Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Wu Sangui led the front cavalry of the Liaodong Army forward, and after they had walked thirty or forty steps, the entire Liaodong Army also began to press forward.However, they walked very rhythmically, pausing after taking a dozen steps, and then moving forward after arranging the queue neatly.

The reason for such a pause is nothing more than the fact that the army formation training in the Ming Dynasty was not strict. After walking more than a dozen steps, the formation may become a little chaotic and needs to be arranged neatly again.

But this kind of pause seems to be a small problem, but if such a pause occurs in a fierce battle, it will be infinitely magnified and even lead to failure.

But this is not a big problem for the Liaodong Army.Insufficient compared to the top, more than the bottom, the Liaodong army needs to walk more than ten steps before it needs to be in order, which is already the performance of the first-class strong army in the Ming army.

"Huh?" The military attache of the rebel army was immediately surprised when he saw the Ming army on the left flank moving forward.Because the action of the Liaodong Army is obviously about to take the initiative to attack.

In the wars of the Ming Dynasty, the two sides generally lined up at a distance of three or four miles.But after the formation is completed, there may not necessarily be a battle.If the coaches of both sides are not sure, they will even face each other for a day before returning to camp.

When a battle is about to take place, the two sides will approach to a formal battle within a mile or so.And the side that takes the initiative to approach is often the first to attack at the beginning of the battle.

"Are the officers and soldiers on the left wing out of their minds? With just over 5000 people, how dare they take the initiative to attack our Liaodong Army?" Li Yingyuan couldn't help asking the question in his heart.

"Who care what they think? Let's just do our own thing." Kong Youde scolded.At this time, can there be any unexpected factors to shake the morale of the army.

In fact, Kong Youde was also somewhat puzzled.Not to mention the origin of the officer army on the left wing, Kong Youde also couldn't understand the actions of this officer army.

That army has only more than 5000 people, even if the right-wing army has less than 3000 people, but they want to take the initiative to attack their own army of more than 8000 people. Is this considered ignorant and fearless? ?In war.The number of soldiers on both sides is a very important criterion for measuring the strength of both sides!

Also, from Kong Youde's point of view, since the artillery of the left-wing government army played a great role, it should be fired and transported across the Shahe River to play the role of artillery in the battle?But the officer army on the left seemed to have forgotten that they still had cannons, and as soon as they crossed the river, they lined up and approached before the cannons were fired.

in addition.Even if the official army wants to attack, it should wait for the right-wing official army to get closer and form a formation, and attack together?Could it be that the officer army on the left took the wrong medicine and wanted to fight their own army alone?

Moreover, there was also a problem with the formation of the officers and soldiers on the left wing. They even used the cavalry as the front team.Don't they know that they should first use bows and firecrackers to disrupt the enemy's formation.Then use the infantry phalanx to consume the combat and physical strength of the enemy formation, and finally use the cavalry to charge?To know.The cavalry faced a heavily defended infantry formation.That's a complete disadvantage, a stupid act of needlessly consuming the cavalry's strength?Don't they think they are Guan Ning cavalry?

Kong Youde didn't know that what he was facing on the left was indeed Guan Ning's iron cavalry.But at this time, Kong Youde didn't think that the official army was Guan Ning cavalry.Because this army has too many actions that violate military common sense.

However, Kong Youde also admitted that the Ming army on the left wing should be a strong army, which can be seen from the speed of this Ming army crossing the river.

So, Kong Youde ordered loudly: "Let the left wing get ready. Why is it still so chaotic? If you don't line up well, use the military law."

The 8000 rebels have already lined up, but because they are going to tilt now, they haven't been completely lined up yet.And because the rebels thought that the Ming army would not attack so quickly.So their movements were a bit slow, and Kong Youde's order was to make them hurry up.

Kong Youde believes that the biggest possibility is that the commander of the left-wing Ming army is a novice who is good at training troops and is eager to make contributions. With his aura of not being afraid of tigers, he wants to take advantage of the chaos of changing formations to fish in troubled waters. Bundle.

Then let this novice on the battlefield take a look at the performance of the Liao Army in Dongjiang Town on the battlefield.To teach him a lesson, let him know that the school field and the sand field are not the same routine.When Kong Youde saw that his army had quickly lined up, his heart was completely settled.

Not to mention Kong Youde, the military officers of the coalition army were also amazed at the advance of the Liaodong Army.At this time, the coalition forces have not reached their positions yet.Their formation has not been fully expanded, and they have changed from a marching state to a combat state.

"Stop quickly, and line up first!" Liu Zeqing ordered.His order was completely a subconscious order for the Liaodong Army's individual actions.After hearing the order, the coalition forces immediately began to arrange battle formations in a hurry.

