Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 298 Hurricane advance, three fierce tactics

The Ming Dynasty was not yet an industrial society, and without mechanized troops, it was completely impossible to carry out a real blitzkrieg.

But whether it is ancient or modern, the essence and principles of war are the same.Li Cunming drew on the blitzkrieg tactics invented by the German army during World War II. He did not stick to the form, but adopted its charm.

The first step in the blitzkrieg is to confuse the enemy, so that the enemy does not know the real combat intention and direction of the Ming army.

Li Cunming ordered Gong Yonggu to lead 5 troops to act as suspicious soldiers and pretend to attack Chen Liu.Chenliu is the southern gate of Kaifeng, and it is adjacent to Zhuxian Town, Xiangfu and other places in the west. If this place is lost, the Qing soldiers stationed in Kaifeng will be equivalent to being strangled by the Ming army.

Although there were only 5 horses in Gong Yonggu's army, the marching formation was mighty. The horses had branches tied to their tails, and they were dusty when they ran.The soldiers walked in neat steps and kept chanting sonorous and powerful slogans. Wherever the troops passed by was earth-shattering.

When they reached the vicinity of Chenliu, the Ming army fired fiercely with artillery shells.

In order to better confuse the Qing soldiers, Li Cunming was in Qi County, but let Jin Yiwei drive Emperor Luanjia to follow Gong Yonggu's army.This luxurious four-wheeled carriage was so eye-catching that the Qing soldiers mistakenly thought that Emperor Chongzhen had arrived in Chenliu.

After some coquettish maneuvers, Kong Youde was really fooled, and it's okay not to be fooled. Chen Liu is too important to fall into the hands of the Ming army easily.

Kong Youde dispatched troops and generals, and deployed [-] troops in Chenliu to strictly guard against the Ming army.

When the Battle of Chenliu started, Huang Degong and Qi Dazhuang led [-] soldiers and rushed forward day and night, driving northeastward like a wedge.

Two days later, the [-] Ming army surrounded Lanyang like heavenly soldiers.

There were less than [-] Qing soldiers in Lanyang City, and when they suddenly saw countless Ming soldiers coming from outside the city, they panicked.In the next hour, a nightmare came.

I saw that the Ming army surrounded Lanyang City. First, they quickly surrounded the city with three floors and three floors outside. Then they slowed down a little, and the soldiers of each battalion began to line up.

Leading the charge were soldiers from the Three Thousand Flying Tigers.Since Li Cunming set out to form the "Air Force" of the Ming Dynasty, after several years of development, the Flying Tigers have grown to tens of thousands of people, and the team also has [-] hot air balloons.

The tens of thousands of members of the Flying Tigers use a hot air balloon for each two, and there is a division of labor. When one person is flying in a hot air balloon, the other person must take care of the various weapons to ensure that they will not misfire when used.

During this Northern Expedition, Qi Dazhuang took all the hot air balloons with him, some of them were given to Ren Qi, and some were kept with the emperor. He brought [-] hot air balloons this time.

Considering that Lanyang is only a small county and the city is not big, there is no need to send out all the hot air balloons, so Qi Dazhuang ordered [-] members of the Flying Tigers to take to the sky.

Even so, when five hundred hot air balloons float in the sky together, the scene is spectacular.The Qing soldiers in the city felt as if thick dark clouds had floated from the sky, covering the sky and darkening the sky.

The hot air balloons in the air formed a formation, floated over the city from four directions, and began to drop ceramic mines, bombing the main fortifications of the Qing army indiscriminately.

Porcelain mines fell like hail from the sky, exploding on the heads of the Qing soldiers.All of a sudden, the sound of explosions was endless, and the howling sounded one after another. The Qing soldiers on the city wall ran away with their heads in their arms, and the people under the city wall fled into the house.

The city walls were covered with corpses, the roof of the county government office was blown up into a hornet's nest, the warehouse for storing grain and fodder caught fire, and the animals in the city were frightened and ran around in the streets.

What is even more desperate is that a warehouse storing gunpowder and various shells was bombed. After it caught fire, there was a big explosion, and hundreds of nearby houses were razed to the ground.

