On the eighth day of the ninth month, Cao Bianjiao led a large army in the valley of the central county. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After the great victory in Dunzhou, Li Zicheng did not dare to come up to fight again. The momentum of 100,000 officers and troops was like a rainbow, and they rushed directly towards Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province.

As long as Xi'an is occupied, there will be no place for thieves. If Li Zicheng fled into the mountains, the thieves who broke into the army would definitely break away from Li Zicheng's command. At that time, the 200,000 troops will be defeated, and Shaanxi will be pacified.

It was so easy to win the first battle of Dunzhou, and the whole army was filled with excitement. After a few years of hard training, the first time I went to the battlefield like this, it would indeed make people more excited. Cao Bianjiao didn't pour cold water on the soldiers, but he felt that this excitement could improve the morale of the whole army.

In fact, Cao Bianjiao was also very excited.

In the past, when he watched Li Zhi's Tiger Ben Army kill in all directions, Cao Bianjiao was dumbfounded. At that time, Cao Bianjiao only worshipped the combat effectiveness of the Tiger Army, and never thought that he would one day lead such a firearms army. However, today, Cao Bianjiao did have a command of troops and horses close to the Tiger Ben Army.

Like the Tiger Army, the new army of Jingying had guns and cannons, and could defeat enemies several times their size.

It seems very easy to lead such a force of troops and horses to sweep away the thieves. When the time comes, after the thieves are eliminated, they will go south to attack the thieves, and they really want to be crowned!

When the thieves were also eliminated and Huguang was controlled, the size of the new army was further expanded. Which civil official in the south dares to disobey the orders of the Son of Heaven?

Cao Bianjiao rode a horse in the valleys of Shaanxi, and he had a sense of pride in his gestures.

Even the three general soldiers who were picked out by Cao Bianjiao were equally excited.

was singled out in Shanxi before, and the three general soldiers were still a little uneasy, worried that this trip would be more auspicious and less auspicious. After all, Li Zicheng's thief army has more than 200,000 people, and it is defense. And Cao Bianjiao's new army plus the main barracks of the three general soldiers is only 100,000 people. 100,000 people to fight more than 200,000 people, no matter how you look at it, there is no chance of winning.

Over the years, the army has absorbed a large number of deserters from the border army, and its combat effectiveness is even stronger than that of the official army. The bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty became more and more corrupt, and the treatment of the soldiers in the towns of the border army was extremely poor, but there was an atmosphere of respect for the strong in the army, and the soldiers with real combat strength were very important. In such a situation, a large number of veterans of border towns defected to thieves.

Li Zicheng's 100,000 cavalry were almost all veterans of the border towns, while the real officers and soldiers were full of recruits who lacked training, had never seen blood, and were demoralized. Under such circumstances, it is self-evident who is stronger and who is weaker in the combat strength of the officers and the army.

The three general soldiers of Xuanfu, Datong and Jizhen Dongxie were very sad that they were selected by Wujingluo Cao Bianjiao.

However, after the First Battle of Dunzhou, the attitude of the three general soldiers completely changed. They found that the combat effectiveness of the new army of the Son of Heaven was so incredible that it could rival the legendary Tiger Army. With such a new army, it is easy to defeat more than 200,000 invading troops.

This trip to Shaanxi is simply to grab the merits of the war.

Further, the new army of the Son of Heaven is so strong, and in the future, the Son of Heaven will completely control the situation, and it will become inevitable to purge the officials of the Donglin Party faction at the local level. At this time, if you can keep up with Cao Bianjiao's pace, you may be able to become the descendant of the Son of Heaven and escape the future purge.

The three general soldiers seem to have changed in the past half a month, rushing to Cao Bianjiao's side, squeezing Yang Guozhu and the general soldiers of the Beijing battalion to the back.

In this regard, Yang Guozhu and others naturally despised it.

