Valley Emperor

When Gu Shizhong learned that the main force of the Ming army's cavalry was five kilometers away, although he calmly and calmly ordered, his heart was inevitably a little flustered.

As a veteran general of the Tang Dynasty, Gu Shizhong has also experienced many large-scale battles of the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty. During this period, he also went to the Wuxuetang and Yuxuetang to study, and his understanding of modern warfare is quite profound.

At this moment, he led the fourth mixed regiment to raid Nanchang. What he was most afraid of was not that the Ming army in Nanchang would not be able to defend the city, and he was not afraid of a head-to-head confrontation with the main force of the Ming army, which was several times stronger, because he had three artillerymen under his command. The battalions are the 1st Heavy Artillery Battalion, the 4th Mixed Artillery Battalion, and the 14th Artillery Battalion.

There are three 48-jin heavy howitzers, nine 24-jin heavy howitzers, twelve nine-jin artillery, eighteen seven-jin artillery, plus six five-jin artillery, twelve three-jin shotguns. , six two-pound shotguns.

Even if you don't count eighteen shotguns, there are forty-eight heavy howitzers and field guns combined!

This level of artillery strength is actually comparable to an artillery regiment. It is more than enough to assist the more than 3,000 infantry soldiers of his fourth mixed regiment.

Therefore, whether it is a tough battle or a head-to-head battle, he has great confidence to fight one!

However, this confidence does not include encountering large-scale Ming cavalry in the wild!

As a high-level general in the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty, although he said that he had never fought against the cavalry of the Ming Army, he had read a lot of exercise reports within the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty.

During the three years of Xuanping, the First Army organized a confrontation exercise between cavalry and infantry!

The cavalry of the two battalions combined, but more than 800 cavalry!

It is the two infantry regiments belonging to the 2nd Infantry Division and the related artillery units that are fighting against this, with a total strength of more than 8,000 people!

The results of it?

The infantry units in the 2nd Infantry Division suffered a crushing defeat!

And it was an undisputed fiasco, which made people feel sorry for the Second Infantry Division without the slightest excuse!

How did the exercise go?

After the two met, the infantry troops formed an emergency formation, but the cavalry troops did not charge directly when the infantry had not completed the formation as expected by many infantry generals, but were seven or eight hundred meters away. stay.

Brigadier General Lu Yuzhi, who led 800 cavalry, did not charge, but Major General Fang Xitong, the division commander of the 2nd Infantry Division at that time, used the infantry to take the initiative to attack, and tried to counter it with a square formation that restrained the cavalry.

But what did Lu Yuzhi do? He directly led the cavalry to distance themselves, and did not give the infantry of the 2nd Infantry Division the slightest chance to fight!

And more importantly, the infantrymen of the 2nd Infantry Division need to maintain the formation and dare not move, and if they relax a little, the cavalry units on the opposite side will make an appearance of trying to attack, and then the infantrymen will be scared to rearrange their teams. Shape, be careful!

Next, the two sides entered a long confrontation period!

Under the scorching sun, the heavily armored infantrymen in the 2nd Infantry Division were unable to support one by one. They either took off their armor or fainted!

Wearing dozens of kilograms of armor to fight, even standing still and being able to hold on for a few hours is good physical fitness, and Lu Yuzhi is not stupid enough to stay in place, but is he bringing cavalry around the periphery? Walk around for opportunities!

As soon as Lu Yuzhi's cavalry moved, the infantry phalanx of the 2nd Infantry Division would have to move along, otherwise, it would be completely over if they were killed from the side and rear.

The 2nd Infantry Division also tried to withdraw from the battlefield, but after a slight change in formation, the cavalry immediately turned over and mounted. You dare to leave at this time? Go try it!

Once it returns to the marching state, it will take at least a few minutes to turn into a tight four-cornered phalanx, and these few minutes are enough for the cavalry 400 to 500 meters away to charge over and kill them several times.

You have to know that a distance of four or five hundred meters is the best charging distance for cavalry!

The results that followed were not unexpected. The infantrymen of the 2nd Infantry Division did not walk or stay in place, nor could they fight. In the end, they were forced to stay in place. When the infantry's physical energy was exhausted, After the morale of the soldiers dropped, Lu Yuzhi's cavalry came up occasionally to try it out!

So the 2nd Infantry Division can't do anything but defend in situ!

In this exercise, until the end, Lu Yuzhi did not lead the cavalry to charge, but the 2nd Infantry Division did not move a step!

However, the commander of the exercise, Li Chunjing, decided on the spot that the Second Infantry Division was defeated in this exercise!

Although there are many ideal conditions for this exercise, many problems have not been considered. For example, why does the 2nd Infantry Division have no cavalry? Why did Lu Yuzhi's cavalry troops have no infantry support, etc., so the exercise could not be compared with the actual combat.

But this exercise revealed very accurately what the cavalry's advantages were on the battlefield!

