And Deng Xi's Sichuan soldiers and horses have been fighting in the north of Daming this year, far from their hometowns, and the veterans are really tired, and they don't have a trace of enthusiasm for fighting at all, and military discipline has begun to corrupt, and there have been frequent incidents of beating homes and robbing houses.

The soldiers became violent, and Deng Xi didn't want to, didn't want to be too coercive, so he simply turned a blind eye, for which he was constantly impeached by the imperial history of Henan Province and the matter, and he was even more upset.

What kind of person and what kind of life, Deng Xi was born in the army and was able to sit in the high position of chief military officer in hundreds of battles, but he watched for a long time and allowed his subordinates to plunder.

And because Wang Yingxiong, a fellow villager who was one of the elders of the court, was in the background, Deng Xi had nothing to fear, but the undisciplined rotten soldiers he brought out finally launched a mutiny in the eighth year of Chongzhen, so that he swallowed the bitter fruit and lost his life in vain.

Only Zhang Fengyi, who was loyal to the country, led the white pole soldiers who could fight and were not afraid of hardship, and took the initiative to pursue and kill the Liukou.

Theoretically, the three-way people have been chasing and killing Wang Jiayun, Zijin Liang Wang Ziyong, Xing Hongniang, sweeping king Cao Wei, white horse Deng Tianwang, Luo Rucai and other thieves, but the rogues are not easy to fight, not because they have strong combat effectiveness, but because they can run.

But these thieves never forgot to fight back when they fled, and Zhang Fengyi suffered such a loss.

Because her team gradually distanced herself from Deng Xi and Zuo Liangyu's two teams that did not work hard, Wang Ziyong found that the fighter gathered more than 30,000 people to attack Zhang Fengyi's 2,000 white pole soldiers.

Zhang Fengyi is loyal to the imperial court, not only is her husband's family all iron-clad generals and loyal ministers, but her mother's family is also full of loyal martyrs.

When he was just attacked by the rogues, Zhang Fengyi also thought that the other two groups of men and horses should be able to rush to the battlefield within a day, and more than 2,000 white pole soldiers formed a formation to take turns to kill and beat Wang Ziyong and Wang Jiayun, two brothers of their own family, with heavy losses.

The two thieves found that they gnawed hard bones and wanted to cry without tears, they really didn't expect that the white pole soldiers of only more than 2,000 people would be able to continue to attack and advance in the face of group beatings, and the two thieves were beaten hard and ruthlessly, using the advantage of more than ten times the number of people to fight to the death with this white pole soldiers.

Why don't you say that the rogue has the advantage of more than ten times the strength of the army, it is because there are as many as 30,000 or 40,000 rogue who sound like a lot, and the number of young and middle-aged people will not exceed 15,000, and the number of people who really have weapons and a certain combat effectiveness will not exceed 8,000.

It was not only Zuo Liangyu and Deng Xi's men and horses who did not contribute to the work, but also most of the garrisons and garrisons in the inland state capitals, who cowered in the city one by one and let the rogues all over the mountains wantonly destroy.

Even if the combat effectiveness of Wang Jiayun and Wang Ziyong and other thieves is far inferior to that of the white pole soldiers, they are outnumbered, and 30,000 or 40,000 people are enough for Zhang Fengyi, who only has 2,000 white pole soldiers, to drink a pot.

Because the thieves were so bad, they forced the cannon fodder to take sticks, hoes, and nail rakes to charge at the infantry phalanx of the white pole soldiers.

After all, the white pole soldiers are people, they use cold weapons, and they rely entirely on physical strength and formation to fight, and they have not seen Deng Xi and Zuo Liangyu's men and horses who came to encircle the thief soldiers for a day and a night.

They were consumed by cannon fodder for several hours, and then they were fully pressed by the thieves and the new force, and they suffered heavy casualties.

