I want to be emperor

Chapter 180 It's Better Than The Dead

After all, the thieves on the opposite side were not ordinary thieves, and they were helpless in the face of a large phalanx of officers and soldiers.

Even if these thieves didn't need infantry to press up and fight, they could crush thousands of him alive just by artillery bombardment.

Resistance is impossible, and retreat?

If he could retreat, He Renlong would have retreated a long time ago, but his army is already deeply trapped in the battlefield, and there is no way to retreat.

Once the retreat is ordered, it makes no difference to defeat the entire army.

The end was much worse than Zuo Liangyu's retreat.

Although Zuo Liangyu's troops were retreating, most of them were able to escape from the battlefield...

But once he, He Renlong, ordered to retreat, the [-] troops under his command would be completely wiped out in a matter of minutes, and they would not be able to escape at all.

Not to mention, when the [-] cavalry of the rebel army had already chased Zuo Liangyu, they went directly behind He Renlong's troops.

Strictly speaking, He Renlong's troops were completely surrounded by the bandit protection army.

Can't hold on, can't attack, can't break through.

He Renlong sighed and looked back at the bandit army in front of him!

The morale of the bandit army in front was like a rainbow, and they were pressing forward step by step. At the same time, the musketeers of the bandit army continued to fire.

At the same time, the artillery of the thief army did not stop for a moment, and continued to fire at his army.

Casualties!

Casualties are coming one after another!
He Renlong knew very well that he was completely doomed in this battle.

He didn't even have the chance to escape alone, and what awaited him was either defeated and died, or became a prisoner of the bandit army.

But he is not reconciled!
The reason why he has come to this point without even having the chance to escape is all because Zuo Liangyu tricked him.

If Zuo Liangyu didn't deliberately let him attack and then cover Zuo Liangyu to escape, how could he be in this state.

Zuo Liangyu, I and you are inseparable!

After cursing Zuo Liangyu again with hatred, He Renlong took a deep breath and said, "Brothers have all done their best, and I will do my best too. For this sake, we are right, Your Majesty, and we are right." The princes of the court."

"Now, it's time to think about the lives of our thousands of brothers!"

Then he turned his head and said to a confidant general beside him:

"Talk to them in the past, as long as they give us a way to survive, then I will congratulate you on my life, and the lives of our thousands of brothers will be sold to Luo Zhixue!"

In desperation, He Renlong had no choice but to send someone to find the Township Protection Army, trying to surrender.

Luo Zhixue also met the envoy sent by He Renlong, but at first he heard the envoy say that He Renlong was going to bring thousands of people to work for him, but Luo Zhixue soon realized it. Immediately asked the envoy: "You mean, your ministry will form a system and surrender, and then form its own army, and He Renlong will continue to be the commander of this army?"

"Then we have to be responsible for your food and weapons, and you have been running out of money for a long time, do you hope we can allocate 10 taels of money to make up the money?"

The emissary said: "My general heard that you, General Luo, are willing to do good and generous. You are a first-class hero here. My general is willing to submit to the account of the general. From now on, you will know, General Luo, that I am Heying Bingfeng." means."

"As for the food and pay, I am dissatisfied with the general. The Ming Dynasty is really not a thing. It has never paid us any food and salary. Therefore, when the army owes a lot of money, I beg the general to take pity on it!"

After hearing the messenger's words, Luo Zhixue laughed!
The emissary said it nicely, but the meaning was exactly that.

It is okay for He Renlong to surrender to the Chengbao Township Army, but he still wants to maintain an independent organizational system.

In their opinion, this condition may not be too much, but it is too much for the Township Protection Army. Without Luo Zhixue opening his mouth, Xu Zhixian on the side spoke first: "It is absolutely impossible, you think we are fools, and you still pay for it." Liang helps you to raise soldiers, what kind of dream do you have in broad daylight, I tell you, either surrender unconditionally or die..."

Luo Zhixue waved his hand, stopped Xu Zhixian's words, and then said to the messenger:

"My Township Army has recruited countless surrendered soldiers. There has never been a precedent for a surrendered general to form an army of his own, and this general does not intend to set such a precedent. If your ministry is sincerely willing to surrender, then follow our rules. !"

"The officers and men of your department who are willing to continue to serve in the army can arrange to continue to join the army after I have selected them, and General He can be awarded the post of special military advisor to the General's Mansion!"

After thinking for a while, Luo Zhixue added a sentence: This is the second-rank military post of our rural protection army. General Chen Yongfu, who was stationed in Nanyang before, was also awarded this post. "

As he said that, he also pointed to Chen Yongfu on the side of the battalion commander, and Chen Yongfu was also paying attention to the situation here. After hearing the direct name, he immediately nodded slightly to this side.

The two positions of military adviser and internal affairs adviser are specially set up for defecting civil servants and military generals, because these two positions are nominal and empty positions, in order to increase their attractiveness, and at the same time to better make these defecting officials We understand.

Therefore, these positions are also compared with grades. For example, the special military adviser, the target is the surrendered Ming army chief soldier, deputy general/deputy chief soldier position, the chief soldier is awarded the second-rank special military adviser, and the deputy chief soldier is awarded the second-rank special rank. military advisor.

