When Luo Hu ordered people to send a horse to Banpodian, Li Zicheng was commanding Hao Shaoqi, Li Guo, Gao Yigong and other troops to attack Ding Qirui and Hu Dawei in turn. Although every attack can cut off a large piece of fat from these two officers and soldiers, but in the face of these three military horses in the rout, although the two families have done their best, it is also difficult to swallow them in one bite.

When the commanders who were breaking into Cao Xian's three families were nervously dispatching people and horses, and constantly launched a fierce attack on Yang Wenyue, Ding Qirui, and Hu Dawei, who had retreated, Luo Hu's messenger sent the latest military information.

"Nonsense!" After listening to Niu Jinxing read Luo Hu's handwritten letter for the three of them, Li Zicheng immediately thought of this sentence. "Lao Tzu's elite is still a little powerless to deal with these three people, you only have 20,000 people, how can you defeat Zuo Liangyu's army?!"

Although he was full of slander in his heart, out of trust in Luo Hu, Li Zicheng still snatched Luo Hu's military intelligence documents. The word is written by Luo Hu himself, although he can't care about the structure of the font in a hurry, but it is clear at a glance.

"Father, our department has defeated the elite of Zuo Liangyu's Chinese army and the standard battalion department, and is now on the way to pursue! Please send troops to intercept and kill the rout on the left along the way, and send people to assist our department! With enough cavalry, today's son will capture Zuo Liangyusheng under his father's command! ”

This official document is not an official document, and the family letter is not a family letter, but it makes the three giants in the late Ming Dynasty a little panicked.

I have some doubts, but when Luo Hu broke through the Kaifeng Campaign, he was in front of Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, but if you believe it, how can you face Zuo Liangyu's 100,000 returning divisions with the 20,000 horses of the Zhenshan Battalion and defeat it?

is struggling and hesitating. There was a commotion outside the Banpo shop, but it was Zhang Dingguo who led hundreds of his own soldiers to escort thousands of disarmed prisoners, drove a lot of horses and mules, and carried the baggage hastily picked up on the battlefield to report the victory!

What else does this say! Li Zicheng didn't care about listening to Zhang Dingguo's detailed explanation of the battlefield situation, and immediately ordered someone to send orders to Tian Jianxiu, Liu Tichun, Gu Ying and other troops to immediately pursue Zuo Liangyu's troops. Be sure to wipe them all out in one fell swoop!

"Talk to Yufeng, I will wronged him some today, and let him listen to Luo Hu's command!"

Tian Jianxiu has always been known for his kindness and kindness in the camp, but when he heard this, he didn't think so, just smiled slightly, turned over his horse, and led nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, including the elite of the 2,000 old battalion that Li Zicheng allocated to him, Gu Ying and Liu Tichun. Swept away!

"Jing Xuan, you can ask Maotang Xian's nephew to bring people over and select the elite among the soldiers and horses in the left battalion." In line with the principle of having food for everyone to eat, and in order to show that he has faith in his words, Li Zicheng smiled at Zhang Xianzhong, who was being stunned, with a bit of ostentatious words.

By the time Tian Jianxiu and others arrived with the army, there were no large-scale battles on the entire battlefield, and there were occasionally a few sporadic resistances, which were also rebellions by the soldiers under Zuo Liangyu in order to prevent the money in their pockets from being stolen by the soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion.

On a battlefield that spreads for dozens of miles. All kinds of weapons, flags, armor, vehicles, baggage, livestock. Littered everywhere. From Zuo Liangyu to what ordinary men need, they can all be found here.

"Uncle Yufeng! Let your infantry brothers clean up the battlefield, take in the prisoners, and hand over the two thousand cavalry to me. Luo Hu, who was sweating profusely, couldn't care about being polite, so he sent a job to Tian Jianxiu.

Two thousand old battalion cavalry joined. It even made the shape of the battlefield fall towards the peasant army.

Compared with Liu Zongmin's fierce and brave combat, Tian Jianxiu's character is a little more rigorous and meticulous. Coupled with the fact that he is a few years older, he naturally does not have so much fire. Li Zicheng handed over this envoy to Luo Hu to him, which was a good person!

At that moment, Tian Jianxiu smiled and organized his men and horses to begin to contain the rout of the left army and pick up weapons and armor. Pack up heavy artillery and other things, of course, mule and horse food is more important.

