Luo Rucai looked around along the fallen tent, only to see that the surroundings had already become a sea of fire, and from time to time explosions sounded in the camp, accompanied by bursts of cries.

"A bunch of blanket balls, go and reorganize the army!"

Finding that the soldiers outside his tent were as panicked as headless flies, Luo Rucai shouted and scolded while instructing them to collect the soldiers and horses.

The guards reacted at this time, but instead of rectifying the soldiers and horses, everyone ran towards Luo Rucai in a hurry.

"Dashuai, it's too messy, I can't bear it, let's run."

"Fuck your mother's fart, Lao Tzu still has an army of more than 100,000."

Luo Rucai slapped the closest soldier to him in a circle, he kicked several other people away, and snatched the gong in the hand of a soldier next to him with one hand.

"When", "When", "When"

The clear sound of gongs spread quickly in the camp, and Luo Rucai's side began to gather soldiers under the leadership of the officers.

In the official army camp, Liu Ximing and others quietly watched this fireworks show, and after finding that the Liukou gradually had a tendency to reorganize the army again, Liu Ximing finally waved his hand and said:

"Order, stop shelling."

"Stop shelling~~"

Several guards rushed out of the artillery position, while loudly conveying Liu Ximing's order.

After a quarter of an hour, the artillery fire gradually quieted down.

Liu Ximing looked at Cao Bianjiao and Shao Derong, and made a gesture of invitation to them, "It's time for you to play, remember what I said before." ”

Cao Bianjiao glanced at Kong Deyao, the excited prison soldier beside Liu Ximing, without a trace, nodded and directly put on his helmet and turned over on his horse.

"Sons, charge with Ben!"

"Wan Sheng!"

Nearly 20,000 cavalry urged their horses to move, roaring like thunder in the sky, rushing towards the camp of the Liukou.

What Liu Ximing said to Cao Bianjiao and others was to tell them not to kill the red eyes, so as not to annihilate the rogue in one fell swoop.

is the so-called self-respect of raising Kou, if Kou is gone, what else can he, the Central Plains Governor, do.

It was precisely for this reason that the cavalry led by Cao Bianjiao and others did not directly attack Luo Rucai's Chinese army, which had begun to gather, but instead attacked several other camps that were still in chaos.

Although the Liukou relied on cutting firewood everywhere to build a simple fence in front of the camp, many areas had already been destroyed by heavy artillery fire during the shelling.

Following these gaps, the cavalry galloped in, accompanied by a splash of blood from their shining sabers.

The whole operation lasted for nearly an hour, and just before the rogues began to scatter and flee, the cavalry led by Cao Bianjiao and others suddenly retreated, leaving Luo Rucai and the others confused.

However, Liukou didn't care about delving into the intentions of the officials and troops at the moment, and took advantage of the fact that the Chinese army had already gathered some soldiers and horses, Luo Rucai immediately ordered the whole army to retreat all the way to the west, and collect the fleeing stragglers all the way.

At dawn, Liukou finally retreated to the vicinity of Suizhou, and after counting the people, there were more than 120,000 people left in the army, but there were less than 100,000 people left at this moment.

Luo Rucai and the others' faces turned pale, and the rogues who had become ambitious because of the Battle of Zhuxian Town were beaten by the officials and soldiers again.

At this moment, the originally high morale of the rogues also withered suddenly, and Luo Rucai was even more frightened by the dense artillery fire of the official army, and he didn't even dare to stop, and directly withdrew to Kaifeng again with his men and horses.

In the early morning of the next day, with the morning dewdrops, Liu Ximing led a group of generals to the ruins of the Liukou camp.

Craters formed by shelling can be seen from time to time in a large camp, and corpses are scattered all over the camp, and officers and soldiers in big red and fat jackets are patrolling around, counting the corpses and looking for survivors.

"Tsk, it seems that there were a lot of casualties last night."

After taking a turn in the camp of the rogue, Kong Deyao couldn't help but cover his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, although Liu Ximing was also a little disgusted by the strange smell in the air, but he still pretended to be indifferent in front of the soldiers.

"How's the casualty counted?"

Seeing that the strange smell in the air was getting stronger and stronger, Liu Ximing hurriedly found an excuse and asked to his side while walking out.

