On the evening that day, Huguang Governor Yu Qian unexpectedly arrived in Changde City, which made the soldiers more convinced the importance of this city.
Yu Qian encountered no trouble on the way to Changde City. In fact, based on traditional military common sense, the official army at this time had an absolute advantage: more troops than rebels; he held all the important towns around the battlefield, and occupied the advantage.
Yu Qian entered the city from the southwest of the city, and the south of Longyang City, Wuling City and other places were in the hands of the official army. It was difficult for even the rebel scouts to move in this direction.
In fact, even the rebels were harassed by the official army in a quarry near their camp several times in a few days; the food supply line was completely exposed to the hands of the official army, and they could hardly get new supplies. Once the battle was delayed, the only fate was to collapse without fighting.
But all this is just a manifestation.As soon as Yu Qian arrived in Changde, he felt the difficulty of the war from the broken city walls and the sporadic artillery attacks at dusk.
Because the rebels' artillery positions were one mile away, the firearms and the defending equipment of the government army could not be so far away, so they were always beaten after the war began; the defending troops could not leave the city to fight. In fact, there were nearly 10,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry outside the city, so the defending troops should not risk their risk to leave the city.
As soon as Yu Qian arrived in Changde, he ignored the persuasion of the generals and insisted on patrolling the city walls everywhere.
At this time, the rebels' shelling was very sparse, but they had not completely stopped.
The soldiers guarding the city were depressed and their morale was very low. No matter who had experienced many consecutive days of casualties, he could not even touch the enemy's hair, and it was impossible to be happy.
When people saw the governor being kind and kept asking the soldiers about their well-being, some people couldn't help but complain in front of Shangguan. A team was saying: When the weather was clear, the city wall was too hot, and they had to worry about the stone cannon falling. It would be better to go out of the city and decide the outcome with the thieves' army than to stay here.
Another general said: I should find some doctors in the yamen, and many people are sick.
But Xue Lu, who was accompanying him, dissatisfiedly scolded the soldiers who spoke out loudly: It is our duty to do our duty to defend the emperor's territory.Since you join the army, you cannot have the idea of being greedy for life and fear of death!
Yu Qian had not yet figured out the local situation, so he could only observe it briefly.
Although he had just served as an official in the Ministry of War, he was actually just a civil servant and had never fought a war.
The person who is truly responsible for the fight is the general in the army, and he can only coordinate and make suggestions from it.
That night, Xue Lu and Zhao Magistrate and others set up a few simple banquets in a restaurant in the city to welcome him. This is just a polite exchange between colleagues, just do your best.
There were not many dishes, because a building next to the restaurant had just been bombarded during the day, which caused many chefs and waiters in the restaurant to run away privately.
Yu Qian also asked at the dinner table about the details of the war, how to deploy troops, how to fight, etc.
……
By the early morning, the whole world seemed to have fallen asleep, and the Suzaku Army and Horse Corps had already quietly set out, and the person leading this army was Feng Youxian.
He was a cavalry general of the official army a few months ago, but now he is going to fight the official army.
Feng Youxian was confident about this raid because he found out that the command of the official army and horse team was Zhang Qian.
Feng Youxian knew this person. When the Dusi was in charge of training, Zhang Xu had always been in charge of the infantry and knew nothing about the horse team (because Feng Youxian felt that Zhang Xu could not even understand the habits of horses), and he himself had mediocre qualifications; Feng Youxian didn't take him seriously at all.
What made Feng Youxian feel a little worried was actually some conflicts in his heart. He was actually very unwilling to be an enemy of the government. Even after he decided to join the Zhuque Army, he still did not want to fight with the government army.
But he felt anger in his heart, dissatisfied with Duke Cheng Guo, Zhu Yong, and then very dissatisfied with the entire Ming Dynasty officialdom.
His original idea was to fight for the court and make achievements to bring glory to his ancestors, but the government would rather use mediocre talents like Zhang Qian than tolerate him.
After being arrested by Zhu Yong, he never convinced himself, nor did he think he was wrong. He was extremely disappointed with the darkness of that frame-up in private.
