Chapter 586. A master move
For three days in a row, the Liaozhen Army seemed to have turned the war into a sit-down battle between Britain and France during World War II, seeing Li Zicheng enter the army, but he did not release a single shot, allowing him to gather the superior forces in front of him.
In this era, the city of more than 500,000 people is already at the level of the international metropolis, and the vast army of the Chuang army even exceeds the population of many small countries in the West, as if a city was created out of thin air in this Jingshi Great Plain, and the bustling army is overwhelming beyond description.
However, in the arrangement, the 700,000 Dashun army is actually more than ten miles shorter than the Liaozhen in the early 300,000s, Hao Shaoqi and Liu Zongmin's cavalry front camp is like two tentacles, extending the east and west corners first, twenty-two miles apart, and the huge Shun army infantry behind constitutes a bloated body, and the entire Shun army's layout is like a worm.
A typical medieval oriental battle array, the cavalry pressed the formation at the front, and the first ones were those Ming soldiers who surrendered, just like the three major battalions of the Beijing Division, Wu Sangui's Guanning Army, Jiang Pin's nine-sided troops, and some outcasts attached to the periphery, Luo Rucai's old department was pressed behind them, and then Li Zicheng's own elite troops.
In these years, the defeated troops in Liaodong, the border army who could not survive the rebellion on the nine sides, and the elite homeless people who survived the rebellion for more than ten years, these people and horses totaled 1890,000, and some veterans even experienced the battle of Salhu that year, which can be described as experienced and the most ferocious outlaws.
These are the majority of Li Zicheng's combat troops, and the next 200,000 or so are the families of the army, and the women and children who were snatched out of the Beijing division by the leaders and small soldiers are negligible.
In the whole of East Asia, even if you go back a few hundred years, you can't find a duel of this magnitude of armies, and in comparison, the Battle of Sekigahara, in which the Wa Kingdom decided the world, is simply a joke.
Divided into layers to shorten the width of Li Zicheng's army, so that the big array of the duel is facing up, there is a slight feeling that the Dashun army is surrounded by the oncoming Liao Town, and he personally came to the front line, looking forward with the exquisite Western telescope copied out of the palace, Li Zicheng's single eye, he couldn't help but feel uncomfortable.
"King Chuang is suffering from the strength of the thief's army, hehe, there are few soldiers and strong courage, just a piece of paper! Our army is strong and the cavalry is heavy, and it is possible to break through the center and divide its army in one fell swoop! Congratulations to King Chuang, the victory is in hand! ”
is worthy of being the prime minister of Da Shun, Niu Jinxing's words, the dozens of Shun army leaders who said it suddenly felt comfortable, and with a thick voice and an urn sound, Liu Zongmin's guy was even more imposing, with a domineering appearance, and he hugged his fist heavily at Li Zicheng.
"Big brother, leave this first battle to me! Let the brother go and bring back Mao Jue's dog head!"
However, putting down the binoculars, Li Zicheng stretched out his hand and pointed forward, and asked solemnly.
"What's going on?"
Mao Jue's military formation is not flat, in the middle, about twenty or thirty thousand troops protrude together, and the pimple is raised towards him, and the edge troops are some distance from his troops!
After glancing at it, Jiang Jiao, the former general soldier of Datong, patted his thigh disapprenously: "Hey, King Chuang, is this unclear?" This unlucky guy doesn't know where to offend the thief, this is to send him out to die, and after a while, he will be destroyed according to this unlucky ghost, and no one will help him!"
"His mother's dog Liao Wang, and the dog court have a chicken flavor, big brother, why don't your brothers break his formation first, capture this person to the eldest brother, and let him submit to my Dashun?"
There was no routine Liu Zongmin's impatience, and he picked up the telescope and looked at it twice, and Li Zicheng tilted his head.
"Send someone over to explore the truth first!"
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Or Li Zicheng's usual three-plate axe, selected a broken Xiucai from the staff group, hurriedly rode a mule, and ran over to the Liaozhen camp in a panic, the Liao army sergeant at the end shouted vigilantly with a flintlock pistol, Xiucai was self-taught with his hands held high, probably self-reported the identity of his envoy, and was carried by several Dongjiang troops who crossed the sack camp and dragged in.
About twenty minutes later, this Xiucai was carried back from the Liaozhen military camp again, and he didn't know what he was carrying, so he turned over and rode on the mule again, and came back in a panic.
"The villain greets King Chuang!"
To tell the truth, although there were a lot of Liaozhen soldiers who were transferred to Guannei to suppress the Liumin Army before, this was also the first time to clash with the Dongjiang Army that defeated Jiannu, and the generals of the Shun Army were also curious, and before Li Zicheng could speak, one of the big leaders, Guotianxing Dang Xiangying, had already rushed to shout.
"How? Have you ever seen a thief? How did he say it? ”
Li Zicheng couldn't help but show a little disgust, but he didn't have a seizure, he was also staring at that Luo Xiucai, facing a bunch of big people, that Xiucai knelt on the ground and fluttered and kowtowed twice, and handed over the round thing in his arms with both hands.
"Back to my lord! The villain saw Mao Reverse! He, he was grilling fish in front of the military tent, and the villain asked Mao Wei to withdraw from Shanhaiguan and proclaim himself to Dashun according to Prime Minister Niu's instructions, but he didn't say anything, so he asked the little one to bring this thing back. ”
"What is this?"
