There are some things to avoid, and it is completely possible to open the skylight and say bright words - Li Zicheng's army, which can cross the river to the south bank of the Han River today, seems to have seen an opportunity to break into the vast land of the lake, which is completely the result of Zhu Shuren's release of water.

In the process of releasing water to lure the enemy, the military and civilians in Xinye, Dengxian and other areas that were abandoned as bait will also suffer to a greater or lesser extent, especially those who are relocated to settle down and are unwilling to be "crossed the river with the people" by the Zhu Shuren.

But Zhu Shuren firmly believed that he was doing this for the world, in order to solve the problems in the Huguang area as soon as possible, and to completely end the Han civil war with the least overall damage, and he could have a clear conscience.

At the same time, since it is to lure the enemy into releasing water, Li Zicheng on the opposite side is not stupid, and Zhu Shuren can make the opponent hit, which shows that his acting skills are still okay, and there are indeed enough defensive holes in the Hanshui defense line.

Otherwise, if there is only one obvious opening, and Li Zicheng is still stunned and drills into it, it will be too mentally retarded.

No matter what, there must be three or five loopholes, so that Li Zicheng can pick and choose, so that he thinks that the situation is still under control, and he dares to take this risk.

But the problem is precisely this - in order to have better acting skills, Zhu Shuren withdrew the surveillance troops far enough, and he actually couldn't know which loophole Li Zicheng chose to cross the river at the first time.

This also led to the fact that on the first day after Li Zicheng crossed the river, the scale of the Ming army that could rush to the crossing point to intercept the invading army could not be very large.

Previously, the Ming army was evenly distributed on the defense line on the south bank of the Han River, just like the "Atlantic barrier" of Marshal Rommel before the Normandy landing. After confirming that the main landing point of the other side was Normandy, Rommel had to transfer troops to regroup his troops and transfer the German troops in Calais and other places to Normandy to fight a counterattack.

Zhu Shuren also needs time to regroup the troops, which is destined to be fast and slow when the troops arrive, once the men and horses who came early are seized by Li Zicheng to fight a counterattack and strive for each defeat, the outcome is not yet known.

Li Zicheng saw that the number of Ming troops who arrived in the first wave was indeed small, only a few thousand or nearly 10,000 people, so he decisively made the decision to take the initiative to counterattack, wanting to eat this part first, which can be regarded as the essence of the art of war.

There was nothing wrong with this decision itself, and it was already the best solution he could make at the moment.

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And the general of the Ming Army opposite Li Zicheng coincidentally happened to be the original Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son, Li Dingguo, who woke up from the Western Army camp and surrendered to Ming.

In fact, it is not a coincidence, it can only be said that all coincidences are for a reason - when Li Zicheng was selecting the crossing point before, he had detected in advance the area west of Xiangyang and close to Yunyang Prefecture, the terrain was relatively complex, and it was in the transition zone between the Jingshan Mountains and the Jianghan Plain, and the Ming army's defense here was also relatively weak, and the defense was mainly handed over to several troops under the banner of surrendering to the Western Army.

Li Zicheng chose to cross the river at this point because he had a strong appeal to the "former thief troops", wanted to pick soft persimmons and pinched them, and even thought that "if the defenders are weak for a while, maybe they will be inspired to vote directly when they see the banner of Dashun", so he chose to cross the river at this point.

Li Zicheng is still deeply confident in this point, he feels that when Zhang Xianzhong was destroyed, those generals under his command voted for Ming, definitely not out of sincerity, and definitely voted for the poor.

Just like he was forced to land by Chen Qiyu in Shaanxi Carriage Gorge ten years ago, once he got out of danger and saw an opportunity, why didn't he immediately descend and recover? Zhang Xianzhong is a capricious existence who is better at than Li Zicheng, what kind of good men and women can he bring out? Suddenly changed his temperament and was loyal to Da Ming? Inexistent!

So at this moment, the two armies faced each other and lined up in formation, and Li Zicheng still did not give up surrendering. He quickly glanced at the battlefield and confirmed that the few men and horses on his side who had crossed the Han River already had 350,000 people, and the number of troops that could be put into battle was at least five times as many as on the other side, so he was very sure and decided to force people with momentum, what if the soldiers were not bloodless?

"I am Li Zicheng, the son of Dashun, who will come on the other side! But Brother Huanghu's old department! ”

Li Zicheng's words were immediately transmitted to the other side through the amplification of a group of scolding hands. Li Ziyuan himself is also obedient, since he was blinded in one eye by Zhu Shuren's shotgun fragments in the Battle of Chen County two years ago, he has been much more cautious, shouting at least a hundred steps away from the front of the formation, there are layers of iron shield hands in front of him, and then let the scolding array run back and forth to the forefront to talk.

Huang Hu is one of Zhang Xianzhong's nicknames, and no one has shouted it for many years.

When Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were on an equal footing, everyone called each other bandits in the peasant army camp, one respected the other party's king, and the other respected the other party's eight kings. But now that Zhang Xianzhong is dead, and Li Zicheng has been proclaimed emperor, of course he will not be polite to Zhang Xianzhong anymore, and he feels that he is already very face-saving when he calls Brother Huanghu.

Li Dingguo on the other side was also calm, he knew that he was in a hurry, and the little force at hand could not defeat Li Zicheng's main force. Before the war, Governor Zhu said when he explained their tasks that once anyone's defense area found that Li Zicheng's army had crossed the Han River, he would stick to it as soon as possible, but he did not require the army to fight alone, as long as he kept a distance and stuck to the other party.

