Shaving your hair is a prerequisite for surrender.

Wang Wu saw the braids, which meant that Ma Tengyun, the Guoyi general of the Great Shun Army in the past, had rebelled.

For Ma Sizhong, Xu Deyi and others, who were born in the old Shun army, it is undoubtedly a heavy hammer.

Prior to this, although there were many Ming army generals who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, there was no figure like Ma Tengyun who had been a senior general in Dashun.

In the past two years, most of them have been marked by the general soldiers and deputy generals.

The highest title is Fuping Bohe Daoning, who is the son of He Zhen.

He Zhen was a general in the Ming Dynasty in his early years, and later became the chief general of Hanzhong.

After Li Zicheng withdrew from Beijing, He Zhen surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Hanzhong, and blocked Li Guo and Gao Yigong's troops who went south from northern Shaanxi, and also defeated Zhang Xianzhong's 30,000 army, making great contributions to the Qing court.

However, only a few months later, He Zhen re-erected the banner of resistance to the Qing Dynasty in Hanzhong, and joined forces with Liu Tichun in southern Shaanxi, and then insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty until he died of illness in Daning, the base area, four years ago.

In short, He Zhen is a very complex character.

It is probably similar to Li Chengdong, who slaughtered the vanguard of Jiangnan in the Qing army, took Fujian and Zhejiang all the way, and resolutely resisted the Qing Dynasty in Guangdong, and finally martyred.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were countless such complex characters.

As He Zhen's only son, He Daoning lacked his father's courage, and when he saw the Qing army approaching Daning, he was immediately frightened and lost his soul, and surrendered to Li Guoying, the governor of Sichuan in the Qing Dynasty, without resistance.

As a result, not only did the old department of more than 10,000 He Zhen become surrendered troops, but also made the Ming army in Kuidong lose the only salt-producing area, which made the Ming army generally short of salt in the past two years.

Yuan Zong's first general, Xinhua Bo Feng Qifeng, was not born in the old Shun army, he was the general of the original Ming Dynasty who assisted Yinxi, and followed Yuan Zongdi after the blockade.

Therefore, the defection of Ma Tengyun, the former general Guoyi of Dashun, was a very heavy blow to the Lao Shun army and even the entire loyal battalion.

In front of him, Wang Wu saw that although many officers from the old Shun army were still very determined, they were inevitably a little desperate in their eyes, and their spirit was obviously not good.

Whether to fight or withdraw has become a matter that the generals of the Ming army on the slope must decide immediately.

Because, Ma Tengyun's troops also discovered the Ming army in front of them.

A reconnaissance team of about 10 people was approaching this side along the mountain road, apparently trying to find out the number and details of the Ming army.

Ma Sizhong asked Zhang Tianwang to inform the rear team of the situation, and looked at Wang Wu, who returned the clairvoyant mirror to him.

Before he could speak, Wang Wu had already uttered a word: "Fight!" ”

"Good!"

Ma Sizhong is also decisive, no matter what identity Ma Tengyun has in the past, he has only one identity now, and that is the enemy of the Ming Dynasty!

Since it is the enemy, it is only the sword and the spear that can see the high and the low.

After Zhang Tianwang of the rear team learned that Ma Tengyun's troops had defected and were blocked in front of the Ming army, he did not panic, but asked his second brother Zhang Tianfang to bring more than 200 people to the front to participate in the battle.

These more than 200 people are the elite of Zhang Tianwang's department, which can be said to be the people at the bottom of the box, and the equipment is also the best in Zhang's department, not only more than 50 firearms, but also more than 30 bows and arrows.

About half of the soldiers were in armor.

Wang Wu also transferred manpower to participate in the battle, and selected two teams commanded by Zhao Jinzhong and Zhang Pengyu, and the other was the personal army under his direct command.

It adds up to less than three hundred.

In order to ensure that he could defeat Ma Tengyun's troops in one battle and open the way to Lao Mugang, Wang Wu asked the mute Zhu San to distribute more than a dozen sets of iron armor brought out from the Wu Jiayuanzi arsenal, along with more than 100 sets of cotton armor.

I took the iron armor myself, and after putting it on with the help of Wan Si, I lifted the big knife and walked a few steps, feeling that the armor was a little heavy, but it did not hinder physical activity.

In his hand, he still held the big knife with the long side of his thumb rolled in the middle of the blade.

It looks a little flawed, but it still works.

