Chapter 457: Setting up an ambush and attack at night

"You can set up an ambush in Mengjiazhuang!" Niu Jinxing spoke. His plan was actually very simple, just to show weakness and lure the enemy, and the elite ambush and wait for the fighter. How clever this strategy is, it is nonsense. If an ambush is noticed, it cannot be called an ambush. The problem is that the Ming army has been repeatedly defeated by such ambush.

After hearing Niu Jinxing’s plan, Li Zicheng immediately said: “That’s what I decided.”

There are large pine forests in Mengjiazhuang, where soldiers can be hidden here. Li Zicheng took the initiative to attack Xincai with more than 10,000 people as bait. Hu Dawei and He Renlong fought. According to Ding Qirui's intention, the two armies should work together to reinforce each other. As a result, Hu Dawei fought a while and ran away. Hu Dawei, He Renlong chased Mengjiazhuang and rushed to Hu Dawei in front. The troops were exhausted, rested overnight, so they were looking for food everywhere, waiting for another battle tomorrow. He Renlong camped five miles away.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Zicheng led the main force out of the hiding place and rushed to Mengjiazhuang. Hu Dawei led his troops to fight. Ding Qirui, who followed He Renlong to act together, urgently ordered He Renlong to reinforce. As a result, He Renlong sat down and watched, and Shaanxi general Li Guoqi was ordered to reinforce. After fighting on both sides for a day, Li Guoqi was blocked and could not get over. Hu Dawei was defeated and fled. He Renlong took Ding Qirui to escape overnight and ran to Shouzhou in one breath. Chen Xie walked to Xuchang and realized that Ding Qirui was defeated. It is impossible not to say that Li Zicheng's strategic plan completed the first step at this time. His purpose was to let the Dengzhou camp divide the troops and create opportunities to besiege a small number of Dengzhou camps. Therefore, there was an action to go east. If Chen Xie refused to divide the troops, the army would come to Runing and turn west and attack Xiangyang.

At this time, the domestic situation was like this. Sun Chuanting was blocking in Shaanxi to prevent the bandits from escaping back. Zuo Liangyu was in Huguang and staring at Zhang Xianzhong to fight. Hong Chengchou returned to Shanxi again to take charge of Datong and governors from the three sides.

Ding Qirui was defeated. The whole situation immediately changed again. Chen Xie convened his subordinates to hold a meeting and deployed the battle.

"In Jiangbei, bandits can reach the front line of Luzhou at most. Wang Qinian is in Fengyang. Even if they can't beat them, it's okay to defend them. The key now is how to deal with bandits without strategic goals. They can go wherever they go. They don't seem to have long-term goals. As officers and soldiers who suppress bandits, it is difficult to catch their opponents. Therefore, we must change our combat habits. I order that from now on, the troops will be divided into two groups, and the Yijiazi camp will be a combat unit. Fully utilize the mobility of horse infantry, and drive Li Zicheng out of Henan from north to south. At the same time, we ask Wang Qinian to move westward and not give Li Zicheng too much space to move. Give Su Haochen the order. If he doesn't have too many combat tasks, he will draw five Jiazi camps to the west to block the direction of Shaanxi."

Speaking of this, Chen Xie paused for a moment and looked at everyone and continued, "Lin Ya, you are responsible for commanding the five A-character battalions. Entering Runing Mansion, pay attention to keeping the distance between the five battalions, conducting a good investigation, and not giving everyone a chance to break them. I will take the five A-character battalions like Nanyang Mansion to continue to clear the thieves in Henan. That's it, everyone has no other opinions. Just execute it. Lin Ya remember that when fighting, the most important thing is to adapt to the situation. Runing is close to the Dabie Mountains, so be careful when marching."

Lin Ya received the order and immediately took the five characters of Jia to the road, and Chen Xie continued to Nanyang.

Lin Ya, who commanded the five A-character camps for the first time, was quite energetic. After entering Runing Mansion, he immediately convened five battalions to meet. "Our army was ordered to enter Runing. In my opinion, the five battalions lined up in one line, and the distance between each other was kept within thirty miles. In this way, as long as one battalion had something to do, the other battalion could be reinforced. Within a hundred miles, within a day, our army could gather. Don't say that once you are surrounded and unable to defend, the thieves would not have the ability to eat an A-character camp within one day. Just like that, I personally brought a A-character camp in the middle, and every half a day, to make a positioning connection between each other."

Lin Ya's formation is very domineering, and it can even be said to be quite bullying. A battalion with only two thousand troops, even if it is thirty miles away, it is difficult to contact a friendly army in a short time.

On March 5, Lin Ya led her troops into Mengjiazhuang, where there were traces left on the battlefield. Although the scouts were released, it was still difficult for a battalion to find the enemy troops hidden in the large pine forest, not to mention that Lin Ya was indeed a little careless.

