If the sneak attack fails, it will be very embarrassing, because Liao Sheng must cross the river.

Either take the west bank of the Xiangjiang River and go further downstream to cross the Xiangjiang River. Either take the east bank of the Xiangjiang River and cross the Lushui River on the opposite bank of Lukou Town.

There is a bridge in Lukou Town, which was built in the Song Dynasty, with a total length of more than 150 meters, and is a wooden pier and wooden beam structure, which needs to be repaired every few years. If you don't take this bridge, along the entire Lushui River, there is only the Lujiang Bridge on the Liling side, which is also a Song Dynasty bridge with wooden piers and wooden beams.

Liao Sheng did not have a special naval army, and his ships were only used to transport baggage.

Zhao Han's sailors could not come from Jiangxi, and the ships could only be used to transport baggage—of course, they could go around the Yangtze River and then along the Xiangjiang River all the way to this side.

It was too difficult to cross the Xiangjiang River, and Liao Sheng could only choose to cross the bridge in Lushui.

Landing on the south bank of Lushui, Liao Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, and the thieves finally did not set fire to the bridge.

They camped across the river and did not move that day.

Liao Sheng asked his brother Liao Kun to lead 1,500 elites with good water quality to go upstream at night and smuggle them directly over. When the time comes, the main force will force the bridge, and the odd troops will attack from the east at the same time, and the two sides can win the battle.

Fei Yinghui didn't react, as if she didn't know how to guard against enemy smuggling.

When the news of his brother's successful smuggling came, Liao Sheng sneered in the camp: "The thief who guards the grain road, how mediocre and incompetent, this battle is bound to be a big victory!" ”

There are two reasons why Fei Yinghui did not move:

First, although he can now command a thousand regular soldiers, Huang Mi took 500 for the siege. He only has 500 regular soldiers and 500 peasant soldiers, which is too weak after the division of troops;

Second, if the enemy is not allowed to cross the river, how can he be completely annihilated?

At noon the next day, the 1,500 regiments that successfully smuggled in, after resting and recovering, were led by Liao Kun to kill.

At the same time, Liao Sheng forcibly crossed the bridge in advance to contain the thieves and cooperate with his brothers to reach the battlefield smoothly.

With shield bearers and spearmen in front and 300 archers behind, only a few hundred troops could be invested at one time, and there were too many people to stand on the bridge.

They were not in a hurry to attack, so they shot at the opposite bank from the bridge, and waited for the smuggling friendly troops to arrive before flanking them on both sides.

"Dad, the enemy from the east is coming, and more than a thousand people are smuggling." Fei Ruhui said.

Fei Yinghui turned her head and looked: "Don't worry, wait." ”

The 500 soldiers guarding the bridge are holding rattan cards to defend against bows and arrows. When the 1,500 regiments on the side approached, Fei Yinghui suddenly exclaimed: "Retreat!" ”

Taking advantage of the gap between the archers' shooting, the soldiers guarding the bridge turned around and fled, as if they were afraid of being attacked from both sides, and were directly frightened.

Very clumsy acting!

However, Tuan Yong, who was attacking on the bridge, believed it, and Tuan Yong, who was smuggled over, also believed it.

Since they formed an army, they have been fighting against thieves for a long time. Those thieves are also fighting like this, and once they are ambushed or trapped, they will be defeated.

Liao Sheng on the other side of the river hurriedly said: "Mingjin, Mingjin, cross the river and assemble, don't chase indiscriminately!" ”

"Dangdang, dang!"

The gong sounded wildly, but it was too late.

Tuan Yong, who crossed the bridge, and Tuan Yong, who smuggled out, saw that the Datong army was fleeing, and immediately chased and killed them with a fever in their brains.

Obviously, these regiments are brave and elite, and they can't do it at all.

After Liao Sheng crossed the river, his troops had already split into two groups. One is chasing and killing the Datong army, and the other is very obedient and assembling on the shore. In desperation, he led his troops to chase after him, and at the same time blew a trumpet to stop the troops in front.

This is a commercial town, and there are too many people to line up at all, so you can only move along the bluestone streets.

Two streets, in the shape of a "⊥".

One runs horizontally along the river and the other vertically along the shop.

