In winter, there is a layer of river fog on the river surface, and in the hazy river fog, there is a faint roar with a strong sense of rhythm.

As in the past, after the flotilla left Peacock Island, a flotilla of ten ships was formed, and the head ship was hung with an outboard engine, and under the impetus of the diesel engine, the flotilla sailed all the way to Huguang at a speed of 500 miles a day.

"Lord Shizi, do you need to dock in Yangzhou?"

Mei Chun asked respectfully.

"No, go directly to Yuezhou, if you can, take advantage of the night and fog, go straight into Dongting Lake, the soldiers are fast, we suppress the bandits this time, not for the encirclement of all sides, let alone for the sake of a quick victory, the people of Huguang have suffered from the sacrifice of thieves for a long time, only by smashing the Yellow Dragon with a heavy fist, can we decide the battle in a battle!"

Whether in the past or now, in the plan to suppress bandits formulated by the soldiers of the General's Mansion, there is a core - fast!

"What is the greatest advantage of the officers and soldiers?"

Looking at Mei Chun, Zhu Guoqiang groaned,

"It's not that there are many soldiers, but the real ones are the rogues, they can coerce the common people along the way as soldiers, and the old, weak, sick and disabled are attached to ants, and they are the vanguard in every battle, and the elite officers and soldiers are often dragged to death by them. The biggest advantage is orthodoxy, which can get full logistical support in various places, but the rogue is not good, they want to rob, to levy, to plunder, the rogue is the rogue is the rogue is that they often do not stay in one place, which also increases the difficulty for us to attack them, but this is also a good thing, as long as a field army bites him to the death, and then looks for an opportunity to hit its main force, although it can not make it go up in smoke, but it can make it no longer go around the erosion place, and then use the mobile corps to bite the defeated soldiers, and suppress its bandit leader, you can ......succeed in one fell swoop."

He didn't have a good impression of Zhu Guoqiang, maybe the Liukou was originally composed of hungry refugees, and at first he was a big family for a bite to eat, and he was against the government, and he was also worthy of sympathy at that time.

But what did they become like then? They began to destroy production on a large scale, and everywhere they went, they would not only plunder the food of the place, but also coerce the young and strong in the vicinity, and then force them to kill the old and weak, and ravage the women, and kill them as a retribution.

The official call them rogues and thieves is not because the official belittles them, but because what those people do is a real bandit and bandit, and their actions are not worthy of being called a "peasant army" at all, let alone a "rebel army".

Therefore, whether it is for the well-being of the people of the world, or for the sake of one's own world, the rogue must be exterminated no matter what!

Zhu Guoqiang has no experience in fighting the Liukou, but standing on the shoulders of giants, he knows how the late Qing Dynasty destroyed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, from beginning to end, there was a field army of the Qing army from Guangxi all the way to bite him, plus the officials and people along the way intercepted, if it were not for the Qing army was too scum, the Taiping army would not have had a chance to capture Wuchang at all, and grew into hundreds of thousands of troops there.

"But, Lord Shizi, according to the information we have, now Zhang Xianzhong has no less than 100 battalions under his command, and the strength of each battalion ranges from 1,000 to 5,000, a full army of two or three hundred thousand, and we only have 20,000 horses, wouldn't it be too risky to rush over like this?"

Mei Chun said worriedly.

"Mei Chun, do you think it's the Jiannu who is powerful, or the Liukou who is powerful? Our Han army is invincible, and I will be afraid of his hundreds of thousands of rogues, besides, the vast majority of these people are coerced, as long as their main force is defeated, the so-called hundreds of thousands of troops will naturally collapse without a fight! ”

Lots of soldiers?

What's moving?

In another world, the Taiping army always attacked tens of thousands of Hunan troops and tens of thousands of Huai troops with hundreds of thousands of troops, and the result?

That is, it is just a gift of heads.

Hundreds of thousands of Taiping troops with religious bonuses are just giving away heads, not to mention Zhang Xianzhong.

"But the body of the prince is really not suitable for risking his life!"

Facing Mei Chun's concern, Zhu Guoqiang laughed and said.

"Zhang Xianzhong is just a thief, and he is not even worthy of being my confidant, Mei Chun, do you know that I have so many generals under my command, why do I think you are a general?"

The prince's rhetorical question made Mei Chun stunned for a moment, and then seemed to be surprised.

"What the prince thinks is...... Nanking. ”

Suddenly, his voice seemed to be choked, and he looked at the prince in surprise, although from the day he took refuge in the prince, he knew that sooner or later the prince would definitely be "on the side of the king", but he never thought that it would be now.

"It's still too early, among so many people, you already know Nanjing, although I know that no one dares to stop me from the army, but I always have to make some plans in advance, and there are ......"

After a pause, Zhu Guoqiang groaned.

"Although Zhang Xianzhong occupied Changsha and other places, but now the imperial court has ordered that the governor of Jiangxi, Lu Daqi, lead the troops to counterattack, if my expectations are not bad. After Zhang Xianzhong is blocked in Jiangxi, he will inevitably return to Yuezhou again, if we can seize the opportunity, maybe, we can block him in Yuezhou! ”

Although in the past few years, the internal guard sent a large number of intelligence personnel who were scattered in the north and south of the river to collect all kinds of intelligence, but limited by the backwardness of the communication methods of this era, a lot of information was delivered late, but compared to these intelligence, Zhu Guoqiang has information from another world to learn from, if the timeline has not changed, now Zhang Xianzhong should have arrived in Yueyang, and what do he need?

