Traveler Major League

Chapter 78 Here Comes
At the beginning of August in the first year of Chongzhen, Yu Ting stood at the top of Chengcheng and watched the farmers below the city who were rushing to harvest wheat with a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it is finally completed now, and tomorrow I will completely abandon Chengcheng and move to Yijun County to join Wang Er and the others.

On the official road fifteen miles away from Chengcheng, a cavalryman with an arrow stuck in his back was frantically galloping towards Chengcheng.

The sound of "tick tick tick" came from behind, and a team of Ming army scouts also chased after him madly, and a cloud of smoke and dust was brought up where the horse team passed.

"嗖嗖" A burst of arrows flew from both sides of the cavalryman, and he was hit by several arrows. Before running a few steps, he and his horse fell into the dust, and the horses under him also suffered disasters. Arrows were shot in his buttocks and abdomen, and he lay on the ground and struggled a few times before he fell silent.

"Wow..." A Ming soldier reined in the reins, pulled the bit, and did not dismount when he got to the horse's corpse. He poked the corpse on the ground twice with his lance, and then jumped off the horse with confidence, searching from the horse's girdle and the corpse. After a few taels of silver, he picked up some valuable weapons, drew out his waist knife and cut off the head of the corpse, put it in the pouch, jumped up with one hand on the saddle, and whistled.

He shouted "Drive!" and then hurriedly chased the horse team.

A flag tip first appeared on the field behind him, and after a while, a long march of infantry marched to the battle site.

"Go, take that horse carcass apart, and eat meat at night!" Chief Sun Changxian pouted on the horse.

"Decree, let's go." Guo Shunwang led the lame man and the others pulled out their knives and walked towards the horse corpse. He is now the captain of Liu Yingyu's subordinate Sun Changxian in the first bureau of Shangluo Military Preparation Road in Shaanxi, and he is in charge. Among the eleven subordinates are Laizi and the others.

In front, there was a scout sentry sent by the Ming army cavalry strangling Wang Eryi's army first, followed by more than 400 elites in this round to open the way first, and Guo Shunwang followed with a smile on his face to guide the general ahead and behind him, full of the pleasure of revenge in his heart, Although he has not really captured the enemy, but for him, victory is already within sight.

If you want to say that the ones you hate the most should be the two brothers Yu Ting and Yu Chou who tortured him the most. After all, he spent a period of dark days in the prison in Chengcheng and almost lost his life, but the one Guo Shunwang wanted to kill the most The person is Liu Ze. He thinks that Liu Ze is the culprit of his tragic experience. It is Liu Ze who does not give them money and water. .

Guo Shunwang didn't have the slightest fear of future battles, because in his mind, bandits like Wang Er and Liu Ze were too weak to withstand the encirclement and suppression of the Ming army.

In this month's time, relying on what he, Laizi and others knew about the rebel army when they were in Chengcheng, there were only more than 6000 people under Wang Er's direct lineage, and most of them were mobs. There are very few of them, most of them are holding hoes and farming tools, or simply like Liu Ze's young and strong men who cut wood into soldiers.

With this level of armed forces, they can also rob big households and sneak attacks on remote counties. Once the real guns and real knives are confronted with the Ming army, among other things, it is his newly formed bureau with only more than 400 people The troops will be able to wipe them out.

In a normal county town, the three classes of yamen servants plus Min Zhuang, plus some country gentry's bravery, would not be able to defeat Wang Er in the county town.

No, news just came that Yijun County fell and was occupied by Liu Ze. The Ming army immediately became active and sent troops to retake Chengcheng that day. Except for Guo Shunwang's bureau, a battalion of 2000 troops led by Liu Yingyu was behind. Many people are also on the way.

Liu Ze is now leading the team to Shuangmiao, a hundred miles away. The team of nearly 3000 people stretched several miles away, like a long dragon passing through the mountain road. There are only the main battalion and some militia battalions here, as well as the family members of the army. Some soldiers from the militia battalion were sent by Liu Ze to various villages along the way to establish peasant associations and militia teams to expand their sphere of influence.

The destination is a small village that Liu Ze passed by when he came from Chengcheng. To be precise, it is a collection of several small villages. The valley below the mountain is Shuangmiao Village. The rivers intersect, namely the Dujia River and the Qianwazi River. There is a small village called Beiyazi behind the mountain, and a few miles away is a forest farm called Baichengqiao Village. There are giant trees on both sides of the mountain.

This is where Liu Ze chose the main base. According to his plan, all industrial workshops will be located here in the future. There is not only a rushing river to use, but also enough flat land, surrounded by mountains.

The future strategy is to take this main base as the center of the circle, gradually encroach on all the villages in the mountains, rivers, valleys and plains within a radius of [-] kilometers, and accumulate the strength of food and military sources. It is best to penetrate this vast area to trade outside, while the Ming army encircled At that time, these places can be used as a battlefield buffer zone, and the terrain can be used to deal with the Ming army, but to preserve and develop strength. After all, Liu Ze's various policies will be extremely hated by the landlords and gentry. Take Liu Ze as the key target.

But, as long as he can hold on, the other rebels will gradually attract the attention of the Ming army for Liu Ze.

The county government in Yijun County.

"Second brother, the grain transportation team sent by brother Yu Ting has arrived. It is the wheat that Chengcheng has just harvested. Yu Ting is worried that they will bring the rear team to our Yijun County tomorrow. They have finally survived the disaster." The fourth child He rushed into the back hall of the county yamen in a hurry, picked up the teapot in front of Wang Er's table and drank two mouthfuls, and then said with regret, "It's a pity that Liu Ze cut all the grain around Yijun County first, otherwise we would have done it too." There is no need to risk collecting food in Chengcheng."

Wang Er beckoned, and let the few civil servants in the hall who were forcibly recruited in Chengcheng leave, and then said: "When Brother Yu Ting comes, let's go to Fugu to have a look. Brother Wang Jiayin sent another letter today. I'm urging us to go to a partnership, take a look." Then he passed the letter in his hand to the fourth child.

The fourth child took it over and looked at it and said, "He's also short of food, and he can't afford it when we go. It's just that the counties are harvesting grain now, it seems that we have to go to other counties to grab grain."

"I'm afraid it's not easy to snatch it. The surrounding county towns have become more and more defensive in the past few days, and my people have lost two of them if they tried to sneak in." Wang Youyuan came over and patted his thigh very distressed.

Wang Er put away the letter and folded it, sat on the chair beside Wang Youyuan and sighed, these days are indeed not easy, the food has not been received much, the imperial court is still eyeing it, and even the sent out sentry sentry posts were suppressed Yes, I'm afraid the storm is about to come.

"Then wait for Brother Yu Ting to come to discuss it! Anyway, they will arrive in a few days, Brother Youyuan, take back your cavalry team, and go to Chengcheng to meet Brother Yu Ting's team."

"Well, I'm leaving overnight today!"

(End of this chapter)