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Chapter 688 Tricks Can't Close the Gap Between Strengths

In addition to the 3000 surprise attack troops of the Song Army, the main Song Army of 7000 people followed the normal road to Lujin Town to make a rescue.

Their purpose is to attract the attention of the Ming army, so that the Ming army thinks that all the reinforcements of the Song army have gone to Lujin Town to relieve the siege, and there are no more troops to attack the rear of the Ming army.

Ma Hongxing had to praise Song Jun's plan, thinking that their plan was really good, but their fighting level was relatively poor.

Because the combat strength was not enough to deal with the Ming army, it suffered the final defeat. If the result of this battle was reversed, the Song army's surprise troops could in turn defeat the Ming army, then the Ming army's current food supply would be in danger.

Song Jun can turn the tide of the battle.

Thinking of this, Ma Hongxing couldn't help thinking of what he said when he was listening to Su Yonglin's lecture in the officer training class - any strategy is useless in the face of absolute strength.

At any time, the strength of the army must be the first priority of military development, and military training, equipment innovation, and military personnel training must be the top priority. This is the soil and seed, and tactical strategy is on top of this. blooming flowers.

As long as there is soil and seeds, I am not afraid that the field of Ming Dynasty's military will not be able to bloom the beautiful flowers of famous generals.

Tactics could not close the gap between strengths, and the strength of the Song army was probably at this level. Even if they were elite, they had a certain degree of tenacity, but they were not as good as the Ming army.

Ma Hongxing saw the gap between the soldiers of the Song army and the soldiers of the Ming army.

Thinking of this, Ma Hongxing was also very happy, because it has been proved that the combat effectiveness of the Ming army cannot be destroyed by the strategies of the Song army.

In this case, it is time for the Ming army to destroy the Song army in turn.

After a short rest, the Ming army cavalry followed Ma Hongxing to set off again for a detour. After resting for a while at night, at noon on the fifth day of the fourth lunar month, Ma Hongxing led the cavalry to the predetermined position south of Lujin Town. After that, he led the army and turned to the north.

At the same time, Song general Wei Youzheng led a support force to launch a tentative attack on the Ming army surrounded by Lujin Town.

While ordering the troops to set up camp, he ordered a few elite troops to attack and advance forward. When they encountered the camp built by the Ming army, the Song army launched a tentative attack and launched a counterattack with the Ming army who held the camp.

The Ming army's defense was sharp, and the Song army could not take advantage of it, so they could only retreat a little bit and report back to Wei You, who asked Wei You to send reinforcements.

Wei You thought that he had encountered ordinary encirclement tactics, and in order to attract the attention of the Ming army and create opportunities for Liu Si, he had to make a bigger move to let the Ming army know of his existence. .

So Wei You personally led [-] troops to attack the Ming army camp, which was strongly blocked by the Ming army.

It seems that the Ming army also quickly mobilized reinforcements to support them, using various defensive weapons, including a particularly powerful firearm.

This kind of firearm took the shape of a ball, fell from the sky, and then exploded with a bang. The violent impact could almost blow the Song soldiers in a circle into pieces, and the Song soldiers in the closer places would also be thrown horizontally by the huge shock wave.

And the sound of the explosion was very loud, almost deafening the soldiers' ears. Even if they were not deafened, it would take a while for the tinnitus to return to normal. Almost the first round of explosions stopped the momentum of the Song Army's attack. .

Wei You came to the front line this time, and of course he saw the great power and loud noise of the Thunder God Cannon of the Ming Army, and was shocked on the spot.

"What kind of firearm is this? Why is it so powerful? And the sound is louder than thunder?"

At this time, the Song Army was equipped with a wide variety of equipment and a large number of them, but the quality was generally poor, and it was okay to pretend to be.

Especially firearms, there are not many types of relatively reliable firearms. Most of them are the type that only thunders without rain. Zhentianlei is barely considered a general among dwarfs, because the sound is very loud, and its power...

However, compared to the Thunder God Cannon of the Ming Army, the power of the thunderbolt is not worth mentioning.

