222 experienced the first time in their lives (for 300 months
But who knew that at this moment, the personal guards beside him suddenly screamed: "Carriage...Carriage..."
When Zuo Liangyu heard this, he thought that the imperial cavalry was chasing him, so he looked north, but he did not see a new cavalry appear. Only in the distance, it seemed to be traces of the imperial infantry.
"Master...Master, cavalry...Cabinet..."
The voice of the guards could be heard with horror. Zuo Liangyu immediately felt something was wrong, and turned his head to look along the direction of the guards' fingers, and was stunned.
I saw that the city gate was wide open on the Xinle City about three miles downstream, and teams of cavalry wearing imperial uniforms were constantly appearing from the city gate. The two big flags in the lead were "Liu" and "Yuan".
The cavalry that left the door first began to speed up slowly. The cavalry behind them accelerated their speed and then accelerated side by side.
When Zuo Liangyu looked up, he could already tell that the cavalry coming out of Xinle City should be divided into two parts, led by Liu and Yuan.
When did there be a cavalry in Xinle County, and it was obvious that it was an elite cavalry?
After having this idea, Zuo Liangyu suddenly remembered. Ye Bucheng, the imperial official army, went out crazy to drive away the horses on his side. At the beginning, he thought it was the army under Duke Xingguo who snatched each other's merits!
Later, all the nights were not taken back, and I thought it was the Duke Xingguo who was cautious, so I reduced my strength!
Now it seems that the treacherous boy is just trying to put a cavalry behind him. This is his real killer move!
When Zuo Liangyu thought of this, he was so angry that he wanted to curse. How could such a treacherous person come from?
However, he had no time to curse, so he quickly organized the cavalry crossing the river to block the imperial cavalry that was escorted from Xinle City.
However, his cavalry was in chaos at this time. If he followed the original plan and had explained in advance, he would have no problem with such chaos. However, once the military order was changed and the deployment was restarted, it would definitely not be completed in a short time.
It is obvious that in such a chaotic situation, it is impossible to withstand the impact of the imperial cavalry!
Could this fraudulent defeat turn into a real defeat?
Zuo Liangyu looked at his baggage battalion and the main cavalry force, and his heart was bleeding. He quickly shouted at Hou Xun, who was also stunned, "Hurry up, blow the trumpet!"
When Hou Xun was shouted like this, he immediately came to his senses and quickly shouted to the guards beside him: "Hurry, hurry up, blow the trumpet!"
“Woo woo woo woo…”
The sound of the horn sounded immediately, and the thick sound came from a long distance.
Then, a cavalry emerged from the distance above the Dasha River. Needless to say, this was Zuo Liangyu's ambush and was preparing to rush to the imperial official army when the time of the crossing.
However, it is a bit of a pity that because of the fear of being discovered by the imperial army, the ambush was very far away from the ground.
The imperial cavalry that left the city from Xinle City had all left the city at this time, with about 2,000 cavalry. The generals in charge obviously also saw the rebel cavalry. Not only did they not stomp, but instead began to speed up under the leadership of the generals.
With a general taking the lead, his cavalry was naturally followed closely. The more than two thousand cavalry were divided into two arrows and shot at the rebels on the south bank of the Dasha River.
A deafening shout suddenly broke out in the rumbling horse hooves: "Kill..."
In Xinle City, teams of soldiers were still emerging one after another. However, judging from their outfits, they should be composed of local civilians and yamen runners.
If it were normal times, Zuo Liangyu would definitely not look down on these people and would like to go out of the city to fight. But at this moment, his panic aggravated.
It can be clearly seen that the ambush was too far away and there was no time to stop the imperial cavalry. It was about to arrive, but there were still chaos here, and many cavalrymen had just arrived ashore from the river.
After seeing this scene, the imperial cavalrymen roared and cheered for the friendly forces on the south bank. The momentum was so great that the rebel soldiers looked here and there, and they all looked at them without anyone else.
"Run!" I don't know who was among the rebels. Suddenly, many cavalry soldiers ignored the rest and began to flee. They continued to stay here and were hit by the cavalry, and they were killed for a lifetime!
Seeing this, Zuo Liangyu shouted in despair: "Retreat!"
Then, he immediately snapped away without hesitation.
Because Zuo Liangyu knew very well that if he fought here, he might kill the imperial official army that came out of Xinle City, but he would not have the spare time to stop the imperial cavalry that crossed the river. Moreover, the cost was very high, and it was likely to consume all his troops and eventually be defeated.
You know, this cavalry is Zuo Liangyu's core main force. If it is consumed, then Zuo Liangyu will be nothing!
But even if he escaped, he knew that this time, he would definitely suffer heavy losses.
The original plan was to use baggage as bait to win this battle, not only would the baggage not lose much, but there would also be a large amount of capture, which would definitely make a profit.
As a result, the supplies used as bait were obviously all about to fall into the hands of the imperial government army.
