4oo 'Attack the enemy's shortcomings with your own strengths'

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After Liu Tichun saw this tentative attack, he said in a cold voice: "Li Zixiao's Xuzhou army really has sharp firearms, and within fifty steps, all the shields and planks can't defend against the firearms in their hands.

It seems that you have to find a way, otherwise it will be difficult to rush up, and even if you do, it will not stand, and those few earthen walls are also very tricky. ”

Liu Tichun's eyes showed a solemn expression, revealing a thoughtful look, and then ordered the troops to be withdrawn.

Liu Tichun ordered to set up camp three miles west of Shangdian Town, sent people to cut down trees overnight, and began to build wooden shields.

If you rely on the thin rattan brand alone, you can't stop the firearms of the White Dragon Army, although Liu Tichun can also see that within fifty steps, those wooden shields are almost useless.

But fifty paces away, these heavy wooden shields were still very effective, and even Liu Tichun even had several large shield carts made and arranged together with tree trunks the size of bowls.

Such a shield car is enough to resist the White Dragon Army's tiger squat cannon and the projectiles shot by the musket, but Liu Tichun's men are well-manned at this time and have the energy to get these.

Even so, Liu Tichun is still not very optimistic, in his opinion, if he wants to capture this place as soon as possible, it will not be possible without paying a price.

Liu Tichun's more than 6,000 rebel troops were stationed in the west of Shangdian Town, and due to the narrow terrain, their military tents stretched for several miles, which looked very unspectacular.

Liu Tichun surveyed again, and after the terrain of Shangdian Town, the more he felt a headache.

This area is the best road to Yiyang City, although there are several small roads in other places, which can allow people to pass, but they are either old forests or hills.

Those trails are all trails that hunters used to take out of hunting, and it's okay for a single hunter to pass, but they have so many soldiers and horses, and there are also accompanying baggage.

If you want to take those trails, it is simply impossible, which means that Liu Tichun must lay down Shangdian Town as soon as possible.

Otherwise, two days later, at most, the 20,000 troops led by Li Zicheng would arrive at them.

If he fails to take Shangdian Town by then, it is estimated that he will be ridiculed by Li Zicheng's subordinates and other generals.

With Li Zicheng coming out of Shangluo Mountain, more than half a year has passed, and the power of Li Zicheng's subordinates has expanded extremely quickly, which is also the more serious the struggle for power and profit between his generals.

Once Liu Tichun's side failed to fight effectively and lost Li Zicheng's trust, the people who could replace him were everywhere, and Liu Tichun was eager to make meritorious contributions and prove himself.

Not only Liu Tichun, but many of Li Zicheng's generals at this time have this kind of mentality, and it is their psychology that has kept Li Zicheng's army strong.

In the end, after careful consideration, Liu Tichun still decided to adopt the method of strong attack, because there was really no tricky tactic available.

Liu Tichun concentrated the artillery he carried, aimed at Shangdian Town on the slope at the foot of the mountain, and it was a lot of heavy bombardment, causing the White Dragon Army's position to be littered with gravel and dust.

However, the soldiers of the White Dragon Army were all hiding behind the earthen wall, just not showing their heads, and they bombarded casually, but they did not cause much damage to the White Dragon Army.

It's just that the first earthen wall was blown down for a while, but it didn't take long for the white dragon sergeant hiding behind the earthen wall.

And destroying the first section of the earthen wall is also one of the purposes of Liu Tichun's artillery bombardment, so that he can be sent out later, and the soldiers who rushed up can stand still.

However, immediately afterward, Liu Tichun saw that the white dragon soldiers in the town quickly filled in the collapsed earthen wall with sandbags that had been prepared long ago.

However, the several red rejecting deer barricades on the ramp have been damaged a lot by the fierce bombardment of the rebel army, and they cannot be repaired.

"They actually prepared in advance, so many punching bags?"

Liu Tichun never thought that the other party would even guess what he was doing early in the morning, otherwise how could those sandbags have been prepared in advance.

Thundered!

As a result, what made Liu Tichun even more desperate was that not long after the artillery on their side stopped, a roar sounded in Shangdian Town.

It was the artillery of the White Dragon Army in the town that fired, and with the two cannons of the chaotic army, the artillery of the White Dragon Army in Shangdian Town could be regarded as seeing the location of their artillery clearly.

Then, several artillery pieces were in unison, bombarding the guns of the rebels.

"What? The Xuzhou army in the town actually brought artillery, and they didn't artillery before because they deliberately confused us, which is hateful.

Hurry up, let people move those iron lumps, or they will be gone. ”

Liu Tichun was also shocked when he heard the artillery of the White Dragon Army in the town fire, so he shouted loudly, he didn't have to think about it to know that the artillery of the White Dragon Army must be aimed at his artillery.

