Chapter 366: A set of things and separation

Small accidents, there are always small accidents in life, things that seem to be developing normally, because these accidents have changed.

The same is true on the battlefield...

The ammunition in the barrel was already compacted, and the shells were already put into the barrel. The artillerymen who were operating the artillery were waiting for orders with the ignition tools.

Chen Liu shouted loudly, and the artillery soldier in the twelve-pound cannon trembled. I don’t know if it was nervous or what happened. His hands trembled, and the burning iron rod moved downwards, and accidentally inserted it into the cannon hole. The soldier’s reaction was not slow and shouted at the people around him:

"The gun is lit, dodge it!"

The people surrounding the cannon all took two steps back to the back, and the soldier also pulled out the iron rod. The man didn't have to worry about being injured, but the twelve-pound cannon was first fired.

With a "boom", everyone around was scared. At this time, the city gate facing the inner encirclement was already open. He Yilong, Liu Xiyao, and Wei Xiaobei were lined up. They also had cannons and muskets in their hands, but there was no need to take them out in front of the advantageous range of Jiaozhou Camp.

Ma Shouying and Lin Yangcheng were already riding horses in front of the formation. When the battle was about to be fought, the head of the army had to watch the formation and arrays on the opposite side. The soldiers here were also driven to line up in front of the formation. Around Yingshang City, at most, they could accommodate a horizontal charge between 100 and 200 people.

The basic cadres of the Fifth Battalion of the Lezuo Battalion did not have to be in such a charge until they had no choice. Therefore, the front line arrays were mostly cannon fodder, and cannon fodder knew that they were cannon fodder. They also knew that they were cannon fodder in the front row, and they were afraid that they would die the fastest, but they were forced by someone with a knife. Some people also offered various benefits, but they only pushed them to the front.

"If we rush now, the officers and soldiers can fire three rounds of artillery, and there will be almost four rounds of firearms when they are close to them."

Lin Yangcheng stared at the fortifications opposite and said in a deep voice. The horse guard beside him should control his mount and not be restless. He nodded and said:

"I'm willing to die this team of people. The key is to get a result. We have more people than officers and soldiers. We have internal and external attacks. As long as we can open a hole and rush in..."

Having said that, Ma Shouying did not continue. According to the ability of the officers and soldiers he met on the way, even if he rushed in, he would still fight hard.

Ma Shouying's face was as deep as water, Lin Yangcheng hesitated and said:

"Brother Ma. I've lost a lot along the way. I guess if I hit this place, I'll have to leave a lot of brothers. Why should we stay here? Let's go if we can!"

The fortification position by the river during the day was already particularly difficult to chew. Looking at the fortifications in front of them, the scale was much larger than that time, and it made people feel numb. Lin Yangcheng thought clearly. Even if he was difficult to beat, even if he saved the opponents, he would lose more than he would.

If he had said this a few days ago, Ma Shouying would have refused decisively, but now he didn't know what to say. While he was hesitating, he heard a muffled "boom" from the other side. Then a whistling sounded in the air.

The shells in this era were not very fast at first, and the whistling sound was heard, and the shells arrived. Ma Shouying, who had not spoken, heard the sound of stones thrown into the mud, without screaming.

But his hands and face were wet. When he turned his head and saw that he heard a heart-wrenching scream. Ma Shouying turned his head and looked around him. But he saw that the vanguard formation that was still lined up behind him had already been opened. On this passage, there were broken limbs and broken arms.

In the passage, some people were already broken. On both sides of the passage, many people's arms and legs disappeared and they fell to the ground and screamed.

Ma Shouying's expression immediately changed drastically. He cursed, turned his horse around and ran towards the back of the formation. Lin Yangchengdi moved faster and was already running. He was already driven forward and was driven to the front. The unwilling forward cannon fodders all dispersed and ran away.

The coach ran backwards and the forwards ran backwards. The main formation behind them was unable to react for a moment, and they all retreated backwards. The sudden panic caused the ground to retreat, which could easily cause the entire army to collapse. The two battalions of the Fifth Battalion of the Glezuo were originally gathered with more miscellaneous soldiers. This sudden push.

The entire military camp was in a state of great anger and could not control it. They ran towards the back together. Ma Shouying and Lin Yangcheng were shocked by the cannon shooting. They ran a few steps. Seeing the entire army was about to collapse, they immediately knew that something was wrong and hurriedly summoned their personal soldiers to gather the troops.

Chen Liu was stunned when he saw this, thinking why he fired a shot here, and the other party retreated. He Yilong and Liu Xiyao, the troops in Yingshang City had already been arranged, and they were waiting for both sides to launch at the same time to attack the officers and soldiers. However, the person in charge of looking at the city also saw the troops of Lao Hui and the King of Gengshi suddenly collapsed.

