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  Chapter 200 198 [Rolling all over the floor like a crane]

  Chen Tingdui stood on the mountain and observed the military situation down the mountain with binoculars.

  He is still confused, why did the landlord and the peasant become thieves together?

  The imperial court did not pay enough, the rewards were delayed, and the soldiers made their own fortunes by plundering. This is a universal truth. He didn't do too much. Most of the officers and soldiers were like this in encircling and suppressing the rogues in the north, otherwise the fight would have been impossible.

  Even Sun Chuanting, who became the governor of Shaanxi this year, has already relaxed the constraints on the generals because the imperial court has not been paid enough.

  No way, you can’t raise soldiers without grabbing food.

   Once the restraint is relaxed, military discipline is like water breaking through a dike, and it cannot be taken back even if you want to. Sun Chuanting's pacesetters may be better, but they are only better. Ever since he led troops in Shaanxi, he has been impeached and his military discipline has been corrupted.

  The tribesmen burned, killed and looted the people, but Sun Chuanting pretended not to see them, neither encouraged nor punished them.

  What can Sun Chuanting do?

  He played too late, and when he became the governor and commander of the army, the court's finances were on the verge of collapse. If he didn't acquiesce in the robbery of the troops, the officers, soldiers and generals under his command would dare to demonstrate to him what it means to be a mutiny and make a fuss!

  Of all the supervisors in the late Ming Dynasty, only Lu Xiangsheng treated the people kindly, and his military discipline was very strict. The Tianxiong Army once ran out of food for three days without collapsing, making noise, or looting, and finally won the battle. At that time, Lu Xiangsheng distributed the last rations. As the coach, he starved for three days with the soldiers.

  That's why Chen Ting felt it was hard to understand, it was done like this all over the country, why was he the only one who kicked the iron plate?

  Because someone connected in series!

  The missionary officer who was born as a poor scholar went to connect with the landlord and gentry. The missionary officer and the backbone of the peasant association who came from a poor background went to connect with the local farmers and tenants.

  As long as someone organizes and takes the lead in series, and Fei Ruhe leads the troops as the backing, what is there to be afraid of? In just a few days, an army composed of landlords and peasants was pulled out.

"Master Taishan," Huang Hanliang put down the binoculars, "our army is condescending, and we can send the main force to defeat the local militia. Those are all mobs, and they don't even have a formation. There is a mass in the east and a mass in the west, and the gunfire salvo will surely flee. Once these people are defeated , It is likely to cause the old bandits from Luling to be defeated, and then our army will be able to take advantage of the victory and pursue."

  Chen Ting said with a sigh: "That's the only way to go."

   In fact, this series of battles seemed particularly weird, completely beyond the scope of Chen Ting's cognition.

  He took the risk of crossing the river to set up an ambush, but it was also a helpless move, because the rebels formed a peasant association outside the city and trained farmers and soldiers. The longer the time dragged on, the stronger the anti-thieves' strength became, and Chen Ting had to take risks.

   Immediately, Chen Ting sent elites to attack the landlord-peasant coalition army, spending a lot of money on defense against the weak brigades.

   "Bang bang bang!"

  A round of volleys from the fire gun battalion of officers and soldiers caused more than 3,000 militiamen to flee in an instant.

   Several Fujian generals took the opportunity to cover up the killing, and nearly ten thousand militiamen collapsed across the board. Most of them fled in all directions, while a few rushed towards Fei Ruhe's main force.

  When the sound of gunfire came from the friendly army, it meant that the elite officers and soldiers were not in sight, so Fei Ruhe immediately ordered the whole army to attack.

   This tactic was learned by Fei Ruhe from Zhao Han.

  You hit yours, I hit mine.

  Fei Ruhe didn't bother to rescue those friendly troops, he didn't even stay in the reserve team, he put all his eggs in one basket and headed in the direction of the officers and soldiers Shuaiqi.

  With more than 5,000 troops, they began to rush up the mountain.

   Fei Ruhe, who was still a wise general before, has now turned into a fierce general, leading his own soldiers to the front.

   "Shhhhhh!"

