Chapter 108: Those who bravely kill the enemy will last forever!
The leader of the Ming army's cavalry was Cao Yuan, the Thousand General of the Shidewei Division of the Capital Division. This man was originally the general of Liaodong, currently the general of the governor and the subordinate of Liu Zhaoji, who was the governor of the Nanjing Grand Seminary.
Because Shi Kefa saw that the troops in the southern capital were useless, he sent deputy general He Gang to Yiwu, Zhejiang and Dongyang to recruit troops. He wanted to build Zhongguan Camp to defend the river, so he drew Cao Yuan from He Gang's troops.
However, Cao Yuan had a slight relationship with He Gang in his early years and was unwilling to be controlled by him. Liu Zhaoji failed to adjust it. Shi Kefa called Cao Yuan temporarily in Yangzhou's official post.
Cao Yuan's cavalry had 103 regular soldiers, more than 200 auxiliary soldiers, and more than 370 horses. Most of them were old soldiers in Liaodong and had great combat power. At that time, under the command of Liu Zhaoji, he and others defeated the Qing army in Huangtutai, Songshan and Xingshan.
Only then did Cao Yuan's army have thousands of elite cavalry, but now there are only 103 people left. The rest will either die in battle or leave the team and go north.
Even Liu Zhaoji, who was the governor and the magistrate of the Liaodong army, was no longer as powerful as the general of Liaodong. Now he is a famous and untrue admiral in Na Nandu, and his subordinates are no more than a thousand people.
"If the thief dares to line up, there must be a deceased man's brain. We should not move lightly, and we will go to the Dushi to know quickly!"
Those who have experienced the battle for a long time will not be so stupid as to attack the thieves with a team of 100 people. At that time, they will immediately report to the rear while watching the thieves' movements.
The Ming army brigade was still ten miles away, and the horse team in front was reported to have a large number of thieves lined up on the official road. Shi Dewei, the assistant minister of the capital, was surprised. If the thieves could reach this point, Gaoyou and Baoying would have fallen into the hands of the thieves, otherwise the thieves would not have the courage to approach Yangzhou; if the thieves could see the horse team but not disperse, it was no longer the mob he thought before, so he couldn't help but be cautious.
"Are there any officers and soldiers among the thieves?"
Cai Yiqing, the ethics officer of Shi Dewei's subordinate, estimated that otherwise he would not be able to explain the thief's bold actions.
"The Caoyuan has recently recruited troops from other places to enter Huaihe, and the quality inside is uneven. It is difficult to guarantee that no brave people take the opportunity to rebel. It is possible that the soldiers from other places are worshipping each other."
After being fair and turmoil for many years, today is a soldier and tomorrow is a thief, Shi Dewei is no longer surprised.
At that time, people were ordered to notify the military information of Gansu Town General Li Chifeng and Sichuan Dazhou Deputy General Hu Shangyou. At the same time, they ordered the troops in the headquarters to speed up the marching speed and prepare for the battle.
"Are the Huaiyang thieves ignorant or fearless?"
Li Chifeng, the general of Gansu Town, was determined to make contributions in the quelling of the rebellion so that he could take root in the prosperous Huaiyang area in the future. After receiving the military information of Shi Dewei, he also ordered his troops to speed up the marching speed, and even planned to send people to Shi Dewei to let their Gansu soldiers take the lead, so that Shi Dewei knew that his Gansu soldiers did not come to Yangzhou for free for a meal.
The military supervisor Gao Qifeng persuaded Li Qifeng not to attack this front.
“Why?”
Li Qifeng was puzzled. The one who asked him and Hu Shangyou to take the initiative to lead troops to help Huaiyang quell the rebellion was this Eunuch Gao. Why did the thief come in front of him and ask him not to fight?
Gao Qifeng laughed dryly: "If the thief is vulnerable, this move in the Taiwan Strait will only make people laugh at me and won't get any benefit. But if the thief is good at fighting and Shi Dewei is unable to fight, the Taiwan Strait will send troops to rescue friendly troops and suppress the thief's rebellion. That is the real great achievement. Shi Gong must look at the Taiwan Strait a few times at that time, and the great thing is the Zhentai."
