I want to be emperor

Chapter 183 Luo Zhixue Arrives in Nanyang
After finalizing the military plan for the North Route, Luo Zhixue did not stay in Yuzhou City for too long, but quickly headed south with the main force of the [-]st Infantry Brigade, [-]rd Infantry Brigade, cavalry, and artillery.

However, this time they went south instead of taking a straight line, passing through Tang County and then going to Xinye City. Instead, they took a detour to Nanyang City, and then planned to go down the Baihe River to Xiangyang.

At the same time, the speed of going south is only to maintain the normal marching speed, and there is no high-speed raid for many consecutive days as before.

After all, there is no urgent matter in the south now. Although many Ming troops have gradually gathered around Xiangyang, until now there is still no large-scale Ming army marching towards Xiangyang.

Therefore, Luo Zhixue did not need to let the army maintain a continuous high-intensity march, but chose to march normally, and even planned to wait for a few days after Nanyang City to rest for a few days. The infantry brigade and other main forces rested and took a breather.

In the past two months, the [-]st Infantry Brigade and other main forces fought north and south, first going south, and then going north urgently, and fought several battles along the way.

Rao is that the food and treatment of the rural protection army is good, and the physical fitness of the soldiers is relatively better than that of the Ming army, but it still makes the soldiers very tired.

However, the troops are short, and the rural protection army, which is even more short of the main force, is facing multi-line operations at the same time, and it is impossible to stop the core main force of the [-]st Infantry Brigade for a pure rest.

Therefore, the soldiers of the [-]st Infantry Brigade could only rest for a few days by taking the opportunity of replenishing ordnance and other military supplies when passing by Nanyang City.

When Luo Zhixue led the main forces to Nanyang City, Huang Dingquan, the new commander of the North Route Army who temporarily stayed in Yuzhou City, also followed Luo Zhixue's order.

While reorganizing the No.11 mixed brigade and No.12 mixed brigade, the Yuzhou defense line was built.

Huang Dingquan does not need to worry about how to build the defense line alone. Luo Zhixue left him a staff team of more than ten people. He directly served as the chief of staff of the North Route Army.

With Zuo Yingzhe here, there is no need to worry about all kinds of defense line construction and even battle plans.

After Luo Zhixue's Battle of Xiangyang, Zuo Yingzhe was able to promote Zuo Yingzhe as the head of the newcomer's combat department, naturally because this person's ability is not bad.

And Zuo Yingzhe also quickly entered the role. After the situation reported by the scouts, he quickly proposed a battle plan to Huang Dingquan.

When Zuo Liangyu was defeated and retreated to Ye County, he tried to mobilize some troops to take Wuyang, and then threatened Ye County.

This will expand the strategic depth of Yuzhou's defense line, so that small and medium-sized enemy troops can be directly blocked from Ye County and Wuyang. , Waiting for reinforcements from Luyang Pass, Nanyang City and other places to arrive.

After hearing Zuo Yingzhe's battle plan, Huang Dingquan considered it and finally agreed.

The reason why Huang Dingquan agreed was that taking these two places would expand the depth, but more importantly, in Zuo Yingzhe's battle plan, he did not intend to use too many main forces.

It is only planned to transfer one battalion of the fourth mixed brigade, one post of cavalry, one post of artillery, and two newly reorganized battalions.

It's just that 200 of them have just surrendered, and the new reorganization has not surrendered for two days.

To put it bluntly, even if all these troops are lost on the front line, it will not hurt the North Route Army. What's more, even if they cannot conquer the above two places, the main force can be withdrawn, that is, the third cavalry post, the third artillery post.

The mobility of these two units is strong. Even the third artillery post is an artillery unit, but they have dozens of mules and horses. When the roads are good, their short-distance mobility is not much slower than that of infantry.

Not to mention that in order to run faster at that time, Zuo Yingzhe will temporarily transfer more mules and horses from other troops, especially the supply unit, in an effort to turn this artillery post into a mounted artillery post.

These two main forces can run away as soon as they see something is wrong.

With the safety of the main force guaranteed, Huang Dingquan wanted to give it a try, without much loss.

Achievement is successful, failure is not to be pulled down...

But even if it was a try, Huang Dingquan still repeatedly told Zuo Yingzhe that when formulating a battle plan, everything should be safe. No matter what, you must ensure the retreat of the troops. No matter how bad it is, you must ensure the third cavalry post and the third artillery post. of absolute security.

Anyway, Huang Dingquan kept Luo Zhixue's instructions in mind, and everything was based on the safety of the northern defense line!

However, according to Zuo Yingzhe, even if only these 2000 messy troops are dispatched, the possibility of taking these two places is very high.

Now on Wuyang's side, there are only two to three hundred guardsmen, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled.

There were actually some officers, soldiers and even soldiers here before, but not long ago the Ming army sent troops to rescue Yuzhou, and most of the slightly capable guard soldiers were transferred away, and these guard soldiers were cleaned up by Ernst up.

