Xinshun 1730

Chapter 191 Anticipation
The news of the dispatch of Liu Yu's army made Xiao Ce Ling Dunduobu feel a little better.

Darin came from Almaty, and before he could wait for a fight, he was shot dead with a cannon, and his head was gone.This made the army's morale shaken, and they had no confidence in the siege.

Fortunately, he didn't intend to attack the city. Since he lured the army out, he had completed the task.

As for the army coming here just to clear the siege, or they can still follow him in pursuit, then they can only do their best and obey the destiny.

Da Ce Ling Dunduobu has already selected the predetermined battlefield for the more than 2 troops assembled here, and cannot ambush.

Because the light cavalry of this group of Han soldiers is not weak, scouting everywhere, 2 people have to grazing separately, or the horses will starve to death.

The only way to lure the army out of the city for two or three hundred miles is to gather all the ministries and choose a battlefield to fight against them.

As long as the more than 1 people who are best at building and defending the city are eaten, the northern line will inevitably shake. When the time comes to bypass the castle area to plunder Khalkha and sneak attack the supply line behind, the initiative will be on Junggar's side.

The investigative scouts reported that the Han soldiers walked very slowly, only walking more than twenty miles a day.However, the cavalry did a good job in reconnaissance. The scouts fought several times, but they didn't take advantage.

"The cannons of those Han soldiers are very powerful. They drag the cannons and have a lot of big carriages. It's normal to walk so slowly."

Hearing that the marching speed of these Han soldiers was so slow, Xiao Celing Dunduobu was overjoyed.In this way, as long as they can be deceived to go two hundred miles, there is a chance to annihilate them.

It was too late to collect the corpses under the city, Xiao Celing Dunduobu's subordinates finally looked back at the city that had brought them psychological shadows, and withdrew.

After Liu Yu arrived in the small town, he let the whole army rest for half a day. Early the next morning, he left the auxiliary soldiers, took 1 Qingzhou soldiers and [-] government soldiers with Qingqi, and went out of the city to pursue them.

Qingqi went out to investigate, and the staff followed to draw a map. At night, the staff formulated the marching route for the next day, ensuring that a suitable battlefield could be found at any time within the warning range of forty miles.

More than ten days later, June [-]th.

Liu Yu's main force had already left the rear city for about three hundred miles.

Three hundred miles is not far away. If a cavalryman spares no effort to flee, he may be able to get there in a day.

Three hundred miles is also a long way. For a large army, at a marching speed of more than 20 miles per day, it would take at least ten days to retreat.

These ten days are enough to wipe out this army of more than [-] people.

Dace Lingdun Duobu began to order the ministries to assemble, so there was no need to hide.

The troops grazing around began to gather towards the big tent one after another. Dace Lingdunduobu knew that the Qingqi of the Han soldiers would definitely find out.

But this is meaningless. The big city that lured them away was about three hundred miles away. Even if they found out, judging from the previous marching speed, it would be too late to escape.

Elite soldiers drawn from various ministries gathered in the north of the mountain.

This time, a total of more than 30 soldiers were assembled, including all more than 1000 artillery pieces, more than 40 matchlock gunners, more than [-] camel guns, and some small portable guns.

The rest are cavalry who can dismount and mount for assault.

After the main force was assembled, the Zhunbu's scouts, who had been holding back for a long time, also began to attack in an all-round way, fighting those annoying Songhua River Qingqi.

More than [-] forwards quickly approached Liu Yu's main force, not to attack, but to hold Liu Yu so that he could not go away.

stick them.

Subsequent troops began to follow.

On Liu Yu's side, the Qingqi scouts brought back news of the gathering of the quasi-headquarters one after another, and shouts of excitement came from the staff who had been waiting for this day.

The maps drawn along the way in the past few days have been rapidly unfolded. More than 80 people in the staff department have to draw and pre-select the battlefield every day, so that they can fight at any time.

They have had enough of the boring march, and they have to slow down the marching speed every day, as if they are traveling. The Qingzhou Army does not have such a slow speed.

Now the main force of the Zhunbu was still far away, and the forward cavalry sticking to Liu Yu was still [-] or [-] miles away. At least one day could choose to retreat to the predetermined position.

The people in the staff department have selected a perfect battlefield, which is twenty miles behind them.

As the chief of staff, Wu Fangrui put forward the combat plan of the staff department.

