"Let go of me!"

"Hey, hey...... Be honest! ”

On October 12, Wenshang Town, Shandong, at this moment, there is no prosperity in the past, only the so-called "righteous army" wearing red scarves and committing atrocities.

The woman was defiled, the old and the weak were killed, and the prime of life was taken hostage......

When so-called uprisings are not disciplined, they often develop into so-called thieves.

This is the case with the Mahayana rebels at the moment, and such atrocities spread on the road from Yuncheng to Jining Prefecture.

Thirty miles south of Wenshang Town, a group of people in Wuchou were marching to the south in a chaotic manner, but if you look closely, most of the people are in groups of three or five, talking and laughing, only in the front ranks, there are four thousand soldiers with a little discipline and various armor.

These 4,000 people are one of the 7,000 elites accumulated by Xu Hongru over the years of activities.

In the center of their guard was a well-proportioned man in his fifties, dressed in a yellow robe.

He looked ordinary, and next to him was a middle-aged Confucian in a green robe and armor, and at this moment the Confucian student smiled at the old man in the yellow robe:

"Your Majesty, at present, Shen Zhi, Zhang Khan Bai, Hou Wu, Zhou Nian'an, Meng Xianhan and others are also attacking Dong'e, Shouzhang, Yanggu, Juye, Anxing, Jiaxiang and other places."

"In addition, Henan's left general and right general also captured two counties and six towns, my Mahayana has 200,000 troops, and I am afraid that it will not take a month to sweep Shandong and Henan."

"At that time, we will be able to destroy the tyranny and return the world to happiness."

The majesty in the mouth of Confucianism is Xu Hongru, who calls himself "Emperor Zhongxingfu", and Xu Hongru heard this, but he was not proud and complacent, but said:

"Then Yuan Keli has three battalions of soldiers and horses in his hands, plus there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in Beizhili, I'm afraid things won't be so easy."

"But it doesn't matter, as long as the Cao Yun is cut off, the Ming army in Beizhili will only starve to death."

"Lay down Jining, and then lay down Zoucheng, then the Ming court will only have one way to negotiate peace with me."

Thinking that the uprising was so smooth, the joy in Xu Hongru's heart turned into a smile and hung on his face.

But at the same time, someone rode a horse in the distance, and a general in armor immediately said to Xu Hongru:

"Your Majesty, twelve miles ahead I found six thousand Ming troops under the banner of Yuan."

"Yuan Zi?" Xu Hongru frowned slightly and said, "It should be Yuan Keli's guy, but he only has more than 6,000 people, and he dares to come to fight with my Mahayana?" ”

After that, Xu Hongru said: "Send a large army to charge the battle, the Chinese army and I are waiting for an opportunity, looking for an opportunity to eat this Yuan army, and the whole Shandong will no longer have the strength to resist." ”

"Yes!" Xu Hongru also commanded 4,000 elites to garrison the place, and waited for the follow-up tens of thousands of "army" wearing single clothes and holding rakes, boring palladium, kitchen knives, and hoes before commanding the army to march forward.

In half an hour, the tens of thousands of troops marched forward and saw the Ming army stationed in the distance.

Compared with this chaotic rebel army, more than 6,000 people of the Ming army were waiting for the battle, hundreds of Furlong machines and tiger squat cannons were placed in front of the formation, and there was also a sentry cavalry on the left and right, which was not small.

Yuan Keli, who was in the Chinese army, did not wear armor, but wore the governor's regular clothes, tied a cloak, and wore a black gauze hat, and rode a horse to the front army.

The two generals, Li Xingzhong and Zhang Erxin, followed him, and the rest of the Dengzhou battalion was sent to Ziyang Protectorate County.

"Governor, this thief army looks like a rabble, please allow the last general to lead the troops, only two sentry cavalry are needed, and they can ride on the rebels."

Li Xingzhong made a gesture to Yuan Keli on horseback, but Yuan Keli said calmly:

"The rebels are not to be afraid, the main thing is to capture Xu Hongru, the leader of the rebels."

As he spoke, Yuan Keli took a closer look, only to find that Xu Hongru was actually hiding behind the rebels with the elite.

In other words, he also knew that the Ming army was a hard bone, so he let the rebels send them to death.

In this regard, Yuan Keli sneered contemptuously: "Cowardly! ”

After contempt, Yuan Keli did not relax his vigilance, but said to Zhang Erxin and Li Xingzhong:

"General Zhang will coordinate the four armies, and the Chinese army will be under the command of this official, and General Li will wait for my military order and prepare cavalry to capture Xu Hongru alive."

