Valley Emperor

After conquering the Bronze Drum Fortress, the Ming general Qiu Yu sent a good news to the adults behind that day, saying that after three days and three nights of hard fighting, the soldiers and soldiers launched a decisive charge regardless of their lives, and finally lived up to expectations and successfully conquered the Bronze Drum Fortress.

And said that the thieves were killed and wounded, and the remnants fled in a hurry!

Of course, in order to avoid the adults in the back saying that he boasted of great achievements, concealed reports, etc., he did not directly use accurate figures to describe the number of beheadings, but used the spring and autumn of the thief army with many casualties and no less than 100 people. brushwork.

To a certain extent, Qiu Yu's battle report is not false, because he did win the Bronze Drum Fortress, even after the bandit army voluntarily retreated, but it was won anyway.

Moreover, why did the bandit army take the initiative to flee? It wasn't because Qiu Yu had hurt the bandit army and was afraid of it. Those bandit troops didn't want to stay in Tonggu Weicheng and waited to die, so they ran away.

The capture of Tonggu Weicheng is of great strategic significance for the more than 20,000 Ming troops from the north to the south, because it means that the Ming Dynasty has finally recovered the first city captured by the pseudo-Tang bandit army, even if It's just a small town.

Instead of being the same as before, I only heard bad news that the pseudo-Tang bandit army captured Xingquan Mansion and Liping Mansion, etc., and recovered the Bronze Drum Fortress. This not only means that the Ming army has recovered the first city, but also It means that the offensive of the pseudo-Tang bandit army has been curbed.

In the follow-up, the King Division of Daming will fully enter the stage of strategic counter-offensive, continue to win and capture Lipingfu city, and then advance eastward to Xingquanfu, take Fuxingquanfu City, Zhengtai, Lianhe and other counties, completely restore the land of the two houses, and annihilate the pseudo-Tang thief army. .

Yes, when Qiu Yu's battle report was delivered to the top generals of the Ming army, that's what they thought!

Therefore, the adults above quickly replied to Qiu Yu, and said that Qiu Yu should make persistent efforts and continue to lead the vanguard south to pursue the remnants of the pseudo-Tang thief army, and be sure to annihilate more of the pseudo-Tang thief army.

At the same time, he did not forget to give rich prizes to the strikers under Qiu Yu as a reward for the strikers' capture of the Bronze Drum Acropolis.

After Qiu Yu received this new order, he didn't know whether to be happy or worried for a while. What made him happy was that a large amount of food and salaries were unplugged from the top. The vanguard troops received a lot of silver rations.

But what worries him is that the superiors even let him continue to lead the striker south to pursue the remnants of the pseudo-Tang thief army.

This pursuit is not so easy to pursue!

Who is not allowed to run into the main force of the pseudo-Tang thief army head-on.

Everyone knows that there are at least several thousand people in the pseudo-Tang bandit army, and this number is still the number that the pseudo-Tang bandit army captured Xingquan Mansion at the beginning. Now that so long has passed, who knows how many people there are already .

Moreover, after the battle of the Bronze Drum Acropolis, he also deeply felt the feeling of Song Zhiwen at the beginning. Those pseudo-Tang thieves are really difficult to fight!

There were only more than 500 puppet Tang thieves in Tonggu Acropolis before, but more than 2,000 of his own were unable to defeat them. In the end, because the pseudo-Tang thieves retreated voluntarily, he picked up a bargain and gave Tonggu Weicheng to him. recovered.

If they continue to go south, they will definitely encounter more pseudo-Tang thieves. If they hit the main force of the pseudo-Tang thieves with thousands of people, the situation will become very, very bad.

But since the boss has already given him an order, he can't be indifferent and do nothing. In this case, it is easy to get a copy of ginseng, or simply because of negligence and get a word from the Shangguan: "Pull it out and behead it!"

So even if he is unwilling, he is still going to continue south with the headquarters, but the speed of this south is inevitably a bit slow.

He stayed in Tonggu Weicheng for two days under the pretext of resting, consolidating the city defense, and preventing counterattack by the puppet thieves. Until the third day, more than 1,000 people dispatched by the main force of the Chinese army from the north arrived at Tonggu Weicheng. , after handing over the defense to them, he led the army to leave.

But this walk is just one step and three turns. One day has passed, and they have only walked ten miles in total.

The reason why they walked such a short distance is because they officially set off near noon, and stopped at about two o'clock in the afternoon, and then camped for the night.

In other words, they walked for less than two hours in total!

Of course, when Qiu Yu did this, other people couldn't find his fault, because everyone's marches are basically the same these days. They all start late in the morning, and basically stop in the afternoon and walk all day. Fifteen miles is normal, twenty miles is too much, as for thirty miles, what, if you walk thirty miles, you will die!

The slow marching speed of the army is not only because it carries a lot of baggage and walks slowly, but also to prevent accidents.

