Lu Xiangsheng was not a fool, as soon as Shanxi suddenly broke away from the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, he led his army to launch an attack on the Zezhou region.

It is adjacent to Binh Duong Province, but it is clear that it has not completely been reduced to Zhang Hongwu's control area, so it is easiest to take the lead in recovering it. Even as long as the army of the Ming Dynasty comes here, it will be able to return to the arms of the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible.

When the time comes, whether it is going north or west, there will be more or less choices. The worst is that it has regained some lost ground for Daming.

In fact, as he said, Zhang Hongwu's control over Zezhou was not large, so with the strong intervention of tens of thousands of troops, the resistance forces here were quickly eliminated, and the entire Zezhou Shunlì returned to the embrace of the Ming Dynasty.

Lu Xiangsheng is not a pedantic person, after recapturing Zezhou, he immediately raided more than a dozen big families close to Zhang Hongwu. Not to mention anything else, I finally replenished some of the weapons, armor and food I needed as soon as possible.

The consumption of the army is too great to replenish it all, and his troops are the worst of the three troops, and the gap in replenishment is even greater.

"Report to the Governor, we have entered the territory of Binh Duong Province!" Adjutant General Man Gui came to report.

Originally, this person died heroically in the defense of Beijing in 1630, but because of the butterfly effect of Zhang Hongbin's appearance in time and space, this one is alive and well. Of course, according to his original position, it is enough to be Lu Xiangsheng's boss, but he is a pure military general, and he is also a Mongolian barbarian general, and there is no comparison with Lu Xiangsheng, who was born in Jinshi, so he fought under his command, which can be regarded as a preferential treatment given to Lu Xiangsheng by the bigwigs of the DPRK and China.

"Be careful, now this is already the enemy's territory, and it is also the territory that the traitor Zhang Hongwu has been operating for the longest time, and the enemies encountered here will be much more and more elite than Zezhou!" Lu Xiangsheng nodded and solemnly ordered.

"Our scouts have scattered in all directions, and they can't hide their every move from us. On the contrary, our every move, the other party may not be able to see through. Man Gui said fearlessly.

He sent out to scout for the horses, but the real scout was a falcon he had domesticated. In the grasslands, the falcon is the best scout, able to see movement for miles at a glance, and can return to the master's hands with the most precision. Man Gui rarely domesticated a qualified falcon, which can be described as the best partner on the battlefield.

"That's what I said, but be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years, and don't let the whole team fall into a place of no return because of carelessness." Lu Xiangsheng also agreed with Man Gui's words, but as a commander, he had to think more.

Especially in terms of the dependence of the scouts, Man Gui is a little too dependent on his own falcon.

Man Gui is now nearly forty years old, and time has polished his edges and corners to some extent, and he is a little more wise than the hot-blooded and simple man who only knew how to charge into battle and kill the enemy to serve the country at the beginning. Maybe he still doesn't like this guy who abandoned literature and martial arts, but he has to admire him, after all, Lu Xiangsheng dares to go to the battlefield in person, and the fierce man who fights on the front line is completely different from Hong Chengchou's so-called Confucian general, and he can't rely on this disobedience.

In the next three days, the team encountered some obstacles one after another, and it has to be said that the defenders of Pingyang Prefecture, who had obtained relatively advanced firearms, were indeed not weak in combat effectiveness, and Zhang Hongwu did a very good job in training.

All the soldiers who stayed behind, after encountering hundreds of thousands of troops, thought of not fleeing immediately, but after alerting those behind, they resolutely took up their weapons and fought with the enemy to the last man. Even if you know that you are invincible, you must destroy all your firearms before the final collapse.

Yes, not allowing any enemy to obtain even a single firearm is the consistent style of the Qin army. Everyone knows that the Qin army's combat effectiveness is strong, and a large part of it is made of firearms. It is precisely because the Qin army has the most advanced firearms and artillery in the world that it can move forward and be invincible.

If the fire bolt falls to other forces and is imitated by them, then it will greatly shorten the distance with the Qin army. Even with the manufacturing capacity and talent reserve of the Ming Dynasty, it is not impossible to further develop more powerful firearms and artillery. What the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty may lack is not technology, but an idea.

After a few battles, Lu Xiangsheng's troops also lost thousands of people, which is not even a fur for a large army of more than 100,000 people.

Rao is like this, after a few battles, not a single firearm was captured, and Lu Xiangsheng said that he was not depressed, which was definitely a lie. Just as the Qin army understands the root of its combat effectiveness, Lu Xiangsheng is also very aware of the origin of the Qin army's combat effectiveness, and he also knows that if he can get the firearm as a sample, it will not be a problem to imitate it with the ability of the Ming Dynasty, and the gap between the combat effectiveness of the Qin army and the Ming army will be infinitely narrowed during the holiday, and then it will be the time for the Ming to regain the lost territory.

