384 arrived in Kaifeng

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This time, Li Zixiao planned to take away a total of nearly 7,000 men, but there were not only four battalions, and Li Zixiao deliberately reduced the number of men and horses under him.

After all, at this time, if Li Zixiao could come out with seven or eight battalions casually, it was estimated that Lu Xiangsheng would be taken aback.

And this time, in addition to the two infantry battalions, a cavalry battalion and a baggage battalion, Li Zixiao actually included a guard battalion and half a firepower battalion to protect his safety.

As for the candidates for the two infantry battalions, Li Zixiao has also thought about it, and he is ready to take Li Tianba's 'Tiger Battalion' and Xu Wei's 'Iron Blood Battalion'.

When the time comes, he will leave Zhou Dazhu's 'pioneer battalion', as well as the well-guarded Liu Chong's 'trapped camp', as well as the new barracks, to guard Xuzhou.

After Li Zixiao left, Wei Hong would be in charge of the defense of Xuzhou, and at the same time, Li Zixiao ordered him to start recruiting new soldiers in Xuzhou, this time not for the city defense army, but for the White Dragon Army.

A day later, Li Zixiao's men were all ready and ready to go.

It's just that Li Zixiao didn't plan to take the 6th route this time, but planned to take the Yellow River waterway.

You must know that after he spent a lot of money, his subordinates already had a fleet of as many as thirty large ships at this time.

And from Xuzhou to Kaifeng to take the Yellow River, it is just the most suitable, and taking the waterway can also allow the soldiers to rest well, recuperate, and do not have to travel long distances.

However, 30 large ships were still not enough, and he rented 30 large ships from some merchants in Xuzhou who owned ships, so that he could transport more than 7,000 horses and many heavy materials.

Just two days later, Li Zixiao boarded a boat at Xuzhou Wharf and led his men and horses west along the river to Kaifeng.

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In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, on March 27, on a large boat transporting the white dragon soldiers, Wu Liuzhi, a flag general of the 'Tiger Ben Battalion', woke up early.

In fact, Wu Liuzhi basically didn't fall asleep much last night, and he was in a state of confusion all the time.

Wu Liuzhi joined the White Dragon Army in Yongcheng County last year, because in the first battle of the Northern Expedition, he fought bravely, performed well, killed many enemies, and won the attention of his superiors.

After arriving in Xuzhou, he was promoted from a military commander to the position of a flag general, and his subordinates were in charge of the 100th people.

Wu Liuzhi is his nickname, because his right hand was born with six fingers, and as for his real name, not many people remember.

Wu Liuzhi is an authentic Loess Gaopo person, who fled to Yongcheng at the beginning of last year, mixed with the homeless people, and was recruited by the White Dragon Army.

The most he had seen in the past was the yellow earth, with the most dry days of the year, few rainy days, and the dust in the sky had long been accustomed to, and even there were few rivers there.

Until now, when he arrived at the Jianghuai River in the Central Plains, he saw a wider and flat plain, as well as rivers all over the place.

But he never knew how to swim, and he never rode on the huge river boat.

Therefore, as soon as he boarded the river boat, he felt that there was no root under his feet, and the whole person was unstable.

Within a few moments, he, like many of his subordinates, began to get seasick, vomit, and turn the world upside down.

For a whole day and a night, it was as if he was dying.

When he woke up this morning, Wu Liuzhi finally felt better.

According to the sailors on the river, they have been five hundred miles away and will soon arrive in Kaifeng.

This made him unimaginable, in one day and night, he had already driven five hundred miles away, and if it was changed to six places, it was estimated that the horse team would have to run and break its legs.

Wu Liuzhi carried a bucket and brought a bucket of river water from the river, and after washing his face, he felt a lot refreshed.

The boat that Wu Liuzhi is on is not small, although it is not the largest ship in the fleet, but the banner and three men and horses under his command have a total of more than one hundred and twenty brothers.

In addition, there were more than 30 mules, plus seven van carts, and tens of thousands of catties of grain and grass, but they were all loaded on the ship.

The wind on the Yellow River was very strong, and the winter time at the end of the Ming Dynasty was very long, and the climate in the north had not yet warmed up at this time, and a cold wind blew over, which made Wu Liuzhi sober up a lot.

After Wu Liuzhi was dizzy for a day, he finally got used to the feeling of the boat driving on the river.

The boat next to it was Wu Liuzhi's team, the boat that the team would take, and at this time, the sound of a horn came from above.

Although they were on the boat, Wu Liuzhi and them, the soldiers of the White Dragon Army, still did not relax, and they had to get up and train according to the order every day.

Maybe their martial arts and combat skills are not the most exquisite, but every soldier in the White Dragon Army is absolutely familiar with the orders.

