Lu Si didn't want Liu Zeqing's soldiers, but he couldn't let them go, because letting them go would be indirectly harming the people, so he could only kill them.

Sun Wujin's interrogation was basically inseparable from torture, but it was very useful. In a short while, the details of the prisoners were examined.

According to the prisoners, they were the troops of Yao Wenchang, the general of Liu Zeqing.

Yao Wenchang was a guerrilla under Liu Zeqing. When the Ming army fought from Shandong to Haizhou, he ran all the way to Haizhou, which seemed to be leading the way for the Ming army. Later, Xiao Yuanying went to Haizhou to fight the Ming army, and Yao Wenchang turned around and helped the Ming army fight the Xiao Yuanying together. He belonged to the puppet army, which was not the puppet army.

After the Ming army withdrew from the pass, Yao Wenchang and his men stayed in Haizhou, because this place was much richer than Shandong, which was robbed by the Ming army. It was basically nothing, just burning, killing, looting, and forcing the civilians to force the civilians. Therefore, when the Governor of the Grain Transportation Lu Zhenfei was preparing to invoke Liu Zeqing to guard the river, he was strongly opposed by many Huai'an officials, who believed that if the Liu army's tiger and wolf troops arrived in Huaiyang, they would not be as strong as the bandits.

"The Yao Wenchang's troops had about 7,000 people. A month ago, they received an order from Liu Zeqing to attack Xuzhou and seized Pi County and Pizhou City. However, the people who called Dong Xueli in Luliangshan were defeated..."

Yao Wenchang's defeat in Luliangshan was really miserable. Tens of thousands of people, including forced civil servants, were defeated by Wang Yizheng, the general of Dong Xueli, with less than 2,000 troops. He killed hundreds of people, but more than 3,000 were captured.

Yao Wenchang fled east like a frightened bird. Pizhou didn't want it and ran directly to Pi County. He ran back to Xinyi from Pi County. A few days later, he found that Dong Xueli's Shun Army was not chasing him. Then he gathered the defeated soldiers and gathered thousands of people to return to Pi County.

After hearing that Yao Wenchang was defeated, Liu Zeqing was furious and ordered Yao Wenchang to retake Pizhou City. Yao Wenchang asked Wang Yizheng to be afraid of fighting and did not dare to go. Liu Zeqing transferred 3,000 people from Tancheng, Shandong to Yao Wenchang. Later, he found out that Wang Yizheng did not occupy Pizhou but led the army to retreat to Xuzhou. Yao Wenchang then plucked up the courage to lead thousands of people who had been pieced together to retake Pizhou. However, he no longer dared to lead the army to invade Xuzhou. The battle in Luliangshan almost wiped out his soul.

Yao Wenchang, who was guarding Pizhou City, sent people to collect grain everywhere without food. The scope of activity was probably from Luoma Lake in the east and Luliang Mountain in the west.

"Take Yao Wenchang's nail first!"

Lu Si does not have a complete map of Xuzhou Prefecture, but he can also know a rough idea based on his impression. Moreover, Pizhou City is right by the canal, blocking the Huai Army's must-pass place for the entry of Xuzhou, so it must be taken down.

"Cao Yuan, Zhongyi led the cavalry to sweep the vicinity of Pizhou for me, and cleaned up all Yao Wenchang's grain-harvesting team. If he couldn't get rid of them, he found a way to drive them to Pizhou City. Su Jinzhong led his troops to attack Pi County. After taking them down, he sent people to contact the second town in the east to seize Xinyi. The rest of the troops followed me to march towards Pizhou."

Lu Si made a quick arrangement. With the strength of the Huai Army, if Yao Wenchang could not be defeated by the Huai Army, he might as well go back to Huai'an in shame and wait for the Qing soldiers to come and surrender to see if he could become the fourth vassal.

In the afternoon, the first town marched towards Pizhou City. At the same time, Cao Yuan and Zhao Zhongyi led a cavalry to wipe out the Ming army's grain-raising team that came out of Pizhou City. Su Jinzhong also led 1,500 troops from his troops to Pi County.

Yao Wenchang's troops did not have cavalry, and the number of grain harvest teams sent was only two or three hundred, and the number was only more than a hundred. Most of them were newly recruited masters, so how could they beat the cavalry of the Huai Army?

Soon, the Yao army's grain harvest team was either annihilated by the Huai Army or frightened to flee back to Pizhou City.

Yao Wenchang in Pizhou City finally knew that a Dashun army came to the south canal.

Yao Wenchang had heard of the treacherous chaos in Huaiyang, so he immediately judged that the so-called Dashun Army was mostly traitors from Huaiyang. He thought that he could not defeat Wang Yizheng or a group of mud-legged men, so he gathered 4,000 people out of the city to take the initiative to attack the Huai army.

Yao's subordinates have advised him that the thief had cavalry and he would not have much chance of winning when he attacked rashly.

"If you don't have anything to eat, just sit and wait for death!"

Yao Wenchang was not really impulsive, but Pizhou City had no food and was surrounded by thieves. They didn't have to do anything and starve to death.

The two armies met on April 15th. The reaction of the leaders of both sides was that Lu Si was stunned and Yao Wenchang was ashamed.

Lu Si was dazed because he didn't expect Yao Wenchang to treat him as a human being, or he didn't treat his 20,000 Huai Army soldiers as a human being.

Yao Wenchang was dazed because he felt that he was worried about eating too much lard, or why did he think about going out of the city to fight?

The thief on the opposite side glanced at him and said that there must be at least 17,800, and there were only 4,000 people in his hand.

If you hit more with less, that is Wang Yizheng.

But at this time, he, Yao Wenchang, was not allowed to fight. Both sides had a sudden encounter. At this time, he wanted to retreat, and he might be able to escape at most a few hundred people.

The battle started under Yao Wenchang's extremely reluctant situation.

Yao Wenchang's only hope for victory was to rush straight to the "Huai Pirates" Central Army formation on the opposite side. In this way, more than 4,000 Yao's Ming army was urged by Yao Wenchang's personal soldiers, who acted as the supervisor, to launch a charge towards the Huai Army.

During the charge, the Ming army found that red fireworks were blowing up in the "Huai Pirates" formation in front of them, and I don't know what it meant.

As their speed accelerated and the distance narrowed, red fireworks exploded one after another in the "Huai Pirates" formation ahead.

First, two shots, then three shots.

After three shots, the Huai thieves in the front suddenly fell down, and then the charge Ming army saw dozens of black-hole muzzles aiming at them.

With a "boom", the Huai Army's cannons fired.

Accompanied by more than ten cannons, the iron balls, like heavy rain, rushed towards the Ming army front that was charging forward. The small projectile, carrying the huge kinetic energy generated by the explosion of gunpowder, penetrated into the bodies of the Ming army who rushed up without hesitation, and bloomed countless flowers like the mountains and fields in spring.

Blood flower.

Just like the wind blowing wheat waves, the Ming army in front fell down instantly, and the screams were covered by the rumbling cannons, making only the cannons over the canal and not the people.

After the artillery team took four rounds, Lu Si shook his head and waved his hand to signal the flag soldiers to stop the artillery. Then a personal soldier carried a box of fireworks to the open space in front. After igniting it, the fireworks immediately "swooshed" and exploded in the air, with all colors.

This is called a firework. In addition to being used to disrupt the enemy's front during combat, it is also a good signal bomb, especially useful, and is designated for Lu Si.

One, two, and three of the same color "Dragon Dragon" tells each department not to be anxious and keep it steady.

The "swoosh swish swish" exploded, it's time to go together.
Chapter completed!