The main infantry force of the official army marched for half an hour and walked eight or nine miles.By the time they caught up with the main force of the Han Wang Army and could see the opponent's troops with naked eyes, the sun was already at the bottom of the three o'clock position.
The uniform and rhythmic leather drums kept ringing, and the horizontal military music mixed in it gave people a faint joyful atmosphere.
Perhaps it is often the battlefield that blood and flesh are flying everywhere, and the music in the Ming Dynasty's army rarely uses heavy and magnificent music.
Wu Gao, who had gray hair, had many wrinkles on his face, but the flesh exposed from his wrist armor on his arms was full of streams.He climbed up a hillside and looked at the enemy's deployment in the distance.
Wu Gao had received a report before and learned about the general situation.He saw it with his own eyes and soon saw the situation clearly.
When Wu Gao was fighting big battles, he liked to use defense to replace offense strategies because the defense was more stable and it was not easy for the blockbuster to collapse suddenly.But at the moment, Zhu Gaoxu obviously took the lead in using Wu Gao’s method!
The official army marched from west to east. At this time, the mountain shape on the front was like a concave character that fell to the left, and the place where the concave entered was facing Wu Gaojun.
Almost all the rebels were on the mountains there. If Wu Gao wanted to attack, he could only attack the hillside.
With such a slope, the soldiers who attacked the enemy will consume several times the physical strength, which is quite a loss; the firearms and crossbows are not as good as those of the enemy on the mountain.
Only by attacking westward from the undulating mountain range in the south can we not be that big against the trend.
But just attacking from one place on the ridge will consume the troops from both sides too slowly; if they only attack in this way, and when the rebels' southern troops arrive in Pingyuefu, Wu Gao may not be able to take over the rebels of the Han King.
Wu Gao temporarily began to consider withdrawing his troops!
Originally, Wu Gao's idea was to try his best to get rid of the Han Wangjun and go to He County first; until yesterday evening, his plan was to go to He County, preparing to defeat the Han Wangjun first, and then go to He County.
But now he suddenly changed his mind: Now that the Han Wangjun has arrived in Pingyue Mansion, why don’t I turn around to Guilin Mansion along the route of the Han Wangjun?
If the marching route is changed north, the rebels' southern route Shengyong's troops will catch up with Wu Gao and be further away; the other hand, once successful, Wu Gao can still complete the general strategy of Zhang Fu, the chief general of the Pinghan army, trying his best to move closer to the main force of the Huguang official army in the event of an unfavorable situation.
At this moment, a cannon sound like thunder came from the south.Wu Gao looked at the ridge to the south, where the vanguards of the two armies watched last night, and white smoke could be seen vaguely on the high ground.
Who ordered the war?Wu Gao immediately asked loudly.
As soon as he finished speaking, a burst of passionate shouts came from the nearby blockbuster camp.The officials and soldiers of various departments stopped in place one after another, and the sound of cannons in the south encouraged their courage.
Seeing this, Wu Gao couldn't help but hesitate and did not immediately order the troops to be withdrawn.
The army has been walking for so many days, and now the two armies are facing each other. If they withdraw and retreat and tell the soldiers to go on a long journey again, it will obviously hurt morale.
No one of the surrounding generals admitted or issued a military order to start avant-garde war.At this time, a general clasped his fists and said: The last general will send someone to see it immediately and come back to report to the Marquis.
Go quickly!Wu Gaodao.
...On the ridge to the south, the sound of cannons roared and the shouts shook the sky.The reinforcements from the King of Han arrived near the vanguard camp and soon took the initiative to attack the Wu Gao army vanguard on the west.
However, after a large array of 500 people in the Han Wang Army was repelled, chaos occurred on the uneven ridge of the high ground and fled to the east.
So thousands of vanguards of the government army took advantage of the situation to pursue the Han Wang Army's vanguard camp.
The two armies fought fiercely again.
The Han King's Rebels' vanguard camp built simple fortifications, and along the ridges with high middle heights and low sides, a waist-high earth wall and a trench of varying depths.
The fortifications were obviously rushed and the earthen walls were very short.
In most places, officers and soldiers jumped into the ditch and could climb up the trenches and waist walls with bare hands.
