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

Chapter 244 Taking Nanyang Without Bloodshed
Someone promised to send an order to go.

At this time, Li Zicheng gave another order to behead all the dozens of generals who ran back from Lin Yi's camp to deliver letters to him.

These people yelled that they were wronged. They could swear to Tianmeng that they never betrayed King Chuang, nor did they reveal any information about King Chuang to Lin Yi.

These people felt remorse when they were dying, and they didn't expect such a result. They were loyal to King Chuang, but they were still killed by King Chuang. You must know that they didn't come back without saying anything, and stayed in Ji Dong's university like everyone else. How good is the camp, there is food and drink, money to take, and meritorious service, even if he dies in battle, his family can still get pensions, how is it now, where can he complain for being killed like this?Why didn't you listen to advice at the beginning?I am such a jerk plus three levels!
Now Li Zicheng's complexion has returned to normal, but his face is a bit sad and depressed. It seems that he can't beat this Lin Yi no matter what, and he must make a decisive decision to break through, so he regained his strength and ordered the generals to be summoned immediately.

Gao Guiying and others saw that Li Zicheng was fine, and their worries were gradually eased.He secretly complained that God was too unfair and dealt too much blow to Li Zicheng.Why is it always Li Zicheng who fails, making him keep fighting and failing?

But in my heart, I admire Li Zicheng's indomitable spirit after repeated defeats, who can compare?
Soon Liu Zongmin, Li Guo, Li Laiheng, Liu Fangliang, Yuan Zongdi, Tian Jianxiu, Lan Yingcheng, Bai Minghe, Liu Tichun, Dang Shousu, etc., all arrived.

These generals had brought their own troops and were ready to break through.As long as the people they sent respond, that is to say, the Ming army's camp is in chaos, and they can break through at any time according to Li Zicheng's deployment.

Now I have received an order from Li Zicheng again. I don’t know what happened. When I came here to take a look, I saw that Li Zicheng’s face was not quite right. The joy and self-confidence that he had before with a well-thought-out strategy was gone. frustrated.

They didn't know what was going on, and no one dared to ask.

Li Zicheng immediately issued an order to break through at midnight tonight, changing the original deployment of the front army, middle army and rear army, and dividing the 7000 troops into two battalions to break through.Let Liu Zongmin take Dang Shousu, Bai Minghe, Lan Yingcheng, Liu Tichun, etc., and lead an army of 3000 out of the city to break through to the northeast.

Li Zicheng himself commanded the remaining 4000 troops, including Gao Guiying's women's battalion and child soldiers, to break through to the northwest after leaving the city. Gao Yigong, Li Guo, Li Laiheng, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Fangliang, Tian Jianxiu and other generals followed the camp to listen use.

After breaking through the siege, the two groups went to Wanluodian (later Nanzhao County, Nanyang City) in the south of Funiu Mountain for a round.

When the generals heard this, they were a little puzzled by Li Zicheng's sudden change of focus, especially Liu Zongmin, who was waiting for Li Zicheng's plan to succeed and Ji Yi's camp to be in chaos, so he rushed to kill for a while to relieve his anger. Catch or kill Ji Dong, after all, his sword is not easy to use now, if he is singled out against Ji Dong now, he is absolutely sure to win.

But unexpectedly, Li Zicheng changed his mind suddenly, and couldn't help saying: "King Chuang, aren't we planning to break out to the south? Why did we suddenly go north?"

Li Zicheng's face turned red, and he lowered his head like rain with a gloomy face, but he couldn't prevaricate Liu Zongmin.

I could only patiently explain to him: "Jiexuan, we were going to break out to the south, but something happened. All the troops we sent to Lin Yi's camp were wiped out. This sudden change has no choice but to do so."

But after Li Zicheng said this, not only Liu Zongmin, but also Li Guo, Li Laiheng, Liu Fangliang and other generals were all shocked and looked at each other in disbelief.

He was confident and safe just now, why did such an accident suddenly occur?

Liu Zongmin was a little unwilling, "King Chuang, the Ming army must be gathering here. Of course, the north is the most important, and there are only Lin Yi's troops in the south. Besides, his sword can only be seen as a painting now, even though the people we sent failed. , that's okay, let's break out from here, I'll take the lead, smash Ji Dong's camp into a mess, and kill this kid!"

Li Zicheng knew that Liu Zongmin had a grudge against Lin Yi, so why didn't he want to deal with Lin Yi?Under the watchful eyes of everyone, his plan fell through like this, forcing him to temporarily change the battle plan, making him lose face of Chuangwang.

