"General Yang, come down, the Qing soldiers and horses are already surrounded on all sides, and you remnants of the defeated soldiers can't escape! If you surrender, Your Majesty will treat you as you treat the King of Sanshun, BMW Golden Sword, glory and wealth, Your Majesty is willing to share it with the general. ”

Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, held a big knife in his hand, riding on a horse and looking around blankly, but he didn't know where to go. The army has been trapped in Songshan City for more than ten days, the situation is getting more and more difficult, although there is no shortage of food for the time being, but there is no way to replenish, seeing that the Qing army has dug a heavy trench outside the city, erected a strong wall, surrounded like an iron barrel, and the army's eyes are also floating abnormally. If you wait for the Qing army to erect a heavy city, it is even more hopeless to escape, for today's plan, only to take advantage of the siege of the fortifications has not been done thoroughly, and break through in advance A way to go, because everyone knows that their own soldier is already the imperial court's knocking on the bone and marrow, and the sky is three feet high before it can be reluctantly put together, and there is no need to expect any reinforcements, even if there are some slight reinforcements, it is just a tofu soldier like Zuo Liangyu, which is very useful.

Yang Guozhu, Cao Bianjiao, and Wang Tingchen did not flee with the other five general soldiers, but led the team to enter Songshan City with Hong Chengchou.

Of the five general soldiers who escaped, except for Wu Sangui and Wang Pu, who escaped by luck, the rest died in the chaos. However, Zhang Ruoqi, a weak scholar, usually speaks loudly, at this juncture of life and death, he is really worthy of the test phrase "wisdom and bravery", he hid in the fishing boat, and actually let him escape from the battlefield alive. Songshan Fort is the configuration of a thousand households, the radius is only four or five miles, and now tens of thousands of troops are surrounded in the city, so crowded and embarrassed, it is also a dead end, there is no soldier who must be saved, and there is naturally no city that must be defended inside. All Hong Chengchou could do was to organize the army to break through.

But in the face of the superior Qing army outside the city, everyone repeatedly tried and negotiated, but they couldn't think of a way at all, the Qing army has always had advantages in field warfare, not to mention that there are many Qing troops at the moment. Forced. The general army of Xuanfu selected 3,000 elite cavalry to prepare to stand out, who would have thought that it was just less than a mile out of the city, and it was still besieged by the Qing army. Yang Guozhu and his subordinates all understand that I am afraid that this time it will not be good.

Hearing the shouts of the Qing army, the soldiers and generals guarding Yang Guozhu's side all looked back at him, Yang Guozhu knew in his heart that in this mortal situation, the other party gave a way to live, and his subordinates were a little moved.

Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of the Xuanfu, smiled bitterly. Reach out and wipe the sweat from your face, and the blood that splashed on your face. said in a shuttered voice:

"Lao Tzu has heard of this place, Lao Tzu's brother and nephew died here, if you want to surrender, surrender, Lao Tzu will not be a surrender general."

After speaking, Yang Guozhu urged his mount and shouted. Wielding a broadsword, he rushed towards the place where the Qing army had the largest number in front of him, and the pro-soldiers who followed him were a little silent, and they all shouted in unison, and rushed up behind the general soldiers of this Xuanfu.

The Qing army on the opposite side had already cleared the basic resistance at this moment, and watched Yang Guozhu and his men rush over like crazy tigers, and the first few rows were all archers who had already opened their bows and arrows, as well as the transferred North Korean firecrackers.

Those Manchu leaders who were staring at the general soldiers of Xuanfu rushing towards them were all giggling there. It seemed very relaxed, and one of the staff leaders saw the rush into range and shouted loudly.

A burst of gunshots like fried beans suddenly jumped out, and hundreds of arrows also came out of the string, screaming rapidly in mid-air, Yang Guozhu's body. Suddenly, there was a rain of blood sprays. The red robes gradually turned red. It was the color of the arrow.

The gunfire stopped, the rain of arrows stopped, and Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of the Xuanfu who rushed to the opposite side, and his own soldiers all fell to the ground, and those who were not yet dead kept spasmodizing on the ground, and the blood flowing slowly merged into a stream, and the stream slowly melted into a river, and then slowly infiltrated the earth, and slowly dyed the land.