Fortunately, the coalition forces' training for more than three months was not in vain, and they quickly formed their formations.The infantry of the coalition army lined up in the front two and the rear three, five infantry phalanxes the size of a thousand people.On the left flank of the infantry, more than 700 cavalry were lined up.

Wu Shigong's bodyguard team and 300 soldiers from the original motorized infantry battalion, together with more than [-] soldiers from Liu Zeqing, totaled [-] people.As for the artillery, since there was no time to prepare, it seemed that they would be of little use in this battle.

After the coalition forces lined up, Liu Zeqing strangely didn't know what to do.This is also a major weakness of Liu Zeqing, who is the chief general of the coalition forces.After all, Liu Zeqing was not from a family of generals. If he had a plan and fought in an orderly manner like the previous battle against the river, Liu Zeqing would be able to behave well, but if he was to change the battlefield, he would be at a loss what to do.

So Liu Zeqing asked Wu Shigong, "Brother Changjing, shall we move forward with the Liaodong Army, or stay where we are?"

Wu Shigong was also used to his role as a staff officer, and he replied: "It is definitely not possible to stay still, and I will not be able to explain it to the Liaodong Army after the war. But there is also a big gap between us and the Liaodong Army. We can’t take care of it. In this way, we will approach the Liaodong Army horizontally first, and then move forward together with the Liaodong Army.”

In the Ming Dynasty, the army may lose its formation if it walks straight, but now if it is in a hurry to approach the Liaodong Army on a diagonal, the coalition forces will perform a trot at a 45-degree angle to follow up.And don't play this difficult queue operation.

Moreover, Wu Shigong still has a small child in his heart, the distance at a right angle is always greater than the distance at a diagonal.In this way, the coalition forces can legitimately lag behind the Liaodong Army.It can put the Liaodong Army on the front line of the battle.

This is the flexible application that the sum of the two sides of the triangle is greater than the third side!For Wu Shigong, regardless of his junior high school diploma in his previous life or his current reputation as a scholar, he has become the most educated person in the entire battlefield.This knowledge is to be transformed into power.

After thinking about it, Liu Zeqing also discovered the beauty of Wu Shigong's proposal, so he immediately ordered to follow Wu Shigong's order.

The speed of the Liaodong Army is not fast, that is, the speed of a walk.Therefore, it took less than half an hour to reach a place about a mile away from the rebels.

As for the coalition forces, no matter how delayed they are, they cannot fall behind too much. Therefore, they also accelerated their pace and were about 150 steps behind the Liaodong Army.

Today, neither Kong Youde, the military attache of the rebel army, nor Wu Shigong, the military attache of the coalition army, can't understand the Liaodong Army's unconventional approach.But all the military officers didn't know that this was just a manifestation of Guan Ning's cavalry despising other Ming troops.

Don't say that the main battlefield of the Liaodong Army should be in Liaodong outside the pass.But they behaved like worms outside the customs, but they behaved like dragons inside the customs.I don't know if Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers of the court should cry after knowing this situation?Should I still laugh?

At a place about one mile away from the rebels, the Liaodong Army paused for a little longer, but after forming their formation, they immediately moved forward again.This once again aroused the surprise of the rebel military attache.

"Are they really going to attack?" Li Yingyuan exclaimed, "Could it be that they have taken the courage of the bear's heart and leopard, and really think that they can defeat us with more than 5000 people?"

"Soldiers come to block them, but water comes to cover them." Kong Youde was very calm.

Although also due to lack of time, the artillery brought by the rebels could not be used.However, the rebels from Dongjiang town had rich experience in defending the infantry phalanx against cavalry charges.

Although the front row on the left wing is newly recruited soldiers in Denglai, after so many battles, Kong Youde is still very confident in their combat effectiveness.Now Kong Youde is calmly waiting for the Ming army to meet the rebels with long-range firearms, bows and arrows, and close-range spears.

The military attachés of the coalition forces behind the Liaodong Army also stretched their necks.Especially Wu Shigong, he wants to see what kind of performance the world-famous Guan Ning cavalry is like?

Amidst the whistle, Wu Sangui's front row cavalry began to walk quickly, and behind them were more than 2000 Liaodong cavalry.Behind them are the infantry of the Liaodong Army.

The high-speed charge of the cavalry is also an old routine. Line up a row of formations, first line up slowly, then walk quickly to adjust the rhythm, and finally charge at high speed.This is also the same as Wu Shigong's performance before the farewell charge.So I won't repeat it any more in the future.

When the cavalry of the Liaodong Army approached the distance of 250 steps from the rebels, Wu Sangui blew the final charge whistle.All the horses began to speed up together, and the Guan Ning cavalry took out their long-hidden, Guan Ning cavalry's iconic weapon-the three-eyed firecracker. (to be continued..)

ps: things went well, come back and update a chapter.

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