In Luckedhun's estimate, as long as Duoduo led the troops to arrive as soon as possible, he would not be afraid of the counterattack of the 60,000 or 70,000 Ming troops in Shaoxing Mansion.

Luckedhun wasn't right in his thoughts.

At this time, the morale of the Ming army was low, and the combat power could not be compared with the Qing army before entering the customs.

Three thousand Tartars are elite, enough to defeat a tenfold Ming army.

Don't talk about the national battlefield, just take the battles along the Qiantang River as far as it is concerned.

Before the fall of the Hongwen Dynasty, Ma Shiying, a scholar of the Hongwen Dynasty, and Fang Guoan, the general soldier, led an army of 50,000 to cross the Qiantang River and invade Hangzhou, and once wanted to recover Hangzhou.

After Leke Dehun learned about it in Jiangning, he immediately sent 6,000 cavalry to Hangzhou to relieve the siege, plus the Qing army in Hangzhou, the ratio of troops between the two sides at that time was 50,000 to 16,000 people, but Ma Shiying and Fang Guoan were afraid that the Qing army would be strong, so they withdrew to the Qiantang River.

On the way to withdraw from the siege, the two captured Yuhang and Fuyang in the southwest of Hangzhou.

Lekedehun sent Meler Ezhenzhu Mala and Hetuo, with 3,000 cavalry and 6,000 infantry, a total of 9,000 people, to attack the Ming army in Yuhang and Fuyang, and the two armies were camped together dozens of miles outside Hangzhou.

The Qing army's offensive was fierce and unstoppable, and there was no suspense that Ma Shiying and Fang Guoan were defeated by the Qing army.

Just as the Qing army was celebrating, Ma Shiying and Fang Guoan led the remnants of the army to cross the river and besiege the city of Hangzhou, but they were still defeated by Meler Ezhen Ji Xiha, and countless people drowned.

Ma Shiying, a traitor who has been stigmatized by later generations, can be said to have been defeated and defeated repeatedly.

But because of this, the two of them consumed and sacrificed all the vital power of the remnants in vain.

In this battle, that is, on the same day, Wu Zheng broke through from Jinshanwei Port and returned to the Shaoxing River, Zhao Shi told Wu Zheng about the Battle of Fuyang in the Battle of Qiantang River, 30,000 Ming troops fought against 6,000 Qing troops, and only killed more than 500 Tartars, but the Ming army suffered more than 3,000 casualties.

As a result, the Ming army, which was already demoralized, quickly collapsed, like a river flowing eastward.

After the war, because Ma Shiying's reputation was too bad, Lu Jianguo refused to accept him, and Ma Shiying was exiled in eastern Zhejiang, and gradually disappeared.

Fang Guoan led his troops into the command of Lu Jianguo, and together with Wang Zhiren, he annexed and absorbed the remnants of the Ming army and the righteous army in eastern Zhejiang.

So, Lucker didn't think his decision was a risk, and he walked happily.

He left behind 3,000 elite Tartars and 30,000 Ming troops in Hangzhou.

……。

Wu Zheng is already deploying to suppress bandits.

No matter how strong the bandits are, they can't compete with the army.

Even if the other party is a rookie army.

What the bandits want is money, what they want is survival.

But the army is different, it doesn't need to think about survival itself, because it is a legitimate killing machine.

With this alone, there is no way for the bandits to have better training time and conditions.

Of course, it's also crucial that the power of the leader is vision.

Wu Zheng's suppression of bandits is extremely powerful.

It's a neighborhood that everyone knows.

In the eight counties of Shaoxing, almost everyone knows that Lianghuwei is going to suppress bandits.

It's not that Wu Zheng doesn't understand the tactics of surprise.

Instead, Wu Zheng believes that the wealthy businessmen in the eight counties have scraped together more than 9,000 taels of funds to suppress bandits, and they have to be worthy of this money.

There is a way for insiders to watch the doorway, and laymen to see the liveliness.