The regiment that crossed the bridge first went into the longitudinal streets in pursuit. The smuggled 1,500 regiments bravely pursued from the small road outside the town. All dragged into a long snake formation, to be precise, dragged into two long snakes.

They are completely mad, just like they used to chase and kill thieves.

"Phew!"

A sharp and piercing brass whistle sounded, and the 500 regular soldiers who had fled from the main street suddenly stopped and assembled in formation.

This kind of operation, in the entire Ming Dynasty, only a few troops can do it. Most of the officers and soldiers, the townspeople, and the thieves, even if they had made arrangements in advance, fled, and they collapsed, and the feint directly turned into a rout.

If the regimental warriors can't do it, they think that the Datong Army can't do it either, and they firmly believe that the Datong Army is really breaking and fleeing.

"The world is the same!"

"Farming and eating!"

The 500 regular soldiers, who had quickly completed the formation, suddenly shouted in unison, and the regiment chasing after them was frightened.

"Kill!"

The narrow bluestone slab town street can accommodate more than ten people side by side at most. No matter how many people chased the regimental braves, they couldn't be lined up at all, and they were instantly strangled by the Datong army arrayed at the corner of the street.

"Run, there's an ambush!"

Tuan Yong, who was running in front, hurriedly turned around, but Tuan Yong behind was still rushing forward, and soon crowded at the corner of the street.

Tuan Yong's command system had completely failed at this time, and even the officers were crowded into the crowd.

All the shops in the town are closed, and a few have two floors. Shopkeepers, buddies, merchants...... They watched from the windows on the second floor, and they saw a very wonderful scene.

I saw 500 soldiers lined up in a crescent-shaped formation at the corner of the street, and countless regiments bravely crashed into the concave gap. A regimental brave is often assassinated by several spears, crowded in front and back, and there is no way to advance or retreat.

Tuan Yong, who was chasing from the rear, didn't know what was going on at first, and stood behind and collectively entered a state of sleepwalking. After strangling like this for at least a minute, the regimental warriors behind began to break and flee, but the middle area was crowded, and countless regimental warriors fell down in panic, and many regimental warriors were simply trampled to death by friendly troops.

A foreign businessman who lived in an inn watched the whole battle through the window, and couldn't help sighing: "On one side is the elite division, on the other side is the rabble, this battle is not unjust." ”

On the other side, 1,500 smuggling group Yong, under the leadership of Liao Kun, chased and outflanked him from the small road outside the town.

They ran into five hundred peasant soldiers head-on!

On one side of the path are houses, and on the other side are dry fields, and Liao Kun raised his flag and shouted in formation.

In the face of the peasants and soldiers who were waiting for the battle, the regimental warriors did not dare to chase after them any longer, and jumped into the dry fields one after another and began to line up.

However, before they could finish their formation, five hundred peasant soldiers also jumped into the dry fields and began to charge in a mandarin duck formation at a trot.

These regimental warriors are indeed elite, and they were not defeated immediately, they are much more powerful than the regimental courage of the Zhou family in Xiangtan.

And that's all.

The 1,500 regiments that were not in a good formation faced the 500 peasant soldiers who charged in formation. After holding on for about two minutes, they were killed directly from the middle, and the group warriors wanted to fight, but there were wolves in front of them, and then in a trance, a spear stabbed them.

Liao Kun raised his knife to split the two wolf stalks, and was suddenly stabbed by a wolf stalk. While he parried and retreated, another spear stabbed him, and then he was shot in the shoulder, abdomen, and chest, and fell to the ground and died on the spot.

Liao Sheng himself rushed with his troops, and the two regiments had all fled, so he could only withdraw to the bridge and line up to respond.

But more and more routs rushed back, and there were still Datong troops chasing and killing behind, and Liao Sheng's own formation was instantly shaken. When the rout was getting closer and closer, Tuan Yong, who was in charge of receiving it, was so frightened that he turned around and ran, and then led the whole army to rout, and Liao Sheng couldn't even kill a few people.

The 5,000 regiments brought by Liao Sheng were already the most elite troops in the entire southern Hunan region at this time.

They have been fighting for more than a year, and all of them belong to veterans who have seen blood. The other troops, including the corporal under the command of Governor Wang Zhiliang, were improvised peasants who had no combat effectiveness at all, and could only be used to defend the city.

The only elite in Shonan was defeated in this way.

