Although these Zheng Jiajun soldiers are singing Fujian songs, judging from their appearance, they are obviously really leaving. Oriental Reading Network, they all witnessed the big battle just now, the whole battle was fought by this officer and army staring at the enemy who was several times their size, and from yesterday to today, the number of rebel troops has been increasing, from about 3,000 people yesterday to 6 or 7,000 people today, who knows if it will increase to more tomorrow? Even if the official army has beaten away these chaotic troops today, but it is only a few thousand people, who knows if they will run back to take revenge? And with such a heavy defeat before, the rebel army will definitely gather more manpower, and it is not uncommon to have more than 10,000 by then.

It is not a dangerous thing to put this group of officers and soldiers into the city, if they had been put in a few days ago, they would have been short of food and clothing, and they would definitely rush in and loot, but now that they have just won a big victory, the money and food captured from the rebel army alone is already a huge amount of money, so they will definitely not look down on the money of these ordinary people in the city, so the impact on the security in the city should not be too great. As for the spies of the rebel army, it is even more impossible, they just fought with the rebel army to the death, and cut off so many heads of the rebel army, they are not going to come to be spies for the rebel army, and no one in the city will believe it. Now that this army is leaving for the south, who knows where they will go? If they go, the security outside the city can only be maintained by the township warriors and defenders of Taiping County, if the three thousand rebel troops a few days ago can barely resist it, but the official army has beaten the rebel army badly, and the group of defeated soldiers will definitely come back with more and stronger rebel troops to take revenge, in front of them, this official army may not be able to withstand it, not to mention the hundreds of township warriors in this Taiping County. If you can use the strength of the official army and combine with the township bravery, you may be able to resist it.

Thinking of this, the county commander's face changed, and he hurriedly shouted loudly to the city, "The general under the city, please stay!" As he spoke, he shouted to the soldiers under the city, "Open the gates!" Open the gates! Please enter the city! The soldiers at the city gate were dumbfounded, didn't they just order that the city gate should not be opened? Why is this suddenly going to open again?

The soldiers at the gate of the city were still stunned, but the officers and soldiers at the gate had already walked away without stopping, which made the county commander so anxious that his face turned red, "Why don't you hurry up and open the city gate to welcome the officers and soldiers into the city!" Hurry up, hurry up! ”

Only then did the soldiers come to their senses, and hurriedly removed the top gate, opened the latch, and pushed the gate open. The city gate was made of heavy and strong wood, and the outside was also wrapped with iron sheets, and the more anxious he was, the more he couldn't push it, and finally a dozen people bared their teeth and pushed the city gate open, and the officers and soldiers outside had already walked a mile away. The county order was in a hurry, and hurriedly called the history and a few small officials, and chased after him in a hurry.

Enemies learn from the enemy

At night, there are not many rebel troops outside Xiangling City, and the remaining rebel soldiers are basically packing up all kinds of tools and materials for camping, and now if the remaining carts are still free, someone will pick up the wood that was originally abandoned on the side of the road and load the cart, which will be very useful when setting up camps. The original camp was already a mess at the moment, only a few fires were still smoking, and the troops of the chaotic army had basically driven away. There were also a number of frozen people lying on the camp, thinly dressed and some even shirtless, most of whom were wounded. For the chaotic army, soldiers with combat effectiveness have the value of living, this kind of wounded soldiers, just a pure drag, especially in the Taiping War was wounded by rifles, the wound could not stop bleeding, not to mention, the wound was terrible, just to see it was shocking, not to mention the doctors who helped them deal with the wounds, the screams were like killing pigs, which seriously affected morale, so Wang ordered that as long as the wounds were larger and the people who were seriously injured were thrown directly into the snow and froze to death. The rebel soldiers who sent the wounded soldiers to freeze to death often did not focus solely on carrying out orders, many of them would strip off the wounded soldiers' clothes and wear them on themselves, so that many of the wounded soldiers were now bare-chested and soon frozen into dry wood in the snow.

