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Chapter 362

The conversation was divided into two parts, and Zhu Shuren set the tone that after the basic deployment of the defense around Nanyang was completed, he would lead [-] main forces along the river east to help Nanjing in late October.

In fact, the number of people that Zhu Shuren can take away is not only the [-] combat troops, but also some prisoners who have just been captured. Incorporated, at least [-] Ming troops were brought back, and Li Zicheng was destroyed before, and at least [-] old battalions and tens of thousands of strong men were captured.

Those strong men really have no fighting power, so Zhu Shuren will stay temporarily and be incorporated into the hard labor camp. Some honest people can be directly eliminated and sent to the fields, and the rest can go into battle after retraining and strict military discipline. It won't be of much use, at most fill in the defense line along the Han River, and a reliable main force must be left to supervise to prevent mutiny.

Li Zicheng's more than 2 old battalion and Zuo Liangyu's 5 elite soldiers add up to [-] people. This force's combat effectiveness and fighting will are still acceptable, but its loyalty is very unreliable. Even the veterans of the army, Zhu Shuren did not dare to hand over sophisticated weapons to such hidden troops.

These people need to be reformed and cannot stay in Huguang.Be sure to take it away and monitor it. After arriving in Nanjing, if the war with Duoduo can be delayed for a longer time, it is still possible to provide these troops with a chance to ascend in batches, and give them regularization depending on the degree of loyalty and transformation.

It's just that this process also takes at least a year and a half.It can be said that in the next one or two years, Zhu Shuren will still focus on defense. He has expanded too fast, and there is too much power that has not been digested and completely transformed into his own reliable combat power. needs time.

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In the process of Zhu Shuren preparing to lead troops eastward, Zhang Huangyan's entire process of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness is also doomed not to be peaceful, and will always be mixed with small-scale harassment and infiltration wars between the two sides.

With the deepening of the previous deployment, Zhu Shuren and Zhang Huangyan also practiced on the job, and got new inspirations while doing it, and thought of some serial clever strategies.

For example, during the deployment process, Zhu Shuren thought of a core guiding ideology: the core pursuit of the so-called art of war is to concentrate one's superior forces as much as possible at any time, disperse the enemy's forces, and then use one's own main force to seek to defeat each one.

His plan this time, of course, is for Azig to resist, mainly trying to encircle and destroy, or at least severely damage Duduo's road.

Therefore, in order to achieve better results on the Jianghuai battlefield, while Zhu Shuren took the main force to Nanjing, he also tried to mislead Azig and Duoduo as much as possible, making them mistakenly overestimate the strength of the Ming army in Huguang and underestimate Jianghuai. The strength of the Ming army.

It is best to ask Azige to give Doduo a wrong message: I have dragged the main force of Zhu Shuren's Huguang army to Nanyang and Xiangyang, and we can ensure that 10,000+ elite Ming army main forces will fight against my army in Hanbei!Don't worry about Huguang's main force appearing on the flank of Jianghuai.

In this way, Duduo will be more careless, and even when he sees some accidental opportunities, he overestimates himself and chooses to advance aggressively, thus suffering a disadvantage.

In order to achieve such strategic deception, Zhang Huangyan cannot run to the end in the process of fortifying the wall and clearing the field.
Unexpectedly, he launched a counterattack against Azig's troops who were plundering the four fields. He showed off his muscles and let Azig see that the Huguang Ming Army still had the strength to attack him, thus misestimating the scale of the Huguang Ming Army's combat power and misestimating it as high as possible. , and further linked to mislead Duoduo.

Otherwise, if he was very cowardly when he came up, and he only knew to run away and not fight back at all, how could Azig believe that the Huguang Ming Army still had a strong fighting force?

The so-called seeking peace through struggle leads to peaceful survival, and seeking peace through compromise leads to peaceful death. The retreat also pays attention to the suddenness of the enemy to scare them.

