The autumn wind, whistling on the vast plains, with bursts of dry loess smell, rushed into everyone's mouths and noses, and also rolled up flags that had fallen color.

The banner is crooked, the military appearance is tattered, the swords and guns are not neat, groups of people, yes, groups of soldiers from the four county guards, standing in the whistling autumn wind, looking at the plastic surgery in front of them, they only have fear in their hearts, nothing else.

He Renlong still rushed to the outskirts of Pucheng in accordance with the military order, or in accordance with his own thoughts, with all the four county guards that had been pieced together, and launched a containment "attack" against the intruding army within the specified time. ”

For this so-called containment attack, he was wearing a fiery red cloak and brilliant armor, and he did not have the confidence to achieve the results of the battle, and now, sitting on the horse, seeing a completely different thief from the original Yanchuan battle, he was full of thoughts, this is the end, there is no result, and the rest is how to save the damage of his own personal soldiers.

The current He Renlong, looking at the opponent in front of him, has regretted very much that he did not insist on going to the east to enter the king of Qin, in that way, at least let himself lead the real army, face the real strong enemy, even if he is defeated, then he has no regrets, and with such a force, in the face of such a strong enemy, defeated, how wronged are you? But in fact, it is also willing.

Zhu Tie held his iconic sledgehammer, looked left and right at the enemy opposite, no matter how he looked at it, he didn't look like an enemy, relatively speaking, it was just stronger than those rogues in terms of equipment, but it was much worse than the rogues in terms of expression, for no other reason, in addition to numbness on the face of the rogue, there was a kind of absoluteness, not the kind on the other side, in addition to numbness, it was a kind of fear, and there was a kind of joy, yes, it was joy.

"This is also a soldier? Compared with the border army I have seen, there is a difference of thousands of miles, it seems that Daming is really at the end of the road, and our king is really a big thing. A captain beside him sneered and said to Zhu Tie, the leader of the army.

Zhu Tie looked at his brother with a serious face, "Put away your contempt, Mr. said well, a hundred-legged insect, although it is not stiff when it dies, let alone the Ming Dynasty that has existed for three hundred years?" This is just a guardhouse, not a regular army. The real Ming army is in the regular army. A few years ago, 150,000, known as 300,000 Gao Yingxiang was in Yizhangyuan, wasn't he defeated by 20,000 border troops in a battle, and only escaped less than 30,000? The army of the Ming Dynasty still has a certain combat effectiveness. ”

This is indeed true.

Three hundred years of peace, erosion is only the inland guards, and the real army of the Ming Dynasty has considerable combat effectiveness.

The last years of the Ming Dynasty were a turning point in history, and we will not mention the devastating blow that entered a rare frozen period and brought to this country with a large agricultural population. Nor is there any mention of the devastating blow to the strength of the country caused by successive droughts, locust plagues, and virulent infectious diseases such as smallpox and plague, which should have been widespread in the north as a result of the disaster.

It is also possible to put aside the confusion of the leadership class caused by the chaotic partisanship, the inability to manage the tax system in numbers, and the first global economic recession, which caused huge losses and mistakes to the country's strategic leadership and economy.

Just talk about combat effectiveness, in fact, the Ming Dynasty later fought on three fronts, and the world was as powerful as Nazi Germany, Napoleon's France, and Rome。。。。。 Can't insist on fighting on two fronts, let alone fighting on three fronts?

Just talking about this middle line, dealing with the surging peasant rebel army, the Ming army from the beginning to the end, is to win more and defeat less, and they are all won more with less, if it were not for the Ming army repeatedly should be in an emergency for the north, it is urgent to mobilize troops to the past, and tolerate and forgive them. No matter how strong they are, they are not the opponents of the Ming army.

At the beginning, Wang Er of Chengyang, with hundreds of desperate hungry people, killed Zhixian, and the great rebellion began, but Cao Wenlong led less than 10,000 Ming troops, all the way chasing more than 100,000 people who were ten times more than them, from Shaanxi to Gansu, from Gansu to Shaanxi to Shanxi, and finally destroyed Wang Er.

In the 5th year of Chongzhen, the Ming army mobilized the Beijing army, the Sichuan army, the Henan army, the salt soldiers, the Mao gourd soldiers, the battalion soldiers, and the native soldiers were only 30,000 people, and surrounded the peasant army six or seven times more than them. If it weren't for Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and others to surrender by fraud, it would have been impossible to say, and the 30,000-strong army would have put down the Shaanxi rebellion.

Even in the seventh year of Chongzhen, Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, who was known as the strongest rebel army at this time, entered Henan from Shaanxi, and joined Zhang Xianzhong and others in Runing, with an army of 300,000 and more than 100 miles in the military camp. Lu Xiangsheng's subordinate general Zu Kuan, personally led 20,000 Guanning troops to launch a surprise attack, three days of melee, killed Li Zicheng and others retreated to the mountains at the junction of Henan and Hubei. If it weren't for the Qing soldiers entering the fortress again, the army would have to go north to King Qin, where would there be the Dashun of later generations.

