On 25 April, Xu Ping commanded the Chuang army to cross the Shahe River in a big way, and nearly 10,000 soldiers of the Chuang battalion joined forces along the north bank for several miles, and the momentum was extremely majestic. In the face of the impatient governor of Henan and Zhongmu Wenwu, Yu Dong, the general of the Xuanwu Army, seemed confident, looking at the dense camp from afar and smiling: "Let them cross the river, just to catch the thieves." ”

Everyone who heard it was bold and proud.

On the 27th, the Xuanwu Army launched a surprise attack, and Yu Dong, the deputy commander-in-chief, took the lead and directly entered the middle army of the Chuang Army, and then broke more than ten battalions of the Chuang Army. When the good news came, the governor of Henan was so excited that his arm trembled: "Drive straight in!" Xu Huang's courage is also known to me today. ”

Yu Yong Kejia's Xuanwu army ignored the fatigue of Lian Zhan, and still attacked fiercely after nightfall, sweeping away all the barracks on the north bank, and for a time the fire reflected the entire sky.

Henan Governor Yamen's official fortune in marveling at Yu Dong's courage at the same time, their new boss's vision is all admired, before many people think that Gao Mingheng is just lucky: Luoyang fell, King Fu was killed, before the elite of the Bianjun was lost by Li Fengxian, but also because the prince was killed to anger the emperor ended miserably, for a time no one in the court was willing to take this mess, so it was cheap Gao Mingheng, from a small patrol to the governor of such a feudal official. Every few days after Governor Gao took office, he was able to select a talent like Vice General Yu from the messy Bianjun, and beat the thieves to lose their armor.

"I have heard for a long time that Xu thief was a subordinate of the Marquis of Zhendong," someone complimented: "Xia Guan once thought: There are no weak soldiers under the strong general, and this thief should not be underestimated. ”

Gao Mingheng looked up to the sky and smiled, looking quite complacent.

A person who was not very eye-opening said: "Xiaguan heard that Xu thief is arrogant, and the defeat of Shandong Wang Shi is also his blind brute force......"

Others heard this guy belittle Xu Ping, and hurriedly rushed up.

"This is inappropriate, Xu thief, that is naturally extremely powerful, but it is difficult to defeat the governor and strategize."

"Xia Guan also heard that the Marquis of Zhendong loves Xu Thief's talent deeply, so although he is aware of his wolf ambition, he is still hesitant, so there is such a big disaster, but Xu Thief is ten times more courageous, and how can he be the opponent of my Henan officers and soldiers?"

These words are very pleasant to listen to Gao Mingheng, some time ago Xu Ping with less than 10,000 people to attack Kaifeng, besiege the southern counties, Henan Governor Yamen has not dared to send troops to rescue. At that time, Li Fengxian was dismissed, and the chaos in the Yamen of Kaifeng Governor was certainly one reason, but Gao Mingheng himself was indeed quite jealous of Xu Ping, the general of Zhendong Hou. After hearing that Xu Ping took 10,000 people to the north, Gao Mingheng's strategy was to defend firmly and refuse to break into the army outside Kaifeng.

Of course, this conservative strategy has been criticized a lot, and the Henan scholars in their hometown who were affected by the war criticized Gao Mingheng even more. Although Gao Mingheng tried his best to shirk the responsibility to Li Fengxian, whether it was in the province or in the court, his reputation was getting worse day by day. is every night when lying in bed, Gao Mingheng is in the quilt is strategizing how to fight a beautiful turnaround, this time gathering heavy troops to fight against the camp Xu Pingbu, Gao Mingheng even tried his best, ruthlessly collected a batch of taxes, and did not avoid the risk of personally inspecting the officers and soldiers of various departments.

"If that thief's soldiers and horses can have Yu Shuai Yicheng's ability," Gao Mingheng laughed, now the situation is very good, no matter what he says, no one will think he is discouraged, and there is no danger of shaking the army's heart: "I'm afraid that this official will have to defend Kaifeng, hehe, it seems that the subordinates of the Zhendonghou are not more than Erer." ”

The excited governor of Henan played a chapter overnight and urgently reported to the Beijing division: "Relying on my emperor Hongwei, the soldiers used their lives to break through the Shahe River and burn their baggage...... Xu rebelled against the party's henchmen and scattered the stars, fled south at night, and the ministers strictly ordered the generals to oversee the army, leaving no thief to worry about the saints! ”

The originally half-hearted Zhongmu army saw that there was a bargain to be gained, and they hurriedly waved their troops out of the city and pursued with the Xuanwu army. Along the way, there were either empty camps or burned stockpiles, and for a time the good news flew into the governor's standard camp like snowflakes, and all the generals declared that Xu Ping was defeated and could not form an army, and all the armies had won countless victories. And Gao Mingheng was even exempted from inspecting the head, no matter how much he reported, he recognized it, and ordered the generals not to care about the head, nor to bother collecting and sending back, and to pursue the intruding army as the first priority.

