The more you go east, the more rivers you encounter. The water network intersects in areas close to Changsha will greatly affect the speed of the march.
This is the third time that the Suzaku Army has crossed the river in a day. Fortunately, it is the dry season and the river is shallow and narrow, and the deepest water in some places is the best.
So the infantry wade across the river and passed the stone arch bridge above, and the army's journey could not be blocked.
Suddenly, a firework rose into the sky from the mountains and forests in the north, exploded when it roared into the air, and suddenly it burst into a huge spark.
The soldiers who had just crossed the river looked up and watched.
Zhang Ning was immediately attracted by the attention.
It’s not the New Year and the Festival. It’s really a very strange thing that a firework suddenly pops up in the wilderness in broad daylight.Zhang Ning had a thought almost instantly: signal flare.
cavalry!At this time someone shouted.
Zhang Ning was busy watching, but saw nothing, and the people around him were similar to him.
To the north is the left wing of the Vermilion Bird Army, which is a gentle slope forest, and the fireworks just now emerge from there; in the distance of the right wing there is a village with bamboo forests and low trees and crops nearby, which is a small hilly area; and in the front is the main road for the Vermilion Bird Army to march.
……
At this time, a general next to him jumped off the horse, then lay down, and put his ear on the ground with his head on his shoulder.
After a while, he raised his head and stared: On the right wing, there is a sound of horse hooves!
After he said this, Zhang Ning seemed to have heard a low voice in the distance; and the others hurriedly learned to put their ears on the ground and listen to the sound.
Many brigades saw a strange situation and stood up. After a while, Wei Bin also ordered the command of the soldiers and horses to send orders, and asked the brigades to stop on the spot.
Wei Bin rode his horse to Zhang Ning's position and said: A large number of horses on the right wing should be rushing towards us. I'm afraid the government troops set up an ambush here and wanted to attack us.
What is in the forest on the left wing?Have the scouts of the former army searched?Zhang Ning pointed in the opposite direction.
The generals were confused. Along the way, the Zhuque Army was eager to chase the official camp that was retreating eastward. Most of the scouts went to pursue the frontal retreating troops, and this time the march was indeed a bit rash.
At this time, Wei Bin shouted: Captain Qiu!Go and call Captain Qiu to the Central Army immediately!
Everyone focused their eyes on Zhang Ning's face. He was not mentally prepared at this time, but he had to show calmness.
This is the case on the battlefield. You can take your time solemnly when planning, but adapting to changes is also important. Sometimes you have to make a decision immediately.
Zhang Ning immediately said in a deep voice: He sent orders to all the mailers, and set up a phalanx to prevent the phalanx, preparing to face the enemy.
The so-called rejection array of the Vermilion Bird Army is actually a passive defensive formation. Because it has heavy convex guns, spearmen, and infantry phalanx, it is a bit similar to the Spanish phalanx.
This formation has strong defense against mobile raids, especially against cavalry attacks.
The right wing suspected that there were large cavalrymen, so Zhang Ning made this decision.
The generals of the central army immediately dispatched commanders to convey orders along the way.
Soon, the yelling of soldiers from all over the place: The central army has an order, and each battalion sentry will use two sentries as a group, and will set up a barracks to prevent the formation nearby, prepare for war and face the enemy, and there must be no mistakes!
The scout brigade Qiu, who was sent by Wei Bin to find, finally arrived, and Zhang Ning repeated the previous question: Have people sent to search for the left-wing forest?
Captain Qiu replied: When you say it to the prince, you have gone there and found nothing unusual.
Wei Bin, who was standing by, asked in anger: What's going on with the signal transmitted just now?
Captain Qiu bowed his head and said, "You know, you know, as we march at the speed of our marching and not many people at the last generals, so it is impossible to have time to check every foot and inch around the left.
Zhang Ning stopped Wei Bin's questioning and said quietly: It's not the time to ask for guilt. Qiu Guzheng, please send someone to see what's in that mountain forest.
Get order!Team Qiu was hustling and left.
The drums and trumpets in the army were already playing, and people were constantly moving around. People were running in an array to prepare weapons. At first glance, they looked chaotic, but in the noise, they were orderly.