"My lord, we should withdraw the light cavalry and don't get entangled. Make a posture that you have noticed that you have been deceived, and retreat back."

"According to our attitude of retreating, we have two options. One is to leave a rear guard, delay the quasi-corps, and retreat the main force; or concentrate the main force and retreat together."

"No matter which of these two attitudes, the people in the quasi-department will believe it. So we can choose to retreat all, shrink the scouts, and turn to retreat."

After finishing speaking, he pointed to the battlefield that would be pre-selected every day and said: "Here, here is twenty miles away from us. The terrain is flat and the troops can be deployed. In this way, the people in the quasi-department thought that we had discovered their trick to lure the enemy. I will definitely choose to catch up. Although I don’t know the number of enemies, it should be between [-] and [-]. There are too many people before they can’t nomad to ensure food for the horses.”

"We retreated here and started a field battle with them. There is a hill to the north of here, which can be used as a support point."

"Since we are pretending to retreat, they will certainly attack our south flank with all their strength, cut us off, force us to retreat to the hills, and besiege us on all sides."

"We should assemble the reserve team behind the hill and lure the enemy to attack our south or central army. When the enemy is trapped, we should concentrate our forces to counterattack and encircle from the side of the hill. Only in this way can we kill the enemy to the maximum extent."

"Once the enemy army is defeated, we should use the cavalry to pursue it at all costs, not allowing the enemy to gather again, and continue to chase and kill. Our main force will take advantage of the situation and follow here..."

Pointing to the pastoral road in Sunduluk Ridge on the map: "Cross the Altai Mountains from here. After crossing the mountains, you will reach the Qilan River, which can flow down the valley to the Irtysh River. There are The pasture is the season when the herdsmen move in summer, and there will be no shortage of supplies."

"Afterwards, whether to attack Luntai or go straight to the Yili River Valley to make an immortal contribution, it depends on the situation."

It was the first time Zhang Jin, the deputy general of the Qingzhou Army, had seen such a battle. Liu Yu only gave rough orders, and the people in the staff department made plans for marching, camping, and even pre-war according to Liu Yu's rough orders.

He didn't know how to fight very much, so he asked after hearing this: "Brother Shouchang, how can we be sure that the people in Zhunbu will definitely do this?"

Liu Yu smiled and pointed to the preset location on the map: "They want to hit us, of course they are afraid that we will escape. As long as they defeat our side, we can only stand still and wait for rescue or abandon our luggage and escape. If it is You, will you attack an impenetrable hill?"

"This is done only to kill them to the greatest extent. I don't want to fight a rout. If they don't do this, then we can also concentrate the main force on the north side, weaken the troops on the south side to resist the front line, and sweep the main force from the north. It's just that If that's the case...they'll run."

"In short, the choice of the battlefield is up to me. Or, they will attack our south side according to the staff's plan, and we will retreat slowly, making them fall into our trap."

"Either we take the initiative to attack and attack from the north to defeat them."

"Of course, this is just a compromise strategy. The staff department gives priority to submitting a compromise strategy to ensure undefeated rather than a big victory. If there is a conspiracy, it still depends on the master to play it on the spot."

"In the future, if brother Zhang is the main general, he should choose more conservative and compromise strategies."

Zhang Jin pondered for a while, and felt that it seemed reasonable.

He really doesn't know how to fight, especially the Qingzhou Army's fighting style is different from before.But now it seems that if he comes to be the chief general of the Qingzhou Army, there seems to be no problem.

As Liu Yu said, the staff will formulate various plans, most of which are conservative.As long as you don't lose big, it's fine.

If you want to win a big victory, you need to have enough insight into the battlefield, and you also need to take risks.What Liu Yu meant was that he could take risks, such as this time in the pursuit, but the follow-ups didn't have to take risks, as long as they fought step by step.

Zhang Jin thought to himself, whether it will be as predicted by the staff department or not, we have to take a closer look.

Looking at the map again, he asked, "What if the enemy doesn't fight, but goes behind us and surrounds us?"

"It can't be surrounded. Surrounded on all sides, the troops on all sides will be weak. If you don't have five times the strength, don't think about field battles surrounded on all sides. The quasi-corps is also a person, and it has to eat. The assembled troops are only 4 to [-]. Insane."

"Let me do the math for you. From the time we left the city, they began to gather. It took more than ten days. After half, it will be six or seven days. How big is the range?"

