Chapter 54: Change of Guard
It is recognized that Lu Xiangsheng likes field battles, and Lu Xiangsheng has always attached importance to cavalry, familiar with the tactics of cavalry, and now the seven thousand cavalry under Wang Chengping are deployed in the Shanhaiguan area, which can be said to be a waste of their advantages, basically unable to give full play to their combat effectiveness, on the contrary, they have to let many war horses idle and have nothing to do, so he came up with this Luo Li's guard division to replace Wang Chengping's cavalry and make it gallop westward to help.
Luo Li has no opinion on Lu Xiangsheng's suggestion, anyway, he came to kill the Tartars, and now the Tartar soldiers in the west don't know where they are, but there are a large number of Tartars to kill here in Shanhaiguan, Lu Xiangsheng's proposal is very much in line with his appetite, if this is the case, he can immediately lead his troops to Shanhaiguan to lead the troops to kill the Tartars! What's more, what Lu Xiangsheng said makes sense, although his guards division also has two cavalry battalions, but after all, they have been fighting in the interior over the years, and the cavalry is not as many as the cavalry under Wang Chengping, and they are not as powerful, the strength of their guards division lies in attacking and defending the city, although there is no problem with the long-distance rapid march, but after all, it can't be compared with Wang Chengping's cavalry corps, not to mention that this time after he was ordered to divide his troops with Xiao Tianjian, in order to ensure the recent combat needs, the army brought two baggage battalions, and transported a large number of grain and ammunition materials. There is also a need to ensure the safety of these supplies.
Therefore, Luo Li immediately nodded and agreed: "My old Luo thinks what Master Lu said makes sense, Wang Chengping's cavalry is more powerful, it is the most suitable to do this, anyway, wherever I go, it is okay to kill Tartars, it doesn't hurt for me to go to Shanhaiguan to replace them, I still have two cavalry battalions under my command, just hand it over to him to pull down!" ”
Li Xin laughed secretly after hearing this, in fact, he also thought of what Lu Xiangsheng thought, he was afraid that Luo Li would not agree, now that Luo Li understands the overall situation, he is willing to lead the troops to Shanhaiguan to replace the cavalry under Wang Chengping, so that this time their chances of victory will be greater.
Xu Yixian also agreed with Lu Xiangsheng's proposal, thinking that Lu Xiangsheng's opinion was reasonable and feasible, so everyone immediately unanimously approved Lu Xiangsheng's proposal, and let Luo Li lead the troops to replace Wang Chengping's department stationed in Shanhaiguan, so that the defense of Shanhaiguan will be more solid.
So in the end, Li Xin ordered that Diao Zheng led the second town army to rush to Xifengkou to rush to the west first, and Luo Li's department, except for the two cavalry battalions under his command temporarily under the command of Wang Chengping, the rest of the soldiers and horses went to Shanhaiguan to take over the defense, and replaced the cavalry of the first town army under Wang Chengping, and also patrolled westward day and night, blocking another way of Jiannu from entering the customs according to the situation.
However, considering that this time the troops had to be divided, all parties needed to ensure the materials, and the command also needed to be coordinated, Li Xin transferred one infantry battalion and two baggage battalions from the Second Town Army and Luo Li's Guards Division, and turned to Yongping Mansion to dispatch in the center, and temporarily established a command headquarters in Yongping Mansion before Xiao Tianjian led the troops, and these remaining troops were used as Li Xin's reserves.
As for Lu Xiangsheng, he was left by Li Xin and went to Yongping Mansion with him to command, after Lu Xiangsheng thought about it, he could only gladly accept the order, in short, these guys refused to let him go to the front line in person, and then go to fight with Jiannu with a big knife, now Wu Xiang's cooperation with Yan Chongxi is quite pleasant, after Luo Li goes up again, even if Wu Xiang has different intentions, he will be suppressed by them and unable to move, he has nothing to worry about, not to mention that Xu Yixian, as the town-level chief of staff of the General Staff, went to Shanhaiguan, He can also rest assured.
So after Diao Zheng and Luo Li received the order, they immediately began to act, and after resting for the night in Fu Ningwei, they each began to lead their troops to continue to rush to the place they needed to go.
Li Xin led the remaining soldiers and horses and a part of the baggage, leaving some supplies in addition to the support of Funingwei as Shanhaiguan, and the rest of the men and horses followed his staff headquarters and Lu Xiangsheng to Yongping Mansion.
Yongping Mansion and Lulong County in later generations, the seat of governance is in Lulong County, which is the most important capital city east of Shuntianfu in the Ming Dynasty, and is known as the first government in Jingdong.
But at this time, the governor of Yongping Mansion has already fled without a trace, he has no power in this prefect, the main power is concentrated in the hands of Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, and there are no soldiers at hand, each army has its own military generals, and now there is a large number of Jiannu army in the north who want to enter the Kou, and a large number of men and horses of the vigorous Dazhong Army in the south are heading north, and the Yongping prefect knows that the Ming Dynasty has gone, so he took advantage of the fact that the Jiannu army has not yet entered the pass, and the Dazhong army has not been killed under the city, so some time ago, Suddenly, he played a missing trick with his family, abandoned Yongping Mansion, and fled somewhere.
