Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

As soon as Yu Zilian used several resolute methods, Yang Wenyue, who had been watching, was amazed.At this time, Yang Wenyue also understood that Yu Zilian's reputation was well-deserved, and also admired that he really had the means to manage the army.

But these methods are something that other officials can't learn, and they don't want to learn.Apart from Yu Zilian's high prestige in the army, which made it difficult for the soldiers to turn against him, what he did offended the entire official circle of Ming Dynasty, and also set up countless targets for the officials in the future.Therefore, Yu Zilian is completely betting on today with tomorrow.Therefore, Yang Wenyue, who was on the sidelines, was only admiring.

But admiration is admiration, when it is time to argue with reason, Yang Wenyue will not let go.When discussing the next move, Yu Zilian and Yang Wenyue had a fierce dispute.

Yu Zilian's opinion is: anyway, he has won a big victory, so let's accept it as soon as it is good.Yu Zilian wants to withdraw his troops, but still maintains his wandering around the peasant army.

For Yu Zilian, the purpose of sending troops this time has actually been achieved.Victory instills confidence in the recruits; military tactics instill discipline in the recruits.As long as there are a few more small wins like this, Yu Zilian is confident that he will train the Heiyun Army to be like the original Ruzhou Army, so that the soldiers will worship him and have a fanatical state of fighting.As for whether it can really break the siege of Kaifeng City?What Yu Zilian meant was to try his best, and there was no need to force it.

Yu Zilian is not arrogant.Although he has a lot of gamblers, he will definitely not think that his current Heiyun army has the strength to leapfrog the Li and Luo coalition forces.

But Yang Wenyue hoped to take advantage of the victory to pursue.He believed that the defeated peasant army should be closely pursued, and the Li and Luo coalition forces should be snowballed, and at least the road to Kaifeng should be opened.

To be honest: Yang Wenyue really doesn't know much about military affairs, and he seriously underestimated the strength of Li and Luo's coalition forces.But this can't blame Yang Wenyue, a layman.Because the Ming army has been waiting for many years for the victory of the peasant army. Even the battle of beheading hundreds and defeating thousands of peasant troops is a great victory when reporting to the court.So Yang Wenyue was dazzled by the victory.

But Yang Wenyue's choice was also a helpless move.Because the crime of defeat he committed in Zhuxian Town was too great.If he couldn't break the siege of Kaifeng, it would be impossible for Yang Wenyue to offset his merits and demerits.Therefore, the difference in starting point also caused the difference between the two coaches' next actions.

But just when the dispute was over, a confluence of reinforcements broke the balance.

To be more precise, this is not a support army, but a civilian armed force with only nearly 200 people.However, the leader who led this armed force was well-known. He was the chief staff officer of Lu Xiangsheng, the former minister of the Ministry of War and the supervisor of the world's soldiers and horses-counselor Yang Tinglin.

After failing to rescue soldiers from Gao Qiqian's army that year, Yang Tinglin took a few of his entourages to the battlefield in order to do his best to assist Lu Xiangsheng, hoping to live and die together with Lu Xiangsheng.But Dorgon did not follow Yang Tinglin's wishes.When Yang Tinglin arrived on the battlefield.The Qing army had already retreated to hunt down Gao Qiqian's army, and what was left to Yang Tinglin were the corpses of the soldiers of the Tianxiong army everywhere.Afterwards, Yang Tinglin was doing things like burying the corpses, escorting Lu Xiangsheng's coffin back home, and so on.

After that, because he refused to submit to Yang Sichang's humiliation.Yang Tinglin also resigned and returned to his hometown in Qingjiang.But by this time, his reputation of being familiar with military affairs and being a noble character has spread throughout Yunei.And indeed.As Lu Xiangsheng's chief aide.Yang Tinglin will never be a military rookie, and his willingness to live and die with Lu Xiangsheng also proves that his character is enough to be called first-class.

Afterwards, Yang Tinglin stayed at home to support himself, and he rejected the imperial court's call-up several times.Perhaps Yang Tinglin was saddened by Lu Xiangsheng's death and was a little discouraged by the court; perhaps he wanted to support him, but Yang Tinglin did not return to the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty anyway.Just travel around the world from time to time, looking for relatives and friends.

And when Kaifeng City was besieged, officials in the city would definitely go to the Beizhili government on the other side of the Yellow River for help.But now if the Beizhili government sends reinforcements, they must be helpless.But this does not prevent officials from sitting down to discuss.And at such "retreats".Yang Tinglin, who happened to travel here, was also invited.

Facts have proved that Yang Tinglin's blood is not cold at this time.When he learned that Kaifeng was in danger, he volunteered to recruit soldiers, intending to use his own initiative to join the army to strengthen the strength of the official army's reinforcements.

The place where the Tianxiong Army started was in Daming Mansion, so Yang Tinglin easily recruited some veterans of the Tianxiong Army.So just like that, Yang Tinglin who crossed the Yellow River met the coalition forces of Heiyun Army and Yang Wenyue.The arrival of Yang Tinglin made him join the decision-making group of the coalition army as a matter of course.

As for the original Yu Zilian and Yang Wenyue, in terms of official position, Yu Zilian is slightly higher; but in terms of seniority, Yang Wenyue is far beyond.So these two people can be said to be evenly matched.But as soon as Yang Tinglin joined, the balance immediately tilted.

