This place is only more than 100 miles away from Caozhou, in order to maintain physical strength and horsepower to spend three hours marching, the soldiers can reach the battlefield in the afternoon, and it is not a problem to fight for an hour before dark.

There was no need to worry about the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry coming to reinforce it, Luyi was 500 miles away from Caozhou, and it was the next day after hearing that the Liukou besieging Caozhou had been suddenly attacked.

The Qing army is not stupid, can it really stand out for the rogue at the risk of being ambushed by the 'Red Flag Army'?

According to Sun Chuanting's analysis, the Qing army learned that nearly 30,000 elites of the "Red Flag Army" had come to participate in the Central Plains War, and their choice should be to use mobility to avoid the battle and let the Liukou fight with our army.

The more fierce our army fights, the worse the defeat of the Liukou, and the faster the Qing army escapes, if the battle is stalemate, the Qing army will take the opportunity to pick up the cheap.

There is no suspicion in employing people, and Sun Chuanting is still a master of strategy and tactics that has been verified by history.

Huang Han agreed to Sun Chuanting's tactics of quick victory and appointed him to deploy his troops, and Sun ordered the whole army to cross the Yellow River at a constant pace, and when it approached 30 miles from Caozhou, the whole army attacked suddenly.

Cao Zhou, which was surrounded and attacked by 780,000 horses and nearly 100,000 displaced people led by Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Liu Guoneng and other rogues, was still holding on to the seventh day, and it was well defended.

As early as when the Liukou arrived in Luoyang, Gu Rushan, Lei Mingchun, Wang Ying and others made a plan, intending to use Caozhou as bait to attract a large number of Liukou to attack.

In order not to be self-defeating and cause the bait to be eaten, they decided to strengthen Caozhou's defenses after deliberation.

Wang Ying led the mixed thousand generals to carry the Fulong machine gun and two thousand guards into Caozhou to assist in the defense, so that the number of regular soldiers in the city reached more than 1,500 people, and the guards army was close to 3,000.

In addition, there are more than 2,000 villagers in training, and more than 5,000 people who came to carry military supplies and carry the wounded organized by Zhu Dadian, and the number of people participating in the defense of the city exceeds 12,000.

originally thought that the little Caozhou would be at his fingertips, but who knew that it was so difficult to bite, Zhang Xianzhong was so angry that he was like thunder, and at this time he regretted that it was too late to take the initiative to ask to be the vanguard of the army.

The Eight Kings are people who want to save face, if they retreat with the people and horses, wouldn't it make Jin Minghu laugh off his big teeth?

Who knew that six days and five nights had passed, and the Liukou had not even had a chance to rush to the city, and Luo Rucai, Liu Guoneng and other big leaders who urged them to attack the city were a little deflated.

"Fight, no matter what you do!" Zhang Xianzhong gritted his teeth and was ruthless, in order to cheer up his subordinates, he bewitched again:

"Brothers, the rich man within a radius of hundreds of miles, the official lady are all hiding in Caozhou City, and there are many wine, meat, silver, big girls and little daughters-in-law in the city, Lao Tzu will reward you all."

This is not a lie, Zhu Dadian never prepared to abandon the city and escape, in the autumn he organized the army and civilians to strengthen the city, and ordered the evacuation of the population and food of the surrounding villages and towns.

As soon as the Liukou launched an attack, the flag guards learned the news and informed the inland garrison that the "Red Banner Army" was widely publicized in Caozhou, and everyone who did not want to be a thief brought their belongings, property, and food into the state city to escape the war.

As long as the food, people, and livestock are there, and they can continue to cultivate in the spring, the losses caused by the passage of the Liukou are within a controllable range.

When the "Red Flag Army" was propagandizing, it clearly told the fathers and villagers that the "King of Hanjiang County" would not tolerate the scourge of the Liukou until the spring, and was already organizing people to prepare to deal a severe blow to the Liukou.

Many officials, gentry, landlords, and ordinary people who trusted the "Red Banner Army" took refuge in Caozhou City with their families, and the temples, ancestral halls, and even in front of the state government were full of people, and every household in the city also accepted many refugees.

Because the "Red Banner Army" has management experience, as long as the population enters the city to escape the war, they must have the guarantee of their neighbors, and then register their household registration to distribute food books.

Only by virtue of the number of people registered in the household register and grain book can we buy food rations that can sustain 70% of the population.

The "Red Banner Army" not only takes care of food, but also receives 600 yuan and five buckets of miscellaneous grain every month, and with this food and money, they can barely sustain three or four people a day with two meals a day.

Although the output of this year's autumn harvest has been reduced by about 40 percent, it is only winter now, and the grain is not yet exhausted.

In fact, few of the refugees who fled the war and fled into the city were destitute, and the vast majority of them carried food and money, and as long as the "Red Flag Grain Bank" released grain according to the ration according to the ration and the price of one stone of rice and two silver coins, the city would not fall into chaos due to hunger.

Today, there are as many as 180,000 soldiers and civilians in Caozhou City, of which 140,000 are foreigners, more than 200,000 stone of grain, and there are many cattle, horses and donkeys.

In order to save land and food, in the past few days, almost all pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks have been killed to reward the soldiers and civilians who participated in the defense of the city.

Zhang Xianzhong is crooked this time, not wrong, if the Liukou really takes Caozhou, there will be all kinds of grain, wine, flower girls, gold and silver treasures.

The eyes of the rogues were green, and they let out a wolf-like howl: "Brothers, take out your real skills and fight hard!" The eight kings have orders, and the beautiful girls in the city are all ours! Kill ......"

In order not to scare the rogues away prematurely, the bright and dazzling red flag did not fly at the head of Caozhou City, and half of the Minnie gunners in the regular army deliberately did not shoot at any target a hundred paces away.

Wang Ying, the commander of the second battalion, is the highest official general in Caozhou City, and naturally commands the overall situation, Zhu Dadian has carefully studied the establishment of the "Red Flag Army", and knows that the commander of the first battalion should be at least equivalent to the general of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, the "Red Banner Army" system does not have the concept of civil and military inferiority, not only is the rank equal, but the treatment is inclined to military attachés.

Zhu Dadian did not give Wang Ying respect because he needed the "Red Flag Army" to save his life, but also because he had been in contact with Wang Ying for half a month and found that this young general was not simple.

Wang Ying is the son of Wang Yuqi, a master craftsman, an academician of the Academy of Sciences, and a shipbuilding expert, and is a disciple of Huang Han who has been trained for four years.

He once traveled across the ocean to the Wa Kingdom, Little Luzon, and Guangnan Kingdom, not only knowing a little about astronomy and geography, but also being able to talk about Tang and Song poems, and his military quality was impeccable.

Zhu Dadian is a native of Jinhua, Zhejiang, a two-list jinshi, an authentic scholar, and often feels empowered after communicating with Wang Ying many times.

He began to yearn for the other side of the ocean, looking forward to being able to follow the fleet of the Longwu Navy Division across the ocean to the American continent in his lifetime.

Zhu Dadian is not a clean official, but it does not mean that he is a bad person, the civil and military generals of the Ming Dynasty are more than seven corrupt adults, and there are very few people who can really be as honest as Hai Rui.

The Ming Dynasty was infighting, the party was fighting more and more, and Zhu Dadian, who was ambitious, capable, and wanted to do something practical for the country, was getting smaller and smaller as an official.

Listening to Wang Ying's introduction of Sun Chuanting, Chen Qiyu, Wen Tiren, Yang Yipeng and other former high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty who were like fish in water in the "Red Banner Army" system, I was more determined to defect to the "King of Hanjiang County" and start all over again.