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Chapter eight hundred and thirteenth encounter surrounded

Yu Zilian's decisive and decisive methods made Yang Wenyue, who had been watching, admired him very much. At this time, Yang Wenyue also understood Yu Zilian's reputation and praised him for his own military means.

However, other officials could not learn these methods and did not want to learn them. In addition to Yu Zilian's extremely high prestige in the army, which made it difficult for the soldiers to rebel, his approach was to offend the entire Ming Dynasty officialdom and set up countless targets for the censors in the future. Therefore, Yu Zilian was completely betting on today for tomorrow. Therefore, Yang Wenyue, who was watching, was just admiring.

However, no matter how much praise is, Yang Wenyue will not let go when he should argue. When he continued to discuss the next step of action, Yu Zilian and Yang Wenyue had a fierce dispute.

Yu Zilian's opinion is: Anyway, he has won a great victory, so he will stop when he is better. Yu Zilian wants to retreat his troops and still maintains his fighting outside the peasant army.

For Yu Zilian, the purpose of sending troops this time was actually achieved. Victory allowed the new recruits to build confidence; military management methods allowed the new recruits to develop discipline. As long as you win so little more, Yu Zilian would have the confidence to train the Black Cloud Army to be like the original Ruzhou Army, let the soldiers worship themselves, and have a fanatical state of fighting. As for whether they can really escape Kaifeng City? Yu Zilian meant to do their best, and there was no need to force it.

Yu Zilian is not arrogant. Although he is very gambled, he will never think that his Black Cloud Army now has the strength to challenge Li and Luo coalition forces beyond the level.

But Yang Wenyue hopes to pursue the victory. He believes that he should pursue the defeated peasant army, strive to defeat Li and Luo coalition forces like snowballs, and at least open up the road to Kaifeng City.

To be honest, Yang Wenyue really doesn't understand military affairs very much. He seriously underestimated the strength of the Li and Luo coalition forces. However, we cannot blame Yang Wenyue, an amateur. Because the Ming army had been waiting for the victory of the peasant army for many years, it was just beheading hundreds and defeating thousands of peasant army battles. It was a great victory to report to the court. So Yang Wenyue was so blinded by the victory.

But Yang Wenyue's choice was also a helpless move. Because the crime of defeat he committed in Zhuxian Town was too great, if he could not escape Kaifeng, Yang Wenyue would not be able to compete with his merits and demerits. Therefore, the different starting points also led to the differences in the two coaches' next actions.

But just when there was a dispute, a reinforcements coming to join broke the balance.

To be more precise, this is not a reinforcement army, but a civilian-branch armed force with nearly 200 people. However, the leader who led this civilian-branch armed force is famous. He is the chief aide of the former Minister of War and the general of the world, Yang Tinglin, the chief aide of the former Minister of War and the general of the world.

After going to Gao Qiqian's army to rescue troops, Yang Tinglin took his several of his followers to the battlefield in order to do his best to assist, hoping to live and die with Lu Xiangsheng. However, Dorgon did not fulfill Yang Tinglin's wishes. When Yang Tinglin arrived at the battlefield, the Qing army had retreated to chase Gao Qiqian's army, and what was left to Yang Tinglin were the corpses of the soldiers of Tianxiong Army. After that, Yang Tinglin did things like burying the corpses, escorting Lu Xiangsheng's coffin back home, etc.

Later, because he did not surrender to Yang Sichang's demotion, Yang Tinglin resigned and returned to his hometown in Qingjiang. However, by this time, his reputation of being familiar with military affairs and noble character had spread throughout the world. Indeed, as Lu Xiangsheng's chief aide, Yang Tinglin would never be a military novices, and his willingness to live and die with Lu Xiangsheng also proved that his character was enough to be called first-class.

Afterwards, Yang Tinglin stayed at home and he refused the court's conspiracy and reinstatement several times. Perhaps Yang Tinglin was saddened by Lu Xiangsheng's death and was a little discouraged by the court; perhaps he wanted to support his hopes. Anyway, Yang Tinglin did not return to the Ming Dynasty officialdom, but only traveled around the world from time to time to seek relatives and friends.

When Kaifeng City was besieged, the officials in the city would definitely ask for help from the Beizhili government on the other side of the Yellow River. But now they would be powerless to let the Beizhili government send reinforcements. But this does not prevent the officials from sitting down to discuss. At such a "retreat meeting", Yang Tinglin, who happened to be traveling here, was also invited.

Facts proved that Yang Tinglin's blood was not cold at this time. When he learned that Kaifeng was in danger, he volunteered to recruit soldiers, hoping to use his own initiative to join the army to strengthen the strength of the government reinforcements.

The Tianxiong Army started in Daming Prefecture, so Yang Tinglin easily recruited some veterans of the Tianxiong Army. So in this way, Yang Tinglin, who crossed the Yellow River, met the coalition forces of Heiyun Army and Yang Wenyue. Yang Tinglin's arrival made him naturally join the coalition's decision-making group.