The horse team slowly marched on the road in the middle of the rice fields, and the feet in the stirrups could feel the coolness of the dew.
It was not yet dawn, but the sky to the east was gradually turning white.
Between crops filled with intermittent atmosphere, the black shadows standing upright with the friction between the metal armor and the sound of metal friction between the armor appearing out of place, as if something should not appear in this natural scene...
Feng Youxian's heart was not peaceful because of the quiet early morning, and past events appeared in his mind over and over again.
As a military general, obeying military orders is the basic principle. At that time, he could not attack without authorization before receiving the order. When he attacked, he also did his duty to kill the enemy, but at that time, the government and infantry were defeated and a large number of troops could not cooperate.
Feng Youxian has repeatedly determined in his heart that he did nothing wrong in the Battle of Gaodu.
I don’t know how long it took, but the sky gradually became brighter. The teams of horse soldiers passed through a forest one after another. There was a dry land on the opposite side with vegetables. If you climbed over the hillside, you should be the garrison of the official cavalry battalion.
The scouts in front came to report that many official and cavalry had left the camp and were setting up formations in front.
Feng Youxian responded calmly: After the official army set up camp, it is very likely that there were hidden whistles on the south road, and we noticed them when we marched.This is reasonable. It would be abnormal if a soldier was attacked in his sleep.However, they just learned that there was a situation and must be insufficient preparation, and the surprise attack was still successful.
Feng Youxian then rode his horse to climb to the top of the slope. The glimmer of light in the east and the fire in the camp in the distance immediately dispelled the dimness at the foot of the mountain, and the battlefield was right in front of him.
After rushing down from the vegetable field on the hillside, there is still about one mile away from the official army camp. There are about some beans planted in the fields on the roadside, which does not affect the horizontal development of the cavalry.
The noise of people came from afar, and it was reported that the official army was lined up outside the camp.
Feng Youxian's face showed a hint of mocking: The horse soldiers also became infantry riding horses when they arrived at Zhang Qian's hands. The first thing he thought of when he was attacked was to line up to defend.
More and more horses rushed up the hills and gathered one after another. The heads of war horses showed their heads and chests in the morning light, and the soldiers looked at the prey in front of them.
Many of the horse soldiers of the Vermilion Bird Army may not be as good as those of the Official Army. Except for some of them recruited from the official army, many of them were selected by the Vermilion Bird Army: it is easy to learn to ride a horse, but may be a bit unfamiliar with riding a horse.
However, these are not the most important. In Feng Youxian's view, the horse team is not separated by cavalry, but a whole. What is important is fighting spirit, belief and military discipline.
The aura of the battlefield made him gradually excited. As a general, what he should do now is to defeat the enemy in front of him, with a very pure and simple motive. No soldier is willing to face the shame of defeat.
The entire cavalry regiment is divided into four posts, front posts, back posts, left posts and right posts. In addition to being a name, it is also convenient for place assignments when camping, but does not represent the position on the battle formation.
Feng Youxian immediately issued a military order.
It has a total of about 750 cavalry, with the general flag as two rows of units, launching a charge against the central government of the army, intending to directly penetrate and tear open its camp; the left and right posts move to the enemy's wings respectively. After gathering, when the attack on the middle line succeeds, it charges from the two wings and divides the enemy's formations again.
The arrangement is very simple, and Feng Youxian's order is very clear. It maintains the impact force of the brigade without fighting in the middle. After breaking through, turn around and rectify and continue to attack.
After the orders of each post were ordered, the troops were rectified.
Feng Youxian shouted: Let’s go!
Suddenly, more than a thousand riders trotted among the mountains. They first rushed down the hillside, and the sound of horse hooves rumbled, like thunder and lightning brewing among the clouds.
Countless war horses were galloping around, the sound of the wind roared in my ears, and the hazy scenery flashed behind me quickly.
At this moment, Feng Youxian almost forgot the contradiction in his heart, and he had already understood his thoughts.
Just like a bird flying in the air and a fish swimming in the water, as long as he rides on the horse, he feels like he is flying. He has never imagined how boring a life that cannot fight on a horse is.
