Smuggling Daming

At the middle of the night, the originally noisy Daming barracks had gradually quieted down. Except for the footsteps of patrolling soldiers and occasional neighing of horses, the entire camp was silent, as if everyone had fallen asleep.

A few miles to the north of the Ming army, the army led by Huadang has quietly come out from the mountain valley. The 3 army marched silently. They were all wrapped in sheepskin, and these sneak attack methods were also skills learned by the prairie people when they fought against the original dynasty.

But the distance of a few miles, if it is in the daytime, as long as you ride on the horse, it will be almost instantaneous, but in order to prevent being noticed by Da Ming's army in advance, Hua Dang ordered everyone to get off the horse and go, and specially selected those who are more remote and not easy. The place where they were discovered, it turned out that these few miles took them an hour to walk.

It wasn't until two kilometers away from the Daming barracks that Huadang ordered the whole army to stop advancing. After all, the distance was already very dangerous. If it wasn't for the lack of moonlight today, he would never have dared to get so close.However, this distance is just right. When they mount their horses and charge, the distance of two miles is just enough to increase the speed of the horses to the maximum. Whether they can succeed at that time depends on the strength and luck of both parties?

"Changshengtian bless me, Duoyanwei, kill!" With Huadang's shout, all the mounted Duoyanwei cavalry immediately urged their horses to run wildly. In front of them was Daming's barracks. In order to protect their people from harm, They must drive Ming's army out of the grassland.

As soon as Duoyanwei's cavalry launched an attack, the patrolling soldiers of the Daming barracks immediately noticed, and shouts of "enemy attack" rang out incessantly for a while, and the sleeping Daming soldiers immediately jumped up and took up their weapons when they heard the enemy attacking the camp.Rushed out of the tent and lined up under the command of the officer, waiting for the order of the superior. Because Zhengde had repeatedly warned against the enemy's night attack, the soldiers sleeping outside the tent did not take off their armor, and just lay down and fell asleep.Although it is uncomfortable, it is better than cutting off the head when the enemy sneak attack, and the soldiers inside and outside are rotated, the army who sleeps on the outer guard today can sleep in the inner camp tomorrow and have a good sleep.

Hua Dang also did not expect the response of the Ming army to be so quick, even when his former army had just come into contact with the soldiers patrolling outside.There were soldiers from Ming Dynasty coming to the rear for reinforcements, and these soldiers were fully equipped with armor and weapons, as if they had known for a long time that they would attack at night.This also surprised the cavalrymen of Duoyanwei who were attacking, thinking that the Ming army had already prepared for it. Thinking of this, the morale of the cavalrymen of Duoyanwei was immediately demoralized.After all, they are already prepared, and there may be even more powerful opponents. If they are surrounded by the Ming army, it will be annihilated.

Zhengde was already asleep, but when he heard that Duoyanwei really came to attack him, he also jumped up from the floor and wanted to rush out with one stride.It's a pity that they were held back by Gu Dayong, because Zhengde didn't wear armor at all, and the outside is so chaotic now, and they can't see clearly at night. Yan Wei, this battle is not considered a victory.

Zhengde also knows that Gu Dayong can obey his own words in other matters, but when it comes to his personal safety, even if Gu Dayong dies, he will not let himself have any safety hazards, so he can only resist the impulse of his heart .Let the little eunuch around him help him put on the armor as soon as possible, but his armor is very cumbersome, and it takes a long time to put it on every time, which makes Zhengde very annoyed, and at the same time swears in his heart.The Ministry of Industry must design a suit of armor that is easy to wear.

When Zhengde put on his armor and came outside the camp, the guards he brought immediately surrounded him, and a group of people embraced Zhengde and walked to the north of the camp, which was the main area where Duoyan Guards attacked. Reinforcements also spontaneously gathered to the north of the camp, but because the sky was too dark, not only could they not see the number of Duoyan Guard cavalry that was attacking clearly, it was even difficult for Zhengde to command Daming's army, because he didn't know how many Daming there were in the dark night The army goes to war.

Fortunately, Zhengde had been prepared for Huahua's sneak attack in advance, so Ming's army was also prepared. For example, the soldiers living in the periphery did not remove their armor, and they also explained to the generals in advance. But at least it can keep Duoyanwei's cavalry out of the camp, and some artillerymen have even pushed the artillery to the front of the formation, firing continuously at Duoyanwei's cavalry. Although the artillery's damage to the cavalry is limited, the artillery's The loud noise produced can effectively intimidate the opponent's horses and cause chaos in the opponent's cavalry formation.

Night battles have always been a big taboo for military strategists, let alone in the era of Ming Dynasty, even in later generations, night battles are equally difficult, and the night is a double-edged sword, if used properly, even weak soldiers can kill soldiers who are stronger than themselves. A much stronger enemy, on the other hand, if the strong soldiers fail to make good use of the night, they are likely to be killed by the opponent.

