Chapter 15: The ruthless Lu Xiangsheng
If you talk about this Lu Xiangsheng, he is different from the ruthless Cao Wenzhao who rose from the bottom of the Liaodong Border Army, he was originally a white-faced and knowledgeable literati, and he was only twenty-two years old when he was a high school scholar.
However, he was born at the wrong time, and as soon as he was put in the place after winning the Jinshi, he met the Jiannu prisoner, and the emperor Taiji entered the customs from the Xifeng Pass and smashed the Huanglong to surround the capital.
Chongzhen's edict ordered the world's military generals to be the king of Qin, and the young Lu Xiangsheng recruited 10,000 soldiers with enthusiasm and rushed towards the capital, but there was no horse, and he did not catch up with the great war between Yuan Dudu and Huang Taiji, but Chongzhen still did not forget his loyalty, and since then the literati Lu Xiangsheng has become the martial artist Lu Xiangsheng.
But at that time, the finances of the imperial court were almost collapsed, and Chongzhen's pitiful taxes were given to Liaodong, and the inland soldiers could not get their salaries all year round, not to mention that they could not even eat enough, and their combat ability was weak, and their field combat ability was even weaker, and they often collapsed at the touch of a button.
In the face of this mess, Lu Xiangsheng did not sigh for a long time, he wanted to turn this group of rabble into elite soldiers, he had his own methods, he was not as rich as Yuan Dudu, but he dared to fight.
Dare to fight is mainly reflected in two aspects, one is that Lu Xiangsheng does not live in the mansion, and eats and lives with the lowest soldiers every day, if there is no food in the army, the soldiers are hungry, Lu Xiangsheng is also hungry, there was a time when the army interrupted food for three days, and Grandpa Lu almost starved to death.
The second is that Lu Xiangsheng always rushes to the front when he fights, and as a scholar of the national dynasty, the scars on his body are enough to make many Ming generals embarrassed.
People's hearts are flesh and blood, and under the teaching of words and deeds, and empathy, Lu Xiangsheng's soldiers are the same as Lu Xiangsheng, fighting without fear of death, and in just two years, the Tianxiong Army came out.
But it was such a patriotic and ruthless man who almost starved himself to death for the sake of national righteousness, but in the end he was killed by a eunuch without a handle.
In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng took the only remaining 5,000 Tianxiong soldiers to meet Jiannu, and the Tianxiong army, which lacked soldiers and food, was finally surrounded by the main force of Huang Taiji, Lu Xiangsheng asked the eunuch Gao Qiqian for help several times, but it was less than 50 miles away from the battlefield, and Gao Qiqian who held tens of thousands of Guan Ning troops sat back and ignored it.
Lu Xiangsheng protected the left wing with the great power of the tiger, Yang Guozhu protected the right wing, and led his own soldiers to set up crossbows in the Chinese army to fight a decisive battle with Huang Taiji, from morning to afternoon, after the ammunition was exhausted, Lu Xiangsheng ordered to fight with the Qing army.
The Qing army took turns to attack with iron cavalry, and Lu Xiangsheng's war knives were curled.
The generals Hu Dawei and Yang Guozhu knew that the defeat had decided to desperately protect the old leader to break through, but Lu Xiangsheng, who was covered in blood, held a war knife and shouted, "The general fights to the death, there is no advance or retreat", so he led his own soldiers to leap into the battle, with four arrows and three blades in his body, and died heroically.
Undoubtedly, this is a ruthless person, but it's a pity that Zhan Yun, who has been peeking at the female leader on a war horse, has never heard of it, he frowned and only felt that the rebel army was too vegetable, and seven thousand against four thousand could be beaten by people, and it was really a shame to throw it to grandma's house.
Zhan Yun didn't know about Lu Xiangsheng, but Gao Yingxiang, who had been running around for seven or eight years in the Ming Dynasty, knew that his face changed when he heard Lu Xiangsheng's name.
"It's King Luyan, that should be his vanguard army, he must have more than four thousand men and horses in his hands, we must retreat immediately!" Gao Yingxiang said very decisively.
"Made, it turned out to be this guy, don't be alarmed, it's good for you to come back safely, let's leave!" Zhang Xianzhong scolded and appeased Sun Kewang, who had suffered defeat, and then returned to his army without letting go.
Zhan Yun was slightly surprised by the reaction of these palms, and said in his heart that just now there were two hundred and fifty or eighty thousand cows, how could a King Lu Yan be scared like this, don't we still have a King Gu Yan?
Zhan Yun glanced at his ace fighter Gu Yanwang, who secretly took out a private steamed bun from his breast pocket, and took advantage of the fact that no one was ready to eat Zhengxiang, and then stopped thinking about it.