Hong Chengchou, who was looking at the tower at the head of Songshan City, could see that Yang Guozhu's thousands of elite horsemen seemed to be a stone thrown into the river, although there was a little splash, but in a blink of an eye, the water surface became quiet, as if there had been no change since ancient times, and these thousands of cavalry who broke through the siege actually did not play a role.

It's only been a few days, the originally mighty Hong Chengchou has a lot of white on his beard, and he looks a lot haggard, Yang Guozhu is lost in the chaos, he naturally regrets it in his heart, and he may only regret it, Cao Bianjiao on the side slapped the wall with his hand fiercely, and scolded in a low voice, extremely unwilling.

At this time, there was a muffled sound in the distance, Hong Chengchou looked around blankly and saw nothing, he sighed helplessly, and said dejectedly:

"General Cao, after the governor came to Jiliao, I also heard the generals of Liaozhen talk, saying that this Tartar is good at wild wave warfare, and cannot be defeated, but he does not pay attention to any ranks, like a wild beast, and he is always a little at a loss when he encounters my soldiers. But from the beginning of this engagement between the two sides, the Tartars dug trenches and built low walls with great care, and the trenches were dug in the starry night to cut off the back road of our army, and now they are so rigorous in digging and encircling Songshan. Moreover, between the advance and retreat of the army, the law is strict, and the army is strict, which is clearly a rule, and the Ming Dynasty is afraid that there will be many disasters and difficulties in the future. ”

"Boom!" There was another muffled sound, this time much closer to where they were standing, and an officer came running from the top of the city, and hurriedly shouted:

"Two adults, hurry up and go down to the city for a while, the Tartars have tried their guns."

Hong Chengchou laughed a few times and said slowly:

"The use of firearms by the Tartars is not much worse than that of my officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and the world is ......"

Cao Bianjiao slightly supported Hong Chengchou, and the two walked towards the city together, he was also extremely depressed by Hong Chengchou's words, but he could guess why the soldiers and horses of the Manchu Tartars became so orderly, and they must be inseparable from Kong Youde and Shang Kexi, these bastards who surrendered to the Tartars. Since the violent death of the old slave and the ascension of Hong Tai, the political and military affairs of this Tartar have become more and more sophisticated, and these rebel generals of the Ming Dynasty, Corporal Lixian, have become more and more powerful, and the original disease of scabies. Now it's a problem for henchmen.

Cao Bianjiao smashed his fist on the city wall hatefully, and then twisted it around the wall, he hated, he hated, he had obviously killed in front of Na Hongtai at that time. His guards are all gone, they are all gone, why, why, only that knife is missing, and he can kill the thief chieftain. It's a pity, it's a pity, God won't help me.

In the camp of the Qing army opposite, the mood is naturally completely opposite to that of Songshan City, and the big tent in the center is full of laughter, these Manchu princes, Baylor. The commanders of the army all had relaxed looks on their faces. ^^ "Please rest assured, Your Majesty. Jinzhou City is tightly surrounded by us, and I heard that Nazu Dashou has been eating people in the city, and he can't support it for too long. ”

A middle-aged military general in luxurious clothes said respectfully in the military tent, looking at his robe, it was the color of the Manchu prince Heshuo, which was the highest rank of the nobles in the Manchu Eight Banners, so that he could be so respectful. Naturally, there was no one else. A fat man with thin eyebrows and thin eyes, who looked gentle and amiable, and made people unconsciously feel trusted, was sitting on it, holding a white towel in his hand to cover his mouth and nose, and said with a muffled smile:

"Zilharang, you are steady, and you have always marched and fought. They are all meticulous and proper, I am relieved, Jinzhou and Songshan, as long as they are firmly trapped, I am afraid that there will be no soldiers and horses in the north of the Ming Dynasty who can fight. We've been fighting around here for more than a decade. How many times has this Matsuyama been here? This time, I raised the army of the country, and finally I was able to do a good job in the world. ”

Someone who can talk like this in the tent where the noble generals gathered. Of course, only Huang Taiji, the Tiancong Khan of the Dajin Kingdom, and the wise and wise of the Qing Dynasty, led everyone to rise from suffering, fight big with small things, and build the foundation of the country. A few years ago, Huang Taiji was quite strong, but now he looks a lot haggard, even when he talks to these generals, he covers his mouth and nose with a towel.

