Chapter 615. The Battle of Li Zhuang
Chapter 615. Battle between Li Zhuang -----
"Huang Degong!"
Mao Jue couldn't help but flicked his finger on the table, and a smile appeared slightly on the corner of his mouth.
Not all the three towns in Jiangbei were fools. Huang Degong was definitely one of them. In the time and space without Mao Jue, he went to Zuo Liangyu in the west, and fought Zuo Menggeng cried and called his parents, and went to the Ajige tribe of the Qing army in the south. Although he was defeated and died, he became the last barrier that Emperor Hongguang could rely on.
This time, Mao Jue went to Jiangnan to prepare a lot, but Liu Liangzuo, who blocked the North Gate, was too idiot. After five days, Mao Jue wiped out his 80,000 troops and killed his 80,000 troops. He was just bored, and Huang Degong jumped out as his opponent. The hero's reputation was not based on cowards. A real man had to be a real man!
Moreover, Huang Degong is also considered a talent. If he takes it for himself, it will be a great help. Suddenly, he slapped the table heavily, and Mao Jue laughed loudly and said, "I ordered the army to siege the camp tomorrow and surround Lizhuang Town. Huang Degong will come in a while!"
"I will obey the order!"
The general's fame and fortune were also eliminated by the enemy, especially the newly built Shandong military town and the capital military town. The ten commanders of the army commanders were rushing to bow and lower their heads.
This time, Feng Liumao became a legendary figure. He fooled the opponent's chief general in person. He then returned with a fight and a number of more than 300 South Ming Army took the initiative to be a prisoner and retreated unscathed. The next day, when Huang Degong was still getting angry about the escape of the Liu cannon fodder camp, the overwhelming Liao Zhen Army suddenly appeared in his eyes like a divine weapon descending from the sky.
Judging from the paper, although Mao Jue has the advantage in military strength, it is not an absolute advantage. After all, Huang Degong also has more than 100,000 troops. However, in terms of lineup, Mao Jue is very aggressive, with 110,000 people divided into three square formations, the left-wing capital army plus a Shandong army, the right-wing Shandong army remaining four corpses, the central army Shenyang army, and the most experienced corpses were placed at the end, protecting the artillery slowly moving forward.
This time it is to fully train newcomers
More than ten miles were just a weekend morning exercise for the Dongjiang Army. In the morning, the vast army had already arrived near Lizhuang Town.
"Standing attentively! Turn left and right!"
"Go in step!"
Looking at Li Zhuang, which was surrounded by the Zhang River, the Liaodong officers waved their swords and shouted loudly. As their shouts, the slender array dragged to both sides, and the columns that set off were time to turn into long formations. Each formation had only three rows of people, and the entire square formation had only two long arrays, that was six rows of people. The slender ones seemed quite thin.
There are also two vertical rows in the horizontal row. This is the special column tactics of Emperor Napoleon, and Mao Jue sent him to the battlefield.
However, the only disadvantage of the aggressive Liao army was that the cannon did not arrive!
The heavy red-clothed giant cannon weighed one or two tons, but they didn't have long legs. They used the train when they came. This time, the number of soldiers and civilians in Liao Town was insufficient, and they were all pushed by the captured Liu Jun prisoners. These guys also took one or two taels a month, but they gave half taels first and used the remaining half taels as bait. These guys were also very energetic, but they were really weak. Until now, the main cannon array is still more than ten miles away from the large array.
The Liao Town troops, who were used to the coordination of infantry and artillery, did not launch an attack immediately. After arriving in the array, they stationed outside the town to defend and rested.
Mao Jue looked into the town with a telescope. In history, Huang Degong was a brave general. He often rushed into the enemy group with both whips, killing his hands full of blood. After the war, he put them in the basin for a long time before he could open it again. But now it seems that this old guy is also a Zhang Fei, thick and thin, making the entire town defense impossible to penetrate. Arrow towers were built against several bridges by the water. If it were ordinary cold weapons troops, it would be really difficult to chew. Even the Liao Town soldiers had to use artillery fire to break the defense first, and then follow the path to suppress the firepower of a small group of troops to seize control of the town.
But just as Mao Jue was weighing the degree of training troops and the losses in combat, Li Zhuangzhen on the other side changed rapidly and started to move.
The horse's hooves were flying, and the dust rolled, facing the capital army with the largest number of people on the left, suddenly the fence of Lizhuang Town opened, and more than 5,000 cavalrymen from Huangdegong Corps rushed out of the town gate, and they were holding up their swords and shouting loudly, yelling to chop off their dog heads.
This scene was too big. Not only Mao Jue, but even his generals, such as Chen Rong, who was newly transferred to the commander of the admiral army of the Capital, were newly transferred to the Shandong army, old Shandong, and Kong Youde, who was also from the Kong family of Qufu, had his eyes widened in disbelief.
No wonder they were surprised that even in the late stage of the Shanhaiguan War, Li Zicheng did not dare to launch an overall attack on such a large scale. He could only concentrate his troops to attack one corner, trying to break through the surface with dozens of times the force. Finally, he was hit by Mao Jue's plan to counter the moon formation. Why is Huang Degong so bold that he dared to directly face Dongjiang to launch a crazy attack?
