The Holy Spirit will rebel against the people, and the news that the rebel brigade will kill the Guide Mansion, the city of Guide is only about half a day later than the county seat of Qi County.

After knowing the news, the Fuzun of the Guide Mansion panicked. Because, in the current Guide Mansion, Commander Zhao, who is in the Guide Mansion, can take away more than half of the troops in the Guide Mansion City. Therefore, the Fuzun of Guide Mansion immediately sent someone to ask Commander Zhao to immediately bring the more than 500 soldiers led by him back to Fucheng as quickly as possible.

Don't say it, that old man Zhao Ming, he may not be very good at fighting, but being an official is indeed exquisite. When he launched the operation to "cut off the heads of the robbers", he took out almost all the military attaches of the guard.

After arriving at the ruined temple, the old man Zhao Ming took the ruined temple as the center and divided the area into blocks, so that these military attaches and officials were responsible for their own extortion in the area, and everyone made a fortune together.

However, the old man Zhao Ming suddenly got the news that the people sent by the Guide Mansion were going to attack the Guide Mansion. In a panic, the old man Zhao Ming didn't have time to gather the people scattered in the countryside, so he only took two or three hundred people around him and galloped back to Defu City. But on the way back, some people were left behind. Zuihou, the old man Zhao Ming only brought more than a hundred people back to Guide City.

But what use can such a few people use? Old man Zhao Ming hurriedly returned to Fucheng this time, and most of the military attachés of Guidewei scattered in the countryside did not bring back. Therefore, they could not gather soldiers near the city of Guide.

Don't look at the old man Zhao Ming is under the command of Dewei, and he has five thousand households under his command. However, the vast majority of these 1,000 households have their own defense zones. For example, Wu Shigong, a thousand-household office, has to defend the county seat of Qi County.

And now, when the chaotic people are pressing the border, these soldiers of the Thousand Households will definitely not abandon their hometowns and not defend them, but leave their hometowns to defend in the city of Guidefu. At the end of the day, the current situation is that everyone is cleaning up the snow in front of their own door.

Fortunately, at this time, in the city of Guide, the nearby eunuchs and gentry also withdrew into the city of Guide. Together with the Governor of the Guide Prefecture, they elected the most respected and highest-ranking Hou Sui as the leader of the city.

That Hou Sui also knows some military affairs, and he does have two brushes to do things. Under his arrangement, the defense of the city of Guide was finally carried out in an orderly manner.

The measures taken by Hou Sui are also basically the same as those taken by Wu Shigong. It is nothing more than extracting the strong men of the gentry's family, gathering food and medicinal materials, calming people's hearts, and so on.

However, when Hou Sui sent people to Gui Dewei's arsenal to extract gunpowder, he found that the powder magazine had long been empty. This made Hou Sui's face turn green with anger.

The old man Zhao Ming must have denied it in every way, and he told Hou Xian: It was Wu Shigong, the acting Qianhu, who took away all the gunpowder. I don't know what Wu Shigong wants these gunpowder to be used for.

Hou Sui and Old Man Zhao Ming are native to their hometowns, and they don't see each other when they look up. So even if he knew that Old Man Zhao Ming was bragging, he couldn't do anything to Old Man Zhao Ming. However, Hou Sui finally seized the opportunity, and he decided: After the rebellion of the rebellious people subsided, he would settle the old account with Wu Shigong.

However, at the beginning, the people of Guide were not particularly worried. Because, in front of the rebel brigade, there is also Qi County to block the county. And judging from the news sent back by the spies, the county seat of Qi County is still immovable and has not fallen.

In addition, the Fuzun of Guide Mansion had already sent people to Kaifeng City to report to the governor of Henan. The governor of Henan also agreed, and sent reinforcements to Guide as soon as possible.

However, those rebellious people bypassed the county seat of Qi County and killed them towards the city of Guide. This made everyone in Guide Mansions nervous. But at this time, there was also good news, and the reinforcements sent by the governor of Henan were about to arrive.

The reinforcements sent by the governor of Henan this time totaled more than 3,500 people, led by Xiao Yueya and Xiao Gonggong, the Henan supervisor.