This time, His Majesty is wise, the princes are brave, everyone works hard for the country, and the last elite soldiers of the Ming army are broken, and the generals of the Qing army outside the camp are all relaxed and happy, if it were not for the strict military discipline, they would have been singing and dancing without taking care of the need. But in this military tent, these top nobles and generals all looked solemn, looking at Huang Taiji's face from time to time, and several guards and medical officers were always standing behind Huang Taiji.

After saying this, Huang Taiji breathed a sigh of relief, handed the towel to the attendant beside him, and immediately a waiter took a new towel and sent it up, and the towel that was replaced was already blood-red.

A young man standing on the side looked at the towel, and his voice was already crying, and he hurriedly said a few steps forward:

"Huang Ama, it's good that the ministers are here, the emperor is in good health, your health is the biggest thing in our Qing Dynasty, you should go back to Shenyang to slowly recuperate, these little things that are finished, the ministers must do it properly, and don't dare to hurt your old man."

Huang Taiji smiled tiredly, waved his hand, and said with a strong smile:

"It's okay, it's okay, it's just that the blood is vigorous, and the nosebleeds don't stop, but this is because your emperor Ama is in good health, how can a patient be as bloody as Amma. What are you crying like here,? Hauge, you are also the minister in charge of the flag, and there are so many people below who are staring at you, and you have to show the courage of a prince Baylor. ”

Prince Zheng Zierharang was already standing to the side, frowning, as if he hadn't heard. He is Nurhachi's younger brother, Surhachi's son, and Amin's younger brother of one of the four great beylers, his father and brother have been imprisoned and died, and he is still alive, one is because his father and brother desperately got rid of him, and the other is because he didn't look at what he shouldn't see, didn't listen to what he shouldn't hear, didn't say what he shouldn't say, and these three are not true.

Huang Taiji covered his mouth and nose with a clean hand towel, his eyes did not look at the princes and generals in the military tent, but his eyes looked out through the door of the military tent, in his position, he could vaguely see a silhouette of Songshan City, Huang Taiji looked at it for a while, and seemed to talk to himself and seemed to all the generals in this tent, muttered vaguely:

"When Jinzhou and Songshan City are opened, the major events will be almost determined, and this destiny is really in my Great Qing Dynasty......"

The following Zilharang, Hauge, Dolgon and others were all very interested, and when they heard this, they were just about to congratulate and praise the saint in unison, when the sound of horses' hooves sounded outside.

Everyone has grown up on horseback since childhood, and all of their fame comes from horses, and they are all good at bowing horses, so they naturally know that the sound of horses' hooves is coming in the direction of the big tent. Everyone's hearts are full of joy, thinking that there is something big going on there, and if you want to use such a hasty method of sending a letter, is it because there is an accident in Jinzhou, or is there a strong army coming to the aid in the direction of Shanhaiguan? The army is strong. But after all, it is from an empty country, and His Majesty is collecting the whole country, and men over the age of fourteen and under the age of seventy have been recruited to join the army. It is impossible to sustain such an extreme mobilization for too long, so now we are sending back those soldiers who are too old and too young, and what happens at the moment, although it will not affect the overall situation, it will also be in a hurry. As everyone expected, the sound of horses' hooves stopped outside the tent. A light rider hurried from inside the tent.

This light cavalry is a leader, that is, the Manchu Jiala Ezhen. The general of this level actually came to deliver the letter, and the people in the entire military tent were staring nervously, but the leader was using both hands and feet, and he was extremely embarrassed to half-run and half-climb to the throne, and the leader kowtowed in a mess, raised his head with his hat crookedly and said with a crying voice:

"Your Majesty. Your Majesty, Concubine Chen's mother is dying......"

The people in the military tent were in an uproar, they naturally knew the status of this "Concubine Chen" in Huang Taiji's heart, Huang Taiji was even more stunned, stood up directly from his seat, and even the towel in his hand fell to the ground in shock, and nosebleeds continued to flow down from his nostrils. The Zhenglong on the chest of the Nine Dragons coat on his body burned red, and the soldiers on the side wanted to pass the towel to wipe it, but they were pushed away by Huang Taiji.

