Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

If it is said that once the peasant rebel army entered Henan, Henan became the hardest-hit area of ​​banditry, then Nanyang Mansion at the junction of the three provinces was the hardest-hit area among the hardest-hit areas.

The peasant rebel army and the encircling and suppressing Ming army repeatedly passed and fought fiercely, making Nanyang Mansion completely out of control. Although no city has been broken so far, the government has completely lost control of the vast area outside the city.

And the power of role models is infinite. Seeing what the peasant rebel army did, the refugees in the countryside of Nanyang Prefecture immediately assembled into groups of rioters and rampaged in Nanyang Prefecture.It also imitated the model of the 36th Battalion and 72nd Battalion of the Shaanxi Peasant Rebel Army, and the bandit leaders in Nanyang Prefecture also formed an alliance - a small alliance.

Moreover, the gangsters in Nanyang Mansion are composed of a large number of Nanyang iron ore miners and convicted miners. Compared with the gangsters composed of peasants, these gangsters are more ferocious and have stronger combat effectiveness.

Therefore, after the main force of the Ming army who encircled and suppressed the peasant rebel army left Henan, the area of ​​activity of the small coalition became larger and larger, and their behavior became more and more arrogant.

At this time, in Nanyang Mansion, except for the two most northeastern counties, Ye County, where the Nanyang Legion was located, the Ming army in the rest of the area had only more than 2000 soldiers led by Nanyang General Sun Wei.

Most of the military households in Nanyangwei also fled and became bandits, and they must not be able to rely on them.Sun Wei's soldiers were actually in the early [-]s at most because they were short-paid.

Only by relying on these soldiers, at best, they can only defend Nanyang Fucheng.Faced with urgent calls for help from four counties, Sun Wei, who has self-knowledge, can only bury his head in the sand like an ostrich and turn a deaf ear.

Of course, the prefect of Nanyang and Sun Wei also took some actions. They sent letters to the Nanyang Legion in Ye County one after another, hoping that they would send troops to solve the crisis in Nanyang Prefecture.However, the Nanyang Army Corps used the reason that "Li Guerrilla led the main force to encircle and suppress, and the remaining troops can only guarantee the safety of Ye County".Kicked back the Nanyang magistrate and Sun Wei's request for help.

Therefore, the courage of the small association also began to grow. Like the tiger in Qianlu Jiqiong, they kept approaching the prefectural and county towns of Nanyang Prefecture to provoke, trying to find out the depth and depth of the donkey of the government.

But in the face of provocation, all the Ming army retreated in the city, allowing the small coalition to operate outside the city.Seeing no response from the government, and the fact that the settlements outside the city are richer than the wilderness after all, the small joint operation has really gained a lot, so their confidence began to burst.The fear of the government gradually turned into contempt.

If the situation continues like this, the small coalition may boldly attack the city. It may be difficult to attack Nanyang Prefecture, which is defended by soldiers, but it may be no problem to attack those counties with only a few hundred strong defenses. .

But at this moment, a sudden change disrupted the steps of the small joint venture.He Fei led [-] cavalry across Nanyang Mansion to meet Li Lu and Zhou Xun's troops.

Facing the established Ming army.Small associations certainly dare not stand in their way.And He Fei's cavalry was mainly there to respond, so apart from a few unlucky guys who were blind and blocked the way, He Fei's cavalry didn't kill a few people from the small alliance, and went across Nanyang Mansion without entanglement at all.

But the sudden military action of the Ming army made the small coalition battalion very nervous. They judged whether their actions had attracted the attention of the government, and the Ming army had sent out rescuers to encircle and suppress themselves.therefore.The small alliance dispatched a large number of spies in the direction where the Hefei cavalry left to inquire about the movements of the Ming army.

Sure enough, as expected, a Ming army of more than [-] came soon.Little Lianying didn't know that this was He Fei and Li Lu's troops rushing back to Ye County together. They thought that the Ming army was going to encircle and suppress their own bandits with all their strength.

The nature of the bandits determined that the small alliance would not fight recklessly with the Ming army that encircled and suppressed itself.They will adopt guerrilla warfare tactics where the enemy advances and we retreat, looking for areas where the government is weak.

The strange thing is that although the leaders of the small coalition are basically Nanyang natives, they don't know the relationship between the Nanyang Army and the Runing Army at all. They all think that this is the Ye County guerrilla Li Lu's army.However, the leaders of the small coalition can't be blamed too much. In fact, even the officials of the Ming court and the local government don't know the relationship between the two troops.

But after all, Li Lu once created the Great Victory in Ruzhou, and because of Li Lu's reputation, in the past, the small association did not dare to approach Ye County for activities.

But things are different now.At the juncture of life and death, I learned through local spies that the "famous general" Li Lu had gone out to suppress bandits again, so this time the small alliance boldly fled towards Ye County.