Zhengzhou,

"Yu Dong, this kid, is actually going to be promoted to the general army!" Li Chengxin, who is also a deputy general, looked indignant when he saw the Di Bao: "He eats more than me, and he runs faster than me in the past, why is this?" ”

"My lord, this thief is too vulnerable, in less than two days, the camp was taken away by Yu Dong, and he actually made him more powerful." Li Chengxin's subordinates also regretted it, when they heard that it was a first-class figure of the battalion officer trained by the Marquis of Zhendong, the solemn Ming army was reluctant to leave the station, but they didn't expect to be like them, and even Li Zicheng's kind of grass Kou couldn't beat Yu Dong, who was able to beat the generals of the Marquis of Zhendong: "There have long been rumors that the Marquis of Zhendong is not using people properly, looking at this Xu Ping is blind, resulting in the defeat of Shandong, but we are too careful." ”

"This kind of pus, Li Chuang will actually use him!" Li Chengxin was also hateful, but after thinking about it for a while, he was relieved again: "It's not to blame Li Chuang's grass coward, didn't I also become cautious as soon as I heard that it was Zhendonghou's subordinates?" To say that Zhendonghou is really famous, it is actually difficult to deputy. Li Chengxin shouted: "Immediately pull out the camp and set off to encircle and suppress the thieves!" ”

In Heyin, Zhou Zhengting, the chief soldier who has been procrastinating, was shocked after hearing the good news of the Ming army: "At the beginning, Xu Thief dared to come to attack Kaifeng with 10,000 people, I think the good ones don't come, the people who come are not good, how can this be?" ”

"Xu Ping's guy is notoriously proud of the enemy," a staff member said: "The defeat in Shandong last year was all because Xu Ping underestimated the enemy's rash advance, changed the military strategy of Zhendonghou without permission, and didn't even do reconnaissance along the way, and tens of thousands of Ji Kou lurked on his way without knowing it." At the beginning, he looked down on Ji Huisi, and now he probably looks down on our Henan officers and soldiers, but he was caught off guard by General Yu. The previous staff were unanimously optimistic about Xu Ping's combat effectiveness, saying that since Li Zicheng was willing to worship Xu Ping as a general, he would inevitably allocate elite soldiers and strong generals to him, and also said that if Xu Ping learned enough to learn enough for Yu Dong to eat and walk around, but overnight their tone changed: "Xu thief has only been in the camp for a few months, so how can the thief compare with the soldiers trained by Zhendong Hou?" There are probably quite a few people on the thief's side waiting to see this traitor's joke; Moreover, Xu Thief is not familiar with the place in Henan, how can we Henan villagers be willing to work hard for him, a Zhili person? This is not wronged at all with the thief. ”

"Hmph, Brother Yu is really the majesty of my Henan son," Zhou Zhengting flipped through the newspaper and asked left and right: "Before, the governor of Henan said that Xu Thief had 40,000 or 50,000 - that is to say, his actual strength was less than 10,000, and now Brother Yu broke his Shahe joint venture in one go, and it is estimated that Xu Thief's subordinates have to go to five out of ten stops, right?" ”

"What the marshal said is extremely true, Xu Thief must have no one in his eyes, looking at the Battle of Luoyang, our Bianjun can't even beat Li Zicheng's grass coward, thinking that we are easy to bully, and now Xu Thief must be panicking."

"Well, he must be concentrating on the remnants, planning to fight with Brother Yu, Brother Yu and I are in the same breath, how can he be so rampant?" Zhou Zhengting changed the previous policy of shrinking and immediately ordered the troops to send to Mi County.

……

On May 5, when the Ming army, which had just left Zhengzhou, advanced to the vicinity of Meishan, it was suddenly ambushed by the Guards Battalion, and in less than half an hour, the Ming army was defeated by Xu Ping. Adjutant General Li Chengxin died in the chaos, 5,000 Ming troops were scattered, and the remnants of the army who fled back to Zhengzhou were less than 100 people. The Chuang army pursued the victory, and the guards battalion arrived at the city of Zhengzhou in the afternoon of the same day, and Zhengzhou was broken by Shenshi.

On the 6th, the vanguard of the Heyin army arrived in Mi County, and while they were busy preparing for the siege, Li Dingguo, who had been lurking in Dazhou Mountain for many days

Command the western battalion to fight out from behind the Ming army. In the blink of an eye, the baggage of the Ming army on the official road fell into the hands of the invading army, and the Ming army scattered around Mi County was rushed to pieces by the invading army before the whole team had time to be completed, and the general Zhou Zhengting, the deputy general, and the guerrilla people were all captured by Li Dingguo.