How dare you continue fighting outside here? After a stack of orders on the top of the city, the refugee soldiers outside the city rushed into the city again.

Because the officers and soldiers' artillery had already begun to change directions, the distance between the inner encirclement and the moat was slightly further than the officers and soldiers' artillery range, and if they ran slowly, they would be shot.

Originally, he was about to start a big fight, but the situation suddenly turned out like this. General Chen Liu called the artilleryman in advance to the front, opened his mouth to curse, but he didn't know what to scold him. He waved helplessly and rushed him back to the array.

The leaders in Yingshang City all knew that the officers and soldiers outside had general artillery. If a small city like Yingshang was bombarded with general artillery, it would not be a problem to open the city wall, but they used the method of building two walls inside and outside to siege it. This was really strange. When things were so far, anyone would think something was wrong.

But it was one thing that I thought something was wrong. The people in the city were surrounded and could not run away alone. Even if they wanted to send a letter, there was no way.

The two camps of Lao Hui and Gai Shi Wang who almost collapsed did not gather together until dark. The place where they chose to camp was far enough away from the Huai Yang Army's position, for fear of being bombarded by the artillery again.

The twelve-pound cannon is also a new thing for the artillery of Jiaozhou Camp. When used, there are many parameters that cannot be understood. You have to explore it. The range is almost the same, but how far the abruptness can the shell land fall is still a very rough figure. Today, the shells of dozens of people from the Fifth Battalion of the Killing Left are the twelve-pound cannons that have jumped after they land.

These two battalions of the Fifth Battalion of the Left are not allowed to leave. If they leave, the troops of the eunuch Lu Jiude, the governor of Nanjing, would definitely not come. Then what is the significance of such a struggle?

As a result, Ma Shouying was undecided and was trembling in the camp. Chen Liu did not move at all and did not move at all.

The next day, the infantry team was pulled out of the fortifications and arranged an array in front of the fortifications. The first thing that was troubled by the Fifth Battalion of the Left was the fortifications and the firearms behind. Seeing the officers and soldiers coming out of the fortifications to make an appointment for battle, they naturally couldn't find it. But after yesterday's experience.

The fifth camp of the Le Zuo, all thought that if they were so fierce, the officers and soldiers would definitely be strange...

The general Chen Liu discussed with officers at all levels under his subordinates. Judging from the other party's performance, the Fifth Battalion of the Left dared not break through the inside and the outside, and if the stalemate continues like this, the other party will definitely run away within three days.

After a while, Chen Liu made a decision. Before dawn, a messenger riding a fast horse set off from here and rushed upstream to Ying water along the other side of the river.

The camp of the Gaoke District of Huai Yangjun, the deputy of Huai Yangjun, was less than thirty miles away from Lao Huihui and the reincarnated king. The next afternoon, Ma Shouying and Lin Yangcheng had a night of discussion and made up their minds and waited for another day. If there was no turning point, they would directly take the camp north to join the King of Chuang in Henan.

The position of going to the camp is lower, it is better than losing all your money and going to join the King of Chuang alone, but after delaying this day, everything will be different.

In the upstream land, Gaoke received Chen Liu's order, and the five battalions in the upstream left the camp at noon and took dry food along Henan.

The Fifth Battalion of the Le Zuo left a restrained force and wanted to step forward to intercept it. However, the non-main forces of such refugees could not compete with the troops of the Jiaozhou Battalion head-on. The 20,000 people did not last long after the battle. They were directly defeated by the officers and soldiers of these five battalions, without any effect of blocking them.

On the third day, when the Lao Huihui and the Gai Shiwang wanted to detach the camp and head north, they found that on the way to leave here, there were already five battalions of officers and soldiers blocking there.

Now the only place where the Fifth Camp of Gezuo can go to is west, but going west is the Dabie Mountains. At present, troops in this state will collapse if they enter the mountain. There is no food in the mountain that can support such a large army of refugees.

They could also see that the five battalions of officers and soldiers came from light and did not have heavy weapons like artillery. Ma Shouying and Lin Yangcheng were willing to invest in a large number of people and horses in this direction, hoping to open a gap. This battle was very fierce.

The vagrant soldiers with superior forces, bows, arrows and musket shooting were all blocked by the muskets in Jiaozhou camp, but slals and small cannons could play a role after all.

But this time the five battalions did not defend, but took the initiative to attack, but each battalion was trapped in the siege of the superior forces of the Fifth Battalion of the Lezuo.

