stubborn thief

Chapter 152 Overturning
Liu Chengzong did not enter Huozhou.

He just found himself surrounded after receiving two red cannons sent by the imperial court.

Kukongguan in the northeast, Liulangzhai in the east, Puxian in the southeast, and Daning in the south all stationed officers and troops.

After judgment, he believed that the official army stationed in Liulangzhai was the weakest, so he could try to fight.

But the fort is not easy to fight, the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the main road to Huozhou is stuck. Even if the artillery is mounted, he has nothing to do if the defenders don't show up.

However, when the army sneaks over, the luggage cannot pass, and the luggage passes, and it is easy to be chased by people.

So he tried to seduce, when the troops left Liulangzhai without their luggage, they went straight eastward, and walked two miles away, and found that the defenders of Liulangzhai were not fooled.

There was nothing he could do if he didn't get fooled, so he had no choice but to lead the troops back. He was just being cautious, since they were all lightly armed troops anyway, so he simply climbed the mountain from the south and sneaked back to the west.

But no matter what Liu Chengzong did, the defenders of Liulangzhai remained motionless in the fort.

You besiege with 500 people, but I don't move with 1000 people.

You go east with 500 people, but I still have 1000 people.

You leave the horses and vehicles to the west, and my 1000 people are still calm.

Liu Chengzong jumped repeatedly, but the defenders of Liulangzhai just didn't take the bait, and carried out the bastard tactics to the end.

It seemed that he was fighting wits with the air, and the scene was once awkward.

I was so anxious that people scratched their ears and scratched their cheeks.

Liulangzhai is in the mountains north of the official road from Luliang Mountain to Huozhou. If the fort is not pulled out, the troops will be cut off from the way of retreat, and they will not be able to send supplies to the west if they are robbed.

But to attack this fort by force, there are mountains on all sides, and it is difficult for the army to spread out and move.

The only thing that can be done is to cut off water and food, but the siege can easily be blocked by the officials and troops from the east and west sides of Luliang Mountain.

As for the artillery, his small artillery was useless against Shizhai, and the number of cannons and ammunition were not enough.

To be honest, Liu Chengzong really has no good way to face this kind of stone bastard.

If the four surrounding strongholds of the officers and soldiers were like this, the Lion Camp would be blocked to the west of Luliang Mountain.

But the good thing is, not every stronghold is like this.

On March [-]th, Tang from the direction of Pu County returned on a fast horse. After finishing the equipment, the officers and soldiers there headed southwest along the official road and turned north, moving towards Xi County.

Immediately, the official army stationed outside Daning County also moved. This army was heading towards Yonghe County. It seemed that it wanted to go around to the north of Xi County, so that the two troops would form a north-south pincer situation.

After receiving the news, the heads of the sentries gathered at Doupo Mountain at the west foot of Luliang Mountain to discuss matters.

Chengyun spread the map on the ground and marked the positions of the four enemy troops. Liu Chengzong instinctively turned his head to Cao Yao.

It's not for asking for advice, but for this situation, Cao Yao should be the most familiar person here.

Cao Yao smiled wryly: "Sarhu's lesson, these people don't know anything about it?"

The same enemy is dark.

Also in the mountains to divide troops into Qi.

There are also a few iron kings who will not move their nests.

Similarly, the strength and combat power of each route are less than that of the enemy.

This is obviously a large psychic formation, which is calling for Nurhachi to appear!

Cao Yao began to analyze the pros and cons: "You have to fight fast, break through one way first, and then break through the other way before they receive the news, and the rest who don't move will die without reinforcements."

"If you want to leave, gather all your strength to break through the Puxian Road, pass through Heilong Pass and enter Linfen."

At this time, Liu Chengzong raised his hand to signal Cao Yao to stop talking, and walked aside with a frown, standing on the steep slope of the cliff and looking at the undulating mountains.

He didn't think about the strategy to defeat the enemy, he was thinking about the general situation.