So nearly ten hundred households in front of the official army had already pursued and approached the fortifications about ten steps. They besieged the trench wall from the front and north and south armies.
The firearms on both sides kept ringing, and arrows flew around in the air.
The official army held a sharp gun supervised by the Annan people, which was also a kind of copper musket, and fired two rows of sharp guns in a volley.
The front row was squatting on the ground and standing in the back row. The soldiers clamped the magic gun under their armpits with one hand and ignited the lead with the other.
Bang bang bang... There was a burst of noise, and the arrows hit the earth wall ten steps away like raindrops.
Since the close volleys did not play much role, the rebel soldiers were squatting behind the earth wall, with only one head at most, and it was difficult to hit the arrow cluster of magic guns.
The rebels then began to fight back with muskets. Their copper muskets were a bit strange. The tail of the muskets faced the soldiers' faces. People held guns in both hands and fired muskets only when they showed their heads.
The sound of guns along the earthen wall sounded, and rows of gunpowder flew over.
A scream suddenly came from the group of musket soldiers lined up by the official army. From time to time, people fell to the ground with screams of pain.
At this time, the official army began to change the guns, handed over the magic guns loaded in the back row, and sent the firearms back.Some soldiers in the back row took a few steps forward to fill the injured and injured.
The second volley shot, the rebels were earlier than the official army.Their turnaround is not to change weapons, but to change people directly.After the fire gun was released, the person who stood up and walked backwards, and the person behind him then went forward and squatted behind the wall.
The two sides used firearms to shoot at each other twice in a row. Because the rebels had earth walls blocked them, the method of firing muskets was also very strange, which caused the official army to suffer a great loss!
At this time, the official army directly tuned the sharpshooter up and accurately shot the rebel soldiers who showed their heads within ten steps with a crossbow.
After receiving a firepower suppression from the crossbow, the official army's gun and shield soldiers rushed forward shouting.
Some officials and soldiers climbed onto the earthen walls on their shoulders, while the rebels stabbed them in rows of spears, and shouted everywhere along the trenches and earthen walls, and the sound of killing was deafening.
From time to time, explosions came from the trench, and the rebels threw the lit pig iron thunder into the trench below. The iron sheets splashed in the explosion of gunpowder, and the officers and soldiers in the trench screamed and hissed.
The artillery cart that was being transferred from the west turned back and retreated.
The rebel reinforcements were advancing from the north and south sides of the fortifications, and the officers attacking the fortifications were retreating; if artillery was transported up, they would soon be captured by the rebels.
Hundreds of rebels pursued the uneven ridges of the high ground, and only less than two hundred steps were pursued, and reinforcements from the official army also came.
The two armies approached, and the officials bombarded with artillery, fired with crossbows and sharp guns, and then rushed with guns and shields.
The rebels were repelled again, and many people kept their formation and retreated eastward, and some were disintegrating, running all over the mountain.
At this time, the two sides only fought fiercely along the ridge and highlands, and the contact area was very narrow, and each had tens of thousands of powerful troops.Such a fight cannot play a big role.
In field battles, many times, it depends on pursuit, but the enemy has a large number of reinforcements and cannot be carried out in the local area. The pursuit cannot be sustained, and it is extremely difficult to achieve great results.
Fighting back and forth is nothing more than just consuming time and slowly consuming troops.
At this moment, a general came to the official army's forewar camp with the order flag and shouted loudly: Stop chasing!Who made you start a war?
The commander of the official army's vanguard quickly came over and replied: The rebels attacked our troops first. After our troops won, they pursued them to the rebel camp.
The general holding the order flag handed over the military order. The general had the order to avoid going to war with the rebels and wait for new deployment!He looked back at the four sides and pointed to a high place behind and said: The entire army retreated to the top, set up artillery at a high place to resist the rebel attack.
Get order!
The general who was sent to the command then left the battlefield and went down from the north of the mountain...
However, at this time, the main position of the two armies was still without conflict.
The Wu Gao army was at least one mile away from the enemy. Unless it was heavy artillery among the Hongwu cannons, even the artillery could not be bombed.
Although the rebels were on high places, they obviously did not carry heavy artillery.
