Chapter 550: Breaking the Siege

The fate of the "Red Banner Army" cannot be handed over to anyone.

Obviously, he could throw the baggage in Nanyang, and the whole army carried three days of dry food to attack the Liukou who were besieging Xiangyang for less than 300 miles, but Huang Han did not do so.

He was worried that he would not be able to break the thieves led by well-known rogues such as Lao Hui Hui Ma Shouying, Eight Great Kings Zhang Xianzhong, and Liu Guoneng who broke through the sky, and then they were attacked by several rogues and lost food and equipment.

If you don't make a mistake, it will naturally not be self-defeating, so push it over and see if the thieves and the old Hui Hui have the courage and strength to fight with the "Red Banner Army".

The cavalry was used intensively again, and they traveled twenty miles to recontour the advance route of the army, encountering rogue sentinels and scouts on the way, and there were many scout battles, and the outcome was undoubtedly the victory of the "Red Banner Army".

Sang Yu, Zhang Yang, Yuan Siming and others were responsible for commanding the cavalry that had doubled the number of men, and in order to increase the training opportunities of the newcomers, the rogue scouts were all cavalry newcomers who had just turned regular last month.

The "Red Banner Army" was about to be killed, the leaders of the rogue bandits had been reported, and half of the 36th battalion of thieves were under Xiangyang City, and they also sat down to meet and agree on countermeasures.

Led by Ma Shouying, Zhang Xianzhong, and Liu Guoneng, they were unwilling to continue to slip away, believing that now that there were many people, they could work together to fight the "Red Devils".

The leaders of the grass flying, a tiger, a winged flying, a hand in the clouds, and the four heavenly kings were frightened by the "Red Devil" and resolutely refused to stay desperately.

Their reasons are sufficient, the sky is high and the birds can fly, Huguang has a lot of grain, a lot of silver, and a large population, and there are countless places where they can start, so why do they have to fight Xiangyang and the "Red Devils" endlessly.

Zhang Xianzhong was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, scolded those thieves who did not want to make progress, and said: "A group of unproductive things, now we claim to be 200,000 people, and there are 70,000 or 80,000 people who can fight."

At this time, if they didn't start fighting a dozen of the 'Red Flag Army', they fled by themselves, and after the men and horses dispersed again, they had no chance, and they were caught and beheaded by the 'Red Devils' one by one. ”

Liu Guoneng agreed to fight a battle, and said loudly: "The eight kings are reasonable, with the ferocity of the 'Red Devil', we will definitely die if we fall into their hands, if we don't work together to take advantage of the large number of people, food, and weapons to fight with them, we will definitely be killed by the 'Red Devil' one by one in the future." ”

There were only three or four thousand men under the Four Heavenly Kings, and he didn't have the courage to face the "Red Flag Army", so he said with a sad face:

"Several big brothers are full of pride, and the brothers admire them, but brother, I have seen Brother Zijin Liang, he should be a fierce man with both wisdom and bravery, and the old camp horse team under his hand is the most capable of fighting.

According to the oral accounts of the brothers who were lucky enough to jump out, the men and horses of the two elder brothers, Wang Ziyong and Wang Jiayun, were not able to even hold up the attack of the 'Red Devil' cavalry for a moment. ”

A tiger finally pulled up more than 2,000 people, and just had more than 100 horse thieves, he was looking forward to a better future of rebellion, of course he didn't want to end there, he said:

"It's important for us to preserve our strength, how can there be a reason to fight with the 'Red Devils', and it is only right to let them avoid them."

Cao Shangfei said: "We are anti-thieves, the 'Red Devil' is the official army, and the imperial court is naturally fighting the anti-thief with the official army, and the younger brother thinks that even if the 'Red Devil' kills Wang Ziyong, Wang Jiayun's two elder brothers and many leaders, we can't talk about having a deep hatred with them, and they just do their duty." ”

As soon as these words came out, more than half of the thieves agreed, and they also thought that there was no personal vendetta between the two armies, and it was pure nonsense to avenge the dead brothers with the "Red Devils".

Zhang Xianzhong saw that these people were all mud and couldn't support the wall, and he was so angry that he jumped like thunder. He roared: "Now the situation is very good, the officials and troops in Huguang are vulnerable, and now most of them have become turtles with shrunken heads.

The border troops that can fight on a few roads are still far away in Henan and Shanxi to compete with the battalions of our other brothers.

If we work together to defeat the 'Red Devil' with one blow, and then take Xiangyang City and kill King Xiang in one fell swoop with the remnants of the 'Red Flag Army', the world will inevitably shake. ”

Cao Shangfei said: "My brother is already the eighth king, what is the difference between him and becoming a king?" Anyway, the brothers all know that the 'Red Devil' is not easy to mess with, and Xiangyang is not easy to fight, so it's better for us to avoid the real and the false. ”

A tiger, a winged fly, a cloud hand, etc. are similar to the strength of flying on the grass, they don't care about the attitude of the eight kings and the old back, they are all messy and shouting, they can't afford to hide, run!

Running in all directions, whoever is unlucky is caught up by the "Red Devil" and thinks he is unlucky, after all, the "Red Devil" has a limited number of people, and when he catches up with Zhang San, he will naturally run away Li Si and Wang Er.

The organizational structure of the Liukou is very loose, and there is no affiliation with Zhang Xianzhong and other stronger thieves, so if they want to cooperate, they will attack the city together, saying that the scattered gang will collapse overnight.

Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng, Luo Rucai, and others flew on the grass and flew with wings, and these leaders didn't want to fight.

Just when the Liukou wanted to fight and escape, the "Red Banner Army" came to Xiangyang at a speed of about 50 miles a day, and the army had already crossed Xinye and was less than 70 miles away from the outermost Liukou besieging Xiangyang.

Along the way, there was no rush to march, and when Xiangyang was already in sight, the "Red Banner Army" began to exert its strength, and at this time it was no longer afraid of cavalry rushing and encountering dozens of times the number of rogues, because the follow-up troops could be killed in half a day.

The cavalry, which had been intensively used, advanced at full speed with spare horses, and all the infantry and servitude entered a state of rapid march.

The rogue's scouts did not lose in vain, at least they had mastered the speed of the "Red Banner Army's" advance, and they also roughly knew the number of troops, and the thieves calculated the time, thinking that at least one day would be left before they would engage the "Red Banner Army".

They didn't expect that the "Red Banner Army" deliberately maintained this speed just to paralyze them, of course, the rogues really didn't expect that the "Red Banner Army" would turn into a surprise attack when it approached.

Seventy miles away, a cavalry with one or two spare horses could be killed in an hour, and an infantry who had left behind their baggage and marched quickly would surely be able to reach the battlefield in three hours.

Liukou didn't think about whether to fight or flee, and suddenly they didn't need to use their brains, and the more than 3,000 cavalry used by the "Red Banner Army" again were defeated by just one charge, and all the Yunli hands and winged flying troops stationed in the north of Xiangyang were scattered.

Immediately, there was a domino effect, and the rogues with their own ghosts did not choose to flee all the way to the covering task, and they simply dispersed in a hurry.