stubborn thief

Chapter 486 The Second Surrender

On April [-], six days before Liu Chengzong planned to launch a general attack on Gaotai City, an unexpected turning point occurred on the battlefield in Gansu.

To the west of Gaotai, Lin Chengdong, the general of Gansu Cheying who was besieged by Feng Fu's troops, made up his mind and led his army to break through.

Lin Chengdong fought this battle very aggrievedly. The car battalion is not an ineffective and rubbish tactic, but the battalion with the highest cost and the most effective effect. It can be said that it is an iron hedgehog made of silver, with equal strength and equal dispatch. On the battlefield of ability, having a car battalion is invincible.

The chariot battalion is actually the ancient version of the combined battalion. It has both cavalry, artillery, baggage, and cover. When it comes to maneuverability, it is much better than the infantry brigade carrying horses and parading through the streets. The guiding ideology is to invest a lot of resources and independently Solve most problems encountered on the battlefield.

Che Ying has indeed done it, with a high attack and thick blood, it can fight and carry, and its performance on the battlefield is very brilliant. The enemies of Che Ying want to destroy it, so they can only use the most stupid methods and methods, encircling it.

Although this would indeed make Che Ying's death look miserable, always surrounded by people until he collapsed, but in fact only Che Ying would be surrounded to collapse.

Will three to five thousand infantry be surrounded by three times the enemy troops and collapse in the wild?Impossible, the field battle collapsed in three days; three or five thousand cavalry collided with three times the enemy troops in the field, and could only choose between killing the enemy and being killed by the enemy, or being expelled from the battlefield. Nothing to do with them.

There is only a car camp, and being surrounded by multiple enemy troops for 30 days in the wild will not necessarily collapse.

What is the concept of being unable to get support for 30 days in the field?The entire front line has been defeated, the car battalion is motionless, the front line has gone by itself, from the front of the battlefield to deep behind the enemy, which means that the two sides are completely unequal in scheduling, and the war has been lost long before the car battalion collapsed.

Liu Chengzong's method of dealing with the iron hedgehog is also a stupid way, which is to cover it with an iron cage and wait for it to starve to death by itself.

From the beginning to the end, Lin Chengdong fought several battles, but they were not fighting, but struggles trying to perceive external information.

The Marshal's Mansion built walls and dug ditches outside the fire range of the car camp. From the third day of the siege, Lin Chengdong's car camp lost the ability to perceive the battlefield. The iron cage formed by the deep trenches of earth was like an iron curtain. blocked his vision.

On Liu Chengzong's side, the battle line was clearly advancing eastward from the Gobi between Qingshuibao and Camel City. The troops surrounded the high platform steadily.

However, for Lin Chengdong, who was surrounded by three times the troops for ten days, double the troops for five days, and finally surrounded by slightly fewer troops than Cheying for fifteen days, he always thought that Li Hongsi, the deputy commander, was still in the camel. city.

"Camel City is so close, why don't you come to save me?"

Surrounding this conjecture, Lin Chengdong, whose five senses were blocked, was going crazy. He had no idea what was going on outside.

He is not afraid of being surrounded for ten days. He is a little panicked when he is surrounded for 20 days. From 30 to [-] days, he counts the days every day. The food for soldiers is getting less and less. ?

Don't dare at all, if you kill the horse, you will be completely unable to break through.

It shouldn't be too late to break through, at least open your eyes and see what's going on outside.

In the early morning of April [-]th, Lin Chengdong's troops selected [-] warriors and sneaked under the earth barrier with chisels to plant gunpowder. When there was a loud noise in the hazy morning, the whole army abandoned their supplies and pulled out the camp from the gap to kill the surrounding people. Feng's body was taken aback.

The siege battle is not easy, especially when there are not enough troops, there is no way to guard against bandits for a thousand days.

Since five days ago, Feng Ru had sensed that the enemy was preparing to break out of the encirclement. The Ming army's car battalion surrounded by the earth had greatly increased the amount of artillery shells, gunpowder, food, grass, and supplies. Going to break through.