Think about how they made mistakes to make the officers and soldiers put up this kind of formation.

He would like to call this formation...Nurhachisarhu psychic formation.

After thinking for a moment, Liu Chengzong found the problem.

The imperial court's arrangement for the south of Shanxi was to defend the north horizontally, so Xuanfu and Datong were the first line; Kelan and Daizhou were the first line; Taiyuan was the first line; Fenzhou and Lu'an were the first line.

Relatively speaking, it is possible that Kelanzhou and Piantouguan still have part of the purpose of defending the west, but in Fenzhou Prefecture and Pingyang Prefecture, there is no arrangement for vertical defense of the Yellow River.

Therefore, it is difficult for Fenzhou Prefecture and Pingyang Prefecture to cooperate. They only know that there are reinforcements in the north, but the troops in the south have moved, but the troops in the north have not moved.

The border of two provinces, the border of two prefectures, the border of two counties, and even the jurisdiction border of two Bingbei Roads.

This kind of situation can be created, he realized!
At this moment, Liu Chengzong looked at the shadow of the rolling mountains in the distance, and felt particularly delicate in his heart.

How should I put it, the imperial court is teaching me how to fight the imperial court.

He turned his head, looked at the expectant or doubtful eyes of the whistle chiefs under his command, filled with excitement, clenched his fists and said: "Fight, first hit the thousand-man team of the Puzhou north, and then hit the thousand-man team of the Daning army, The two officers and troops in the north don't move, and if they move, they fight together."

"The battlefield is just south of Xizhou City!"

In fact, there is no other place in this terrain that can be used as a battlefield. The land is full of mountains, and the mountain paths cannot be paved at all. There are only two or three official roads.

The general direction was finalized, and the chiefs of the six combat posts were waiting for him to issue combat tasks.

Liu Chengzong was also unambiguous, and directly said to Yang Yao: "Chief Yang was injured before. This time you will stay behind as a partial teacher. I will leave the heavy post and work post to you. Set up a defense line to the south of Xizhou City and dig trenches to set up a camp."

Although Yang Yao felt that he was not seriously injured and could still command the troops, he still nodded in response.

He has always listened to orders to fight.

It's just that he also had his own doubts, and asked: "I set up a camp in the south of the city. If the enemy troops from the north come, they will sneak into Xizhou City and confront me. I can't beat them."

No matter how strong the built camp is, it is definitely not as good as a city.

Liu Chengzong nodded and said with a smile: "Camping in the south of the city is not camping on the official road. Just choose a hidden place in the mountains to camp and have a retreat. Don't block the officers and soldiers going south. Wait for them to pass before intercepting them and keep them."

It's hard to find after running away.

"Go to Weijiayu."

Chengyun then said: "I can't find it anywhere in the mountain, and it's not far from the official road. A lot of people left in the drought the year before last, and now there are only seven or eight households who stay in the valley and pay some money and food. Since the people work for us, It can also help the people tide over the difficulties, the best of both worlds.”

He pointed out the location on the map, raised his hand and said with a smile to the crowd: "Three sentries will soon have 2000 people. As long as the huts are well located, they will help people to fertilize the land, and a good harvest is beckoning to the people."

"now it's right."

Liu Chengzong smiled and said: "We are foreigners, even if we want to do something to help the people like in Shaanxi, we can't do anything, but as long as we can do nothing to most of the people, the people will definitely treat us better than the local soldiers after a long time. "

In fact, Qiu has committed no crimes, so it is not a high request.

To put it simply, it does not disturb the people, and it is the same as not coming.

But it is not easy to do it, especially in this era, Liu Chengzong is a soldier, he knows it best.

Not to mention the normal frontier army, when he went out to hunt in Yuhebao, he panicked wherever he went, and he had hallucinations when he saw barren mountains and ridges everywhere, and all kinds of things he had eaten appeared and disappeared on the top of the mountains.

Whenever I see a sheep from a common people's house, my eyes light up.

