Chapter 208: Capture the thief and capture the king
During the unitary period, the space between heaven and earth is already a little blurred, and the days are short and the nights are long in winter.
"Capture the thief and capture the king."
Zheng Xunrui's order was quickly conveyed, and the battle had lasted for nearly a day, and the bloody killing in the col had made everyone get used to it, and they were concerned about how to kill each other, and they didn't care about the smell of blood around them.
There is almost no red in the col, there are red blood stains on the ground, and there are Zheng Jiajun and Yulin border troops wearing red robes.
Luo Rucai watched the elite cavalry fall into the ambush circle, and watched his brothers being killed, you must know that these 20,000 people are the absolute elite of the rebel army, all of them came out of the carriage gap, extremely strong, but this is the most powerful rebel army, in the face of the attack of the official army, but only has the strength to parry, and cannot counterattack.
Xingyang Conference, he was elected as the chief leader, this is a huge glory, in terms of strength, he and Lao Huihui, Zhang Xianzhong is about the same, not as good as Li Zicheng, after all, after the king Gao Yingxiang was killed, most of the brothers under his command defected to Li Zicheng, so that Li Zicheng's strength was unprecedentedly strong, the battle of the Carriage Gorge, although suffered a painful loss, but after the surrender, Li Zicheng's strength expanded again, and the strength under his command reached as many as 80,000, which is incomparable with other leaders.
Luo Rucai was able to become the general leader, relying on seniority, after the king Gao Yingxiang was killed, the Liukou fought separately, this situation lasted for a few years, everyone felt that they had to join forces to fight, and jointly deal with the official army, so as to be able to develop better, in fact, they entered Hannan, what they thought of was to unite, but unfortunately that time Chen Qiyu, the former governor of the five provinces, seized the opportunity and forced their main force into the carriage Canyon, and almost led the zhì brigade to be annihilated.
After the battle of Chezhou Gorge, the development of the rebel army of each department was rapid, in Hanzhong and Xi'an and other places, a large number of cities were captured, a large number of supplies were obtained, and the strength was rapidly expanded, and it was also for this reason that Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others discussed, and decided to implement a great alliance in Henan. The reason why they did not choose to be in Hanzhong Province was because the shadow of the Battle of Chezhou Gorge made them feel that this place was unlucky, and then ruled out the idea of a great alliance in Shaanxi.
Luo Rucai is very clear that the real alliance between the various departments of the righteous army cannot be done for the time being, everyone is focused on their own interests, and only when they can get benefits, can they achieve temporary union, for example, this time, the righteous army of thirteen families and seventy-two battalions, the soldiers are divided into five routes, it is because the various armies of the official army are celebrating the Spring Festival, and they can not break through the city all the way, and they can get a lot of supplies.
Luo Rucai must vigorously expand his own strength, so that he can truly become the leader of the rebel army, if he wants to expand his strength, he must achieve more and greater victories, plunder more money and food, and recruit soldiers and horses.
The attack on Fengyang City was also the result of the discussion of Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng and others, and they had this idea when they were in Xingyang.
Zhang Xianzhong led part of the army, took Yingchuan, and defeated Yingchuanwei, so that the army attacking Fengyang had no worries, after taking Shouzhou, the three discussed, Luo Rucai personally led 20,000 vanguard troops, surrounded Fengyang City, launched an attack, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng led the army to march to Fengyang City, when the two armies met, it was the time to take Fengyang City.
Fengyang is the central capital of the Ming Dynasty, and the significance of taking here is by no means ordinary.
When the army set out from Shouzhou, Luo Rucai, who had some careful thoughts, took most of the looted money with him, and gave his brothers rewards when he attacked Fengyang City.
Mao Shi set out from Shouzhou, the speed of the march was not very fast, seeing that he was getting closer and closer to Fengyang City, and there was no obstruction along the way, Luo Rucai was even thinking about taking Fengyang City, he could obtain countless wealth, and at that time, he could recruit soldiers on a large scale.
It's a pity that nearly a day passed, 20,000 vanguard troops were ambushed, trapped in the mountain col, and couldn't be killed at all, seeing that the casualties were getting bigger and bigger, and finally it was the fate of being completely annihilated, Luo Rucai could only watch, he couldn't think of a good way, he was ready to rush out to fight several times, but was blocked by the guards around him, and the guards also tried several times to find a breakthrough from the exit of the mountain pass, the direction of the entrance, and the left and right sides, but except for leaving some corpses, he couldn't find any way out.
The battle lasted until after noon, when Luo Ru realized that he was facing the Zheng Jiajun and the Yulin Border Army.