There are two more cavalry in his hand, which makes Luo Hu a lot more courageous, "Wang Si'er, I will allocate half of the two thousand cavalry brought by Uncle Yufeng to you, and give me a good bite of Zuo Tuye!" ”

After mixing with the soldiers of the Beijing camp for a long time, it is natural to receive some edification, and nothing else is okay, for Zuo Liangyu's background, these masters of the 3,000 battalions of the Shenji Battalion have explained it to Luo Hu thoroughly.

"Brother Tiger, don't worry!" Wang Si'er was also born as a child soldier, so he naturally threw himself to the ground with the five bodies that Luo Hu admired from the same background, and immediately led a thousand old battalion elite horsemen, looking at the direction of Zuo Liangyu's brigade and yelling: "Capture Zuo Rabbit Master alive!" ”

"Capture the left rabbit alive!"

Slogans rang out throughout the battlefield.

The news of Zuo Liangyu's defeat was transmitted to the troops of Yang Wenyue, Ding Qirui, Hu Dawei and others at the fastest speed by the soldiers of Chuang Camp and Cao Ying.

I thought that I could be a tiger that the fox relied on, but I didn't expect it to be a paper tiger, and it was knocked out of its original form with a stick.

"Our army of 20,000 people broke Zuo Liangyu!"

"Zuo Liangyu has been defeated! Surrender quickly! ”

At this time, the horse teams of Chuang Ying and Cao Ying also did not care about the resistance they might encounter, but just pounced into the formation of the Ming army, constantly chanting slogans of surrender and threats.

Along the way, I don't know how many of the three soldiers and horses were either captured or surrendered on the spot. Just kidding, Zuo Liangyu is a thief general certified by the imperial court's quality system, and now his hundreds of thousands of people have been leveled by 20,000 thieves, what are our people? Is it enough for hundreds of thousands of people?

An old general of the Republic of China once said that soldiers are the happiest in the following situations, for example, correctly judging the enemy's situation, holding the most critical positions, and capturing the most critical hills, but all of the above are not as cool as watching the mountains of weapons and groups of prisoners pass in front of you. Today's camp general Tian Jianxiu is enjoying this last kind of comfort on the battlefield.

Hundreds, thousands, of officers and men of the Left Battalion were escorted past him, and some of the hungry people who accompanied the army carried large and small baskets and baskets, which were full of all kinds of knives, guns, and instruments.

"Come, come, come! Brothers of Zuoying, from here, we are a family! Go over there and get your food! ”

There are too many captives. There were more officers and men of the left battalion scattered in a radius of dozens of miles. Tian Jianxiu ordered people to dig pots and stoves around his own camp and boil water in a large pot for cooking. Soon, the water was boiling in hundreds of cauldrons, and the strong aroma of food attracted the attention of the officers and men of the left battalion scattered everywhere.

Steaming steamed buns, porridge, and plenty of soup. For these hungry and thirsty routs, the lethality was no less than that of Luo Hu's thousands of firearms. However, if you want to fill your belly, it is also a big problem.

In front of the way to the steaming, deadly temptation of food, two columns of Tian Mixiu's infantry cavalry lined up on both sides, forming a long passage. In front of the entrance of the passage, hundreds of large and small baskets are placed there.

"Throw your weapons inside, and take off your armor first." Wang Jing, the leader of Tian Jianxiu's pro-soldiers, said very politely. But there is no doubt about it. Those officers and soldiers of the Left Battalion, who had long lost their fighting spirit, couldn't control that much for a while, not to mention, Tian Jianxiu's reputation has always been good, and there has never been a matter of killing and surrendering.

In an instant, thousands of people dropped their weapons and removed their armor. The hungry people collected the scepters and weapons in sorts.

There was a long line of hungry people, carrying weapons and armor. led the mule and horse to the head of the mouth, and came to the Banpo store to ask the three handsomes to take a look.

It should be said. Zuo Liangyu's equipment level can be said to be incomparable with the Nanyue Army and the Qing Army. Even compared with the old battalions of Chuang Camp and Cao Battalion, they have less armor, fewer horses, and fewer firearms. The problem is that this has a premise, that is, these equipment are only small because they are scattered among the hundreds of thousands of troops. And once it is concentrated. It's a dizzying amount.

