Valley Emperor

But Chen Keqiao wanted to fight, but Hong Linquan didn't want to fight yet. When he learned from the detective's mouth that the Jingzhou defenders had been overtaken by the main force of the pseudo-Tang thief army, and the battle broke out, he really wanted to speed up and rush over. Together with the Jingzhou defenders, they will defeat this fake Tang bandit army.

But what he didn't expect was that the Jingzhou defenders couldn't support his arrival at all. Although it was considered a delay of more than an hour before and after, in fact, this was not the time for the two sides to fight, but to mobilize each other. If the time of the formation is calculated by the time of the real battle, the Jingzhou defenders actually failed to hold on for two quarters of an hour before collapsing across the board.

The Jingzhou defenders were all defeated. If he went forward again, the risk would be too great. Because of the reconnaissance report, the losses of the pseudo-Tang thieves were very small, because the Jingzhou defenders collapsed too quickly. No casualties were caused to Pseudo Tang.

In addition, a very important point is that if you rush over in such a hurry, you are likely to bump into the pseudo-Tang thief army that has already rested.

One is the army of its own who has been running for more than 20 miles in a row, and has not much physical strength left, and the other is the army of pseudo-Tang thieves who have rested for several hours.

Don't say anything else, just say that the physical fitness of the soldiers on both sides is no longer of the same order of magnitude.

So he decisively chose to suspend the marching speed, and it didn't take long before the troops ordered the march to stop, because it was already about three o'clock in the afternoon.

According to the normal long-distance march, it is almost time to build a camp and set up a camp.

That's right, when ancient armies were on the march, they often stopped early and then stationed because they needed to leave enough time to build their camps.

In the wilderness, there is no stable camp, and if there is any small-scale thief army of the enemy to harass, it may cause the camp to be bombed.

Since ancient times, I don’t know how many times the camp was attacked by the enemy because of the instability of the camp, resulting in bombing of the camp. Therefore, any qualified ancient general, when marching every day, must first consider choosing a suitable location. Make camp and build a solid camp.

The Ming army chose not to build the camp, so Chen Keqiao naturally wouldn't be foolish to lead his troops to run over. It was almost evening, and if he led his army to run over, it would be night, and he would not be able to fight at all.

Since the Ming army did not come, he naturally chose to retreat, and he was preparing to retreat all the way to the outside of Jingzhou City!

He chose to go outside Jingzhou City, not to attack Jingzhou City. Although most of the defenders in Jingzhou City have already attacked and were defeated by him, there will still be at least several thousand defenders left in the city. .

And the fortified battle has always been more troublesome. Chen Keqiao didn't want to be killed by the Ming army from Xingquan Mansion when he attacked Jingzhou City.

The reason why he chose to go to Jingzhou is because no matter which direction the Ming army behind him goes from, it will always go to Jingzhou City, otherwise they will starve to death.

Because he has already cut off the food supply for the Ming army in Xingquan Mansion for seven or eight days, he does not believe that the defenders in Xingquan Mansion can eat food for several months, and the food reserves in the army can eat half of the food. Month is the limit.

The Ming army is short of food, this is for sure. If they want to get food, they must get it from Jingzhou City, so no matter what happens in the end, if these Ming troops want to get through the supply line to get food, they will go to Jingzhou City in short.

What he wants to do is to go to the outside of Jingzhou City to wait for work, and intercept the reinforcements from Xingquan Mansion under Jingzhou City!

He didn't dare to go a few days ago, because there were 10,000 defenders in Jingzhou at that time, but after today's battle, the defenders in the city were only a few thousand at most, and they were not afraid of falling into the front and back. The state of being pinched.

Before Chen Keqiao ordered the troops to retreat, the Fourth Army had basically completed the cleaning of the battlefield. All the weapons and armaments left by the armies on both sides had been collected, and a large amount of food was also seized.

This batch of food was originally brought out by the Jingzhou defenders. In addition to serving as rations for their headquarters, it was also used to help the reinforcements from Xingquan House.

The reinforcements at Xingquan Mansion had already cut off the supply line. It wasn't just the Ming army that was still in Xingquan Mansion, but the 15,000 rations under Hong Linquan's hands were running out. Most of it is only enough for three or four days, so the Jingzhou defenders need to carry a lot of rations.

Today, these grains have fallen into the hands of the Fourth Army.

All Hong Lin's troops could only be worried about seeing less and less food. Whether he wanted to or not, he had to go to Jingzhou. Otherwise, let alone opening the supply line, his troops would directly run out of food.

So early the next morning, Hong Linquan led his troops eastward to Jingzhou again. Early in the morning, he had already received a report from the reconnaissance cavalry, saying that the pseudo-Tang bandit army was also heading eastward towards Jingzhou.

"Damn, these thieves are afraid to stop us!" Hong Linquan felt more and more bad about the situation.

