Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Because it is already spring, the snow on the road has melted.The whole dirt road looked muddy.And the soldiers' shoes were covered with frozen muddy water, which was painful to the bone.Therefore, Qin Liangyu could only let the soldiers warm up after walking a certain distance, and put on dry socks to prevent the soldiers' feet from frostbite.Therefore, the marching speed of the army cannot be increased.

At this time, the army had already entered the territory of Luanzhou.The surroundings are completely deserted.Wu Shigong also often saw corpses exposed on both sides of the road after the snow melted.Because of the cold weather, none of these corpses decomposed.These corpses were covered with a layer of ice, and the whole corpse seemed to be sealed inside by ice cubes, and the expressions on the faces of the corpses looked extremely ferocious.

And the spies sent by the army began to encounter a large number of spies from the Hou Jin army.Because the spies sent by Wu Shigong's army were organized in small groups, the spies from the post-Golden army who encountered them basically turned around and ran away.Of course, they were also afraid of an ambush by the Hou Jin army, and they had some psychological shadows about the Hou Jin army's riding skills, so Wu Shigong's spies did not chase after them.

The spies sent by Qin Liangyu's army were not so lucky.They have lost five or six people in the strangulation battle with the spies of the Hou Jin Army.

Qin Liangyu's white-armed soldiers are basically infantry, and the number of cavalry they can use as spies is very small, only more than 200 cavalry.In addition, the horses used by the white pole cavalry are all southern horses, and the horses are relatively small, so they are basically at a disadvantage in the strangulation battle.

Therefore, Qin Liangyu had no choice but to order himself and Wu Shigong's spies to conduct reconnaissance within ten miles of his army.Just let these spies play a pre-warning role in preventing the sneak attack of the later Jin army.Anyway, Luanzhou City is there, and when you get there, you can always catch the Houjin Army and fight.Now it is enough to ensure the safety of the army when it is marching.

It can be seen from this that in ancient battles, it was quite painful for cavalry not to have an advantage.At least, the reconnaissance of his own army has been greatly hindered.

What Wu Shigong didn't know was that Qin Liangyu's order for all the spies to take it back was issued very timely.Because at this time, in response to the spies Wu Shigong sent out in units of teams, the Hou Jin Army had also increased the number of spies, and also in units of teams, trying to strangle Wu Shigong's team of spies.

It was only because those spies had already shrunk around their own army that the spies of the Houjin Army did not go further, for fear of overthrowing grass and scaring snakes.Because, the Hou Jin army was already preparing to launch a night attack on Qin Liangyu's vanguard army.

At that time, for the Ming army, there was basically no practice of night marches and night raids.Because, at that time, basically all soldiers of the Ming army were malnourished, so many soldiers suffered from night blindness.Therefore, there is no way to march and attack at night.

On the contrary, because the staple food of Hou Jinjun is meat and milk, the nutritional intake is more balanced.Therefore, fewer people suffer from night blindness.Therefore, in the war at that time, the night always belonged to the Hou Jin army.

However, unlike in Romance, in ancient battles, there were quite few cases of night raids and night marches.For one thing: as long as the opponent is well-trained, the results of the night attack are actually not great, and the casualties of the person who launches the night attack may exceed that of the opponent attacked by the night, unless the opponent breaks down or screams;

Secondly, if there is going to be a battle the next day, those soldiers who participated in the night march and night attack will definitely not be able to participate in the battle the next day.Because fighting in ancient times was all physical labor.Besides, people may be able to grit their teeth and resist the past.But if the horse does not rest, it will definitely not be able to resist.Isn't this reducing one's own combat effectiveness in disguise?

Therefore, unless the opponent is an amateur and builds his camp as if it is undefended, or his army is desperate, otherwise, under normal circumstances, night marches and night raids will not occur.

And this time the Houjin Army's night attack on Qin Liangyu's vanguard camp was nothing more than testing the combat effectiveness of Qin Liangyu's army and harassing Qin Liangyu's army.Of course, if there is a chance, these post-Golden troops don't mind giving Qin Liangyu's army a fatal blow.

That night, Dang Baduli led [-] Empress Jin troops and walked for most of the night. After midnight, they arrived at a place four or five hundred steps away from Qin Liangyu's camp.

Badu Li and several generals of the Jin army watched from afar.A general beside him said to Baduli: "The trees next to the camp have been cut down, and there is an open space in front of the camp. There is still a brazier a hundred steps away from the camp. It is difficult for us to touch it. !"

Baduli nodded and said, "It's too far away. I don't know if there are trenches around the Ming army's camp. Send two soldiers to go forward and check."

The two soldiers with the inlaid blue flag immediately bowed their backs and trotted towards the camp.But when they ran to the position of the brazier, suddenly there was a shot of firecrackers in front of them, and a soldier was immediately beaten to the ground.The other soldier couldn't figure out which direction the firecracker was shooting from, so he turned around and ran away.