"General, please stay! General, please stay! The county order shouted while chasing, and the canonical history next to him didn't care if it would steal the limelight of the county order, so he ran forward quickly and shouted to the front, "The general in front of you, please stay!" ”

Xu Wei and Zheng Zhihu, whose face was covered with a wound, looked at each other and smiled, Zheng Zhihu said softly, "Sure enough, as Xu Junshi expected!" "No, no," Xu Wei said with a deep expression, "It's just the trend of the times, and there is no one in this Taiping City who can borrow from us except us." Today's rebel army has suffered this deflection at our hands, and they will definitely come back tomorrow to find their way back to the field, and if there is no help from us at that time, they will not be able to defend this Taiping City at all. As long as the county commander is still sane, he will not let us leave, but on the contrary, he should ask us to stay in the city to prevent the rebels from returning without soldiers. ”

"Well, that's a good deal!" Zheng Zhihu laughed a few times and said in a low voice, "I don't know if there are beautiful girls in the city?" Xu Wei said, "At this time, it is the time of the big war, and the general is afraid that it is better to stay away from women, and it is best not to care too much about money, otherwise when it comes to the battlefield, everyone is afraid of death, but it will not be able to fight." As he spoke, Xu Wei made a stop gesture to the soldiers beside him, turned to the county commander and Dianshi who were running out of breath in the snow behind him, and said loudly, "A few friends, I don't know what to do with stopping me?" ”

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"That's how the battle went," He Yilong knelt on the ground, his head was low and he didn't dare to raise it, and there was a faint pain in his chest, probably because he broke his ribs when he fell from his horse. There was a board on the table, and there was a tall man sitting behind him, this person was wearing bright silver armor, and the tip of the helmet on his head was surrounded by red tassels, and he knew that he was an important minister of the army, and this person was the commander of the 36th battalion.

Wang Ziyong is a native of Suide, Shaanxi, nicknamed Wang Monk, in 1628 and a number of bandits such as the King of Chaotian in Fu County, under the command of Wang Jiayin, they worked together, in the past few years, they first accepted the Wang Er of Baishui County, Shaanxi Province who led the troops to vote, gathered more than 6,000 people, when Wang Er was killed, Wang Jiayin proclaimed himself Wang, the chaotic army developed to more than 30,000 people, and fought in Shaanxi and Gansu many places, the momentum was huge, and even at the end of 1629, they also defeated the main force of the military army led by Hong Chengchou, the secretary of the military department, Now Wang Jiayin has nearly 40,000 people under his command, crossing the Yellow River to open up a new situation in Shanxi, he Wang himself as the commander of the 36th battalion, naturally crossed the Yellow River before Wang Jiayin, and is already outside Xiangling City at this moment.

There is now a dense main camp outside the city of Xiangling, where tens of millions of rebel troops are encamped, and many soldiers are looking at wood in the mountains and forests, preparing to build siege equipment. More troops were divided into small groups and scattered to nearby villages, and when they encountered undefended villages, they drove all the villagers out and incorporated them into the rebellious army, and if anyone dared to resist, they were all killed. All those who had a little property, all their property was robbed, the women who were good-looking were arrested and sent to the camp as prostitutes, and the ungood-looking ones were directly incorporated into the cannon fodder battalion to be cannon fodder and sent to the front line to die. All the grain in the villages was looted for military rations, and even the seeds that were to be sown the next year were also taken away; If there is a wall outside the village, these small groups of troops will run back to beckon more troops to go out to attack, once they are defeated, the village will be washed in blood, leaving no living mouth, the village will be burned, if it cannot be captured, then extort a batch of food or materials as military use, and wait until the strength is stronger and then come back to attack.

With the plundering after crossing the Yellow River, the number and materials of the thirty-six battalions increased geometrically, this situation made Wang Ziyong happy, you must know that the chaotic army, whether it is the official army, or the army, they all rely on the accumulation of numbers to fight, and after a fight, thousands of people will not die and are embarrassed to greet people, such losses require a lot of manpower to make up for it, so as to reduce the loss of their own elite. But now his beloved He Yilong suddenly ran back and told him that he had just lost a new game, and that He Yilong's more than 3,000 soldiers and horses plus more than 3,000 soldiers and horses who had explored the road before had a total of more than 6,000 people killed and wounded, and nearly half of them were killed or wounded.

Since the incident, Wang Ziyong has fought many battles, and there have been many battles in which the two sides have invested more than 20,000 troops, but he has never encountered an official army that can fight a decisive battle to the end like today.

His own army had just suffered in Taiping, and it had suffered such a big loss, for his own army, it was simply a disaster, and if he couldn't get back to the field, he wouldn't be able to fight this battle in the future. When he heard He Yilong tell about the battle just now, he described that the other party had a "Zheng" flag in addition to the martial arts flag, so this guest army should be the Zheng family, but which Zheng family is it?

