Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 279
Li Jing thought about the reason in a flash, not only shook his head, Li Jing knew why Cao Wenzhao took the responsibility for Sun Hutou.

Cao Wenzhao did this not only to protect his subordinates, but also because Sun Hutou was Li Jing's adopted son, and Cao Wenzhao didn't want to offend Sun Hutou because of this incident.

Sun Hutou is just in his early twenties this year, he has been reused by Li Jing at such a young age, and his future is boundless.If Sun Hutou held grudges against him because of this, Cao Wenzhao himself would be fine, but his nephews and nephews would be sad.

Cao Wenzhao's approach is indeed understandable, but doing so is tantamount to arrogance to Sun Hutou. Sun Hutou's actions are a bit reckless. into a catastrophe.

Sighing, Li Jing knew that Sun Hutou's aggressive advance this time underestimated the enemy had a lot to do with him.

Sun Hutou has been fearless since he was a child, apart from being afraid of himself, even his own father and Laozi can't speak well sometimes.Li Jingming knew Sun Hutou's character, but he didn't teach him well, and even entrusted him with a heavy responsibility. Sun Hutou was arrogant because he was favored, so he naturally didn't pay attention to Cao Wenzhao, a new general who joined the Jishi Army.

After pondering for a while, Li Jing temporarily put aside the matter of Sun Hutou. Now is not the time to deal with Sun Hutou, because the war in Datong is not over yet.

When Cao Wenzhao led his troops to set up an ambush at Guantunbao, the Houjin army on the Datong line divided into three groups, one of which pursued Cao Wenzhao, and the other two attacked Desheng Wubao, specifically Deshengkoubao and Zhenqiangbao. Attack.

After being violently bombarded by the Jishi Army, the Houjin Army retreated hastily.

For Huang Taiji, the failure to attack the two fortresses was nothing at all. Starting from his father Nurhachi, Jin rarely suffered losses after the battle. Being bombarded during the siege has become a habit for Hou Jin.

However, the news that followed surprised Huang Taiji. More than [-] troops of the Hou Jin Army were almost wiped out in the field.For Huang Taiji, the defeat in the field battle was the real bad news. At this time, Huang Taiji also knew that he had fallen into the trick of the Ming army to lure the enemy.

By asking the defeated soldiers, Huang Taiji learned that the ambushing Ming army had extremely sharp weapons, and the number of troops was about 1 or more.

1 people against 1 people, and our own army was wiped out. What kind of army is this army?
The purpose of Huang Taiji's attack on the front line of Xuanda this time was just to rob, not to risk his life, but after suffering such a big loss, Huang Taiji immediately changed his original intention.

Although Huang Taiji is not a great military strategist, he is still very good at fighting. Seeing that the Datong line could not be broken, he turned his attention to the direction of Xuanfu.

Xuanfu is not a mansion, it belongs to Wanquandusi, it is one of the important towns in the Nine Frontiers, the highest military commander is Zongbing, equal to Datong Zongbing.

If Desheng Fort is the gateway to Datong, then Shangfang Fort is the gateway to Xuanfu.

Prior to this, the Hou Jin army captured Fangbao, but suffered a loss when attacking Xuanfu, so they retreated to Yingzhou and attacked Datong instead.Now that he suffered another loss in Datong, Huang Taiji turned his attention to Shangfangbao again.

In terms of terrain, the Xuanfu area is not conducive to cavalry operations. Because of this, the Ming army never expected that they would detour from the direction of Xuanfu.

Huang Taiji's plan was to detour along the outer line of the Great Wall from Shangfangbao, wait for an opportunity to break through a pass, then cross the Great Wall, take the back route of Datong, and attack Deshengbao from behind.

This move was learned by Huang Taiji from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

For the illiterate group of Hou Jin, military books such as Sun Tzu's Art of War are too obscure and difficult to understand, and they can't grasp them at all. Only novels such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms with pictures can be understood, so Romance of the Three Kingdoms became a compulsory course for generals of the Hou Jin Dynasty. military textbooks.

In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, when Zhuge Liang came out of Qishan, Wei Yan offered a plan to go out from the Ziwu Valley to copy the rear of the Wei army, but Zhuge Liang did not adopt it.Later, Deng Ai used this route to destroy Shu, and finally destroyed Shu in one fell swoop, making an incomparable feat.

In fact, there is nothing surprising about this strategy, it is just a dangerous way to take a back road, and its success depends entirely on whether the defensive side takes precautions.

However, users of this tactic are mostly successful, because the defenders are mostly unprepared, or negligent.

In detail, this attack strategy is somewhat similar to cheating the sky and sea in the 36 tricks.

Using deceitful tactics is actually taking advantage of the enemy's inertial thinking.

Preparing Zhou is easy to perish, common is not suspicious, Yin is within Yang, not in opposition to Yang, Sun, Taiyin.

The meaning of this sentence is: if you are well prepared, it is easy to relax your vigilance, and you will no longer have doubts about things you have often seen. Conspiracies are often hidden in things that are publicly exposed, rather than in opposition to things that are publicly exposed. Very public There are often very secret conspiracies hidden in things.

The only difference is that deception is artificially used to paralyze the enemy.

And the success of this plan is because most people would not have thought that the enemy would come from such a dangerous place.

In the same way, Huang Taiji believed that the Ming army could not have imagined that Houjin's cavalry would cross mountains and enter the territory of Ming Dynasty.

