The battlefield at this time is located near Ewangcheng, located on the south bank of the Yangtze River opposite Huangzhou Prefecture. There are many waters in this place, mainly lakes.
The 50,000 or 60,000 troops from the North Guanjun Road were deployed west from the county town to a place ten miles away from Sanshan Lake; to the north of Sanshan Lake is Yaer Lake, and between the two lakes are more than 20 camps with about 20,000 people in the Huben Camp of the Zhuque Army.
Further west of Sanshan Lake is the largest lake in the local area, Liangzi Lake and Niushan Lake. There are also waters such as Houhu and Yangzhuang Lake in the north of the two lakes. The land is intertwined in the middle and the terrain is complex...
These lakes are located on four sides, with a large piece of land in the middle.
Because the official army controlled the Yangtze River, the new army of the Suzaku Army was a land road west of the Yangtze River. It marched south from the flat road in the middle of the lake group, and then turned east to advance to the government army.
The Forward Huben Camp has approached the easternmost part of the lake group and built fortifications between Sanshan Lake and Yaer Lake; and the main force of Zhongwu Camp is still near Niushan Lake in the northwest; the Pingyuan Camp of the Houjun is even in the north of the densely populated area.
In fact, the official army failed to block the southward route of the third battalion of the Zhuque Army. If Zhou Mengxiong wanted to rush to the south regardless of everything, there were several major roads to go; but the northern army of King E of the city was located between Wuchang Prefecture and Jiujiang Prefecture, and if he was left alone, it would be a great threat.
The Northern Office of the Government Army can not only attack and cut off the Zhuque Army's baggage and food routes, but also go north along the river and take advantage of the opportunity to capture Wuchang, the old nest of the Huguang regime; the Yao Monk of Yuezhou, despite the emptiness of Yuezhou's defense, has added more and more troops to Changde Camp and the First Battalion of the Navy to reinforce the defense of Wuchang, but that little man is obviously unable to resist the elite of the Northern Office of the Government Army.
That's why the official army gathered heavy troops on the riverside instead of defending and encircling reinforcements on all sides.
...After the head general of the official army sent someone to send the letter of war, Zhou Mengxiong didn't make any noise all day long.He just analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy and us in public, and acted like he was determined to stick to the fortifications.
It has been learned that there are the remaining troops of the Shenji Camp and the fifth army camp in the North Road of the Official Army, both of which belong to the Beijing camp, and there are many veterans who have experienced a long battle formation.The veterans of the Beijing camp were familiar with swords, guns, sticks, and good at fighting in the battle. Most of the soldiers of our new army were farmers a few months ago, and they would definitely be defeated miserably when they met in close combat.
But our army is not completely inferior to humans. We have been practicing firearms continuously for months, and each battalion has been practicing skillfully.If we talk about the tactics of facing volleys, they will not be worse than Shenji Camp; and they will definitely be more skilled than the soldiers of the Five Military Camp and the Local Guards. In the past, the Five Military Camp used to use less firearms and were good at riding and shooting and infantry battles, but they didn't have much time to practice firearms.The strengths and weaknesses of the enemy are clear at a glance. The generals must always remember this link. They must play to their strengths and avoid weaknesses in every battle. They must rely on fortifications to exert long-range killing and damage to avoid fighting with the enemy.
After a whole day like this, Zhou Mengxiong issued a military order in the evening, ordering each village to rest for one night and make dinner at five o'clock tomorrow; but he left the commanders of each village in the central army.
All the generals thought that the orders for soldiers to get up early to prepare to defend against the government forces' attack positions tomorrow...Master Zhou did not accept the letter of war, and the government forces might march directly to the front of the camps to attack the fortifications.
As night fell, more than 20 villages across the north and south gradually fell asleep, leaving only the swaying fire in the cold wind.
Unexpectedly, just after the third update, the commanders of the villages who had settled near the Central Army camp were called.
It was October, and it was midnight again. Everyone was sleeping soundly. Even when they got up, they would rather use a chamber pot than leave the warm bed.
Everyone heard nothing, so they asked what happened.
Later, Liu Mazi went outside the tent to curse, and everyone quickly put on their clothes and armor.
It was not good to touch the cold iron piece directly to the ears and neck, and many people also tied scarves.
Outside the dilapidated temple, there was a tinkling sound, and a group of military generals entered the dilapidated house one after another.
A fire broke out in the middle of the room, and Zhou Mengxiong was sitting upright on the chair in the middle.
The last general will pay homage to the commander.Everyone went up to worship one after another.
