stubborn thief

Chapter 473
The invincible general lured in the silence, but Tang Tong, who belonged to the tactics, was indifferent to all this. Instead, he suffered two heavy artillery bombardments. An elite artillery team lay down in the Gobi under the spray of [-] scattered particles. Pillow.

The frontal firearms could not be suppressed, and the frontier horsemen wearing red cloth armor on the flanks were swimming more and more anxiously. , Trying to rush forward under the leadership of the management team.

There are even scattered riders dismounting and going around the mountain behind the formation, or projecting or rushing into the formation.

But a few big arrows with sticks thicker than fingers, and a few skilled and brave soldiers are still useless to the battle situation. What they have to deal with is not the grass bandit who just put down the hoe from the field, but the same killing as them professional soldier.

The brave charge was repulsed again and again, and the courage degenerated into admonishment to the chief to retreat. The voice of the soldiers was finally conveyed to Tang Mingshi's ears layer by layer, and he could only accept the failure helplessly.

It's not because the position of the Marshal's Army is unbreakable, he always firmly believes that they are all soldiers, no one must be better than anyone else, and there are more of them and fewer opponents, the Marshal's Army must not be able to last for too long.

But the Tangqi scattered around the battlefield were reporting, and the Marshal Juntang Army squads rushing from afar were outflanking them, making it helpless to issue an order to prepare to retreat.

If they don't retreat, the situation on the battlefield will soon become that there are few of them and many opponents. .

Tang Tong cherished his words like gold in this battle, and did not intervene in the command of the officers of the two ranks of the brigade commander and the hundred commanders under the thousand headquarters. There were only two orders. Fill in a few three-dollars, and the second is to stop the crooked Liangzi from wanting to attack.

But this does not mean that Tang Tong is calm and calm. His wide-eyed eyes are very nervous, and he reveals a strong anxiety from head to toe. The corners of his mouth that twitch from time to time and his fingers that have nowhere to rest reveal an indescribable excitement. .

Only Tang Tong knew... He won, and he was about to win!

At a certain moment, the crackling of gunfire scattered in the gunpowder smoke on the opposite side of the battlefield became violent again, and the invincible general suddenly opened fire with his two doors like crazy, and even the Baihu Benz, which had never been used, wobbled and screamed. Xiao shot the rocket.

Tang Tong jumped up suddenly and shouted, "Crooked Liangzi! Li Baliang!"

The crooked beam who covered the sky with a shield from the rockets heard the call, and he felt that his boss Qian was a lunatic. When others were excited, he was indifferent; when others were scared, he jumped up excitedly.

Crooked Liangzi stared at the shield all the way, listening to the jingling on his body, and from time to time he was pierced by the arrow that pierced the leaves of the nails from the rocket that hadn't run through the nitrate. He ran to Tang Tong and asked, "General, What's the matter?"

"Chuan, prepare to chase the enemy!"

Crooked Liang Zixin said that I chased your grandma for a leg, this is obviously the enemy army preparing to attack and fight to the death: "General?"

There was a sound of shelling from a distance, and scattered pieces swept across the formation. Most of the soldiers kept short and hid behind the shelter. A few soldiers in the formation who had no time to dodge were shot and exclaimed. Tang Tong ignored the crooked beam. doubts, just said the seemingly meaningless: "Six!"

At the same time, the others had already gone back to lead the horse. Li Baliang, who fell to the ground in the shelling, was late and looked at the crooked Liangzi with a puzzled face. They looked at each other, and saw Tang Tong coming back with the horse The two of them hadn't moved yet, and said anxiously: "Wai Liangzi led the left commander to pursue the enemy, and Li Baliang led the right commander to mount their horses to stop the enemy's cavalry from fighting with them!"

Seeing that the reaction of the two was still half a beat slow, Tang Tong grabbed the crooked Liangzi's red cloth-faced iron armor and put his face close to his face: "Either you take care of the wounded soldiers, and I'll make a contribution!"

