It's a pity that under the cover of night, a whole six battalions of the beggar army have already come up. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

To the east, there is the second battalion of the second town of the beggar army, the fourth battalion of Qinwei Town to the south, the second battalion of the teaching town to the west, the first battalion of the teaching town to the north, and the fourth and fifth battalions of the teaching town are copying to two sides, more than 10,000 people in the six main battalions, and eighteen tiger squatting cannons as the attacking force.

The besieged imperial officers and soldiers were only 1,500 men, and they were in an extremely disadvantageous position strategically, because they did not have solid fortifications to defend, but were surrounded in the field, and if they really fought, it was still a question whether they could hold out until dawn.

Chen Da listened to the roar of the person above, and said with a sneer, "I only know that there is a metropolitan governor, but I don't know the imperial court." ”

After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand to the general, and the general nodded, so he jumped up on his horse, entered the wooden fence of the camp tent, and said loudly, "Today, the troops are here, especially to catch the murderer of the assassin of the imperial court general Zhengxi, dare to resist, all of them are regarded as the same party, and they will be killed!" ”

These murderous words suddenly made the scalp of the people above tingle, is Li Jing going to tear his face?

But Zhang Zongheng hurriedly opened his mouth, "I am the governor of the imperial court, and I am here today with troops, especially for the wedding gift of the general Zhengxi, and I dare to bully me?!" ”

"Hmph, you're the one who caught it!" The general took charge of the war horse and walked around for a while, suddenly rushed up and shouted, and shouted in a deep voice, "I am the general of the expedition to the west, and it is the general officer of the imperial court who ordered Shaanxi to suppress and aid the army, and he is not guilty and cannot tolerate insults, and the governor of Xuanda innocently colluded with Wei Bo'an, the governor of Daizhou, Shanxi, and Zheng Renbao, the deputy chief military officer of Ningwu, and others to rebel, trying to rebel and kill the generals of the imperial court. ”

"What?!"

Zhang Zongheng was dumbfounded, as soon as these words came out, he knew that things were going to be bad, could it be that Wei Boan and Zheng Renbao were actually caught?

But he has been in the officialdom for a long time, and his heart is so strong, just like this, it is still difficult for him, so he rushed down and said, "I am an official of the imperial court, Fei Er and others can be framed at will, this governor has now announced the identity of the governor, and ordered you to withdraw immediately, otherwise I will participate in the performance of a book, and I will definitely ask you to lose your official position and resign!" ”

"And I accepted your set, we are under the command of the Shaanxi General Military Officer, you connived at the generals under your command to murder my family to conquer the western general, the crime is unforgivable, if the court knows, it will scrape you first!"

"But my lord thought that in the past, everyone and colleagues will give you a way out, and allow you to put down your weapons and come out to surrender, otherwise after a quarter of an hour, the army will fight and there will be no armor left!"

After saying this, he sneered and beat his horse and left, not giving Zhang Zongheng a chance to defend himself at all, now the beggar army has the advantage, but the advantage is not obvious, if Zhang Zongheng's standard battalion and Hu Dawei's main barracks break through to the south together, the beggar army may not be able to capture them all.

And once the matter leaks out, it may not be able to take the initiative, so the beggar army is also delaying time, seemingly to give Zhang Zongheng a little time to react, but in fact, it is to buy time for his own troops to be dispatched.

The fourth battalion of the teaching town was strengthened to the east, and the fifth battalion was strengthened to the south, and once they were in position, the six integrated battalions were to work together, plus several of the cavalry towns were intercepting and killing the routs on the southern front, it would be foolproof.

"Lord Governor, Li Jing is prepared, I am willing to lead the elite soldiers and cronies, and the escort will break through immediately."

Hu Dawei knew the power of the beggar army, just look at the reports of the spies on all sides, and when there were no less than 1,000 people and horses in each place, he knew that Li Jing was planning to annihilate them completely, if he didn't break through as soon as possible, when the dawn came, the beggar soldiers and horses who rushed over from all directions would surround them, and they would become turtles in the urn at that time.

"Hugh wants to mention it again, this governor is an official of the imperial court, so I don't believe that he dares to harm this governor."

Whether to leave or stay, Zhang Zongheng is uncertain, not only because of his identity, but also because once he escapes from the front line of Xinxian County, the main elite of the court of 1,500 people will also be gone, and at that time, if Li Jing uses the excuse of raising troops to take revenge and attacks the state and county in the south, then he will not escape death.

After all, Li Jing has the confidence to arrest him, it must be that the evidence of his contact with Wei Bo'an and Zheng Renbao has been thoroughly mastered by Li Jing, and no one dares to speak for him when he stabs the imperial court, after all, it is so useless, plotting to kill the rebels, and being held in turn, who is willing to rescue?

It's better to stay, things are still a little relaxed, he bets that Li Jing will not dare to kill the governor of the imperial court easily, so that at least there is room for maneuver, or when he sees Li Jing's face, can he still make peace?

But he didn't dare to bet on this road, after all, it was a dilemma left and right!

Seeing that he didn't speak, Hu Dawei sat on wax, as a general of the imperial court, and a general who guarded the governor to the north, his duty was to be responsible for Zhang Zongheng's safety, if Zhang Zongheng insisted on refusing to go, he would not be able to organize troops to break through.

The imperial court will not let go of the general who left the governor to flee for his life, and if he dares to go, the final fate will be difficult to escape.