"Prepare the horse, prepare the horse, I want to go back to Shenyang."

Huang Taiji had this problem the year before the Battle of Songshan, and his nose bleeded as soon as he was excited. to later. Even if the movement is too big, or the rest is not good. It's also nosebleeds.

Knowing that Hong Chengchou led an army of 130,000 out of the pass, Huang Taiji led his troops to rush forward, and rushed 600 miles to Songshan on the sixth day to confront the Ming army.

Nearly half of the soldiers and horses outside the pass were scattered, and the news that Hong Chengchou and the remaining soldiers and horses were surrounded in Songshan spread to the pass along with the officers and soldiers who had returned to Shanhaiguan after the defeat.

Originally, they thought that "if you go outside, you must first settle inside", that thieves are a big problem for their hearts, and that the Tartars are just those civil and military ministers who are suffering from scabies, everyone was stunned and terrified.

Originally, there were a series of fortresses and strongholds in Jinzhou and Songshan in the northeast of Shanhaiguan, which had enough strategic buffer to make the Manchu soldiers unable to reach the Shanhaiguan generation, but after this battle, the Ming army could only arrange the defense line in the Shanhaiguan generation, although Shanhaiguan is the first pass in the world, but it is not a trustworthy defense line at all

What we have to do now is to arrange heavy troops and fortify them tightly in the Shanhaiguan area, but the Ming Dynasty has no soldiers and horses to mobilize in Beizhili, Shanxi, and Henan, and there are tens of thousands of people in the Beijing camp, but they are all composed of scoundrels and idlers, and there is no combat power at all.

Speaking of which, the soldiers and horses that can be mobilized are the Jiaozhou battalion of Li Meng, the general soldier of Shandong, but since early August, the main force of the Jiaozhou battalion has been concentrated in the area of Guide Prefecture in Henan.

In mid-July, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai joined forces in one place, and the momentum was shocked, Fu Zonglong gathered more than 20,000 Shaanxi border troops out of Tongguan, and joined forces with Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding, to prepare for a decisive battle with Li and Luo's combined forces.

Zuo Liangyu, the general of the Ping Thief, was quite good at picking soft persimmons, and directly pursued the weakest Eight Kings Zhang Xianzhong's troops into the Huguang area.

Most of the more than 40,000 officers and soldiers were tired divisions, but the combined forces of Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai were no longer a rabble, and they were already extremely strong and good soldiers.

In late July, the two sides fought in Mengjiazhuang in the east of Runing Mansion, this time, the general soldiers of the Ming Dynasty staged the same scene as Songshan, He Renlong led his troops to flee first, and Hu Dawei and Li Guoqi were slow to march into the army, but when they fled, they did not fall behind, and rushed to disperse.

The combined forces of Fu Zonglong and Yang Wenyue did not support for five days, and the defeated troops of Beizhili fled back to Kaifeng City with Yang Wenyue in embarrassment, while Fu Zonglong was captured by the combined forces of Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai and beheaded in front of the battle.

Although some generals died in the chaos, Fu Zonglong and other high-ranking officials were captured alive and then beheaded, which was the first time, and the morale of the army was greatly boosted.

Bad things spread far and wide. The news of Songshan has spread all over the north, Henan is adjacent to Jingshi, and it is not slow to know the news, and it is rumored that King Chuang is after knowing the news. With his hands to increase the amount, the excitement is abnormal, the current intrusion army is not only fierce, there is no one in the north who can restrain it.

The combined forces of Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai were rampant in Luoyang, Nanyang, Runing and southern Kaifeng, and two more pro-feudal nobles were killed, and the imperial court was helpless, so it had to be resigned.

Now, it is a great luck to be able to save a city. Don't dare to ask for anything else.

There was a strange arrangement in the Li and Luo coalition army, that is, after fighting with Yang Wenyue and Fu Zonglong, the two governors, as well as the officers and soldiers of the three general soldiers. Immediately withdraw to Nanyang Province.

The entire coalition army was arranged according to this, and there was no long-term reserve of grain and grass, so I thought it was a short-term battle, although I thought that after the end of the battle of Mengjiazhuang, King Chuang ordered that the whole army continue to move eastward. As a result, Gao Yigong, who was in charge of military quartermasters, was caught off guard and had to prepare in a hurry.

