Daming wolf ride

After Cao Bianjiao led his troops straight to Zhangde, Dayong called Wu Heyin, who was in charge of the Military Intelligence Department, and scolded him bloody. It was not because of Cao Wenzhao's death, but because Wu Heyin had not accomplished enough and failed more than two years ago.Dayong told him to publicize that Mrs. Hong died at the hands of Dayong, but after three years, the world still only knew that Mrs. Hong died of illness, not that Mrs. Hong was killed by Dayong.In addition, the quality of the spies of the Military Intelligence Department is also seriously low. The intelligence on Donglu spying is limited to Niulu, and almost none of the high-level movements can be found out. A traitor that was finally cultivated.

In addition, in the sixth year of Chongzhen, Dayong asked the military intelligence department to pay more attention to the movements of the rogues, and recruited some spies among the rogues, so as to prepare for the suppression of the thieves in the future.For more than a year, Dayong has not received any effective information about the movements of the rogues from the Military Intelligence Department, except for learning about the movements of the rogues from the pond newspaper.

Before the army set off, Dayong deliberately asked the Military Intelligence Department about the latest actions of the bandits in the Central Plains. Wu Heyin patted his chest and said that the bandits did not dare to confront the officers and soldiers when they passed through the Chariot Gap. .Dayong believed it was true, and he was mentally prepared to chase the rogues for a long distance. For this reason, he didn't even bring artillery guards, just to be able to run faster than the rogues, but now the bad news came, the rogues could not only break through Fengyang , can also defeat the Northwest Iron Cavalry led by Cao Wenzhao in the field. How can this combat power run away when seeing the officers and soldiers far away!I'm afraid that going south to fight the thieves is not as simple as I imagined, but a bloody battle that is not like the battle of Dalinghe that year.

Wu Heyin was also very aggrieved after being scolded severely. He was originally a small pen sticker of Houjin. He had done nothing major except to run errands for his master. In the beginning, he wanted to survive and save his family. Dayong proposed a strategy to attack Shenyang, and also used his knowledge of the Eight Banners to propose a strategy of division and disintegration. Although the strategy did not work because of Dayong's massacre of the clan in Shenyang, it was still a good move, and he has always been proud of it.

Dayong also had high hopes for him, and he did not interfere with his taking Abatai's old lady into the house, appointing her as the chief of the newly-built military intelligence department, it can be said that he has a lot of trust, and he is also in power, which made Wu Heyin excited and happy.

Who would have thought that since Wu Heyin was ordered to form the Military Intelligence Department, Wu Heyin realized that it was too early for him to be complacent. Things were not what he thought at all, and he tried his best to make the Military Intelligence Department work effectively. The military flags were all defeated, and the spies sent to Shenyang were also smashed by Donglu, and the personnel losses were so heavy that no one in the Military Intelligence Department dared to go to Donglu to act as a spy.Spending money to buy off the Han people in Shenyang City didn't work. The fire in Shenyang City completely destroyed the image of the Ming army in Liaodong. Now the Han people in Donglu gnashed their teeth when they heard about the Ming army in southern Liaodong, as if they were irreconcilable Like revenge, it would be good if he didn't tell Donglu about his secret work, but why would he be willing to act as a spy for the Ming army.

In addition, Wu Heyin couldn't understand the things that Dayong told him at all, and he couldn't understand the real meaning of some new words that Dayong said. Won't.

After working for three years without success, he suffered heavy losses. Wu Heyin has long since lost face to continue working. He wanted to quit this job for a long time, but he was afraid that he would lose the foundation of his foothold in the Liaodong Army, and the wealth he obtained would disappear in smoke again, so he insisted. The scalp lasted until now.

After being scolded by Dayong, Wu Heyin realized that he couldn't go on like this, otherwise Shi Dayong might be happy with his own head one day, so he immediately knelt down and asked to resign, but he didn't want Dayong but didn't agree, so he just asked him to immediately resign with a cold face. Send people to investigate the westward route of the burglars Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Lao Huihui and others. You must give a letter this time, otherwise you will have nothing to do.

