Chapter 278: Bandit Gathering

As for the remaining two people, the black god is purely at the level of passers-by, that is, he joined the rebel army relatively early, and his reputation is mixed, anyway, his reputation in history is not loud, and Li Chaosheng has not found out his relevant information, so he thinks it is an unimportant role.

As for Lao Huihui, this is also a ruthless person, his real name is Ma Shouying, a native of the Ningxia Hui tribe.

When Wang Ziyong organized the 36th battalion, he was one of the very important leaders, an important responder to the Rongyang Conference, and had followed Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng successively, and later the rebel army was infighting, that is, Luo Rucai was killed, he was disheartened, but in his heart he was for the righteousness of the rebel army, stuck to Jingzhou, and died of illness in the spring of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.

It can be said that this is a person whose talents were covered up by Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, and his combat style is mainly steady, rarely taking risks, and he is a difficult guy.

And he has a cavalry under his command, which makes Li Chaosheng a little difficult, after all, his cavalry unit has been sent to the vicinity of NMG Naturalization City, and now he is in the Mongolian steppe, plundering caravans.

Cavalry, this must be restricted, thinking of this, Li Chaosheng looked on the map, don't fight with the cavalry and the plain, and fight with the cavalry and the plain, it is really unwise, this is a stupid act.

However, most of Dali County is a plain, which is just suitable for the assault of the cavalry, and now that Wang Guixiang's cavalry is summoned back, it is obviously far from quenching the thirst, Li Chaosheng thought, a little headache.

However, this kind of headache still has to be left to his subordinates to think about, so a group of staff officers thought of a very immoral method after thinking for a while, but after Li Chaosheng saw it, he felt that it was okay, but it was a little expensive.

But Li Chaosheng is not afraid of spending money, and Lantian County has the economic foundation to fight a big war.

On November 28, Wang Jiayin's army set off, with the intention of going south to eat, after getting the news, Yang He, Hong Chengchou suddenly became nervous, Hong Chengchou personally led 80,000 border troops to surround Wang Jiayin's 200,000 army.

The two sides and the Fugu Yulin generation were engaged in a confrontation and tug-of-war, Yang He presided over the overall situation and pacified the thieves in the region, but fortunately, the rest of the thieves did not take advantage of the situation to start a rebellion.

Yang He was relieved in his heart and thought that his Huairou policy was very right, except for the stubborn Wang Jiayin, the rest of the thieves could be influenced.

However, Wang Jiayin's chaos also gave Yang He a headache, just when Yang He had a headache, someone suddenly came under the tent, this person was eight feet tall, with a resolute complexion, and a cavalry armor, and he hugged Yang He into the tent and said: "I have seen the governor." ”

When Yang He looked at this person, he suddenly said with a smile on his face: "Wen Zhao, aren't you helping to defend Shanxi?" ”

The general said with a smile: "I heard that the thief King Jiayin rioted, and I came to listen to the military order of the governor." ”

Yang He suddenly smiled when he heard this: "Wen Zhao has a heart." ”

Who is this man?

This person's name is Cao Wenzhao, a rare brave general, who has followed famous generals such as Xiong Tingbi and Sun Chengzong in Liaodong, and has accumulated meritorious service to obtain the position of guerrilla general.

When Huang Taiji entered the customs last year, he once followed Yuan Chonghuan into King Qin, but he had a better relationship with his old handsome Sun Chengzong and Ma Shilong.

After the uprising of the Shaanxi Peasant Army intensified, Cao Wenzhao was regarded as a firefighting team and was named the deputy chief soldier of Yansui East Road to assist in the defense of Shaanxi and prevent thieves from invading the east.

Now he is the deputy commander of the East Road of Yiyan Sui to see Yang He, which is similar to the deputy commander of a military region who meets the commander of the group army.

Yang He heard this and looked at Cao Wenzhao and said, "Oh, it's okay on my side, Hong Chengchou has already led troops to mediate with the thief." ”

Hearing this, Cao Wenzhao frowned slightly and said: "After all, the political envoy of Hong Bu is a civil official, although he is quite talented, but he may not be good at fighting in battle. ”

Yang He's face was calm when he heard Cao Wenzhao, but he was very happy in his heart, Cao Wenzhao and Hong Chengchou are all his right-hand men, Hong Chengchou is the political envoy of Shaanxi, this Shaanxi leader, similar to Sheng Chang, now the two of them are not compatible, and they are easy to control, which is very important to the old fritters in the officialdom.

