To the north of Zhuang Langwei, a menacing Ming army unit was driving southward. They were the Gansu General Military Base Camp led by General Chai Shihua.
Before leaving, Yang Jiamo told Chai Shihua that the Gansu frontier army must show their skills in this battle, and they must not have the idea of avoiding the war, otherwise they will be stepped on by guest troops from Ningxia all the time in the future.
Chai Shihua knew that this was the commander-in-chief Yang Jiamo who was reminding him, fearing that he would imitate the army in the east.
In fact, the problem of selling teammates is not exclusive to the Liaodong Army, but is related to the vicious cycle of court politics and the Liaodong war situation. When people get there, all they see are those who can be beaten to death and those who can escape and survive. If you are looking at a strong enemy, you will inevitably suffer from this kind of problem.
Therefore, the generals and soldiers of the Liaodong Army entered the Central Plains and were commanded by the feudal officials, and they became good generals; the good generals of the Central Plains were thrown into Liaodong and were commanded by the imperial military department, and they became long-legged generals.
Chai Shihua joined the army with his father Chai Guozhu since he was a child. After Salhu, he followed his father to guard Shanhaiguan. He had been in the Ming Dynasty's border guards from west to east and had seen them all.
He understood what Yang Jiamo meant. To put it bluntly, he couldn't let Liangzhou Guard Ding Shaoyin's army be annihilated by the Marshal's Mansion... Yang Jiamo was the hereditary commander of the Liangzhou Guard. To use a more feudal metaphor, all the Liangzhou Guard flag troops were Yang Jiamo's family members. , he is the patriarch of Liangzhou Wei’s generation.
A chariot camp led by Ding Shaoyin. The chariot camp is actually an enhanced version of the large phalanx. It has the advantages of the phalanx and the disadvantages of the phalanx.
No one can conquer the world with a phalanx alone, and no one can conquer the world with a chariot camp alone, so the Liangzhou Guard's chariot camp is equipped with 900 cavalry.
What Yang Jiamo meant was that he was worried that the nine hundred cavalry would escape before the battle.
After all, people on horseback are different from phalanx soldiers. When encountering a strong enemy, the horsemen can rush out at any time, leaving the infantry in the car camp to kick in a circle. They will be surrounded for more than ten days and break without attack.
Chai Shihua had heard and seen many times about this situation. After receiving the military transfer order from Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, he hurriedly hurried all the way. After passing Wushengyi forty miles, he saw that he was only sixty miles away from Zhuanglangwei, and finally Let the sergeant rest for the night.
The next day, after setting off for less than twenty miles, the army was stopped by the panic-looking Tang soldiers from the Liangzhou Guards: "General, please rush for reinforcements, General Ding's camp cannot hold out any longer!"
Chai Shihua's eyes widened and his face was full of suspicion. He thought that he didn't see the emergency report from the south yesterday, and asked hurriedly: "The fight started yesterday?"
Tang Bing shook his head and said: "No, this morning the general was waiting to attack the city. The ladder soldiers all rushed to the city. A group of soldiers came out from Qinglingkou in the northwest and rushed straight into the carriage camp without fear of gunfire."
Chai Shihua was happy when he heard this: "If you are not afraid of guns, it will be easy to fight. How can you not hold on?"
Any normal army, as long as it has time, can clean up a car camp fighting alone, but an army that is not afraid of guns and cannons cannot.
Because there is no army in this world that is not afraid of guns and artillery, and there is no army that can fight head-on with chariot camps without the help of fortifications or chariots.
The Eight Banners were considered strong in field battles. Song Wei and Wu Xiang served as reinforcements in the Battle of Daling River and Changshan. One led an infantry battalion of 8,000 men and the other led 7,000 cavalry.
Huang Taiji's 20,000 troops, with eight red barbarians, eighty gate generals, and eighty gate two generals, were divided into two wings. The left wing rushed towards Song Wei's carriage camp, but they did not rush down. They turned around and joined the right wing to rush Wu Xiang away. , turned around and surrounded the 8,000 people in Song Wei's car camp and fired wildly.
