"Damn, these lunatics have finally retreated......"

Looking at the city of Qianhu not far away, Liu Zhigan, who had a gloomy face and a dead face, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

I haven't seen those dozens of cavalry for half a day, and it is estimated that they have really retreated.

After being harassed on the road for several days, when he arrived at the periphery of the Thousand Households of Yunti Pass, Liu Zhigan no longer had the arrogance he had before, and was replaced by fear and vigilance.

The expressions of Liu Zerun and the others were not much better, and the faces of several generals were also full of solemnity.

The whole journey was only more than 200 miles, and there was no harassment at all about half of the way.

The remaining 100 miles of the road walked for four days, and in these four days, the more than 50 cavalry were like madmen, constantly fighting with the sentinels of the guest soldiers on the periphery.

If it was a small group of a few people or a dozen sentry horsemen or a beam horse, these cavalry would rush towards them like madmen.

In fact, all the generals of Liu Zeqing's department felt that the combat power of the fifty cavalry of Yuntiguan was average, and the riding skills and horse fighting skills could only be regarded as barely passing, which was not much different from the cavalry here.

Compared with the elite neding of the major generals, the difference in the combat power of these cavalry is still quite obvious.

But the other party's cavalry commander can be regarded as a genius, looking for fighters is quite accurate, and always when Liu Kecheng and others are most embarrassed, they find that these cavalry suddenly attack, and they can't react, so they can only suffer in vain.

If Liu Kecheng and the others were furious, they spread the cavalry net and waited for the other party to come up, but the result was that they disappeared for a few hours.

It is impossible for the march of the army to be stagnant because of these dozens of cavalry, and more than a thousand cavalry cannot be completely deployed against these dozens of cavalry...... In the event of an ambush by the enemy with several hundred cavalry, or a sudden surprise attack by a large army halfway, the consequences of a complete dispersion of the cavalry would be quite serious.

Then Liu Zhigan and the others could only watch as these dozens of cavalry continued to harass, raid, and kill and injure their small group of cavalry.

This group of people is quite simple in riding skills and tactics, and they are not the kind of masters who are all one by one, but the timing of the search is quite accurate, and the fighting spirit is extremely high, and when they rush up with a saber, they are almost like a group of madmen, and every time they make the cavalry led by Liu Kecheng scatter and flee in all directions.

In fact, there were not many cavalrymen who died at the hands of this group of enemy cavalrymen, but the continuous raids seriously damaged the morale of the cavalry, and now these cavalry were not willing to disperse into sentry cavalry, and there were at least forty or fifty people who went out to sentry scouts.

This is also a lesson learned from the tragic lesson, when the number of enemy horsemen is about the same, it is difficult for the opponent to attack directly.

The march was seriously harassed during the day, which seriously affected the marching speed of Liu Zhigan and others, especially the thousands of people who were recruited after passing through Guannan, and most of them ran away after being continuously harassed.

There are also some market towns and Guannan county towns that promise to supply grain and grass, and now in this situation, I am afraid that most of them will not be able to replenish them.

This is still secondary, after all, there are market towns and villages in all the places that pass, and it is great to scatter grain.

But in the evening, the cavalry appeared like ghosts.

Raid the camp, rush in with a whistle, and cut down the soldiers.

Or throw torches and burn the perimeter of the camp to the ground.

Or simply move overnight, raid the grain team behind, cut down the miscellaneous soldiers who transported the grain, and let the kidnapped people go.

Liu Zhigan and the others had their hair standing on end, but they could only quickly send out the cavalry to protect the grain, and if they were a little careless, they would have to be raided by these cavalry.

That is, fifty horsemen, the army of 10,000 people will be tired, Yao Wenqian and Liu Kecheng and other generals are quite suspicious, if the enemy has 500 horses, I am afraid that they have not seen the shadow of this cloud ladder pass thousand households, and their so-called army of 10,000 people will be directly dragged across!

That's a real blessing!

"They won't really retreat to the Thousand Households...... Yao Wenqian is a general who has been fighting for nearly ten years after all, and said faintly at the moment: "It must be to retreat to the flank and take a short rest, and then appear behind our army's formation, disturb our army's heart, and intercept our army's food route." ”

"Huh?" Liu Zhigan's confidence and arrogance were overwhelmed by this cavalry, and when he heard this, he immediately shouted: "What should I do? Our army's food supply is about to be cut off, and the army's morale will definitely be unstable. ”

Yao Wenqian and Liu Kecheng looked at Liu Zhigan with idiotic eyes, this handsome nephew is indeed shrewd and capable, and he has done a lot of things before, but he has not led the army before this battle, and this time he has tried it out.

What should I do if the army's food supply is broken?

Unstable military morale?

If you look at it with your eyes, you can see what the situation of the army in front of you is.

In the past few days, there have been several shocks overnight, and the attacks have been harassed day and night, in fact, not many people have died, almost no more than 30 people, but this few results have had a great impact on the morale of the army.

After all, before this, this Shandong guest army did not have any decent battles at all, and the veterans among them fought in Henan, but they returned with a heavy defeat.