Zhou Mengxiong pointed to the ground and signaled everyone to sit on the ground, and then ordered the guard to hang up a picture outlined by a brush.
Zhang Fu's military order to Zhu Mian, the commander of the Northern Army, must be to defend the northern front and not to fight in a vain.If he leads his army to come tomorrow, he will definitely be bullying our soldiers and the new soldiers come from afar, wanting to take the initiative to give us a warning; but if we stick to the fortifications and it is difficult for Zhu Mian to break through, he will retreat and continue to huddle on the riverside to defend, and we will find it difficult to find any opportunity in the future.Next, I arranged new tactics to lure the enemy into depth and divide the siege...
An hour later, the generals rushed back to their camps overnight.
At the fifth day of the day, the soldiers of each battalion got up to cook breakfast with the stars and then gathered for fun. It was just dawn.
The commander took out the military talisman sent by the central army, checked the military talisman of the officer in public, and ordered the main force to withdraw from the fortifications, leaving only one hundred people to guard the camps.
The commander told the remaining officers and soldiers: Because the central army drew troops and horses, the remaining people tried their best to defend the camp; if they could not defend, they could abandon the camp and flee westward, and keep going west, with our garrison behind them.
Remember to follow the military law. If the rioters cannot find their superiors, the highest rank will be the leader and obey the command. Those who violate their orders will be deemed to be disobeying military orders!
This is a military law of the Vermillion Bird Army. The squad was on the verge and the commander was the official and the soldiers were the soldiers. If the soldiers could not see their generals during the chaos, they had to listen to the nearest soldiers' orders.
This rule is very useful in melee and after defeat. The army is prone to scattering in a hurry because the soldiers cannot find the generals, and the generals cannot find the soldiers, which becomes loose sand. With the rules, everyone can follow the habits.
Because the clothes of the Vermilion Bird Army are uniformly distributed, the soldiers have different colors of depth, and the grades are different from the color of the belt and the button material.
Therefore, as long as people who are familiar with the Vermilion Bird Army can judge the other party’s official position by looking at their outfits, it is convenient for the formation of upper and lower organizations.
……
Early in the morning, the main force of Huben Camp had abandoned the Sanshan Lake fortification and retreated twenty miles westward.
After the troops reached the designated location, they found that there were already many ditch wall fortifications there; the Zhongwu Camp behind had already helped to repair the camp yesterday, and the ready-made troops directly settled in the territory.
At this time, the two infantry soldiers of the Shenji Camp of the Official Army and thousands of horse soldiers of the Fifth Army also went west. They advanced for more than ten miles without encountering any enemy soldiers. After more than an hour, they walked to the front of the Zhuque Army Fortification in Sanshan Lake. It was obvious that the rebels broke the appointment and did not accept Zhu Mian's challenge. They were still huddled into the earth wall when the sun was noon.
Zhu Mian felt a little disappointed because he believed that the rebels would definitely win the first battle and defeat the opponent's spirit in one fell swoop; unexpectedly, since the rebels came to attack, they pretended to be grandson.
The factory guards' detailed work had already figured out the opponent's background clearly. The commander Zhou Mengxiong, the father-in-law of the King of Xiang; the soldiers led by him were about 50,000 to 60,000, but the new army.
The so-called new army is to recruit strong men who have been trained for a short time, and it took only a few months to form an army.
Huguang is a mainland province with very limited military resources and can only train troops from the people. After several months of training, Zhu Mian did not think they had any combat effectiveness.
The rebels rely on firearms, and it is okay to bully the same weak mainland guards. They can't get much good at facing the strong bows and crossbows of the Beijing camp. As long as they approach the hand-to-hand combat, they will be sure to win...
When a veteran who is accustomed to swords and guns fights, how can he compare with a skilled craftsman who works as a craftsman?
So Zhu Mian observed the fortification group ahead and decided to try an attack.Of course he remembered what the British Duke Zhang Fu said, but defense is not just defense but not attacking.
After receiving the military order, the Shenji Camp set up heavy artillery first. It was bombarded randomly regardless of the military order, but the effect was not very good.
The generals and the tiger cannons equipped by the Shenji Camp were both artillery fired huge bombs, and they fell from mid-air and had great power, but the chance of hitting the low-low earth wall was too small, and they almost did not cause any damage to the fortifications.
Only soldiers can attack and make a difference.
Zuoye of Shenji Camp was ordered to mobilize troops to attack a camp in front. A square formation composed of hundreds of people began to march forward slowly with the sound of drums. After a while, the noise of the blast of muskets came, and the smoke and dust in the air covered the vision hazy.
