After being intercepted by enemy spies, the spies sent by Lin Xiao and Lin Shuisheng quickly counterattacked with good training foundation and sharp weapons. The next day, the spies were within thirty miles north of Changhua. After intercepting and killing more than ten government spies and capturing two more, Lin Xiao and Lin Shuisheng understood why their attempts to capture the spies failed a few days ago: these government spies They were not Han people, but medicine crossbowmen sent by the Yao chieftains of Guangxi. Like the Chinese army's novices, they were best at operating in dense mountains and forests.
From the activities of the forward spies of the Ming Army, Lin Shuisheng instinctively felt that his opponent was from the same Chinese military academy as himself. However, Yu Zigao immediately guessed the enemy on the opposite side when the forward spies disappeared and suffered heavy losses. The army is no longer an unorganized and undisciplined civilian rebel army, but the Chinese army.
He was able to lead the army alone to break through to Changhua, which was actually the result of his sending troops without authorization in violation of the general's order.
More than ten days ago, General Luo Ying, a subordinate of the Jin Qi family who was stationed at the front line of Lingao, was seriously ill and could not see anything. Yu Zigao took the initiative to ask Ying to go to the front line of Lingao to supervise the battle. The Jin Qi family did not allow him to take away any soldiers. Even the soldiers of General Qiongya's headquarters were not allowed to be taken away, and he was only allowed to take dozens of his own soldiers to Lingao to supervise the battle. Before Yu Zigao left, General Jin repeatedly told him: Just stick to Lingao , are not allowed to send troops across Wenlan River to the south without authorization.
Yu Zigao discovered on the Lingao front line that seven or eight thousand officers and soldiers dispatched from Guangxi were stationed motionless beside a small river that was only a few feet wide, while only a few hundred scattered civilian rebels were active on the other side.
He immediately gathered all the generals for a meeting and proposed a plan to cross the river and go south to dig out the bandits' nest. The problem was that the early investigation work of the officers and soldiers was a mess. Even Yu Zigao himself did not know where the bandits' nest of the people's rebellion was. He only based on the information before the people's rebellion. Due to the situation, Xili was believed to be the main force of the rebellion, so he proposed a plan to march directly south to Zhanzhou, Changhua and then wait for an opportunity. However, almost all the generals were unwilling to go to war, and Yu Zigao was just a Qiong. General Ya Shen, the Guangxi soldiers did not obey him, and the generals only gave him a favor, no one objected to him face to face, but no one responded.
Finally, Yu Zigao took out the remaining property of his family as a bounty, and also made a promise: to capture the thief's nest and conquer the prefectures and counties, and allow the soldiers to plunder. In this way, there were Guangxi Yao chieftains Tu Qianhu Wutu, Guangxi Guilin soldiers The commander-in-chief Luo once was willing to lead the team to follow him to attack. Luo once was a subordinate of Yu Dayou, but this time he was willing to take risks with Yu Zigao. It was for the sake of Nai's father.
As soon as Yu Zigao discovered that the opponent was the Chinese Army, he immediately stopped his advance and began to send out spies in large numbers to investigate the situation. Unfortunately, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Army's rookies was not comparable to that of these Yao people from the mountains. If we talk about mountain life experience, the Yao people People are naturally smarter than most of the Han hunters, but reconnaissance intelligence and special combat, which involve weapons, personal skills and tactics, group tactical coordination and other aspects, also include the interpretation and discovery of intelligence, these are not A simple life and hunting experience can cultivate this, so the Yao hunters were defeated one after another and could not detect the actual situation in Changhua County.
However, after this, the two sides, which had not yet officially fought, returned to a situation where the Chinese military had unilateral information and was transparent.
In the dense forest in the evening, Taiwan's Siraya indigenous camp is advancing rapidly. They are divided into hundreds of small teams in the airtight forest, communicating with each other using whistles, imitating bird calls, etc. as signals, holding traditional spears and crossbows, and at the same time
They also carried weapons such as matchlock guns. Under the guidance of several Li nationality guides, they detoured through the mountains east of Changhua and headed north. They planned to sneak attack the officers and soldiers camp after nightfall. The officers and soldiers camp had been discovered by the Chinese army's novices.
On the Beimen River, only fifteen miles away from Changhua County, the indigenous battalion planned to detour to their northeast, upstream of the Beimen River, and then launch a surprise attack.
Major Yaku, the commander of the Taiwanese Aboriginal Battalion, suddenly squatted down in front of a dense forest and raised his right hand to signal everyone to stop. The supervisor, Yan Song, stepped forward carefully. Just as he was about to ask something, Yaku made a gesture to indicate the front.
There are enemies.
Night fell quietly into the tropical jungle, and large numbers of flying insects came out under the moonlight, flying above everyone's heads.
All the soldiers of the Siraya Aboriginal Battalion were crouching quietly in the forest, spending time silently with the unknown opponents in the jungle opposite.
Yaku leaned into Yan Song's ear and whispered: "That's not right, the person opposite is also a hunter in the forest."
Yan Song had no objection to the judgment of Jaku, who was originally a hunting expert in the clan, and asked in a low voice: "Are we just spending time with them here?"
Jaku nodded: "At this time, whoever moves first will be finished."
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In order to cover the sneak attack of the Taiwanese indigenous battalion, Lin Shuisheng led the student army, five sentry teams of sailor musketeers, and one sentry artillery team, and swaggered out of the county at noon that day, searching in the direction of Beimen River; he was at the outpost.
There were three sentries of sailors, with the supporting force in the middle being the student army and the artillery sentry, and two sentries in the rear. In fact, from the mouth of the Beimen River, the sailor musketry team used the centipede boat of the detachment to temporarily
The raft carried 500 fleet sailors upstream, preparing to cooperate with the infantry troops in the front to attack the officers and soldiers camp.
The three-pronged attack force has almost exhausted the Chinese army in Changhua County. Lin Shuisheng and Lin Xiao agreed that Yu Zigao's troops must be eliminated at once to save Changhua County and Shilu Iron Mine.
At this moment, Yu Zigao deeply felt the dilemma of having no one under his command. During this march, he almost walked all the way to teach these Yao soldiers and Guilin soldiers various basic knowledge about battlefield discipline, marching instructions, combat preparations, etc.
The Yao spies were also temporarily selected by him, and now, when he was about to fight the most dangerous enemy, he couldn't find anyone who could help him with the most basic camp knowledge of setting up camp, digging trenches, erecting fences, and arranging sentries.
He had to teach him how to do it all by himself, which exhausted him to death.
This predicament is not surprising. The officer-soldier system in the Ming Dynasty has been corrupted, and there is no decent officer training in the military education system of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, as long as generals can control the soldiers in peacetime, they can rush the soldiers to the battlefield in wartime.
, even if it is good.
On this day, he sent Qianhu Wutu, a member of the Yao ethnic group, to take his troops and detour to the northeastern mountains of Changhua to attack Changhua. He and Lin Shuisheng thought of this together. After more than 800 Yao ethnic medicine crossbowmen set off,
He continued to work alone until late at night, and then he remembered that he had not sent out a night sentry.
However, as soon as he sent a secret sentry outside the camp, a secret sentry sounded a warning sound.
Around the officers and soldiers camp to the west of Beimen River, warnings suddenly sounded everywhere. Thanks to Yu Zigao's timely reminder to send out a secret sentry, he promptly discovered Lin Shuisheng's sailor musketeers coming out of the mountains to the west.
The camp of officers and soldiers responded in time, and immediately the whole camp was on alert, firing rockets towards the outside of the camp, and igniting the fire that had been arranged. Under the light of the fire, the sailor musketeers in blue fired a round of musket bullets, and then slowly Slowly retreating, Lin Shuisheng had noticed that the camp of officers and soldiers was tightly defended and there was no gap to take advantage of, so he had to order the troops to retreat temporarily. He wanted to wait for the indigenous battalion or navy sailors to launch a sneak attack in the direction of Beimen River before launching an attack.
However, they waited until daylight and the sneak attack did not happen. When the sailors went upstream, they encountered the patrol of officers and soldiers on the Beimen River. As a result, the sneak attack failed. The sailors decisively turned around and landed on the west bank to join Lin Shuisheng's troops. .
The Siraya Aboriginal Camp seemed to have disappeared. Lin Shuisheng didn't sleep a wink all night, but there was no news from the Aboriginal Camp.
Yu Zigao blocked the Chinese army's land and water attack in time, and also hoped that the Yao medicine crossbow soldiers could earn some face. However, until the next morning, there was no news from the Yao soldiers.
The Chinese army simply lined up in front of the officers and soldiers' camp, seemingly preparing for a decisive battle with the officers and soldiers.
Yu Zigao had no interest in a decisive battle with the Chinese army. He stood on the watchtower of the village and looked at the Chinese army positions outside the camp. He always regretted that he had not been able to steal a telescope from the Chinese army. Guilin had the general in prison. After looking at it for a while, he asked in confusion: "Sir, how come the flags of these pirates are all numbers, and what does the flag with the word 'Xue' mean? Do any of them have the surname Xue?"
"This is the number of their unit. For example, the number 'Nan Yi' is the first sentry of the Nanyang Sailor Musketeers, and so on. The Sailor Musketeers are divided by region, including Nanyang, Luzon, Taiwan, and Ryukyu. Corps; this red flag with the word 'study' is the so-called military student army."
"What, military academy, student army?" Luo Yi once was confused by these new terms. Yu Zigao had no time to explain, so he shouted outside: "Hey, who is the leader of the army on the other side? Come out and talk,"
He asked dozens of his soldiers to shout at half pay. A man walked out from the Chinese army position opposite, wearing a silver-gray breastplate and a silver helmet. There was a blue ribbon and a red ribbon on the top of the helmet. , indicating that this person is a major officer of the Sailor Musketeers.
He was alone and empty-handed as he walked fifty steps away from the officers and soldiers' camp. Then he stopped and said loudly: "Is it Senior Yu? I was in Xia Lin Shuisheng, and when I was studying in the command department, the senior should have seen me."
Yu Zigao ordered all officers and soldiers not to fire arrows. He walked down the watchtower, opened the village gate, walked out of the camp, walked ten steps away from Lin Shuisheng, took off his helmet, and looked at the short Dan people in front of him.
Lin Shuisheng smiled, cupped his hands and saluted, "Senior Yu is now a counselor of the imperial court. Congratulations."
Yu Zigao sighed, and said with a cupped hand: "Thank you very much. I don't know if the captain of the ship sent you here to formally confront the imperial court, or if Lord Yin wants to help the imperial court suppress the Li rebellion."
Lin Shuisheng smiled and replied: "Of course it is the latter. Captain Yin, Mr. Yin, is the training envoy of the Yazhou regiment. This is subject to the official seal of the government, so of course we have to protect the safety of Yazhou. It is our duty to do so."