Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 161

When Mei Renxin and others saw Li Taiping rushing to Yichuan County with more than a hundred remnants of the defeated soldiers, they were shocked.

"Battalion Commander, what's wrong with you? What about the rest of the First Brigade?" Mei Renxin asked anxiously.A brigade led by Li Tianping is now the main force of the main force of the fourth battalion.Now only more than 100 people have returned, and this kind of loss is unbearable for the Fourth Battalion.This is almost the loss of an officer who could expand an entire battalion.

Finally seeing his troops also means that he is safe.Thinking of the constant abandonment of the car along the way to save the commander, and the comrades who had to make sacrifices, Li Taiping suddenly felt sad, and he said in a sad tone.

"After you left, I led the first brigade to stay in the camp to stop the Tartars. In the end, I encountered a large group of Tartar cavalry. It seemed that there were tens of thousands of cavalry. It was useless to stay and fight. To die, I had no choice but to flee to the north, and under the resistance of the rear troops, I escaped."

"But now there is less than half a squadron left in a brigade. These are the backbone of our fourth battalion, and they are all old brothers!"

Li Taiping's words made Mei Renxin, Yao Huaisheng and others very sad.After all, we have been getting along for several years, and many of the officers are acquaintances, and we live and eat together, so life and death will be parted.However, this kind of thing is too common in troubled times. After being sad for a while, everyone stopped acting like a little girl.

After a while, Ren Zhen, the former commander-in-chief of the Xing'an Mansion, spoke.

"Battalion Commander, that must be Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses stationed in Hanzhong Mansion. King Pingxi's Guan Ning Iron Cavalry is not only proficient in bow and horse, but also has many three-eyed blunderbuss, which can shoot from a distance and smash it from a distance. Awesome. Battalion Commander, you are very lucky to be able to escape this time."

Because Ren Zhen was a surrendered general, Li Taiping was not at ease letting him lead the team, so after disbanding Ren Zhen's subordinates, he took the title of deputy captain of the second brigade.This time Ren Zhen followed Yao Huaisheng all the way to the north, and because of the turmoil in Shanxi, the hearts of several nearby prefectures in Shaanxi were also in turmoil, and the two groups of people came to Yichang County without any danger.

Glancing at Ren Zhen, then at He Liang, He Zhen and the others, Li Taiping suddenly woke up in his heart.Although I have lost a brigade on the surface, but because this brigade is full of old regiments and can potentially be worth a battalion, it can also be said that the combat power of my direct troops has been halved.This is a very dangerous thing. In today's troubled times, no one who can pull up a soldier is a fuel-efficient lamp.The most urgent task is to immediately enter the wartime, strengthen the strength of one's own lineage in the war, and weaken the power of these external lines.

After hiding his thoughts in his heart, Li Taiping turned to ask He Zhen.

"Captain He, have you contacted Wang Yongqiang?"

"Battalion Commander, two days ago Wang Yongqiang sent his confidant Liu Daying over to discuss the idea of ​​starting an incident in Yan'an Mansion." He Zhen replied.

"What did they say?" Li Taiping asked.

"Wang Yongqiang and the others mean to draw up the scope of the uprising. They are in charge of Yan'an Mansion, Suide Prefecture and Yulin Mansion, and we are in charge of uprisings in Tongzhou and Fuzhou." He Zhen said helplessly.

"Begin to divide the sphere of influence before the incident?" Li Taiping frowned.

Mei Renxin also said indignantly: "They are attacking the city in northern Shaanxi, but let us block the Tartars in Xi'an Prefecture in the south. This is a good plan."

After thinking for a while, Li Taiping picked up the simple map on the table, looked at it for a while, and then said.

"Accept their conditions and let them rise as soon as possible."

"Battalion Commander, think twice." Li Jiusheng, the captain of the Third Battalion, shouted from the side.

"Captain Li, don't be in a hurry. The promise to them is just to let them rise up early so as to involve the Tartar forces. In addition, it can also echo Shanxi and strengthen the anti-Tartar momentum. When we started going north, our goal was to go to Shanxi. , Shaanxi is poor, Shanxi is rich, and now Shanxi is even more chaotic than Shaanxi, it is a good place for my security team."

Pausing for a while, Li Taiping swept his gaze over the faces of all the people present, and then said again.

"Tongzhou Prefecture is close to Jiangzhou and Puzhou Prefectures in Shanxi, which just allows us to expand our influence to Shanxi, so that our fourth battalion can span Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces. If we win again, we will be surrounded by Jiangzhou and Puzhou Prefectures. Jiezhou, then we will occupy a corner of the southwestern Shanxi."

The decision has been made, and we are waiting to fight together.

Now that [-] troops gathered in Yichuan County, Yichuan County was already in chaos.The gates of the city were closed tightly, and the strong men at the head of the city patrolled back and forth, but compared to the huge rebel army ten miles outside the city, Yichuan County was in dire straits.Everyone in the city knew that the county could not be defended, but firstly, the county magistrate had to die to be loyal to the imperial court, and secondly, the city was strictly patrolled.Time passed by like this little by little.

Li Taiping also took advantage of the fact that there was no fighting during this period and hurriedly reorganized the team.After replenishing the vacancies in the first brigade, the redundant regiment members were reorganized into a reserve brigade, and a total of two reserve brigades were obtained.Now Li Taiping has a battalion of his direct lineage and two reserve brigades, totaling more than [-] people.And the two independent brigades of foreign departments each have more than two thousand soldiers, and the strength of the entire fourth battalion is nearly [-].It's just that there are a lot of people, but the weapon training is lacking in everything, and the combat power is far inferior to when Li Taiping first arrived in Xing'an Mansion.

Two days later, that is, on the third day of February in the sixth year of Huaxing, Wang Yongqiang started an incident, and the team quickly conquered Yan'an Fucheng, smashed through Yansui and other [-] prefectures and counties, and went straight to Yulin Fucheng.Wang Yongqiang killed Wang Zhengzhi, governor of Yansui in the Qing Dynasty, Xia Shifang of Jingyuan Daotai, and others, shaking northern Shaanxi.

At the same time, Li Taiping also started an incident in the south of Yichuan, beside the Nanchuan River.However, Li Taiping did not attack Yichuan County, because that was the target of Wang Yongqiang's attack.Instead, he led the army to divide into two groups. On the other hand, the first, second and third groups that he had reorganized under his personal command, as well as He Liang's independent first group and He Zhen's independent second group attacked the Tongzhou capital. .On the other route, Mei Renxin took the Fourth Battalion, the Fifth Battalion, the First Reserve Battalion and the Second Reserve Battalion to Fuzhou.

Shaanxi has a strong folk style since ancient times, and it is impossible to live and work in peace and contentment in today's troubled times.Seeing the arrival of the Fourth Battalion, some hungry people and a small group of bandit rebels joined in one after another.Coupled with the fact that the fourth battalion had sufficient food, the two groups of troops rapidly expanded like a snowball.

For a time, the three prefectures and two prefectures in northern Shaanxi were in turmoil at the same time, echoing the anti-Tartar army in Shanxi, which effectively boosted the morale of the northern army and civilians against the Tartars.

(End of this chapter)