Other first-class, second-class, and third-class military advisers or internal affairs advisers will also compare their grades one by one.

The envoys who came over didn't understand the official system in the Rural Protection Army, and they didn't even know what the so-called special military adviser was. However, the term Zheng Erpin was still understandable.

The grade of the second grade is not too low.

It's just that he knows very well that his general doesn't care about his rank. What He Renlong wants is to be able to continue to lead the army under his command to fight, and what he wants is military power.

To put it simply, he He Renlong led private soldiers to fight for the Ming Dynasty in the past, and later he fought for the Xiangbao Army.

That's it!

So he didn't dare to agree immediately, and planned to report to He Renlong after he went back.

After all, it doesn't count if he promised...

It's just that when he returned, He Renlong's troops had already lost hundreds of people, and they were almost on the verge of collapse.

When this person went to negotiate, the township protection army did not stop attacking.

Now time is very precious to the Rural Protection Army. The Rural Protection Army still wants to deal with He Renlong's troops as soon as possible, and then free up the main force to chase Zuo Liangyu's troops ahead.

Now the rural protection army chasing Zuo Liangyu only has the [-]rd Infantry Brigade and the [-]rd Cavalry Post, which is seriously insufficient in strength.

With too few pursuit troops, not only is it difficult to obtain too many kills and capture results, but it is also possible to be killed by the enemy back to the carbine.

After all, there were tens of thousands of Zuo Liangyu's troops retreating, and the chasing army of the township protection had only a little over 2000 men...

The military strength of the two sides is seriously unequal.

In addition to wanting to mobilize troops to pursue Zuo Liangyu's troops, Luo Zhixue and the others were also worried that the other side would use the name of surrender negotiations to delay time so that they could regroup, and even adjust and reload those small artillery pieces such as the assault artillery, which in turn would bring harm to the follow-up attack. trouble.

So the negotiation is the negotiation, but the fight will continue.

To be honest, He Renlong's troops are only on the verge of collapse, but not completely collapsed. That's because the frontline [-]st Infantry Brigade, Personal Battalion and other troops knew that the two sides were already engaged in emergency negotiations, so they didn't fight too much. hurry to avoid unnecessary casualties.

Otherwise, He Renlong's troops could be taken down directly.

After the envoy came back and reported He Renlong's negotiations, He Renlong frowned and said, "It looks like it's impossible to continue leading troops!"

"However, did you see Chen Yongfu? What kind of consultant did he serve as a second rank in the Bao Bandit Army?"

The confidant general under his command said: "The humble officer did see Chen Yongfu. He was in the tent at that time. Although his status and status are not as good as those of the big bosses, he is not too bad to be able to enter the military plane of the battalion commander and counselor of the Chinese army!"

He Renlong didn't speak after hearing this, but someone reported again after a while, saying that the left wing had been completely defeated. He Renlong finally couldn't help but said: "Order to surrender!"

"A second-rank consultant is a second-rank consultant, it's better than being a dead person!"

He Renlong finally ordered the entire army to surrender. In fact, without him surrendering, his army would not last long.

Although they have been stubbornly resisting, it also means that they have been continuously killed by the artillery of the rural protection army and constantly oppressed by the heavy armored infantry.

During the period of resistance, the number of casualties has reached as many as 800.

Such a heavy casualty, even if the entire army was not wiped out, was enough to cause the army to be wounded and its morale collapsed.

After learning that He Renlong accepted his fate and ordered to surrender, Luo Zhixue was not extra happy.

The fate of He Renlong's troops was already doomed from the moment they were besieged.

A small number of them will die in battle, and the rest will be taken as prisoners.

Regardless of whether it is the way of surrender after defeat, or the way of surrender in advance, they can't change their fate.

The only thing that changed was the fate of He Renlong and a few senior Ming army generals.

If they do not surrender, these senior generals will either die in battle or be taken as prisoners of war.

Don't talk about death in battle, let's talk about being a prisoner of war!

In the past, the Rural Protection Army had great interest in ordinary captured Ming generals, and always wanted to win over them to join the Rural Protection Army, such as Huang Guangmao and Fei Bingqing in the early days.

But, since going south, the Xiangbao Army often gave no preferential treatment to the prisoners of the Ming army who were captured after the defeat. They were usually thrown directly into the prisoner-of-war camps and locked up.

Those who can get preferential treatment and the false title of military adviser are the generals of the Ming army who took the initiative to lead their troops to surrender.

Therefore, for those generals of the Ming army, there is still a very big difference between surrender and surrender.

However, there is not much difference between ordinary Ming soldiers and low-level officers. As long as they are low-level officers and ordinary soldiers, regardless of whether they are defeated and surrendered or directly lead senior generals to surrender, the Township Protection Army uses the same method: select qualified The soldiers continued to join the army, and the rest were thrown into the reclamation camp.

And He Renlong's voluntary surrender also allowed the Township Protection Army to free up more effective forces in time to pursue Zuo Liangyu's troops.

So, not long after, the [-]st Infantry Brigade passed other friendly troops and prisoners of war under He Renlong's troops, and continued to advance eastward, chasing the [-]rd Infantry Brigade.

(End of this chapter)