Win the Ding 1617

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Before dawn, the snow had stopped.With the arrival of dawn, the clouds slowly dissipated, and the sun appeared in the east, as big as a wheel, as bright and dazzling as molten iron, slowly rising from the treetops, shining on the city and on the slopes of houses.There is a silvery light in the wilderness.

Looking east and north from the city of Kaifeng, there is boundless white snow, but within ten miles, there are peasant army flags and camps everywhere.The densely packed tents, shacks, and flags formed a large undulating wave.

In this white snow field, there are military camps here and there, and gray-white tents and temporary shacks are scattered in high and low places.Because there is a fire in the tent, the snow on the tent melts with it.The soldiers of the Peasant Army did not fully rest even when it was snowing.Especially in the northeast corner of the city, about five or six miles away from the city, there is a large area of ​​temples and houses, which are workshops for making arrows, trimming weapons and armor, and making gunpowder.The materials for making gunpowder were brought in from all over the world day and night.There are also dozens of milling pans, led by mules and donkeys, to crush willow charcoal into charcoal powder; many craftsmen and handymen are there "boom, boom" crushing ashes, and many people are sifting ashes with fine baskets , and sieve out a fine black powder.Some people added sulfur, nitrate and other things to willow ash according to the prescribed ratio to make gunpowder.A little farther away, cavalry squads patrolled the snow constantly.

Inside the temple, it serves as the temporary residence of Luo Hu and Wang Long.The two received the highest honor. Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai personally led the civil and military officials out of the camp for dozens of miles to meet them and arrange a camp for them.

Because of the return of Luo Hu and Wang Long.Let Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai suddenly have 10,000+ soldiers available out of thin air, and they are in a good mood.When Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai went to Qi County, Suizhou and other places where Longhuying was stationed to review it, they were even more delighted!

In Luo Rucai's opinion, those tribes and hungry people in Xiaoyuanying could not be regarded as elites, but they could still be used.As for the descendants of Wang Long and Luo Hu, Lao Luo praised them even more.Go out with 6000 troops.He brought more than 20 elites, not only well equipped, but also strong horses.Even Luo Rucai was able to defeat [-] people in Xiaoyuan's battalion in the First World War. Although Luo Rucai had always claimed to be good at field battles, he thought to himself that he did not have this ability.

"Uncle! You praised it out of spite!" Rao Wang Long had a thick skin, but after hearing his uncle's shameless praise.But it's also half polite.Half complacently humbled.

"You two don't need to be polite." Li Zicheng also said the same thing. "In the past few months, you have indeed done a very good job. Not only have you provided food and military supplies to the army, but you have also pulled out such an elite division. I think you have suffered a lot, suffered a lot, and experienced a lot. Things. Originally, the two of you came back victorious, and you defeated the Xiaoyuan camp in the east of our army, expanding our army's strength. I should have rewarded you two and all the soldiers for their good life. It's a pity that the military situation is urgent now. Otherwise, we should hold the candle Talk at night, talk for days and nights."

"Father commander. How is the situation in Kaifeng? I heard from Zhang Nai and Shuangxi that the siege of the city is not going well?" As a child who grew up next to Li Zicheng, Luo Hu is naturally one of Li Zicheng's adopted sons, and Zhang Nai who is in charge of the firearms camp. Like Li Shuangxi, who is in charge of the old camp's pro-army, they are all confidantes.

"Kaifeng has been the capital city for several generations. The city is high and the pools are deep. In addition, the soldiers and civilians in the city are fighting desperately under the supervision of various dog officials. It is expected that the siege of the city will not go smoothly!"

"King Chuang is right! Now tens of thousands of people in Kaifeng City have been bewitched by the officials, gentry and clan, and some kind of volunteer society has been established to organize the young and strong from all the villages to defend the city and resist my rebel army!"

"Uncle, what is the situation of the siege?"

The two commanders exchanged glances with each other and fell silent.

"It's not going well! The idea is a bit tricky!" Gao Yigong, the general of the Chinese army who broke into the camp, took up the topic, "The city has been besieged for dozens of days. With the food and gunpowder you keep donating, the army can still maintain it, and it won't be due to lack of food. Instead, go elsewhere. These days the cannons bombarded the city, the miners dug, and almost broke the city several times. It’s a pity that Chen Yongfu has been in battle for a long time, has rich experience, and his troops are relatively elite, so he failed in the end and failed.”

