Song County is bordered by Funiu Mountain in the south, Ruzhou in the east, and Luoyang in the north, and is only more than 200 miles away from both places.

Since Qin Yu broke through Song County, he has been calculating the goal of the next stop, Hong Chengchou is chasing in the west, and the mountains are in the south.

Going north to take Luoyang, that is the road to winning the world, King Qin weighed it, and felt that with his current small arms and legs, most of them could not lift the big ding, so he forcibly lifted it, and estimated that he would eventually learn from King Qin Wu to be crushed to death.

In the end, I can only choose to go to Ruzhou in the east, no way, Ruzhou is located in the middle of Henan, among the mountains, but to the north is a flat river.

Before Cao Bianjiao's three thousand Guan Ning Iron Cavalry were resolved, it would definitely not be good to go to the plains.

You defend the city, people besiege the city, you run away and people keep harassing, you fight a decisive battle, you won, you can't expand the results, but if you lose, you will be killed by the cavalry, how can Qin Yu do this kind of bloody thing?

But if you don't go to the plains, you will always wander around in the mountains, and you will always be just a rogue, and you won't be able to become a hero, so Cao Bianjiao's three thousand Guan Ning Iron Cavalry is like a stalk to Qin Yu.

However, he met Hong Chengchou, a guy who is as stable as an old dog, even if Qin Yu played with flowers, people just weren't fooled, but looked like a clown.

This let King Qin know that it is better to be cautious and steady, he is afraid that he is not the opponent of the old dog, and if he continues to compete like this, before the old dog makes a mistake, he has to make a mistake, and finally decides to make a dangerous move.

At the same time, it also made Qin Yu understand why Chongzhen eleven years ago, all kinds of thieves had been pressed and beaten, but then the situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

It's not a natural or man-made disaster, and the slogan of not accepting food, which year will there be no natural and man-made disasters in Henan?

The real reason is that the Guanning iron cavalry has been transferred to Guanwai, which makes King Chuang dare to wreak havoc in the Central Plains and attack Luoyang to take Kaifeng.

If you have an elite iron cavalry of more than 3,000 people, even if you have a million rabble, you will still end up with a murdered ass on the plains, because people will stare at you and kill the thief.

If you don't run, you can't fight, as soon as the king runs, everyone else has to follow, and the more rabble, the easier it is to kill.

In the early stage, whether it was Sun Chuanting or Hong Chengchou, they all used this trick, and every time they killed, the rebels from all walks of life lost their armor and did not dare to fight head-on.

After only staying in Song County for six days, Qin Yu waved his troops eastward, but at this time, the team had grown a little bigger.

The number of men reached more than 40,000, more than 20,000 mules and horses, the engineer battalion and the rear battalion alone were close to 15,000, and the five heroic battalions were also expanded to 3,000 men and horses in each battalion.

There were 2,000 guards battalions, 2,000 women's battalions, five battalions of juvenile firearms increased from 800 to 1,200, and three infantry battalions remained at 6,000 without expansion.

This is still the result of Qin Yu's control, otherwise he would have been able to pull out 100,000 horses easily.

The more you go to the north, the more displaced people there are, as long as you have a steamed bun every day, there are countless people who are willing to follow you.

As soon as Qin Yu moved, Hong Chengchou immediately led the army to catch up, and he was a little puzzled why this gang of thieves took the initiative to run away this time.

But when he arrived in Song County six days later and learned that the thieves had bypassed Yiyang and were directly attacking the city of Ruzhou, Hong Laogou immediately noticed a trace of unusual taste.

At the same time, I didn't dare to slack off, and immediately chased after it, Ruzhou is not comparable to ordinary states and counties, but Zhili Prefecture, once it is broken by the anti-thieves, it will inevitably cause a bad impact.

At this time, under the city of Ruzhou, more than 10,000 heroes were frantically besieging from all sides, and the shouting and killing had not stopped from morning to afternoon.

Ladders reached the base of the wall, and hundreds of trebuchets desperately threw stones at the city.

