Sun Cheng was a little helpless at the moment.
He also thought about following the Ping An General Lian Keshu City to achieve military exploits.
Unexpectedly, because of a few Yan army scouts, Ping An sent him directly to Xishan.
Although Sun Cheng was very dissatisfied with this, he was only a fifth-level command officer with the rank of General Wujie. He was a miscellaneous general among miscellaneous generals, and there was no way to compare with others.
Now that General Ping'an had given the order, he could only obey the order and act honestly, hoping to clear out the inhospitable place of Xishan as soon as possible, and then catch up with the large army to join the main army, and continue to attack the city and accumulate military merit.
Seeing Xishan right in front of him, Sun Cheng was not worried at all.
He has five thousand light cavalry under his command. Even if he encounters tens of thousands of Yan troops, he can retreat unscathed. What's more, in this small Western Mountain, there are no Yan troops hiding. At most, they are just some stragglers.
Suddenly, the scouts from the front came to report and found a Yan army attacking them. Sun Cheng couldn't help being a little surprised after hearing this. He didn't expect that there was actually a Yan army here, and this Yan army dared to take the initiative to attack!
You must know that the imperial army fought all the way to Beiping. It can be said that the Yan army was retreating steadily, abandoning the city one after another and fleeing, without even any decent resistance.
As a result, the morale of the imperial army was so high that they fought all the way outside Beiping City.
This Yan army is interesting. Instead of cowering on the mountain, it actually takes the initiative to attack.
While Sun Cheng was surprised, he couldn't help but feel a little happy. After all, no matter what kind of cat or dog he was, it was all a military achievement to him!
The promotion system for military attachés in the Ming Dynasty was very strict. Emperor Taizu Gao even personally ordered that no knighthood could be granted except for military merit.
Therefore, if the military attache wants to climb up, he must collect enough military merits!
It turns out that since the end of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty has been peaceful for a long time, wars have rarely broken out, and military officers and ministers have no chance in this life.
Now that they finally encountered King Yan Zhu Di rebelling against him, and wreaking havoc on the entire northern Xinjiang, a group of generals and military attachés tried their best to join the battlefield.
Not for anything else, just for military glory!
Of course, the bulk of this battle must have been taken by top nobles such as Li Jinglong, but a small general like Sun Cheng can also drink a sip of soup with them. Even if he cannot be knighted, he can still accumulate military merit and improve his rank. Mention it up.
Sun Cheng was also a man who had experienced the battlefield for a long time. He was surprised and immediately ordered the entire army to form a formation, preparing to fight the Yan army that suddenly appeared.
At this moment, Su Yang personally led the Shenji Battalion to advance lightly, and did not carry heavy artillery, because it would be inconvenient to advance and retreat, and it would be easy to be strangled.
Therefore, the Shenji Battalion only brought some easy-to-carry Crouching Tiger Cannons in this first battle.
Because the iron smelting technology has not yet been conquered, Xishan firearms craftsmen cannot mass-produce artillery and other heavy firearms. Su Yang retreated to the next best thing and drew a drawing of the squatting tiger cannon, and offered a reward to encourage Xishan firearms craftsmen. Finally, This light artillery came out ahead of schedule.
When talking about the Crouching Tiger Cannon, we have to mention the national hero Qi Jiguang.
When Qi Jiguang was fighting Japanese pirates on the southeast coast, he found that the use of bird cannons and Franco machines was not satisfactory. "Although bird cannons are accurate but weak, they are difficult to defend against large groups, defend dangerous obstacles, and display their power." "Flang machines are heavier." , more difficult to move with a stick." Therefore, the plan was to create a firearm that was more powerful than a bird gun and could defend against large groups of enemies. This was the famous "Tiger Crouching Cannon."
The Crouching Tiger Cannon is "more powerful than a bird's blunderbuss, one can be used as a hundred"; it is lighter and easier to carry than the Franchise. It has strong maneuverability in the field and can control dangerous passes in defense.
