Chapter 33 Suppression (Part 2)
Since the start of training, Chen Wen has always used infantry as the main force, not only because of the lack of war horses in his hands, but more because of the terrain considerations.
But because of this, when he was in this flat area, the cavalry advantage of the Qing army was immediately revealed. After many military discussions, he decided to let him and the accompanying cavalry team delay the time for the infantry in the first game. So, seeing that the Qing army's cavalry had moved, he immediately issued an order according to the established plan.
"General Chen Shen, hold the Tatar cavalry on the left wing!"
"I will obey the order."
After holding his fists and saluting, Chen Guobao rushed to the left wing of the Ming army with less than a hundred cavalry under his command. At this moment, under Chen Wen's general flag, there were only a team of engineers and a team of bird gunners. Such a large number of troops and corpses could not face the cavalry of the Qing army. At this moment, the part of the cavalry that came out of the left wing of the Qing army directly bypassed the Ming army's infantry and came straight towards Chen Wen.
It rained all night long, and the boat was late and the wind was on the head.
If it were someone else, he would almost certainly feel this way at this moment, but for Chen Wen, this was exactly what he needed!
On the battlefield here, the Green Camp soldiers, who were the backbone of the Qing army formation, had already been defeated by the Yuanyang Formation of Nantang Camp, and the left-wing regiment that had been behind had inexplicably stopped in place, and had no desire to contact the Ming army at all. Only the right wing was still moving forward, but their advance speed was slower than when the Ming munitions team members continued to shoot.
Originally, when we learned that the Qing army organized a group of regiments to train troops to participate in the war, both Chen Wen and the officers under his command were not interested in this, because the regiment training in this era was far from the Hunan Army in the late Qing Dynasty. With the armed forces like the Huai Army, they could even work hard to build camps and defend themselves, and field battles were definitely not opponents of the regular army.
Therefore, during the military discussion, the officers accompanying him did not take the regiment training seriously, but the weirdness of these regiment training at this moment still made Chen Wen and Lou Jiye, who was in command of the battle, feel a little puzzled.
However, there was not much time left for him to continue hesitating. The cavalry led by Chen Guobao had already collided with the Qing army. After using the three-eyed guns he had seized before to suppress the Qing army's slight momentum, he rushed forward. However, the Qing cavalry on the other side went straight around the Ming infantry battle formation and headed straight for Chen Wen's general flag.
"Order, the killer team of the Yuanyang Formation becomes the third formation. The two-wing firearm team no longer has to care about the training of the regiments. They concentrate all their firepower to attack the green camp soldiers and fight me to death!"
With the advantage of the wolf wielding formation, the killer team of the Yuanyang Formation quickly completed the formation change. When they converted to the Xiaosan Cai formation, they began to attack violently like rows of arrows, tearing the Qing army's formation. However, when the Qing army faced this sudden change, they still had no means to deal with it. Retreat was no longer the main theme. This musical score composed of Qing army infantry has gradually changed to retreat.
However, the Qing cavalry here was not far from Chen Wen's general flag. Relying on the cavalry's advantage, the Qing cavalry, who wanted to capture the thief and the king, headed straight to the three banners and Chen Wen under the banner, trying to use this to decide the outcome of the battle.
A moment later, the Qing army's cavalry was approaching, but just as they were about to rush to the team of firearms guarding in front and ready to rush over, suddenly, the Qing army officer's war horse that rushed in front seemed to be mixed up with something and fell straight to the ground. The Qing army officer was thrown out, and after rolling forward twice, he suddenly disappeared.
At this time, the cavalry in Jinhua Town showed a level of equestrianism far inferior to that of the scouts of the High Balance Battalion. After the first Qing army officer fell, Chen Wen's general flag was less than ten meters away. The Qing army fell one after another like dumplings during the Chinese New Year, and some of the people who were dropped to the ground disappeared without a trace like the officer. This momentum was not curbed until more than ten riders fell. However, what appeared in front of these lucky people were densely packed with horse pits, and a U-shaped trench more than two meters wide and more than one meter deep behind the horse pits, facing the Ming army camp!
Behind the trench, a team of Ming troops erected a whole long sign as a cover, and behind them was a team of 20 or 30 bird gunners waiting for the battle.
Seeing this, Chen Wen glanced at the corner of his mouth. It is true that the Qing army has the advantage of cavalry, but he will not be arrogant enough to fight against the Qing army with the small army around him. He used the trap to restrain the cavalry charges in this way, which was an old trick he had used before, and that U-shaped trench was a new way to ensure his integrity.
The trench more than two meters wide means that the Qing cavalry must ride their horses to have a chance to rush over, but the horse pit in front of the trench perfectly restrains the cavalry's charge; but if the Qing army wants to bypass this trench, it must go around the side of the Ming army camp, destroy some of the wooden walls and fight out of the camp, so that the infantry in Nantang camp will have enough time to break the Qing army's formation.
There is no complete solution on the battlefield. After all, this is a risk. If the Qing army's cavalry sieges the first game before the siege, the direction of the battle may be increasingly unfavorable to the Ming army.
However, during the previous military discussion, Chen Wen also considered this point and chose to lure the enemy with himself. After all, Nantang Camp is also famous. Chen Wen was also a powerful general in the Ming army who was called the formation in the Qing army occupied area. He said that Ma Sansheng did not want this achievement of killing generals, no one would believe it.