However, the dark night is not something everyone can take advantage of. There have been countless wars on the original land throughout the ages. Most of the wars took place during the day. Sometimes even when the two armies fought at night, they would withdraw their troops and would rather give each other a rest. Opportunities, but also refused to fight at night, from this we can see the difficulty of fighting at night.

Of course, there are some wars that took place at night in the ancient and modern wars, but as long as you study it carefully, you will find that most of these wars are sneak attacks, and for the sneak attackers, if they fail to cause damage to the opponent at the beginning If there is a big chaos, which will lead to the collapse of the opponent's army, then the following war will become a mess. If you use an image metaphor, it is two people fighting blindly. You can't see me, and I can't see you. Individuals can only swing their fists randomly, as for whether they can hit the enemy, it all depends on their own luck.

Now Zhengde and Huadang are in this situation. Zhengde can't see Huadang's attack route, and he can't see how many troops he has sent out to stop him. Huadang is also like this. Afterwards, he lost most of his command power, and at most he could only command a few thousand people around him to continue attacking Daming's barracks. As for the other cavalry, they could only engage in melee with the Ming's army.

Both sides were fighting in the dark. Although there were torches for lighting, the light from the torches did not have much effect at all, and sometimes even their own people beat themselves.Speaking of which, this is a bit disadvantageous to the Ming army, because they have a large number of people, and they are trapped in the camp. With such a narrow distance, and they can't see the opponent's enemy clearly, it is easy to accidentally injure their own people.

"General, please order the last general to use flares!" Just as Zhengde was also anxious about the chaos in front of him, suddenly a young general on a horse galloped towards him and shouted loudly at him.

"Flare?" Zhengde was taken aback when he heard this. In his impression, he seemed to have never heard of this term.

The young general was also a clever man, and when he saw Zhengde's appearance, he immediately understood, and immediately reported loudly again: "Your Majesty, the flare was specially developed by His Royal Highness Zhao, and its principle is the same as that of fireworks. Shoot the gunpowder into the sky, and illuminate with the white light from the burning gunpowder, although the time is short, it is enough for us to see the situation on the battlefield clearly!"

Hearing the young general's explanation, Zhengde suddenly remembered that when he came to Liaodong before, Zhou Zhong sent a batch of new gunpowder weapons, which seemed to have this flare, but unfortunately he didn't care about it at the time, let alone detailed Understanding the purpose of these gunpowder weapons, it now appears that this flare was invented for night combat.

"Chuan Ben's order, use flares immediately!" Following Zhengde's order, someone rushed away immediately, and the young general wanted to go with him, but was stopped by Zhengde because he felt that the other party looked familiar. But for a while I can't remember where I saw it.

"What's your name?" Zhengde looked at the young general in front of him and asked. Although this young general was wearing armor, he was rather handsome. If he changed into a Confucian shirt, he might become a suave scholar. , People can't believe that he turned out to be a general.

"Your Majesty, the last general, Xu Cheng, is a ten-year military cadet of Zhengde. He just graduated this year and was assigned to the Xuanfu Army to serve as a member of the Hundred Households. This time, he received an order to conscript Duoyan Sanwei with His Majesty!" the young man heard. When Zhengde asked questions, he immediately bowed and answered, and his attitude was neither humble nor overbearing. He was a well-behaved young man at a glance.

"Xu Cheng?" Zhengde was taken aback when he heard the name, and then he laughed loudly, "I just remembered, you are the grandson of Wei Guogong Xu Na, and you went to the palace to pay homage to me, and you were at the military academy. In the riding and archery competition, you were the only cadet from the military academy who made it to the finals, but it was a pity that you lost to Jiang Bin in the end, I didn't expect you to graduate now."

Xu Cheng was also very excited to hear that His Majesty still remembered himself and how he participated in riding and archery in the military academy. He immediately saluted Zhengde and said, "Your Majesty is wise. At the beginning, the general thought that he was unparalleled in archery. But I didn't expect that there are people in this world who are as good at archery as General Jiang, so the last general was convinced that he lost."

Zhengde saw Xu Cheng's modesty, and thought that when the other party was only a teenager, he was already able to compare with Jiang Bin in riding and archery. This made Zhengde very fond of Xu Cheng. Good impression, although the battlefield is not a place for gossip, Zhengde still asked Xu Cheng a few words, and then let him leave.

Just when Xu Cheng had just left, Zhengde's order finally had an effect. A series of muffled thunderous noises suddenly came out from Daming's barracks, followed by a burst of light from the sky, illuminating the entire Ming army camp. It's like daytime.