"It's still Eunuch Gao who thinks it thoroughly."
Li Qifeng suddenly realized, smiled "hehe" and gave Gao Qifeng a clear look, "Then tell the men to keep it away, so that they won't say that I, Li Qifeng, will snatch me, everywhere."
He was also afraid that Hu Shangyou would also be competing for meritorious service, so he quickly sent someone to notify him.
However, Hu Shangyou didn't take Shi Dewei's thief affection at all. It was not that he was very capable of fighting and did not take the thief in his eyes, but that he did not want to fight at all.
Regarding the subject and the guest, Sdewey was the first to go.
In terms of how many soldiers and horses, Li Qifeng was the first to go.
No matter how much it is, it is not his turn to Deputy General Hu to take people to come first.
At this moment, Hu Shangyou just wanted to save these two thousand of his subordinates. He really didn't want anything else.
This is also helpless.
I think that Hu Shangyou was ordered to lead his troops from Dazhou to the Central Plains to pacify the bandits in the 12th year of Chongzhen. Five years have passed and more than half of them have been killed. Only hundreds of people can be called warriors, and the rest are masters who have been arrested one after another in recent years.
At this point, the court never asked him to go back. Today he sent him to the Prime Minister, tomorrow he sent him to the Deputy Envoy, and then he would be governed by the governor. In the past five years, Hu Shangyou didn't know how many immediate bosses he had changed. The only thing that remained unchanged was defeat, defeat, defeat.
This battle is always unsuccessful.
This thief is always killed.
Hu Shangyou was tired. He wanted to go back to Sichuan, but he couldn't go back. Now, he just lived one day.
Whoever can fight, whoever will fight!
Hu Shangyou is very serious about how many pounds he weighs, otherwise he would not be able to follow Li Qifeng's horse. He is really not good at making such a person, and his back is not strong.
If you really want to be strong, you can still be afraid of Huang Chuangzi!
Li Qifeng told him not to show off his power, but Hu Shangyou couldn't ask for it.
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Shi Dewei did not have the idea of letting the Gansu soldiers and Sichuan soldiers take the lead. First, he looked down on these scum who only knew how to harm the people all day long and fled far away when he heard about the thieves. Second, the thieves were in Huaiyang. As the aid to the Dudu Department, he was unlucky in quelling the rebellion. Therefore, after informing the two divisions of the thieves, he personally supervised the troops forward.
Cao Yuan, who had been watching the thief closely, saw the brigade coming and immediately came to report.
"Dusi, the thieves have met about two thousand people, most of which are swords and spears. There are more than a hundred people wearing armor, and there are more than ten people wearing iron armor. There are more than a dozen carriages in the thief formation. I don't know what is installed on the chariot... In addition, the thief already has a banner, and it looks like it is Huai."
Old Cao, who had been a border army in his early years, did not lose his skills at all. In just half an hour, he explored the details of the Huai Army by 70% or 80%.
"Huai?"
Shi Dewei jumped off his horse, surrounded by Cao Yuan and others and climbed up the haystacks of local villagers and looked northward. Sure enough, there were large thieves standing in line and waiting for the wheat fields on both sides. In front of the thieves, a big flag with "Huai" character was floating under the cold wind.
"Has Mr. Cao Qian had any contact with the thief?" Shi Dewei asked Cao Yuan after jumping off the haystack.
"The last general did not contact the thieves. Most of the places are ditches. It seems that the thieves have a leader to command, but not like ordinary thieves. The last general did not act without authorization."
Cao Yuan was talking about the truth. Although the Huaiyang area is a plain, there are many ditches and lakes. The farming plots of people are not like the north being connected to form a whole, but are one in the east and one in the west, and there are mostly ditches between them. Cavalrymen cannot play the advantage of fast maneuvering in this terrain, but are prone to falling off horses. In addition, the thieves are obviously formed in formation and have many weapons at length, so he dare not attack rashly.