Therefore, seeing that Zhang Zongheng couldn't make a decision, he could only sigh and organize soldiers and horses to defend, but those soldiers, who were still successful in fighting the rogues, and hoped to face to face with the elite main battalion of the beggar army five or six times as much, it was better to wipe their necks than to be happy.

In addition, there are more than 300 people in the main barracks he brought, who were captured with him and refused to surrender, and they know that the begging army is powerful, so they don't have any fighting will, anyway, the worst is to be a prisoner.

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"This is the boundary of Mengyin Yanzhou, and then one hundred and thirty miles to the west, that is, to the place where Caoyun is located, Dudu, are we going north or south?"

On the side of the trail in the Mengyin Mountains, a cavalry of thousands of people rushed here, and the first general looked sincere, looked to the west, and asked a general beside him.

But seeing its punching banner, it is the former Denglai cavalry general, and today's Denglai rebel governor Kong Youde,

Seven days ago, 3,000 iron rode out of Laizhou, around Jiaozhou, avoiding the encirclement of the imperial court soldiers and horses, plundering villages and towns, killing local soldiers and civilians in Shandong, even breaking the state and county, with more than 20 Western cannons, all the soldiers pointed out, invincible and invincible, only seven days of kung fu, more than ten battles, killing 300 soldiers and horses of the imperial court, slaughtering countless local people.

According to the discussion with Li Jiucheng before parting, these 3,000 iron horsemen are only to cut off the canal, and then wave their troops into Henan or enter Huguang, attracting the attention of the officials and soldiers, and reducing the pressure on Denglai.

After waiting for Mengyin, they arrived at the edge of the canal, but whether the army went south or north, the army had different opinions.

If you go north, it is easy to attract the main force of the official army entrenched near Qingzhou, which can effectively relieve the pressure on Laizhou, but the consequences are equally serious, that is, the main cavalry of the Liaodong Guanning Army sent by the imperial court to Shandong for reinforcements, and the Guanmen Iron Cavalry under the command of Governor Shanyong, after entering Shandong, the first fist will definitely hit this partial division.

And if you go south, you don't have this scruples, the left and right are cut off from Caoyun, the imperial court can't bear such pressure, you must know that in April and May, Caoyun begins to be busy, and the Caoyun period of eight months a year is the transportation artery that maintains the most important grain, grass and taxes in the north, once this is cut off, the imperial court will definitely go crazy.

And if they go south to Xuzhou, they can effectively avoid meeting with the Liaodong Army, the key is that the military households in the south are easier to fight, so the task can still be completed, and the soldiers and horses of the imperial court into Lu must also follow and pursue.

But the disadvantage is the same, that is, into the south of Zhili, there are many silt and rivers in the place, which is inconvenient for cavalry to fight, most of these soldiers and horses from Dongjiang Town are cavalry, if they lose their mobility, they will also fall into the encirclement of tens of thousands of officers and soldiers in the south.

"How many flags have appeared in the north?"

Kong Youde didn't know what to say, but first asked how many imperial court soldiers and horses came from the northern front.

"There are no less than six or seven thousand people who play the Deng Zi Banner and the Chen Zi Banner, and they are not more than thirty or forty miles away from us."

The general was stunned for a moment, and then said disdainfully, to say that Deng Xi and Chen Hongfan had a total of six or seven thousand troops in the two towns, but they did not dare to fight with them, Kong Youde tried to lead the troops back, wanting to defeat them first, but these two general soldiers were cautious and ruthless, as long as there was any movement, they would immediately form a group, and not give Kong Youde a chance to start.

And I can't figure out who is pressing whom now, anyway, I follow from a distance, and I don't come up to fight, but it seems to be a send-off.

"Now there are six or seven thousand people, and they dare not fight with us, this must wait for follow-up reinforcements, how many soldiers and towns in the imperial court, if you transfer Huguang and Henan soldiers and horses to participate in the war, where tens of thousands of people, we and other three thousand soldiers and horses, not much grain with them, if it is called a siege, then there is bound to be no way out."

Kong Youde is not a reckless person, and he knows his own situation well, so whenever he encounters a city that is defended, he will go around the city and never stay, only the kind of resistance is weak, and he will leave as soon as the drum breaks the city and loots, for fear of being restrained, so that the imperial court soldiers and horses from all directions take the opportunity to surround him.

"What do you mean, Dudu? Shall we go south? ”

Qianzong, who can be the pioneer of 3,000 soldiers and horses, is naturally not a wasted person, at least after Kong Youde made such a point, he suddenly understood that going north was probably a dead end.

"Exactly, if you go north, although there is the advantage of the cavalry under the crotch, but the imperial court also has, and the Guanning army and the Guanmen iron cavalry, how brave, if you fight head-on, you must not be the enemy, I want to go south first, cut off the Cao Yun, and wait for the opportunity to capture Xuzhou, if the main force of the court goes south, we will go west, enter Huguang, if the court soldiers and horses do not go south, we will guard the Cao Yun, only one month, the Beijing division should collapse."

I have to say that Kong Youde is a good calculation, and as soon as he made a move, he pinched the neck of the imperial court and forced the imperial court to deal with him with the main force first, so as to effectively alleviate the crisis of the main force of the Liaodong rebels on the territory of Denglai.

When they heard that the rebels were moving south, Deng Xi and Chen Hongfan, who were following behind Kong Youde, were dumbfounded, and now, the sky has been pierced, who will stop it?! (To be continued.) )