Chapter 29 Tang Shengzong’s fear
"Hu------" Tang Shengzong suddenly stopped on his horse and looked at everything in front of him.
This is a plain with an unobstructed view. Of course, this kind of plain is different from the Henan Plain in later generations. There are two differences. Even in plain areas, the terrain is actually undulating. The reason why future generations cannot see it is because there were a large number of farmland water conservancy projects in the 1960s and 1970s. One of them is to level the land.
Therefore, it presents a vast and boundless plain with no undulations at all.
Furthermore, although the northern part of Shandong Province is also a plain area, there are still some ups and downs due to river topography and other reasons.
Of course, this undulation cannot completely obscure the view. Tang Shengzong could see miles away with just one glance. In his opinion, there was no possibility of hiding a large group of people. He looked carefully at the road again.
It seemed that because of the traces of a large group of people marching, the dirt road, which was not very strong in the first place, was trampled into potholes.
But other than that, Tang Shengzong didn't find any problems.
However, Tang Shengzong still had a sense of danger.
This is the result of many years of experience on the battlefield.
Tang Shengzong asked himself, secretly: "What went wrong?"
Tang Shengzong thought about it again and again. Since he was on the outskirts of Yu County, he had fought consecutive battles and captured many prisoners. At least two or three guard posts were destroyed, and many generals and soldiers from the Beijing camp were captured. The two sides were engaged in civil war, and the relationship between the Ming army and the Ming army was deeply entangled. Tang Shengzong effortlessly instigated several officers to rebel.
Tang Shengzong also understood the inside story of the Northern Army.
There were no problems in these two battles.
Very normal.
"Is it because it's too normal?" Tang Shengzong narrowed his eyes slightly. I thought to myself.
On the battlefield, if everything happens according to your own wishes, there are only two possibilities. One is that the opponent is too good. Another possibility is that you fell into a trap. Tang Shengzong thought to himself: "Which kind is it?"
As far as Tang Shengzong's intentions were concerned, he felt it was the first.
"Master Marquis, what's wrong?" The deputy general next to him stepped forward and said.
Tang Shengzong had a calm expression on his face and said: "It's okay, I'm just getting older and have been resting at home for a long time. I can't bear the hardships of the battlefield anymore. It's ridiculous."
The deputy general immediately said: "Master Marquis, just sit in the rear and guard the rear. I am willing to be the vanguard and capture the rebels."
Tang Shengzong said: "Then it will be hard work."
Although Tang Shengzong felt that the other party was most likely to be a dishonest person, he should be cautious. As the saying goes, the older you get, the less courage you have. Tang Shengzong understood one thing very well. On the battlefield, if you are careful ten thousand times, nothing may happen, but if you are careless once, you may lose your life.
Although Tang Shengzong felt that this ethereal feeling was not enough as an argument for decision-making, he still made a small adjustment. Although Tang Shengzong eagerly wanted to fight a war, make achievements, and announce his return to the entire world. But after all, he is a veteran of war, and as soon as he goes to the battlefield, he instinctively abandons all unnecessary thoughts.
The lieutenant general didn't know what his boss had in mind.
Without hesitation, he took his own cavalry and walked in front instead of Tang Shengzong's. The two teams were separated by one or two miles.
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All this naturally fell into Ye Chen's eyes. Ye Chen bit a piece of grass and swallowed it in one gulp. The sweet grass roots had already been bitten off, leaving behind only the astringent grass juice, which was hard to swallow.
Ye Chen said: "Send the order and prepare."
Ye Chen thought a lot, such as letting the front team go and attacking the back team.
But Ye Chen still gave up.
Without him, I wouldn’t dare.
Ye Chen was very confident in his concealment, but he was also confident in who he was, Tang Shengzong. Although he was not the first-rate general among the founding generals, he was both wise and brave. Once upon a time, he divided his troops before the battle, using false and true tactics to defeat an invincible city.
He really didn't dare to say whether his little tricks would show up in the hands of experts.
Carrying the humanity of tens of thousands of people
Fate, Ye Chen was still timid after all.
