Chapter 81 Disparity
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Cao Conglong and He Decheng took more than a thousand former Green Camp soldiers pulled out of the Coolie Camp to Dongyang County, with the purpose of either returning to the army with Liu Cheng or going to Yushan Town to seize warehouses, or both. As for what to do next, Taizhou or Luo Chengyan, there are probably only two locations. Anyway, Chen Wen doesn't believe that these guys will have the courage to go back to Fucheng to fight him to the death.
But whether it is joining forces with Liu Cheng, seizing the warehouse stored in Yushan Town, or returning to Luochengyan, these are things that Chen Wen cannot tolerate, so it must be wiped out as soon as possible!
The main force of the rebels led by Chen Guobao has already gone far away. Chen Wen is now just the garrison of the three counties of Wuyi, Lanxi and Jinyun. The only one with a greater advantage is that he still has more than 200 cavalry. However, the soldiers are very fast, so there is obviously no time to recall the army. Now we must send troops to defeat them as soon as possible. Only in this way can we ensure that the warehouse in Yushan Town will not be taken away by him.
Cao Conglong had just left the camp of the coolie camp when he was discovered, and his troops were marching slowly according to the description of the Yiwu County garrison. If considering that the river section of the Dongyang River was not enough to provide too much transportation capacity, it would be possible to completely complete the crossing of the river day after tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
With the issuance of military orders, the advance team of the water camp returned to the aid and the requisition of some ferries from the Wujiang Wharf. With these transportation capacity, Chen Wen loaded the army and set sail directly with the recent wind direction, returning to the first county town he had recovered himself to end the rebellion.
The fleet followed the Dongyang River and continued to flow up until it was across the river from Yiwu County. Chen Wen put down all the cavalry and asked them to continue exploring forward so as to grasp the situation on the road ahead.
On the morning of the 17th, the return whistle cavalry informed that the rebels under the banner of Zhejiang Governor and Fubiao Camp had completed the crossing of the river and were taking a break. Chen Wen ordered the cavalry team to come forward to harass them, and the army on the ship immediately landed on the shore and marched quickly to the enemy's position.
The army has been reorganized for a few days, and it is still in a situation where the soldiers are not known to the generals and generals. Although the horsepower of the more than 200 cavalry in Chen Wen's army is not very strong, the Fubiao battalion has only more than ten horses below He Decheng, and even the officers cannot be assigned. In addition, there are not many weapons and armor in the coolie camp itself, which immediately caused an uproar when the brigade appeared in sight. If they had not been basically veterans of various green camps in the past, they would have known that the fate of escape now was only one word for death, they would have dispersed.
In the afternoon, Chen Wen's infantry led by him appeared in front of the rebels who were harassed by the cavalry and were unable to operate, and the cavalry also took advantage of the situation to retreat and most of them were ready to rush forward.
The three infantry teams on Chen Wen's side were originally garrisons of each county, and they were still using the same organization as last year's mandarin duck formation killer team and firearm team. In fact, there were only more than 100 hand-to-hand infantrymen. Since the muskets were given priority for combat barracks, the shooters still used the archers' bows.
The newly-organized Fubiao camp on the opposite side had all kinds of weapons, not only the wolves, spears, knives, shields, palladium, and pointed shoulder poles used by the Ming army, the short axes, hammers, and even the rakes and hoes they used to work hard on weekdays, but more were the pointed wooden spears made in the past few days, and their clothes were even more ragged, even worse than the beggar soldiers that Chen Wen saw when he first met Wang Sheng.
"Governor Cao, you always try your best to get these chickens and dogs together. Are you here to give me a head, or are you going to Taizhou to give Ma Xin a head?"
More than 1,000 infantry were blocked by more than 100 hand-to-hand infantry, more than 100 shooters and more than 200 cavalrymen, and were forced to engage in field battles. Based on the current actual situation, He Decheng's response was quite normal, at least he did not cut down the banner and escape while the chaos was in trouble. However, the distance from Dongyang County is actually only about ten miles away. The garrison in Dongyang County has not yet appeared in the God of Knows What will happen.