The two squadrons organized by the Standing Army were the most well-trained and soon had the prototype of the square formation. The other peasant troops were somewhat of a mixed quality, some of which were chaotic, and some were slightly better; among them, the Changde Camp, commanded by Yao Erlang, was the new army, which was the most chaotic.
Although the total size of the infantry cavalry of the Suzaku Army has reached more than 15,000, it has not been a long time since it was formed. In addition, the territory is limited and resources are insufficient. In fact, not all of them are elite soldiers. Including the horse soldiers and the captured official army, the number of elite troops that can be called elite is less than half of the total.
The cavalry's tactical maneuver was very fast, and not long ago, they couldn't even hear the sound. Soon they had appeared in sight.
In the hills and mountains, people and horses arrived in large numbers, and I don’t know how many people there were. At first glance, it was like a scene of migrating hundreds of beasts in the animal world.
Gradually, the cavalry forward who ran fast on the wasteland in the south quickly jogged to hundreds of steps away.
Zhang Ning immediately observed his men and women. Most of the square formations had basically taken shape, and only one square formation in Changde Camp was still not ready.
This battle was rushed, but it didn't seem particularly bad; it was obvious that the South Road official army had a premeditated ambush battle, but their ambush could not be arranged too close and would be discovered, so Zhang Ning still had some time to prepare.
The official and horse team hundreds of steps away had no intention of stopping, and rushed straight to the Zhuque Army, with the moment of fighting in front of you.
Zhang Ning kicked the horse's belly, and Qianlixue rushed out quickly under his seat, and the left and right generals hurriedly rode their horses to follow.
He ran past the formations, and some soldiers recognized him and shouted, among which a general led the army shouted to prepare for war, perhaps because he wanted to show it in front of Zhang Ning.
The wind whistled in his ears, and Zhang Ning raised his scabbard and shouted: Do you soldiers still remember the brothers who were killed in Lizhou?
At this time, the people around were attracted by Zhang Ning running between the formations, and many people started to shout.
Zhang Ning asked loudly again: Do you want to become a prisoner of the pseudo-government government and allow others to insult and massacre?
There was a response from the dense crowd, and people shouted: Don’t want to!
Zhang Ning shouted again: Are brothers willing to succumb to unjust tyranny?
The soldiers' shouts were even more neat at this time: No!
Zhang Ning took advantage of the situation and shouted incitement: Unity and glory!For the Suzaku Army!The troops were even more excited and shouted, "Long live, you will win!"
The shouts on the battlefield shook the sky and resounded through the world, and the earth seemed to be boiling and extremely enthusiastic.
In the hot-blooded atmosphere, the fear of death seemed to have been weakened.
After a while, the military band played the song again, echoing and flying in the sound of horse hooves.
Soon the cannon sounded, but the military music that had been suppressed did not stop just after the cannon sound.
The one who fired the cannon was the cavalry of the Suzaku Army, which was a light-weight mother-child gun, also known as the Fran machine cannon.
The mother-in-law gun weighs about 100 kilograms, and the primary gun is loaded with a range of about two or three hundred steps. Because it can be transported directly by mules and horses, it is known as cavalry cannons. This time, the Vermilion Bird Army went on a war to speed, which was the only gun they carried.
After the cannon fired, the south horse forward launched a charge.
They accelerated from a distance of about 150 steps to 200 steps and rushed directly to the square formation in the direction of Changde Camp.
The cavalry fought against weak links, and the commanders of the official army in this battle were probably not the same as two people; they attacked the weakest troops in Changde Camp in the first round, and the people there had not yet completely formed a tight square formation.
As the smoke filled the gunpowder, the galloping horse rushed towards the sharp arrows, and the sword lights shone in the crowd, and the killing sounds roared.
Bang bang bang... As the cotshots exploded one after another, the cavalry rushed to the camp composed of two left and right posts of Changde Camp.The music on the battlefield could not hide the painful screams.
The unprepared phalanx was quickly broken, and the formation in front was rushed into chaos by the cavalry.
The charge speed of the echelon behind the cavalry was significantly weakened because the road was blocked by a large number of casualties along the way, but they still joined the battle group one after another, fighting with the soldiers of the Suzaku Army with swords, guns, three-eyed guns, bows and arrows, and the infantry in Changde camp suffered heavy casualties.
