Chapter 396: Night, Double Camp, Prelude to Kill

In many cases, an army's means of deterring the enemy are relying on momentum, or momentum. If the momentum is noisy, the enemy will be frightened and have a low morale, and their combat effectiveness will be reduced a lot. However, the morale of one side will be greatly boosted. When real swords and guns are fighting, they will naturally take a big advantage.

In order to meet the effect of suddenly a light dragon appeared in front of the Tartars, the military supplies of Li Meng's camp were really racking their brains to think about it. Of course, the effect was very good.

The Guanglong, composed of tens of thousands of troops, swayed under the gaze of the Tartar generals and soldiers, set up a camp three miles north of the Tartar soldiers and horse camp. The Tartar soldiers and horses were silent and did not dare to go out to fight.

No matter what the conflict is, no matter what the conflict of interest between the Eight Banners in the camp just now and between Manchu and Mongolian, what disputes do we have about tomorrow's battle and where we will go in the future, there is no sound in front of such a large army, and everyone has nothing to say, and their faces are extremely desolate.

Korqin Beiletulichen was almost mentally broken under his own guard. Fortunately, several mature Mongolian officers kept not letting him make trouble, and he just murmured to himself:

"How could this happen? Why did this happen? It's not that Ming Dynasty is coming to make merits, and my sister won't lie to me..."

The general Abatai and the chief general Tan Tai of Zhenghuang Banner were ordered to not care about any quarrel. Abatai stood in the lookout place and gasped heavily. After finally calming down, he said in a trembling voice:

"Each battalion is on guard, each battalion is on guard, be careful that the Ming army takes the opportunity to attack the camp. Tan Tai, go and arrange it quickly, and the inspections in various places will be taken seriously."

The face of the chief Huangqi governor Tan Tai was pale even under the flames outside. He didn't know what to say. Now that I think about the quarrel just now, I have no place to go. I have been holding it in a long time before I squeezed out a few words and said in a stern voice:

"The Ming army could appear on the flank of our army so suddenly, and there was no news in advance. I guess it was a marching urgently. It was dark and they had to sleep and rest. When the officials led people to steal the camp at night, they completely defeated the Ming army in front of them!"

"Absurd, absurd. You want to steal the camp and lead the two yellow flags to go by themselves. Our soldiers have been tired all day long. You think that the people and horses still have the strength at this time, so why don't you go to patrol everywhere? Those grasslands will follow. If there is no restraint, it will be chaos soon!"

The general Abatai was ordered to speak harshly. The chief of the Huangqi Tutor no longer had the courage to talk back this time. He bowed and led his subordinates who were also dejected to work together to suppress them.

At the moment, the Tartar soldiers and horse camps were completely in agitation, and the so-called curfew was put behind people's minds. Everyone wanted to know what was going on outside. Many camp tents and soldiers in the inner circle didn't know what was going on outside, but the noise outside was louder and more so, the more fear it was.

The commanders of several flags and the leaders of the Zuo led their own soldiers to sway Yala to start suppressing each place. Although Beletulichen was on the verge of collapse, the military generals below still understood some things and sent people to assist the Man Eight Banners in a stable situation. But what would such a move be worth? At best, it would be just to maintain the failure to bomb the camp.

When Tan Tai walked away, Abatai, who was standing on the wooden platform, suddenly felt dizzy and shook it a few times. If Yue Le had not been standing beside him, he would have fallen on the wooden platform with his hand on his hand, and there was no calm expression on Yue Le's face, and he looked anxious and panicked.

"Tonight we will select thirty loyal, brave and reliable flag directors with blue flags, each with a few horses, let them run at night and return to Shengjing to report the news, you... you will follow us. Let's go tonight!"

When Yue Le heard this, his face turned red and he hurriedly said:

"Ama. They are just some Ming troops. We will defeat them tomorrow and go back outside the pass together!"

The noise outside also calmed down a little. Tens of thousands of troops arrived at the expected camping position and were busy working hard tonight's camping and camping, but the light put pressure on people's hearts did not decrease at all. Abatai recovered his spirit and stood up barely. His eyes were always staring at the Ming army over there, and he spoke miserably:

"I'm leaving tomorrow, I'm afraid I can't go back!"

The commander of the first army rarely said such despicable words in front of others, but at this time Abatai was no longer as calm and sophisticated as daytime. He was already in chaos. However, he did not continue to say that he felt sorry for his son just now. If Yue Le left at this time, the Manchu and Mongolian nobles in the camp would be in an uproar tomorrow. After thinking about it, Abatai said:

"If anyone goes to the night raid camp tonight, there is no need to stop them, just let them try it!"

Yue Le usually guards at night. If someone wants to act, without Yue Le's permission, there will be basically no result. However, the meaning of Abatai's words is that he does not agree with Tan Tai's plan to take risks. But if Tan Tai wants to attack the enemy camp at night, he cannot stop it. It is a tacit meaning.

