Lei Mingchun personally reported that the main force of the Qing army had appeared near the county seat of Luyi, four or five hundred miles away from Caozhou.

He thought that the time was completely ripe for an attack, and returned to covertly contact Gu Rushan, Lin Shunwen and other generals.

Although the Central Plains Front Army was eager to fight, but in order to avoid excessive casualties, it had to be carefully arranged and waited patiently, Lei Mingchun confirmed that the Manchurian cavalry had gone away, and Gu Rushan immediately issued an order to attack.

When the 15,000 troops of the Central Plains Front Army appeared 30 miles south of Caozhou, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Liu Guoneng and others had already learned that the "Red Banner Army" was stationed in Caozhou and was leading their subordinates to retreat.

They were all ready to withdraw, where did the rogues have the fighting spirit, and suddenly found that the red flag in the south was showing and killing thousands of troops.

The vast majority of rogues "Damn! With a scream, he turned around and ran.

Some of the rogue "bells!" With a bang, he threw away the knife and bowed, and said:

"The grandfather of the 'Red Flag Army' spared his life, we have never been willing to be rogues, we were all forced to be helpless by Zhang Xianzhong's thief."

The pacification officials and propagandists have been propagating that this is not a national war, and the killing should not be too heavy.

Therefore, the officers and men of the "Red Banner Army" knew that the main thing was capture, and they all knew that they would be able to settle accounts, and they knew that leaving the life of a rogue, sentencing them to several years of labor reform, would add at least 100 silver coins to the system.

The infantrymen, armed with self-generated guns and mini-guns equipped with bayonets, marched in formation, shouting: "The 'Red Banner Army' does not slaughter prisoners of war, but also gives them full food, and if they want to live, throw away their weapons and kneel down with their hands on their heads!" ”

"Disarm or kill! Quickly kneel well, dare to stubbornly resist a dead end! ”

The rogue suffered a defeat, the first to be abandoned was the homeless, followed by the infantry, often the old camp horse thieves have a chance to escape, which is also the root of the Ming Dynasty's suppression of the bandits, and the endless suppression.

The horse thieves led by the leader of the Liukou are all senior thieves, as long as they escape, a few people may resurrect, the historical Li Zicheng was ambushed by Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou in the south of Tongguan, and only eighteen horsemen were left to be able to make a comeback.

The reason why Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, and Liu Guoneng were able to be thieves for ten years without dying is because they are more clever, and when they found that the momentum was wrong, they immediately fled.

Today is no exception, hearing the sound of guns in the south, Zhang Xianzhong and other big leaders led the old camp horse team to the northeast, never taking a second look at the abandoned homeless people and infantry.

Zhang Dingguo is one of Zhang Xianzhong's righteous sons, he is strong and strong, and he has two tall horses to ride.

This person is Li Dingguo, the famous Jin king in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and now he is only eighteen years old and has not yet become famous in one fell swoop, but he has already shown military talent.

Zhang Dingguo likes to study tactics and equipment, and when Zhang Xianzhong's troops fought with the Ming army, they also captured a small number of self-generated guns, armor, helmets, and shields from the "Red Banner Army" system.

This is not surprising, except for Minnie guns, Furlong machine guns, field guns, hot air balloons, such as arquebuses, self-generated guns, steel sabers, armor, steel shields, etc., as long as the Ming generals can afford to buy them.

Therefore, the vast majority of Ming commanders, generals, and guerrillas not only wore the all-steel armor produced by the "Red Banner Army" system, but also equipped their henchmen, but it cost too much money, and there were only a few families who got all-steel equipment.

After Li Dingguo discovered that the self-generated guns of the "Red Banner Army" could easily penetrate the mountain armor within 50 steps, he gave up using the knife stick wielded with both hands, and instead practiced holding a light round steel shield of about 15 catties in one hand and slashing and killing the enemy with a 10-pound ghost head knife in the other.

Obviously, he understands that the first element of killing the enemy is to better protect himself from being harmed.

Li Dingguo came to the conclusion that the "Red Banner Army" was self-inflicted and sharp, and only the steel shield produced by the "Red Banner Army" system could resist lead bullets, so he took precautions.

Finally played a role today, Li Dingguo and more than a dozen long-term training men armed with steel shields covered Zhang Xianzhong's escape, and really blocked a lot of lead bullets that came in.

Thirty years in the east of the river and thirty years in the west of the river, it is said that the Yellow River is often diverted, Caozhou was originally in the north of the Yellow River, because the Yellow River is now diverted to the southeast of the Yellow River, the Yellow River in the west of Caozhou eighty miles turned a bend to the north and then flows eastward.

The "Red Banner Army" led by Huang Han himself, with nearly 30,000 horses, was crossing the river from here to the city of Caozhou in the east.

It is known that the three big leaders who attacked Caozhou were Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, and Liu Guoneng, as well as many middle and small leaders, and the propaganda team immediately printed portraits and distributed them to the generals above the general flag officer.

The portrait of the "Red Flag Army" is not at all an abstract work as on the wanted list of the Ming Dynasty, but a sketch drawn by a member of the propaganda team who graduated from professional painting after being dictated by the rogues and flag guards who were familiar with Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, and other appearances.

After the first draft of the portrait is completed, I will find someone who knows the leader of the rogue to identify it again and see what it doesn't look like and what needs to be revised.

This is not a temporary cramming, but has been preparing for it as early as a few years ago, and the portraits of well-known rogues and Qing army generals have been stereotyped and printed and distributed to the soldiers of the general flag organizations for identification.

Even the appearance and characteristics of the slave chieftain and the thief Gao Yingxiang were remembered by the vast majority of the "Red Banner Army" soldiers.

At this time, the big leader of the rogue who was about to face was confirmed, and the portrait was sent again to increase the impression, and to try to capture or kill the bones of these thieves.

Zhang Xianzhong's appearance is distinctive, tall, with a yellow face and a big chin, so ugly, it is easy to identify.

There are remarks on the portraits of him and Li Zicheng, which are listed as the No. 2 and No. 3 criminals after Gao Yingxiang respectively, Luo Rucai's ranking is seventh after Ma Shouying, and Zuo Liangyu is ranked fourth after Li Zicheng.

Zhang Xianzhong was listed as the No. 2 criminal before Li Zicheng because Li Zicheng of Zhang Xianzhong's department was more cruel and vicious, and more destructive.

The thief's luck was too bad, and when he fled, he encountered 16,000 cavalry led by the fierce generals of the "Red Banner Army" such as Hanzi, Gu Kui, Yan Congyou, Wang Zhicheng, Liu Fenyong, Zhang Yang, etc.

Luo Rucai, Liu Guoneng, Zhang Xianzhong and other old battalion horses did not have a total of 10,000 people, and they encountered nearly double the elite cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" and had no strength to fight back.

In fact, there are not enough companies in the Liukou horse team that can meet the cavalry standard, and the vast majority of the sources are the cavalry of the former Ming border army.

They saw the red flag fluttering, and found that the cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" wrapped in steel rushed like a steel tide, where did they dare to face the battle?

They all used their riding skills to escape, they didn't think that they could outrun the knights of the "Red Banner Army", they only thought about outrunning their companions.