Go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty to be a soldier

Chapter 178
After several tug-of-war battles for Suide, Lin Yi's troops finally occupied Suide. Although this battle was full of twists and turns, it didn't last long. It only took half a day before and after. The 2 thieves who were full of stars were scattered up.

In this battle, more than 7000 thieves were killed, and more than 5000 were captured. This is not counting the family members of the thieves in the city.Since then, the bandit Guo Tianxing of the Ming Dynasty has also withdrawn from the stage of history just like shooting down the sky and sweeping the ground.

In this battle, Ji Dong's troops also suffered hundreds of casualties, including more than 200 people from the standard battalion. This was mainly because Zu Keyong was arrogant and underestimated the enemy and fell into the trap of thieves.

Ji Dong didn't punish him for his crimes, and his merits and demerits were offset.

Cleaning up the battlefield, burying the corpses, treating the wounded, and dealing with these post-war matters needless to say, all the trophies obtained by Lin Yi's order will be recorded in the account book, and thousands of prisoners will be put under custody. Let them eat what they should eat, let them drink what they should drink, Don't abuse them, wait until this battle is completely over before talking about the prisoners.At the same time, he strictly enforced military discipline, put out sticks to calm the people, and sent people to inquire about news about Yichuan.

In the evening, news came from Yichuan that Li Guoqi, the Shaanxi general, failed to attack Yichuan. The 8000 Shaanxi army was defeated and almost wiped out.

Ji Dong already had a premonition of such a result, but he didn't expect such a miserable defeat.There was no problem with his planning, but due to a change in the middle of the matter, the thieves suddenly retreated from outside Yan'an City. It was originally a relatively concentrated annihilation battle, which evolved into two independent battlefields in Suide and Yichuan. The outcome of the war is bound to be full of variables.

The scramble for Suide and the tug-of-war are proofs. Now that the officers and troops have suffered another disastrous defeat in the battle of Yichuan, it seems that these thieves are really difficult to deal with.

Lin Yi asked the reporter in detail before he knew the whole story.Lin Yi couldn't help sighing: "The majestic Shaanxi general has been defeated repeatedly, these thieves are too rampant!"

Zhe Zhe giggled: "What did this Shaanxi general do? How did he lose every battle?"

Regardless of her young age, Xiaoying has long been familiar with these things. When he was the daughter of a hundred families in the guard a few years ago, he often heard the news of the failure of the government army to suppress bandits, and also heard that his hundred The head of the household's father sighed more than once.

So after hearing Zhe Zhe's words, Xiaoying flattened her mouth and said in disdain: "Sister, you don't know, the civil and military officials in the Ming Dynasty are all incompetent people, fighting for power and profit, intrigues are okay, suppressing thieves and destroying bandits, and governing the country. There are a few who are good, do you think they are all generals like Brother Lin? If you want to be like that, the side trouble will be gone long ago."

"What my sister said is true." Zhezhe pursed his lips and smiled, full of charm.

"What is it? You two, stop talking nonsense." Lin Yi interrupted them. The two sisters glanced at each other, stuck out their tongues, and immediately dared not speak.

Lin Yi said: "You can't blame Li Zongbing for his incompetence. There are many bandits and tricksters. You have seen the Battle of Longmen Mountain and the Battle of Suide. Besides, winning or losing is a common thing for military strategists. It is also a matter of losing a battle." No big deal."

"Yes, we have been educated." Xiaoying and Zhezhe nodded quickly, submissively, like elementary school students receiving elder education.

Lin Yi immediately decided to send troops to Yichuan, leaving Wang Jian, an officer in the army, to lead 3000 brothers from the new training camp to guard Suide and guard the captives.

Ask Zhang Hua to bring a few capable attendants to Yan'an Mansion with his own handwritten letter, inform Yan'an Commander-in-Chief Huang Ming, and tell him the situation of Suide and Yichuan, so that he doesn't have to wait for internal and external cooperation to wipe out the bandits. , Let him immediately send troops to attack Yichuan from the west.

After sending Zhang Hua away, Lin Yi immediately assembled his team, and he personally led 5000 people to Yichuan south...

The line of sight returned to Xi'an Mansion.After Li Guoqi, the general soldier of Shaanxi, sent off Zhang Hua and others, he immediately assembled his troops.There are a total of 1 defenders in the city, of course not all of them can be brought.Leaving 2000 troops to defend the city, Li Guoqi personally led 8000 officers and troops to Yichuan. In order to catch up with time, they marched in a hurry.

Yichuan County is only four to five hundred miles away from Xi'an Prefecture, so in less than two days, Li Guoqi's troops arrived outside Yichuan City, that is, when Zhang Hua met Lin Yi from Xi'an to Suide, Li Guoqi's troops Arrived at the predetermined position.

After a short rest, Li Guoqi commanded 8000 troops to launch a fierce attack on Yichuan.

The situation in Yichuan was similar to that in Suide. It was a good place to be a den of thieves, but there were not many thieves left behind to guard them.Therefore, 8000 officers and soldiers charged and occupied Yichuan.

Unlike Lin Yi's men, Li Guoqi's men rushed into the city and killed everyone they saw. They didn't distinguish between thieves or law-abiding ordinary people. As a result, blood flowed into rivers and heads rolled. In the eyes of these officers and soldiers, the people in this city, regardless of gender, age or age, seemed to be all thieves.Until all the men in the city are killed, there is no threat to the officers and soldiers. Those who take the opportunity to rob property and rape prostitutes are everywhere, and those innocent people are considered unlucky.

