From Soldier To Emperor - Chapter 408

However, as soon as the 30,000 army set off, another 50,000 team emerged from the Tubao defensive line hundreds of miles apart, and also interspersed towards the rear of the Ming army defensive line!

Whether it is clothing or military flag, it is the banner of Yue Jiajun!

After receiving this news, Richard knew that Yue Fei, who was opposite, could not sit still.

You know, no matter how deep the defense line of the Tubao is hundreds of miles, it also traverses several branches of mountains and rivers. There are hundreds of Tubaos, and they all need people to garrison.

How many people are there in the Yue Family Army?

After several months of consumption, the Yue family army has lost more than 30,000 people (including prisoners and deserters), which does not include the Sichuan local garrison troops that will be supplemented later!

Of course, these news were learned from the prisoners of war, and the Yue Jiajun couldn’t hide it at all.

Throwing away the necessary garrison personnel, the remaining Yue Family Army can dispatch field troops for counterattack in just over 80,000 people.

Yue Fei would not be stupid enough to hand over the Tubao defense line to the subsequent supplementary local garrison troops to garrison.

You know, the folks in Sichuan have always supported Beiming’s invasion. The reason is very simple—Jiantian Debt Exemption Order!

When the Ming army came, ordinary civilians could divide the fields and avoid the high-yield debts. Of course, the people supported the arrival of the Ming army!

The local garrison troops in Sichuan were formed by ordinary civilians, and they had not undergone rigorous training and education for loyalty and patriotism, and they did not have sufficient military expenses to feed them…

The Treasury of the Southern Song Dynasty has long been exhausted, and it is not easy to form a new army. How can it be possible to use money to smash a loyalty?

He was not fed with money, nor experienced rigorous military training, but was recruited from ordinary civilians who supported the Beiming policy (the rich and the rich rarely join the army, and they are also officers)…

It is conceivable how low the morale of this kind of troops against the Ming army is!

Many local garrisons that rushed into the Yuejia Army as supplementary soldiers have become members of the Shazhou Army, not to mention allowing them to stand alone on the Tubao defense line!

That’s not much different from throwing the Tubao defense line to Richard!

Therefore, Yue Fei must leave a portion of his troops to garrison, and the mobile unit of the Yue Family Army that can be mobilized is just over 80,000 people.

There are a number of tubaos, and the lowest garrison can use simple mathematical calculations to find out.

Richard knew it too!

However, there was one thing that Richard couldn’t be sure-was the 50,000 Yue Family Army in the second wave of counterattack really the Yue Family Army?

In other words, the first wave of 20,000 Yue Family Army is also difficult to distinguish between true and false!

After all, the superficial things such as the banner and the uniform can be faked, and it is difficult to judge whether the opponent is really the main force of the Yue Family Army without fighting a battle.

However, what Yue Fei showed was an overwhelming plot. Regardless of whether the 50,000 people were the real Yue family army, Richard had to send troops to intercept them, otherwise the 50,000 armed farmers could destroy the logistics line!

As a result, Richard sent out all the remaining Shazhou Army and Dragoons as the supervising team, and adjusted all the artillery including Congreve rockets, 6-inch howitzers, Parker guns, and 6-pounder cavalry guns. In the past, a team of chasing troops was also deployed as their guard force.

With so many artillery pieces and more than 20,000 cannon fodder, coupled with dragoons and chasing guards, it is still possible to fight defensive battles in the field.

The most important thing is that Da Ming’s 14 years of taxation has been paid, and it will not take long for new system reinforcements to arrive on the front line. This group of troops will not be helpless if Richard is wiped out.

As for the remaining main corps, Richard served as the general reserve team and began to strategically shift to retreat.

Soon, Richard got the news that the Yue family army with more than 20,000 men was marching very slowly, and it deliberately avoided the more than 30,000 cannon-fodder Shazhou army sent over!

You must know that the Shazhou Army is different from Richard’s main force in terms of equipment and flag, and it can be seen at a glance that it is a cannon fodder unit.

Even so, more than 20,000 people are still hiding in hiding, and they are Xibei goods at first sight!

However, even if there is more evidence, at the moment when the two sides did not fight, Richard did not dare to withdraw more than 30,000 sandbar troops!

As a result, more than 20,000 Yue Jiajun, who did not know the truth or falsehood, played hide-and-seek games with more than 30,000 Shazhou Army. Although the Ming Army had the advantage of obscuring the field of vision on the battlefield, the Shazhou Army that was the main force was a big head walking on two legs. Pawns are simply unable to move quickly, and naturally it is difficult to catch up with the opponent’s main force.

You can’t just use Lancers to attack the main force of more than 20,000 infantrymen.

Even if you win that way, the Lancer’s organizational system can almost be revoked…

After more than 50,000 Yue family troops realized that the Ming army was carrying artillery to intercept them, they also began to play hide and seek.

The artillery is naturally not as powerful as the infantry. In the end, Richard had no choice but to remove the difficult-to-transport 6-inch howitzer and Congreve rocket from the team, and only carried the cavalry cannon and the portable Parker cannon to pursue more than 50,000 Yue’s homes. military.

Without the slow-moving artillery to accompany, Richard’s mixed force consisting of more than 20,000 sandbar cannon fodder, dragoons, and hunters quickly caught up with the tail of more than 50,000 Yue family troops. UU reading www. uukanshu.com

Then, the more than 50,000 Yue family troops suddenly turned around and launched an attack on the main force of more than 20,000 sandbar troops!

In a haste, the two sides fought a classic encounter.

The Shazhou Army first caused large-scale casualties to the Yuejia Army in the first wave of charges under the cover of cavalry artillery fire, and succeeded in allowing the Shazhou Army to temporarily form a battle formation.

At the same time, the real main force of the more than 50,000 Yue Family Army has also fully seen how terrifying the cavalry artillery close-range shotgun bombardment is!

However, after paying huge casualties and adapting to the cavalry artillery bombardment, the Yue Family Army’s offensive wave after wave, soon broke through the cavalry artillery blockade with hot barrels.

Then he suffered barrage shots from Parker guns and hunters…

However, in this battle, the Yue Family Army played an indomitable prestige, relying on its strong military advantage, rushed into the main formation of the Shazhou Army against the barrage!

Then came the almost one-sided battle!

Although the Dragoons rescued the field many times in the midway, using the advantage of rapid mobility, they continued to move to the flank of the Yue Family Army’s charge queue, and defeated the Yue Family Army’s attack waves several times, but still could not organize the overall collapse of the Shazhou Army’s cannon fodder!

The two sides fought in the morning until night fell. They were mainly under the cover of dragoons. Cavalry artillery and Parker artillery abandoned the remnants of the Shazhou Army as abandoned children and fled the battlefield…

In the end, the entire army of more than 20,000 sandbars was annihilated, and the cavalry artillery and Parker artillerymen escaped after more than half of the dragoons were killed…

Although none of the artillery was lost, and the artillery was not lost, the dragoons were left with only the hunting squadron as the rear troops.

The most important thing is that the Yue Family Army won the battle at a cost of about 20,000 people, and restored the sluggish morale that had been in this period of time!