Chapter 99: The Ming Army Gathers
More than 2,000 Ming soldiers in Chaozhou Prefecture surrounded and suppressed the Hu Zhuang 1st Road People's Army in three ways, of which 1,600 Ming troops chased closely behind the Hu Zhuang 1st Road People's Army, and the other two roads each had more than 600 people, outflanking the Hu Zhuang 1st Road People's Army from the left and right sides.
After Hu Zhuang discovered this situation, Hu Zhuang immediately made a decision, the troops turned to the left, and after meeting the Ming army outflanked from the left, they directly routed the Ming army with firearms, killing more than 400 enemies, and before the other two Ming troops arrived, Hu Zhuang quickly led the troops to retreat.
No prisoners were captured, and at this time, the People's Army of Hu Zhuang 1st Road did not have time to act with the prisoners.
The three-way Ming army was defeated by the People's Army all the way, and directly asked the commander of the Ming army to temporarily give up the pursuit of Hu Zhuang and the People's Army, and brought together the Ming army that was defeated all the way and the other two Ming armies, gathered 2,300 troops, and then pursued and suppressed the People's Army of Hu Zhuang and the first road.
At this time, the Ming army no longer made the move of dividing troops to outflank the People's Army of Hu Zhuang 1st Road, and was cautious when marching, fearing that it would be ambushed by the People's Army of Hu Zhuang 1st Road.
The Ming army was defeated by the People's Army all the way before, so that the commander of the Ming army understood that the enemy in front of him was very strong, not comparable to ordinary rebels, and even worried that the 2,300 troops in his hands would not be able to destroy the enemy in front, and he was ready to mobilize more troops to come over.
And Hu Zhuang saw that the Ming army no longer divided the troops, and did not shoot again, and continued to take the Ming army in the western area of Chaozhou Prefecture, the People's Army is better at long-distance attacks than the Ming army, Hu Zhuang intends to look for opportunities to fight a wave after the Ming army behind him is tired.
On the first day of October, the 1st Mixed Brigade of the People's Army defeated more than 3,000 Ming troops gathered in Longchuan, Heyuan, and Changle counties, and captured Longchuan County at the same time.
On the second day of October, the 1st Mixed Brigade was divided into three, one was stationed in Longchuan County, and the other two marched to Heyuan County and Changle County respectively.
On the third day of October, the county seat of Changle was captured by the People's Army, and the next day, the county seat of Heyuan was captured by the People's Army.
On the third day of the 1st Mixed Brigade capturing Longchuan County, that is, on the fifth day of October, Fangnan, who was sitting in Guishan County, finally received a letter from Wang Shengrong.
Seeing the contents of the letter, Fang Nan showed a satisfied smile, and the letter only wrote that the First Mixed Brigade defeated more than 3,000 Ming troops in Longchuan, Heyuan, and Changle counties and captured Longchuan County, but Fang Nan was sure that it was not a problem for the First Mixed Brigade to take Heyuan County and Changle County.
At first, there were only Yong'an County and Haifeng County under the rule of the People's Army, and then the People's Army of Fangnan Road captured Guishan County, and now the First Mixed Brigade captured Longchuan County.
As long as the People's Army can quickly digest the newly captured territory, even if more Ming troops encircle and suppress it, the People's Army can resist it.
On the day that Fang Nan received Wang Shengrong's letter, more Ming troops appeared in the area of Huizhou Fucheng opposite Guishan County, and these Ming troops appeared outside Huizhou Fucheng and were directly stationed here without new action.
The scouts came back with information to report to Fang Nan, who felt that the battle with the main force of the Ming army was about to break out, so he immediately sent more scouts to find out the movements of the army, and at the same time ordered all units of the People's Army in Guishan County to prepare for battle.
"What? More than 3,000 people were defeated by less than 3,000 rebels, and even the county seat of Longchuan fell? Half a day after Fang Nan received Wang Shengrong's letter, Ren Jianxiu also received relevant news and was taken aback.
"It's a shame that a group of rice buckets, more than 3,000 people, was defeated by less than 3,000 rebels." Ren Jianxiu scolded, and at the same time, Ren Jianxiu paid more attention to the People's Army in his heart.
At the beginning, when Ren Jianxiu received the order of Governor Wu Wenhua to transfer troops to encircle and suppress the People's Army, he did not care much about the People's Army, even if the People's Army captured Yong'an County and Haifeng County, it was only thought that a group of chaotic people secretly attacked and captured two counties with fewer troops.
There are often rebellions of the people in Guangdong, Ren Jianxiu is accustomed to it, suppressing the people is a very easy thing, it will not bring him much pressure, exterminate the people who have captured the county seat of Yong'an and Haifeng, and it is enough to mobilize at most 10,000 troops.
However, a few days later, things changed, and the Jieshi Guards stationed in Haifeng County were actually destroyed by the chaotic people, and the Jieshi Guards had more than 5,000 troops, even if Ren Jianxiu looked down on the degenerated Guards, but the Guards with more than 5,000 troops were not ordinary rebels who could be destroyed.
This was the first time that Ren Jianxiu paid a little attention to the People's Army, and originally dispatched a maximum of 10,000 troops to encircle and suppress the People's Army, but this rapidly increased to more than 20,000.
Ren Jianxiu also has some guesses about the People's Army's destruction of Jieshiwei, and Ren Jianxiu saw that the People's Army is still a chaotic people, perhaps because of the contempt of the Jieshiwei Ming Army, coupled with the sneak attack of the chaotic people and the tactics of the sea of people, and finally destroyed Jieshiwei, the People's Army must also have suffered heavy losses.
Up to now, Ren Jianxiu has been defeated by more than 3,000 Ming troops by less than 3,000 rebels, although Ren Jianxiu attaches more importance to the rebels, but in his heart he still treats the People's Army as a chaotic people, at most the chaotic people are stronger.
At the same time, Ren Jianxiu lowered the combat effectiveness of the Weisuo Army again, thinking that when he led the army to encircle and suppress the rebellious people in Guishan County, he should take the recruitment of troops as the main force, and the Weisuo Army would follow.
The People's Army is a regular army that is forbidden by order, not a chaotic people, and it must not be believed before Ren Jianxiu personally leads the army to fight the People's Army.
Compared with the chaotic people, Ren Jianxiu feels that the real strength is the Haikou Kou, the nomadic tribe cavalry, and the rebels in the west, and it will definitely not be the chaotic people who appeared under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, a group of mud legs, no matter how high the combat effectiveness is, can it still be the opponent of the tens of thousands of Ming troops led by him?
More than 3,000 Ming troops were defeated by the chaotic people, Ren Jianxiu's face was full of anger, there was anger at the low combat effectiveness of the Weisuo army, and there was also anger at the chaos people, after all, these more than 3,000 Ming troops were also dispatched by Ren Jianxiu, but they were defeated, and the crime of defeat could also be counted on Ren Jianxiu, but as long as Ren Jianxiu exterminated the chaotic people as soon as possible, a little guilt would not have much impact on Ren Jianxiu.
Today, a part of the Ming army has arrived in Huizhou City, tomorrow the remaining Ming army will also arrive in Huizhou City, when the strength in the hands of Ren Jianxiu will be as high as 15,000, Ren Jianxiu's army is set to set the time on the eighth day of October, no need for any strategy, directly from Huizhou City to Guishan County, with absolute strength to exterminate all the chaotic people!