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Chapter 453 Soldiers' Intuition

Looking at these soldiers, and getting closer to Shandong, Yang Chao had a stronger feeling that this attack would definitely achieve a huge victory, and it was a victory beyond his imagination. Wave after wave fluctuates like waves hitting a rock.

Is this intuition?
If it were Yang Chao before, he would never believe in such irrational things, but after fighting these years, he began to believe that this kind of battlefield intuition, which comes from the primitive instinct of male animals, is really very useful sometimes.

A veteran, or even an old horse, does not make any sense. Sometimes he can seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. He is subconscious about various dangers. This is why veterans have a better chance of surviving on the battlefield, even if it is Yang Chao. In the army formation, everyone is obviously together, but every time the recruits die more than the veterans, this may be the reason.

By lowering his head unconsciously and dodging his body, the veteran may avoid an arrow coming from nowhere, but the new recruit absolutely does not have this instinct.

But this time it was different. What Yang Chao felt this time was not an instinctive reaction to the crisis, but a reaction to the imminent victory. He didn't know where this reaction came from, but he was convinced in his heart.

At the same time, I believe that I chose to attack Shandong this time, which seems to be a very correct choice. If I go to Zhejiang or Jiangxi, I may miss an extremely brilliant victory.

Compared to Yang Chao, Wang Pu and Li Wuliu were more excited. They waited outside the city facing the warm summer breeze and scorching sun. They looked forward to seeing Yang Chao's army, and they couldn't wait. A horse rushed over.

"The final general welcomes the governor!"

The two saluted at the same time.

Then Wang Pu couldn't wait to say: "Great Governor, this time the Northern Expedition, the general is willing to be a pioneer!"

Li Wuliu glared at him, hating him for taking the lead, but he did not show weakness: "Xuzhou is the defense zone of the junior general. The general is familiar with the terrain and people's conditions, so he should be the vanguard in the future!"

"Haha, what are you two fighting for? The vanguard is naturally a matter for the cavalry. You all rely on running with muddy legs. Can you outrun the horse?"

Zhao Kang laughed and taunted the two of them.

"Don't fight for now! Wait for me to deploy."

Yang Chao waved his hand to stop the soldiers, and rode his horse towards Xuzhou City.

In fact, Yang Chao has no objection to several generals vying for the vanguard position. On the contrary, he has a feeling in his heart that his intuition may be related to this. The troops sitting in Jiangbei haven't fought for a long time, and they practice hard every day. , the soldiers have already had enough food and food, and most of them are veterans. It is obvious that they are timid to fight, and the morale of the army is available.

This kind of high morale is a powerful motivation to win, but Yang Chao faintly felt that the intuition in his heart was not only because of this.

"Pioneer let Shi Lang fight!"

Yang Chao began to deploy the offensive mission.

"why?"

"Why?"

Wang Pu and Li Wuliu were immediately dissatisfied. If it was Zhao Kang, they would have recognized him. Zhao Kang was a cavalry soldier, Yang Chao's own soldier, and his cousin. It would be fine to take care of him, but what is this Shi Lang? He's just a pirate from Fujian, and he's just an auxiliary soldier who delivers rations along the way. When will it be his turn to stand side by side with these rising generals, and dare to fight for the vanguard!
With a bang, Yang Chao slammed the table.

"Why, why, why!"

"I see if all of you have forgotten the military law for a long time."

Yang Chao didn't object to fighting for the vanguard, even fighting for merit. This kind of internal competition was sometimes a kind of motivation, but the nature of questioning his orders changed.

Wang Pu and Li Wuliu bowed their heads immediately: "The last general made a slip of the tongue."

The attitude of admitting mistakes is good, otherwise they should be spanked, and all of them are high-ranking soldiers, and this face cannot be discounted.

Shi Lang brought a cold face to the side, neither expressing sincerity nor apprehension, nor expressing inexplicable gratitude, a look of course, which made Li Wuliu and the others even more unhappy. Obviously, Shi Lang's EQ is not high, otherwise he would I won't fall out with Zheng Chenggong.

Yang Chao didn't care about the personalities of his subordinates, so he took the time to assign tasks: "Shi Lang is the vanguard, attacking and advancing along the canal. Anyone who blocks our army's way forward will be wiped out. After entering Weishan Lake, immediately control this lake, no matter what the situation is. No one is allowed to let the navy of the Qing army enter Weishan Lake."

One end of Weishan Lake is thirty miles away from Xuzhou Mansion, and the other end leads directly to Jining Prefecture, a big canal city. Maintaining the water control rights on Weishan Lake can guarantee the control of the line from Xuzhou to Jining. Yang Chao has the initiative, which is why he Let Shi Lang power forward.

"Take the lead!"

Although Shi Lang now commands thousands of sailors and owns a hundred single-masted ships, his official rank is only a thousand generals, and he is not yet qualified to be called a general.

"I will assign three thousand soldiers to you. You must not lose anything, or our army will be in danger!"

Yang Chao emphasized.

Shi Lang said: "Don't worry, the commander-in-chief, the last general will use his head as a guarantee, absolutely nothing will go wrong. It's not that the last general is boasting, there is no single enemy of the last general in the Tazi navy!"

There is absolutely no doubt about Shi Lang's water battle and Yang Chao. He is from the Zheng Group. The Dutch who play in the sea have no temper, and there are no waves in the small lake. It's because this person is a little arrogant, no wonder no one like.

"Zhao Kang listens to the order!"

"Order [-] of your soldiers to follow the army, and break up the other [-] soldiers into pieces, and march northeast from Yixian County, approaching Jinan!"

