When Yu Zilian's Heiyun Army and Yang Wenyue's troops converged, the two of them briefly discussed, and then unanimously decided to join forces and attack the peasant army together.

The current Yang Wenyue is guilty of meritorious service, and Yu Zilian has some unknown divisions, so they have no other choice and need to take the initiative to fight the peasant army in order to show their "positive and enterprising". However, their "aggressiveness" paid off immediately.

Although the combined army of Li and Luo had a million men, the number of soldiers who could fight among them was only 400,000 or 500,000. In addition, the encirclement is actually to form a layer of "eggshell" outside Kaifeng City. The troops of the Li and Luo coalition forces were evenly distributed on the "eggshells", so there would not be many troops at a certain point.

In addition, the Li and Luo coalition forces had been keeping an eye on the Runing Army and Zuo Liangyu's troops in the south, and they had arranged the main forces in this direction, so they were a little caught off guard by the Black Cloud Army and Yang Wenyue's troops that suddenly appeared in the east.

When this army entered the territory of Lankao County, it immediately ushered in a partial division of the Li and Luo coalition army. And the one who led the troops was not the core troops of Chuang Ying and Luo Rucai's department, but a side line that was later attached. The leaders of this army are all called "big cabinets", which can also be seen that this army was engaged in business without capital before it was attached.

Although he has no capital to trade, this big cabinet is also on the "grade", and when he is attached to the camp, he has more than 10,000 people. After the next few great victories, his troops were more dependent on small groups of homeless people and bandits, so that the number of men and horses was now close to 20,000.

And now the camp is undergoing regularization, and they all have a peek at their coalition army, Luo Rucai's department, so of course they also have actions against the various units next to their camp. The purpose of breaking into the camp was to break up all these peripheral troops, integrate them into the core force of the camp, and strengthen Li Zicheng's unified command.

And this big cabinet is afraid that he will be caught by the top if he has made some mistakes. led to the removal of their own troops. He also lost all his rights. Therefore, he made up his mind: if he repelled this army, he would report it for a reward; If it is useless. Then keep this matter down and don't let the above know it. In a word: it is to deceive the upper and lower levels.

However, it can also be seen how confident the current generals are. It is a general who is a side lineage, and when the troops occupy a weak position, he still dares to fight in the field with the officers and soldiers. You must know that the difference in equipment and soldier quality, if you add the people, the number of soldiers in the combined army of the Black Cloud Army and Yang Wenyue's army is already more than 30,000. And this big cabinet still wants to eat this official army. It's a difference between self-confidence and arrogance!

As soon as the two armies met. There was no doubt that they would line up and fight. As soon as the battle began, the big cabinet used the "classical" tactics of the peasant army, and let his three big leaders lead 3,000 people to rush to the front. According to the idea of the peasant army, as long as these 3,000 men rushed to the front of the officers and soldiers, there was no need to engage in a battle at all. Maybe the officers and soldiers were frightened. Not to mention that there are more than 10,000 peasant troops behind to continue to charge into battle.

Who would have thought that after just a few hundred paces of three thousand people, the opponent's artillery would be fired. Yu Zilian also learned a lot from the Runing Army. Although he did not have a craftsman in his hands who could make such a fine artillery as the Runing Army. But it's always okay to find someone to make some gun carriages.

Therefore. Yu Zilian received dozens of Franc machine guns and tiger squat guns at the Nanjing arsenal, although the caliber of these runs is relatively small, about one pound, but they can be erected on the gun truck and fired quickly, avoiding the drawbacks of the artillery digging pits and burying pegs for a long time before the war.

After that, of course, after the peasant army entered the hundred steps. The ushered in a dense firecracker fire. Immediately they defeated the three thousand men, and most of them were scattered and scattered.

If it were the main force of the camp led by Li Zicheng's cronies, the artillery bombardment of the Black Cloud Army would not have achieved such a great damage. Because the core of the camp has long been reborn, they have been upgraded from "classical" to "modern", and will use firearms and bows and arrows to shoot at the enemy before charging into battle. There will be no such blind charge. Even when charging, the formation will become very scattered.

Similarly, the casualties caused by such artillery bombardment and firing were not enough to stop the main force of the camp. Because the old eighth team of the old battalion has a very tenacious will to fight, and because they are all veterans and have survived a hundred battles on the battlefield, their combat skills are also quite superb.

However, the scale of this unit is large, and the phenomenon of good and bad will inevitably appear. And this time, the 20,000 soldiers and horses led by the big cabinet, that is, a group of bandits and peasants with weapons, had no will to fight at all, so they were defeated by a single blow.

As soon as these 3,000 people dispersed, more than a few thousand peasant soldiers ran towards the rear of the main team in a chaotic manner. But in this way, it directly rushed the formation into a mess. At this moment, in Yang Wenyue's army, the 2,000 cavalry led by the general soldier Hu Dawei began to charge and cover up.

This was also discussed between Yu Zilian and Yang Wenyue before the war. Yu Zilian's Black Cloud Army would be responsible for frontal battlefield engagements, while Yang Wenyue's troops would be responsible for cavalry cover and killing. That's because Yang Wenyue's cavalry ratio is higher. However, after Zhu Xianzhen was besieged, the officers and soldiers who could break out of the encirclement basically had "four legs".

A neat victory. In the end, more than 1,300 people were beheaded and more than 3,000 were taken prisoner. If it hadn't been for the robbery and capture by the officers and soldiers later, the results of this battle would have been much greater.

Then Yu Zilian and Yang Wenyue briefly distributed the captures and prisoners, and began to reorganize their troops.

First of all, of course, all the more than 1,000 prisoners assigned to Yu Zilian were integrated into the Black Cloud Army.

Then, he captured the soldiers who had retreated in the battle just now, and beheaded more than 300 of them, and summoned them back to Nanjing, and razed all the beheaded soldiers' families except for those who sat down.

After repeatedly enforcing harsh military laws, the Black Cloud Army has a completely new look. And Yu Zilian also established the discipline of the Black Cloud Army as quickly as possible. However, such a method is also a double-edged sword. That is, the southern soldiers are timid, they are used to blindly following the upper peaks, and they dare not make any resistance. If they had encountered some unruly northern soldiers, they might have fled or mutinied on a large scale under such strict military law.

Then, Yu Zilian publicized the seizure of the whole army, and after leaving military supplies and retaining a part of the public property, they were evenly distributed to each soldier. Although each soldier did not get much in this equal distribution, that is, six or seven hundred dollars, such a fair distribution method suddenly stabilized the mood of the soldiers of the Black Cloud Army. (To be continued......)