Another square formation close to the battle group used a clamp gun and cavalry to strike the flanks of the cavalry's charge, but it still could not stop the official cavalry from rushing towards the infantry that had been broken.
Zhang Ning was mentally prepared. It was only a matter of time before the first square formation of Changde Battalion was defeated by the cavalry alone, and it would not take long; but he could still calm down. Even if one square formation was completely wiped out, he would only lose about 1,500 people, which could hardly affect the overall situation. At this time, in addition to the central army, there were six large square formations on the battlefield, each with its opposite layout.
Therefore, the arrangement of the Suzaku Army usually does not cause the entire army to be defeated.
There was noisy on the battlefield, and Zhang Ning kept reminding himself to keep a calm judgment.
At present, it seems that only the cavalry can not achieve any results in the ambush battle of the official army. They also paid the corresponding price to defeat a weaker square formation. If they had to attack other square formations in the future, they would have to waste the entire cavalry team here.
Zhang Ning looked back at the mountains and forests on the left wing again. If as expected, there should be an ambush on the left wing, so that it can be considered a qualified ambush battle...
If there were heavy artillery on the mountain, he felt that the situation would be very bad.
However, he also felt that this tactic should not have appeared among the indigenous people in the early Ming Dynasty because it was too advanced and separated from the times.
Cavalry and artillery fight together, and the cavalry rises and force the enemy infantry to defend statically, and use artillery to strike the phalanx; artillery opens gaps for the cavalry, and then creates fighter jets for the main force of the cavalry to break the formation.
Collaborate with each other and contact each other...
This is a tactic that is unlikely to appear suddenly in an era when wars mainly rely on cold weapons, because tactics are developed in actual combat.
Perhaps the left wing was coming from a group of infantry, and the coordination of infantry and cavalry was the tactics that the Ming Dynasty's official army was well-known.
Zhang Ning was waiting for the change of the situation. The Qiu Captain who brought the scout to inquire about military information has not come back yet. I hope he will complete the task as soon as possible.
This is the third time that the Suzaku Army has crossed the river in a day. Fortunately, it is the dry season and the river is shallow and narrow, and the deepest water in some places is the best.
So the infantry wade across the river and passed the stone arch bridge above, and the army's journey could not be blocked.
Suddenly, a firework rose into the sky from the mountains and forests in the north, exploded when it roared into the air, and suddenly it burst into a huge spark.
The soldiers who had just crossed the river looked up and watched.
Zhang Ning was immediately attracted by the attention.
It’s not the New Year and the Festival. It’s really a very strange thing that a firework suddenly pops up in the wilderness in broad daylight.Zhang Ning had a thought almost instantly: signal flare.
cavalry!At this time someone shouted.
Zhang Ning was busy watching, but saw nothing, and the people around him were similar to him.
To the north is the left wing of the Vermilion Bird Army, which is a gentle slope forest, and the fireworks just now emerge from there; in the distance of the right wing there is a village with bamboo forests and low trees and crops nearby, which is a small hilly area; and in the front is the main road for the Vermilion Bird Army to march.
……
At this time, a general next to him jumped off the horse, then lay down, and put his ear on the ground with his head on his shoulder.
After a while, he raised his head and stared: On the right wing, there is a sound of horse hooves!
After he said this, Zhang Ning seemed to have heard a low voice in the distance; and the others hurriedly learned to put their ears on the ground and listen to the sound.
Many brigades saw a strange situation and stood up. After a while, Wei Bin also ordered the command of the soldiers and horses to send orders, and asked the brigades to stop on the spot.
Wei Bin rode his horse to Zhang Ning's position and said: A large number of horses on the right wing should be rushing towards us. I'm afraid the government troops set up an ambush here and wanted to attack us.
What is in the forest on the left wing?Have the scouts of the former army searched?Zhang Ning pointed in the opposite direction.
The generals were confused. Along the way, the Zhuque Army was eager to chase the official camp that was retreating eastward. Most of the scouts went to pursue the frontal retreating troops, and this time the march was indeed a bit rash.
