"Don't think that the Guards Brigade is the first in the world!"

The scolding of the guards that day echoed in the ears of Mo Yu and others. With this reprimand, almost all the faces of the Guards Brigade, from the brigade commander Mo Yu to a man and a horseman, were hot.

"Others can change from a conscription brigade to a supplementary brigade, from a supplementary brigade to a garrison brigade, and you can also change from a guard brigade to a supplementary brigade! Lao Tzu also figured it out, not only the teams that can fight are upgraded, but the teams that can't be played must also be demoted! It's a big deal to reorganize the rest of the Guards! ”

The military system of the Southern Yue Army, from the Ha Tranh period, will be given to the troops who can fight, and the troops with outstanding combat achievements will add the word "guard" in front of the number to indicate rewards. This was stolen by Shouhan from Temujin and later the Russian army. The troops with the word "Guard" are preserved in the former four battalions and the current Six Towns Soldiers and several garrison brigades. These units are indeed the backbone of all units and the backbone of the fighting. If the Guards units in these units are gathered together and reorganized, it can be said that there is one Guards Brigade, and even four Guards Brigades are also lightly obtained.

In addition to the guards units with independent numbers such as the Guards Phoenix Battalion and the Guards Kirin Battalion, there are Guards regiments and guards battalions in each unit. According to the experience gained from Temujin, the generals at all levels had a strong army in reserve and smashed it in the most critical direction at the most critical moment of the battle, in order to achieve a decisive effect.

Temujin and his sons and grandsons were the best and most knowledgeable men in the use of the Guard. It's just that they are not called guards, but "cowardly". It is also composed of the most capable soldiers in the whole army.

However, how can an army like the Guards Brigade, which claims to be the best of the whole army, accept the downgrading of its proud troops to a supplementary brigade that is not much stronger than the Strongmen?

Isn't it Tower Hill in front of you? Isn't it Dolgon's man who guards Tower Hill? Are we still afraid that he won't succeed? At the beginning, we were not afraid that all his subordinates were real slaves, but now the real slaves have suffered heavy casualties, and most of them are rebellious thieves. We're not afraid!

With this eagerness to win, after Mo Yu led the army to Tashan, he successively recaptured the key points such as Tayu Mountain and Hongluo Mountain where Dolgon sent people to garrison in one go. The battle line was restored to the original situation again.

However, what made Mo Yu and the others extremely depressed was that the order given to them by Shouhan was not to break through Tashan, but to break through but not break!

"I'm going to hurt this badger on the other side! Can't let him run yet! Let him keep building fortifications on Tower Hill and defend them on the spot! You can't let a soldier use it for any other purpose! ”

For this order of Shouhan. At first, Mo Yu and the others were puzzled. However, after constantly learning from various channels what Wu Shi and the others had done in the heartland of the thieves in Liaodong, it suddenly dawned on him: looking at the boatloads crowded in the cabin like sardines, the captives who were escorted to Ningyuan (that is, the Han laborers who cultivated, exploited mines and provided various products and services for the Liao thieves), as well as the mountains of various "rags", Mo Yu knew in his heart that the lord's move was just to make Liaodong even more empty, so that Wu Shi and the others could show themselves in Liaodong.

So. A difficult problem was placed in front of the leaders of the Liao thieves, and now the main force of the Eight Banners was dragged in the area of Jinzhou and Guangning, and in front of them were the three Ming armies of Hong Chengchou, Zu Dashou, and Li Shouhan to deal with Huang Taiji and Dolgon, the two big Qing armies, and naturally they could not withdraw lightly. You can't go here, but your own fundamental place over there is a fire in the village and smoke everywhere. Either let the war potential be completely destroyed by Wu Shi and the others, or return to the division to rescue. However, either option. It all comes at a huge cost.

Think about it as a first-class elite, but here for Wu Sangui and Shi Lang to take on the task of feint containment. It feels unpleasant no matter what.

The Guards Brigade was unhappy together, and Dolgon on the other side was even more sour!

If it weren't for Shouhan's sudden and unbreakable order, it would have been Cao Zhenyan who asked his great-grandson to help him and let the police fairy come out to do it, and he wouldn't have had such good luck. A few bullets knocked off his helmet and then left a large hole in his leg. But it's okay. It is about two inches away from the roots and spring bags of the descendants, and about an inch away from the bones.

