Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 467

Qi Jiguang's Ji Xiao's new book and military training documentaries both guide how to fight. This kind of detailed combat rules is obviously more practical to help generals than Sun Tzu's Art of War based on strategy theory.

As for the military book published in the Song Dynasty, Baizhan Qifa collected a hundred real battle examples for analysis, and it is more theoretical than the more tactical military training documentary and Jixiao new book. It is between strategic Sun Tzu's art of war and tactics. Among the new books of Ji Xiao, it is more suitable for senior generals to study.

Zhao Kang also felt that he didn't need to read Ji Xiao's new book, since the training and fighting there was similar to what they did, but he regretted not being able to read the famous Sun Tzu's Art of War.

"All infantry and chariot fighters must fight against hills, dangers, and forests to win... All cavalry and infantry fighters, if they encounter mountains, forests, dangers, and marshes, they will be defeated if they rush. , don’t fight with me.”

After Zhao Kang read the chapter on infantry and cavalry warfare, he asked in puzzlement, "If cavalry confronts cavalry, or infantry confronts infantry, how should we fight?"

Li Yuanyin shook his head: "It's not mentioned in the book."

"My lord, Nanjing secret order!"

While the two were discussing, the guard came in to report.

After reading the superstition sent by the envoy, Zhao Kang forwarded it to Li Yuanyin, but he himself remembered it and opened the military book after thinking about it.

"Whenever the enemy has a plan, I will attack him accordingly, and make his plan weaken and give in. The law says: go up to the army and attack the plan."

This is the chapter on strategy, but after reading it, I don't know how to use strategy.

At this time, the Qing army and the Ming army were in a staggered situation across the Canal New City. Linqing was in the hands of Zhao Kang, but Dezhou was still in the hands of the Qing army. Often go south to harass.

Although there was no war between the two sides, small groups of troops had contact almost every day.

When this happened, Zhao Kang did not take the initiative to cause trouble at the beginning, and the other party did not provoke it. The fuse was the packers who fled from Beizhili to Shandong from time to time. These coaters were sometimes one or two, sometimes three or five .

Zhao Kang didn't know the situation at the beginning, and he almost killed these people, but when they saw the Ming army kneel down, Zhao Kang finally realized that these people are miserable, some used to be tenants, some were landlords, but now Occupied by the Tartars, they were surrounded by the Tartars as slaves. If they were not slaves, they would have nothing to eat. If they were slaves, they would have to work to death. If they didn’t do well, they would be beaten severely. just run away.

It is very common for the coats to escape. In Liaodong, the coats under the Eight Banners often fled, some to North Korea, some to Mongolia, and even to deep mountains and old forests. If it wasn’t really unbearable, These honest Han people would never run away, but Man Qing couldn't let Bao Yi run away, who would plant the land for them if they ran away, and besides, these people were all captured by them, so the loss would be too great if they ran away like this.

Therefore, the Qing Dynasty introduced a cruel law of arresting fugitives. After entering the customs, it was even more severe. They were taken to Beijing, and they fled to Shandong in large numbers. After the Qing army captured them, those who hid were directly executed, wrapped in clothes and whipped, and arrested back to continue to be slaves. Those who could work for them , they are reluctant to kill, but it is hard for those who take in their relatives and friends in the past, or the people who don't know.

So for a while, no one dared to stay overnight when anyone fled to Shandong.

It's different now. After the Yang family army regained Shandong, the Qing army began to encircle the whole of Beizhili, causing hundreds of times more escaped slaves than before. As a result, small groups of people crossed the blockade every day, and the Qing army was After chasing closely, the Yang family's army attacked to intercept the Qing army, so such small-scale conflicts broke out every day.

Although there are casualties every day, they are not too big. On the contrary, the cavalry has been trained to deal with various emergencies and the tactical ability of small infiltrations. Therefore, Zhao Kang is also willing to let his men do this kind of infiltration to protect the cavalry. A group of common people fled over, and at the same time, they continued to fight and train with small troops of the Qing army.

But this time it wasn't a small group fight, now Yang Chao suddenly asked him to make a big fuss and make a commotion.

How to make a commotion, he won't know how to make a surprise attack on Tianjin like last time, to scare the Tartars?
But Zhao Kang felt that it was not easy to use. He had already used it once last time, and the last time the Qing army retreated left too much space. Now that the Qing army is waiting in full force, every stronghold is guarded by soldiers. It is not so easy to make a surprise attack. .

"I'm afraid I have to let Zongbing Wang and Zongbing Li cooperate."

Li Yuanyin thought.

"How to cooperate?"

Zhao Kang asked.

Li Yuanyin said: "Our army launched the Northern Expedition in Linqing, and then let Wang Zongbing and Li Zongbing send troops to Linqing, so the Tartars must think that we are going to the Northern Expedition."

Zhao Kang said, "What if the Tartars don't find out?"

Li Yuanyin smiled and said: "How could it be possible not to find out? With so many people escaping, it is hard to guarantee that none of them are spies from the Tartars. Besides, the Tartars have been in Shandong for such a long time, so how could they not leave hidden stakes. Besides, the governor must have a future Hands, we just need to make a fuss, at worst we really send [-] troops to cross the river."

Li Yuanyin is best at bluffing. When he was a peasant army, he often played this kind of trick.

Zhao Kang thinks it makes sense, especially if it doesn't work, if you use 1 people to make an attack, you can always destroy several Tartar villages, and you won't return empty-handed.