It was to exterminate it in Yueyang in one fell swoop before it reacted, and only in this way could the problem of rogue in Huguang be quickly resolved.

"Zhang Xianzhong, Zhang Xianzhong, you can't run away......"

This is what he is most worried about, and it is precisely because of this worry that he will deliberately order the fleet, day and night, to use the reeds and river fog by the river to conceal the fleet as much as possible, so as to achieve the effect of divine soldiers falling from the sky, to put it bluntly, the reason why he is so cautious is that he is still worried that Zhang Xianzhong will suddenly run away.

If you don't want Zhang Xianzhong to run, there is one more thing to do......

……

On the second day when Zhu Guoqiang was talking about killing Zhang Xianzhong in one fell swoop, Yuezhou was thrown down by Zhang Xianzhong without a fight, and fell into the hands of thieves for the second time. However, Yueyang City, which has ten rooms and nine emptiness, also gives the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses under Zhang Xianzhong's command a place to shelter from the wind and snow.

On the ninth day of the lunar month, the dilapidated Yueyang Tower ushered in a group of guests, and the leader walked in front of the master who was about forty-five or sixteen years old, with a stout figure, broad shoulders and thick back, wearing an iron armor, this person was the self-proclaimed "Eight Kings", the thief Zhang Xianzhong in the mouth of the imperial court.

He who had just come to Yueyang, did not enter the city, but handed over the matter to Wang Zhaoling and others, and then came directly to Yueyang Tower, standing upstairs staring at the intersection of rivers and lakes, and standing there like that. Following him are his four adopted sons, and also the four generals under his command, the eldest is Zhang Kewang, then Zhang Dingguo, the third and fourth are Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi, of course, they are all surnamed Zhang now.

"Dingguo, is that general Pingyu really here?"

After a while, he turned his head to look at the handsome young man beside him, he was known as "Xiao Wei Chi" Zhang Dingguo, his real surname was Li, more than ten years ago was adopted by Zhang Xianzhong as an adopted son, in the army is famous for tolerance and benevolence, when fighting is the first horse, heroic, known as "Xiao Wei Chi" or "10,000 enemies", is Zhang Xianzhong's army in both wisdom and bravery. This time, after Yuezhou was defeated by him on the water outside the city, he let the remnants of the defenders in the city abandon the city and flee, and easily captured Yuezhou City.

"Dad, the officers and soldiers who came over said that the emperor ordered the general of Liaodong to lead his troops south to deal with Dad."

Zhang Dingguo didn't say much, just answering his father-in-law's question, while Zhang Kewang, the boss on the side, smiled.

"Dad, this dog emperor really looks down on us, he actually sent General Pingyu here, he came just in time, defeated him, cut him down again with a knife, see who in the world dares to stop us again!"

"Boss, you can't say that, General Pingyu, that's really the wise and brave general of our Ming Dynasty, when we were in Nanzhili, we didn't listen to his name."

Zhang Xianzhong shook his head and sighed.

"Hey, logically speaking, a general like the emperor's edict has entered the customs, and he should go to beat him Li Zicheng, right, why did it come to our side, trouble, it's really a big trouble!"

Since his family knows his own affairs, in Zhang Xianzhong's opinion, just by virtue of the prestige of General Pingyu, he can let those surrendered officers and troops under his command form a new attached battalion and immediately abandon their guns and flee, and the people who are surrounded by coercion must also be scattered.

There is no way, people are famous trees and shadows, but there are tens of thousands of horses in his army who are coerced in Nanzhili, and many of them are favored by him, not to mention, they also know the name of General Pinglu.

That guy has a fairy-like supernatural power, that person just doesn't need soldiers, and using his supernatural powers is not something that ordinary people can carry!

Even if the Tartar is so powerful, he is no match for him. He didn't even use any immortal spells, and he easily dealt with the Tartars with his Pingyu army.

Fight with such people...... There's really no bottom!

Since knowing this, Zhang Xianzhong has had a headache and can't sleep all night.

"Dad, what's the trouble, it's nothing more than a fight!"

"You don't understand!"

Frowning, Zhang Xianzhong said.

"We have lost a lot this time, only 400,000 people have withdrawn back, and the soldiers and civilians of Yuezhou have also fled, well, this time, while he is not here, try to plunder some soldiers and horses and grain and grass around, once the soldiers and horses are sufficient, we will go to Sichuan!" Conquer Kuizhou first, and then seize Sichuan, with Sichuan as the foundation, we can also fight with this general of Pingyu, and fight a fight. ”

For Zhang Xianzhong, he is very aware of his weaknesses, he will not be arrogant and think that he can beat the elite under the command of the general Pingyu, and for the strong, it is still better to hide.

It's really not good, so I rely on the mountain roads in Sichuan to fight with him.

In fact, even so, he didn't have much in his heart......