Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 370
To be honest, Huang Degong's army is the strongest among the four towns. Maybe the military drill is not as good as Yang Chao's army, but his veterans are much more than Yang Chao's.

Huang Degong was already Uncle Jingnan before Beijing was captured, and he was an Earl who was born out of fighting with a knife and a gun.

This person is nicknamed Huang Chuangzi, a Kaiyuan guard, with extraordinary courage. It is said that he stole wine when he was young, and his mother blamed him. At that time, Liaodong was in chaos. Huang Degong laughed and went out with a knife. Said that it can be exchanged for reward money and wine money.

After that, Huang Degong joined the army and led the Beijing camp, which had little combat effectiveness. Instead, he repeatedly made military exploits. The title of Uncle Jingnan was obtained by him following Ma Shiying in suppressing the Henan rebels.

The soldiers under him fought against Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zi several times, so there are many veterans.

Such an army, as long as there is discipline, is an elite soldier.

And Huang Degong's military discipline is very strict, and it is enough to show that he can not rob the people in troubled times.

With such an army, it is natural to be able to fight Zuo Liangyu, a bandit soldier who does all kinds of crimes, such as burning, killing and looting.

Sure enough, when he was in Taiping Mansion, Huang Degong joined Wang Pu's troops to attack Zuo Liangyu. The Zuo army was defeated by the two of them, fled all the way west, and was finally wiped out.

After Yang Chao surrounded Wang Pu, he naturally heard the news about Huang Degong. Wang Pu was still quite dissatisfied with this person, naturally because Huang Degong competed with him for meritorious service.

But Huang Degong has a good impression of Wang Pu: "No wonder you can break [-] from [-] million. I have never figured out when this tartar became such a waste. I saw your army today, so I believed it. Said The fact that the seven armies were flooded with water is all false, and in the end it is the knife, whoever has the best knife can win. Your soldiers are strong enough and ruthless enough, I am not as good as you!"

Huang Degong said while describing. He was talking about the army led by Wang Pu. Wang Pu always likes to fight and charge. This time, Yang Chao wants to wipe out Zuo Liangyu's army as soon as possible. The rout of the army, encircled the two routes first, and wiped out its main force. Therefore, Wang Pu was even more violent, attacking and advancing frantically. The scene where Wang Pu's army was like a meat grinder made a fierce general like Huang Degong feel helpless. Feeling cold.

"I don't understand. How do you train your soldiers? What kind of formation is it? I have been in the army for decades. I have seen mandarin duck formations, car formations, and broken ball formations. In the end, I still If you want to see blood with a knife, I can't understand your formation, it's like a copper wall and an iron wall."

Huang Degong ate and talked.

Yang Chao smiled and said, "Thank you, General Huang, for your praise. From now on, my formation will be called Iron Wall Formation."

Yang Chao's new wall array was only started after Haizhou. Naturally, the shield is used as the wall, and the idea of ​​​​both offense and defense is used.

This kind of formation has high requirements for step training, and it cannot be done without strict step training.

Because once it is chaotic, the phalanx will be scattered.

Now Yang Chao's new-style phalanx, the first three rows are bird gunners, the last three rows are archers, and the last three rows are crossbowmen.

There are 1000 people in each row, a total of 9000 people, and 1000 cavalry are reserved. It is a solid formation that can attack, defend, and pursue. Soldiers are used to forming a wall formation. In fact, it is a comprehensive large formation composed of multiple layers of wall formations. Upon hearing Huang Degong's praise, Yang Chao felt that it really meant an iron wall and an iron wall, so it might as well be called an iron wall array.

As for the wall formation, of course he didn't give up, it was just a deformation of the iron wall formation, and it was an impact formation launched when charging.

Yang Chao has already canceled the pure spearman formation among them at this time. The 9000 soldiers are long-range attacks, but each soldier has been trained to assassinate, so after killing the enemy from a long distance, the enemy will only take the opportunity to let go if the enemy is close. When they reached the shield wall, the whole army switched to spears and attacked, defeating the enemy at once.

After a meal, Huang Degong made it clear that he came to discuss with Yang Chao how to deal with Zuo Liangyu's defeated soldiers.

Too many captives.

There is only one way for warlords to treat captives, and that is to recruit them. Although Huang Degong has strict military discipline, he is also a warlord. He is also greedy for soldiers like Zuo Liangyu. If he can be recruited, his strength will surpass the other three towns in one fell swoop.

"Of course whoever catches it counts!"

Yang Chao said.

Huang Degong was dissatisfied and said: "No, no, I rushed over after receiving the news, who knows that you were the first to take the lead. You have taken advantage of it. Give me some points, at least half of each person!"

Although Huang Degong was stationed in Chuzhou and Hezhou, he was nominally under the control of Shi Kefa, the supervisor of Jiangbei. When Shi Kefa's orders came to him, Yang Chao's army had already arrived.

Yang Chao shook his head and said: "Let's not talk about this for now. Although the Zuo Army is defeated now, there are many deserters, at least 8 to [-]. General Huang should work with me to encircle and suppress these rebels. After that, I will divide you into half." !"