The original Yu Zilian and Yang Wenyue, Yu Zilian was slightly higher in terms of official positions; but in terms of qualifications, Yang Wenyue was far beyond that. So these two people can be said to be equal in size. But as soon as Yang Tinglin joined, the balance immediately tilted.

Yang Tinglin's meaning is very simple, that is, to continue moving forward and clear Kaifeng. Otherwise, Yang Tinglin would be full and full of passion? Yang Tinglin inherited the passionate style of the Tianxiong Army founded by Lu Xiangsheng. His idea was to be passionate and passionate, and to completely defeat the Li and Luo coalition forces with uninterrupted attacks and uninterrupted close combat.

To be honest, the years of unemployment at home have already made Yang Tinglin divorce from the actual situation. He didn't know: The current Li and Luo coalition forces are no longer the peasant army dealt with by Tianxiong Army a few years ago. However, Yang Tinglin is not the first and the last official who made such a wrong judgment.

Yang Tinglin speaks very seriously. Although he is no longer an official, no one in the world dares to treat him as an official. In addition, his reputation is actually no less than that of Yu Zilian and Yang Wenyue.

Another point is that General Hu Dawei and others are also under Lu Xiangsheng's original subordinates, and they are willing to obey Yang Tinglin's words, so Yu Zilian's opinions were suppressed and he had to continue the attack in the end.

The attack was still quite smooth at the beginning. After missing the partial division of the Peasant Army, a large gap in the encirclement had actually appeared here. After defeating several small peasant army, the Heiyun Army and Yang Wenyue's troops successfully advanced to Pingcheng and Township.

At this time, the big cabinet that could not hide it finally had to report to Li Zicheng. When he heard that an official army suddenly appeared on the east side of his body, and the defense here was also empty, Li Zicheng was shocked and immediately ordered Yuan Zongdi to lead 10,000 troops to block the gap first.

After Yuan Zongdi arrived, he first arranged nearly 10,000 remaining troops from the large cabinet, and then launched a battle with Yu and Yang coalition forces. However, the result of the battle still failed repeatedly. After all, Yuan Zongdi hurriedly led only temporary troops, and the old battalion had very few troops. If the Heiyun Army had not been quite unfamiliar with the combat performance, Yang Wenyue's army would have been fighting with a lot of force, and perhaps Yuan Zongdi would have suffered another crushing defeat.

Fortunately, after losing three or four thousand troops, Yuan Zongdi finally resisted it. He finally waited for the support of the 6,000-8 cavalry team led by He Yaoqi. As soon as He Yaoqi arrived, he immediately took over the command of the peasant army.

At this moment, Yu Zilian once again proposed to retreat overnight, but was rejected by Yang Wenyue and Yang Tinglin. They believed that the retreat of the army at night would easily turn into a defeat. Moreover, the night blindness of the army was very serious. Even if it retreated smoothly, the losses of the army would be heavy.

Therefore, Yang Wenyue and Yang Tinglin proposed: In the battle with the peasant army tomorrow, first repel He Yaoqi's troops, and then retreat calmly. This decision made this official army lose the last chance to escape unscathed.

In the battle the next day, the cavalry that broke into the camp showed its power. This was an era when cavalry was king. When the cavalry group began to charge, it was a posture that either you died or I lived. Therefore, the two armies fought with the courage of the soldiers on both sides.

However, when the cavalry in the camp began to charge, the soldiers of Yang Wenyue's army fled first. Anyway, they had already escaped once in Zhuxian Town, so it would not be embarrassing to escape again. However, this immediately caused chaos in the formation of the official army.

Yu Zilian was considered unlucky to meet his teammate. When he saw that the situation was not good, he immediately restrained the troops, formed a close group, and fought and retreated to move backwards.

In this battle, the Heiyun Army, which was mainly recruits, performed well. With Yu Zilian leading the way, the Heiyun Army carried out several counter-charges, killing and injuring a large number of peasant soldiers, so that they did not dare to force them too much. Moreover, Yu Zilian's training of the Heiyun Army to arrange formations day and night also had the effect. Although the cavalry in the camp was spinning around the Heiyun Army, they still couldn't find a place to stop. In addition, the cavalry of the peasant army was still chasing Yang Wenyue's army, which caused the insufficient force to attack the Heiyun Army, and finally the Heiyun Army retreated from the battlefield smoothly.

Then the official army fled and the peasant army pursued the peasant army. After two days of retreat, when the Heiyun army retreated to Yangyu Town, they found that the peasant army around had already surrounded. So Yu Zilian ordered camping on the spot, built fortifications based on the town's buildings to resist the encirclement and annihilation of the peasant army. Yu Zilian also sent a quick horse to Runing for help, hoping that Wu Shigong would save him from the fire and water again.

Yang Wenyue's army collapsed into two large pieces. One group with more than 4,000 people fled into Lankao County with Yang Wenyue and Hu Dawei. The other group with nearly 2,000 people fled to Yangyu Town and occupied the town with Yu Zilian's Heiyun Army.

The more than 8,000 people from Tian Jianxiu's army, the three thousand cavalry of Li Guo's army, and the more than 7,000 people from Liu Tichun's army gradually arrived. They and He Yaoqi together surrounded the two official troops again.
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