When Hong Chengchou arrived at the city of Ruzhou with his army, Niu Er and Hongying were already in full battle, and all the threats that should be cleared in the city were cleared.

Looking at all the anti-thief banners fluttering at the head of the city, Hong Chengchou's face turned black to the bottom of the pot, and at the same time he was angry, but also a little excited.

He naturally knew that with the strength of this gang of thieves, he could take down Ruzhou City, and whether he could fight or not was another two different things.

With the style of those anti-thieves, they will never gnaw such hard bones.

But now not only did he take down Ruzhou City regardless of casualties, but also made a stubborn posture, plus yesterday morning, there were more than 10,000 anti-thieves going south, where do you still understand, what does Xiaohua Wang want to do?

Obviously, the other party didn't want to escape like this anymore, so he chose to take a risky move, and he could only follow the division of troops to take risks.

In fact, Hong Chengchou really wanted to ignore the anti-thieves who went south, and first cleaned up the anti-thieves in the city, and fought so many times, he had almost touched the details of this group of anti-thieves.

Combined with the news found yesterday, although the soldiers and horses left by the other party in the city are only logistics baggage troops, and those second-rate troops who do not wear military uniforms, as long as these people are eliminated, not only can they get a lot of money, food and materials, but also equivalent to cutting off the arm of the little Hua Wang.

This kind of opportunity can be said to be very rare, but as the governor of the thief, he can't help himself.

In the past two months, not only has he not achieved the slightest success, but he has also let the rebels repeatedly break the city, and now even Ruzhou has been captured, and His Majesty has long been dissatisfied.

If even Nanyang was attacked by the anti-thieves, then it would really be impossible to eat and go around, Xiong Wencan's lessons from the past can be placed there.

The other party put on this posture, and he didn't have to think about it, he knew that Xiao Huawang must be going to raid Nanyang.

And Nanyang is located in the plain, originally he didn't expect the other party to sneak attack Nanyang, so he didn't notify the defenders in the city to strengthen their defenses, and now send a fast horse to pass the message, taking the official road to the south will definitely be intercepted by the other party, but it is too late to detour.

So now there are only two roads in front of him, either divide the troops, or ignore the thieves in the city and go south directly to chase and suppress the little Hua Wang.

But the other party is now nested in the city, once this God-given opportunity is missed, there will never be another in the future, coupled with the cunning of the little Hua Wang, most of them have not caught up, and will flee to the mountains, after weighing the pros and cons, it is finally decided to divide the army.

However, the division of troops also depends on how to divide it, whether to leave the cavalry and a small number of infantry to surround the city, and the main force of the army to the south, or let the cavalry go to the rescue of Nanyang, and the infantry to eliminate the thieves in the city first.

"My lord, according to the description of the exploration horse, all the little Hua Wang took away are elites, with their footsteps, at noon tomorrow at the latest, I am afraid that they will not arrive at Nanyang City, and only let Cao Zongbing take the iron horse to the rescue, it will be too late."

Qian Gao saw that Hong Chengchou was always hesitant, so he had to sigh and say.

"This governor naturally knows that with the current situation, it is the most appropriate and powerful to let the cavalry go to the rescue of Nanyang, and all the infantry stay to besiege Ruzhou City, but the thief is obviously deliberately doing this, luring the old man to send cavalry."

Hong Chengchou touched his beard and walked back and forth in the tent, really unable to figure out what method the other party was going to use to ambush his cavalry.

"My lord, this is going to Nanyang, and the terrain near Lushan County is a little complicated, and the rest are open terrain, Mr. Cao's soldiers have been in battle for a long time, and if the thief wants to ambush, I am afraid that it will be difficult."

"I'm not afraid of just in case, I'm afraid of 10,000."

Hong Chengchou sighed.

Qian Gao opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

That Xiaohua King dared to leave all the logistics and baggage troops in Ruzhou City and let the Governor attack him, but the Governor was slow to decide to send cavalry to rescue Nanyang.

It can be seen that in terms of decisiveness and convenience, adults are slightly inferior to that little Huawang, and they are really not willing to take any risks.

But this is not a dignified war between two countries, the other side is a thief, always occupying the initiative, if you don't take any risks, I'm afraid that even a hundred years will not want to destroy each other.

"I know you must think that this governor is too cautious and conservative, but have you ever thought that once the 20,000 Qin troops and 3,000 Guanning iron cavalry of this governor are destroyed, looking at the world, who else can control that little thief?

Now, although Bentu has been repeatedly led by his nose and passive, he can always suppress him in the mountains, so that he does not dare to rashly enter the plains to become bigger. ”

After Hong Chengchou finished speaking, he looked up to the sky and sighed, not that he didn't dare to bet, but that he couldn't afford to gamble.

"Adults have a long-term vision, thoughtfulness, and students admire, but adults are in the court, and they can't help themselves!"

"That's it!"

Hong Chengchou smiled bitterly, waved his hand, and ordered someone to call Cao Bianjiao in and instruct:

"Change Jiao, I want you to take the cavalry to rescue Nanyang, but you must remember that you must not fight head-on with a thief army, let alone a sneak attack, you only need to take the cavalry to Nanyang City, understand?"

"The last general understands!" Cao Bianjiao clenched his fists.

"Well, you must remember, no matter how good the opportunity is, don't go to the sneak attack, after you arrive in Nanyang with your troops, the thief will never dare to attack the city, if he flees to other places, you will follow behind, if he escapes into the mountains, you don't have to care, just wait for the order of the governor in Nanyang."

Hong Chengchou nodded, and instructed with a solemn face, and after speaking, he was still not at ease, and looked at the staff on the side: "Zhiyuan, if you work hard, let's go with Bianjiao!" ”

"It's an adult, the student won't let that little thief take advantage of it."

Qian Gao seemed to have expected that Hong Chengchou would let him go with Cao Bianjiao, without a trace of surprise.

"Change Jiao, in case of emergencies, you must consult Zhiyuan more before making a decision, and you must not be reckless."

"Don't worry, the last general remembers."

Cao Bianjiao nodded and replied with a serious face, but in his heart he felt that the supervisor was too verbose and too cautious.

Only then did Hong Chengchou relax his heart, and explained to Qian Gao again, and Cao Bianjiao took three thousand Guanning iron horsemen and galloped south.

Hong Chengchou also cheered up, ready to clean up the anti-thieves in the city, and immediately ordered the army to launch and encircle the three sides of Ruzhou City.

Only the east is not surrounded, and from the east out of the city, only more than ten miles is the mountain, obviously, Hong Laogou knows the truth of the lack of one in the siege.

He also knows that ten are to surround it, five to attack it, and to fight it twice, with more than 20,000 troops in his hands, if he really wants to storm Ruzhou City, I am afraid that in the end, more than half of them will be killed and wounded.

So while ordering people to build siege equipment, he also ordered people with loud voices to go to the city to publicize.

He promised that as long as he was willing to submit to the imperial court, not only would he not be responsible for all the previous things, but the big and small chiefs could also be crowned officials, and ordinary thieves would each be given ten acres of fertile land, and they would be exempt from tax for three years.

However, the reputation of Hong Laogou has long been infamous in the rebel army, so even if it is said that the sky is falling, Niu Er and the old thieves are indifferent.

He also greeted the female relatives of Hong Chengchou's family, and the angry Hong Laogou's face was green, so he had to say again, and those who raised the two heads of the cattle and returned to the obedience were rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver, 1,000 acres of fertile land, and the official titles of 1,000 households.

This made the Commander Niu have to nail the door shut when he sleeps at night, and then open it at dawn the next day.