Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

() From the beginning of the battle, the main force of the Ming army commanded by Liu Yulie fell into a slow rhythm.

Governor Liu Yulie didn't feel at all that the rebels were going out of camp at first.

In fact, in ancient times, it was very simple to judge whether an army would go out to fight today, just by looking at the smoke in the enemy camp in the early morning.If the enemy's cooking smoke appears earlier than usual and there is a lot of cooking smoke, then it is basically certain that the enemy is going out of camp to fight against himself today.

The reason is actually very simple. Soldiers always have to have a full meal before going to war.Of course, this phenomenon also reflects another situation: In ancient wars, except for those small numbers of elite soldiers, it was difficult for ordinary soldiers in the army to get enough to eat during the days when they were not fighting.The army will not provide them with enough food.

And this was almost the common sense of fighting in the Ming Dynasty.However, Liu Yulie, who was born as a civil servant, may have read a few military books, but Liu Yulie does not understand military knowledge that is not recorded in such military books.

But Liu Yulie didn't understand, among the military officers he brought, there was always someone who understood?But those brought by Liu Yulie were a group of senior military officers of the Ming Dynasty!

For those military officers, they don't necessarily know everything about war, but they know everything about officialdom.Who would not open their eyes and say to Liu Yulie: "You don't understand, so I tell you. The rebels will go out to fight after breakfast. So we must hurry up to have breakfast and form troops as soon as possible. "

Isn't this slapping the governor in the face naked in public?Aren't you afraid that the governor will settle accounts afterwards and use himself as cannon fodder?Still waiting for the stunned young man to come forward and break up with the Governor.

But the facts have proved that the military officers of the Ming Dynasty were of high quality, none of them were stunned, they were all smart people.So it wasn't until Liu Yulie saw the rebels coming out of the camp and forming a formation that he suddenly realized that he immediately ordered the Ming army to come out of the camp and form a formation.

But in this way, most soldiers of the Ming army only ate a few mouthfuls of dry food, and some didn't even eat a bite of breakfast, so they started fighting so hungry.

Different from what we imagined in the past, in the Ming Dynasty, it took a lot of time to deploy the army before the battle in this kind of frontal battle.This reason is actually very simple, we just need to think about the athletes' entrance ceremony in the opening ceremony of the modern Olympic Games.Just thousands of athletes have to walk for more than an hour.

But now the Ming army and the rebel army each have tens of thousands of people, and they have basically not received formation training. Therefore, it takes a long time to go out and deploy the army.

It was not until more than an hour later that Kong Youde's rebels lined up.Once arranged, Kong Youde immediately ordered a 2000-strong force to be dispatched from the right wing, and began to tentatively attack the left wing of the Ming army.

But at this time, because of the large number of the Ming army, the military officers did not belong to each other, so the troops of the Ming army were not fully deployed.When Liu Yulie saw that the rebels had launched an attack, he hurriedly ordered the Ming army to fight.

Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing's rear army is now more than fifty miles behind the battlefield.They are gathering all the military officers, and they are listening to the news that the spies sent to the front have come back.

When they learned that the two armies had already set up their camps, all the military officers knew that there would be a big battle between the two sides today.So what should your own rear army do?

After the spies retreated, Liu Zeqing asked, "Everyone, what should we do?"

As the de facto second-in-command of this rear army, Wu Shigong was of course the first to express his opinion: "General Liu Can. Our current position is also very embarrassing. It is more than [-] miles away from the battlefield, and we must not be able to make it in a day. Even if we abandon all our supplies and rush to the battlefield, our men will not have the strength to fight."

"Besides, it's useless for us to rush there in such a hurry. If the governor wins, it won't even be our turn to clean up the battlefield. Then what are we rushing over for? Could it be that we are fighting with the friendly army? Credit? That's a big taboo!"

"If it takes a few days, then we have one or two days at night, and there is no big problem."

"But what if we are defeated in the front? If we are attacked head-on by the defeated army or the disorderly army during the march, our own rear army will also be in danger."

"It's better to set up camp on the spot and set up a solid camp. Anyway, we have a lot of civilians and auxiliary soldiers, and they can't play much role in the war, so let them all stay and set up camp. In this case, in case If there is a loss ahead, at least we can keep it ourselves, and we can also give the defeated army a foothold to retreat."

"As for the governor, tomorrow I will bring my cavalry and the cavalry drawn by my colleagues to gather thousands of cavalry and rush to the governor's place. This is at least an explanation to the governor."

To be honest, after such a long period of military study and war training, Wu Shigong's military accomplishment is indeed qualified, and even among the military attaches of the Ming army, he can barely be said to be outstanding.

After hearing Wu Shigong's methodical analysis, none of the military attaches present raised any objections.They all waited for Liu Zeqing to make the final decision.In Liu Zeqing's heart, he had actually agreed with Wu Shigong's opinion a long time ago.

But in order to be cautious, Liu Zeqing still asked the other military officers.See no objection.He immediately decided: "Just do what Wu Shoubei said!"

Liu Zeqing was a domestic slave of Guo Yunhou, Minister of the Household Department during the reign of Emperor Tianqi.When he was 21 years old, he was arranged by Guo Yunhou to join the army.In just seven or eight years, he was promoted to the high position of general.

In the original history, Liu Zeqing, who was later one of the four major military towns in Nanming, had not actually won any major victories in his life, and his military talent was not outstanding.

Liu Zeqing's only strength is that he is entrenched in his hometown and refuses to go out to fight.Moreover, he has a very harmonious relationship with local officials and gentry in his hometown of Caozhou, so he was able to annex land to amass wealth and recruit soldiers to expand his strength.So much so that at that time, the Ming Dynasty perished, and Liu Zeqing was able to keep an army with a considerable number of people, so Nanming had to give him a high position.

It can be seen from this that he is naturally sensitive to preserving his strength.I also know that my command ability is indeed not as good as Wu Shigong.So of course it is good to follow!

In addition, the relationship between Liu Zeqing and Shandong General Qiu Lei is also very bad.This cannot be blamed on Liu Zeqing.Qiu Lei, the general soldier in Shandong, went too far.

At that time, when the Ming court allocated food and salaries to the various armies in Shandong, because the food and salaries had to be transported from Tongzhou, they had to pass through Qiu Lei's station - Jinan Mansion.

And Qiu Lei always withholds these poor rations that have been stripped away by the civil servants to make rations for the army directly under him.And he is not afraid of a lawsuit afterwards, Qiu Lei's yamen is in Jinan City, and it is quite convenient to contact the yamen in Shandong.Moreover, Qiu Lei had stuffed enough with the officials of the yamen, so this kind of lawsuit was finally settled.

For this reason, some generals in Shandong even lowered their arrogance and begged Qiu Lei not to be too dark-hearted, and asked Qiu Lei to deduct a part of his salary after negotiating a ratio.And Liu Zeqing suffered too much from Qiu Lei in the past, and the relationship between the two has reached the point where fire and water cannot be tolerated.

Therefore, if the main forces of the rear army and the Ming army converge, at least the troops directly under Liu Zeqing in the rear army must obey the command of Qiu Lei, the Shandong general.And if it fell into the hands of his enemy and enemy, Liu Zeqing knew what would happen to his direct troops after thinking about it with his ass.So he just thought it would be a day to delay it.

When the rear army camped on the spot, the 2000 rebel troops were already close to the left wing troops of the Ming army.The battle has begun.