The two generals didn't intend to disobey the military order, just because Tang Tong was a surrendered general. Under normal circumstances, the order Tang Tong gave was what they wanted to do, so there would be no problem; On the contrary, the two subconsciously would not regard these words as military orders.

With hindsight, the soldier's instinct returned to Crooked Liangzi's mind, he exchanged a glance with Li Baliang, and hurriedly clasped his fists to accept the order.

The two generals have diametrically opposite backgrounds, one is a Ningxia frontier citizen who joined the army, and the other is a Yan'an salesman who is a thief. Both of them have limited education, but they both know military orders like mountains.

Because they have suffered.

This principle cannot be learned by defeating the battle alone. Those who disobeyed the military order and escaped first and survived will still flee in the face of difficult battles.

And Wai Liangzi and Li Baliang happened to be the two people who were killed by the first to escape, left behind and survived.

Crooked Liangzi was still He Huchen's soldier during the First Battle of Huanglong Mountain. During the retreat, the guerrilla general Shen Guangxian's rout broke through the second line of defense, causing him to be captured. He joined Liu Chengzong with his officer Dai Daozi.

Li Baliang voted for Luo Rucai, and those events were blurred to him. He only remembered that before they had time to eat that day, Ai Mu's cavalry kicked their camp clean while roaring. When the arrow flew, he didn't know anything.

After waking up again, it was three days later that Luo Ru sent someone to rescue him on the bumpy donkey cart. There was no medical treatment, and if he didn’t wake up again, he could only find a ravine and throw him away. .

In fact, it was his identity as a salesman who saved him. He traveled around the village to sell goods and buy goods. He knew where there were rich and good homes.

They don't know what to do on the battlefield to survive, but they all know that what to do on the battlefield can kill more people.

The soldiers of the left general commander were ready to go behind the earth barrier in front of the formation. Finally, after a short pause after the last shelling of the enemy formation, the loud and high-pitched suona sounded in the middle of the marshal's army.

Sporadic blunderbuss still rang out from the gunpowder smoke that had not dissipated in front of the enemy's formation, and lead pellets fired blindly shot the gunpowder smoke out of densely packed holes.

The artillery chief took out his double-breasted cloth-faced iron armor from the truck carrying the shells and gunpowder. The red cloth had long been dyed black by the gunpowder, but he still put it on outside the chain mail without hesitation and fastened every buckle. , looked back at the soldiers in heavy armor, and gave the last order for this battle.

Dust oscillated during the firing of the heavy artillery, and immediately after the lead pellets and iron bullets pierced through the gunpowder smoke, boards were laid in the trenches one by one, and one after another, the guards in red armor and tasseled guns and bowls on their heads stepped onto the ground. base.

A snow-bright goose feather sword belonging to the Marshal's military management team pointed straight forward on the earth barrier, and the clear blade reflected in the gunpowder smoke.

With the banners flying, it finally came to the battle stage where the gunners of the Marshal's Mansion were best at. Ten columns charged the Ming army's line that was still covered by gunpowder smoke with a structure of swordsmen in front, guns and spears in the back, and archers on both wings.

Contrary to Wai Liangzi's expectations, as if Tang Tong had the ability to predict the future, his subordinates were not attacked by any lead pellets and arrows during the advance.

The shield surged and broke through the gunpowder smoke, and people's eyes suddenly opened up, but they found that what greeted them was not a forest of spears and spears, but the backs of the Zhenyi army rushing to beat horses.

The Ming army ran away, and when the artillery began to roar for the last time, they put the wounded soldiers on chariots and horses, and retreated northward one by one carrying as many corpses as possible.

Only the cavalry on the two wings served as the palace troops, and the possible pursuit was delayed, but obviously they couldn't care about the pursuit now, because Li Baliang's cavalry had already rushed towards them.

In the vast Gobi desert in the southwest of Zhangye Oasis, the two armies were divided into two groups and four groups, and they fled and chased after rolling the billowing sand and dust.

On the periphery of the battlefield farther away, Gao Yingdeng is leading the army to the battlefield.