The reason for the rout turned out to be Fei Yinghui's very clumsy feint, which caused these elites to chase to the ambush point regardless of military orders.

At this moment, more than three thousand of the five thousand elites are still alive. A small number fled along both sides of the riverbank, most of them crowding onto the wooden bridge, trying to cross the river through the only bridge, and on the other side of the river was their large camp.

Liao Sheng was powerless to prevent the rout, so he could only be caught in the chaos of the army, and retreated quickly under the protection of his henchmen.

Liao Sheng successfully crossed the bridge and ran, but more regimental warriors were squeezed on the bridge, and many of the defeated soldiers were even squeezed down the river.

"Kill!"

Fei Ruhui, a woman, rushed forward with a spear in her hand, and quickly stabbed at the rout. She prefers to use a sword, but it is more comfortable to use a spear to fight on the battlefield.

Several people were stabbed to death one after another, and the soldiers on the bridge jumped into the river one after another, and the rest were chased across the bridge.

"Slow down, slow down!" Fei Yinghui shouted anxiously, afraid that her daughter would have an accident.

Fei Ruhui had already rushed to the other side and chased him for several miles before he stopped to rest out of breath.

Liao Sheng fled frantically with the remnants of the army and returned along the original road of the Xiangjiang River. Fleeing until dark, and finally seeing no pursuers, he asked his henchmen to count the number of people, and there were only more than eighty left.

Liao Sheng wants to cry without tears, this is his five thousand elite soldiers!

Although Leiyang and Hengshan each have 3,000 regiments bravely defending the city, Hengyang still has 1,500 regiments bravely defending the city. But the 7,500 regiments were all weak in combat and belonged to the rabble recruited by other gentry.

Liao Sheng was in a trance, feeling that he had no skills to return to heaven.

His own elite has been lost, what is the use of returning to Leiyang, Hengshan, and Hengyang? Even if he goes back, it is estimated that he will not be able to command, because it is someone else's soldier, and there are contradictions within the squire.

That's it, that's it, no more fighting.

Liao Sheng waited by the river for two days, and more than 200 regiments fled back one after another. These were all his soldiers, and there were only three hundred people left, so they simply found a ferry to cross the river, and fled all the way back to his hometown of Longhui, and had to rob the landlord to raise rations along the way.

I heard that Liao Sheng's main force was annihilated, and the three cities of Hengyang, Hengshan, and Leiyang on the southern front suddenly fluctuated, and there were deserters every day.

Zhang Tieniu took the opportunity to surround Leiyang, and Liu Zhu took the opportunity to surround Hengshan.

Hengyang, between the two cities, was about to become a lonely city, and the prefect was so frightened that he fled directly. The magistrate of the county is a kind of person, and he stepped forward in danger and opened the treasury to recruit troops on the spot.

However, the defenders of Hengyang recruited fewer and fewer troops.

The magistrate recruited one, and seven or eight escaped that night.

Hengyang is a large commercial city, where there are many wealthy merchants, and almost every rich merchant has countless slaves.

There is a hao slave named Zhang Feng, and after making a fortune, he asked the reader to change his name to Zhang Wenyu.

He had never been to Jiangxi, but he got a copy of "Datong Collection" from Jiangxi merchants, and began to inquire about the situation of domestic slaves in Jiangxi.

In the latest version of the "Datong Collection", there is an article called "Liberation of Slaves", which classifies tenants, long-term workers, domestic servants, and military households as slaves. He believed that only by freeing slaves could the world be truly united, and that these slaves should also be treated equally.

Seeing that the defenders of Hengyang had fled to only two or three hundred, Zhang Wenyu immediately began to connect with each other, and half of the house slaves in Hengyang City were instigated.

Judging from the slave rebellion at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the intensity of the domestic slave rebellion was far lower than that of the peasant rebellion.

In most cases, domestic slaves simply beat their masters, forced them to surrender their deeds of betrayal, or forced their masters to improve their salaries, and only a few would kill their masters. The reason for this is very simple, all the slave movements were led by the slaves, and these slaves also had family businesses and did not want to be too powerful.

The two cities of Hengshan and Leiyang have not yet been conquered, and Hengyang in the middle has changed its flag.

Zhang Wenyu led countless domestic slaves to drive away the defenders of Hengyang and erect an autonomous Datong military flag.