When the city of Zhaoqing was in a mess, Wang Huan's Kuizhou army had been marching like a spark on the official road to the north of Zhaoqing for a long time, and when Luo Chengyao gathered his men and horses and hurried out of the Zhaoqing city gate, the Kuizhou army had already left the border of Guangdong and Hubei and entered the territory of Huguang.

Huguang land, known as the granary of the world, since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the emperors of the past dynasties pay attention to the development of agriculture, the agricultural cultivation area in the south continues to expand, the number of people continues to rise, the types of rice continue to renovate, the milestone of double cropping rice, Lingnan even appeared three crops of rice, the emergence and introduction of high-yield rice varieties, greatly drove the vitality of farmers' production, and Huguang Province is located in the subtropical climate, sufficient rain, fertile land, due to geographical reasons, this place in the late Ming Dynasty in various droughts, floods and locust plagues affected very little, It also provided good conditions for the development of agriculture, so the reputation of "Huguang is ripe, the world is full", along with the resale of grain trucks all over the country, spread all over the land of China, even Wang Huan's Minister of Finance Ma Chongming until now, through the establishment of businesses in various parts of Huguang, is still buying a large amount of Huguang grain into Sichuan.

Therefore, when Wang Huan entered Huguang, he saw that there were fields everywhere, and large fields surrounded small villages, full of greenery, birds and flowers, and the pastoral atmosphere was not as barren as in Guangdong.

However, although the scenery is good, the people working in the fields saw a group of soldiers coming from a distance, but they threw away the farm tools in their hands in a panic, rushed into the village with their children and daughters, closed the door of the village and pulled up the suspension bridge as if facing a great enemy.

"These ordinary people don't seem to welcome the officers and soldiers very much." Wang Huan frowned, rode forward, and said while holding a pergola and looking around.

Li Dingguo accompanied him by his side, and replied: "Huguang is a place, deeply poisoned by Zuo Liangyu, when the Zuo family was in power, the entire Huguang was his territory, taxes were collected, and there was no need to hand over a rice to the imperial court, and Zuo Liangyu's reputation for arson and murder, comparable to bandits, was well known, his army, except for some of his own soldiers, never had a military salary, all relied on his own robbery, and the business without capital was more powerful than Zhang Xianzhong, so Huguang Province, when it came to the official army, it was deeply hated, and there were folk rumors; The bandits came to ask for food and money, and the officers and soldiers came to die! ”

Speaking of this, Li Dingguo sighed, shook his head and said: "Speaking of which, this big tomorrow is actually damaged by these corrupt officials and thieves, and the common people are all bankers who do their duty. ”

Liu Yun had red eyes and replied on the side: "That's right, when there was a great drought in Shaanxi, if it weren't for General Li, who saw that the last general was about to starve to death, and saved me with a piece of steamed buns, the last general would now return to the underworld like a dozen people in my family, where could I still meet adults and get such a creation." ”

Wang Huan was silent, the peasant uprising that began in the Wanli Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty in history swept the whole country, traced back to the source, exhaustively investigated its causes, natural disasters are one, ** are two, natural disasters ** together, no one can compete, even if the Ming dragon vein smokes blue, it can't bless Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants.

Now although the natural disaster has passed, this ** is getting more and more intense, the Southern Ming Dynasty court in order to cope with the rising military salary, exhaustive means to squeeze the people, the end of the Ming Dynasty "three salaries" Liao, salary, training such as three mountains, pressed on the heads of the low-level people for many years, never cut off, in the process of collecting these salaries, bureaucrats at all levels up and down, often levy one or two silver, in fact, another five taels fell into the pockets of officials, fattened a lot of people, and the levy is becoming more and more active. Even the Qing court, which replaced the Ming court, because of the endless wars, had a large gap in military spending, and continued to levy three major salaries according to the Ming Dynasty tax system, and it was also the silver of the Han people anyway, so why not? As a result, people everywhere have suffered unspeakably.

Thinking about these things in his heart, Wang Huan only felt that the pressure was extremely huge, he was still too weak, and his troops were limited, so when he went back this time, he should calm down, sort out his thoughts, and go to Wanshou Valley to see how Li Huaien's military battle was progressing, and strive to develop one or two practical cross-era weapons to pave the way for future wars.

As he was pondering, he suddenly heard a cannon exploding in mid-air, which shocked Wang Huan and woke up from his contemplation.

I saw that on a hill in front of me, countless flags were erected, and rows of human heads rose from the grass, and there were countless black pressures, and the shouts of killing were monstrous.

Before Wang Huan could react, then, in the left and right rear, countless soldiers also shouted to come out, the red Ming army-style mandarin duck uniform, inlaid with red tasseled hats, spears, swords, strong bows and arrows, and unified equipment all showed that these people were Ming soldiers.

Rows of rejecting horses were carried out, across the official road, and there were a lot of ground on which horses could run on all sides, and many people ran around, throwing some things in their hands everywhere, and after a closer look, they were sprinkled with iron tripping horse nails.

