Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

You know, Liu Guoneng put cannon fodder on the front line because he was preparing to escape.But it was those cannon fodder that made the Nanjing Jingying retreat steadily.In fact, the reason is very simple. The appearance of the Nanjing Jingying is indeed good-looking, but like the modern city honor guards, they have a beautiful appearance, but their combat effectiveness is still far inferior to that of the field army.

So as soon as he saw something going on, Liu Guoneng immediately transferred the soldiers and horses of the old battalion.

Moreover, the command of the Nanjing Jingying also has problems.

You know, the eunuch who took office in Nanjing was sent to guard the cold palace because of the fall of Fengyang.Therefore, the current guarding eunuch is quite sensitive to the invasion of the peasant army, so there is such a situation that he will go out immediately as soon as there is a situation, and personally lead the army.

There is nothing wrong with putting so much emphasis on it, but the guarding eunuch first came to a layman to command an expert, and took all the command of this campaign.

It should be said that the reason why Emperor Chongzhen appointed this guardian eunuch was also because of his reputation in the inner court for knowing the military strategy, but this situation is a bit like letting a celebrity on the modern military forum command the army immediately.

It's not that those celebrities don't have some real materials, but military science is a very serious science after all. There are even special universities set up for this science, and it is divided into two types: elementary and advanced. It can be seen how broad and profound military science is.Therefore, even if you memorize Du Niang's posts on military studies by heart, you may not be able to fight.

Of course, the guarding eunuch must have no self-knowledge.But he can’t be blamed for this. The Ming Dynasty’s system at that time was like this. A civil servant or eunuch who seemed to be able to fight was appointed as the commander-in-chief.But let alone, there is indeed such a kind of person who has two brushes in everything, such as: Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng, and Sun Chuanting.However, this system looks like a gamble on luck.Unfortunately.The guarding eunuch is a bad card in the hands of Emperor Chongzhen.

So at the beginning of the battle, the guarding eunuch committed the common faults of an amateur "military strategist"—impatient, wanting a quick victory, and wanting to become fat with one bite. [

According to the idea of ​​the guarding eunuch: the battlefield is narrow, and the number of people in front of him in the battle will not suffer; the armor is complete and the weapons are excellent.It also has a great advantage in battle; there are also a large number of technical arms such as cavalry, firearms, and archers, so let's crush them at the first time.

In fact, this idea is not wrong.But the guarding eunuch never imagined that he was simply using his own weaknesses to attack the enemy's strengths.He did not take advantage of the long-range firepower of Nanjing's Jingying camp, but started a head-to-head hand-to-hand fight with Liu Guoneng's department. Liu Guoneng was really overjoyed!

In fact, follow the normal routine.The Ming army should keep a distance from Liu Guoneng's department, slowly grind with Liu Guoneng's department, and use firearms, bows and arrows to kill the enemy at a long distance.In case Liu Guoneng's department counterattacks, use the cavalry's countercharge to suppress it, so that I can beat him a few times.He couldn't hit me, even the Iron Warrior would still collapse.

Afterwards, the cover-up and pursuit is a personal skill, anyway, it is easy, and his own casualties are relatively small.The only downside is that the battle may last longer and allow some of the enemy troops to escape.

But with such a result, would the guarding eunuch care?The answer is of course no, because his original purpose was to prevent the peasant army from invading Nanzhili.There is no hard "hard" target for how many peasant troops can be wiped out.

But the guarding eunuch just said no.Maybe he wanted to wipe out Liu Guoneng's Ministry, maybe he wanted to test the military theory he had learned, anyway, no matter what the purpose was, the guarding eunuch ordered the whole army to come up.

But the guarding eunuch seemed to have forgotten the classic adage of "know yourself and know your enemy".This is also left over from the Song Dynasty: soldiers don't know their generals, and generals don't know their legacy.Therefore, when the guards of honor in the city meet the wild soldiers in the poor mountains and rivers, it will be a tragedy.

The scene of flying limbs and blood splattered immediately caused chaos in the front row of the Nanjing Jingying Camp.Moreover, the soldiers on both sides were very entangled, and there was no way to exert the power of the Nanjing Jingying cavalry and firearms.When the soldiers engaged in the battle started to flee, the formation of the Ming army was blown away.

Moreover, they also encountered problems when retreating. The water network near Chaohu Lake was densely covered, and the armor of Nanjing Jingying was heavy.Couldn't even swim, so the situation became a mess.

If it weren't for the garrison leader in Hanshan County to respond in time; if Liu Guoneng didn't mobilize the main force of the old battalion in time because of his happiness, this Ming army might be disabled.

But even so, the number of soldiers that the guarding eunuch gathered in the end was still only over 8000.There are more than 6000 pieces of armor left on the battlefield. Although most of them are the most common cotton armor, it can be seen how excellent the equipment of this Ming army is.In addition, the horses, firearms, and other weapons seized by Liu Guoneng's Ministry are piled up like mountains.And this big defeat was reported back to Nanjing, which immediately caused an uproar in the entire Jinling City.

The guarding eunuch didn't try to save face, he immediately sent an urgent letter for help to the Quartet.However, it is impossible for the soldiers and horses left in Nanjing to move anymore, and it is impossible for Fengyang's Zhu Dadian to lose Fengyang, the watermelon, for the sake of sesame.And the Runing Army in Runing and Guide?Let's stop talking about it!Seeing that this Ming army had no choice but to flee back to Nanjing in despair, let's watch Liu Guoneng's Ministry at the Nanzhili Carnival!

But the way of heaven and earth, just at this time, another Ming army rushed to Yangzhou, and the commander of that Ming army turned out to be an eunuch, and that man was Lu Jiude.

Why did Lu Jiude arrive by such a coincidence?It is also because of the need to prevent Wu Shigong from rebelling in Runing.Although Emperor Chongzhen continued to appease Wu Shigong, it was impossible not to make any precautionary preparations. Therefore, he ordered Lu Jiude to lead the Wuyong Battalion of Beijing Jingying and the frontier army of Huang Degong, a total of 600 soldiers. With many horses, go south along the Grand Canal to Fengyang to strengthen Fengyang's defense, because Wu Shigong's Runing is too close to Fengyang.

But when he was in Yangzhou, Lu Jiude was asked for help by the guarding eunuch. He made a decisive decision and immediately changed his direction to directly help Hanshan County.So, who said there is no friendship between eunuchs? [

Lu Jiude is one of the few eunuchs with a military vision.Moreover, he is also a man who dares to act and act, so he dares to cut first and then play like this.

In fact, it is reasonable to make such a choice in the military. Fengyang is only of strong political significance. In terms of importance, it is definitely not as important as Nanzhili and Jiangnan, the wealthiest places in the Ming Dynasty. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote and monthly pass. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to m to read.)

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