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Chapter 206 Li Zicheng: Let him know that E Ping is called King Chuang

Dengzhou.

The prefect Liu Zhenshi and the inspector Li Guoxi stood at the top of the city. They were puzzled when they saw Li Chuang and Cao Cao mobilizing their troops to go eastward along the Tuanhe River.

Li Guoxi asked: "Guardian, are Cao Cao and Li Chuang going to attack Xinye?"

"It's very possible." Liu Zhenshi frowned, "But it's also possible that reinforcements are coming from the south."

"Reinforcements from the south?" Li Guoxi also frowned, "The Qin army and Zuo Liangyu under the command of Commander Ding? If it is them, I just hope they come early, before the rogue bandits retreat and harm us in vain!"

The Qin army is famous for its poor military discipline, and Zuo Liangyu's tribe is even more notorious - the soldiers are like a grate, which is the Ming army of Zuo Liangyu's tribe!

Liu Zhenshi sighed: "In fact, it is unlikely to be reinforcements - we refused Ding Qirui to enter the city before, so he probably has no idea of ​​rescuing us. As for Zuo Liangyu, it is impossible for him to break in and fight the coalition forces of Li Chuang and Cao Cao alone."

Having said this, Liu Zhenshi said no more.

If the rogue bandits invaded Xinye, the possibility of Dengzhou being rescued would be even smaller.

"You keep an eye on the city while I patrol the city and see if I can send troops out to dispose of the corpses outside the city. Otherwise, diseases will appear in the city in a few days."

"Yes."

Neither of them mentioned the matter of sending troops out of the city to attack the camp while Li Chuang and Cao Cao were mobilizing their troops.

For one thing, they didn't know how many of the rogue bandits were left behind - maybe a lot of them were left behind, deliberately pretending to be a small number, so as to lure them out of the city and thus break the city.

Secondly, the troops in the city are limited and their combat power is weak, so it is really not easy to take risks.

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Boom, boom, boom.

Jitan, in the wilderness on the east bank of the Tuanhe River, with the sound of drums and drums, the infantry of the Yibu rebel army walked slowly and slowly towards the predetermined battlefield.

The heroic cavalry guards were divided into two groups, one led by Shen Wandeng and one each led by Li Dingguo, cruising on both sides of the front infantry array.

Liu Sheng rode on horseback and looked at the smoke and dust a few miles to the north with his binoculars. He found that they all seemed to be flying the flag of Li Chuang, and there was no trace of Luo Rucai's troops.

Liu Sheng knew that Luo Rucai's troops would definitely not come to fight - if Luo Rucai was unwilling to fight, Li Zicheng would probably not come either.

Sure enough, soon a scout from the south came over to report.

"Commander, Luo Rucai's troops are crossing the river six or seven miles behind our army!"

Liu Sheng smiled after hearing this, "I knew they would attack from both front and back."

At this time, the walkie-talkie in Liu Sheng's hand suddenly rang.

"Commander, I am Zhang Ao. The reconnaissance cavalry discovered that Luo Rucai's troops are crossing the river at Zhengwan. Do you need our troops to stop them?"

Liu Sheng also brought a secret weapon to Nanyang this time, which were several walkie-talkies.

In addition to having one in his hand, each of the four brigade commanders also had one in hand to facilitate communication with each other on the battlefield - on the great plain terrain of the late Ming Dynasty, the maximum communication distance of this kind of walkie-talkie could reach fifteen or six miles!

This is much more convenient and faster than using messengers to communicate, and it is also safer!
Zhang Ao led the 8000th Brigade with more than [-] people as the rear army. They would also send out reconnaissance cavalry. The main direction of the reconnaissance was the rear (south). Naturally, they would also find out about Luo Rucai's troops crossing the river.

Liu Sheng replied: "I am Liu Sheng, Zhang Ao listens to the order, the rear army continues to advance, don't worry about Luo Rucai's department for the time being."

"Zhang Ao received it, follow your orders!"

Liu Sheng was not good at commanding ancient armies in battle, so the military formations were relatively simple.

In addition to the cavalry guard protecting the two wings, the infantry is mainly divided into five major military formations.

Helianyue's more than 5000 men were the forwards, the Guards were the central army, Zhang Ao's 8000th Brigade, with more than [-] men, was the rear force, and Mao Chengguo and Wen You each led the brigade headquarters as the left and right armies.