"Yes!" The two of them responded.

Seeing this, Yuan Keli didn't say anything more, and rode back to the Chinese army, and at the same time, tens of thousands of thieves also killed the Ming army.

The distance between the two sides was constantly shortening, and finally when the distance between the two sides was only one mile, Zhang Erxin of the former army of the Ming army ordered:

"Put!"

At the sound of an order, the torch ignited the arquebus, accompanied by the sound of "snort", the fiery rope burned out, and then the Francophone cannon in front of the formation rang out separately.

A "boom" of artillery appeared, followed by two catties of stone bullets, which crossed a mile and smashed into the unarmored rebels.

The stone bullets turned the rebels on their backs, and their limbs flew in all directions.

The rebels had never seen this kind of formation, and the formation began to be chaotic, and when Xu Hongru saw this, he immediately said:

"Take the Mahayana general camp to rush and kill!"

As soon as he gave the order, the 4,000 elites around him were ordered to transfer 3,000 to rush forward, integrate the tens of thousands of troops that were about to collapse, and continue to press towards the Ming army.

The Ming artillerymen skillfully cleaned the chamber, then waited for the gun to cool down slightly, then filled it with gunpowder and stone shells, inserted the fire rope, and continued to ignite.

By the end of this process, the rebels were less than three hundred paces away from the Ming artillery, and the Tiger Squat gunners were also preparing to light the arquebus.

"Put!"

Zhang Erxin continued to order, and the Fran machine gunners lit fire one after another, accompanied by the sound of "boom", and continued to shell the rebels.

However, the rebel army, which had the backbone, did not have civil strife because of the death and wounding of more than 100 people, but continued to kill the Ming army under the command of the Mahayana general camp and the rebel generals.

The distance of 300 steps may not sound far, but it is actually a bit far away.

However, it takes more time than this distance to refill the artillery.

The Franc cannon was cleared and filled with gunpowder, but the stone bullets that were stuffed into it were not large stone bullets, but two pounds of small bullets wrapped in oiled paper.

The rebels walked a hundred steps, and at this time, Zhang Erxin also turned around and said:

"Drumming!"

"Boom!"

With the sound of drums, all the cannons rang out, and the dense stone bullets were shot out like a shower, and these stone bullets, which were only the size of fingernails, became more terrifying than the fire bullets.

More than 100 large and small artillery pieces were fired, and the rebels' front army fell down in an instant like harvested leeks, and the defenseless single clothes were instantly penetrated, even the elite of the so-called Mahayana general camp fell on the land of Qilu in the first time.

At this time, the artillery began to be dragged into the Chinese army, and the musketeers of the original former army also raised their muskets.

The Ming army's three-stage shooting began, and a thousand birds began to shoot in rows with guns in their hands.

The distance between the two sides was shortened to sixty steps, and if such a distance was in the Liaodong battlefield, not to mention Baijia Balaya, even the Han soldiers in the Jianjiao were not afraid, because the cotton armor on their bodies was enough to defend.

But this is in Qilu, this is facing the rebels who are only dressed in single clothes and cotton armor.

Therefore, when the "crackling" fire crackled and white smoke rose, the rebels continued to fall as if they were cutting rice, and only the Mahayana general's camp in cotton armor was unscathed.

Seeing this, the rebel generals also began to propagandize:

"Heavenly soldiers help me, invulnerable!"

"Heavenly soldiers help me, invulnerable!"

The rebels in the Mahayana general's camp all shouted, and those rebels who were originally just peasants were surprised when they saw the rebels who were dressed as single as themselves falling, and the elite of the Mahayana general's camp were not injured.

At this time, the musketeers of the Ming army retreated, and the pikemen and sword players stepped forward.

When the rebels faced the Ming army, who were also wearing armor and cloth armor, they fell into disadvantage in an instant.

The spear stabbed out like a forest, and the knife player protected the pikeman and dealt with the rebel knife player who rushed in.

For a while, the situation on the battlefield was changing, and at the same time, Yuan Keli also ordered:

"Order the left and right cavalry to attack and capture Xu Hongru alive!"

"Yes!"

The herald immediately rode away, and after Li Xingzhong received the order, he also blew the horn, and took the left and right cavalry to detour from the left and right, preparing to capture Xu Hongru, who was empty of troops around him.

It's just that when the Ming army moved, the corners of Xu Hongru's mouth outlined a smile, and then waved his hand:

"Shoot the arrows and let all the hidden soldiers and horses come out!"

"Yes!" When the Confucian scholar heard this, he immediately ordered someone to shoot an arrow.