But it’s useless to have a heartfelt feeling. Feng Ru doesn’t know how to tell fortunes, and he can’t predict the day when the enemy will break through. Relying on him, 3000 people surround 4000 people, and every soldier is tense every moment. There is no way to put pressure on the soldiers at this time, on the contrary, he has to find a way to decompress the soldiers.

If there is too much siege and too little conflict breaks out, people will die. If they don't sleep well for three days in a row, the soldiers will go crazy.

Strategy and tactics can determine the upper limit of battle, but it is the organization that determines the lower limit. The so-called organization relies on management. Management is far more complicated than strategy and tactics. The physical and mental state of each soldier will be reflected in the collective at the moment of war. in combat ability.

Therefore, it was difficult for Lin Chengdong to break out of the plan. He thought he was facing a huge crowd of three battalions, but in fact there was only one thousand headquarters in the east, one general in the south, one in the north, one in the northeast and one in the southeast, and no one in the west. people.

In these besieged troops, two-thirds of the soldiers were still sleeping, and the line of defense was penetrated immediately.

Lin Chengdong's breakthrough was in the northeast direction. When the gap was blown open, the [-] troops rolled in in four groups on foot and rushed towards the Camel City.

Feng Fu urgently gathered six hundred cavalry to follow them, and he did not catch up until Luotuo City and defeated it all the way. However, the person who played the most important role in the battle was not him, but Wang Ziyong who happened to appear in Luotuo City.

Wang Ziyong brought more than 200 people, including two artillerymen from Huang Shengxiao's battalion, a total of 24 people.

They didn't have any old or new grudges with Lin Chengdong, and they appeared in Camel City just on the way, passing through Qingshuibao to the Gobi Desert in the middle of Camel City, and the Hequ horse who dragged the artillery was so tired that he could only stop in Camel City for a while. Plus rest.

As a result, after a whole night of rest, when I got up in the morning, I saw a group of Ming soldiers coming to Luotuo City, not to mention the congregation of the Three Tribulations and the Banner Army, the 24 soldiers of the artillery of the Marshal's Mansion were terrified.

Camel City has long been in ruins, and the place where they rested is the defensive position built by Li Hongsi's troops.

When the Ming army came to kill them, they would definitely lose their lives; Huang Shengxiao lost twelve newly cast cannons, and he couldn't spare them. He took twelve thousand catties of red barbarian cannons and ammunition, and saw Feng Ru's soldiers in the dust behind. Without even thinking about it, they stuffed the ammunition and fired at the Ming army.

In a hurry, the twelve cannons were quickly loaded and adjusted in different positions, and the twelve cannonballs with extremely long intervals before and after were not able to hit a single shot.

But the will they instilled in Lin Chengdong's breakout army was very clear: the situation on the battlefield was different from what they had imagined. Those stationed in Camel City were not friendly troops. Camel City had already fallen, and they were now deep behind the enemy's rear.

They didn't know that Li Hongsi led a superior force to pursue Gao Yingdeng, and they didn't know that Gansu general Yang Jiamo was in Gaotai Qianhu City. They only knew that the deputy general Li Hongsi had led his troops to withdraw, and they didn't call them.

The breakout army, which had been out of contact for 30 days, had just regained its ability to sense the battlefield. Although they were still an organized army, their morale quickly collapsed.

The [-] troops were at a loss. They gave up scouting the garrison at the Camel City position in the rolling yellow sand, and only focused on chasing the main force of Li Hongsi's army eastward.

When Liu Chengzong received the accurate news from Feng Lu's Ministry, the entire main force besieged outside Gaotai City was still immersed in the doubt of 'something ran over'.

Since Qingshuibao to Gaotai City has become the supply route of the Marshal's Mansion, an army of 4000 people passed through, bringing news sources from seven or eight different locations to Liu Chengzong. After knowing it, Liu Chengzong realized a very important The problem.

