Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

"Yellow head! You said we can stop the bandits with just these children?" asked one of Huang Qifa's subordinates in a low voice.

After Huang Qifa surrendered to Wu Shigong, most of them passed the military assessment of the Runing Army after a period of training.And half a year ago, Wu Shigong transferred all these sixty or seventy people to become the instructors of the boy camp.

In fact, the reason is also very simple.This time in the Runing Army boy camp, a large number of male orphans were trained in the direction of navy soldiers.Especially those students aged 16 to [-] are all trained by the navy.

And Huang Qifa, the defectors of Dongjiang Town, all had experience in fighting on warships and on land, so they naturally became the instructors of the boy camp.

Of course, he left the front-line combat troops and came to the boy camp to become the king of children.Huang inspired these people to always feel a sense of loss after being excluded.However, when they became instructors, they were all promoted to a higher level, so from an economic point of view, they can also make up for their loss.

But this time because of the critical situation, the older teenagers from the boy camp were also dispatched. Although they also had their own cadet officers, they were still under the command of Huang Qifa as usual.

"During the time we have been here, the Runing Army has not treated us badly. My old Huang is planning to stay here for the rest of his life." Huang Qifa said with a long sigh, "I thought that there would be such a day sooner or later, my lord will Take us back to Liaodong, as long as I can sweep the graves in front of my parents' graves once, my old Huang will have no regrets in this life. I didn't expect so many Shaanxi thieves to come this time!"

Huang Qifa stood up, walked up to a boy from the nearby boy camp and patted his head, and then shouted: "There is nothing to say, when the war comes, you old brothers will stand with Lao Huang and me." First row. If we don't fall down. The dolls are hurt, we'll all be sleeping in coffins on our stomachs!"

The instructors around Huang Qifa also laughed.They also shouted loudly: "Okay! We all listen to Brother Huang. Dolls! Open your eyes and take a good look at our demeanor!"

The young man beside Huang Qifa raised his head, opened his eyes wide and said seriously: "Instructor Huang! We have said in the precepts of our boy camp: We are all the personal guards around the adults. So we will never give Huang Instructor You are ashamed."

Huang Qifa immediately laughed out loud. He patted the boy on the shoulder and asked, "Instructor Huang was very cruel to you before. Do you remember hating me?"

Huang inspired the training of these people, which must have left some bad ethos of the Ming army, so when the students of the boy camp did not finish their training, they often punched and kicked and did some physical punishment.

"No!" The boy denied it flatly.Then he hesitated and said. "We also know that Instructor Huang is doing it for our own good, but we are all afraid of seeing him." After finishing speaking, the boy smiled sheepishly.

Huang Qifa also laughed out loud.He raised his head and ordered loudly: "Children, have fun! Sing a few more songs to Instructor Huang!"

Suddenly, there was a burst of singing in the camp of Boy Camp.

From a distance, I heard singing from the camp of the boy camp.Xue Yongli smiled to his side: "Those dolls have good morale!"

The head of the militia group beside Xue Yongli also smiled and said: "It was good when Captain Tao led the boy camp. But now these dolls in the boy camp are too young. Is it appropriate to bring them out? Will it be Pulling out the seedlings to help them grow?"

"No problem!" Xue Yongli shook his head with a smile. "Bringing them out is a big move. Let those babies experience how to fight. This wolf cub will not grow up if he stays with the old wolf all the time."

"Besides, this time we may not fight the Shan bandits. When the Shan bandits show up, we will ignite the gunpowder placed on the ice and blast the ice on the river so that the Shan bandits cannot cross the river. In the future Just blow it up once in a while, unless those Shaanxi bandits are willing to fill the river with corpses, otherwise. They can't get through."

"But what if they rushed over regardless of casualties?" The discussion in the Runing Army before the battle was relatively democratic, and everyone could raise their own objections. Of course, during the war, they must strictly implement the battle plan.So at this time, regiment leader Qi objected, "The river is not wide at all. If the Shan bandits are ruthless, they will be able to cross the river as long as they drop two or three thousand casualties."

"Then give them another hard meal and then retreat!" Xue Yongli had already made up his mind about this issue, "Let the Shaanxi thieves lose another one or two thousand. Then we will withdraw to the camp and wait for the Shaanxi thieves. The thieves are attacking!"

"Didn't Mr. Deng ask you to stay here for three days? It's not good for you to leave like this!" Head Qi asked again.

"It's nothing bad. Think about it! Since the Shaanxi bandits are going to cross the Shenshui River regardless of casualties, their target must be Fucheng and our camp. If this is the case, then we must be prepared to defend the city for a long time. Therefore, in a field battle with the Shaanxi bandits here, consuming our own strength is the next best strategy. Instead, relying on the strength of the city, killing a large number of Shaanxi bandits is the best choice. As long as my uncle returns with an army, we will fight back together. Completely wake up these dazed Shaanxi bandits."

"In this way, although it seems that the Shaanxi bandits are approaching the city, we are more dangerous, but we have preserved our own strength to the maximum extent, which is beneficial to the future of our Runing Army and will achieve the greatest results. As for Mr. Deng? ! Let me tell you. He is a literati and doesn't know much about fighting, so we can figure out how to deal with it ourselves!"

Xue Yongli's words made everyone around him laugh out loud. In any political group, there is always a competition between civil and military.Although the conflict between the civil and military forces of the Runing Army is not obvious yet, there is always some vague competition between the two giants Deng Qifan and Xue Yongli.

On the [-]th day of the first lunar month, cavalrymen from the Peasant Rebel Army appeared on the other side of the Shenshui River. The Runing Army, which had been prepared early, ignited gunpowder one by one and blew up the ice surface about a mile and a half long.Seeing the Runing Army here, those scouts immediately reported back to Zhang Xianzhong.

After Zhang Xianzhong got the report, he immediately took his own soldiers together with King Sweeping Di and King Taiping to observe closely, and found the camp and position set up by the Runing Army on the other side of the Shenshui River.

So Zhang Xianzhong, who was unwilling to get entangled here, immediately ordered the main force of the peasant rebel army to go eastward about ten miles away from the Shenshui River to avoid contact with the Runing Army.The Runing Army also maintained a guard on the other side of the river, monitoring the actions of the Peasant Rebel Army.

The two armies lived in peace under such a situation of guarding against each other.Under the urging of Zhang Xianzhong, the peasant rebel army also accelerated their pace, passing through the Shangcai and Xincai areas within a day, and went straight to Fengyang Mansion. (To be continued..)