Although Wang Jida didn't have much military experience, as the magistrate of Lushan County, he had seen a lot of bandits and he still had the basic common sense. Once he saw the bandits' artillery and archers, he thought about it for a moment. You know, the thieves in front are definitely not simple!
"It's very possible that the ones in front are the key old thieves in a certain brigade of thieves?" Wang Jida thought in his heart: "Maybe they are still famous old thieves. If they are wiped out, the credit will be comparable to killing thousands of thieves. It's much stronger than ordinary thieves."
After Wang Jida made some calculations, he felt that if he could annihilate these old thieves, plus his original contribution to annihilating the Sky-trading Tiger Division, his further promotion would be certain, and Tongzhi would not be worthy of his merits. It is safe to skip a level and become a prefect.
If he had better luck, if he was ruthless and spent a lot of money, and if he owed some favors and asked his mentors and friends to help push him, he could even hope to get a Nanjing Sixth Subject for Shizhong, and his future would be bright.
After finishing the calculation, Wang Jida took a deep breath: "The traces of the bandit army have been revealed. How long will it take Huang Dusi if he doesn't attack now!"
If this takes too long and the elite rebels on the opposite side run away, how can they be promoted?
To get promoted and make a fortune, you have to fight here. You lowly warriors are not quick enough to rush forward. If you delay my promotion plan, you lowly warriors will not be able to survive!
As for how many casualties a forced attack would cause, that was beyond his consideration.
He is a top three scholar, a serious civil servant, and he will not pay attention to the life and death of those lowly warriors.
After hearing Wang Jida's words, Huang Guangmao didn't even bother to get angry and complain...
This bastard couldn't say anything else except urging him to send troops and rush forward.
Huang Guangmao could only explain patiently that he had to be prepared to ensure nothing went wrong, and he repeatedly assured Wang Jida that he would never let the thieves on the opposite side escape.
Wang Jida was naturally very dissatisfied with Huang Guangmao's behavior, so he repeatedly put pressure on him and even asked him to directly dispatch 300 soldiers to rush forward.
Huang Guangmao resisted the pressure this time. He refused to say anything and stupidly sent his three hundred soldiers to rush forward.
These thieves in front of them are obviously unusual. If he sends his three hundred soldiers to charge forward, even if he wins, he will suffer heavy casualties. After all, the armor coverage rate of his soldiers is not high, so there are only two soldiers. Thirty people only have armor, but the rest don't have armor to protect themselves.
Once you forcefully charge forward and are covered by the enemy's dense arrows, wouldn't it be doomed?
However, Wang Jida still put a lot of pressure on him, and Huang Guangmao had no choice but to do nothing, otherwise he would really be miserable.
So after thinking deeply, he decided that he still wanted to fight, but he couldn't charge directly into the valley so stupidly.
Not long after, Huang Guangmao made the latest arrangement. On one side, he arranged two teams, that is, about 60 soldiers to raid the formation at the back, and at the front were more than 200 county warriors who were used as cannon fodder.
Didn't Wang Jida say that he wanted to fight directly, and he also showed that he didn't care about the possible casualties at all, so he would just let the county brave under him die.
Of course, relying solely on county brave cannon fodder is unreliable. It is estimated that even if the casualties are exhausted, they will not be able to rush through.
The more than two hundred county warriors on the front are purely used to attract the attention of the opposing bandits. It is best to attract their archers. It would be even better if they can induce the opposing archers to continuously shoot actual waves of arrows. .
Archery is also a physical activity, especially continuous and rapid shooting in battle, which requires very high physical fitness. Generally speaking, after an archer shoots more than ten arrows in a short period of time, his physical fitness is basically the same, and he continues to bend forcefully. If you use a bow to shoot arrows, it's not that you can't shoot arrows, but the strength will be much worse, and your muscles will be easily strained.
Once the county warriors in front are able to consume the physical energy of the archers on the opposite side, then our own soldiers used to raid the formation can rush up as the second wave of troops, rush directly to the wooden wall and climb up to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. Avoid suffering serious casualties during the advancement process.
However, despite this, Huang Guangmao still felt that there was a high probability that a frontal attack would not win, so the frontal attack was just a direction to attract the enemy's main force and contain the enemy's forces.
He placed the real main attack direction on the mountains on both sides of the canyon, to be precise, the mountains on the left.
Once we can capture the mountain tops on both sides of the valley, we will have a commanding advantage over the enemy forces in the front of the valley. If the rebels in the valley do not want to die under the cover of their own arrows, they will have no choice but to retreat.
The frontal and two-sided attacks cooperate with each other to put pressure on the opposing rebel army. No matter which side achieves a breakthrough, the final victory can be achieved by one's own side.
To this end, he arranged for a hundred Xianyong troops to attack the hillside on the left, as well as two teams of sixty soldiers.
On the hillside on the right, the same hundred county warriors were arranged, but there were only thirty combat soldiers.
As a result, he directly sent out all the remaining 400 county warriors, and the combat soldiers were sent out to a scale of 150 people.
