Although the green battalion of the Qing army camped in Yuerkou, the three of Zuo Shouyi held torches, held high the banner of the Qing army from the side of the camp, and roared past, so that the soldiers guarding the camp were inexplicable and did not dare to release arrows suddenly. Looking at the raging fire in the southwest direction, he didn't know what was happening, and he didn't dare to move in the camp.

When Meng Qiaofang and others got the news that Li Huping was burned, Zuo Shouyi, Shi Xinsheng, and Li Ersan had already ridden through Xiyan Town.

"Murderers and arsonists, the Ming Dynasty is righteous...... Grandfather! ”

The words were written on the ground with fierce fire oil, and then ignited on fire, and the black ground could not be brushed off. Meng Qiaofang went to Li Huping in person, and when she saw the message on the ground, her face was not happy, but her heart was turbulent and difficult to suppress.

Daming still has such a brave person!

He originally thought that the Guan Liao Iron Cavalry was a strong soldier of the Ming Dynasty, but now he suddenly found that the Guan Nei Army was not inferior to the Guan Liao Army in combat, and even won a big victory. Just a little-known Tanma actually has the courage and courage to burn the grain table at night. After he interrogated the unfortunate Mr. Qian, he was even more sure that this person was well aware of the nine-sided military and his methods were ruthless.

Such a talent is just a prospect in the Ming army, is the Ming army full of talents, or is the Ming general ignorant of people?

Meng Qiaofang sighed and said, "Send someone to invite the two kings of Guangning and Gongshun to enter Jin as soon as possible, I'm afraid that if you don't come again, Jinnan will be difficult to protect." ”

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On the eighth day of October in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, in the mountains and ravines in the Zhoushan Mountains, military forts sprung up like mushrooms after rain. The circumference of these forts was no more than thirty or fifty paces, and all of them were built with granaries, barracks, and gunpowder magazines, and some also housed craftsmen, who could build and repair weapons nearby.

The westernmost of them, the military fort, with a circumference of one mile, was the largest of all the new forts. The fort only looked at one gate to the west. The entire western wall is in a concave arc. It is conceivable that as long as the Qing soldiers rush under the wall, it will be like entering the pocket of the Ming army, and they will inevitably suffer heavy casualties.

The wall of this fort is full of horses, and three 17-type battalion artillery pieces are placed, and the firepower is amazing.

Locals call this place "Pipe Head". Therefore, the fort also has the name of a pipe head. Although it is a small fort, it guards the two passages in the Zhoushan Mountains, echoing with the Tibetan Mountain Fort in the northeast of Yuxian County, ensuring that Yuxian County is impregnable.

Outside the west gate of the pipe head fort is a flat land, there have been relics of reclamation, if it can be reopened, it is more than 500 acres of food field, enough to settle more than ten families. But now it's still a battlefield where troops are arranged.

Zuo Guang first stood on the wall of the pipe head fort and looked at the improvised pitch on the flat ground outside. The two centaurs, dressed in iron armor, shouted loudly and played in full swing. The people, who had never seen this kind of game, thought it was the Ming army's infighting at first, but later learned that it was just a ball play.

In this place where entertainment is basically handy, it is always haode to be able to watch a play. The Ming army's pattern of playing ball and watching the play soon spread in the surrounding villages, and some people even made a special trip to see it by dozens of miles of mountain roads.

The most haode viewing seat is the fort wall where Zuo Guangxian stands, if it is equipped with a clairvoyant mirror. It's even better.

The young man standing on Zuo Guangxian's side was immersed in the fun of watching the ball in the clairvoyant mirror at this time.

"It's still very exciting." The young man finally put down the clairvoyant. He let out a long breath with eleven flushes on his face.

"Your Highness," Zuo Guangxian said, "these sons and daughters are really kind enough to do something wrong. ”

The young man is none other than Zhu Cihong, the crown prince of Huangming. He was wearing a set of ordinary leather armor, standing beside Zuo Guangxian, who was wearing mountain armor, like a general.

Zhu Cihong smiled: "It's okay. If you can get a tiger like this, I admit this loss. ”

"I'm afraid that the Qing army won't come in." Zuo Guang sighed first, and the afterglow floated to the silver badge of the school officer on his shoulder, quite helpless.

Since the formation of the 3rd Guards Battalion, there has been no opportunity to participate in the big battle, and the battalion officer Tannin is only a colonel, and he was forced to be crushed by the 1st and 2nd Battalions. The thousand headquarters below the tannin were naturally suppressed. Only with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Zuo Guangxian and Niu Chenghu were both the chief military officers who were in charge of their own affairs, where were they willing to suffer such grievances, which led to the rapid and unattainable desire for the battle of Gaocheng.

