In addition to the 3,000 people of the surprise attack force, the main Song army of 7,000 people went along the normal road to Lujin Town to relieve the siege.
Their purpose was to attract the attention of the Ming army and make the Ming army think that all Song army reinforcements had gone to Lujin Town to relieve the siege, and there were no more troops to sneak attack the Ming army's rear.
Ma Hongxing had to praise the Song generals' plan, thinking that their plan was indeed very good, but their combat level was relatively poor.
Because the combat power was not enough to deal with the Ming army, it suffered a final defeat. If the outcome of this battle was reversed and the Song army's surprise attack force could in turn defeat the Ming army, then the Ming army's current food route would be in danger.
The Song Army can turn the tide of the war.
Thinking of this, Ma Hongxing couldn't help but think of what Su Yonglin said when he listened to Su Yonglin's lecture in the officer training class - any strategy is useless in the face of absolute strength.
At all times, the strength of the military must be the first priority for military development, and military training, equipment innovation, and the cultivation of military talents must be the top priority. This should serve as the soil and seeds on which tactics and strategies are based. Blooming flowers.
As long as there are soil and seeds, there is no fear that beautiful flowers of famous generals will not bloom in the field of Ming Dynasty's military.
Strategies cannot smooth out the gap in strength, and the strength of the Song army is probably at this level. Even though they are elite and have a certain degree of tenacity, they are not as good as the Ming army.
Ma Hongxing saw the gap between the soldiers of the Song Army and the soldiers of the Ming Army.
At this thought, Ma Hongxing was also very happy, because facts have proven that the combat effectiveness of the Ming army cannot be destroyed by the Song army's strategy. After the two sides' strategies collide, it will be a hand-to-hand decisive battle.
In this case, it is time for the Ming army to turn around and destroy the Song army.
After the Ming army cavalry rested for a while, they followed Ma Hongxing and set off again to make a detour. They rested for a while at night. At noon on April 5th, Ma Hongxing led the cavalry troops to detour back to a predetermined position south of Lujin Town, leaving troops to garrison and spy on the news. After that, he led the army to turn north.
At the same time, Song general Wei You was leading supporting troops to launch a tentative attack on the Ming army surrounded by Lujin Town.
While he ordered his troops to set up camp, he also ordered a small number of elite troops to attack forward. When they encountered the camp set up by the Ming army, the Song army launched a tentative attack and started a confrontation with the Ming army who held the camp.
The Ming army defended sharply, and the Song army could not take advantage, so they had to retreat slightly and report back to Wei You, who asked Wei You to send reinforcements.
Wei You believed that he had encountered ordinary encirclement tactics, and in order to attract the attention of the Ming army and create opportunities for Liu Si, he had to make a bigger noise to let the Ming army know his existence. Only in this way could he fulfill his mission. .
So Wei You personally led three thousand troops to attack the Ming army's camp, but was strongly blocked by the Ming army.
The Ming army seemed to have quickly mobilized reinforcements to support them, using a variety of defensive weapons, including a particularly powerful firearm.
This kind of firearm is in the shape of a ball, falls from the sky, and then explodes with a bang. The violent impact can almost blow the Song soldiers in the surrounding circle into pieces of meat. The Song soldiers closer to the place will also be thrown away sideways by the huge shock wave.
Moreover, the sound of the explosion was so loud that it almost deafened the soldiers' ears. Even if they were not deafened, it would take a while for the tinnitus to return to normal. Almost the first round of explosions halted the momentum of the Song Army's attack. .
Wei You came to the front line in person this time, and of course he saw the huge power and loud sound of the Ming army's thunder cannon, and was shocked on the spot.
"What kind of firearm is this? Why is it so powerful? And the sound is louder than thunder?"
At this time, the Song army was equipped with a wide variety of equipment and a lot of quantity, but the quality was generally poor and the appearance was OK. If they really wanted to kill the enemy, they were not as effective as the divine arm bow.
Especially firearms. There are not many types of relatively reliable firearms. Most of them are types that only make thunder but not rain. Zhentianlei can barely be considered a general among the dwarves, because the sound is very loud and the power... can barely be considered...
However, compared to the Ming Army's Thunder Cannon, the power of the Thunder Cannon is nothing to mention.
Despite this, because this thing was not accurate enough to threaten the integrity of the Song army's military formation, facing the Ming army's overwhelming arrow rain and thunder cannon strikes, Wei You also ordered the Song army to retaliate in the same way. .