Beijing!

"Have you heard that Manzi Yang is going to make another northern expedition!"

"I heard that it was Hong Chengchou who rebelled."

"That old dog should have died a long time ago. I have treated him with great kindness, but he did this kind of thing instead."

"I heard that the old dog sold Jiangxi to Yang Manzi, so Yang Manzi came to attack Beijing."

Two Eight Banners disciples in Beijing met together and exchanged information.

Such things are happening in almost every corner, and an undercurrent is flowing in Beijing.

Even the court was panicked.

"Then why did Hong Chengchou abandon Jiangxi?"

"Why did Hong Chengchou gather his soldiers in Jiujiang?"

"Why didn't Yang Manzi go and beat Hong Chengchou?"

"Why didn't Hong Chengchou go and beat Yang Manzi?"

Questions were placed on Dorgon's desk one by one. Some dignitaries of the Eight Banners questioned Hong Chengchou, and even more radical ones directly said that Hong Chengchou had rebelled, and asked Dorgon to send troops to capture him and kill him.

Dorgon also had a headache. He didn't expect that Yang Chao would cause trouble just after returning from Shandong, and he didn't give him any time.

Dorgon has recruited 10 Liaodong Han people, carried them into the Han Banner, and under the leadership of the officers of the Eight Banners, suppressed the resistance of the big landlords in Shanxi while training soldiers. It will take a while for [-] people to form combat effectiveness, but But Yang Chao called again.

"Prince Zheng must hold on tight!"

"Tell Hong Chengchou that he is right to guard Jiujiang, but let him find a way to drag Yang Chao to Jiangnan!"

On the one hand, Dorgon can only rely on Prince Zheng Jierhalang to block the Shandong Ming army to the south of the canal. On the other hand, although it is a relief, it is actually a strict order to Hong Chengchou to find a way to share the pressure on Beijing, otherwise he should know the consequences.

Dorgon couldn't understand why Yang Chao's territory was surrounded by the Qing army, but why he always felt so passive.

Nanjing.

"Haha, the Qing court is indeed suspicious. Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou, you can be scheming, but you are a Han Chinese. In the eyes of the Qing Dynasty, you are just a foreigner, and you are a slave. No one trusts you!"

"In the future, if you, Hong Pif, make trouble in the south, I will go to Beijing to make trouble, and see how long you can last!"

Yang Chao discovered more and more that relying on internal lines had obvious advantages in fighting. Now on the surface, he was surrounded by the Qing army, the Eight Banners in the north, the Han army in Jiangxi, and the Green Camp in Fujian. The Qing army that surrounded itself was more flexible in mobilization.

The so-called encirclement and anti-encirclement are relative things. Military issues must be viewed dialectically. The key is to see who takes the initiative. In the same situation, one side's initiative can be said to be a two-sided attack, and the other's initiative can be said to divide the enemy's army.Now that the Qing army is short of troops, they forcibly surrounded Yang Chao instead, so they were passive everywhere.

However, this siege still needs to be broken. After all, multi-faceted warfare is always disadvantageous. In history, Frederick the Great relied on Prussian interior lines to fight, actively mobilized troops, and successively defeated Austria, France, and Tsarist Russia. This is a miracle in military history, but it is actually nothing more than Forced to do so.

So if there is a chance, Yang Chao still wants to break Hong Chengchou, but the price is too high and it is not worthwhile.

"It's just that if Xie Fei and Lu Mo deal with this old fox, Hong Chengchou, I'm afraid they will suffer."

Yang Chao is a little worried about his subordinates. Speaking of which, these people are also considered to have rich combat experience, but only combat experience. Speaking of which, each individual's tactical literacy is enough, but it is not enough for a general-level commander. Their overall The command ability does not even reach the campaign level, and Hong Chengchou is obviously a strategic opponent.

This is also a disadvantage of Yang Chao. After all, it was too late to start an army. None of them, including himself, had more than ten years of experience in leading troops, but each of them had to command tens of thousands of troops.

In contrast to the Qing army, there are many old guys who have fought for ten or even 20 years. There is also Hong Chengchou who is not only experienced in battle, but also familiar with military books. His historical war experience is clear in his chest, and various strategies emerge in endlessly. , It is a bit difficult to deal with it by yourself, not to mention those general soldiers who have never understood war from the perspective of grand strategy.

"So Hong Chengchou's opponent can only be me."

Yang Chao couldn't help sighing, these subordinates are used to fighting under Yang Chao, and it's too long to lead the army alone, and Yang Chao used to lead the whole army, the accumulated experience is still not as good as Hong Chengchou, let alone these subordinates.

"After this battle, the military structure must be reorganized, but there are a few suitable candidates."

Yang Chao secretly thought that he planned to use the wisdom of the organization to make up for his lack of personal experience.

For the next month, although the Qing court in Beijing made a lot of noise, Hong Chengchou just stayed in Jiujiang.

Yang Chao's bluff strategy seems to have failed.

"Then fight! Order Zhao Kang and other ministries to send [-] troops to attack Beizhili (Hebei), destroy the noble manors of the Eight Banners along the way, and release the coated serfs! I want to see, if the property of these bannermen is moved, Hong Chengchou is still sitting on the ground." Can't sit still!"

Seeing that Hong Chengchou had not been mobilized, Yang Chao immediately issued a new order.

"Let Wang Pu send back [-] fugitive slaves from Beijing. These people are good soldiers!"

(End of this chapter)