Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

The biggest advantage of the Peasant Rebel Army is the large number of people, and its biggest disadvantage is also the large number of people.Because there is no base and no output, the peasant rebel army can only keep running around to grab food.

Of course, some necessary cover-up work still needs to be done.After robbing the grain, the peasant rebel army will still take out a small part of the grain and distribute it to the local refugees, attracting those refugees to join them.

Of course, there are still some people who were robbed of the last remaining food around them, and were coerced into the peasant rebel army for their own survival.Therefore, the peasant rebel army is not what they claim to be the grand thieves at all. They want to rob the money and food of the government gentry, and they want to rob the money and food of the common people.This is why the peasant rebel army recovered so quickly.

The goal of the Runing Army's second phase of operations is to cut off the peasant rebel army's food supply.As long as these peasant rebels are entangled here for about a month, and then cavalry is sent to cut off the way for the peasant rebels to grab grain nearby, without the need for the Runing army to do anything, the murderer of food can completely defeat the huge peasant rebel army. .

Since the peasant rebel army numbered more than 30, there was no way to conceal their actions.And now that they are located in the Great Plains, even if the peasant rebel army fled unexpectedly for a certain distance, they would not be able to walk fast with their pots and pans, and the Runing Army could quickly catch up with them.So the current peasant rebel army has only three options:

The first option is: start an attack with the whole army and completely repel the Runing army.But in this way, offense and defense are reversed.The Runing army with fortifications and powerful firepower can just kill the attacking peasant rebel army in large numbers, but itself can hide behind the fortifications and is difficult to be harmed.And in this way, the advantage in the number of peasant rebels was completely offset;

The second option is: Regardless of the brigade, those leaders flee quickly with their [-] to [-] elites.And the rest of the peasant rebel army was used as cannon fodder to hinder the route of the Runing Army's pursuit.

But the leaders of the Peasant Rebel Army would never take this option unless they had to.Half a year ago, these leaders were besieged by Chen Qiyu.At that time, they had at most tens of thousands of people in their hands, but now they have suddenly become rich, and they have tens of thousands or even 10,000+ people. Let them resolutely give up their current income and return to the past?Then they definitely won't want to;

The third option is: send an army to break up, and the rest of the peasant rebels will retreat.This should be the most reasonable choice, but it is also the most unlikely choice for the peasant rebel army.

Who among those leaders would put themselves in the most dangerous place?It's all the old world, it's okay for others to stab one's own side, but oneself stabs others' side?That's fine.

So on the night of the reunion, the leaders of the peasant rebel army also celebrated.But after thinking about it the next day, they all understood the intention of the Runing Army.Needless to say.Find a way to repel the Ming army in front of you.

Because of Zhang Xianzhong's arrival, those leaders also had some understanding of the Runing Army.Therefore, it was immediately decided that each battalion would draw more than 2 people as cannon fodder in the front, and then arrange [-] elite troops in the back, preparing to smash the defense line of the Runing Army just like last time.

But this attack was over before it even started.The Runing Army on this expedition has more than 150 large and small artillery pieces, of which there are more than [-] pieces weighing more than three pounds.Plus firecrackers and rockets.After the first stormy blow, the charged cannon fodder fled back in a broken army.Even the supervisory team of the Peasant Rebel Army could not stop this decline.

In the era of cold weapons.People who have not been baptized by gunfire.Suddenly encountering such fierce artillery fire, it is absolutely unbearable mentally.Indeed, some of the peasant rebels who had fled back were indeed mentally disturbed, and the soldiers who supervised the battle had to hack several times in a row to stop the chaos.But in this way, the plan to repel the Runing Army will go bankrupt.

Then it was time for the Runing Army to take action against the Peasant Rebel Army.They did not approach the camp of the peasant rebels either, but instead divided the cavalry into squads of [-] to [-].Separately, they attacked the troops of the peasant rebel army who went out to collect food and even water, and defeated the cavalry of the peasant rebel army several times in succession, so that the peasant rebel army was completely confined in its own camp.

In cavalry combat, the quality of the horse can be said to play a decisive role.Not to mention the huge difference in cavalry equipment, training level and tactical use between the Runing Army and the Peasant Rebel Army.Just look at the horses!

The Runing Army were all purchased and carefully selected war horses, while the Peasant Rebel Army was basically draft horses looted from the people, and they were much different from the Runing Army's war horses in terms of size, strength, and speed.Therefore, with the same number of cavalry, the peasant rebel army could not gain the upper hand.

Besides, in addition to the horses of the cavalry, the Runing Army is also equipped with a considerable number of mules and horses, of which there are more than 2000 pack horses.Those pack horses also have harnesses. As long as they are accompanied by some soldiers of the Runing Army who can ride horses, it will also be a great supplement to the cavalry of the Runing Army.

So it can be seen from here that although this peasant rebel army of more than 30 people is already the largest among the peasant rebel armies from all walks of life, among their leaders is the world-famous Eight Great King Zhang Xianzhong.But their strength is not the strongest.