Despite this, because this thing was not accurate enough to threaten the integrity of the Song army's formation, Wei You also ordered the Song army to use the same method to return to the enemy in the face of the overwhelming rain of arrows and thunder cannons of the Ming army. .

Song soldiers carried catapults and thunderbolts and other firearms and fired them at the Ming army, using long-range weapons against long-range weapons.

The Song army's divine arm bow is powerful, and the catapult is also a threat to the Ming army, but the firearms such as Zhentian Lei are really insignificant in the eyes of the Ming army.

Not only is it small in power and sound, but there are often squibs. If it is thrown in completely, it will not move, and it has no deterrent effect. It can be said that there is no essential difference between the firearms used by Jin Jun.

On the contrary, some strange things were added to these firearms. The smoke was filled with smoke and the smell was choking, which made the soldiers of the Ming army quite uncomfortable.

But that's it, explosions are the art of firearms, and there is no future in adding strange things to them.

On the afternoon of the [-]th day of April, Ma Hongxing led a cavalry unit to attack the Song army under Wei You from the rear. .

During the hard battle, the Ming army of Lujinzhen, which was in a defensive state, also rushed out in large numbers, and cooperated with the Ming army who attacked, and attacked from front and back, and quickly defeated the Song army under Wei You.

Although Wei You, the commander of the Song army, was at a disadvantage, he still fought bravely and led his personal guards left and right in an attempt to break out of the siege and retreat.

It's just that he didn't succeed.

Jing Tianyou, the deputy commander of the first division of the Yi Army in the lower reaches of Zhou Zhi, was brave and good at fighting. Seeing that Wei You was very brave when he rushed from the left to the right, and the surrounding Ming soldiers suffered a lot, he personally led the cavalry to attack Wei You's personal soldiers.

During the bloody battle between the two sides for about a stick of incense, a large number of Wei You's personal soldiers were killed in the battle, and gradually lost. In the end, Jing Tianyou shot Wei You on the helmet, and Wei You fell to the ground in an instant and died.

This battle was fought from dawn to dusk. The Song army commander, Wei You, died in the battle, and more than a thousand officers and soldiers were killed in the battle. Most of the rest surrendered, and only a few hundred people fled in the chaos.

The Ming army was victorious again and wiped out the reinforcements of the Song army.

The reinforcements were all knocked out, and the main general was killed. In this battle, the Song army had no hope of winning.

On the morning of the sixth day of the fourth lunar month, Zhou Zhi, who was overjoyed, showed the battle flag of the Song army under Wei You’s army and the corpse of the dead Song army to Wang Gang of the Song army in Lujin Town, telling them that the reinforcements had been wiped out by the Ming army, and that they had no more Hope too.

When Song Jun of Lujin Town, who was on the verge of collapse, saw such a situation, he immediately knew that there was no hope. Wang Gang had not yet reacted. Song Jun had already experienced violent turmoil, or escaped or collapsed. cry.

Zhou Zhi gave an order, and the Ming army launched a general attack.

The city wall, which was only ten feet high, could not stop the swarming Ming army. Before two sticks of incense had passed, the Ming army had already smashed through the city wall, entered the town, and launched a general attack on the Song army in the town.

Except for a small part of the Song army in the town who dared to resist or even launch a counterattack against the Ming army, most of them have collapsed, except to escape is to hide, but the small town simply cannot accommodate so many people hiding, let alone a large number of buildings. It has been destroyed by the Thunder God Cannon of the Ming army before.

The Ming army became more and more brave, and the Song army collapsed collectively. Although Wang Gang and some brave generals led their own soldiers to fight to the death, they were still not the opponents of the Ming army and could not save the defeat.

During the morning and noon of fierce fighting, at the end of the afternoon on the sixth day of April, most of the Song army in the town surrendered and gave up their resistance.

Wang Gang, the main general of the Song Army in Lujin Town, was very brave. He led his own soldiers and the Ming army to launch an extremely fierce hand-to-hand battle.

After all the personal soldiers were killed, Wang Gang also exhausted his physical strength. Seeing the irreversible situation and the red-eyed Ming army, he was extremely sad.

Wang Gang died in battle.

(End of this chapter)