As for the other regiment brought by Wen You, the Minyong Battalion assisted in guarding Xinye to prevent Li and Luo from not following martial ethics and stealing Xinye County - which was the nearest baggage transit station to the main force of the Yibu rebel army. The place to store is quite important.

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Li Zicheng led a hundred horsemen to a position more than two miles away from the front of the Yibu rebel formation to observe the rebel formation.

Thinking of something, he took out a bamboo tube.

This is the telescope (only four times) that he captured in Prince Fu's Mansion.

At first, he didn't know that this kind of treasure had been captured in Prince Fu's Mansion, so when he attacked Kaifeng, he took the risk to personally check the layout of the official camp outside Kaifeng City. As a result, he was blinded in one eye by an official archer.

Not long after returning to Luoyang, one of his junior officials responsible for guarding the treasures diligently presented this object, saying that it was found among the many treasures in Prince Fu's Mansion.

After Li Zicheng tried it, he hated it!

Ask the official why he didn't present this treasure earlier.

The junior official explained that he had only discovered it a few days ago, but Li Zicheng was still filled with anger and hatred. Regardless of the persuasion of Li Yan and others, he had this junior official who was related to him pulled out and executed.

Although Li Zicheng beheaded the man who presented the treasure, he still kept the treasure of Telescope with him.

At this time, when watching the enemy's formation from a distance of more than two miles, it was as if he were looking at the scenery two hundred steps away, which was quite clear.

After reading it, Li Zicheng laughed.

"Well, I thought Liu Sheng was so capable, and he managed to put on a military formation in just a long time.

But the news we got before is correct. Liu Sheng's army does have a lot of cannons. "

Li Zicheng had heard that the Weibu rebels had many Hongyi cannons, but when he thought about it, a dozen or so could only reach the sky.

When he took a look today, he realized that there seemed to be dozens of them - because of the military formation, he couldn't see exactly how many cannons there were with a telescope. As for the smaller squatting tiger cannons, it was even harder to see clearly.

Even if he knew that Liu Sheng had dozens of cannons, Li Zicheng was not afraid.

Because in his understanding, artillery fires iron bullets; even Hongyi cannons can rarely hit more than two miles away.In addition, at this time, he had nearly [-] cavalry divided into hundreds of troops, walking on the battlefield. The formation was not dense and could be withdrawn at any time. Even if the enemy fired artillery, there would not be many casualties.

On the contrary, if the opponent's cavalry tries to drive them away, they will easily be eaten by them.

Although Zhang Nai, who was riding beside him and held the flag, did not have a telescope, his eyesight was very good, and he could vaguely understand the opposing military formation through the flag.

After hearing this, he asked: "King Chuang, how should we fight?"

"First let the more than 1 new soldiers charge forward to attract enemy artillery fire. Then let a cavalry unit cut in from the east to disrupt the enemy's formation.

The Chinese infantry moved up the stairs again, and after contact with the enemy, they fought in turns according to the old rules!
With the looks in front of me, as long as we can rush in, we can defeat them in two or three rounds!
He will lead another cavalry unit, look for opportunities to dispatch, or finally pursue and suppress the defeated troops. In this battle, he must let Liu Sheng know that he is called the King of Chuang! "

Li Zicheng had a famous cavalry tactic in later history called "Three Walls".

It talks about using [-] cavalry, divided into three layers, just like three stages of musketry. The former will finish the charge and then retreat to rest and recover, while the latter will continue to charge.

In this way, [-] cavalrymen alternated back and forth, quickly overwhelming the enemy's formation.

If this method of warfare fails to win in a fierce battle, withdraw and lure the enemy into the infantry formation, let the cavalry repair themselves, and then rejoin the battle...

People who are not familiar with it may seem very awesome at first glance, but those who really understand classical military affairs know that this is actually a very mediocre method of warfare, and it has two high requirements.

First of all, you need [-] cavalry to engage in the three-wall tactic.

Secondly, your cavalry and infantry must be elite enough, at least able to follow orders and prohibitions, and able to fight fiercely with the enemy without defeat.

Finally, this tactic is most suitable for plain combat.

The question is, how many peasant armies can meet the first two conditions in the late Ming Dynasty?