Just a moment ago, Gao Yingdeng, who was sure of victory, was pleasantly surprised by Tang Tong, holding back twice the enemy force, creating a fighter opportunity for a perfect annihilation.

Tang Tong carried the battle to this stage, it doesn't matter what kind of combat power the reinforcements have, this Ming army has already lost.

Because politics is a game, war is a tool, and using a tool is an act, and an act has its purpose. Therefore, there is only one way to win a war—to achieve the purpose.

As for casualties, losses, and enemy kills, all the numbers are just appearances that quantify the results of the war for intuitive reference.

In this battle, Gao Yingdeng didn't know what the purpose of the Zhenyi army's sending troops to the south was, but after all, the purpose of the Zhenyi army was definitely not to run away but retreat with a hammer.

Now that Tang Tong has not been annihilated, has not retreated, and successfully lured the enemy to fight, there is no doubt that the winner of the conflict is Tang Tong.

Even if there is only one person left in Tang Tong's thousand headquarters, and only one person dies in the Ming army, the Ming army will lose the battle.

Since they lost, their morale would inevitably be affected, not to mention that they failed to achieve their goal with double the strength on the front, and they were already frightened.

As long as they see the reinforcements from the Generalissimo's Mansion arrive at the battlefield - Gao Yingdeng thought to himself, the orders given to him by the Generalissimo can be fulfilled easily.

Just at this time, the Tangqi scattered in the periphery brought news of a change in the situation: "General, the enemy soldiers on the Gaotai came out in two groups, one in the south and the other in the west."

There was no specific number of troops divided between the two groups for the first victory that was sent back alternately by the flags of the Tang soldiers, but Gao Yingdeng had a good idea of ​​the number of enemy troops on the Gaotai. There were [-] to [-] Ming troops, which was by no means a number that he could deal with independently.

Even in Liu Chengzong's strategy to lure the enemy, he didn't take that army group into consideration... This in itself is a very outrageous thing. The enemy army has worked hard to build camps, how could they all come out of the fortifications?
Tang Bing's victory can't go wrong.

It is true that the accuracy rate of Yijie is not high, but it is for long-distance complex information. This kind of simple information that only includes the movement of the enemy does not contain accurate quantities, and the transmission distance is still short, so it is difficult to make mistakes.

The two routes of enemy troops, from north to south, wanted to meet the defeated Zhenyi army. Gao Yingdeng was easy to guess; while the route from east to west seemed to be trying to block Gao Yingdeng's retreat, it was also easy to understand.

But this is not right.

Gao Yingdeng's advance stopped, and while he asked the Tang soldiers to send the information to Liu Chengzong in the rear, he secretly thought about the reason why the enemy troops came out in full force.

He was trying to lure the enemy. Tang Tong himself was marching outside the shelter of Tangqi. After the battle broke out, his position was also found out by the enemy Tangqi. It seemed understandable that Li Hongsi tried to gather troops to destroy him.

But the problem is that the Ming army should not be the only one who knows the movement of the Marshal's army, but Mo Yujing, who led the Mongolian soldiers to build a dam on the upper reaches of the Heihe River.

Gao Yingdeng thought to himself, they surrounded themselves completely, but threw the fortifications built on the high platform to Mo Yujing?This doesn't make sense.

Thinking of this, he ordered Tang Bing: "Tell Mr. Tang Qian the news, and spread out to the east, wait and see the high platform, they should have reinforcements coming."

Today's battlefield situation has become several semicircles centered on the Tangtong Ministry. To the north of Tangtong is the retreating Zhenyi army, and to the north of the Zhenyi army is Gao Yingdeng who is trying to intercept. Si surrounded.

Fortunately, with Tang Qi's help, Gao Yingdeng has a full understanding of the conditions he is in.

There is only one problem before him, and within a limited time, choose the optimal solution from several options such as annihilating the Zhenyi army, joining Tang Tong, and escaping from the encirclement.