For example, the armor, Wu Ruyi, the head of the Chinese army, reported to the generalissimo Li Zicheng, the two generals, Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong (the eight kings also have a loud title, Chengtian blesses the people to fight the thief general. A total of 10,000 Nanzhong cuirasses were seized from Zuo Liangyu's department, and about 30,000 cotton armors, Jiaolong leather armors, and coconut shell armors. There were forty or fifty thousand iron helmets. If an army of 100,000 is divided, it is less than a third of the armor. Considering that some of the armoured soldiers were required to wear double armor, in fact about one in five wore armor. Therefore, if you look at it at a glance, you can basically think that Zuo Liangyu's army is an army with a very low proportion of armor. But once these tens of thousands of armor are placed together, they are similar to a small mountain. In addition to looking shocked, a certain general surnamed Zhang directly drooled. In order to hide his gaffe, he had to quickly wipe the saliva off a beard, as if nothing had happened.

However, soon Zhang Xianzhong found that there were other things that deserved more attention than armor weapons. From the prisoners who walked by, he saw at a glance an officer of the left battalion. Zhang Xianzhong didn't talk nonsense, he rushed directly to the queue and stretched out his hand to pull this person over, and then said triumphantly: "Boy, it was quite enjoyable to chase me last time, and you still shouted Don't let the thief escape." Look clearly, our Lao Tzu is here, you are here to catch the Eight Kings and go back to receive the reward?! ”

The officer of the left battalion was also angry, "Eight kings, if you want to kill me, let's not say anything." However, if you give me 500 cavalry, it will be much cheaper than killing our old man! ”

"Huh! You donkey ball! It's a kind of thing! It's not just chasing and killing us! Good! Xiao Wang! This man dialed it to you, and asked him to bring five hundred cavalry when he turned around! ”

Hahaha, after saying that, Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help laughing, and with the laughter, his long-standing depression was also relieved.

Seeing Zhang Xianzhong find a thief like a child, Cao Cao smiled slightly, and the corners of Li Zicheng's mouth twitched slightly, obviously not so satisfied. However, he didn't say anything, and soon, he also fell into a similar ecstasy as Zhang Xianzhong.

What he saw was a mule and a horse as far as the eye could see.

Li Zicheng did not have a mechanized corps at that time, but he also knew that the overall marching speed was the life of the army. The biggest drag on the march of the army was logistics, and at that time, and for a long time afterward, the only solution was mule and horse transportation.

With mules and horses, you can put heavy supplies on the back of the cart, the supplies can keep up with the speed of human movement, and the soldiers can have food at any time. At the same time, mules and horses are also important production materials. In the future, if the ground is laid, mules and horses will also be the key to resuming production. Therefore, seeing so many mules and horses, how could Li Zicheng not be overjoyed.

It is also a direct manifestation of the ability to maneuver.

And Cao Cao. It was directly aimed at the firecrackers that were carefully and neatly placed by the hungry people. Like the peasant army, Zuo Liangyu is now also buying a large number of Nanzhong firecrackers, although the models are more miscellaneous, there are flintlock guns commonly known as tap fire and arquebuses, but they are generally Nanzhong genuine, and the quality is very guaranteed. After returning from Shandong. Wang Lung had told him many times about what he had seen and heard in his dealings with Jingying, especially the incident of Changqing smashing the Mengjia Xiangyao, and Luo Rucai was deeply impressed. Kaifeng is such a strong city, Luo Hu actually took it in less than a day, and it only took a burst of artillery bombardment to tear the opening, which consumed some gunpowder. The facts have fully proved the power of firearms, so Cao Cao decided that it doesn't matter if there are more or less other materials, but the firearms and artillery themselves must be obtained a little more.

"Xiao Wu, you tell to go down. Ask General Maotang to send someone to select the strong, horses, weapons, and armor. ”

"Hey! My brother Li! No, Generalissimo! You are our Lao Zhang's brother! Xiao Wang, don't you go and pick our 10,000 people! ”

"No, it's 20,000! Xiao Wu, remember, 20,000 people with armor, weapons, and horses! ”

Li Zicheng's move. Zhang Xianzhong was even more moved, and he held Li Zicheng's hand and shook it. It took a while to say a sentence, "Brother Li, don't worry, our old Zhang will go south to crusade against the Ming thief, and he will definitely not embarrass you!" ”

The three guys who have been giants in the eyes of the officials and the court since the beginning of Chongzhen's ascension to the throne, the mood at this time is probably the best and most relaxed moment in the past ten years. The latest military developments are constantly being sent:

Liu Zongmin slashed the tiger in a big way. The Yinxin banner was seized, and more than 10,000 sabers and guns were contained in the Hu Dawei Division.

Hao Shaoqi and Li Guo stormed Yang Wenyue's department, Yang Wenyue did not know where to go, and only seized his edict, Shang Fang's sword, seal letter banner and other items. However, more than 100 large and small artillery pieces of his subordinates were accommodated along the way, and there were more than 3,000 firearms, which can be regarded as a great harvest.

