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"The Guards are coming?"

Peng Youyi was overjoyed when he heard this and immediately went to the top of the city to watch.

Sure enough, we saw a large number of boats coming from the Ru River.

The Ming army boats that were originally docked at the confluence of the three rivers saw these boats and immediately fled downstream, not daring to fight with them!

More than a thousand cavalry rushed over, trying to prevent the rebels on the boat from landing, but they were beaten by the squatting tiger cannon on the boat and fled in confusion.

Soon, many Ming troops poured out of Wang Xian's camp. However, they were not to prevent the rebels from landing. Instead, they rushed towards some of the Ming troops' boats that were still on the shore, trying to seize the boats and escape!

Seeing this scene, Peng Youyi was very excited. He patted the battlements and said: "I have a military order! The cavalry battalion leads the artillery battalion, the guard battalion and the two civilian brave battalions out of the city to attack the Ming army's rural soldiers and warriors on the south bank of the Huaihe River!

Then order the heavy baggage battalion to stay in the city, and the first combat battalion, second battalion, guard battalion, and reconnaissance battalion are ready to leave the city and cross the river, and follow me to attack the officers and soldiers on the north bank! "

"As ordered!"

As the guards conveyed Peng Youyi's military orders down the mountain, the more than 8,000 rebel troops stationed in Zhugao Town took action as quickly as possible.

For a moment, it seemed as if the whole city was excited...

North bank of Huaihe River.

Outside the east gate of the Ming army camp.

Gao Douguang sat on his horse and watched thousands of Ming soldiers fleeing to the river. They trampled on each other and even fought over the boats.

Looking around, except for a few generals' servants, almost no Ming army can maintain its structure and obey orders.

His face was full of confusion and despair.

"How could this happen? How could this happen!"

He couldn't help but think back to the whole process of conquering the Liu thieves in Runing——

Because of the imperial edict, time was urgent, and some generals despised Liu Thief, he did not summon enough boats, so he asked some Ming troops to come by land.

It was also for a similar reason that they went on an expedition without knowing much about the Runing Liu bandits. Not to mention the general cannons, Franchise guns and other cannons they brought with them, they didn't even bring many squatting tiger cannons with them.

As a result, they were unable to fight against the numerous artillery pieces of the rebel army and had no choice but to run away.

And because of the shortage of boats, most of the officers and soldiers could only escape by land.

As a result, they ran to Zhu Gao's side with their front legs, and the bandit army chased him with their back legs in boats.

And because he had abandoned Zhang Jie and Huang Ming to cut off the rear, all the Ming army troops who fled with him were worried about becoming the second army to be left behind.

Only then did he hear that the bandit army was chasing him, and he immediately fled, leaving him without a chance to deal with it.

Tracing back to the source, it seems that this defeat was doomed when he received the imperial edict and was forced to go into battle without knowing much about the Runing Liu thief!

"Master, let's escape quickly. If we don't escape, the boat will be robbed!"

The leader of the entourage gave a word of advice and then signaled the followers to flee towards the river with Gao Douguang surrounded.

Gao Douguang thought of the fate of those governors who had been defeated in the past few years, and felt that even if he escaped this time, he would not be able to escape the end of being questioned and executed by Chongzhen.

So he tried to pull out his sword and wanted to kill himself.

As a result, because the horse was running too fast and bumpy, he was hungry and tired and had no strength in his hands, so the sword fell off as soon as it reached his neck.

When the leader saw it, he quickly picked up the sword and hung it on his waist.

Gao Douguang was furious when he saw this and struggled for his life on horseback.

"Bold! How dare you stop this court from committing suicide by committing suicide?!"

As a result, as soon as he finished speaking, he was knocked off his horse and fell unconscious.

Seeing this, the leader who followed him breathed a sigh of relief and asked people to carry Gao Douguang on his back and continue to escape...

On the ninth day of April in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Liu Sheng personally defeated the Ming army in Gucheng and Zhugao.

The formation killed more than five thousand Ming troops and captured nearly eight thousand prisoners!

More than a thousand war horses, more than 30,000 stones of grain and grass, and no other military supplies were captured.

Huang De, the commander-in-chief of the Beijing camp and the crown prince's grand master, died in this battle.

