Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

The fall of Qi County caused the peasant army to be completely passive.At this time, Yang Rusong and Shumobu could go north to join the Heiyun Army who were besieged in Yanggu Town, or they could go northwest to directly break the siege of Kaifeng City.The time required is no more than three or four days.

However, the strength of the peasant army here is concentrated and scattered, which cannot stop the Runing army at all.In addition, they don't know which direction the Runing Army will choose, so it has evolved into a situation of being passively beaten.

The Li and Luo coalition forces were also in chaos.Up to now, Li Zicheng's battalion is fighting.But Luo Rucai is not very interested in such a battle. He still thinks: It is better not to fight head-on with the officers and soldiers, and flee as soon as possible.

And Luo Rucai's thoughts also affected some soldiers who broke into the camp. They also felt that Li Zicheng was a little bit demonic, so why hang him on this tree in Kaifeng City?Now that the army is here, you can hide as much as you can!

This means that the Peasant Army, such as Chuangying, has made a fortune too quickly, so many people still cannot accept the idea of ​​​​establishing a formal regime and establishing a base area.The idea of ​​rogues in the peasant army is still very serious.

However, the subsequent actions of the Runing Army left the Li and Luo coalition forces with no choice.Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai were forced to go to Liangshan when they learned that the third army of the Runing Army exceeded 10 horses and completely controlled the Central Henan area in a short period of time.

Because of this posture, no matter how you look at it, it seems to be forcing the Li and Luo coalition forces to jump off the Yellow River.Coupled with the fact that Sun Chuanting's Qin army was about to move in the west, Li and Luo's allied forces suddenly found themselves in a desperate situation. If they didn't work hard, they would really be wiped out.

But this really wronged the Runing army!In order to let the Li and Luo coalition forces discover the weak point, the left army of the Runing army did not even go to occupy Ruzhou, just to let the Li and Luo coalition forces discover the passage from Nanyang to Huguang.But now Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai have become frightened birds.Instead, they thought that this was a deliberate flaw exposed by the Runing Army, and they wanted the Li and Luo coalition forces to embark on this road of being "ambushed" by the official army.

So, poor information always creates a lot of misunderstandings.At this time, Wu Shigong may wish to send a message to Li Zicheng, to express his "childlike heart" to him!

As soon as they felt the danger, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai immediately put aside their conflicts and worked together.They immediately withdrew their troops gradually from the encirclement circle around Kaifeng City, and concentrated them near Zhuxian Town, preparing for another successful siege to fight for aid.

At this time, the Runing army also seemed to have a brain convulsion, and they also postponed the pace of attack, especially Yang Rusong and the Shumo Department in Qi County.They even stood still, as if they were waiting for the deployment of Li and Luo's coalition forces.

In fact, this performance of the Runing Army is also understandable.Because they don't care about the life and death of Kaifeng City and the Heiyun Army. As long as these two places are not lost and the Li and Luo coalition forces can be contained, the Runing army would like to fight to the death with the Li and Luo coalition forces and the officials and troops in these two places.

Of course before that.The Runing Army will also pass the news of its arrival to these two places, which is also to give the soldiers and civilians at these two places the confidence to persevere.

Relatively speaking.The news in Yangcheng Town is easy to pass on.After resting for a few days, Yang Rusong and Shu Mobu went north to the bank of the Huiji River and fired a cannonball towards the opposite bank.No matter the result of the battle, at least the sound of the artillery can be transmitted to Yangcheng Town.

When the Heiyun Army in Yangcheng Town heard that the reinforcements were coming, they immediately worshiped Yu Zilian.Mr. Yu not only knows how to fight, but also has friends all over the world.Follow him, that's for sure.

But then the soldiers of the Heiyun Army are looking forward to the stars and the moon.But no matter how much they hoped, they didn't expect the arrival of reinforcements. They could only listen to the sound of artillery in the distance.I fantasize about being able to escape from birth one day!

At that time, several of Chen De's soldiers who fled to Runing took another detour to get on the boat on the Yellow River, and then swam into Kaifeng City at night, passing the news of the Runing Army's dispatch back to the city.

So the soldiers and civilians in Kaifeng City were very excited. In order to persevere and celebrate, they held a grand "celebration event" in the city.

By this time, there was not much food left in the city, and a large number of ordinary residents had starved to death.The price of food in the city has gradually risen to 80 taels per shi, and even if you have money, you can't buy it.

After a lot of discussions and compromises among the officials, the government in Kaifeng City finally introduced a wonderful policy: as the embodiment of justice, the government of the Ming Dynasty, of course, could not go to the people to grab food, so they decided to buy food from the people to support the future. The arrival of the Runing Army.Of course, there is almost no food in the homes of ordinary people in Kaifeng now, and the food is concentrated in the families of officials, gentry, rich and wealthy, so the act of grabbing food may not be implemented.

And this purchase of grain and silver is of course a forced apportionment to private households.If you have grain, you can pay grain, and if you don't have grain, you can pay in silver.As soon as this policy was introduced, the price of food in the city immediately skyrocketed to 130 taels per stone.

