Pulling Wu Sangui into the battlefield, Zhai Zhe no longer needs to worry about what evil consequences will be caused by the secret edict of Emperor Longwu when it reaches Sichuan. The edict of the Ming Emperor is as important as Mount Tai in the eyes of some people, but Zheng Zhilong and Wu Sangui and others are obviously not among them.

Huguang.

Zhang Tianlu, the commander-in-chief of Changsha, and Chen Youlong, the commander-in-chief of Wugang, stayed in Hunan and stabilized the southwest of Dìng.

A team of cavalry came out of Jingzhou, crossed the river through Xiangyang, entered the boundary of Nanyang Prefecture, and officially stepped into the battlefield.

Xiao Zhiyan and Che Feng were ordered to form cavalry in Jingzhou, and after a year, there were only more than 7,000 cavalry under the command of the two Ming commanders. The Ming army did not lack soldiers who were good at riding, but what was lacking was excellent war horses.

The cavalry holding the "Xiao" banner was in front, and the cavalry holding the "car" banner was behind.

Xiao Zhiyan straddled a group of yellow horses, and Xu Yiyang was by his side. Xu Yiyang is now a deputy general in the army, and he is obviously a general sent by the imperial court to replace Xiao Zhiyan.

Ten miles across the river, a column of cavalry came head-on.

Xu Yiyang pointed to the front and said, "Dad, General Zuo is here."

Zuo Ruo is the general with the highest position and title in Huguang, except for Xiao Zhiyan, no one here can afford him to greet him in person.

Xiao Zhiyan urged the horse to gallop out of the queue, and Xu Yiyang led a team of cavalry to follow.

"Brother Xiao" was dozens of steps away, and Zuo Ruo could be heard shouting, "I finally looked forward to you"

Xiao Zhiyan led the generals to dismount, and when he walked in front of Zuo Ruo, he had to salute.

Zuo Ruo hurriedly stretched out his hand to support him, and said, "Big brother, between you and my brothers, are you doing this to kill me?" ”

"Etiquette in the army cannot be abolished" Xiao Zhiyan resolutely saluted, and then laughed and talked with Zuo Ruo.

"Big brother, if you don't come, I really can't help it" Zuo Ruo held Xiao Zhiyan's shoulder and complained. The soldiers who followed behind him would also have this face, and they were all surprised.

"You're afraid of Luckedhun too?"

Zuo Ruo reacted very quickly and confessed: "Where am I afraid of him, from last winter to now, I have fought 22 battles with Luckedhun, I have won 14 battles, and Qingyu has won 8 games. ”

Xiao Zhiyan said with a smile: "I only know that you were blocked in Nanyang Mansion by the Qing Dynasty, and you have not been able to go further for half a year. ”

When the two brothers met, they shocked the generals around them, and the generals didn't expect their own generals to have this look.

Xiao Zhiyan beckoned Xu Yiyang to step forward and said, "I've seen Uncle Zuo"

"Meet Uncle Zuo" Xu Yiyang was deeply moved. Zuo Ruowei is famous, he is one to Xiao Zhiyan and another to others, Xu Yiyang does not dare to look directly.

Zuo Ruo looked up and down, and finally reached out and patted Xu Yiyang's shoulder and said: "Sure enough, the name is well deserved, the weak-crowned young man is in Hunan, and the future is limitless."

Xiao Zhiyan's move has the intention of entrusting Xu Yiyang to carry him. What Xu Yiyang did, the army also heard about it.

The group walked into the big tent of the Chinese army, and the car wind that followed behind could not get such preferential treatment, so they led the army into the camp near Fancheng, and then went to the big tent of the Chinese army to meet Zuo Ruo.

After the 7,000 cavalry crossed the river, the Ming army had gathered 50,000 troops in Fancheng, all of which were well-trained regular soldiers. Yao Qisheng mobilized government troops to take over Xiangyang, and recruited people to transport grain and gunpowder to Jiangbei.

In the afternoon, the army was assembled, and Zuo Ruo raised the tent to discuss the army.