Defeat the opponent like lightning, and the belief in it has been far away from the killing.
The brothers and cavalry who fought side by side could not retreat, and the war horses that shared the joys and sorrows. In Feng Youxian's heart, the horse was not a beast, but a member of the cavalry regiment and a trustworthy partner.
Only brothers who have experienced this feeling of being connected with destiny can truly understand it.
One hundred and fifty steps, no order is required, and the soldiers have prepared their weapons one after another.
Feng Youxian pulled out the slender saber from his horse and pointed it forward and shouted: Kill!
The army shouted out the words during training like a conditioned reflexively. For glory, some people also shouted long live.
People's blood is already boiling.
One hundred and fifty steps, an infantryman could not reach the distance even if he was shot with a bow and arrow, the cavalry regiment rushed to the front of the official army in less than twenty blinks (twenty seconds), almost with a few blinks of his eyelids.
The same large cavalry charges, and clever jobs such as martial arts are almost useless. They are speeding up like arrows, and they can't even see clearly the momentum.
The vanguard, holding a cavalry and rifle of more than meter, stabbed the steel edge into the passive defense of the official army, and the armor could not stop such a sharp edge.
The rifle directly pierced through a person's chest, and blood splattered in the sound of the wind.
It was quick to say that Feng Youxian's two sentry horses penetrated into the official camp like shells piercing through the earth wall.
The man who threw away the rifle in front drew his saber and slashed wildly.
There is no ding-dangling fight, and one touch is almost killed with one knife. The charging knights cannot avoid the attack of the official army, and the official army cannot resist the blade that has been slashed up.
People can't stop, even if the blood on their bodies is soaring, they can't stop as long as they are not dead.There were more than thirty columns running behind, and once they stopped, they could only be trampled by iron hooves.
In addition to the sound of metal that makes people's bones pierce into their bodies, there is also the banging firearms, this time the gunshots were all issued by the government army, and only the official cavalry were equipped with three-eyed guns.
When the blood-red sun rose, the plants and trees in the wilderness were already stained with blood.
Yu Qian encountered no trouble on the way to Changde City. In fact, based on traditional military common sense, the official army at this time had an absolute advantage: more troops than rebels; he held all the important towns around the battlefield, and occupied the advantage.
Yu Qian entered the city from the southwest of the city, and the south of Longyang City, Wuling City and other places were in the hands of the official army. It was difficult for even the rebel scouts to move in this direction.
In fact, even the rebels were harassed by the official army in a quarry near their camp several times in a few days; the food supply line was completely exposed to the hands of the official army, and they could hardly get new supplies. Once the battle was delayed, the only fate was to collapse without fighting.
But all this is just a manifestation.As soon as Yu Qian arrived in Changde, he felt the difficulty of the war from the broken city walls and the sporadic artillery attacks at dusk.
Because the rebels' artillery positions were one mile away, the firearms and the defending equipment of the government army could not be so far away, so they were always beaten after the war began; the defending troops could not leave the city to fight. In fact, there were nearly 10,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry outside the city, so the defending troops should not risk their risk to leave the city.
As soon as Yu Qian arrived in Changde, he ignored the persuasion of the generals and insisted on patrolling the city walls everywhere.
At this time, the rebels' shelling was very sparse, but they had not completely stopped.
The soldiers guarding the city were depressed and their morale was very low. No matter who had experienced many consecutive days of casualties, he could not even touch the enemy's hair, and it was impossible to be happy.
When people saw the governor being kind and kept asking the soldiers about their well-being, some people couldn't help but complain in front of Shangguan. A team was saying: When the weather was clear, the city wall was too hot, and they had to worry about the stone cannon falling. It would be better to go out of the city and decide the outcome with the thieves' army than to stay here.
Another general said: I should find some doctors in the yamen, and many people are sick.
But Xue Lu, who was accompanying him, dissatisfiedly scolded the soldiers who spoke out loudly: It is our duty to do our duty to defend the emperor's territory.Since you join the army, you cannot have the idea of being greedy for life and fear of death!
