As the front advanced back, the phalanx of the Runing army began to divide into two teams. One team marched forward in unison to meet their cavalry, and the other remained in place to protect the artillery positions and their own positions. When they arrived at Zuihou, even Qin Yiming's 2,000 cavalry crossed the peasant army's position and came to the main formation of the Runing army.

Seeing that the Runing Army had established a victory, Qin Yiming also volunteered: "Xue Shoubei, I'll also come forward to help!" ”

But Xue Yongli shook his head and said, "Don't worry about General Qin's hard work, our Runing Army can clean up these thief army." Then, Xue Yongli saw that Qin Yiming's face was a little stupid, and knew that he had a misunderstanding, so he hurriedly smiled and said: "Today's big victory is because our Runing Army and General Qin are fighting side by side. Qin Zongbing and our uncle are a family, and everything is easy to say. The last general also had to stay because he had to take over the soldiers and horses who robbed the camp, and the general soldiers of Qin had to recuperate and recover Xiangyang. ”

Xue Yongli's explanation suddenly made Qin Yiming's face look much better.

Feeling that the cavalry had been chasing and killing for more than half an hour, Xue Yongli also felt a little bit almost, and he immediately ordered: "Mingjin retreats!" "Now the peasant army has been killed, and the rest have run very scattered. If you continue to chase and kill, there will be results, but there will not be many results.

Besides, the main purpose of this operation of the Runing Army was to consume the strength of the peasant army, not to drive out the peasant army, so it was still necessary to leave a way to live for the peasant army.

However, He Fei and these officers didn't know that this battle needed to be measured, so He Fei asked in surprise: "Li Ye! weishenme doesn't wait for the phalanx to go up? The cavalry can chase and wrap a circle, and you can also capture a lot of thieves! ”

Xue Yongli couldn't explain the real reason to He Fei and them, he could only say: "If you see it, take it!" I don't know what's going on there at Mikawa. ”

This is also a safe reason, so after hearing the explanation, He Fei and these officers all saluted and received the order, and then went down to give the order.

The Battle of Xiangyang. The night march and night attack of the Runing Army, hand-to-hand combat with skirmishers, fire round shooting, hand-to-hand combat with infantry phalanx, cavalry formation battle, concentrated artillery firing and cavalry covering and killing were completely rehearsed, which later became a classic example of the Runing Army's tactical textbook.

However, it is not that there is no "Weng Hum" person, for Xue Yongli did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, many later generations of amateur "experts" in military science have criticized. Some of them believe that the whole army should advance and completely defeat Zhang Xianzhong; Some believe that Ma Shouying and Luo Rucai's troops should be outflanked and eliminated.

Therefore, later generations staged such a scene: what Xue Yongli acted arbitrarily, He Fei and they cried bitterly, and what almost started a fight.

on this. Later, He Fei's answer was very representative, he only said two words: "Grandma!" ”

While under the shelling, a group of cavalry sent by Luo Rucai had already fled in the direction of Ma Shouying and Luo Rucai's camp. Halfway through, they met a spy sent by Luo Rucai to check the combat situation. So they immediately reported back to Ma Shouying and Luo Rucai.

As soon as the news arrived. Immediately let the leaders of the battalions of the peasant army blow up, but I didn't expect Wu Butcher's troops to be so strong. Effortlessly, he defeated the peasant army of Zhang Xianzhong and other battalions.

Even more terrifying. The progress of this battle was too fast, and seeing that the main force of Wu Butcher was about to outflank his flank and rear, he didn't have to think about the officers and troops who robbed the camp, so he thought about letting his troops retreat first.

But the leaders of the peasant armies found something very unpleasant. At that time, in order to capture Xiangyang and fight against Wu Butcher, they brought more than 200,000 soldiers and horses across the Han River, and they were all placed near Xiangyang. If you want to retreat now. There are only two roads: one is to go north to Nanyang; One is to cross the Han River again.

But if they chose to go north to Nanyang, they immediately had to fight fiercely with Yu Zilian's Ruzhou Army and Zuo Liangyu's troops who were pursuing, and they were also attacked by Wu Butcher on the back, which was completely a situation of being attacked from both sides.

Then the only way to cross the Han River is to cross the Han River again. But after the peasant army crossed the Han River a few days ago. I didn't expect to return the same way at all, so there were still two pontoon bridges on the Han River, and no more boats were collected, so it was absolutely impossible for more than 200,000 people to cross the Han River again in a short time. Therefore, it is now a big question of who comes first and who comes last.

Thinking of this, the leaders of the peasant armies were silent. At this time, it's not a good thing for anyone to speak first. After being silent for a while, it was the alliance leader Ma Shouying who spoke first: "I'll break off!" The brothers go first. ”

Even those hard-hearted peasant army leaders were excited when they heard Ma Shouying's words, and the scene immediately became enthusiastic. Luo Rucai said: "I'll go to pick up the eight kings, and the brothers will go to find more boats, and then draw lots to cross the river!" ”

Luo Rucai also picked a very dangerous task. These leaders didn't know that Xue Yongli's main force did not pursue Zhang Xianzhong, so if Luo Rucai's troops were entangled by Xue Yongli's main force when they were receiving Zhang Xianzhong, they would not cross the river safely.

