Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 178 Attacking the Stars

Thinking about it, Li Jing has been given five counties anyway, and these places are not bad.

After reaching an agreement with Li Jing, Cao Wenzhao prepared to send Cao Bianjiao and Ma Ke to lead two thousand soldiers from the headquarters, plus three thousand new recruits to pursue the bandits on the front line of Pingyang Mansion, and lead a thousand Guanning cavalry to attack Lu'an Mansion. the rogues.

However, Li Jing told Cao Wenzhao that it was not enough to chase down the rogues in Lu'an Mansion with a thousand Guanning iron cavalry, and he had to bring a thousand recruits to clean up the battlefield, and he also had to bring the centurion he sent.

Seeing that Li Jing brought up the centurion to talk about something again, Cao Wenzhao became even more curious. Could it be that this centurion is stronger than his Guan Ning iron cavalry?
So Cao Wenzhao agreed to Li Jing's arrangement, and soon after, he saw this unit of the Jishi Army.

When Cao Wenzhao saw this army, he had only one feeling, shocking!

The actual number of this centurion is 70 people. The weapons of these people are a knife per person, more than [-] muskets and ten cannons, and they also drove several carts, each of which contained several boxes. .

Cao Wenzhao couldn't help but be shocked that a team of one hundred had ten artillery pieces, but what was even more shocking was that the sentinel leading the team was actually a child of only twelve or thirteen years old.

Seeing that the leader was a child, Cao Wenzhao smiled wryly, thinking that it was Li Jing who was attacking Ji Shijun's people.

After all, Cao Wenzhao was the commander-in-chief of the second grade. If he attacked a twelve or thirteen-year-old child, he would be ridiculed by the world. Therefore, Cao Wenzhao took it for granted that Li Jing was defending him.

However, when the child was brought in front of Cao Wenzhao, a few words from the child made Cao Wenzhao feel that he might have misunderstood Li Jing.

This child was naturally Li Dingguo. When he saw Cao Wenzhao, Li Dingguo kowtowed three times to Cao Wenzhao, then clasped his fists and said: "The junior Li Dingguo was ordered by his father to serve General Cao, see General Cao. "

Seeing the child kowtow to himself with the courtesy of a junior, Cao Wenzhao thought to himself, this child is really well-behaved.

After hearing what Li Dingguo said later, Cao Wenzhao couldn't help being taken aback, and asked suspiciously: "You are Li Jing...well... General Li's son? How old are you this year?"

Li Dingguo said respectfully: "Reporting to General Cao, this junior is the adopted son of my father, and he will be 13 soon."

Seeing Li Dingguo's calm demeanor and proper speech, although there was still some childishness on his face, Cao Wenzhao suddenly felt a sense of love.

Cao Wenzhao pondered for a while, and thought, "No matter what, I can't let this child have trouble under my hands."

So Cao Wenzhao said with a smile: "Good boy, go to battle, you are still young, stay by my side."

Unexpectedly, Li Dingguo said: "General Cao, when the younger generation came, the father-in-law specifically explained that this time he entered the Lu'an Mansion to fight, and asked me to be the vanguard for General Cao. Wherever General Cao points, I will fight there."

"Your father asked you to be a pioneer?" Cao Wenzhao wondered.

"Yes!" Li Dingguo nodded back.

Hearing that this child was actually the vanguard Li Jing sent for him, Cao Wenzhao was completely speechless. He also wanted to see the combat effectiveness of the Jishi Army, so he nodded and agreed immediately. So at Li Dingguo's request, he gave these people every People are equipped with two horses.

But Cao Wenzhao couldn't help frowning when he saw the riding skills of these people.

In Cao Wenzhao's eyes, these people could barely sit on the horse. Cao Wenzhao really didn't know how these people fought on the horse.

Li Dingguo obviously didn't see Cao Wenzhao's doubts. When he saw Cao Wenzhao sent the horse, he immediately ordered his men to mount the horse, and then ordered everyone to try riding it.

Seeing that these people did not fall off their horses, and they could trot for a while, Li Dingguo nodded in satisfaction, then clasped his fists at Cao Wenzhao and said, "Our department is ready, General Cao please give orders."

Cao Wenzhao looked at Li Dingguo with wide eyes, then pointed to the hundred or so people behind Li Dingguo and said, "Are you ready? Are you still going to fight?"

Li Dingguo nodded and said: "That's right! We are not cavalry in the first place, we ride horses just to move faster."

Cao Wenzhao was speechless again. After thinking for a while, he pointed to the clothes of Li Dingguo and the others and said, "Then you won't tell me, and you are going to go out to fight in this outfit, right? What will you do if the bandits shoot arrows? Don't you need to change them?" In armor?"

Li Dingguo wondered: "Why change clothes? Your armor is too heavy, it's inconvenient for us to fight in that. As for the bows and arrows of the rogues, we don't have to worry about them at all, they can't shoot us."

Cao Wenzhao suddenly felt a bit of a headache. He was proud of the few things that Guan Ning's cavalry relied on the most, and co-authoring would be a burden to Ji Shijun.

At this time, Cao Wenzhao didn't want to say any more, it was the mule or the horse that led him out for a walk.

So Cao Wenzhao started to act, the first goal: the sky full of stars.

There are about [-] people under Mantianxing, and they are now located in Guocun Town, Wuxiang County.

Cao Wenzhao chose Mantianxing as his first target, just because he was on the way.