(There are only one hundred people in a camp over there. If they are all put into the front line for dense volleys, they cannot change teams; if they are divided into three teams, there will be only more than 30 people in one team, and more than 30 projectiles in a round of volleys cannot hit anything. How can such killing stop the infantry's charge for dozens of steps?)
It was hard to see how the rebels were deployed. Hundreds of officials came forward and were not repelled. After the guns were fired, the crowd rushed up to the wall and did not stop.
Then many hard bamboo strips and wooden boards were put on, and people rushed up; the waist wall could defend against crossbows and firearms well, but the defense of the infantry that was too low to face in front of them was completely incomparable to the city wall.
A brief battle in the camp soon erected the flags of the Shenji Camp in the center.
The remaining rebels fled over the wall, and some fell into the deep trench they dug outside and couldn't get up.
The official army captured a village in a very short time.
Then Zhu Mian ordered to continue attacking other fortifications, and it became easier after breaking through one place: the official army could attack from both the front and the fortifications that had been taken, and dispersed the defenses of the defenders more, and simply attacked with one attack.
Seeing this, the rebels in the fortifications began to flee one after another. Zhu Mian immediately ordered the horse soldiers of the five military camps to follow and chase after him.
The rebels were killed and injured, and the army was defeated. Fortunately, the generals of the horse soldiers in the fifth barracks were worried that they would be ambushed in the middle of the distance and did not continue to pursue them. Otherwise, the rebels would lose all their losses on the twenty-mile escape route.
In just half a day, Zhu Mian's men occupied the Sanshan Lake fortification group, and the victory was too easy.
According to reports from generals of various departments, the rebel defenders were obviously too few, and the front line was nearly twenty miles away, and the thin force could not stop the attack.
Zhu Mian thought for a moment that the rebels had lured the enemy to set up an ambush, so he sent scouts to inquire, but there was no ambush. The rest of the rebels had already reached twenty miles west.
He observed the fortifications he had just occupied, the ditch was dug deep, and there were sacks of sand on the wall, which seemed to have been used for some time.
Such a situation made Zhu Mian suddenly feel that Zhou Mengxiong was a completely amateur idiot...
He was originally an unknown person and the in-laws of King Xiang, and he could really be an incompetent person who became nepotist.
The 50,000 or 60,000 troops from the North Guanjun Road were deployed west from the county town to a place ten miles away from Sanshan Lake; to the north of Sanshan Lake is Yaer Lake, and between the two lakes are more than 20 camps with about 20,000 people in the Huben Camp of the Zhuque Army.
Further west of Sanshan Lake is the largest lake in the local area, Liangzi Lake and Niushan Lake. There are also waters such as Houhu and Yangzhuang Lake in the north of the two lakes. The land is intertwined in the middle and the terrain is complex...
These lakes are located on four sides, with a large piece of land in the middle.
Because the official army controlled the Yangtze River, the new army of the Suzaku Army was a land road west of the Yangtze River. It marched south from the flat road in the middle of the lake group, and then turned east to advance to the government army.
The Forward Huben Camp has approached the easternmost part of the lake group and built fortifications between Sanshan Lake and Yaer Lake; and the main force of Zhongwu Camp is still near Niushan Lake in the northwest; the Pingyuan Camp of the Houjun is even in the north of the densely populated area.
In fact, the official army failed to block the southward route of the third battalion of the Zhuque Army. If Zhou Mengxiong wanted to rush to the south regardless of everything, there were several major roads to go; but the northern army of King E of the city was located between Wuchang Prefecture and Jiujiang Prefecture, and if he was left alone, it would be a great threat.
The Northern Office of the Government Army can not only attack and cut off the Zhuque Army's baggage and food routes, but also go north along the river and take advantage of the opportunity to capture Wuchang, the old nest of the Huguang regime; the Yao Monk of Yuezhou, despite the emptiness of Yuezhou's defense, has added more and more troops to Changde Camp and the First Battalion of the Navy to reinforce the defense of Wuchang, but that little man is obviously unable to resist the elite of the Northern Office of the Government Army.
That's why the official army gathered heavy troops on the riverside instead of defending and encircling reinforcements on all sides.
...After the head general of the official army sent someone to send the letter of war, Zhou Mengxiong didn't make any noise all day long.He just analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy and us in public, and acted like he was determined to stick to the fortifications.
