Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Battalion System

No cheers, no celebrations.

After the defeat of the army, the atmosphere in Chunhua City was very strange.

Many people haven't reacted yet, and what happened in just a few hours is like a fairy story, which is unbelievable.

Hu Zhili finally returned to Chunhua City safely.

At the first moment of the rout, Hu Zhili immediately ordered the evacuation to the edge.

And it was this evacuation that also allowed Hu Zhili to bump into two important people - Gao Yigong and Gao.

Gao Yigong is a native of Mizhi, Shaanxi, and has been following Li Zicheng since the time of Li Zicheng's uprising, and is Li Zicheng's right-hand man.

And Gao also has an identity, which is Li Zicheng's wife.

When Hu Zhili led a group of cavalry to the edge of the area, he happened to see a team of more than ten people, but the cavalry team in full armor was leaving the camp and wanted to escape into the mountains and forests.

At that time, Hu Zhili had already guessed in his heart that it might be a big fish, so he immediately sent his cavalry to intercept it, and soon captured all of them.

However, after being captured, Hu Zhili asked several times, but no one explained his identity.

It wasn't until Hu Zhili met Gao Jie and Xing who were brought down from the mountain by the sentinel that Gao Jie recognized Gao Yigong and Gao's identities at a glance.

And Gao Yigong saw Gao Jie, and instantly reacted, the fire in the back camp was set by Gao Jie.

I saw Xing on Gao Jie's side again, and Gao Yigong didn't know the reason for this.

If it weren't for the tight binding, I'm afraid that Gao Jie's hands would be torn apart on the spot.

However, Gao's complexion did not change too much from being bound to seeing Gao Jie and Xing, and he always remained calm.

Chen Wang sat at the head of the tent, looking at Gao Yigong and Gao Shi who were kneeling on the ground, and then at Gao Jie and Xing Shi who were sitting on the side, and finally his eyes stayed on Hu Zhili's body.

Chen Wang felt that now there should be a real undying situation between him and Li Zicheng, not a hatred between officers and soldiers and traitors, but a real personal enmity.

Li Zicheng's current two wives, plus Gao Yigong, are now in his hands.

Xing's is okay, after all, she said that she is a wife, but in fact she is just a concubine.

But Gao is Li Zicheng's true wife, if the process does not change, when Li Zicheng broke through the city of Beijing and ascended the throne as the emperor, Gao was also made the queen.

But it is clear that the current Gao family does not have this opportunity.

And Li Zicheng is not to say whether he can break Beijing City in the future, it is not easy to pass Liu Chenggong's level.

At the beginning of the Battle of Xiangle, Liu Chenggong and Ai Wannian were ambushed by Li Zicheng, and Liu Chenggong lost his position as deputy general and was assigned to the general.

The enemy was very red when he saw him, and Li Zicheng had to take off his skin to escape if he didn't die.

"Take them down, lock them up in the barracks, and send a banner of soldiers to keep them under strict guard."

Chen Wang raised his hand and ordered.

He didn't want to talk nonsense with Gao Yigong and Gao.

Gao Yigong's face turned red, his eyes were red, and he couldn't ask anything at all.

As long as the rags that gagged his mouth were removed, he was guaranteed to be able to hear the purest quintessence of this era.

As for the Gao family, it is useless to ask, the Xing family that the Gao family knows also knows, but the Gao family that the Xing family knows does not necessarily know.

In Li Zicheng's camp, the Gao family did not manage anything too important.

The noise of the people outside the tent has not stopped.

Although the main battle is over, the normal battle is not completely over.

Chen Wang ordered Chen Gong to lead the remaining Liaozhen cavalry to pursue all the way.

Li Zicheng led the elite cavalry to flee south, and a group of routs also bypassed Chunhua and headed southeast.

The noise outside the tent was the sound of reorganization, Chen Wang did not personally lead the troops to pursue, and now there are many affairs to deal with inside and outside the city.

The matter is prioritized, and the affairs of Chunhua City are the most important, but Li Zicheng and the defeated army are now light.

Li Zicheng was slippery like a loach, not to mention that there was another obstacle to the pursuit now.

Even if there are no routs blocking the way, most of them will not be able to catch up with Li Zicheng.

In history, Li Zicheng was ambushed by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting in the southern plains of Tongguan in Weinan, and was defeated, and almost all the troops were wiped out.

But even so, Li Zicheng still escaped from Shengtian, but took Liu Zongmin and other remnants of a total of 18 people to hide in Shangluo Mountain in southeast Shaanxi.

The various atmospheres of the battletime are very easy to make people's blood surge, and some reckless actions are made.

Now that he has returned to the camp, Chen Wang has completely calmed down.

In this situation, whether Li Zicheng escapes or not, he has already obtained enough military exploits, enough to draw a heavy stroke in the hearts of Hong Chengchou and Chongzhen.

What's more, Gao Yigong is also a big fish, and his status is no less than that of a bandit leader.

With 2,000 battalions of soldiers, he defeated 100,000 Liukou, such a feat, even in the early years of the rise of Liukou, few people were able to do it.

With such a great feat, it is not impossible to reach the rank of general in one step.

With Cao Wenzhao's relationship, how can he be promoted to a guerrilla, and the justifiable sole leader of the first battalion officially becomes the battalion general.

But that's not the biggest takeaway from the fight.

The biggest gain of this battle is the armor and weapons left behind when the invading army flees again, which is the most important at this stage.

"After all the defeated troops outside the city are dispersed, let Tang Guizhong send all the soldiers under his command, and those recruited auxiliaries in the city also send out to clean up the battlefield."

Chen Wang turned his head and ordered at Hu Zhili.

"Remember, don't leave a piece of armor or a blade out."

There are really two different things to have and no armor to go to the battlefield.

Even cloth armor with less than a hundred pieces of iron armor can resist the light arrows fired by a cavalry bow.

Idle knives and guns can't be slashed, and stabs can't be pierced.

Now there is a chain mail under the fish scale armor that Chen Wang is wearing, and there is also a cotton armor under the chain mail, lined with silk, and a solid three-layer armor.

Even if a strong man comes with a spear and stabs him in the chest, he will never be able to break through the defense.

Thirty or forty paces away, even a bird can't completely break through the armor.

As a battalion soldier, the armor blade is not good.

When the guards reached the level of thousands of households, there were craftsmen who specialized in making ordnance in the guards.

However, the battalion system and the guard system are completely different, the battalion soldiers are only responsible for combat, and all the money, food, weapons, and armor are uniformly allocated by the imperial court, in order to restrict.

In the Ming Dynasty, if you want to succeed in rebelling as a battalion soldier, it can be said that it is difficult to go to the sky.

Even Zuo Liangyu occupied a place and became a warlord under the corruption of various systems in the late Ming Dynasty.

From a battalion soldier to a warlord, the difficulties to be overcome during this period are undulating, one after another.

Zuo Liangyu walked for more than ten years before he barely completed the transformation.

Now that the prestige of the Ming Court is still there, many things can only be accumulated slowly.