Qiming 1158

Chapter 686 The Ming army is fearless!

As the leader of this army, Wang Gang was naturally protected in the safest place.

Despite their dire situation, he had loyal and savvy personal soldiers to protect him.

The personal soldiers guarded him stubbornly, allowing him to survive safely and command the army to evade attacks, and stick to Lujin Town, but this was also a tragic torture for him.

Watching the soldiers being blown to death and wounded continuously, if they were dead, they would have died a hundred times.

He wanted to lead the army to fight a bloody road several times, and he simply fought with the Ming army, and the soldiers in the province were punished by this.

But when he climbed to the city wall and looked at the strict military appearance of the Ming army and the encirclement of the three layers inside and the outside, he knew that with the troops in his hands, it would be difficult to break out of the encirclement even if they were exhausted.

The number of Ming troops is larger than his, and the combat power is also very strong. If he leads the troops to kill, maybe he will be in the arms of the Ming army and stick to the town, which may be the only way to survive, although this road is also more difficult.

And maybe this strange firearm of the Ming army will be used up soon, and there will be no more when it is used up.

That's what he expected.

However, as time went on, the Ming army not only did not stop bombarding, but also increased the bombardment.

The deafening sound of the explosion had seriously affected the hearing of Wang Gang and the soldiers. They couldn't even communicate with words. They had to shout and gesture to communicate successfully.

It is impossible to continue like this. Wang Gang is very clear in his heart. Even if the reinforcements go on like this, this army will be abolished and completely lose its combat effectiveness.

war?
Stick to?

Wang Gang was very confused.

The only thing he hopes now is for the reinforcements to come quickly. If the reinforcements don't come, he will really be finished. He hopes that his old superior Liu Qi will not abandon him. After all, he has [-] soldiers and horses here. It's a bruise, right?

Of course Liu Qi would not abandon his subordinates. If he could abandon him, Liu Qi's military career would come to an end, and the whole person would die in the army.

Although it is an old tradition of this army that the friendly army is difficult to move like a mountain, it is immoral anyway. If you do immoral things, you must be prepared to be attacked by such immorality.

Liu Qi obviously did not intend to do immoral things to his subordinates.

Liu Si and Wei You led a [-]-horse infantry army from Yangzhou and hurried to Lujin Town to relieve the siege.

Halfway through the run, Liu Si heard the military information sent by the sentry cavalry, and learned that the Ming army was large in number, with tens of thousands of troops and horses, and the water that surrounded Lujin Town could not be drained.

All roads leading to Lujin Town are currently blocked by Ming army fortifications. If you want to rescue, you must kill a certain road. According to the previous judgment, in terms of the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, it is very difficult to kill a certain road. great.

They only have [-] soldiers and horses, and rushing forward like this may not have the effect of rescue at all, and they may also be buried.

So Liu Si began to discuss with Wei You.

"The Ming army has a lot of soldiers, and I have few soldiers. It's very difficult to rush forward like this, and it may also make myself trapped and bury myself in it. I thought it would not work to rush forward like this."

Wei You thought about it and felt that it made sense, so he asked, "Then what are you going to do?"

"Why don't we try to attack the Ming army from the flank?"

Liu Si said, "General Wang has [-] soldiers and horses, no matter how difficult it is, he can hold on for a while and attract the main force of the Ming army, and our army can take this opportunity to go around the rear of the Ming army and attack their food route!
In this way, we can recover the fallen Gaoyou, Baoying and Shanyang, and even burn down their pontoon bridges on the Huai River and destroy their retreat. Once the Ming army loses its retreat, the entire army will be in chaos. Completely wipe out the collapsed Ming army!General Wei, what do you think? "

When Wei You heard this, his face was filled with joy.

"It is worthy of being the nephew of a famous general. If you can destroy the Ming army's food supply, you will definitely be able to reverse the current battle situation in one fell swoop. Let's do it like this!"

Liu Si was very happy, and immediately arranged sentries to explore the road. At the same time, he selected [-] able-bodied elites from the army, let them eat and rest, and then carried dry food to follow him around the decisive battle between the Ming Army and Wang Gang. , quickly attacked the rear of the Ming army.