Although Father-in-law Xiao has a somewhat sissy name and is a father-in-law, he especially wants to show his manly side.

Originally, this time to quell the turmoil, there was no need for Gonggong Xiao, the Henan prison army, to go out at all. But Gonggong Xiao is particularly eager to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield. Therefore, I specially went to the governor of Henan to ask for help. Of course, the governor of Henan also fulfilled the wish of Gonggong Xiao and gave him a face.

Actually, Grandpa Xiao has his own ideas. Gonggong Xiao knew that now that Emperor Chongzhen had newly come to power, the statement that the son of heaven and a courtier was not only aimed at the ministers, but also against them as eunuchs.

Among the eunuchs, there are many who understand culture and government affairs, but there are very few who understand military affairs, so eunuchs who understand military affairs are particularly popular. Just look at the situation that the two dynasties of Gao Qi's potential apocalypse and the current Chongzhen are like fish in water.

And Father-in-law Xiao also wants to gain a reputation for understanding military affairs. In that case, Gonggong Xiao will not only be able to keep his current position, but maybe he can also be promoted to a higher position in the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

In addition, Father-in-law Xiao also inquired and understood. This rebellion was only made by some people in the countryside, who had received no military training at all. As long as their own army arrives, it will not be the scorching sun and snow, and they will all be wiped out at once. In that case, wouldn't the credit be within reach?

What reassured Gonggong Xiao even more was that when he led the reinforcements to set off, the accompanying military attache Jiang Guerrilla, with the highest official rank, blew up the conch. The Najiang guerrilla army infinitely increased the force value of the reinforcements, and directly reduced the force value of the rebellious people to a negative number. And all this, this Xiao Gonggong actually believed it all.

However, this can't be completely blamed on Gonggong Xiao, because the appearance of this Jiang guerrilla is very tangible. He was tall and muscular. Riding a white horse, dressed in silver armor, and holding a spear. Without makeup, you can go directly to the stage to play Zhao Zilong.

However, Gonggong Xiao was not completely dizzy, and the route of his support army's march was between the county seat of Qi County and the city of Guide Mansion, in the direction of diagonal insertion. Because he also knows: as long as Qi County does not lose the county, then the support army will be safe when it is marching.

But what they didn't expect was that when the reinforcements were still half a day away from the city of Guide, the spies suddenly came to report that five miles northwest of their marching route, they found a large group of people from the Holy Spirit Society.

After receiving the spy report, Father-in-law Xiao hesitated slightly, but Father-in-law Xiao patted his chest on the side and made bold remarks, which made Father-in-law Xiao immediately make up his mind. He ordered reinforcements to immediately attack the Holy Spirit Order.

Najiang guerrilla shook his spear, slapped the white horse, and rushed out first. Get rid of a copycat version of Changbanpo Zhao Zilong. And those reinforcements also rushed out in a chaotic manner behind Jiang's guerrilla.

At this time, the rebels of the Holy Spirit Society also found reinforcements. After the Holy Spirit Society rebelled against Qi County and caused the county town to lose, their morale was actually very low, and Master Mu also discovered this situation. Even he felt that his leadership position was somewhat shaken.

After discovering the reinforcements, the great mage of Namu suddenly became single. He was wearing Tang Seng's clothes and immediately rushed to the front of the team. Seeing that Grand Master Mu was desperate, the senior brothers of the guardian team also rushed out together. Then all the rioters rushed out with them.

When the two teams were about to meet, the soldiers on the reinforcement side saw that these chaotic people were so numerous and so aggressive, and they couldn't help but slow down.

Although these soldiers had received military training, their salaries were deducted by the military attachés very badly, and they could only receive 30% of their salaries at most. If the military salary is insufficient, then why bother desperately?

So, some of the soldiers began to turn around and flee. When he saw his companions fleeing, the flight quickly spread, like an avalanche, and without much effort, the entire reinforcement army began to flee in all directions.

The Holy Spirit Rebellion overwhelmingly overwhelmed the entire support army. More than 700 soldiers in the reinforcements were killed, and the rest fled back to Kaifeng. Jiang's guerrilla whereabouts are unknown. Gonggong Xiao fled into Guide City with more than 100 people around him.

And after this battle, the Holy Spirit Society swept away the shadows, and the morale suddenly rose to the peak. They put their ranks in order and went to the city of Guide with great spirits.

From this chaotic war, we can actually see the following problems:

The first problem is: the reconnaissance of the army.

The rebellious people of the Holy Spirit Society can be said to have no military literacy from top to bottom, and the fact that they did not send spies to reconnoiter is still understandable.

However, Xiao Gonggong and Jiang Guerrilla led the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. In today's terms, a regular field army. But with such an army, the distance of the spies is very short. The spies found out when the Holy Spirit would rebel and reach a place about five miles away from their army.

It should be said that these spies did not play the role of reconnaissance for the army at all. At best, they can be called the spearheads of the army.

After the army spies are sent out, they actually have two functions. In addition to reconnaissance, it also has the role of strangling the opposing spies. Since this is very important in army battles. So, I'll talk about this in more detail later.

The second problem is the deployment of troops when the army is fighting.

From ancient times to the present, any unit, from the state of march to the state of combat, must unfold its own troops.

As a matter of fact, any military commander has nothing more than the following three points that reflect his military command ability:

1) the unfolding of troops before the battle;

2) When fighting, concentrate your own forces and firepower to attack the enemy's weak points and key points;

3) After the end of the battle, if the warring parties are in a state of stalemate, or even if their own side is defeated, how to make their troops as complete as possible and retreat in formation. This is also the most important test of the command ability of a military commander. This is a famous quote from Napoleon: The commander of the haode is not to see how he wins the battle, but how he cleans up the mess after the defeat.

And let's look at this chaotic war. Regardless of Gonggong Xiao, he has not received any military education. But Jiang guerrilla was still a senior military attache of the Ming Dynasty.

When they were about to fight the Holy Spirit Society, they didn't even deploy their troops, so they let them rush forward in such a chaotic manner. And the Holy Spirit Church rushed over in such a chaotic manner. This is simply not a war, but a group fight.

Since it was a group fight, it was not surprising that the side with the most people and the brave side won a big victory. In other words, Xiao Gonggong and Jiang Guerrilla did not use their regular field army of the Ming Dynasty as an army at all.

The third issue is: the selection of generals in the Ming Dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, military attachés were basically hereditary. Only a very small number were promoted from among the soldiers and junior officers. Those military attaches in the Nine Sides, because of their family heritage and the fact that they have been fighting with foreign races outside the Guan, their military literacy is still higher.

However, in the Ming Dynasty, the promotion of military attaches in the interior was basically decided by civilian officials. And the criteria for selecting military attachés for those civilian officials, aside from the problems of slapping horses and bribery, civil officials mainly look at whether the military attache is strong in figure and appearance, whether the personal martial arts are strong, and whether they can fight three or five in one fight. The level of military command of the military attache was not taken into account at all.

However, these civil officials cannot be blamed for this. This is a common sense mistake that many ordinary people make. If you're not convinced, check out the many time-traveling novels at the starting point.

After the protagonist crosses over, he happens to meet a strong man who has just killed a tiger. So, the protagonist's tiger body was shocked, and the strong man immediately stuck to him like a little daughter-in-law. After that, this strong man became an important general next to the protagonist.

But none of them knew that personal bravery and command level were completely different things. Of course, there are also those generals who cultivate both inside and outside. For example, that Yue Fei, he is Wu Zhuangyuan. But such generals are completely rare.

And looking at the performance of that Jiang guerrilla, we already know how bad the military command level of the military attaches of the Ming Dynasty, especially the military attaches in the mainland, was.

After analyzing this chaotic battle, let's take a look at the situation in Guide City.

When Gonggong Xiao fled into Guide Mansion City with more than 100 people around him, the whole city of Guide Mansion immediately panicked. At this time, they can't care about anything. Whether it was rushing to the doctor or salvaging for life-saving straw, they sent messengers for help to all the places where they could be contacted. And the little official of the Guide Mansion came to Wu Shigong, a thousand households, to ask for help.