Time was running out, and after a little rest, Chen Wen ordered the reorganization team to slowly step into the relatively flat area separated by each other. At this time, Cao Conglong and He Decheng could only passively form a circular formation, trying to defend themselves in order to prevent Chen Wen from using the power of the cavalry to tear the gap from the weak point.
The opponent had an absolute advantage, but the shooters were smaller than those of the Ming army. In this case, the infantry team of three whistles advanced forward with Chen Wen's order until they stopped when they were less than 100 steps apart. However, the archers following the back row came to the front row from the interval between the killers of the Yuanyang Formation, lined up in two rows and started shooting according to the military order.
There were not without soldiers who used to be archers in Fubiao Camp, but the number of archers found in the coolie camp was very small, and the range of hunting bows that were looted could not be compared with that of the Jinhua Ming Army. So from the start of the archers of the Jinhua Ming Army, they immediately fell into the situation of being passively beaten.
There are only more than a hundred shooting players in the Ming army in Jinhua, and these shooting players are all from local garrisons. The accuracy of shooting is actually not very high, but they can't help but get beaten. This is really unbearable for this newly-edited Fubiao battalion.
He was surrounded by old troops who had been in the army for more than half a year, and was facing a new group of gangsters who might not even deserve the word "army" for a few days. Chen Wen was still playing like this. This guy was so shameless, which was unpredictable by He Decheng, who was responsible for command. However, it was too late to say this now. If this continues, the army would naturally collapse. So he had to order the troops to attack the Ming army's formation.
Less than a hundred steps away, the Ming army of Jinhua turned to shoot rapidly after discovering that the opponent was moving forward in a formation. The archers quickly used arrows to shoot, which consumed a lot of physical strength. However, their opponents did not waste too much time and quickly advanced to a distance of less than fifty steps. After the last round of shooting, these shooters retreated into the formation and turned to the killer team of the Yuanyang Array defending lineup to take over the enemy.
The two sides were only a few dozen steps away, but the previous marching was due to the different speeds of each team, and the Fubiao Battalion's line had become uneven. The most convex and the most back were almost twenty steps away!
He Decheng could not see clearly behind the formation, but the experience accumulated over the years made him realize that he should re-energize the team at this time, otherwise he would be besieged by the opponent as soon as he fought. By then, the battle formation would be completely finished once it was broken. Fubiao Battalion re-energized the team step by step, and the shooters who returned to the formation also began to shoot upwards. The sword and shield soldiers in the front row struggled to support it until they were almost the same and immediately set off again.
The fronts of both sides were getting closer and closer. After the sword and shield soldiers of Fubiao Camp threw over the only dozens of javelins made of wooden sticks, the Jinhua Ming army immediately changed into the third-class formation according to the Caodian and rushed towards the front of Fubiao Camp.
With the new camp heads that did not know the generals and generals, they could support it until now. In fact, Cao Conglong and He Decheng still have to thank these former green camp soldiers for their treatment in the coolie camp. The soldiers who did not want to return to that situation were just like this. However, when the Ming army came in a formation, the memories of the previous defeat of the Ming army's Yuanyang formation immediately surged into their hearts again.
As soon as he joined the formation, the waving wolf wield immediately suppressed the sparse pointed wooden spear of Fubiao Camp and the wolf wield that had not yet mastered how to use it. Even if he failed to suppress it, the long-drawn player standing in the front row would hold tightly in front of the soldiers and block the opponent's attack with heavy long-drawn cards. Under almost perfect defense, the rattan player and the spearman came out together and attacked the opponent frantically as training. Even the palladium-drawn player who was originally guarding against the flank began to assist in the attack. The more advanced the entire third-drawn array, the more it changed, and began to unconsciously change to the third-drawn array that was more suitable for attack.
As soon as the two armies contacted each other, the front line of Fubiao Battalion began to retreat unconsciously. The gap in the quality of the soldiers on both sides was too big, and it was a miracle to be able to support it until now. If nothing unexpected happens, the cavalry team in Chen Wen only needs to be used to chase, and the work of breaking the formation will be handed over to the infantry team.
However, the variables that had been expected before did come. After a moment of revenge, the Ming army of the brigade began to appear in the direction of Dongyang County, but the distance was very far, and I couldn't see clearly the font size on the flag.
Chapter completed!