After the siege of Kaifeng in April, the combined forces of Li and Luo had been avoiding certain state capitals, as if they had some scruples, but the battle of Mengjiazhuang, more precisely, came after the news of Songshan came. The Li and Luo coalition forces finally began to be unscrupulous.

Mengjiazhuang was only four days' distance from Nanzhili and Guide, and after a short rest of the army, these places were the target.

There was already a small force of cavalry entering the southern part of Kaifeng Province to contact the local outcasts, and it was to detect the terrain, and anyone knew that the intrusive army was about to take action against Guide Province.

Outside the three prefectures of Huaiqing, Weihui and Zhangde in the north of the Yellow River. That is to say, Guide Mansion has not been set foot by the intruding army. Moreover, the Guide Mansion is known as rich in grain and grassland reserves, which is for the army with a big business. Laying this place is just to supplement their own soldiers and horses, and occupying this place is equivalent to the convenience of transportation in Beizhili and Shandong.

The army had a short rest, and in the middle of the camp, the secretary Niu hurriedly ran towards Niu Jinxing's residence, and when he entered the house, he saw his father reading there.

Joining the camp, Niu Venus is much stronger in material enjoyment than when he was lifting people, seeing this cow rushing in in a hurry, Niu Venus couldn't help frowning, and reprimanded:

"I've told you a few times, and now you also have a status **, why are you always so impetuous, which makes people laugh."

The cow gasped and nodded vigorously, but he was still very impatient when he spoke, and said:

"Father, King Chuang's side is determined to march to Guide, has your father heard about this?"

Niu Jinxing put down the scroll in his hand and said indifferently:

"This matter is planned by my father, so I naturally know it."

Hearing Niu Jinxing say this, Niu sighed, but he didn't dare to make any rude moves, so he had to say in a loud voice:

"On that day, the son went to the alliance with the Engong as an envoy, didn't it already be agreed, let's break into the army and not enter the Guide Mansion, Kaifeng City, and the rest are self-contained, and the king of Chuang also agreed, why did he suddenly break the covenant today, which makes us how to face Engong and how to face the world."

"Ridiculous! Immature! The alliance was formed on the same day, and now it is now, the king of Chuang can have such momentum on that day, the north of Zhili can be so empty on that day, and Luo Rucai can join forces with the king of Chuang on that day! These alliances between the two armies are some expedient measures, if the army is not as good as that day, then this covenant is naturally to defend the land, but in today's situation, if you still keep the covenant, it is not trustworthiness, it is pedantic! ”

Niu Venus's words are like a basin of cold water, pouring the cow from head to toe, before this young man comes into contact with this society, he always has some unrealistic ideas, such as believing in truth, goodness and beauty, and believing in credit.

But in this politics, intrigue, insidious and treacherous is common sense, turning the face and denying talents is the norm, it is a completely dark thing, Niu is grateful to Li Meng, and the matter of the alliance is a major thing that he has done with all his might, and he subconsciously wants to maintain it, but it is broken by this ruthless reality.

"Eighteen children are the main artifact, eighteen children are the main artifact, Song Xiance's proverb really makes some sense. With the defeat of Songshan, the imperial court had almost no soldiers and horses available in Jiangbei, and it was extremely empty, but the power of King Chuang was so thriving that it was becoming more and more powerful. Could it be that there is a destiny to protect it. ”

Niu Jinxing was also a little emotional, it is said that Li Meng's nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses are not the army of the imperial court, but in the upper and lower camps, all those who have fought with the Jiaozhou battalion subconsciously do not regard Li Meng's subordinates as soldiers and horses of the imperial court, but as independent forces.

After the Lingshan Commercial Bank, which opened a branch near Shanhaiguan, knew about the incident, the fast horse rushed towards Shandong, and the road kept changing horses, and two horses ran to death. This is to send the news to Shandong in the fastest possible time.

The message was quickly documented. And to all the people who read the news at all levels, Li Meng and his subordinate generals only regretted it, and at the same time, Ma Gang, Zhou Yang and other civil and military forces proposed to expand the army again at the first time, and now the headquarters of Li Meng in the Jiaozhou battalion is nearly 20,000, and Ma Gang, Zhao Neng, and Chen Liu also have 15,000 or 20,000 soldiers. And it has just been expanded by 10,000 troops.

