Chapter 71, The Crisis of the People's Army 2
As soon as Wang Pu heard that someone from the peasant army was coming, he knew that the other party wanted to negotiate, and he thought, it's better to talk, it's best if these people can surrender quickly, then he can make a deal, and the more than 100,000 people and horses here don't need to stay here every day, and the people will lose money. So he ordered: Let them in.
Xu Yixian saw Wang Pu, groveled, said all the good things, and finally offered the jewels, saying that King Chuang and the leaders were filial piety, as long as they were willing to promise them to surrender, and then offer five times the amount of money.
Wang Pu looked at those jewels, his heart was overjoyed, when he heard the other party's request to surrender, he was desperate, and there would be five times as much money, it was simply a gold ingot falling from the sky, how could it be reasonable not to accept it. In this way, he can deal with the court and treat himself very well, so he agreed to come down at that time.
As for Zuo Liangyu and the other Ming troops, he didn't need to listen to them, Wang Pu was the supreme commander here, and everything was up to him.
So the next night, five times as many treasures as yesterday were delivered to Wang Pu's camp. Of course, there are also a few beautiful women. Lord Wang all laughed.
In addition, there were several boxes of jewels distributed to the attendants and generals around Lord Wang, so these people praised the righteousness of these leaders in front of Wang Pu without exception, and unanimously believed that these peasant troops had surrendered sincerely, and their intentions were very sincere.
In order to show the sincerity of the court, Wang Pu allowed the peasant army to lay down their arms and get out of the encirclement and accept the incorporation and dismissal.
This news was immediately known to Zuo Liangyu. He was so anxious that he didn't finish his meal, so he hit a horse to find Wang Pu.
Wang Puzheng was holding a beautiful woman, ready to ecstasy, and suddenly heard Zuo Zongbing asking to see him, and the boss was unhappy in his heart, but he still had to see him, so he came to the military tent. Zuo Liangyu was born tall, dignified, with ape arms and snake waist, and looked very mighty.
As soon as he saw Wang Pu, he preemptively said, "My lord, I heard that you have given an order to allow these thieves to surrender?" Wang Pu nodded and said lazily: "Exactly, as soon as the thieves descend, the world will be peaceful, what's wrong?" ”
Zuo Liangyu said: "How do you know, these thieves are cunning and cunning, when Yang He was in the past, he also surrendered, but within half a year, he rebelled again, the nature of the thieves is like this, how can I believe that only by being like Governor Hong, killing them all, can we never suffer in the future." ”
Wang Pu didn't listen to him say that Hong Chengchou would just do it, as soon as he heard him talk about it, he didn't get angry, and secretly thought: You and others elevate Hong Chengchou everywhere, obviously don't take me in your eyes, just say to you Zuo Liangyu, this official must be surrendered today. He made up his mind, just shook his head: "Where and where, at this time and that time, Yang He will not last long in Shaanxi with a pacifying strategy, those thieves will spend the appeasement silver of the court, and they will inevitably rebel, and today is different, after my Ming elite soldiers have been killed repeatedly, the thieves have already been frightened, and it is the general trend to surrender, and there is no way out. Therefore I am sure that they will surrender with sincerity, and there will be no falsehood. ”
Zuo Liangyu was in a hurry to pat his forehead: "If the general doesn't listen to Zuo's words, he will definitely regret it, once the thieves are surrounded, he will definitely fight back. ”
Wang Pu was furious and raised his sleeves: "General Soldier Zuo is alarmist, don't you want your official to succeed in obstructing like this?" ”
This is a big deal, Zuo Liangyu is not as big as other people's officials, when he heard this, he had to be half shorter, and arched his hand: "The young general doesn't dare." Wang Pu snorted: "Don't retreat!" ”
Zuo Liangyu had no choice but to retreat in a huff, out of the big tent, he looked up to the sky and sighed: "A great opportunity, ruined by this person, once the thief escapes, it will become a big disaster." When he returned to the camp, he ordered all the soldiers not to disarm, not to leave their saddles, and to keep them on guard against thieves.
Gao Yingxiang and others were very happy to get Wang Pu's reply, although they lost tens of thousands of taels of gold treasure, but they were able to get out of the encirclement and make a comeback, and everything they lost would soon be recovered. Therefore, he ordered all battalions to intensify their preparations, pack their bags, and prepare to break out of the encirclement.
On the morning of this day, the receiving officer sent by Wang Pu arrived, Gao Yingxiang and others received Gao Ying, and the future person received the account, and it was to send gold and beautiful women, and the person was so happy that he could hardly find the north, and promised that the weapons and horses could be brought to the front of the camp for delivery, and everything was negotiable.
The two sides agreed that the day after tomorrow morning, the surrender would begin.