  The officers and soldiers were still hiding the bow and arrow troops. Fei Ruhe rushed halfway, and had already been shot with six arrows. Some arrows landed on the ground, and some arrows were still stuck in his body, none of these could stop Fei Ruhe's charge. Anyway, he was wearing cotton armor and a bamboo helmet with iron plates embedded on his head, as long as he didn't get shot in the face and neck.

  The chief general charged forward, and the morale of the whole army was greatly boosted.

  The elite officers and soldiers were sent to fight against the coalition of landlords and peasants, and the defense was relatively weak, but Fei Ruhe's attack was at the right time.

  If he hesitated for a moment and all the friendly troops fled, Fei Ruhe would be attacked from both sides.

  When Fei Ruhe led the army to attack the top of the mountain and the moment the two sides came into contact, the weak brigade of officers and soldiers immediately broke open.

   "Fill it in with me!"

  Chen Ting is worthy of being the champion of martial arts, and he has no idea what it means to be afraid.

   Seeing a gap in his own front, he immediately led the Chinese army to fill it.

   Coach hits coach!

   "Hey!"

  Chen Tingdui slashed down suddenly, and with the power of charging from top to bottom, he wanted to hack Fei Ruhe to death on the spot.

"when!"

  Fei Ruhe hurriedly blocked with his sword horizontally, his mouth was numb from the shock, and even half of his arm was numb.

   This guy is so strong!

  Chen Ting was relentless when he gained power, and he slashed at him again. Fei Ruhe couldn't change his move, so he could only panic and block again.

"when!"

  The saber in Fei Ruhe's hand was chopped off by Chen Tingdui. Regardless of his appearance, he hurriedly took advantage of the situation and threw himself down, then rolled back into the formation along the slope.

  Go back in the physical sense, Fei Ruhe has never been so embarrassed.

"kill!"

  Chen Tingdui still wanted to chase after him, so he stabbed a few wolf whisks at him. This thing is not only fierce, but also insidious, it can block the line of sight.

   At this moment, several pikemen jumped over the shield wall and stabbed at Chen Tingdui's throat and calf.

  Chen Tingdui hurriedly dodged his vitals, and his calf, which was not well protected by the armor, was stabbed, so scared that Chen Tingdui also hurriedly retreated into the formation.

  The coaches and personal soldiers of the two sides fought like this, and it was hard to tell the winner for a while.

  However, the troops fighting next to each other quickly decided the winners and losers.

   All the elite Datong soldiers attacked this time, while Chen Ting stayed behind to defend, but they belonged to troops with weaker combat effectiveness. To put it bluntly, they were all Fujian Xiangyong recruited two years ago, who defeated the peasant army at the border of the three provinces, and other than that, they only trained once every eight days.

  Chen Ting’s two-winged front collapsed bit by bit. Seeing this, he shouted: "Hold half a stick of incense, and hold another half stick of incense, and you will win!"

   Indeed, another half stick of incense will win.

  Because his son-in-law Huang Hanliang had already defeated the coalition forces of landlords and peasants, and brought his elite back to the mountain, trying to flank the rebels back and forth.

   At that time, the rebels will be defeated!

  However, not half a stick of incense, nor even a tenth stick of incense could withstand it.

   "Kill!"

  A Datong army commander named Liu Erliang, who was born as a tenant, took the lead in defeating the enemy in front of him. He immediately led troops to help the friendly army, and flanked a sentry of Fujian soldiers, just like smashing tofu with a hammer, smashing the enemy's formation in an instant.

  As if the dominoes fell, Fujian soldiers collapsed one after another.

  Seeing that the situation is not good, Chen Tingdui, who was brave enough to beat Fei Ruhe and fled in embarrassment, immediately fled with his own soldiers.

   "Chasing the enemy from one post to ten posts, be sure to chase the enemy to scatter for their lives. The rest of the troops, the whole army defends against the enemy!"

  Fei Ruhe finally picked up his steel knife and began to give orders calmly.

   This knife is about to be scrapped, and Chen Tingdui cut two big cuts, Wu Zhuangyuan is really not an ordinary person.

   "Listen to the order, wind up!"

   A thousand archers bent their bows and set arrows, facing the elite officers and soldiers attacking from the bottom of the mountain, they fired a volley of condescension.

   "Come back, come back!"