But if Chen Wen had a horse after he surrounded and annihilated the infantry of the Ming army and then pursued him, he would have a horse. With the style of military generals in this era, the commander would definitely turn around and flee in the face of defeat. How could he stay and die with the soldiers? Therefore, if Ma Sansheng wants to win, he must take action before the situation is clear. Only in this way can he have the opportunity to use Chen Wen's head and the military achievements of annihilated Nantang Camp in exchange for the future of promotion and wealth.
"Ma Jinbao's generals were indeed carved from the same mold as him, and their bodies were filled with the four words "insatiable". Birds of a feather flock together, and things are divided into groups. The ancients did not deceive me."
After teasing, Chen Wen no longer hesitated and immediately ordered Yin Yue to command the battle. Under Yin Yue's command, the soldiers of the firearm team who were left behind opened fire one after another, while the Qing army was trapped in front of the trenches and trapped horse pits and was passively beaten. They could only carry out a limited counterattack with a bow, but they still had to face the protection of long-distance players, all of which were powerless.
There is no need to worry about the situation in front of them. Since the Qing army's cavalry cannot get Chen Wen's head and flag, it is absolutely impossible for them to always be beaten. Especially at this moment, hundreds of meters behind them, the Green Camp, the backbone of the Qing army, began to be unable to stop the retreat.
During the training of the regiment on the left wing of the Qing army, the garrison in charge drew his sword under the escort of his personal soldiers, facing the training leaders of the regiments near him, with anger on his face.
"Why don't you dare not obey military orders, aren't you afraid of dying by military law?"
The leaders of the regiments who trained troops looked at each other, but a man led a step forward and bowed to the garrison.
"Zhen Shou Ge, it's not that we are unwilling to use our lives, but the Ming army on the opposite side was Grandpa Qi's mandarin duck formation. We are all from Yiwu. We either our ancestors had followed Grandpa Qi, or we grew up from the story of Grandpa Qi leading us Yiwu people to destroy Japanese pirates from our grandfather or our fathers. So we know very well that this mandarin duck formation cannot be broken at all. Please report this to General Ma Gan and do not let your brothers die here for nothing."
"What did you say?"
Although the guards were not native to Jinhua, they came with Ma Jinbao and had lived here for more than two years. They had heard stories about the storytellers telling Qi Jiguang about the Japanese pirates. Although they had never seen the Mandarin Duck Formation with their own eyes, they had heard of it.
"Mandarin duck array, how is this possible?"
"How is it impossible? Long cards, rattan cards, wolf silos, long spears, palladium, and behind the array there is a fire soldier holding a pointed shoulder pole. What is this not the Mandarin Duck Formation!"
The man in charge pulled the man who had just spoken, and then saluted the guard again and said, "Standard Zhen, please report this to General Ma Gan. If you cannot retreat in time, no one will be able to leave here alive, either the soldiers or the regiments who are waiting for us, just like the Japanese pirates who were beaten to death by Grandpa Qi back then."
The ancients said that poor mountains and rivers are out of troubled people. Although Jinhua Mansion is located in the hinterland of Zhejiang and has many plains, it has always been considered as the place of a remote place in Zhejiang.
Jinhua people are brave and fierce, have clear distinction between love and hate, and have deep regional cultural characteristics, which makes them extremely superstitious about Qi Jiguang and Qi Jiguang's military strategy and formation. Just like when Chen Wen threatened to rebuild the Qi family army, Lou Jiye, who was already disheartened, responded immediately.
These regiments from all over Jinhua Prefecture, especially the Yiwu regiment, which is the main force in the left-wing regiment training, were resentful of assisting the battle of Jinhua Town Biao Battalion, which had once massacred the city in Jinhua Prefecture. After noticing that Chen Wen's troops were using the Yuanyang Formation, these regiments would not continue to attack no matter what.
He grew up in the famous reputation of Qi Jiguang and the story of their ancestors following Qi Jiguang. In their eyes, Qi Jiguang and the Mandarin Duck Formation are invincible. Attacking the Mandarin Duck Formation in front of him is not just a fear, but more because he cannot accept the existence of an opponent of the Mandarin Duck Formation in his mind.
The news had been sent out, but the garrison was forced and tempted by the garrison. These regiments were unwilling to attack the Ming army opposite. After a while, the Green Camp soldiers, who were the backbone of the Qing army, collapsed, and the Qing army under the Ming army in the distance began to try to escape from this dangerous land. Even the Qing cavalry that was comparable to the Ming cavalry, left their injured companions and fled.
With the complete collapse of the Qing army's green camp, the regiment training on the left and right wings began to retreat on their own without being taken care of by the Ming army. The five or six hundred green camp soldiers and the seven or eight hundred regiments who had no fight at all survived on the battlefield, as well as hundreds of cavalry, were chased by less than four hundred infantry and less than one hundred cavalrymen in the Ming army and fled desperately.
Such a scene is really common on the battlefield. In fear, the Qing army no longer cared about its own troops and actually had an absolute advantage. However, everyone fled, and those who turned back would face all their opponents alone. Anyone who wanted to survive would never turn around to fight.
Seeing that the overall situation was settled, Chen Wen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. This battle started with Chen Wen's initial determination to attack Jinhua. Every step of planning was the result of countless deductions. Even the most critical battle in this plan, Chen Wen and his officers were still modifying the combat plan based on the information they obtained before the war.
During this period, the Qing army had been completely defeated, and it would be difficult for a moment to organize enough troops to encircle and suppress. What is left is how to maximize the surplus value.
Chapter completed!