For Huang Guangmao, Funiu Mountain is a strange place, and Songshan Village is a place he has never even heard of before.
Although he led his troops to Lushan County to garrison in the first half of the year, most of the time he was stationed behind Luyang Pass. His main task was to support Luyang Pass nearby, ensure the logistics around Luyang Pass, and ensure the rear of the pass. It is safe, and occasionally he will lead troops to fight a dozen bandits.
Until he was asked to kill the bandits in Funiu Mountain.
At that time, he began to pay attention to Funiu Mountain, but this understanding was limited to the surface. For example, he knew that this was a big mountain and that there were bandits in the mountain.
But he didn't know the details. He didn't even know the origins of the bandits in Funiu Mountain or how many there were.
After leading his troops into the mountains, he once found the so-called Funiu Mountain bandits. Later, he chased these bandits all the way to the west, almost ending up with the Lu family.
On the way, they also wiped out a group of bandits who had fled into the mountain from the south, that is, Ta Tianhu's subordinates.
After the bandits who fled west disappeared, Huang Guangmao returned to Funiu Mountain, trying to obtain enough food and other goods from the villages hidden in Funiu Mountain.
However, even at that time, he did not know the situation deep in Funiu Mountain, how many villages there were in the mountain, how many bandits there were, etc.
It's just that he didn't care much about it at the time.
It doesn't matter how many bandits are left in Funiu Mountain. Anyway, after he leads his army to kill them, he will wipe out all the bandits and then bring the entire Funiu Mountain under control, so that he can obtain enough food.
But what he didn't expect was that first he sent Fei Bingqing to attack the front station and his entire army was wiped out. Even after he surrendered and became a prisoner of war, he didn't know how Fei Bingqing's army was destroyed until he met Fei Bingqing.
And when he personally led thousands of troops to Songshan, he was met by hundreds of thieves. Moreover, these thieves were not ordinary thieves. Not to mention the number of archers, there were even artillery.
This long-range firepower is more powerful than the officers and soldiers he leads.
Under such circumstances, Wang Jida was like a fool and forced him to launch strong attacks again and again, which ultimately led to the destruction of the entire army.
After the defeat, he had no choice but to surrender for the sake of the lives of hundreds of his soldiers, and then became a prisoner of war.
After becoming a prisoner of war, he crossed Songshan Mountain for the first time and entered the depths of Funiu Mountain.
Songshan Village deep in the Funiu Mountains was similar to what he expected. It was just a remote village, and its villagers were all refugees fleeing from various places.
However, what is unusual is the so-called Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp in Songshan Village.
He was a little surprised when he learned for the first time from those bandits that their name was the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp.
The Funiu Mountain Village Protection Camp sounds too formal at first. It doesn't look like a bandit, but rather like some rural brave organizations organized by the government.
After spending a few days in the prisoner-of-war camp and learning more information, Huang Guangmao felt that this rebel bandit was unusual.
Still the same word: formal!
These bandits actually have a formal organization, using the standard camp and sentry organization among their officers and soldiers.
I won’t talk about the organization. The key point is that the tactics and tactics of these bandits are also the same as those of officers and soldiers, and they play more smoothly than their officers and soldiers.
Just like what Huang Guangmao sees now.
After surrendering, Huang Guangmao, who held the title of Senior Staff Officer of the General Staff Office, followed An Yongduo and other rebel generals with an awkward look on his face, watching the exercises of the Baoxiang Camp ahead from a distance.
Just by looking at the formation, he knew that these bandit troops were not simple. The formations of each unit were tight and neat, there was no loud noise, and the formation deployment of each unit was very standard.
It gives people a very formal feel.
Even among the officers and soldiers, it is impossible for many troops to form such a neat and tight formation.
Looking closely, these thieves formed an inverted trapezoidal formation, with three infantry sentries in front and two infantry sentries in the rear.
In the middle of the three infantry sentry arrays in front, there are artillery deployed respectively. On one side, there are three 200-jin light cannons, and on the other side, there are three 100-jin artillery. Huang Guangmao is very familiar with the three 100-jin artillery, because they are It was the three light cannons that he brought to Funiu Mountain and were finally captured by the bandits.
On a low slope to the right of the infantry and artillery formations, hundreds of fine cavalry were deployed, and on the top of the mountain between the cavalry and infantry formations, two 600-pound long cannons were deployed.
The first three infantry sentries have spearmen arrayed at the front, archers at the back to shoot arrows, and sword and shield men at the back to cover or make up for leaks.
On the other hand, the infantry sentry in the second row had a somewhat special formation, with only a spearman in the middle, musketeers on both sides, and a sporadic combination of swordsmen and shieldmen in the back row.
As the formations were listed and the drill orders were issued one by one, the six-hundred-jin artillery fired one after another at a distance of more than three hundred meters away.