Zuo Ruo sat in the main seat, and set up a chair for Xiao Zhiyan on the right side, and the rest of the generals stood on both sides. The army pays special attention to seniority, Xiao Zhiyan was demoted to Jingzhou, but his relationship with Zuo Ruo is extraordinary. Zuo Ruo has special respect for this brother.

The drum was drummed three times, and the tent was solemn.

Zuo Ruo said in a deep voice: "Since crossing the river last year, we have engaged the Qing soldiers in Nanyang nearly 100 times, although there are many victories and few losses, but we have not been able to completely defeat the Qing soldiers. The general broke the Qing army under the city of Yangzhou, and sent a military order to order us to attack bravely and recover Henan in one fell swoop. General Xiao and Che General led the cavalry to listen to the order, so that we were like a tiger. ”

Xiao Zhiyan stood up, the car was out of the ranks, and he gave his hand to the generals.

"We have been engaged in battle with the Qing soldiers for half a year, and every time after defeating the Qing soldiers, due to the lack of cavalry, we cannot expand the results of the battle."

Xu Yiyang stood in the back half of the tent, his eyes turning around.

The tent is full of fresh faces, all of them are experienced generals, he is the youngest, surrounded by rude men, only he has an outstanding temperament, elegant and elegant.

Zuo Ruo sat on a high place, he governed the army strictly, and the sergeants of the army were afraid of him like a tiger, and he dared not obey what he ordered. Xu Yiyang was so casual that he didn't like it in his heart. But because of Xiao Zhiyan's face, it's not easy to do. He announced the plan to send troops: "The army will rest for two days, and the troops will approach Nanyang in two days."

Today's gathering is just to familiarize the generals with Xiao Zhiyan and the style of the car, and the military discussion time is very short.

Zuo Ruo left Xiao Zhiyan and Che Feng to discuss it.

Xu Yiyang was ordered to fetch grain and grass supplies from the Chinese army, and he was shocked when he saw Zuo Ruo's military training along the way.

He first saw a group of soldiers wearing heavy armor and long knives practicing chopping, and where they walked their steps, sweat dripping onto the wet ground. The soldiers who had no body fell down and were immediately dragged aside, and their armor was removed and they were whipped.

Walking past a campsite, he saw a fire rising from the bottom of a hill. With the token in his hand, he deliberately took a detour to watch, and a neat group of soldiers shouted all kinds of strange sounds, rushing through the fire, and no one dared to stop. After someone rushed through the fire, their clothes were set on fire, and the prepared soldiers immediately poured water to extinguish the fire

Zuo Ruo garrisoned Fancheng for half a year, occasionally attacked, and most of the time practiced on the spot. Xu Yiyang not only did not agree, but secretly muttered in his heart: "There is such a cruel method of military training"

His family was wealthy when he was young, and after his father rebelled and was beheaded, he was adopted by Xiao Zhiyan. Xiao Zhiyan is casual and generous, cares about his eyebrows and has no children, and treats him as his own son, he has never suffered anything in his life, and he can't see such a cruel practice.

Zuo Ruo's training is cruel, but the soldiers in the army are rewarded generously after their meritorious service, and although the soldiers are hard, they have no complaints, so they have achieved the name of the Iron Army. He and Feng Qin are the Ming generals that the Qing Lu most unwilling to meet, and Feng Qin's status in the Ming Army is higher, but the Qing Lu is more afraid of Zuo Ruo.

Xu Yiyang walked and watched all the way, handed over the token to the Chinese army, took the grain and grass and returned to the camp.

After three days of nothing, the Ming army marched north.

Zuo Ruojun and Jin Shenghuan's army marched hand in hand, and Xiao Zhiyan and Che Feng led the cavalry to follow last. The generals of the Qing court who were responsible for guarding Henan were Zuo Ruo's old acquaintances - Hong Chengchou and Le Ke Dehun.

Last year, the two returned to Nanyang from Xiangyang, and the Qing court did not dispose of the two, because the Henan general soldier Shang Kexi was captured by Wu Sangui, and the two collected the remnants of the army and took over the defense of Henan on the spot.