The first thing he gave up was to wipe out the Zhenyi army. There was no time for him to surrender, clean up the battlefield, or completely kill nearly [-] troops, otherwise he would lose the chance to escape from the encirclement.

There are two opportunities to escape from the encirclement. The first is to abandon the Tang Tong Department and turn to the west. There is a possibility that they will collide with the Ming army that marched west, and there is a great chance to run to join Liu Chengzong.

The second is to join Tangtong, but then it will be a step too late to go west. You must rush to the Ming army, or run east from the only direction that is not closed in the encirclement, and that side may bump into the troops who are rushing from the Ganzhou guards. coming enemy troops.

There is no silver bullet.

At this juncture, Tang Tong, who received the information, actually sent a letter to Gao Yingdeng, telling him to leave him alone and retreat westward.

Gao Yingdeng was stunned for a moment while clutching the letter. For the first time, he felt that this surrendered general from the government and army not only fought well in battle, but was also very affectionate and righteous.

But in fact, this is not Tang Tong's consideration for the friendly army, on the contrary, he is afraid that waiting for Gao Yingdeng's rescue will slow him down.

Faced with this situation, Tang Tong, like Gao Yingdeng, has many choices on the surface, but in fact there is only one optimal solution.

He thought about surrendering, but even though he was at the innermost side of the encirclement, his side, including the troops in Gao Yingdeng's camp, were in danger, but within the scope of the large battlefield, their encirclement just showed that the generalissimo had succeeded in luring the enemy.

The Ming army would do this, and Tang Tong believed that the reinforcements from the east must have come. Gaotai Camel City will soon have new defenders stationed, so that Li Hongsi can free up his hands to come out in full force.

And Li Hongsi went south without waiting for the confluence of the two armies. Obviously, Liu Chengzong's plan to lure the enemy has reaped a lot of great success... Originally, he wanted to lure one of them and weaken the defensive force of the fortifications. Now tens of thousands of troops have come out, and Gansu is evenly matched. The situation will soon be broken with a battle.

This means that surrendering to the Ming army is not a wise choice, so the remaining options are false surrender, meeting Gao Yingdeng to break through, and breaking out alone.

On the one hand, Tang Tong didn't think that Gao Yingdeng would come to rescue him, on the other hand, even if Gao Yingdeng came to save him, in Tang Tong's view, it would be a waste of time, and no one would be able to get out of the combined army.

In fact, it was Tang Tong who wanted to leave Gao Yingdeng behind, because Gao Yingdeng's target was bigger, with more troops, and his marching speed was obviously slower.

Both of their armies were heading west. Tang Tong didn't need to run faster than the Ming army, as long as he was faster than Gao Yingdeng. He could even turn around and take part in the rescue of Gao Yingdeng.

Unexpectedly, Gao Yingdeng was very moved by his letter, and directly gave up the option of retreating westward, and made up his mind to join Tang Tong first, and then break out to the gap in the east of the encirclement.

The messenger came over on a fast horse on the Gobi: "Mr. Tang Qian, General Gao ordered you to gather troops and horses quickly and march to the northwest. He reassured you that the Marshal's Mansion will not leave any subordinates behind."

Tang Tongguang wanted to slap both of himself.

If Gao Yingdeng didn't pass the letter, maybe Gao Yingdeng really wouldn't come to rescue him. It would be better to pass the letter. When the order came, he led his own troops to run to Liu Chengzong, which was disobedience.

Half an hour later, Tang Tong, who gathered his troops and marched northwest, saw the kind and righteous Gao Yingdeng.

Gao Yingdeng was still holding a letter in his hand, and handed it to Tang Tong as soon as they met. It clearly stated information from the Chinese army: The Tangqi Department has already found out that the Ming army in Gaotai Camel City has a full strength of 4000 people. The car camp is advancing westward, trying to copy the back of your camp.

Gao Yingdeng smiled and said to Tang Tongdao: "Let's go, there is a car camp in the west that can't be eaten, let's go east...The next battlefield is the commander's."

　good afternoon!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)