As a result, the rebel army, which was cut by the ruthless Cao Wenzhao and cut the leeks, fell into the net of the ruthless Lu Xiangsheng again.
From Junzhou to Zhushan, from Qijiagou to Shiquanba, and then from the Taiping River to Zhumutou, the rebel army fought and retreated, but more than ten days passed, and the rebel army was still bitten by King Lu Yan's buttocks, and they couldn't shake it off, and several palms were panicked.
"King Chuang, either let's run away separately, if we don't think about it, our cubs will be killed by this King Luyan." Zhang Xianzhong said angrily.
In just over half a month, at least 5,000 people were lost in the war barracks, and the outer battalions were even worse, and at least half of the people who ran away were lost.
"No, at this time, the division of troops is just as the intention of the official army, Chen Qiyu has already set up a set, and if the troops are really divided, they will definitely be broken by each one." Li Zicheng retorted.
"Huang Wazi, what do you say? Lao Tzu's soldiers can't hold on? Even if the soldiers can hold it, the horses can't hold it either! Zhang Xianzhong glared at Li Zichengdao.
Zhang Xianzhong had a violent temper, as long as he saw that Li Zicheng was not pleasing to the eye, he would call him by his nickname, and once he was drunk and even had a fight with Li Zicheng because of this.
"I said the Eight Kings, don't quarrel with the two of you, our horses can't hold it, so King Luyan's horse can hold it? Most of our soldiers have two horses! Cao Cao saw that these two people were on the bar again, and hurriedly persuaded him.
Gao Yingxiang sometimes has no way to deal with these two teammates, and he, the nominal 'alliance leader', does not have the power to give direct orders to the two, but at this time he really has no way.
There is a ruthless Cao Wenzhao in the north, the main force of the yin man Chen Qiyu in the east, and the back of the butt in the south, and a ruthless Lu Xiangsheng is still sticky, who will be in the west?
"Report - Qi Qi everyone is in charge, Lu Xiangsheng is chasing after me again, less than five miles away from me!" A herald rushed from behind, panicked.
"Ahhh Zhang Xianzhong gritted his teeth angrily.
A few days ago, in order to ease the relationship, a few palms gathered together the looted treasures and bribed Lu Xiangsheng to give him a way out, but he never thought that Grandpa Lu would accept the silver with a smile, and he still didn't give him a way to live, so Zhang Xianzhong was worried about it for two or three days.
"King Chuang, you say where we are going, I, Luo Ru, will listen to you." Cao Cao knew that there must be someone to talk to at this time, so he reported his real name in a hurry, and at the same time set an example for Zhang and Li, so that they could listen to Gao Yingxiang for the time being.
Sure enough, when the two saw Luo Rucai like this, they also successively said that all the soldiers and horses were commanded by Gao Yingxiang.
The best direction is still in the south, as long as the encirclement of Zhuxi is broken, the rebel army can enter the lake and the rich land, retreat can go to the deep mountains of Sichuan and Shu, and the fish leaping into the sea is promising.
But Gao Yingxiang hesitated for a moment, and in the end he still didn't have the courage to harden King Lu Yan, and finally pointed to the west with his big hand, and then the remaining more than 50,000 people rushed towards Hanzhong to play for their lives.
Half a day later, the army arrived at Baitu Pass.
This is the throat of Huguang into Shaanxi, and it is also the absolute hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, and after Baitu Pass is Hanzhong Mansion.
Originally, there was a whole guard of soldiers stationed here, but the guards had been eroded for a long time, the vacuums were serious, and the remaining soldiers had become peasants.
I thought I had picked up a leak, but as soon as the rebels plunged in, they found that it was not like that.
Hanzhong was mountainous and watery, and the roads were rugged, and the speed of the rebel army slowed down suddenly, and the rear of the army was immediately overtaken by Lu Xiangsheng, and the losses continued to expand.
"After the battle is broken, who dares to fight King Lu Yan?" Gao Yingxiang anxiously looked at the many generals behind him.
At this time, there is a high chance that it will really be broken, oh, it is the last, but you can't leave the people in the outer camp alone, otherwise you will be slaughtered by the officials and soldiers, and who will follow them in the future.
Sun Kewang was injured in the arm and had a strip of cloth around his neck, Liu Zongmin and Li Guo had a battle with King Lu Yan a few days ago, and they lost nearly half of them, and everyone did not say a word.
Zhan Yun is praying in his heart, female leader, Sister Hong, don't come out, but the red lady came out of the queue as soon as her legs clamped the horse's belly.
"The last general is willing to cover for the army!" The red lady was sonorous, and she didn't even ask Li Yan's opinion.