The man's heart is like iron, killing and fighting ghosts and gods. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info The iron cone kills people, and the fire is demonic.

It's a pity that this night battle was not fully accomplished.

It turned out that the nest of the fifth battalion of Nage Zuo was not in Huoqiu, but in Dabie Mountain.

Zhao Yu originally thought that the midwinter was approaching and the climate was harsh, so this thief should abandon the mountains and forests and choose the city to defend. That's a good guess, but not all right.

Shouzhou is the turn of the old Hui Ma Shouying, and Huo Qiu only has two thieves, Ge Li Yan He Yilong and Wang Lin to cultivate. The rest of the two, He Jin, the king of Zuojin, and Liu Xiyao, the king of reincarnation, are nesting in the mountains.

That is to say, even if Huo Qiu is broken, there are still two thieves who oppose the king, and at least 20,000 thieves and soldiers are still at large.

When the fire was extinguished, Huo Qiu was settled, and it was already morning. This fire almost burned the soldiers and horses under the command of He Yilong and Lin Chengcheng!

Even Lin Yangsheng died in the flames!

He Yilong saw the opportunity early and walked away from the west gate, but was blocked by the army arranged early outside, failed to escape, and was captured alive. The rest survived the thieves, and only seven or eight thousand were captured.

Zhao Yu killed He Yilong with a cone, and couldn't help sighing slightly.

This He Yilong, there is no need to keep it and make an example of the monkeys. Those seven or eight thousand captives have long been terrified, whether to kill chickens or not, to set an example or not, it is all redundant.

Seeing that the soldiers under his command brought the thief's head, Zhao Yu didn't say a word and killed him directly.

He sighed about the two thieves, Liu Xiyao and He Jin. Last night, the fire burned the sky, and when it was raging, it could be seen dozens of miles away. What's more, in the morning, the scouts scattered around also found traces of thieves on the periphery.

Presumably, the two thieves hiding in the mountains already knew the battle situation here at this time.

Zhao Yu's subordinates lost the convenience of the raid.

Moreover, the terrain in the mountains is complex, which is not conducive to large-scale attack. Once the thieves are scattered, extermination is empty talk.

By sighing.

Yang He confessed when he was captured, came to Zhao Yu's side, and just heard this sigh, and couldn't help but say: "Is the general regretting that he couldn't catch them all?"

Zhao Yu nodded and looked at the mountains in the distance: "The fifth battalion of Gezuo, only three families have been went, and there are two thieves in this deep mountain and old forest." ”

"In the general's opinion..."Yang He muttered: "Huoqiu was on fire all night, and the thieves in the mountains must have known it, and under the cold, they fled and ran away, unable to catch up. But..."

As soon as he spoke, he said with a smile: "My subordinates think that the thieves, He Jin and Liu Xiyao, must go north if they want to escape!"

Zhao Yu couldn't help laughing, and said with his head bowed: "The thief went east to Bozhou, I don't know if Bozhou has been broken at this time." Bozhou is three or four hundred miles away to the north, and if He Jin and Liu Xiyao are afraid, they will go to the thieves and seek a place to join forces. ”

After a pause, he said, "But I won't let these two thieves go so easily to join the thieves." ”

There was a glint in his eyes: "He fled fast, and he would have chased faster." ”

When Yang He heard this, he couldn't help but shout: "The general wants to wave his troops to chase?"

But he said: "At this time, the army has been fighting all night, and they are all tired. Besides, the terrain in the mountains is complicated, which is not conducive to the battle of the army, if you wave your troops to chase after you, I am afraid..."

Zhao Yu laughed: "I went to chase, but I never said to chase with my troops." ”

Yang He suddenly realized.

Zhao Yu said: "Besides, the Chinese army directly under me has rested for the night, although nine thousand soldiers and horses are not much, but they are enough." But I do intend to go after it alone. ”

As he spoke, Zhao Yu squatted down, stretched out his fingers, and drew a simple map on the frozen ground.