Those former Ming soldiers who had just returned and had not yet learned how to weave their hair into money rattail braids were even more wounded and full of soldiers.

Such a scene suddenly made Fan Wencheng and the college students dumbfounded. If the Tashan soldiers and horses are transferred to the east, I am afraid that the front line of Tashan, Songshan, and Jinzhou will collapse in an instant!

"Ning Yuanbo's move is even more ruthless and vicious than the emperor sending Rao Yu Beile to attack and harass Jinggi and Shandong in the Ming Kingdom."

Dolgon was still calm, after all, he was the commander who had experienced Li Huamei's baptism of fire.

Both sides adopted the same immoral tactics, sending a detachment of divisions to act as surprise troops to attack and harass the enemy's hinterland. You harass on my turf, and I harass on yours. In other words, it is the one who bleeds each other.

However, it seems that such a situation is more unfavorable for Huang Taiji, and the losses are greater.

Although Chongzhen didn't catch up with the good time, after all, he still has the foundation left by his ancestors, and no matter how shabby the children of the broken family are, they are richer than the guys who are trying to get rid of poverty and become well-off. Population, cities, materials, food, property, if the same loss is considered a tragic level in Chongzhen, if it is relocated, for Huang Taiji, it will face a catastrophe.

The secret reports obtained from everywhere and carefully, at this time, Ning Yuanbo, who was in Ningyuan to supervise the army, was commanding the army, and he was slowly pressing over in the direction of Ningyuan to Lianshan and Zhongzuo. If the military horses on Dolgon's side move, there is a little chaos in the army, I am afraid that Ning Yuanbo, who is peeping not far away, will pounce like a pack of wolves and make dumplings for Dolgon's troops in this narrow corridor in western Liaoning!

Walk, can't go, so what if you don't go?

It doesn't seem to be either! The spies of Ningyuan City risked their lives to send the military information hundreds of miles in a roundabout, and on the sea outside Ningyuan City, from Juehua Island to Huludao and Bijia Mountain, they were all large ships. "Uncle Ning Yuan is afraid that all the ships of the Ming Kingdom have been transferred to the sea of Ning Yuan!"

If the tricks of Wu Sangui and Shi Lang were used again by the Eight Banners, and tens of thousands of people were carried by hundreds of large ships to carry tens of thousands of people on the flanks and behind the Qing army, instead of going to the direction of Shenyang, they would go north along the mouth of the Daling River and camp near Youtunwei, and then divide the Eight Banners in one fell swoop! Dolgon or Huang Taiji can only look at each other from a distance. From now on, the end of the world is close at hand!

Jinan.

In the Xingyuan Flower Hall set up in the former German Palace, Li Huayu was looking at the two guests in front of him with great interest.

One is a teenager of the same age as Li Huayu's younger brothers, about fifteen or sixteen years old, although he is not very old, his figure has grown, about one meter seven or eight. A pair of round and large eyes, extremely bright, but with a different expression on his face than a child of this age, he seemed to be indifferent to the many guards standing around the flower hall. One is a few years older, similar to Li Huayu's age. Compared with the young man, he was a little more slick and tired.

A few days ago, the troops of Abatai and Wang Ke successively attacked several county towns in the Luxi area. The canal was almost cut off again. This is to annoy Li Huayu, if the Cao Yun is broken, he can not care if the Jingshi has food to eat, but what about the materials and goods that the Yancao and Cao gangs transported and sold for the Nanyue Army? Isn't it cheaper for nothing?

The military situation is like fire, but the shortcomings of the troops in their hands are also gradually revealed.

Li Huayu's personal soldiers in the east are worthy of hand-to-hand combat and firearms, but these soldiers were born in the subtropical mountains and forests. But he encountered the same enemy as the garrison brigade, and the weather was bitterly cold. It was the greatest enemy of these soldiers from the South.

The troops from the Beijing Division, who adapted to the weather, were not tolerant of hard fighting, could not travel long distances, and fought continuously. As for the officials, soldiers, and villagers in various places, it's okay to let them guard their own doors and keep their wealth. If you go into the distance, all kinds of problems will come out.

When Li Huayu was entangled in resentment, Chen Guoxi, the shopkeeper of Longsheng, who was transferred from Nanjing to his side to help, quietly came to him.

