In the sound of war drums, Sun Kewang took 10,000 soldiers with knives and guns in hand, arranged in a neat formation, and approached the Anqing city wall step by step, more than 10,000 pairs of big feet stomped on the ground, rumbling, and approached the city wall with the momentum of Mount Tai. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

When he walked a hundred steps away from the city wall, Sun Kewang waved his flag and shouted: "Rush." Rush me over."

"Rush! Kill! The soldiers shouted, carrying ladders and shields on their heads, and threw themselves at the walls.

Shi Kefa, the supervising army, and Xu Ziqiang, the deputy general of Anqing, stood calmly on the city wall, and saw that the liukou had entered the range of the bow and arrow, Xu Ziqiang waved his hand and said loudly: "Release the arrow." Before the words fell, a dense rain of arrows shot head-on, and in a miserable scream, a hundred and ten peasant soldiers fell to the ground, but the rest of the people continued to rush towards the city wall as if they had not seen it.

"Rush into Anqing for dinner. Rush, ......" the countless peasant army shouted, ignoring the dense rain of arrows and rushing towards the city wall.

Soon, dozens of ladders were set up on the city wall, and there were more than a dozen people attached to each ladder, these people were holding knives in one hand and shields in the other, and they were climbing up quickly.

The ......screams of "Ahhh......hhh

Due to the thick walls of the city and the tight defense, the peasant army stormed for a day, and although thousands of people were killed and wounded, the city of Anqing remained unmoved.

After receiving Zhang Guowei's emergency report, Chongzhen knew that Anqing was lost, and Nanjing would be exposed to the blade of the Liukou, if Nanjing was defeated by the Liukou, it would be a more serious matter than Fengyang being occupied, then he, the emperor, would have no face to go down again. Thinking of this serious consequence, he hurriedly summoned his ministers to discuss the matter of sending troops to rescue.

"All Aiqing, Liukou Zhang Xianzhong, Lao Huihui, Luo Rucai and other troops are attacking Anqing, I don't know who to send to the rescue?" Chongzhen asked anxiously,

Looking at the ministers, their eyes were full of expectation. The post of secretary of the military department is vacant, and he can only take on this position himself. At this moment, Chongzhen desperately wants someone to help him come up with a good idea.

"Huh?" Everyone was taken aback and whispered to each other.

After a while, seeing that no one spoke, Chongzhen was about to get angry, Wu Fu stood up and bowed and said: "Your Majesty, the Liukou is menacing this time, there are many people and horses, and it is useless to have fewer reinforcements." At present, the only troops that can be mobilized to help suppress the officers and soldiers are the strongest in Zuo Liangyu, who is stationed in Henan, and the minister proposed to send him to the rescue, and then send Ma Yi and Liu Liangzuo to Anqing to join forces with him, so that we can be sure of defeating the Liukou. ”

Chongzhen listened, and without thinking about it, he said loudly, "Quasi-play." The edict ordered Zuo Liangyu, Ma Yi, and Liu Liangzuo to rescue Anqing. ”。

After finishing speaking, he thought to himself: "It seems that we still have to invite Yang Sichang back, the Ming Dynasty has frequent wars, and there is no one who knows the soldiers to be the secretary of the military department, which is indeed a big trouble." ”

Most of Zuo Liangyu's soldiers were from Zhongzhou, and in order to win the hearts of the army, he also stationed his team here. The envoy did not dare to delay, day and night, Pegasus galloped, and finally arrived in Ye County, Zhongzhou three days later.

After sending Qin Cha away, Zuo Liangyu and his generals Luo Dai and Daoxing discussed the matter of rescuing Anqing.

"Dog's day, after the war, impeach Lao Tzu, and when I want to fight, I remember Lao Tzu again." Zuo Liangyu scolded.

Luo Dai asked, "Dashuai, then shall we go or not?" ”

glanced at Zuo Liangyu and saw that his face was gloomy and unwilling.

Dao Xing hurriedly persuaded: "Dashuai, this is a holy decree issued by the emperor himself, if you don't go this time, once you annoy the emperor, it will be troublesome, and if you don't do it well, you will be robbed of military power." ”

Daoxing and Zuo Liangyu are already in a relationship of both glory and loss, if Zuo Liangyu is deprived of military power because of this, his future of Daoxing will be over

After listening to Daoxing's words, Zuo Liangyu also knew that in this troubled era, without military power, he had to be slaughtered by others. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "You two go and prepare, and you will go out tomorrow." ”

"Yes!" Luo Dai and Daoxing agreed and walked out.

Early the next morning, after eating the war meal early, Zuo Liangyu led his troops to Anqing to rescue from Zhongye.

When he walked to Nanyang, he reported to the Malay: "Dashuai, we found out that there is a bandit here, led by Yang Tian, Hou Yumin, and Guo Sanhai, and I heard that there is a lot of money and grain......

"A lot of money?" Zuo Liangyu listened, and his eyes gurgled.

Seeing this, Luo Dai said: "Dashuai, since these bandits have a lot of money and food, why don't we kill them, wouldn't that kill two birds with one stone......

"Hmm. What Brother Luo said was reasonable, and the order was passed on, and the whole army turned around and cleared out the bandits. Zuo Liangyu said loudly.

With an order, Zuo Liangyu's army went straight to the lair of the bandit Yang Tian.

Yang Tian, Hou Yumin, and Guo Sanhai are the three local ruffians, seeing the chaos in Henan, they also took the opportunity to gather thousands of displaced people, attacked several market towns, obtained some property, and became the king of grass.

was about to recruit troops and horses to expand the team, Zuo Liangyu's army was killed, how did a group of rabble beat Zuo Liangyu's soldiers, and the heads of the people who were killed immediately were rolling and blood flowed all over the field.