The advantage of the cavalry was not to charge in formation. In fact, if Lu Yuzhi directly led the cavalry to charge during the exercise, the quadrangle formation of the 2nd Infantry Division would teach the cavalry to behave in minutes.

In this kind of field encounter, the cavalry's biggest advantage is not its own charging ability, but its strategic initiative!

In other words, the cavalry can fight if they want, they can leave if they don't want to, or they can stay on the side if they don't.

The infantry can only respond passively to this, and there is almost no other way than sticking to the place!

The 8,000 infantrymen, who were still complete with infantry and artillery, were dragged in place by the cavalry with only more than 800 cavalry, which was why Li Chunjing judged that the exercise of the 2nd Infantry Division had failed.

Because under normal circumstances, these 8,000 infantrymen have been held back by the enemy's cavalry for so long. .

The exercise of the Second Infantry Division failed, and it was just an exercise, but now Gu Shizhong is facing a real battle!

Thousands of warlord cavalrymen are near him, like a poisonous snake, they may pounce at any time and take a bite.

Now, Gu Shizhong has even forgotten about the attack on Nanchang!

The current fourth mixed regiment has more than enough protection for itself, but it has already lost the opportunity to continue to attack Nanchang!

The infantry of the Fourth Mixed Regiment lined up urgently, and the artillerymen also hurriedly unloaded the artillery, and then pushed it directly up a low hill, and raced against time to dig bunkers to build artillery positions.

On the periphery of the artillery position are a large number of infantry units of the Fourth Mixed Regiment. At this time, the heavy armored infantry in these infantry units are wearing armor with the help of their comrades in arms, while the musketeers, light armored spearmen and other soldiers are already Start arraying at the periphery first.

In the face of enemy cavalry attack, they naturally listed a square phalanx specially designed to deal with cavalry.

The four sides of this four-cornered phalanx are spearmen, and the four corners are musketeers!

The spearmen are the core of the defense, and the musketeers in the four corners are the main lethal firepower!

More than ten minutes later, more than 6,000 people in the fourth mixed regiment have already listed a huge defensive formation. The artillery position and a large amount of baggage are located in the middle, and the phalanx of infantry is located on the periphery.

Five infantry quadrangles formed by five infantry battalions cooperated with each other to protect the artillery and baggage inside.

In the rear of the infantry quadrangular phalanx, the second line of defense is formed by auxiliary arms such as baggage soldiers and transport soldiers. They did not list the quadrangular phalanx, but a traditional tight phalanx, with a depth of six columns!

When the formation of the fourth mixed group was just completed, a cloud of smoke was rolled up in the distance, and then everyone heard the sound of thunder!

Through the telescope, Gu Shizhong could clearly see the direction of about 1,500 meters in the distance, and a large number of cavalry appeared!

In rough numbers, the number of enemy cavalry was as many as a thousand cavalry. Although these cavalry hadn't mounted their horses and started running, the cavalry led the horses forward, but they still created an incomparably huge momentum.

Bad luck!

"Send the whole army, stand firm!" Gu Shizhong said to the messengers beside him, and soon, the semaphore soldiers behind him would move their flags and convey Gu Shizhong's latest orders to the troops!

After giving the order, Gu Shizhong was worried, but in order to boost his morale, he pretended to be relaxed and said: "Don't worry, gentlemen, this thief can't rush over, if they dare to rush over, our guns will be ruthless. Teach them a hard lesson!"

The tight infantry phalanx listed by the 6,500-strong army~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and there are a lot of artillery to assist the battle, as long as the enemy cavalry generals are not stupid, then they will not take the initiative to charge!

The battle situation may be stalemate until new changes appear!

And the fact is exactly as Gu Shizhong expected. After the thousand puppet cavalry arrived about a kilometer away from the fourth mixed regiment, they stopped on their own initiative. Through the telescope, Gu Shizhong could see the puppet cavalry on the opposite side. Still thinking about feeding the war horses.

You can tell at a glance that the cavalry on the opposite side will not be stupid enough to charge directly. What are they waiting for?

Maybe waiting for the opportunity to rush up to fight, maybe waiting for more main infantry to arrive to try to surround them, maybe waiting for the Ming army from other directions to return to Nanchang, but no matter which kind, the situation is not good for the fourth mixed regiment. Words are extremely unfavorable.

Gu Shizhong knew that he couldn't wait like this forever, this stalemate must be changed!

But what should I do?

At this time, Gu Shizhong finally realized Fang Xitong's helplessness in the summer exercise!

However, what Fang Xitong was facing at that time was just an exercise. Now, what he is facing is a real war. If he is not careful, the Fourth Mixed Regiment will fall into a doom, not to mention the execution of what Li Chunjing told Li Chunjing. The next task: to conquer Nanchang.

Brigadier General Gu Shizhong was thinking hard, but the other officers of the Fourth Mixed Regiment did not listen to each other. A large number of middle and senior officers gathered to argue and discuss various feasible methods!

At this time, Gu Shizhong suddenly heard a major say: "The cavalry on the opposite side is not the cavalry under General Lu!"

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