After Wu Heyin left with a stomach full of uneasiness and uneasiness, Dayong pondered for a while, and wrote a letter to summon his own guards, ordering it to be sent to Cao Bianjiao quickly.

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The death of Cao Wenzhao made Cao Bianjiao inexplicably sad and indignant. He lost his father since he was a child, but his uncle brought him up and brought him up in the army. Recommend your nephew to him.Before leaving, he even joked that I, Cao Clan, would like two tigers to shine together in the future, reflecting the sun and the moon together.

When he first heard the news of Cao Wenzhao's death in battle, Xiao Cao still didn't quite believe it. The uncle in his impression was good at fighting, and his troops were all elite cavalry. How can a mob of rogues kill him? But then the exact news came. , Cao Wenzhao died when he was outnumbered by tens of thousands of bandits.Immediately, Xiao Cao felt as if the sky had collapsed. After being stunned for more than ten seconds, he fell to his knees and cried loudly. The cry moved everyone who heard it, and everyone was sad. Sobbing, I went back to the account and wrote "General Cao Daming's Battle Against the Thieves" to express my condolences.

The death of Cao Wenzhao not only made Dayong, who was deeply saddened, change his decision to go south to Jianghuai, but also made him re-understand the fighting and organizational capabilities of the rogues.

In my impression, for the bandits in the Central Plains and Northwest, Dayong still stays at the level of bandits who can run and poor equipment. As long as they don't establish a base for a day, they will never be successful. Now it seems that the rogues are no longer rogues, they have truly become the opponents of the official army.

Dayong, who no longer had the intention of underestimating the enemy, immediately convened a military meeting and deployed a northward strategy.The key point of this strategy is to guard the mouth of the Yellow River and force the bandits to go north to Baoding or be trapped in the narrow areas of Zhending, Shunde, and Zhangde. .

Close the door and beat the dog!

This gate is the Mianchi ferry on the bank of the Yellow River, and the task of seizing the ferry was naturally handed over to the vengeful Xiao Cao.

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On the way to Zhangde, Xiao Cao's uncle Wen Zhao's face and voice appeared in Xiao Cao's mind from time to time. Every time he thought of his childhood, he couldn't help crying like Cao Bianjiao, but his heart was full of revenge, wishing he could Shred that bandit into thousands of pieces.

Starting from Guangde, it took only three days for Cao Bianjiao to lead his troops to Zhangde Mansion. After passing the mansion but not entering, he went straight to Mianchi, the ferry of the Yellow River.

The Yong newspaper said that after the northward bandits Yu Zhending besieged and killed Cao Wenzhao, they turned to the southwest, intending to cross the Yellow River and enter the Shangluo mountain area in southern Shaanxi to avoid the official army.

To the north of Zhending is Baoding Mansion. Since the fifth year of Chongzhen reign, the rogue soldiers entered Xishan to threaten Gyeonggi, and the imperial court strengthened Baoding's defense force.This is a dead end, and the rogues will definitely not take it, and what if they break through Baoding and reach the capital of Beijing? Could it be that the rogues can break through the capital with their current strength?

On that day, the Rongyang meeting of the thirteen families of the 36th Battalion of Rogues decided that Ge Liyan He Yilong and Zuojin Wang He Jin led their troops to attack the Huguang and Sichuan officials in the south; The troops of the headquarters blocked Hong Chengchou; Cao Cao Luo Rucai and Guo Tianxing Huideng led the troops of the headquarters to guard the Xingyang and Sishui areas to defend against the officials and troops of Kaifeng, Guide, Henan, and Ruzhou; Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang, Eight Great Kings Zhang Xianzhong, Sweeping King Zhang Yichuan and After breaking through the sky, Liu Guoneng led his men and horses to conquer Anhui in the south; Ma Shouying, an old man, and Guo Dacheng, a nine dragon, came and went to support him.

