Chapter 122 The Defeat of Zhang Tao's Department
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When Kong Youde carefully watched the situation there, he suddenly saw a scene that surprised him. A miracle really happened, and Li Jiucheng actually won.
The reason he came to this conclusion was that the two sides had already mixed together and were running towards the north, and it was very fast, with smoke and dust rising.
If this happens on the battlefield, there is only one possibility. The side located in the north is defeated, and the north is Zhang Tao's army.
Seeing this scene, Kong Youde was immediately excited, but for the sake of stability, he told the news several Qianmao, and then handed them the telescope to them, let them take turns to use it, check the situation in the west, and analyze it, it would be better than Zhenru guessed that Zhang Tao's army was defeated.
After watching, the few people were also excited and said with certainty that Li Jiucheng really won. Then, the problems they faced now must be solved.
Not to mention the defeat of Zhang Tao's Ming army, Li Jiucheng's troops seemed to have suffered little loss. Once Zhang Tao's Ming army was completely defeated, it only took a moment to repair it. Li Jiucheng could go from the flanks, and even detoured to attack most of Zhang Ke's Ming army. In this way, the Ming army opposite would be attacked from both sides, and it would be invincible.
So Kong Youde ordered: "You all return to your respective camps and prepare for attack.
The direction of this attack was the central army of the Ming army. The cavalry continued to cruise on the east side. Once the enemy's defense line was weak, they rushed up directly and tear up their fronts.
Remember, wait for my order before starting the attack. If any part of the attack is early, no matter what the result is, you will do it according to the military law."
"The last one will obey the order"
With Kong Youde's order, several Qianshen went back to prepare. The soldiers who were originally sitting on the ground resting were also organized by the officers to start a new round of attack.
When they saw a new situation in the rebel array, a large number of cavalry shuttled through it, as if they were giving some orders. The rebel soldiers also stood up and reorganized the team. The Ming army also knew that the rebels were going to attack again.
Therefore, they all focused and waited for another attack from the rebels.
Zhang Keda also found something was wrong. He had just confronted Kong Youde. After the opponent realized that the situation was not low, he led his army to retreat steadily. From this, it can be seen that Kong Youde is not a reckless man and should not rush forward for no reason and fight hard.
In that case, if we win and lose, the rebels will definitely suffer a lot of losses, and this should not be the case they hope to live.
But now the rebels on the other side are preparing to attack, which means that they may have had a change that they didn't know, and this change is very unfavorable to them.
Zhang Ke Daxun analyzed the situation in his mind. The rebels are actually four parts now, with two thousand people at the pass twenty miles southeast.
When Zhang Ke led his army out of the camp in the morning, he sent scouts to investigate the situation there, and there was no news of their actions.
There were more than 1,000 rebels at the southwest pass, but there was a distance from the battlefield, thirty miles away. It was less than two hours until dawn, so I couldn't get there even if I was going forward at this time.
The Kong Youde tribe in front of me was only more than 6,000 people. All the situation was visible, and there were no more soldiers out of thin air. Then the only possibility of accidents was the Zhang Tao tribe in the west.
Before the war started, he was not worried about any problems with Zhang Tao's army, because according to investigation, although Li Jiucheng's army had more than 4,000 people, except for the hundreds of cavalry led by his son Li Yingyuan, all of them were surrendered guards and had no combat power at all.
As for Zhang Tao's troops, six thousand soldiers were all warriors. If you think about it, do you know how you might lose?
However, just as he was thinking, he found that the sound of shouting and killing was approaching. There was no big noise in the battlefield in the west, such as the sound of cannon firing.
He didn't care much, but the sound was getting louder and louder, so there was only one possibility. The battlefield of war was approaching him.
He also hurriedly asked his personal soldiers to take out the telescope. The most important thing he is to understand the battlefield in the west, what happened, and he took measures to deal with it.
This monocular telescope was not produced by the Ming Dynasty. According to the Folangji people, it was made by craftsmen from another country on their side. It was originally used to observe astronomical phenomena.
Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, bought one through his fellow church members to observe the astronomical phenomena. Later, it was found that it was also effective in military use, so he spent a lot of money to buy a few more and distributed them to Kong Youde, Zhang Tao, Zhang Keda and other powerful generals.
Although the telescope of this era has not had a particularly clear vision and the magnification is not high, it is enough for him to see the battle situation in the west.
I saw two generals in armor leading a cavalry and rushed eastward quickly. There were some very scattered infantry running wildly, but most of them had no weapons on their hands.
Seeing this situation, Zhang Keda was already sure that Zhang Tao's army was really defeated.
At this moment, he really wanted to tear Zhang Tao, the incompetent general, to pieces, and to defeat 6,000 soldiers in battle, and he could even lose. Even six thousand pigs stood and let the opponent kill, and the opponent could not kill in such a short time.
But now is not the time to think about this. What is important now is to deal with the next battle situation and organize defenses against the west to avoid being broken through the formation and thus the entire army collapsed.
Although the current situation is not good for him, it does not mean that he will definitely be defeated. Although I don’t know why Zhang Tao failed, most of Li Jiucheng’s troops are guards after all, and as long as they are properly handled, they can completely resolve the crisis.
In fact, Zhang Keda's idea is correct. Even if Li Jiucheng comes up to cooperate with Kong Youde's siege, he can block it.
But something happened, something he could not imagine, and he could not realize it, which led to him making a wrong decision in the end.
The soldiers and generals under Zhang Keda's command were of good combat skills, and soon, under his arrangement, they established defenses against both directions.
Seeing that the defeated soldiers of Zhang Tao's troops were still advancing here, Zhang Keda issued an order, "Say to these defeated soldiers, let them spare the defensive array, retreat from the north, and those who dare to attack the large formation will be killed on the spot."
At this time, you must not let these defeated soldiers pass because of your compassion. If you really do this and let them pass, there will definitely be loopholes in the defense line, and the enemy will take advantage of the momentum to break through the defense line. At that time, these defeated soldiers will die.
During this process, Kong Youde was also closely observing the battle situation. When some of the defeated soldiers approached most of Zhang Ke's positions, Kong Youde knew that the opportunity had come and ordered the entire army to start advancing and wait for the right time to take a general attack.
Then, under the command of the general, more than 6,000 troops and horses, repeated the actions that had been before half an hour, and advanced towards the enemy array two hundred feet away.
Chapter completed!