Chapter 615. Battle of Li Zhuang
"Huang Degong!"
Mao Jue couldn't help but flick his fingers on the table, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
The three towns of Jiangbei are not all straw bales, iron-blooded men, Huang Degong is definitely one, in the time and space without Mao Jue, it is he who arrived at Zuo Liangyu in the west, Zuo Menggeng cried and shouted his mother, and arrived in the Azig Department of the Qing army in the south, although he was defeated and died, it also became the last barrier that Emperor Hongguang could rely on.
This time, Mao Jue prepared a lot in the south of the Yangtze River, but Liu Liangzuo, who was blocking the north gate, was too straw bag, and after five days, Mao Jue even annihilated and took prisoners to defeat his 80,000 army, and he was feeling too bored, and he just jumped out of Huang Degong as an opponent, the prestige of heroes is not based on cowards, real men have to be real men!
And this Huang Degong can also be regarded as a talent, if it is collected for his own use, it will be a big help, suddenly slammed the table, Mao Jue is angry laughter and said: "Order the army to pull out the camp tomorrow and surround Lizhuang Town, and this Huang Degong will be in a while!"
"The last general obeys!"
The general's fame and fortune also went to the enemy's head, especially the newly built Shandong Military Town and Jingshi Military Town, where the ten army commanders simply rushed to bow and bow their heads.
This time Feng Liumao became a legend, fooled the other party's main general in person, and relied on a brawl to abduct more than 300 Southern Ming troops to take the initiative to be prisoners, and retreated, the next day, when Huang Degong was still in a big hurry for the rout of Liu Zi's cannon fodder camp, the overwhelming Liaozhen Army suddenly appeared in his eyes like a divine soldier descending from the sky.
On paper, although Mao Jue has an advantage in troops, he is not an absolute advantage, after all, Huang Degong also has more than 100,000 horses. But in terms of lineup situation, Mao Jue is completely aggressive, 110,000 people are divided into three phalanxes, the left wing of the Beijing Division Army plus a corps of the Shandong Army, the remaining four corps of the Shandong Army on the right flank, the Shenyang Corps of the Chinese Army, and the most experienced Acheng Corps are placed at the end, escorting the artillery to move forward slowly.
This time it's to fully train the newcomers
The more than ten miles of road for the Dongjiang army was just a weekend morning exercise, and in the morning, the mighty army had already arrived near Lizhuang Town.
"Stand upright! Turn left, turn right!"
"Let's go!"
Looking at Li Zhuang, which was surrounded by the Zhanghe River for half a circle, the Liaodong officers brandished their sabers and shouted loudly, in their shouts, the slender array dragged to both sides, and the columns became long formations at the right time to start, each formation only had three rows of men and horses, and the entire large phalanx had only two long formations, that is, six rows of people, and the slender ones seemed quite thin.
In the horizontal array, there are also two vertical rows, which are Napoleon the Great's specialty column tactics, and they were also sent to the battlefield by Mao Jue.
However, the only drawback of the aggressive Liao army, the cannon did not arrive!
The heavy red-coated cannon weighs one or two tons, they don't have long legs, the train used when they come, this time the number of soldiers and civilians in Liaozhen is also insufficient, all rely on the captured Liu Jun prisoners to push, these guys also take a tael of silver a month, but first give half a tael, and the remaining half a tael as a bait, these guys are also full of energy, but they are really not physically strong, until now, the main artillery array is still more than ten miles away from the big array.
The Liaozhen troops, who were accustomed to infantry and artillery coordination, did not launch an attack at the first time, and after the formation, they were stationed outside the town to defend first, and rested by the way.
Mao Jue is holding a telescope to look into the town, in history Huang Degong is a brave general, often double whip into the enemy group, killing hands full of blood, after the war in the basin need to soak for a long time before it can be reopened, but now it seems that this old guy is also a Zhang Fei, thick and fine, the whole town defense is impermeable, against a few bridges by the water and demolished the house to build an arrow tower, if it is an ordinary cold weapon troops, it is really difficult to bite, even if the Liao Zhen soldiers have to use artillery fire to break the defense first, Then take control of the town with small troop fire suppression along the trail.
But just when Mao Jue was weighing and estimating the degree of training of the troops and the battle losses, Li Zhuang Town on the other side hurriedly changed his formation.
The horse's hooves were flying, the dust was rolling, and it was facing the largest number of Jingshi regiments on the left, and suddenly the fence gate of Lizhuang Town opened, and more than 5,000 cavalry of Huang Degong's regiment rushed out of the town gate, and they were about to chop off their dogs' heads with their swords held high.
This scene is too big, not only Mao Jue, but even the generals under him, such as Shen Rong, the commander of the Admiral Corps who was newly transferred to the Jingshi Legion, and the newly transferred Shandong Legion, Lao Shandong, and Kong Youde, who is also said to be from the Confucian family in Qufu, stared in disbelief.
No wonder they were surprised, even in the later stage of the Shanhaiguan War, Li Zicheng did not dare to launch such a large-scale overall attack, and could only concentrate his forces to attack a corner, in a vain attempt to break through the face with dozens of times the force, and finally fell into Mao Jue's plan to oppose the moon formation, why was he so bold and dared to directly face the Dongjiang River to launch a fierce attack?