During the melee, Gao Ke, the deputy general of the Huai Yang Army, had broken the handle of the axe and gun. The troops of the five battalions stubbornly resisted the enemy that was nearly twenty times theirs.

The two battalions of the Fifth Battalion of the Lezuo did not dare to ignore the five thousand troops going directly. The five battalions were like awls, stabbing into their flesh and blood.

Three days after the mistaken shot, the Huai Yang army under Yingshang City withdrew from Changwei and moved to the same front line as the five battalions led by Gaoke through the waterway.

When Chen Liu, the general of the Huai Yang Army, saw Gaoke, the losses of these five battalions could be described as heavy. However, the main force of the Fifth Battalion of the Glezuo did not go north at all. The Yang army of the Huai Yang Army returned to the army and the second attack organized by the Fifth Battalion of the Glezuo was unexpectedly bleeding.

At this time, Ma Shouying and Lin Yangcheng finally realized what kind of strong army they were in front of them. Although the officers and soldiers were only 15,000 at this time, and they were ten times more powerful than the enemy, they could not make any progress. If the opponent pressed over, they might not be able to defeat them.

But after gaining an advantage, the officers and soldiers built fortifications, they even put on a stance that if you don’t take action, I won’t fight. Just block it.

These unreasonable behaviors made the troops of the Fifth Battalion of the Gellzuo who had returned to the army feel no happy at all. Everyone feels like they are going crazy and have no idea what the other party is going to do.

But the current situation could no longer tolerate anything they thought about. The officers and soldiers stationed in Shouzhou. The vanguard led by the eunuch Lu Jiude, the vanguard, had already arrived in Zhengyang Town. The general Huang Degongdi's troops had fought with the guard troops of the Fifth Battalion of the G Zuo. For the Fifth Battalion of the G Zuo, the current way out was to rely on Yingshang City and start fighting with real swords and guns. The strange soldiers like the Huai Yang Army must not be able to be defeated.

But there is still hope for the officers and soldiers led by the eunuch Lu Jiude. To defeat this officers and soldiers, we can see if we can turn to Luzhou Prefecture and return to Huguang. Or enter the heart of Nanzhili. In short, Fengyang Prefecture dares not stay here. It is too weird and everything is unreasonable. When have you seen officers and soldiers so capable of fighting, and when have you seen such a strange military use?

Now, anyone can see what kind of situation is in Nanzhili? The 20,000 Qingzhou army led by Ma Gang, the governor of Qingzhou Prefecture, and the remaining Huai Yang army, have nearly 26,000 troops, and can already run rampant between the prefectures of Nanzhili.

There was no force in the local area that could restrict them, and this Shandong army had just been quiet for a few days. It started to move again, returning to Shanyang City and Baoying County, and was ready to enter the battlefield of Fengyang Prefecture through the waterways of Hongze Lake and Huai River.

Not all people in the world were fools. Under the advice of the Minister of War in Nanjing and the Nanjing garrison, the capital issued an urgent order to change the arrangement of Nanzhili.

Gao Guang, the governor of the canal transportation, was dismissed from his post, and Ma Shiying served as the position, gathered the troops of the three guards around Fengyang Prefecture and Jiangbei Prefectures in Southern Zhili, and put on strict vigilance. The Xu family in Nanjing and the relatives and nobles in charge of soldiers at all levels were to retract all the soldiers and generals who were preparing to rush to the rescue of Southern Zhili to the city of Nanjing to ensure that there was no accident.

At the same time, a branch general was set up in Zhenjiang to recruit soldiers on the spot to ensure that the Yangtze River hub was not lost. For a time, in Nanzhili, officers and soldiers, officers and soldiers from Nanzhili and officers and soldiers from Shandong were intertwined with each other, and the situation was complicated. Each force was on the verge of guard against each other.

Kaifeng City was dead every day in July. Kaifeng, which was backed by the Yellow River, turned into an isolated city at this time. Not everyone knew that Guide could send reinforcements to the current. Not everyone knew that Li, Luo's million-dollar army was still very afraid of the troops in Shandong and did not dare to move rashly.

In Kaifeng City, the guards of the Zhou Prince's Mansion discovered that people with strange places appeared around the mansion recently, and they didn't know what the way they were.

The King of Zhou had a good reputation in Kaifeng City, and there was no idea of ​​a thief who was not open to attack the royal palace. The guards of the royal palace and the officers and soldiers in the city were not vegetarians. The King of Zhou paid for the army many times. Strictly speaking, the King of Zhou was paying for the support of the troops, so he naturally knew how to serve.