The whole world is a game of chess. The Qing army also has information on how many capable soldiers and elite main forces the Ming army has. If there are more here, it will naturally be associated with less there.

As for how to give Azig a few times during the contraction process, Zhang Huangyan needs to adapt to the situation. Zhu Shuren doesn't have time to stay for so long, and it is impossible to see the decision-making process and results in the first place.

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On October 21, two days after Zhu Shuren himself secretly went south, it is estimated that Zhu Shuren himself had just rushed back to Xiangyang from Nanyang on a fast horse, and was about to send his army back to Wuchang from Xiangyang, and then go to Jiujiang and Nanjing.

On the northern line of Nanyang Prefecture, Yu County, Nanzhao County, and Wuyang County, which are closest to the Azig Qing Army, have been completely evacuated in a panic.Because these places are the closest to the enemy's soldiers' front, the retreat process is also the most hectic, and the supplies have not been completely removed. enemy.

In order to procrastinate for more time here and obtain ample retreat for counties that are far behind, Zhang Huangyan also troubled Zhu Wenzhen's 3000 cavalry in the process, and sent [-] people to harass and detour to respond.

Only [-] cavalry were left in Nanyang County as a general strategic mobile reserve for emergencies.

The 3000 men sent by Zhu Wenzhen were equipped with at least [-] breech-loaded double short-barreled nozzles and [-] revolvers, that is, nearly half of the attacking cavalry were equipped with elite horse muskets-this number, already It is one-third of the new cavalry weapons in Zhu Shuren's army.

In Zhu Shuren's final battle against Zhang Xianzhong last year, the entire army had only more than 2000 of these new cavalry firearms. It lasted close to four thousand.Zhu Shuren left [-] yuan for the Huguang battlefield, which is already the limit, and he will take the remaining [-] yuan to Jianghuai to deal with Duoduo.

Since the second half of this year, the Wuchang military factory has rarely produced such harassing cavalry muskets, and most of its production capacity has been converted to high-precision long-range smoothbore guns for infantry, which is the previously developed, similar to the French Charleville 1763 model.

After all, Zhu Shuren also knew that fighting against the heavily armored elite Qing army, and then focusing on killing and wounding unarmored short-range shotgun weapons, was of little use in decisive battles, and could only be used for harassment and pursuit.

Early this morning, in Yu County, about [-] to [-] miles northeast of Nanyang County, Zhu Wenzhen's cavalry team encountered the cavalry of the Qing army under Azig who came to infiltrate and outflank.

The first frontal encounter between the Ming and Qing armies in the Nanyang area took place here.

The two Banner Manchu cavalry brought by Azig this time are mainly red flags and red flags, so the generals under his command also mainly use these two flags.

The two red flags were originally a direct descendant of Daishan, but Daishan was old and unable to lead troops, and Daishan's second son, Yue Tuo, was on the wrong team after Huang Taiji's death and in the struggle to find a new king. Sin was killed.

Therefore, people in the Daishan family were all suppressed and controlled by Azig to death.This time, the red flag cavalry is mainly led by Daishan's fourth son Wadake and seventh son Man Dahai.However, neither of them has much autonomy in command, and they basically have to strictly follow Azig's orders, making every move.

Zhu Wenzhen's [-] cavalry were in the east of Yu County, and they encountered a Jiala under the command of Zhenghong Banner Wadak, about [-] Manchu cavalry, plus Shang Kexi as servants, and Shaanxi Ming. The traitor of the army surrendered to Zuo Guangxian.

After all, it was only a task of roundabout interspersing and dividing the encirclement. The Qing army had not encountered organized and decent resistance before, so it would naturally underestimate the enemy and would not use large forces.

Wadaq also had a Jiala cavalry, and another Ming army surrendered thousands of people. They came from another direction of Yu County early that morning, intending to outflank and surround Yu County and make an emergency landing.Unexpectedly, Zhu Wenzhen bumped into one of the troops ahead of time for this plan of dividing troops and outflanking, and there was a time difference.