They didn't charge through, they didn't destroy him with the bombardment. Later, the carriages came and they protected the guns and gained the upper hand in the shooting stage, and then Song Wei was defeated.
After the war, these 8,000 men were completely wiped out, and Wu Xiang's 7,000 men lost 137.
Chai Shihua didn't believe it. He waved his hand and said, "I know these soldiers are the Cangtou Army recruited by Liu Chengzong in Duogan. Can they storm the car camp?"
Cangtou is an old saying that generally refers to domestic slaves. During the Warring States Period, they were soldiers and servants under the nobility, mostly young people from the rural party. After the Han Dynasty, they gradually became domestic servants, and they could still serve as soldiers in times of war. However, after the Wei and Jin Dynasties, they basically referred to Cangtou. Become a slave.
Chai Shihua knew about Liu Chengzong's stay in Kangning Prefecture because he had been doing business with Turpan in Gansu, and his family also had continuous trade with merchants in Turpan. Turpan knew Liu Chengzong's situation very well, and their envoy was still living in Xincheng. .
"We didn't rush down. General Dante said that without reinforcements, we can only defend for a day and night at most."
Chai Shihua did not ask more carefully about the battlefield situation. Even if he asked Tang Qi, he could not tell anything more. He could only observe it with his own eyes, so he very cautiously asked Tang Qi to clear the way: "The order is sent to the three departments of Qian. General, inform the officers and soldiers at all levels that Tong Ding knows that the carriage camp is trapped, we have to march urgently, and we must rush to Zhuanglang as soon as possible to relieve the siege."
Ever since Hong Chengchou entered Gansu at the end of last year, the General Military Base Battalion, which has one of the best combat capabilities in Gansu Town, has been on alert, always waiting for orders from its superiors, so much so that they have not been able to go home this year.
When Hong Chengchou's order came down, they marched more than 500 miles from Ganzhou to Gulang Gorge in seven days. The order to go to war was issued the day before yesterday. The entire army broke out of the Gulang Gorge early yesterday morning and marched a full 92 miles in one day. Today, I just started my journey and have already walked another twenty miles.
From Gulangxia to Zhuanglangwei, the total length is 220 miles.
Chai Shihua's original intention was to let the sergeants walk quickly for a day in relatively safe road conditions, and then cover the remaining 100 miles in three days. They would take a break after walking 30 to 40 miles a day, which would not only allow the stragglers to walk The sergeant's physical condition can be restored slightly, which can also allow the leading soldiers to support Zhuang Langwei at any time when there is a change.
But now that the front line has urgently reported, Chai Shihua is going to break his promise. After they have walked twenty miles today, they must march another sixty miles to reach Zhuanglang Acropolis as soon as possible.
Yang Jiamo is the hereditary commander of the Liangzhou Guards, so there are many generals and soldiers in this general military camp who are from Liangzhou Guards families, and the friendship between them is closer than that of their fellow villagers.
Therefore, despite the extremely hard days of marching, the sergeants did not complain much. Moreover, they were all soldiers for generations, and obeying orders was written into their bones. It was useless to complain. The general gave the order, so just leave.
On the north side of the Zhuanglang River Valley, the Gansu General Military Base Camp was galloping forward.
In the deserted fields with piles of sand and gravel to the north of Zhuanglang Acropolis in the middle of the Zhuanglang River Valley, Liangzhou Guard commander Ding Shaoyin was locked in a bitter battle.
Basang's Xifan camp took advantage of its unstable camp and launched an assault that failed to break the formation. The galloping Xifan noble cavalry were not afraid of life and death, but this kind of tactics had long been explained thoroughly by Batur Hutaiji. Tuocheng It is a city, and a chariot city is also a city. If it is a city, there is no reason for riding a horse to hit the city wall.
With solid iron cannonballs the size of pebbles flying all over the sky, Basang launched two consecutive strong attacks, but failed to even touch the wooden wall of the chariot city. He could only throw down hundreds of corpses of men and horses outside the chariot camp and retreat in panic.
