411 Second Counterattack
In February 14, the counterattack launched by the Yue family army ended in failure, but to the outside world, there was no winner in this counterattack because the Ming army suffered a huge loss!
No one saw the losses of the Shazhou Army, which was no different from cannon fodder. The Southern Song Dynasty always paid attention to Richard's core main force, and all the members were equipped with advanced weapons called flintlock rifles and a large number of advanced artillery!
After the Yue Family Army's counterattack ended, only half of the Yue Family Army's infantry dispatched returned to the defense line.
The core main force of the Ming army was only more than 2,000 guards, and the light cavalry, which did not directly participate in the battle and had been acting as scouts and reconnaissance cavalry, did not lose much.
In addition, all the artillery of the Ming army was retained, which was undoubtedly a huge victory for Richard!
Artillery is too expensive...
The loss was so huge that the Shazhou Army, which was originally regarded as cannon fodder, began to become sluggish. However, the middle and senior management of the Shazhou Army came from graduates of the Western Regions Military Academy, so it was difficult to start a real mutiny. After dealing with some typical thorns, the Shazhou Army's commotion was strongly suppressed.
But this commotion allowed Yue Fei to see the further decline in the combat capabilities of the Shazhou Army!
Although the Shazhou Army restored the number of prisoners of war to more than 40,000, due to the sharp decline in the number of core main forces of the Ming army, they could no longer find enough supervising teams to escort Shazhou Army to the battlefield and die!
The Ming army's cavalry units were almost swept away, and the effect of war covering was greatly reduced. Now the Yue family army is no longer completely blind and deaf as before, but can barely compete with the Ming army.
After all, there are only a few hundred light cavalry left in the Ming army. Although the Yue family army has not formed a cavalry unit, hundreds of reconnaissance cavalry can still be taken out.
Richard naturally knew that his cavalry no longer had an absolute advantage, so he also reduced the scope of reconnaissance cavalry exploration, and the reconnaissance capabilities of both sides on the front line had been pulled to the same level.
This undoubtedly greatly increased Yue Fei's confidence!
Although this counterattack was not successful, it also played a huge role!
You know, there are still tens of thousands of main forces of the Yue family army in the defense line, and after some rest and replenishment, the Beiwei Army infantry can still continue to be sent to the battlefield to fight!
Due to the shrinking of the supervision force, Richard could no longer drive the Shazhou army to attack the fortress fortress on the Sichuan defense line, which was like a death-stricken person.
This has become a major ironclad proof that Yue Fei saw victory!
So, in March 14, the Yue family army, who had only been resting for more than a month, attacked again under Yue Fei's order!
There is no doubt that Yue Fei's fighter jets were very good this time. Although the Shazhou Army, who was not under supervision and guarding, had an advantage in the battle with the Yue family army, it was about to collapse!
Perhaps Richard knew that Shazhou Army was unreliable, so he didn't even send artillery this time, which made the Yue family army achieve a brilliant victory!
The weapons equipped by the Shazhou Army are the same as those of the Yue Family Army - big sword spear and spear...
Naturally, he was beaten by Yue's army and didn't even recognize his mother...
After winning a victory, Yue Fei fully utilized his command ability and constantly dispatched troops to encircle and intercept the defeated and fled Shazhou Army.
In just one week, the Shazhou Army, which had more than 40,000 people, was completely wiped out by the Yue family army, and was completely erased from the institutional perspective!
The Yue family army was able to encircle and annihilate Shazhou Army so smoothly, which was inseparable from the main force of the Ming army that kept squeezing at the end and also retreating with great strides.
After destroying the Shazhou Army, the Yue family army absorbed prisoners of war from it, not only causing insufficient losses, but also exceeded the 60,000 mark!
Moreover, under Yue Fei's various promises, the prisoners of war were originally included in the Song army system and had a very high desire to fight, which was completely different from the one under the rule of the Ming army!
After all, the Yue family army regarded them as their own people (it was originally the Song army), and Richard regarded them as cannon fodder. These prisoners of war were willing to work hard for no matter who they were willing to do...
After losing the Shazhou Army as a barrier, the Ming army's blockade line was in name only. In the end, Richard retreated with his own system soldiers and the undead army, and even the last "name" was gone...
Under the leadership of Yue Fei, the Yue family army officially kicked off the Northern Expedition of the Southern Song Dynasty!
The Sichuan defense line in the rear naturally became useless. The Ming army retreated in great strides, and the Yue family army won repeatedly. Outsiders think this is the rhythm of the Ming Dynasty!
Because everyone knows that under the rule of the tyrant Richard, Beiming was a poor and powerful court. As long as Richard's main force was beaten away, Beiming would be a sand castle that would fall down as soon as it was blown away!
The facts seemed to be as speculated by outsiders. The regaining of lost land was sent to the Southern Song Dynasty court one after another. The Southern Song Dynasty was full of joy. Emperor Taizu of Song was happy and started the unblocked meeting again, following hundreds of young girls in the palace at one time.
As a result, Song Taizu, who was already in deficit, was afraid of the sun, but Song Taizu, who was determined to let his descendants spread throughout the eastern continent, still relied on the magic medicines of the imperial physicians to work hard day and night...
The reason why these imperial physicians dare to constantly offer magical pills is closely related to the prince's group behind them...
Under the great situation of the Southern Song Dynasty, as Song Taizu's body became worse and worse, the struggle in the palace became more and more intense!
Under the optimistic attitude of the Southern Song court, all the defenders in Sichuan gave up their defense line and were rushed into the Yue family army, which had greatly damaged their strength due to the first counterattack.
As a result, the number of troops of the Yue family army expanded to a huge amount of 100,000!
But the combat effectiveness has not increased but decreased...
Because soldiers from the Sichuan local garrison troops suddenly accounted for nearly half of the Yue family army. If we counted the prisoners of war that were previously recruited, the actual elite of the Yue family army was less than half...
However, Yue Fei still resisted the opposition and carried out this kind of army expansion. The reason was that Yue Fei needed a large number of troops to garrison the lost land that had been recovered.
The local garrison troops that were supplemented were nominally belonging to the Yue family army, but were actually organized by Yue Fei to separate the garrison troops and kept them on the lost ground to maintain public order and guard against counterattacks and harassment by the small units of the Ming army.
At the same time, it can also maintain the logistics route of Yuejia Army.
As the Ming army retreated in great strides, the front lines of both sides soon arrived at the plains in the northwest region again.
After arriving at the vast plains, Yue Fei became instinctively alert. Even though the Ming army's retreat continued, the Yue family's pace of regaining lost lands was slowing down.
The cautious Yue Fei began to build fortresses and fortresses at key points in various towns.
The original city walls were demolished by the retreating Ming army. This was a big project. Yue Fei was unwilling to advance lightly, so his attack naturally slowed down...
Chapter completed!