The peasant rebel army with the strongest combat effectiveness is the three battalions of Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang, Chuang General Li Zicheng in Shaanxi, and Cao Cao Luo Rucai, because these three battalions have the largest number of veterans from the three sides and the largest number of cavalry.If the Runing Army encountered these three battalions this time, their battle would definitely not be so easy.

In this era, the biggest enemy of the cavalry is only the cavalry!

Also, on the second night, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the peasant rebel army, the artillery team of the Runing army dragged ten three-pound cannons to a place about a mile and a half away from the peasant rebel army camp, and bombarded the camp, causing The peasant rebel army was in chaos.

Fortunately, the Runing army did not take advantage of the chaos to attack the camp, so under the strong suppression of the leaders, the peasant rebel army finally recovered its calm.But in this way, the 30 peasant rebels were completely trapped in this place and could not move.

Now the whole situation is completely as if the wolves of the Runing Army are guarding the fat sheep of the Peasant Rebel Army.Only when the fat sheep were too hungry to walk, the wolves stepped forward and bit the fat sheep that had completely lost their resistance.

And what Wu Shigong and Zhou Xun saw now was a group of Runing Army cavalry returning from the slaughter.At this time, the morale of the Runing army was completely raised.From top to bottom, no one doubted whether the battle would be won.What makes the Runing Army soldiers even more excited is that the price of this big victory is also very small, and the casualties of the Runing Army will also be minimized.

Wu Shigong himself is also full of ambition.He didn't know the leaders of the peasant rebels he was entangled with.But now Wu Shigong doesn't care about this anymore.In his thinking: as long as the main force of the peasant rebel army in front of him is completely wiped out, even if Li Zicheng and the others escape with their elites, they will not make a comeback in a short time, let alone threaten the Runing Army's control area. .

And the Runing Army can take advantage of this opportunity to eliminate Li Zicheng, the great enemy, and gain enough time to develop and strengthen themselves, ready to meet the challenge of another great enemy, the Hou Jin Army.

Zhou Xun, who was beside him, yawned a lot and said, "Old Commander! This battle is really boring! Three times, five times and two divisions are over. It's thanks to our son Lang from the Runing Army who practiced so hard, but now he hasn't used it." Work hard."

Wu Shigong burst out laughing, Zhou Xun really looks like a militant this week.He smiled and said, "Don't be careless! You'll have to surround the Shaanxi bandits for a while. They're not fat sheep after all, and they'll jump over the wall a few times in a hurry."

"That's not possible!" Zhou Xun categorically denied, "Don't say that our sons are all staring. Just look at yesterday, two teams of Shaanxi bandit cavalry with more than a dozen people came to surrender us. I don't think so. In a month, the Shaanxi bandits on the opposite side will surrender to us. Enlarging their courage will make it impossible to fight us again.”

"I told you to pay more attention to it! Where did all this nonsense come from?" Wu Shigong immediately reprimanded with a straight face. At this time, he was afraid that this kind of numbness would spread in the Runing army, "The closer you are to victory Now, you have to be more vigilant. As the deputy commander of the Runing Army, you have to beat and beat these boys under your command these days. Do you understand?"

"No!" Zhou Xun immediately stood at attention in a standard military posture.But then he said to Wu Shigong with a playful smile, "Old Commander, Yan Tongzhi from Ruzhou has been throwing away like this?"

"Why do you care about him?" Wu Shigong didn't get angry when he mentioned the officials in Ruzhou.Those officials at that time were the main accomplices of Li Bingbeidao's impeachment of the Runing Army.

But this time the peasant rebel army arrived in Ruzhou, and all the officials in Ruzhou city were terrified.As soon as they saw the arrival of the Runing Army, they immediately sent Yan Tongzhi to the Runing Army, hoping that the Runing Army would enter Ruzhou City to help defend the city.

But the Runing Army has its own battle plan.Besides, the peasant rebel army has been suppressed now, making it impossible for them to attack Ruzhou City. In fact, the danger of Ruzhou City has been solved in a disguised form.

But Yan Tongzhi didn't understand military affairs, and his family was in Ruzhou City, so after being sent by Ruzhou Zhizhou, he circled around Wu Shigong like a fly every day, hoping that Wu Shigong would send some troops to enter Ruzhou City.

And this is not the only fly in the Runing army at this time.After Zhou Junwu and Counselor Zhou saw the battles of the Runing Army with ease, he also proposed to Wu Shigong in surprise: to fight the peasant rebel army in front of him as soon as possible, and immediately go north after defeating the peasant rebel army in front of him to help Henan governor Xuan Mo stabilized the situation in Henan.

Wu Shigong was so annoyed that he simply put the two flies under house arrest, and avoided seeing them when they asked to see him.Yan Tongzhi and Zhou Shenshu probably lost their minds too. Did they really think that in the army they could rule martial arts with words?To know!In the Runing Army, the official positions of the Ming Dynasty are not counted, and the biggest one is Wu Shigong, the white man. (To be continued..)