Ma Shouying and Guo Dacheng joined forces to kill Cao Cao, Luo Rucai, and Guo Tianxing Huideng after they besieged and killed Cao Wenzhao, and their momentum was as strong as Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong who went south to Jianghuai. After the death of Ai Wanlong and Cao Wenzhao They were all terrified and shrank one after another. Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces, was even more helpless. He didn't make any deployment for two months in a panic. , So scared that Baoding officers and soldiers almost did not abandon the city and fled.

The officers and soldiers are so soft-hearted, which naturally increases the momentum of the bandits. Ma Shouying always thinks that the siege of the officers and soldiers is over, and there is no need for everyone to run away. It is better to occupy the three prefectures and counties in northern Henan and live a happy life until the court really comes again. It is never too late for the army to run.His idea and Luo Rucai, who was greedy for beauty and pleasure, agreed with each other. At present, 13 rogues have really stagnated in the Zhending and Shunde areas, and none of the surrounding officers and soldiers dared to step forward.

After the rogue bandits from the Jianghuai side broke through Fengyang, Gao Yingxiang, under Li Zicheng's suggestion, believed that he must immediately march to the northwest, cross the Yellow River, break through the encirclement net of the government army, and take the troops to the Shangluo mountain area in southern Shaanxi to rest. Enter Xi'an, or cross the Yellow River again, use a large-scale run to drag down the encircled and suppressed Ming army, and then attack them again.

Since the uprising, the reason why they have been able to defeat the official army repeatedly is that the long-distance maneuvers dragged down the pursuing Ming army, or gathered heavy troops to counterattack the exhausted official army, or forced the official army to withdraw.Li Zicheng's proposal, Gao Yingxiang, naturally agrees very much. The capture of the central capital and the burning of the imperial tomb certainly boosted the momentum of the rebel army, but the court's more intense revenge followed. If you don't leave Fengyang and return to Shaanxi before the imperial army arrives, you may be killed It ended up like a carriage gorge last year.Unexpectedly, Zhang Xianzhong, the Eighth King, did not agree to return to Shaanxi with Gao Yingxiang, but led his own troops and left for Huguang without warning. Go to Sichuan to live a happy life.

Helpless, Gao Yingxiang had no choice but to send someone to contact Lao Hui and the others, planning to bring him to meet Lao Hui and them first, and then discuss.

On the court side, in view of the failure of Hong Chengchou's plan to suppress the bandits in June, and the officials and troops of the encircling and suppressing ministries being tossed about by the rogues, Chongzhen decided to use Lu Xiangsheng after being disappointed.

The young emperor was eager to use his heart, and despite the opposition of the Manchu Dynasty, he promoted Xunyang governor Lu Xiang to the right deputy capital censor and Huguang governor. , Huguang and other provincial military affairs, cooperated with Hong Chengchou to conquer and suppress.

Dayong shook his head immediately after seeing this appointment from the Tang newspaper. In this way, there are two high-ranking officials in the encirclement and suppression of the five provinces. May I ask who does the commander-in-chief listen to?Who do the governors and prime ministers of the five provinces listen to!The governor wants to go east, and the prime minister wants to go west, so what the hell is going east or west!

The emperor is really confused, isn't such an appointment the same as the bald head of later generations!

Dayong felt helpless, but fortunately Cao Bianjiao had seized the Mianchi Ferry, and when he led the main force to Anyang, he could stop Zhending and Shunde rogues fleeing south.

On the way to Anyang, he saw the dilapidated villages along the way, with ten rooms and nine empty houses. The people he met were all yellow and hungry, and they would fall to the ground and starve to death at any time. Dayong urgently ordered the refugee shelter envoy accompanying the army to distribute relief food and asked the victims Are you willing to go to Dengzhou? Those who are willing to go will arrange for someone to send them back, and those who are unwilling will be given a certain ration to go to Weihui.

When they arrived in Tangyin County, Qianfeng came to report that there was a village in front of them who had gathered for self-defense. From a distance, the guards on the walls of the village were all wearing white hats.