But after all, they were afraid of the Ming army led by the "famous general" Li Lu, so the escape route of the small coalition avoided Yexian County and the Luojia Town Camp of the Nanyang Army, and they came in the direction of Longyan Village.

It can be seen from this incident that sometimes it is not the enemy troops with military experience who are most annoying, because their military actions always follow military laws, so the actions of these enemy troops are also traceable.

As for the bandits without much military experience, their actions are completely arbitrary. If they are not careful, they may have some unexpected actions. If they are not prepared, they may be in the state of being beaten to death by random punches up.

At this time, Wu Shigong's Runing Army was in such a defenseless state.To be honest, the eyes of officials like Wu Shigong in the Runing Army are completely attracted by the peasant rebel army who escaped from the Chexiang Gorge, and they didn't notice the sudden action of the small coalition at all.

For the current Runing Army, although there are riots and bandits around their control area, they don't care about these moss itches at all.As long as those bandits don't provoke him, the Runing Army will not take the initiative to encircle and suppress them.Otherwise, if the Runing army felt threatened by the small coalition, they might have wiped out the small coalition as if it were a leopard head.

But it was this kind of dismissiveness that caught the Runing Army by surprise.When he learned that more than 3 bandits from the small joint battalion were approaching the Longan Village, which was defended by only more than 700 people, Wu Shigong was shocked. A regiment galloped to the rescue.

But it would take three days for the cavalry to arrive at Longan Village, so at this time Wu Shigong could only pray that the soldiers of Longan Village would hold on.But Wu Shigong didn't know that at this time, the two deputy commanders of the Nanyang Legion—Shu Mo and Chu Ge—were trapped in Longan Village.

On July 21, the seventh year of Chongzhen, after finally waiting for the sky to clear and the road to be dry for a few days, Shumo and Zuge brought the unique chariot team of the Nanyang Army to Longyan Village to test the tactics of chariots.

We already know that Longyan Village is a small basin surrounded by mountains.This small basin is about ten miles long and three or four miles wide, with a river passing through it, and its shape is like a cashew nut.Longyan Village and Congling Mountain Pass are the two ends of this small basin, guarding the way in and out of this small basin.

Because there is a river passing through this small basin, and because it is protected by the Runing Army near the Longan Village, the small basin has tens of thousands of mu of fertile land, making it one of the few places nearby that has not been affected by natural disasters in recent years.

And because the terrain in the small basin is flat, there are few people coming in and out and it is easy to hide, so Shumo and Zuge used it as a training ground for chariot training.

But just after Zug ran for a few laps with twenty chariots, the scouts hurried over to report: tens of thousands of bandits are coming towards this small basin, and they are only half a day away from Congling Mountain Pass the journey.

"Chu Fox, you go back to Luojia Town to host, I'm here!" After years of building fortifications and walls, Shumo is very confident in the defense of Longan Village.

"Fart! Running away, I can't afford to lose face!" Chu Ge sneered at Shumo's suggestion.

"What about Luojia Town?"

"Heads Xue and Zhang are in charge, and there are more than 1000 gentry servants in Ye County. There can't be big waves there."

"Okay! You can stay if you want. But let me tell you, you have to listen to me in this village. If you dare to disobey the military order, I will deal with your military law. I will definitely not be soft-hearted. Looking at your stuffed animal My hands are itchy for a head full of lard!" Shumo looked at Chuge's head and laughed "hehe" a few times, which made the guards around him a little creepy.

"Your brain is full of lard!" Chu Ge scolded loudly, "I know that with your reputation as a 'book turtle', it is absolutely no problem to hold on to Longyan Village. But do you think it is enough to hold on to it? ? They are bandits, as long as they bypass the Longan village and mess up our iron ore, saltpeter mine and iron workshop, won’t your lord skin us both?”

"Ah!?" Shumo turned pale with shock, "Don't we have a few hundred people still want to go out and fight those bandits?"

"It's not that we want field battles, but we definitely need field battles! It's just that those bandits can't break through the line of our Longan Village. And we want to beat those bandits so that they never dare to approach our territory of the Runing Army."

"You have lost your mind!" Shumo felt unbelievable, "Didn't you read the battle report of the Ruzhou battle? Our four infantry regiments faced more than 1 Shaanxi bandits, and we lost after one fight." We lost more than 700 people. Now we only have more than 700 people. In the face of tens of thousands of bandits, we only lost 300 to [-] people. Maybe our longan village will be lost!"

"So you don't understand." Zuge began to teach Shumo a lesson, "In the battle of Ruzhou, we fought timidly at the beginning, and then we were beaten up by the Shaanxi bandits, so our losses were so great. .So this time we have to strike first!"

"How is it a strong method? Hundreds of people go out to fight in the field, and at most two hundred firecrackers, how many people can be killed?"

"Then you don't understand. We have new weapons this time!" (To be continued...)