Yang He thought about it and said with a smile: "What does Wen Zhao mean? ”

Cao Wenzhao said: "The war rush to kill should be a matter for the last general and other martial artists, and the last general wants to lead the people of the headquarters to meet this thief for a while." ”

Hearing this, Yang He looked at Cao Wenzhao and said, "Okay, since this is the case, I will order you to go to help Hong Chengchou." ”

"Yes, the last general commands."

After Cao Wenzhao finished speaking, he went out and led the Guanning Iron Cavalry of the headquarters to prepare to suppress the bandits.

At this time, the Guanning Iron Cavalry was not the private property of the old Wu family, it used to belong to Sun Chengzong, and later belonged to Yuan Chonghuan.

On December 1, Hong Chengchou met the thief leader Wang Jiayin in Fugu, and more than 2,000 people were killed and wounded, and then they retreated.

On December 3, Cao Wenzhao Guanning Iron Cavalry arrived, defeated the thief Kou Yuexia in Tongzhen, and beheaded more than 1,000 people.

On December 5, the thief King Jiayin personally commanded the army, and Gao Yingxiang's troops attacked Cao Wenzhao, and Cao Wenzhao fought with him, regardless of victory or defeat, and each had damage.

On December 8, Hong Chengchou guarded Leilong Bay and fought a fierce battle with the army led by the thief king himself, regardless of victory or defeat.

However, there was bad news that reached Hong Chengchou's department, and the thieves had a small group of men and horses in five routes, scattered from his defense area, and went straight to southern Shaanxi.

Hong Chengchou hurriedly wanted to block it, but Wang Jiayin's army suddenly overwhelmed the territory, and the defense force was overstretched, so he could only hold on to it, but could not rescue it.

Hong Chengchou sent people to inform the government offices along the way to immediately prepare for defense, especially Lantian County.

Li Chaosheng knew the situation earlier than Hong Chengchou's information when the information was sent, there was Li Chaosheng's spy in the peasant army, how could there be no Li Chaosheng's spy in Hong Chengchou's border army, and Li Chaosheng's telegraph was almost equivalent to cheating in this era, how could these ancients understand the sound of thousands of miles?

After Li Chaosheng got the news, he hurriedly ordered all the roads to explore the horses and monitor the movements, these five people and horses went all the way south from the land of northern Shaanxi, and went straight to Lantian to come, and it was okay to pass through the state capital along the way, but the small county government was broken several, the county was head-turned, and the people were not a few.

When they approached Baishui, the 50,000 soldiers and horses directly swelled to 80,000, and there were 30,000 more, and these people were all coerced people.

When the rebels came, they took knives one by one, helped you burn down your home, and then gave you a knife, and asked you to follow him to kill, if you don't kill anyone, he will kill you, what can you do, you can only follow the rebels as a minion.

What is it that people can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes, this is the best interpretation of this sentence, that is really regardless of your feelings.

80,000 people, after Li Chaosheng heard this, not only was he not afraid, but he felt a little funny, this war is not just a matter of many people, these people are mixed in the army, which directly reduces the combat effectiveness of their army a lot, it is okay to fight against the wind, but against the wind, these extra peasants may help themselves to break the enemy camp.

This is not a very smart approach, at least Li Chaosheng does not look down on it, the army is the army, and the people are the people, if they are not distinguished, they will not be a rabble.

Li Chaosheng looked at the intelligence, and the intelligence showed that this time he coerced the peasants, and the most people were the black gods and Luo Rucai, while Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong did not coerce many people, and Lao Huihui did not.

Lao Huihui's main force this time is a thousand cavalry, he must ensure the purity of the troops, and even his surplus men and horses are given to Zhang Xianzhong, Lao Huihui has a good relationship with Zhang Xianzhong.

In Baishui County, five teams of soldiers and horses joined forces and held a meeting with Baishui County.

Moreover, this meeting was very secretive, and there were less than fifteen people in total, and these fifteen people were the commander of a unit and the two core members of the unit.

After the peasant army entered Baishui County, it began to loot the rich households, and the rich households rarely resisted, but they were brutally killed by Li Zicheng and others.

These gentry, who dominated a county, thought themselves superior, but when the people they once looked down on were angry, they bore the brunt of the sacrifice and became sacrificed tribute.

The people of Mo Dao can be deceived, but they have not yet reached the end of the road.

The rich have looted the people all their lives, and the wealth they have accumulated in these few lifetimes will disappear into nothing in the roar of the angry people, and by the way, take the lives of the whole family.

Baishui County Ya, a dilapidated small county ya, it turned out that the county government was demolished when Wang Er rebelled, and then Wang Er ran away, and the imperial court selected officials to come here, and caught up with the disaster in Shaanxi, this county government was even more broken, at this time a few thieves in the house looked at the roof of the county government with a hole in their arms and also felt a lot.