Huang Taiji's judgment was good. The Ming army really did not expect that Houjin would come in across the mountains. Houjin's 5000 troops crossed the Great Wall from Shangfangbao westward, and then marched day and night to Yangyuan County.

It should be said that Huang Taiji's strategy was implemented very smoothly, but Huang Taiji ignored one point, not all Houjin's troops strictly observed military discipline.

It's like a thief. If a thief sees something good, it's very difficult to stop him from doing it.

Hou Jin and his gang are not thieves, but they are even more hateful because they are a group of robbers.

Robbers see something good, and it's harder to keep them from looting.

Facing the ordinary people of Daming who had no ability to resist, Hou Jin's troops finally couldn't hold back and started to rob.

In the process of looting, Houjin was like a swarm of locusts, leaving no dogs or chickens behind.

However, no matter how hard they killed, some people still escaped, so the news of Hou Jin's entry finally spread.

As soon as the news came out, the defenders of Datong hurriedly strengthened their defenses, and Hou Jin's plan suddenly went bankrupt.

Seeing that the plan could not be carried out, the later beneficiary would not stop doing anything, and immediately turned southward. After conquering Guangling County, he went straight to Lingqiu County.

Li Jing was furious when he heard the news, and hurriedly summoned Cao Wenzhao to gallop to help Lingqiu.

Before Cao Wenzhao left, Li Jing said to him with a livid face: "Brother Cao, the Eastern captives entered the country and slaughtered the people of our Ming Dynasty wantonly. This campaign is not allowed to let a single Eastern captive go. If one leaves, don't blame Li Don't show affection!"

Cao Wenzhao felt awe-inspiring when he heard this, and said to Li Jing solemnly: "Don't worry, Commander, if a tartar escapes, Cao will come to see you!"

Li Jingjing nodded, looked at Sun Hutou and said solemnly: "Hutou, you underestimated the enemy and rushed forward in the last battle of Guantunbao, causing a lot of damage to your subordinates. In this battle, you must make up for your mistakes and follow Cao Zongbing's orders. If you don't obey the orders again, A father will never forgive you lightly."

Seeing that Li Jing was so serious, Sun Hutou knew that Li Jing was going for real. If the situation happened last time, he would not be able to get away with a meal.

At that moment, Sun Hutou said anxiously: "Don't worry, Commander-in-Chief, Hutou will definitely obey Uncle Cao's orders."

Li Jingwen nodded slightly and waved his hand, Cao Wenzhao hurriedly led the generals away.

Cao Wenzhao had a total of [-] cavalry in his hands. It is not difficult to defeat Houjin's [-] cavalry with [-] cavalry, but it is not easy to wipe out the enemy army.

Fortunately, during the Battle of Guantunpu the day before yesterday, the Jishi Army captured a large number of horses.

Although the artillery fire of the Jishi Army was fierce, it could not completely cover Houjin's troops under the artillery fire. People could not be bombed, and horses were naturally fine. After the battle, the battlefield was cleaned up, and more than [-] horses were found in all corners of the battlefield. There are thousands of damaged horses and thousands of injured horses (the cavalry of Houjin also rode with one man and two horses, and some even rode three horses).

In fact, Cao Wenzhao seized not only military horses, but also a large amount of money from the dead Houjin soldiers.

For the Jurchen army, going out to fight is to engage in welfare, and the money they robbed is always carried with them, but they didn't expect to lose all their money this time.

The captured money has to be handed over. Naturally, Cao Wenzhao will not be jealous of the money, but he will not hand in the horses. The cavalry unit Cao Wenzhao formed is now short of horses, so he will naturally not let go of so many horses .

Although it is not a day's work to train infantry to become cavalry, it is no problem to let infantry ride horses.

For infantry who are not cavalry, there is no need for one person to ride with two. Cao Wenzhao summoned [-] infantry, each of whom was given a horse, and ordered them to move with the cavalry.

It was with these horses that Cao Wenzhao dared to say with confidence that Houjin's troops would be wiped out.

After the Battle of Guantunpu, Cao Wenzhao had a thorough understanding of Li Jing's tactical thinking.

Li Jing's tactical thinking is to give full play to the advantage of the weapon's attack distance.

The attack distance of the artillery is about one mile, the range of the rifle is about two hundred steps, and the range of Hou Jin's bow is dozens of steps. These three weapons are completely incomparable.
Therefore, when fighting head-on with Houjin's cavalry, the Jishi Army's cavalry would not rush forward, which is tantamount to actively closing the distance with the enemy.

What Li Jing asked Cao Wenzhao to do was: before the enemy launched a charge, they first bombarded them with artillery. The artillery knocked out most of the enemy and handed over the rest to the infantry. When the two axes came down, the enemy basically had no choice but to flee. , and finally the cavalry went to sweep the tail.

The coordination of artillery, infantry and cavalry, to put it bluntly, means long-range artillery bombardment, medium-range rifle shooting, and finally cavalry chasing the enemy.

Even if the hit rate is low when shooting on horseback, but chasing the enemy's butt and hitting, there will always be a hit.

Having tasted the sweetness of artillery, Cao Wenzhao naturally would not give it up. These horses are said to be pack infantry, rather than pack cannons.

Gathering the troops, Cao Wenzhao led his troops to go south quickly, and rushed from Deshengbao to Lingqiu County in just one day.

When he arrived in Lingqiu County, Cao Wenzhao did not rest, and quickly commanded his troops to block the direction where the Jin army might flee.

(End of this chapter)