Otherwise, if the left and right groups rushed to the battlefield together, and the strength of the Qing army doubled, Zhu Wenzhen would have to think about how to escape.

Seeing that the strength of the enemy and ourselves was not much different, Zhu Wenzhen also realized that the opportunity was rare, and immediately ordered the whole army to attack very bravely.

On the opposite side of Zhu Wenzhen, Wadak actually discovered the enemy earlier than him, but Wadak didn't have the slightest intention of waiting for the friendly troops to arrive together, and directly ordered his subordinates to quickly approach the enemy.

The one who followed Wadakh was Zuo Guangxian, a general of the Ming army. He was originally a general under Hong Chengchou's command, but he was abandoned by Hong Chengchou before the Songjin battle. He was not captured when the main force of the Songshan Ming army was destroyed. The Qing Dynasty, which was voted later, had just been incorporated into the Han army banner and was still given to the general army.

This man is more stable and insightful than Wadak. He saw that the cavalry of Zhu Wenzhen's troops were well-groomed, and they were similar to the elite cavalry of the frontier army he had seen when he served in the Shanshan Ming Army for many years, even more elite, so he quickly reminded:
"I look at the Ming army on the opposite side, and it seems to be related to Ning Jingrui. I'm afraid it's not the Jiubian elite rescued from Liaodong by Zhu Shuren in the Bijiashan and Tashan battles the year before last? Mr. Zhang Jing, don't be reckless!"

Waddake didn't take it seriously, and smiled contemptuously: "Are you so cute that you still want to show off your eyesight? Even if it's the so-called Guan Ning elite! In the battle of Songshan, Hong Chengchou's 13 people collapsed in one fell swoop, and these are just defeated soldiers!

Hong Chengchou is now sent by the Prince Regent to assist Prince Ying, he will beat them up first, teach them a lesson, and then let Mr. Hong come forward to make an emergency landing! "

Saying that, Wadaq didn't listen to the persuasion, and rushed up directly.

He also deserves his recklessness, who let his second brother Yue Tuo die just a few months ago, Yue Tuo's family was temporarily purged, and many high positions were vacated by Hongqi, so they were promoted to these soldiers who hadn't been in charge for a long time. He was very eager to make meritorious deeds Prove yourself, don't know the severity, it is inevitable to underestimate the enemy.

"Good time! This dog tartar has detoured Yu County to this point, and there must be reinforcements outflanking and supporting him on the other side. Now he has not waited for the rendezvous to charge our army, and he will never come back!"

Zhu Wenzhen saw that the other party was very interesting, and he felt a little settled. He ordered all his subordinates to load the guns and bullets. Taking advantage of the fact that the enemy did not understand the tactics of Zhu's cavalry, he dared to directly post them to charge melee and seize the opportunity to give the other party a disarm!

The two armies approached quickly, and as soon as they approached within two hundred steps, the Qing cavalry began to throw arrows straight ahead in a deterrent manner. Head start.

However, the Qing army did not turn to sweep across and keep a distance after starting to release the arrows. Instead, they continued to charge straight up while releasing the arrows. After preparing to shoot four or five rounds and get close to the face, I will fight hand-to-hand with the Ming cavalry.

Zhu Wenzhen's subordinates generally wear iron-coated cotton armor, and horses also have thick leather protective gear. Some key parts of the horse armor, such as protecting the neck and throat, are also nailed with iron plates for reinforcement.

The split mane-style rapid projectile, because the relative distance between the two armies is changing rapidly, the aiming is not easy to grasp, the two sides have been close to seventy or eighty steps, but they did not shoot down a few Ming army cavalry, most of the arrows barely caught, Also because of the angle problem and the power attenuation, it was bounced away by the iron armor.

The cavalry of the Ming army had soldiers falling off their horses one after another, which did not affect the morale and momentum.

As the two sides were about to enter the face-to-face distance, Zhu Wenzhen yelled, and the Ming cavalry in the front row finally opened fire.

(End of this chapter)