Once upon a time, they groveled in the county office, and they were like ants in front of the county magistrate, just like today, the county magistrate was easily cut off, and the county hall could be wild as he wanted.

"Luo Rucai, you are hateful, you have to pee on the chair of the magistrate, it makes the house smelly, and you have to change this problem."

Hei Shatian said with a dark face at this time, and after hearing this, Luo Rucai put on his pants, turned his head and smiled: "Get used to it, go to one place, urinate one place, and these dog officials will also use urine to water them." ”

Luo Rucai said, in fact, his behavior is related to his youth, when he was young, Luo Rucai used to be a gangster leader, because he dared to fight, he used to run rampant on the street, but because it was too horizontal, for a kiln sister in Qinglou, he had a dispute with the son of a local wealthy businessman, and then beat the son.

Then the rich man used the money to let the yamen take Luo Rucai, and the magistrate took the money to torture Luo Rucai to death, and even locked him in a dog cage and let the rich businessman's son pee on Luo Rucai's head.

also forced Luo Rucai to learn to bark as a dog, Luo Rucai is a person who can bend and stretch, with his humility and obedience, so that the rich businessman and the rich businessman and his son feel that Luo Rucai is not a person who dares to resist, tortured for a while, and let it go.

Later, Luo Rucai rebelled, directly arrested the rich businessman father and son, doubled the repayment of what he did back then, and finally killed the rich businessman's son in front of the rich businessman's face.

Later, the soldiers broke through his county office, and Luo Rucai drowned the county order alive in the dung pit, and even threw filth in the county government hall, which may be a kind of catharsis after repression.

It was also from that time that Luo Rucai always liked to urinate on the county master's face and chair every time he broke through the county government.

Luo Rucai smiled at this time, lifted his pants, looked at Hei Shatian and said: "Brother Hei, you know me, just this hobby, hehe, are all the leaders here?" ”

Hei Shatian said with a dark face at this time: "No, let's go to the city first, the old man will go back to the front of the cavalry to explore the road, it is estimated that it will take a while, just now the horse was returned, Li Zicheng's army arrived, but Zhang Xianzhong's troops did not seem to enter the city, but Zhang Xianzhong arrived, and he could come in a while." ”

Luo Rucai heard this and said with a smile: "Those who have the ability have heavy butts, come late, understand." ”

Hearing this, Hei Shatian said: "Hmph, relying on the likes of the king's deputy alliance leader and generals, they will do whatever they want, and when Lao Tzu rebelled, they were still dogs to the court." ”

Luo Rucai just heard what he wanted to say, and heard someone outside: "Hmph, you thief and bandit, and you have the face to say, Lao Tzu was born in the border army, and he also killed Tartars, you bastard who robbed houses, and you dare to underestimate a certain family!" ”

At this time, I heard the sound outside the door, followed by a slender figure, a slightly yellow face, wearing armor, and holding a big knife.

Zhang Xianzhong was followed by two people, who were not very old, the eldest of them looked fifteen or sixteen, and the youngest was only about ten years old.

These are Zhang Xianzhong's two adopted sons, this fifteen or sixteen is called Sun Kewang, and the younger one is Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son named Li Dingguo two months ago.

This time, Zhang Xianzhong met with the other four-way commanders, and he had the mentality of letting these two adopted sons see the world, and brought the two with him, but as soon as he entered the door, he heard this black sky insulting him, and he was immediately angry.

When Hei Shatian saw the comer, a trace of murderous intent appeared on his face, and he glared at Zhang Xianzhong and said, "You bastard, who are you scolding a bandit!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong didn't care at all, looked at Hei Shatian and said: "Dare to do it, what kind of hero is it, I said Hei Shatian, you yourself are a bandit, and you are afraid of people to say." ”

When Hei Shatian heard this, he pulled out his knife and shouted, "You thief border army, Lao Tzu killed you." ”

When these words were shouted, the two strong men behind Hei Shatian silently took out their knives, and the two young men behind Zhang Xianzhong were not to be outdone, and they also pulled out their knives, even the ten-year-old doll Li Dingguo did not have any expression of fear, it stands to reason that such a doll should be frightened and cry when she saw this scene, but Li Dingguo took out his small dagger, looking like he was going to fight hard.

The two sides looked at each other, and saw that they were about to fight, but at this moment, there was a sudden shout outside the door: "The thief border army, our border army is a good son who guards the family and defends the country, how can you let you waste it in vain, if you want fire, right, count me Li." ”

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