Zhao Kang was overjoyed, I heard that asking him to fight in Jinan is much more valuable than Jining, and this is the prefectural city of Shandong.

He never considered how his [-] cavalry would attack the city.

Yang Chao had no choice but to correct him: "Remember, you are not going to attack the city, you are going to frighten the Tartars. Divide the troops into four fields, and let the people in Shandong know that our Ming army has launched a northern expedition. Shandong has not calmed down all these years. , there are rebels fighting against the Qing everywhere, put up banners to encourage these rebels. Give them some weapons when necessary."

It turned out that it was not a siege, but just an advertisement, and Zhao Kang suddenly lost his interest.

Yang Chao said again: "Remember, don't fight in Jiancheng. Guerrilla attacks everywhere, harassment is the top priority, so that the Tartars don't know where my main force is, so they have to divide their troops."

"I will understand at the end."

Zhao Kang replied.

"Li Wuliu listened to the order and ordered your army to be the left wing, and advance to Jining Prefecture to lure the enemy into the field."

"Wang Pu listened to the order and ordered your army to be the right wing, and advance to Jining Prefecture to take charge of the siege!"

After all the tasks were issued, Yang Chao himself sat in Xuzhou, waiting for the arrival of Sun Changfu's army.

"Remember, Li Wuliu is good at field battles, first lure the enemy to fight in the field, if not, then Wang Pu will attack by force. And when I am away, Wang Pu will listen to Li Wuliu's restraint!"

Yang Chao deliberately clarified the affiliation relationship, otherwise the orders on the battlefield will be different, and the two will be of the same level, and the complementary cooperation will be broken.

Although Wang Pu was dissatisfied, he had asked Yang Chao to slap the table just now. He knew that he was objecting, but he hit Yang Chao's bottom line. He's about to go to war, and he doesn't want to be spanked in front of 10 people.

Shi Lang set off on the second day, arrived at Weishan Lake in half a day, approached Yi County (Zaozhuang) in half a day, and attacked here immediately.

In Taierzhuang, the southernmost town of Yi County, there was a fierce battle with the former Qing army, and the battle lasted until late at night before Taierzhuang was taken.

Unexpectedly, Shi Lang encountered such a big trouble in the first battle, reporting more than 100 casualties, 120 dead, and more than [-] injured.

Although Taierzhuang is a small village, but it is close to the canal, it is a quite prosperous small village. Although it is not as rich as the merchants in Huaiyang and can build large gardens, the merchants’ houses here are generally tall and deep, with the thickness of the north. In particular, the area is rich in granite stone, and a large number of stone materials are used to build walls, so the courtyards of each family are like fortresses.

Later Li Zongren fought a battle of Taierzhuang here, which made this small town famous all over the world, precisely because the location here is very suitable for blocking.And the reason for the great war here in the later generations is also because the geographical location is more important, at least to control the south end of Weishan Lake, this is the best control point, otherwise Shi Lang can directly enter Weishan Lake.

The Qing army occupied here to protect the canal and stop the enemy, and Yang Chao occupied here to protect the canal and himself.

Shi Langman was unreasonable, he fought fiercely when he came up, and fought overnight, repelling the Qing army and occupying this place.

"Is the Qing army very tenacious? Could it be that my intuition is wrong."

Yang Chao knew that the Qing army had stationed heavy troops in Shandong, but he didn't expect such a strong will to fight. He immediately had a little doubt about his intuition that he could win a big victory.

Shi Lang then invaded the Weishan Lake area. Weishan Lake was set up as Weishan County in later generations, and it was regarded as a tourist destination, but the ancient times did not pay attention to tourism economy, and there was no county here, which means that there is nothing here strategic location.

Different from the Weishan Lake in the later generations, there are still four different small lakes here at this time. The most difficult is Zhangzhuang Lake. To the north is Lumeng Lake. To the north is Weishan Lake. To the north of Weishan Lake is another Xishan Lake. lake.It’s just that there is only one name left for the four lakes. In order to avoid the interference of the Yellow River, the government of the Ming Dynasty opened the Nanyang New River during the Jiajing period. After the transport channel was transferred, the four lakes were connected under the action of water conservancy. lake.

Shi Lang didn't have any resistance here, and he didn't even meet a Qing soldier. There were only some fishing villages near the lake.

With the temperament of a pirate like Shi Lang, naturally he would not allow the fishing boats in this village to exist, and all of them were requisitioned.

But the infantry who went with the army sent silver taels to each family. Yang Chao is a righteous teacher, a king's teacher, and Zhao Rui can't do looting.

Afterwards, Shi Lang swept Weishan Lake, which was much easier than he imagined, because knowing Jining Prefecture, he had never encountered any navy troops from the Qing army, and the Qing army navy troops in Jining, as he said, did not have his troops. Once combined, Shi Lang even hit Jining Prefecture.

To be honest, Shi Lang played really well.

But compared to Zhao Kang's cavalry, it was too dim.

What Yang Chao didn't expect was that Zhao Kang had only set out for one day, and he sent one after another the results of conquering prefectures and counties.

The first one was Yixian County. Zhao Kang’s [-] cavalrymen attacked Yixian County. They happened to meet the Qing army who had fled from Taierzhuang to Yixian County. They chased them and hit Yixian County. Yes, he took over the county seat empty-handed.

Then they divided their troops to attack Tengzhou and Yizhou, but they still had no trouble. They clamored to ask Yang Chao to allow him to attack Jinan, and issued a military order!

Yang Chao was a little surprised by this situation, but his heart beat immediately.

Yang Chao was shocked immediately: "The Qing army has lost its nerve!"

(End of this chapter)