Chapter 817 Split-petal plum blossom plan
According to Li Yan's plan, Hongniangzi divided the five thousand old battalion cavalry and three thousand Lumi gun soldiers into fifty squads. Each squad had one hundred old battalion cavalry and sixty musket soldiers, and they were broken into pieces and fought everywhere. Moreover, each squad also worked part-time tasks that were not collected at night. Fifty squads were sent out, and various battlefield information could be transmitted back soon. Once a large number of green camp cavalry were encountered, Hongniangzi quickly turned into pieces, gathered 5,000 cavalry and three,000 musket soldiers, and launched an attack on the green camp.
The Shandong Army of the Huai Army, which has all the cavalry, is simply too easy to deal with the Shandong Green Camp, which only has infantry.
When the cavalry came, the Qing army in the Green Camp could only form a formation to deal with it. Hongniang dismounted the Lumi gunman and fired the gun, disrupted the formation of the Qing army in the Green Camp, and then launched a charge with the cavalry. The range of the Lumi gun was greater than the bow and arrows and bird guns in the hands of the Qing army's green camp soldiers. The muskets kept firing guns outside the range of the Qing army. As a result, the formation of the Green Camp soldiers was soon lost. The cavalry rushed forward and the Green Camp soldiers were defeated. The Ming cavalry then followed behind and killed them, killing the Qing corpses all over the field and blood flowed into a river.
At this time, the Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing army were fighting against Li Zicheng. Another Eight Banners soldiers entered Henan and were preparing to go south to Yangzhou. They could not draw out elite Eight Banners soldiers to deal with these annoying Ming troops. In desperation, Dorgon transferred a group of foreign vassal Mongolian soldiers from outside the pass to deal with these elusive Ming cavalry.
After the Mongolian cavalry came, it caused some trouble to Hong Niangzi at the beginning. After all, the Mongolians grew up on horseback. In terms of cavalry, the Manchu Eight Banners soldiers and the Guanning Iron Cavalry that had already joined the Qing Dynasty were not opponents of the Mongolians, let alone the Ming cavalry adapted from the cavalry of the old camp of the rebel army.
The Ming cavalry suffered a certain setback and retreated while fighting, attracting the Mongolian soldiers towards the direction of the bastion.
The Mongols caught up and approached the bastion. These Mongolian soldiers from the outer vassals did not know the strength of the bastion. As a result, when they chased the Ming cavalry and chased them near the bastion, they were bombarded by artillery on the bastion and were beaten to the point of being overturned. In this way, the Hongniang won a game back.
The Mongols also changed their tactics and no longer approached the bastion, but guarded the periphery of the Ming army's bastion line, monitoring the Ming army's cavalry, preventing the Ming army from running out of the bastion line and rushing to Northern Zhili and Western Shandong. As long as the Ming army was prevented from coming out and protecting the safety of the food route, the Mongols would have completed their mission.
If the Ming army cannot go out, it will not be able to achieve the purpose of harassing the Qing army. Hong Niangzi was anxious and thought hard about countermeasures against the Mongolian soldiers.
Li Yan frowned and thought for a moment, and came up with a solution: "We can break the whole into pieces and disperse it. With a small group of cavalry pretending to rush out, walk north along the bastion line, pretending to enter Northern Zhili, attracting the Mongols, and sending another branch out, the Mongols will come to chase and then be attracted to open the Mongolian cavalry with this petal-divided plum blossom strategy, and our people will rush out."
"What after we go out? We go out and the Mongolian Tartars chased after them again. Can we deal with them?" The Hongniang frowned slightly and raised questions.
Li Yan smiled and said, "We broke the whole into pieces, which seemed to harass it. Wouldn't the Mongolian Tartars only be able to break the whole into pieces to find us? As long as they broke the whole into pieces, we can deal with them."
Then Li Yan told Hongniang how to deal with the scattered Mongolian cavalry: set up ambushes in multiple places, and fired outside the range of the Mongols' cavalry bows, attracting them to the ambush points of their own cavalry. Once the Mongols came over, the cavalry suddenly launched a charge.
Although the cavalry of the old camp of the rebel army is not considered a real heavy cavalry, the three walls of the rebel army cavalry are not something that the Mongolian cavalry can deal with.