  Huang Hanliang brought a battalion of one thousand guns and wanted to continue to attack. Unexpectedly, the other officers, soldiers and generals all fled with their troops. Seeing that the commander on the mountain had been defeated, how could they have the courage to continue fighting?

   "Follow me to chase the enemy!"

   "Doo doo doo da da da da doo..."

  Fei Ruhe gave the order to charge again, Suona blew the charge horn, and the 4,000 Datong soldiers descended like tigers.

   "Bang bang bang!"

  Huang Hanliang had one last chance left. He ordered the Fire Gun Battalion to aim in the direction of Fei Ruhe's commander-in-chief.

  However, before the Datong soldiers entered the effective range, the Fujian gunfire soldiers fired ahead of time, and then turned around and fled in disregard of Huang Hanliang's military order.

  Huang Hanliang had no choice but to flee, but he escaped late and was soon overtaken by Datong soldiers.

   This person wanted to fight desperately, but was stabbed to death by several long guns.

  A man who was born as a child prodigy, with both civil and military skills, was recruited in history to fight against the Qing Dynasty and died for his country. At this moment, he died on an unnamed hillside outside the city of Ganzhou. From the beginning to the end, he did not have a serious **** battle with the rebels.

   "Fujian soldiers lost, Fujian soldiers lost!"

  The mission officers and the backbone of the peasant association who were mixed with the defeated militia immediately cheered happily when they heard the charge from the mountain.

  They gathered up the broken soldiers along the way, turned back, and beat the dogs in the water.

  And those fujian elites who fled didn't have a single wound on their bodies. Facing the super weak peasants and soldiers, they couldn't summon up the courage to fight.

  The battlefield at the foot of the mountain was a mess, with peasant troops armed with hoes, poles, kitchen knives, and bamboo guns. They have no formation to speak of, a group in the east and a group in the west, chasing and killing Fujian's elite soldiers.

   Whenever a Fujian elite falls, they immediately rush up to beat them up.

  Sometimes, a small group of Fujian elites counterattacked, scaring many times the peasants and soldiers to flee.

  The mountains and plains are full of deserters and pursuers everywhere. Sometimes it is even unclear who is fleeing and who is chasing.

  Fujian general Chen Tingdui rushed down the mountains from the north and fled all the way into the mountains further north. After entering the mountain, he finally didn't see any more pursuers. He quickly counted the number of people, and his eyes turned black with anger.

  There are only forty people around him...

  Other troops, including his personal soldiers, have completely fled, and there is no way to get together again in other places.

  Chen Ting didn't dare to delay, so he rested for a while and continued to flee for his life in the mountains. He had to find a nearby county as soon as possible. As long as they entered the county seat, they would immediately write a letter to sue and blame Zou Weilian.

  The content is well thought out, the governor of Fujian Zou Weilian, the whole family was caught by the rebels, so they secretly ordered from the rebels. Zou Weilian first stood still and watched the rebels occupy the natural danger of Wan'an, and then commanded the navy to send them into the rebel trap, causing the main force of Fujian officers and soldiers to be surrounded by the rebels.

   It's all the governor's fault!

  Fei Ruhe spent a day and a night cleaning the battlefield, and captured more than 3,000 officers and soldiers.

   In fact, more prisoners could be captured, but the local gentry and peasants vented their anger by killing prisoners in various ways. Many Fujian soldiers would rather jump into the river and escape than be caught by the local villagers.

  Those dead boatmen responsible for luring the enemy, only six died, and more than 80 people were missing. It is unknown where they were washed ashore, or their bodies could not be found after drowning.

  Just when Fei Ruhe moved his troops across the river to encircle Ganzhou City, Gu Jianshan suddenly received a military order: the navy immediately went north to fight!

   Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of the five southern provinces, could not sit back and watch the friendly troops in Ganzhou be besieged.

  His idea is very correct, Zou Weilian only needs to defend Ganzhou City until the autumn harvest is over on his side. As long as there is autumn grain and sufficient food, Zhu Xieyuan will send troops to attack Fengcheng County, forcing the main rebels to withdraw their troops from Ganzhou.

  In this way, the rebels can be exhausted and the city of Ganzhou can be kept.

   Maybe, Zou Weilian can send troops from Ganzhou and take the opportunity to take down Wan'an County!

  (end of this chapter)