I can't say, when the time comes, the world will be so big, it can really be under the sun and the moon, and it will be the land of the Ming Dynasty.

For the sake of the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty and the pacification of the world, Lu Xiangsheng must also find a way to get a batch of firearms from the Qin army!

With such an idea, Lu Xiangsheng went all the way forward and almost hit Linfen.

It is one of the key points of Pingyuan Province, and it has always been an important place for soldiers.

It's just that at this time, Man Gui came to report that not far from Linfen, there was a force moving westward, suspected of returning to Shaanxi. The team probably numbered tens of thousands, and only 10,000 were really combat-ready, and the rest seemed to be prisoners.

Yes, most likely, it was the captured troops on Hong Chengchou's side.

With the addition of tens of thousands of troops, Lu Xiangsheng could not ignore this result, and in this era, the concept of the more people the stronger the combat effectiveness is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Even if you know that firearms are powerful, you can't stop the concept left by the era of cold weapons. Not to mention that if there are tens of thousands of people as cannon fodder, the elite of your own army can also be retained to the greatest extent. Especially in the past few days, I have not heard the news of Hong Chengchou's surrender, and there is no news of his killing. In other words, Hong Chengchou is very likely to appear in that army.

No matter what the reason, Lu Xiangsheng could only give up attacking Linfen and decisively chose to attack this transport force.

The other party's scout, Lu Xiangsheng handed it over to Man Gui to solve, this person is familiar with this kind of thing and trustworthy.

Qin's scout cavalry is equipped with a special cavalry, which Man Gui also knows. This thing is very useful for quickly killing enemies at medium distances, and Man Gui is also red-eyed, but the scouts of the Qin State will always destroy them as soon as they know that they are going to be finished, so Man Gui can't even if he wants to collect a batch.

This time he had to face the Qin State's scouts again, but Man Gui was extremely excited, hoping that he could get a batch this time.

Using three scouts as bait, Man Guishun attracted Qin's scouts to the designated place, creating the illusion that the enemy's main force was there. Immediately ambushed and surrounded, and finally surrounded more than a dozen scouts. At the first time, he issued a kill order, otherwise the other party would destroy the fire gun as soon as possible.

But he didn't know that after knowing that he was surrounded, the scouts had already begun to destroy the firearms. In this case, the firecracker will not be used a few times at all, if it is accidentally captured by the other party, with the financial and material resources of the Ming Dynasty, it is also very easy to form a cavalry firecracker army. When the time comes, it will not be a good thing for the Qin State. As for the combat part, it's good to use grenades, each person is equipped with a grenade, just don't Lang Fei!

Yes, in the end, Man Gui still didn't get the fire gun he wanted, only a pile of scrap iron.

Rao is like this, he also paid the lives of more than 20 excellent scouts, and the opponent's grenade exploded, the power was too great, far better than Daming.

"Cut, it seems that I have nothing to gain here, I just hope that Governor Lu can gain something!" Man Gui muttered very dissatisfied.

On the other side, Lu Xiangsheng led his men and launched an attack on the transport troops.

Because of the Manchu Gui relationship, the officers who escorted the captives of the Qin State mistakenly believed that the enemy army was in the southwest, but did not want the main force to appear in the east. Rao was like this, and he still quickly formed a formation to respond, trying to resist.

Lu Xiangsheng was not having a good time, the enemy's firepower was too fierce, and every step forward required a certain amount of losses.

Seriously, at this moment, he wanted to retreat directly. In just a few face-to-face efforts, his troops have already lost tens of thousands of people. However, the distance between the two sides was only about 200 meters.

"Kill the thief!" The captives screamed and began to resist violently.

"Kill the thief!" More people ** up, obviously the status of this shouting person is not low.

The internal rebellion, the Qin army instantly entered the situation of siege before and after, even if it was a group of captives who had no defense, not even any weapons.

As a last resort, after simple resistance, the large army had no choice but to retreat, leaving the group of prisoners behind.

Lu Xiangsheng looked at the retreating figure of the Qin army, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After counting the prisoners, about 40,000 people were rescued by themselves and returned to the arms of the Ming Dynasty. Deeply traced the righteous man who shouted first, only to find out that it was the captured Hong Chengchou himself. But at this moment, he is covered with scars all over his body, and it is obvious that he has not been tortured any less along the way.

"Hong Dudu, it's really hard for you!" Lu Xiangsheng stepped forward to help him up.

"For the sake of Daming, the sinner Hong Chengchou, not bitter!" Hong Chengchou also said with emotion.