Chapter 301: Attacking Zuo Menggeng
How many years have he been in the poor place of Wuchang, Zuo Mengeng has long been hungry and thirsty, and he gritted his teeth in the days when he was excluded by the magistrates, so under the temptation of Zhang Xianzhong to send a few Sichuan beauties, and the rhetoric of dividing the world equally, he naturally began to do it.
Compared with the misery of being hunted down and killed in history, Zhang Xianzhong's life in the new time and space is naturally very good, Li Zicheng in the imperial capital still has some incense, and he said something good for Zhang Xianzhong, in fact, the idea is that if there is one of his own people outside, at least it should be safer.
Of course, after studying Zhang Xianzhong's information, the elders found that after he entered Sichuan, although he expropriated the landlords and gentry, it was still good to the people, at least the military discipline was maintained very well, otherwise, it would not be possible that after his death, the Great Western Army could rely on the geographical location of Sichuan to deal with the Qing army for more than ten years.
This kind of behavior is much stronger than the Jiangnan Confucian students who kneel on the ground, are fierce and shameless to the people, and kneel and lick and obey foreign enemies, and it can't help but make people feel a little more good.
But what I didn't expect was that Zhang Xianzhong was not a fuel-efficient lamp.
The ghost knows how long this product and Zuo Mengeng's goods have been secretly hooked up, Zuo Liangyu is definitely not a good bird, but at least he is under the banner of Hou Fangyu's father and son, whether it is the "friendship" of offering chrysanthemums or the acceptance of officialdom's kindness, at least he didn't think about pulling the flag and rebelling.
But for Zuo Mengeng, who simply surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty in history, all morality and etiquette are floating clouds, and there are still his reinforcements in Nanjing, as long as he thinks of the successful march, the famous prostitutes of Qinhuai in Nanjing, and the daughter of the rich family can be taken by him alone, and naturally exudes a tyrannical desire.
At this time, as soon as Mrs. Xing's banner appeared, he said viciously: "This girl is not nursing children at home, but she is out to compete with men for the world, it's really ridiculous, wait for us to kill her subordinates, arrest her, and send her to be a prostitute, see how she can." ”
"You're not afraid of breaking into the king and you're in a hurry......" What happened in the northwest back then, Li Dingguo, as a first-hand witness, really knew a little, as Li Zicheng's wife, Mrs. Xing ran away with Gao Jie, and when she arrived at the court, she became a prince, which is really not small, but for Comrade Li Zicheng, this green hat is really wronged.
Gao Jie cuckolded him alone, in fact, it was just a pair of worn broken shoes, but if Mrs. Xing was really arrested to be a camp prostitute, it would really be green, green clouds, and green all over the world.
Moreover, Li Dingguo's face was not good: "His son is in the imperial capital." ”
Li Dingguo admires and appreciates Mrs. Xing more, decisive, contented, knows what he wants, what he wants is the wealth that can be born in troubled times, just protection, and after sending his son over, at least a wealth can't run.
Of course, it is impossible for Li Dingguo to send his son over by himself, isn't that a lifetime of being used and restrained.
He rode a horse brought from Sichuan, this horse was in a bad state, but he could still adapt to the flat terrain of Anqing, but after observing the situation, his face was not good.
The location of Mrs. Xing's troops is about three or four miles away from Anqing City, and you can still see it from a high place, but if you want to repeat the old trick and find a way to release poison and smoke people, you need to bypass the main road, at the mouth of the wind, a canal in that direction, unless Mrs. Xing's people are dead, how can you be allowed to light a fire there.
Of course, although the queue of those troops wearing green uniforms is not as neat as the army seen in the imperial capital, at least they are already marching according to the queue, which Li Dingguo After returning to Sichuan, he remembered the essence of military training in the imperial capital, and also wanted to make a queue, but the effect was not good.
Li Dingguo gritted his teeth and said, "The army is about to enter the city, but if Madam Xing's people attack us from behind, it will be a bad thing, they must be equipped with arms from the imperial capital!" ”
What is the imperial capital's armament, Li Dingguo actually doesn't have a real concept, he only remembers that the barrel is longer and the gun is farther away, but he thinks about it for a long time, these problems can be overcome, but Mrs. Xing suddenly appeared and disrupted the layout.