Before, when they tried to attack, their artillery bombarded once, but the town's White Dragon Army artillery did not fire that time.

This made Liu Tichun instinctively in the past, the White Dragon Army in the town did not carry artillery, after all, with the strength of the White Dragon Army that he understood, it was rare not to return fire in the face of artillery bombardment.

As a result, after they fired again this time, it was a complete tragedy, and they were bombarded by the artillery of the White Dragon Army.

Moreover, the White Dragon Army's three-pounder cannon reloading was very fast, and before the rebels could snatch out their artillery, they were covered by three-round artillery.

The chaotic soldiers who rushed up to grab the artillery were killed and wounded, and no one dared to go up again.

Moreover, these artillery pieces under Liu Tichun are not like those Western guns of the White Dragon Army, which are known for their lightness, fast loading, and long range.

It can be said that the artillery of the White Dragon Army at this time belongs to the world's first-class artillery.

And these cannons brought by Liu Tichun were all searched by Li Zicheng from the city walls of those county towns in Daming, or from the homes of some large landlords after he conquered the county seats.

They didn't forge it themselves, they didn't have the ability to do it.

If you think about it, you can also know what these cannons are, most of them are old-fashioned iron cannons cast many years ago, and even the styles are 'large-mouth iron cannons', 'wide hoop iron cannons' and so on in the Hongwu period of the early Ming Dynasty.

Listen to these names, that kind of artillery is not an old antique, it is an old antique from more than two hundred years ago, and the technology is more than two hundred years behind the three-pounder cannon of the White Dragon Army.

These cannons are not only extremely heavy, but also complicated to load, the three-pounder guns on the White Dragon Army's side have already fired three rounds, and their side can't even complete a single reload.

That is to say, the possibility of an artillery battle between the two sides at this time is directly gone, because this is a one-sided complete abuse and has no freshness.

"Damn it."

Looking at the artillery pieces that were completely damaged by several rounds of artillery of the White Dragon Army, Liu Tichun's face was ugly.

These old artillery, perhaps the White Dragon Army is absolutely disdainful, or even disdainful, but for Li Zicheng's chaotic army at this time, it is already an extremely rare output firepower.

"Forget it, these heavy iron lumps, if they are gone, they will be gone, give the order to go down, let the first battalion and the second battalion prepare, and they will attack later."

Liu Tichun saw that those artillery pieces had been destroyed, and he didn't bother about it, but let him put all his mind on the next attack.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Tichun sent a team of chaotic soldiers, carrying a wooden shield the size of a door panel, step by step, under the cover of the wooden shield, towards Shangdian Town.

Even later, Liu Tichun also created three big shield cars, all of which were made of big trunks at the mouth of the bowl, and he believed that even if the firearms of the White Dragon Army were sharp, these big shield cars would definitely be able to resist.

However, although Liu Tichun's idea was good, it was unrealistic, and he was soon disappointed.

Because it has entered the middle of April at this time, even if it is the climate of the Xiaoice River era at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it has been spring for a long time at this time, and even spring ploughing has just begun.

The spring ploughing time in the late Ming Dynasty, because of the climate, was delayed by more than a week compared with later generations.

The weather in April has become warmer, and the soil here is relatively humid and soft, so the three big shield cars sent by Liu Tichun have not gone far, and it is difficult to move forward.

Because they fell directly into the soil, after the heavy shield cart fell into the soil, they were pushed by many rebels, but they were like turtles, and in the end they did not move.

After seeing this scene, Luo in Shangdian Town, tears of laughter came out.

In the next battle, Luo still didn't intervene, he wanted to see if Zhan Wang could take charge on his own.

And Zhan Zhan did not disappoint Luo, the combat command was decent, and he was worthy of being valued by Sun Dazhuang and recommended to Li Zixiao.

This person is not like Luo, who was born in a military general's family, but is an ordinary peasant, and has only attended a few literacy classes run by Li Zixiao, and he can't read many big characters.

But he was diligent and studious, and thoroughly understood the tactics that Li Zixiao implemented in the White Dragon Army Musket Battalion, which were specially applicable to musketeers.

After the battle began, he commanded the White Dragon Army musketeers, leaning behind the earthen wall, and using the 'three-shot' tactic to shoot.

When the rebels suffered a lot of casualties and attacked the first earthen wall, they immediately retreated to the second earthen wall and waited until they crossed the first earthen wall.

The musketeers behind the second earthen wall immediately gave up firing according to Wangwang's instructions, and instead lit the boxes of grenades they had placed behind the second earthen wall and threw them out.

The 'boom' explosion sounded for a long time, and the rebel army that crossed the first earthen wall fell in large numbers, and the rebel army behind was also frightened and did not dare to step forward, panicking.