The Tiger Crouching Cannon is not very powerful. To put it bluntly, it is an early mortar style. Because the artillery barrel is thin, the range is not very far, about five hundred meters. It is an artillery that mainly shoots in a straight direction.
However, the slender barrel of the Tiger Crouching Cannon makes it more suitable for mountain combat. It is maneuverable and can be fired at large elevation angles and equipped with a large number of grassroots troops. It is suitable for combat areas such as mountains, forests and paddy fields that hinder the mobility of artillery. At the same time, The styles of European mortars in the early period were more advanced.
After all, Sun Cheng was a general who had risen from the bottom of the army, so he had rich combat experience. He found a hillside to form a formation and waited for the enemy to attack from a high position.
The biggest advantage of Qingqi is its high mobility. It can use the force of the hillside to launch a charge, giving the incoming Yan army a head-on blow!
Soon, Su Yang led the Xishan army to the battlefield. In addition to the three thousand Shenji Battalion, there were also five thousand soldiers and horses led by General Xu Xiang.
Seeing that the Confederate army was waiting in full formation, Su Yang did not dare to approach too closely. He stopped at a distance and began to line up face to face.
Sun Cheng looked from a distance and saw that this Ming army numbered about seven or eight thousand people, all of whom were infantry. However, in his eyes, the formations they deployed were in shambles.
This Yan army is divided into two parts, the front and rear. The front of the battle formation is a row of small artillery, followed by three rows of fire commanders, arranged horizontally in a linear pattern, with two to three thousand people covering the left and right wings.
There is only one central military formation in the back, with a phalanx of spearmen and shield soldiers in the middle. The shield soldiers are in front and the spearmen are behind. There is only this and nothing else. It is obviously to protect the Yan army general. Safety!
Seeing this situation, Sun Chengcheng couldn't help but sneered and shook his head.
The Yan army on the opposite side deployed such a different formation, which was equivalent to giving up strategic depth.
As long as the Qingqi of our own army breaks through the fire leader at the front, the entire Yan army's front will collapse instantly and be torn into pieces by the Qingqi!
Although there are spearmen and cavalry behind the musketeers, if you arrange them behind, it is basically useless. Once the cavalry breaks through the front formation, the unstoppable cavalry will take advantage of the victory and rush to the rear. Formation, directly kill the enemy and capture the flag to win!
These days, any cat or dog can become a general!
How dare you command an army when you can't even set up the most basic and common battle formations?
Although the battle discipline of the Yan army in front of them looked scary, the general who commanded it was an out-and-out idiot.
After understanding this, Sun Cheng no longer hesitated and directly ordered all the cavalry to prepare for an attack and quickly rushed across the Yan army's defense line. The infantry followed up to cover up and kill this small group of Yan army in one battle.
At the same time, inside the central military formation.
Xu Xiang's face turned green and he kept giving suggestions.
"Sir, this is not how spearmen and shield soldiers are used!"
"Sir, you have to put them at the front to protect those musketeers and artillery!"
"My lord, they will never be able to withstand the charge of the cavalry. Just listen to the general's advice. It's still too late to change the formation!"
Xu Xiang was almost crying and kept urging him.
He has fought in battles for so many years, but he has never seen anyone put pikemen and shield soldiers at the back to protect themselves!
Why are you going to the battlefield if you are so afraid of death? I've let you run away a long time ago!
Su Yang waved his hand impatiently and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, they can't rush in!"
"My master is deliberately showing weakness to the enemy, making the enemy feel proud and contemptuous, and defeating them in another battle!"
"Don't worry, this battle will definitely be a great victory, just take a look!"
Xu Xiang was stunned when he heard this, then smiled bitterly and shook his head.
"Sir, have you ever been on the battlefield?"
"Hiss...it seems like there really isn't one!"
Everyone: "???"
Damn it?
Go to hell!
