Soldiers who, deception also
Any warrior will win with the right combination and the most surprising victory
The Art of War says: Those who were good at fighting in the past were first invincible and waited for the enemy to become victorious. The invincible lies with oneself, the victorious lies with the enemy...
When the book is used, it will be less regrettable.
In modern times, these military books and tactics can be easily obtained by just moving your fingers. Just so, as an ordinary person in modern times, Zhang Rui would rather watch a few more episodes of soap operas than waste his brain cells to remember them.
However, these art of war books were not easily available in the Qing Dynasty. At least when Zhang Rui wanted to read them, he found that they could not be found anywhere.
How to provide fire coverage?
Zhang Rui thought hard about this problem in the ambush for a long time.
Therefore, Zhang Rui decided to place the 30 cannons that were rushed out at the front of the valley and protect them with more than 300 pikemen; 600 musketeers were placed on both sides of the valley to conduct the most basic three-stage rotation; Behind the valley were three hundred sword and shield soldiers and the remaining scouts.
If all the troops coming to encircle and suppress were infantry, Zhang Rui would be absolutely confident that he could win the battle he arranged. The only variable that currently worries Zhang Rui is the six hundred cavalry.
Of the six hundred horsemen and cavalry, I don’t know how many belong to the Man camp and how many belong to the Green camp. However, Zhang Rui believes that most of them belong to the Man camp.
How much combat effectiveness did the Manying camp have during the Qianlong period? Having never experienced combat in person, Zhang Rui was naturally a little worried.
Guangxi is a mountainous and bushy land, which provides Zhang Rui with the conditions to defeat the cavalry. After all, war horses can't pick up speed in bushy mountains and are not as good as infantry.
Facts also prove these.
When most of the encircling troops entered the ambush to rest and wait for the logistics convoy behind them, Zhang Rui ordered the attack.
Thirty cannons fired first, followed by flintlock muskets.
Thirty ten-pound iron cannonballs were like death's scythes under the kinetic energy of black powder. Entering the dense crowd, as soon as you touch it, you will see broken limbs and broken bodies, the blood will burst, and it will be a mess.
A salvo of artillery shells was so powerful.
However, the encirclement and suppression army, which had not yet fully reacted to the sudden attack, was once again blindsided by three rounds of firing from the musketeers. For a moment, I didn't know how to resist or find a place to hide.
One thousand two hundred musketeers fired the loaded bullets in a matter of seconds. Excluding the 10% to 20% misfire rate of the flintlock itself and the 20% to 30% miss rate.
Under successive volleys of musketry, the number of casualties among the encirclement and suppression troops was nearly 600.
But this is just the first wave of impact.
"This is the first sudden wave of attacks. I must have lost nearly 800 or 900 of these troops who came to encircle me!" After the first wave of artillery was fired, I was watching the situation down the mountain at this time. Zhang Rui said in a very good mood
As for Zhang Zhishan, who was temporarily retained by Zhang Rui as a staff advisor, Du Mu and others looked at the situation at the bottom of the mountain and were very glad that they did not choose to go against Zhang Rui.
They were impressed by Sixth Brother's ability, a man who could build thirty artillery pieces in ten days. This is more than a little more powerful than the ancient saying of "raising a pole as a flag and cutting down a tree as a soldier."
Looking at the casualties from the attack below, some strange thoughts arose in everyone's mind.
"That's right, don't even think about who Sixth Brother is. If you dare to come here to surround you, Sixth Brother, you have to be prepared to be killed. It's their own fault. They deserve it!" Du Mu said with some flattery.
"That's right…"
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At this time, everyone following Zhang Rui echoed Du Mu's words.
Zhang Rui, who had swept away his worries at this moment, was very happy and "beat" Du Mu with a smile on his face, telling him not to engage in personality worship and deny the credit of the entire team.
The volley of muskets in the valley continued, and now the second volley of artillery sounded again.
"Everyone... find a place to hide immediately!" Li Kaifu, the green battalion commander of the encirclement and suppression army, shouted to everyone.
Suddenly, everyone was running around
Thanks to the sudden attack, even the encircling soldiers did not react. If in a normal battlefield battle, an army would have collapsed if it lost nearly 50% of its men in such a short period of time.
The second wave of shells was not as lethal as the first wave, but it kept bouncing into the crowd of people running around and took away nearly a hundred people without mercy.
Every time a volley of muskets was fired, soldiers from the Green Battalion continued to fall in response.
A young soldier who had just joined the Green Camp Army had been listening to his uncle bragging about his heroic deeds while taking a break a moment ago. At this moment, he just stared in shock at the familiar headless body lying on the ground in the wilderness.
His uncle's head was blown away by the shell, and his brain and blood spattered on his face and clothes.
"Uncle, uncle. Didn't it mean that there is no risk in this siege? Didn't it mean that as soon as we arrived at Zhilian Mountain, those mud-legged people would stand upright and chop them for us? Didn't it mean that if we killed those people, we could grab a lot? Money? Why? Why is this happening? Who can tell me?"
Faced with this bloody scene and this sudden change, the young Green Camp soldier was so stupid that he didn't know where to hide. Instead, he knelt in front of the body of the uncle who had been taking care of him in the Green Camp, crying and shouting.
"Bang..."
Another volley of gunfire
The young Green Camp soldier stopped crying and just followed his uncle. Except for his family, no one cares that he is buried in the wilderness like this. Maybe he can still get the care of his uncle when he goes to the underworld!
The battlefield has been cruel since ancient times
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"Commander Kuyala, the enemy's firepower is too fierce. I will lead two hundred green battalion cavalry to charge the opponent's artillery camp, and you will lead a full battalion of cavalry to disperse the opponent's musketeers. Otherwise, the brothers will all be trapped. Here it is." Kaifu Lee, who was hiding behind a big rock, shouted to Ku Yalanan not far away.
"Okay." Kuyara Nanzhi replied loudly.
At this time, Kaifu Li did not look at Kuyala Nanzhi again. Instead, he turned back to a soldier who was following him and said: "You, run back and tell the Governor and tell him to run away on horseback. The other party is trying to Encirclement. If we don't run, it will be too late."
"Yes, sir." Then the soldier hunched over and ran back.
A while will pass. The sound of the third shelling was heard again
"Sir, the people are too scattered. We can't find all the cavalry brothers." A soldier who was sent to give orders to the green camp cavalry from a distance ran over and replied to Li Kaifu.
"How many more people can we contact?" Li Kaifu asked anxiously
"Probably less than a hundred brothers!" the soldier replied after thinking for a few moments.
"Ignore it and call all the cavalry brothers who can be contacted to rush forward. We can't let the opponent's cannons fire any more." After hearing this, Kaifu Li couldn't care so much, so he gave the order instantly.
"Yes, my lord"
"Boom..."
The sound of the fourth wave of cannon salvos came again
"Sir... Commander Ku Yala ran away with the men from their cavalry camp!" When Li Kaifu came to the assembled green camp cavalry, he was about to mount his horse and charge. A soldier next to him reminded him loudly:
Kaifu Li looked back and saw that this was not the case. Even the infantrymen with many full battalions were fleeing behind the full battalion of cavalry battalions. On the contrary, the Han slaves Aha from the full battalion were rushing forward with weapons to buy their masters time to escape.
"Those who surrender will avoid death..."
The sounds of surrender came from the battlefield.
"General, what should we do?" The cavalry around Kaifu Li looked at him in confusion and asked.
