Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 191
Afterwards, Yang Chao specifically talked to Lao Jin about it.

Lao Jin summed up his experience and said that he was careless. If he had added blunderbuss and archers to the formation at that time, and killed them at a long distance during the stalemate, Wang Pu would not have won so easily.

At the same time, he also said that the mandarin duck formation is changing, and if the formation cannot be expanded, it is useless.

He also said that the drill was not a real formation after all. If it was a real formation, Wang Pu would have been killed and wounded by many people before Wang Pu rushed to his front. This is how the Qi family army defeated many Mongols in the past.

Although what Lao Jin said was also reasonable, Yang Chao felt that Lao Jin seemed to be looking for an excuse.

For a while, Lao Jin's status in Yang Chao's heart dropped sharply, or he returned to reality. He was just a member of the Qi family army, just a veteran.

After Qi Jiguang's death, the Qi family army was inherited by Qi Jiguang's nephew Qi Jin. They were invincible in Japan's invasion of Korea and the Ming Dynasty's war to aid Korea.

Later, the last Qi's army was annihilated by Nurhachi in Hunhe. At that time, Nurhachi's Eight Banners attacked successively and could not shake the Qi's army's chariot formation.

Although Qi's army was defeated, it also caused the Eight Banners to lose tens of thousands, which was hailed as the most tragic battle for the Eight Banners.

Afterwards, the Ming Dynasty still mobilized Zhejiang soldiers and trained them in the same way as the Qi family army. Unfortunately, the magistrates of Yiwu and other counties where the Zhejiang soldiers came from wrote to the emperor that too many local soldiers had been transferred, resulting in no one to cultivate the land, no one to support the orphans and widows, and asked the court to give up. The Zhejiang army was recruited, and the Qi family army officially disappeared from then on.

The bloody battle at the Hunhe River was already in the first year of Tianqi (1621), and 15 years have passed since the 1642th year of Chongzhen (21). Lao Jin is in his early fifties this year, and he was in his early thirties back then. It will be too big an officer, combat experience, command experience, at most it is the experience of the general level.

Yang Chao was also overwhelmed by Qi Jiguang's reputation before, and was only intimidated by Qi's army's feat of beheading 15 Mongolian soldiers. He developed a superstitious feeling, so he had too much confidence in Lao Jin.

The so-called soldiers are impermanent to win, and water is impermanent. Didn't the Qi family army also be defeated by Nurhachi in the end?

Therefore, it is not impossible for Lao Jin to lose to Wang Pu. In the final analysis, the most important thing to win is courage. Wang Pu's people dare to fight and rush, and they have the basis for winning. However, the mandarin duck formation was compiled and practiced by Marshal Qi back then. Before Qi Jiguang's death, he had no defeats and had run rampant for an era. However, Wang Pu broke through this formation. Although it was only under the command of Lao Jin, that is enough to be proud of.

The downside is that Wang Pu will probably be proud for a while, it seems that this kid's arrogance still needs to be dealt with.

In the following month, Wang Pu still often confronted Lao Jin.

But slowly, Lao Jin moved back to a complete disadvantage. In the case of one-on-one, he could basically draw a tie. In the case of two-on-two, Lao Jin completely suppressed Wang Pu. In the case of three-on-three, he could Still lose.

The reason is that the mandarin duck formations of the two teams do not yet have a problem of deployment, and all soldiers have a reasonable attack and response. If Wang Pu does not break through the formation for a while, the only thing waiting for Wang Pu is to lose, but there is a problem of deployment for the third team. , Wang Pu can always attack with the fastest speed, and the three teams can best demonstrate the simple, efficient and fast advantages of the wall formation, so they can always suppress the mandarin duck formation before it unfolds.

Afterwards, Lao Jin kept thinking about changing formations, while Wang Pu pondered about breaking formations. Lao Jin kept thinking about some of the actual combat experience of Qi's army back then. Improving quickly.

The small-scale confrontation was also upgraded to a one-hundred-person confrontation. Wang Pu became the commander-in-chief with three banner teams under his jurisdiction, with a number of 100 people.

But at the level of 100-person confrontation, it was originally more difficult to deploy the mandarin duck formation, but Wang Pu began to lose more and win less, because as a wall formation, it is a new thing after all, and Wang Pu has rich command skills. The three or four teams had experience in fighting Jiang bandits, but they lacked the command and combat on the scale of Byrne.

At the scale of a hundred people, even a simple wall array encountered a problem of troop deployment.

Wang Pu can only do his best to talk to Lao Jin, and many teams in the army are giving advice to Wang Pu, because many people actually don't like Lao Jin, and feel that this serious person is full of veterans Proud people are not easy to deal with.