Gao Yigong, Liu Fangliang, Li Yan's younger brother Li Yan and others pursued Ding Qirui's department, captured the court supervisor, and seized Shang Fang's sword, edicts, seals and other items, and contained a lot of soldiers, horses, and weapons.

"Generalissimo, after this battle, Chongzhen Xiao'er will have no soldiers and horses to fight against us!"

Luo Rucai blinked his little eyes proudly, looking forward to a better future.

"Lao Cao, not necessarily, right? Don't forget the one in the east, but there are hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers! Zhang Xianzhong deliberately fought with Cao Cao.

Luo Rucai smiled and said, "I said the Eight Great Kings, are you deliberately entertaining our Lao Cao or what?" If the one in the east didn't release the water, we could defeat the official army so easily? Don't be kidding, let's say something unpleasant, don't talk about what we have in our bowls, on our bodies, and in our hands, I'm afraid we don't have two words on our necks now. ”

"In addition, I want to understand a truth these days, for the time being, we can't become the enemy of the one in the east, not even in the future, so you can rest assured"

"Although the Nanyue Army is strong, its ambition is not in the world, and what it does is wealth! Even if he gave Chongzhen Lao'er money, it was to seek more money. And we, if we ask for money and are useless, we can give it to them. In this way, they ask for money, we give, they ask for people, we give it! As long as they give us knives, guns, food, and gunpowder, what contradiction can there be? ”

Li Zicheng put down the telescope in his hand and pondered for a while: "What Lao Luo said naturally makes sense. However, the soldiers and horses are not as good as people, and it is difficult to feel at ease after all. The Southern Guangdong Army has strong combat power, and its rules and criminal laws are more than 100 times stronger than those in the mainland. And the soldiers and weapons are good enough and the food is sufficient, and they are close to us. Although I don't plan to compete with us for a short time at the moment, this world depends on strength in the final analysis. This time, I also figured it out, we have to follow Nan Middle School well. Otherwise, now Li Shouhan doesn't have the heart to dominate the Central Plains, but if he has it, who can stop him? At present, although our army has a large number of soldiers and horses, ask yourself, how many battles can it fight against the Nanyue army? Don't say that the battle against the Nanyue Army is to defeat Zuo Liangyu, who would have thought that it would be a little tiger who had been following the Nanyue Army for a few days! Therefore, the formation and training of the new army cannot be delayed, and I am ready to carry it out immediately. ”

Luo Rucai blinked his little eyes: "The new army is good, but how can this new army be trained?" ”

"Xiaohuzi learned a lot of things from the Nanzhong Army, and even abducted and deceived him, and also dug up a few talents. What artillery corps, surveyed. Especially a person named Wu Xing, who was simply brought by Xiaohuzi who tied up his whole family. This person not only knows how to train soldiers, but also knows how to open a government and govern the government, and what is even more rare is that he is very modest. thinks that his ability is not ranked in Shandong. I had a long talk with him a few times. If he plans to stay in the Central Plains and take root, he will be planning for a good life. He said that he might as well follow Ning Yuanbo's example when he started his business, plan a school, and select the generals of each battalion. Teach arithmetic literacy, and then teach marching and combat after passing the test. With this school as the core, the officer corps was re-established, and then the troops were trained according to the training method of Nanzhong. ”

Wu Xing believes that this stage of establishing officers is the most difficult, but once it is done well, new recruits can be pulled out to fight in three months at most, and their combat effectiveness is not inferior to that of veterans. Moreover, no matter how much the soldiers and horses are lost. As long as the officers are here, the old foundation is there, and now there are hungry people everywhere, and in a little time, there will be tens of thousands of elite soldiers in hand! ”

"Generalissimo, that's what I said, but I've also heard that kid Wang Lung say. The entire Nanyue Army is like a big machine. Soldiers and horses are just a link, a component. The most important thing. It is also the yamen of various states and counties. Issuing an order from Ning Yuanbo's Mansion, you can reach the village overnight, which can be described as a strict order, like an arm! If we train the new army, I am afraid that it is not enough to train the troops, and this is a matter of opening a government and building a yamen. It's also indispensable! ”

