies to go north to southern Lunan to organize the Lunan campaign, and proposed to fight Ma Liwu's reorganized 26th Division first, and Wang Jian'an's Luzhong troops also participated in the Lunan campaign. This time our army The concentrated force greatly exceeded the battle of Subei.Chen and Su resolutely carried out the instructions of the Central Committee and decided to immediately organize the Lunan Campaign.

此战的具体过程不多表述，最终结果是蓝军整编26师第44、169旅，第一快速纵队战车营、工兵营、炮5团、运输团及80旅两个步兵团共3万多人被我军全歼，缴获坦克24辆和美式重炮数十门、卡车200多辆。

Ma Liwu watched helplessly in the county seat of Yi County that the main force of his reorganized 26th Division and the first fast column were wiped out by our army. The officers and soldiers of the defenders were frightened, and the city was in chaos.

Xue Yue was worried that our army would cut off the Jinpu line, so he ordered Ma Liwu to gather his troops and stick to Yi County.At the same time, Zhou Yuying, the reorganized 51st Division, was ordered to stick to Zaozhuang, and Feng Zhian's 97th Army was ordered to stick to Lincheng, forming three isolated strongholds.

At that time, there was only one complete regiment of the reorganized 51st Division in Yixian County, plus the remnants of the reorganized 26th Division, a total of less than 1 people, 7 tanks and more than 30 artillery pieces.

After defeating the strong enemy, the weak enemy will be easy to deal with.In the end, when the 18-day Lunan Campaign ended, on the East China battlefield, the Lunan Campaign set a new record, annihilating 2 reorganized divisions and 1 fast column of the Blue Army with a total of more than 53000 people. More than 17000 people.24 tanks, 470 cars, and more than 200 various artillery pieces were seized.Yi County, Zaozhuang and the areas east of it were recovered, and the enemy's plan to attack Linyi and wipe out the main force of our army in East China was shattered.

This battle was the opposite of Mao's tactic of "fighting weak enemies first, then fighting strong ones", but it also came from Mao's decision.The so-called impermanence of soldiers and impermanence of water are shown clearly here.

However, people who can accurately grasp the key of "when to fight a weak enemy and when to fight a strong enemy" are not common.Gao Yimin didn't quite understand the Mongolian army's choice to attack Zhang Wanbang's troops at this time.

The most critical point here is that from the perspective of the situation, all the ministries of the Ming army are considered elite, and it is unlikely that the failure of Zhang Wanbang's army will shake the entire army and lead to collapse.What's more, Zhang Wanbang's most famous feature is to fight against the Mongolian cavalry head-on. Whether the Mongols can defeat him is still a matter of opinion.

But the reality has not given Gao Yimin more time to doubt. After the Mongolian army appeared on the southern line and quickly completed its assembly, it has launched an attack on Zhang Wanbang's department on the southern line of the Ming army without hesitation.

In this attack, without the Mongolian army's most habitual tactics of approaching, shooting and then quickly withdrawing, the Mongolian army in front of the Tumen Dazhu directly launched an offensive, decisive and straightforward.

It seemed that Brihatu had learned the lesson of Xin Ai and Chaohua back then, knowing that the range and lethality of shooting with a bow was not as good as the elite musketeers behind the bayonet formation of the Ming army.These Musketeers armed with Wanli Type [-] or even Wanli Type [-] can cause major damage to the Mongolian cavalry when they are unable to mount and shoot, and the tactics of approaching the horse and shooting and then leaving the battlefield cannot be used in front of them.

Therefore, Brihatu took advantage of his strengths and avoided his weaknesses, and simply used the power of the charge to the extreme, starting with a desperate charge.

When Gao Yimin was still in the rear (he was on the northern line) shocked by Brihatu's decisiveness, Zhang Wanbang in the front had already sneered: "Have you learned well, you know that if you want to break the bayonet formation, you can only die? Very good, I will come to see today, how many dog ​​lives are you planning to fill in!"

He roared: "Scatter the ground, retreat ten steps and stand in formation!"

The Ming army in front of them promised loudly, picked up pieces of wood from their sides and continued to move forward.These wooden boards are what Zhang Wanbang called "earth astringent". They are not ordinary wooden boards. On the upward side of the boards, there are rows of Jinghua barbed wire.

These caltrops are slightly different from the previous ones, but the effect is actually the same, except that the pure hand-made ones have been changed into mechanical twisting and twisting. Two pieces of iron wire are twisted and intertwined into four-cornered thorns by a machine driven by a waterwheel. .

Tribulus terrestris can be scattered on the ground alone but in large quantities, or it can be made into this kind of "ground astringent". The main advantage of the ground astringent is that it is more suitable for guarding the key points of the enemy's key attack and easy to recycle.

Of course, the Mongolian war horses had horseshoes. Generally speaking, the horseshoes would not be abolished by stepping on barbed wire, but if the war horse stepped on the ground, it would usually crack the ground and fly around.The flying ground is a wooden plank covered with barbed wire. When it hits a person or a horse, it is like barbed wire covering the face. It is hard to say whether it will die or not, but it is basically impossible to run if it loses combat power in an instant.

However, the Mongolian army at this time obviously cannot follow the previous practice of "refusing to be casualties". Now they have made it clear that they want to attack by force, at all costs.Therefore, after these ground astringents were thrown out quickly, the Ming army did not even take a second look, and immediately began to arrange them according to the standard state of the bayonet formation.

The shining three rows of bayonets stood obliquely in front of the formation, as fierce as a forest of hellish knives.After the bayonet is the typical musket three-stage strike reserve team. The cardboard fixed-load ammunition has already been loaded, and the flintlock ignition device of the gun has already been checked in advance.

Somewhere in the rear is the artillery.Due to the preciousness of the artillery and the use of bayonet formations, the artillery is placed at the rear when performing bayonet formation tactics. Therefore, it is necessary to adjust the muzzle firing angle on the artillery carriage to form a projectile shape, so as not to accidentally injure one's own infantry by direct fire.

Zhang Wanbang watched with a stern expression as the Mongolian cavalry rushed towards him and gradually increased their horse speed as the distance approached. He was unmoved, but just visually measured the distance between the two armies with experience.

He has to calculate more than one distance, including the firing distance of the artillery, the firing distance of the musket, etc., all of which require his calculation and immediately form a command command.Fortunately, the No. [-] gun usually does not participate in this kind of field battle. He only needs to calculate the firing distance of the No. [-] and No. [-] guns at this moment, which finally reduces the workload.

"No. [-] gun salvo ready! One, two, three, fire!"

With Zhang Wanbang's roar, the battle of Yehehe officially started.
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