Li Zicheng said he brought 8000 cavalry this time, but in fact there were only more than [-], and half of them were horses and mules. The actual number of horses was less than [-].

The real success of Li Chuang's cavalry was due to the captain Chongzhen urging the Qin Army's transport brigade to send two waves of heads and horses!

Historically, in September of this year, Fu Zonglong led more than 2 Qin and Sichuan troops out of the border, fought with the Li Luo coalition between Xincai and Xiangcheng, and was defeated!
Next year, Wang Qiaonian led tens of thousands of Qin and Sichuan troops. They were defeated by Li and Luo's coalition forces between Xiangcheng and Yancheng, and sent a large number of war horses.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Qin army of the Ming Dynasty still had no shortage of war horses, but in the end they all took advantage of Li Zicheng!

Although Fu Zonglong took over the post of governor of the three sides earlier than in history, even if he has already taken office, according to Chongzhen's decree, he has to wait and see for the time being - the Ming court is counting on the two tigers Li Chuang and Liu Wei to compete with each other.

As for elite soldiers.

It was less than a year after Li Zicheng entered Henan. At that time, there were only a few thousand people, and the elite might even be less than a thousand.

Although the [-] elite soldiers he has brought to Nanyang have been tempered through many bloody battles, there is still a clear gap in combat power compared with the real elites.

Therefore, Li Zicheng currently has neither of the two prerequisites for the three-wall strategy.

On the other hand, he has become extremely proficient in using the method of round combat.

In fact, Li Zicheng's best tactics were "mobile combat, controlling the enemy by moving", as well as avoiding the real and weak, winning by surprise, running from long distances, luring the enemy into ambush, attacking from the east and attacking from the west, besieging the city and calling for reinforcements, etc. These were not frontal battles.

At this time, Li Zicheng already had mature tactical thoughts and military routines, but he was still more than a year away from Dacheng.

But even though his tactics were successful, he was still defeated at the hands of Sun Chuanting in the 16th year of Chongzhen, and it was Luo Rucai who came to the rescue to turn defeat into victory.

To sum up, Li Zicheng's military talent was high in the late Ming Dynasty, but in China's long military history, his ranking was not high...

After Li Zicheng returned to the military formation, orders were quickly passed on one by one, and Li Chuang's various ministries also started to move.

Li Chuang's troops "recruited" soldiers and horses by any means in Neixiang and Dengzhou, and only managed to recruit more than [-] recruits.

The previous two-day siege of Dengzhou resulted in thousands of casualties, but now only [-] were left.

Not long ago, these recruits were ordinary people or bandits. They could not understand the flags and could not form a military formation. Under the leadership of a few officers from Li Chuang's Ministry, they rushed towards the Yibu Rebel Army's formation over the mountains and plains like a herd of cattle and sheep. Come!

As the forward commander, He Lianyue faced this style of play for the first time.

Fortunately, in several meetings before the war, Liu Sheng vaccinated all the generals and made it clear that in the face of this situation, they must not be merciful, and at the same time, they must not let the enemy's "cannon fodder" exhaust their firepower and energy.

boom boom boom

When Li Chuang's recruits were more than two miles away from the front of Helianyue, dozens of army artillery fired.

When a round of bombs fell, less than a hundred people were actually killed, but it still caused confusion among Li Chuang's recruits.

Under the coercion of the supervising cavalry from the rear group, they barely maintained their charging posture.

A distance of two or three miles would take an ordinary person seven or eight minutes to run in later generations.

These Li Chuang recruits had not had enough to eat for a long time, and their physical fitness was much worse than that of later generations. They also knew that they were cannon fodder, so they naturally ran slower.

Taking advantage of this time, the rebels even had time to take out their shovels and dig a simple trench in front of the formation!

About ten minutes later, the front group of Li Chuang's recruits finally reached a place [-] steps in front of the rebel formation.

He Lianyue was sitting on the horse, and he could already see that in front of him were "him" from the past - refugees, refugees, and hungry people.

But he did not relent and ordered the crouching cannon to fire at the best time.

boom boom boom

A series of crisp cannon shots rang out, hundreds of shotgun nets were fired out, and the front of the rebel formation suddenly turned into a bloody hell of Shura!

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　
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