It has been learned that there are the remaining troops of the Shenji Camp and the fifth army camp in the North Road of the Official Army, both of which belong to the Beijing camp, and there are many veterans who have experienced a long battle formation.The veterans of the Beijing camp were familiar with swords, guns, sticks, and good at fighting in the battle. Most of the soldiers of our new army were farmers a few months ago, and they would definitely be defeated miserably when they met in close combat.
But our army is not completely inferior to humans. We have been practicing firearms continuously for months, and each battalion has been practicing skillfully.If we talk about the tactics of facing volleys, they will not be worse than Shenji Camp; and they will definitely be more skilled than the soldiers of the Five Military Camp and the Local Guards. In the past, the Five Military Camp used to use less firearms and were good at riding and shooting and infantry battles, but they didn't have much time to practice firearms.The strengths and weaknesses of the enemy are clear at a glance. The generals must always remember this link. They must play to their strengths and avoid weaknesses in every battle. They must rely on fortifications to exert long-range killing and damage to avoid fighting with the enemy.
After a whole day like this, Zhou Mengxiong issued a military order in the evening, ordering each village to rest for one night and make dinner at five o'clock tomorrow; but he left the commanders of each village in the central army.
All the generals thought that the orders for soldiers to get up early to prepare to defend against the government forces' attack positions tomorrow...Master Zhou did not accept the letter of war, and the government forces might march directly to the front of the camps to attack the fortifications.
As night fell, more than 20 villages across the north and south gradually fell asleep, leaving only the swaying fire in the cold wind.
Unexpectedly, just after the third update, the commanders of the villages who had settled near the Central Army camp were called.
It was October, and it was midnight again. Everyone was sleeping soundly. Even when they got up, they would rather use a chamber pot than leave the warm bed.
Everyone heard nothing, so they asked what happened.
Later, Liu Mazi went outside the tent to curse, and everyone quickly put on their clothes and armor.
It was not good to touch the cold iron piece directly to the ears and neck, and many people also tied scarves.
Outside the dilapidated temple, there was a tinkling sound, and a group of military generals entered the dilapidated house one after another.
A fire broke out in the middle of the room, and Zhou Mengxiong was sitting upright on the chair in the middle.
The last general will pay homage to the commander.Everyone went up to worship one after another.
Zhou Mengxiong pointed to the ground and signaled everyone to sit on the ground, and then ordered the guard to hang up a picture outlined by a brush.
Zhang Fu's military order to Zhu Mian, the commander of the Northern Army, must be to defend the northern front and not to fight in a vain.If he leads his army to come tomorrow, he will definitely be bullying our soldiers and the new soldiers come from afar, wanting to take the initiative to give us a warning; but if we stick to the fortifications and it is difficult for Zhu Mian to break through, he will retreat and continue to huddle on the riverside to defend, and we will find it difficult to find any opportunity in the future.Next, I arranged new tactics to lure the enemy into depth and divide the siege...
An hour later, the generals rushed back to their camps overnight.
At the fifth day of the day, the soldiers of each battalion got up to cook breakfast with the stars and then gathered for fun. It was just dawn.
The commander took out the military talisman sent by the central army, checked the military talisman of the officer in public, and ordered the main force to withdraw from the fortifications, leaving only one hundred people to guard the camps.
The commander told the remaining officers and soldiers: Because the central army drew troops and horses, the remaining people tried their best to defend the camp; if they could not defend, they could abandon the camp and flee westward, and keep going west, with our garrison behind them.
Remember to follow the military law. If the rioters cannot find their superiors, the highest rank will be the leader and obey the command. Those who violate their orders will be deemed to be disobeying military orders!
This is a military law of the Vermillion Bird Army. The squad was on the verge and the commander was the official and the soldiers were the soldiers. If the soldiers could not see their generals during the chaos, they had to listen to the nearest soldiers' orders.
This rule is very useful in melee and after defeat. The army is prone to scattering in a hurry because the soldiers cannot find the generals, and the generals cannot find the soldiers, which becomes loose sand. With the rules, everyone can follow the habits.
Because the clothes of the Vermilion Bird Army are uniformly distributed, the soldiers have different colors of depth, and the grades are different from the color of the belt and the button material.
Therefore, as long as people who are familiar with the Vermilion Bird Army can judge the other party’s official position by looking at their outfits, it is convenient for the formation of upper and lower organizations.
……
Early in the morning, the main force of Huben Camp had abandoned the Sanshan Lake fortification and retreated twenty miles westward.
After the troops reached the designated location, they found that there were already many ditch wall fortifications there; the Zhongwu Camp behind had already helped to repair the camp yesterday, and the ready-made troops directly settled in the territory.
