"Hui Dengxiang and Li Wanqing, since you have surrendered, this official can spare your lives and not hand you two over to the imperial court. But I hope you will be smarter in the future, and maybe you will be able to end up well. Wang Yue said to these two people.

Hui Dengxiang and Li Wanqing hurriedly thanked: "Thank you Lord Wang for not killing!" ”

They knew that according to the court's order, they would be sentenced to death. Historically, both of them surrendered to the official army, but they surrendered with their troops, and their strength is still there. Therefore, the imperial court let them continue to lead troops in the form of Zhao'an. Now the situation is different, these two people have been beaten into bare poles, and the attitude of the court must be to make an example.

Wang Yue did not kill them because of their performance in history.

Hui Dengxiang later surrendered to Zuo Liangyu, after Zuo Liangyu's death, his son Zuo Mengeng led more than 100,000 horses to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, Hui Dengxiang abandoned Zuo Mengeng and left, and then died of illness.

Li Wanqing demoted Liu Guoneng, who had become an official soldier, and awarded him the deputy commander-in-chief. In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong attacked Xiangyang, Li Wanqing went to the rescue, and after being captured, he would rather die than give in, and became a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty.

Although these two people are from rogue backgrounds, they are somewhat disciplined.

Wang Yue said to them again: "You two will choose two thousand people among these captives, and you should have obedient people of good character and can drive carriages, not those who are unruly." Then divide the two thousand men into forty squads, and each of you will lead twenty squads, and I will have something for you to do. ”

Hui Dengxiang and Li Wanqing now fully believe that Wang Yue will not kill them, and since they have something to hand over to them, it means that they are still useful.

"Obey the king's orders!"

Wang Yue waved his hand and said: "Hurry up and pick people, remember to pick those who are honest and responsible, otherwise things will be bad, try to ask the two of you!" ”

The two of them were still thinking about choosing their cronies just now, and after listening to Wang Yue's words, their hearts sank.

"The villain understands, the villain understands!"

Wang Yue didn't tell them what to do, they had just been captured, and it was time to behave. It seems that they can only pick people according to Wang Yue's requirements, otherwise if there is a mess, they will not be able to eat and walk around.

The battle lasted all day, most of the time was spent on capturing prisoners, and it was getting late, so Wang Yue ordered to rest on the spot.

There were so many captives that the eunuch Liu Bin was a little too busy, but he was in pain and happy. Tiance Army rested on the spot, and also assisted him in transporting prisoners, while Hui Dengxiang and Li Wanqing were also seizing the time to pick people.

Zhang Xianzhong attacked the southbound detachment in the direction of Chaling, but the progress was slow, leaving Wang Yue with plenty of time.

It was not that Zhang Xianzhong's troops were blocked by the southbound detachment, but that his hungry soldiers were almost dark when they walked to the sky, and they had just seen Chaling.

There is no way to do this, the normal person walks at a speed of four to five kilometers per hour, and twenty kilometers can be reached within five hours. But this is a healthy adult, walking on a hardened pavement.

The hungry soldiers were empty, their clothes were ragged, men, women, and children, and they walked on muddy ground, and it was raining incessantly in the sky, and they shivered when the wind blew, and it was strange that they could walk fast.

The land that hundreds of thousands of people had trodden soon became a mud pond. The hungry soldiers slipped all the way, and many of them were accidentally slipped, and then they were helped up by others to continue their journey.

Even Wang Hongwu, the head of the southbound detachment who was about to be attacked, was anxious for them, and what he saw from the image transmitted by the drone was like this. Where is this war? It's just doing evil.

Zhang Xianzhong was also helpless, in case the firearms of the army were not damp, these hungry soldiers were his countermeasures.

It's getting dark, and we can't go on the offensive anymore. Not only the hungry soldiers, but also his soldiers could not fight field battles when it was dark, and people in this era were generally night blind because of a lack of vitamin A.

Hundreds of thousands of people camped two kilometers away from Chaling, and in the evening, bonfires were everywhere within a radius of dozens of miles, which was quite spectacular.

The rogues still have a way, and they can still make a fire on a rainy day like this. Most of the soldiers had tents, and the vast number of hungry soldiers certainly did not have this treatment. But they can't all be given the rain to gonorrhea, otherwise the plague will run rampant.

So fires had to be lit at night, and these bonfires were lit with oil.

"Luo Shuai, haven't they sent someone to deliver the letter yet?" Inside the big tent, Zhang Xianzhong paced and asked, today's slow march made him irritable.

Sun Kewang replied: "Not yet! ”

Zhang Xianzhong said strangely: "It's been a whole day!" ”

Sun Kewang smiled and said, "Maybe the officials and soldiers in Anqing haven't reacted yet, right?" ”

Zhang Xianzhong thought for a while and said: "Impossible, our army is marching so slowly, the officers and soldiers have time to respond, you will send someone to Guijiachong to contact Luo Shuai early tomorrow morning." ”

It's dark like this, and now send someone to go there, you may not be able to find the way, so you have to wait for dawn.

Sun Kewang nodded and said, "Yes, Dad!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong said with a calm face: "Our army is attacking in a big way, but the officers and soldiers of Chaling have not moved in place, and they seem to be holding on, and they always feel that something is wrong." ”

Something must be wrong, with the speed of their march, if it weren't for the opponent, the Tiance Army would have changed places long ago, not to mention that there are many war horses.

Sun Kewang snorted and said, "It can only show that the officers and soldiers are too arrogant!"

For the first time, he became the wartime commander of the coalition army, not to mention how beautiful he was, which fully explained his status in his father's mind.

Zhang Xianzhong looked at him and advised: "Don't underestimate the enemy, Luo Shuai's defeat in Shucheng was caused by underestimating the enemy, and you must take it as a warning." ”

Zhang Xianzhong was able to get into today's situation, which is not a fluke. Although he knew that the Tiance Army was not easy to fight, he had to fight. He was unwilling to defeat the official army, and the fruits of victory had not yet been harvested, and his hope was pinned on the theory of dampness in firearms.

The current situation is that he has to fight the Tiance Army, it is said that the Tiance Army has many horses, and if he retreats, he will definitely not be able to outpace the advance speed of the Tiance Army. With such a large number of hungry soldiers and supplies, it is possible to suffer heavy losses, and there are still tens of thousands of officers and soldiers around Anqing, so he can't easily retreat just because Luo Rucai has failed.

Sun Kewang said: "The child understands! He was a little unimpressed, Luo Ru only had more than 10,000 soldiers, and he had nearly 50,000, how could he be compared, not to mention that there were more than 300,000 hungry soldiers available.

Early the next morning, Wang Yue led his army to continue northward, and in addition to the Fifth Regiment, there was also an additional team of carriages.

This is the 800 carriages brought back from the 3rd Battalion of the 5th Regiment from the southbound detachment, and the southbound detachment consumed all the way, and these carriages are basically empty.

This time he went north to attack Zhang Xianzhong, and Wang Yue took these carriages that were reloaded with supplies to follow the advance, and the personnel in charge of loading and escorting them were the original rogues selected by Hui Dengxiang and Li Wanqing.

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