Chapter Fifty-Nine: Linhuai Township Soldiers
The reason why Liu Liangzuo is the weakest existence in the four towns of Jiangbei is because he only has Qin Dapeng as a general officer under his command, and the rest of the generals like Cao Hu and Shen Bao are just deputy commanders.
The reason why these generals can only be deputy commanders and cannot become real commanders-in-chief is not only because of their ability, but because their strength is too thin, and Gao Jie, Huang Degong, and even Liu Zeqing have more than one commander-in-chief.
In fact, Guangchangbo Liu Liangzuo himself is just a large military officer, so after Qin Dapeng was promoted to general military officer, Liu Liangzuo deliberately transferred him to Shouzhou to take charge of himself, saying that he wanted Qin Dapeng to be in charge alone.
As long as he thought that Qin Dapeng and his three thousand elites were not in Linhuai Pass now, Liu Liangzuo felt inexplicably worried.
He didn't even know why he was so worried!
Obviously, Liu Liangzuo has the absolute upper hand in the negotiations in the past few days, Liu Liangzuo was originally worried that he would have to transfer Qin Dapeng back if he really couldn't take Linhuai Pass, but now it is completely unnecessary to let Qin Dapeng run for nothing!
Liu Liangzuo didn't think that there was any mistake in the decision to transfer Qin Dapeng's troops to the direction of Shouzhou, since Qin Dapeng was the chief military officer, he should be in charge, he just felt that the envoy sent by Liu Yongxi's doll should not be let go last time, and it should have been killed at that time, so there would not be so much trouble.
It's just that as soon as Liu Liangzuo thought of this, he heard a deafening loud bang in the distance, he couldn't help but walk out of the house but heard the sound of gunfire in the distance one after another, followed by the shouting and killing sound one after another, he suddenly understood: "It's the local bandits from Linhuai County who have come to reinforce it!"
The reason why Liu Liangzuo's department did not take Linhuai City in one go is largely because these township soldiers attacked and harassed outside the city, and a few days ago, Liu Liangzuo personally led the horse team to severely damage two hundreds of township soldiers before he finally had the confidence to rampage at the negotiation table.
He really didn't expect that the local gentry and Haoqiang in Linhuai would organize a large group of township soldiers to come to the rescue so quickly, and seeing that the number of these township soldiers was at least nearly 1,000, it was no wonder that in the past two days, the Linhuai officials and people would retreat step by step at the negotiation table, almost giving up all the bottom line, and they were waiting for this support soldier!
Hmph, isn't it just a few hundred bandits, and the horse team can be dispersed in one round!
Liu Liangzuo shouted loudly: "It's just a few hundred bandits, it's no problem to let Cao Hu bring a few hundred horse infantry to reinforcements!" ”
The hundreds of horse infantry of Cao Hu, the deputy commander-in-chief, quickly rushed out of the large camp to support the besieged battalions, looking at the appearance of this team of elite soldiers, Liu Liangzuo was relieved: "What if Qin Dapeng is not there?" I, Liu Liangzuo, had defeated Cao Cao's 200,000 soldiers at that time! ”
The so-called "Cao Cao" is the famous Luo Rucai among the thieves, "Cao Cao" is his nickname, Chongzhen ten years Liu Liangzuo claimed to have defeated Luo Rucai's army of 200,000 generals, which was the most proud record in his life.
Of course, everyone knows how much water this number has, Luo Rucai has been in Chongzhen for ten years, at most, tens of thousands, and may not even have 10,000 soldiers.
What's more, Liu Liangzuo only defeated a general under Luo Rucai, but this is almost the most brilliant record in Liu Liangzuo's life, after all, Chongzhen's fifteen-year victory over Zhang Xianzhong in the hidden mountain is mainly due to Huang Degong, and Liu Liangzuo is just a supporting role.
But Liu Liangzuo didn't feel like it was long before he felt that the situation was a little wrong: "The folk customs of Linhuai County are a bit fierce, and there are at least two thousand bandits!" ”
According to Liu Liangzuo's original expectation, the attacking bandits were only a few hundred at most, and at most a thousand people, and Cao Hu's hundreds of people would definitely be overwhelming after they went into battle to support.
After all, he had already defeated two well-known local "bandits" before, and there were hundreds of heads cut off alone, which was enough to scare off ordinary outlaws, but he really didn't expect that the local gentry in Linhuai not only gathered a large group of village soldiers and bandits, but also numbered at least more than 2,000.
He has now seen a lot of Linhuai gentlemen and heroic banners, these are all old friends that Liu Liangzuo has dealt with a few times, but Liu Liangzuo quickly thought of something, and hurriedly told his subordinates: "Pay attention to your back, don't let the bandits in Linhuai Pass kill out!" ”
Although it was several township soldiers and bandits attacking at the same time, what Liu Liangzuo was most worried about now was that the so-called township soldiers and bandits trapped in Linhuai Pass suddenly killed from behind him, and formed a flanking attack with these bandits outside the city.
But as soon as several battalion leaders stared at the township soldiers in Linhuai Pass, a thunderbolt from the front line came from Liu Liangzuo who couldn't believe it: "How is this possible?" Isn't this a bandit? ”
It's just that Liu Liangzuo looked up and found that the team of men and horses that Cao Hu pulled out to reinforce had been defeated from the front line, and the first few camps had been lost or on the verge of being lost, and there were remnants of defeated soldiers who could not hold the camps and escaped everywhere.
Moreover, this group of township soldiers and local bandits who came out of nowhere actually had many standard warships of sailors to help in the battle, and he couldn't help but gasp: "This is the team of Liu Yongxi, the son of sincerity!" ”
He has already understood that the banners of these local gentry and heroes in Linhuai on the opposite side are just used to cover people's eyes and ears, and in addition to thousands of township soldiers and bandits on the opposite side, I am afraid that there are thousands of regular troops from Linhuai Town and Chengyi Bofu rushing to attack.
Liu Liangzuo treated the other party as a local villager soldier and a local bandit in Linhuai to deal with it, and the result was naturally taken by surprise, suffering losses everywhere, frustration everywhere, and defeat everywhere!
The battle line is close to collapsing on all fronts!
As for the battalion officers such as Fu Ding, Zhao Zhijie, and Li Huaiqing, they can be regarded as old soldiers, but they have never fought a tailwind battle like today.
Although on the opposite side is Liu Liangzuo, one of the four towns in Jiangbei, but the entire Linhuai County and even several nearby counties of the gentry and Haoqiang have been mobilized, Liu Liangzuo's estimate is not wrong, and the number of township soldiers mobilized to participate in the war is almost 2,000.
Although these two thousand township soldiers were not of much use in a head-to-head duel, Liu Liangzuo only needed to let Cao Hu bring a few hundred men to disperse all these township soldiers, but these township soldiers who were familiar with the terrain joined forces with the ten battalion leaders led by Liu Yongxi and played a role like a tiger with wings.
It was with their help that Linhuai Town was able to directly enter Liu Liangzuo's camp almost unhindered, and they could always find Liu Liangzuo's deadliest ribs and launch the most fierce offensive.
Originally, Liu Yongxi was worried that Linhuai Town would be at a relative disadvantage in terms of strength on individual local battlefields, but now that Linhuai Township soldiers have participated in the battle, the battlefield is full of two or three times or even four or five times the strength of the troops besieging Liu Liangzuo's camp, and Liu Liangzuo's large and small camps have been broken one by one by a tide-like offensive, forming a kind of avalanche trend.