This time, the 3rd Guards Battalion was divided into three divisions. Tannin and Hui Xian sat in Zhending, Zuo Guang led the troops in Yuxian County, and Niu Chenghu went south to take Lu'an Mansion, obviously there was no possibility of a battalion-level battle. However, Niu Chenghu "chased the remnants of the enemy" all the way, recovered Lu'an Mansion, and chased to Zezhou (now Jincheng), which made Zuo Guangxian, who was trapped in Yu County, even more anxious.

So Zuo Guang thought about it day and night, and finally thought of a good jihua.

He deliberately left Xiyan Town not to fight, and secretly sent a horse scout to reconnoiter the territory of Shouyang, and ambushed the armored soldiers in the mountains. As long as the Qing army is stationed in Xiyan, Zuo Guangxian's soldiers will go north from the intersection between Taihang Mountain and Zhoushan Mountain, cut off the retreat of the Qing army, and storm the Qing army camp outside Xiyan Town with great firepower, and finally achieve the tactical goal of blockading Xiyan.

Due to the special geographical location of Xiyan, if the Qing army wants to storm Yuxian, the only way to do it is to put the army's grain and grass in Xiyan. At that time, these grains and grasses and the Qing army guarding the grain were naturally Zuo Guangxian's achievements. Therefore, Zuo Shouyi burned Li Huping, which seemed to have successfully delayed the progress of the Qing army's attack on Yuxian, but in fact it was to block Zuo Guangxian.

"If you really want to fight, it's not that you can't cheat in." Zhu Cihong stretched out his finger, and drew a simple picture on the female wall: "Look, now that Niu Chenghu has occupied Zezhou, as long as he is allowed to go south to Luoyang and create momentum, it seems that most of our army wants to recover Henan." Li Zicheng definitely did not dare to cross the river easily, and as soon as the pressure of the Qing army in Shanxi was light, he would naturally pull out the nail of Yuxian County first. ”

Zuo Guangxian frowned and said, "In this way, the overall situation will be chaotic." ”

Zhu Cihong smiled secretly when he heard this. After holding several meetings on the overall strategy, the commanders of all battalions and departments have a certain sense of the overall situation and know that they can become fat in one bite, but the result may be even worse.

Once a certain point is broken, what is eaten has to be spit out, and even has to be put on the stomach.

Li Zicheng's negative teaching material is also very well done.

"And it is very likely that Niu Chenghu will be besieged by the enemies of Tongguan and Nanyang." Zuo Guangxian secretly added in his heart: That was really for nothing to send meritorious service to Niu Chenghu.

"I don't recommend that either." Zhu Cihong was not a warlord who conquered a city, and if he occupied a place, he must consolidate a place, and repeated tug-of-war would only cause more damage to the already fragile reputation of the imperial court.

"It's really not good, let's go and occupy the West Tobacco first." Zuo Guangxian had to endure the pain and said: "It's just that this is a waste of the cost of the military fort along the way." ”

At present, it will cost about 700 taels of silver and 600 stone of grain to build a military fort like a pipe head. If you go straight to Xiyan Town and fortify in Xiyan, the pipe head is actually of little use. If it was in the Wanli period, even if this bit of silver grain was thrown into the water, the generals would not care, but after the economic recession that lasted for more than 20 years, this amount of silver was not a small amount.

"Wait." Zhu Cihong said: "I didn't come back because of this. ”

Zuo Guangxian stood respectfully and said secretly: Naturally, it won't be because of this. If this kind of small battle requires the crown prince to go to the front line in person, wouldn't it seem incompetent?

"It's because of Zuo Shouyi."

Zuo Guangxian's heart trembled, and said, "I don't know what His Highness means......"

"If he accidentally encounters three probe horses, he can lead the killing of the East Captives and the burning of grain and grass, if he is given thirty elite soldiers, trained by him, and equipped with various precision equipment, how much can he do?" Zhu Cihong said that he was a little excited. What he wanted to build in his heart was an iron army armed with discipline and discipline, but Zuo Shouyi's birth was like a star in the night, although it could not bring light and heat, but it brought great flexibility to the future strategic deployment.

"So, I'd like to talk to him." Zhu Cihong said clearly, "If he is a useful talent, I will give him a battalion establishment." ”

Zuo Guangxian's heart itched like a cat scratching.

A battalion!

has been fighting hard for so many years, and now in the East Palace system, he is just a thousand headquarters and thousands of generals...... Everyone is ascending to the sky in one step, but they are falling back more and more as they live.

Zhu Cihong saw Zuo Guangxian's sudden face, smiled and comforted: "I'll give you two more divisions, and you don't want to hold on to talents." ”

"How dare you be lowly!" Zuo Guangxian hurriedly bowed down, and he was satisfied with the two divisions that he got out of thin air. (To be continued......)

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