Chapter 328: A small knife cuts meat

The county seat of Luotian is not large, and it is impossible for Zhang Xianzhong to put all the displaced people into the city, which leads to a large number of coerced people stationed everywhere outside the city. Liukou belongs to the type that never takes human life seriously, and he has nothing to eat in Daming, and human life is not valuable.

When fighting, the strong are the precursor, and when the battle is unfavorable, the old and weak are used as bait to attract officers and men and run away on their own. This set of tricks is a thief leader who is very skilled. Zhang Xianzhong dared to stay in Luotian without moving, one was to bully Chen Xie's soldiers, and the other was to take a large number of people and really couldn't go fast. Chen Xie was a cavalryman, and he couldn't catch up before because Zhang Xianzhong left a large number of old and weak women and went south quickly. Now that he has coerced a large number of people, he has naturally slowed down. Another point is that the terrain is unfavorable, the lake is wide, there are many paddy fields, and there are many hills, which is not suitable for large-scale cavalry combat.

Zhang Xianzhong has not fought with Chen Xie in the real sense, and belongs to the type who doesn't know how powerful.

After dark, the troops were prepared, and Chen Xie made the final deployment: "With the cavalry brigade as the combat unit, the four brigades will be invested first, and the main thing will be to disturb the enemy. The rest of the troops were ready to respond, and the four brigades that had fought in advance retreated, and immediately threw themselves into four more brigades, and the 12 brigades were divided into three groups and took turns to fight, not seeking to kill him at once, but only to keep bleeding. In short, there is just one request, so that the rogues will not be at peace day and night.

After the meeting, the four brigades began to move, led by local guides, and took a small road to detour around Luotian. Each of them finds a loose camp where the homeless people are stationed as a target, and then lurks. Eat dry food, drink water, rest.

Chen Xie took the main force of the eight brigades, brazenly walked the official road with torches, crossed the Yingshan River under the noses of the thieves, and began to camp with a dignified posture. Zhang Xianzhong sent a large number of scouts, so he could naturally detect Chen Xie's movements. To be honest, he didn't understand how he could march at night and cross the river and camp. Who will believe it? But Zhang Xianzhong didn't dare to be careless. After all, the Dengzhou camp is famous for its murder. Chen Xie is a fool. I was chopped by Huang Taiji and fed to the dog, how can I have the opportunity to show off my might here.

After tossing in the middle of the night, the camp of the Dengzhou camp was set down, and the second half of the night was quiet. Zhang Xianzhong thinks. Chen Xie is planning to wait for the dawn to fight against him. Case. He was also relieved. He ordered to be on guard, and the main force went to Macheng early tomorrow morning, leaving the old and weak women. Delay Chen Xie's speed, wait for Chen Xie to chase him to Guifeng Mountain, and fight his ambush.

Only then Zhang Xianzhong was just about to squint for a while, and there was a sudden noise outside the city, and he got up in his clothes, and waited for a while before his subordinates came to report, the Dengzhou battalion attacked the camp outside the city at night, and the west of the city was already in chaos. The mountains are full of displaced people fleeing for their lives in the dark.

Zhang Xianzhong hurriedly climbed the city wall to see the situation, and saw the flames rising to the sky in the dark night, and the two large camps in the west of the city were attacked. One of the two camps was next to a small hill, and the other was on the edge of the woods. The Dengzhou battalion didn't know how to set fire, the mountains and woods were lit, the homeless people fled in all directions, and a small group of Dengzhou cavalry chased after them like ducks, constantly dispersing the crowd that gathered.

It was the first time for Zhang Xianzhong to see people fighting like this, and there were no less than 50,000 displaced people in these two camps, mainly the old and weak, and they were attacked at night, and no one could stop the chaos. When the people who were driven away flocked to those camps that were not attacked, Zhang Xianzhong chuckled in his heart and said secretly: It's broken!

Night blindness was common in this era, and in fact the casualties caused by the Dengzhou battalion were not too large. The main thing is the death and injury caused by the stampede of running away in the chaos. In the confusion, people instinctively run with the person in front of them, or run in the direction of their own people who they know. The camp that was not attacked was instantly rushed by the fleeing people, and the Dengzhou battalion cavalry was not many in number, but they kept running back and forth in the back, driving the displaced people to attack their own camp, leading to even greater chaos.

At this time, the main force of the Dengzhou battalion, which had not been stopped for a long time, was dispatched again with open fire, and in front of the banner of a flying eagle, a young general approached Luotian with a neat line of Dengzhou cavalry. The scouts looked over at night, the official roads were full of torches, and the long fire dragon could not see the end, who knows how many people came. There was a mess of porridge behind him, and the soldiers in front of him were pressing, and Zhang Xianzhong didn't dare to go out of the city at all. At this time, the large number of people is not only not an advantage, but a disadvantage. It was originally a rabble, and it was night, so they didn't dare to attack at all. 100,000 people, in front of 2,000 cavalry, chased ducks as if scattered and fled, some ran in the direction of Macheng, some drilled into the mountains, and some begged outside the city to open the city gate.

Four cavalry brigades, galloping through the night, encountered a large group of thieves, and with a single blow of crossbow arrows, they left, and turned around to drive away the small group of thieves. After a while, he turned back again, and another crossbow bolt came, and in three or five strokes, a large group of thieves were scattered. Similar battles were repeated countless times in the second half of the night, and the cavalry, with a large brigade as a unit, voluntarily withdrew from the battlefield before dawn.

Zhang Xianzhong watched the excitement of the city for two hours, and never dared to send troops. When the morning dawned, I looked at the camp outside the city, and it was already miserable. Everywhere there were displaced people who had fallen to their deaths, and some survivors who could not run crawled out of the grass or ditches on the side of the road, staring blankly at what was happening.

