In his previous life, Zhu Youxiao hated cults and knew very well that cults were good at demagoguery and that the followers who had been brainwashed could not explain their behavior with common sense at all, so he decided to make an example of the chickens and monkeys and deter the leaders of the cult who were about to make a move.

The Guards set out on the 13th, advancing at a speed of more than 30 miles a day, and entered the territory of Yanzhou on the fifth day of the sixth month. Lu Xiangsheng really just regarded himself as a bystander along the way, he would personally take in the soldiers who had fallen behind, and he would also carry weapons to the weak soldiers or something, and the relationship with the soldiers was hot. But he definitely doesn't get involved in strategy formulation or anything like that, and he does whatever Yang Guangkui says.

At this time, Xu Hongru and the White Lotus Sect had captured Yuncheng on May 13, and Yu Ziyi, the magistrate of Yuncheng, was frightened and did not resist at all, and fled directly with his family. Then the White Lotus Army quickly captured Juye. Wherever the army went, warehouses were opened to release grain and relief to the people, and in just a few days, it grew to tens of thousands, and the bureaucrats and landlords everywhere were terrified and fled one after another.

On the first day of June, Xu Hongru marched eastward, crossed the canal, conquered Zou County, and signed a letter to Zheng Yijie to flee with his family. Then, continuing to attack Teng County, Yao Zhiyin, the magistrate of the county, fled from the wind, the White Lotus Army was greatly prestigious, and the parishioners and landless poor people from all over the country joined one after another, and the team soon grew to hundreds of thousands.

Zou and Teng counties are adjacent to Jining in the north and Xuzhou in the south, which is an important part of the canal transportation, and after being occupied, the transportation is almost paralyzed. However, the Guards did not directly attack Zou County, but first attacked its birthplace Yuncheng.

On the afternoon of the seventh day of the first month of June, the guards rushed to the city of Yuncheng, Cao Wenzhao first led the cavalry around the city for a week, and the cavalry held a large banner with the words "only eliminate the first evil" and "threaten never be investigated", and let the loud soldiers shout all the way: "The emperor has a decree, only remove the first evil, threaten never investigate, attack the city tomorrow, please leave from the south gate." "At night, camp on three sides of Yuncheng, leaving only the south gate unguarded.

That night, a large number of rebels and civilians fled from the south gate, leaving only a small number of diehards, so the next morning, the artillery fired only two cannons, but did not hit the city wall at all, and the people of the city surrendered after firing a few arrows. After Cao Wenzhao killed a few leaders first, he left a banner of infantry to maintain order, and the army immediately turned to Juye. The same procedure, but before the attack began, Juye surrendered.

This time, Yang Guangkui didn't let Cao Wenzhao kill anyone, thinking that since they all surrendered, it would be bad to kill again. Cao Wenzhao had no choice but to lock up the leaders and let the officials who rushed back after hearing the news deal with it themselves.

The army rested for the night, immediately set off for Jining, and then went straight to Zou County. At this time, the White Lotus Army already had hundreds of thousands of people, and the momentum was huge. On the morning of 12 June, the Guards rushed to the city of Zouxian.

Cao Wenzhao did not go around the city this time, but only placed the banner with the words "only eliminate the first evil" and "threaten and never prosecute" at the front of the army. Because the White Lotus Army is already waiting outside the city. Although there are not a few armor, most of the weapons are farm tools, but they can't stand the number of people, Yang Guangkui estimated, there are at least 30,000 people, and there are some drums in his heart now, so many people, just don't move to let the guards kill, then when will it be killed.

Yang Guangkui led two infantry battalions and an artillery battalion in the middle, and Cao Wenzhao's cavalry battalion was on both flanks. As soon as they lined up, the White Lotus Army rushed up.

When the chaotic White Lotus Army was about seventy paces away from the infantry, Yang Guangkui ordered to shoot in sections. The sound of the fire bolt was accompanied by thick smoke, which made the White Lotus Army in front stunned for a moment, and then saw the companions next to him fall to the ground one by one, everyone shouted and fled to the rear.

When the smoke cleared, there were no living people standing in front of the guards, and in the distance was the White Lotus Army running away from the wolves. The cavalry on both sides did not attack, and remained in sync with the infantry.

After advancing for a while, there were infantry in a tight formation, about five or six thousand men, all wearing cotton armor, and some of the leaders were dressed in iron armor like the guards. What they are holding in their hands is no longer farm tools, but spears, swords and shields, etc., and a big banner with the three big characters "King Heroic Martyr" written on it, it turned out to be Xu Hongru's younger brother Xu Heyu.

Xu Heyu looked at the guards on the opposite side, all wearing iron scale armor and holding firearms, and couldn't help but despise it, when they attacked Zou County not long ago, the Ming army was also similar, the iron armor was dazzling, the knives and guns were sharp, but when they took the battle, in the face of the righteous army with a hoe, they immediately lost their armor and fled, but they sent a large number of military supplies to the righteous army, and it seems that the same transport captain is here today.

Xu Heyu ordered the horn to be blown, and the rebels walked forward slowly, and when they were about a hundred paces, the horn stopped suddenly, and then it sounded again, and the rebels screamed strangely and rushed forward. Yang Guangkui calmed down a lot this time, and when the rebels reached about fifty paces, he waved his hand, and the drummer beat the drum violently, and the division chiefs shouted: "Shoot the first section in sections." The artillery flag commander also shouted: "Open the cannon." ”

The crisp sound of fire was mixed with the roar of artillery. Almost all the rebels in front fell, most of them died, and the few rebels who did not die were tossing and wailing on the ground, which made the rebels behind dare not continue to move forward. The rebels who were not shot were stunned in the formation, looking at the wailing companions and dense corpses next to them, and even forgot to flee backwards.

The rebels behind hesitated, and under the urging of the horn, they looked at the broadsword of the overseer not far behind, and plucked up their courage and rushed forward. The horn was more urgent, and the rebels kept rushing forward, the sound of cannons and firecrackers rang out alternately, and the corpses in front of the battle were accumulating higher and higher, and the blood shed had already made the soles of the feet of the rebels who rushed up begin to slip.

In thirty minutes, the Guards had already fired twenty rounds each, which was too easy for the Guards, who could load and fire about three rounds per minute, and the artillery fired more than twenty rounds. The reason why there were only so few shots was mainly because the enemy's impact speed was too slow, and Yang Guangkui did not allow the soldiers to advance to destroy the enemy.

Finally, Xu Heyu's elite soldiers couldn't hold it anymore and began to retreat backwards. Cao Wenzhao gave an order, and the cavalry on the left flank began to pursue, and almost at the same time, the cavalry on the right flank also began to charge. Yang Guangkui issued an order, the infantry moved forward after charging, encountered sporadic enemy troops, were solved with bayonets, the baggage soldiers followed behind to treat the wounded, packed up the discarded knives and guns and other weapons, and stripped off the cotton armor on the enemy's corpse, encountered the wounded enemy, killed with a knife, but did not cut off the head, this was ordered by the emperor before coming, the civil war, generally not allowed to cut the head, the calculation of merit is the method of the degree of completion of the task, the head is handed over without merit.

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