In the White Dragon Army, blowing the trumpet is the palm trumpet, and it is responsible for directing the daily work and rest training of the soldiers.

This is the first time, and this is to ask people to pack their bags and prepare meals. Blow the first sound in the morning, which is the wake-up call.

There was no need for Wu Liuzhi to urge, the soldiers of his flag, after hearing the call to get up, all left the cabin and came to the deck.

Wu Liuzhi pointed to this flag, there were five soldiers, and at this time, the five firefighters carried their iron pots on their backs, carried wooden barrels to the deck, and began to cook.

While the gang leader was cooking, Wu Liuzhi wanted to lead his subordinates to conduct an early morning exercise, but now on the boat, their daily running was canceled.

The ship where Wu Liuzhi was located was a merchant ship in Xuzhou and was leased by Li Zixiao.

At this time, the boat boss surnamed Wang on the ship walked over with a smile.

"General, in the morning, the little ones cast a few nets on the boat, and picked up a lot of fish, all of which are still fresh, so I will send you a few and stew them to eat."

The fish are very fresh and fat, Wu Liuzhi smiled and accepted it, and he was not polite.

"Thank you, Brother Wang."

Wang Chuantou and Wu Liuzhi chatted briefly and went back.

Wu Liuzhi handed over a few fresh big fish to the firefighters to pack up, and then took the rest of the team members to start the morning drill.

They were on the boat and could no longer carry out the usual weight-bearing long-distance run in the morning, so Wu Liuzhi took everyone to do push-ups and boxing.

In the White Dragon Army, each battalion has to participate in regular competitions every month, and those with poor grades will be punished.

The soldiers had been training for about half an hour, and the sky was already bright.

At this time, on the boat next door, there was a horn again, and this second trumpet was to let the soldiers of the White Dragon Army eat and prepare for the exercise.

At this time, the five firemen also made breakfast for a hundred or so people.

Breakfast was mixed noodles and steamed buns, plus pickles, and fresh river fish, because there was fresh fish today, so Wu Liuzhi didn't take out those dried meat and dried fish.

The fish is fresh and fat, just a simple stew, but quite delicious.

Wu Liuzhi was very happy to eat, and he had never even eaten fish until he was twenty years old.

In his hometown in Shaanxi, there are no rivers and lakes at all, and fish is a very expensive thing, more expensive than meat.

After the meal was finished, Wu Liuzhi led his subordinates to continue the exercise.

This time, they changed their training formation, and the combat of the White Dragon Army's foot soldiers had their special tactical formation.

These formation tactics were even compiled by Li Zixiao himself, an infantry drill book, which was very detailed, breaking down the training of infantry to combat and so on, and compiling them into examples.

These codes were printed in a book and distributed to each soldier in the White Dragon Infantry Barracks.

There are strict requirements in peacetime, and each soldier is required to memorize all the content within three months, and at least two per day in peacetime.

Wu Liuzhi is illiterate, and it is very difficult to memorize this drill book, but he can't help but learn and not memorize, which is specially checked and scored, and if he can't memorize it, he has to deduct points.

If you deduct too many points, you will have to be fined, and if you fail repeatedly, you will be demoted.

Wu Liuzhi had just begged for a mother-in-law in Xuzhou last autumn, and his daughter-in-law's belly was big before the expedition, and he had to save money for his future children.

Therefore, even if these codes are difficult to memorize, Wu Liuzhi never gave up, he didn't want to be fined, let alone demoted.

Among Wu Liuzhi's personal soldiers, one of them has read books, so he also serves as the clerk of the banner, and is usually responsible for teaching Wu Liuzhi and others to memorize the drill code.

Although Wu Liuzhi hates learning to memorize the drill book, he has to admit that with this drill book in hand, he feels that the practice is indeed much simpler.

As long as he practiced step by step according to this, it was enough.

Today, Wu Liuzhi led his subordinates to practice and form a formation to resist the enemy's phalanx.

This phalanx is a flag and five cars as a formation, once the enemy is encountered, the formation is quickly formed, the four cars are each clothed on one side, and the carriage of the carriage is outside, and then a car is set up in the middle.

After the formation of the carts was erected, the mules were all gathered in the cart array, the cannons were set up on the carts, and the artillery drilled to bombard the enemy, while the birdmen stood in a formation between the carts, and they were responsible for forming a shield array to protect the front of the birdmen.

When the enemy is within 100 paces, the Bird's Gun will strike the enemy with a fire gun in a horizontal formation, and when the thief is within 30 paces, the Bird Gun will put down the fire gun, change them to raise their shields, and rush to the enemy with their swords.

The formation tactics are not complicated, but it is not so easy to familiarize the battle formation with more than 100 recruits in a banner.

Wu Liuzhi had to spend half a day every day practicing this battle formation tactic, coming and going, over and over again.

