Daming Military Empire

Chapter 104
After Gao Yingxiang led the army to be attacked in the canyon, he led the defeated soldiers all the way back into Hongdong County. The main force of the rebel army came to help, otherwise Hongdong might not be safe.

Not to mention where the more than 36 main force of the 20th Battalion led by Wang Ziyong went, after Lu Xiangsheng tasted the sweetness of the flintlock gun, he became more and more courageous. He ordered someone to notify Zhang Liwei of Zhao Cheng as soon as he finished cleaning the battlefield. And Wang Guozhong, leaving a thousand musketeers to defend the city, and the rest of the troops quickly brought the siege equipment to join him at the foot of Hongdong city!
So, that night, Gao Yingxiang discovered that King Lu Yan was catching up, and there were more than 4 horses, at least [-] to [-]!

This night, the rebels in the Hongdong can be said to have stayed up all night. Eighty to ninety thousand imperial court troops approached the city. Who can sleep peacefully?

Lu Xiangsheng did not launch an attack overnight. He went down three cities in two days and ambushed the cavalry of the bandits. It can be said that the soldiers under him were exhausted. Let them rest for a night. It was impossible to rush to Hongdong, but it didn't take him a day or two for an army of [-] to [-] to attack Hongdong County!

He is not blindly confident. If there are more than 2 bandit infantry in the city, he may not be able to attack it for a day or two, because there are swords and shields among the infantry, and there are even giant shields. The power is greatly reduced, and one's own side cannot occupy an absolute advantage in siege battles.But now most of the people in Hongdong County are cavalry, and cavalry rarely raise shields. It is impossible for them to form a shield formation. Without a shield formation, they are moving targets!
Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng ordered his soldiers to have a good night's rest, and let them eat breakfast in an orderly manner the next morning, and then began to attack the city.

On the one hand, there are officers and soldiers who eat and sleep well and win consecutive battles;Moreover, Lu Xiangsheng did not attack Hongdong from all sides in order to quickly take it down. If he surrounded Hongdong on all sides, the bandits in the city would definitely resist desperately, and it would take a lot of effort at that time; If you can't stop, you will run away, but it is easier to succeed.

As expected, Gao Yingxiang had no intention of fighting. After Lu Xiangsheng attacked the north for an hour, he led [-] cavalry and fled from the south gate. As for the bandits who were guarding the city, they had to surrender.

Lu Xiangsheng did not continue to pursue. Linfen City, the seat of Pingyang Mansion, is in front of him. It is one of the largest cities in Shanxi. The bandits have left nearly ten thousand people guarding them, and the main force of the bandits led by Wang Ziyong is almost at Linfen. Don't run away. Hit head-on in the past.

Although the Tianxiong Army has gone through several battles now, it has not been long for formal drills.

Lu Xiangsheng doesn't take the initiative to attack here, and the bandits will naturally not come to attack the city foolishly. The attack distance of the flintlock gun is desperate to think about. On the plains, you can still use shields to resist. You have to run to attack the city. City, that is simply going to be a target for others.

In this way, the two sides began a long confrontation on the front line of Hongdong and Linfen. Lu Xiangsheng took the opportunity to pull the Tianxiong army to the north of Pingyang for a drill, and successively recovered Shilou, Yonghe, Daning and other places. And the cooperation became more and more proficient, and gradually reached the level of the elite of the Beijing camp.

Lu Xiangsheng was not in a hurry to launch an attack on Linfen, but the emperor said that when the expansion of the Wanggong factory was completed, the trial production of new artillery would begin. By then, with the help of artillery, the city wall of Linfen would be useless no matter how high it was!
Lu Xiangsheng and Tianxiong's army will not show for the time being, let's look at the situation of Sun Chuanting and Qin Jun.

It is said that after Sun Chuanting took office as the governor of Shaanxi, he did not randomly draw some guards to recruit [-] troops like Lu Xiangsheng, but went to recruit troops near Yulin himself.

