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  Chapter 484 Chapter 481 [The Strange General]

   Going around, the four divisions in Sichuan and Guangxi went back to the rattan armored soldiers.

  Each division trains 3,000 rattan armored soldiers, equipped with stone and white rod soldiers. Of course, just learning from the style of the white gun, the specific material is definitely better than the white gun.

  Qin Liangyu’s chieftain of Shijie was very poor. If he wanted to equip soldiers on a large scale, he could only use the cheapest weapon materials.

  Nowadays, in the mountain camps of the Datong Army in Sichuan and Guangxi, the cost of one long gun is roughly equivalent to six white guns. Both wood and iron materials are of higher quality, but the iron hook design at the head and tail of the white gun is retained.

  Send dozens of vigorous soldiers to climb, with the spears connected to each other, and they can climb up with the spears all the way without the need for ropes.

  In addition, rattan armor is impenetrable by water and fire, and can float when crossing a river.

  With such a combination of weapons and armor, it is very suitable for fighting in the southwest region.

  Guangxi not only has many mountains, but also many caves.

  Especially those karst caves, warm in winter and cool in summer, with sufficient water sources, it is very easy to hide soldiers. As long as you prepare food in advance, you can hide in the mountains for a year, let alone go to the mountains to conquer, and you can't even find it.

  In the mountains to the west of Xinningzhou City, Cen Cha led his troops to hide in the cave.

  The soldiers were not in a very high mood, and all of them were frowning. They don't want to work for Dongzhu anymore, because they have already heard that the Datong army will not kill innocent people indiscriminately, and will also distribute land to ordinary people.

   Regardless of the Zhuang and Yao people, they can share the land!

A spies from the soldiers ran into the cave, walked up to Cen Cha, and said in a low voice, "There is news from the foot of the mountain that the Han army captured Qianlongzhai a few days ago. There are also a large number of Han troops in Xinningzhou City, but they haven't reported yet." Send troops to the mountains here."

  Cen Cha breathed a sigh of relief, waved his hand and said, "Go and investigate again. Once the Han army enters the mountain, come back and tell us immediately. Let's find a good place to set up an ambush."

   "Yes!" The spy spies left immediately.

   Cen Cha glanced at his soldiers and felt that he should say something. He walked to the middle of the cave, and he slandered: "Everyone knows what the government of the Han people and the army of the Han people are like. As long as we children are disobedient, we will be slaughtered at every turn. Even if we children are obedient, we will be tortured." The Han officials exploited. This Guangxi is the Guangxi of our children, and the Han people cannot be tolerated. Although the firearms of the Han people are powerful, they are like lost lambs in the mountains, and they will definitely not win."

   This set of rhetoric has been said countless times, but it has not aroused any positive reaction.

  Cen Cha continued: "Don't think about surrendering. Even if you surrender, the Han people will kill us all and take away our wives and children as slaves..."

"My lord..." a soldier couldn't help but interrupt, "I heard that the Han army gave the soldiers all the land. If we can win the Han army, can we also share the land? Can we keep some more food?"

Cen Cha was furious: "That's a lie, it's a lie made by the Han army! Don't you know how virtuous the Han people are? Even if the land is divided this year, it will be taken back in a few years. Even if the tax is not heavy this year , It will change back to the old way in a few years. Some of you have fields to cultivate in your homes, why are you still thinking about dividing the fields?"

  俍The soldiers didn't dare to speak anymore, but they were all slanderous, thinking that the master was not as good as a Han official.

  At the same time, they did not trust Han officials, because Ming officials left too many bad impressions on them.

  Han officials will deliberately exploit and oppress them, and will provoke their relationship with the Yao people, and then let the soldiers and the Yao people fight, and the Han officials will be happy if they lose both. When there was no war, the Zhuang and Yao people were forced to serve. The forced conscription alone forced Zhuang Yao to rebel several times.

  After Zhuang Yao rebelled, the Han officials would recruit other soldiers to suppress these rebellious people.

  Anyway, it is to let the ethnic minorities fight each other. After the suppression, the villages are often slaughtered, some land is allocated to the meritorious soldiers, and most of the land is privately swallowed by the Han officials.

  Of course, there are also Zhuang officials who are doing bad things, because the leaders of the soldiers can also gain benefits through conquests—they are equivalent to Ming’s mercenaries.

  These low-level soldiers and soldiers hide in the caves and live their lives. They miss their families, and they don't know why they are fighting, so they have already fallen into a state of confusion.

   "Boom!"

  After nightfall, there was lightning and thunder outside the cave, and the soldiers all put on blankets.

  Cen Cha was also very anxious. He was just a gangster before, and he took advantage of the chaos in Ming Dynasty to make trouble. As the Datong army pressed forward step by step, many forces like him gradually huddled together to keep warm and defend against the enemy together.

  Among them, there are also Han landlord forces, who are unwilling to lose their land and power.

   Over the past few years, the local coalition forces in Guangxi have been defeated many times, and have been beaten into a mess by the Datong Army. Since two years ago, the local army has not dared to fight head-on. When they encounter the Datong army, they will abandon the city and flee, hiding in the mountains to play hide-and-seek with the Datong army.

  They didn't expect to win, they just wanted to wear down the patience of the Datong army, and surrendered on the condition of being named chieftain.

  In the eyes of people like Cen Cha, it is normal for them to surrender and become a chieftain when the dynasty changes.

  Great Yuan is so powerful, and Daming is so powerful. When they pacified the southwest, they didn't kill them all. As long as you are willing to submit and surrender, you can get the position of chieftain and become a local emperor who owns a piece of land.

   But these Datong troops not only refused to serve as chieftains, but also took away their land and distributed it to the bottom peasants of various ethnic groups. Why should they be allowed to surrender?