He won the Dengzhou Rebellion before, but at that time, Liu Zeqing was just a general, and his strength was limited, and the main force to quell the chaos was the Liaozhen soldiers from western Liaoning, and the leader of the troops was Zu Kuan of the ancestral family, and his eyes were above the top, so he didn't talk about Liu Zeqing, the general of Shandong Town, in his eyes at all.

After that, Liu Zeqing fought several small-scale wars, and in the last few years, he has been protecting on both sides of the canal.

When he arrived in Huai'an, he was directly blocked by Huaifu Lu Zhenfei's Fubiao battalion, the two sides rubbed several times, and Liu's soldiers and horses never took advantage, and later after Lu Zhenfei was transferred out of Huai'an, Liu Zeqing was successfully stationed.

It is an exaggeration to collapse an army of more than 10,000 people with fifty cavalry, but this army in front of him was originally a standard miscellaneous fish with no combat experience, no daily training, no self-motivation, and no sense of honor.

If it was half a year later, Liu Zeqing became a de facto feudal town, for the sake of his own status and strength, he would recruit strong men when recruiting, build weapons and armor and equipment lineage, and urge generals to seriously train soldiers and horses.

The other three towns are also about the same, and each town is fat and bleeding, not only has the original subordinates expanded several times the scale, but also has indeed pursued some quality in terms of quality.

The four towns and Zuo Liangyu produced Li Chengdong, Jin Shengheng, Ma Bao and many other fierce generals who conquered the Southern Ming Dynasty, which also shows that the four towns have indeed undergone some changes in a year, and their strength has increased significantly.

But at this time, not long after Liu Zeqing's success, the Southern Ming Dynasty was still searching for land to distribute food and wages to these four towns.

The soldiers in front of them were all depressed, their eyes were untouched, and they looked overly frightened. This is also the reason why Liu Kecheng and others are happy, not to mention that there are thousands of enemy cavalry, as long as there are 500 qualified cavalry, this army is afraid that it will really cross, and at least there will be large-scale deserters.

Once a large number of routs have fled, this battle will not have to be fought again.

"For the sake of today, we don't have to think about logistics and food routes." Yao Wenqian said in a deep voice: "Only by breaking the cauldron and fighting hard, I don't believe it, this Min Yuanqi also has thousands of soldiers and a large number of masters, can he prepare grain and grass?" As long as we take this place down, the grain scraped out of the ground will be enough to eat, and the cavalry will spread out to protect the grain route. ”

Liu Zhigan was relieved at this time, and muttered: "In this remote place on a dog day, no wonder there is no county governance, only thousands of households are lined up to the seaside, which is too remote." ”

"In fact, it is not too remote, along the way three thousand households go straight to the seaside, you can protect Haizhou to Yuntiguan and Yancheng, this is the beginning of the country, when the seaside was much more deserted than now." Yao Wenqian, as his name suggests, is also a general who has read books like coach Liu Zeqing, and explained to Liu Zhigan at the moment: "In the past 200 years, the teeth have become more and more complicated, but the court of the Ming Dynasty has always been more than one thing is better than less, and it should have been set up as a county and a state, but there are only 1,000 households in Yancheng to Yuntiguan and then to Haizhou, which is caused by lazy politics, not a deserted place." ”

"No one cultivates the official road, what kind of governance is discussed."

Liu Zhigan is quite dissatisfied with the civil officials, and he will not let go of the opportunity to complain.

However, he also forgot that Liu Zeqing was in charge of Huai'an, but he would not rebuild the official road from Guanyun County to Guannan County and then to Yuntiguan, the original official road was damaged, and it was not easy for the army to march, if it was not profitable, this army would not come, and if Yanchi would not make a lot of money if it went down, Liu Zeqing would not repair the official road.

This place got the Kangxi period, the Huai River continued to silt, the coastline continued to retreat, a large number of the original tidal flats became land, the seaside became tidal flats, Yancheng to Haizhou this sea area expanded into the interior, the original estuary of the Huai River was completely blocked, changed from Hongze Lake to Gaoyou Lake into the Yangtze River into the sea, later generations until the Republic of China, this piece of river was re-excavated by manpower, dredging the river, renovating water conservancy, turning disadvantages into advantages, Jiangbei became the land of fish and rice again, agriculture, forestry and water conservancy continued to develop benignly, this river became the main irrigation canal, and the south of the Guan River, Lixia River, as well as the upstream canal, waste Yellow River, Yi River, Shu River, these rivers bring rich water resources, originally this place is all plain areas, land resources are rich enough, although the grain output is not as good as the Northeast and other places, it is also an important agricultural and forestry resources land.

But then it was the period of industrialization, the income from farming was really limited, and the Jiangbei region became synonymous with poverty, which is another story.

During the Kangxi period, a number of county towns were added to this place, but Yancheng, Haizhou, and Xuzhou were all directly under or managed by Huai'an, until after the Republic of China, Yancheng and Xuzhou and other places were successively established as regions, and later changed to cities, and the administrative regions of later generations gradually stabilized.

At least in Liu Zhigan's eyes, this place is deserted and backward, and it is far from being comparable to Huai'an Fucheng.

This is also a fact, Yao Wenqian sighed and said: "The soldiers are not heartbroken, but fortunately, they have arrived, so they quickly gather a thick formation, attack the city where they are located, plunder their places, and reach the hundred households where Min Yuanqi is located, and finish this battle quickly." ”