The white porridge and pickled mustard is enough, why am I wearing a royal robe?

Chapter 127
There was a joyous atmosphere in Yanchuan City. The imperial court surrounded Yanchuan with heavy troops, but in the end they were defeated by the Stove King's divine fire, leaving large burn marks on the walls of Yanchuan City.

There were burnt corpses all around the city wall. The smell of the burning corpses made the militiamen who came to dispose of the corpses always vomit. Liu Zhenhua was a little lucky that he didn't use gold juice when he defended the city, otherwise the smell now would probably be enough. Floating all over Yanchuan City, it was probably the earliest biochemical weapon.

The messenger brought the good news to Yanchang, and everyone in Yanchang was full of joy. The court did not block Yanchang when they attacked Yanchuan, but they did not leave the city according to Liu Zhenhua's instructions. Now they finally got the good news.

The court was defeated.

This battle has expanded Liu Zhenhua's militia team. Counting the two thousand militiamen assigned by extension, the total number of militiamen now reaches as many as five thousand.

The number of heavenly soldiers is still hovering at nine hundred.

This siege made Liu Zhenhua realize that defending the city wall was not such a simple matter. If he hadn't suddenly had a sudden idea and wrapped it in straw quilts to make Molotov cocktails, the city wall might have been lost.

However, now that there are thousands of enemies, Liu Zhenhua is not afraid that the opponent will come to attack the city. The appearance of this kind of Molotov cocktail at this time is simply a dimensionality reduction attack. It is impossible for the opponent to seize the city by relying on the numerical advantage.

The sweet potato seedlings outside Yanchuan County and Yanchang County were not destroyed. It is estimated that the army did not want to destroy these fields when they set out. This is good news.

Just when Liu Zhenhua thought that the newly appointed governor of the three sides would at least not attack Yanchuan and Yanchang in a short period of time, Zhang Heizi, who was scouting for news from Yanchuan to Yan'an, brought bad news.

"Yan'an has sent troops again, no less than four thousand in number, but it seems that half of them have scattered equipment. They should be local warriors recruited. The opponent does not carry any siege equipment."

Liu Zhenhua was surprised. Less than three days after the last attack, the opponent sent troops again.

However, this time the opponent sent not many people, not even one-fifth of the last time. What's more, after Liu Zhenhua passed these three days, there were 40.00 more crossbowmen in the team - you must know the last time In the defensive battle, the crossbowmen shined. Almost [-]% of the kills were caused by these crossbowmen. Liu Zhenhua was not worried about the opponent attacking the city again.

What surprised Liu Zhenhua was that this time the court did not go straight to Yanchuan, but set up camp fifty miles between Yanchang and Yan'an. This confusing behavior left Liu Zhenhua puzzled.

He looked at the map in front of him. He saw that there was a distance of 130 miles between Yanchang and Yanchuan, and there were people from the imperial court stationed fifty miles to the west of Yanchang.

"What are you doing? Looking at me?"

After Liu Zhenhua thought about it for a while, he could only explain it this way. The opponent did not want to attack Yanchuan and Yanchang, but was preparing to watch him. From this position, if his Yanchuan and Yanchang made any moves, the opponent would be able to mobilize them immediately. Soldiers and horses respond.

Liu Zhenhua smiled, knowing that there was no hope of attacking the city, so he adopted a compromise method. Since we can't take the city, I will watch you and prevent you from plundering and developing.

"If you don't hit me, I'll hit you."

Liu Zhenhua stared at the marked location where the imperial court was stationed. There were only 4000 people on the other side, and Liu Zhenhua's heavenly soldiers and militiamen totaled [-].

"No wonder they are stationed between Yanchang County and Yan'an County."

Yan'an is a prefectural city. If the opponent sees Liu Zhenhua's troops coming out in full force, they will probably retreat directly to the prefectural city.

In this way, if Liu Zhenhua wanted to take action against the opponent, it would be difficult to achieve any results. Instead, he would be exhausted from running around. Liu Zhenhua took a look at the map.

Yanchang and Yanchuan have fallen into his hands, and he cannot send troops to Yan'an at the moment. Yan'an is a prefectural city. Liu Zhenhua has experienced the last battle to defend the city and already knows how difficult it is to attack the city.

The opponent is clearly saying, if I don't attack you, don't even think about attacking Yan'an. We are all from south to north. If you want to attack us, you can just send troops from the side.

"What about the east side?"

Liu Zhenhua moved his eyes on the map and looked east. To the east of Yanchuan County, across the Yellow River, Yonghe County and Shilou County faced each other. And most importantly, after crossing the Yellow River, it was the territory of Shanxi Province.

"It seems that I will also learn from those rebels."

At the beginning of the uprising in Shaanxi, the most favorite thing for the rebels in Shaanxi was to move across provinces. As long as the court sent troops to chase them, they would run away if they couldn't beat them. When they were tired of running, they would just cross provinces. At this time, the pursuers often Will just give up.