This era is different from later generations, the degree of information underdevelopment can be described as outrageous, the vast majority of farmers have never even left their own villages in their lifetime, and many elderly people have even been to a few nearby villages is a feat worth boasting about. The knowledge of the ancients was basically limited to a few nearby states and counties, and the circulation of information was all passed on by word of mouth. Shaanxi is located inland, the vast majority of Shaanxi people have never seen the sea, even the salt they eat is mostly mineral salt, there is very little sea salt, except for the readers, no one knows what the world outside Shaanxi is like. Although Wang Ziyong said that he is now one of the commanders of the powerful rebel army, he has no knowledge of the poor mud legs around him, so he does not know the origin of the word "Zheng".

He thought for a while, and then pretended to write a few times with words like ghost painting peach talismans, then stood up and walked to He Yilong's side and helped him up, "How does General He feel about this battle?" ”

"This army is large in number, well-equipped, and mainly firearms, and our leather battalion has few people and no firearms, so it is inferior." Of course, He Yilong would not honestly tell his battle experience, anyway, he exaggerated the number and weapons of the enemy by ten times first, and now in Wang Ziyong's place, the establishment of the Zheng family army has also been directly expanded tenfold, turning into an army of 10,000 people, which makes him quite frightened.

Although the official army is not invincible, but the people are full of 10,000 boundless shores, these 10,000 officers and troops are stationed in Taiping, not far from Xiangling. Now all the troops that Wang Ziyong can use at hand add up to more than 10,000 people, and more of them are recruits who don't have much combat ability, and more are just cannon fodder used to fill the pits.

Now the weather is cold, hundreds of people in the cannon fodder camp are freezing to death every day, and there is snow everywhere in the wilderness, not to mention the cold, which also covers many traces of human activities, so there are still many villages nearby that are still hidden in this ice and snow and cannot be found at all, so the amount of food is also a troublesome matter. Wang Ziyong paced around the tent a few times, but his head hurt from the thought.

What should I do with my army now? Stay here? Or do you want to kill the Taiping directly to find them in trouble? Guarding here, hundreds of cannon fodder will die every day, not to mention the meaningless death, and the precious military rations will be wasted. Instead of waiting for the Zheng family's army to attack here, it is better to kill directly to Taiping County. How can I say that there are more than 10,000 people here, even if I throw 10,000 pigs for the officials and soldiers to catch, it will take several days, right? He immediately asked Wang Jiayin for help, asking him to send more reinforcements over, so that he could have enough ability to eat this Zheng family army. Thinking of this, Wang Ziyong called the herald to give a few words, and the herald showed an unbelievable look on his face, but the horse ran out to give the order.

After the hatred of the land, Sun Shu Mo Yue is cool and Sun Leng

Soon, the whole camp was boiling, all the soldiers were packing up their tents and saluting, the soldiers who were transporting the wood for building siege engines in the distance directly abandoned the wood of the cart, and the carts were now full of military rations and baggage, and hundreds of people were organized into one phalanx after another, and then began to march in the direction of Taiping.

At this moment, the people on the city wall of Xiangling were stunned, they couldn't understand what was going on at all, the chaotic army in front of them was originally stationed outside the city, and built siege weapons, it was clear that they were preparing to break through Xiangling, but now they don't know why they abandoned Xiangling and drove towards Taiping. The county magistrate stood at the head of the city at this moment, and wrote an urgent letter to send people to Shanxi Daying to ask for help.

The enemy is hateful, and the enemy is hateful

At night, there are not many rebel troops outside Xiangling City, and the remaining rebel soldiers are basically packing up all kinds of tools and materials for camping, and if the remaining carts are still free, some people will pick up the wood that was originally abandoned on the side of the road and load the carts, which will be very useful when setting up camps. The original camp was already a mess at the moment, only a few fires were still smoking, and the troops of the chaotic army had basically driven away. There were also a number of frozen people lying on the camp, thinly dressed and some even shirtless, most of whom were wounded. For the chaotic army, soldiers with combat effectiveness have the value of living, this kind of wounded soldiers, just a pure drag, especially in the Taiping War was wounded by rifles, the wound could not stop bleeding, not to mention, the wound was terrible, just to see it was shocking, not to mention the doctors who helped them deal with the wounds, the screams were like killing pigs, which seriously affected morale, so Wang ordered that as long as the wounds were larger and the people who were seriously injured were thrown directly into the snow and froze to death. The rebel soldiers who sent the wounded soldiers to freeze to death often did not focus solely on carrying out orders, many of them would strip off the wounded soldiers' clothes and wear them on themselves, so that many of the wounded soldiers were now bare-chested and soon frozen into dry wood in the snow.

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