This situation is not safe, so you can try some things if you should try them.

The battle with the Dengzhou army caused the confidence accumulated by the victory of the Ming army for decades to collapse completely. If the Ming army, which was originally marching at night and stationed on their opponents, would have been in the past, a general of the Taurus army would have requested orders to lead troops out of the city, and directly defeated the Ming army opposite and then came back to have a good sleep.

But today's daytime battle made them frightened. They suddenly took into account the combat effectiveness of the Ming army. Moreover, the powerful army in front of them showed no signs in advance. They suddenly appeared at night and blocked their retreat with great power. They must have relied on it. The Tatar army dared to fight, so they thought that the Ming army outside the camp was almost equal or even stronger than the Dengzhou army in the day.

With this understanding, every step of action is extremely cautious...

"I heard that there was such a battle in Sarhu back then. The Ming army held a torch in one hand and weapons in the other. The Tartars were in the dark, and the two sides fought bloody battles at night. As a result, the Tartar soldiers were in the dark and attacked in the chaos. As a result, the Ming army suffered a great defeat in that battle?"

General Zhendong and Shandong General Li Meng's camp was already set up. Li Meng smiled and asked several staff members and military generals around him. This allusion was also the examples and records of various battles he found after becoming a general. Today, he held a torch to demonstrate and march outside the Tartar camp.

But he also wondered whether the other party would adopt the Sarhu story and attack at night. He used a secret attack to attack the light. Of course, the old camp in the territory of Li Meng was already ready to fight back and forth.

The person who could answer such questions was the chief clerk Yuan Wenhong. He also had a tired look on his face. After all, as a literati, he could follow the army on horseback. He was so tired, but he was Li Meng's confidential secretary, and the general did not rest. Of course, he could not sleep here.

"This is just a joke from the notes of the times. When the Ming army came out of the customs of the Ming Dynasty, it was an advantage step by step, but it was a way to advance in a row. As a result, the thief chief led the troops to defeat them from all directions. This was the so-called defeat of Sarhu!"

Li Meng just wanted to relax the atmosphere in this military tent before he talked about this allusion. When Yuan Wenhong explained, he smiled and nodded. Everything was settled, and the fatigue of the march began to rise. He couldn't help but yawn. Several staff members and generals below all bowed to retreat. Li Meng waved his hand and said:

"Don't panic. I will go to inspect everywhere. Everyone should do this. Although this momentum is huge, it is still 120% cautious when it is so close to the Tartar bandits."

After saying that, Li Meng stood up from his seat, and the people around him bowed together, not arrogant or impatient. How to deter the momentum was one thing, but the process and steps that should be done must be done in detail. This is the guarantee of the success of Jiaozhou Camp at every step. Only by completing the procedures that should be done step by step can the possible risks be minimized. In this way, the calculation and chance of victory will be increased, rather than making temporary mistakes and crashing completely.

Li Meng walked out of the tent with his clothes on his body, and his personal soldiers led the horses by his side. These personal soldiers were the most elite soldiers in the Jiaozhou camp, but at this time they were all exhausted. Li Meng asked with a smile:

"Do you want to sleep?"

The personal soldier thought that the commander said this was the editor, and his face immediately turned red. He stood there and stood still, and replied loudly:

"Report to the general, you are not tired if you are humble!"

"Haha, don't be so nervous. I am also tired. I will get up early tomorrow and kill all the Tartars there tomorrow. I'm afraid I will be even more tired at that time!"

The personal soldier stood at attention in a standard military posture, his face full of excitement, and said loudly:

"Please rest assured that the generals will kill the Tartars. Even if they kill for three days and three nights, they will not feel tired. This is a great thing. Brothers are full of energy!"

Li Meng smiled and started patrolling the camp. The soldiers of Jiaozhou camp were different from other troops. After the hard marching and fighting, they could carry out civil engineering meticulously without complaints, and they were not slow to perform the civil engineering project. However, these ordinary soldiers were the same as those of their personal soldiers, and their faces were full of fatigue. But seeing that their commander did not sleep, they were also encouraged by patrolling back and forth, and the fatigue was thrown aside, and they were all full of energy.

At the Mutaiwang Tower north of the Tatar Camp, General Abatai was ordered to care about any rest and other things, and kept staring at the camp opposite.

In addition to necessary lighting, the torches were extinguished in sequence. As the camp was gradually placed in the camp, the thunderous sound gradually calmed down. On the contrary, the camp where Abatai was still in a state of chaos.

The power there weakened a lot, and the Tartar camp also became quieter. Even if the soldiers who were so tired were so panicked, they would have to sleep. If they were so panicked, they would not help the matter at all. Moreover, there were fierce and evil elites in the Manchu Eight Banners outside, so don’t cause trouble.

