Qiming 1158

Chapter 863 Shao Hongyuan decides to disperse to disperse

Zhao Yucheng took out the topographic map of Luoxiao Mountain drawn during this period of time, pointed to the traffic arteries one by one, and handed these traffic arteries to different officers to lead troops to guard them.

Generally speaking, the traffic roads in the mountains are very steep, and it is not an exaggeration to say that one man is the only one who is in charge and one man cannot drive.

Moreover, there was still discord within the Song army, and they did not go all out, which was the basis for the victory of the peasant army.

With this belief, Zhao Yucheng and Du Qi arranged a battle plan together and continued to monitor Shao Hongyuan's army.

On the other hand, Shao Hongyuan was very angry that Qi Fang did not provide him with enough guides, and felt that Qi Fang had bad intentions and had two hearts towards the court.

"This person has been stationed here for a long time, but he has not taken any action. His subordinates are either bullying men or women or doing bad things. It doesn't look like they are fighting at all. "

Shao Hongyuan gritted his teeth and hated Qi Fang, but his subordinates dissuaded Shao Hongyuan.

"Qi Fang was appointed as the coach after winning the battle. Now he has made a contribution, but the general has no credit. The news is sent to the court. If he writes a defense, the outcome is unknown. It is better to wait for the general to make a contribution and win. , and then sue Qi Fang for his victory, and everything will be fine."

After listening to what his subordinates said, Shao Hongyuan felt that it was very reasonable, so he decided to concentrate on winning the battle, and then talk about other things.

The time was late March in the third year of Hongwu. After some preparations, Shao Hongyuan discovered some mountain roads and roughly determined the position of the peasant army in the mountains, so he began to move troops into the mountains.

According to his arrangement, there are a lot of peasant troops in the mountains, but their weapons and equipment are very poor.

It's just that the road in Shandong is difficult and it is easy to be ambushed, so I am worried.

So he asked the army to advance in an orderly line, the bowmen should be on guard at all times, and the swordsmen and shields should be on guard at all times. Before sending troops, he even let his troops practice the formation and fighting methods of entering the mountains.

It can be said that he is also well prepared, waiting to fight the peasant army.

However, only three days after the battle began, reality hit Shao Hongyuan head-on.

Song Jun had no idea how to fight this battle.

To be precise, his army could not find the peasant army, but the peasant army could always find them. After entering the mountain for only a few hours, they began to be attacked by the peasant army.

Arrows, rocks, clods, all kinds of terrible traps and the like.

As they walked, more than a dozen arrows came over. When Song Jun reacted in the chaos to pursue him, the archer had disappeared.

Or while walking, the trap was suddenly triggered, and a whole group of soldiers fell into the pit, and were stabbed to death and stabbed by the sharp bamboo spear buried in the pit.

Although Shao Hongyuan was good to the army, he couldn't fully armor the army. Before he asked Qi Fang for armor, Qi Fang gave him more than 100 pairs to deal with it, and then said that he had no armor either.

Therefore, the armor and equipment of Shao Hongyuan's department was very limited, and a large number of grassroots soldiers could not wear armor. Facing the sudden attacks and traps of the peasant army, the losses were not small.

Such raids and traps are not uncommon, nor are they absent during the day and night, but may occur at any time of the day and night.

At some point, a group of peasant troops will come out to shoot arrows, or encounter a trap pit, and many people fell unsuspectingly and died on the spot with bamboo spears.

Because of such a thing, the soldiers of the Song army almost became frightened. The advance was step by step, and they basically lost their mobility.

And the main force of the peasant army never appeared, just like ghosts running around in the mountains, elusive, making the soldiers of the Song army nervous.

Shao Hongyuan's troops marched into the mountains with a battalion of 500 people as the basic combat unit. The roads in the mountains were difficult to navigate, and they were slow to move, let alone the peasant army that appeared from time to time.

This was the case during the day, and even worse at night. The peasant army gave full play to its night raiding expertise and frequently launched night raids on the Song army, which made the Song army unable to rest and lethargic.

They did not dare to walk fast during the day, nor did they dare to sleep with peace of mind at night, for fear that the peasant army would attack them.

As a result, the five battalions that entered the mountain at first couldn't hold it after five days in the mountain, and they all retreated, saying that the mountain was too dangerous to fight.

We can't find the bandit army, but the bandit army can find us, and we can't rest at night. How can we fight this battle?
The number of people lost is not too much, more than 100 people died in battle, and another 400 people were injured, but the first tentative attack failed, which made Shao Hongyuan very unhappy, and it also dealt a great blow to the morale of his troops .

After all, Shao Hongyuan and his troops had no experience in mountain combat, and thought they could win against the peasant army with low military literacy, but they did not expect that the military literacy of the other party was not as good as imagined.

What made Shao Hongyuan even more unacceptable was that after Qi Fang learned that Shao Hongyuan was defeated, he immediately came to laugh at him.

"Didn't General Shao say that he can definitely win? How could he fail? I thought General Shao could really do what he said, but I didn't think so..."

After speaking, Qi Fang walked away with arrogant steps, leaving behind a series of barbell-like laughter.

Shao Hongyuan blushed with anger.

When Qi Fang was there, he didn't dare to shake his face on the spot. After Qi Fang left, he drew his knife and cut off the wooden table he was using.

"Rat! An dare to mock me!"

Originally, after the battle, Shao Hongyuan planned to re-study the situation in Luoxiao Mountain, redesign the tactics, and let the army get familiar with the situation in the mountain before entering the mountain to suppress the bandits.

But Qi Fang's behavior made him unacceptable.

With all kinds of emotions, Shao Hongyuan held a military meeting and learned that the peasant army used a small group of troops to attack day and night, making the Song army a terrified bird, and he hated these cunning peasant troops very much.

The inside of the mountain has obviously become their home ground. Although the main force is strong, but because of the traffic restrictions, the action speed of the main force is relatively slow, and the response will not be very timely.

So Shao Hongyuan decided on a strategy of [disperse versus disperse].

He believes that the peasant army is good at sneak attacks and dare not engage in head-on combat, which must be the reason for the lack of hand-to-hand combat ability.

And his troops inherited the sophisticated training of Li Xianzhong's era, and their hand-to-hand combat ability is still good, so as long as their mobility and reflexes are enhanced, and the number of combat units is reduced, it may have a miraculous effect.

When the peasant army saw that they were small, they would be willing to come out and fight them hand to hand, so that it would have the effect of hitting their new force.

Shao Hongyuan decided to use this tactic.

After he arranged the tactics, he decided to use 50 people as the basic combat team, break up the army into pieces, and spread them all over the mountains and plains into the Luo Xiao Mountain.

He assigned sounding arrows to each combat team. When they encountered the peasant army, they would sound the arrows to let the surrounding combat teams know the news.

The surrounding combat teams must move closer to the position of the sounding arrow as soon as possible, and cooperate to fight to kill the living force of the peasant army.

In order to increase the combat continuity, he provided the combat team with enough food and water, enough for them to fight for seven days.

He felt that in this way, he would have enough advantages to kill the fresh force of the peasant army and win the victory.

Facts have proved that this is the second wrong decision made by Shao Hongyuan.

He overestimated the discipline and organization of his troops, and underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Luoxiaoshan peasant army.

(End of this chapter)