"You see, if He Jin and Liu Xiyao go to the thieves, bypass Huoqiu, and go north along Dabie Mountain, there are only these two places that they must pass through. ”

Yang He took a look: "Yingshang, Yingzhou?"

Zhao Yu nodded: "Yes." Yingshui flows from northwest to southeast, and passes diagonally from the west of Fengyang. If you want to go north to Bozhou, you must cross Yingshui. To cross Yingshui, only Yingshang and Yingzhou are the most convenient. ”

Then he said: "I intend to go into the mountains alone and follow the traces of the thieves." As for the 9,000 soldiers and horses of the Chinese army, I plan to hand them over to the commander of the guard, Zhang Zhang, to supervise the command, immediately pull out the camp, march to Yingshang, and wait for the rabbit. ”

Zhao Yu's meaning is very obvious.

The Chinese army rushed to Yingshang, just as an insurance precaution.

Zhao Yu is confident that he will catch up with the thieves alone. Of course, if the two thieves are half a beat slow to react and have not yet left their lair in the mountains, that is naturally the best.

If he leaves, he can't escape Zhao Yu's recourse. Once he catches up, there are only 20,000 thieves, where will Zhao Yu take it to heart?

One person and one rider can break the heads of these two thieves and take their heads.

As for sending troops to Yingshang, it is precisely in case Zhao Yu does not recover, or pursues an insurance in the wrong direction. That is to say, Zhao Yu's pursuit, the final destination must be Yingzhou.

If you chase to Yingzhou, there is still no trace of the thief, so you will immediately go down the Yingshui and run to Yingzhou.

If the thief doesn't go to Yingzhou, he will go to Yingshang, and he can't escape Zhao Yu's palm.

"You stay here and put your hands and tails away. Zhao Yu told Yang He: "Ask the people from the trading house to send someone to take over Huoqiu." The end of the hand should be collected quickly, and it must not exceed two days. Then immediately he swung his troops to the Yingshang and joined me. ”

After a pause, Zhao Yu thought for a while and said, "In this matter, we must let the people from the trading house pass the news to the prince as soon as possible." Let the prince have a preparation, so that he can lay a pocket in Henan, and he can't get away with the thieves who are besieging Kaifeng. I am afraid that the thieves will flee with a roar when they know that our army has exterminated Gezuo and defeated the thieves. ”

Yang He promised to say yes and said, "The general is going to set off?"

Zhao Yu nodded: "It is advisable to be quick and urgent, and the soldiers are fast." ”

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The fifth battalion of the left side of the revolution, five thieves up and down, and the most powerful Ma Shouying had 30,000 or 40,000 horses under his hands. Among them, the real old thieves are only seven or eight thousand, and the rest are ordinary rabble. The other four people have similar forces, with no more than 10,000 and as few as 10,000 people.

Ma Shou should have died in Shouzhou, and his soldiers and horses were killed or surrendered, and basically did not escape. Huo Qiu is also the same, a fire burned to death, there are more than 10,000 people, seven or eight thousand.

The old nest in the mountains, after interrogation, only nearly 20,000 thieves.

Speaking of the five battalions of Gezuo, there are 70,000 or 80,000 horses in total, and there are 20,000 or 30,000 old thieves. But the world is impermanent, and overnight, the mighty Fifth Battalion of the Left Revolution has become yesterday's yellow flower.

Three of the five thieves died directly, and the remaining two, as Zhao Yu expected, after getting the news, pulled out the camp and fled.

The battle report here was soon transmitted to Kaifeng Fengqiu through the trading house in the hands of Zhao Gongming.

The crown prince Zhu Cihao went south to supervise the war, and the place where he settled was in Fengqiu.

Fengqiu and Kaifeng, the distance is less than 100 miles. But there is a Yellow River moat across it, one north and one south, which is far away. The armies from all over Hebei, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, have converged on this line one after another, and Fengqiu is where the camp of the superintendent is located.

After the prince arrived at Fengqiu, he remained unmoved. Zhao Yu's movements, Li Yuqing had already sent a pigeon to the prince. The prince was waiting for Zhao Yu.