This is the chaos of war, war is bound to cause turmoil, the discipline of the army is poor, soldiers are bandits, and bandits are soldiers, no wonder some people say that soldiers and bandits have never been separated from each other since ancient times.This is why most common people choose to go out to escape the war when the war comes.

When encountering a general like Lin Yi who is well restrained by his opponents, the common people can suffer less from the chaos of war, but if they encounter a team with poor discipline like Li Guoqi, the common people will suffer bad luck, and some military officers Deliberately plundering troops, like Zuo Liangyu's men and horses, and the teams of the four Jiangbei towns in the Nanming Dynasty, that's it. These troops marched and fought, and wherever they went, the people here lived in dire straits.

Li Guoqi here is not fictional, there was indeed such a person in history, and his team discipline was indeed bad enough. Smashing and looting, no wonder such a team will suffer defeat.

Li Guoqi captured Yichuan and killed the people in the city almost as much as the thieves. He felt that only in this way could he stabilize Yichuan and deter the thieves, and then sent troops to Yan'an with confidence to encircle and suppress the thugs main force.But he didn't know that the moment he stopped killing in the city, the thieves outside the city killed him.

It was the main force led by the lights that were not on and not sticking to the mud. They led more than 1 horses to attack Yan'an Mansion from the south according to the plan of Guo Tianxing Huideng Xiang, but things changed suddenly. Ladder moved to Lvliang Mountain without authorization to take advantage of the 7000 officers and soldiers from Miyun, and took these spoils all by himself. Their plan to attack Yan'an Mansion was forced to be postponed.Two days later, news suddenly came that Shetatian and Saoxihu had been eradicated by Lin Yi in the first battle. The thieves were shocked and forced to shelve their plan to capture Yan'an, and hurriedly led their troops back to the defense.

The sticky mud and the lights are not bright, it is the combination of two gangsters, each with thousands of troops, although not as powerful as Tianxing, but the two gangsters combined have more than 16000 troops, except There were more than 1000 people guarding Yichuan, and when they attacked Yan'an Mansion this time, the two bandits took away a total of 15000 people.

On the way back to defend Yichuan, the 15000 thieves received a report from the government army attacking Yichuan. They stepped up their march and arrived in Yichuan just at night. The onslaught was launched.

The officers and soldiers woke up from their sleep and hurried to fight.

Li Guoqi was also alarmed. When he got the report, he thought it was a rogue who ran out of the city, and killed a carbine overnight. These undead ghosts dared to come back unexpectedly to attack the general. This time, they will be wiped out. .

Li Guoqi thought this way, and he, who was fully clothed, led his personal guards to the top of the city. On the outside of the city, there were torches everywhere, illuminating the surroundings.

With the light of the torch, Li Guoqi looked outside and couldn't help but gasped.

All around outside the city, as far as the eye can see, there are all thieves, overwhelming the sky and covering the sky, and the shouts are earth-shattering.How could this be the remnants of the thieves who had escaped from the city?There must be at least tens of thousands of horses, right?
But Li Guoqi's army was terrified, because they had suffered from these thieves.The thieves are cruel and inhumane. If this small city is breached by the thieves, then how they killed others in the city just now will be reversed.

Seeing this scene, Li Guoqi, the commander-in-chief, was also a little panicked. He didn't expect things to turn out like this. According to Zongbing Lin's strategy, the main force of these thieves should be outside Yan'an Mansion at this time. Xia Yichuan and Suide, after taking away their lair, attacked them from behind, and then the soldiers and horses of Yan'an Mansion went out, and cooperated with each other to wipe out these thieves together, why did they come here?

More than 1 bandits stormed Yichuan, and Li Guoqi led the officers and soldiers to defend the city desperately.But they were caught off guard and rushed to the battle. Some of them were asleep and didn't understand what was going on.

What's more terrible is that the small city of Yichuan is similar to Suide, the city is not high, the pond is not deep, there is no danger to defend, and there are not enough defensive things on the city. Shooting arrows at the top of the city, under their cover, hundreds of thieves carried a large log weighing several thousand catties, and knocked down the city gate with just two blows.

Like a flood breaking a dike, thieves swarmed in, and the city was broken like this.

The 7000 officers and soldiers who were caught off guard were attacked by more than 1 thieves, killing corpses all over the field, and blood flowed into rivers.

Seeing that the city could not be defended anymore, Li Guoqi had to go down to the city to flee for his life. After changing his horse three times, he finally ran out from another city gate, opened a bloody road, and ran for more than 50 miles in one breath, and it was dawn.

Looking at the remnant soldiers and defeated generals around him, they were so embarrassed, they all lost their helmets and armor, blood stained their robes, and their faces were filthy, like the Stove King and his second uncle.

Seeing that the liu thieves were not chasing after them, they stopped to catch their breath.Counting the number of people even including the injured, there were only less than 600 people left around, and there were not one out of ten out of 8000 people. This battle was too tragic.

Li Guoqi stamped his feet and beat his chest, wanting to draw his sword and kill himself.Persuaded by his generals, he took down the sword: "My lord, don't take your life lightly. Victory or defeat is a common thing for military strategists. Today's battle is really unexpected. But don't worry, my lord. She Tie Tian and Sweeping Tiger have been wiped out. The rest of the people who are not lit and not sticky in the mud, Lin Zongbing can be used to fighting, and there will be news from Suide soon, and Huang Zongbing from Yan'an will send troops to wipe out these rogues. Just around the corner."

(End of this chapter)