"In the end, there is still some incense, ask someone to go over and ask, it's really not good, you can go over and contact Mrs. Xing's people, at most you can grab something, and give her a share."
"Why give it to this!"
Although Zuo Mengeng was dissatisfied and shouted, in the end, he still couldn't point out that the army was directly against Mrs. Xing, this is the difference between a modern army and a bandit-based army, but he issued a reward order to the following, beat Anqing, allowed to rob for a day, and then hurriedly drove away, with the support of money, these troops were inspired, but they were all wide-eyed, thinking about entering the city and looting.
In this case, expect to pull people out to fight a tough battle......
Maybe Li Dingguo will grow up for a few more years, have two famous kings, prestige, and still be able to hold on, but now, he may not be able to do it.
Now Li Dingguo and Zuo Mengeng are just some descendants who have been fed with silver, of course, if the situation is critical and people kill them, the troops who may still be outside the city at this time will also inspire the courage to protect their "property", but if Mrs. Xing is standing there like this, how can you encourage the men who think that the war has been hard for so long and they can't enter the city to be happy and happy.
The person sent to contact held a white flag, shook his hands, and went over to make contact, and after a while, he came back to resume his life.
"I didn't see Mrs. Xing, only a few people said that they just happened to be practicing in the field, and when they got nearby, they came to see what was going on."
Zuo Mengeng hurriedly interjected and asked, "Did she agree to join the gang?" ”
This Zuo Mengeng still can't get rid of the habits of the rivers and lakes.
"There was no reply, but he promised not to attack us."
"What kind of words is this!"
Li Dingguo was worried in his heart, the most feared thing about fighting is an accident, if Mrs. Xing made it clear that the carriage and horses came to embarrass them, it would be a big deal for everyone to face the anal, only a thousand people, who was afraid of whom.
Moreover, Mrs. Xing's men are seriously short of horses, and it seems that there are not many cannons.
Li Dingguo said: "That's it, General Zuo, you let your subordinates enter the city quickly, you have to hurry up what you have to do, tell them that grinding is death, and those homeless people, gather up as soon as possible, and go to Nanjing, I will take my people to monitor it, if they attack our back and boat, we can also help you buy time, at this time you have to show the strength of the man, this woman is not many, we are not afraid of him!" ”
Encouraging two sentences, Zuo Mengeng is a native of Shandong, but he grew up in Jiangnan, and he also said excitedly at this time: "Okay, let's just say, Brother Li, you are the most righteous, and when you open the city gate, we can't treat the eldest brother badly!" ”
"The city is broken!"
Suddenly, a mountain of cheers rang out, and the city gate seemed to be slowly pushed open, and countless people rushed in like crazy.
Rush in, and you will have wealth, happiness, and food!
In this case, whether it is Li Dingguo's brothers of less than 20,000 or Zuo Menggeng's 50,000 rabble, there is no formation and command at this time, and there are even two teams of people mixed together to rob and loot, everyone is poor, and the poor do not rob the poor.
When Zuo Mengeng rushed into the city excitedly, Li Dingguo also took his own people and observed on the flank, Mrs. Xing's people did not increase, and at the same time, the scouts reported that there should be no other reinforcements within a few miles around, after all, this is a plain, mostly farmland, and it is a little difficult to hide the army.
Although Li Dingguo has not been tempered by the great war after the death of Zhang Xianzhong in later generations, he already has the appearance of some famous generals, and for famous generals, it is the most correct way to grasp the situation comprehensively and make adjustments at any time to minimize the impact of unknowable factors.
Madame Xing's people didn't seem to have the intention of attacking the Zhang Zuo coalition army that was fighting and plundering, but moved to the position on the north side of the gate of Anqing City and stood still, which made Li Dingguo, who received the news, a little relieved.
The shouts of killing and the smoke that drifted out of the city showed what atrocities were committed in the city, but it is impossible to say much about why they took place.
As a certain Japanese movie put it, "...... The peasants are the most cunning, they want rice but not rice, and they say they don't have wheat, but in fact they have everything, they have everything, lift the floor and see, if it's not underground, it's in the storage room, and you'll definitely find a lot of things, rice, salt, beans, wine, ...... As soon as there is a war, they go to kill the remnants of the soldiers and grab weapons, the so-called peasants are the most stingy, the most cunning, cowardly, bad-hearted, imbecile, and murderers, but who made them like this? ”
Whether it was the oppression and exploitation of the peasants by the association of Confucianism, the gentry, and the wealthy merchants that led to their counterattack, or whether the peasants' low quality should be squeezed by their well-educated people, is not only a matter of IQ, but also a matter of conscience.
