Li Zicheng no longer wanted to be affectionately called "General Gou" by his subordinates. It sounded a bit like a curse word, "General Gou, General Gou". When it came out of his mouth, there was no difference.
Although, digging trenches and digging many long and deep trenches is currently the best way to resist the Tartar cavalry.
However, now he is not defending or waiting for the Tartars to attack, but attacking.
According to Jiang Wan's order, after the East Route Army was assembled, it was to break through the blockage of the Tartars and advance westward. The target was Shengjing, and along the way, whether there were Tartar villages or towns, military forts, or even passes, they were all his.
The object of conquest by the Eastern Route Army.
Now that the main force of the Tartars has gathered under Liaoyang City, and Zhenjiang Fort may send troops to assist at any time, as long as the Eastern Route Army advances steadily to the west, no matter how far it advances, for the entire battle situation,
All of them are of great help.
Therefore, the Eastern Route Army must not wait for the enemy to attack, so naturally it cannot rely on digging trenches to annihilate the enemy.
"Show weakness, I think we should show weakness, let the Tartars feel that they can eat us, so that they will be bold enough to attack!"
Xu Jian pondered for a moment and then said: "My army is willing to use it as bait to lure the Tartars to attack. When the Tartars fall into the trap, we will mobilize the whole army to completely eat this group of Tartars!"
"The Tartars are not stupid!" Li Zicheng shook his head, "Our fake camp buried so much gunpowder that it killed several hundred of them, and then the artillery team bombarded their entire column. Even an idiot can't escape from it.
Judging from the number of cannons in the artillery team, we are definitely not a small force!"
He rejected Xu Jian's suggestion: "They shouldn't be fooled, and they won't even step into the range of our cannon again!"
Everyone pondered. It turned out that the guerrillas surnamed Li in the Guards Camp were basically Li Zicheng's nephews. At this moment, they were looking at Li Zicheng. It was obvious that they did not intend to use their brains and were just waiting for Li Zicheng to make a decision.
At this time, Li Zicheng missed the Li Guo who had lost his face and suffered a defeat. Unfortunately, Li Guo was left in Panjiakou to serve his crime. Otherwise, with all the damaging tricks in his mind
, maybe it can be really useful.
He looked at Xu Xianchun, who had a serious face, but showed no desire to speak.
"Xu Zhenfu, do you have any ideas?"
"Senior General!" Xu Xianchun smiled slightly, with a look of vicissitudes of life: "Actually, the commander-in-chief ordered our East Route Army to march westward. The commander-in-chief should have given him instructions on how to use troops in this situation.
I should have expected this!"
Li Zicheng's face became a little weird. When he saw everyone looking at him expectantly, he blinked: "The commander-in-chief did tell me what to do in this situation, but the commander-in-chief taught me
I don’t know if the tactics will have much effect?"
There were doubtful looks in everyone's eyes. As a die-hard confidant of Jiang Wan, it was really rare for Li Zicheng to say something that he did not believe in Jiang Wan.
"The commander-in-chief means that our Eastern Route Army will push all the way!" Li Zicheng said slowly: "With the artillery team's one hundred cannons as the core, all the other soldiers and horses are protecting the artillery team.
He said that as long as we are within the range of the cannon, our world is ours. The Tatars’ horses run fast and it doesn’t matter if they can’t catch up, but they can’t run away from their villages and cities!”
"If we destroy their foundation, they will naturally not run away, but will come to us on their own initiative!"
Xu Xianchun nodded thoughtfully: "The general feels that the commander's tactics must be good. As for how to arrange the troops, I will wait for you, the general!"
"We, General Wei Shen, will obey your orders!"
Everyone said in unison that it seemed that no one had any objection to Jiang Wan's command of the Eastern Route Army's tactics, probably because the people here were Jiang Wan's confidants, and Jiang Wan's vision and behavior had never been the same.
Let them down.
This gave them a blind trust in Jiang Wan.
"If that's the case, then it's decided!" Li Zicheng saw that everyone was so decisive, and he also made up his mind, "When the wind and snow stop, we will take the initiative to attack. Li Guo and Li Gan, you two will be the vanguard and clean up."
The road is close to the enemy camp. Tan Chun is in the rear to prevent the Tartars from harassing our rear. Xu Jian guards the left wing and Xu Xianchun guards the right wing. I personally lead the Chinese army and artillery team. The speed of the entire army's march shall be determined by the Chinese army!
"
"Do you understand everything?"
"As you command!"
Everyone answered in unison, and an iron-blooded energy suddenly filled the small cave where soldiers were hiding, and then spread in all directions.
It snowed all day and all night.
For the Eastern Route Army, which was already gearing up to attack, this was not a good thing. In addition to the loss of morale, the snow on the ground was enough to slow down their actions as they were mainly infantry.
As for the core of the Eastern Route Army, which has more than 120 three-pound cannons, this is even more troublesome, even though the weight of the three-pound cannon itself is already less than that of a cannon that can weigh more than a thousand kilograms.
There were a lot of guns, and even each cannon was specially equipped with a gun carriage. But even so, moving in half a foot of snow was still an extremely difficult thing.
Fortunately, the generals all agreed, and the war situation did not require them to attack immediately. Therefore, the East Route Army could wait until the snow froze before taking action.
The same weather was a trouble for the Ming army, but it was not much better for the Houjin army. Especially before the reinforcements arrived, they had to worry about being surrounded by the Ming army or being surrounded by the Ming army.
It was while I was sleeping that a bunch of shells suddenly fell from the sky out of nowhere.
It is also not conducive for war horses to fight in the snow, not to mention that because of the cold weather, the war horses need more fodder to maintain their condition to resist the severe cold. Azig, who happily led the team here in one breath, did not give himself
The troops and horses prepared the food, grass and baggage for camping here.
They still had to wait for people from the camp behind to deliver them.
The only thing that was good for them was that the snowstorm gave them enough time to wait for reinforcements, and two days and one night were enough for an elite cavalry to rush to this place from Liaoyang City.
In today's Houjin Camp, the original simple barracks have now become one piece after another. Even simple stables that can cover the wind and snow have been set up. In the camp, in addition to the cavalrymen of Azige Zhengbai Banner, there are also
Soldiers wearing colors completely different from those of Zhengbai Banner were appearing in the camp. The soldiers with blue flags were wandering around the camp, and their number far exceeded the number of Zhengbai Banner.
The person who led the reinforcements here was none other than the leader of the Xianglan Banner, Aisin Gioro Amin.