But for Huang Degong, who was rushing in front of the cavalry team with double whips, he was also unforgivable. In the era of cold weapons, five hundred cavalry on the plains were enough to be used as five thousand infantry. Faced with the threat of cavalry, the common sense of infantry generals was to form a dense formation to fight against it. Why did you, Mao Jue, have such a thin formation? Do you look down on someone Huang?
This is definitely an absolute opportunity for Huang Degong's Luzhou Legion.
Moreover, the capital army with the largest number of people in the first second was also based on Huang Degong's usual strategic vision. Since the troops with the largest number of people were not placed in the central army, but instead strengthened the left wing, then this left wing must be the weakest in the entire army. Eat it first and cut off other scattered infantry again!
Moreover, Huang Degong was not a reckless man. The cavalry's attack speed was not fast. And immediately afterwards, the main infantry of the Luzhou Army also quickly emerged from several bridges along the side. Although the formation formed was not as delicate and neat as the Liaodong infantry, it was also orderly. The main force on the left followed the cavalry unit like a mountain, with a standard thief-breaking formation, the front team dispersed the enemy's infantry formation, and the rear team took the opportunity to surround and eat the formation that had lost protection.
The small infantry on the right rushed straight to Mao Jue's central army with great momentum. The role of this unit was obviously restrained and prevented the central Shenyang Legion from supporting the border capital army.
The experienced Huang Degong created a situation where he fought with more and less in a short period of time. If any army of this era, even the arrogant Qing army Tartars, would have been beaten by Huang Degong to flee in this formation.
However, he was facing the Liao Town Legion, a unit that had changed his appearance and became unfamiliar after leaving Liao Town.
Listening to the shocking and shaking sound of the war horses running slowly on the ground, Mao Jue's face was gloomy, waving the commanding sword like an artist, the sound of the snare drums rang out immediately, and the army in Liaozhen began to change formations.
At the easternmost end, the four Shandong legions did not participate in the battle. Instead, they followed the rhythm of the snare drum and rushed directly towards Lizhuang Town. The Central Army and the Shenyang Corps' right army began to advance, and the left army began to retreat. The entire army maintained the widest face to face the about 6,000 Yellow Army infantry that came to restrain. As for the Eye of the Storm on the entire battlefield, the Capital Legion, which had just been built for more than five months, was completely unmoved. Just like being stupid, he stood in a thin formation to fight against the strong army of Huang Degong.
The sound of officers raising morale continues to ring in the crowd.
"The examples of the army in Liao Town are there! The Regent always keeps his word! Do you want to be as honored as them? Do you want to be as rich as them? Stand your position!"
"Believe in yourself, believe in the sir!"
"Stay!"
But when people face heavy objects rushing towards them, their natural fear is irresistible. Even the old Liao soldiers who have been old will be scared when facing the overwhelming pressure of large cavalry, let alone these newcomers. Looking at the Huang Degong Corps that was coming towards them, some of the infantry in the front row were trembling violently, some of the two were soft and trembling constantly, while some simply turned yellow and peed.
Finally, he couldn't suppress the pressure. A bearded soldier suddenly raised his heavy flintlock rifle. But before he could shoot randomly, a crack sounded in the back. The officer in the team led the team quickly looked and chopped his head.
The round head was spurting blood on the ground, making the soldiers nearby tremble even more, but they still suppressed their instincts and turned their muzzle toward the ground.
With great pressure, Huang Degong's cavalry rushed into one hundred meters, holding up his double whip, and Huang Chuangzi roared in charge. This distance was the effective firing distance of the Dongjiang infantry in the past.
However, without orders, the real team was on the ground and suddenly said nothing.
Sixty meters, the war horses significantly accelerated their speed, and large drops of sweat had already dripped from the foreheads of the infantry in the front row. However, the commanders of the commanders of each front line were still hanging.
Forty meters, the smell of fishy horse sweat had already hit the face, and the crackling arrows of the sky fell on the capital corps first. Dozens of Dongjiang infantry soldiers were caught in arrows in armor and fell to the ground, covering their wounds and twitching.
Twenty meters, even the Dongjiang infantry in front of the front could see clearly that Huang Degong's army had opened its mouth and had big yellow teeth in its big mouth! Here, the sword raised by Chen Rong finally fell down suddenly, almost half a second behind. The command knife of the Lingqi and the command knife of the officers of various departments slashed down at the same time, and the soldiers of the Capital Army, who had been suppressed to the extreme, suddenly pulled the trigger.
Crackling!
The sound of muskets like fried beans was densely filled with white smoke on the position. The gunpowder and dust covered the battlefield and covered the eyes of the Dongjiang soldiers. After three rows of fire, the three of them fired in a loud order from their respective commanders, as well as mechanically. The infantry that had been fired had bayonets as fast as possible. The three of them leaned together, staring with their eyes wide and waiting for the Huang Degong cavalry rushing out of the white mist.
However, one second, two seconds, five seconds! As the hearts of the infantry in each capital army beating wildly, ten seconds passed, and no cavalry ran out of smoke.
Chapter completed!