This Yulin is incredible. In the Ming Dynasty, Yulin was not called Yulin City but Yulin Town. It was one of the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty. Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Yulin has been heavily populated. It has been fighting with the Mongolian Tatars for many years. , Armed forces have never let up.

The area of ​​Yulin Town is not large. Although it is more than 200 miles from southwest to northeast, the entire area under its jurisdiction is as narrow as a spoon. One can imagine the number of troops stationed in the guard house!

It can be said that the common people here are all military households. Since the early Ming Dynasty, they have not cultivated much land. The traditional occupation is to be a soldier, and the main source of income is military pay.Usually when the neighbors chat in the neighborhood, what they talk about is not how much land your family has planted or how much food my family has harvested, but what places the old man from the east has attacked and how many heads have been beheaded by the boy from the west.

It is said that when Li Zicheng was in Shaanxi, he suffered a few times in Yulin. He was so angry that he sent 300 troops to conquer, but it took eight days to defeat the small Yulin County!To persuade people to surrender, they said directly: "I am a man in Yulin. Men don't know how to farm, and women don't know how to weave. The county magistrate paid me to eat, and it has been going on for [-] years. Loyalty and righteousness are on the nine sides. Are you willing to be a thief?" , the loyalty and bravery of Yulin people can be seen.

There was also the Jinzhou decisive battle that determined the fate of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Wu Sangui ran away shamelessly with the main force of the Ming army, and Guan Ning's iron cavalry also retreated to Ningyuan, causing Jinzhou's [-] Ming troops to blow up the battalion and flee all the way to the south in panic.Only [-] soldiers of the Qin army stood still, and when there were only a few hundred people left, they dared to attack Huang Taiji's central army. They were so frightened that half of the Zhenghuang Banner in the imperial camp ran away. Turn the corner!

Yulin people can be said to be a model of professional soldiers in the Ming Dynasty. Sun Chuanting wanted to recruit soldiers from Yulin.

These years coincided with the Ming Dynasty's economic downturn, and the number of frontier troops was shrinking day by day. There were more than 30 guards in Yulin, but there were less than [-] frontier troops!The Yulin people who lived as soldiers couldn't live longer. Just at this time, Sun Chuanting came to recruit soldiers. Naturally, the Yulin soldiers and civilians were so excited that they didn't even need to shout.

Based on the calculation of 15 military households in a guard station, there are about 5 to [-] military households in Yulin. Excluding the [-] frontier troops, there should be only [-] to [-] military households left, but more than [-] people signed up, which made Sun Chuanting talk It was almost worn out before we persuaded more than [-] people who were not recruited to go back!
Needless to say, the quality of the soldiers in Yulin, after a little training, the formation and formation will be decent, and Sun Chuanting doesn't need to control the marching and camping, because many of them grew up in the military tent!

In the fourth year of Chongzheng, there were not many thieves and bandits in Shaanxi. Most of the troops went to Pingyang Mansion in Shanxi to eat and drink spicy food, leaving only a few thousand bandits.For the Qin army, which is full of Yulin soldiers, these bandits are just a plate of dishes, and it is easy and enjoyable to suppress them. When encountering bandits, they don't need to be mobilized by Sun Chuanting, and they rush up howling. It seems that there is money to pick up in front of you.For Yulin soldiers, the heads of bandits are money!

Later, Zu Dabi, the idiot, came to make things even worse. He took this group of screaming Yulin soldiers all day long to find bandits everywhere. Those who have a way have gone to Shanxi.

Therefore, in less than three months, there was basically no trace of the rebels in Shaanxi, and almost all the rebels in the northwest gathered in Pingyang Mansion, Shanxi.

The 36th Battalion, the main force of the rebel army, has more than 20 soldiers. Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army and Sun Chuanting's Qin Army have a combined total of more than [-]. Now Tianxiong Army and Qin Army are gradually taking shape, and their combat effectiveness has surpassed that of the Rebel Army.It seems that as long as Sun Chuanting launches an attack on the western front and goes straight to the south of Linfen, an iron wall can be encircled and the main force of the rebel army can be wiped out.

Will it be like this?This volume is over, let's see the decomposition of the next volume.

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