At this time, Wei Bin shouted: Captain Qiu!Go and call Captain Qiu to the Central Army immediately!
Everyone focused their eyes on Zhang Ning's face. He was not mentally prepared at this time, but he had to show calmness.
This is the case on the battlefield. You can take your time solemnly when planning, but adapting to changes is also important. Sometimes you have to make a decision immediately.
Zhang Ning immediately said in a deep voice: He sent orders to all the mailers, and set up a phalanx to prevent the phalanx, preparing to face the enemy.
The so-called rejection array of the Vermilion Bird Army is actually a passive defensive formation. Because it has heavy convex guns, spearmen, and infantry phalanx, it is a bit similar to the Spanish phalanx.
This formation has strong defense against mobile raids, especially against cavalry attacks.
The right wing suspected that there were large cavalrymen, so Zhang Ning made this decision.
The generals of the central army immediately dispatched commanders to convey orders along the way.
Soon, the yelling of soldiers from all over the place: The central army has an order, and each battalion sentry will use two sentries as a group, and will set up a barracks to prevent the formation nearby, prepare for war and face the enemy, and there must be no mistakes!
The scout brigade Qiu, who was sent by Wei Bin to find, finally arrived, and Zhang Ning repeated the previous question: Have people sent to search for the left-wing forest?
Captain Qiu replied: When you say it to the prince, you have gone there and found nothing unusual.
Wei Bin, who was standing by, asked in anger: What's going on with the signal transmitted just now?
Captain Qiu bowed his head and said, "You know, you know, as we march at the speed of our marching and not many people at the last generals, so it is impossible to have time to check every foot and inch around the left.
Zhang Ning stopped Wei Bin's questioning and said quietly: It's not the time to ask for guilt. Qiu Guzheng, please send someone to see what's in that mountain forest.
Get order!Team Qiu was hustling and left.
The drums and trumpets in the army were already playing, and people were constantly moving around. People were running in an array to prepare weapons. At first glance, they looked chaotic, but in the noise, they were orderly.
The two squadrons organized by the Standing Army were the most well-trained and soon had the prototype of the square formation. The other peasant troops were somewhat of a mixed quality, some of which were chaotic, and some were slightly better; among them, the Changde Camp, commanded by Yao Erlang, was the new army, which was the most chaotic.
Although the total size of the infantry cavalry of the Suzaku Army has reached more than 15,000, it has not been a long time since it was formed. In addition, the territory is limited and resources are insufficient. In fact, not all of them are elite soldiers. Including the horse soldiers and the captured official army, the number of elite troops that can be called elite is less than half of the total.
The cavalry's tactical maneuver was very fast, and not long ago, they couldn't even hear the sound. Soon they had appeared in sight.
In the hills and mountains, people and horses arrived in large numbers, and I don’t know how many people there were. At first glance, it was like a scene of migrating hundreds of beasts in the animal world.
Gradually, the cavalry forward who ran fast on the wasteland in the south quickly jogged to hundreds of steps away.
Zhang Ning immediately observed his men and women. Most of the square formations had basically taken shape, and only one square formation in Changde Camp was still not ready.
This battle was rushed, but it didn't seem particularly bad; it was obvious that the South Road official army had a premeditated ambush battle, but their ambush could not be arranged too close and would be discovered, so Zhang Ning still had some time to prepare.
The official and horse team hundreds of steps away had no intention of stopping, and rushed straight to the Zhuque Army, with the moment of fighting in front of you.
Zhang Ning kicked the horse's belly, and Qianlixue rushed out quickly under his seat, and the left and right generals hurriedly rode their horses to follow.
He ran past the formations, and some soldiers recognized him and shouted, among which a general led the army shouted to prepare for war, perhaps because he wanted to show it in front of Zhang Ning.
The wind whistled in his ears, and Zhang Ning raised his scabbard and shouted: Do you soldiers still remember the brothers who were killed in Lizhou?
At this time, the people around were attracted by Zhang Ning running between the formations, and many people started to shout.
Zhang Ning asked loudly again: Do you want to become a prisoner of the pseudo-government government and allow others to insult and massacre?
There was a response from the dense crowd, and people shouted: Don’t want to!