More than 100 soldiers raised their crossbows and shot arrows into the sky, which made a "boom" sound in the air and then exploded.

"Governor, thieves are cheating!"

A guerrilla general beside Yuan Keli reported to Yuan Keli, but Yuan Keli said unfazed:

"What about fraud? The elite of the thieves is only a few thousand, and even if there are thousands or tens of thousands, they are just a rabble. ”

Yuan Keli's self-confidence boosted the morale of the people around him, and at the same time, as Yuan Keli expected, when the arrow fired, the surrounding pond riders also rushed back from the horizon in a hurry.

The tens of thousands of rebels tried to storm from the left and right, but they were stabbed and stabbed to death by spears, and they had no chance at all.

As soon as Tang Cai arrived at Yuan Keli's Chinese army, he turned over and dismounted and said:

"Governor, the army is six miles to the east, and tens of thousands of rebels are coming."

"The governor and the army are seven miles west, and tens of thousands of rebels are coming."

Tang Cai's report was in two directions, and on the horizon directly in front of him, a black and suppressed soldier and horse also appeared to support.

It was a new battalion formed by Xu Hongru with the armor of the guards in various places, with a total of more than 2,000 people, plus tens of thousands of rebels who were coerced.

"Stop the horn and let General Li withdraw."

"Yes!" The guerrilla received the order, and then the horn was stopped.

Seeing that Xu Hongru had gathered so many rebels in just a few days, he immediately took a detour and led more than 1,000 cavalry from two outposts back to the camp.

"100,000 troops, this is the place where Yuan Keli was buried!"

Xu Hongru let out wild words on horseback, as if in his opinion, Yuan Keli was about to be buried here.

However, as he laughed, the sound of horses' hooves rumbled behind him.

While he was suddenly dissatisfied, he immediately turned his head to look behind him.

I saw that on the plain behind him, there were tens of thousands of rebels coming to support, but in such a scene, there were only more than a hundred horses.

This is like the sound of thundering horses' hooves, and it is impossible for these hundred horses to make it.

Xu Hongru straightened his back, squinted his eyes and continued to look at the army, but his pupils suddenly shrank, as if he saw some terrifying existence.

I saw that behind the tens of thousands of rebels, on the horizon a few miles away, a neat and narrow red tide rushed in, raising clouds of dust behind them.

At this moment, Xu Hongru's pores all over his body were tingling, and before he could give an order, the tens of thousands of reinforcements found the iron cavalry attacking behind him.

"Officers and soldiers! There are officers and troops in the back! ”

"Reinforcements from the official army are coming!"

"Bang bang bang-"

The cries of pain and shouts sounded, tens of thousands of rebels were in a mess, and before Xu Hongru gave the order, they heard the crisp sound of fire.

"It's the official army! Spread the Mahayana general's camp to retreat westward! ”

Xu Hongru said that he was about to leave, and at the same time, the tens of thousands of rebels were defeated almost instantly, revealing the Ming army hiding behind them.

"Governor! Reinforcements are coming. ”

The Ming army guerrilla said excitedly, and at the same time, Yuan Keli also judged:

"It must be the soldiers and horses of the Northern Zhili, but I don't know who is in charge of the troops and how many there are."

"Ahh

Yuan Keli was still analyzing, but tens of thousands of rebels had already fled, and while they dispersed this group of defeated troops, the banner of the official army also appeared.

"Qi?! Which general? ”

Xu Hongru turned his head to look at the front army with more than a thousand elites around him.

He was still worried about the pursuit of this iron horse, but he didn't want them to cut through tens of thousands of rebels at the same time, they actually stopped in place, and didn't know what they were fiddling with on horseback.

However, in the time of one-third of the incense, these thousands of iron horsemen swept in again, holding a gun in their left hand, a long knife in their right hand, and a horse rein with their two fingers.

"Run!"

Some of the tens of thousands of rebels with weak psychological will dropped the farm tools and kitchen knives in their hands and began to flee, no matter how the elite of the Mahayana general camp next to them killed, they could not stop them.

Xu Hongru finally led his troops to squeeze into the rebels, but he didn't want the rebels to break up and turn from a rebel army into a chaotic army.

They already have no formation, but now they are the meat in the mouth of the iron horseman.

"Hold on! Hold on! ”

Xu Hongru vainly tried to form a formation in this short distance and time, but Yuan Keli suddenly ordered:

"The whole army marched with drums, encircled and suppressed the rebels, and captured Xu Hongru alive!"

"Yes!"

"Woo~~~~ Knock knock-"

The sound of trumpets was followed by the rapid and heavy sound of drums.