You quietly suppressed the bandits, people can't enjoy it, and if you don't have to come to ask for the silver, then the gains outweigh the losses, Shining Town is the base that Wu Zheng wants, and you have to take care of your reputation.

A battalion of 600 cavalry is training hard.

Bandits don't need it.

In addition to the cavalry battalion stationed at the Lianghu Guard, one was counted as one, and they were all sent out by Wu Zheng.

On that day, the army hoarded the small village of Laohuai Village, where Wu Zheng ambushed a thousand Tartars over Pinggang Mountain.

This kind of momentum, the bandits on Pinggang Mountain said that they don't know, that is impossible.

But they didn't run away, they didn't surrender, they were all waiting.

Wait and see if the officers and soldiers will be ruthless and whether they will be pretentious.

It is also a wait-and-see reaction to the "three knives and broken mountains".

"Three knives to break the mountain" is not a trick, but a person's bandit.

His name is Liu Laosan, and he is the largest bandit in the Pinggang Mountain area, with nearly 500 bandits under his command.

Raiding homes and robbing houses, killing people and stealing goods, the arrogance is blazing.

Wu Zheng was carefully considered.

led troops out to suppress bandits, mainly for silver.

Fewer people die is the key.

If you eat soft first and then bite hard, the casualties will accumulate, and it will definitely not be small.

It's better to kick the biggest one directly, so that the small one can surrender without a fight.

But the problem is that this Liu Laosan's lair is indeed a terrain where one husband is the key and ten thousand people can't be opened.

Before suppressing the bandits, Wu Zheng sent several waves of scouts to reconnoiter Pinggang Mountain, and also found many local villagers and hunters in the villages along the mountain.

A detailed map of the mountain was drawn.

But according to Orion's dictation and reprimand, Wu Zheng couldn't make up his mind to fight this battle.

Winning is sure to win, but the price is too great.

Liu Laosan's nest is in the central area of Pinggang Mountain, in a large mountain col.

The four sides of the col are cliffs dozens of feet high, and it is impossible to conquer from above.

The only road in the col that connects to the outside of the mountain is only three or four feet wide, and there are cliffs on both sides that are dozens of feet high.

Not at all suitable for a large army charge.

This is not the point, the point is that this road is too long, five or six miles long.

This length is enough to bury the lives of the entire army under Wu Zheng's command.

I'm afraid that there is only one way to besiege such a danger.

But the siege obviously could not be done, and although there were fields in the mountain col, although they could not be compared with the paddy fields outside the mountains, they could not starve people to death by planting some miscellaneous grains such as sweet potatoes and potatoes.

Without three or five years, this group of bandits cannot be exterminated.

The so-called retreat in the face of difficulties, Wu Zhengzhen retreated.

After only three days in Laohuai Village, Wu Zheng led the army back to the Lianghu Guardhouse.

This withdrawal is bigger than the dispatch of troops.

For a time, the wealthy businessmen who had paid money in the eight counties of Shaoxing came to the door one after another to ask for an explanation.

Wu Zheng posted a notice in front of the guard, preparing to return the silver according to the original amount after five days.

……。

It was noon.

In the huge mountain col that Wu Zheng was afraid of, there was a lot of people.

Bandits, drink wine in big bowls and eat meat.

Hundreds of bandits in the village were celebrating, so that the officers and soldiers retreated in the face of difficulties.

In the hall behind them, four people sat on each side of a three-zhang long, eight-foot-wide stone table.

The man on the throne is hideous.

A pair of large leopard-like eyes, an upside-down pear-shaped face surrounded by shaggy variegated hair.

The tip of the nose and mouth protrude forward, as if they will open their mouths and bite and devour at any moment.

The sharp teeth are exposed in the mouth, and the two deeply exposed arcs at the corners of the mouth make the upper and lower lips of the gums taut like two bulging scoop shells.

Plus he doesn't sit like everyone else, but squats on a stool.

The whole appearance looks like a leopard waiting to be devoured.

This is Liu Laosan, the largest bandit leader in the Pinggang Mountain area, known as the "Three Knives Broken Mountain".