It wasn't until later that Xiao Tianjian pacified Shandong, that he found out that this guy ran to Jiaozhou with his family, but unfortunately he did not escape the punishment of the Dazhong Army in the end, Xiao Tianjian ordered him to be arrested and killed, and all the family property was confiscated, even if it was not for anything else, it was just that when this guy was in Jiannu went south, he abandoned the rear of Shanhaiguan and ignored it, and he didn't care about the requisition of grain and the people to help the war with his family and escape with his family, which was enough for him to die hundreds of times.
Therefore, when Li Xin and Lu Xiangsheng led the troops to arrive at the city of Yongping Mansion, Yongping Mansion had already lost its garrison, and some deserters in the city were still in the city, so Li Xin effortlessly sent troops to control the city of Yongping Mansion, and by means of thunder, immediately eliminated the deserters and ruffians who took advantage of the chaos in the city, and ordered them to be beheaded for public display, killing hundreds of people overnight, and quickly restored the situation in the city of Yongping Mansion and established a command here.
After Wang Chengping received the news, he was immediately overjoyed, ran to bid farewell to Yan Chongxi and Wu Xiang, and ordered his cavalry to withdraw from the Great Wall wall and enemy tower where they were stationed, and handed it over to Luo Li's department, who had just arrived.
Although Wang Chengping killed the Tartars these days, he also killed a good one, but after all, the generals under his command are all cavalry, except for the counterattack on the first day, their group of cavalry turned into infantry, responsible for guarding a large section of the Great Wall wall, the cavalry has the advantage of cavalry, but also their disadvantage, their advantage is to rely on the huge impact and mobility of the war horse, the disadvantage is the lack of ability to attack and defend the ability.
The weapons they are equipped with are also very different from the ordinary infantry army, the cavalry is mainly spears and knives, supplemented by the short guns that they are equipped with in large quantities nowadays, the firearms in the army are far less and perfect than the infantry army, and their heavy firearms are only those tiger squat cannons used by the Ming army, so doing the thing of defending the city is equivalent to putting the cart before the horse, giving up their strengths, and attacking long with a short shot, so these days, although they also bravely resisted the repeated attacks of the Jiannu army, but the casualties exceeded the infantry army, which made Wang Chengping very distressed, But there is no way, among the first town army brought by Yan Chongxi this time, his cavalry accounts for nearly half, guarding such a long defense line of the Great Wall, the infantry army in Yan Chongxi's hands is simply not enough, so his cavalry has to go up, Yan Chongxi has no way to pull them out and do the good things they like to do and do.
These days, that is, some time ago, they organized a counterattack, so that the cavalry once again showed their advantages, but most of the time they could not ride horses, and could only fight the Jiannu army on the city wall as infantry.
Now that Luo Li has finally led his troops here, then his cavalry can finally be liberated to do something they are good at, so whether it is Wang Chengping or the cavalry under his command, they are all elated, and they handed over the matter at hand to the new Luo Li at a fast speed, and went down one by one to find their beloved horses, and immediately began to assemble, fed the horses, tightened the straps under the horse's belly, fixed the saddle, and placed all kinds of weapons properly on the horse's back.
However, when packing up, many people also found that some brothers' war horses have no owner to claim them at this time, these days of fierce fighting, the cavalry has suffered a lot of losses, there have been a lot of cavalry brothers, died on the city wall, or injured, were sent to Funingwei's field hospital for treatment, so many of these war horses, from now on will lose their original comrades-in-arms, seeing so many war horses without owners, this can't help but make the cavalry feel sad.
"It's all up to Lao Tzu! Lao Tzu knows that you must feel uncomfortable in your heart when you see so many war horses without their masters! But you have to remember that we are fucking eating this bowl of rice, and death and injury are inevitable, and the little fucking is hypocritical with Lao Tzu here!
Although those brothers are gone, you should remember to Lao Tzu that our saint said that their death is as deserved, as heavy as Mount Tai...... It seems that I am not wrong! Yes, they died as heavily as Mount Tai! You are the strongest cavalry of our Great and Medium Army, and it is our duty to kill the Tartars! If you die, you can enter the Martyrs' Shrine, whether you are Mongolians or Han Chinese, you are all good sons of our Dazhong Army! No distinction between you and me!
Now it's all on the horse! Go with Lao Tzu and then kill the Tartars! If anyone feels uncomfortable in his heart, and when he turns around and encounters the Tartar soldiers, he will kill a few more and avenge the brothers, and then the dead brothers will be happy for you even if they are under the Yellow Spring! Kill slaves! Wang Chengping rode on the back of a big black horse, galloping back and forth in front of the cavalry gathered in front of him, tearing away his big thick voice, and shouting at the cavalry under his command.
"Kill slaves!" With Wang Chengping's roar, thousands of people shouted in unison in the open space in the pass, and the cavalry generals who were a little sad because of the sight of those ownerless war horses just now were mobilized by Wang Chengping's scolding.