Full of wine and food, sent away the officer, the peasant army began to assemble the camp, on this night, all the men and horses of more than a dozen battalions secretly assembled on the north bank of the Yellow River, at this time due to the cold, the Yellow River has frozen, after checking, the wild boar nose ferry in Mianchi County, the ice is the thickest, here is responsible for guarding, is the Ming general Yuan Shouquan, he has three thousand Ming troops, originally heavily guarded, but because Wang Pu has ordered to accept the surrender of the peasant army, so all the Ming army except Zuo Liangyu, most of them have lax a lot, and now the weather is cold, Yuan Shouquan's military camp did not even send a mobile post, and all the soldiers went into the camp tent to roast the fire.
Li Zicheng led his old eighth team to walk in front of all the horses, the ranks, the horses' mouths, and even the horses' hooves were wrapped in cotton cloth, and there was no sound when they walked, and they soon approached the Ming army camp. From a distance, the Ming army's garrison was extremely lax, Li Zicheng was secretly happy, he ordered the men and horses to disperse, surround the Ming army from all sides, the 3,000 men and horses, as far as possible into the camp, and quickly decisive.
Liu Zongmin, the general under his command, drew his broadsword and issued an order, 10,000 horses were divided into four teams and began to surround them, and it didn't take long to complete the encirclement, Li Zicheng took off his treasure carving bow and shot an arrow.
As the arrows flew into the air, the men and horses of the old eighth team attacked together.
Most of these people had already touched the camp of the Ming army, and they were lying on the edge of the military tent, and as soon as they heard the sound of arrows, they cut the tent cloth with their knives, and rushed in.
Most of the soldiers of the Ming army have already gone to bed, where did they think that someone would touch in the dark night and slash and kill, the vast majority of them were killed in the bed before they woke up, and some woke up and jumped up to touch the knife, but the knife was not touched, and it had been killed by random guns.
For a time, the Ming army was in chaos, and some camp tents were set on fire by charcoal braziers, and the entire camp was on fire.
Yuan Shouquan drank a few more drinks at night, and not long after he lay down, he heard a commotion, hurriedly pulled out a knife in his hand, and rushed out of the big tent to see, as soon as he showed his head, he met Yuan Zongdi head-on, at this time Yuan Zongdi had already killed red eyes, and regardless of the friendship with Yuan Shouquan five hundred years ago, it was a knife to hold his head. Yuan Shouquan finally had a quick hand and a horizontal knife, blocking the opponent's knife, but he didn't prevent Yuan Zongdi from raising his leg and kicking him back to the big tent.
Yuan Zongdi did not chase and kill, grabbed a torch and set the big tent on fire. Yuan Shouquan rushed out, and was kicked to the ground by several civilian soldiers, and was shot to death.
As soon as Yuan Shouquan died, the Ming army lost its leader, and it was even more unable to resist, and wanted to break through, but was surrounded by regiments, and had no choice but to fight to the death. However, the enemy was outnumbered by the civilian army, and in less than an hour, most of them were annihilated, except for a few who fled.
Li Zicheng ordered a quick sweep of the battlefield and then crossed the Yellow River from the ice.
In just one night, more than 100,000 peasant troops crossed the Yellow River and entered Henan from the wild boar's nose ferry. This is a terrible moment, as if the Yellow River has broken open, the peasant army is attacking everywhere, and the counties of Henan have fallen. For a time, there was a major earthquake in the Central Plains.
The general Wang Pu was still dreaming, but the next day he received a flying report that the peasant army had crossed the Yellow River and jumped out of the encirclement.
Wang Puzhen never dreamed that the peasant army would play this trick on him, so he hurriedly sent someone to investigate, only to report that the camp of the peasant army had long been empty.
Wang Pu was paralyzed on the ground as if he had lost his soul, and he knew that his little life was about to end.
Sure enough, within a few days, the holy decree arrived, escorting Wang Pu back to the capital to punish the crime, and at the same time, the court also issued a decree to Zuo Liangyu, asking him to chase down the peasant army.
Zuo Liangyu has long held his breath, since Wang Pu did not listen to his advice and insisted on going his own way, Zuo Liangyu realized that the peasant army's fake surrender plan was likely to work, and he would inevitably break through when the official army was lax, but he didn't know where Gao Yingxiang would choose to break through and where to go after the breakthrough, so he was in a hurry.
Now that I know that these thieves actually secretly crossed the Yellow River and went to Henan, Zuo Liangyu broke out in a cold sweat.
He knows that in Henan, the peace has been peaceful for a long time, and the people here don't know what the bow and horse are, and they don't know what the fight is. Once the thieves enter Henan, they will inevitably attack the city and conquer the land, and it will be unstoppable. Therefore, Zuo Liangyu ordered the whole army to march immediately to catch up with the peasant army.