And Wang Pu got along with those captains for a few months, not to mention he was familiar with them and fought side by side with many of them, so the soldiers generally favored Wang Pu, and there was also a refreshing feeling of defeating the authority of the mandarin duck formation.

Yang Chao originally thought that the days of training, earning money, and being promoted would last until the Manchu Eight Banners went south. At that time, he should also accumulate meritorious service and be promoted to lieutenant general. He would have three thousand headquarters and six generals manage.

But Yang Chao was stuck in the position of General Manager Qian and could not get up. Wang Pu killed more than 30 levels successively. Zhao Kang later replaced Wang Pu when he ran the eastern route and also killed more than ten levels. The achievement of level [-] should allow him to be promoted, but Yu Chengwu, the top lieutenant, is pressing on him like a mountain. If Yu Chengwu can't get promoted, Yang Chao can't get promoted either.

Xiong Mingyu only gave Yang Chao a title, a guerrilla title, and Yang Chao is now a guerrilla title, Thousand Chief Officer.

Guerrilla is commonly known as guerrilla general, and with the title of guerrilla, Yang Chao has the right to call himself a general, but there is no practical benefit.

Yu Chengwu is different from veterans like Jia Shilu and Cui Wei. Yu Chengwu was born in the Jiangpu Garrison, hereditary from hundreds of households, and he became the deputy general of the Shangshuiying because of his solid military exploits. He had fought against the peasant army of Zhang Xianzhong for many years, and he also Jia Shilu and Cui Wei have different styles. After becoming a lieutenant general, he lived in the camp honestly, never leaving the barracks for half a step, and looked conscientious.

Therefore, there is no reason to move him. Unless the higher-ups can arrange a higher position for him, it is not easy to dismiss him.

Of course, Jia Shilu's age is also old, he is in his 50s, and when he reaches sixtieth age, he can be given a age and allow him to resign, so Xiong Mingyu advised Yang Chao to wait patiently for a few years. In his teens, Yu Chengwu would definitely be able to survive through his qualifications, and it is not a good thing for Yang Chao to be promoted too quickly.

Xiong Mingyu was already under a lot of pressure when Yang Chao became President Qian in his teens. It would be difficult to explain if he was allowed to be the deputy general. , Xiong Mingyu didn't want to cause trouble.

Xiong Mingyu also gave Yang Chao a chance, that is, to transfer Yang Chao out of the water camp and transfer him to serve under Ma Shiying in Fengyang. Xiong Mingyu recommended Yang Chao to be a general.

Ma Shiying is currently fighting fiercely with Zhang Xianzhong, and there will be a huge shortage of soldiers under his command, so it is very desirable for someone to go to his place.

But Yang Chao thought about it and refused.

Fighting against the peasant army, Yang Chao always felt a little pimple in his heart. Fighting against the peasant army should be a civil war. He also knew that the peasant army was composed of peasants who couldn't survive. If Yang Chao confirmed that he could suppress it, Killing a few people so cruelly, let the Ming Dynasty breathe a sigh of relief, but Yang Chao knew that they couldn't kill them all, and they couldn't kill them all. If the Ming Dynasty's system was not changed, the rebellious forces would not be eradicated.

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were not without failures. Five years ago, Li Zicheng was beaten and only 10,000 people were left to hide in the deep mountains.

Therefore, by killing these peasant soldiers, Yang Chao can also dye his black hat red.

It is of no benefit to the survival of the country or the peace of the people.

Moreover, these peasant armies are not the biggest enemy in Yang Chao's heart. The biggest enemy is still outside the customs. On the contrary, these peasant armies will become the main force against the Qing army in the future. When the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty scrambled to surrender, these people held high Raise the banner of resistance.

Therefore, whether it is to preserve the strength of the rebel army in the future, or to avoid too much unnecessary blood, Yang Chao does not want to kill the peasant army unless it is absolutely necessary.

As a result, at the end of the year, Yang Chao was still just a boss, but there was news that the Qing soldiers were going south.

It's not that history has changed, the Qing soldiers came to rob, and it was a plunder with nomadic habits.

In November Renshen, the Qing soldiers entered the fortress in a large scale. The road into the wall was divided into Jieling and Qingshan, Guiyou broke through the three rivers of Liao'an, and the time was divided into Dao. One went to Tongzhou, and the other went to Tianjin from Liushujian.

Jiaxu, the head of Tun Yongping.

In Yihai, Tongzhou was attacked, and the capital was under martial law. The Xunchen guarded the nine gates, and the eunuch Wang Chengen was the admiral of the city.

Wuyin, all the towns were recruited for aid.

(End of this chapter)