He seemed to see a big net covering his head, and this big net was short of food!

But although there was a big net waiting for him, he had to bite the bullet and rush up. Although he might fail if he went to fight, if he didn't go to Jingzhou, the whole army would definitely collapse due to lack of food. It's not that the main force in Xingquan Mansion collapsed due to lack of food, but his army will collapse first.

Because when we set off, considering that after the reinforcements returned to Jingzhou, they would be able to get food and grass supplies from Jingzhou, the food they brought was not too much, only the basic rations for the army, which could generally be used for seven or eight days. The food that came down was reserved for Xingquan Mansion, because the defenders in Xingquan Mansion needed to hold on longer and had a greater demand for food.

Now the Puppet Tang bandit army is blocked at the gate of Jingzhou city. If they don't fight, they will collapse due to lack of food in a few days. In the past two days, he has already ordered to reduce the soldiers' rations to save food. Yes, but there is only so much food, and the continuous marching consumes a lot of physical energy for the soldiers, so it is impossible to march quickly if there is insufficient food.

So even if he clearly knows that going to Jingzhou is dangerous now, he must go!

Besides, going to Jingzhou will not necessarily fail. At that time, he can still unite with the defenders in Jingzhou to attack back and forth. Although the defenders in Jingzhou lost a large part, the thousands of people should still be there. There will be.

At that time, the sum of the two will be 20,000 people. Even if the real thieves of the pseudo-Tang thief army are powerful, their own 20,000 people will not be without the strength of a battle. He does not ask to be able to defeat the thief army. Rush into the city, then even if the strategic goal is achieved.

As for how to open up the food passage in the future, that is a matter of the future. Anyway, he can't control so much now.

With this kind of mentality, Hong Linquan was quite helpless and continued to move forward with the army, and the speed was not slow!

By the next day, he had already led his troops to a place about five miles outside of Jingzhou City!

When he led his troops to the outside of Jingzhou City, Chen Keqiao had already led his troops to prepare for the battle!

Next, there is nothing to say. One side wants to stop the Ming army from entering the city, and the other side wants to rush in, and no one dares to back down. In this case, a war is inevitable.

This battle can be described as quite tragic. Hong Linquan was fully prepared before the attack. Knowing that the weapons of the pseudo-Tang thieves are sharp, he has prepared many things that can defend against bullets, such as thick wooden shields. , shield car.

Even deliberately let some lightly armed cannon fodder soldiers attract Tang Jun's gunfire, and then let the elite troops attack, trying to defeat the opponent in hand-to-hand combat.

But what he didn't know was that although the Master of the Tang Dynasty was famous for his sharp firearms in the provinces, in fact guns were not their main means of killing, and the real means of killing was hand-to-hand combat.

The bayonet sees red, this is the best trick of the Tang Dynasty to defeat opponents!

When Hong Linquan paid a heavy price and let the elite melee soldiers rush to the front of the pseudo-Tang thief army, the soldiers were already waving long knives and spears and preparing to give the opposite pseudo-Tang thieves a heavy kill. .

The musketeers of the Tang Dynasty and the artillerymen of the front-line shotguns also fired the last round of salvos. The lethality of this last round of salvos almost exceeded the sum of the previous rounds of volleys.

Then came the same old grenadier throwing grenade!

In the Fourth Army, there were two directly subordinate grenadier teams. The grenadiers were the most elite infantrymen in the King Division of the Tang Dynasty. All of them were strong and physically strong, and at the same time their courage was much better than that of ordinary musketeers. Troops have never been used easily, even when they fought against Jingzhou defenders before.

But now, Chen Keqiao decisively ordered two grenadier teams to drop bombs and join the battle.

After the grenadiers threw the bombs out, the Ming army on the opposite side fell again in pieces!

At this time, the officers at all levels on the front line were already holding their command knives high, shouting: "The whole army charges!"

The salvo and the counter-charge after throwing bombs~www.wuxiaspot.com~ This is also the old way of the Tang Dynasty Wang Shi in the frontal decisive battle, almost every large-scale field battle, especially the front of the formation of the two sides. In a decisive battle, it will be used almost every time.

The reason why I use it every time is because the effect is good!

This tactical Ming army is almost impossible to defend effectively!

The soldiers of the Ming Army who rushed up to the front were volleyed by muskets and placed in one area by grenades. The formation of the front line was almost a thousand warehouses and a hundred holes. More importantly, morale had seriously dropped. When the thieves rushed up with their spears, most of them subconsciously gave birth to fear.

After a counter-charge, a complete array of the Ming army was no longer visible on the entire battlefield. Instead, the Ming army was almost scattered all over the mountains and plains, and the dead and wounded on both sides were also lying in the wilderness!

Hong Linquan in the rear looked at the rout of his own troops and the pseudo-Tang thieves rushing forward like an overwhelming sea!

He murmured, "It's over, it's over!