But Li Zicheng is calmer than Liu Zongmin after all, so he shook his head after listening to Liu Zongmin's words: "Jiexuan, now is not the time to be arrogant. It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years. Let's remember this account for Lin first. Now that our people It has been exposed, and the person surnamed Lin must have made preparations. Nanyang is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and Lin Yi's men and horses are all in the east, west, and east. Only the north is occupied by Zhu Dadian and Tiger David's men. This is the only place we can break through. After we break out of the siege, only a hundred miles is a big mountain, as long as we can enter the mountain, it will be our world."

"Okay then, I'll be Yi Chuang Wang." Liu Zongmin listened to what Li Zicheng said was reasonable and didn't dispute it.

According to Li Zicheng's order, the generals went down to prepare soon.

It was the middle of the night, and Li Zicheng's 7000 troops were divided into two groups and all were ready, regardless of men, women or children, all of them were armed with handy weapons.

In order to minimize the movement in the city, Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin ordered that no fire be allowed.Thousands of people in the dark under the night did not have a single torch.

After the north gate was wide open, the suspension bridge was lowered, and Liu Zongmin led 3000 people to rush out suddenly, heading northeast, with the cavalry in front and the infantry behind.

After this group of troops came out, Li Zicheng's troops followed. Li Zicheng's 4000 troops were still very hierarchical. Generals Liu Fangliang and Yuan Zongdi led 1000 cavalry to lead the way ahead. The 2000 troops in the middle were Li Zicheng's guard battalion, which was also his old battalion. In addition to the captain of the guard, Shuangxi, the generals who escorted him also included Li Guo and Li Laiheng.

Followed by hundreds of women's battalion and child soldiers, of course Gao Guiying personally led this team, Huiying and Huimei each followed their wife with a sword.

In the end, Gao Yigong and Tian Jianxiu led 500 people to break the rear.

After the team left the city, they headed northwest to kill.

In the middle of the night, these two teams suddenly rushed out.Soon encountered a team of officers and soldiers.To the northeast is Hu Dawei's camp, and to the northwest is Zhu Dadian's camp.The joint battalion of these two general officers is basically connected together, there is no gap in the middle.Lin Yi ordered the two of them to guard the north of Nanyang City, and Lin Yi's soldiers and horses were on the east, west, and south sides.

Now Zhu Dadian and Tiger David, the two teams together have more than 1 horses.

When I met Lin Yi in Baishuihe two months ago, Zhu Dadian alone had more than 1 soldiers in Nanjing, and Tiger David had 8000 soldiers in Baoding.

Recently, Yang Sisichang led them to fight several battles with Li Zicheng, and they were defeated several times, wounded soldiers and generals, and the number of both teams was reduced by thousands. 13000, compared to Li Zicheng's 8000 troops, the strength is still strong.

Soon the two thieves encountered these officers and soldiers, and the shouts of killing were earth-shattering.Li Zicheng and the others did not carry torches, but the officers and soldiers did. The arrows flowed like rain, the guns blared, and the flames soared into the sky, turning into a mess.

At this time, the battlefield was tens of miles away from Ji Dong's camp, the battlefield was to the north, and Ji Dong's camp was to the south, with Nanyang City just in the middle.

A scout had reported Lin Yi, Lin Yi and Xiao Ying, and after Zhe Zhe had dressed, Zhang Hua had assembled outside with the battalion of guards.

Lin Yi mounted his horse with a knife and ordered the battalions to attack Nanyang City overnight, intending to cut off Li Zicheng's retreat.At this time, Nanyang City became an empty city except for the common people. Li Zicheng's men and horses had all left.

Therefore, Lin Yi's more than 2 horsemen quickly captured Nanyang City without bloodshed, strictly enforced military discipline, and did not disturb the people.

At this time, it was almost dawn, and the northwest and northeast were still burning with torches, and there were bursts of shouts and killings.

"Does the general want to support Zhu Dadian and Hu David?" one of the generals under his command asked.

Lin Yi smiled, "No need. Didn't the two of them want to attack the city a long time ago? Give them a chance to make meritorious deeds, so that they won't be jealous when they watch us win the battle."

At dawn, Lin Yi received a report that Li Zicheng's two men succeeded in breaking through and ran into the mountains overnight.Zhu Dadian and Hu Dawei were trampled into the battalion by Li Zicheng's two troops, losing troops and generals.

(End of this chapter)