The Qing soldiers couldn't bear it anymore, climbed onto the roofs and trees, and fought back with muskets, bows and arrows.Helplessly, the hot air balloons fluttered back and forth at a high speed and at a certain height, so muskets and bows and arrows could not hurt them at all.

After the Flying Tigers bombed back and forth three times and suppressed the defenders on the city wall, Huang Degong ordered the artillery to fire.Another series of dense shells flew up the wall and rushed into the city. The crenels were shattered, the city wall was cracked, and the houses fell down.

Blitzkrieg pays most attention to attack speed and efficiency, which requires concentration of troops and firepower when attacking.The artillery battalions of the Ming army were all concentrated outside the West City. Dozens of Hongyi cannons and hundreds of artillery of various types fired at the same time, like overwhelming mountains and seas, and like wind and thunder.

Just a quarter of an hour later, the west city gate was blasted open, a section of the city wall collapsed, and [-] soldiers of the Ming army rushed into the city with a tsunami.

For the Ming army, the next battle was to cut tofu with a sharp knife, but for the Qing army, it was a car with a mantis' arms.

Another quarter of an hour later, the battle was over. All the Qing soldiers in Lanyang County were wiped out, and their nightmare was over.

After taking down Lanyang County, Huang Degong ordered the soldiers to rest for a day.On the second day, 3 people were left to defend the city in Lanyang, and then led the rest of the soldiers with Qi Dazhuang to attack Yifeng.

After regaining Yifeng, they marched westward along the south bank of the Yellow River without stopping, from Lijingaokou and Zhaopizhai to Taojiadian, basically occupied all the ferry crossings on the south bank, and blocked the way for the Qing soldiers in Kaifeng to escape north.

To fight this way, the Ming army adopted the three fierce tactics.The three fierce tactics are mainly divided into three stages, one is fierce attack, the second is fierce rush, and the third is fierce pursuit.

The Three Violent Tactics is one of the most typical tactics and military styles of the Chinese army, and it is also one of the military strategies advocated by the Whampoa Military Academy.The so-called slamming and dashing means to fight as hard as you can. If the first echelon can't beat it, then switch to the second echelon to fight, and if the second echelon can't beat it, then switch to the third echelon to fight, and continue to fight hard according to the original plan.

The pursuit is to give full play to the spirit of adventure, don't be afraid of the situation at the time, just chase dead.In fact, in addition to tactical control, the three fierces are also a manifestation of willpower and spiritual strength.

For Huang Degong, a fierce man, the three fierce tactics proposed by His Majesty the Emperor are the most suitable for him.During the march, he rode a war horse and took the lead with an iron whip in his hand. It was a pleasure to fight.

Qi Dazhuang was afraid that Huang Degong would accidentally make a mistake, so he persuaded: "Mr. Jingguo, as the commander in chief of the army, there is no need to rush to the front in every battle. You have to protect yourself."

"Hey, my old Huang is a big bastard. He is bloodthirsty all his life. He is very excited when he sees blood bubbling from the enemy. If General Qi doesn't let me fight, isn't he going to suffocate me to death?" Huang Degong said.

"Duke Jingguo, everyone knows your bravery. Who wouldn't give you a thumbs up when they see you? But if you don't think about yourself, you also have to think about the soldiers of the three armies, and even more so, Your Majesty! General Zhou Yuji unfortunately died in battle. , Your Majesty is heartbroken, if something happens to Lord Yasukuni, what will you tell Your Majesty to do?"

After hearing Qi Dazhuang's sincere advice, Huang Degong said: "Yes, Your Majesty is kind and generous, and loves his subjects. How can my old Huang make His Majesty sad? Well, I will follow General Qi's advice!"

Then he sighed and said: "Hey, these three fierce tactics are very suitable for my temper, but I can't experience it for myself. What a pity! General Qi, Your Majesty invented the blitzkrieg and the three fierce tactics. What do you think our emperor is like?" sharp?"

Qi Dazhuang smiled and said: "Your Majesty is a god who came down to earth, so he is naturally powerful!"

(End of this chapter)