Not only that, even if he runs away now, his cavalry will definitely suffer a lot.
At this time, Zuo Liangyu could only pray in his heart, blessing his cavalry to escape faster and lose less.
On the battlefield, when Zuo Liangyu ran, Hou Xun naturally followed without saying a word. As soon as they ran, all the rebel soldiers ran away.
From the head of Xinle City, the rebels were like frying on the ferry side, running around in scattered places. Some went south and fled from the imperial government army, the farther away the better; while some went north and fled to the rebel ambush, obviously trying to get a sense of security from there.
The imperial cavalry from Xinle City was like an arrow, passing through the rebel assembly ground without any pause. It continued along the Dasha River, chasing the fleeing rebels, and killing them all the way.
The rebel ambush was originally coming at a speed, but after seeing Zuo Liangyu escape, he began to slow down slowly. In the end, he actually chased Zuo Liangyu in the direction of escape.
Zuo Liangyu's deceitful defeat was suddenly turned into a real defeat because of the accident in Xinle City!
Except for a small number of the imperial cavalry that crossed the river, the other cavalry followed the direction of the Xinle City cavalry chasing and hunted the fleeing Zuo Liangyu.
The lively Dasha River slowly calmed down. There were only corpses floating in the river and more corpses on the south bank, which proved that there had just been a one-sided battle here. Because those corpses were basically the corpses of rebel soldiers.
Near dusk, Zhang Mingwei led the main force of the infantry to reach the north bank of Dasha River.
At this time, the cavalry pursuing Zuo Liangyu's rebels had also returned. Seeing that Duke Xingguo arrived, they all met him.
Among the welcoming team, there are naturally the magistrate of Xinle County and local squire.
A great victory made everyone smile.
At night, Duke Xingguo moved into Xinle County. However, he did not rest, but was having a meeting.
The generals of each army all responded to their merits.
In this battle, nearly 200,000 rebels from Zuo Liangyu were defeated, killing more than 10,000 enemies, capturing about 160,000, and the rest fled into the wilderness.
Among them, the core main force of Zuo Liangyu's troops, the infantry, was encircled and wiped out, and most of the cavalry were destroyed, and only less than two thousand cavalry escaped.
The contribution of the main force of Zuo Liangyu's infantry was mainly Yuan Shizhong and Zhang Luofu's two cavalry troops, as well as Jin Zhensun's infantry troops who followed up.
The main cavalry of Zuo Liangyu's troops were mainly Liu Jin and Yuan Zhuangfei's troops ambushed in Xinle City. They were raising their strength in the city, and their men and horses were in the best condition. The cavalry of Zuo Liangyu's troops fled back from the decisive battlefield, and they were exhausted. Although most of them escaped from the Dasha River, they failed to escape the pursuit of Liu Jin and Yuan Zhuangfei's troops.
It’s a pity that neither Zuo Liangyu nor Hou Xun were caught and they ran away.
However, all their supplies were lost, and this defeated general would not have done much for a long time.
Each department will report the merits, the secretary will record them tomorrow. But it will only take a process. This great victory is obvious to all and cannot be escaped.
The people present were all smiling and very happy.
However, what they did not expect was that Zhang Mingwei smiled first and said to them: "This battle was won. I will report the merits to you and submit it to the court. However, we must take the conclusions after the war. Now, you will tell me the gains and losses of this war."
When he heard this, even Zhou Yuji, who had been through the battle formation for a long time, was a little stunned. What is this situation? I have never heard of a commander who would do this before!
Thinking of this, he suddenly came to his senses and roughly understood the meaning of Duke Xingguo. He immediately went out and fisted and replied: "In this battle, Duke Guo was planning and ambushing the troops behind the rebels, laying the victory in one fell swoop!"
When the other generals heard this, they suddenly realized it, and then went out to join the line and clasped their fists and replied: "Thanks to the national government to plan their plans, they have a great victory in this battle!"
Zhang Mingwei was speechless and had to add: "It's not that you flatter me, it's that you sum up your own gains and losses, and everyone has to say it!"
There is no way. He led his troops to fight for the first time. As a person who grew up under the Red Banner, he naturally got used to learning the things that had the greatest influence. Whether before or after the war, he followed suit.
After these generals have finished summarizing, Zhang Mingwei himself will also sum up. Learn from the experience and lessons of this battle and lay the foundation for winning the next battle.
After he emphasized again, Zhou Yuji and others finally understood what he meant, so they began the summary meeting.
Among them, many people's summary was empirical at the beginning, so Zhang Mingwei immediately pointed it out and guided them to summarize again.
In the end, he asked these generals to stand from the perspective of the rebels of Zuo Liangyu's troops and asked them to talk about how to fight this battle.
The reason for doing this is that Zhang Mingwei feels that if the next enemy he encounters is smarter than Zuo Liangyu, then what variables will be there in this battle? After knowing these, you will improve the next time!
Chapter completed!