"That's right! Young commander, you don't know. If you hadn't solved the Xiaoyuan camp and stationed the army in Qi County and Suizhou, Zuo Liangyu's men had to go to Yingshan and Huoshan with their tails between their legs. Retreat, I'm afraid our rebel army will be attacked on both sides!"

Ji Gui, the counselor Cao Cao had been under for a long time, saw Wang Long's return with a strong army, so he had to flatter him, but he was telling the truth.When Zuo Liangyu learned that there were tens of thousands of strong soldiers in front of his army, he immediately turned back without hesitation and attacked in the direction of Yingshan and Huoshan.

"Hey! A mere Zuo Liangyu dares to offend our rebel army!" Almost in unison, Wang Long and Luo Hu expressed their contempt for Zuo Liangyu.It made everyone present a little surprised, the two little guys couldn't be so crazy?

"Father commander, I have been fighting against the Tartars in Shandong for the past few months, and by the way, I have learned a lot from Ning Yuanbo's army and horses. I have gained a lot of knowledge."

"That's right! Uncle! What do you think, the old Zuo's troops are better than the Liaodong Tartars?" Wang Long also curled his lips, expressing his disdain for Zuo Liangyu's so-called elite troops.

"How is the old Zuo's soldiers compared to the Guanning Army? How is it compared to the Tianxiong Army that Lu Xiang promoted to Master Lu?"

The mention of these three troops made the muscles on the faces of Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai, Gao Yigong and others twitch involuntarily.They don't know how effective the rebels in Liaodong are, but Lu Xiangsheng, Zu Kuan and others back then beat them to flight, chasing and killing them for hundreds of miles at every turn.

"The frontier army is elite, naturally it will be stronger than the old left's army." Luo Rucai laughed aloud, and wanted to change the topic.

"Uncle, if the Tianxiong Army or the Guan Ning Army are here again today, I will boast here. If my subordinates and Brother Luo Hu's Zhenshan Camp cannot be gathered and wiped out within a day, I am willing to accept the military law." Deal with it!"

After defeating the Xiaoyuan camp, Wang Long and Luo Hu separated the Longhu camp.The two each divided more than 1 soldiers and horses, and the mules and horses seized by the artillery materials were also half of the family.There are more than 1 elite soldiers in hand.Naturally speaking, he was very crazy, but it was also because he had elite soldiers and horses and military exploits in his hands that Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai's attention was easily paid to the two of them talking.

Luo Hu carefully compared the generals and the gentlemen: Guan Ningjun immediately turned into a pile of tofu dregs when he saw the Tartars, and collapsed in the wind.Although the Tianxiong army was better, they did not dare to stroke the tiger's whiskers easily.It can only be a tactic of making small counterattacks while defending.As for Zuo Liangyu, he has never had the experience of fighting the Tartars at all, so he has no combat effectiveness.It's even worse!

On the other hand, looking at the Ming court at this moment, the only army that can scare the Liao thieves is Uncle Ning Yuan's Nanyue Army.Being able to take the initiative to attack, whether it is infantry, cavalry, artillery, or firearms, can kill and injure countless Tartars!and.Still in the case of having fewer troops than the Tartars!

"Uncle. You may not be able to think of anything else for a while, but do you still remember the Beijing Camp Model Brigade we met in Sichuan?"

Wang Long's words made Luo Rucai almost tear off a few of his beards!How can you not remember?That formidable team defeated the thousands of elite cavalry of the Eighth King Zhang Xianzhong in one fell swoop. If his sons and generals hadn't met the opportunity quickly, the Eighth King would have been credited to someone else.

"Why don't you remember this?! I also read the mansion newspaper. This army horse went to Liaodong at this time, and it also beat the Tartars. There are many casualties. They are elite troops!"

Luo Hu and Wang Long had somewhat smug smiles on their faces, "Uncle, if we say that our army has surpassed that model brigade in the past few months, what do you think?"

Blinking her small eyes, Luo Rucai didn't care whether the nephew's words were wild words or truth.His calculating head is calculating rapidly.

He has personally experienced the combat effectiveness of the Model Brigade, so he generally believes that the reports in the mansion newspaper about the Model Brigade's success in the Liaodong battlefield are true.

