Chapter 200: Profit-driven

At the same time, after dawn, the official and military camps in several places were attacked by the soldiers and horses of the Xingtian Army almost at the same time, Luo Li, Liu Yaoben and other generals each led their own people, and one by one they found the scattered officers and soldiers, and it was a fight to catch the officers and soldiers.

So in just one day, the more than 30,000 officers and troops led by Wan Yuan Ji and Huang De were defeated one after another under the assault of the Xingtian Army, and the stars were scattered between Luzhou and Fengyang Mansion.

Poor Wan Yuan Ji and Huang Degong, they didn't even have a chance to fight back, so they were killed by the Xingtian Army was a wolf running and a rush, each under the protection of the family, desperately breaking through to the outside, Huang Degong was born as a military general after all, and the kung fu was quite successful, after the double whip in his hand was opened, under the protection of the family, there were really few people who could stop him, so in the end, with a small number of family members, or broke through and fled from the battlefield, but Huang Degong also knew that the Xingtian Army must have controlled the road to Luzhou, So he didn't dare to take this bit of family to throw himself into the net again, but after fleeing the battlefield, he immediately took a detour and fled in the direction of Chuzhou.

But as a civil official, Wan Yuan Ji does not have Huang Degong's skills, although his family also tried his best, wanting to protect him in the chaos of the army to break through and escape, and Wan Yuan Ji was also ruthless, personally a sharp sword, riding on horseback to kill, but after all, he did not have Huang Degong's ability, several breakthroughs were not able to kill, but even his subordinates were killed and wounded, the last time he broke through, Wan Yuan Ji was still killed by the war horse, and hit the war horse headlong, As a result, he was captured alive by the swarming Xingtian Army.

After the end of the war, Xiao Tianjian saw this 10,000 yuan in his Chinese army tent, he heard Li Xin talk about this 10,000 yuan, it is said that this 10,000 yuan is very literate, and he is also a person with a backbone, Xiao Tianjian then persuaded 10,000 yuan to abandon the secret and follow him in the future, but was categorically rejected by 10,000 yuanji, stretching his neck and only asking for a death, Xiao Tianjian was really angry and almost ordered to kill 10,000 yuanji, but in the end he held back his anger and ordered Wan Wanji to be detained, and then sent later.

In fact, many officials in the Ming Dynasty, although their ability is not good, there are quite a lot of people who are actually quite a bit backbone, in history when the Qing army went south, many officials chose to fight to the death, and even the whole family was martyred, this kind of person Xiao Tianjian is actually quite admired, Wan Yuan Ji is not expected to fall, killing him is to ruin his reputation, after all, this Wan Wan Ji is said to be a good official review, killing will chill the hearts of many people, so he once again chose to endure this breath, temporarily leaving Wan Yuan Ji's life.

However, for Huang Degong to escape again, Xiao Tianjian felt a little crying and laughing, for Huang Degong, Xiao Tianjian is not the first time to fight him, Huang Degong can be said to have been defeated repeatedly under him, but he can get away with it every time, and then he stands up tenaciously like Xiaoqiang, and every two years he pulls up a vote of people to fight him, and this time he let him run away, I really don't know when I will be able to solve this old enemy.

Just when Xiao Tianjian led the troops to encircle and annihilate Wan Yuan Ji and Huang Degong's department in the north of Luzhou, that Kong Zhenhui also killed from Tuanshan to the territory of Fengyang Mansion, and at this time it was Shi Ran who was responsible for staying in Fengyang Mansion, but Shi Ran was not in Fengyang Mansion at this time, but led the troops to resist Sun Yingyuan's army in Wuhe County, and the one who sat in Fengyang Mansion was just a little-known battalion general in the Xingtian Army, this person's surname was Liu, and his name was Liu San, his father was illiterate, and his wife simply named his son with one, two, three, four, and Liu San was the third in the family, so he was called Liu San.

Liu San is only in his twenties, he used to be a small thief in Jinnan, and later after he was demoted to the Xingtian Army, he stayed in the Xingtian Army, and was gradually promoted to the position of battalion general because of his merits.

At the same time, there are also two combat battalions of troops left in Fengyang Mansion, and there are thousands of Henan Minzhuang who are responsible for helping the Xingtian Army to transport materials, but these thousands of people are not reserve soldiers, just strong people, at most they have received a small amount of training, so it is impossible for Liu San to use them as soldiers.

So when Liu San learned that there was an official army rushing to Fengyang Mansion from Tuanshan, he began to be nervous, but he quickly calmed down, and he immediately brought another battalion general who stayed in Fengyang Mansion at the same time to discuss, and finally both of them thought that in fact, this official attack was not terrible, and the scout made it clear that this official army was the official army of Chuzhou, and the military discipline was very loose, and there was only an army of 10,000 people, but the combat effectiveness was not strong.

After discussing with another battalion general and their subordinate officers, Liu San decided to use Fengyang Mansion City as a battlefield to clean up this group of Chuzhou soldiers.

So Liu San sent someone to inform Shi Ran and inform Shi Ran of his battle plan, please rest assured that Shi Ran could handle it and ensure that Fengyang Mansion City was not lost, and at the same time ordered that some of the soldiers guarding the Ming Emperor's Mausoleum in the south of Fengyang Mansion were evacuated from the Ming Emperor's Mausoleum, and also let go of the eunuchs who were transferred to the Imperial Tomb to take care of the Imperial Mausoleum, and gathered all the troops into Fengyang Mansion City, leading thousands of people to help the war to immediately repair the fortifications, and made a posture of defending Fengyang Mansion City.