At present, Liu Zhenhua sees that it is difficult to make big moves in the three directions of north, south and west, so he can only go east.

"Geng Ruqi, Geng Zhangguang," Liu Zhenhua paced, thinking of the people he met that day. The sword in his hand was given by Geng Zhangguang.

His father is the governor of Shanxi. If Liu Zhenhua were to fight him, Geng Ruqi would definitely know about such a big matter. "Maybe we can still encounter him."

"If you go to Shanxi"

Liu Zhenhua thought for a while, and since the other party wanted to watch him, he would just pretend to be a clear sign and send troops to the west. If the other party wanted to follow Liu Zhenhua's ass to support Shanxi, that would be the stupidest move.

By the time those people went around to support Liu Zhenhua's team, it was already too late. Liu Zhenhua had already captured two counties and circled back to attack them.

If the opponent directly attacks Yanchuan, Liu Zhenhua can directly turn around and attack from a flank.

Liu Zhenhua summoned all the officials from the Tianbing platoon and above and decided to train the militiamen for a week after four days of training. After the most basic formation was established, the troops were divided into three groups. Yang Lichao led the way with 650 Tianbing troops and [-] new militiamen. , just stay behind in Yanchang, what are you doing - observe the enemy's movements between Yan'an and Yanchang.

At present, Liu Zhenhua's two waves of soldiers and horses, more than 2000 militiamen are extending, and another [-] relatively new militiamen and [-] heavenly soldiers are all in Yanchuan.

As soon as there is any movement in Yanchang, it will be discovered immediately, and the news from Yanchuan will also reach the ears of Governor Yang He.

The other side will definitely make some move, either taking advantage of Yanchuan's extended military strength to capture the two cities, or chasing Liu Zhenhua's ass to the Shaanxi border. If the other side has smart people, they can use fast horses to go to Shanxi to contact Geng Ruqi. The generals of both sides If he were more decisive and directly attacked Liu Zhenhua from both front and back, Liu Zhenhua would be in danger.

However, the above situation is basically impossible to occur. Yang He does not have the ability to make such a decisive decision.

No matter how you look at it, the men and horses sent out to stare at the four thousand soldiers are very important.

In the other two routes, Ren Hongli led a thousand militiamen and cooperated with 120 crossbowmen to go straight to Yonghe County, while Zhao Shitong led another thousand militiamen to Shilou County.

These are the two counties closest to Yanchuan.

Hearing that there was a battle to be fought, the three thousand new militiamen trained harder and harder. They would rather be heavenly soldiers than emperor. This sentence was deeply imprinted in their ears. If you kill three people, you will be heavenly soldiers.

This is almost an iron rice bowl, no, a golden rice bowl.

At present, the governor sent by the imperial court is a loser and is still promoting the plan of "peaceful recruitment". Liu Zhenhua has enough time to develop before the other party is replaced.

Both the Ming Dynasty and Emperor Chongzhen were attracted to the Jinzhou area. Emperor Chongzhen was even more excited about Yuan Chonghuan's words of "planning for five years and the entire Liao can be restored." As long as the governor here is still there, Liu Zhenhua does not need to worry about attracting any attention. Ning Tieqi's trampling.Liu Zhenhua was not idle here, Yang He, and even Wang Jiayin and Gao Yingxiang were not idle, they were all doing their own things.

Wang Jiayin aside, Gao Yingxiang was a very ruthless man. In the history of the Ming Dynasty, this man fought with the four generals of the late Ming Dynasty for seven years. The Ming Dynasty encircled and suppressed him for seven years, but without success. Instead, he was allowed to go from a small force at the beginning to 20 million people at the back.

He even has elite heavy armor troops. He himself is good at volley shooting, so naturally his cavalry can't be treated badly. One person has two horses, each person has heavy armor. It is almost a copycat version of Guan Ning's cavalry.

Gao Yingxiang, who has not grown up yet, gave Wang Jiayin a suggestion that Wang Jiayin agreed with very much, "Wang Tou, the Kitchen King is powerful and making trouble in Yan'an has attracted the attention of the court. Why don't we make trouble near Yulin."

"Since Yulin is far away from Yanchuan, even if the Kitchen King's power expands northward in the future, we will have enough time to react and avoid him."

"Secondly, Yulin is close to Shanxi. If the court goes crazy, we can cross the province and get rid of the Ming army."

Wang Jiayin thought it was feasible and accepted his suggestion. After all, he started the uprising in Fugu County, Yulin City, and now he has come back to where he started. How can this not be considered a kind of fate?

"The Stove King has crossbows and arrows under his command. I see that some of the people guarding the city are wearing armor, and most of the weapons they hold are neat iron sticks. I think we should also train our own elite subordinates," Gao Yingxiang said from this time I learned a lot from the siege battle.

He was deeply aware of the gap between his team and Kitchen King's team, not just the defense of the city, not just the burning ball of cotton.

In other respects, Gao Yingxiang felt that if they met Kitchen King's team on the plains, they would probably not be opponents.