The camp opposite is at most three miles away from his side. From the noise just now to the camp setting up, it quickly calmed down, as if it didn't take any process.

This rapid change of noise and quiet made Abatai feel cold. The winter night was originally cold, but Abatai, wearing fur, felt like it was falling from the inside out.

It seems that there is nothing wrong with me. The Ming army that suddenly drove at night was really a strong army. I am afraid it is not inferior to the Ming army during the day. General Abatai was ordered to feel that his state was the same as when he was drinking too much. He couldn't tell what was real and what was fake.

Abatai participated in the several entry of the Qing army and the several hard battles with the Ming army before entering the pass. The experience brought him to the experience that the Ming army was worse than each other, getting weaker and less morale. I came here this time. It should be picking ripe peaches. I am afraid that Huang Taiji and the relatives and nobles of all levels of the Qing Dynasty thought so, otherwise there would not be so many young relatives and nobles in Shengjing to come in to make military achievements.

Emperor Taiji had a far-sighted and accurate judgment, and he could make such a judgment. He thought he was not wrong. Ming was indeed weak and unreasonable. Didn’t he come before. The Minister of War of the Ming Dynasty sent someone to seek peace? Didn’t he come before, the Ming Dynasty was defeated by a large army of refugees? Such an old empire has always been rotten from the root to the top of his head. With a slight push, this giant will fall.

After entering the pass from Jielingkou, as he expected, the officers and soldiers of Mingguo along the way could not see the ground. There was basically no resistance. Some officials from some cities were willing to resist and organized effective resistance. However, such resistance was vulnerable under the attack of the army. These were normal and completely expected.

But when it is approaching Shandong, why is this wrong? It is completely out of common sense. How come such a weak empire as the Ming Dynasty suddenly popped up with such an army?

If there were such an army, wouldn’t the refugee army have been pacified long ago? Why is it still so boring now? Abatai is becoming more and more confused the more he thinks about it. His body is also shaking. The few personal soldiers of the Waiyala standing beside him were extremely nervous and reached out to help.

General Abatai was ordered to cough a few times, turned around, waved his hands at the personal soldiers, and said dejectedly:

"That's all the time to look at it again. It's better not to look at it... It's a pity that Hu Lihai shouldn't have been sent to death so early, otherwise I wouldn't have to ask him what happened, and I didn't have to wait so long here."

But at that time, if Hulihai, the Beizi of the White Banner, told him that the cavalry of the Eight Banners in the day was defeated by less than 2,000 infantrymen, but they were beaten to a great loss, Abatai and his subordinates would have regarded this as a fantasy and laughed from the horse.

After struggling for so long, both sides finally became quiet. Night battles were not a good choice for the Tartars, and the same was true for Li Meng.

The location of the Jiaozhou Camp, except for the night patrol staff, the rest of the people were resting. Li Meng was lying on the bed, and the lights of the handsome tent had already gone out. Li Meng couldn't help but smile bitterly at the dark tent roof. He planned the world very well.

But every time the situation is faster than the change. The situation in the world is entirely on its own and does not change according to its own wishes. Since I learned the news in Huai'an Prefecture, the army immediately turned around and began to march urgently.

Relying on the smooth roads of the military stations in northern Nanzhili and Shandong, internal supply and internal mobilization, the army rushed back at a very fast speed. It doesn’t matter if we come back this time. Many of the plans we made in Nanzhili before may have to start over.

"There will be war tomorrow. Go to bed earlier. I don't know if Hong'er has listened to his mother in Jinan, and I don't know how Yun Yao's health..."

Li Meng fell asleep while talking to himself. He vaguely heard a sound outside, but he didn't care. Li Meng just turned over on the bed and slept soundly.

At the beginning of the year, whether it was the Tartar camp or the Jiaozhou camp, they all became quiet. The soldiers had to sleep to supplement the fatigue of the day, whether they were high or low. The Tartar camp questioned some of the prisoners who had been captured in the past, wanting to find out who Li Meng was.

However, the information obtained from these people is not more than the words seen on the flag, which also makes the Tartar generals even more nervous.

Tan Tai, the chief commander of the Zhenghuang Banner, still brought his cavalry out of the camp. Although Tan Tai was the most fussy this night, no one knew that he was almost the one who was most afraid of the Manchu and Mongolian army. During the daytime battle, he led the left wing's rushing formation. Tan Tai asked himself. There was no problem with his command, the morale and fighting spirit of the cavalry below, and the various actions he did when the war started.

But the opponent's infantry not only blocked their own attack, but also launched a counterattack. This is nothing. When the opponent's musket formation came to the cannon formation and led the light cavalry to rush out, the opponent's muskets fired. That was the real nightmare.

