Chapter 275 For the sake of our food and fight to the death Geng Ruqi is actually the same as Lu Xiangsheng, he can be regarded as a relatively promising official in the late Ming Dynasty, he served as the deputy envoy of the Ministry of War, Fang Langzhong, and the deputy envoy of Zunhua Bingbeidao, and he is well-read and extraordinary.Since the Houjin army annihilated the Shanxi army, it retreated at the most critical moment, leaving four or five hundred cavalry to watch them, which gave Geng Ruqi enough time, and he commanded the Shanxi army to help the villagers of Xujiabao and recapture Xujiabao.At this time, he had already guessed that the direction of Baoding in the south should be the army of King Qin, but he didn't know who the person from the opposite side was.But not long after, I heard the rumbling sound of cannons, ninety-six heavy artillery, for Geng Ruqi, who was familiar with the establishment of the Ming army, this must be a large-scale army.The artillery with the largest number of equipment in the Ming army is actually the bowl mouth gun and the tiger squat cannon, followed by the sub-mother cannon, but these kinds of artillery, to the layman's ears, the sound of the cannon is almost the same, but for Geng Ruqi, who is familiar with armaments, it is too clear.The Houjin cavalry can't nibble on a force with thirty or forty thousand soldiers and horses, unless this army is led by a wine bag and rice bag, at this time, the only way is not to defend the village, but to press it.Geng Ruqi shouted coldly: "The pikemen are in front, the archers and firecrackers are second, and the various departments are lined up in turn, and the whole army is pressed up to attack the Houjin army!"
”"Attack!"
The generals of the Shanxi Army looked at each other.Zhang Honggong, the chief soldier of Shanxi, explained: "Governor Geng, the soldiers had a meal at noon the day before yesterday, and by now, they are already hungry and ......sleepy."
According to the regulations of the Ming army, the troops were not allowed to distribute food on the day they arrived.This is the fucking regulations made by the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty, the intention is to use soldiers to be hungry, that is, the dog can't be fed, and the hungry dog will be fierce.But a man is not a dog.The combat effectiveness of the Shanxi soldiers is placed in the Ming armies, and they can definitely be ranked in the top ten, but the problem is that the Shanxi army is frequently mobilized, and they have not received military rations at all, and they carry very little dry food."
Attack, this officer will not give a second order!"
As a civilian official, Geng Ruqi disdained to explain his purpose and usefulness to those generals and guerrillas, and the officers and men of the Shanxi Army only needed to carry it out.Geng Ruqi's arrangement, in good conscience, is actually correct, on the plains, especially when the frozen soil is hard, there are roads everywhere, even if there are no roads, people walk a lot, and it becomes a road.Although this is very suitable for cavalry charges, the problem is that the cavalry needs space to turn around and also need space to speed up the horses.The Shanxi army pressed up and seized the space, and the cavalry that lost the space did not have time to accelerate at all, so that it was like an airplane that did not have enough runway to help it run, and it could not take off at all.Cavalry without speed, for infantry, is just a target.Just when the Shanxi army was preparing to set off, Xu Dingguo of Xujiabao took several old and young students from Xujiabao, and in order to thank Geng Ruqi, Zhang Honggong and other Shanxi troops for their help, they sent them 1,000 catties of wheat, 500 catties of beans, plus some miscellaneous grains, and made up 2,000 catties.Although 2,000 catties is a lot, for the Shanxi army of 5,000 or 6,000 people, it is less than six taels of grain per capita.However, with these grains, the eyes of the soldiers of the Shanxi Army burst out with a wolf-like green light.Geng Ruqi is not a person who does not know what to do, he knows that the soldiers are too tired, too hungry, and have no food in their hands, and he will not conjure up food out of thin air, now he has two thousand catties of food, although the food is small, it can always solve some of the urgent needs.Geng Ruqi said: "Bury the pot to make rice, after eating, let's set off again!"
”"Yes!"
When people see hope, they always burst out with amazing potential.The soldiers of the Shanxi Army began to take the cauldron from the cart, dig a big pit in the ground, put the pot on it, find some firewood, and start to burn the fire.Fortunately, it is now covered with ice and snow, so there is no need to worry about the source, the leader of the Shanxi army melted the snow water, and then boiled the wheat with soybeans, millet and other grains.Fortunately, in the battle, although the Shanxi army suffered five or six hundred casualties, the Houjin army also left dozens of war horses, and these horse meat naturally could not be wasted.The horse meat is skinned, the internal organs are removed, the meat is chopped into large pieces, some salt is sprinkled, and it is boiled with wheat and beans.Before long, the smell of horse meat filled the air, as well as the smell of wheat and beans.The northwest wind howled and blew the fragrance of the war rice to a lot.Five or six miles away, Yue Tuo led more than 2,000 cavalry with red flags in the direction of Xujiabao.Yue Tuo said: "Order the whole army, prepare to ......"
Without waiting for Yue Tuo to finish speaking, he smelled the fragrance in the air, he straightened his waist and looked into the distance, more than a hundred cauldrons in the rear of the Shanxi army were fired at the same time, and the steam was filled, like fog.He said in disbelief: "Nanban, this is ......
Is this cooking?
”"Back to the master, it should be!"