And at a distance of about twenty steps behind the brazier, a secret sentry of Qin Liangyu's army who was hiding in the pit also quickly ran back to his camp with a firecracker.As he ran, he blew the whistle vigorously.

The sound of the police whistle immediately caused a commotion in Qin Liangyu's army.Seeing the shadows of the Ming army swaying in the camp, Baduli sighed and said: "The Ming army has already prepared, let's go back."

Although the Jin army who came to attack at night had already left, almost all the soldiers in the camp had assembled.Until the sky was bright, Qin Liangyu sent spies around the camp to confirm that the Jin army had left.Under Qin Liangyu's arrangement, the soldiers took turns to sleep again.

This unsuccessful night attack by the Houjin Army has aroused Qin Liangyu's considerable attention.While resting the tired soldiers for most of the night, Qin Liangyu sent messengers to Ma Shilong, the general soldier of Shanxi Province, and Yang Shaoji, the general soldier of Shandong Province, to guard against the sneak attack of the Jin army.And let them speed up the march and move closer to themselves.

After receiving the report, the two armies immediately accelerated.Because of the collapse of the original Shanxi King Qin's army, the Shanxi army led by Ma Shilong, the general soldier of Shanxi, is now composed of a part of the defeated army, a part of the military households transferred, and a part of the soldiers recruited temporarily.Therefore, the military quality of soldiers is very low.

In addition, Ma Shilong, the general soldier of Shanxi, also recruited a large number of young and strong soldiers like Qin Liangyu.So when the army speeds up, the whole army can't maintain the marching ranks, and the whole army disperses.

When the cavalry of the Hou Jin Army appeared, Ma Shilong, the general soldier of Shanxi, had just lined up his army, but the young men on the periphery fled towards the formation of the Shanxi Army under the pursuit of the Hou Jin Army.

And because these Shanxi soldiers were inexperienced, when they saw these young men running over, they all raised their weapons.At this moment, the young and strong men who rushed in suddenly disrupted the formation of the soldiers.Seeing that the formation of his soldiers was disrupted, Ma Shilong, the general soldier of Shanxi, turned his horse's head and ran away.As soon as the commander ran away, all the soldiers also ran away.

However, since the Hou Jin army failed to attack Qin Liangyu's camp last night, they tossed and tossed most of the night, so their horsepower was not enough.Therefore, these post-Jin troops did not pursue very long distances.

And because those young and strong were kept on the periphery, although the army in Shanxi was disbanded, the loss was not great.After fleeing for a long distance, Shanxi General Soldier Ma Shilong also gradually gathered his soldiers together.

However, there were almost no one left among those young and strong.Except for some who were killed by the Hou Jin army, most of the other young and strong ran back home.But in this way, the army of Shanxi General Soldier Ma Shilong no longer dared to move forward, but retreated backward.

After Yang Shaoji, the general soldier of Shandong, received the news that the two Ming armies were attacked, he fell into a dilemma.He didn't want to go back just like that, and he didn't dare to move forward.

So when the Hou Jin army rested for a day, when they arrived at the Shandong army led by Shandong General Yang Shaoji the next day, the Shandong army was still almost in place.But your Shandong army can simply camp in place, but they are still on the road, maintaining a marching posture.It's really ridiculous, you don't even march, what's the use of keeping marching?Is it to perform a standard self-deception?

However, the quality of this Shandong army is much higher than that of the Shanxi army.Seeing the Hou Jin Army, they immediately lined up and waited for the Hou Jin Army's charge.

The Hou Jin army has fought against the Ming army for n years, and they are quite familiar with the tactics of the Ming army.They dismounted about 120 steps away from the Ming army.In a group of ten people, one of them will act as a horse post and hold the reins of ten horses.The remaining nine people used longbows to perform round after round of salvos.

The arrows shot by the Hou Jin army caused chaos in the formation of the Shandong army. The gunners and archers standing in the front row of the Shandong army also shot blindly out of range, causing almost no casualties to the Hou Jin army.

Seeing that the Shandong army's formation was in disarray, the Hou Jin army immediately mounted their horses and launched a charge.Those musketeers with very low training quality didn't have time to make the second round of shooting. Only some archers fired some sparse arrows.Those arrows only caused the casualties of a few unlucky Houjin soldiers.

When the cavalry of the Jin army rushed into the formation of the Shandong army, the entire army also collapsed.And Yang Shaoji, the general soldier of Shandong, also fled under the protection of his own soldiers.

Fortunately, just when the Hou Jin army wanted to expand its results, the Liaodong iron cavalry pioneers led by deputy generals Zu Dale and Zu Kefa arrived with more than 300 cavalry.After they received the Shandong army, they gradually stabilized their position.

After confronting each other for a while, neither side dared to attack the other, so they each retreated.In this way, instead of approaching Qin Liangyu, the two armies on the left, right and rear of Qin Liangyu's army withdrew after being defeated.