People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 445: Killing elite enemy soldiers! The Ming army suffered no more than a hundred casualties! !

After listening to Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng said that he didn't have to spend much effort to kill the one thousand cavalrymen, and even set an ambush. Only three people sprained their feet because of vying for credit.

This time Zhu Neng was really stimulated.

He directly said to the soldiers under his command, "Look, I told you, a man must have a promising future.

Look at these soldiers on the left wing. Only three of them were injured, but they killed more than a thousand people.

We were complacent at the beginning, do we still have the nerve to smile now?
You have to think about what weapons we have in our hands?
What kind of equipment do we have?
Killing a thousand cavalrymen should be easy, no one should be killed or injured, and there should be no damage at all.

But we still injured more than a hundred people.

You know better than I do why those more than a hundred people were injured.

So next time, if anyone dares to sprain his foot in order to compete for credit, he will not only have to pay for the treatment of his foot out of his own pocket, but also receive dozens of military sticks. "

He was also very angry.

Originally, he felt that he had made great contributions this time. After all, after more than a thousand people were killed, they did not suffer much damage. Who could compare to them?

But they never expected that Zhang Yu did better than them.

So he was determined to make him a great hero.

Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng passed the battle report to Zhu Di behind them, and then began to compete fiercely and efficiently.

Of course, neither of them took it lightly.

Instead, they first sent out a reconnaissance force to find out what kind of tribe was ahead, how strong were their combat forces, and what kind of logistics did they have.

Then they sent a large army to surround them and attack them from the front and back.

Although the two armies are in a competitive relationship, they have not given up cooperation.

Zhang Yu is good at strategy and Zhu Neng is good at attack. The two complement each other and cooperate very well.

Under their command, the two armies became more organized.

Even because of the interaction between muskets and artillery this time, the two armies have gradually become accustomed to the coordination of cannons and muskets after mutual adjustment.

First, they used cannons to bombard the enemy, leaving them with no fighting power.

Then the cavalry was dispatched to approach quickly and fire muskets at close range.

It is said that shooting with a musket requires aiming, but at close range, even a woman can aim accurately.

With the tactical coordination, the two teams became increasingly powerful.

Soon they advanced a full three hundred miles.

In these three hundred miles of area, they captured eight tribes without bloodshed.

They did not kill every tribe, but instead trapped them in the same place.

Then he arranged their cavalry into his own troops.

They were asked to deliver some food and fodder, and when their families were controlled by the Ming army, they did not resist at all.

This time they don't need to rely too much on logistics, and can just fight to support the war.

Even Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng's teams sent out some signals to inform the tribes along the way that if they surrendered, they would not be harmed in the slightest, but if they dared to resist, they would be killed without mercy, not a single one would be spared.

Under such a policy, they soon achieved very good results.

In the area of ​​three hundred miles, there was basically no tribe that resisted.

They surrendered one after another, and the old, weak and sick all stayed where they were.

All the food that can be brought to the battlefield will be brought to the battlefield.

All the horses that can go to the battlefield were sent to the battlefield.

On the one hand, it helped them transport food and fodder, and on the other hand, Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng also allowed their soldiers to have more horses to ride.

Not to mention the cattle, sheep and horses in the grassland tribes, they are very familiar with the local terrain.

At the same time, we are really experienced and can easily find some water sources in the Gobi Desert.

It greatly reduces the time they spend looking for water sources and aquatic plants.

At the same time, Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng also left enough signs for Zhu Di along the way.

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The main force in the rear.

Zhu Di was feeling emotional at this time.

He went to the battlefield as the commander-in-chief, commanding the army to advance step by step.

Originally he was thinking about charging into battle.

He even regularly honed his musket shooting and artillery aiming techniques for this purpose.

But now, there is no place for it.

Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng, as pioneers, completed his task completely.

All he had to do was to pick up the prisoners along the way.

Although this is what every commander wants to see.

But Zhu Di was, after all, a leading general who had fought on the battlefield, so he still felt a little helpless.

"You said that I finally got to the battlefield, and I finally figured out the uses of muskets and cannons, but now I can't even fire a shot or a cannon. What a pity."

If the King of Jin and the King of Qin heard about this kind of Versailles, they would surely be extremely envious.

When the battle reports from Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng reached Zhu Di again, before Zhu Di could say anything, a civil servant in the army stood up.

Although the current results of the battle are very good and encouraging, Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng are still advancing with an army of 20,000, and have recaptured seven or eight tribes along the way.

Even without bloodshed, the Ming army won this battle with great fanfare.

But civil servants are still worried.

Their concern was that the two armies had strayed too far away from the main force, as much as three or four hundred miles away.

With such a long distance, even if the army were to advance at full speed, it would still take two days to catch up.

Such a long distance will not only increase the danger of the two armies advancing alone.

At the same time, it will make the logistics of food and fodder transportation unsustainable.

You have to know that although we have muskets and cannons now, it is a huge challenge to transport the bullets and shells used in the muskets and cannons.

If the 20,000 troops in front lost such advantageous weapons, the risk factor would increase greatly.

You have to know that what they are facing now is not just the fragile small tribes along the way.

Most of them are from seven or eight tribes in the Horqin grassland, and the elite troops have not been contacted yet.

I don't know whether they launched it or not?
I don't even know what their plan is.
Because they have advanced more than a thousand miles along the way.

Over a thousand miles away, elite soldiers from the Khorchin grassland tribes should have appeared on the battlefield.

But up to now, we have only defeated some scattered tribes.

These scattered tribes may have a total of 20,000 to 30,000 people, but they are definitely not the elite of the grasslands.

The civil servants felt it would be dangerous if they went any deeper.