Huang Degong was satisfied. Yang Chao looked down on these soldiers who had completely lost their military discipline, and even lost their wayward desire. The moment the knife was raised to slaughter his compatriots, Yang Chao could no longer tolerate them. He wanted these soldiers to go back. It is definitely not to be incorporated into your own army, but to make them do hard labor until they die.

"Have a good time. This town toasts you!"

The four towns in Jiangbei were originally the chief soldiers, and the chief soldiers were already the highest military officers in official positions, but after they opened the town in Jiangbei, they were called town ministers, to distinguish them from ordinary general soldiers, and they were also called chief towns. Each of them has many general soldiers.

Soon after Wang Puqing wiped out the rebellious soldiers nearby, he also returned to the camp to rest. When he saw Huang Degong at Yang Chao's place, he immediately raised eyebrows and raised eyebrows, almost fighting.

Yang Chao didn't want Wang Pu to fight him, and Huang Degong needed to cooperate at this time, because Yang Chao had other plans.

"Wang Pu, I'm leaving immediately. You stay here to cooperate with the Jingnan Hou Qing to suppress the rebels. You must not let a single rebellion cause disaster to the village. I will give you ten days, and after ten days, go directly down the river." Guazhou, I am waiting for you in Yangzhou."

Wang Pu was somewhat reluctant to cooperate with Huang Degong.

"If you don't want to, then let many men stay, and follow me to Yangzhou to defend the city!"

Wang Pu was even more unwilling to give up the credit for clearing up the chaos.

"Let's stay!"

Yang Chao smiled, comforted him, told him to stay and drink with Huang Degong, and asked him to drink Huang Degong.

Then the two roughs began to fight for wine, and they couldn't fight for real, but the wine rack could still fight.

Yang Chao took Yuan Jixian and immediately went down the river in a boat. There were only the personal soldiers led by Zhao Kang and many elite soldiers in the men's hands on the boat.

In Nanjing, Yuan Jixian was put down, and at the same time, he wrote a memorial to defend Yuan Jixian for the crime of losing the city. He hoped that the imperial court would continue to appoint him as the governor of Jiangxi, and send troops to recover Jiujiang with him. It was still in the hands of these rebels.

Yang Chao didn't have time to deal with such rebels. The imperial court randomly sent out an army with the emperor's edict. When Zuo Liangyu was destroyed, he believed that those rebels would rebel again.

Yang Chao didn't even get off the boat, and immediately rushed to Guazhou, heading north to Yangzhou.

The tense situation does not allow Yang Chaoyu the slightest delay.

Fortunately, there was no delay. The situation in the north was beyond Yang Chao's expectations. The Ming army in Jiangbei did not stop the Qing soldiers at all.

After the Duoduo army quelled the rogue bandits in Henan, they went south to Jianghuai. The first to bear the brunt was naturally the Gaojie tribe guarding Xuzhou and Sizhou.

Gao Jie's army should be regarded as the most effective army in the four towns.

However, when the main force was assembled and defended by heavy troops in Sizhou, they were defeated by the elite of the Eight Banners led by Doduo. Gao Jie fled. Kill, Gao Jie's troops are in chaos.

Shi Kefa was sitting in Yangchao at this time. Hearing the defeat in the north, he was panicked and ordered all the soldiers to concentrate on Yangzhou. He even planned to abandon all the cities north of Yangzhou and concentrate his troops to defend Yangzhou. Jiangnan.

After receiving this order, Gao Jie's remnant soldiers immediately collapsed along the canal, robbing as much as they could along the way, but they were refused to enter the city after passing through Huai'an, so they plundered all over the country and continued southward!

After fleeing to Yangzhou, they began to reorganize!
Gao Jie was killed, and all the soldiers entered Yangzhou. Shi Kefa ordered them to station outside Yangzhou city, and allocated rice and grain for relief.

Soon Gao Jie's remaining troops stabilized. Although more than half of the troops were lost, only about [-] people were left, but the main force was still there. Gao Jie started from the peasant army and was a general under Li Zicheng. His status was even higher than that of Liu Zongmin now. It should be regarded as Li Zicheng's number one man.

Therefore, his army is actually composed of the same army as Li Zicheng's. The core force is the peasant army who followed from the northwest. These people fought from northern Shaanxi to Sichuan, and from the northwest to Jiangnan. Most of China has flowed through countless times. He has long been used to being broken up, so his core was able to be completely preserved under the collapse, which has to be said to be due to experience.

And the main officers are all there, so apart from the loss of the main general in the battle and some instability in the army, the combat effectiveness is still there.

Shi Kefa temporarily appointed Gao Jie's general Li Benshen as the admiral to temporarily lead Gao Jie's army.

But at this time, the other three towns in Jiangbei, which were not attacked by the Qing army for the time being, suddenly jointly wrote a letter: "Gao Jie has no merits, arrogant and murderous; Please divide it among the generals."

Seeing that Gao Jie was killed in battle and his troops were damaged, Sanzhen even came up with the idea of ​​annexing Gao Jie's generals.

This move made Officer Gao Jie panic from top to bottom.

At this moment, Yang Chao rushed to Yangzhou City.

Shi Kefa was reprimanded by the three towns, apparently completely lost control of these warlords, he was useless as a supervisor, and when he saw Yang Chao's arrival, he seemed to have found the backbone, so he quickly invited Yang Chao to discuss the military situation together!
(End of this chapter)