Lively bleating lambs can be depilated, bled, peeled, and sliced ​​directly in the eyes, and the fragrance will come out as soon as it is roasted in the sun.

Just thinking about the feeling at that time, Liu Chengzong asked Liu Chengzong to take out a piece of salt-smoked horse meat from his waist pocket, put it in his mouth, chewed it and said: "Stop the Daning troops in the north, and then guard against the officers and soldiers from Kukongguan and Liulangzhai." , the rest of the people will go south with me, and Chengyun will transfer half of the medical craftsmen to follow me."

"Clean up the official army marching northward in Puxian County, and take Feng's troops as the vanguard."

Cao Yao coughed lightly, and said, "General, let's incorporate the battalion cannon posts into the vanguard. The last time I fought, I wanted to try this style of fighting."

In fact, it was not just the last time, it was the enlightenment brought to Cao Yao when he concentrated on using small artillery to break Li Bei's line.

However, Cao Yao did not explain his thoughts to Liu Chengzong in detail.

Liu Chengzong thought for a while, and asked with a smile: "How do you plan to make it up, push the red barbarian forward?"

Their red cannon has no matching ammunition.

That cannon can fire up to eight catties of solid iron bullets, and the supporting ammunition is two catties of solid ammunition and two catties of four liang of loose bullets.

But there is no supporting ammunition, and the time does not allow casting shells on the spot, so the craftsmen can only make wooden horses, that is, wooden supports for shells, to hit their existing shells.

Earlier when they bombarded Liulang Village, they used three catties of iron bullets, which were from General Li Bei's cannon, and there were also one catty of live ammunition and various sizes of loose seeds. A lot of them were cast in Xingzi River in winter.

Cao Yao was very confident: "Push if you can, it's okay if you can't, don't rely on cannons."

Fortunately, the enemy was the Guards Army who lacked heavy firepower, so Liu Chengzong didn't care about it any more, he just said: "Then I'll see how you fight, just don't lose the cannon."

"But pull it down, I lost the cannon, how can I sleep at night!"

All the generals laughed, Cao Yao really slept all night holding the bronze cannon.

It was only for one night, but later he said that it was too cold, and he had to wait until summer to sleep in his arms.

The marching direction of the troops was properly arranged, and the Lion Battalion organized the soldiers and set off immediately.

Yang Yao, Liu Chengyun and Shi Chengwo camped in Weijiayu, and the brigade followed Liu Chengzong all the way south.

They didn't go very far, but after walking fifteen miles, Wei Qian'er, who had gone forward, heard the news that the enemy army was dividing into two battalions in the field next to the official road to the south, burying pots and making food.

The enemy scouts also spotted them, and the Tang soldiers from both sides fought first, and retreated after each other suffered casualties.

By the time Wei Qian'er's second team of pond soldiers pressed forward, Feng Fen and Cao Yao's vanguard had arrived five miles away from the officer's camp, and the two sides could face each other across the valley and field.

The officers and soldiers shrank to the camp not far away, the thousand-man brigade divided into two battalions was gathering, and the flag soldiers who were cutting firewood in the distance were also running towards the camp.

Although the local posture of the entire Fenzhou and Pingyang prefectures is to put on a Nurhachi manifestation, this official army is obviously not as brave as Juniper.

They didn't even want the camp, they gathered the army and began to retreat steadily.

At this time Liu Chengzong's three sentinels, Gao Xian, Zhong Hu, and Wang Wenxiu, were still hurrying behind. The official road here is narrow, and there are mountains on both sides, so it is difficult to spread out a large group to march.

The troops in front had reached six miles away from the enemy camp, and the last troops were still marching ten miles away.

As soon as he heard that the officers and soldiers in front were about to run, Liu Chengzong hurriedly ordered all the sentries to assemble the cavalry, and rushed forward from the right side of the official road, and arrived at the battlefield as soon as possible to keep the enemy.

But in this way, the marching speed of the main force was even slower.