So a civil official came out and said, "Your Highness, should we order Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng to wait and see first, and then advance together after our tens of thousands of main forces meet up with them?
If the supply lines are not stretched too long, and they go deep into the enemy territory alone and are surrounded by the enemy, it will be difficult for us to rescue them. "

What the civil servant said does make sense.

And what he considered was correct. But he didn't consider the current situation at all.

If there really was such strong resistance along the way, Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng would not be able to win repeatedly under such circumstances.

And Zhu Di was not just on the road, he was also making sure the logistics troops could move forward smoothly.

More than 2,000 reconnaissance troops were dispatched to conduct reconnaissance within a radius of 1,000 miles.

Once there is any sign of trouble, his reconnaissance troops will be able to deliver the intelligence to him as quickly as possible.

But so far, no intelligence has been delivered to him.

No one saw any danger.

Under such circumstances, Zhu Di absolutely supported Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng to lead the army forward.

This was not because he was being reckless, but rather because he saw through the current situation and knew that this was a great opportunity.

On the battlefield, you can't be so reckless.

Because the result of advancing recklessly is that we might be alone and deep in the enemy's territory, and be surrounded and annihilated on the grassland.

But it also depends on the situation.

There is now enough evidence to suggest that the war appears to have become one-sided.

With the support of powerful firepower and the leadership of Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng, one with strategy and the other with courage, the results achieved were very good.

If they were suddenly ordered to stop at this time, their morale would be broken.

Sometimes wars are fought with the help of momentum, and an army that advances forward can achieve the effect of one plus one being greater than two.

Zhu Di was a military commander and he understood the situation very well.

Now the soldiers are pushing forward at all costs for the sake of merit, which seems a bit reckless on the surface.

But it also proves the indomitable momentum of the soldiers now.

This momentum is enough to make up for any setbacks.

Although the distance was three or four hundred miles, Zhu Di was not advancing slowly, but rapidly.

As long as Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng can hold on for one day, their reinforcements will arrive.

Within this day, Zhu Di believed that the more than 20,000 elite cavalry under Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng could hold the fort.

So after listening to the civil servant's words, Zhu Di waved his hand and said, "Now what we have to do is to ensure their food and supplies. Don't worry about the rest."

After Zhu Di said this, everyone didn't know what to say.

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at the same time.

In the front, Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng finally faced their first battle.

This time it was really the main force from the Khorchin grassland, a total of 20,000 cavalry.

It's twenty thousand versus twenty thousand.

But Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng have enough confidence.

One reason is that they were a surprise attack.

They had earlier launched a surprise attack when their reconnaissance troops discovered that the enemy was setting up camp.

And it is advancing at a rapid pace.

On the other hand, it is to set fire to the enemy's tents.

They started firing from a distance.

Those panicked Tatars from the grassland who had no time to escape from the flames all ran away in panic, their heads in their hands.

They were still able to deal with the cavalry sent by Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng to burn their tents.

Perhaps when facing these artillery attacks, they could only hate their parents for not giving them two more legs.

At this moment, I had no time to put out the fire; I just wanted to escape quickly.

Unfortunately, after the two rounds of artillery fire, Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng immediately led their troops down the hillside.

Those Mongolian Tartars who were already in chaos began to shoot at close range.

Although the Mongolian Tartars had 20,000 people at that time, and their commander was not weak either.

But one thing must be admitted, once the structure of a unit becomes disorganized, even if the commander is a god, it will be difficult for him to gather his troops.

So the coach had no choice but to flee in shame with the more than a thousand people under his command.

The remaining 20,000 troops just ran around the grassland like rabbits.

Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng led his army in pursuit all night, and the entire grassland was dyed red with blood.

Only when the men and horses were exhausted did someone send up the battle report.

In this campaign a total of 11,100 enemy troops were destroyed, more than 7,000 captured, and more than 2,000 escaped.

As for their own casualties, both Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng were a little frightened.

Although they used artillery and muskets and even raided and burned their tents, Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng still lost more than a hundred elite soldiers.

This time, Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng finally took it seriously.

Because they found that the people they were facing now were those who could resist them.

After bringing all the captives over and questioning them, they found out that they were an elite advance force from the Khorchin grassland.

The original intention was to serve as the vanguard army to fight against the Ming army, to test the strength of the Ming army and to take a look at the organization of the Ming army.

But they didn't expect that they would be ambushed by Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng just after they set up camp, and killed them all.

However, the more than 1,000 people who escaped will probably report the situation to the commander behind them soon.

Now both Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng took it seriously.

Although they have more than 20,000 people, they are not afraid of how many Mongolian children there are in the rear.

However, in order to prevent their troops from suffering too much loss, Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng restrained their ambition to advance forward.

Instead, he rested on the spot and sent battle reports to Zhu Di in the rear.

Then began to digest the results of this battle.

Although they hated the Mongolian Tartars very much, they still had some common sense that leaving the corpses on the battlefield would soon breed plague.

So Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng took advantage of the time waiting for Zhu Di's main army to arrive and began to command the captives to find a place to bury them like the corpses on the grassland.

On the one hand, as they thought, it could reduce the occurrence of plague;

Secondly, we must also reduce pollution of local water sources and local grasslands.

In the eyes of Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng, the land they have conquered now may become the land of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

So they are still extra careful.

A day later, the battle report of Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng reached Zhu Di.

When Zhu Di saw the battle report of Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng, he consoled them, "Well, well, well, you should charge when you should charge, and wait when you should wait. You are indeed worthy of being my right-hand man."

When Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng submitted their reports to Zhu Di, Zhu Di also showed the battle reports to the civil officials.

When the civil officials saw what Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng did, they lowered their heads in embarrassment. It seemed that they had judged others by their own standards...

(End of this chapter)