The majority of the troops were cavalry, the speed was very fast, and they arrived at the battlefield before Gao Ding was wiped out, and the mountain col was not suitable for cavalry to rush and kill, Ling Jingyang ordered the troops to abandon the cavalry charge, and the whole army climbed the hill and condescendingly shot the Liukou with bows and arrows.

There are a small number of rogues on the top of the mountain to sentry, not waiting for the rogues to attack, Ling Jingyang ordered to release arrows, a round of arrows to destroy the enemy on the top of the mountain, he led hundreds of cavalry to climb the mountain, condescendingly to the col of the rogue to release arrows.

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The rogue who was attacking, the back was suddenly attacked, the formation was in chaos, Gao Ding, who was blocked inside, took advantage of the chaos to kill out, Ling Jingyang ordered to continue to release arrows, and the rogue in the mountain could not attack, so he had to withdraw from the other side.

Ling Jingyang saw the Liukou retreating, and also ordered the whole army to put away the bows and arrows, and immediately rushed back to straddle the war horse to pursue the Liukou on the other side of the mountain col, this group of Liukou equipment can't see which side of the force, they don't even have a military flag, the only thing that is certain is that this army is not the Qing army.

The cavalry pursued quickly, and soon caught up with the rogue, chopping melons and vegetables, and the rogues were either killed or kneeling on the ground and begging for life.

Ling Jingyang's riding skills are still at an ordinary level, and he is not good at riding battles.

When he arrived at the battlefield, the battle was over, hundreds of cavalry drove hundreds of prisoners to a ravine, and Gao Ding rushed over with the remnants of his remnants to join Ling Jingyang.

Ling Jingyang saw that he had hundreds of people in the forward army, and there were dozens of people left, so angry that he stomped his feet, he held back his anger, and said to Gao Ding: "How did you lead the team and be ambushed by a group of rogues?" ”

Gao Ding was also depressed to the limit, last night with the troops hurried to Xuzhou City, the soldiers of the army were reluctant, he gave each soldier a tael of silver, the soldiers in the silver stimulated, crazy rush to Xuzhou City.

At dawn, the troops rushed to the vicinity of Xuzhou City, but they were raided by a group of rogues here, he really didn't know why these rogues attacked the regular army, and he didn't know who was the mastermind behind the rogues?

Ling Jingyang looked at Yi Q San without knowing his expression, so he gave him a new task, go to the captives and ask whose unit this is?

Last night, he was almost wiped out by this group of rogues, Gao Ding smiled and led his subordinates to the front of the prisoners, and stepped forward with a knife, hacking a prisoner who was about to die to death, and the other prisoners were frightened

Retreat.

"Lao Tzu asks you, whose army are you?"

Without answering him, Gao Ding raised his big knife again and slashed at a captive who seemed to be a small leader, and the captive was afraid of death, and when he saw him slashing and killing, he quickly knelt on the ground.

"Don't kill people, adults, we are all Ming troops, the large army was scattered by Jiannu, and we can't survive anymore, so we have to settle down here."

Ling Jingyang listened to the captives on the side, but didn't say anything, maybe these people were a group of stragglers, but he still decided to take these people to Xuzhou City, let the special bureau in Xuzhou City appear, and pry some useful information from the people here.

Gao Ding felt that it was not enjoyable, and it was another violent outlet, and he got from the captive that there were more than 1,000 stragglers in Xuzhou City, and more than 10,000 people, Gao Ding asked them why they didn't attack Xuzhou City, and the captive replied to him that the people of Xuzhou City were good at fighting, and the rogues had no heavy weapons, so they couldn't break the Heng at all.

Hearing Liukou's answer, Gao Ding suddenly remembered something and asked, "What about the rest of you?" ”

The little leader immediately stopped talking, he didn't dare to say that there were more than 10,000 people in the Liukou army, in case he did, these Ming troops couldn't defeat the Liukou army, and they would kill him with one sword.

Gao Ding really wanted to give him a knife, Ling Jingyang asked him to stop, he looked at the captives, there were more than two hundred people, and they were all infantry, and their walking speed was not as fast as the cavalry, so he asked Gao Ding to take the remnants of the captives to Xuzhou City behind.

He led the others to rush in front and rushed to Xuzhou City.

In Xuzhou City, there are more than 1,000 stragglers nesting in the city, most of them are scattered Ming troops, there are a small number of Chongzhen soldiers and horses, and the vast majority of them are the troops of the Ming army in Jiangnan that were defeated in the Northern Expedition.

In the Henan area, the Qing army did not dare to show their heads, so they took refuge in Kaifeng Mansion in the center of Henan, and finally gathered in Xuzhou City, Su Ri'an's large army was scattered, but these stragglers were also equipped, but they did not dare to go out of the city to fight with the Liukou, not only did they have no courage, but more fatal was that there was no supply.

There are more than 10,000 people in the city, and the stragglers and the people coexist peacefully in the city, not because of the hearts of the stragglers, but because there are thousands of righteous soldiers in this group of people, and the righteous army was also defeated by Jiannu and fled all over Henan

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Seeing that Xuzhou City was populated, they gathered in Xuzhou City one after another, and actually gathered dozens of rebel teams in the city.

Neither the stragglers nor the rebels could eat anyone, the two were in the same situation, and there were nearly 10,000 rogues in the tiger roaring mountains and forests outside the city, and more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians in the city were blocked by the rogues and did not dare to go out.

The rogues are also very shrewd, trying to trap the soldiers and civilians in the city alive, and the soldiers and civilians in the city have been carrying alive for a month, and at this time they have run out of food, and they will starve to death if they don't leave the city.

Last night, the stragglers and the rebels reached an agreement to go out of the city at noon today to fight a decisive battle with the rogues.

Fang Xiaoyan was mixed in the city, it was the first time he saw thousands of armed forces in the city, he didn't dare to go out of the city to fight the rogues, he was bored in the city, so he inquired with others, and finally learned some information.

This group of stragglers is not brave, the largest force in the city is a rebel army, this rebel army has 900 people, the leader Chen Yidao, the killing is decisive, the soldiers and horses under his command can not compare with the stragglers and other rebels.

However, unlike other armed forces, this rebel army is the only formed army in the city, with a high degree of internal unity, and the leader is the same, and it is also because of the existence of this rebel army that the city is in good order, and there is no killing of the people, and there is no vicious incident in which various forces annex other forces.

Fang Xiaoyan continued to inquire about more news in the city, but suddenly heard the sound of rapid gongs and drums in the city, and some soldiers in the city received a loud shout: "The thieves are coming, quickly avoid the attack." ”

The people on the street hurriedly hid under the eaves of the nearby houses to prevent being shot by arrows shot from outside the city, Fang Xiaoyan pulled Xu Yun and Wang Qiu, and followed the crowd to hide in a store, there were dozens of people here, there was no fear in their eyes, some just ignored.

At this moment, Fang Xiaoyan felt that the rebels in the city were very good in battle, and the people were also very good soldiers, he was still in the fantasy, Chen Yidao, the leader of the rebels in the city, came to the city wall under the escort of his own soldiers, he looked outside the city, and only saw hundreds of cavalry arrayed under the city.

Chen Yidao and more than a dozen stragglers said to the small leader of the general and righteous army: "Brothers, this cavalry outside the city is clearly armored, freshly clothed and angry, doesn't it look like a rogue? ”