Suddenly, there was a huge noise in the city, as if there were different movements in the crying sound, and when Li Dingguo received the report, it had already been a long time: "General, the north gate of Anqing City has been opened, and now many people are starting to run out." ”
During the siege, if a city is forced to open the city and let people escape, then the city and its contents can basically change owners.
The reason is very simple, as soon as the city gate is opened, the distribution of strength inside and outside the city begins to be equal, and it is often several times the combat effectiveness in the city, and as soon as the city is opened, the first person in the city to escape, will drive countless people to flee with it!
Not to mention the trampling caused here, there may be more people killed than killed.
Similarly, if you want to run at this time, you basically can't run the army that is waiting for you, Zuo Mengeng ordered his own soldiers to prepare high-headed horses to recuperate, and prepare to arrest the absconding people after the city is broken.
This is also some kind of "precision warfare"?
Zuo Mengeng is hungry and thirsty for Miss Qianjin, but Li Dingguo is thinking about those treasures, he was told on this trip, it is very important to raise military expenses, once you get enough gold, silver and food, it can be converted into strength, in troubled times, there is strength and everything!
There are not many twists and turns from the outside world, but the flow of people who suddenly left the city is running towards Mrs. Xing's banner!
What Li Dingguo has always worried about is that Mrs. Xing used advanced weapons from the imperial capital to preemptively attack their ship, if the ship was burned, then tens of thousands of troops would almost become dead and fall into this dead place, so he also ordered many ships to prepare to be pulled.
But now, hundreds of people ran to Mrs. Xing's place in a wail, and when he gathered the cavalry and went to intercept it, he only left behind a group of poor ghosts, and all kinds of thrown tattered and trampled corpses all over the ground.
At the beginning, the people who ran away still cherished their belongings and carried large bags and small bags, but when they got to the back, they were in a hurry to be pursued, and those who were a little bold were all thrown away and left softly.
Li Dingguo can mobilize not many people, after all, there are not many people who can enter the city at this time, Zuo Mengeng's idea is to let those fugitives run first, they don't know how to use their strength, they only need to run a little, the strength will definitely be dispersed, and it will be easy to catch when the time comes.
It is a bit difficult to get hundreds of people to block the city gate, especially when there are fine and soft burdens everywhere, and Li Dingguo can't stop his own soldiers from carrying a full waist.
is still the same problem, Li Dingguo and Zuo Mengeng's soldiers and horses add up to only sixty or seventy thousand, and they have to be divided to guard ships and passages, and after entering the city, they will be cannon fodder in front, and those who have some resistance will fight hard, but those who are homeless, they have no weapons and training, but they have anger and the meaninglessness of life brought by nothing.
It is equally meaningless to one's own life and to the lives of others.
These cannon fodder, in the late Ming Dynasty of all the so-called rebels and official armies are widely used, usually after a major war, without equipment and weapons, and people desperately, can survive a big war, not one in ten, but often the most ferocious and strong characters.
And in Anqing City, there are more than 100,000 people, although there are definitely many old and weak women and children, but it is not very easy to suppress.
The fighting lasted all day, and it was quiet in the afternoon, but there were still occasional shouts.
In the field, a chubby middle-aged man pulls a small-footed woman, the woman holds a child in her hand, and behind them, a carriage, the horse has fallen, but behind them, a man with a knife is chasing unhurriedly.
The ground is not very flat, there are puddles and grass, and some grass pits look flat, but in fact, it may be very deep to step on, and when the rabbit makes a hole, it doesn't care that humans may fall here.
The whole family fell together, and at the same time there was a bag of gold and silver that fell to the ground, it was really hard for that man to run so fast with such fat meat.
After he fell to the ground, he tried his best to get up, and the more anxious he was, the more he couldn't pull his feet, and the more he couldn't pull out, he pedaled desperately.
Sick and rushed to the doctor, and now people are kicking their feet in a hurry, so they naturally kick their wives and daughters.