But on the contrary, Ding Shaoyin's army rushed out three times and was hit head-on by the Western Musketeers.
In the first attack, Ding Shaoyin thought that the two strong attacks had been frustrated, so he asked the sergeants to rush out to kill the enemy's vigor, which indeed achieved good results.
The Liangzhou Guard's cavalry defeated a Spanish musketry column, but was blocked by the heavily armored southwestern infantry behind the column. Ding Shaoyin was worried that the Spanish cavalry would outflank his cavalry, so he offered gold in advance, but failed to expand the victory.
The second attack was because another Spanish reinforcement arrived on the battlefield in the distance. Ding Shaoyin wanted to break out. But just as he was about to rush out, more than 200 remaining soldiers in the city opened the north gate and rushed out pushing artillery. He hurriedly ordered The army rushed to the city gate to cover up the attack, but who knew that these clever ghosts actually slipped back without firing a shot.
When the army turned back, the reinforcements from the mountains also joined the military formation besieging them. The best time to attack was missed, so Ding Shaoyin had no choice but to give up.
As for the third attack, it was because Ding Shaoyin's restraint on the army failed... The flag troops of Liangzhou Guard are all good, hardworking and able to fight hard. They are good at everything, but they are too motivated.
What is the purpose of the soldiers, leaving their wealth and life behind and starving as deserters? In addition to being loyal to the emperor and protecting his family and country, his goal was to strive for the top.
A hundred steps outside the camp, there was a circle of corpses lying there.
No one can ignore this temptation, and those corpses are proof that they fought this battle.
Even Ding Shaoyin sincerely hoped to take back these heads, but he knew the risks of doing so, but when this became the common wish of the entire army, even if he was a general, he could not stop it.
A wise general would not stop him in this situation. He could only use his own talents to command in a safer and more reliable way to help the sergeants get the head back.
If only Basang and Buchi, who didn't know much about the Ming army's behavior patterns, were here, Ding Shaoyin would probably succeed.
The extra soldiers who were supporting him were General A Liu, a civil-level rebel under the command of Liu Chengzong, former Chief of the Yongning Native Soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, General of the Daliang Kingdom, and General of the Yongning Camp of the Marshal's Mansion.
Ah Liu's Yongning Battalion originally stayed at Qinglingkou in the north to guard against Gansu sending more reinforcements.
After all, he had served as a native soldier in his youth and followed the Ming army to conquer Yang Yinglong. He was very familiar with the Ming army's tactics and planning. In his eyes, there were at least two groups of Ming troops coming from the north.
One is the reinforcements from the chariot camp. When the chariot camp and the reinforcements take Zhuanglangwei City, a baggage team will come over and establish a line of defense in Zhuanglangwei.
It's just that Ah Liu saw Basang's clumsy way of dealing with the car camp from a distance, and sent his troops to cover their heads and hit him. The collision made him feel distressed, and then he led his troops to give Basang advice.
But before he could make up his mind, he saw the Liangzhou Army in Cheying trying to come out. He looked around at the military formation besieging Cheying and saw no flaws. He immediately guessed that they were going to grab the head.
Ah Liu told Basang his conjecture. The wizards behind Bu Chi on Basang's side immediately recited spells, and military formations rushed forward to meet the troops that came out.
The two armies fought for a while in front of the formation, and neither could do anything to the other. The Liangzhou army had no choice but to leave more than a dozen corpses and return to the car camp. Finally, the corpses outside the formation were dragged back to the camp by Basang's cavalry.
Regarding the disposal of the corpse, Ah Liu was very decisive: "Commander Ba, where is Aba?"
Basang glanced at the experienced but not serious old general and was in no hurry to speak.
On the contrary, the monk Ngawang who was silently reciting a mantra to his subordinates put down the prayer wheel, raised his eyebrows and pointed at Ah Liu's nose and cursed anxiously: "Abba Abba!"
After he finished scolding, he looked at Basang for help.