The purpose of this measure was to prevent Li Zicheng from seeing that the situation was not right, and immediately turn around and flee north across the Han River again—because once Li Zicheng chose to retreat again, his troops would definitely have to cross the river again in batches, and this would be a succession, and it would be impossible for everyone to get on the boat together.

When there were only 10,000 or 20,000 people left on the shore who had not had time to board the ship at the latest, the Ming army could bite Li Zicheng's army and kill it, and attack a reverse half-crossing.

At this time, the remaining troops on the shore are definitely not the opponents of the Ming army's defense troops, and their morale will collapse, and they will rush to get on the boat, so they will definitely be able to beat Ma Chao and Cao Cao Cao "seize the boat and avoid the arrows in Weishui".

Li Zicheng is also well versed in this art of war, so he did not choose the most stable "when he sees the vanguard of the Ming army appearing, he immediately turns around and flees", he is reluctant to let his rear army be bitten off tens of thousands of people.

Both sides are jealous, and Li Dingguo is willing to delay time with Li Zichengxu and the snake, he changed his original solemn expression, and also let the scolding hand pass the word:

"I am Li Dingguo, the general of Yongzhou Mansion in the Ming Dynasty! Thief, you have fallen for the trick of my governor! The soldiers on the opposite side listened and surrendered quickly, the court only punished the thief and Liu Zongmin, and the rest can be exempted as long as they capture the false officials and surrender! ”

Li Dingguo's words were harsh, but the momentum was not loud, and he seemed to be very businesslike. Li Zicheng on the other side heard this, confirmed his identity, and couldn't help but mock:

"Li Dingguo? Haha, the virtuous nephew is also obedient, haven't you always been called Zhang Dingguo, how can you change your surname back to Li as soon as Zhang Xianzhong dies? I still think that my surname is Li, so you changed your surname back to Li, and you have to abandon the darkness and turn to the light.

The Dog Emperor of the Ming Dynasty has always been unreasonable, I heard that the waste in Nanjing City is even more cowardly and incompetent, with such a waste, you are considered to be meritorious, can you get a promotion reward? It's not that we've been suspected and despised all the time, we're all the way! ”

Li Dingguo: "Don't talk nonsense!" I have turned from darkness to light! The surname of the country treats me too much, and he never despises the generals who have been thieves! Liu Guoneng followed him to swear loyalty, and now he has been named a general! That's the proof!

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Listen to the soldiers on the other side, I also followed the Eight Kings to kill a lot of evils and kill many innocents, and I also think that the people in the world who are well-fed and rich are all people who should be killed! Across Shaanxi and Henan, where are the poor people not looking forward to the wind and responding enthusiastically?

But after following Zhang Yi to Huguang, I gradually realized that I was wrong! Not the poor will follow us! It's just that Shaanxi and Yu are really poor and can't survive, so the people will respond! When we arrived in the land of fish and rice in the south, even the poor people did not respond to us! In the battle of Hengzhou, Governor Zhu led the soldiers of the children of poor families and defeated Zhang Yi without fear of death!

After arriving in Sichuan, I found that Zhang was perverse and indiscriminately killed innocents, and ordinary people refused to follow him just because they still had a bite to eat, so they were annoyed by him and brutally slaughtered. The final outcome of such a move is already there! Zhang Yi was sent to the capital, and Ling Chi was cut thousands of times.

Today, you have followed the thief to the wrong place! The people of the south are now living and working in peace and contentment, you can't hold the source of soldiers, you will only fight less and less, when this Tartar is captured, but he died in vain on the battlefield of the Han civil war, the ancestors were insulted, and he died without a face! ”

Li Zicheng, who was on the other side, was so angry by these words that he would not let Li Dingguo finish speaking, but there was a mixture of scolding in the middle:

"Little brute! I'm going to clean up the portal for Brother Yellow Tiger today! How did he raise such a mean, shameless, disloyal, and unfilial white-eyed wolf like you! The three surnamed family slaves Lu Bu are all more decent than you! You brewed a bastard who was sunrise by the dog! All the soldiers will be killed! ”

Li Dingguo also hurriedly mobilized the last few words to the soldiers under his command: "Brothers, hold steady!" This is our chance to completely wash away our shame before killing the Tartars!

As long as we resist it, no one will accuse us of being a thief from now on! We are all heroes and righteous men among the Han people! Kill Li Zicheng, and the Han civil war is over! ”

The other party will not give him much time, after shouting these words, the two armies have already approached within hundreds of paces, bows and crossbows are shooting at each other, and the arrows are lost quickly and the sun is lost, and the scene is once tragic.

The two sides did not give in in the slightest, and rushed together in a complete formation against the accumulation of shots, and began to enter hand-to-hand combat. Countless spears stabbed and soon poked the daredevils in the front row into blood gourds.

Li Dingguo gritted his teeth and did not estimate the casualties, but only calmly commanded, but he was quite persistent.

The number of troops under his command is much smaller than the number of troops he commanded when he was under Zhang Xianzhong, but this is also something that cannot be helped, after all, he is now an official army, and he is no longer a thief.

Moreover, he was captured alone at the beginning, and it was impossible for Zhu Shuren to hand over the reorganized Zhang Xianzhong's old department to a few of them leaders, not only to weaken, but also to mix sand.

Considering that Li Dingguo is still only a general, it is already very face-saving to let him bring seven or eight thousand people divided into three battalions, so that he can increase the number of troops only after making meritorious contributions in the future. If you change to another general, you may not be able to have three battalions, and even if you have three battalions, you will be paid empty, instead of almost full salary like he is now, and there are so many people.

Only by relying on this person to block Li Zicheng can he prove himself! in order to completely wash away their past!