The Jimo Battalion and the Wendeng Battalion immediately dispatched troops, turned defense into attack, and flanked the rebels with the iron cavalry.

Xu Hongru, who was in the midst of the chaos, was wearing a yellow robe, which was particularly conspicuous.

At this time, thousands of iron horsemen were divided into dozens of squads, spread out, and raised their horses in their hands.

When they broke up the rebels and approached the elite of the rebels, they immediately pulled the trigger and fired scorching lead bullets and iron sand.

"Bang bang bang-"

Iron sand and buckshot were shot, how could the rebels in weak armor resist? Screams rang out in an endless stream, and just a glance broke the rebels' defenders and rushed into the formation.

With the wielding of long knives and iron bones, and the intersecting of short soldiers, the elite defense line of the four thousand rebels was broken through in an instant after the formation was broken, and the army was in chaos.

"Calm down! Stabilization! ”

Xu Hongru slashed and killed several rebels who had broken up his formation out of fear, in a vain attempt to regroup the army.

However, just as he was slashing, a lasso was thrown from the air, instantly trapping him into it, dragging off his horse and rushing forward.

Xu Hongru fell off the horse and almost fainted, and then rolled in the pile of corpses and farm tools all over the ground, knives and guns, and finally when he rolled and opened his eyes, he had stopped.

While the world was spinning, the only thing he felt was a burning pain in his back and a bruised pain in his limbs.

He was dragged away from the battlefield and came to the eastern corner of the battlefield, in front of more than 100 horsemen.

"Get up!"

He was picked up by a large hand, then kicked him at the knee, knelt on the ground, and looked up to see a young man in silver armor on horseback.

"Your Highness, I saw this person wearing a yellow robe and dragged it to him, can I exchange it for a reward?"

After the cavalry cleaned up Xu Hongru, he knelt on the ground and asked Zhu Youzhen for credit, and Zhu Youzhen glanced down at Xu Hongru, who was still in a daze, and said:

"Xu Hongru?"

"The grass people are not Xu Hongru, the grass people are puppets who were pushed on the horse by Xu Hongru......"

After Xu Hongru reacted that he had been captured alive, he immediately kowtowed to Zhu Youzhen three times in a row, explaining that he was not Xu Hongru.

"Then you're not Xu Hongru, what are you doing?" Zhu Youzhen raised the corners of his mouth, obviously identifying this guy as Xu Hongru.

The reason is simple, first of all, this yellow robe, and secondly, this person's body is too well-proportioned, his hands do not look like he is working, and his skin is too white.

Where can a person who works have such white hands?

"Caomin is a Langzhong in Surabaya, because he looks like Xu Hongru, so he was captured, and the person wearing a Confucian robe in the army is Xu Hongru."

"Oh?" Zhu Youzhen smiled and said to Lu Wenzhao next to him:

"The one who called you came up and recognized the man."

"Yes!" Lu Wenzhao, who was wearing armor, nodded, and then turned around and motioned for Lu Xiu to call someone.

Seeing this, Lu Xiu beat his horse and went to the Jinyi Weiti cavalry formation behind him, and called a hundred households.

As soon as these hundred households appeared, Xu Hongru, who was kneeling on the ground, knew that he had planted it.

Because this man had seen him preach, he couldn't run.

"Your Highness, this person is Xu Hongru."

Baihu immediately made a move, and Zhu Youzhen was calm and light-hearted, and it seemed that what he caught was not the leader of the rebels, but an ordinary miscellaneous soldier:

"Now that you have been caught, let's take it to the capital, and encircle and suppress the elite of the rebels, and surrender the rebels."

"Yes!" Lu Wenzhao responded, and then sent hundreds of horsemen to the battlefield, shouting loudly to surrender and not kill.

Xu Hongru was also taken down, and there was no scolding, but he was dragged away like a dead dog as if he had lost his soul.

However, after he was dragged away, Zhu Youzhen said to the ordinary soldier who captured Xu Hongru:

"What's your name?"

"Your Royal Highness, my name is Sun Shoufa, a native of Lintong, Shaanxi, and Tiancewei who entered in April of the first year of the Apocalypse."

Sun Shoufa knelt on the ground and responded, and Zhu Youzhen didn't feel strange when he heard the name.

Shaanxi Lintong Sun abides by the law, this person is brave and able to fight, and he is good at using an iron whip.

In the history of his previous life, he served as a guerrilla under Cao Wenzhao's subordinates, capturing and killing thieves, lighting lamps, not sticking mud, etc., and the battle of Heishuiyu was even more alive and capturing Gao Yingxiang.