Basang doesn't like to talk, but it is necessary to help his subordinates. He told Ah Liu with an expressionless face: "He said you are Aba and he is Awang."
Ah Liu was not angry either. For him, the boring military career required too much fun.
From the bottom of Ah Liu's heart, he did not agree with Liu Chengzong's appointment of assigning him to Basang's command... Basang's brigade was full of bravery, and there were only a few people who knew military matters.
Pasang, who is very smart, is only half, always learning but has no experience; Ngawang is only half, experienced but has no tongue.
On the other hand, the quality of the lower-level officers, represented by the young and old, is just okay.
As for Ah Liu himself, he can only be counted half of it. He has experience and a tongue, but he cannot speak fully in Xifan because he is not from Xifan.
He was a native officer under the rule of the chieftain of Yongning. They were called Moxi in the Ming Dynasty. Because he joined the army and fought at an early age, he spoke the Han language better.
What he envied most was that the gas sent by Changhe West would be assigned to serve as a general in Xie Erhu's Mongolian brigade.
In the Xifan Brigade, Ah Liu felt that his state was one of depression and frustration. People who are frustrated always have to have a pastime. However, the custom of the Moxi people is that men and women should not marry until they are married. From the perspective of others, the inheritance of marriage and having children is extremely important. Clan means nothing to him.
Ah Liu is already over forty this year. He does not expect to lead troops back to Yongning to get married in this life. He will be promoted to a general and make a fortune. He does not have much desire for him who has been wandering all his life.
People in the Xifan Brigade can live better than gods without fighting, but when fighting happens, there are almost no reliable comrades around, and the probability of survival is very low.
So Ah Liu had already found three small goals for himself before his death: quarreling with Awang, wrestling with Zhao Fu, and racing with Liu Guoneng.
Today he accomplished something, and he was very satisfied. He smiled at Basang and said, "Commander Ba, we can't fight this battle like this. Don't talk about the reinforcements. If the camp in front of you adopts my suggestion, keep them and eat them." Can't even run away."
Basang nodded and motioned for him to continue.
Then I heard Ah Liu say: "Let Aba burn the bones of the fallen soldiers first. Here, we will set up a stage one mile away from the camp, so that the troops in the camp can watch them burn."
Basang looked puzzled and asked: "Build morale?"
"Shuai Ba seems to be right in thinking so."
Cremating and burning relics according to noble standards can indeed increase the morale of the soldiers. Ah Liu shook his head and pointed to Checheng Road, which was surrounded a mile away: "But what is more important is to kill their morale. When the Ming army goes to war, what they want is the enemy's leader. Level, without a head, it means this battle is in vain."
As he said this, Ah Liu thought that the Xifan camp was actually a mixed camp composed of Fan soldiers, musketeers, noble cavalry, and Han army artillery officers, so he said: "If the Han soldiers die, just transport them to the rear and let the three generals see where to bury them." , when the Fan soldiers died, they were cremated according to noble standards, and they were not allowed to obtain the corpses. This is more important than the people who killed them."
Basang nodded and motioned to the left and right. A team of people under his command immediately went out to collect wood. Monk Awang also began to prepare to perform rituals to send Fan Bing's soul to the other side.
Then he continued to ask Ah Liu: "What's next?"
"I have looked at the artillery of the car camp. They are all small cannons. If the shells fall two to three hundred paces, it is safe one mile away. Our Lion Cannon fires levelly at 170 paces and shoots upward at the maximum distance of 500 paces, but it can't break through." No chariot."
As Ah Liu spoke, he took off his small saber from his waist and sketched it on the ground: "There are many of us. We will surround one mile outside the car camp and dig a trench eight miles long. The excavated soil will be used to build earth wall cannons behind the trench." The wider the trench, the better. Encircle them, and even if reinforcements arrive, they won’t be able to escape!”
"The Xifan Camp is good at soil construction." After saying that, Ah Liu stuck his saber in the middle of the circle on the ground: "Kill the reinforcements, and the Che camp... will be destroyed without attacking."
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