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Chapter 229: Giving up money to survive, women’s issues

After coming back to his senses, Luo Rucai no longer cared about being angry.

He ran down from the lookout car and shouted: "Hurry! Guard the camp gate to the death, and we must not let the enemy attack!"

After seeing the defeat of the three thousand cavalry led by Wang Long, Luo Rucai's first thought was to escape.

But thinking about the more than 100 beautiful concubines in the old camp, as well as the grain, gold, silver and jewelry seized from the Tang Palace, he couldn't bear to part with them.

In addition, it may not be possible to escape from this situation.

So he carried a waist knife and personally participated in the defense.

"The fence of the old camp is strong and the enemy cannot rush in for a while. As long as we hold on until dawn, King Chuang will definitely send troops to support us!"

The remaining 2000 people in the old camp are all loyal to Luo Rucai and are capable soldiers in every battle.After such a long time of preparation, everyone was wearing helmets and armor, and even more than 100 squatting tiger cannons were set up.

A few of these tiger squatting cannons were seized from Xichuan, and most of them were seized from Nanyang City.

Luo Rucai's camp even had dozens of general cannons and large and small Franchise machines captured from Nanyang City, but it was a pity that they could not be put to use at this time.

I saw a large group of rebel soldiers rushing towards the old camp driven by the Kuei cavalry. The gunners in the camp fired the Crouching Tiger Cannon without hesitation.

These tiger crouching cannons were not fired uniformly, but they still killed and injured a large number of the soldiers rushing to the camp in an instant!

Even the Shengjie Guards hiding among them suffered several casualties.

Upon seeing this, Li Dingguo realized that Luo Rucai's old camp was harder to fight than he expected, and he didn't know how many people there were in it.

They simply ordered to abandon the attack on Luo Rucai's old camp and attack the Nanda camp instead...
At dawn, Li Zicheng led more than [-] cavalry to come to the rescue. Only then did Shen Wandeng and Li Dingguo lead the Yibu rebels to withdraw.

Two of Luo Rucai's four major battalions of the Chinese army were defeated. The cavalry commander (nephew) Wang Long was seriously injured. Luo Dai (former Ming Shaanxi military general) was shot dead by Li Dingguo with an arrow.

Most of the two or three thousand cavalrymen who fled from the old camp came back, but the Chinese army lost nearly a quarter of their troops, and the more than 2 scattered soldiers in the outer camp were dying and running away overnight. The space is almost gone!

Luo Rucai rode on horseback to patrol the camps. Seeing the miserable conditions in each camp, he felt like crying.

At this time, Li Zicheng came with thousands of cavalry, which made Luo Rucai nervous again, and the camp even became chaotic again.

Fortunately, Li Zicheng did not take the opportunity to charge into the camp with his cavalry.

A Chuang army cavalry entered Luo Rucai's camp and sent a message, "General Luo, King Chuang wants you to come over and have a chat."

Luo Rucai saw that Li Zicheng did not take the opportunity to rush to the camp, but he felt relieved, so he led more than a thousand horsemen to meet him.

Seeing Li Zicheng, he couldn't help but said: "We didn't send troops to support me last night, but they came quickly this morning. Do you want to see me make a joke?"

Li Zicheng frowned and said, "The enemy's situation was unclear last night, and my cavalry is not good at night fighting. How can we support them?"

Luo Rucai actually knew that Li Zicheng could not support him at night, so he did not continue the conversation and asked, "What are you doing here now?"

Li Zicheng said: "Well, we are about to break camp and leave. I came to inform you. You'd better be smart and break camp as soon as possible - Liu's night attack is successful, and he will definitely send a large army to chase him."

After speaking, Li Zicheng immediately left with the cavalry.

He had already given the order to break camp when he came. Now he went back and had breakfast, just in time to set off.

Li Zicheng did not choose to annex Luo Rucai at this time, not because he did not want to take advantage of others' danger.

Instead, he speculated that the Yi army might be chasing him soon. If he was fighting with Luo Rucai at that time, it would be over.

It would be better to take Luo Rucai to Henan Mansion and look for an opportunity to swallow him whole!

Li Zicheng's reminder greatly increased Luo Rucai's sense of crisis, and ordered the entire army to step up the packing and break camp as soon as possible.

At the same time, don't forget to send exploration horses to the east.

Unexpectedly, not long after Tan Ma was sent out, he came back to report urgently.

"General, our troops have deployed many scouting horses three miles away. We can't detect anything farther away."

After hearing this, Luo Rucai felt even more critical and cursed: "Grandma, that guy named Liu is targeting his forehead, right?"

After thinking for a while, he said: "Instruct all ministries to clean up quickly and send people to throw away some low-value property.

Some food was also lost, as well as the general cannons and Franchise machines, which were all so heavy that they slowed down the marching speed so much that they were all lost!

No matter how prepared we are, we will set off immediately after two quarters of an hour without delay! "

Under Luo Rucai's strict order, more than two-quarters of an hour later, the troops finally set off to march westward, leaving behind materials scattered all over the ground.

There are even some women - this time, in order to set an example, Luo Rucai ruthlessly abandoned half of his beautiful concubines, and his subordinates could only reluctantly abandon most of their concubines, leaving only one or two caring ones by their side.

more than an hour later.

Liu Sheng led the Guards and three regiments of standing troops to come here.

Shen Wandeng and Li Dingguo have already led several battalions of cavalry over. They have not touched the money, food and other materials here, but only left a group of knights to guard them.

As for the more than 100 beauties abandoned by Luo Rucai's tribe, they were also gathered together at this time, and they were extremely scared.

Liu Sheng rode around the abandoned camp and said: "Clean the camp and recycle usable materials.

