Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

"Cao Cao! The official dog has been led out from Dangtu by us. You have to bite him here." Zhang Xianzhong said while putting a big stone on the ground.

On the ground, a few lines and circles have been roughly drawn, and there are also several broken bowls and teacups.Although most of the leaders of the Peasant Army are illiterate, under the influence of the long-term war, they have already mastered a set of general methods for drawing sketches and making marks, so although the ground is chaotic, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai are all in the heart Of course.

"I'll go from Langxi and make a detour to hit the official dog's left wing. So you have to worry more, at least hold Dangtu's official dog for two days, otherwise, I may not be able to catch up." Zhang Xianzhong continued.

Luo Rucai held a large bowl full of tea, looked carefully at the ground, nodded and said, "No problem. I brought all my belongings with me this time. The soft-footed crabs in the south of the Yangtze River can't do anything to me."

Since Luo Rucai's recruitment has always been rather short than excessive, his core strength has not fluctuated much.Therefore, his soldiers have become more and more skilled in cooperating with each other, and their cohesion has become stronger and stronger.In addition, Luo Rucai's battalion had few peasant soldiers, and those soldiers were allocated a lot of loot, so Luo Rucai's battalion had always been the most capable of field combat in the peasant army.Counting the Ming army, his troops are also top-notch.

And this time Luo Ru brought all his [-] old battalion soldiers and horses with him, and there was a strong general like Yang Chengzu, so Luo Ru was really not afraid of Lu Jiude's [-] Ming army.

"I'm not afraid that you won't be able to beat me, but I'm afraid that you'll beat me too hard." Zhang Xianzhong said with a smile, "We managed to lure the official dog out. If they see your cruelty and shrink back in fright, then We're going to have to spend more time."

The goal of the Zhang and Luo coalition forces this time is to annihilate Lu Jiude's troops, and the chosen battlefield is also far away from the city.Zhang Xianzhong was afraid that Luo Rucai would defeat Lu Jiude with three strikes.He was so frightened that he fled the battlefield and hid in the city, so the combat objectives of the Zhang and Luo coalition forces could not be accomplished.You know, after all, Luo Rucai has few soldiers, and it is impossible to encircle and wipe out Lu Jiude's troops.So Zhang Xianzhong asked Luo Rucai to wait until he arrived, and the two armies would join forces to encircle and suppress them.

In fact, Zhang and Luo Lianjun didn't want to go to Hangzhou and Huzhou at the beginning.They didn't open their eyes, and they didn't even know that the Ming army in Hangzhou was useless.So Zhang and Luo Lianjun will definitely not gnaw on that hard bone.

Besides, if you go to Hangzhou, you will be blocked by Taihu Lake.It's hard to go north again.In addition, there are Lu Jiude and Zuo Liangyu's officers and troops following in the west, so it doesn't mean that they will continue to Fujian, which is poor and poor?

Not to mention the land of Guangdong and Guangxi.Unlike modern times, Guangdong is a rich place.In the Ming Dynasty, it was a barren land, and the northerners went there.Often they will be dissatisfied with the water and soil, and will die of miasma.That is the modern infectious disease.So for Shaanxi people like Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai.It was a hellish existence there.Unless it is absolutely necessary, they will never choose to enter Guangdong and Guangxi.

That's why the Zhang and Luo coalition forces chose to encircle and wipe out Lu Jiude's troops, and then bypassed the heavily fortified city of Nanjing to the Zhenjiang area.Afterwards, no matter whether they crossed the river to commit Yangzhou, or went east to Suzhou, they were all rich places.

And there is no mobile corps like Lu Jiude.As long as they don't attack Jiancheng, Zhang and Luo's coalition forces can move freely in this area.After the rest of the officers and soldiers rushed over, they could also turn back west and return to the Huguang area again.

"Straight mother thief!" Luo Rucai scolded with a smile. "In the past, we tried our best to win, but now we can win but we can't. Does this mean that the more we live, the more we go back?"

Zhang Xianzhong also laughed loudly: "It's not that the more you live, the more you go back, but the more you live, the happier you are, which shows that we are stronger. But whoever goes back, it must be the dog court. It's okay to send Jiangnan soldiers. Even All the eunuchs without hair have been sent out. They really are gone.”

"Isn't everyone singing on the stage, eunuchs are only used by foolish kings! When the time comes, we will fight in Beijing and kill everyone, big and small, in the palace, and let us give a sigh of relief for us poor soldiers." , Luo Rucai picked up a big bowl of beef and started to drink.

"Don't kill them all, those empresses and princesses must stay!"

"Pfft!" Luo Ru just took a sip of tea, coughing and laughing out of breath.Zhang Xianzhong hurried forward and patted Luo Rucai on the back. After a while, Luo Rucai was relieved.

"Eight Great Kings! You want to laugh at me to death!" Luo Rucai complained with a smile.

"It's my brother's fault! It's my brother's fault!" Zhang Xianzhong also smiled "hehe", "When the time comes, I will share half with you."

"It's almost there!"

The laughter of the two floated in the wilderness, startling a few birds in the trees.The leaders of the peasant army watched their leader laughing and joking.They are very relaxed, because the Jiangnan soldiers are too weak.

On August [-], Xinhe Town.

Liu Liangzuo rested his chin on his hand, and carefully looked at the dozen or so horses brought over by the soldiers.This is also a habit of Liu Liangzuo.He does not have a fixed war horse, but chooses one before each battle.

