The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 736

When Oboi's main force arrived outside Linfen City, he was about to order the army to come down to the camp, ready to prepare food and feed the horses, when he saw He Luohui rushed over with a team of generals in a hurry.

The people on both sides made some hasty salutes, and soon got to the point, Oboi's eyes widened immediately and he said: "Master Ba Ya La Zhang Jing, these people under my command have traveled nearly eight hundred miles, at least they have to repair the entire five or six roads." Genius can do it. If you forcefully go out tomorrow, how can the soldiers be brave enough to fight the enemy when they are exhausted?"

He Luohui hurriedly said with a smile on his face: "Lord Baturu, seeing that the time limit given by the regent to the last general is less than 20 days, look at this delay..."

Aobai had already known the situation in Shanxi. The [-] so-called Ming troops in Linfen City had just gathered for a month. In his opinion, they were all military exploits. He squinted his eyes and said, "It's not impossible to ask the soldiers to work harder. , After the city is broken, I will get [-]% of the military exploits, and I will enter the city first to 'replenish food and grass'."

He Luohui still wanted to bargain, but one of his lieutenants rushed to enter the account. First, he bowed his hand to Oboi, then turned to his own general and said urgently: "General, we found traces of the Southern Army twenty miles to the north. There are 6000 people in Doli!"

He Luohui and Aobai looked at each other in surprise, "The main force of the Southerners is still in Jinan, where did these soldiers come from?"

Aobai frowned and said, "Could it be a barbarian from Shu?"

"It's absolutely impossible." He Luohui's deputy general immediately said, "The road to southern Shaanxi is cut off. If Sichuan soldiers want to enter Shanxi, they must go around the pass from northern Shaanxi and travel nearly a thousand miles along the way. They set off at the beginning of Jiang Xiang's rebellion. It will be fast if you can walk to Taiyuan in a while."

Aobai twirled his beard with his hands, thinking: "Then it is likely that the rebels in Datong and Taiyuan gathered together impromptu mobs. No wonder a team of more than 1 people can stretch more than ten miles long."

He Luohui couldn't help being anxious, he didn't expect Jiang Xiang to have such a reputation in Shanxi, and he was able to gather so many people in less than a month.Even though these are all new recruits who have never fought, there are still 6000 people. If they enter Linfen to help defend, let alone May, even August or September may not be able to capture the city. .

He immediately gritted his teeth to Oboi and said: "Just do as Batulu said, and please quickly dispatch troops!"

"It's easy to say." Obai smiled triumphantly, "I first ordered Kong Xigui to lead ten thousand green battalions to block the southern army in the north. Tomorrow you and I will gather the main force, and three to five thousand troops will attack from the four gates of Linfen at the same time. There are only ten thousand weak soldiers in the city. Jiang Xiang will definitely not be able to resist, and he will be able to conquer it in a few days!"

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Qin Yiming took out the map and glanced at it, then asked the lieutenant beside him, "Is Majialing ahead?"

"Back to the general, it is Majialing."

There are still thirteen or four miles away from Linfen, Qin Yiming looked at the sky again, and ordered: "The order, the whole army speeds up, and the vanguard of the white pole army will raid the enemy camp before dark. Let General Wang Xiang lead the Sichuan army to catch up and set up camp as soon as possible!" "

"Yes!"

The people behind Qin Yiming started to move immediately, and the marching speed suddenly accelerated.They are very different from the previous white-armed army. First of all, they abandoned the four- to five-meter-long white-armed guns and replaced them with flintlocks and a small number of rifled guns.Of course, due to the short training time, they are still not very proficient in line infantry tactics, so they are still equipped with eight or nine hundred spearmen, but they all use "short guns" less than one foot long.

The people of Shu are already able to endure hardships, and their footwork is not slow.Now the bulky spears have been abandoned, and the number of horses equipped has doubled. Most of the weapons and armor are transported in four-wheeled carriages, which makes the marching speed more than double than before.

Moreover, this time they are not burdened by food, grass and supplies, and they can walk more than 40 miles a day!This is the speed of flying in the era of cold weapons, so they can reach Linfen with Oboi almost at the same time when they set off later.In fact, if they hadn't waited a day for the food and grass from Sunite's department on the way, they would have been even faster.

Behind them, tens of miles away, five hundred Teng Jisi's men and horses led a large group of herdsmen, driving tens of thousands of cattle and sheep.These livestock are the rations of the Baigan Army for more than a month.

It's spring, and even at You time, the sky is still quite bright.

Kong Xigui came from Henan earlier, traveled hundreds of miles, his legs were already thin, but he was assigned by Aobai to set up defenses in the north of Linfen, he was extremely dissatisfied.

He looked into the distance, yawned and said, "Let's set up camp here and order the soldiers to cook."

As soon as he finished speaking, two horsemen galloped from the north, shouting at the top of their voices: "Urgent police! Three thousand southern troops have arrived four miles away!"

Kong Xigui was taken aback, didn't it mean that the army was still twenty miles away?It's only been half a day, how come you are near me? !
He gathered himself together, and thought to himself, they were nothing more than improvised mobs, and there were only three thousand people, so why panic, it would be another military achievement to wipe out these thousands of southern troops.

He immediately ordered: "The infantry formed crane wings and prepared to face the enemy. The cavalry took cover on both sides."

"Follow the order!"

The Green Battalion of the [-] Henan Army was hastily setting up formation, and the vanguard of the White Army Army to the north had already approached two miles away. Since they had already detected the enemy's interception, they did not rush to rush, but dragged the seven gates by horses The cannon rushed to the front.

These are all the cavalry artillery of the Baigan Army, all of which are six-pound cannons, which are extremely well cast, but they are not very familiar with the tactics of concentrated use of cannons for the time being, and they are still the usual way of fighting.

A moment later, a shocking roar sounded, and seven iron balls pierced into the still somewhat messy battle formation of the Qing army.

More than a dozen captive soldiers were immediately smashed to pieces by the powerful impact, and reflected the sunset light falling on the surrounding people, those shells rolled out again, breaking more than a dozen legs, and the remaining power was exhausted.

The corners of Kong Xigui's eyes twitched in shock at the sound of the cannon, didn't he mean the rioters near Taiyuan?Why are there cannons? !Moreover, his own cannons were still four or five miles behind the team, but the rioters' cannons had already begun to bombard them!

He was in a daze when he heard the general beside him shouting: "General, our army is several times stronger than the enemy, why not beat the drums and advance quickly, and destroy them in one fell swoop! You can also seize a few cannons, but it is very satisfactory."

Kong Xigui suddenly came to his senses, that's right, he didn't have a cannon, so he couldn't just stand and be beaten in vain.Although the enemy on the opposite side has cannons, they are still just random people. As long as their own army rushes up, they will be defeated immediately, so they drew their swords and pointed: "Order, the whole army moves forward, and those who retreat without permission will be killed immediately!" Lead the soldiers and the rear team to supervise the battle.

Among his 1 horses, more than 2000 are family generals who have been raised since the Chongzhen Dynasty. They are familiar with the battle formations, and they don't need more instructions from him.

At the same time, there were [-] cavalry galloping on the east side, attacking the left flank of the "disorderly people".

(End of this chapter)