Following Ye Chen's order, the soldiers sitting in the trench suddenly lifted the camouflage made of dead branches and leaves above their heads. Countless people showed their heads and took out the muskets in their hands. Almost at the same time, Ye Chen held the whistle in his mouth.
A sharp whistle.
resounded through the sky.
"Boom, boom, boom." It was the mine buried on the official road that was triggered.
The crackling sound was the firecracker fired.
In the trench, a group of three people occupied a shooting position. Take turns shooting to maintain fire output.
In an instant, smoke filled the air. Tang Shengzong's front team had already been overwhelmed.
Tang Shengzong was stunned on the spot. For a moment, I was sweating. My underwear was already soaked.
Tang Shengzong couldn't believe what he saw in front of him.
He didn't need to wait for the smoke in front of him to dissipate to make a judgment. There were two thousand-man troops in the front team. The most valiant cavalryman in the Shandong Army, who had never left the Beijing camp, was gone.
In the blink of an eye, it was gone.
This hit Tang Shengzong very hard. For a moment, Tang Shengzong felt that he could no longer fight. He had been fighting all his life and had never seen anything like this.
On the battlefield, trenches blocking horses are not uncommon, even common. But no one ever dug trenches to hide ambushes.
Why?
Because a cold weapon duel requires a condescending attitude. In a word, gravitational potential energy.
When two people are fighting, it is easier to fight from a high place to a low place. If they are in a cold weapon state, if someone is in the trench and someone is above the trench, it is self-evident who has the advantage. Ambush hidden in trenches.
Too close and you will be discovered. Too far. Loss of suddenness. Might as well hide in the woods.
And even when attacking, you still have to climb out of the trench, which requires physical strength.
On the battlefield, the physical reserves of soldiers are as important as gasoline reserves in mechanized warfare. Every general has to calculate his own wallet and make arrangements carefully. How can he let his soldiers waste more energy before the battle?
Therefore, the fact that Ye Chen's secret was not discovered was not because Tang Shengzong was not careful. But the logic of the battlefield lies here. In the case of a cold weapon duel, hiding in the trench, once discovered, is almost like seeking death.
However, with the emergence of firearms, the logic of the battlefield has changed.
That's where the importance of physical strength gives way to gunpowder, firepower.
In the era of cold weapons, it became possible to use tactics that completely went against the principles of military use.
Tang Shengzong's previous experience was completely useless and even misled him.
In fact, Tang Shengzong didn't care about the loss of thousands of people. Almost all famous generals loved their soldiers like sons and used them like clay. Before going to the battlefield, they were all good, but once they went to the battlefield, they didn't care about it.
What he cares about is that all his combat concepts have completely collapsed.
Unable to explain what was happening in front of him, he smelled the smell of gunpowder from a distance. He himself had seen various firearms of the Ming Dynasty, but he never knew that firearms could be used like this?
"Sir, what should we do?" Everyone around Tang Shengzong looked at Tang Shengzong anxiously.
Tang Shengzong closed his eyes, opened them suddenly, and said, "Withdraw."
Tang Shengzong then turned around and left without explaining.
Although Tang Shengzong didn't know what was going on in the war before him, he knew his current situation very well.
The army is not the same as the army.
Tang Shengzong came to Shandong temporarily to take over the army. Although there were some of his old troops among these people, that happened many years ago. People are going to change. Tang Shengzong did not have complete control over these old troops, not to mention that a considerable part of these armies had nothing to do with Tang Shengzong. Their orders from Tang Shengzong were nothing more than orders from the imperial court.
Tang Shengzong's ability to control this kind of army was actually not high. The ability to withstand casualties is not too high.
Moreover, the cavalry has always maintained its status as the first-class main force in the Ming army. Compared with the Beijing camp and the frontier army, Shan
The combat effectiveness of the Fuli Guards in East and Henan is not good enough. Zhu Yuanzhang even issued an order a long time ago, asking the Fuli Guards to fight in three points and to station in seven points.
In this case, what can guarantee the morale of the army is actually the cavalry and a small number of soldiers. These are the backbone, and the other troops are just support staff or make-up. In modern times they should be called reservists. Of course. After all, this was the Hongwu period. These troops who did not fight much had to maintain a certain intensity of military training and were capable of fighting.