As for the comparison between the combat effectiveness of the Model Brigade and Zuo Liangyu's army, an old friend not long ago also helped him do a forensic test.That was his old friend who committed suicide when he and Li Zicheng swept Wancheng and Ye County, and Liu Guoneng, who rebelled together back then.Although Liu Guoneng committed suicide by Hengjian, his subordinates were recruited by Chuang Cao's second camp. They are all fellow villagers in Shaanxi!Is there any knot that can't be solved?It is indispensable to talk with each other about wine and meat, and talk about what they have seen and heard when they have traveled far and wide.

Among them, there is the fight against the Nanyue Army in Wuqiao!According to these people, the old battalion had suffered heavy casualties in front of the Nanyue Army, and they were defeated in less than one face-to-face. The fighting power of the Nanyue Army is really brutal!

After a few comparisons and comparisons, Cao Cao's dark clouds were swept away!Originally!Zuo Liangyu's army may not be able to defeat the Guan Ning army. The Guan Ning army was defeated in front of the Tartars, but the Southern Guangdong Army was able to kill the Tartars by thousands of Jiala.The model brigade in Liaodong was nothing more than the anti-water troops of the Southern Guangdong Army. After learning one and a half moves, it became the backbone of the Liaodong army.Now I also have an army comparable to the model brigade in my hands, what am I afraid of Zuo Liangyu?

In fact, in the history we are familiar with, after Zuo Liangyu was torn to pieces by Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai during the battle of Zhuxian Town, the painted skin of the paper tiger was torn to pieces, and since then he has been devastated.Although forcibly recruiting strong men in Wuchang, the number of recruits and rebels has returned to the so-called 10 people, but the combat effectiveness of these 10 people is probably not as good as the tens of thousands in Pingxibo in Shanhaiguan.

You know, when he said that he went east to the side of the Qing emperor, it was Li Zicheng's Dashun army that had been greatly reduced in strength after repeated defeats in Shanhaiguan and Tongguan battles; but when such an army began to make a strategic shift to Hubei, Immediately, Zuo Liangyu was so frightened that General Zuo couldn't sit still in Wuchang.He robbed the ship to go east overnight, and died of illness on the way to the east.Whether he died of illness or was frightened to death, we don't know.

After his death, his son Zuo Menggeng and others surrendered to Dodo. Dodo inspected the millions of troops he left behind and found that only 3 of them were capable of fighting.This is done in the face of his meritorious service to the Qing Dynasty.

Those who were able to wipe out the Tartars by tens of thousands, and defeated several princes who rebels in Liaodong died and fled.Even if your army is not on the Liaodong battlefield, it has the same combat effectiveness as the model brigade.Our father is still afraid that Zuo Liangyu will do something stupid? !I'm afraid he won't come!

After making up his mind, Cao Cao clasped his fists and saluted Li Zicheng: "General Marshal, since we don't have to worry about Zuo Liangyu right now. With tens of thousands of fresh troops, if we don't take Kaifeng down, we will be sorry to God!"

Li Zicheng and Gao Yigong were also very happy.

Gao Yigong had already quietly asked Luo Hu just now, among his more than 1 people, nearly half of them are cavalry who can enter the standard of Xiaoqi, and the rest are also well-equipped with armor and weapons, and most of them have livestock riders.Of course, it is not necessarily a mule, a horse or a donkey.

What's more terrible.Among them, there are 800 firearms cavalry of the same color.These blunderbuss cavalry, who are good enough to be selected as the elite cavalry of the old battalion, are not only proficient in bow and horse, but also have a complete range of long and short weapons.In addition to the usual horse guns, the officers of each team also had refined double-barreled short-barreled guns, which made Hao Yaoqi and other generals drool dripping down.

In addition to seizing all kinds of materials on the tank boats that almost covered the surface of the Yellow River, hundreds of artillery pieces of various sizes were also seized.

These cannons.Most of them are obtained from smashing kilns all over Shandong.Most of them are guns under six pounds.Occasionally there are a few eight-pound guns and the Dafolang machine equipped by the Nanyue Army.Naturally, the uncles in the Beijing camp looked down on these rags, and everyone in the Southern Guangdong Army also felt that the performance was not uniform.It is to throw it away like a shoe.However, in the eyes of the peasant army who lacks heavy artillery, these are all treasures!

With so many artillery fires and soldiers and horses, the two commanders Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai naturally had to rearrange their forces.In addition to keeping Luo Hu's Zhenshan battalion in Qi County to guard against possible changes in the enemy's situation in the east, Wang Long's battalion was also placed in Linying, where food and grass were stockpiled and families were housed.In this way, both ways of things will be worry-free.