Although the crown prince is the overseer, supervising the soldiers and horses in various places to suppress thieves, it must be counted that there are at least 120,000 soldiers and horses under his control. But these local armies are really corrupted to the extreme, where is the prince's eye?

If these armies are allowed to cross the river to suppress the thieves and fight the thieves under the city of Kaifeng, regardless of victory or defeat, it is an extravagant hope to wipe out the thieves.

Henan is a flat river, once the thief can't fight, he can escape at any time.

Therefore, during this period of time, the prince was waiting for Zhao Yu's news, and the other was making military deployments.

He ordered Sun Chuanting, the squire of the military department who was in Guanzhong and Shanxi to suppress the thieves, waved his troops east into Hangu to cut off the way for the thieves to retreat into Guanzhong. The second order was to order Ding Qirui, the military department of the military department to suppress the thieves in Huguang, to wave his troops to the east and go north, cutting off the southwest retreat route of the thieves.

Then wait until Zhao Yu waved his troops to the south, and the prince's soldiers and horses on the north bank of the Yellow River, Sun Chuanting's soldiers and horses in Hangu and Luoyang, and Ding Qirui's soldiers and horses in the Xiangfan area, just four ways to attack, forming a tight pocket, surrounding Henan, allowing the thief to give wings, there is no way to go to the sky, and there is no way to enter the ground.

This strategic plan is good, but the prince still doesn't feel safe. He supervised the soldiers and horses on the north bank of the Yellow River, and with his own command, even if it was useless, he would not have it.

Sun Chuanting, he was not very worried. Sun Chuanting's personality is specially understood by the prince, who is capable and has integrity.

Zhao Yu, the prince was even less worried. If it weren't for the purpose of catching all the thieves, Zhao Yu would have rushed straight to Kaifeng, and the thieves would have died.

What the prince is worried about is Ding Qirui of Huguang.

Ding Qirui is a person who basically has no military strategy, and he can't convince the public. Zuo Liangyu and the others, who served under him, didn't take him seriously at all. Since he became the secretary of the military department and replaced Yang Sichang to suppress bandits, he has not won a battle.

Moreover, this person has a close relationship with several old things in the cabinet, and the prince and the cabinet are already mortal enemies by nature, so they have to be wary of the cabinet being obstructed.

After thinking about it, the crown prince Zhu Cihao planned to make Sun Chuanting divide a part of his troops and horses and go south to the border area of Ruzhou, Nanyang and Kaifeng to replace Ding Qirui's strategic role.

In this way, downplaying the role of Ding Qirui also eliminates the possible harm caused by Ding Qirui.

Just when the prince was making strict arrangements, the battle report of the trading house about Fengyang finally reached the prince.

After hearing that Ge was left to break through, Zhao Yu was about to wave his troops north, and the prince couldn't help but be in good spirits.

Said left and right: "General Zhao is really the pillar of the country!"

Wang Yisheng and Li Geng couldn't help laughing in unison: "General Zhao is invincible, and this battle will be won!"

So the prince hurriedly wrote a letter and informed Zhao Yu of the deployment of the pocket strategy one by one, so that Zhao Yu knew it and was convenient to cooperate. The second is a commendation, but it is a promise that Zhao Yu will never be disappointed.

This promise is what Zhao Yu once proposed to pass on the lineage and glorify the lintel.

He also told Zhao Yu to be cautious and not to be careless. On the premise of marching fast, there should be no mistakes to avoid wasting all the achievements.

And so on.

The soldiers are fast, and this is also one of the things that the prince must entrust.

The thieves have been besieging Kaifeng for more than half a month, and now that the imperial court has mobilized soldiers and horses, the thieves may not all know about it, but after all, the movement is not small. Once the siege of the thieves is unfavorable, and he can't beat Kaifeng and run away, the prince's strategic deployment will be null and void.

It has to be fast.

When the thieves have not decided to retreat, they will be defeated and the battle will be completed.

However, the prince didn't know that when he sent out this letter, Zhao Yu's army had already arrived in Bozhou.

