Originally, a good siege and annihilation battle was fought like this, Wang Jiayin didn't want to wait for a moment, and as soon as the archers lined up in formation, he ordered with great interest: "Mingjin, collect the troops." ”

The huge sound of the gong spread throughout the battlefield, and the peasant rebel army retreated like a tide, Cao Wenzhao, Zhang Hongye, Wang Chengyin and other generals looked at Lu Xiangsheng together, Lu Xiangsheng shook his head, waved back, and immediately a herald rushed to his side.

He looked at the neat archers in the opposite row, sighed, and reluctantly ordered: "Mingjin, collect the troops." ”

The herald took the order and left, and soon the camp also remembered the sound of the gong, and the recruits of the Guanning Iron Cavalry and the Tianxiong Army began to retreat to the front of the camp, and a few surviving heralds silently came behind Lu Xiangsheng, waiting for his order.

Lu Xiangsheng looked at the thieves who had gathered and went away, and ordered coldly: "Order all the participants to return to the camp to rest, and the Beijing camp will be guarded, load the bullets, put on the bayonets, and clean up the battlefield, but all the enemy will be executed on the spot." ”

Another herald took the order and left, and Lu Xiangsheng turned his horse's head and slowly paced towards the camp.

In this battle, more than 800 Guanning iron cavalry were wounded, more than 100 people were killed, and they were almost disabled. The Tianxiong army lost more than 5,000 people, except for the 10,000 transport soldiers who stayed in the camp, almost everyone was wounded, and even the commander Lu Xiangsheng was injured in more than ten places, which can be said to be completely disabled.

The rebel army under Wang Jiayin was no better, except for the archers and the 5,000 sword and shield soldiers who stayed in the camp, almost everyone who participated in the battle was wounded, and what was even more terrifying was that in less than an hour, Lu Xiangsheng's butcher led a group of recruits and killed more than 20,000 of them.

Lu Xiangsheng is simply terrible, as soon as he goes on the battlefield, he is like going crazy, slashing everywhere, it seems that there has never been such a desperate commander in history, let alone such a crazy civilian official. His bloodied figure became the nightmare of most of the rebels who participated in the war, and since then he has a loud nickname in the peasant rebel army, Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Shanxi, nickname: King Lu Yan!

King Lu Yan was also uncomfortable at this time, although this battle was won, but he didn't get much advantage from killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 of himself. He didn't have the joy of victory, but was a little worried, in the face of a group of thieves, he fought like this, how could he get it later, Pingyang Mansion didn't know how many thieves there were!

No matter how uncomfortable it was, this recital still had to be written, he hastily bandaged the wound with the assistance of his personal guards, changed his clothes, took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and wrote the recital on the dim oil lamp.

He didn't boast too much about his achievements, but focused on the description of the thief Wang Jiayin, in his opinion, this Wang Jiayin is really too powerful, in just three years, he has pulled up a team of more than 100,000 people, and he has a good practice, the general guards are not as strong as their combat effectiveness, this person is not removed, it will become a big trouble for the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, he made a suggestion to Zhu Cijiong: immediately gather all the soldiers and horses in Shanxi, and fight Wang Jiayin to the death in Yangcheng!

Then how will Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong reply to him?

Wang Jiayin's awesomeness naturally doesn't need to be reminded by Lu Xiangsheng, Zhu Cijiong's understanding of Wang Jiayin is more comprehensive than Lu Xiangsheng's, this guy can be said to be the ancestor of the peasant rebel army in the late Ming Dynasty! Just look at the leaders of the peasant army of the Chongzhen Dynasty:

From the first year of Chongzhen to the fourth year of Chongzhen, the most powerful person in the peasant army was Wang Jiayin himself;

From the fourth year of Chongzhen to the sixth year of Chongzhen, the boss of the peasant army was the general under him, King Zijin Liang, for his own use;

From the sixth year of Chongzhen to the ninth year of Chongzhen, the boss of the peasant army was another general under him, King Chuang Gao Yingxiang;

From the ninth year of Chongzhen to the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the peasant army mainly had two strong forces, one was the successor Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, and the other was Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, and these two people were also Wang Jiayin's subordinates!