An hour later, Yang Tian, Hou Yumin, and Guo Sanhai were all killed, and except for a small number of escapes, all the bandits were exterminated

The seized taels of silver, grain and grass were loaded into wagons, and the captured women were escorted to the military prostitute camp

"Let's go!" Zuo Liangyu said, with a wave of his hand, the whole army continued to move towards Anqing.

After several days of fierce fighting, Zhang Xianzhong saw that Anqing was difficult to capture, so he had to retreat to Lujiang. On February 27, Zhang Xianzhong led his army to attack Qianshan. Deputy envoy Shi Kefa led his troops to resist in Lu'an, and after a day of fierce fighting, Zuo Liangyu's army arrived in Lu'an, and Shi Kefa and Zuo Liangyu and other generals joined forces and fought together with Zhang Xianzhong and others in Fengxiangyi. Zuo Liangyu's generals Luo Dai and Dao fought bravely and won one after another, and at this time, Ma Yi and Liu Liangzuo also defeated the peasant army many times in Tongcheng, Luzhou, and Lu'an.

After a day of fierce fighting, Zhang Xianzhong and others lost and had to retreat to the ancient village of the Heavenly King of Qianshan. The peasant armies in Chuzhou and Hezhou were also defeated and fled westward, and the danger in Jiangbei was slightly weakened.

Governor Zhang Guowei ordered Zuo Liangyu to search the mountains to clear out the Liukou, but Liangyu ignored it, and instead indulged the soldiers to loot the women.

In March, Zhang Xianzhong led his army out of Qianshan and broke through Taihu Lake, Qizhou (now Qichunnan), Huangzhou (now Huanggang) and other places. On the 25th, Xianzhong led the army and the Ming army to fight in the Yanjiadian of Taihu Lake. Loyal to the Ming army with tens of thousands of soldiers. He also sent the general army to block Shi Kefa and other reinforcements. At that time, it was raining, and the peasant army attacked from all sides, and the soldiers were close to each other, and more than 40 people including Pan Keda were killed. The Ming army was defeated, losing more than 6,000 soldiers. Xianzhong led the army to take advantage of the victory in the east to take Hezhou, Hanshan, Liuhe and other places. At this time, Zuo Liangyu stayed in Shucheng and sat back and watched, not to rescue. Later, Xichuan fell.

Under the urging of the eunuchs of the Henan prison army, Liangyu led his troops north to rescue, and by this time the enemy had plundered enough and entered the mountains.

Because of his meritorious service in defeating the enemy in Lu'an, Zuo Liangyu resumed his official position as the commander of the reinforcement and suppression.

"Speed up and watch the formation." Li Guangli, a cavalry instructor, shouted loudly and rode a horse to lead the team to gallop through the training ground, where straw men stood one after another.

The hooves of the cavalry rumbled, and I saw Li Guangli, who was taking the lead, holding a steel knife, and Pegasus came to a scarecrow, shouting: "Neck", with the gallop of the war horse, the body was short, and the hand waved down, and the head of the scarecrow was broken. The other cavalry followed suit, swinging their swords and slashing at the scarecrow's body.

"Good. Good practice. Zhao Guohua clapped his hands and praised.

Since returning to Ji'an, because Li Guangli had worked in the Liaodong Army and understood cavalry tactics, Zhao Guohua appointed him as the head of the cavalry. In order to select qualified cavalry, Zhao Guohua ordered, together with the men and horses of Jinggangshan, to select 3,000 soldiers with strong physiques or tall stature from nearly 10,000 members of the army to form a cavalry brigade, which was trained by Li Guangli.

I also found the prefect Meng Liangchen to sell the flat land of the river beach as a training ground, this river beach is called Letou Beach, behind it is a barren mountain, there is a small river in front, the beach is 3,000 meters long, 300 meters wide, because there are many stones and little soil, it is difficult to cultivate, it has been abandoned for many years, so Zhao Guohua only spent 100 taels of silver to get.

After some tidying up, a comprehensive training ground was formed. A third of them are infantry, two-thirds are cavalry, and the infantry training ground is a daily training subject, in the morning is a platoon training, and in the afternoon is training in bombing and shooting. In order not to affect each other, the middle is separated by wooden boards.

After watching cavalry training for a while, I went to the other side to watch bomb throwing training.

Seeing the team members holding one by one thick and one thin iron lumps and throwing them into a pit in the distance, Liu Guangzu, who was accompanying him, asked puzzledly: "General, is your swarthy iron lump used to smash people?" ”

After returning to Ji'an, Liu Guangzu's family was placed in Yongxin County, and in view of his literacy and hyphenation, Zhao Guohua made him a logistics supervisor, responsible for the distribution and storage of materials. Today, seeing that he was fine, I took him to the training ground for a walk. In addition to him, there were Lu Qing, Zhang Shun, and several commandos.

"Director Liu, do you think I asked everyone to throw this thing to smash people?" Zhao Guohua asked with a smile.

Hearing the meaning of Zhao Guohua's words, Liu Guangzu walked over, took the grenade in the hand of a team member and looked at it carefully, but he couldn't see anything famous, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Isn't it?" ”

The grenade used for training was a solid bullet without gunpowder, so Liu Guangzu didn't see anything famous.

Smiling, Zhao Guohua said: "If the training of this thing is used to smash people, I might as well let everyone practice throwing javelin." ”

"Please advise the General." Liu Guangzu arched his hand and said.

Looking at him with a smile, Zhao Guohua said to Lu Qing: "Staff Officer Lu, you come and tell Director Liu." ”

"Yes." Lu Qing agreed, and explained the role of the grenade.