The Stove King had quite a few crossbowmen, hundreds of them, which was enough for them to suffer a lot of losses.

Not just the crossbowmen, but the militiamen were holding iron sticks that looked thin but were actually very strong, stronger than iron tools. When the hatchets touched the stick, they were almost shaken away.

The banging sound can be heard. The composition of the stick is probably stronger than some heavy armor. They don't know where the Kitchen King got that kind of stick. Although the weapons of his soldiers do not necessarily use those sticks, But at least it cannot be the inferior hatchet it is now.

"What Brother Gao said makes sense," Wang Jiayin nodded. He would use part of the plundered silver as soldiers' equipment in the future.

No one who fights without a weapon is handy.

At this time, Yang He was still recruiting troops and mobilizing troops. A few days ago, nearly 2 people attacked Yanchuan County with great vigor. Although they did not defeat the enemy, it was enough to scare the little rebels around him.

Yizhangqing, Dihuhu, Hunjianglong, etc., these relatively small thieves with no reputation, all accepted Yang He's recruitment. Yang He still followed the old routine and issued death-free documents to these people. He placed them in Yansui and Hequ areas.

After all, the last battle had made Yang He realize that it was okay for these rebels to attack their Ming soldiers and plunder everywhere. If they were allowed to fight themselves, they would flee as long as the situation was slightly wrong, and they would also resist his policy of recruiting soldiers. , so Yang He took this resettlement measure.

After Yi Zhangqing, Luo Dihu, and Hun Jianglong came to Yansui and Hequ, they changed from being bandits to possessing death-free documents from the imperial court, and the governors of the three sides personally placed them here. Can they not swell?They were equivalent to bandits with official status, so they let themselves go and robbed crazily in these two places, committing all kinds of crimes. The local officials did not dare to take care of them and could only watch.

The people were already living a miserable life. They were hungry and had to be plundered by these people, so they began to flee one after another.

"Report to the Governor! The Stove King's soldiers and horses have made some movement again!"

Yang He sat behind the desk and frowned when he heard this sentence, "Is it another troop movement between Yanchuan and Yanchang?"

In recent days, you can always hear the news, "The Kitchen King's soldiers and horses came out of Yanchuan and went to Yanchuan." '

They immediately organized their army, and if Kitchen King's troops wanted to extend their troops, they were ready to fight. Although Kitchen King's "weird burning" thing was very useful in defense, Yang He would definitely lose it in a fight. The Kitchen King didn't dare to use it, after all, the thing burned indiscriminately between friend and foe.

When fighting outside, Yang He is not afraid of the Kitchen King.

Who knows, the other party just put Yanchuan troops in Yanchang.

"Is it possible that I am afraid that I will lead my troops to attack and extend the attack?"

Yang He only had this idea at the time, and soon there was news.

"The Stove King's troops have been sent out to Yanchuan! They are heading to Yanchuan!"

Yang He didn't take it seriously. He probably saw that he didn't attack Yanchang and went back. As long as the Stove King didn't go to other places in Huohuo, Yang He didn't plan to take care of it. He would wait until all the bandits around him were dealt with before fighting for the troops to seize the city. At the very least, more archers and siege equipment should be prepared.

"No, Governor, this time the Kitchen King's troops in Yanchang were divided into two groups and headed for Shandong! They are probably crossing the Yellow River now!"

The reporter below said with great emotion.

These words made Yang He stand up directly and said with an angry face: "We are about to cross the river! Why did you tell me now!"

The person who brought the report felt aggrieved and said, "Governor, I have been working hard since I heard the news!"

No matter how fast he is, he can't stop Yanchuan from being too close to the Yellow River, and Yanchuan is not close to Yan'an!

What can he do.

Yang He walked out from behind the desk and immediately realized that this was good news. The Kitchen King was so bold that even if he left the city, you divided your forces into two groups!
In this way, wouldn't it mean that Yanchuan is empty, and even Yanchang's troops may be insufficient? After all, the Kitchen King only has so many troops.

They can choose to extend the advance!
Soon, Hong Chengchou, Du Wenhuan and other officials got the news.

"Governor, I think it is better to take Yanchuan directly instead of prolonging the advance!"

"Yancuan is where the Kitchen King made his fortune, and the city wall of Yanchuan is taller than Yanchang."

"By taking Yanchuan, the Kitchen King's troops and horses will be divided. If the Kitchen King's troops and horses in Yanchuan are out, the three points cannot be connected. We can defeat them one by one!"

Du Wenhuan saw the key at a glance. Taking Yanchuan had many benefits, but it was fatal to the Kitchen King. This was a perfect opportunity to eliminate the Kitchen King. After passing this village, there would be no such store.

"The lower official also thinks that it is much better to capture Yanchuan than to capture Yanchang."

Although Hong Chengchou is currently a civilian official participating in politics, he also has an excellent strategic vision.

Both of them gave suggestions. Yang He stroked his beard and made a decision after thinking for a while, "Send troops to Yanchuan! Bypass Yanchuan!"

(End of this chapter)