A deputy general next to Wu Gao said: My army has many soldiers and a wide range of generals. After trying to occupy several high grounds, he attacked from several sides. There is also a chance of winning this battle.
Wu Gao refused to comment. His mount kept kicking the horse's hooves as if he was a little restless. He swayed on the horse's back, his eyes observing the scene in the distance.
The rebels' pontoon bridge on the Lechuan water has been demolished?Wu Gao suddenly asked an irrelevant question.
The general replied: Half an hour ago, the last general received a report that the rebels demolished the floating bridge overnight last night, and all the ships were transferred to the Lechuan Water.
Wu Gao remained silent for a while, his expression changed, as if he was thinking about something repeatedly.
After a long time, he finally said: Send someone to Pinglefu City and order the prefect to transfer the boats on the Li River to come.The guards were ordered to build a floating bridge at the rebels' ferry yesterday.
The Marquis is about to withdraw?A general around him asked.
Wu Gao said in an unquestionable tone: The rebels of the Han King occupied the high places to defend themselves. If they were wasted a little time, they could build some fortifications; this war was difficult to win quickly. Instead of delaying time and waiting for the outcome of victory, it is better to make a decision to withdraw immediately as soon as possible.
Our army's deployment is to move closer to the main force of the Huguang official army. The rebels of the Han King have arrived at Pingyue Mansion. Our army can take the opportunity to turn around and change the route towards Guilin Mansion, gradually moving away from Sheng Yong's reinforcements on the southern rebel route.
The generals seemed a little silent for a moment, and it was obvious that everyone was not very willing.
Wu Gao also understood what they meant. Ordinary generals only wanted to obtain military merits easily, and often had no long-term considerations for the whole story... Maybe everyone didn't worry about the things that Sheng Yongjun was approaching every day.
Before this, the army set out from Nanning Prefecture and walked to Luoqing River north of Liuzhou Prefecture; then returned to the northeast of Liuzhou Prefecture City and detoured by Pingle Prefecture.
Over the past few days, the army has traveled nearly a thousand miles, and it seems that it does not want to continue trekking.
This is also the reason why Wu Gao has not ordered the withdrawal of his troops for a long time!But after repeated weighing, he still believed that it would be difficult for the official army to win the Pingyuefu Battle in a short period of time.
The uniform and rhythmic leather drums kept ringing, and the horizontal military music mixed in it gave people a faint joyful atmosphere.
Perhaps it is often the battlefield that blood and flesh are flying everywhere, and the music in the Ming Dynasty's army rarely uses heavy and magnificent music.
Wu Gao, who had gray hair, had many wrinkles on his face, but the flesh exposed from his wrist armor on his arms was full of streams.He climbed up a hillside and looked at the enemy's deployment in the distance.
Wu Gao had received a report before and learned about the general situation.He saw it with his own eyes and soon saw the situation clearly.
When Wu Gao was fighting big battles, he liked to use defense to replace offense strategies because the defense was more stable and it was not easy for the blockbuster to collapse suddenly.But at the moment, Zhu Gaoxu obviously took the lead in using Wu Gao’s method!
The official army marched from west to east. At this time, the mountain shape on the front was like a concave character that fell to the left, and the place where the concave entered was facing Wu Gaojun.
Almost all the rebels were on the mountains there. If Wu Gao wanted to attack, he could only attack the hillside.
With such a slope, the soldiers who attacked the enemy will consume several times the physical strength, which is quite a loss; the firearms and crossbows are not as good as those of the enemy on the mountain.
Only by attacking westward from the undulating mountain range in the south can we not be that big against the trend.
But just attacking from one place on the ridge will consume the troops from both sides too slowly; if they only attack in this way, and when the rebels' southern troops arrive in Pingyuefu, Wu Gao may not be able to take over the rebels of the Han King.
Wu Gao temporarily began to consider withdrawing his troops!
Originally, Wu Gao's idea was to try his best to get rid of the Han Wangjun and go to He County first; until yesterday evening, his plan was to go to He County, preparing to defeat the Han Wangjun first, and then go to He County.
But now he suddenly changed his mind: Now that the Han Wangjun has arrived in Pingyue Mansion, why don’t I turn around to Guilin Mansion along the route of the Han Wangjun?