This army fleeing eastward like a big black mouse probably didn't even know that Yang Jiamo was on the battlefield.

The facts were just as he had guessed. On the way of Che Ying's escape, the people who had been attached to the Marshal's Mansion reported to Yin Ruyue, the general manager of the craftsman camp, many times. The Ming army asked them for information many times. Where did the main force go?

Only half a day later, on the evening of the day when Cheying broke through the siege, Feng Ru begged Liu Chengzong outside Gaotai City: "Commander, should our troops enter Ganzhou and continue to pursue Zhangye?"

After thinking for a while, Liu Chengzong said firmly to Feng Rou: "If you want to chase into Ganzhou, have you taken away all the artillery chariots from Cheying?"

"I didn't take them away, but I still left them on the battlefield. I left a head guard. This meeting should have been counted."

"it is good!"

Liu Chengzong's tone seemed very excited, and immediately put down the information sent from various places in his hands, and said to Feng Ru: "Go back and bring all the equipment of the car camp and march into Ganzhou."

Feng Ru blinked, hesitated for a moment before asking: "The commander-in-chief wants us to be a chariot battalion? If we go back to push the chariot, we won't be able to catch up with the Ming army."

Liu Chengzong waved his hand: "It's okay, it's a small victory if you surround them until they give up their heavy equipment."

He didn't say clearly, in fact, he can't catch up with Lin Chengdong now. The soldiers led by that guy have been full for a month, and the army ran with great energy. They ran for more than 100 miles day and night. This thing just wanted to escape. It is difficult for anyone to pursue him.

As long as all the heavy equipment in the car camp was left behind, in Liu Shizi's view, besieging them for a month would be enough.

Even if it is worthwhile to pay three battalions of military rations for one month, which weakens the combat capability of Lin Chengdong's department, what's more, the two or three hundred artillery pieces alone are enough to bridge the gap in the consumption of military rations. With nearly a thousand vehicles and scattered supplies, they won't lose in this battle.

But it's not really a profit, so Liu Shizi didn't show too much joy, he just planned to let Feng Ru set up a car camp, and the imperial court sent all the equipment, so it was useless.

But when Feng Ru went back to get the equipment and marched towards Ganzhou, something unexpected happened to Liu Chengzong. With Lin Chengdong breaking through, the battle in Gansu unfolded in a strange way.

The first time Ganzhou City saw Feng Lu's tribe... Kaesong surrendered.

When the news reached the Chinese military camp outside Gaotai City, Liu Shizi was stunned. He was determined to break through Gaotai City with a strong attack, in order to give a preview of the future attack on Ganzhou City, so as to avoid further losses in the future.

As a result, before the strong attack on Gaotai City started, Ganzhou City surrendered first, and what he never expected was that this was the second time that Ganzhou City had surrendered.

In fact, before Liu Chengzong knew it, the army on the Zhangye Oasis had already become one.

When Gao Yingdeng led his troops to move eastward, the old generals living at home in Ganzhou City mobilized Ding Dengcheng to guard. The army came in pursuit. At this time, the hearts of the people in Ganzhou City were still attached to the soldiers and the people.

But Li Hongsi's soldiers were in a hurry to chase, and the soldiers and horses were not enough to die, so they became friends in Ganzhou. Home, eating and taking at the place where your clan is located.

This behavior itself is very normal. The Ming army is the legitimate ruler of this land, and the source of the army is also local military households and battalion soldiers. It is understandable to go home to replenish and then go to the battlefield.

The bad thing is that Li Hongsi didn't know that Zhang Tianlin was following behind him.

Before his army returned, Zhang Tianlin had already rushed into Ganzhou, which immediately caused chaos in Ganzhou.

Zhang Tianlin was not only the general of the Marshal's Mansion, but also the leader of the independent peasant army in the past. He didn't know that Li Hongsi had scattered the army to various places, but he just entered Ganzhou and spread it out in batches. The six commanders did not expect to occupy the area. , just let the generals under his command use their imagination to spread all kinds of false news in every village and fort along the oasis.