However, after getting the news from Songshan, the thoughts in the hearts of many people from the Jiaozhou camp were not sad and panicked, but they felt quite excited, and the familiar generals were discussing whether it was possible for their troops to be sent to Beizhili to guard the town, and the literati of the Lai Party and the Yan Party criticized the government and government one after another, saying that it was because of the Jiangnan scholars who controlled the government. As a result, there have been such successive defeats, and the firepower is basically concentrated on Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department.

In fact, there is no need for these opposition literati in Shandong to criticize, the corporal of the world, and the hundreds of officials in the court and the central government are all impeached by Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, but Emperor Chongzhen has tried his best to protect him. Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, actually did not fall to the official position. This is also an outlier.

But the reaction to this news was obviously different from that of the two special people. After the old eunuch Liu Fulai saw the news, he was silent for a while, and when he saw Li Hong who was hugged by the maid, he laughed, and when the grandparents saw their grandchildren, no matter what troubles they had, they were thrown aside, which was also the norm.

Sun Chuanting's side because of the improvement of the level of reading the newspaper, the news of this Songshan incident was naturally known to him, Li Meng out of some bad taste, specially sent someone to observe Sun Chuanting's reaction, Sun Chuanting just sighed after seeing it, and sat in the study until dark.

Every day, someone went to send the documents to Sun Chuanting, and the next day when the soldier went to deliver the documents again, according to Sun's family, Sun Chuanting sat in the study for a whole day and a night, as if he was a demonic barrier, and only drank some porridge in the morning.

According to the rules, the pro-soldier who sent the document scroll wanted to hand over these bound information and the like to Sun Chuanting in person, Sun Chuanting's eyes were already red, and his face was mostly pale and pale, so he just said to the pro-soldier:

"Bring a message to Master Li for the old man, congratulations to ......"

Since the news came, Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong with an empty shelf, and Chen Min, the eunuch of the prison army who was under house arrest, were all terrified, not because they were worried about how the Ming Dynasty was, but because the north was empty, and the imperial court was afraid that the imperial court would have to transfer Shandong soldiers and horses to the north to garrison it, and this Li Zongbing was not an obedient character.

If it drags on again, the court does not dare to move such a general, and the unlucky one can only be himself.

Li Meng and his team also planned many times, how to avoid their soldiers and horses being transferred to Beizhili, although the Shandong and Jingshi people got the news of the defeat of Songshan in various ways, but this news is really too shocking, and it is indeed necessary to make preparations in all aspects before it can be released.

Will enter August, the camp army began to slowly move to the northeast, the south of Fengyang Mansion has the Ming Dynasty's soldiers stationed, is already on strict alert, but the purpose of the army is no longer this, but across the south of Kaifeng Prefecture Shangshui County and Chenzhou, ready to enter the Guide Mansion.

The officers and soldiers stationed in Nanzhili breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that as long as they didn't come to invade their own territory, then everything would be fine, and as for how the Ming territory on the opposite side was in trouble, if it was not in their own defense area, then they would not do their own business.

Yang Wenyue fled, Fu Zonglong was killed, the civil and military generals of Kaifeng Mansion were already three times a day, staying in Kaifeng City and not daring to go out lightly, the camp army passed in the south of Kaifeng Mansion, Shangshui County and Chenzhou were breached, and the county order and Zhizhou were killed, but no one dared to support.

Tian Jianxiu led 30,000 soldiers and horses to break into the camp and slowly advanced, although he was cautious, but there was no obstacle along the way, and the first battle was at the junction of Guide Mansion and Kaifeng Mansion at the horse factory set.

Tuocheng garrison Jia Dashan returned to Germany to plunder the exiles, but encountered the advance of the invasion army led by Tian Jianxiu. The two sides were only a small battle.

Although Tian Jianxiu's army had the upper hand, as soon as it made contact, it immediately stopped its advance momentum and retreated ten miles, waiting for the follow-up troops to converge before continuing to move.

And Jia Dashan's troops saw the enemy's army. Of course, he didn't dare to act rashly, and hurriedly retreated to Guide Mansion to expand the city, and the army had nothing to hide from his actions, and such a huge army could not hide his actions.

