Xin Sizhong came to Shaanxi this time, not to fight with the Manchurian soldiers, but to transport away the grain that Tian Jianxiu in Xi'an had not burned, and to persuade the surrounding people to return to Longzhong with him, so that he would not be slaughtered by the Manchurians.When he came, the chief of staff, Song Xiance, specially reminded him in the order issued by the headquarters that he should try not to expose his strength, so as to avoid the Manchus from taking them as the main enemy and setting him on fire.On this point, Xin Sizhong, who has a strategic vision, is completely able to understand.If there is chaos today, only the Manchu Qing Dynasty is strong.Whoever has the strength to threaten the Manchu Qing to dominate the Central Plains, the Manchus will deal with him as soon as possible.Although Wang Shuo's Northwest Army was not inferior to the Manchurians in combat capability, the Northwest was barren, and the army was far from meeting the conditions for a decisive battle with the Manchus in terms of supply and quantity.At this time, the best way is to hide your strength, secretly develop yourself, and let the Manchurians go to fight Li Zicheng and the Southern Ming Dynasty first.When they have a certain strength, the Manchurians will also let others almost consume it, so that they can really show their strength and expel the Manchus from the customs in one fell swoop.Therefore, after defeating the Manchu forward battalion and weighing the strength of the other party, Xin Sizhong did not plan to fight hard with the Manchurian soldiers.He chose the terrain west of Weinan and prepared to take advantage of the terrain to block the advance of the Manchu army and ensure that the retreat in the direction of Xi'an would not be affected.In this way, it will not expose its own strength, but it will not cause a situation of hard fighting with the other party, and reduce its own casualties.The cavalry he led were all elite soldiers who had experienced the test of life and death in the desert after fighting with the Mongol tribes in the north, and he did not want to lose any soldiers.The Eight Banners of the Manchurian Han Dynasty were mainly infantry troops, and there were only a few cavalry troops cooperating, so it was easy for Xin Sizhong's cavalry to defend them.As long as the two flanks of the enemy's attack direction were placed with prominent cavalry, the enemy did not dare to advance with all his might.Otherwise, the army was cut off by the cavalry on both wings, and the attacking troops in front would immediately become lonely, facing the danger of being slaughtered by the enemy's frontal cavalry.The Manchurian army sent a large army to attack the two wings, and the cavalry was fast, and it would immediately retreat, and it was easy for the opponent to expose its shortcomings during the movement.Once it is discovered that the enemy's attack direction is undermantled, the main cavalry in the center will immediately penetrate and outflank in that direction, and the cavalry on both flanks will launch a counterattack at the right time, surround the enemy army that does not have the advantage in strength, and quickly destroy it.In short, on this great plain, it was easy for the cavalry to take advantage of its speed and find the enemy's weak point in constant movement, and if the Manchurian army attacked in spite of the fact that there were enemy cavalry on all sides, it was not much different from seeking death.Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming are undoubtedly very clear about this.Seeing that the opponent was completely cavalry, he listed the protruding formations on both wings, and immediately ordered his troops to stop advancing and report back to Duoduo behind.The Duoduo forward battalion almost annihilated the opponent, and at this time he was feeling uneasy, and he didn't want to send his Manchurian cavalry to attack and fight the opponent.You must know that there are too few real Manchus, and they can't even reach one percent of the Han people.If the real Manchurians are spelled out, they don't have to stay in the pass, I'm afraid they won't even be able to stand in their hometown in Liaodong.This is what Dolgon repeatedly instructed him and Azig when he went out on the expedition, only allowing the Han and the Han people to kill each other, and never allowing the use of the Manchurian Eight Banners He lost most of the forward battalion, and when he went back, he didn't know how Dolgon would punish him, and then let him take the Manchurian Eight Banners and Xin Sizhong to the death, he refused anyway.However, it can't be like this, let the 20,000 cavalry of the family block here, and don't advance the army, Geng Zhongming still has an idea, he thought of a way, put more than 20 red-clothed cannons in front of the formation, and gradually moved forward.When the range of the cannon is enough for the opponent's cavalry, the opponent will bombard it with artillery if he does not retreat.If the other party withdraws, they will continue to push the red-coated cannon forward.In this way, step by step, advancing little by little, sooner or later the other side will be forced to hurry, either retreat and flee, or attack the artillery.Attacking the artillery is tantamount to looking for death.This red-coated cannon has a thick and heavy cannon body, a range of more than one mile, and a cannon can shoot hundreds of iron pellets.More than 20 cannons fired a salvo, the power was terrifying to think about, and the cavalry wanted to break through the fire network of the cannons, which was completely delusional.When Duoduo heard it, Geng Zhongming's idea was good.That's it, pushing the cannon to the front of the formation, and the whole army advanced Xin Sizhong saw that the other party had launched more than 20 red-coated cannons, and immediately ordered the cavalry to retreat.He'd seen the red-clad cannon and knew it was powerful.However, as soon as his cavalry retreated five miles, and before they could form a position, the Manchurian soldiers came up again with red-coated cannons.After repeating it several times, Xin Sizhong figured out the other party's intentions.This was when he was forced to fight a decisive battle with the red-coated artillery at Natong Pass, and the Manchu army also used this method to deal with Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng's solution was to send cavalry troops to bypass the opponent's artillery defense line and attack the Qing army from the rear.But since people want to use this method to win you, how can they allow you to beat people from behind, as a result, Duoduo set up a barrier behind him, and used the barrier to consume the sharp energy of the Shun army, and then the Qing cavalry attacked, and Li Zicheng was defeated.Xin Sizhong was smarter than Li Zicheng in this regard, and he did not divide his troops to go around behind the other party.Because the enemy army is far more numerous than him, they just hope that he can divide his troops and defeat each one.But it is not a way to blindly retreat like this.He knew that Wang Shuo had led the mobile corps to Xi'an, so he sent a herald to immediately advance to the rear to find Wang Shuo, while he himself slowly retreated backwards, delaying the advance of the Qing army as much as possible.If Wang Shuo's mobile corps was too far away, he would have to find a way to stop the enemy's advance and ensure that the direction of Xi'an was not attacked by the enemy.He considered dividing the cavalry into several columns, keeping a distance from each other, and entangled with the Qing army on the banks of the Wei River, so that its artillery could not be used as much as possible.Even if you can force the enemy to be unable to use artillery, but the enemy army is numerous, and your own cavalry is entangled with the enemy on all fronts, and it is certain that you will suffer.That's why he had to ask Wang Shuo.By the time they received Xin Sizhong's report, Wang Shuo and Song Xiance had already led an infantry army and a musket army to the city of Xi'an.He asked Song Xiance to lead the infantry army and a group of political cadres arranged by Liang Min into Xi'an City, and carry back the materials, grain and grass that Tian Jianxiu did not burn.At the same time, the political work cadres propagandized to the people, telling them about the brutality and barbarism of the Manchus, and persuading them to go to the northwest with the Northwest Army for the time being, and then bring the people back when they came back.He and Wang Jianguo, the commander of the musketeer army, led the musketeer army to the east along the Wei River to join Xin Sizhong, and asked the herald to tell Xin Sizhong to retreat slowly like that and not to fight hard with the Qing army
.
: