(Movie "Submission")
Since the Battle of Hukou, the Taiping Army has infiltrated everywhere, and the Xiang Army has been unable to form a line in Hubei and Jiangxi. When Luo Zenan returned to Wuchang, he had to pass through the taiping army's control area. In the area under control, the Taiping Army gathered tens of thousands of people, but all belonged to local troops, the combat effectiveness was average, and the command ability of the generals with troops was not strong, and together with Luo Zenan, who could fight habitually, they were immediately compared.
Hearing that Luo Ze was advancing southward, Shi Dakai quickly led 30,000 men and horses to chase after him. These 30,000 people are all field troops who have been fighting for many years, which is not comparable to ordinary local armies, and Shi Dakai's own military ability is also comparable to That of Luo Zenan, and the two have fought inextricably as early as the lake mouth, and when the new contest comes, it is naturally a bloody storm.
Shi Dakai took advantage of his numerical superiority and used tactics such as enveloping and combining attacks without pause, encircling Luo Zenan's flank troops in hundreds of places and annihilating them. Although the Xiang army was brave, but in the face of the elite of the Taiping Army, at most it could only be one to ten, not one to a hundred, and the Taqibu subordinates who accompanied Luo Zenan were too sudden to bear the brunt of the siege, and almost all of them were lost from the generals to the soldiers.
After Shi Dakai's pursuit, Wei Jun was also leading a large number of reinforcements to arrive, and if the two armies met, it would reach 50,000 people, while the Xiang army was only 5,000, and after the defeat, morale was greatly reduced. In this way, the Chances of the Western Expeditionary Army not to mention reaching Wuchang are very slim, and even if it wants to withdraw to Jiangxi safely, it has become an uncertain thing.
In front of him was a bloody journey, and Luo Zenan's situation became extremely sinister. At the critical time, Shi Dakai suddenly left the Hubei battlefield and turned around and went to Jiangxi.
Previously, the Hongbing Uprising broke out in Guangdong, and Hongbing, who was born in the Heaven and Earth Society, was taking the northwest of the river. Hong Bing and the Taiping Army are a group, and there is no doubt that they will become an important source of soldiers for the Taiping Army, and Shi Dakai went to Jiangxi to meet the Hong Bing. At the same time, The Wing King also had a plan, that is, he found that Luo Zenan's Western Expeditionary Army was the main elite of the Xiang Army, and it was not easy to defeat it in a short period of time, but on the other hand, since the main force came out, the Xiang Army base camp that remained in Jiangxi was bound to be empty, so why didn't I take advantage of the void and destroy it in one fell swoop?
It sounds good, but compared with his opponents, Shi Dakai's plan can only be regarded as a medium-level plan. He did not see higher and farther places, and did not think carefully about why Zeng Guofan, who was so thoughtful, was willing to send out the main force as much as possible, so that such an obvious flaw and loophole was exposed.
Because compared with Jiangxi, Hubei is more important, and compared with Jiujiang, Wuchang is more important!
As soon as Shi Da drove away, the once-in-a-lifetime fighter plane was lost. In the final analysis, the Wing King may be a perfect tactician, but not a perfect strategist, although his tactics are impeccable, may be slightly higher than Luo Zenan, but the war is like a game, the damage of a soldier is often irrelevant, the most important and crucial thing is how to layout.