In modern terms, Wang Jiayin is the father of the peasant rebel army in the late Ming Dynasty and the great mentor of the leader of the peasant rebel army! Zhu Cijiong naturally attaches great importance to such an important figure, and when he received Lu Xiangsheng's first letter, he began to think about how to kill Wang Jiayin.

He knew that it would definitely not work with the 100,000 troops newly recruited by Lu Xiangsheng, even if he was equipped with 40,000 flintlock pistols, he wouldn't be able to run if he couldn't beat you! Once he is allowed to get into the reckless mountains, then don't think about catching him, Li Zicheng relied on this trick to escape the encirclement and suppression again and again, and finally succeeded in overthrowing the Chongzhen Dynasty.

If you want to exterminate him, you must take him by surprise, this is a good opportunity, even if Lu Xiangsheng rushes to Zezhou, it is estimated that there is no way to take Wang Jiayin, and even he is very likely to not be able to beat Wang Jiayin, after all, the Tianxiong Army under his command has just practiced for less than half a month, and the combat effectiveness is definitely not as strong as the thief Kou under Wang Jiayin.

Therefore, Wang Jiayin will definitely not run away, and he will even try his best to annihilate Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army, in order to do it once and for all. If Lu Xiangsheng's combat power is suddenly doubled at this time, and he turns around and makes a surprise attack, there is a good chance that he will be able to kill Wang Jiayin.

The more Zhu Cijiong thought about it, the more he felt that this was a good opportunity that should not be missed, how to strengthen Lu Xiangsheng's combat effectiveness? The flintlock pistol must be sent to him, and the 20,000 this time will simply be all given to the Tianxiong Army first, anyway, most of the thieves are in Shanxi now, and there is no problem in waiting for a few more months in Shaanxi.

Then, he will be sent reinforcements, this reinforcement can't be too much, if it's too much, Wang Jiayin will definitely run away. You can't send too little, if it's too little, it won't be able to form a combat force, and sending it won't have much effect. This reinforcement must also be the elite of the elite, if it can't form an absolute advantage, one blow will be fatal, Wang Jiayin will still run.

Thinking about it, only the elite of the Beijing camp is the most suitable, anyway, it is unlikely that Houjin will come to carry out a sneak attack at this time, what kind of six yamen is being built by Huang Taiji, at least in a few months, he is unlikely to withdraw from the sneak attack.

Therefore, Zhu Cijiong decided to send 20,000 elite elites of the Beijing battalion to reinforce Lu Xiangsheng, and just sent him 20,000 newly made flintlock pistols, plus 40,000 grenades.

After the source of the troops was determined, the general who led the troops gave Zhu Cijiong a headache, and the five tiger generals under him were all sent by him to the provinces as governors, and Shi Kefa was still in Beijing, but they were also very busy, after all, they had recruited 50,000 new horses, and they had just started to practice, and they had to arrange the defense of various places, and they couldn't leave for a while.

Of course, there is a more famous general Qin Liangyu in the capital, but he is Lu Xiangsheng's old superior, and you send people over, isn't it obvious that you don't believe in Lu Xiangsheng's ability, and this is not appropriate.

As for Wang Zhengnan, forget it, Mao Du hasn't grown up yet, let him lead the troops, don't lose yourself by then.

In the end, Zhu Cijiong had to let Sun Yuanhua, the right attendant of the military department, make a cameo, hang up the rank of general soldier, and lead 20,000 elites of the Beijing battalion to support Lu Xiangsheng. This Sun Yuanhua had led troops in Liaodong before, and he had also fought a few battles with Houjin, and it was more than enough to command 20,000 soldiers and horses.