Chapter 32: The Battle of Shouzhou

The reason why it won't block.

First, it can't be stopped. Wang Du is self-aware, the little miscellaneous soldiers under his command, fighting the bandits, can still be used, but there is absolutely no chance of winning against the camp, rather than that, it is better to surrender than to bring military disasters to the people of Runing.

Of course, there is another reason, which is the name of the thing.

No matter how big the contradiction is between Cao Ying and Chuang Ying, and now Wang Du still has the title of the prefect of Dashun Runing, so Wang Du can't refuse the order of the Dashun court.

He immediately replied to Li Xinke politely with a letter, just one meaning, that is, he was a subordinate official of King Wu's mansion, and if he wanted to transfer his position, he had to go through the formal procedures and let King Wu nod his head.

In fact, the Dashun Imperial Court has only been established for a few days, so it can be said that it is extremely informal. Where there are so many rules, his meaning is very obvious, it is just a tactful refusal.

Immediately, Wang Du resealed the letter, wrote another letter, and sent the two letters out together, and the destination was not somewhere else, or under the city of Shouzhou.

At this moment, under the city of Shouzhou, the battle has become white-hot.

At the foot of Bagong Mountain, before Huang Degong's camp, under the command of Li Rugui, a large group of soldiers worked hard to attack.

In the Yongwei camp, under the cannon arrows, the bows and crossbows had the feeling of covering the sky and the sun, and they knocked over I don't know how many volunteer soldiers in an instant.

But then the rebel sergeant moved forward slowly and without hesitation, under the cover of the shield cart, under the blow of artillery and arrows.

"Boom, boom." A large number of artillery opened fire in an instant, and it was the artillery of the rebel army that opened fire.

And the person who commanded the artillery was none other than Wang Cannon.

Wang Cannon has been casting cannons for a period of time, and hundreds of cannons and small cannons have been cast, and they are all used in the attack on Huang Degong's camp at this moment. Artillery came in a raindown.

However, Huang Degong's camp has been reinforced, and it is not far from Zhang Xuan's camp outside Xiayi City. It's like a small city, and when a cannon hits it, it only bounces off or sinks into a wooden wall, and it rarely collapses.

It's just that even so, Huang Degong's camp is a little untenable.

No matter how much they went up, they were not shot down by artillery, or killed or wounded.

Huang Degong was on the watchtower, and when he saw this situation, he knew that if he continued like this, he would have to fight hand-to-hand after a while.

It's not that Huang Degong is afraid of hand-to-hand combat, Huang Degong is confident, confident that his Yongwei battalion can beat all the rebels, even if it is above hand-to-hand combat, but he also understands that the number of Yongwei battalions is too small, and the full battle is only as much as thirty or forty thousand, and there is no way to compare with the Cao camp opposite.

Although the two sides before, there was no real one

The fight was just a confrontation, but Huang Degong's actions against Cao Ying were not unaware of it.

Although Cao Ying's main force is under the city of Shouzhou, it does not mean that all the troops have not moved. Cao Ying's horse team haunted Luzhou and Fengyang, expelled officials, appointed puppet officials, and ordered counties to transport supplies and people to Shouzhou City. And these people were incorporated into the army.

Therefore, during this period of time, although many soldiers of Cao Ying died in the siege, the number of Cao Ying did not decrease, but there was a sense of increase.

"Assemble the horses." Huang Degong couldn't sit still and said, "Wait for me." ”

Ren Youqian was taken aback, grabbed Huang Degong and said: "My lord, I can't help it, there are no eyes on the battlefield, especially these artillery arrows don't have eyes, if you have any accidents, the whole army will be finished." ”

Huang Degong gritted his teeth, but he had to admit that under the situation of this kind of heavy use of firearms, his life was quite dangerous when he rushed into battle.

Although Huang Degong is brave, he is not reckless. He knew that he was too big to take risks now, so he suddenly loosened his teeth and said, "Let Ma Dai go out and rush." Let him be careful, and come back when he is defeated. ”

"Yes." Ren Youxuan said with a sigh of relief.

In a moment, a section of the camp suddenly collapsed under the shaking of the banner, which was a secret door, and thousands of horses suddenly came out and rushed towards the artillery of the rebels.

"Haha, it's you." Luo Dai was overjoyed to see this.

