Shi Kefa looked at the small dot of Yuejia Town on the map, and then stroked the location from Liaozhong, but he couldn't calculate the approximate mileage, so he asked again: "How many miles is there from Liaozhong here?"
At this time, the Wenchen turned around again and asked, "How far is it from Liaozhong here?"
” The general hurriedly replied again: "There are still one hundred and twenty miles." ” "Master Overseer, there are still one hundred and twenty miles."
This Wenchen immediately conveyed again.
Shi Kefa nodded, then pondered, and finally made up his mind: "Now it is close to the enemy's lair in Liaozhong, according to the speed of the army's journey, the army must travel for three days, now do not take the enemy lightly, tomorrow the army will set off from the camp, here is the endless Liaozhong Plain, which is convenient for the army to unfold, I decided to divide the army into three roads, the five battalions and the left and right sentinels are divided into left and right, each other is the horns, the Shenji battalion is in the center and the Chinese army walks, and the three thousand battalions of cavalry maneuver to make a strategy and march together." ” "My lord is wise, in this way, the three armies respond to each other, and I really have the essentials of the art of war, so I am impressed."
A group of civilian officials immediately applauded.
Shi Kefa's military formation is the most strict and orderly in the military book, which can be described as decent, once it encounters the enemy, it can be attacked and defended, and even those old soldiers who are standing in the distance have to admire.
But everyone ignored one thing, one emotion, that is, yesterday the back road pontoon bridge was burned, so that the army's morale was in turmoil, and then these Beijing battalions went into battle for the first time, getting closer and closer to the battlefield, the more panic and fear became, so the officers and men of the whole army just began to be violent, but at this time they were shrinking their hands and feet, and before they knew it, the momentum of the whole army had fallen.
On the morning of the second day, after eating the war meal, sending out the patrol post, Shi Kefa picked up the camping utensils, according to the assignment, divided into three teams to march eastward, just marched ten miles, and saw the sound of horses' hooves in the distance earth-shattering, the dust raised covered the sky and the sun, a patrol post covered in blood rushed over, fell off the horse directly in front of Shi Kefa, and shouted hoarsely at Shi Kefa: "Lord Qiyu Inspector, the Manchu Eight Banners have been killed." ” Shi Kefa was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly leaned over and asked: "How many flags do they have?"
As a result, the patrol post just replied blankly: "I don't know how much, anyway, it is overwhelming, and there are even more flags like sorghum fields." ” What kind of information is this, isn't it no different from not reporting?
So the Wenchen who was surrounding Shi Kefa listened to the rumbling sound of horses' hooves in his ears at this time, and looked at the huge smoke and dust, his face was already as white as earth, and there was no longer the impassioned military discussion, and they all advised him to return to the original camp immediately, and use the old Lei defense to observe the enemy's situation.
Shi Kefa saw that the army that had stopped advancing began to stir and panic, and knew that this would not work now, but if he wanted to turn around and retreat to Jiu Lei, which was ten miles away, it would be even more dangerous, as long as the army turned around, maybe these obviously panicked soldiers would collapse, and besides, all he brought were firearms and infantry, and he couldn't run on four legs with heavy equipment on two legs, so he would expose his back to the enemy, that would be the fate of being slaughtered, so he immediately made a decision and ordered loudly: "Lieutenant officer, He ordered the whole army to immediately form a formation on the spot, ordered the five battalions to immediately move closer to us, and ordered the three thousand battalions to immediately equip and respond. ” Shi Kefa's composure brought confidence to the whole army, and the panic just now slowly calmed down, so the three armies according to Shi Kefa's orders, the array was square, the Chinese army lined up the cannons, and the soldiers who fired the artillery all stood behind the cannons on foot, and the outer layer of the cannons was densely arranged with a layer of cavalry, and the musket team was arranged in front of the cavalry, and the Chinese army protected the handsome flag and retreated into the rear of the formation.
Such a large array was arranged like this during the Battle of Salhu, and Shi Kefa was very satisfied, very good, and very powerful.
The formation has just been completed here, and the Manchu Eight Banners army on the opposite side has arrived, and the formation was paused outside the two arrows, and the dust slowly dispersed, revealing the yellow military flag, Shi Kefa's eyes couldn't help but light up, this is the yellow flag of Huang Taiji.
Zhenghuang Banner is Huang Taiji's guard pro-army, the old bottom of the house, he has been dispatched, it can be seen that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has reached the point of exhaustion, and then carefully observe, the entire Zhenghuang Banner is a little more than 10,000 people, not the entire establishment of 20,000, and after this gallop, the team is not in a column, the flag is shaking, so a little groaning, loudly ordered the Chinese army: "Taking advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold, the Chinese army stepped forward, converged with the Shenji battalion, and prepared to attack."
So the army immediately changed its formation again according to the order, and for a time it was chaotic.
This time Huang Taiji personally led the troops, to do the final decisive battle, in order to succeed in the first battle, reverse the decline of the Qing Dynasty, it can be regarded as a break out, at this time in the horse team, seeing the Ming soldiers and firearms battalion converge, Huang Taiji smiled at Sony: "This is the Ming army is going to take the initiative to attack us, but we have always paid attention to the charge, let the Ming army attack us first, there is no such precedent, this time is of course no exception, you dare to attack" Sonny laughed and said to Huang Taiji: "Of course the minister dares, and please wait a while, I don't need to be at noon, I will definitely mention Shi Kefa to see you." ” Huang Taiji also shouted in high spirits: "Dai Zhen beats the drum for the whole army."
As he spoke, he jumped off his war horse, strode directly to the drum cart, pushed away the strong man who was beating the drum, picked up the drumstick, took a deep breath, and then thundered the war drum.
As soon as the drum sounded, Sony's blood began to boil, he pulled out his sword fiercely, and yelled at the brothers behind him: "Brothers, the time has come for a snow to be ashamed, let our victory reappear in our Eight Banners, follow me, rush" So, the first one rushed to the Ming army that was forming a team, and rushed to the dense muzzle.
Shi Kefa was just about to launch an active charge, but when he saw that the drums were beating loudly, the Manchu Zhenghuang Banner began to attack, and he was a little at a loss, so he once again ordered the whole army to stop the deployment of the attack formation and turn to the defensive formation.
Three changes in formation would be troublesome, and in this way, the entire team would become even more chaotic, and the Manchu Eight Banners had already launched an attack, and the distance between two arrows was only a matter of a dozen breaths in front of the galloping war horse.
Therefore, Shi Kefa immediately made a decision and ordered the Chinese army to order the Shenji Battalion to immediately block the enemy and buy time for the follow-up troop rectification.
Then he took out Shang Fang's sword on his horse and waved it and shouted: "Brothers, behind us is the Liao River, we have no way to retreat, the opportunity to make contributions to the country and the enemy has come, we" As a result, his roar was not over, at this time, the fire commander in front did not know who was panicking and afraid, and the enemy was still far away, so he nervously lit the fire rope, and in the silent array, a shot suddenly sounded.
So, in the eighth year of Chongzhen, on the Great Plain of Liaozhong, the Ming and Qing Dynasty wars with the hopes of countless people began. t1706231537: