"Handsome! Handsome! ”

Hearing the shouting, Qin Yiming immediately jumped up from the bed. He wiped his face with his hand and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"The thief army has crossed the river at Luohan Beach,"

"How many are there?" Qin Yiming asked.

"The torches are not clear to the stars, and it is estimated that there are tens of thousands!"

When Luo Rucai crossed the river with the peasant army, he let each of his soldiers carry a few torches, so the spies sent by Qin Yiming along the Han River had a false impression.

"All the army assembled!" Qin Yiming immediately began to put on his armor with the help of his own soldiers.

The captain of the pro-soldier asked, "Great commander! Are you going to stop the thief army? ”

Qin Yiming immediately shook his head and said, "It's just blocking this way, and there are two other roads." We have too few soldiers, so let's let Xiangyang hold on to it. We immediately went to Cousin Runing's to move the rescuers. ”

On the evening of October 13, Cao Cao, Luo Rucai, and Liu Guoneng crossed the river from Luohan Beach in the depths of the Han River, joined forces with Zhang Xianzhong and Lao Huihui, and then attacked Xiangyang with an absolute superiority of troops.

And these battalions of peasant armies had artillery captured from the Ming army in their hands, and they concentrated all the artillery and began to bombard the city of Xiangyang. In this absolutely superior firepower attack, the Ming army in Xiangyang City collapsed in the first time.

And the civil and military forces in the city are even worse. The first is that King Xiang fled with his family on a boat on the Han River. So the civil and military forces in the city immediately found a reason, and they also fled out of the city on the grounds of "protecting the safety of King Xiang", and the entire Xiangyang City immediately fell into a situation where the dragons were leaderless.

So the peasant army captured Xiangyang City without much effort, and captured a large amount of grain, grass and materials in the city, and also coerced a large number of people. But before the peasant army's carnival was over, they detected that a Ming army of more than 10,000 horses was approaching.

"That's Butcher Wu's army, there's no need to fight it. That guy is a vicious dog who guards the family. As long as he dodges far enough, he won't chase after him. Luo Rucai said.

"Is that a run to the west or a run to the south?" Zhang Xianzhong disagreed with Luo Rucai's statement, "To the west, it is all the places that have been robbed by us, and there is no oil and water." To the south, we will have to cross the Han River and the Yangtze River, but will so many of us have time to cross the river? It's better to take advantage of our strong horses and fight with Butcher Wu, if we defeat him, then there is really no army of official dogs near us now. We can go east to the south and Zhili. There is the rich Gangnam. It's better than the poor northwest where we wandered! ”

"Everybody can say anything, but who will take the lead? You and I have fought with Butcher Wu, and we know that he is not easy to get along with. To be honest, my Lao Luo has no confidence. I don't understand, what's wrong with the joy of Tiannan Haibei? I want to be the king and occupy the land. We are all born with mud legs, and it is good to be able to live the life of eating and drinking spicy food now. I want to really be an emperor. None of us have this kind of life. "Luo Rucai really doesn't want to fight with the Runing Army. So Zhang Xianzhong's ambition was exposed.

Seeing the smell of gunpowder, Lao Hui Ma Shouying hurriedly persuaded: "My own brothers, let's discuss it well." But the brothers have a few words to say, I don't know if what I said is right, please refer to it! ”

"Brother Ma, please speak!" Liu Guoneng hurriedly said, "Since we have all elected Brother Ma as the leader of the alliance. If you have anything to say, just say it! ”

"Our brothers have all fought against Butcher Wu one after another, and to put it mildly, we are almost all defeated. I don't know if I'm right? Ma Shouying's words immediately quieted down the leaders.

"But if everyone found out, then the battle of Wu Butcher has a characteristic: they are all taking advantage of our unpreparedness. They approached at high speed in a neat queue, and then beat us with heavy firearms. ”

"What does that prove? It proves that the officers and soldiers of Wu Butcher do not dare to fight with us face to face. As long as we find a way to break Butcher Wu's firearms, that officer and army will not be a big deal. ”

"I can say that! I understand this reason! But how to break the firearm of the Wu butcher? Luo Rucai asked.

"Cao Cao, don't be anxious, listen to me one by one." Ma Shouying said with a smile, "Now that the rebels of our battalions are gathered in Xiangyang, then Butcher Wu can't catch us off guard." So the advantage of the first point is gone. ”

"We have lost in the past, we took the initiative to attack, and this time we want to attract Wu Butcher to attack. In front of our formation, we dug some trenches and built a few chest-length earthen walls, so no matter how neatly arranged the array of Wu butchers is, they will not be able to climb over the trenches and climb over the earthen walls neatly. This left Wu Butcher without a second advantage. ”

"We also have a large number of firearms in our battalions now, as well as the artillery on the head of Xiangyang City, plus our Shaanxi soldiers have the most haode archers in the world, and they are not weaker than Wu Butcher in terms of long-range firepower. This is our third advantage. ”

"Now our battalions can concentrate more than 16,000 cavalry, as long as they run, it is not something that Butcher Wu's army can resist! This is our fourth advantage. ”

