Volume 1 Chapter 68: All the Way West (2)
Li Rufeng nodded fiercely, Ling Jingyang told him the next plan, after the whole army arrived at the Santun camp, the cavalry battalion was responsible for opening the road, after the whole iron wind department was broken, the other departments on the way to Shanxi, the people who could be gathered all the way, the stragglers were all organized into an army, and the military strength of the stone camp was expanded. The literati would come to Shiying.
"Duwei, it's a long way to go to Shanxi here, there may be Jiannu and rebels along the way, and there are people in the team who don't go, what should I do?"
"If you don't go, you have to drive them over, only when there are many people and the momentum is huge, the snake on the ground will not dare to fight our idea, and when you meet a big family in the place, as long as you don't make enemies with us, don't burn and plunder, just pull the team to the big family and march in front of the house, and ask for grain and silver."
Li Rufeng suddenly thought that this is not a big eater? It's the same as when they robbed the Zhu family vassal king, but Du Wei just said that they couldn't rob the landlords and gentry eunuchs?
Li Rufeng had a tangled expression on his face, and was in full view of Ling Jingyang, he said: "We are not robbing, we are trying to win over these big households, we pulled the team to the vicinity of the big households, to protect them from being robbed by the rogues, do you know what I mean?" ”
In this way, Li Rufeng seemed to be enlightened, and he and Ling Jingyang said that in the future, when they meet big families, they will force their family children to join the stone camp, and absorb many children of the family into the stone camp as middle and low-level officers, so that they can get the support of the big families, if they mix well, these big families will spare no effort to support the children of the family to go to the next level.
Ling Jingyang didn't think about it in this way, Li Rufeng suggested this, which opened his mind, and he could also bind local forces like this.
"Like the wind, it's enlightened, it's really enlightened."
The two of them laughed loudly on the open grass, the laughter alarmed the cavalry who were sweating in the distance, half of the cavalry battalion was half a bucket of water, and it was okay to run on horseback, but the horse was blind in battle, the saber and spear were on horseback, how could they not be cut, the stab could not hit the target, several cavalrymen fell with blue noses and swollen faces, and suddenly heard the palm flag laughing loudly on the high ground, these cavalrymen were ashamed to practice their riding skills harder, until late at night at the post commander ordered the end of tonight's practice, and then fell asleep soundly.
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At dawn the next day, Ling Jingyang led the team to the direction of Santun Camp, and Li Rufeng asked his subordinates to contact Zhang Luofu, asking the main force to slow down, and when they arrived, they would act together.
Zhang Luofu and Li Daoli retreated to Sanyingtun with a large army, because there were hundreds of Guan Ning Jun's family members in the team, the speed was very slow, there were many stragglers on the road, and the rout wanted to kill this team, but Zhang Luofu and Li Daoli led the soldiers to drive away, and a lot of weapons and ammunition were also seized.
The Dashun army and the Jiannu army concentrated their forces in the decisive battle of Yongping Mansion, there were not many troops in other places, Zhang Luofu and other people could swagger and hurry during the day, although they were not attacked by hostile forces, the team was still uneven, and many people could not stand the hard work of the long journey, and quietly left at night.
Every morning when I woke up, there would be dozens less people in each camp, and on the first night that Ling Jingyang led the cavalry battalion to Funingwei, more than 20 soldiers and more than 50 family members ran away.
The soldiers ran away, Zhang Luofu could understand that these family members had just survived from the Jiannu knife, how could they leave?
Li Daoli and his brother Li Daowei have been traveling north and south for many years, and they have seen a lot of things, and they said to Zhang Luofu: "Zhang Zhangqi, these people will leave when they leave, don't be sad." ”
Zhang Luofu touched his head with his hand.
"I'm not sad, I just think there's something wrong with these people."
"They just think that there is no future for following our Dashun army, maybe they will have a better future if they defect to other forces, right?"
Although Zhang Luofu's heart is to the Ming Dynasty, but these people surrender to other forces, isn't it a disguised weakening of the strength of the stone camp, he and his subordinates ordered, from now on, there will be those who will leave without saying goodbye, hacked to death, especially the officers and soldiers of the Guanning Army and their families, although they have no combat effectiveness, they are all very good laborers, providing great help for the logistics of the army, because He Jiannu is a mortal enemy, they will not go back to surrender to Jiannu, but it is very likely to throw themselves into the Ming army in other places, so Zhang Luofu summoned other generals, and these family members must not be allowed to leave.
This order made Zhu Youzhen and Wang Chengen feel a little interesting, this Ming martial arts champion, but the top group of people in the Ming Dynasty's armed forces, also fought with the Dashun army in Baoding City and did not retreat, but I don't know what happened, I was fooled by Ling Jingyang, and at this time I also helped the Dashun army, the two of them couldn't understand, but they still conveyed Zhang Luofu's order to every soldier.
The large army continued to advance westward, and on the evening of the third day, Li Rufeng's subordinates finally arrived at the large army, and Zhang Luofu, Li Daoli and others conveyed the latest military order of Ling Jingyang, and the large army slowed down, and after the troops and horses of the various departments were assembled, they retreated to the three camps together.
Zhang Luofu and Li Daoli and others discussed, decided to wait here for Ling Jingyang and other soldiers, the large army camped at the foot of the Great Wall, Ling Jingyang and other soldiers quickly whipped, and finally arrived on the morning of the fifth day, everyone was separated for a few days, but it felt like a long time, after Ling Jingyang returned, the generals came to report to him about the situation of the troops and horses.
Ling Jingyang was very satisfied that the team did not fall apart, although some soldiers and their families ran away, but the main framework was still there, and his team this time also supplemented Bai Lushui and other dozens of soldiers of the right battalion, as well as dozens of prisoners, most of these prisoners were Ming Eight Banners and Meng Eight Banners, and they were whipped all the way by the cavalry battalion, and many people were about to die in one breath after arriving at the camp.
Ling Jingyang and the old steamed bun said: "Let the prisoners rest, wait until they arrive in Shanxi, let these prisoners walk at the front of the team, and let the soldiers and horses of Shanxi appreciate the front of our army." ”
Of all the generals in Shiying, only Li Rufeng was not surprised, and after the other generals heard this, their faces were very surprised, and Wan Liyun was even more busy asking: "Captain Lingdu, aren't we going to Sanyingtun, why do you want to go to Shanxi again?" ”
Wan Liyun and other generals did not know that Jiang Hao and other Shanxi Ming troops would defect to the Qing Dynasty in the near future, and let Tang Tong and other Ming troops who surrendered to the Dashun Army also rebel again and became the green battalion soldiers of the Qing army.
Almost all the generals did not agree to pull the troops down Shanxi, Zhu Youzhen and Wang Chengen also squinted, they didn't care where they went, the whole north was a battlefield between Jiannu and the Dashun army, and their small army wanted to go to the south of the Yangtze River, but before it reached the Yangtze River, it was absorbed or exterminated by other forces.