Yu Qian had not yet figured out the local situation, so he could only observe it briefly.
Although he had just served as an official in the Ministry of War, he was actually just a civil servant and had never fought a war.
The person who is truly responsible for the fight is the general in the army, and he can only coordinate and make suggestions from it.
That night, Xue Lu and Zhao Magistrate and others set up a few simple banquets in a restaurant in the city to welcome him. This is just a polite exchange between colleagues, just do your best.
There were not many dishes, because a building next to the restaurant had just been bombarded during the day, which caused many chefs and waiters in the restaurant to run away privately.
Yu Qian also asked at the dinner table about the details of the war, how to deploy troops, how to fight, etc.
……
By the early morning, the whole world seemed to have fallen asleep, and the Suzaku Army and Horse Corps had already quietly set out, and the person leading this army was Feng Youxian.
He was a cavalry general of the official army a few months ago, but now he is going to fight the official army.
Feng Youxian was confident about this raid because he found out that the command of the official army and horse team was Zhang Qian.
Feng Youxian knew this person. When the Dusi was in charge of training, Zhang Xu had always been in charge of the infantry and knew nothing about the horse team (because Feng Youxian felt that Zhang Xu could not even understand the habits of horses), and he himself had mediocre qualifications; Feng Youxian didn't take him seriously at all.
What made Feng Youxian feel a little worried was actually some conflicts in his heart. He was actually very unwilling to be an enemy of the government. Even after he decided to join the Zhuque Army, he still did not want to fight with the government army.
But he felt anger in his heart, dissatisfied with Duke Cheng Guo, Zhu Yong, and then very dissatisfied with the entire Ming Dynasty officialdom.
His original idea was to fight for the court and make achievements to bring glory to his ancestors, but the government would rather use mediocre talents like Zhang Qian than tolerate him.
After being arrested by Zhu Yong, he never convinced himself, nor did he think he was wrong. He was extremely disappointed with the darkness of that frame-up in private.
The horse team slowly marched on the road in the middle of the rice fields, and the feet in the stirrups could feel the coolness of the dew.
It was not yet dawn, but the sky to the east was gradually turning white.
Between crops filled with intermittent atmosphere, the black shadows standing upright with the friction between the metal armor and the sound of metal friction between the armor appearing out of place, as if something should not appear in this natural scene...
Feng Youxian's heart was not peaceful because of the quiet early morning, and past events appeared in his mind over and over again.
As a military general, obeying military orders is the basic principle. At that time, he could not attack without authorization before receiving the order. When he attacked, he also did his duty to kill the enemy, but at that time, the government and infantry were defeated and a large number of troops could not cooperate.
Feng Youxian has repeatedly determined in his heart that he did nothing wrong in the Battle of Gaodu.
I don’t know how long it took, but the sky gradually became brighter. The teams of horse soldiers passed through a forest one after another. There was a dry land on the opposite side with vegetables. If you climbed over the hillside, you should be the garrison of the official cavalry battalion.
The scouts in front came to report that many official and cavalry had left the camp and were setting up formations in front.
Feng Youxian responded calmly: After the official army set up camp, it is very likely that there were hidden whistles on the south road, and we noticed them when we marched.This is reasonable. It would be abnormal if a soldier was attacked in his sleep.However, they just learned that there was a situation and must be insufficient preparation, and the surprise attack was still successful.
Feng Youxian then rode his horse to climb to the top of the slope. The glimmer of light in the east and the fire in the camp in the distance immediately dispelled the dimness at the foot of the mountain, and the battlefield was right in front of him.
After rushing down from the vegetable field on the hillside, there is still about one mile away from the official army camp. There are about some beans planted in the fields on the roadside, which does not affect the horizontal development of the cavalry.
The noise of people came from afar, and it was reported that the official army was lined up outside the camp.
Feng Youxian's face showed a hint of mocking: The horse soldiers also became infantry riding horses when they arrived at Zhang Qian's hands. The first thing he thought of when he was attacked was to line up to defend.