On the morning of the 8th, the Zhongmu guerrilla Wade was commanding his troops to march happily to Xinzheng, but suddenly received an urgent report from the rear army, saying that a breaking army from the north had attacked the rear of the team, and now the front army had lost contact with the baggage troops.

"North? That's our army. Wade didn't know that Zhengzhou had been lost, and before he could react, the front scouts reported that there were also intruders on the front and side.

For a while, Wade was sweating profusely, and he immediately commanded the pro-army to return along the road at full speed: "Sons, follow me to fight a bloody road!" ”

Hei Baoyi looked at the Ming army coming from afar, and ordered loudly: "All arms for war." ”

The second wing of the Guards Battalion was pursuing the Ming army's baggage, and the rest were lined up in the direction of the Ming army to the south, with five hundred flintlock musketeers lined up in three rows in front and the same number of spearmen behind them.

"Do you want to get closer and fight again?" Hei Baoyi muttered to himself. The Ming army in front of them obviously did not know the firepower of the camp, and it was not until they reached within 100 meters that they stood firm and began to line up. Hei Baoyi saw that the enemy army had not lined up for a long time, and he couldn't bear to be irritable, so he ordered to attack.

"Aim!"

Five hundred soldiers of the Guards Battalion flattened their guns when they heard the sound.

"Fire."

Three rows of musketeers fired a fierce volley.

"Charge."

After filling, the musketeers fired another volley with the order, and after the smoke cleared, the Ming army on the opposite side was lying on the ground tightly whether they were dead or alive, and several cavalrymen were frantically rushing eastward with one person......

"Guards battalion, get on the bayonet!"

The drums sounded, and the soldiers of the Guards Battalion walked forward neatly with bayonets, and the Ming soldiers lying on the ground watched in horror as they walked in step by step.

"Surrender!"

With the first shout, the other Ming soldiers also came to their senses,

"Surrender!"

"Surrender!"

The shouts almost overpowered the drums of the invading army.

After the Ming army was defeated, Yu Dong, who had just been promoted to the general army, had no choice but to lead the Xuanwu army, which was difficult to support, to retreat.

……

ZHONG Mou,

"Change horses, quick, fast, fast," the Ming army who rushed into the post station didn't care about drinking water, waved the letter in his hand at the post guard, and shouted one after another: "Eight hundred miles urgent, fast, fast......"

"Bang!"

In response to the Ming army was a blow from the back of the head, after this blow, the Ming army threw himself to the ground without saying a word, and two men dressed as postmen jumped up and dragged him to the back of the house, while the man who beat the sticks picked up the letter that the Ming army had dropped, looked at it, and held it in front of a man who was feeding his horses by the trough.

The man took it and glanced at the seal on the letter, and nodded: "It is indeed eight hundred miles urgent." ”

After reading the letter, he raised his head and smiled at the group of people around him: "The three general soldiers, the eleven deputy generals, and the 42,000 officers and soldiers have all been defeated by the adults, and now they are either surrendering or fleeing, and they cannot form an army." ”

"Your Excellency is mighty!"

The post soldiers gathered around the manger cheered in unison, these people were members of the Guards Battalion Teaching Team, and the person at the head was none other than Chen Zhe, the leader of the Teaching Team.

With the financial decay of the Ming Dynasty, most of the post stations in Henan have been abandoned, and if it were not for Xu Ping's threat to Kaifeng, even this post station would not have been urgently rebuilt. After hearing that the governor of Henan came to Zhongmu to supervise the battle, Xu Ping began to plan to attack the communication system of the Ming army, Chen Zhe volunteered, and led the teaching team to disguise himself as the Ming army, and went deep behind the enemy to raid this post station closest to Zhongmu.

Before attacking this station, Chen Zhe had already ascertained the local communication situation and knew the entire Tang newspaper system well. Chen Zhe even hijacked the families of several post guards, and with the help of these post guards, Chen Zhe effortlessly controlled the most critical post stations, and was never discovered by the government.

After a little contemplation, Chen Zhe took pen and paper, imitated the tone of the Ming general, and wrote a vague report, although it was not a good news, but it seemed that the Ming general who wrote the report was still resisting rather than fleeing. After writing the letter, Chen Zhe put it back in the letter bag and glued the edges back on. After doing all this, Chen Zhe held the letter aloft and glanced at the sunlight a few times, quite satisfied with his work - if the other party did not look carefully, he would never see the flaw.

After giving the order to send the letter away, Chen Zhe ordered the teaching team to assemble and stand by.

More than an hour later, the subordinates who delivered the letter rushed back and reported that Chen Zhe, the governor of Henan, was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and after receiving the report, he tore open the envelope in front of him, not paying attention to whether there was fraud.

