Chongzhen four years, spring!

Due to the imperial court to increase taxes, aroused public resentment, on the eighth day of the first month of February, the West Road Righteous Army led by Shen Yikui, the number of people swelled sharply to 60,000, waved the army to attack Ningxia, all commanded Wang Ying's troops to defeat, the fourteenth said, Shen Yikui soldiers besieged Qingyang, broke through Dongguan, at the end of the month, and captured Heshui, and captured the county commander Jiang Yingchang alive.

On 22 February, a peasant uprising broke out in Fujian, and thousands of rebels attacked Ruijin* County from Changlaikeng. Instructed Wang Kuichun to handle the affairs of the city, instructed the people to defend the army, and the rebel army went to the ancient city of Fujian.

At the same time, the peasants in Shanxi, who were boiling with public resentment, saw the arrival of Wang Jiayin's righteous army and joined them one after another, making Wang Jiayin's 20,000 liukou who entered Shanxi's west instantly multiplied fivefold, and the number soared to 100,000.

End of February! Zhu Yuanzhang, who has been entrenched in Huanglong Mountain for several years and has not moved, has finally moved!

If you don't move, it's enough, and the soldiers are divided into two ways, one is led by Xu Renjie, leading the leaders of Baishui Wang Er, Yingshanhong, Poodle and other leaders, attacking Yichuan and "collecting taxes" from the gentry and landlords in Yichuan. On the other hand, Zhu Yuanzhang led the army himself, leading Ma Xiaotian, Miao Mei, Feishan Tiger, Big Red Wolf and other leaders to attack Luochuan, the purpose was also to collect taxes, and the work of staying in the cottage was handed over to Desperate San Lang as usual.

After several years of training, several leaders under Zhu Yuanzhang began to slowly find their positions. Like Desperate Saburo, he knows very well that his strength lies not in attack, but in defense. He also focused on learning the knowledge of defense, and now the heavy responsibility of garrisoning the cottage is no one else.

And Wang Er, on the other hand, practiced martial arts hard and trained himself to become a vanguard general, he didn't understand the art of war or anything, and he didn't want to hear it. Some book friends may think that a fierce general like Wang Er has a fart? It can be easily eliminated with a small stratagem, but in fact, this view is one-sided.

In fact, the fierce general has its own use for the fierce general. For example, if you lay down a hundred killers, and then use a trick to lure a fierce general into the encirclement of the killers, but this fierce general is too fierce, he actually knocked down all the hundred killers, and then walked away, then your strategy to lure the enemy is still a fart?

It's the same in the military formation, what encirclement point do you use to send reinforcements, what lures the enemy into depth, what flanks on both sides, and what kind of backwater battle...... No matter what your plan, if you meet a peerless fierce general who can single-handedly carve a bloody path for your army in the face of impossible adversity, then any strategy will be in vain!

That's how it works! Zhu Yuanzhang in the previous life, there is such a card in his hand, that person's name is Chang Yuchun, he has fought a hundred battles in his life, he is a pioneer, he often braves the rain of bullets and bullets to kill the enemy, and sweeps Youyan like entering a no-man's land! He made great contributions to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty by Zhu Yuanzhang. In this life, Zhu Yuanzhang does not have Chang Yuchun in his hands, only Wang Er, and now he is far inferior to Chang Yuchun, but if he is given many opportunities to exercise, he will not be able to match it.

As for Xu Renjie, he has become an important general necessary for Zhu Yuanzhang to divide his troops into two ways, in addition to Zhu Yuanzhang, he is the only general in the cottage who knows how to march and camp and change formations. If there is no Xu Renjie, it will be difficult for the momentum of the cottage to expand, because every time the army attacks, Zhu Yuanzhang must lead the army, then he will not have to do anything else in the future, and he will have to tire him to death just by going out on the expedition.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang cultivated him very carefully, and the momentum of the cottage will expand again in the future, and Xu Renjie's burden will become heavier and heavier.

This time the soldiers were divided into two ways, Zhu Yuanzhang also carefully calculated the strength of the leaders, and the generals arranged for the two armies were basically the same in terms of combat effectiveness, Xu Renjie's command ability was worse than his own, so he gave him the second Wang who had the most combat effectiveness. And his own army also arranged a brave Miao Mei in case of emergency.

As for the soldiers, Zhu Yuanzhang also gave the more elite old team and the old second team to Xu Renjie to ensure the combat effectiveness of that army, and also matched him with 600 veterans and 600 new soldiers to ensure combat effectiveness.

On Zhu Yuanzhang's side, Ma Xiaotian's more than 30 henchmen were used as the core, supplemented by the 200 outlaws under Miao Mei, plus 600 veterans and 600 recruits.

