Chapter 291: Overwhelming
When the enemy counterattacked, they immediately withdrew, hiding without a trace. When the enemy retreated, they roared, gunfire rang out, and the sound of killing was everywhere. The enemy is unable to fight and fight, chase and catch up, fall into a situation where he does not eat well, sleep and sleep soundly, restless, and embarrassed.
To sum up, there are three points, attack, ambush and blockade.
"Sparrow tactics?" After hearing this, Nie Tong and all the company commanders couldn't help but be shocked, and they instantly thought of the battle surface where the Ming army was divided and thrown around under the Sparrow War.
"Yes, it's the Sparrow Tactics." Kaohsiung said in a categorical tone. Then he pointed to the sand table and continued: "We can't use a lot of firearms in this battle, which means that our most advantageous side has been suppressed. Next, if you want to win more with less, you can only use sneak attacks and harassment. Fortunately, our cold front fighters are elite enough, and they are all one in a hundred, or even one in a thousand. Even the two thousand auxiliaries accompanying him were a little higher in personal strength than the elite of the Ming Dynasty. As long as we adopt the method of leading the troops with veterans and one cold front with five auxiliary soldiers, and carry out small attacks and harassments, we can create a feeling that the enemy is full of soldiers, and when they are exhausted, we will suddenly gather in one place and have a big encirclement and annihilation battle, and this battle can be determined. ”
Kaohsiung, who looked serious, but his eyes were full of excitement, looked at Nie Tong and the others after saying this, and said: "In this battle, we have to use practical actions to tell the Sixth Young Master and all the officers and soldiers and people in the Red Embedded City that we can not only become sea dragons, but also land tigers." ”
"Yes, we are not only sea dragons, but also land tigers." Nie Tong and the others stood solemnly and shouted loudly in excitement.
Under Kaohsiung's leadership, the strategic approach was set, and the next time was the redistribution of personnel. In order to achieve the effect of soldiers all over the ground, the four hundred cold fronts were divided into squads, with ten people in the first squad and 50 auxiliary soldiers in the first squad, so that a small team had a strength of 60 people. In this way, you can hide yourself well, and you can play a small-scale attack, and at the same time, it also has the effect of training.
Exactly 2,400 men, divided into 40 squads, disappeared into Tianjin Wei a day later, hiding in the vast sea of the people.
According to Kaohsiung's meaning, this time they not only have to fight the Ming army, but also abduct a large number of people, under the rapid development of the Chichicheng City, the city can be described as a day at a time, if you want to maintain this speed, you need a lot of manpower, even the elderly and children are available.
Through this sparrow tactic, let the soldiers go deep into the people, encourage them, and bring more poor people to the red embedded city, and make efforts and contributions to the development of the city and a better tomorrow for themselves.
The Sparrow Tactics began to be implemented. More than 2,000 cold fronts disappeared in place overnight like leaves blown by a strong wind, disappearing without a trace. But Shi Hengdudu, who was cautiously rushing to Tianjin Wei, did not know about all this.
Not only that, but as Kaohsiung expected, it is moving forward steadily. Originally, it was less than 300 miles, and it was said that under the rapid march, it could be reached in a day and a half at most. But now two days have passed, and the army is still searching outside Langfang.
Shi Heng thought that if it was himself, he would definitely ambush the army here. Therefore, as soon as they entered the Langfang realm, the 50,000-strong army became extremely cautious, searching one village after another, and stayed here for two days alone, and it turned out that no enemy was found here.
"Hehe, it seems that the Japanese army is scared, very good, the order army can speed up, enter Tianjin Wei a day earlier, eliminate these alien races, the emperor is still waiting for our good news." There was no danger in the boundaries of Langfang, Shi Heng's original cautious heart became much bolder, he thought that the Japanese army was not familiar with the terrain and did not dare to come out to fight, so he magnified his courage and ordered the army to speed up and go straight to the destination Tianjin Wei.
But it was this big step that a series of accidents began to appear. Originally, I was going to rest for a night and go straight to Tianjin Wei tomorrow, but on this night of camping in the wild, the entire military camp was indeed attacked from all directions.
Fire crossbow attack from afar, short bow close attack... In just one night, more than 5,000 Ming troops lost their resting places, and about 2,000 of them suffered various degrees of external injuries. And according to the final summary data, at least seven or eight strongholds were attacked, that is, at least seven or eight enemy groups launched a sneak attack on them tonight.
"How can there be so many? How many people are there in this Japanese army? Looking at this summary battle report, Shi Heng's eyebrows had already been screwed together.
