Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 600 Queen 3
Just when the red lady beat Zuo Menggeng to death with a horsewhip, in the pile of dead people, a servant stood up staggeringly covered in blood.This man was lucky, he was just shot in the thigh with an arrow, fell off the horse and fell half to death. Compared with those partners who had already turned into dead bodies or were being dragged into dead bodies by the galloping horses, he was already too lucky .He stood up in a daze, just in time to see Zuo Menggeng being beaten to blood by the red lady, he couldn't help being stunned.

Before he could react, several sabers struck at him!
The red lady said: "Stop!"

The sabers stopped immediately. The blades were only [-] mm away from the lucky man's vital points. The coldness coming from the blades made the hairs on his body stand up, and he didn't dare to move.

The red lady walked up to him, looked him up and down, and said, "Your life is pretty tough. You can survive the attacks of saber cavalry and lancers in turn! Since you can live to this day, it means you I'm lucky, and I won't make things difficult for you. Go back and tell Zuo Liangyu that his precious son has become my prisoner! If he still wants this son, come to Zhengyang County to find me. I'll just wait If he doesn't come within three days, I will cut off the head of his precious son and send it to him.

The servant felt cold all over, and said secretly: "The murderous aura on this woman is terrifying!"

The red lady yelled, "Did you hear me clearly!"

The servant trembled all over and said repeatedly: "Listen clearly, listen clearly!"

The red lady said, "Go away!"

Moved away the sabers, the servant dragged his injured leg like a frightened rabbit and limped towards an unowned horse, climbed up with difficulty, and ran away without looking at Zuo Menggeng up.However, he still brought good luck to Zuo Menggeng. At least he was interrupted by such a distraction. The red lady didn't try to whip him again, and asked him to tie his hands to a horse, dragged away by a knight, and the others restrained The dead and the wounded, by the way, took the money in the pockets of the servants who died in their hands as Captain Mojin for a while, then patted their asses and left in a hurry.

A small group of people galloped down from the horses, and the person in white clothes fluttering in front was Li Yan.Li Yan looked at the dead bodies all over the ground, with a calm face, and just cursed coldly: "Good death!" He rode up to catch up with the red lady, and asked with a smile: "How do you feel about the skill of these servants?" ?”

The red lady said: "She is very skilled and dares to risk her life, but she is still vulnerable."

Li Yan sighed with a smile: "That's because they were fighting with Xiaoqi from the Heluo New Army. If you let the good guys from Jigongshan fight against them, I'm afraid you won't be able to win so easily."

The red lady thought for a while, and although she was reluctant, she still nodded in agreement.Zuo Menggeng and his gang of servants are really good, and they are quite fierce. They are definitely a powerful force in the Central Plains, which has been at peace for a long time. If she is asked to bring those heroes from the green forest to fight against them, it will definitely take a lot of money. It takes a lot of effort and a lot of casualties to settle them down, and maybe someone will slip through the net.She was a little puzzled: "How on earth did that brat train his soldiers? All his soldiers are very skilled, but once they get together to charge, they are invincible. It's just one round of strong crossbows and two charges, hundreds of soldiers." The elite cavalry of the frontier army is finished!"

Li Yan sighed: "This is exactly his brilliance. He does not blindly pursue individual combat effectiveness, but instead emphasizes discipline and teamwork. The soldiers of the Heluo New Army are not very skilled, but once they form an army formation, It is indestructible, and the opponent must die several times more to fill up their army formation. Using this method, he can train a large number of troops of similar level at the speed of one batch every two years or even one batch every year, and eventually exhaust the opponent alive! He counted on his fingers: "Infantry coordination, infantry coordination, infantry coordination, field hospitals, opening bank accounts for all soldiers... all this means that all armies are falling behind, and he has left them behind Go, as long as he is willing, his tiger and wolf division will dare to overthrow the whole world!"

The red lady looked up at the group of proud knights and felt a little emotional.In fact, this battle was fought by the Heluo New Army. They dispatched no more troops than Zuo Menggeng, only sixty cavalrymen and thirty cavalrymen. Those cavalrymen were the enemies of the Heluo New Army last year. It only took half a year to become a powerful force in the Heluo New Army. As the flag pointed, he moved forward indomitably and refused to turn back. How did he do it?It’s hard not to admire him or not!
"Will Zuo Liangyu come to Zhengyang?" she asked.

Li Yan said: "I will." Pointing to Zuo Menggeng who was being stumbled by the horses, he sneered: "Although Zuo Liangyu is ruthless and murderous, he dotes on this son very much, and he still doesn't know With our strength, we only regard us as bandits, if Zuo Menggeng is captured, he will desperately come to rescue him!"

The red lady asked, "What if he doesn't come?"

Li Yan said: "If he doesn't come, then he will receive his son's head. If he really doesn't care about his son's life or death, he can run away from us."

