Chapter 269: Unkind Bait

After carefully explaining to the two brothers for a long time, You Shiwei ordered the division of troops, and he took 5,000 cavalry and 10,000 foot soldiers to join Zuo Liangyu's 30,000 people and went to Huating together, and You Shigong led the remaining 30,000 people and You Shilu to go south together as the deputy commander-in-chief, and directly entered the territory of Zhejiang.

The waterways between Su and Song are well deserved compared to Zhejiang and others, and even Chen Cao's pursuit is quite difficult, but when he catches up with Wujiang, there are two problems in front of him.

"You Shiwei divided his troops into two routes, all the way to Huating, and all the way into Zhejiang."

Chen Cao naturally didn't know where You Shiwei was, he could only guess, and the three brothers of the You family were also rare famous generals in the late Ming Dynasty, if he hadn't personally led troops to deal with You Shiwei, he was even worried about whether Hong Chengchou, who was sitting in Huating, could resist.

But then Chen Cao eased up a lot, after all, Hong Chengchou's reputation is not messy, and he can stalemate with Jiannu in Liaodong for so long, if it weren't for the nonsense within the Ming Dynasty, it would be an empty talk if Jiannu wanted to enter the customs.

And Hong Chengchou is good at learning, and the most important achievement is that he clearly understands that it is absolutely impossible for the imperial court to exterminate Jiannu if it is not thirty or fifty years, so the tactics in Liaodong are all adhering to Xiong Tingbi's strategy, of course, this is Hong Chengchou in the history books.

There are two official roads in Suzhou to enter Songjiang, one is Qingpu out of Qiandun to enter Suzhou, the second road is Jiashan County in the southwest, and the waterway plain between Dianshan Lake and Jiashan in Songjiang is also a rare plain in Susong and Songjiang, but the roads in these two places are not neat, most of them are country roads, not suitable for the army to walk at all.

"Dianshan Lake crosses the road south of Huating, there are many local inspection divisions, according to the guide, the inspection department of Dianshan Lake has many soldiers and horses, this generation is just in the junction of Zhejiang and Songjiang, and the local people are not too many."

Zuo Liangyu and You Shiwei were driving together, and at the moment they were talking endlessly about the news that the spies he had planted in Songjiang had given him a return, so as to gain favor with You Shiwei.

Even if he has 30,000 people, he can clearly understand that his 30,000 horses are really not the opponents of the 15,000 Yulin border army, and they are also imperial court soldiers and horses, and the murderous spirit of the border army is not what they have in the interior town guards.

Moreover, this time You Shiwei was ordered by the imperial court to come from afar, and Xu Hongji's attention was deep, and a lot of firearms alone were mobilized from various guards, although the reputation of the Liaodong border army was stinky, but the Yulin border army had not yet reached the carbuncle level in the last years of Chongzhen.

It is the men and horses under the command of You Shiwei who are the elite of the Ming Dynasty here in Zuo Liangyu, so it is naturally good to get on the pole.

Not only Zuo Liangyu's news, but also You Shiwei's people and horses scattered along the way, but the unified rewards they received were just news.

At least fifty miles ahead, there was not a single shadow of a rebel except for the inspection department of Dianshan Lake.

You Shiwei fought bravely and commanded, and he was a typical wise and brave person, so after getting the scout news, he didn't want to advance lightly like Zuo Liangyu, but decisively sent out hundreds of scouts to explore the news in all directions.

It wasn't until he got the same answer again three hours later that he turned his head to look at Zuo Liangyu, who was a little tired: "General Zuo, the time has come for you to make meritorious contributions." ”

Zuo Liangyu's spirits perked up, and when he thought of making meritorious service and making a fortune, his eyes lit up at the moment, and he hugged his fists and said: "Please give instructions to General You." ”

"Your troops immediately advance quickly, go straight to Huating, and if the military spirit is still acceptable after arriving, you don't need to wait for my order to launch an attack."

This is a disguised handing over the command before the battle to Zuo Liangyu, allowing him to act cheaply, which also plays into Zuo Liangyu's hands, how to boost the morale of the army He has his own set, and he is even worried about being tied up by You Shiwei, because he obviously feels that You Shiwei is more difficult to speak than You Shilu.

"The last general commands..."

Seeing Zuo Liangyu leaving excitedly, You Shiwei called the deputy chief soldier Zhou Degong: "You lead 10,000 foot soldiers to move closer to Jiashan County after arriving at Huating to prevent the rebels from going north to rescue, and I will lead 5,000 cavalry to suppress Zuo Liangyu." ”

"Commanded by a lowly position..."

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"Didn't go a thousand duns?"

Chen Cao frowned, and then called Huang Chunyao and several leading generals, and looked at the map together: "Dianshan Lake is in the middle, if they don't go to Qiandun, they can only enter Songjiang from Pingwang." ”

Huang Chunyao nodded and said, "What Grandpa said is just as the students thought, Dianshan Lake blocked the road to Songjiang in the south, and they should have looked over from Pingwang." ”

Soon after, Chen Cao received the return of the soldiers sent out to reconnoitre, and got the news that Pingwang had been sacked by the official army.