If the marching route is changed north, the rebels' southern route Shengyong's troops will catch up with Wu Gao and be further away; the other hand, once successful, Wu Gao can still complete the general strategy of Zhang Fu, the chief general of the Pinghan army, trying his best to move closer to the main force of the Huguang official army in the event of an unfavorable situation.
At this moment, a cannon sound like thunder came from the south.Wu Gao looked at the ridge to the south, where the vanguards of the two armies watched last night, and white smoke could be seen vaguely on the high ground.
Who ordered the war?Wu Gao immediately asked loudly.
As soon as he finished speaking, a burst of passionate shouts came from the nearby blockbuster camp.The officials and soldiers of various departments stopped in place one after another, and the sound of cannons in the south encouraged their courage.
Seeing this, Wu Gao couldn't help but hesitate and did not immediately order the troops to be withdrawn.
The army has been walking for so many days, and now the two armies are facing each other. If they withdraw and retreat and tell the soldiers to go on a long journey again, it will obviously hurt morale.
No one of the surrounding generals admitted or issued a military order to start avant-garde war.At this time, a general clasped his fists and said: The last general will send someone to see it immediately and come back to report to the Marquis.
Go quickly!Wu Gaodao.
...On the ridge to the south, the sound of cannons roared and the shouts shook the sky.The reinforcements from the King of Han arrived near the vanguard camp and soon took the initiative to attack the Wu Gao army vanguard on the west.
However, after a large array of 500 people in the Han Wang Army was repelled, chaos occurred on the uneven ridge of the high ground and fled to the east.
So thousands of vanguards of the government army took advantage of the situation to pursue the Han Wang Army's vanguard camp.
The two armies fought fiercely again.
The Han King's Rebels' vanguard camp built simple fortifications, and along the ridges with high middle heights and low sides, a waist-high earth wall and a trench of varying depths.
The fortifications were obviously rushed and the earthen walls were very short.
In most places, officers and soldiers jumped into the ditch and could climb up the trenches and waist walls with bare hands.
So nearly ten hundred households in front of the official army had already pursued and approached the fortifications about ten steps. They besieged the trench wall from the front and north and south armies.
The firearms on both sides kept ringing, and arrows flew around in the air.
The official army held a sharp gun supervised by the Annan people, which was also a kind of copper musket, and fired two rows of sharp guns in a volley.
The front row was squatting on the ground and standing in the back row. The soldiers clamped the magic gun under their armpits with one hand and ignited the lead with the other.
Bang bang bang... There was a burst of noise, and the arrows hit the earth wall ten steps away like raindrops.
Since the close volleys did not play much role, the rebel soldiers were squatting behind the earth wall, with only one head at most, and it was difficult to hit the arrow cluster of magic guns.
The rebels then began to fight back with muskets. Their copper muskets were a bit strange. The tail of the muskets faced the soldiers' faces. People held guns in both hands and fired muskets only when they showed their heads.
The sound of guns along the earthen wall sounded, and rows of gunpowder flew over.
A scream suddenly came from the group of musket soldiers lined up by the official army. From time to time, people fell to the ground with screams of pain.
At this time, the official army began to change the guns, handed over the magic guns loaded in the back row, and sent the firearms back.Some soldiers in the back row took a few steps forward to fill the injured and injured.
The second volley shot, the rebels were earlier than the official army.Their turnaround is not to change weapons, but to change people directly.After the fire gun was released, the person who stood up and walked backwards, and the person behind him then went forward and squatted behind the wall.
The two sides used firearms to shoot at each other twice in a row. Because the rebels had earth walls blocked them, the method of firing muskets was also very strange, which caused the official army to suffer a great loss!
At this time, the official army directly tuned the sharpshooter up and accurately shot the rebel soldiers who showed their heads within ten steps with a crossbow.
After receiving a firepower suppression from the crossbow, the official army's gun and shield soldiers rushed forward shouting.
Some officials and soldiers climbed onto the earthen walls on their shoulders, while the rebels stabbed them in rows of spears, and shouted everywhere along the trenches and earthen walls, and the sound of killing was deafening.
From time to time, explosions came from the trench, and the rebels threw the lit pig iron thunder into the trench below. The iron sheets splashed in the explosion of gunpowder, and the officers and soldiers in the trench screamed and hissed.
