Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 162 Guerrilla
Sun Chuanting did not participate in the military operations organized by Hong Chengchou, and he simply dismissed such overkill.As the governor of Shaanxi, he also has the responsibility of calming the people, so he doesn't have to lead troops to fight.Although Hong Chengchou was the governor of the five provinces, he had no jurisdiction over Sun Chuanting, so he didn't force him to participate when he saw that he was unwilling to participate.

Sun Chuanting stayed behind in the name of inspecting prefectures and counties in southwestern Shaanxi, and then ordered Xu Zhong and Liu Yingjie to lead troops to send the surrendered Zhang Wenyao and Tuoyangkun troops to Xi'an Base Camp, and then personally led nearly ten thousand Qin troops to head towards Fengxiang Mansion in the southwest , Go straight to Ma Jinzhong and other thieves.Zhang Wenyao tried his best to follow him to suppress the thieves, but was rejected by Sun Chuanting on the grounds that he needed him to appease the troops.

The reason why Sun Chuanting arranged for the bandits to return to Xi'an Mansion was that it was convenient to receive the military supplies from the imperial court, and the second was that they could replenish food and grass nearby in Xi'an; the daily consumption of these 8000 people was an astonishing amount, and the military rations brought by Zhou Yuji did not take them away. counted.

Hong Chengchou's more than 2 officers and soldiers consumed food and grass, and now most of them depend on Sun Chuanting's supply in Xi'an Prefecture.The exhaustion of the army in northern Shaanxi for nearly a year has long caused Yan'an Mansion and Qingyang Mansion to the west to complain. If Sun Chuanting hadn't harvested a lot in Xi'an and taken over the burden of supplying the army, the prefects of these two prefectures would have gone to the court a long time ago. Ben resigns.

On the Baishiyuan at the junction of Fengxiang Mansion and Pingliang Mansion, tens of thousands of rogues set up their camp here, and the clamor and yelling resounded throughout the plain; Drinking and playing money, or listening to music and singing, the whole camp is as lively as a market.

In a tent in the middle of the bandit camp, Ma Jinzhong, King Huntian, King Renyi and several other bandit leaders, as well as their trusted generals, were drinking and punching.The cups and plates on several simple wooden tables are messy, and various smells are mixed together, which makes people want to vomit.

Ma Jinzhong, who is about thirty years old, looks like a typical northwestern man, with a square face, eyes shining under thick eyebrows, a straight nose and a wide mouth, and a tall and strong figure.

He is a native of Magangbao, Guyuan Prefecture, Pingliang Prefecture, Shaanxi Province. He came from a poor family when he was a child. When he became an adult, he joined the local horse bandit team with his good body, and followed the leader to rob big merchants everywhere.Because his group of horse bandits was ruthless and almost no one was left alive after the looting, they were reported to the Shaanxi governor's yamen by the Pingliang government.After half an hour of fighting, most of the [-]-odd horse bandits were wiped out, only Ma Jinzhong and other [-]-odd people escaped with their lives.

Ma Jinzhong became the leader of these hundreds of people because he was ruthless, cunning, and daring to risk his life on the battlefield.

After they escaped with their lives, they dared not move around Shaanxi Town anymore, so they went south to enter Fengxiang Mansion.But in order not to attract the frontier army to encircle and suppress again, Ma Jinzhong and his group did not take any drastic actions. Usually they only focused on looting, and the killings were much less than before.

With the frequent occurrence of thieves in various parts of Shaanxi, the officers and soldiers of the Shaanxi town were recruited to fight fires everywhere, and Ma Jinzhong, who had no scruples, also began to lead people to plunder wildly; In a short period of time, he gained a great reputation in Fengxiang Mansion.

Due to the lack of suppression by the frontier army, the local government only had weak guard soldiers and strong archers in their hands, unable to fight against Ma Jinzhong;Ma Jinzhong's subordinates gradually expanded from the initial cavalry of more than [-] people to a large armed force of more than [-] people.