The current Wuyang City is in an absolute emptiness of troops. To put it bluntly, a dozen gangsters who dare to fight and kill can forcefully enter the city...

What's more, now that Zuo Liangyu was defeated and fled to Ye County, Wuyang's weakness was immediately exposed.

Maybe the Wuyang defenders at this meeting were all trembling after hearing the news of Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong's defeat.

Not to mention Wuyang, even Ye County is panicked.

Because of Zuo Liangyu's new defeat in Ye County, although Zuo Liangyu retreated to Ye County with more than 4000 troops, Zuo Liangyu has not yet reached Ye County. information……

But it scares the officials and gentry in Ye County...

That is to say, they knew that Zuo Liangyu had escaped with more than 4000 people and retreated towards their Ye County, so they felt a little relieved.

Anyway, there are more than 4000 people. It shouldn't be a problem to guard Ye County by then, right?

But now the officials and gentry in Ye County don't even know that Zuo Liangyu ran away with more than 4000 people.

But these more than 4000 people lost almost all their artillery, no matter whether it was a general gun of several hundred kilograms or an army artillery of tens of kilograms, they were all lost.

Not only the artillery, but also the armor and weapons of many soldiers were completely lost.

After all, in order to withdraw from the battlefield and survive before their comrades in arms, many of them threw everything they could throw away.

As for those who didn't throw... either died on the battlefield, or became a prisoner!

The people who can escape are basically the ones who run extremely fast. The reason why they can run fast is naturally not because of their good physical fitness, but because they lost all the things that could be lost earlier.

After withdrawing, there were more than 4000 people in Zuo Liangyu's unit, not to mention weapons, and they didn't even bring food...

When Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong went south, under Hong Chengchou's arrangement, they all got a batch of money and food, and they continued to search for food, grass, gold and silver along the way south.

But now these grains enough to feed tens of thousands of people for at least a month, as well as a lot of gold and silver looted along the way, are all still in the camp under the city of Yuzhou.

Because the defeat was too fast and the escape was faster, Zuo Liangyu and the others couldn't even set fire to it, let alone take it away. The large amount of food was all given to the rural protection army.

When Zuo Liangyu was defeated all the way back to Ye County, he always grabbed food all the way back, otherwise he would have starved to death on the way.

And after arriving in Ye County, it is estimated that Zuo Liangyu's troops will not be much better there. Ye County does not have a large number of weapons waiting for Zuo Liangyu...

There must be some food in Ye County, and there should be a lot of it, but these days the food is basically in the hands of the big gentry. Unless Zuo Liangyu pays a high price or directly raises the flag to rebel, don't expect to get much food from these big gentry.

So even if Zuo Liangyu retreated all the way to Ye County, he would still face the situation of lack of weapons and food.

Under such circumstances, Zuo Yingzhe thought it was still possible to scare Zuo Liangyu into and occupy Ye County.

That's right, Zuo Yingzhe's plan was to scare Zuo Liangyu away, not to send out an army to directly attack Ye County and fight Zuo Liangyu to death.

There is no way, the current North Route Army seems to have a strong force, but in fact the real main force is only the second infantry brigade, and the main force of the brigade is currently stationed at Luyang Pass, even if it wants to mobilize some troops, it will take a lot of time. little time.

On Yuzhou's side, although the Fourth Mixed Brigade has been supplemented with soldiers, its strength is still the same, and the newly reorganized No.11 Mixed Brigade and No.12 Mixed Brigade are even more superficial.

Therefore, the North Route Army seems to have a large number of troops, but in fact there are not many that can fight.

What's more, the main strategic task of the North Route Army, and it can even be said that the only strategic task is to defend the northern line of defense and prevent the Ming army from the Central Plains from entering the Nanyang Basin.

Under such circumstances, it is naturally impossible to directly ignore and attack Ye County.

However, it was not a problem to send [-] patchwork soldiers over there to frighten them. Anyway, Zuo Liangyu didn't have any elite cavalry left.

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When Huang Dingquan, Zuo Yingzhe and the others were planning to attack Wuyang and Ye County, Luo Zhixue led his army back to Nanyang City.

It's different from the last time I went to Nanyang City, I didn't even enter the city, and no one greeted me.

This time when Luo Zhixue entered Nanyang City, not only the civil and military officials of the rural protection army in the city went out to greet him, but also many gentry in the city also went to greet him.

Looking at the hundreds of officials and local gentry who came out of the city to greet him, Luo Zhixue finally felt a sense of accomplishment.

Not to mention the future, at least some gentry are here to greet him, which is a good thing.

It is estimated that Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and the others will not be able to enjoy this treatment for the time being.

Well, Luo Zhixue directly ignored the embarrassing scene where the gentry who came to greet him trembled under the spears and spears.

It's June, it's cold, and the gentry coming out of the city don't wear much, so it's normal to shiver in the cold!

(End of this chapter)