"To say that our army's attack on the officers and soldiers is still lacking in this time, fortunately, we are engaged in an unprecedented bold attack, so our enemy is defenseless." In this operation, Chen Zhe recorded all kinds of shortcomings. According to Xu Ping's order, the training team of the Guards Battalion should concentrate the most imaginative and outstanding officers, although there are not many such talents now, Chen Zhe will discuss the gains and losses with these instructors every night.

After the teaching team was completed, Chen Zhe took the whole team to change into the military uniforms of the Ming army, and rode on a horse to Zhongmu. When the team of 100 people drove to the city of Zhongmu, Chen Zhe saw a large number of scholars gathered together, drinking and having fun - this is the poetry meeting organized by Gao Mingheng, the governor of Henan. Against the backdrop of such victories, and in a place that was not far from the front line, the act of following the war with the governor made them feel both exciting and elegant.

Chen Zhe didn't look at these outing people, and drove straight to Zhongmu with the teaching team, and the soldiers on the side of the road also sent domestic servants to greet this small team, and after getting no response, some people couldn't help but be angry: "This group of Qiu Ba is really rude." ”

But some people expressed tolerance and understanding: "This must be Yu Shuai's soldier, look at this momentum, it's really amazing!" ”

Chen Zhe's troops did not smile, and everyone in the team held their heads high, did not squint, held the flag straight, and beat the war drums loudly, although they were only small team members, they exuded an awe-inspiring and inviolable majesty.

After entering Zhongmu City, Chen Zhe immediately took control of the city gate, and then ordered his subordinates to take off the military uniforms of the Ming army and change them into the flag of the camp.

When the training team of the guards battalion advanced towards the yamen, the guards of the governor's standard battalion in the city also saluted them, and the officials of the first two teams of Zhongmu who bumped into them along the way even turned around and walked in the head of Chen Zhe, who was riding on a tall horse, and sounded the gong to open the way.

"Silence!"

"Avoid!"

In the sound of gongs and drums, Chen Zhe saw the people of Zhongmu standing on both sides of the road, looking up at him, and he could still hear the crowd asking each other: "Which general is this?" Why did you enter the city with soldiers? ”

I don't know who was the first to shout: "It's a thief!" ”

In the blink of an eye, the streets of Zhongmu, which was full of crows and crows just now, became empty. The people rushed back to their homes, or closed the doors tightly, or hurriedly moved out the incense case and placed it in front of their homes. Only those hawkers who were distressed about the goods did not forget to load their things into the car before escaping, and then pushed the cart and ran away from Chen Zhe's eyes.

The four gates of Zhongmu, except for the one that was controlled by Chen Zhe, had been blocked by hundreds of standard camp guards who had fled for their lives at this moment. At this time, the soldiers defending the city, or fled back to their own homes in the city, or went down the city, the officials did not care about decency, and they also grabbed the ropes left by the soldiers, and jumped out of the wall with their hearts.

After the soldiers occupied the yamen, granaries, arsenals, military camps and other key places without blood, there were less than twenty people left around Chen Zhe, and he also divided ten people out: "Search and arrest the governor of Henan, now the city is in chaos like this, he can't run far!" ”

Looking at the warehouses full of grain, silver and weapons, Chen Zhe couldn't help but think of his deceased friend, Han Dake.

Long before the Battle of Shandong, Han Dake thought that the military regulations of the New Army were rigid, rigid, dogmatic and inflexible, and this tone did not bring him any benefit except ridicule. After being excavated by Yang Zhiyuan from the Xuanfeng battalion, Han Dake was carefully preparing for the reform of the military intelligence regulations, and he believed that the military intelligence department should not be satisfied with just collecting intelligence, but should take the initiative to attack. Especially in the case of the Battle of Shandong, the two armies were fighting against each other on a vast battlefield, and the battle lines were staggered, and Han Dake thought that actively probing the other side's communication system and attacking it would bring great benefits to his own side.

Zhendonghou's requirements for these students were similar to later papers, and this report Han Dake had not yet had time to complete, and during this time, Chen Zhe had been busy preparing his thesis on military training, and had only heard some of it from his friends in his daily conversations.

This time, Xu Ping and Chen Zhe hit it off on this issue, and Chen Zhe recalled some ideas and ideas mentioned by his deceased friends and verified them in practice. For example, the use of inconspicuous small forces to raid the enemy's defenseless command center is also one of them, this kind of combat example is not uncommon in history, Han Dake hopes to summarize these from an accidental inspiration into a conscious initiative means of combat: "Brother Han, my success today is all due to you, I don't know if you feel some relief now; I put your ideas into the hands of the enemies of the new army, Brother Han, you have a spirit in the sky, bless me, so that I can avenge you. ”

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