But this kind of unscrupulous, looting everywhere and no one can control it came to an abrupt end this year. Lintao General Cao Wenzhao and his nephew and general Cao Bianjiao led 3000 troops to Fengxiang Mansion.

As soon as Cao Wenzhao's uncle and nephew arrived in Fengxiang, he gave the thieves in this area a big blow.

After discovering that another large group of thieves headed by King Renyi was camped at Wulipo in the west of Fengxiang Prefecture, Cao Bianjiao led a team of cavalry to raid this group of thieves.

The thieves who just broke through a large local family outside the city of Long'an County and robbed hundreds of shi of food and supplies and thousands of taels of silver were happily sitting on the ground to share the spoils, unaware of the upcoming danger. Cao Bianjiao led five hundred cavalry suddenly After breaking out, he rushed into the camp of the thieves, stabbed with a horse with a knife and a spear, and rushed away after a while.

When King Renyi came out of the camp, the officers and soldiers had long since disappeared, only the corpses and the wailing of the wounded all over the ground.

The rogues yelled at the direction in which the officers and soldiers were fleeing, clamoring to chase after them for revenge, but these rogues were basically infantry, how could they catch up with the cavalry of the officers and soldiers, the so-called revenge was just to vent their anger Just the emotion of fear.

After checking, there were a total of more than [-] casualties this time, and those who died were nothing more than those who were injured. The injured were all seriously injured with broken bones and tendons. Under the environment and conditions at that time, it was difficult to survive a few days.

In desperation, King Renyi could only arrange for people to dig a hole outside the camp so that the dead could be buried, and the wounded were carried back to their tents to wait for death.

In order to prevent the official army from attacking again, the bandits made a lot of crude refusal horses and placed them at the gate of the camp. If the official army cavalry came again, they would have enough time to gather for the battle.

After digging several large pits, it was already dusk. Except for the hundreds of people who carried the corpses out of the camp to bury the dead, other thieves were playing and chatting in the camp. People are having sex in the tent, everything seems very normal.

It didn't take long before the sound of horseshoes sounded like a storm outside the camp, mixed with screams and shouts; after the thieves woke up from their shock and immediately reported to the leaders, everything returned to calm .

Cao Bianjiao once again led people to raid the hundreds of bandits who buried the dead, and killed them all. All their heads were cut off and placed in the style of Jingguan in front of the bandit camp, so as to deter the gang of bandits.

King Renyi was finally afraid.This group of officers and soldiers were like hungry wolves, hiding somewhere and staring at him and nearly ten thousand of his subordinates. As long as there was a slight opening on his side, the officers and soldiers would rush out and bite, and then continued to hide and wait for the opportunity.

This group of officers and soldiers is not like other officers and soldiers, who pay attention to the dignified formation, and come up to fight with open swords and spears, but use this kind of insidious means to eat up the thieves.King Renyi knew in his heart that if they played this disgusting way a few more times, the mob under him would definitely disperse.

Taking advantage of the gap when the cavalry did not dare to fight at night, King Renyi ordered to retreat to the north overnight, and walked on the rugged and difficult trails, in order to avoid being chased and killed by the cavalry of the army.

The thieves with torches ran out for dozens of miles in one breath, and stopped after leaving Fengxiang Prefecture for hundreds of miles.Fortunately, the officers and soldiers did not come after him, so King Renyi relaxed.

After the thieves had a few mouthfuls of breakfast indiscriminately, King Renyi ordered to continue to retreat northward at an accelerated pace. He decided to leave Fengxiang completely and never return. This group of officers and soldiers left a lingering shadow in his heart.

After Cao Bianjiao led the team to raid twice, he fled away long ago.

If there are three thousand cavalry under his command, no, as long as there are two thousand cavalry, he will kill all the nearly ten thousand thieves.

It's a pity that I and my uncle have a total of [-] men. Among the official troops in northern Shaanxi, apart from the Liaodong guest army, they are already the team with the most cavalry.