It is true that you can easily walk for dozens of miles from morning to night, but after this day, the physical strength of the soldier is basically exhausted, and the soldier has no physical strength to fight. Rush out for a while, and the fiasco is almost 100%.

In addition, it is necessary to stop early to allow enough time to build the camp. The ancient army had to spend the night, not just to find a leeward valley and go to the ground to sleep, but to prepare the camp, which must have defenses Function, the location of each unit's camp is also quite particular about.

What would happen otherwise?

Bomb the camp!

If the overnight camp is not stable and the arrangement is not appropriate, then at night when the night is dark and windy, any movement will have a great chance of causing chaos. Once the chaos occurs, the soldiers will not know who the enemy is. It's still possible to attack one's own people in the end.

From ancient times to the present, I don't know how many armies have collapsed in the dark and windy night!

Therefore, the ancient generals paid special attention to camping at night. The camp used for the night was not firm, and the deployment of troops was unreasonable. It was also a reference condition for measuring a general's basic ability.

Qiu Yu walked slowly on the grounds of being cautious, and it was naturally difficult for others to pick out the fault!

In fact, not only Qiu Yu was walking slowly, but the main force of the Ming army in the north behind him was also walking slowly. It had been so many days, and the main force of the Ming army had not yet reached the Tonggu Acropolis.

This made the generals of the Datang New Army headed by Hao Bainian watched, and they couldn't help but be speechless!

At first, they thought that the Ming army would be able to kill the city of Liping in a few days, but they were still very nervous. Several main infantry regiments had been on their way for days, and then they rushed to the north of Liping, ready to intercept the Ming Dynasty. The army goes south.

And Li Xuan, who was in the rear, traveled day and night with several other troops, in order to arrive as soon as possible to join the vanguard troops led by Hao Bainian.

But the speed of the Ming army going south was much slower than they expected.

At the beginning, Hao Bainian and the others expected to make contact with the main force of the Ming army within five days, and the decisive battle between the two sides would break out completely within ten days.

But now, half of the ten days have passed, but the main force of the Ming army on the North Road has not yet reached the Tonggu Acropolis, and only a 2,000-strong Ming army striker is swaying in front of them.

"Tell me, are these Ming troops deliberately delaying their march to the south, so that they can wait for Zhu Zhihai to bring someone from the west to reconcile?" Li Chunjing said worriedly: "If that's the case, I'm afraid it won't be easy to fight at that time!"

"If these two Ming armies are brought together, we won't be able to fight them separately!" Wang Danxu was also quite worried.

"How about we take the initiative to attack? Go north first and eat the Ming Army of the North Road? Right now, someone suggested that.

However, Li Chunjing said at this time: "Actively go north? This is not in line with the original plan, and if we go north now, we will leave our preset battlefield, and the Chinese army led by His Majesty will not be able to catch up in a short time. Relying on our three infantry regiments to deal with more than 20,000 Ming troops, I'm afraid it will be difficult!"

The original strategic plan was to attack the Ming army on the North Road first, but this attack was not an active attack, but an interception operation at a position about 20 miles south of Tongguwei, waiting for work to meet the Ming army.

This decisive battle location has been carefully considered by many people who have gone through it. The preset battlefield is located in a small plain twenty miles south of Tonggu Acropolis. This small plain is surrounded by mountains on both sides. A must for north-south traffic.

And this small plain is not a dangerous place. On the contrary, it is a flat river, and it is five or six miles wide. There is no way to ambush, but it is precisely because of the open terrain that the generals of the Ming army dare to lead their troops to enter and fight decisively with the new army of the Tang Dynasty. .

After all, everyone is not stupid. If you want to hide in an ambush in some insidious place, you must first ask if the Ming army will come.

At the same time, the place is also large enough to allow a large number of troops to deploy, and the troops of one's own side and the artillery troops also have enough space to display.

If it is a mountainous area~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The heavy artillery in the Datang New Army will not be reused much.

Artillery, especially artillery these days, works better on flat terrain.

At the same time, in addition to the terrain suitable for decisive battles, the distance to this place is also moderate, and the Chinese army led by His Majesty has enough time to arrive.

However, if you take the initiative to go north, it is equivalent to moving the battlefield of the predetermined decisive battle to the north. In this way, the geographical advantage will be completely lost, and whether the Chinese army led by His Majesty will arrive in time is also a problem.

At this time, Hao Bainian also stared at the map spread on the table for a long time, and then said: "These Ming troops are coming too slowly, no, wait another half a month, and the front of the Ming army on the west road is afraid that they will kill Lipingfu City. We can't let the Ming army on the northern route go south slowly, let the fifth battalion turn around, make a counterattack on the Bronze Drum Acropolis, and attract the main force of the Ming army to speed up to the Bronze Drum Acropolis!"

Then after pondering for a while, he said again: "Send another messenger to the central army and ask Your Majesty's permission to move the preset battlefield 30 miles north, and we will have a decisive battle with them here!"

As he spoke, he pointed to the bronze drum acropolis on the map!