Machangji is already very close to Tuocheng County, Guide Prefecture, Tian Jianxiu's camp forward has nearly 4,000 horsemen, Jia Dashan came out to collect the team of the displaced people is only about 3,000 foot soldiers, Tian Jianxiu caught up with this army of soldiers and horses, and it is no problem to completely annihilate it.

The two sides fought, and Jia Dashan's soldiers and horses even suffered a small loss. thought that the destruction was imminent, but Tian Jianxiu did not dare to continue to step forward. Instead, it is a shrinking of troops.

This made the soldiers and horses of Guide Mansion shrink back, and Jia Dashan, who returned to Tuocheng County, was really frightened, and all his subordinates on horseback let him go out for help.

At present, there are two tuntian granges in Guide Prefecture, and there are three battalions of the regular army, and the armed Zhuang Ding and Jia Dashan's own men and horses can also make up 5,000 people. But these more than 8,000 soldiers and horses are not worth mentioning at all compared to most of Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai.

However, Tian Jianxiu has not moved in the area of Machangji and Chenzhou, and is only a small group of cavalry to reconnoiter and probe, waiting for the army led by King Chuang.

Tian Jianxiu waited for five days, and all the soldiers and horses that could be mobilized in Guide Mansion were hoarded at the junction of Guide Mansion and Kaifeng Mansion.

In addition to the above-mentioned people, there are also many local tyrants and squires in Guide Mansion and Kaifeng Mansion who are brave and strong people who came to help. The largest number of these people is a group of 1,000 people, and the few are only more than 100 people, all of whom are powerful landlords with land and status in the local area.

These people are the local gentry in the so-called self-protected areas, the basic class of the Ming Dynasty, and the officials of Guide and Tuocheng counties were really stunned when they saw this scene. I want to be "Li Zhenhai" back then. That is, when Jia Dashan, the garrison of Tuocheng County, gathered people to make trouble, the government repeatedly convened local famous clans. It is hoped that these local tycoons will be able to play a role in defending against chaos.

The imperial court could not pay the military at all, and the only officers and soldiers who were only in the land were only defending the capital city—or, to put it more accurately, the officers and soldiers cowered in the city and did not dare to come out at all.

According to their ideas, these local clans rely on their meritorious and famous officials on weekdays, and they do not bear taxes and servitude at all, and they don't know how much they take advantage of the official family.

Who would have thought that the officials coerced and enticed, and said all the good and bad things, and no one paid attention to this motion to convene forces, Henan was in such a mess, who would pay attention to the official government that ordered not to leave the city.

But at that time, the order was just to let these wealthy families maintain law and order, and slightly confront the "Li Zhenhai" who was becoming more and more uncontrollable, but at that time, this Jia Dashan itself was the biggest powerful man in Guide Mansion, and those local tyrants should have taken him as the one to talk about confrontation.

Now to fight against the army of King Chuang, the whole world knows that King Chuang is the most ruthless to the landlords and gentry, and it is even more common to break the family and kill the head, at present, the people and villagers gathered by these local tyrants are only more than 5,000 people, plus the mobilization of these combat forces in Guide is only more than 10,000 people, and the army on the opposite side is dozens of times this.

Even if you exclude the soldiers who have made up the number of soldiers who broke into the army, I am afraid that they have more than ten times the strength, how can these rabble suddenly become bold.

The reason for the matter is not difficult to answer, with Jia Dashan, a thousand golden horse bones, these local tyrants and squires, who are not willing to fight for their lives to earn a rich and noble official body, what is Jia Dashan's background, and he has also earned a garrison official title, this is a grade, it looks like a sixth grade.

These landlords in the countryside, some land at home, rampant in the township, but casually meet a servant who does not have a serious official body to nod his head, such a countryside, the teacher of the private school may not be a talent, even if their children want to learn along, they can't get any fame.

From ancient times to the present, you have earned a splashing family business, if you have nothing to do with the official family, I don't know when, make a small mistake, and your family property will be confiscated. Let's just say that there are no taxes and no forced labor in the past few decades. We local tyrants rely on tyranny and deception, but those who have fame and official status in their families are above board and do not pay taxes and forced labor, and the yamen must also be treated politely.