Fortunately, the officers and soldiers withdrew a mile back, so they stopped retreating.

When Cao Yao sent someone from the front to pass the news back to Liu Chengzong, he said this: "They can't retreat, the road behind is narrow, and only here can spread out the troops."

When Liu Chengzong led his family's cavalry team to the official army camp, the thousand official troops from Pu County had already formed a position in the south.

It is a slope that is high in the south and low in the north.

Cao Yao and Feng Ru had already approached the enemy army one mile away. They formed a brigade across the creek, adjusted their formation slightly, formed a hollow square formation, waded across the creek at a very slow speed, and pressed towards the formation of the officers and soldiers.

Liu Chengzong could see clearly that Feng Ru's infantry and gunners were at the front of the formation, and Cao Yao's gunners were all in the middle.

At least thirty small cannons weighing less than a hundred catties were carried forward by the artillerymen.

There are also six Francophones and general cannons mounted on tricycles, which are pushed forward by the artillerymen.

The red cannon was a bit unlucky, the new cannon cart moved before it was ready, and the four small wheels seemed to be stuck when crossing the creek.

Looking through the binoculars, Cao Yao was pissed off by the gun cart with four small wheels, and he was helpless and furious beside the gun. Finally, he asked his subordinates to raise the breech of the gun and take out the ammunition. The officers and soldiers fired a cannonball.

The officers and soldiers who were shot were terrified.

When the shells entered the battle, the people around them dispersed, allowing Liu Chengzong to see clearly.

The shell hit at least four soldiers, killing one and wounding three.

It hit the tip of the bow that had been drawn first, and the arrow pierced into the body of the soldier next to him, and the broken bowstring scratched the archer's face.

Then a helmet gun was swept off, and the soldier wearing the helmet was pulled and injured to some extent, and finally smashed into the chest of an unlucky guy.

The artillery of the government army also started to fire. They used tiger squat cannons, stuck in front of the front line, and fired all at once.

The momentum was great, but the distance was relatively long, and only a few lead and iron bullets fell in front of the formation.

Then the officers and soldiers began to throw arrows row by row. Because of the slope, more archers could shoot at them.

Thanks to the armor and shields sent by the Fenzhou Wei Banner Army, Feng Ru's soldiers were well protected, and arrow throwing was difficult to be effective. However, several musketeers were hit by arrows and bullets, and were dragged behind by the artillery.

Feng Rou's archers began to fight back, but they continued to advance.

Feng Ru's soldiers and auxiliary soldiers cooperated well. The soldiers shot an arrow and took two steps, and the auxiliary soldiers who served as sword and shield hands also fluctuated accordingly.

Approaching a hundred steps, Liu Chengzong frowned suddenly, this distance is already ready to fire.

The musketeers and bird gunners of both sides started shooting at each other at this distance, and they lined up their guns every few steps, creating a cloud of blood in front of the two armies.

But Cao Yao still didn't fire the cannon, and kept going forty or fifty steps.

Liu Chengzong could already see that the tiger-squatting gunners at the front of the army formation had moved back into the formation, and the archers in the front row put away their bows and arrows and pulled out their waist knives, standing with the spearmen behind them.

Cao Yao's army formation finally moved, Feng Lu's soldiers began to push back, out of the way of artillery fire, a row of tiger crouching cannons and pearl cannons were set down in front of the formation.

The officers and soldiers were almost crazy, and the two officers in the front row drew their knives and led the team to rush down the slope.

The cannon went off.

A puff of gunpowder smoke spewed out irregularly for a short period of time before the formation, creating a cloud of smoke on the front of the battlefield where the two formations were connected.

Liu Chengzong couldn't see that the two armies were engaged in battle. He could only see the flags overturned in the enemy's formation, and the officers and soldiers fell to the ground. Rows of soldiers from the Lion Battalion rushed into the smoke with weapons, and then the officers and soldiers fled in all directions.

　Good afternoon, there was thunder and thunder last night until morning, and I slept through it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)