Cao Wenzhao didn't want to go around in a big circle, he wanted to defeat the chaos in the direction of Lu'an as quickly as possible, because the Chinese New Year was coming soon.

In fact, according to past practice, at this time in previous years, everyone would restrain themselves.

The common people celebrate the New Year, the bandits also celebrate the New Year, and of course the soldiers also celebrate the New Year.

During the Chinese New Year, no matter whether it is the army or the rogues, everyone will stop fighting for a while, and wait until the New Year is over and everyone has enough energy before starting the fight.

Moreover, it was freezing cold, and everyone held iron tools in their hands, and they really couldn't stretch out their hands, so no one wanted to fight in winter.

But this time Cao Wenzhao obviously didn't think too much about it. He didn't plan to let the rogues celebrate the new year.

On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, on the second day after eating Laba porridge, Cao Wenzhao started. (It's a bit careless!)
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The nickname Mantianxing has been used by many rebel leaders. There are two more famous ones, one is Zhou Qing and the other is Zhang Dashou.

The name of the person staying in Guocun, Wuxiang is Zhou Qing, a native of Qingjian, Shaanxi.

Zhou Qing was not very old, he was only 30 years old at most, this person lived up to his name, with a pockmarked face.

Zhou Qing joined the rebel team relatively early, starting in the first year of Chongzhen.

It should be said that this person's luck is still good. From the first year of Chongzhen to the present, there have been wave after wave of bandits, but he just survived, and the team is getting bigger and bigger, and life is getting happier.

However, these days have not been easy. Since Cao Wenzhao came to Shanxi, he and most of the leaders of the rebel army have had a hard time.

Cao Wenzhao was really too fierce. First he killed the leader Wang Jiayin, then he killed the brothers of Shen Yikui one by one, and now he started to deal with the troops of the 36th Battalion.

It is said that Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang was driven all the way from Qinshui to Lingchuan, then from Lingchuan to Jiangzhou, and finally to Yangcheng. What a miserable run!
I don't know what Cao Wenzhao was thinking, but he stopped pushing Gao Yingxiang out of the way, and turned around to trouble Zijin Liang, the boss of the 36th Battalion.

Zijinliang has a large number of people, and during this period of time, he has successively attacked the city and pulled out the village, which can be regarded as a fierce man.

I heard that Cao Wenzhao was coming, and Zijinliang didn't believe in evil, so he wanted to challenge Cao Wenzhao. As a result, Zijinliang, a fierce man, was like a scarecrow in front of Cao Wenzhao. He was beaten by Cao Wenzhao. He lost thousands of troops, and Cao Wenzhao would kill him if he didn't run away.

So the boss of Zijin Liang started to run, and then asked everyone to run separately.

Zijinliang had a good idea. For a while, Cao Wenzhao didn't know who was running. After chasing Taigu County, he saw that the rogues were running everywhere and couldn't find a definite target, so he stopped.

If Cao Wenzhao stopped, how would the bandits dare to stop?Cao Wenzhao didn't chase, they just seized this opportunity to run as far as possible, including Zhou Qing.

Zhou Qing fled all the way to Guocun, Wuxiang with his subordinates, and was relieved to see that Cao Wenzhao's troops had finally been thrown off.

When I arrived at Guocun, I saw that this place was nice and affluent. Zhou Qing thought about it, and the Chinese New Year would be one month away. Well, this year is going to be in Guocun.

Dealing with a small town like Guocun was naturally effortless, and within an hour, Zhou Qing entered the largest house in Guocun.

For the past ten days, Zhou Qing's life was quite comfortable, and his brothers' life was not bad either.Other people's homes are now their homes, and of course this will not be a bad day.

On this day, Zhou Qing was sitting in a warm room, drinking with his arms around two beauties whom he had just snatched, when he heard someone outside the door shouting loudly: "Brother Mantianxing, it's not good, Cao Wenzhao came after me Already!"

Zhou Qing was drinking, and when he heard the news, he choked his throat with a sip of wine.

"Cough! Cough! Fuck! I almost choked to death! Where is that bastard Cao Wenzhao now?" Zhou Qing hurriedly got up and shouted.

"It's less than twenty miles away from Guo Village." The man outside the door hurriedly said.

"Hurry up, quickly call the brothers, line up! Line up!" Zhou Qing shouted hastily.

Then Zhou Qing turned to the two beauties beside him and said, "If you don't want to die, pack up your things quickly."

As Zhou Qing said, he hurriedly found clothes and put them on. After putting on the clothes, Zhou Qing walked out of the house quickly.

In the midst of all the chaos, Zhou Qing finally gathered the people and horses together.

Immediately, Zhou Qing ordered some of his brothers to take their family members and looted supplies to the mountains in Qinyuan, and he took the rest of his brothers to the north of Guocun to prepare to resist the enemy and buy time for his family members to escape.

When Zhou Qing came outside the town with his troops, the army of the official army was less than five miles away from Guo Village.

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Seeing the bandits lined up from a distance, Li Dingguo turned his head to look at Guan Ning's iron cavalry about three miles away from them, then turned around and smiled at the people around him: "Everyone cheer up, let the officers and soldiers take a good look at us The strength of the Ji Shi Army."

"Master Dingguo, when the cannon fires later, I don't think it's just the rogues who will be frightened, even the officers and soldiers will be scared to death." The deputy sentry officer beside Li Dingguo laughed.

(End of this chapter)