In fact, it is not an exaggeration to say that the Manchu Qing saved Li Zicheng and other peasant troops. At this point, Lu Shi did not dare to take it lightly, when Yanchuan broke through, the main reason was that he was caught off guard by the border army, and at the same time, he also took advantage of the favorable opportunity of Gao Yingxiang's uprising and the border army mutiny, which restrained the energy of the border army, this is the advantage of the traverser, otherwise he would not have come to this day.

In fact, just after the siege of the city, the well-trained prison sergeant brothers, each with one person and two horses, reported the wind and grass within a radius of fifty miles to King Chuang, and then let Zhao Xing, who forgot to sleep and eat, draw it on the map, providing as accurate information as possible for Lu Shi's decision-making. Speaking of which, the burden on Zhao Xing's shoulders is too heavy.

Decentralization, is it time for the time|, Lu Shi began to hesitate.

However, this is all a later story, at least after the pacification of Shaanxi, and now it is a variable.

When He Renlong was busy mobilizing and rectifying the guards, everything was already under Lu Shi's eyes.

"Well, we've finally got our wish." When he saw the four counties gathering guards and preparing to attack him, Lu Shi excitedly threw the carbon pen in his hand on the map, and his black hand clapped it so excitedly, with a relieved expression.

The enemy sent reinforcements much faster than he thought, so that the siege of Pucheng could be shortened, and the people in the city would be relieved as soon as possible, which was exactly what Lu Shi hoped for the most.

The brothers who are full of accounts are as relieved as Lu Shi, the reason, everyone knows King Chuang's thoughts, and who is not happy to see that he is no longer tormented by his conscience day and night?

"King Chuang, only the unbearable guards of the four counties came out, and the 7,000 to 10,000 township warriors organized by He Renlong did not appear." Zhao Xing reminded Lu Shi in a low voice.

Lu Shi was in a very good mood at this time, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, as long as you come, eating a share is a victory, adding fuel to the war, we are not afraid." Lu Shi said excitedly.

"Yes, this style of play is actually more suitable for us." Wu Tao took Lu Shi's words and directly agreed: "Coming one by one, the strength is weak, and the long-distance fatigue has been exhausted, and the combat effectiveness has been sluggish to the limit, which is just in contrast to our leisure and hard work." Especially-" Speaking of this, Wu Tao's tone sank, and he said with a serious face: "Especially, this time there are thousands of people and horses, which is just right for us to encircle and annihilate." ”

"Yes." Guo Tianxing's eyes lit up, and he smashed his fist on the table, and the huge force shook the water bowl on the table with a clanging sound. "If we really want to come tens of thousands of tens of thousands at a time, just rely on our people and horses, and we have to take care of Pucheng, and we have to fight against them, so we can only fight a rout."

Lu Shi and Wu Tao heard Tianxing's analysis, glanced at each other, and couldn't help but smile at each other.

"Our Grand Commander has finally changed from a ranger to a commander of an army."

Guo Tianxing saw the eyes and smiles of the two, turned around at that time, and asked cautiously at the two of them: "You are smiling so obscenely, did I say something wrong?" followed by a sentence: "Is it a fight, it's just a fight, or it's endless, and it's disgusting." ”

In one sentence, the reverence for Guo Tianxing that Man Da Tent had just begun to disappear at once, but the person concerned didn't feel it, so he added complacently: "These two armies are fighting against each other, and it is a truth to practice with chivalry, and if you want to fight, you will be convinced——"

Lu Shi hurriedly stopped Tianxing, a ranger, who was about to make a tirade, this is a military discussion, not a martial arts team class, and it is a habit to go off topic, but what occasion is it?

Seeing that Lu Shi stopped his topic with a wry smile, Guo Tianxing smiled and shut up, but immediately added: "Actually, everything is still up to King Chuang, so I'll just fight." With that, he withdrew from the crowd with his arms crossed, leaning against the edge of the tent and watching the lively discussion.

Wu Tao peeked at it, and only saw the playful smile on Tianxing's face, and he was still moved in his heart.

"Grand Commander, is this really immature, or is it really mature? Great Commander, King Chuang is so good, why are you bothering to come? ”

"Strategist, look at how we fight this battle." Lu Shi woke up Wu Tao who was in deep thought, Wu Tao quickly put away his thoughts, lowered his head and looked at the map on the table, at this moment, Lu Shi had already marked the latest route of the He Renlong army on it, clear and detailed.

Wu Tao thought for a while, turned his head to Lu Shidao, "I don't know if King Chuang wants to continue to leave the bait, or solve the problem at once?" ”

As a military advisor, everything should be centered on the will of the commander and make suggestions, which is his duty.

Lu Shi stood up, thought for a moment, and then asked the question back: "Then according to the military division, which method is better for us?" ”

Wu Tao thought for a while: "The total annihilation of a battle will make the enemy cold, so that the enemy will no longer dare to come to the rescue, which is inconsistent with our original siege plan." ”

Lu Shi nodded, paced in the big tent with his hands behind his back and his head down.

Wu Tao looked at Lu Shi's back and said again: "And if you leave the bait and think, the enemy will continue to fight a fluke in a steady stream, which is in line with our strategy." ”

As soon as this statement came out, it was full of praise, a military advisor is a military advisor, and simple things are analyzed so thoroughly, how can it not be convincing?

Lu Shi slowly paced in the big tent with his hands behind his back, and everyone waited with bated breath for King Chuang's decision.