"My lord, the military situation is urgent right now. Adults lack capable soldiers in their hands. There is a subordinate team stationed not far away, I don't know if the adults dare to use it? ”

Li Huayu glanced at this Chen Guoxi, to be honest, he didn't have much of a good impression of these guys who were in the prevailing system. However, these people are all over the place, well-informed, and well-connected. It's okay to think that somewhere there is a force that is not in the official and military system.

"Can you really fight? If it's really as you said, this official will never dare to use it! ”

So, Chen Guoxi introduced these two guests to Li Huayu.

As soon as these two came to the door, they were unequivocal, and ordered the accompanying guards to take out dozens of heads from their bags, "This is a little welcome gift from the Russians!" Make a heart for the young marshal! ”

To Li Huayu's surprise, these dozens of human heads turned out to be completely the head of the Liao thief real slave! Don't say it's an armed force like the Township Warrior People's League, it's the Beijing camp, and being able to kill so many real slaves at once is also a great feat.

Under the conversation, these two people did not hide their origins, but when they said it, it really scared Li Huayu!

The younger descendants, named Luo Hu, the word Zhenshan, a native of Yulin, Shaanxi, were originally the children in Li Zicheng's army in charge of the flag, Li Zicheng's army expanded rapidly after the army arrived, and Luo Hu, a middle-level officer who fought with the army, was also the only leader of a battalion, known as the Zhenshan battalion. Among the third-generation young generals in Li Zicheng's army, he is second only to Li Shuangxi and Zhang Nai.

And the one who is a few years older than Luo Hu is the nephew of Cao Ying's coach Luo Rucai, Wang Long's.

"The two of us are the leaders of the rogue in the eyes of the imperial court, doesn't the young marshal plan to send us to Beijing to dedicate to Chongzhen?" Wang Lung blinked a pair of small eyes that were very similar to Luo Rucai, and looked at Li Huayu with some sly.

"Joke! I dedicate you to Chongzhen's house, and I have the benefit of half a horse Chongzhen? Li Huayu did not mean to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty at all. In his opinion, the current Nanyue Army is completely fought by his father and a group of uncles through ups and downs, guns and cannons.

"Good! The young marshal is really a good man! The two of us didn't misread you! Luo Hu slapped his thigh and roared in a low voice with some excitement.

Today's Chuangying has become more and more powerful in Henan since its partnership with Cao Ying. It was the second attack on Kaifeng, the provincial capital of Henan. Hundreds of thousands of people besieged Kaifeng Mansion day and night. But after all, Kaifeng Mansion is the ancient capital of several dynasties, the city is high and the pool is deep, and the defending general Chen Yongfu is a figure who can fight. The most terrible thing is that the officials and gentry in Kaifeng City learned the lesson of their counterparts in Luoyang, and temporarily put away the means of drinking the blood of soldiers and eating donations. Not only will the various rewards issued by the Zhou palace and the provincial treasury be distributed in full. Take the lead in organizing donations. For a time, the morale of the defenders in Kaifeng City was quite high.

"This group of dog thieves in the city, what nonsense when King Chuang attacked Kaifeng that day, the defenders in the city shot King Chuang in the eye, and my righteous army will stone the knife after breaking the city, and people will be changed. Thatch over-the-top. King Chuang sent people into the city several times to recruit him to surrender, but no one in the city paid attention to him. ”

There was no choice but to surrender and no one paid attention to it, so there was only a strong attack. However, siege warfare consumes manpower and material resources the most.

Soldiers, there is no need to be afraid of breaking into the second battalion of Cao, as long as the princes of Henan are still there, and the gentry from all over the country are still there, they will send a steady stream of supplementary soldiers to the peasant army. But. The consumption of materials was caused by Li Zicheng and Cao Cao.

In particular, gunpowder was most urgently needed to suppress the artillery fire at the head of the city during the siege.

So, everyone in the camp thought of Chen Guoxi, a reliable and very kind supplier.