In Li Zixiao's words, that is, all the soldiers, the formation of conditioning reflexes in drills, and all the tactical steps of the battle formation are deeply engraved in their minds.

"Beep!"

Wu Liuzhi blew violently, the iron whistle in his mouth, he replaced the command of his subordinates, and without blowing, his subordinates would quickly complete a step.

After a morning of drilling, it was time for lunch, and for lunch it was fish again, this time the fish came from the river by a few firemen themselves.

They borrowed nets from the crew and caught fish in their own nets, and there were so many fish in the Yellow River that a few firefighters didn't spend much time catching a lot of fish in the net.

In the afternoon, Li Zixiao's fleet boarded the Taojiadian Wharf north of Kaifeng.6 and then set off for the first place under Li Zixiao's lead.

At the same time, Li Zixiao also took a fancy to this Taojiadian wharf, and if his White Dragon Army needed supplies in the future, he could take the Yellow River to climb here.6

When Li Zixiao's army arrived more than ten miles outside Kaifeng, Lu Xiangsheng had just arrived in Kaifeng, and he never expected that Li Zixiao would lead his troops to come at first.

He was also taken aback, thinking that a gang of bandits had come out of nowhere!

It wasn't until he saw Li Zixiao's soldiers sent in advance to report the news in Kaifeng that Lu Xiangsheng breathed a sigh of relief, and ordered Li Zixiao to camp five miles west of Kaifeng City.

After Li Zixiao got the order, he camped outside the west of Kaifeng City, and he had guessed that Lu Xiangsheng would not let his soldiers and horses enter Kaifeng.

After his subordinates set up camp, Li Zixiao took more than a dozen guards such as quartz into Kaifeng Mansion and met Lu Xiangsheng.

When Li Zixiao stood under Kaifeng City and looked at the towering city wall that was more than ten meters high, he was also fascinated.

This is the first time Li Zixiao has seen the most prosperous city in the Ming Dynasty so far, and the towering city walls alone are daunting.

"It is worthy of being a strong city that can block Li Zicheng's army of locusts, just this moat that is twenty meters wide and nearly four or five meters deep is a heavenly stream!"

Li Zixiao knew that in another year, Li Zicheng would capture the thousand-year-old city of Luoyang and kill King Fu, but he attacked Kaifeng three times and failed to capture it.

In the end, Li Zicheng was blind in one eye, and in a fit of anger, he led the water of the Yellow River and flooded Kaifeng Mansion.

However, there are many theories about Kaifeng being flooded in later generations, and some people say that Li Zicheng dug the embankment of the Yellow River and flooded Kaifeng, resulting in the tragic death of hundreds of thousands of Kaifeng people.

But some people say that it was the Ming army that dug the embankment, anyway, the two persuasions have been arguing for a long time, but there is no result, and the historical truth is no longer known.

"Kaifeng City, the foundation of the king!" Li Zixiao said enviously.

To say that Li Zixiao took Jiangbei in order to obtain a stable base for himself, then at this time, the area of Kaifeng Mansion in eastern Henan is a piece of fat that he covets.

At this time, the entire Central Plains is the only one that is still prosperous and has not gone through the war.

At this time, Shaanxi, needless to say, was already erosive and could no longer be eroded, and there were homeless people everywhere, bare within a hundred miles, and there was no trace of green.

Henan Province and Nanyang Province in western Henan Province also suffered from military rebellion last year, and coupled with the famine, they have also begun to be chaotic.

As for Huguang and Sichuan, not to mention, that is where Zhang Xianzhong is wreaking, and the situation is not much better.

At this time, only in the area of Kaifeng Mansion, the people are still counting, and Li Zixiao has long had the heart to plot Kaifeng.

It's a pity that at this time, Li Zixiao can only think about it, Kaifeng Mansion has no chance to get his hands on it at this time, because his strength is not enough and he is not qualified.

However, Li Zixiao will not sit back and watch this piece of fat fall into Li Zicheng's mouth, although he didn't eat it in the end, but Kaifeng will be destroyed after all.

In Li Zixiao's opinion, this is too much of a pity, if Kaifeng Mansion falls into his hands, it is enough to support him to equip 50,000 elite troops.

This time, Li Zixiao nominally went west to suppress the bandits, but in fact, his real purpose was to take precautions, even if he couldn't exterminate Li Zicheng, he would have to firmly limit his power to the west of Kaifeng Mansion.

This jackal must not be allowed to enter Kaifeng Mansion, you must know that the locust army under Li Zicheng is simply a 'demolition team' wherever it goes.

They can't build, but the destruction is the number one, let them enter this rich land, spoil it, without twenty years, Kaifeng doesn't want to recover.

Since Li Zixiao regards Kaifeng as his own forbidden body, he will never allow the rebel army to destroy it.

(End of chapter)

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