According to the use of the petal plum blossom strategy, Hongniang transformed her cavalry and musket soldiers into pieces, and came out to lure the Mongolian soldiers one by one. Finally, Hongniang led a thousand old battalion cavalry and six hundred musket soldiers to rush out and successfully rushed into the area controlled by the Qing army in western Shandong.
When the Mongolians realized that Hongniang had conquered several villages in succession, her 1,000 old battalions of cavalry and 600 musket soldiers were broken into pieces again. For a moment, there were again phenomena of Ming cavalry looting the gentry manors and attacking the Qing army's rations roads on western Shandong.
In order to capture this Ming cavalry, the Mongols also broke into pieces and scattered out, looking for Ming cavalry everywhere.
Near Liushan, Yanggu, a Mongolian cavalry of about 300 people finally discovered a Ming cavalry of about 100 people, and the Mongolians immediately chased after him.
The Ming cavalry discovered the Mongols and turned around and ran away.
The Mongols chased each other and ended up chasing into a valley.
The five hundred Ming cavalry were ambushed in the valley and suddenly rushed out. The cavalry of both sides collided. The Mongolian cavalry, caught off guard, was beaten to the point of being overturned, and more than one hundred cavalry were immediately lost. However, the Mongolians quickly pulled their horses with their superb cavalry, turned their heads, and completed them in one go. They turned around and ran out of the valley, preparing to distance themselves from the Ming cavalry, and then use Manguda tactics to shoot the Ming cavalry.
Unexpectedly, when the Mongolian cavalry was about to rush out of the valley, they were beaten by ambushed musket soldiers and fell down one after another. Another group of Ming cavalry appeared at the entrance of the valley, with about 300 cavalry blocking the retreat of the Mongolian cavalry. Under the attack on both sides, the 300-man Mongolian cavalry was wiped out.
The battle between Ming cavalry and Mongolian cavalry can be seen everywhere on the land of western Shandong. The Ming cavalry often lured the enemy with a few people, introduced an ambush circle, and then launched an attack with more cavalry than the Mongolians. The musketeers blocked the Mongols' retreat, causing heavy casualties and injuries to the Mongolian cavalry.
On the terrain without valleys, Hong Niang also cleverly used the villages on the plains to set up ambush for the Mongolian people, defeating the Mongolian cavalry.
After several rounds of battle, the Mongolian cavalry, who suffered several great losses, no longer dared to pursue the small Ming army they found. As a result, Hongniang changed tactics and used the intelligence sent by the Jinyiwei to dig traps on the necessary path of the Mongolian cavalry, set up tripping ropes, and ambushed musketeers around and ambushed cavalry in the woods. When the Mongolians were scouting around, they were caught off guard by the musketeers.
It doesn't matter if the Mongols turn into zeros into wholes, since you turn into zeros into wholes, it will be difficult to find Ming cavalry who turns into zeros.
The Mongolian cavalry, who suffered continuous losses, lost a lot of people every day. In the end, they could not support themselves, so they had to run back to the grassland in shame. Anyway, they were Mongolians in the outer vassals, so there was no need to send their lives in vain.
Shandong is stuck between Northern Zhili and Southern Zhili, and it is the only way for transportation of supplies and materials for the Qing Dynasty to the south to the two Huaihe Rivers.
However, the Hongniang of Shandong attacked villages and even county towns, post stations, and even small groups of Qing army garrisons, causing heavy losses to the Shandong Qing army and even killed all the Mongolian cavalry transferred from outside the pass. This incident caused Duoduo a headache.
"We must take Shandong to attack Nanzhili, otherwise Shandong will be stuck behind us, our army will attack Lianghuai, and the Shandong Ming army will attack from behind our army, so the battle will be difficult to fight." Duoduo decided to take Shandong first and then take Lianghuai.
"But there are many fortresses in Shandong, and the Mingdog Cavalry rely on the fortress to attack our villages and counties everywhere. If we attack Shandong, it will probably be difficult to break it in less than a year or two." Kong Youde said worriedly.
Li Guodong's layout in Shandong and Lianghuai was an open plot. The Qing army ignored Shandong. The Ming cavalry relied on the bastion group and attacked western Shandong until northern Zhili, attacked counties and villages that had fallen into the hands of the Qing Dynasty, attacked Qing army post stations, and threatened the safety of the Qing army's transportation supply line. If the Qing army was in charge, they would face the impregnable bastion.
Chapter completed!