At this time, the three hundred 'Iron Blood Battalion' sword and shield soldiers, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, rushed out like fierce tigers, slashed and killed, and knocked them back.

As a result, Liu Tichun repeatedly sent troops to storm Shangdian Town for a whole day, and in addition to paying the price of hundreds of casualties, almost no results were achieved.

Later, Liu Tichun, who suffered a big loss, came up with a way to attack at night.

As a result, Luo had already guessed that Liu Tichun might attack at night, so that all the musketeers would ambush behind the earthen wall, and the sword and shield soldiers would ambush on both sides, and invite you into the urn.

As a result, the night attack undoubtedly failed, and only half of the more than 1,000 soldiers sent back escaped, which made Liu Tichun really angry and couldn't stand it.

So, he once again sent a thousand elite soldiers to attack from the north of Shangdian Town, through the mountains and forests, and wanted to raid the White Dragon Army stationed in Shangdian Town from the north.

However, Liu Tichun's actions had long been expected by Luo, and a sentry was arranged in the forest in the north in advance, and the news was quickly reported to Luo.

Luo immediately led a hundred cavalry in his hand and rushed to the north of Shangdian Town to wait outside the mountains and forests, just waiting for those chaotic troops to come out.

As a result, these rebellious troops finally came out through the mountains and forests, and they were dispersed by Luo and led a hundred cavalry, and directly beat this group of rebellious troops back, and left more than 200 corpses in the mountains and forests in vain.

Until this time, Liu Tichun was ready to give up in his heart and rush to take Shangdian Town before Li Zicheng arrived.

Because, at this time, Li Zicheng's army was already more than ten miles away, and it would not take half a day to arrive.

This is the 20,000 troops under Li Zicheng, plus the baggage, the walk is relatively slow, and at the same time, the official road from Songxian to Yiyang is in disrepair and is not easy to walk, otherwise they would have arrived a long time ago.

While Liu Tichun was amazed by the strong combat effectiveness of the White Dragon Army, he also admired the general of the White Dragon Army who refused to defend Shangdian Town.

Liu Tichun has used all his tricks, but the other party has easily resolved them, and every time he will make him bleed, it will add up.

By the time Liu Tichun came to his senses, he had now lost nearly 1,500 of his men, of whom more than 800 had not returned at all.

The White Dragon Army defended the danger, and although it was facing an enemy army nearly ten times their size with a small number of troops, it showed a strong desire to fight.

Through the offensive in the past two days, Liu Tichun once again confirmed the fact that the White Dragon Army was equipped with a large number of firearms.

Moreover, when facing the enemy, it can form endless firepower, so that the chaotic soldiers sent by Liu Tichun to attack several times made a sigh on the spot and fled back.

At this time, Liu Tichun completely put away his contempt for the White Dragon Army, and finally gave up the attack, waiting for Li Zicheng to lead the army to arrive.

Moreover, Liu Tichun through the offensive and defensive confrontation with the White Dragon Army in the past two days, let him really see the strength of the White Dragon Army in person.

Several times in a row, his rebels had already rushed into the town, and even then, it seemed to him that victory was already in his hands.

As long as they are poured in, it will be difficult to beat out many of his subordinates.

It's just like when they used to attack the forts of those big landlords, just knock open the turtle shells outside them and let their people kill them into the village.

It is impossible for those big landlords to drive them out again, because they will have a steady stream of manpower behind them.

But this time, when attacking Shangdian Town, their style of play, which had never failed before, failed for the first time.

The rebellious army sent by Liu Tichun broke through the first earthen wall three times, and even gritted his teeth once to break through the second earthen wall, but in the end they were driven out.

In fact, the White Dragon Army's style of play is too different from the previous official army, and they have renovated the town of Shangdian.

The inside was divided by trenches and earthen walls, and even if the rebels rushed in, they could not spread quickly, but were confined to small areas.

Then, the White Dragon Army's kind of thing called 'thunderbolts' by the chaotic army will be thrown at them, directly blowing them up.

And taking advantage of this opportunity, the white dragon saber and shield soldiers behind rushed out, and the fine armor and sharp steel knives directly killed those chaotic soldiers without temper.

At such a time, the numerical superiority of the rebel army will not only not bring them an advantage, but will become a drag on them.

Because he looked at the comrades who were slaughtered in front of him, he was directly frightened, turned around and fled, and then caused a chain reaction.

It can be said that the White Dragon Army's defensive counterattack style is designed for the chaotic army, mainly drawing on the phrase 'attack the enemy's shortcomings with its own strengths'.

This style of play fully wielded the advantage of the White Dragon Army, and it may almost weaken the advantage of the only number of people in the chaotic army.

(End of chapter)

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