At this time, looking at the main force of the Dengzhou battalion on the front, I don't know when, the main force of the Dengzhou battalion has withdrawn for more than ten miles. At this time, let Zhang Xianzhong take the initiative to attack, and he was unwilling to kill him. Zhang Xianzhong, who was helpless, had no choice but to eat this bitter fruit and ordered to clean up the mess and collect the fleeing people. The main horse team went out of the city to Macheng first, leaving more than 20,000 displaced people in the city in Luotian City, so that they could drag the main force of the Dengzhou cavalry.

Chen Xie really didn't have any good way to deal with Zhang Xianzhong's move, and letting the cavalry attack the city might be the stupidest thing in the military. In response to this move, Chen Xie's method was to bypass Luo Tian. This move made Zhang Xianzhong stupid, and he prepared for an ambush in Guifeng Mountain. Zhang Xianzhong, who had no choice but to gather the remnants in Macheng, was reluctant to get rid of Luotian's 20,000 people, and waited for the gathering to continue to run west. The purpose is to find an opportunity to return to Shaanxi.

At this time, Huguang can be described as empty of troops, and the officers and soldiers of Shaanxi have just come out of Tongguan, and they are still besieging the rogues led by Gao Yingxiang. The Dengzhou soldiers led by Su Haochen did not abandon Hong Chengchou's order to march into Ruzhou at all after entering Henan, and relied on the Guide Mansion to move. Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, received an order to go to Dengzhou to take office, so he naturally did not care about the affairs of the Dengzhou camp. Yuan Mo, the governor of Henan, can still fight with a Zuo Liangyu in his hand, and he wishes that Su Haochen would be in Guide, and he would expect him to go north to Kaifeng at any time, so naturally he would not speak.

It was not until the end of February that he received an order from the Ministry of War that Su Haochen gave face and led his troops to Ruzhou. That's all for later.

After Zhang Xianzhong left Luotian, his subordinates were still 100,000 people, and the main force that could fight was 50,000. The cavalry can also make up more than 10,000 heads, at this time, Zhang Xianzhong saw that Chen Xie was gone, and the scouts couldn't find any traces, so he pinched his nose and went to fight Macheng. With so many people, if you don't fight Macheng, what will you take to fill your stomach.

Just when Zhang Xianzhong was about to attack the city, the scouts found that Chen Xie had caught up. It's forty miles away in the town of Elang. This time Zhang Xianzhong is numb, do you want to continue to fight Macheng? Chen Xie is a cavalryman, and he can't get rid of it at all, this is too annoying.

At this time, the happiest thing is Wuchang Mansion, the famous Dengzhou Battalion, chased from Nanzhili to Huguang, and appeared directly in Goose Coop Town, this time Wuchang Mansion is safe. At least Hankou is safe, and there is no need to worry about being beaten down by Zhang Xianzhong. Hurry up and send people to deliver food, chickens and ducks. There was no need for the government to mobilize, and the local gentry took the initiative to do this work.

Zhang Xianzhong still decided to fight, relying on the favorable terrain in this area, and the cavalry was inconvenient to move. Dispatch 10,000 steps to ride and deploy in the area of Zhongguanyi. I never thought that Chen Xie led his troops to go northeast, crossed the water, and appeared in the southeast direction of Macheng. played a night attack again, scattered the 20,000 homeless people who were left behind, and put on a posture of active attack. Zhang Xianzhong had no choice but to adjust his defense, give up the siege of Macheng, and turn around to fight Chen Xie. I didn't think that Chen Xie would retreat directly and go in the direction of Luotian. At this time, Luotian was an empty city, and Zhang Xianzhong couldn't catch up if he wanted to catch up, so he had to let Bai Wenxuan take more than 10,000 foot soldiers to deploy defenses in Guifeng Mountain.

The direction of Macheng found Zhang Xianzhong's abnormality, and naturally knew that reinforcements were coming, and the county ordered to mobilize the gentry to fight to the death. Zhang Xianzhong fought for a day and did not fight. Rest at night and wait for tomorrow to fight again. Unexpectedly, Chen Xie attacked Guifeng Mountain at night, shot out all the remaining rockets in one go, and lit all the fires on Guifeng Mountain.

Bai Wenxuan couldn't hold back at all, and was chased and killed by the 2,000 cavalry led by Chen Xie himself, and fled in defeat. After a night of fierce fighting, 3,000 beheadings, countless escapes, and less than 500 people returned to Zhang Xianzhong's headquarters, Bai Wenxuan hugged Zhang Xianzhong's thigh and cried bitterly, so he could be regarded as saving his life.

This is not the end, after cutting two knives in a row, Zhang Xianzhong was really numb, and he wanted to lay down Macheng so that he could run away, so Feng Shuangli took 5,000 cavalry and 10,000 foot soldiers to collect the back, and commanded the main force to besiege Macheng. Unexpectedly, at the beginning of this side, the Zhongguanyi over there was killed by He Xian with two thousand cavalry.

The troops on the side of Zhongguanyi were transferred to 10,000, leaving 3,000 cavalry and 3,000 foot soldiers. It's said that it's a soldier, but in fact, these rogues are extremely poorly equipped, and there aren't many guys at all. Wooden sticks are the dominant weapon.

How could such an opponent wait to stop the wolf-like Dengzhou Battalion Iron Cavalry, He Xian didn't have much impact, and the four brigades stepped forward in turn, shooting a crossbow arrow and flashing people, tossing back and forth for an hour. The foot soldiers of Zhongguanyi couldn't bear it first, and ran away directly. As soon as the remaining 3,000 cavalry saw this formation, I would also run. (To be continued......)