This made his heart chill, not mud, Shen Yikui, Zijin Liang Wang for his own use and King Gao Yingxiang were all killed by Zheng Jiajun, Zheng Jiajun's prestige has long been spread among the righteous army, everyone is very shy of this topic, a few years have passed, no battalion of the righteous army has entered Yansui all over the country, after the battle of Chezhou Gorge, the righteous army took Baishui County, which is very close to Yijun County in Yan'an Prefecture, but everyone consciously restrained the sergeants and was not allowed to enter the territory of Yan'an Mansion.
Watching more and more brothers being killed, looking at the increasingly powerful cavalry of the Zheng family's army, looking at the neat movements of others, and the elusive spears, Luo Ru knew that he had no chance to fight back, and the only thing he could do was to find a way to desperately break through, as long as he could leave the mountain pass, he would be able to save his life.
From time to time, an organized breakout began, but it lasted until the unitary hour, leaving behind the corpses of the sergeants, and there was no hope of breaking out.
Luo Rucai's eyes were red, he didn't want the same fate as King Chuang Gao Yingxiang, who was also elected as the chief leader not long ago, and died in Suidezhou.
A more brutal fight began, and the purpose of the fight at this time was to be able to escape.
Yang He has already killed the red eye, it is said that the battle lasted for most of the day, the soldiers should be very tired, but the actual situation is different, the Zheng family army and the Yulin border army, which occupy a huge area, are more and more courageous, and a large number of rogues have been killed, this overwhelming advantage makes the soldiers more and more excited, they forget about fatigue and hunger, and their fighting spirit is becoming more and more vigorous.
Zheng Xunrui's order was to annihilate the 20,000 vanguard troops of the Liukou, so Yang He didn't think about the idea of killing the leader of the Liukou first, anyway, they were all going to be killed, and the 20,000 Liukou were all cavalry, they were the absolute elite, as long as they killed the 20,000 Liukou, it would be a heavy blow to the Liukou, so when he participated in the fight, what he thought of was to kill the Liukou.
Zheng Xunrui's order soon reached his ears through the herald and his own soldiers.
The military order was like a mountain, Yang He resisted the urge to kill, quickly withdrew from the battle group, raised his hand and raised his spear.
Soon, two hundred scouts approached his side, which was the most elite scout camp of the Zheng family's army, second only to the pro-soldier camp.
Liukou's Shuai Qi has always been guarded in the middle, Zheng Jinhong, Yang He, Liu Zeqing, Hong Xintao and Hong Xingui and others did not specifically attack Shuai Qi, if they did that at the beginning of the fight, they would definitely pay heavy casualties.
At this time, the situation was different, and the rogues were killed and had no power to fight back.
Yang He's spear pointed at Liukou's handsome banner, and all the scouts understood the meaning.
A torrent swept away in the direction of Liukou's handsome banner.
Yang He charged at the forefront, a spear waved without leakage, quite a person blocked the smell of killing the Buddha and killing the Buddha, and some of the rogue cavalry even began to take the initiative to retreat.
The torrent of soldiers in the scout battalion is not at all something that the rogue can resist, and the Zheng family army has concentrated the most elite soldiers at this moment and began to implement the tactics of capturing the thief and capturing the king.
In an instant, the torrent was only more than ten meters away from Shuai Qi, and a large number of rogues fell screaming.
Luo Rucai had already discovered that the situation was wrong, what he saw was a particularly dazzling red stream, coming in his direction, the official army must be coming towards Shuai Qi, coming towards him, but unfortunately at this time, he couldn't dodge, the righteous army, which was already at an absolute disadvantage, would collapse on the whole line if he saw Shuai Qi fall.
Luo Rucai raised the spear in his hand and rushed forward with a roar.
What he saw was a bloody man wielding a spear, and even the body of the war horse was stained with blood.
It was an Arabian war horse, a little taller than the Uzhumuqin horse under his crotch.
When the two were fighting, Luo Ru felt a sharp pain coming from his back, his body shook and fell off the horse, and at the moment of falling, he saw Su Congjin behind him, this is his lieutenant general, his most trusted general.
The severe pain made Luo Ru have no time to think, and he passed out in an instant.
Yang He held the handsome flag and shouted loudly.
"Luo Rucai was captured alive ......"
Huge cheers and roars appeared in the mountain col, and the rogues who were resisting saw the handsome banner that was taken away, and saw Luo Rucai who was tied to the horse, this was their handsome.
The rogues collapsed in an instant, and they were no longer able to resist and fight, fleeing like headless flies, hoping to stay away from this mountain pass of death......
On the mountain pass, Xu Wanghua saw this scene, and a look of ecstasy appeared.
A smile appeared on Zheng Xunrui's face, and he let out a long breath.
"Congratulations to your subordinates, you have annihilated 20,000 cavalry."
"Mr. Xu, it's not worth being too happy, the battle has just begun, it's like walking and marching, a journey of 10,000 miles, we have just stepped on, and there will be more fights in the future."
After saying this, Zheng Xunrui spoke to the herald beside him.
"Those who surrender on their knees can be spared, and those who resist will be killed......"