The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 957

"Cao Cao" Luo Rucai and "Crashing the Sky" Liu Guoneng, who were captured and released by the "Red Banner Army", have seen the strength of the "Red Banner Army".

Realizing the gap between the rogue bandits and the "Red Banner Army", I no longer have the enthusiasm for rebellion.

After Qiuhou learned that the "King of Han" had led the army to enter the pass, he lost confidence even more.

This time Luo Ru was named and led the army to follow Gao Yingxiang. On the west line of Tongguan, Liu Guoneng led more than [-] troops to follow Li Zicheng on the east line.

They didn't have a trace of energy, and they had long been planning to turn against each other. They thought that they were forced to raise their hands and surrendered last time, so they couldn't get a half-job, and they were thrown out to replace a few Ming vassals.

They were fed up with being thieves all day long, and this time they planned to come to a nest to get some credit, and strive to become the leader of the "Red Banner Army" in the open and aboveboard.

Gao Yingxiang received the news that Hanzhong was besieged when he learned that the attack on the eastern front had been blocked. He was irritated.

It is easy to come and difficult to go, the morale of the frustrated rogues is low, the number of fugitives is unknown, the leaky house is met with continuous rain, and there is another bad news.

Did not get the chance to fight to build slaves, and Fang Liandong, who was so depressed, had already led four battalions of Shanxi "Red Banner Army" and ten guard troops with a total of 3 troops, crossing the Yellow River westward and taking Yan'an Mansion in one go. Three states and sixteen counties.

Unexpectedly, the people stationed there are so vulnerable. Gao Yingxiang, who thought he had the power to compete for the world, was slapped in the face by reality. He had to make a choice, whether to go north to stop the Fangdong Department from going south, or send troops to attack the Sichuan army to rescue the besieged Hanzhong?

After Li Zicheng received the retreat order from his father-in-law, he immediately retreated to Luoyang. At this time, Zhao Shisan had completely controlled the entire Luoyang city.

Jin Minghu was notified that the "Winged Tigers" were actively preparing for a counterattack.

Han Zi, who was organizing the crossing of the river, also learned of Zhao Shisan's plan, and he immediately issued an order to gather the cavalry who had already crossed the river to the north of Luoyang.

At that time, he will personally lead all the assembled cavalry to attack the rogues who have arrived outside Luoyang City, in response to Zhao Shisan's beheading action.

Li Zicheng was more cautious, he would not enter Luoyang City recklessly, and he would definitely bring his confidants with him.

Zhao Shisan's plan is very simple, as long as he finds that Li Zicheng has entered the city, he will immediately cut off the gate of the city and the gates in the urn to prevent the follow-up troops from entering the city, and prevent the troops who have passed through the urn from returning to the city, and then concentrate on killing Li Zicheng who is trapped in the urn. .

As long as Li Zicheng can be captured or beheaded on the spot, the morale of the rogue bandits will be severely damaged, and many leaders of the rogue bandits will be shaken.

The progress went smoothly. The cunning Li Zicheng did not lead the horse into the city first, but sent his confidant Liu Fangliang to lead the [-] old battalion cavalry into the city, and he led the Chinese army to follow closely behind.

When Li Zicheng had just passed through the city gate and Liu Fangliang's 3000 troops had just passed through the Wengcheng, two or 3000 people suddenly appeared on the city wall, hundreds of guns, small cannons, and thousands of firecrackers fired, and the heavy gate at the gate of the city suddenly fell.

"Behead Li Zicheng, go to the 'Red Banner Army' and have a bright future!"

"There is no future for being a thief. Sooner or later, you will die. Brothers, turn your back!"

The "Winged Tiger" department outside Luoyang shouted and rushed towards Li Zicheng's lineage who had been cut off by the Qianjin gate. Suddenly, the "Geliyan" and "Shetatian" gangsters were dumbfounded, and they didn't know how to deal with it for a while. .

"Crossing the sky" Liu Guoneng's reaction was not bad, he immediately raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers follow me, capture Li Zicheng, Tian Jianxiu, Hao Yaoqi and join the 'Red Banner Army'!"

There was a scuffle immediately outside the city, and the first reaction of too many rogue leaders was not to swing their knives desperately, but to lead the horse team to escape immediately, trying to leave this right and wrong place as soon as possible.

The reason why Zhao Shisan plotted against Li Zicheng himself was because the credit for beheading Li Zicheng was one of the first achievements in suppressing bandits.

It is possible that because of Huang Han's time travel, Li Zicheng, who was in Chongzhen for 13 years, was no longer as lucky as in history.

He has the highest status on the East Road, riding a tall horse like a star holding the moon, and his target is obvious. Zhao Shisan and Han Manzhi personally participated in the shooting. Thousands of blunderbusses, more than a dozen small cannons, and dozens of guns were aimed at Li Zicheng. This side says hello.

Xiaoqiang, who was unbeatable in history, was no longer strong. Even his men and horses were beaten with holes and died on the spot. Several confidant generals and more than a hundred guards around him were also affected by Chiyu.

The more than a thousand bandits trapped in the urn were unable to fight, but were massacred one-sidedly. After several rounds of gun attacks, the surviving bandits cried loudly without exception.

"Brothers, don't fight anymore, 'Chuang Jiang' has been killed, we surrender..."

The scuffle outside Luoyang didn't last too long, that's because Hanzi rushed to the battlefield in time with more than [-] "Red Banner Army" cavalry.

The disparity in strength, the "Red Banner Army" is really killing chickens with a sledgehammer, and the dust settles. No less than [-] rogues were captured, and less than [-] corpses were left on the battlefield. Most of them were Li Zicheng's direct descendants. .

Liu Fangliang, who was trapped in the city of Luoyang, took Li Zicheng's old battalion horse bandits who had worked hard for many years to resist stubbornly. However, after being caught in street fighting, the cavalry's advantage no longer existed, and the gunners of the "Winged Tiger" department took advantage.

In addition, Zhao Shisan cut off Li Zicheng's head and carried it on a bamboo pole, showing his identity as the "Red Banner Army" to persuade him to surrender, shaking some horse thieves, and the resistance of the rogues became weaker and weaker.

The last straw that broke the camel's back was that Liu Fangliang was shot dead by one of the few snipers of the "Winged Tigers". The more than 500 surviving veteran horse bandits had no choice but to surrender, knowing that they could not escape.

Pei Daneng and Sheng Yuhua led dozens of banner guards to sneak into Kaifeng City to contact the old subordinates who had been lurking in the early stage. The banner guards who broke into the rogues basically became officials and half-jobs, and they also instigated many rogues.

After Zhang Shouzhong led thousands of troops from the "winged tiger" department into Kaifeng, it only took three days to basically control the big city.

Therefore, the situation in Kaifeng is even better than that in Luoyang, which is equivalent to going down without a fight. Anyway, thousands of rogues have become prisoners.

The situation became clearer in the next few days. The main reason was, of course, that the 20 troops on the north bank of the Yellow River crossed the river one after another. There were 10,000 to 3 elite cavalry and [-]+ infantry in the Central Plains battlefield, including [-] people equipped with bicycles. confrontation?

Hanzi, Sun Chuanting, and Chen Qiyu learned that Li Zicheng, the leader of the East Road of Bandits, had been awarded the head, and they all thought that there would be no more important events in Henan.

Zhang Yang, Shang Keyi and other generals were left to assist Zhao Kun, Gu Rushan and other generals in clearing the remnants of the bandits in Henan. Hanzi, Sun Chuanting and other civil and military generals led [-] cavalry and [-] infantry through Tongguan to pursue Gao Yingxiang.

(End of this chapter)