Also killed in this battle were the Beijing camp generals Huang Ming, Zhang Jie, Qiu Yue, etc.

After this battle, Liu Sheng led the Wei rebel army to pursue the victory and went down the Huaihe River to capture Huoqiu.

Then they went upstream along the Ying River and captured Yingshang, Yingzhou, Taihe, Jieshou, Shenqiu, and Xiangcheng one after another.

Another general, Yang Heqing, was sent to take advantage of the defeat of the local soldiers and captured Shangcheng and Gushi in a few days, almost occupying all of Huairu.

The news spread and everyone in the Ming Dynasty was shocked!

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April 12.

Runing, Xiping.

Yang Wenyue led more than 20,000 troops here yesterday and camped in the eastern suburbs of Xiping County.

This place is connected to Yancheng (Luohe) of Kaifeng Prefecture to the north, Wuyang of Nanyang Prefecture to the west, and can be reached by Ru River in the east to Shangcai, Suiping, Ruyang, Queshan, Zhenyang, Xincai and other places. It can be said to be a military important place.

"Liu Tie didn't come to capture such an important military location as Xiping. Fortunately, some people in Kaifeng Mansion said Liu Tie was a greater threat than Li Chuang. In my opinion, he is far worse than Li Chuang!"

In the Chinese army's tent, Hu Dawei's thick voice shook the tent slightly.

Yang Wenyue was sitting in front of the desk looking at the map. His ears hurt from the noise. He just frowned slightly and didn't say anything.

Because Hu Dawei was the fierce general he relied on to suppress the bandits, he was naturally very tolerant.

Hu Dawei was originally a Mongolian. He surrendered the Ming army outside the Great Wall and initially joined the army in Yulin Town.

Later, he followed You Shilu, Zhang Zongheng, Xu Dingchen, and Wu Zong to suppress the bandits. In the ninth year of Chongzhen, he was promoted to the chief military officer of Shanxi Province.

In the winter of the eleventh year, he followed Lu Xiangsheng to fight against the slaves in Beizhili. Lu Xiangsheng was defeated and died. Therefore, Hu Dawei was dismissed from the post of Shanxi's chief military officer and demoted to deputy general. He was subsequently appointed as the governor and suppressed bandits for several times, and was reinstated as the commander-in-chief last year. Military officer.

This time Yang Wenyue went south. He said he brought more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, but in fact, 5,000 were civilians.

The real official army is divided into three parts.

There are 5,000 supervisors, more than 6,000 soldiers under General Hu Dawei, and more than 3,000 people under Deputy General Zhang Dechang.

Not long after he supervised the training, more than half of the recruits were recruited, and their combat power was the weakest among the three.

Zhang Dechang was originally a guerrilla of Li Xianfeng's Fubiao. After Li Xianfeng committed suicide in fear of crime, he defected to him to protect himself.

He and Gao Qian once fought fiercely with Li Chuang's thieves outside Kaifeng City, and won many battles. The combat effectiveness of their troops should not be underestimated.

But the combat effectiveness is still inferior to that of Hu Dawei's tribe - Hu Dawei himself is a fierce general, and his servants and soldiers are all powerful soldiers of the border army. So far, he has never lost in battles with bandits!

Zhang Dechang, who also came to discuss the matter, also wanted to make friends with Hu Dawei.

Hearing this, he apologized and said with a smile: "That Liu thief was just a grass bandit, and he suddenly rose up because of the lack of troops in Henan last year.

Unlike Li, Zhang, and Luo, who had been fighting against the imperial court for more than ten years, Junlue and Hu Zongzhen were definitely incomparable, so naturally they couldn't see how important Xiping's position was. "

Hu Dawei laughed after hearing this, looked at Yang Wenyue who was looking up, and said: "If you ask me, the governor doesn't need to plan anything. We just need to follow Ru River and fight back the cities occupied by the bandits one by one. .”

Yang Wenyue raised his head and asked, "How many cities have you conquered?"

Hu Dawei was immediately speechless.

Although he had never been defeated in suppressing bandits in the past, he basically fought against rogue bandits in the wild, because Li Zicheng and other rogue bandits had never occupied a city before. Even if they conquered a certain city, they would quickly move to fight elsewhere after looting everything.