Holding the heavy bamboo skin jar, Li Zicheng measured it twice with a puzzled face, and a stream of soup emerged from his fingers with a strange smell, and he turned his head in disgust when he smelled the smell, and then Li Zicheng tilted his head
looked at Wu Sangui, who was absent-minded at the very edge of the crowd.
"General Wu, you have been in Liaodong for a long time, can you know this thing?"
"Huh? Go back, go back to the king! This, this should be a canned food from Liaodong as military rations! It's usually stuffed with pork or fish, but this can seems to be broken!"
There was a ghost in his heart, Wu Sangui's voice trembled, but fortunately, Li Zicheng's attention was not on him at all, looking at the can of soup that leaked in front of him, and for a moment, Li Zicheng was trembling with anger.
At the beginning, Huang Taiji also received a bad canned food from Dongjiang, and he was generous and open-minded, not only did he taste some of it, but also gave it to his subordinates to eat, but when he arrived at Li Zicheng, his face turned blue and he slammed the canned food on the ground.
"Mao Jue is insulting me for being poor! Use leftovers to pass the time! He's so bold!"
Last time, Sun Chuanting didn't succeed in using broken cans to provoke, but this time Mao Jue was successful, his old face turned black, and Li Zicheng was extremely angry and picked up the order flag, but under the expectant eyes of Liu Zongmin and other generals, he did not give a direct order, but hesitated, and then threw the order flag out.
"Lao Liu, you take the cavalry of your headquarters, copy it from the left flank of Liaogou, and dig out his heart for Lao Tzu!"
"Big brother, look at it! Did the brethren hear me? Follow Lao Tzu and him!"
Very much in the style of Alexander the Great, he rode his horse back to the right front camp, pulled the war horse man to stand up, and Liu Zongmin shouted fiercely. Just laid the heart of the Ming Empire, successfully turned from a thief to become the master, the Dashun army is indeed the best time for morale, a large number of heroes followed by the roar like a cloud, and then, the heavy horse's hooves are like the blade of the sickle cut by death, and they rushed towards the left flank of the Liaozhen army.
The saber spear surging high in front of it, facing the rising sun in the north of the Saibei, the cold light was like a meat grinder.
Although angry, Li Zicheng did not lose his mind, indeed, it seems that Sun Chuanting's Hegang Corps is alone in front of the whole army, like a breakthrough, but the most harmless, perhaps the most dangerous, God knows what ambush Mao Jue has set up, from ancient times to the present, no matter which army, its flanks and backs will always be its weak point, choose to start here, it is easy to see the opponent's reality.
There is also this Liu Zongmin to fight in the left army of Liaozhen, not only because of his important position in the Dashun army, people wave their fists, and they are habitually always right hooks to exert the greatest lethality, and the same is true for the army.
The exquisite gold-plated Western binoculars stared at the dust rolled up by Liu Zongmin's army, and Li Zicheng himself was also engrossed.
However, Mao Jue's formation was too narrow and long, even if it was a cavalry, it took a few minutes to rush from the thousands of troops to the left army of Liaozhen.
In order to cope with this war, they have been stationed in Kyoto, and the earliest Dongjiang cavalry team was transferred back to the battlefield of Liaodong, and replaced with more than 3,000 new troops composed of captured Mongols and Jurchens to let the Japanese stay in Zhang Huangyan to lead, and more than 15,000 elite horsemen under the command of the heavy cotton armor like the iron tower, and the whole army was like the tower of the Shaolin Temple as heavy as the dormant in the military town.
Looking at those intruders with teeth and claws coming straight towards him, Liu Xingqi, who had been thrown back from the Tartars back then, suddenly showed full excitement on his ugly face, and the three-meter-long spear hanging his flag was raised high by him, and his hoarse voice roared in the military formation like a loudspeaker.
"Good boy, it's good to come, you even picked the strongest one as soon as you came up!"
"Pass on Lao Tzu's military order!"
"The wind is tight, and the !! is pulling"
Li Zicheng almost didn't squeeze his eyes into the binoculars, the well-equipped, well-organized Liaozhen cavalry, this hasn't waited for the fight, first the fucking turned around and ran away! This is the menacing Liaozhen soldiers? A bunch of cowards?
Seeing that he had traveled a long distance, but the opponent patted his ass and left, Liu Zongmin was so angry that he almost didn't vomit blood, he simply fell into a state of madness, he slapped his horse and rushed to the front, shaking the ghost-headed big knife while roaring angrily.
"Don't run away the fucking dog thief! Fight with Lao Tzu for 300 rounds! Wow, yes, yes, !!"
But the attention was all on the opponent's cavalry, Liu Zongmin didn't pay attention to it, Zhao Cheng's Shenyang Left Corps stationed in the left army came neatly and beautifully to the left, and then the front banner soldiers came out of the column diagonally, and the big team came to a forty-five-degree change of formation, in the sound of the uproar, facing the flank of the cavalry of the Shun army, a combat unit plus a reserve regiment of 16,000 people neatly raised the flintlock pistol of Hesse Sen.
Holding the command knife high, Zhao Yong, the deputy commander of the corps, narrowed his eyes gloomily......
(End of chapter)