At this time, the two infantry soldiers of the Shenji Camp of the Official Army and thousands of horse soldiers of the Fifth Army also went west. They advanced for more than ten miles without encountering any enemy soldiers. After more than an hour, they walked to the front of the Zhuque Army Fortification in Sanshan Lake. It was obvious that the rebels broke the appointment and did not accept Zhu Mian's challenge. They were still huddled into the earth wall when the sun was noon.
Zhu Mian felt a little disappointed because he believed that the rebels would definitely win the first battle and defeat the opponent's spirit in one fell swoop; unexpectedly, since the rebels came to attack, they pretended to be grandson.
The factory guards' detailed work had already figured out the opponent's background clearly. The commander Zhou Mengxiong, the father-in-law of the King of Xiang; the soldiers led by him were about 50,000 to 60,000, but the new army.
The so-called new army is to recruit strong men who have been trained for a short time, and it took only a few months to form an army.
Huguang is a mainland province with very limited military resources and can only train troops from the people. After several months of training, Zhu Mian did not think they had any combat effectiveness.
The rebels rely on firearms, and it is okay to bully the same weak mainland guards. They can't get much good at facing the strong bows and crossbows of the Beijing camp. As long as they approach the hand-to-hand combat, they will be sure to win...
When a veteran who is accustomed to swords and guns fights, how can he compare with a skilled craftsman who works as a craftsman?
So Zhu Mian observed the fortification group ahead and decided to try an attack.Of course he remembered what the British Duke Zhang Fu said, but defense is not just defense but not attacking.
After receiving the military order, the Shenji Camp set up heavy artillery first. It was bombarded randomly regardless of the military order, but the effect was not very good.
The generals and the tiger cannons equipped by the Shenji Camp were both artillery fired huge bombs, and they fell from mid-air and had great power, but the chance of hitting the low-low earth wall was too small, and they almost did not cause any damage to the fortifications.
Only soldiers can attack and make a difference.
Zuoye of Shenji Camp was ordered to mobilize troops to attack a camp in front. A square formation composed of hundreds of people began to march forward slowly with the sound of drums. After a while, the noise of the blast of muskets came, and the smoke and dust in the air covered the vision hazy.
(There are only one hundred people in a camp over there. If they are all put into the front line for dense volleys, they cannot change teams; if they are divided into three teams, there will be only more than 30 people in one team, and more than 30 projectiles in a round of volleys cannot hit anything. How can such killing stop the infantry's charge for dozens of steps?)
It was hard to see how the rebels were deployed. Hundreds of officials came forward and were not repelled. After the guns were fired, the crowd rushed up to the wall and did not stop.
Then many hard bamboo strips and wooden boards were put on, and people rushed up; the waist wall could defend against crossbows and firearms well, but the defense of the infantry that was too low to face in front of them was completely incomparable to the city wall.
A brief battle in the camp soon erected the flags of the Shenji Camp in the center.
The remaining rebels fled over the wall, and some fell into the deep trench they dug outside and couldn't get up.
The official army captured a village in a very short time.
Then Zhu Mian ordered to continue attacking other fortifications, and it became easier after breaking through one place: the official army could attack from both the front and the fortifications that had been taken, and dispersed the defenses of the defenders more, and simply attacked with one attack.
Seeing this, the rebels in the fortifications began to flee one after another. Zhu Mian immediately ordered the horse soldiers of the five military camps to follow and chase after him.
The rebels were killed and injured, and the army was defeated. Fortunately, the generals of the horse soldiers in the fifth barracks were worried that they would be ambushed in the middle of the distance and did not continue to pursue them. Otherwise, the rebels would lose all their losses on the twenty-mile escape route.
In just half a day, Zhu Mian's men occupied the Sanshan Lake fortification group, and the victory was too easy.
According to reports from generals of various departments, the rebel defenders were obviously too few, and the front line was nearly twenty miles away, and the thin force could not stop the attack.
Zhu Mian thought for a moment that the rebels had lured the enemy to set up an ambush, so he sent scouts to inquire, but there was no ambush. The rest of the rebels had already reached twenty miles west.
He observed the fortifications he had just occupied, the ditch was dug deep, and there were sacks of sand on the wall, which seemed to have been used for some time.
Such a situation made Zhu Mian suddenly feel that Zhou Mengxiong was a completely amateur idiot...
He was originally an unknown person and the in-laws of King Xiang, and he could really be an incompetent person who became nepotist.
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