Even if the family business is bigger than the other party. But the meeting is still a head shorter, who doesn't want to be arrogant and not pay taxes and conscription, and who doesn't want the government to treat politely, but in this chaotic situation, civil officials are monopolized by Jiangnan scholars, and military attaches have become the family heirloom of Jiangmen.

Suddenly, Li Dashuai in Shandong loosened his hands, and a local tyrant like Li Zhenhai could actually have a garrison title to get it, and Li Zhenhai was a team member of Guide Mansion. He has tens of thousands of people, so can we have a thousand people? A hundred people are a mess, this is a real farewell to the government.

It is worth working hard to sue for this official position, for the family, for your descendants to earn a decent future, and to earn an honest and honest income without paying taxes.

Let alone. The local tyrants rushed to lead people over, and they also knew that the distance between Guide Mansion and Shandong and Nanzhili was very close, and Shandong soldiers and horses had a large army in Yanzhou, and a large army was also stationed in Huaiyang, and it was also very fast to be deployed.

With the back of a strong city, people will always have special courage. I feel dependent.

Tian Jianxiu sent soldiers and horses to the horse factory to gather the surrounding officers and soldiers, survey the terrain, and build barracks and warehouses at the same time, and the soldiers and horses continued to catch up.

The Chuang army continued to hoard troops and horses at the junction of Runing Province and Guide Province, but except for small-scale temptations. There wasn't any big action. Because the large army of King Chuang and Cao Cao was still on the road, hundreds of thousands of people marched. It can't be fast anyway.

On the side of Guide Mansion, the increase in personnel is very slow, and these additional personnel are all armed landlords from Weihui Mansion, Huaiqing Mansion, Kaifeng Mansion and other places who have come to risk seeking wealth and nobility.

But these people are no more cautious than the army, and dare to attack boldly, of course, this boldness is more appropriate to describe with the word reckless.

The reckless defenders and the cautious invasion of the army were also evenly divided for a while, and although the camp was deliberately advancing eastward, the more cautious they became when they saw the other party fighting so unscrupulously.

Jia Dashan has the idea of fighting to the death, his background and the army are not the same, not to mention that he now has the rank of garrison.

Although he sent an urgent document to Shandong, he didn't have much hope, because the Jiaozhou battalion would definitely maintain the territory of Shandong, and he would not discuss this kind of peripheral branches too much, and it was not worth it to confront the army of the king of heaven and earth for the sake of a Guide Mansion.

But to his surprise, his distress letter was sent quickly, and there was an immediate response from Shandong, and Zhang Jiangxian, the capital of the Yanzhou Army, led 7,000 Yanzhou troops into Guide Mansion.

His call for help got the fastest response in Jinan, after Li Meng, the general soldier of Shandong, saw the emergency document of Guide Mansion, he was angry and happy, angry that he broke into the camp and did not abide by the covenant, and it must have been said that he would not enter Kaifeng and Guide, and he was happy that he was worried about how to deal with the will of the garrison of Beizhili, and this incident happened here, which happened to be borrowing the slope to get off the donkey.

The general army of Shandong has a police on the border of Yanzhou, and the military generals of Henan are in an emergency for help, and they have the right to send troops to rescue, Li Meng immediately announced the mobilization order of the Shandong soldiers and horses, and he took the cavalry all the way south along the canal and went straight to Guide to support it.

At the same time, 10,000 soldiers and horses were mobilized by Chen Liu, a general of the Huaiyang Army, who were also quickly assembled and relied on water transportation to Guide Mansion.

Hundreds of thousands of troops moved slowly, not daring to go out lightly, the back roads of the grain road are guaranteed by a large army, although the Jiaozhou battalion is a quick reinforcement, but it is also cautious and abnormal.

In mid-August, at the junction of Guide Mansion and Runing Mansion, the confrontation between Shandong soldiers and horses and the Chuang army has become a storm.

As for why he was so cautious, it may be that the Battle of Songshan was too impressive, and no one wanted to be the unlucky ghost who was surrounded by this light division.

On 17 August, on the north bank of the vortex near Machangji, the 500 cavalry of the Chuang army came into contact with the horses of the Jiaozhou battalion......

The Great War has begun.