As for those who could not pay the food and money, they "first caught young men and women and stabbed their skin with hundreds of large needles, calling them injustice."The officers and soldiers guarding the city broke into people's homes with arrows ordered by the governor to search for food. Except for the mansions above the county king, they searched everywhere.

Then the price of food in the market skyrocketed even more, rice and millet cost a bucket of gold, and vegetables cost a thousand dollars a catty.Then the market was completely cut off, and even those who had money could not buy food.After the food in the city ran out, the residents ate cowhide, leather jackets, medicinal materials, aquatic plants, vase, horse manure, clay, etc. in order to prolong the time, and finally there was a tragic situation of cannibalism.

And no one in the city knew that those soldiers who came back from the summons also brought a message from Wu Shigong to Chen Yongfu, the general soldier in Henan...

The Huiji River in the northwest of Qi County has turned into a stream due to years of drought.And because the army fetched water and a large number of people upstream passed back and forth, the river water also changed from clear to turbid.

Yang Rusong and the Ministry of Shumo arrived at the south bank of the Huiji River two days earlier than the peasant army.But they didn't take the opportunity to cross the river. When He Yaoqi led more than 1 peasant troops drawn from Yangcheng Town to the north bank, the fortifications of the Runing Army on the south bank had already been fully deployed.

Along the river bank, the Runing Army erected three or four rows of wooden fences that were as high as a person. The gaps in those wooden fences could be easily set up with firecrackers to shoot, and they could also be easily stretched out with spears to assassinate.There are also artillery placed at the joints between the wooden fence and the wooden fence, forming a complete firepower network.Moreover, the situation behind the high slope on the river bank has not yet been observed, making it impossible for He Yaoqi to figure out how many Runing troops are behind the slope.

Although the runoff of the Huiji River was quite small, some rocks at the bottom of the river were exposed, allowing people and horses to wade across the river.Ke He waved the flag but did not dare to attack rashly.Because the terrain occupied by the Runing Army is too favorable, if the Peasant Army wants to attack, the troops will have no way to deploy, and they will face the Runing Army's waiting for work and attacking head-on.

Seeing the Runing Army on the other side adopting a defensive posture, He Yaoqi confronted him along the river.However, he also stepped up to reward Li Zicheng and asked him to send additional reinforcements to deal with this Runing army.

Two days later, more than 3 peasant troops led by Tian Jianxiu arrived.As soon as the two armies converged, Tian Jianxiu was in a hurry to observe the fortifications of the Runing army, and was ready to attack to the other side.

Although the current Li and Luo coalition forces are surrounding the Heiyun Army in Kaifeng City and Yanggu Town, these two official armies are also "time bombs" in the belly of the peasant army. If the internal and external cooperation is successful, instead of being able to encircle and fight for reinforcements, Li and Luo's coalition forces will immediately fall into the dilemma of multi-faceted combat, and a great victory will also turn into a major defeat.

But for the Heiyun Army in Kaifeng City and Yanglu Town, the Li and Luo coalition forces could not attack by force. They were not sure that they could conquer them in a short time, and they could not bear such heavy casualties.Facing the approaching Runing Army on the center and the left, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai decided to defeat the Runing Army on the right first, so as to occupy a favorable position for the decisive battle.

But when Tian Jianxiu informed He Yaoqi of Li Zicheng's decision, He Yaoqi immediately objected.He Yaoqi had fought against the Runing Army before, and he had some understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Runing Army.He felt that it would be enough if the confrontation between the two armies could be guaranteed at the Huiji River. The Peasant Army would never have the strength to attack the Runing Army, which was dedicated to defending it. How many Runing troops are there?

But Tian Jianxiu still wants to carry out Li Zicheng's order.But in the camp, because the system is not yet complete, although He Yaoqi's status is slightly higher than Tian Jianxiu's, the two of them have no affiliation relationship.Therefore, in the peasant army on the north bank of the Huiji River, the final decision still needs to be discussed by these two generals.

And when Tian Jianxiu saw the Runing military fortification on the south bank, he felt that he had some chances.Although Tian Jianxiu can imagine that when the Peasant Army waded across the river, climbed, and overturned the wooden fence, they would be shot by the Runing Army's guns, bows and arrows, and assassinated by spears, but these responses are traceable. follow.

In ordinary battles, you are not afraid of the enemy's defense.Afraid of the enemy's attack.Because there are various means of attack, they must be seen and dismantled, which is a test of the commanding skills of the commander and the combat quality of the soldiers.And if you attack by yourself and the enemy defends, you can play a lot of tricks, and you are not afraid of the enemy's counterattack. Anyway, the enemy can only be beaten passively.

Therefore, the same situation, seen in the eyes of people with different mentalities, will come to different judgments.Therefore, Tian Jianxiu decided to cross the Huiji River and defeat the Runing army on the other side first. (To be continued..)