At the same time, there are more than a hundred soldiers as strategic reserves. If one of the three directions gains an advantage and is recruited for a breakthrough, then he will selectively invest a few more reserves to completely break through the enemy's defense line. .
Investing a large number of troops at once to launch a fierce attack was actually not in line with Huang Guangmao's original arrangement, but Wang Jida put too much pressure on him.
He would always say that the thieves on the other side would run away, and even say a few words about impeaching him...
Huang Guangmao had no choice but to choose a compromise plan.
Wang Jida had no objections to Huang Guangmao's combat arrangements.
Wang Jida's focus is whether to fight, not how to fight.
As long as Huang Guangmao leads his troops to fight, he has no control over how Huang Guangmao arranges his troops or where he chooses as the main direction of attack.
He even had no problem with Huang Guangmao using county braves as cannon fodder. It was just a few hundred county braves killed and injured, and he could replenish them by recruiting them again in minutes.
As long as he can win, as long as he can get enough heads of stray thieves, other things don't matter.
Wang Jida did not interfere with Huang Guangmao's specific deployment of troops, which somewhat relieved Huang Guangmao.
Wang Jida repeatedly forced him to send troops to attack, which was already too much. If he had to carefully interfere with how to arrange the troops, choose the direction of initiative, how many people to send to fight, what tactics to use, etc., I'm afraid Huang Guangmao was about to collapse...
And what about Wang Jida?
He glanced at Huang Guangmao and then looked away.
He doesn't understand interfering with troop formations, and he even bothers to understand!
His Wang family is a scholarly family heirloomed by farming and education. He, Wang Jida, is a top-ranked Jinshi scholar and a seventh-rank county magistrate. All he has learned and applied is the path of a saint.
Learn military art and engage in martial arts?
Disgraceful!
These days, even though civilian officials lead the troops, many civilian officials have the reputation of knowing soldiers, but civilian officials leading the troops does not mean that they personally command the army.
Their real job is actually to issue orders to the generals below and supervise those generals to fight the war.
For example, after shaking your head and looking at the abstract map, you tell a certain general that you must conquer this place. If you can't defeat it, I will kill you and other dogs...
As for how to fight specifically, it's none of their business...
Let’s not talk about distant places, let’s talk about Henan.
Who is the biggest military commander in this area? Xuanmo, governor of Henan.
Xuanmo made his debut in the imperial examination. He was sent out to work as a promotion official, and when he returned to Beijing, he worked as an official in the civil service department and as an examiner in the general examination. He was once dismissed from office for criticizing Wei Zhongxian. After Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, Wei Zhongxian was killed. He became an official again. Last year, he visited Henan with the title of censor of Qiandu and presided over the suppression of bandits in Henan.
If you look through his resume before he became governor of Henan, you won't find a single word related to military affairs.
However, just such a person became the governor of Henan, and then commanded Zuo Liangyu, Chen Zhibang, Chen Yongfu, Cao Wenzhao and other Ming army generals, deputy generals, and guerrillas to fight...
Who knows what the central bosses of the Ming Dynasty were thinking. Let a Kedao Yanguan, who was famous for his work in the civil affairs department and came to power for criticizing Wei Zhongxian, to be the governor of a province. He was not the governor of an ordinary place, but It was Henan that was invaded by hundreds of thousands of thieves and fought frequently.
Isn't that crazy!
You can ask him to troll people, and he is very good at it, but if you ask him to lead troops, he really won't...
He has never been exposed to this stuff.
Therefore, if the Central Plains is being harmed and the bandits are attacking more and more, don’t blame Xuan Mo. Blame it on the big bosses at the center of the Ming court. They chose a troll to lead an army of tens of thousands to fight. They are crazy...
If he can do it, then in future generations he can recruit hundreds of millions of people to serve as governors and lead tens of thousands of people to fight!
Who isn’t a keyboard warrior? It’s as if a big guy doesn’t know how to troll people.
The governors of one province are all big trolls, and further down Ruzhou is guarding Tan Zhengling. This guy has been the county magistrate of two places, and then the Tongzhi, the prefect, and the right counselor. He has nothing to do with the military. This right counselor It was obtained through bribery, but after gaining Xuanmo's trust, he was sent to Ruzhou to guard military affairs...
In fact, most of the other civilian officials who command the army are in a similar situation.
Although many of them have the reputation of knowing soldiers, but 99% of the time they really don’t know how to lead soldiers in war...
It’s not that they have poor abilities or bad character, it’s just that they are really unprofessional…
A fierce man like Lu Xiangsheng who formed and trained his own army, commanded his own troops during the war, and even charged directly into the war, was only an example, and there were not many in the entire history of the Ming Dynasty.
Specific to Wang Jida, he naturally belongs to the majority, the kind who lead troops but don't know how to fight.
If you insist on saying that Wang Jida can lead troops to fight, they will slap you in the face.
I am a civil servant, how can I do anything unworthy of the military?
If you keep making noise, I will issue a memorial to impeach you, hum ╭(╯^╰)╮.