Hong Chengchou was in charge of civil affairs, appeasing the people's hearts is a good hand, and gradually restored the tranquility of the ruined Henan in half a year, and was good at dancing with long sleeves to let the villages form villages to protect themselves, and did not provide grain and grass supplies to the Ming army.

Zuo Ruozeng led the army to break through three cottages and killed dozens of squires who did not obey orders, which made the people of Henan even more afraid of the Ming army. Whenever the Ming army marched north, the people of Henan fled.

Since the seventh year of Chongzhen, Henan has been in the midst of war, and the people here have long been free of tendencies. The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were not even as good as the Dashun army in their eyes.

Lucke took advantage of the cavalry, taking advantage of the Nanyang Plain to continuously attack the grain road of the Ming army, although Zuo Ruo could penetrate into the territory of Henan, but could not stay for a long time.

Zuo Ruo has been looking for a decisive battle with the Qing cavalry.

The two Ming armies entered Nanyang Mansion, and the fields here were also overgrown with wild grass like Yangzhou Mansion.

Entering Henan from Huguang is like entering another world. The rice ears of Huguang are waving in the wind, and Henan is full of barrenness. Xu Yiyang personally led a hundred-man cavalry to patrol twenty or thirty miles away from the army.

Occasionally, I saw a village, the house had long been empty, and the scout cavalry of the Ming army was inherited from the horse thieves of Xiao Zhiyan, and some livestock footprints and dung were now carried out by the Qing cavalry in the vicinity.

A day later, the Ming army arrived outside Xinye City, and there was no Qing prisoner heavy troops in the city to defend it, and Zuoruo attacked Xinye County in half an hour......

The herald went to the cavalry camp and announced: "Order the cavalry of Xiao Zhiyan to rush north, and bring back all the people who fled along the way." ”

More than 3,000 cavalry galloped through the Henan Plain overnight, and the scouts carefully investigated the movements of the captured cavalry, and captured more than 10,000 people in the afternoon of the next day.

These people were escorted to the outside of Xinye City, Zuo Ruo ordered people to separate the people according to different bodies, the young and strong went to the baggage camp to carry grain and grass materials, and the old and weak women and children of the sergeants and soldiers of each army made fires and cooked.

The lieutenant generals and men of Zuo Ruojun took good care of each other on the battlefield, but they were not polite in the face of the strong people, and they whipped and kicked when they were a little slower, as if they wanted to release all the violent qi they had suffered during the training.

Xu Yiyang took off his armor and went out of the camp to inspect.

After sparing half a circle, seeing a group of people gathered in front of him, and some scolding, he walked over and saw a soldier whipping an old man, and there were more than a dozen people around him.

The old man was holding his head, and there were blood marks on his arms.

Xu Yiyang hesitated for a moment, saw the old man's crying pitiful, couldn't bear it anymore and stepped forward and asked, "Why do you want to whip this person?"

When the soldier saw Xu Yiyang's clothes, he didn't dare to slack off, stopped his movements, and said: "Let him cook in the camp, he deliberately knocked over the pot and didn't give him a mark, he didn't know how to obey." ”

"He is a common man, not a captive"

Most of the sergeants and soldiers of Zuo Ruojun were proud and unruly, and a thousand general next to him stepped forward and said: "He is a common man, but he is willing to work hard for the Qing captive, and the people of Henan are not like Huguang, they would rather be thieves than cut off their braids" He stretched out his hand and grabbed the rat tail that was held behind his head by the old man, and scolded: "The one who keeps this thing is still my Ming people?" ”

That Qian always acted frivolously, and he couldn't see respect for Xu Yiyang.

Xu Yiyang was not happy in his heart, and said: "The imperial court has already announced that as long as there are Han people with braids and no braids, they are all my Ming people." ”

"If he is obedient, I will not deliberately embarrass him, this old thing, disobedient to death or life, whipping is already polite"

The Qian Zong drew his sword, slashed quickly, and scolded in his mouth: "He prides himself on being an official for generations, and he is born to do rough work, so let him taste it."

There was a scream, and an ear fell to the ground.

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