"How could Yu Zhizhou be so confused?" After listening to the emergency report, Wu Shigong couldn't raise the heart of schadenfreude, and was full of thoughts about how to face the bad news brought back by the messenger.

In the face of the rampaging Ruzhou army, the scattered peasant armies were afraid to avoid it, and they all avoided this mad dog-like Ming army from afar. But after hiding for a while, the leaders of the peasant army finally came to their senses.

In fact, in the battle from beginning to end, don't look at the Ruzhou army has always been fierce and has the upper hand, but their combat is to fight wherever it is, and there is no discipline at all.

Although the leaders of those peasant armies had never studied military scripts, after so many years of rebellion, they were always somewhat familiar with the battle array, so after several battles, they had some understanding of the operational characteristics of the Ruzhou army.

The frontal enemy was certainly inferior to the Ruzhou army, but it was entangled far away on the periphery, and attracted the Ruzhou army to pursue, so that they could not form a formation, and then take the opportunity to counterattack. This is the method that the leader of the peasant army came up with to deal with the Ruzhou army.

So the Ruzhou army fell into the quagmire like a bull surrounded by wolves. At this time, Yu Zilian also saw the signs, and he also made a quick decision, gathered the Ruzhou army together, and returned to Ruzhou City.

Anyway, those peasant armies did not dare to go head-to-head with the Ruzhou army, and the results of the Ruzhou army this time were also very brilliant, as long as there was a threat from the Ruzhou army in the future, the peasant army would not dare to enter the hinterland of Henan casually. It should be said that the purpose of this sortie of the Ruzhou Army has also been achieved. Later, as Yu Zilian expected, seeing the departure of the Ruzhou army, no peasant army dared to block their way back.

But at this time, the peasant army ushered in a strong force. Lao Hui Ma Shouying should take more than 40,000 horses into Henan first.

Because it was difficult to eat in Shaanxi, Gao Yingxiang decided to make two preparations after consulting with the leaders, and one preparation was that Gao Yingxiang personally led the main force to stay in Shaanxi and fight a decisive battle with Hong Chengchou's department. If you win, take advantage of the situation to occupy the entire territory of Shaanxi, and use this as the foundation to embark on the road of dominating the world.

On the other hand, if the battle situation is unfavorable, the peasant army will enter Henan and Huguang again, because Shaanxi's grain supply is too difficult, and it will not even be able to grab much. Therefore, Lao Hui Ma Shouying entered Henan as a pioneer.

Lao Hui Ma Shouying was the first to unveil the banner of rebellion with Gao Yingxiang, Luo Rucai and others as border soldiers. In this rebellious border army, there are not only Han people, but also members of the Hui and Mongolian tribes, so the team of Gao Yingxiang and Ma Shouying is a "strong armored iron horse" composed of the so-called "Yi Han and Ding". The soldiers are disciplined" and the Han and Hui ethnic groups are united by the armed forces of the displaced people.

Therefore, Ma Shouying's qualifications in the peasant army are very old and his status is also very high, and the old battalion men and horses under him are also very strong in combat. In addition, Ma Shouying himself was also known in the peasant army for his resourcefulness and ability to fight well. Therefore, as soon as Ma Shouying's troops entered Henan, the leaders of the peasant armies who entered Henan first immediately took him as their leader.

So Ma Shouying immediately learned that there was an extra Ming army like the Ruzhou Army in front of him. This surprised Ma Shouying. Unlike those little minions. Ma Shouying knows which Ming armies in the world can be called strong armies, and who are the generals who lead the troops. In which area were those Ming troops distributed and active.

Originally, Ma Shou should have entered Henan. He only needs to guard against the Xuan Mo Department and Wu Shigong's Runing army, but now a strong army with a small name suddenly appears out of thin air, which adds considerable variables.

Ma Shouying couldn't help but shake his head. The last time the peasant army entered Henan, a Runing army suddenly appeared; This time when I re-entered Henan, a Ruzhou army suddenly appeared, could it be that the officials in Henan know how to do immortal arts? They've all learned to sprinkle beans and become soldiers, huh? Of course, Ma Shouying didn't know. Until now, even Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers of the court did not know that the Ruzhou army suddenly appeared in their house.

And the most annoying thing is that the combat style of this Ruzhou army is quite a headache for the peasant army. For the peasant army, as long as the Ming army cowered around the city. Even if it has 100,000 horses, it is not a big problem, but this Runing army likes to take the initiative to attack. Don't you see, in the past, Cao Wenzhao took the initiative to attack with thousands of men and horses, and tens of thousands of peasant troops could be killed who lost their armor and abandoned their armor?

However, Ma Shouying inquired about the entire combat process, and also touched the characteristics of the Ruzhou Army. He keenly discovered that the Ruzhou Army could only be described in two words - immature.

The tactics are immature, and the command is immature, that is, the battle is very brave, but the morale is high. Such an army, if it wins a few more big victories, may be fully integrated and indeed become a strong army.

What needs to be considered more is that because the Ruzhou army is quite immature, then in another sentence, it is not according to common sense, in case the peasant army is at the most critical time when the battle with other Ming armies, such an offensive Ming army suddenly appears, it is very likely that the old master will be killed indiscriminately.