More and more horses rushed up the hills and gathered one after another. The heads of war horses showed their heads and chests in the morning light, and the soldiers looked at the prey in front of them.
Many of the horse soldiers of the Vermilion Bird Army may not be as good as those of the Official Army. Except for some of them recruited from the official army, many of them were selected by the Vermilion Bird Army: it is easy to learn to ride a horse, but may be a bit unfamiliar with riding a horse.
However, these are not the most important. In Feng Youxian's view, the horse team is not separated by cavalry, but a whole. What is important is fighting spirit, belief and military discipline.
The aura of the battlefield made him gradually excited. As a general, what he should do now is to defeat the enemy in front of him, with a very pure and simple motive. No soldier is willing to face the shame of defeat.
The entire cavalry regiment is divided into four posts, front posts, back posts, left posts and right posts. In addition to being a name, it is also convenient for place assignments when camping, but does not represent the position on the battle formation.
Feng Youxian immediately issued a military order.
It has a total of about 750 cavalry, with the general flag as two rows of units, launching a charge against the central government of the army, intending to directly penetrate and tear open its camp; the left and right posts move to the enemy's wings respectively. After gathering, when the attack on the middle line succeeds, it charges from the two wings and divides the enemy's formations again.
The arrangement is very simple, and Feng Youxian's order is very clear. It maintains the impact force of the brigade without fighting in the middle. After breaking through, turn around and rectify and continue to attack.
After the orders of each post were ordered, the troops were rectified.
Feng Youxian shouted: Let’s go!
Suddenly, more than a thousand riders trotted among the mountains. They first rushed down the hillside, and the sound of horse hooves rumbled, like thunder and lightning brewing among the clouds.
Countless war horses were galloping around, the sound of the wind roared in my ears, and the hazy scenery flashed behind me quickly.
At this moment, Feng Youxian almost forgot the contradiction in his heart, and he had already understood his thoughts.
Just like a bird flying in the air and a fish swimming in the water, as long as he rides on the horse, he feels like he is flying. He has never imagined how boring a life that cannot fight on a horse is.
Defeat the opponent like lightning, and the belief in it has been far away from the killing.
The brothers and cavalry who fought side by side could not retreat, and the war horses that shared the joys and sorrows. In Feng Youxian's heart, the horse was not a beast, but a member of the cavalry regiment and a trustworthy partner.
Only brothers who have experienced this feeling of being connected with destiny can truly understand it.
One hundred and fifty steps, no order is required, and the soldiers have prepared their weapons one after another.
Feng Youxian pulled out the slender saber from his horse and pointed it forward and shouted: Kill!
The army shouted out the words during training like a conditioned reflexively. For glory, some people also shouted long live.
People's blood is already boiling.
One hundred and fifty steps, an infantryman could not reach the distance even if he was shot with a bow and arrow, the cavalry regiment rushed to the front of the official army in less than twenty blinks (twenty seconds), almost with a few blinks of his eyelids.
The same large cavalry charges, and clever jobs such as martial arts are almost useless. They are speeding up like arrows, and they can't even see clearly the momentum.
The vanguard, holding a cavalry and rifle of more than meter, stabbed the steel edge into the passive defense of the official army, and the armor could not stop such a sharp edge.
The rifle directly pierced through a person's chest, and blood splattered in the sound of the wind.
It was quick to say that Feng Youxian's two sentry horses penetrated into the official camp like shells piercing through the earth wall.
The man who threw away the rifle in front drew his saber and slashed wildly.
There is no ding-dangling fight, and one touch is almost killed with one knife. The charging knights cannot avoid the attack of the official army, and the official army cannot resist the blade that has been slashed up.
People can't stop, even if the blood on their bodies is soaring, they can't stop as long as they are not dead.There were more than thirty columns running behind, and once they stopped, they could only be trampled by iron hooves.
In addition to the sound of metal that makes people's bones pierce into their bodies, there is also the banging firearms, this time the gunshots were all issued by the government army, and only the official cavalry were equipped with three-eyed guns.
When the blood-red sun rose, the plants and trees in the wilderness were already stained with blood.