The wounded were carried down all the time, and for the first time, more than a thousand female soldiers were a little too busy.

And the female soldier who had just joined, looking at a wounded man who was wailing and screaming, was at a loss and vomited.

Ruzhou is worthy of being a big city, the city wall is tall and strong, and there are moats and urn cities, plus the defenders and big households in the city have long been prepared, for three days, more than 5,000 people were killed and wounded, but they could not be attacked.

"Brother, you can't attack anymore, don't say that the brothers can't eat if you attack again, I'm afraid that the old dog will catch up, let's go quickly."

"Yes, this Ruzhou is too difficult to gnaw, let's go to other counties, didn't you always say that persimmons should be picked up and pinched, why do you have to die under Ruzhou City this time?"

In the past three days, Niu Er has been persuaded many times, but King Qin has always been indifferent.

This time, even Hongying felt that he was a little confused, and he didn't fight so many county towns, but he wanted to come to fight Ruzhou, and he would fight it, but he still had to fight to the death, and he completely lost his previous style.

"Don't worry, it will take two days for Hong Laogou to arrive at the latest, which is enough for us to capture Ruzhou City."

Qin Yu waved his hand, and then said expressionlessly: "Pass the order, don't capture Ruzhou City today, swear not to collect troops, and if you dare to retreat without permission, you will be killed!" ”

"Yes!"

Qin Tie didn't care about the ghost-like expressions of the two, and after holding his fists and agreeing to the promise, he took his personal guards to give the order to supervise the battle.

"Hey! Unexpectedly, the elder brother insisted on capturing this Ruzhou City, and the elder brother could only let it go, so he put on armor and personally led the team, and he was bound to kill the head of the city before dark. ”

Seeing that Qin Yu's attitude was so resolute, Niu Er didn't say anything more, gritted his teeth, and went down with a fist.

Hongying looked at his back, then leaned over to King Qin's side and whispered, "You don't think they have too many people, and you want to waste some food and deliberately consume some, right?" ”

"Nonsense, stinky, if you dare to say such things that disturb the morale of the army in the future, don't blame me for military law."

Qin Yu was furious, now that he was not as good as before, how could he do such a waste of resources again?

"Then why do you have to capture this Ruzhou City? You used to fight if you could win, and run if you couldn't win, and you would never gnaw on such hard bones. ”

Although the red warbler was startled, she still stared at him, and she couldn't figure it out even if she wanted to break her head.

"We can't fight this Ruzhou City, and then the old Hong dog will also be difficult to fight, and Ruzhou is a state city."

After Qin Yu said something thoughtlessly, he didn't explain again, but stared intently at the battle ahead.

At this time, the people in the city were also crying bitterly, I don't know what crazy this gang of thieves had, let so many counties not fight, and insisted on holding them, it was really anxious to die.

In the end, it was King Qin who organized a wave of death squads, promising that after entering the city, each of them would be promoted to two ranks, and Commander Niu personally took the lead in armor, so that he finally broke through Ruzhou City at dusk.

And this battle killed more than 4,000 heroes, and as many as 3,000 were lightly and seriously wounded.

This time, Qin Yu did not recruit troops and recuperate, but decided to divide the troops.

Let Niu Er and Hongying stay in Ruzhou with the recruits from the rear battalion, the engineer battalion, the combat battalion, and the guard battalion and the firearms battalion.

He led infantry and firearms soldiers, as well as a small number of sappers and female guards, to attack Nanyang.

It was only at this time that everyone understood why Qin Yu wanted to fight Ruzhou City so desperately.

The next day, when the sky was still bright, Qin Yu took 6,000 infantry, 4,000 firearms soldiers, 500 female soldiers, 500 personal guards, and 500 sappers to the south.

Niu Er and Hongying did not dare to slack off, and immediately began to arrange the city defense.

After all, after a four-day delay, Hong Chengchou's army will arrive at the afternoon of tomorrow or noon the day after tomorrow at the latest.