The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 170
After understanding Jiang Chuan's expected goal, everyone was excited and re-discussed how to fight.

Finally, after discussion, the final decision was made: Ran Wu led [-] cavalry to intercept the Ming army's rear army in a detour, and try to find opportunities to capture all the Ming army's food and grass.If they cannot be captured, they will find an opportunity to burn them, and they must not be left to the Ming army.

And it is necessary to defeat the rear army of the Ming army and prevent it from converging with the Chinese army.

And Shanjia led the remaining [-] cavalry to lure and harass the Ming army's former army, lure its light soldiers to rush in, and attack Erlonggu.

Jiang Chuan himself took Liu Ji and Bai Shan to sit in the valley, commanding the defenders of the fortress to use the advantage of the fortress to stick the Ming army's front army, and use the most rapid attack method to defeat the morale of the Ming army's front army, and then two thousand cavalry assaulted from behind, The defenders in the city attacked from the front, attacking from both sides, and eliminated the front army of the Ming army before the arrival of the central army of the Ming army.

In the end, after the [-] cavalry joined forces with the main force of the Ming army, the middle army of the Ming army achieved the goal of encircling the Ming army and capturing Yuan Chonghuan alive.

Of course, a plan is a plan, and the enemy is not a hanging string puppet and will not be at your mercy according to your intentions. Any unexpected situation will happen on the battlefield, so everyone discussed several sets of plans to deal with possible unexpected situations.

After the discussion was over, everyone dispersed, and Ran Wu and Shan Jia received the commander's order and went to the barracks to transfer troops.

Baishan went to the top of the city to check all kinds of city defense measures again. Liu Ji's task was still focused on civil affairs. If the people knew that this was the Ming army's invasion, after all, they used to be the people of the Ming Dynasty, so they would definitely feel a little fluctuated. Yes, Liu Ji has to calm down and guard against such emotional fluctuations so as not to cause any trouble again.

On the contrary, Jiang Chuan suddenly became the most leisurely person, and he just needs to do a good job of mediating and dispatching.

In the evening, when the cold air began to rise, the gate of Erlonggu Fortress opened wide, and [-] cavalry rushed out of the gate without a sound, heading southeast. The scouts discovered the sudden increase of the Ming army's scouts. Ran Wu judged that the Ming army would leave the city tomorrow, so he divided up with Shanjia here.

He himself took [-] cavalry and turned to the north, intending to detour to the back of the Ming army to block the rear of the Ming army.

The [-] cavalry led by Shanjia hid in the nearby mountains and forests. Once the main force of the former Ming army was found, they would show up to harass them.

The original two blockades were withdrawn as planned, leaving only one ten miles away from Erlong Valley as an early warning.

If the blockade was too tight, the Ming army would not have an accurate view of the battlefield, and would be cautious at every step, which would not be conducive to the implementation of the established tactics by the Jiang family army.

After everything was ready, it was time for the Ming army to enter the urn.

In the early morning of the next day, the mighty [-] Ming army meandered out of the Datong barracks and headed northwest.The entire team stretched for more than ten miles.

The 1 horses led by Cao Bianjiao took the first step as the former army.

Sitting on a horse, Cao Bianjiao is tall and strong, with a pair of ring eyes gleaming, wearing a mountain armor, wearing a phoenix-winged helmet, with red tassels fluttering on the top of the helmet, and a red cloak behind him in the cold morning wind. The sound made the image of a heroic general stand out incomparably.

The soldiers around him also looked at the commander-in-chief with eyes of admiration and admiration.The core strength of these 1 horses are all the original troops who followed Cao Bianjiao to suppress bandits in the Central Plains. This time, they formed the former army of the bandit suppression army as the core.

Yuan Chonghuan led 3 horses as the central army, keeping a distance of less than [-] miles from the front army.

In the end, Hong Chengfan's [-] rear troops escorted the supplies and food and grass to the rear of the palace.

It can be said that sending [-] troops to attack Jiang's army this time is already Yuan Chonghuan's greatest emphasis on Jiang's army.If Jiang's army was really just treated as an ordinary bandit army, there would be no need to dispatch an army of [-], perhaps tens of thousands of horses would be enough to save face.

You must know that it is not so easy for a large army to go out alone. The organization wants to be cumbersome, and the consumption of food, grass, military pay, etc. is also astonishing.

Therefore, it can be said that Yuan Chonghuan basically used all the strength he could to deal with Jiang's army this time.

Putting on such a big formation, Yuan Chonghuan actually still had illusions about subduing Jiang's army, a mighty team.He hoped that the best result would be that the kid surnamed Jiang saw the great army pressing down on the border, and then trembled and feared, bound himself out of the valley and surrendered, and he would scold him angrily, and then he would be spared the crime of arrogance. Give him a small military rank, and then this tiger and wolf division will become his own.

Yuan Chonghuan even felt that this result was the best result for that ignorant boy.If the boy surnamed Jiang is smart enough, he should act accordingly.

Of course, if this kid is still ignorant of current affairs, then I don't mind giving him a thunderous blow to get rid of his arrogance and let him know what the real battlefield is like. In awe, he knelt down and surrendered.

As for the failure of this operation, Yuan Chonghuan never thought it would fail.In his opinion, if he personally led a [-] army and could not settle a small bandit army, then his title as a supervisor would not be worthy of his name, and he would have no face to live in the world.

Therefore, he never thought of the word failure in his expectations.

And he couldn't think of a reason why he would fail.

The [-]-strong army meandered in three sections before and after, heading northwest.

The Ming army didn't have many cavalry. Although the frontier army had more cavalry, among the [-] frontier troops in Datong, there were only [-] cavalry.

Moreover, the [-] cavalry have not been used in a centralized manner, but are distributed in various battalions.For this expedition, only eight thousand riders were dispatched.Among them, [-] cavalry were distributed to Cao Bianjiao's former army.

The Chinese army has [-] cavalry for reconnaissance, ordering and guarding Yuan Chonghuan.

Hong Chengchou's rear army only had a thousand cavalry.

Therefore, the ratio of cavalry and infantry in each army is very different. As they walk, the originally stipulated distance of [-] miles will gradually become larger and larger.

Cao Bianjiao's front army had already run more than 30 miles in front of the Chinese army, and the forward cavalry of the front army had even run fifty miles away.

However, Hong Chengchou's rear army was already more than 30 miles away from the Chinese army because of the burden of food and supplies.

Such a large army marched, and it was a mixture of foot and horse, so the speed was not much faster.So at dusk, when the sky was getting dark, the farthest front army had traveled less than eighty miles.The Chinese army has only traveled fifty miles.As for the rear army, it was less than thirty miles away.

The sky in early winter is dark and early, the setting sun has long been hidden behind the mountains, and the twilight is quickly covering the earth.

And the ministries of the Ming army also began to order to stop advancing and start camping.

　The fourth one arrives.There is one more.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)