Wei You was responsible for leading the remaining army to slowly advance to Lujin Town, attracting the attention of the Ming army, making the Ming army think that there was only one reinforcement of the Song army to support Wang Gang's besieged army, thus losing the alert for the raiding force heart of.

In this way, this unexpected surprise attack can be successful.

At almost the same time, Zhou Zhi also discussed tactics with his instructor Zhou Zhixue and You Yijun's deputy general Ma Hongxing.

Through the report of the sentry, Zhou Zhi learned that a Song army was approaching Lujin Town. It seemed that they were reinforcements who came to support the besieged Song army. , should be the elite division of Song Jun.

"Of course we can meet the supporting Song army here, and we can also defeat them, but we may not be able to wipe them out completely. According to intelligence, Liu Kai has at least 5 to [-] troops.

There are 2 besieged by us and those who came to support. If we eat up these [-] people in one go, wouldn't Liu Kai's strength be greatly damaged?
Liu Qi had to defend not only Yangzhou, but also Zhenjiang and Guazhoudu. Although there were a lot of troops, once they were scattered, they would not be enough. I thought this was our chance. "

Zhou Zhi came up with the idea.

Ma Hongxing looked at the sign on the map and said, "What is the general going to do?"

"I think we might as well send people to outflank their rear while attacking head-on, and also cut off the back road of the support army, so that the support army can also become our army's military exploits completely, how about it?"

Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "Our army has an advantage, especially in the case of field battles, we can dispatch troops to quickly detour around and attack from the rear of this Song army reinforcements, then this Song army will inevitably be in chaos, what do you think? "

Ma Hongxing and Zhou Zhixue looked at each other, but they both had no meaning for Zhou Zhi's idea.

So Zhou Zhi's order was passed, and Ma Hongxing personally led an elite cavalry force of 5000 men, quickly circled to the rear of the Song army's reinforcements, cut off the retreat route of the Song army's reinforcements, attacked back and forth, and tried to eat them in one bite!
So soon, Ma Hongxing also led the attack.

The two armies took the same approach very cleverly, intending to copy the enemy's back path and let them advance and retreat.

What is even more coincidental is that at noon on the fourth day of April, the raiding force led by Ma Hongxing and the raiding force led by Liu Si collided.

The sentries on both sides discovered the existence of the other party. The sentries first fought a melee, and each brought back the news of the discovery of the enemy.

Ma Hongxing was greatly surprised.

"Did Song Jun anticipate our army's actions in advance? As expected of a famous general, Liu Qi's use of troops is really good!"

Liu Si was also very surprised.

"Could it be that the Ming army has already understood our army's action plan? No wonder the Ming army was able to defeat the Jin army and destroy the Jin country. The generals of the Ming army are really powerful!"

Up to this moment, both sides believe that the other party has seen through their own strategy, the strategy has failed, they have been exposed, and they may not achieve better results if they continue.

But then the two made different decisions.

Liu Si feels that since the surprise attack has been discovered, there is no need to continue. The surprise attack plan has been declared a failure, and there is no point in continuing to advance. Although it is a pity, the most important thing now is to retreat and save the strength. Continue recklessly.

So he ordered the army to prepare to retreat and not to entangle with the Ming army.

He believed that the leader of the Ming army on the opposite side would make the same choice.

But he was wrong, Ma Hongxing didn't see it that way.

"Even if the Song army is prepared, our army is strong and its combat effectiveness is strong. There is no reason to be afraid of him. If the surprise attack is not successful, then simply break the attack! The general's order must be fulfilled! Honest and bright fights the enemy, and my Daming army has been afraid of it. Who!"

Liu Si ordered the army to retreat in an orderly manner, not to confront the Ming army head-on, but only intended to leave suspicious soldiers to intimidate the Ming army so that the Ming army would not pursue it.

But he did not expect that Ma Hongxing was very decisive, and the Ming army's actions were also very fast.

"Da Ming's army is fearless! Let's go to war!!!"

The Ming cavalry roared.

(End of this chapter)