Then six 200-pound and 100-pound artillery pieces in the middle of the infantry array fired one after another at the target one hundred and fifty meters ahead.
After a burst of shelling, the archers in the front row began to throw arrows forward. Immediately afterwards, dozens of musketeers from the bandit army also stepped forward and opened fire, thus forming a formation of 350 meters far and nearly 20 meters away. Fire coverage from left to right.
Covered by such powerful firepower, Huang Guangmao could hardly imagine that any other army could rush over.
After the fire attack, the spearmen of the infantry formation in the bandit army began to move forward.
These spearmen are holding spears about four and a half meters long, and they also carry a one-handed saber on their waists, and a small round shield on their backs. However, these spearmen do not use shields or sabers now. He simply stepped forward with a spear in both hands.
At the same time, some of the spearmen standing in the front row were still wearing armor. It was obvious at first glance that these armors were not good armor, that is, they were just cloth armors with a few iron pieces inside, but they could equip a group of spearmen with armor. This is already very good.
As the spearmen advanced, the archers and musketeers followed suit, maintaining a perfect formation while continuing to shoot forward.
At the same time, the cavalry on the flanks also began to attack. They circled from the flanks and killed towards the intended target. It would be fine if these thief cavalry just swarmed over with sabers or spears.
But what made Huang Guangmao's eyes widen was that these thief cavalry did not attack in a swarm, but were divided into three waves, one after another.
And instead of charging directly to kill with a saber, he started to turn when he was dozens of meters away from the intended target, and during the turning process, he bent his bow and shot arrows directly on horseback...
These hundreds of fine cavalry actually played highly difficult mounted shooting, and they played very smoothly.
People who didn't know this looked at it and thought they were elite cavalry from the border army.
Huang Guangmao is a professional general. He has been leading troops for more than ten years. He has seen countless bandits, but there has never been an army of bandits that behaved in all aspects as formal and professional as the bandits in front of him.
how to say.
Huang Guangmao felt that the rebel army in front of him looked more like officers and soldiers than their officers and soldiers. Compared with these rebels, the thousands of Ming troops that Huang Guangmao led before looked more like rogue thieves...
The cavalry in front had completed a round of cavalry attacks, but they did not withdraw from the battlefield directly or watch on the sidelines. Instead, they turned around and temporarily withdrew from the battle, then re-lined up and drew their sabers.
At the same time, the infantry spearmen had also begun to advance a lot forward. The musketeers at the back no longer fired, but stuffed something like a spearhead directly into the muzzle, and followed the spearmen. Keep pushing forward.
The archers also put down their bows and arrows one by one, and instead put on swords and shields, and cooperated with the spearmen in front to make up for the imaginary enemies.
A few minutes later, Huang Guangmao saw the rebel cavalry who had withdrawn from the battle re-formed and charged forward.
Their formation was tighter than before, and they did not use bows and arrows. They all carried sabers and spurred their horses to accelerate.
Amidst the rumble of horse hooves, these cavalrymen launched an intensive cavalry charge towards the open space ahead, well, in the direction of the imaginary enemy. Each of the cavalrymen used their sabers to chop at the wooden stakes acting as the imaginary enemy.
The charge launched by hundreds of cavalry was more powerful and shocking than the previous cavalry shooting.
Huang Guangmao couldn't help but half-open his mouth when he looked at it, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.
What the heck are the thief cavalry who ran out of here? They can play mounted shooting, and they can also perform such a neat saber charge. They can slash sideways on horseback with great ease.
Even the official army rarely finds such elite cavalry!
If you want to find this kind of elite cavalry on a large scale, you have to go to the border army, places like Jiliao or Yulin Datong.
Just talking about Henan, basically only Zuo Liangyu and Chen Zhibang have hundreds of these elite cavalry, and these hundreds of cavalry are basically regarded as their lifeblood by these two people, and they will not easily Use.
Huang Guangmao heard that in the summer, when his immediate boss Chen Zhibang led the army to wipe out a group of rebels, he had used his elite cavalry. It was said that dozens of people were killed and injured in that battle, which made Chen Zhibang heartbroken. For a long time.
Huang Guangmao still doesn't know that the rebel army that caused Chen Zhibang's elite cavalry to suffer heavy losses was the predecessor of the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp in front of him.
After all, the predecessor of the Baoxiang Camp was the Yulin Mutiny Frontier Army. On the way, they were chased by hundreds of elite cavalry and a large number of infantry. As a result, Li Tonglin died in the battle. More than a hundred elite cavalry suffered heavy casualties and only a few dozen people were left. It's not something worth showing off, so naturally no one would say this to Huang Guangmao without any problem.
In Huang Guangmao's amazement, the cavalry sentry had completed the intensive charge required in the exercise, and finally pursued and killed the enemy's broken troops as required.
Yes, according to the exercise plan, the enemy army has been completely defeated by this time.
After all, it's a drill, everything is arranged.