"They have to graze nomadicly in various places. Within this range, there are at most 4 to [-] people, and there can be no more. If there are more, they will not be able to gather together in more than ten days."

Zhang Jin really didn't understand this, so she could only pretend to understand and nodded.

Liu Yu looked at the map again and confirmed that it was indeed a good place, just a day's journey away.

"Then let's do this. Order: Qingqi retreats and scouts the enemy's situation ten miles around. The main force turns back, and the whole army advances in a battle march, and the battalions are separated."

Beep, beep...the whistle blew, and the orderly gave the order for the battle march to turn around.

After a short period of gathering the whole team, the whole army began to retreat.After a day of marching, we arrived at the open field on the hill that we passed yesterday.

Climb up the hill and take a look, this is indeed a very suitable battlefield.

The hills are not high, in the north.

The open ground to retreat to the rear is in the south, and there is no place to ambush nearby, so the main force can also be deployed.

The more than 8000 cavalrymen who were chasing Liu Yu's main force had already approached, but they did not choose to attack, but just waited in the distance.

On the way back, Qingqi constantly clashed with the cavalry scouts of the quasi-corps to ensure the safety of the rear.

The vanguard cavalry of the quasi-headquarters used standard entanglement tactics.

If Liu Yu wants to run, these cavalry will bite.

Or Liu Yu chose to cut off the wrists of the strong men, leaving some guards to entangle the cavalry, and the main force slipped away.

But the latter is of little significance, and if you stay less, you can't stop it.If you stay too long, you might as well go together.

Liu Yu didn't want to run away at all.

He finally got the main force of the Zhunbu, how could he escape?
After observing the terrain, the sappers began to dig the camp.

The first regiment was deployed on the back of the hill, excavating the parapet.

The engineers dug artillery positions on the hills, but the main force of the artillery did not go up the hills, but in the position of the central army.When you need to go up the mountain, choose to expand on the hill.

The prediction made by the staff department is that the limited artillery of the quasi-department will not choose to attack the hill first, but will choose to attack on the south side or the central army.

The artillery should be in the position of the central army first, and once the battle starts, the enemy's cannons should be countered first.Wait until the enemy is ready to attack the south side, and then move to the preset position on the hill to blast a gap for the reserve team.

The second regiment served as a reserve, hidden behind the side of the hill.

The cavalry was assembled south of the position of the central army, the third regiment was in the central army, and the fourth regiment was on the south side.

After waiting here for about a day, the main force of the Zhunbu arrived one after another.

Seeing the Qingzhou Army waiting in formation in the distance, Da Ce Ling Dunduobu heaved a long sigh of relief.

"What I'm most afraid of is that he leaves a part of the guard behind and the main force flees. Since he didn't choose this way, the destruction of these Han troops is inevitable."

After observing Liu Yu's deployment, Dace Ling Dunduobu was very disapproving.

"He who hesitates will fail. He shouldn't have chosen this place, but he chose this place. That hill is indeed suitable for defense, but it is useless to defend it. There is no water source on the hill, why do we have to attack the hill? Woolen cloth?"

"As long as we defeat them on the south side and cut off their retreat, they can only retreat to the hill without water. The hill can be defended, but without water, how many days can it last?"

"If I use troops, I will leave some behind, and the main force will quickly run back."

"But these Han soldiers were reluctant to part with their cannons and luggage, and even fled so slowly."

"This Liu Yu is a very kind general, but he is not a qualified general. He is reluctant to leave behind, so the whole army can only be wiped out."

"Perhaps, this is also the reason why he is good at defending the city? Those who defend the city cannot think of escaping by themselves. Such a person is suitable for defending the city, but not for field battles."

"The infantry of the Han army can only defend the city. They all hold muskets. How can they defend against the cavalry attack? The only thing to pay attention to is their cavalry. These cavalry are good. As long as they defeat their cavalry, Liu Yu will be able to defend the city." We can only retreat to the hills and wait to die on the hills."

After observing the situation, he called the Swede Renat over, and arranged the artillery to deploy to the south.

Da Ce Ling Dunduobu wanted to attack the south side first, forcing the Han cavalry to gather to the south to cover the flank, and the Chinese infantry also went south to support.Once the Chinese army went south to support and the Chinese army was weak, Xiao Ce Lingdun Duobu led the cavalry, rushed to the Chinese army, cut off in one fell swoop, and after the division, first wiped out the Han army on the south side, and then besieged the hills.

(End of this chapter)