Zhang Ning shouted again: Are brothers willing to succumb to unjust tyranny?
The soldiers' shouts were even more neat at this time: No!
Zhang Ning took advantage of the situation and shouted incitement: Unity and glory!For the Suzaku Army!The troops were even more excited and shouted, "Long live, you will win!"
The shouts on the battlefield shook the sky and resounded through the world, and the earth seemed to be boiling and extremely enthusiastic.
In the hot-blooded atmosphere, the fear of death seemed to have been weakened.
After a while, the military band played the song again, echoing and flying in the sound of horse hooves.
Soon the cannon sounded, but the military music that had been suppressed did not stop just after the cannon sound.
The one who fired the cannon was the cavalry of the Suzaku Army, which was a light-weight mother-child gun, also known as the Fran machine cannon.
The mother-in-law gun weighs about 100 kilograms, and the primary gun is loaded with a range of about two or three hundred steps. Because it can be transported directly by mules and horses, it is known as cavalry cannons. This time, the Vermilion Bird Army went on a war to speed, which was the only gun they carried.
After the cannon fired, the south horse forward launched a charge.
They accelerated from a distance of about 150 steps to 200 steps and rushed directly to the square formation in the direction of Changde Camp.
The cavalry fought against weak links, and the commanders of the official army in this battle were probably not the same as two people; they attacked the weakest troops in Changde Camp in the first round, and the people there had not yet completely formed a tight square formation.
As the smoke filled the gunpowder, the galloping horse rushed towards the sharp arrows, and the sword lights shone in the crowd, and the killing sounds roared.
Bang bang bang... As the cotshots exploded one after another, the cavalry rushed to the camp composed of two left and right posts of Changde Camp.The music on the battlefield could not hide the painful screams.
The unprepared phalanx was quickly broken, and the formation in front was rushed into chaos by the cavalry.
The charge speed of the echelon behind the cavalry was significantly weakened because the road was blocked by a large number of casualties along the way, but they still joined the battle group one after another, fighting with the soldiers of the Suzaku Army with swords, guns, three-eyed guns, bows and arrows, and the infantry in Changde camp suffered heavy casualties.
Another square formation close to the battle group used a clamp gun and cavalry to strike the flanks of the cavalry's charge, but it still could not stop the official cavalry from rushing towards the infantry that had been broken.
Zhang Ning was mentally prepared. It was only a matter of time before the first square formation of Changde Battalion was defeated by the cavalry alone, and it would not take long; but he could still calm down. Even if one square formation was completely wiped out, he would only lose about 1,500 people, which could hardly affect the overall situation. At this time, in addition to the central army, there were six large square formations on the battlefield, each with its opposite layout.
Therefore, the arrangement of the Suzaku Army usually does not cause the entire army to be defeated.
There was noisy on the battlefield, and Zhang Ning kept reminding himself to keep a calm judgment.
At present, it seems that only the cavalry can not achieve any results in the ambush battle of the official army. They also paid the corresponding price to defeat a weaker square formation. If they had to attack other square formations in the future, they would have to waste the entire cavalry team here.
Zhang Ning looked back at the mountains and forests on the left wing again. If as expected, there should be an ambush on the left wing, so that it can be considered a qualified ambush battle...
If there were heavy artillery on the mountain, he felt that the situation would be very bad.
However, he also felt that this tactic should not have appeared among the indigenous people in the early Ming Dynasty because it was too advanced and separated from the times.
Cavalry and artillery fight together, and the cavalry rises and force the enemy infantry to defend statically, and use artillery to strike the phalanx; artillery opens gaps for the cavalry, and then creates fighter jets for the main force of the cavalry to break the formation.
Collaborate with each other and contact each other...
This is a tactic that is unlikely to appear suddenly in an era when wars mainly rely on cold weapons, because tactics are developed in actual combat.
Perhaps the left wing was coming from a group of infantry, and the coordination of infantry and cavalry was the tactics that the Ming Dynasty's official army was well-known.
Zhang Ning was waiting for the change of the situation. The Qiu Captain who brought the scout to inquire about military information has not come back yet. I hope he will complete the task as soon as possible.
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