What was even more strange was that those war horses were not of the same color, and their hair was all colorful, so Liu Liangzuo had a very strange nickname in the Ming army, called "Flower Horse Liu".However, any general who licks blood on the edge of a knife has more or less special hobbies, which is nothing more than a superstition.

"That's it!"

Liu Liangzuo pointed to a red, yellow and white war horse, and the soldiers leading the horse stepped forward immediately.Liu Liangzuo took the reins and got on his horse. After sitting down, he casually said to the captain of the soldiers: "It's Cao Cao! This battle is not easy!"

When Lu Jiude learned that Hangzhou was in danger, in addition to sending Liu Yuanbin to help quickly, he also led the remaining [-] troops to chase after Zhang and Luo's coalition forces, trying to entangle them. Let them rush to Hangzhou.

But when he arrived here in Xinhe Town, Lu Jiude suddenly met Luo Rucai's tribe.He immediately realized that he had encountered an ambush.Therefore, Lu Jiude's first reaction was to garrison on the spot and send a large number of scouts. First, he had to figure out the surrounding situation.

It took too long to camp from the flat ground, so Lu Jiude immediately seized the nearby Xinhe Town, and built his army's camp based on the houses and the town's walls.

And Luo Rucai did not fight immediately.Because Xinhe Town is located at the intersection of Wuhu, Xuancheng and Dangtu.To the east of Xinhe Town, there is Nanhu (not Jiaxing Nanhu), which made it difficult for the Ming army to move.And on the way back to Dangtu, there is also Shijiu Lake. The terrain is very narrow, and the Ming army can't use it on the way back.If the Ming army retreated, it would be easy to turn the retreat into a rout under Luo Rucai's pursuit.

Therefore, the only retreat for the Ming army is Wuhu County.Therefore, Luo Rucai had to cut off the road to Wuhu County as soon as possible.It wasn't until he saw the Ming army entering Xinhe Town that Luo Ru felt relieved. He also placed his troops here in Zhuqiao Township and confronted the Ming army.

According to the plan of Zhang and Luo's coalition forces, Zhang Xianzhong's troops will pass through Langxi County, circle around Nanhu Lake, and then attack Lu Jiude's troops from the east.That's why Luo Rucai is very patient now, just waiting for Zhang Xianzhong's arrival.

But Lu Jiude is not Zhang and Luo's puppets, and they can hold them however they want.Because across the South Lake, there was no way to find out what was going on with Zhang Xianzhong's troops, so after a round of scouting, Lu Jiude found that there was only Luo Rucai's peasant army nearby.

So Lu Jiude judged: This is a trick used by the peasant army.There are two possibilities: one possibility is to scare oneself back to Dangtu; the other possibility is to use Luo Rucai to cut off the rear.But no matter what the possibility is, as long as one's own army defeats Luo Rucai's department, all tricks will disappear.So Lu Jiude immediately prepared to take the initiative to attack.

Contrary to what Zhang and Luo judged, Lu Jiude's troops were not weak soldiers in Jiangnan at all, and there were even very few rookie soldiers in the Nanjing Jingying.This is also after Lu Jiude suffered all the losses of the rookie soldiers in the Nanjing Beijing camp, he gained a lot of wisdom.

Lu Jiude's main force is the Yongwei Battalion.Although the soldiers and horses of this battalion belonged to the Beijing Jingying, like the Warriors Battalion, they were all personally drilled by the horse supervisor and admiral of the Jingying.The officers and soldiers of this battalion were also carefully selected among the armies.And there is only one selection criterion, that is, the outstanding performance of each army when fighting.Therefore, the Yongwei Battalion is completely the Imperial Forest Army of the Ming Dynasty.

The source of Liu Liangzuo's troops is more complicated.Back then, Liu Liangzuo rebelled with Li Zicheng, but he surrendered to the Ming court very early on.By the way, there was Gao Jie who defected to the Ming court at about the same time as him.That Gao Jie was even more amazing. When he surrendered, he also abducted Li Zicheng's wife Gao Shi.Really badass.Therefore, the old foundation of Liu Liangzuo's army is also a peasant army.

But at that time, the Ming court still had a lot of airs. For these peasant army leaders who surrendered, they were often dismissed by a general or a thousand generals. If they were guarded, then your ancestral grave must be smoking.

Even under such circumstances, Liu Liangzuo was still able to advance step by step, and now he has accumulated meritorious service to reach the rank of commander-in-chief, which shows his strong command skills and the fierceness of the troops.

Liu Liangzuo fought at the frontier and suppressed a rebellion in Denglai, but his most brilliant achievement was the battle against the peasant army.Because he was quite familiar with the peasant army's style of play and knew the advantages and disadvantages of the peasant army, he soon became a sharp blade for the Ming Dynasty to destroy the peasant army.In today's battle, Lu Jiude arranged for Liu Liangzuo to take the lead.

"Godfather! If you can't win, you have to draw a tie. I don't know how to do that? Or, you change!" Yang Chengzu said aggrievedly.

"You son of a bitch! How dare you make a deal with me? Let me tell you, a draw is much more difficult than a win. Get lost!" Luo Rucai yelled.

"Then I'll try it?" Yang Chengzu had a hippie smile on his face.

"Get out!" Luo Rucai raised his hand to hit him, seeing Yang Chengzu running away with a smile, he couldn't help laughing himself.

At this time, Luo Rucai and the others didn't know the true strength of Lu Jiude's department. (to be continued..)