But for Huang Degong, who rushed in the first few rows of the cavalry team with a double whip, he was also angry, in the era of cold weapons, five hundred cavalry on the plain was enough to be used as five thousand infantry, in the face of the threat of cavalry, the common sense of infantry generals was to form a dense formation to fight, why did you Mao Jue's formation be so scattered and thin, and look down on Huang someone?
This is definitely an out-and-out big opportunity for Huang Degong's Luzhou Legion.
Moreover, the Beijing Division Corps, which has the largest number of people in the first second, is also based on Huang Degong's consistent and spicy strategic vision, since the largest number of troops is not placed in the middle army, but strengthens the left flank, then this left flank must be the weakest one in the whole army, it is enough to eat it first, and then turn around and cut off the other scattered infantry!
And Huang Degong is not a reckless man, the cavalry attack speed is not fast, and closely followed, the main infantry of the Luzhou army is also quickly from a few bridges on the side of the town, although the formation of the army formation is not as delicate and neat as the Liaodong infantry, but it is also orderly, the main force on the left is like a mountain following the cavalry troops, the standard thief formation, the front team disperses the enemy's infantry formation, and the rear team takes the opportunity to surround and eat the formation that has lost protection.
The small group of infantry on the right was marching straight to Mao Jue's middle army with great momentum, and the role of this force was obviously to contain and prevent the central Shenyang Army from supporting the border Beijing Division Army.
If it is replaced by any army in this era, even if it is the arrogant Qing army Tartars, under this formation, Huang Degong's crying father and mother will flee.
However, he was confronted with the Liaozhen Legion, a unit that had changed its appearance and become unfamiliar after he left Liaozhen.
Listening to the shocking vibration sound of the war horse running slowly on the ground, Mao Jue's face was gloomy, as if an artist was waving a command saber, the sound of military drums sounded immediately, and the army of Liaozhen also began to change formations.
In the easternmost part, the four Shandong regiments did not participate in the battle, but combined with the beat of the snare drum, neatly and hurriedly went directly to Lizhuang Town, the right army of the Chinese army, the Shenyang Corps began to advance, the left army began to retreat, and the whole army maintained the widest face to meet the 6,000 or so Yellow Army infantry that came to contain it, as for the eye of the storm of the entire battlefield, the Beijing Division Legion, which had just been built for more than five months, did not move at all, just like a fool, and was stunned to meet Huang Degong's thick army with a thin formation.
The morale-boosting voices of officers one after another continued to resound in the crowd.
"The examples of the armies of Liaozhen are there! The regent never counts his word! Want to be honored like them? Want to be as rich as they are? Hold your ground!"
"Believe in yourselves, believe in your sir!"
"Steady!"
But in the face of the heavy objects rushing towards them, that kind of innate fear is irrepressible, even if it is an old Liao soldier who has accumulated years, in the face of the overwhelming pressure of a large number of cavalry, they will be stunned, not to mention these new soldiers, looking at the rushing Huang Degong Corps, some of the infantry in the front row are trembling violently, some are soft, constantly trembling, and some simply have a yellow crotch and urine.
Finally unable to suppress the pressure, a bearded Dongjiang private suddenly raised his heavy flintlock pistol, but before he could shoot indiscriminately, a click sounded in the back, and the officer leading the team was quick and cut off his head.
The round head spun on the ground with blood spurting blood, making the nearby privates shudder even more, but they still suppressed their instincts and pointed their guns at the ground.
With tremendous pressure, Huang Degong's cavalry rushed into a hundred meters, holding high the double whip, and Huang Chuangzi let out a roar of charge, which was already the effective firing distance of the Dongjiang infantry in the past.
However, there was no order, and the real team was silent with their guns pointed to the ground.
Sixty meters, the speed of the war horse increased significantly, and large drops of sweat were already dripping from the foreheads of the infantry in the front row, however, the command knives of the commanders of the various fronts were still hanging.
Forty meters, the smell of horse sweat had already come to the face, and the crackling cavalry bows and arrows in the sky fell on the Beijing Division Corps first, and dozens of Dongjiang infantry armor were hit by arrows, falling to the ground, covering their wounds and twitching.
Twenty meters, even the Dongjiang infantry at the front could already see clearly the big yellow teeth in the big mouth that Huang Degong's army suddenly opened to kill! Here, the battle knife raised by Shen Rong finally fell suddenly, almost half a second behind, and the command knives of the Lingqi and the officers of each department were slashed down at the same time, and the soldiers of the Beijing Division Legion, who had been suppressed to the extreme, suddenly pulled the trigger.
Cracking sound!
After the three rows of volleys, in the loud orders of their respective commanders, the same as the machinery, the infantry fired the bayonets at the fastest speed, and the three people leaned together, staring at the Huang Degong cavalry that rushed out of the white fog with wide eyes.
And yet one second, two seconds, five seconds! In the heart of each of the infantry of the Beijing Division, a full ten seconds passed, and still not a single horse rushed out of the smoke.
On the contrary, the dense gunpowder smoke slowly dispersed most of it, and looking at the battlefield behind the smoke, these soldiers who were wet with sweat couldn't help but widen their eyes......
(End of chapter)