He Yilong, the king of Zuojin, and He Jin, also said to Ma Shouying: "Brother Ma, we are waiting by the river and will take you across the river." At this time, the close relationship between the Fifth Battalion of the Left Revolution was manifested.

On October 29, the ninth year of Chongzhen, Xue Yongli defeated the peasant army in Xiangyang. In this battle, the Runing army beheaded more than 13,000 people, while its own casualties were only more than 400, most of which were losses in hand-to-hand combat.

In the next three days, after Xue Yongli's main force converged with Li Sanhe's department, he waited in place for three days, waiting for the retreat of the peasant army. The peasant army abandoned Xiangyang, and threw down more than 100,000 old and weak people and a large number of supplies, crowded on the banks of the Han River and waited to cross the river.

It was not until the second day of the first month of November, when Yu Zilian's Ruzhou Army and Zuo Liangyu's troops arrived, that the Runing Army moved again and pursued the peasant army that was crossing the river. By this time, the capture of the Runing army had piled up, and the captured peasant army had reached 40,000. And Qin Yiming also took the opportunity to recover the empty Xiangyang. Hearing the victory of the Runing army, Wang Jiazhen, the governor of Huguang, also led 5,000 troops to escort King Xiang's family towards Xiangyang.

On the first day of November, Xinyang Camp.

"Tang Liu! Don't be discouraged. Isn't it more than 20,000 taels of silver! It's important that all of you are there. Wu Shigong smiled and said to Tang Liu.

"But the little one messed up the adult's business!" Tang Liu still looked annoyed. Although Wu Shigong didn't blame him, this was the first time he had done something for Wu Shigong since he joined the Runing Army, so Tang Liu's heart always had some bad feelings.

"It's not a mess!" Wu Shigong still had a smile on his face, "It won't be long before you have to go to Huanggang once, and at that time, let the people who ate your silver spit out even the belt bones for us Runing Army." ”

Tang Liu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked curiously, "My lord!" Could it be that our Runing Army is going to send troops to Huanggang? ”

Wu Shigong smiled mysteriously, and said to Tang Liu: "The heavenly machine must not be leaked!" But when you go to do something, the person who likes our Runing Army's silver, don't treat him badly, let others burn paper money for his whole family in the future! ”

Tang Liu immediately nodded with joy, in Wu Shigong's understatement, the countdown to the lives of the Huanggang tyrant's entire family had begun.

Seeing that Wu Shigong was in a good mood, Tang Liu hurriedly congratulated: "The little one just heard that Li Ye won a big victory in Xiangyang. After this time, the adults will definitely be promoted to the rank of knight, and the little ones will be congratulated here first. ”

Wu Shigong smiled and waved his hand and said, "It's not worth mentioning to fight this kind of local chicken and tile dog." And Uncle Wynn got me in some trouble. When the heat comes, I'm afraid that Uncle Yongli will burn a sandwich rice! ”

Tang Liu was a little hazy when he heard this, he didn't understand what Wu Shigong meant, he could only laugh a few times with Wu Shigong. Tang Liu didn't know: When Xue Yongli found out that there were many border army veterans among the prisoners, he immediately put Wu Shigong's arrangement behind him and selected more than 3,000 people to supplement the Runing army.

In this regard, Wu Shigong could only respect Xue Yongli's decision, but he was afraid that when he attacked Nanzhili in the future, due to the lack of Liliang of the peasant army, he would not be able to achieve the original effect of disrupting the situation. Of course, these words couldn't be said directly to Tang Liu, so he could only complain like this.

"But this time the ship is about to arrive, and the matter at the dock is about to be resolved, how are you doing recruiting water brothers there?" Wu Shigong asked.

"My lord! The small ones recruited more than two hundred. Plus those boys' camp dolls, barely enough. Tang Liu replied.

"Solve the problem of sailing first. This ship is a little different from the civilian ships you used to drive. Also, in the future, I will find some people who have the ability to be in the water and hand them over to you, and train them to sail the same boats, and make sure that each ship has two sailors, so that it is convenient to increase the number of ships at any time. Wu Shigong commanded.

Seeing Tang Liu nodding, Wu Shigong continued to order: "One more note: many of the people you recruit are your former brothers, but in the future, there will be a lot of people recruited from other places by the water master." You have to have a bowl of water flat, and you have to use rules to control your subordinates. ”

"It is haode to talk about the righteousness of the rivers and lakes, but it is also necessary to convince everyone to do things. Remember: I gave you your official position, and your future promotion will be from me, not your brothers. The people of a boat pay attention to being in the same boat, and don't cause any contradictions because of eccentricity, which is not beautiful. ”

"Although I am your lord in the officialdom, we are also old friends, and we are good brothers behind closed doors, so I will break my mouth here a few more words. Although the words are contrary to the ear, they are good words. This is also for the sake of your rich future, brother. ”

Wu Shigong knocked on the wooden fish for Tang Liu here, the independence of the sailor is quite strong, and each ship is almost an independent unit, so Wu Shigong does not want to form a gang among the sailors and form a complete Runing army sailor as soon as possible. (To be continued......)