At that time, I really thought it was a storm of steel and flames. I saw the two yellow flag cavalry wearing armor and brave, falling down from their horses like fallen leaves in the wind, and extremely quickly. This terrifying storm blew the entire Manchu and Mongolian army.

What kind of army is this? The team led by Tan Tai is just right, and he saw the other party's terror at the closest distance, which made him feel scared.

The reason why he asked to steal the camp at night was that the morale of the entire camp was extremely depressed by the marching and demonstration at night, and he had to take a tit-for-tat action to get it back. The other was that Tan Tai wanted to lead his own soldiers and troops back outside the pass first. He was really afraid of fighting. In this great tomorrow, there would be no such evil everywhere. The return journey would definitely not be so difficult. He could also plunder a vote.

Moreover, Tan Tai had a very clear idea that he had brought the two yellow flags of armor to the outside of the pass, after all, he had preserved his strength for the emperor's personal soldiers. Even if he was punished, he would definitely not die. At worst, he could survive for a few years and he would definitely be able to reach the current position today.

He didn't know whether Abatai knew what he planned, but he knew that when he was leading more than 1,300 cavalry out of the camp just now, Yue Le opened the door of convenience for him, and everything was as quiet as possible. Even when the camp gate here was opened and the roadblocks were removed, the ground was still very quiet.

The horses of more than a thousand cavalry were covered with bridles, and the horse's hooves were tied and wrapped with thick cloth and fur, which ensured as quiet as possible. As for the direction of the advance, the cavalry in the front row was used as the benchmark. Everyone was staring at the back in front.

Under the lights between the two camps, I was not worried about running away. Tan Tai led the people out of the camp, and looked at the quiet opposite, and probably didn't notice any movement here.

But when he saw the arrangement on the opposite side, Tan Tai cursed in his heart that the Ming army camp opposite was 200 steps away from the camp. At a certain interval, there was a brazier, looking at the stars from a distance. If such arrangement is close to 200 steps, the light will be bright, and the traces will definitely be found.

But there is no firearm that can be used to hit so far. The cannons were discarded on the position. The opponent had a camp bar, so he had to dig a trench. Even if he attacked him in front of him, the opponent would react in time and mobilize troops to defend him. During the night battle, he was most afraid of stalemate, but judging by this situation, it was difficult not to be stalemate.

Looking at the entire Ming army camp, there seemed to be a place that was not fully arranged on the east side of the camp. Tan Tai looked over there carefully and found that there was indeed a gap in the arrangement of the lights. After all, it was camping at night. Many of this kind of civil engineering work were completed in a hurry. He was unwilling to spend so much effort and wanted to hurry up and rest.

This may be a breakthrough. Tan Tai approached quietly by himself. There were not many flat lands in this area, either slopes or potholes. If you want to reach Yingzha, there seemed to be no road, so there was no brazier or something to light up.

This may be an opportunity. Tan Tai looked carefully in the dark for a long time, but found that although the road looked uneven, the horse team was not unable to walk.

Seeing this, Tan Tai couldn't help but feel overjoyed. Since fighting with the Ming army, the Ming army would always lose the battle because of some inexplicable problems, or advance several idiots like an idiot, or a small civil servant interfered with the decisions of the main general, etc. Today, this camp may be a gap and a flaw, and the night attack has the greatest effect. As long as you grasp this gap, you might be able to break up the opponent in one go.

On the one hand, Tan Tai sent people back to the camp to report that Abatai mobilized his troops, and on the other hand, he led the cavalry to start moving quietly to the other side. Because of prevention, the sound of the movement was very low, and the Ming army probably did not notice it.

The general who has lost his battle sometimes has a poor mind and makes many tricks, which will lead to greater failure...

Outside the Ming military camp, patrolling soldiers could be seen passing by from time to time. If Tan Tai had been in the past, he might have sent people to kill the sentry, but at this time he was particularly worried about disturbing the Ming military camp and was extremely cautious.

However, this group of Ming troops is indeed very dense. Perhaps it is because of the terrain that the terrain is difficult to move, so few patrolers come here. Compared to the brightness of the Ming army camp, the location of the Qing army camp seems quite dim, and it is difficult to find the location of the people in front of the camp in the dark.

This is also the condition for Abatai and Yue Le to deliberately create a sneak attack on the two Yellow Banner Manchu soldiers led by Tan Tai. At this time, Tan Tai felt that a great opportunity was right in front of him, so he didn't dare to be careless. He held his breath and was waiting for the Ming army's patrol soldiers passing by.

When the Ming army and the local patrol soldiers passed by, the two yellow flags began to slowly approach forward under the leadership of Tan Tai. When they touched the distance of four hundred steps, everyone quietly dismounted. Several of Tan Tai's personal soldiers took out the rope from the horse's floor and began to crawl forward.

The people behind did not dare to make any noise, they were waiting in place. There was no one around the way. Tan Tai was waiting in place and was really excited.
To be continued...