At this time, Li Zicheng, with more than 30,000 elite troops from the old camp, lurked between the mountains and forests five miles away from Mengjiazhuang. He also sent two troops to cut off the way to the two wings. According to the report, Li Zicheng's main force had entered Jiangbei, but this information was transmitted from Ding Qirui, and the purpose was to ask Chen Xie for help. It can be said that it was very unreliable intelligence. In fact, Li Zicheng's Jiangbei was a partial division, with a small number of bluffing troops, all of which were less than 10,000.

Li Zicheng, who was unwilling to give in, decided to eat the Dengzhou camp with more than 2,000 people in Mengjiazhuang and avenge a single arrow.

Although he was a little careless, Lin Ya, who entered Mengjiazhuang, still camped carefully every day as usual. Mengjiazhuang is a big town, and the people have run away, so housing is no problem. Before dark, Lin Ya checked the fortifications. The engineer pulled up the barbed wire and hung a canned box with stones on it. It would be a sound when there was a little movement. The sentry also had light and dark whistles to ensure that they would not be attacked by the enemy. Moreover, outside the town, trenches were dug, enough torches were prepared, and when necessary, they were lit torches to light the battle.

In the quietness of the night, Li Zicheng took his 30,000 and set off quietly, surrounding Mengjiazhuang tightly. Looking at the torches in his sight, Li Zicheng said to the people around him with some pride: "I guess, Chen Sihua, my subordinate, must have never expected that I would set up an ambush here." The surroundings immediately flattered, and Li Zicheng was proud of it.

I thought I could approach Mengjiazhuang quietly and then launch a sudden attack. Unexpectedly, when more than 500 steps away, the civilian army, which was quietly heading towards the earthen encirclement, suddenly made a clamor, and some people kept calling out.

In the darkness, it was difficult to see a wire pulled under your feet, with a canned box hanging on it. The clamoring sound immediately alarmed the sentry. It was alert that the sentry immediately fired the gun and shattered the dead night with a bang.

The approaching civilian army found that the sneak attack plan had been exposed. Liu Zhongmin, who was leading the charge, made a quick decision and raised his sword and shouted: "Come with me!" The civilian army changed the sneak attack to a strong attack. It might work against the ordinary Ming army, but this time the luck was a bit bad.

Dengzhou Camp had a complete response plan for night attacks. The moment the gunfire sounded, a team as a firepower assistance team at the sentry immediately entered a state of combat. Shooted with rifles from behind the earthen wall, and immediately knocked down five or six people, and the impact was stagnant. No one expected that Dengzhou Camp's reaction would be so fast.

The moment Lin Ya was awakened, her first reaction was not to say "bad" in her heart, but to be a little excited. She actually came to chew a town with earthen walls or guarded by Dengzhou Camp. Isn't this asking for death?

"Send a signal flare!" The first order issued by Lin Ya was this. Four infantry teams stationed in four directions immediately entered their respective combat positions. Lin Ya also had a reserve team in her hand. As the gunfire from various places became denser, Lin Ya came to the north of the town. The gunfire here was the most intense, which showed that the battle was the most difficult.

When Lin Ya was also surprised when she looked up at the darkness, the screaming thieves rushed forward and had already crossed the first barbed wire. There were no less than 3,000 thieves in the north, and two hundred rifle soldiers kept firing behind the earthen encirclement, and aiming was unnecessary. Only a few minutes later, there were corpses on the ground, and many human bodies were hung on the barbed wire.

"Grenadiers! Rockets cover the pre-determined area in the north!" Lin Ya calmly issued another order. Two hundred grenadiers waited at the pre-determined location. After seeing the banner, they immediately fired rockets at the rough area in the north. When two hundred rockets landed in the crowd, the bandits who were charging densely with explosions were overturned by the bombing. At this time, a flame suddenly emerged in front of a trench a hundred meters away outside the wall. With a shout, a fire on the ground appeared in front of the trench, illuminating the first barbed wire.

The thief in the fire was screaming with sounds of unknown content, or an instinct, anyway, he was rushing forward desperately. When he rushed to the second barbed wire, facing the fire in front, these people instinctively climbed up and wanted to cross the barbed wire. But the platoons on the opposite side entered the best killing distance at this distance. The platoons were like stripping the cocoons. A platoon was left with a layer of casualties on the ground. A distance of only 100 meters usually did not take a minute to run over, but at this time, there was a trench and two barbed wire mesh in front. The platoons were shooting like rain, and the rockets were whizzing down and exploded everywhere. Everyone was worried that they would be the one who was killed by the next time.

When he saw the situation outside the town clearly, Li Zicheng felt ache. Dengzhou Green Skin was so vicious. Unexpectedly, just like an hour before dark, there were so many things on the periphery. At this time, he knew that he was also careless because he was worried about being discovered and ambushed, so he did not dare to send someone to investigate, so he suffered a loss.

At this time, we could only advance but not retreat. We invested 10,000 people at once and launched an attack from four directions. Li Zicheng really couldn't afford to lose. If he lost this battle, his morale would be depressed to the bottom. (To be continued) r655

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