It's not that there is no knife for Wang Wu to replace, but he actually has some feelings for this big knife.

I also used it smoothly, so I didn't want to change it.

Seeing that Wang Wu's team had more than a dozen sets of iron armor, Zhang Tianfang couldn't help but be a little greedy, because their brothers only had four sets of iron armor in their hands.

Iron armor can be said to be a heavy weapon, there is a saying that "one armor tops three crossbows, and three armor enters the underworld".

Dynasties and armies have always attached great importance to iron armor, because iron armor can not only protect people in armor from arrows, swords and guns, but also play a decisive role in warfare.

Hundreds of ironclad soldiers can be thousands or even tens of thousands!

The reason for such lethality couldn't be simpler - I have armor, you can't kill me; If you don't have armor, I'll kill you with a knife.

It's a pity that the Ming army's iron armor holdings in the Kuidong region are extremely low, in addition to the reason for the abolition of armaments since the end of the Ming Dynasty, it is because the Qing army has continued to blockade the Ming army in Kuidong for 20 years, so that they can not obtain iron armor supplements from the outside world, and it is difficult to make iron armor by themselves in the base area.

In this era, the technical content of building iron armor is very high.

Wang Wu did not give the iron armor to Zhao Jinzhong and Zhang Pengyu, but gave all the iron armor to his own direct soldiers.

It's not that he favors one over the other, but the number of iron armor is limited, and it must be used together in order to achieve breakthrough power at a critical time.

If it is divided into one set for each officer, it will make the iron armor meaningless.

In this way, he will not be hypocritical to give up a few more ironclad to Zhang Tian to release them.

The soldiers who were assigned to the iron armor all knew that this was going to fight for their lives.

No one was afraid or complained, silently put on his armor with the help of his companions, and then kept wiping the long knife.

Even though the long knives had been sharpened, they still wiped them mechanically.

From time to time, he pointed his long knife towards the sky, watching the cold light above it continue to flash.

On the side of the Lao Shun army, Ma Sizhong dispatched all the troops, and there were only more than 1,000 people from the three sides, but they were the most capable of fighting in this Ming army.

The rest of the manpower is used as a reserve.

It's just that everyone knows that it is impossible to defeat Ma Tengyun's troops in the first wave, and it doesn't matter whether there are reserves or not.

Because, they have no way back.

The team that came to investigate stopped about two or three hundred meters away from the Ming army, and it could be seen from the place where they stayed and hid that this team was also elite.

On the side of the Ming army, Wang Wu and Zhang Tianfang jointly promoted Ma Sizhong as the commander, not because Wang Wu did not have the ability to command, but because he didn't want to make any trouble because of the command at this time, which would affect the unity of several parties.

At this time, there is nothing more important than unity!

When he was in the grass, he thought about fighting for power and profit, which was no different from a stupid person.

How many people have suffered such losses in history.

Not to mention that the current situation of the Ming army can be called a hellish situation!

Ma Sizhong has been using a clairvoyant mirror to observe the transfer of Ma Tengyun's department.

After discovering that a Ming army had appeared in front of him, Mabe also quickly made military deployments, seizing the commanding heights on both sides of the mountain road, and constructing a simple defensive line based on this.

It seems that Ma Tengyun has no intention of taking the initiative to attack.

Wang Wu didn't think that Ma Tengyun felt guilty and felt embarrassed to attack his former comrades, but because Ma Tengyun couldn't figure out how many of them were.

"Later, I will personally lead people to attack Ma Tengyun's Chinese army, and the five brothers Wang and Zhang Qian will attack their two wings respectively..."

Ma Sizhong began to deploy an offensive strategy, and his headquarters were responsible for the main attack of the Chinese army, so as to attract the main force of the horse department, so as to reduce the pressure on Wang Wu and Zhang Tianfang.

If the two can successfully capture the commanding heights of the two wings, they can cooperate with Ma Tengyun from top to bottom, and thus win a big victory.

Otherwise, it will definitely fail.

"So be it."

Ma Sizhong looked up at Wang Wutong and Zhang Tianfang, and there was nothing to say about this.

The two nodded in unison and went to their respective headquarters.

In the distance, there was a "woo" horn blowing, and it was Ma Tengyun's troops blowing the horn.

This made Wang Wu frown: Could it be that there is another rebel army here?

In his mind, he suddenly whispered to Zhu San, who was dumb with his palm, "If I can't catch it, you will cut off my head, and don't make me a prisoner of the enemy." ”