As for the hundreds of cannons that fell from the sky, although they ranged from the Great General to the Great Buddha Langji.But as long as it can pour bullets at the head of Kaifeng, it is a good thing.

In order to rearrange the firepower.Li Zicheng and Cao Cao led a group of generals to take advantage of the good weather after the wind and snow stopped, and rode their horses to measure the terrain around Kaifeng City and choose positions for the artillery team.

Along the way, dozens of generals from Chuang Cao's family chattered around Luo Hu and Wang Long, listening to them talk about their various experiences and experiences for several months.Everyone rode their horses and swung their whips to carefully look at the terrain around Kaifeng City.On the way, I passed Wangzhuangdian Village near the King's Garden in Yingcheng County. This is the place where the lottery players who broke into the camp gathered.The military doctors and doctors who broke into the camp diagnosed and treated the soldiers who died in the siege battle.

Shang Jiong, a military doctor who had been called an old god for a long time, led several apprentices to meet Li Zicheng and his party by the road at the entrance of the village.

"General Marshal, General, to be honest, I didn't come to welcome the two of you today. I came to welcome the two young generals on behalf of the battalion lottery winners." As a doctor, Shang Jiong naturally had the arrogance of a technician.However, his medical skills are superb, and the soldiers of the two families don't know how many people have been treated by him, so everyone laughed at his temper.At that moment, Li Zicheng made a few jokes with him, and Luo Rucai laughed even more.After some words, Luo Hu and Wang Long were called to the doctor.

Naturally, the doctor wouldn't make any gestures. His identity, his education, and his personality all determined that he just looked at the two of them admiringly, "You two little fellows are very happy." Good! The medicinal wine we got back is very effective in treating trauma, and at least sixty percent of our injured brothers can be cured."

The medicinal wine that the doctor said was actually the iodine that the two of them obtained from Jingying.In the era when there were no antibiotics, this thing was a great weapon against trauma to prevent festering and festering. The wound was disinfected with iodine, and then various cut and burn medicines were applied, and wrapped in gauze. The judgment of experience can be cured.

"You two boys, at least saved thousands of elite soldiers for the Generalissimo and the General."

The doctor's words made Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai and others smile. Soldiers who have been baptized in fierce battles and have been injured are far more elite than those who just trained on the playground.

Li Zicheng, together with Luo Rucai, Gao Yigong, Hao Yaoqi, Sun Shengzu, Luo Hu, Wang Long and other people, led their own soldiers and inspected a suitable place half a mile away from the moat near the north of Caomen.According to Luo Hu's words, both the placement and range of the artillery can meet the needs.

Ever since, the two men and horses went back to prepare separately, and they wanted to quietly gather the artillery captured by the two of Longhu here the next day, and build a position for the artillery team.

That night, Li Zicheng called Luo Hu to his tent for questioning.

Apart from Li Zicheng, those who participated in this interrogation were Liu Zongmin, Gao Yigong, and Li Guo.Even Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance, who were highly respected in the camp at this time, were unable to enter.

"I originally planned to have Mr. Li also come, but he went to Qi County to help you settle in the Zhenshan Camp, so he missed it." Li Guo spoke first.

"Little Huzi, you have really worked hard these past few months, and you have done a good job. King Chuang has already made plans. Your Zhenshan battalion will leave [-] cavalry and [-] infantry. The rest will be handed over to the old battalion for unified dispatch. Call it out for Brother Zhang Nai to command." Liu Zongmin stroked the short but hard beard on his face, and somewhat reluctantly conveyed to Luo Hu the decision to enter the camp.

"Yes! I would like to follow the Chuang Wang's military order." Luo Hu also heard some rumors from Li Shuangxi. Originally, Liu Zongmin planned to allocate at least half of the 1 people in the Zhenshan Camp to the other camps, but Li Zicheng stopped him. The reason is that if the tactics these people are used to are scattered among the battalions, they will probably be ruined.

"Little Huzi, you brought more than [-] horses to our camp, and scared away Zuo Liangyu, which relieved our worries. However, if the one from Shandong wants to go south according to the order, do you think we How to break into camp?"

After saying these words, Li Zicheng's eyes were fixed on Luo Hu. (To be continued..)