Zhang Tianlin and Wang Ziyong belong to two extremes. Wang Ziyong is particularly good at using superstition and ideas to mobilize the people at the bottom. Zhang Tianlin is just the opposite. He is good at using squires to spread false news.

This is what he was good at when he was wandering in northern Shaanxi in the past. He tried to build a fortress as a sit-in bandit, but at that time he did not have the ability to fight head-on with the army. Basically, it was the state of Heilongshan before Liu Chengzong's rebellion. The officers and soldiers were not willing to cooperate when they came, and the bandits came to rob and would fight with their lives.

Under such circumstances, it is meaningless to make a village agreement with the squires or to do the work of the people. It is better to run around and use them to spread panic and spread all kinds of false news.

In Ganzhou, Zhang Tianlin picked up her old business.

In a blink of an eye, as his army advanced into Ganzhou, Yang Jiamo was captured, died, surrendered, and fled, and Li Hongsi died and fled. Rumors about the state's advance to Liangzhou have been flying around in the sky for a few days.

In order to avoid the spread of rumors from shaking the hearts of the army and the people, Li Hongsi had no choice but to give up pursuing Gao Yingdeng and gather troops to fight repeatedly against Zhang Tianlin's scattered troops on the Zhangye Oasis.

In a short period of time, Zhang Tianlin's army divided into six divisions was attacked everywhere. There were too many Ming troops in Ganzhou. One of his generals was even intercepted three times by the army along the way in one day. The army lost its organizational structure and ran all over the place. , this situation did not improve slightly until Gao Yingdeng led his army back.

The first surrender of Ganzhou City occurred when the organizational systems of Zhang Tianlin's and Li Hongsi's tribes were completely disrupted.

Zhang Tianlin led more than a hundred riders into Ganzhou City from the west gate, occupied the city wall for an hour and a half, set up magistrates, county magistrates, and Dianshi while entering the city, and rushed to the official warehouse to open the warehouse and release grain. He ordered that all the holes of the cannons on the city be crucified, and that gunpowder was buried to blow up the gate hole of the west gate.

Then the Ming army came, and Zhang Tianlin took three county officials across the market and ran out from the south gate, leaving only a handwritten flag of the Marshal's Mansion on the wall of Ganzhou City. Throwing it under the city, Ganzhou City was declared restored by the Ming army.

For more than half a month, it is not an exaggeration to say that Zhangye Oasis has been full of wars. At this juncture, the Feng Lu Department of the Marshal's Mansion entered Ganzhou in a state of a complete car camp, which directly led to the fact that the rumors spread by Zhang Tianlin were confirmed. The Junbao Minzhai with few or no garrisons thought that the Marshal's Mansion had completely occupied Ganzhou.

Ganzhou City, where the West Gate was blown up, had insufficient defenders, and the artillery nailing the embrasures was still being repaired by craftsmen. Facing Feng Lu's troops coming, the defenders had no choice but to declare their surrender for the second time.

Upon receiving such news, Liu Chengzong who was outside Gaotai City was also very excited. Just as Huang Shengxiao's troops escorted the twelve cannons to Gaotai, he immediately applauded and said, "E Zhe, bring a pen and paper, I want to Tell General Feng to send the Ganzhou gentry to persuade him to surrender."

The adopted son Ezhe standing behind him quickly took a pen and paper and spread it on the table. He rubbed the ink and asked doubtfully: "Father, the cannons have been brought in, why are you still persuading him to surrender? Didn't you say that the commander-in-chief Won't you surrender?"

Liu Chengzong picked out a pen, looked at E Zhe and laughed, rubbed his fists and said: "The reason for persuading him to surrender is not to make him surrender, but to weaken the defensive will of the defenders during the siege. Just wait and see, annihilate the frontiers of Gansu." The army's general offensive is about to begin!"

　good afternoon!

　　
　
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