The green tendons on Yue Tuo's neck bulged, and he was so angry that he was about to vomit blood.Fighting in the era of cold weapons is not like later generations, where soldiers work harder.If you hit the day, then there is absolutely no time to cook.Unless one party is in the city, they can eat a hot meal.It has been nearly an hour now, and if the elite soldiers with red flags have not eaten for more than three hours since they set off from Nanyuan, they are actually hungry for a long time.The Later Jin army was more convenient, they had mare's milk wine, cheese and jerky, and they could eat a bite when they were not fighting, which was far more delicious than the dry food cakes of the Ming army.You must know that once the cake at this time is frozen hard, it can be used as armor on the chest, and the arrow cannot be penetrated, and you need a good pair of teeth to eat dry food cakes.However, now it's good that the Ming army is cooking as if no one is around.What is this equivalent to?
This is simply not taking the Houjin army seriously, treating them as air.Nima, how can you endure this?
It turned out that when the words that wanted to attack came to Yue Tuo's mouth, he immediately changed his words and said: "The whole army is ready, as long as they are ready to eat after their meal is ready, start attacking!"
”Jerky and cheese are good, but these things are not as good as hot meals.Yue Tuo was actually dizzy with anger, he really forgot that although animals can be very dangerous when eating, but human beings also have a similar instinct, when they only have one bite to eat, whoever wants to snatch their food, they will also fight hard.If, Yue Tuo did not wait, retreated directly from the front of the Tianxiong army, and turned back to attack the Shanxi army, then the distance of less than ten miles, the infantry would need at least half an hour's rapid march.And the cavalry only needs a quarter of an hour, and he has every chance to destroy the Shanxi army that has been half-crippled by him before the Tianxiong army arrives at Xujiabao.In fact, as early as the Houjin cavalry arrived in the sight of the Shanxi army.Zhang Honggong said strangely: "Strange, why are there so many of these Tartars?"
”Yue Tuo's second mistake was invisibly, which boosted the morale of the Shanxi army.He threw nearly two Niu Lu's troops in front of the whole family army, and sent three Niu Lu's soldiers out to catch the Ming people, at this time the Houjin army that arrived in Xujiabao was only two-thirds of the original, and nearly one-third of the troops disappeared."
Then do you still need to guess!"
Geng Ruqi said lightly: "The support army that came from the south of us killed more than 1,000 of them!"
”"In less than an hour, more than 1,000 people in Houjin were killed, where is this army?"
Zhang Honggong never thought that Lu Xiangsheng, the famous mansion, would take the initiative to raise 12,000 people and take them to Beijing Qinwang.Geng Ruqi shook his head: "It is not known yet, but seeing that the other party has many artillery, why not Nanjing Jingying?"
”However, Zhang Honggong still reported the good news of more than 1,000 Tartars in Jin, after the reinforcements from the south were killed, and in Zhang Honggong's words: "Nanjing Jingying is the elite, they eat meat, let's drink some soup, eat and drink enough to fuck it!"
”By the time the Shanxi army's meal was ready, at this time, before Yue Tuo launched an attack, he received the news that the Tianxiong army had appeared behind them.Under the leadership of Lu Xiangsheng, Quan Xu, Lei Shisheng, Li Chongzhen, and Yang Shien led more than 8,000 soldiers of the Tianxiong Army, and they had already appeared behind Yue Tuo.At this time, Yue Tuo was embarrassed, in front of him were more than 5,000 people from Xujiabao and the Shanxi Army, and four or five miles behind him were nearly 10,000 people from the Tianxiong Army, especially the powerful artillery unit, which was actually at the forefront.The battle of the plains, in fact, is a collision of strengths, comparing whose men and horses are strong, whose armor is well-armoured, whose war knives are sharp, whose preparations are sufficient, whose artillery is sharp, whose arrows are more accurate, and whose supplies are sufficient, which is the key to victory.Fortunately, Lu Xiangsheng's appetite was far greater than he imagined, since Quan Xu's artillery troops attacked sharply, he took Lei Shisheng's command as the left wing, Li Chongzhen's command as the right wing, and Yang Shien's department and Quan Xu's top at the front.This posture is not a battle of defeat, but a war of annihilation.On the plains, if you want to annihilate the cavalry troops, you can only encircle them in general.The biggest advantage now is that there are five or six thousand Shanxi troops in front of Xujiabao, and Lei Shisheng and Li Chongzhen's headquarters are like outstretched arms, hugging Yue Tuo's headquarters."
The Southern Barbarians are so bold, I really think that the master is afraid of them!"
Yue Tuo stared at Quan Xu's battle flag, his eyes about to burst into flames."
Lord Belle, you can't fight like this, the artillery of the Southern Barbarians is too powerful, let's attack one of them first!"
After enough rest, Yue Tuo led the whole army of nearly 3,000 cavalry and pressed it directly.Like a flood, the iron cavalry rushed towards the Shanxi army with the power of destroying the world and destroying the world.Although there were less than 3,000 cavalry, the Houjin cavalry still created the might of thousands of troops and horses, and rushed towards the Shanxi army."
Resist me, behind is our meal, we haven't eaten for three days, whoever wants to touch our meal, we will fight with them!""
Yes, desperately!"