It's not the first time Luochuan has come, this flat county town is still in a desolate state compared to the last time I came, but this spring, the situation seems to be a little better than last year, and you can see a few traces of tender green in the fields, it turns out that weeds are rising......

"Huh? Zhu Bugs, you see...... Wild grass grew in the field. Ma Xiaotian exclaimed: "This ...... How many years have we not seen such a situation? ”

"Yes, it's warmer in the mountains this year." Miao Mei added next to her: "A few old farmers have said that this year's New Year will be better...... Isn't that true? ”

Miao Mei said as she looked up at the sky, there were actually clouds in the sky, although there were not many, but it was a very rare thing to see clouds in this great drought year.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, and thought about it carefully: Huh? Will this be a good year? Let me think...... Previous life...... It's a pity that he has experienced too many things in his previous life and seen too many historical changes, and it is too difficult to remember accurately whether a certain year is a good year with good weather and weather, and his head is not a computer.

Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to give up reminiscing about such a long time ago.

"God's business, let's leave it alone, we can't take care of it." He waved his hand and said, "It's the right thing to do to collect taxes quickly." ”

Just as he was saying this, the scout in front ran back and reported loudly: "Brother Zhu, we found a village in front of us, called Luo Village, the population is quite a lot, at least three hundred people, the people in the village are so poor that they can't open the pot, after we show our identity, they all say that they are willing to join our cottage." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, this kind of situation of raising the village to ask to join the cottage is very common, this time he has already accepted the people of the two villages, so he waved his hand and said: "Okay, then we will go to Luo Village and incorporate them." ”

The army followed the guidance of the scouts and slowly marched towards Luo Village!

Sure enough, what caught my eye was a dilapidated village, and the fields around the village were all barren and cracked on the ground.

At the entrance of the village stood a large group of yellow-skinned villagers, each of them in ragged clothes and blank eyes.

Seeing the arrival of Zhu Yuanzhang's army, a look of fear flashed in the eyes of the villagers, no matter how good Baishui Zhu Ba's reputation is, but he is a bandit after all, ordinary people, how can there be a reason not to be afraid of bandits? Moreover, no one will be willing to join the bandits until the day of desperation.

Under the instruction of Zhu Yuanzhang, Ma Xiaotian walked in front of this group of people and said loudly: "I heard that you are willing to join our cottage, right?" ”

The poor people were silent for a while, and after a long while, an old man came out and asked in a trembling tone, "My lord, do you take care of the food?" ”

"Tube!" Ma Xiaotian said loudly: "As long as you enter our village, you will be a brother, and of course we will take care of your brother's belly." ”

"That'...... I...... We are willing to join ......" The old man said this sentence tremblingly, and the old tears flowed horizontally, obviously, it was not what he wanted to join the bandits, but people must eat to live, God did not give them food, and the court had to increase taxes to force them to die, how could they live if they did not join the bandits?

"We ...... Willing to join ......" The villagers behind knelt on the ground.

"Hmm!" Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said: "Xiaotian, you go and count the number of people, take a few bags of grain out, let them eat, and after they are full, send someone to lead them to the cottage, don't delay our business." ”

"Yes!" Ma Xiaotian answered and walked towards the villagers.

He took this step, and suddenly let out a "huh", looked sideways at the leaders of Miao Mei and the Flying Mountain Tiger Big Red Wolf, and asked, "It seems that something has dripped on my face...... Who's spittle? ”

"We didn't speak, where did the spitting come from?" Miao Meiqi said.

"Huh? I also had a drop of water splashed on my face...... Who's spitting? The Flying Tiger also screamed.

Almost at the same time, the military formation behind Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly fluctuated, and many soldiers shouted: "Huh? Is there water dripping on my face? ”

"What's wrong? Why is there water dripping down all of a sudden? ”

"Impossible, right?"

"It's ...... It's ......"

"Rain!"

Countless voices, after exclaiming a bunch of garbled words, all turned into the same word: "Rain!" ”

"Rain!"

"It's raining!"

Puff, puff, puff...... In an instant, I don't know how many pairs of knees fell to the ground, I don't know how many soldiers burst into tears, excited, ecstatic, amazed, in this year of great drought, can actually encounter a spring rain, what could be more exciting?

There are only a few people who can barely stand and not kneel.

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed, raised his head and looked at the sky: "This year, it's really a good year?" Why didn't I remember such a crucial thing? This ...... The original expansion plan has been disrupted again. ”

He flattened his eyes and looked at the group of people standing at the entrance of the village opposite, those poor people, who had already made up their minds to join Zhu Yuanzhang's cottage, but ...... When they saw the rain falling, when they woke up from the shock of the first spring rain, they invariably took a step back......

This step was less than a meter away, but Zhu Yuanzhang knew that their hearts had retreated away from the cottage...... These people are no longer of his use!