Shi Dewei nodded. He was a young man who had experience in military formations. On the way he arrived just now, he was worried that Cao Yuan would suffer losses to underestimate the enemy and affect his morale. Now it seems that he is completely over-concerned.
"Dusi, there are no other troops in the thief. This will ensure that only the thief will be defeated, and most of them will be buried."
Cao Yuan did not dare to use the horse team to contact the thieves, but he was not blind. Huaiyang was a plain and the thieves could not hide their troops. Therefore, he concluded that most of the bandits did not know that the Ming army in Yangzhou had come to this point, and the situation between the two sides was an encounter that no one had expected.
Shi Dewei agreed with this. When he was pondering who was sending to lead the troops to defeat the bandits, the ethics officer Cai Yiqing asked if he wanted to send someone to persuade the surrender.
Cao Yuan opposed the persuasion of surrender and said, "The thieves have already discovered the Mama team, but no one has come over for a long time. Instead, they have stepped up preparations for the war. The thieves think that the thieves are determined to rebel. For such thieves, only by killing their leaders can they scare the thieves and then surrender. Otherwise, even if they surrender now, there will be endless troubles."
"Master Cao Qian's words are reasonable. Dusi, let the general lead his troops to cut off his head hundreds of them before talking about whether to surrender!"
The person who spoke was Meng Qingyu, another thousand general under Shi Dewei's army, who was once a servant of the deputy general Zu Kuan.
At that time, Lu Xiangsheng, the prime minister of the five provinces, once submitted a report to the court, saying: "Only Zu Dale, Zu Kuan ruled the most powerful Liao Ding and killed the most thieves."
However, Zu Kuan was arrogant and burned down houses wherever his troops passed, and raped women. He was a traitor. Lu Xiangsheng repeatedly advised him, but Zu Kuan did not restrain himself. In the winter of the 11th year of Chongzhen, he was executed for "losing the vassal state" for "destroying the vassal state".
As soon as Zu Kuan died, most of his Liao army returned to Liao, and the young army was captured by Shi Kefa, the then assistant censor, governor of An, Lu, Chi, Tai and other states.
Meng Qingyu is one of them. He has been promoted to the top of the general with his military achievements. He is the most trustworthy and dependent general under Shi Dewei.
Shi Dewei pondered for a moment and nodded in agreement, "Okay, Mr. Meng Qian is fighting this front, one is calling the thief to be scared, and the other is calling the two guest troops behind him to know that our troops are strong and not to do anything wrong," he said.
But before I finished speaking, I heard the sound of "hey roar" sounds.
This call came from the north, and the loud sound caused the sparrows in the space of several miles of the Ming army to fly in the sky, circling continuously, and not daring to fall for a long time.
Shi Dewei and his subordinates were even more shocked. Everyone quickly climbed up the haystack, and the scene in front of them stunned them.
It was the thief who took the initiative to attack!
"Hey roar!"
"Hey roar!"
Lu Si shouted, Huai Army shouted.
The "Hey roar" sounded like a drum beat, making the Huai Army as a whole, slowly but resolutely following the "Huai" flag to bravely step towards the south.
The reason why Lu Si took the initiative to launch an attack was a conversation between him and Sun Wujin.
"How will the Ming army attack us?"
"We must use a gun team, an arrow team in front, and shoot us with a gun and an arrow. When our formation is not supported and our courage is gone, we will charge with a sword and spear. If I disintegrate, the horse team will come to chase us, so that we will most likely not survive."
"So, it is not the best way to passively wait for the Ming army to fight?" Lu Si frowned.
"Unless our army also has gun teams, arrow teams, and even artillery teams." Sun Wujin answered truthfully. This is the way he knew.
"knew."
Lu Si sighed to his hands holding the knife, and smiled at his subordinates who were watching him on both sides: "Since we can't win, let's do it first."
Chapter completed!