Ambush?!

A thought flashed through Wang Huan's mind, he didn't expect Nanming's news to spread so quickly, and he had already been notified to the ground of Huguang in three days, but he was careless, only four or five scouts were sent out, and he must have been silently killed.

"Dismount and resist the enemy!"

"Circle the line, with the players on the outside, the pikemen second, and the rest in the center with crossbows and exterminators, waiting for orders."

"All the horses were driven into the inner ring, and the reins were tied together to prevent the horses from running away in fright."

A series of orders roared out of Wang Huan's mouth like a cannon.

More than 2,000 people are well-trained, almost at the same time as hearing Wang Huan's roar, they moved, the two centurions measured the distance with their eyes, ran away one after the other, and stood still after determining that the distance was enough, all the people took these two people as the benchmark, found their positions in an orderly manner, and formed a huge circle formation in an instant under the leadership of their respective officers in order, a squad was in place, and eleven people shouted in unison: "Team A and Class B are in place!" "Team A and Class C are in place!"

In the roar of one after another, the shield man slammed the big shield into the ground, propping up the reinforced beam, and the spearman stretched out the hole D reserved on the edge of the big shield of the ash pole spear bush, and the tail end was obliquely C into the ground, stepped on it with one foot, and freed his hands to raise the mountain-destroying crossbow at his waist. Behind them, the bird commander was busy reloading his ammunition and nervously making pre-battle preparations.

All this, from the marching column to the battle of the circle formation, but in just a few breaths was completed, in the dust raised by the military boots, those Ming troops who were throwing stumbling nails on the periphery had not yet been sprinkled.

"Who's coming?" Li Dingguo commanded the formation of the circle, and then came to Wang Huan, who lived in the center of the circle, squinted his eyes and looked ahead, and asked, "Why can't you see the banner of the main general?" ”

Wang Huan's face was puzzled, and he also squinted his eyes and tried his best to look: "The flags are all some tiger and leopard flags, and there is no recognition of the flag, which is quite strange." ”

Li Dingguo looked at it carefully for a while, and then said: "Looking at the uniform, there is no doubt that it should be the official army, this method of rejecting horses, it should also be the majority of soldiers, plus those stumbling horse nails, it is definitely something only available in the pro-military battalion of the general army of one side." ”

He said curiously: "Since it is a pro-soldier, why don't you fight the main general and recognize the flag?" ”

Wang Huan said in a deep voice: "It doesn't matter who he is, we will fight it!" Wait for him to calm down first, wait for him to attack, we will send arrows S to kill a batch, see how his combat strength is, if he is defeated with one blow, just cover up and kill for a while; If you become more courageous the more you fight, wait for him to approach and greet him with a killing bullet. ”

Li Dingguo agreed with a calm face, the corners of his mouth were silent and a smile was pulled, he was actually looking forward to it in his heart, because the exterminating bomb in the bag had been touched by him during this time, and he was very eager to try the power of the exterminating bomb with his own hands, and today finally had a chance, how could he not be happy?

The circle array is arranged, immovable like a mountain, the Kuizhou army is like a statue, looking at the Ming army in front of them calmly, grasping the weapons in their hands, and waiting for the battle to come.

Liu Yun stood in front of the circle array, hiding behind a big shield, holding a mountain-destroying crossbow in his hand, peeking out through the hole D on the shield, with hatred in his mouth, constantly cursing in a low voice The Ming army was cunning, blocking the way with horse rejection and tripping horse nails, and laying a trap to trap the Kuizhou army who were all cavalry.

The number of Ming troops who were chaotic around was tens of thousands, and they shouted indiscriminately for a while, and the momentum was very sufficient, and when they saw that the Kuizhou army in the middle was unhurriedly set up a circular array defense, they were somewhat surprised, and the shouts gradually lowered, and they looked at each other, and they were all timid in their hearts, and they felt that compared with the surrounded Kuizhou army, they seemed to be much worse.

The Ming army in the front of the rejection of the horse is the most, and it is also the most dense, the spirit of the soldiers, all of them are stronger, and the armor is more distinct, only to see that from the gap in the rejection of the horse, a person suddenly rushed out, and walked towards the circle formation that was waiting for the battle, walked to the distance of an arrow, and stood still.

Liu Yun looked at this person strangely, but he was dressed as an ordinary sergeant, with a slightly fat figure, a fat face and a wide mouth, and a big belly that propped up half of his waist armor in a bag, which looked a little funny.

"Hey, brother on the other side, this is the territory under the jurisdiction of Lord Yang Dapu, the general of Wuyi, and you are a passing guest army, according to the rules set by Lord Yang, you must draw 500 healthy horses, and the military salary of 5,000 taels will be used as transit money, which one is the main general in the army? Come out quickly and talk, otherwise, this road will not pass! When the time comes, the weapon will not have long eyes, and it will be too late to hurt the harmony! ”

When Liu Yun heard this, his eyes were about to pop out, and his mouth was so wide that he almost couldn't close it.

What the? Is this here to rob the Dao?