Due to the influence of the dark factor, the Ming army could not recognize how many enemies there were, but heard bursts of shouts and killings from all directions, and the timid soldiers, who had long been too cautious and timid, began to retreat when they heard the shouts, where is there still time to recognize how many enemies there are, what kind of weapons are they holding?
Without a specific battle report, Shi Heng could not make accurate judgments, which also led to him not being able to find a better solution to the surprise attack in front of him. The only thing that can be done is to shrink the army and fortify carefully.
But this was ultimately a passive defense, which not only greatly delayed the speed of the march, but also shocked the morale of the army.
It's just that for these elusive opponents, Shi Heng doesn't have any good solutions. If you send a large team of men and horses out to encircle and suppress, you will not be found at all, and you will only be wasted by labor and money. If you send a small army, you will often go and never return, or you will be hit hard. A lucky small group of people came back to claim that the opponent seemed to be everywhere and endless.
After staying outside Langfang for two days, the number of attacks reached more than 60 times, that is to say, at least each of the 40 small branches under Kaohsiung made one shot, and more than half of them shot more than twice.
Under so many attacks, the consequence was that the Ming army lost nearly 10,000 soldiers, most of whom were wounded, and not even a tenth of them were actually killed.
The battle damage can be said to be not small, after all, without seeing the opponent, he has already lost one-fifth of the men and horses, I dare not imagine, if this is head-on, what kind of result will be? Of course, most of the Ming army is a new recruit, who has never been on the battlefield and has no battlefield experience, but the important factor is the flexibility, rapidity and concealment of sparrow warfare. It's a feeling of being everywhere and you can't touch it.
"We can't wait here, we are going to Tianjin Wei, pass the order, the army will go out, end to end, and set off in a long snake formation, but one part is attacked, and the other departments can support themselves without asking for instructions." Shi Heng? Rafter? 橛行┓(16)Which source is Wei?? Cut? Blasphemy? Is it dangerous? Lake? Fierce Phoenix Connor テ?? Sniffy
When his subordinates heard this order, they asked with a hint of hesitation, "Governor, how to deal with those wounded?" Many of them suffered leg injuries and were afraid that they would not be able to follow the army for a while. ”
"They... Let's all stay, and at the same time send a team of five hundred people to guard their safety and send them back to Beijing. A ruthless intent flashed in Shi Heng's eyes. This is the case on the battlefield, once you are injured and have difficulty moving, it is equivalent to a burdensome existence, and people like this will naturally face abandonment.
The military order was issued, and the original army of 50,000 people left nearly 10,000 men and horses and left Langfang and went straight to Tianjin Wei, which was dozens of kilometers away.
Just as Shi Heng's army was setting off, Nie Tong, the battalion commander, followed with twenty squads. Kaohsiung did not follow, but led the other squads to pounce on the more than 10,000 wounded people who were left behind like tigers and wolves.
These injured Ming soldiers are like hind legs in Shi Heng's eyes, but in Leng Feng's eyes, they are indeed like treasures. If there is anything that is most lacking in Chiji City now, I am afraid that it is the prime of men, and these are only people who have been injured in the legs and have become sought-after goods.
In order to be able to quickly subdue the wounded of these Ming troops, Kaohsiung finally showed his sword, and the elite cold fronts had super combat capabilities, and more than 1,000 auxiliary soldiers who had also undergone strict training suddenly surrounded these Ming troops like phantoms.
Although it was a small siege, it was only a wave of attacks that cut through the escort of 500 people, and when the advanced firearms were completely taken out, the wounded Ming soldiers quickly compromised. There are naturally reasons for being afraid of firearms, but there is also their yearning for mercenaries, and even many people have long thought about learning more about mercenaries and joining them. It's just that I haven't had a chance.
Now that the opportunity has suddenly appeared, many people are overjoyed in their hearts, thinking that this is a God-given opportunity. So that when some of the wounded wanted to resist, they were robbed of weapons by other Ming soldiers, according to these people, the opportunity to ask for it appeared, how could it be resigned?
The operation to collect the wounded soldiers was very smooth, which was beyond Kaohsiung's imagination. At this moment, he finally knew that the sixth young master's work in the Beijing Division for more than a year had not been in vain, and he was also cautiously issuing a military order, that is, he must not let a Ming army leave the team, at least now the news that the mercenaries appeared here must not be spread.
More than 1,000 people wanted to collect nearly 10,000 wounded soldiers, which seemed impossible, but with the help of more wounded soldiers of the Ming army who had an infinite affection for mercenaries, this move was unexpectedly smooth.