...

Bozhou is broken.

No doubt.

Bozhou is the north gate of Fengyang Mansion, but there are only one or two thousand soldiers and horses stationed here. And they are all the kind of local armies that can't get into the eyes of the law.

Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan a year ago, but he couldn't hold it, and this year he went out of Sichuan to attack Huguang, but was broken by Zuo Liangyu. If it weren't for Zhang Xianzhong sending someone to bribe Zuo Liangyu, I am afraid that he would have to surrender all the way.

So Zhang Xianzhong led the remnants to Kaifeng Mansion in Henan Province to defect to Li Zicheng.

Li Chuang saw that Zhang Xianzhong's power was greatly damaged and wanted to annex him, so he fell out. If someone hadn't interceded, I was afraid that he would have been killed by Li Chuang. Zhang Xianzhong then went east to Bozhou.

Along the way, the people were coerced, and the original force was only a few thousand soldiers and horses, but when they arrived in Bozhou, there were tens of thousands.

Thieves fighting wars are all a routine.

The people who were held hostage by the shillings were used as cannon fodder, and their lives were used to fill in the land to consume the defenders' guns, bullets, arrows and other materials for defending the city. Demoralize the defenders.

When the defenders are exhausted, they will rush up and break through the city.

Of course, this is a hard-nosed tactic.

Thieves are thieves, for example, the means of combining inside and outside are also endless.

Just send the old thief as a people, and enter the city in twos and threes. In wartime, he suddenly attacked, opened the city gate, and broke it in a battle.

Here in Bozhou, the thieves were hard-hitting, besieged for ten days, and then directly attacked the city, and captured it in only three days.

As for the combination of inside and outside, there is no way to use it.

Bozhou is at the junction of Kaifeng Mansion and Fengyang Mansion, the thieves surround Kaifeng, the momentum is huge, Bozhou is also rumored, only allowed to go out but not enter.

The offering thief can only be touched.

Although the Bozhou garrison is not much, only 2,000 people, and it is also a rabble. But because of the evil deeds of the thieves since they were rampant, after so many years, they have gradually been seen through by the foolish people.

Except for those who can't survive at all, in fact, to this extent, there are no people who are really willing to join the thieves. What's more, Zhang Xianzhong is different from Li Chuang, Li Chuang still put forward some slogans, what is not to pay for food, and so on. And Zhang Xianzhong is in the name of indiscriminate killing.

Often slaughter the city, kill when you are happy, and kill when you are unhappy.

In addition, the people who can live in the city can basically live, so the resistance is very resolute.

Even though Zhang Xianzhong wrapped tens of thousands of horses, it still took nearly half a month to capture Bozhou.

After the thieves captured Bozhou, there is no need to say much about its evil strategy. Such thieves, especially Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates, where is there a good thing?!

The city was full of people, and countless people died. Those who survive are coerced into being thieves.

The officers and men of the defenders, except for a few hundred who surrendered at the end, were killed in the battle. The county order was directly beheaded and hung his head on the head of the city. Only a few of the rich and merchant families in the city were able to escape.

After Zhang Xianzhong captured Bozhou, he peeked at Fengyang. At the beginning, he dug up the tomb of Taizu, and this time he planned to play again.

But there is no hurry. There are only a few thousand old thieves left under his command, and the rest are the people who have just been enrolled, and they have no combat power, so he plans to repair in Bozhou for ten days and half a month, train a little, and then go south to Fengyang, and break the defenders in one go.

Zhang Xianzhong, or most of the thieves, trains soldiers and horses, it is very simple, just catch and kill.

Real knives and real guns.

Those who survive are the real thieves.

Zhang Xianzhong also repeatedly asked his old thieves to fight against the people who were being hostage. Ten to twenty, thirty, or fifty. Offering thieves never spares their lives, whether it is an old thief or a new thief, it is useless to die if it is dead.

Those who survive have aroused their animal nature, and they have combat power.

As long as you fight the army of the imperial court a few more times, you will become an old thief.