Cao Bianjiao, who put away his thoughts, continued to gallop towards Longzhou first without saying a word, followed by five hundred cavalry in silence.

There was a large band of bandit cavalry running rampant in Longzhou, Cao Bianjiao decided to go and investigate to see if there was a chance to attack and kill the small band of bandit cavalry and seized some war horses.

Due to lack of troops, Cao Wenzhao could only send more than [-] infantry around Fengxiang Fucheng, while Cao Bianjiao volunteered to lead a team to investigate the movements of the thieves and wait for the opportunity to attack and kill them.

For this taciturn but martial arts nephew, Cao Wenzhao has always regarded him as his own; he is very relieved of Cao Bianjiao, knowing that this nephew is very shrewd and not the kind of brave and foolish person, so he is allowed to go.

After several months in Fengxiang Mansion, Cao Bianjiao led his team to attack more than ten times. The big thieves Ma Jinzhong, King Renyi, and King Huntian all suffered a lot under his hands, but they had nothing to do with Cao Bianjiao.

Because Cao Bianjiao has too few subordinates, he always adopts guerrilla tactics. When he sees that the number of thieves is small or he is paralyzed, he suddenly rushes out to fight, and then flees away regardless of the casualties.This style of play made the thieves dizzy, and their spirits were always in a state of high tension. They didn't dare to relax in the slightest when hunting food and looting, for fear that this killing god would come out of nowhere and bite them again.

Among these thugs, Ma Jinzhong's situation is slightly better.He has more than 2000 cavalry under him, and they are basically small groups of horse bandits who come to vote for their reputation. Although they are not as capable as Cao Bianjiao's men, and they are not as well-equipped as him, they are still capable of fighting.

Cao Bianjiao was greedy for Ma Jinzhong's war horse, and he came here for him the next few times.The two sides fought several times. Although Cao Bianjiao won more than a hundred horses, more than ten of his men were killed. Since the last attack a month ago, Ma Jinzhong has never seen the cavalry of the official army.

But going on like this is not an option, several large groups of thieves dare not separate their troops to plunder now, they can only dare to attack big households in county towns or in the countryside by gathering together.The county town is not easy to attack, and the big households who built high walls and dug deep ditches are also difficult to attack. Sometimes hundreds of people are killed and they cannot be attacked.

In order to repel the thieves who came to attack, the rich families often offered huge rewards to defend the fort.Because once it is breached, not only will the whole family die, but years of accumulation will also become spoils of war for thieves.

Those peasant households also had the same idea. They tried their best to defend the fort, and they didn't spare their lives. They all knew that the thieves had the nature of burning, killing and looting, so how could they let the thieves get their way so easily?
Once, King Huntian led more than [-] people to attack a fort in the countryside of Xiangquan County. Just when he was about to break through, Cao Bianjiao led his men to rush out, broke through King Huntian's rear team and left.

Because he was afraid that the army would not go far, and because he didn't have a large cavalry to fight against, King Huntian could only give up the fort that was about to be broken, gathered his hands and went back to the original stockade in surprise.

So now the thieves not only have to guard against the surprise attack of the army cavalry, but also have to fight head-on with the big households guarding the fort. Gradually, the supply of food, grass and supplies is almost exhausted.

In the end, Ma Jinzhong decided to join forces with King Huntian and others to attack the cities of prefectures and counties in order to obtain sufficient supplies.

He sent people to contact King Renyi and King Huntian, and decided to gather troops in Baishiyuan, where King Renyi set up camp. After preparations were made, the three led their troops to attack Lingtai County together, and the gold and silver materials obtained were divided equally, changing the current situation of basically sitting on the mountain.

More importantly, Ma Jinzhong planned to lure out this official cavalry, waited for an opportunity to annihilate it in one fell swoop, and then used his power to become the leader of the bandits in the Fengxiang area.

　Thank you book friend Jin Mojin for your reward.

　　
　
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