   A few days later, the spies of the soldiers came back and reported: "The Han army is about to enter the mountain!"

   Cen Cha immediately walked out of the cave in person, led elite soldiers to investigate the enemy's situation, and then chose the ambush location. He wants to beat the Datong army in one battle, and then ask for surrender, and ask for a chieftain to do it.

   On the other side of the mountain, the Sanqian Datong Mountain Camp is also hiding in the cave.

  A soldier dressed as a soldier ran into the cave quickly: "General Chi, General Qin, the bandits have risen, and they have found their hiding place!"

   "Night attack tonight!" Chi Huchen stood up and said.

  The mountain battalion of the 13th Division is actually composed of two regiments. And the leading general, Chi Huchen, is the major general brigade commander. Lieutenant General Qin Gongming's position is the head of the colonel.

  With Chi Huchen's qualifications, he is actually qualified to be a teacher!

  He was originally a soldier of Zhu Xieyuan, governor of Jiangxi, and then became a soldier of Zhao Han. Finally, with two thousand Tengjia troops, he followed Zhang Tieniu to Hunan, and fought all the way from Hunan to Guangdong.

   Moreover, Chi Huchen served as a soldier under Huang Yao, and his rattan armor soldiers were reorganized by Huang Yao.

   Just from the "Major General Brigadier Commander", it can be seen that Chi Huchen must have serious flaws. He has made countless meritorious deeds and made many mistakes. His educational level is not as good as that of elementary school students, and he is simply unwilling to learn to read.

  As for Qin Gongming, he is Qin Liangyu's nephew. He became the deputy general of Ming Dynasty as early as the Tianqi period, and he is almost fifty years old now.

  He was transferred to Guangxi to teach the mountain warfare of the white pole soldiers. In the battle of the surprise attack on Chengdu, he was also a deputy general, and he led the white soldiers across the mountains and ridges, driving directly outside the city of Chengdu like a divine soldier descending from heaven.

  Chi Huchen and Qin Gongming led their troops around the mountain and climbed the mountain wall from the opposite direction.

  I saw dozens of mountain soldiers, took off their rattan armor and shoes, and climbed the cliff like apes. When they found a stable tree on the mountainside, they **** the spears, and then connected the guns to the end, extending all the way down the mountain. The rest of the soldiers climbed up the spears, not paying attention to the cliff at all.

  In a blink of an eye, three thousand people climbed the mountain successfully, and none of them stumbled and fell.

  Cencha's thousands of soldiers and Yao soldiers went to set up ambush points during the day, carrying rolling stones, rolling logs and the like. Since the main force of the Datong army was still at the foot of the mountain and did not really enter the mountain, they returned to the cave to rest at night.

   Defenseless!

  Because their hiding place was very secretive, they didn't expect it to be exposed, let alone the Datong Army.

  Even the soldiers in charge of sentry were dozing off one by one.

   Killed several sentries one after another, until a few meters away from the cave, finally a sentry sentry woke up, and hurriedly picked up the bamboo whistle and blew wildly.

  The cave is crowded with thousands of soldiers, not to mention there are food and supplies, so ordinary soldiers do not bring their families.

   Cen Cha brought his family and was sleeping with his concubine in his arms.

  Hearing the whistle, Cen Cha hurriedly got up, and there were already shouts of killing outside the cave.

   Cen Cha picked up his weapon and shouted: "Kill the thief, kill the thief, get out!"

  These soldiers are really fierce. Although their morale is low and their thoughts are confused, they actually rush out to kill the enemy when they encounter a night attack.

   Cen Cha planned to escape, the caves extend in all directions, and there is still a way out of the mountain if you go inside. He took his wife, concubine and children, and ran in the opposite direction in a panic. Because he didn't light a torch, he fell several times in a row. The wives and concubines were even more embarrassed. One of the concubines could not run with her legs sprained, so she was directly abandoned there by Cen Cha.

   "Surrender without killing!"

   As the leader of this night attack, Chi Huchen is simply incompetent. After he stabbed the sentinel to death, he rushed fast alone, with only a dozen people around him, and the rest of the troops were left behind.

   Instead, the deputy Qin Gongming was in charge of organizing the attack.

   Fortunately, although the soldiers were brave, they were attacked at night after all, and there was no organization at all. Relying entirely on blood and bravery, they rushed towards the entrance of the cave in a mess, and they couldn't figure out the situation.

  Chi Huchen led more than a dozen of his men, and rushed into the cave first, and stabbed at the enemy when he saw them, knocking over several in a row.

  He is also a standard military marksmanship, not good-looking, but practical, and he only knows the most basic moves. However, Chi Huchen's marksmanship is far more powerful than Wu Yong's, and his strength is even more incomparable.

   More and more soldiers rushed over, and Chi Huchen was not afraid, wearing rattan armor and continuing to charge, and finally entered the pile of soldiers alone.

   "The lord has run away, the lord has run away!"

  In the cave, there was a desperate cry from the soldiers.

  The soldiers who were fighting bravely finally began to lose their morale, and they knelt down and begged for surrender.

   Chi Huchen, who shouted "surrender and don't kill" all the way, killed several surrendered soldiers in succession. He didn't continue to charge until he was sure that the enemy had really surrendered. As the chief general, he wanted to chase the fleeing enemy general alone.

   Then, the thing got lost.

  Because the cave is like a maze, there are no torches in the twists and turns, so I don't know where to go around. Even with torches, there is a high chance of getting lost.

   It was not until five days later that Chi Huchen was found. The general was already starving to death.

  Looking at the dying Chihuchen, Qin Gongming didn't know what to say, so he could only turn around and urge, "Get some food!"

   (I have something to do tomorrow, I will make it up tomorrow.)

  (end of this chapter)