"What you said is right, not only to train troops, but also to focus on discipline in the new army. Xiaohuzi's defeat of Zuo Liangyu's Zhenshan battalion cavalry this time was actually some infantry who could barely ride horses. But once discipline is strengthened, dozens of people are like one. And if you are not afraid of life and death, you will be invincible. Therefore, in the future, discipline should be more stringent. In the Nanyue Army, there is a so-called joint sitting method, and I plan to implement it among the rebels as well! When a soldier breaks the law, he punishes the officer in turn, even if he is the commander. For example, if a soldier loots without permission, first the soldier will be killed, and then the officer above him will be scolded with a cane, and then he will be scolded. When you come to me, you have to review your own mistakes with the older brothers. If you retreat from the battle, the whole team will be killed! ”

As night gradually covered the battlefield, the soldiers of the old battalion lit the lights and brought dinner. The three giants who were talking about sex were not able to eat, and ordered their soldiers to summon their respective staff, Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, Ji Jue, Xu Yixian and others, to discuss the matter of opening a government on the current territory.

Under the cover of night, Zuo Liangyu, who had retreated, had already run far away.

Tian Jianxiu saw that Luo Hu was still leading the people to chase after him, and most of his men and horses and infantry could not catch up, so he collected his troops and continued to destroy the scattered left army.

The rout has been divided into small shares, a dozen, dozens, or hundreds of people per share, and there are also large shares of thousands of people, whether there is a road or not, fleeing everywhere. The local people usually hate the officers and soldiers, but in the past two days, Li Yan has come to give relief, and he is even more grateful to the righteous army and redoubles his hatred for the officers and soldiers. Most of the young and strong people obeyed the call to break into the camp, picked up hoes, wooden sticks, and pickaxes, intercepted and killed these fleeing officers and soldiers everywhere, beat them to death, and took the captured armor, knives and guns to the righteous army to report their merits. In order to relieve the hatred in their hearts, some people who had been killed by officials and soldiers, or who had their wives and daughters raped by officials and soldiers, or whose houses were burned down by officials and soldiers, not only killed the officers and soldiers, but also dissected their hearts, cut their positions, or threw them into the fire.

Luo Hu didn't care about this, so he just chased after him.

Along the road leading to Xuchang from Tongxu and Wei, Luo Hu divided his infantry cavalry into four waves, rested in turn, and took turns to pursue. Relying on the mules and horses intercepted along the way, the number of horse teams of the Zhenshan battalion increased, and those who did not have the task of pursuing collected the routs along the way and seized the assets and equipment.

Zuo Liangyu's men and horses had already dispersed, and less than two thousand cavalry followed him. The sound of killing behind me faded away, and finally I couldn't hear it. Zuo Liangyu thought to himself, as long as the left and right generals are still there, and the scattered soldiers are gathered, they can always come back, and after escaping to Xiangyang, it will not be difficult to use his prestige to regain their popularity. Seeing the discouraged appearance of the soldiers, he immediately encouraged his cronies on the left and right: "We broke through the enemy's layers of interception and came here, which shows that the Ji people have their own natural appearance. After all, the thief made a mistake, and if he intercepted it with his soldiers, we would be in danger. Although he is now chasing and killing our men and horses, but after all, there are too few people, and there are not many people and horses intercepting all the way, plus we will use our soldiers' lives, although the casualties are not small, in the end, Li Zicheng Monet, what is me. Now there will be no more enemies ahead, everyone is in a hurry, to Xuchang, to take a short rest, and then go to Xiangyang. ...... to Xiangyang"

These cronies and lovers of Zuo Liangyu are all dead soldiers that he has raised for many years. Usually Zuo Liangyu indulges them in every way and rewards them casually, the purpose is to let them serve in danger and work hard for him. And his personal soldiers, generals, and family members have never had a court or an emperor in his heart, only a "left handsome".

Since Zuo Shuai said that Xuchang would go to Xiangyang to recuperate and recuperate, then everyone listened to Dashuai. Seeing that the sky had completely darkened, everyone suddenly felt very relaxed. The speed of the march became much slower, and it also made the war horse under the crotch breathe a little, and recover its body. According to the general practice, the sky darkened, and no matter how fierce the fighting was during the day, the warring sides had to collect their troops and rest, for the simple reason that the vision was unclear at night, and it was easy to hurt their own people. Everyone is safe at this point.

Just as he was about to rejoice, there were bursts of exclamations from the side horses in charge of the palace in the distance, and behind him, a large group of cavalry came from afar, and the lantern torches almost reflected half of the sky.

"Capture the left rabbit alive!" (To be continued......)

PS: Five stars out of the East, your character has appeared. It is estimated that he is destined to be scolded by righteous men and gentlemen. Be prepared to leave a stench for 10,000 years!