"And now our rebels can't retreat. If we concentrate so many battalions of rebels and don't dare to fight against the more than 10,000 people of Wu Butcher, then what will we do in the future? Will you have to flee when you see the banner of Butcher Wu in the future? When we arrive in Zuihou, with the expansion of the scope of Wu Butcher's operations, one day, we will have no escape. ”

Luo Rucai thought for a while, nodded and agreed: "Lao Hui replied that you are right, you should fight a battle, otherwise we will be too much of a bag." But you didn't make it clear: if Butcher Wu saw that we had set up the jiashi, and he didn't take the initiative to attack, then what should we do? ”

Ma Shouying smiled and nodded to Luo Rucai: "First of all, we have just conquered Xiangyang and obtained a large amount of grain in the city, and there are no other officers and soldiers around us now, so we are not afraid of consuming with Wu Butcher." ”

"We can also let the men and horses we have just collected attack first, and lead Butcher Wu to attack. It can also allow the cavalry to attack on two or even three sides, forcing back the men and horses who defeated the Wu butcher. ”

"Even if we get nothing, at least it's a tie, and we won't suffer any losses, so Cao Cao, you don't need to worry. If we really advance to the east, we can also set up more ambushes, as long as we let Butcher Wu suffer a loss, according to his shrunken turtle temperament, he will never dare to go out of Runing and return to Germany in the future. At most, we won't touch those two places in the future, and the other places will be enough for us to move! ”

Luo Rucai nodded again: "You persuaded me Lao Luo." I, Lao Luo, will not leave my brother alone. But there is one thing, if we want to fight, we can't fight half-heartedly, and we can't keep our hands anyway. Otherwise, it's just a nice thing to say, but it's a different set to do it, and you won't be able to defeat Butcher Wu. ”

Ma Shouying also agreed with Luo Rucai's statement: "Thank you brothers for not giving up!" At the forefront of the middle lane is my old battalion, and I still need a lot of help from my brothers! After finishing speaking, Ma Shouying bowed his hand and saluted the leaders.

"We all listen to Brother Ma."

"My men and horses are all under the command of Big Brother Ma!"

……

Scorpion Block, Ge Li Eye, He Yilong, Zuo Jin Wang He Jin and other leaders expressed their positions one after another.

"My soldiers and horses are responsible for the left flank, and the cavalry is also under the command of Brother Ma!" Liu Guoneng also said.

"Then I'll fight side by side with Brother Ma in the middle lane!" Luo Rucai also expressed his attitude.

At this time, the eyes of all the leaders noticed Zhang Xianzhong, who had not yet spoken. Zhang Xianzhong also noticed the expressions of those leaders, and he smiled: "I am advocating fighting, where will I be willing to be the queen of all brothers?" Then the right wing will be mine. ”

Seeing that all the leaders agreed, Ma Shouying smiled and said, "Thank you brothers for your trust!" But I'll take charge of this battle. The specific command was given to Cao Cao. In our field battle here, the Cao Cao brothers are the first in line! ”

Luo Rucai didn't shirk either, he said "hehe" happily: "Success!" This time, my old Luo went out to do it. ”

Hearing of the arrival of the Runing army, the peasant army of Xiangyang gathered 52,000 troops, set up a formation in the northeast of Xiangyang, and waited for the arrival of the Runing army. In addition, the cavalry of the peasant army of 8,000 cavalry on each side of the peasant army went far away on both sides of the peasant army's formation, and prepared to give the Runing army a surprise attack.

October 16, Xinye County.

Looking at the ruined county yali and the whole county magistrate who was hanging from the tree, Xue Yongli shook his head and said: "This Xinye county order has already escaped once, but I didn't expect it to be in Zuihou and still not escape." Untie them all, bury them well, mark them, and wait for the family of the prefectural order to come and raise the grave! ”

Looking at Xue Yongli, who was not in a hurry, Qin Yiming was a little anxious, so he said: "Xue Shoubei!" Soldiers' speed! Taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the thief army, let's recover Xiangyang as soon as possible! ”

Last night, Xue Yongli's Tiger Roar Town picked up Qin Yiming who fled in Xinye County. But Qin Yiming is the chief soldier of Xiangyang after all, although he is already responsible for losing the city, but if he recovers Xiangyang as soon as possible, Qin Yiming's crime will always be smaller, so he urged Xue Yongli to set off as soon as possible.

But Xue Yongli had his own thoughts, and he replied: "Chief Qin is a little restless!" Our spies have already found out that the thief army has lined up in Xiangyang and is waiting to fight us. Now that they're ready, we don't need to rush anymore. Recharge your energy and wait for the decisive battle with them! ”

In his heart, Xue Yongli also had some slander: Xiangyang is always a big city, I originally thought that Qin Yiming and they could defend it for three or five days, but I didn't expect that they couldn't support it for even half a day, which made the Runing Army lose the possibility of a surprise attack. Therefore, the current Runing army is forced to only be able to fight head-on. (To be continued......)