After Kong Zhenhui led the troops to arrive at the Ming Emperor's Mausoleum, it can be said that he took the Imperial Mausoleum without much effort, and even half of the Xingtian Army did not see it, only captured and killed some nearby villagers, and rescued a lot of eunuchs who were detained in the Imperial Mausoleum by the Xingtian Army, so Kong Zhenhui was happy at this time, thinking that the Xingtian Army really did not have many troops, and did not dare to shake his army, so he immediately sent people to Nanjing and Jingshi to report the victory, saying that he had led his troops to fight and had recovered the Imperial Mausoleum, ensuring that the Imperial Tomb was not harmed by the Xingtian thieves, It seems that he has made a lot of contributions, but the real situation is that the Xingtian Army did not harm the imperial tomb, but the soldiers under his command copied the already broken imperial tomb again, and scraped the ground to pick out some valuable offerings in the imperial tomb and became their private collection.

After occupying the imperial tomb, Kong Zhenhui reorganized the soldiers and horses, and rushed towards the Fengyang Mansion City, and the scouts sent by Kong Zhenhui also quickly replied, they caught a few people outside the Fengyang Mansion, and after interrogation, they learned that the Xingtian Army guarding Fengyang Mansion at this time was only about 2,000 people, and the rest were basically the people who came from Henan to transport materials for the Xingtian Army.

After hearing this, Kong Zhenhui was even more excited, as if he had beaten chicken blood, and vigorously agitated the generals under his command in the army, shouting for a drum to recover Fengyang Mansion, annihilate the thief army of Fengyang Mansion, and then attack Wuhe County on both sides with Sun Yingyuan's department in Xuzhou, and destroy the criminal thieves guarding Wuhe County.

Kong Zhen will look even further at this time, he thinks that as long as they take down Fengyang Mansion, they can cut off the back road to kill the main force of the Xingtian thieves in Luzhou, and cut off the channel for the Xingtian thieves to obtain material replenishment, so that the Xingtian thieves will no longer be able to attack Luzhou or even Nanjing City, so the battle of Nanzhili, he Kong Zhenhui will make the first contribution, and it can even be said that he will turn the tide and fall, and he will become the biggest hero of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no need to consider the promotion in the future, and he will have the opportunity to enter the cabinet as the first auxiliary minister in the future. In this case, he Kong Zhenhui is likely to soar into the sky because of this!

So Kong Zhenhui, driven by the power of a beautiful dream, personally rode a horse to supervise the army and rushed towards Fengyang Mansion, but five miles south of Fengyang Mansion, a Xingtian army with a size of only about 2,000 people blocked Kong Zhenhui's way.

When he learned that Kong Zhenhui led his troops to kill Fengyang Mansion, Liu San originally planned to defend the city of Fengyang Mansion, but when Kong Zhenhui occupied the imperial tomb fifteen miles south of the city the day before, Shi Ran led a war battalion from Wuhe County and rushed back to Fengyang Mansion.

Nowadays, Shi Ran has been fighting with Sun Yingyuan in Wuhe County for many days, although Sun Yingyuan led nearly 20,000 officers and troops from Xuzhou, but after arriving in Wuhe County, he hit his head on the iron plate, Shi Ran led the troops in Wuhe County and Sun Yingyuan fought several times in succession, although Shi Ran's troops were not superior, but he did not suffer, Sun Yingyuan did not bargain, and lost a lot of soldiers and horses, Sun Yingyuan learned at this time that Wan Yuan Ji and Huang Degong were surrounded by the main force of the Xingtian Army in Tuanshan, and knew that there was no hope of recovering Fengyang Mansion, So he was worried that there would be a change in staying in Wuhe County, so he led his troops to retreat to Sizhou (which has now sunk in Hongze Lake).

Sun Yingyuan withdrew his troops, just so that Shi Ran freed his hand, and at this time Shi Ran just received news from Liu San, saying that Kong Zhen would lead more than 10,000 Chuzhou soldiers and horses to attack Fengyang Mansion, so Shi Ran left part of his troops to continue to guard Wuhe County, and he himself personally led a war battalion and two newly formed battalions to rush back to Fengyang Mansion.

If Kong Zhen would not be busy sending people to Beijing and Nanjing to report the victory after seizing the imperial tomb, he would directly lead the troops to Fengyang Mansion, maybe Shi Ran would not be able to return to Fengyang Mansion in time, but Kong Zhenhui only cared about taking risks, and his generals were busy scraping the ground in the imperial tomb, so he delayed for more than a day, so Shi Ran was able to lead his troops back to Fengyang Mansion and strengthen the strength of Fengyang Mansion.

However, Kong Zhenhui did not know that the Xingtian Army in Fengyang Mansion had been reinforced, until he met the Xingtian Army in the south of the city, he also thought that Fengyang Mansion did not have many soldiers and horses of the Xingtian Army, when he saw that the Xingtian Army blocked their way, Kong Zhenhui did not know who was coming from the other side, and saw a big stone character written on one of the flags in the Xingtian Army, so he asked his subordinates who the surname Shi was.