The red lady said: "I'm afraid that he won't come. If he comes, Zhengyang will be his grave!"

Li Yan said: "Don't fight too hard, it's best to delay this war until June."

The red lady frowned and asked, "Why?"

Li Yan said: "Because in another month, the last batch of coins in Jingxiang, Wuhan and other places will be issued. Once these coins are all put into the market, the Heluo New Army will completely control the minting rights in the Huguang area. No one can shake Hou's position in Huguang, understand?"

The red lady snorted: "He knows how to care about Huguang. Xinyang is right next to Nanyang. Thousands of ordinary people died of starvation and disease. Why don't you see him care about it!"

Li Yan said: "When the situation in Huguang stabilizes, are you afraid that Xinyang will not benefit from it?"

The red lady said, "I hope he does what he says, or I'll screw his scalp until he bleeds!"

Li Yan laughed.

The battlefield was not far from Zhengyang City, and it took half an hour to ride a horse.At this time, most of the people in Zhengyang City moved to Biyang and Tongbai Mountains, and those who stayed in the city were more than 5000 subordinates of Hong Niangzi.Li Yan is cautious in doing things. Of course, it is impossible to put all his hopes on a group of undisciplined green forest heroes for such an important matter. He secretly transferred a group of officers from the Heluo New Army to disperse and enrich them as staff officers under the leadership of the leaders. At the beginning, they were not very happy, but when these officers stood in front of them, they were convinced immediately, and they dared not say that they would obey these officers, but at least they could listen to nine out of ten sentences. The affairs of Zhengyang City are properly arranged.Seeing the red lady coming back, they immediately opened the city gate and saw that the Lancers and Chasseurs of the Heluo New Army basically had a human head hanging from their necks. Those green forest heroes took a breath and called my mother, These guys are too fierce!
The red lady said loudly to the leaders who came out to greet her: "Zuo Menggeng and his one hundred and three subordinates, only two survived. His head was cut off and hung on the horse's neck!"

The leaders cheered loudly: "Okay! Well done!" The one with some ink in his belly lost no time in flattering him: "The leader is indeed a heroine and a hero among women!"

The red lady smiled, she did not dare to call herself a heroine, because in Lushun, she had been with a real heroine, Qin Liangyu's unafraid in the face of danger, Ren Jiannu cavalry came from the wild, and she still admired her composure. , Self-sigh.However, this flattering sounded quite comfortable. She waved a whip at the flattering guy, and laughed and cursed: "Stop flattering, hurry up and strengthen the city defenses. We captured Zuo Liangyu's precious son, and he will definitely come over." Although this scumbag who fought with us is heinous, he is also quite brave and must not be underestimated."

A group of leaders suddenly agreed and directed their subordinates to continue to strengthen the city defense fortifications.

The red lady had someone bandage Zuo Menggeng's wound, and then hung her up on the tower to show the public, while she and Li Yan lay down in front of the map to discuss the war.Li Yan's opinion is to shrink all the horses into Zhengyang City, turn Zhengyang City into a flesh and blood mill, polish the troops of Zuo Liangyu and Liu Zeqing little by little, and when the time is right, they will fight out of Kaesong City in one fell swoop. Smash it, the advantage of this is that everyone can be protected by the city wall, and the loss will not be great.But Hong Niangzi thought it necessary to put an elite cavalry outside the city, because it would be a waste to put the precious cavalry in the city. She said: "Wars cannot be fought like this. , I lost half of the fight before I even started fighting! Get moving and fight! You must move and fight!"

Li Yan frowned and said: "What we want now is to drag those two thieves here and attract the court's attention here. If we simply want to eliminate them, it would be easy. General Xue deployed in Biyang It can be done with 500 people!"

The red lady said: "You are right if you want to say that, but I am afraid that the two thieves can't attack Zhengyang and then turn around to attack Xinyang. Now Xinyang is surrounded by a group of farmers, so it can be said that they have no combat power. If that It will be a massacre when two thieves lead the army to kill! Those people believed in me, so they rebelled with me, and I can’t risk their lives.” She emphasized: “That’s 20 lives !"

Li Yan pondered for a moment, but after all he still didn't dare to joke about 20 lives, and said: "Okay, you can put the [-] cavalry outside the city and hide in the surrounding mountains and forests to look for fighters... I will command the defense of the city. , you command the cavalry to maneuver on the outside and involve the enemy troops, so that they can’t free up their manpower to attack Xinyang!”

The red lady said: "I will take all the cavalry from Heluo's new army."

Li Yan said, "No problem."

Outside, Feng Ting shouted: "Report!"

The red lady said, "Come in."

Feng Ting walked in sweating profusely, bowed to the red lady, and said, "Master, Zuo Liangyu is here!"

Both Hong Niangzi and Li Yan were taken aback: "It came so fast!?"

(End of this chapter)