After the death of the Ming Dynasty, he supported the Qin clan as the king of Qin, and joined forces with He Zhen and others in Shaanxi to resist the Qing Dynasty, and finally died in battle.

In general, he is a faithful person and can be used.

Zhu Youzhen was also not curious about why Sun Shoufa came from Shaanxi to join the army, after all, many people under his command came from Shaanxi, Shandong and other places.

In the final analysis, it was because Shaanxi couldn't survive anymore, so he could only join the army and eat rations.

Since you want to eat military rations, it is better to go to the Imperial Horse Prison to eat military rations.

"What do you do now?" Thinking through everything, Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth to ask, and Sun Shoufa said:

"At present, he is serving as the chief flag officer of the Qianqian Army of Tiance Wei and the commander of the Hundred Households of the C-word."

"It's a little interesting......" Hearing Sun Shoufa's words, Zhu Youzhen also asked:

"You have the ability to only be a general flag?"

"This ...... Isn't this that there is no war, and it can't be used? Sun Shoufa smiled a little embarrassed, and Zhu Youzhen thought about it when he heard it.

As the saying goes, the times make heroes, and at the moment the Sixteen Guards are strong, but without war, generals and geniuses naturally cannot emerge.

This battle gave him a Sun Shoufa, and maybe there are many talented people waiting for the day when they will come out in the guards and Gongwei camps in various places.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen said to Sun Shoufa:

"Temporarily grant you Tiance Wei guerrilla, there is no direct subordinate people, you can call your original brother to your side, and follow Gu in the future, Gong Guard's safety."

"Thank you, Your Highness Longen!" When Sun Shoufa heard that he had jumped directly from the general flag to the guerrilla general, he knelt on the ground excitedly and kowtowed three times.

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen only frowned and said: "The man has gold under his knees, follow him by Lonely's side in the future, don't kowtow easily, just make a fool." ”

"Yes! The Admiral understood. "When he became a guerrilla, Sun Shoufa is also qualified to be called the last general.

It was also during the time when he communicated with Zhu Youzhen that the war on the entire battlefield ended with the total annihilation of the Mahayana general's camp and the surrender of tens of thousands of displaced people.

At this time, Yuan Keli also knew that it was Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi, who was leading the troops to come, and as a subordinate official, he naturally wanted to bring people to come to salute and thank you.

He came with Zhang Erxin and Li Xingzhong on horseback, then turned over and dismounted, stood on the ground and said to Zhu Youzhen:

"Shandong Governor Yuan Keli, see His Royal Highness King Qi ......"

"The land of Shandong reacted so quickly this time, and it was also your preparation."

"The credit for it, Lone will play the royal brother in the future good news." Zhu Youzhen responded calmly on horseback, and Yuan Keli also got up and said:

"There are lower officials in Shandong, Your Highness can rest assured, the top priority at the moment is to ask Your Highness to lead troops to quell the rebellion in eastern Henan."

"Don't worry about the rebels in the area of Guide Mansion and Kaifeng in eastern Henan, the rebels' nest Yuncheng has been recovered last night, and it is enough for you to protect the canal."

"In addition, these rebel prisoners cannot be abused, for the time being, you will bring someone to take them into custody, and after the rebellion is completely quelled, I need to move them to Liaodong."

After that, Zhu Youzhen was about to leave, and Yuan Keli could only sing:

"Your Highness Slow ......"

He watched Zhu Youzhen leave, and wondered why Zhu Youzhen recommended him to sit in the position of governor, so why he was so cold to himself.

But he was right when he thought about it, if he was too attentive to himself, I was afraid that Donglin would also regard him as a traitor, so Zhu Youzhen was protecting himself in disguise......

"It's so thoughtful......"

Yuan Keli shook his head, saying something that Zhang Erxin and Li Xingzhong couldn't understand, and then turned to the two and ordered:

"You also heard the words of His Royal Highness King Qi just now, all the captives should be taken care of, and don't attack the captives because of a momentary success."

"The last general understands!" The two of them could hear that Yuan Keli was warning them not to try to kill the captives to take the risk, so they responded quickly.

As for Yuan Ke, when he saw the two of them responding, he turned to look at the Tiance Guard Iron Cavalry on the battlefield.

Looking at the armor and equipment of this team, as well as the discipline of marching and cleaning the battlefield, I couldn't help but sigh:

"Just thousands of horsemen, they dare to rush straight to tens of thousands of enemy formations, if the Ming Dynasty has 30,000 iron horses, why worry about Mobei, Liaodong is not clear......"

(End of chapter)