The soldiers of the Song army brought trebuchets, thunderbolts and other firearms and fired them at the Ming army, using long-range weapons to fight long-range weapons.
The Song army's divine arm bow was very powerful, and its trebuchets were also a threat to the Ming army, but firearms such as thunder and thunder were really insignificant in the eyes of the Ming army.
Not only are they weak in power and sound, they often become dumb guns. If they are thrown in completely, they will stop moving and have no deterrent effect. It can be said that there is no essential difference from the firearms used by the Jin Army.
However, some strange things were added to these firearms. The smoke was thick and the smell was choking, which made the Ming soldiers quite uncomfortable.
But that’s it. Explosion is the art of firearms. There is no future in adding weird things to it.
On the afternoon of April 5th, Ma Hongxing led the cavalry troops to sneak attack the Song army of Wei You from the rear. The Song army of Wei You was shocked. They did not expect that the Ming army would appear from the rear. In panic, the temporary camp was quickly breached. .
During the fierce battle, the Ming army from Lujin Town, which was originally on the defensive, also rushed out in large numbers. They cooperated with the sneak attack Ming army, attacked from both sides, and soon defeated the Song army under Wei You until it collapsed.
Although Wei You, the leader of the Song Army, was at a disadvantage, he still fought bravely and led his guards to rush left and right in an attempt to break out of the encirclement and retreat.
But he didn't succeed.
Jing Tianyou, the deputy commander of the 1st Division of the Yi Army under Zhou Zhi's command, was brave and good at fighting. Seeing that Wei You was very brave in charging left and right, and the surrounding Ming soldiers suffered a lot of damage, he personally led the cavalry to attack Wei You's soldiers.
The two sides fought bloody battles for about a stick of incense. A large number of Wei You's soldiers died in the battle, and they were gradually losing ground. Finally, Jing Tianyou shot Wei You on the helmet. Wei You fell to the ground as if the sky was spinning and the earth was spinning instantly, and he died.
This battle lasted from dawn to dusk. Wei You, the leader of the Song army, was killed in the battle, and more than a thousand of his officers and soldiers were killed. Most of the rest surrendered, and only a few hundred took advantage of the chaos to escape.
The Ming army won again and annihilated the Song army's reinforcements.
The reinforcements were defeated and the general was killed. In this battle, the Song army had no hope of winning.
On the morning of April 6th, the overjoyed Zhou Zhi showed the battle flags of Wei You's Song army and the bodies of the dead Song troops to Wang Gang's troops in Lujin Town, telling them that the reinforcements had been completely wiped out by the Ming army and that they had no more soldiers. Hope.
When the Song Army of Lujin Town, which was originally on the verge of collapse, saw this situation, they immediately knew that there was no hope. Before Wang Gang could react, the Song Army had already gone into violent turmoil, either escaping or collapsing. cry.
Zhou Zhi gave an order and the Ming army launched a general attack.
The city wall, which was less than a foot high, could not stop the swarming Ming army. In less than two sticks of incense, the Ming army had penetrated the city wall, entered the town, and launched a general attack on the Song army in the town.
Except for a small number of Song troops in the town who dared to resist or even launch a counterattack against the Ming army, most of them had collapsed. They could only run away or hide. However, the small town could not accommodate so many people hiding, let alone a large number of buildings. It had been destroyed by the Ming Army's Thor Cannon before.
The Ming army became more and more courageous as they fought, and the Song army collapsed collectively. Although Wang Gang and some brave generals led their own soldiers to fight to the death, they were still no match for the Ming army and could not restore the defeat.
After fierce fighting for a whole morning and noon, by the end of the afternoon on April 6th, most of the Song troops in the town surrendered and gave up resistance. The small number of Song troops who resisted were completely annihilated.
Wang Gang, the commander-in-chief of the Song army in Lujin Town, was very brave and led his soldiers to engage in extremely fierce hand-to-hand combat with the Ming army. He personally wielded his sword and killed more than a dozen Ming army soldiers, but he was still unable to break out a bloody path and could not escape despite all his strength.
After all the soldiers died in the battle, Wang Gang also exhausted his energy. Seeing the irreversible situation and the murderous Ming army, he was so sad that he committed suicide with a knife.
Wang Gang died in battle.