Chen Cao frowned, and then he could guess the ending of Pingwang Town, You Shiwei tens of thousands of people came from afar, and after joining forces with Zuo Liangyu, they attacked Songjiang together, if they wanted to achieve the purpose of sneak attack, they naturally had to move forward with light troops, so their food was naturally only enough to carry for three to five days, so they could only supply along the way with war.

Although the town of Pingwang is not big, there are at least more than 1,000 people living in the town, and after Chen Cao took Suzhou, this place has not sent officials from the inspection department, so naturally he can't manage it.

As the saying goes, if you don't break it, you can't stand it, since Pingwang has been ransacked, it means that You Shiwei has at least one way to enter Songjiang directly after Pingwang.

"We have to hurry up, otherwise we won't wait until we arrive at Huating, and there will be a lot of fighting."

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Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture

The north city and the east city of Huating Mansion have the protection of the city wall, and the height of the city wall is only about five meters, but the west city and the south city because they cover the rule of Huating County, Hongwu 17 years in the construction of the city wall is not specifically built rammed earth brick city wall, the city wall of the west city and the south city is still from the Tang Dynasty The wall of the square is handed down, Hongwu 17 years in the construction of the country, taking into account the financial resources of the founding of the country, only on the basis of the square wall of more than one person to thicken one meter, and then heightened, it is only two meters high.

And because the city wall of a section of the west city is in disrepair, many places have collapsed, and the people of Huating County do not even go to the south city gate when they go out of the city on weekdays, and go straight out of the city from the collapsed city wall.

When Zuo Liangyu led the army to break into the south city wall of Huating, he actually had a hot fight with Hong Chengchou, who had already prepared, although the Shence army had firearms, but Zuo Liangyu saw such a low city wall after his eyes were on fire like an old widower getting a young wife, and the Huating in front of him was like a gold ingot that could not walk.

Zuo Liangyu arrived in the middle of the night, and gave the order to attack before dawn, and the 13th Division of the Shence Army, which was responsible for guarding the southern city, was caught off guard, so that Zuo Liangyu's guerrilla attack Jin Shenghuan led people to brave the threat of firearms and actually attacked the southern city twice.

If it weren't for Hong Chengchou, who got the news, to personally arrive with reinforcements, perhaps Zuo Liangyu would only need one battle to take Huating South City, and then start a street battle with Hong Chengchou's Shence army in the city.

Even so, the left army that attacked the southern city also set a few points of fire in the southern city, so that the Shence army had to fight and fight the fire.

"You must take advantage of this momentum to attack it, otherwise your morale will be discouraged, and it will be difficult for me to make such a move again."

Zuo Liangyu's words were addressed to the guerrilla Ma Jizhong beside him, and he and Jin Shenghuan were the cronies of Zuo Liangyu's cronies, even Li Guoying, Xu Yong, and Daniel Zhang, the three guerrillas, could not compare with the two of them.

Ma Jizhong saw that Jin Shenghuan's department, who had once again withdrawn from Nancheng, and also agreed with Zuo Liangyu's words, so he said: "General, it's better to let me go down to help the war." ”

The losses of three thousand people in two attacks were at least more than 1,000, but the two-meter-high city wall of Huating South City was really useless, if it wasn't for Hong Chengchou's transfer of melee tiger squat cannons at the gap, maybe Jin Shenghuan would have attacked for the third time.

However, Ma Jizhong, who then joined the war group, also brought a big trouble to Hong Chengchou, You Shiwei allocated a lot of fierce fire oil to Zuo Liangyu before leaving, and at this moment Ma Jizhong threw all these fierce fire oil into the low city wall.

The flames ignited all the gunpowder and other items that were placed not far behind the city walls, and the sound of explosions and flames rose into the sky, and the battle situation had entered a white-hot stage.

You Shiwei looked at the two sides fighting in the distance from a distance, and then turned his horse's head: "The whole army listens to the order and immediately goes to Xicheng, let's attack from there;

The order was sent to Zuo Liangyu and asked his whole army to press. ”

The city walls to the west of the city returned by the scout cavalry to Yu Shiwei Huating were the same as those in the southern city, and the height of the war horse could easily cross it with a gallop, of course, it was also about the skill of the rider.

However, You Shiwei has this confidence, the 5,000 cavalry under his command are the elite transferred from Yulin, and the cavalry is first-class.

After Zuo Liangyu received the order, he learned that You Shiwei personally led the troops to prepare to attack Xicheng, so he immediately sent all the remaining three cronies, leaving only a reserve of 5,000 people, and also encouraged the soldiers.

"As long as you attack Huating, you can plunder for two days freely."

This is a big fragrant bait, no one is willing to give up, the wealth of Songjiang Fucheng Huating and Suzhou have a fight, they just robbed a subsidiary Wu County in Suzhou to make a lot of money, if you rob Huating at this moment, it is not doubled?

At this point, the 25,000 men of the left army swelled and rushed towards the wide and low walls of Huating Nancheng like a flood, even if many comrades were killed in front of them, but with the encouragement of money and free plunder, such a death was nothing.

It was Hong Chengchou, who commanded behind the city wall, frowned, when did the combat effectiveness of the inland guards be so strong?

The 15th Division of the Shence Army stayed in Shanghai, and only the 13th Division was stationed in Huating, and the 14th Division was stationed in Qingpu.

"Order, transfer another brigade of troops, and stop them no matter what."