Seeing that there were more and more thieves, and his subordinates kept falling, Zhang Fengyi knew that he could no longer attack and advance, so he could only choose to fight and retreat, and finally had to lead the remaining 1,000 people into a stockade called Houjiazhuang to wait for reinforcements.

Wang Ziyong and Wang Jiayun were ruthless, they both had intelligence points, and they knew that they must take advantage of the isolation of this white pole soldier to encircle and annihilate it.

If the white pole soldiers who had won a great reputation in the bloody battle of Jiannu in the Hunhe River were defeated, the rebellious men and horses would be encouraged and the morale of the Ming army would plummet.

The time node and marching route chosen by Huang Han was to march to Zhangde Mansion in Henan, and the combat effectiveness of the small groups of rogues encountered along the way was not worth mentioning, basically more than 1,000 iron horsemen beat them crying and shouting for their mothers to flee in all directions.

When passing through Guangping Mansion, Huang Han left Qin Yanyi, Wang Gensheng and other generals and all the infantry to continue marching in accordance with the regulations, and he took four cavalrymen to carry a total of seven days of grain and grass, and one person and two horses galloped to Zhangde Mansion.

Huang Han didn't dare to tell Qin Yanyi that there might be a white pole soldier led by her sister-in-law Zhang Fengyi ahead, let alone reveal that Zhang Fengyi might be in danger.

He was worried that Qin Yanyi would know the truth, and he would charge into battle with his men and horses regardless of himself, with no eyes for swords and guns, if he killed Qin Yanyi, wouldn't he be heartbroken?

Therefore, Huang Han took precautions, leaving Qin Yanyi to walk behind with the infantry and the heavy guard, and personally led the cavalry to complete the attack.

The flamboyant cavalry is always the vanguard, Sang Yu's is always the rear team, and Huang Han, Yuan Siming, and Lu Kaijun are the two men and horses in the center.

When the cavalry was estimated to have walked seven or eight hundred miles three days after being on the road, Sang Yu sent scouts to contact, and found that a large number of thieves were no less than thirty or forty thousand, which should be at war with the Ming army.

At this time, Huang Han didn't care who the rogues were fighting, the principle was that as long as he encountered the rogues, he would fight to the death, and he gave an order to charge the whole army.

Huang Han knew that Chongzhen's combat effectiveness was too poor twelve years ago, and tens of thousands of horses could not withstand the more than 1,000 cavalry of the Guanning Army led by Cao Wenzhao, so he brought more than 1,400 iron cavalry armed to the teeth, which could gallop across the border of Henan.

The 1,000 white-pole soldiers who were surrounded by regiments in Houjiazhuang entered a bitter battle, but fortunately, the Liukou did not have artillery to attack the fortification, nor did they have decent siege equipment.

The ladders created by hastily cutting down trees are cumbersome and unsturdy, and most of the people who are forced to attack the city are newly coerced homeless people, and basically have no combat effectiveness.

This Zhuangzi was a private fortress, with a population of three or four thousand, most of whom were members of the Hou clan, and they saw that the thieves were numerous and knew that once the earth city was broken, everything would not exist.

The rogue is ferocious, killing people without blinking, and no one in Houjiazhuang is lucky.

Because everyone knows that even if the rogues don't kill people, as long as they snatch the grain from the village, everyone will face the dilemma of starvation.

In this situation, the patriarch personally led people to assist the white pole soldiers to defend the city, and even women, the elderly, and half-grown children helped to transport bricks, stones, wood, dung, etc. to the fathers, brothers, and children who participated in the battle on the rammed earth wall.

Most of the houses in the Zhuangzi were demolished, and the large timbers were carried by strong men and thrown down the city to smash the thieves who were besieging the city.

Small wood lit a fire and boiled gold juice in a cauldron, that is, dung poured on the thieves, and finally even the dung was not enough, so simply boiled water and poured it down the city, fortunately, the thieves could use very few weapons for long-range attacks, and the white pole soldiers and the residents of Houjiazhuang joined forces to defend for three days and three nights.