Li Biao hurriedly turned around and sent a few guards to inquire, and waited until Liu Ximing and the others walked back to the camp, and Zhou Yuji and the others hurried over with excitement.

"Supervisor, great victory, our army won a great victory, at least 20,000 thieves were killed last night, plus yesterday afternoon, we killed more than 50,000 thieves in the first battle of Ningling."

Kong Deyao suddenly couldn't hold back when he heard this, and immediately cheered loudly and happily.

"Hahaha, it's really a big victory, Ge Lao, please report this news to the court as soon as possible, so as to correct the morale of the world and the people."

Liu Ximing wanted this effect, and at the moment he nodded indifferently: "This pavilion is just a small test, there is no need to be so excited, since it has been verified, then please ask Kong Jianjun to write and report to the imperial court." ”

"I'll do it when I get there", Kong Deyao happily accepted the order.

Liu Ximing looked at Zhou Yuji and the others and arranged: "Order the sergeants, clean up the battlefield as soon as possible, and after a little repair, we will rush to Nanyang as soon as possible." ”

"Ah, don't we recover Kaifeng first", Zhou Yuji asked with a surprised face, "The thieves must have fled to Kaifeng last night, and now they have become frightened birds, and Kaifeng can be restored." ”

Liu Ximing shook his head slowly, "Kaifeng has been eroded, even if it is recovered, it will only increase the burden of our army, but the Nanyang area is different, if our army wants to fight against the Liukou for a long time, we must rely on Nanyang and other places for support, not much to say, you just do it." ”

After yesterday's big victory, Liu Ximing's prestige has risen sharply, Zhou Yuji didn't dare to ask again, and directly clenched his fists and turned around and left.

In the afternoon, Liu Xi's army rose up again, and headed towards Yuzhou in the southwest direction with smoke and dust.

At the same time, several horses were divided into the army, and the fast horses galloped north.

"Good news, good news, Liu Gebu led the army to defeat the Liukou in Henan, and beheaded 50,000 thieves!"

Three days later, several fast horses galloped into the capital, shouting everywhere along the street along the way, hearing such good news, the capital suddenly boiled.

"My God, this little cabinet is so powerful, or are the previous ministers of suppression all rice buckets?"

"Hahaha, Da Ming is saved, Da Ming is saved."

"What kind of character is that Liu Gebu, let me tell you, that is the Wenqu star in the sky, is it ......"

The people of the capital gave full play to the gossip spirit under the 49 city, and all they said in their mouths was the war in the Central Plains, and they seemed to be immersed in the scene.

Before these knights had yet to run into the Forbidden City, Liu Ximing had already boasted that he had become a big hero with a height of eight feet and jade-faced eyes.

In the Forbidden City, Chongzhen, who received the good news, was as comfortable as eating an elixir, and the originally frowning Sichuan brows were also sent away, and his face was full of joy.

"Hahaha, what a new Amber, I just sent him to office, and I gave me such a big surprise."

Chongzhen looked at Wang Chengen with a smile and smiled, "I heard that Xin'anbo has a new Lin'er, right, hurry, someone will send the jade Ruyi in the imperial study to Xin'anbo's mansion, and he will reward his son." ”

"Hahaha"

The news of Liu Ximing's victory was like a stone, and immediately set off an earth-shattering wave in the lifeless Ming court, and with the news published again by the Central Plains News a few days later, the deputy assistant of the cabinet and the governor of the Central Plains once again succeeded in attracting the attention of the people of the world.

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Yuzhou, Nanyang Prefecture, Henan.

Yuzhou is located in the northeast of the Nanyang Basin, is an important passage to the Henan Plain into Nanyang, in history it has a more famous name, Fangcheng, is the real Nanyang North Gate.

It was precisely because they knew the importance of Yuzhou that Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai led an army of 250,000 to this place after Kaifeng divided their troops.

Liu Ximing left a profound lesson on him in Dengzhou before, even if Li Zicheng later went north from Wuchang to Henan, he still did not take advantage of Dengzhou, who was armed to the teeth.

But on the other hand, Nanyang's wealth was seen by Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance under Li Zicheng.

After the Battle of Zhuxian Town, Song Xiance and others felt that the official army was weak, and they had begun to persuade Li Zicheng to actively expand his territory.