Therefore, now take advantage of this opportunity to quickly strangle the seeds of this strong army in the cradle, which will also be of great benefit to the actions of the peasant army in the future.

Ma Shouying first commanded the peasant armies behind the Ruzhou Army to approach and entangle the Ruzhou Army, and then sent a large number of detectives to investigate the movements of the Ming army around them, and first determined that the Ruzhou Army was a lone army.

Then, Ma Shouying gathered more than 4,000 elite cavalry from each battalion to advance, and personally led more than 38,000 infantry to quickly approach the direction of the Ruzhou army.

When the Ruzhou Army noticed that the peasant army behind it was approaching, it immediately stopped and made a resolute counter-charge. won a big victory again, beheaded more than 1,000 people, and captured 1,000 five, fully showing the momentum of his newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers. But after such a delay, on the evening of August 13, the vanguard cavalry of the Ma Shouxin Department arrived.

After the two sides met, they started fighting without saying a word. Without any temptation, as soon as the cavalry of the peasant army lined up in formation, they immediately launched a general attack, hoping to completely crush the Ming army in front of them before sunset.

And the soldiers of the Ruzhou Army also worshiped Yu Zilian to the extreme at this time. Therefore, under the instigation of Yu Zilian, they broke out with amazing combat effectiveness, and they actually blocked the general attack of the peasant army cavalry with foot war horses.

In this battle, the Ruzhou army suffered more than 1,000 casualties, while the cavalry casualties of the peasant army exceeded 500. From the scene, it looks like a draw. But in reality, the mentality of the two managers is very different.

When the Ruzhou army set out, the number was only more than 5,000, but now even if it suffered the loss of these 1,000 people, the strength of the Ruzhou army still exceeded 10,000 people, so Yu Zilian was indifferent to this loss at all.

And Ma Shouying is different. Although there were more than 4,000 cavalry in the peasant army, most of them rode horses. It's okay to let them fight with the wind, but they don't have the ability to charge in formation.

Therefore, the cavalry that Ma Shouying lost were basically the border soldiers who rode war horses and rushed in the front row, and this loss made Ma Shou's confidence hurt, so when he rushed to the battlefield with the main force in the evening, he immediately scolded the cavalry general who led the team.

If the cavalry of the peasant army were not so anxious and determined to shoot arrows from a distance to disrupt the formation of the Ruzhou army before charging, maybe the Ruzhou army would not be able to maintain the formation to resist the cavalry of the peasant army at all, and it would have been defeated by the peasant army a long time ago!

At this time, the peasant army had gathered more than 70,000 people, and the momentum was also huge. As a result, some generals of the Ruzhou Army proposed to retreat, for fear that the peasant army in front of them would cut off the way of retreat.

But Yu Zilian was very arrogant, he instead ordered the whole army to camp on the spot, and didn't care about the peasant army in front of him at all, because the previous Ruzhou army won more with less made Yu Zilian quite despise the combat effectiveness of the peasant army.

This first shows a shortcoming of the Ruzhou army. Their spies were very ineffective, and they did not detect that Ma Shouying's troops had entered Henan, let alone that the combat effectiveness of Ma Shouying's troops was completely different from that of the previous peasant army.

Of course, this can't all be blamed on Yu Zilian, because the army is in a hurry, and it is not easy for Yu Zilian to ensure that these soldiers have weapons in their hands, and it is completely impossible to form a cavalry that costs a lot of money.

But Yu Zilian also has his own confidence. Because of the seizures along the way and the requisition of the gentry, the current Ruzhou army has no shortage of grain and grass at all, which can support more than two months.

And Yu Zilian was even more prepared to build a strong camp on the spot, that is, to let the peasant army on the opposite side attack. You must know that the Ruzhou army is a comprehensive study of the Runing army, so the use of firearms in their army is also very popular, although the Ruzhou army's firearms are not as sophisticated as the Runing army, but it is completely enough to deal with those peasant armies who do not have a stomach.

And Yu Zilian also has two preparations, one is to rely on the battalion to take the initiative to attack, and if he succeeds, he will defeat the peasant army in front of him again; On the other hand, the Ruzhou army, which was heavily defended and had enough food and men, was not afraid of the peasant army attacking.

As long as the peasant army in front of you is delayed, and then wait for the arrival of the Ming army everywhere, wouldn't it be another great victory? Therefore, Yu Zilian sent fast cavalry in the direction of the Runing Army, Kaifeng City and other Ming troops overnight, just to use himself as bait to attract the peasant army in front of him, and then to have a big siege and annihilation battle.

This battle Jihua is quite grandiose! It can't be said that Yu Zilian is at fault, if everything is according to Yu Zilian's assumption, the success rate of this siege and annihilation battle is quite high.

But at this time, Yu Zilian made another mistake, he chose the wrong camp site in the night. There is no problem elsewhere, that is, the water point of the Ruzhou army is a small stream on the edge of the big camp.

A creek is not a river, it can be easily cut off. Sure enough, in the early morning, Yu Zilian found that the peasant army had started construction in the upper reaches of the creek. Yu Zilian immediately made amends, using all the containers to fill the water while there was still running water. At the same time, fast horses were sent out again to call for help. This time, he was really in a hurry, and even the 1,000 soldiers who stayed in Ruzhou City wanted to use it. (To be continued......)