The possibility of thieves outside the city is not very high. Kaifeng City is so vigilant that they can only enter the city unless they can fly. Moreover, after entering the city, the governor's office and the general yamen are more valuable.

The shopkeeper of Lingshan Trading Company in Kaifeng City was worried, and the order came from above that he wanted to find a way to transfer the whole family of Zhou's mansion outside the city.

But in Kaifeng City, Shandong can only use a hundred people in total. No matter how you observe the palace, it will be difficult to attack...

The commander Hou Xun on the north bank of the Yellow River and the general of Shanxi Xu Dingguo were training troops on the spot and went to Shanxi and Shaanxi to collect border soldiers. Although he heard that the court was going to issue an order to ask Shandong for rescue, he would not arrive for a while. The distance water could not quench the near thirst, and the people in the city also had to think about saving themselves.

The few city gates in Kaifeng City, except for the occasionally opened gates of the north gate and letting people out, crossing the river to contact the other bank and the capital, the rest of the city gates are closed, especially the west gate.

But at the end of July, a person was put down from the city. After the man went down to the city, he did not run towards the relatively safe north and east, but directly ran towards the refugee camp about thirty miles away from the city.

Although after the battle of Zhuxian Town, Li Zicheng had already begun to dispatch troops to Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan Prefecture, Nanyang Prefecture and other places to guard them respectively. In the past, it was a mobile battle, but at this time, it had to consider establishing a base and develop in the long run.

But Luo Rucai's troops were unwilling to do this, saying that a real man should dominate the world, so why bother to stick to one prefecture and one county? They have always been stationed, and even rejected those better prefectures and counties.

In the area thirty miles away from Kaifeng City, there are still hundreds of thousands of people stationed, as if it was a city, but the city is clearly divided. On one side is the army of the King of Chuang and on the other side is Cao Cao's camp, which is absolutely not mixed.

I don’t know if this person who came from Kaifeng City was broken or too brave. After entering the defensive area of ​​the refugee army, although he pretended to be hiding and concealed, it was not an exaggeration to say that he was swaggering in the eyes of the sentries, and it was too conspicuous.

The sentry patrolling the camp discovered this man, and his appearance was too suspicious. Within this radius of dozens of miles, the cavalry who broke into the camp was discovered and could not run away.

What is really surprising is that after this man was caught, he looked weird and concealed. For such a person, experienced camp soldiers must be searched.

This search was so great, but a letter was found on his body. He saw the literate documents. The letter was written by the King of Zhou to Cao Cao Luo Rucai. It said that if Cao Cao Luo Rucai had repented at this time and accepted the court's amnesty, the King of Zhou was willing to guarantee his title, and the Ming Dynasty was willing to give him a marquis and reward him. He also said that being a thief was shamed by his ancestors at this time. He was also indifferent to the face of seeing others. Only by being a high-ranking official and generous salary in the court and enjoying wealth and honor was the right way.

If you abandon the darkness and turn to the light, your future will not be under the pacification of Zuo Liangyu, etc....

If this letter was first brought to the hands of Li Zicheng, the King of Breaking, or sent to Cao Cao, Luo Rucai, both sides would probably laugh it off. Now that the trouble has reached such a point, who would still think about recruiting peace?

But the letter was first known by the soldiers below. The officers and soldiers who had originally entered the camp looked at the rampant and illegal behavior of Cao Cao's camp, and were very disliked. Now that this matter is happening again, the various camps are in an uproar, and the soldiers hand over and discuss it, which is a rumor.

Some of the generals who broke into the camp also contributed to the fire, making the news spread even more powerful. Some of the camps have even made a warning and mobilized.

Cao Cao and Luo Rucai's troops were not fools, and they also had their own eyes and ears in the camp. There were already some conflicts between the two sides. When they saw the other party making a warning and mobilizing posture, Yang Chengzu directly summoned the horse team, with all his strength to guard against each other, and a posture of preparing to join forces.

After Li Zicheng, the King of Chuang, learned the news, Li Shuangxi had already finished his clothes and was waiting for the King of Chuang to give the order and let the general go over.

Before Li Zicheng could make any decision, Luo Rucai first sent someone to send a letter saying that there was no food in the camp. The situation is very big now, and it is difficult for the King of Chuang to handle the matter. Cao Cao's camp was unwilling to implicate everyone. He wanted to go to Huguang to raise food and grass, and asked the King of Chuang to agree.

Li Zicheng thought about this letter for a long time, and Liu Zongmin and Niu Jinxing rushed to the tent.

The people who came from Kaifeng City were arrested in the morning and at night, a large amount of food from the camp was transported to Cao Cao's camp. The tense atmosphere between the two sides was relaxed.
Chapter completed!