Chapter 374 The fatal flaw of the green camp
The Zhao army in Dongming was actually "no leader". Some senior officials who knew about the matter were even more nervous and unsure.
Only Feilu can handle it the most.
He has been with Zhao Liang for so many years, but he knows his ability as a master.
So after taking down Dongming County without bloodshed, the Zhao army continued to march northward.
When the pigeon nest in Dongming County received the news and quickly delivered it to Feilu, the acting director, Zhao Junbingfeng was only thirty or forty miles away from Kaizhou.
"The news has been heard in Kaizhou that Hailancha is dead, the Qing army has no leader and is in panic. It is a good opportunity for our army to advance in large numbers."
"Now I order that all the troops act immediately as the Lord's previous instructions. The entire army is moving urgently and must enter the attack position before five o'clock in the afternoon."
Thirty or forty miles are not very far, and you can arrive in a hurry. After the Zhao army took Kaifeng, the mule and horse transformation took a step further.
Although it is unknown how much combat power the Zhao army can have after arriving in Kaizhou, as long as they appear outside Kaizhou City at this time, the shock to the Qing army will be even greater, right?
This is indeed the case.
Hailancha's death made a big joke to all the Qing troops in Kaizhou.
First of all, the Beijing Banner in Kaizhou became chaotic.
Because not only Hailancha, but also the deputy commander and the governor of the Beijing Banner, the highest commander of the Beijing Banner in Kaizhou was wiped out.
After the news spread, the Beijing flag in the city was immediately in an uproar.
The Beijing flag in the city was in trouble, and the green camp outside the city was even more collapsed.
What is this?
I worked hard and finally made it into a defense. I had just disbanded tens of thousands of civilians, but the battle had not yet begun, and the general died first?
The general of Hebei Town was panicked.
With the loss of the main general, the enemy army is in a hurry again. What should we do?
Without Hailancha, he was the general, and it was logical that he could preside over the entire army instead of Hailancha.
But this is just a logical statement.
He was just the general of the Green Camp, and he was a Han Chinese. The flag soldiers would not listen to him first. Then what about the men in Zhengding Town?
The generals and deputy generals of Zhengding Town were all left in Daming Mansion. Only the generals in front of the army were the generals, but can the generals in charge listen to their own words?
This man was dizzy and frustrated for a moment.
On one hand, he sent people to report to Daming Mansion quickly, and on the other hand, he sent people to contact various positions and summoned the generals, hoping that they could all obey their commands.
The latter's feedback is pretty good. Without saying anything, the people in Zhengding Town also agreed generally.
But the general was still worried, because the beauty promised now does not mean that they really obeyed the command in the war.
He could only run away from one position at one time.
As a result, before the morale of the army was comforted, a quick Malai reported that the vanguard of the Zhao army appeared.
This was another big surprise.
The Zhao army had a day left before, so why did the sun come to the front of the crowd before it set?
But he immediately figured out why Zhao Jun arrived so quickly.
He wouldn't have missed this great opportunity.
Even if the Zhao army outside had no combat power, as long as they appeared in front of the formation, it would be a great shock to the Qing army in Kaizhou. The cavalry battalion placed in front of the Zhao army also eliminated the possibility of the Qing army taking the initiative.
Especially when their shells fell on the Qing army's positions.
The general was even glad that it was not dark now.
Yang Lei looked at the Qing army position in front of him. This was a very typical Qing army position, including hills, ditches and rivers, as well as highlands made of digging soil.
"General, this camp is nothing to worry about, it's just a cumbersome."
He told Yang Lei that an old man from Qingshui Cult is called Yang Lei’s former name in Qingshui Cult. This person now has a sense of floating in the clouds and fog. Unexpectedly, after so many years of quietness, they started to shake again.
Marshals Wang Jinglong and Meng Can fought in southern Henan, and now they have bumped into General Yang again.
This person is very excited, very, very excited.
The Qing army arranged defenses according to the hills, sand dunes, and ditches, and dunes and rivers. Many gullies were dug in the middle. It would be troublesome to just fill the gullies.
This does not mean how many people will be lost in the process of filling the gullies, but it will take time.
This person has also fought a war, so he naturally knew that the Zhao army should be fast rather than slow now.
But Hailancha's arrangement is just a delay in time.
More than a dozen defensive positions surrounded Kaizhou City, because Kaizhou City is located on a plain and has no danger to defend at all, but Hailancha is not an idiot, and he will not be stupid enough to distribute the defensive positions on all sides evenly.
What he mainly defended was the north and south sides. There were only two defensive positions on both sides of the east and west sides, while the north and south sides were arranged along the official road, especially on the south road!
This is because Hailancha believed that as long as he controlled the main road, cut off the Zhao army's chariot and horse logistics, and cut off their cannons, it would cause great and profound trouble to the Zhao army.
And Kaizhou City itself is lost.
After the Zhao army seized Kaifeng, the increasingly large group of chariots and horses had become an uncoverable fact.
From a military perspective, Hailancha's choice is really correct.
This is just like the bald eagle army during World War II. Without traffic and logistics, it immediately turned into a soft-legged shrimp.
But he didn't expect that he would die.
The sound of dongbo cannons rang out, and a moment later, mud soldiers splashed on the Qing army position at the forefront of the southern road and dust rose.
But these are all shellings that float on the surface.
The real offensive of the Zhao army was at night, and they were not blind. Compared with the Green Camp soldiers who could not even eat enough, the soldiers of the Zhao army, whether they were in the past or the current treatment, should not be much higher.
Before the Qing army could not solve this problem, the Zhao army was unique in the night battle.
Hailancha thought a lot, but he certainly never thought about this. He is now leading the most common green camp of Daqingguo, which is not a wave of elite combat power selected for him from the army of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.
The general of Hebei Town who replaced Hailancha did not expect this.
It has been the fifty years since Qianlong’s reign.
Isn’t it normal for Daqingguo’s generals to drink soldiers’ blood and eat empty salary? Otherwise, wouldn’t they all be officials drink the northwest wind?
Moreover, the prices at this time also rose sharply compared with those in the early Qing Dynasty, which further led to the fact that the quality of life of Green Camp soldiers was seriously declining.
This is a natural matter for the Green Camp military discipline and the low military quality of officers and soldiers.
"Run..."
"Kill..."
When the night completely enveloped the earth, only a few explosions echoed in everyone's hearts.
The Qing army in Kaizhou fell into insomnia.
When the shouts of killing suddenly came to mind from all directions, the Qing army's reaction was very fast and quick.
However, a large number of soldiers suffer from night blindness, which is an irreparable deficiency.
Chapter completed!