Yang Tinglin's meaning is very simple, that is to continue to move forward and clear Kaifeng.Otherwise, Yang Tinglin was full and full of enthusiasm?Yang Tinglin inherited the hot-blooded style of the Tianxiong Army founded by Lu Xiangsheng. His idea is to be hot-blooded and hot-blooded, and to completely defeat the Li and Luo coalition forces with uninterrupted attacks and uninterrupted hand-to-hand combat.

To be honest, several years of being idle at home has made Yang Tinglin out of the actual situation.He didn't know that the current Li and Luo coalition army was no longer the peasant army that the Tianxiong army had dealt with a few years ago.However, Yang Tinglin is not the first official to make such a wrong judgment, nor will he be the last.

And Yang Tinglin's words carry a lot of weight.Although he is no longer an official, no one in the world dares not to regard him as an official.Coupled with his illustrious reputation, in fact, the weight of his words is no less than that of Yu Zilian and Yang Wenyue.

Another point is that the chief soldier Hu Dawei and others were also Lu Xiangsheng's former subordinates, and they were willing to listen to Yang Tinglin's words, so Yu Zilian's opinion was suppressed, and in the end he could only continue to attack along with him.

The attack at the beginning was still quite smooth. After the partial division of the Peasant Army was missing, there was actually a big gap in the encirclement here.After the Heiyun army and Yang Wenyue's troops defeated several small peasant armies one after another, they advanced smoothly to the Pingcheng and rural areas.

And at this time, the big cabinet who finally couldn't hide it had to report to Li Zicheng.Hearing that a government army suddenly appeared on his east side, and the defense here was empty, Li Zicheng was shocked, and immediately ordered Yuan Zongdi to lead 1 troops to block the gap first.

After Yuan Zongdi arrived, he first recruited nearly [-] remnants of the big cabinet, and then started a battle with the combined forces of Yu and Yang.However, the results of the battle were still repeated defeats. After all, what Yuan Zongdi led in a hurry was only a temporary assembly of troops, and the old battalion had quite a few troops.If it weren't for the fact that the combat performance of the Heiyun army was quite rusty, and Yang Wenyue's troops were fighting timidly, Yuan Zongdi might have suffered another disastrous defeat.

Fortunately, after losing 4000-[-] troops, Yuan Zongdi finally withstood it. He finally waited for the support of [-] cavalry led by He Yaoqi.As soon as He Yaoqi arrived, he immediately took over the command of the Peasant Army.

At this moment, Yu Zilian once again proposed to retreat overnight, but was rejected by Yang Wenyue and Yang Tinglin.They believed that the retreat of the army at night could easily turn into a rout.Moreover, the phenomenon of night blindness among the officers and soldiers is also very serious. Even if they retreat smoothly, the losses of the officers and soldiers will be heavy.

Therefore, Yang Wenyue and Yang Tinglin proposed: In the battle with the Peasant Army tomorrow, first repel He Yaoqi's troops, and then retreat calmly.And this decision made this official army lose its last chance to escape unscathed.

In the second day's battle, the cavalry who broke into the camp showed their power.This is an era when the cavalry is king. When the cavalry group starts to charge, it is a posture of either you die or I live.Therefore, the confrontation between the two armies relies on the courage of the soldiers on both sides.

But when the cavalry lined up and started to charge, Yang Wenyue's soldiers fled first.Anyway, they had already escaped once in Zhuxian Town, and there would be no shame in escaping again.But in this way, it immediately caused chaos in the formation of the officers and soldiers.

Yu Zilian was unlucky enough to run into a pig teammate.Seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately restrained the troops, formed a tight group, and retreated backwards.

In this battle, the performance of the Heiyun Army, which is mainly composed of recruits, was remarkable. Under Yu Zilian's lead, the Heiyun Army carried out several counter-charges, killing and wounding a large number of peasant troops, making them unable to fight. Dare to push too hard.Moreover, Yu Zilian's training day and night to train the Heiyun army to form a good formation also had an effect. Although the cavalry who broke into the camp were circling around the Heiyun army, they still couldn't find a place to talk.In addition, the cavalry of the Peasant Army wanted to chase and kill Yang Wenyue's troops, which resulted in insufficient troops to attack the Heiyun Army, and finally allowed the Heiyun Army to withdraw from the battlefield smoothly.

After that, it was a battle in which the official army fled and the peasant army pursued.After two days of retreat, when the Heiyun army retreated to Yanggu Town, they found that the peasant army around them had surrounded them.So Yu Zilian ordered to camp on the spot, relying on the town's buildings to build fortifications to resist the encirclement and suppression of the peasant army.And Yu Zilian also sent a fast horse to Runing for help, hoping that Wu Shigong would save him again.

But Yang Wenyue's department collapsed into two large pieces.A group of more than 4000 people fled into Lankao County with Yang Wenyue and Hu Dawei.Another group of nearly [-] soldiers, together with Yu Zilian's Heiyun Army, fled to Yanggu Town to take over the town.

More than [-] soldiers from Tian Jianxiu's department, [-] cavalrymen from Li Guo's department, and [-] people from Liu Tichun's department gradually arrived. Together with He Yaoqi, they encircled the two official troops again. up. (To be continued..)