In addition, an order was sent to Shen Wandeng and Li Dingguo, telling them to send a battalion of cavalry to keep an eye on Li and Luo's troops, and the remaining people would wait for us to meet outside Zhenping County. "

"As ordered!"

Luo Rucai was forced to leave behind so much money, food and other supplies, even artillery pieces, and beautiful women, which shows that she was really forced to do something desperate.The more things they lost, the faster they walked, and it was difficult for the main infantry led by Liu Sheng to catch up.

In addition, as the supply line of Weibei was lengthened, Li and Luo were likely to deploy cavalry specifically to attack the supply line of Weibei, and even touch the buttocks of the main force of Weibei.

Further west, after passing through Zhenping and Neixiang, we entered the mountains. Those who pursued could easily be ambushed from the front.

Although Liu Sheng is now very confident in the combat effectiveness of the Yibu rebels, there is no guarantee that they will not suffer losses.

In the end, Luo Rucai's troops lost more than 2 people last night, most of whom fled to the surrounding abandoned villages. If left alone, they would soon become bandits, which would also threaten the supply lines of the Yibu rebels.

Therefore, Liu Sheng planned to stop the pursuit outside Zhenping County and take Zhenping County by the way.

More than 1 people took action together, and Luo Rucai's camp was quickly cleared.

Li Guofan and Bai Yu, military and political officers of the Guards Corps, came together to report the statistical results to Liu Sheng.

"Reporting to the Commander-in-Chief, we found more than 300 stones of various miscellaneous grains in the Luo bandit camp, more than 400 pieces of various kinds of cloth, more than [-] guan of various kinds of copper coins, and more than [-] taels of silver. "

"Eleven general cannons and French machine guns were also found in the camp. In addition, there were some abandoned carriage frames and the carcasses of hundreds of mules, horses and other livestock. Other than that, there were not many valuable materials."

After Li Guofan and Bai Yu finished reporting one after another, they handed over the statistics booklet.

Liu Sheng flipped through it and couldn't help but shake his head, "This Luo Rucai, he threw away more than 1 shi of grains, but only more than 5000 taels of silver. It's really ridiculous."

Bai Yu said: "Perhaps the Luo thieves looted a lot of grain from Nanyang, and these more than 1 stones of miscellaneous grains are nothing."

In fact, Liu Sheng was also curious about how much grain Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai got from Nanyang City—mainly how much grain they got from the Tang Palace.

Due to the rush of time, he had no time to send people into Nanyang City yesterday to investigate the specific situation inside.

Until now, even the life and death of Tang Wang Zhu Yurong's family are not known.

But according to Li Zicheng's habit, the whole family should have fun.

Of course Liu Sheng would not pity the Ming vassal kings, he just felt pity for the money and food...

At noon, Liu Sheng led his army to the outside of Zhenping County.

Xun Liangchen, the magistrate of Zhenping County, opened the gate and dedicated the city.

Liu Sheng left a standing military camp in Zhenping, ordering the public trials of corrupt officials, evil gentry and bullies in the city as usual, and training of civilian bravery.

He led the army back to Nanyang City.

At the same time, he sent Li Rongguang to lead a battalion of knights to investigate the situation in Xichuan.

In Neixiang, Li Dingguo can find out if he stops by.

Although Yan Ermei and Liu Huan (Liu Zhenshi) both believed that Xichuan and Neixiang were likely to have few people harmed by the rogue bandits, Liu Sheng felt that it would be better to send someone to have an on-the-spot investigation so that they could have a better idea.

It doesn't mean that there are no people in these two places so we don't need them, but we can wait for a while before sending troops to garrison them.

When Liu Sheng returned to the outskirts of Nanyang, it was already dark.

Bodies have not been cleared out from many places in the city, and the stench is already filling the air on this hot day. A plague may even have broken out.Therefore, the Yibu rebels, like Li and Luo before them, chose to camp outside the city.

After Liu Sheng had dinner, washed up a little, he sent someone to call Chen Heng over.

Today he led the main force to chase Li Luo's Second Division, leaving only the Nanyang Guard Corps here.It was not to defend the city, but to organize the people to clean up and burn the corpses, and to count how many people were alive in the city.

Chen Heng came over, saluted, and then said: "Reporting to the commander-in-chief, the people in the city still don't trust us very much.

Today's porridge relief operation only attracted more than 1 people, mostly the elderly, weak, and children. There must be many people hiding in the city.

In addition, we also found Yao Yunxi, the magistrate of Nanyang County in the Ming Dynasty, who was hiding in the city. It is said that after the city fell, he led the rural soldiers to fight with the enemy in the streets. After being injured, he hid in the cellar of a residence.

When the man was carried out, half of his life was gone, but he was saved by the army doctors. "

"How is the official reputation?"

Chen Heng thought about the evaluation of the people in Nanyang and said: "It's acceptable."

"Then let him nurse the wounded soldiers first, and then we can talk about it after he recovers from his injuries. But is there anything else?"

Chen Heng hesitated and said: "Today, 120 and three women committed suicide."

"Suicide?" Liu Sheng was stunned for a moment, then suddenly said: "But those women who were raped and humiliated?"

"Yes."

"Didn't you tell them? It's good to be able to survive in these troubled times. Why should you commit suicide because of losing your virginity?"

"The general said, some people can listen, but most people don't seem to be able to listen - some women returned to the city and committed suicide after hearing some gossip."

"It's really fucked." Liu Sheng cursed, not knowing who he was scolding, and immediately said: "Go do some ideological work for those women and tell them that our department can help them move elsewhere.

No one there will know their past, let alone such gossip, and they can start a new life. "

There was a serious imbalance of yin and yang in the major camps in the North American army. Since these poor women could not survive in their hometown, they just migrated to North America to solve their personal problems for the advanced members of the army.

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(End of this chapter)