"King Chuang, no, Generalissimo, Mr. Chen, you don't know, now King Chuang has been promoted by Mr. Niu and others as the generalissimo of Fengtian Advocate Righteousness and Civil Martial Arts. Cao Shuai is the general of Weide on behalf of the heavens. The two of us were sent to find Mr. Chen, intending to buy a large number of weapons, grain, grass and gunpowder. It's good to break through Kaifeng. I thought that Mr. was in Qingjiangpu or Nanjing, but I didn't want to hear that Mr. was in Jinan on the way. The two of us rushed to meet the young marshal, in order to ask for the young marshal's help! ”

If it is someone else, in the face of such a request, the attitude is better, and the person is ordered to treat the dragon and tiger in front of him with a meal of wine. Just send you away politely. Those who have a bad attitude or a strong sense of fame and a more black method will kill these two people.

Since the Shaanxi Liukou incident in the last year of the Apocalypse, it has been common for officials, soldiers and thieves to be seen in various places, and even the matter of raising the Kou's self-respect is also a well-known secret. Zuo Liangyu, who is now in Sichuan and Huguang and has been dealing with Zhang Xianzhong. Among his subordinates, I don't know how many former thieves secretly have such and such connections with their original partners.

However, Shi Shiran, an important leader among the two thieves, went to a court official and offered to buy weapons and gunpowder, and the purpose was even clearer, in order to break through the provincial capital of the imperial court. Isn't this kind of thing unbelievable enough?

However, Wang Long and Luo Hu met Li Huayu.

After the three bold guys talked secretly together for a while, Li Huayu put forward his request.

"Food, gunpowder, and weapons can be sold to you. However, your army wants to take it in a different way. ”

In fact, when the dragon and tiger came to look for Chen Guoxi before, the three of them already had a plan, otherwise Chen Guoxi would not have proposed to the eldest young marshal Li Huayu, "There is a team of soldiers and horses that I don't know if the eldest young marshal dares to use it".

Borrow a thief and a slave!

"Big young marshal, let's break into the camp and Cao Ying, each with 3,000 people, including 200 from the old battalion, 300 cavalry, 1,000 horsemen, and 1,500 foot soldiers. It is unified under the command and dispatch of the great young marshal, and it is used to deal with these Liaodong Tartars who are wandering all over Shandong! ”

Hearing that the two families of Chuang Cao had sent a total of 6,000 troops, and what kind of old battalions, Xiao cavalry and the like were there, Li Huayu couldn't help but feel a little disappointed in his heart, but it was not easy to show it on his face.

If he knew the status and elite Cheng Dù of the soldiers at all levels in the Chuang Camp and Cao Camp, he would have understood the importance that Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, who were far away in Kaifeng, attached to this matter.

You must know that the people who can be selected for the old camp are all elites who followed Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai to fight in various places, and they have about ten years of experience in battlefield fighting. And most of these people are fellow villagers in Shaanxi, so their loyalty is naturally extraordinary. Being able to dispatch 500 old battalion horsemen, and another 1,000 horsemen, to be led by his nephew and quasi-adopted son to handle this matter, shows how desperately Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai need these grain, grass and weapons.

"Young marshal, please rest assured! It's just thousands of Liaodong Tartars, and tens of thousands of bandits who pretend to be gods and ghosts! It's not a big deal! On the way here, our Lao Tzu has already fought with the Liaodong Tartars, and compared with the old battalion soldiers of our family, it is far inferior! Probably to be able to tie with Xiao Qi! ”

Wang Lung pointed to the dozens of Jiannu heads nonchalantly, boasting of his military exploits.

These Jiannu were harvested on the way to Jinan led by Wang Long and Luo Hu from Kaifeng to Jinan via Puyang and Caozhou.

Originally, I planned to find a village to settle down in, find a place for the people to live, and rest for a while. Unexpectedly, the sentry cavalry found that there was something strange in a squire's house near the left, not to mention a large number of men, horses, mules and horses, and all of them had armor and weapons.

Wang Long, who has always been accustomed to smashing kilns, how can he let go of this opportunity to make a small fortune? After a short and fierce fight, he and Luo Hu were very pleasantly surprised to find that these strange characters were actually a Niu Lu Zhangjing of the Liaodong anti-thief Abatai leading dozens of real slaves, and hundreds of bandits under Wang Ke were hiding in the home of this squire who was also a disciple of the Wenxiang Sect.

"Young Marshal, the shopkeeper Chen also told us about the tactics of Abatai's group of Tartars and bandits, and to put it mildly, such a trick, in the eyes of our camp and Cao Ying, is really selling water by the river!" (To be continued......)

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