He had been watching the battle for a while, and his desire for revenge had already burned violently in his heart, and when he saw Huang Degong's cavalry rushing out, he immediately brought his cavalry to meet him, and the two sides combined with more than 10,000 cavalry and fought together.

Under the handsome flag, Luo Rucai watched quietly, without any fluctuation in his eyes.

"Your Excellency." Zhang Zhen came from behind and said, "The letter from the prefect Wang? ”

"Oh." Luo Rucai took the letter in Zhang Qian's hand, opened it, and said: "Li Zicheng has some vision, but Wang Du is really unwilling to go to Jiangnan with us?" ”

Zhang Zhen sighed and said, "I have already said that he doesn't want to leave his hometown." ”

Luo Rucai immediately put this matter aside, although Runing is good, but it has long been regarded as a discarded thing by Luo Rucai, and it can be in his hands for a while, if Runing Mansion is taken away by Li Zicheng now, Luo Rucai will not be too surprised.

Zhang Zhen looked at Luo Rucai, his eyes were a little different.

The current situation has developed as Luo Rucai deduced.

Sun Chuanting moved, Li Zicheng's army went north, although Li Zicheng left Bai Wang to guard the land of Huguang, but Bai Wang's reputation was far inferior to Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng in the prefecture and county occupied by Huguang, has been surging, a big chaos

is about to do so, but I don't know if Bai Wang can take care of it.

Of course, this is still a small matter.

Zuo Liangyu had already sharpened his knives, and sent two generals, Fang Guoan and Chang Guoan, to attack Zhang Xianzhong in the west.

Zhang Xianzhong occupies Wuchang and is at war with Zuo Liangyu, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that Zhang Xianzhong's rout, Zhang Zhen got the information from Zhang Xianzhong's army, Zhang Xianzhong has prepared to withdraw from Wuchang Mansion and is ready to fight in Hunan.

These major events were all expected by Luo Rucai.

If before, Zhang Qian's loyalty to Luo Ru was because of Zhang Xuan, but now it is a little bit because of Luo Rucai's own reasons.

Luo Rucai said: "Can you contact Zhang Xuan now?" ”

Zhang Zhen said: "I can't contact him for the time being, but there is news from Xuzhou that Lord Zhang has left Xuzhou, and now Xuzhou is Wang Daoshan in charge, and Lord Zhang is wandering near the canal with tens of thousands of troops." ”

"Immediately order him to attack Fengyang." Luo Rucai said: "This Huang Degong is not a bone to gnaw." ”

Zhang Zhen heard this, looked up, but saw that the two sides were fighting anxiously, regardless of victory or defeat, and the entire battlefield was filled with cavalry, and it was impossible to add reinforcements to it, after all, within a certain area, the number of cavalry that could be accommodated was also limited, and it might not have any effect if it was filled with people.

"Collect the troops." Luo Rucai said.

"Yes." The herald said.

Immediately, the sound of "clanging" came out, Luo Rucai seemed to say to Zhang Qian, and seemed to be talking to himself: "If you want to defeat Huang Degong, you can't do this, otherwise you can't fight like this, and you can't do a quick decision, I don't believe it, Fengyang is threatened, and Huang Degong is still sitting here without moving." ”

Zhang Zhen immediately understood in his heart that Luo Rucai wanted to force Huang Degong to retreat.

It is quite difficult to retreat before the battle, but Fengyang is very important, after all, where the imperial tomb is located, one of the purposes of Chongzhen's Yongwei battalion out of Beijing is to protect the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum. As Li Xin said before, it is one of the places where the imperial court cannot but be saved.

Zhang Zhen said: "I'll arrange it." ”

"In a hurry." Zhang Zhen said secretly in his heart: "I'm going to take a risk." ”

Previously, Zhang Zhen sent a letter to Zhang Xuan's army, all of which were detoured to Henan, but this time Zhang Zhen decided to send someone to venture through Fengyang Mansion to find the traces of Zhang Xuan's department, so that he could save a lot of time.

As Zhang Zhen expected, he sent capable men to venture eastward from the Huai River, but within a few days the letter was delivered to Zhang Xuan, who had just captured the town of Quy Nhon, known as Little Suzhou. After receiving the letter, Zhang Xuan was immediately overjoyed, and he only then learned the news of Sun Chuanting's eastward advance. Immediately understood that a battle that would decide the fate of the Ming Dynasty was about to start, not two. There is also the Battle of Fengyang Shouzhou.

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