The artillery cart that was being transferred from the west turned back and retreated.
The rebel reinforcements were advancing from the north and south sides of the fortifications, and the officers attacking the fortifications were retreating; if artillery was transported up, they would soon be captured by the rebels.
Hundreds of rebels pursued the uneven ridges of the high ground, and only less than two hundred steps were pursued, and reinforcements from the official army also came.
The two armies approached, and the officials bombarded with artillery, fired with crossbows and sharp guns, and then rushed with guns and shields.
The rebels were repelled again, and many people kept their formation and retreated eastward, and some were disintegrating, running all over the mountain.
At this time, the two sides only fought fiercely along the ridge and highlands, and the contact area was very narrow, and each had tens of thousands of powerful troops.Such a fight cannot play a big role.
In field battles, many times, it depends on pursuit, but the enemy has a large number of reinforcements and cannot be carried out in the local area. The pursuit cannot be sustained, and it is extremely difficult to achieve great results.
Fighting back and forth is nothing more than just consuming time and slowly consuming troops.
At this moment, a general came to the official army's forewar camp with the order flag and shouted loudly: Stop chasing!Who made you start a war?
The commander of the official army's vanguard quickly came over and replied: The rebels attacked our troops first. After our troops won, they pursued them to the rebel camp.
The general holding the order flag handed over the military order. The general had the order to avoid going to war with the rebels and wait for new deployment!He looked back at the four sides and pointed to a high place behind and said: The entire army retreated to the top, set up artillery at a high place to resist the rebel attack.
Get order!
The general who was sent to the command then left the battlefield and went down from the north of the mountain...
However, at this time, the main position of the two armies was still without conflict.
The Wu Gao army was at least one mile away from the enemy. Unless it was heavy artillery among the Hongwu cannons, even the artillery could not be bombed.
Although the rebels were on high places, they obviously did not carry heavy artillery.
A deputy general next to Wu Gao said: My army has many soldiers and a wide range of generals. After trying to occupy several high grounds, he attacked from several sides. There is also a chance of winning this battle.
Wu Gao refused to comment. His mount kept kicking the horse's hooves as if he was a little restless. He swayed on the horse's back, his eyes observing the scene in the distance.
The rebels' pontoon bridge on the Lechuan water has been demolished?Wu Gao suddenly asked an irrelevant question.
The general replied: Half an hour ago, the last general received a report that the rebels demolished the floating bridge overnight last night, and all the ships were transferred to the Lechuan Water.
Wu Gao remained silent for a while, his expression changed, as if he was thinking about something repeatedly.
After a long time, he finally said: Send someone to Pinglefu City and order the prefect to transfer the boats on the Li River to come.The guards were ordered to build a floating bridge at the rebels' ferry yesterday.
The Marquis is about to withdraw?A general around him asked.
Wu Gao said in an unquestionable tone: The rebels of the Han King occupied the high places to defend themselves. If they were wasted a little time, they could build some fortifications; this war was difficult to win quickly. Instead of delaying time and waiting for the outcome of victory, it is better to make a decision to withdraw immediately as soon as possible.
Our army's deployment is to move closer to the main force of the Huguang official army. The rebels of the Han King have arrived at Pingyue Mansion. Our army can take the opportunity to turn around and change the route towards Guilin Mansion, gradually moving away from Sheng Yong's reinforcements on the southern rebel route.
The generals seemed a little silent for a moment, and it was obvious that everyone was not very willing.
Wu Gao also understood what they meant. Ordinary generals only wanted to obtain military merits easily, and often had no long-term considerations for the whole story... Maybe everyone didn't worry about the things that Sheng Yongjun was approaching every day.
Before this, the army set out from Nanning Prefecture and walked to Luoqing River north of Liuzhou Prefecture; then returned to the northeast of Liuzhou Prefecture City and detoured by Pingle Prefecture.
Over the past few days, the army has traveled nearly a thousand miles, and it seems that it does not want to continue trekking.
This is also the reason why Wu Gao has not ordered the withdrawal of his troops for a long time!But after repeated weighing, he still believed that it would be difficult for the official army to win the Pingyuefu Battle in a short period of time.
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