However, Yang Guozhu and these people are the chief soldiers appointed by the Son of Heaven, and their future is immeasurable, so they will naturally not compete with Wei Dazhong and others for the opportunity to pat Cao Bianjiao's ass.

Yang Guozhu was riding in the middle of the army, when suddenly five scouts galloped in front of him. The scout rode all the way to Yang Guozhu's side, and said loudly to Yang Guozhu: "Military Gate, thirty miles to the southwest, there are a large number of cavalry gathering in front of us, hanging all the way in front of us without advancing or retreating, I don't know what I want to do. ”

Yang Guozhu was about to speak, but Cao Bianjiao next to him had already ridden over.

"How many cavalry?"

The scout replied in a loud voice, "The thieves are gathered in the valley, and everyone has horses, and we can't see all the places with binoculars on the hills, and I don't know how many thousands." I just felt that it was boundless, piled up all over the valley. ”

Hearing the scout's words, Cao Bianjiao and Yang Guozhu looked at each other for a while, a little alert.

Listening to the words of this scout, it seemed that the main cavalry of the thieves was thirty miles away.

This distance is very delicate, because most of the recruits in the Beijing camp are foot soldiers, and they can only walk thirty miles a day, and they cannot kill the thieves. And the horse army and the horsemen who broke into the army all had horses, and even one person and two horses, and it was half an hour to advance thirty miles. In other words, the main force of the invading army was hanging thirty miles away from Cao Bianjiao, and it was ready to launch an attack at any time and completely grasp the initiative.

Yang Guozhu asked in surprise, "What does Chuang Jun want to do?" ”

Cao Bianjiao didn't understand what the thief wanted to do. The number of more than 100,000 Ma troops and 100,000 officers and soldiers was about the same, and there was no chance of winning by rushing into the new army. Last month, the whole army of the Chuang army in Juzhou was routed and fled, could it be that the Chuang army wanted to rely on hundreds of thousands of horse troops to win this time?

The two were thinking about it, but suddenly they heard a muffled thunder from the sky.

"Boom~~"

It's going to rain.

The soldiers of the Forces nouvelles, in accordance with the regulations of the weekday training, took out the tarpaulins. The soldiers wrapped the powder pouches and the guns in oilcloth and put them into the lower deck of the nearby wagons to prevent the guns from getting wet. The artillery of the cannon also sealed the powder kegs and muzzles of the gun wagons with tarpaulins.

Wei Dazhong, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, saw Cao Bianjiao stopping next to the official road, rode his horse over, and shouted loudly: "Lord Jingluo, it's going to rain, I'm afraid this gunpowder is going to get wet." No matter how tightly wrapped, I'm afraid I won't be able to sound the firebolt in the rain! ”

Cao Bianjiao sighed in his heart.

The Forces nouvelles have also practiced many times in training how to take countermeasures when it rains, and for a unit like the Forces nouvelles, which relies on firearms, there is only one countermeasure when it rains, and that is to stay away from the enemy!

Cao Bianjiao shouted at the herald: "The whole army obeys the order, turn around and march to the northeast!" Full speed ahead! ”

The heralds were yelled at by Cao Bianjiao, and they didn't dare to slack off. They scattered in all directions, rode their horses and galloped towards the front and rear of the ranks, and passed Cao Bianjiao's orders to the whole army.

But before the team could finish turning around, the rain began to fall.

One drop, two drops, and at first it was just a few drops of rain. But soon, the raindrops became one by one. The rain fluttered back and forth in the air with the help of the wind, and the rain became heavier and heavier.

Soon, Cao Bianjiao's hair tied with a headscarf was wet. The raindrops accumulated more and more on the sideburns, and they flowed down one by one.

Cao Bianjiao anxiously watched as the officers and soldiers changed the direction of march and fled in the northeast direction.

Suddenly, another group of scouts rushed ahead.

"After the strategy, the cavalry of the thief army is all dispatched and rushed over!"