386 ridiculous night attack

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On April 5, the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, after several days of marching, the White Dragon Army led by Li Zixiao finally arrived in Jiaxian County, Ruzhou. Eighty-one? Chinese (8) ??.? 8 (8) 1?Z?(1) .COM

Xu Wei's iron-blooded battalion served as a pioneer, marched lightly, did not carry too much baggage, and had already arrived in Jiaxian two days earlier.

"My lord, we have set up a camp in the north of Jiaxian County according to your instructions, and all the spies sent to the direction of Ruzhou City to listen to the news have also been dispatched.

It's just that, so far, they have not reciprocated. On the contrary, we learned a lot of news from the mouths of the people who fled Ruzhou and passed through here every day. ”

Xu Wei led Li Zixiao to the camp they had set up, and reported to him as he walked.

"Has Ruzhou City been captured by thieves?" This is what Li Zixiao is most concerned about at this time.

"Not yet, according to the people who fled here, it seems that the city of Ruzhou has not yet been captured by the thieves.

Most of the people who fled here were the people around Ruzhou City, and those thieves did not capture Ruzhou City for the time being, but they did not delay their looting of the surrounding people. ”

Xu Wei said, his eyes were full of murder, as a veteran who has always been loyal to the Ming Dynasty, it is his greatest wish to encircle and suppress these bandits.

This is also the main reason why Li Zixiao did not bring Zhou Dazhu's 'pioneer camp' or Liu Chong's 'trapped camp', but brought Xu Wei's 'iron-blooded camp'.

Li Zixiao believes that as long as he deals with Tartars and bandits, this veteran will go all out, and it will be a very sharp sword in his hand.

Don't look at Xu Wei is over fifty years old, but he is really not old, and the age of the generals of the White Dragon Army is generally the same as Li Zixiao, he is too young.

The accumulation of experience is the biggest flaw of the generals of the White Dragon Army, and they need experienced veterans like Xu Wei.

At this time, Li Zixiao also came to the camp set up by Xu Wei and others, the camp is not big, but the design is reasonable.

This kind of small fortress is exactly the kind of fortress that Li Zixiao vigorously promoted in the White Dragon Army at this time.

This small fort mainly has a lot of shooting cover, which can be convenient for the White Dragon Army musketeers (after equipping the flint, the White Dragon Army's bird gunners are all renamed musketeers).

They were then able to condescend and shoot the enemy who tried to attack the fort camp.

"Let the soldiers of the baggage battalion leave one-third of the grain, grass, ammunition and other materials, and transport the rest to the fortress."

Li Zixiao tilted his head and ordered Dong Xiang behind him.

"Yes, General, my subordinates will do it."

After Dong Zhuang's order left, Li Zixiao looked at the surrounding generals and said, "In the future, it is estimated that we will fight in Ruzhou."

I set up this camp in Jiaxian, mainly as our logistics and transfer center, responsible for receiving grain and other materials sent by Kaifeng Prefecture.

Then it was transferred to the front line, fortunately it was far away from Ruzhou, although the transportation was not very convenient, but it was safe.

I need to leave one person here now, and send a team of men to guard it, which of you wants to stay? ”

Li Zixiao's eyes swept over Xu Wei, Qi Lin, Li Tianba, Luo, Qi Wei and others, and asked.

After a while, Qi Lin took the initiative to stand up: "General, let me stay, it is not appropriate for several other generals to leave their own team, it is most appropriate for me to stay." ”

Seeing that Qi Lin took the initiative to stay, Li Zixiao smiled slightly and said, "Okay, then I will entrust it to you Qi Lin here, don't lose anything." ”

"Qi Lin knows the importance of this place, and dares to make a military order." Qi Lin yelled.

"Okay, I will leave you a hundred musketeers, mainly for you to refuse to defend the fort, I don't estimate that there will be tens of thousands of thieves, and it will be impossible to take your fort for four or five days.

Four or five days will be enough for me to send troops back to your aid, so you just need to be vigilant and vigilant, so as not to be attacked by the enemy. ”

Li Zixiao finally admonished.

In fact, Li Zixiao was still very pleased that Qi Lin took the initiative to stand up.

After all, staying in the rear and guarding the grain and straw will make him lose the opportunity to make meritorious contributions to the front line.

But Qi Lin is also very familiar with current affairs, and he can also see that among the generals of the White Dragon Army who accompanied Li Zixiao on the expedition at this time, he is the only one who is the most suitable to stay.

He is the deputy general of the 'Iron Blood Battalion' Mansion, it is impossible for him to let Xu Wei stay, let alone Li Tianba, let alone this guy, it is even more impossible to stay, and it is not suitable.

With his rough temperament, if he stays, it is estimated that he will miss a big thing.

And Qi Wei, Luo is the commander of the cavalry battalion, and it is not suitable to stay, and Sun Dazhuang needs to command the musketeers, which is also not suitable for staying.

As for Dong Zhuang, although he will most likely stay, he doesn't know much about military affairs, so he can only assist, but he can't be the chief officer, and in the end, Qi Lin himself understands that this task belongs to him.

That's right, in fact, in the end, even if Qi Lin didn't take the initiative to stand up, Li Zixiao would leave him behind in the end.

Li Zixiao asked like this, just to let Qi Lin take the initiative to stand up, which is very different from Li Zixiao directly appointing Qi Lin to stay.

"Order the whole army to rest here for the night, and leave for Ruzhou tomorrow, and send an order to Han Tong, telling him that I will get more accurate information about the city of Ruzhou before arriving in Ruzhou with a large army.

In particular, regarding the number of truly combatable soldiers brought by the general under the thieves who attacked Ruzhou City.

In addition, let Zhang Fugui's intelligence bureau find a way to send a message to the defenders in Ruzhou City, telling them the news that our army is about to arrive.

lest the time come and delay my plans. Li Zixiao issued a series of orders.

Not long after Li Zixiao arrived in Jiaxian, a white dragon army sentry returned, and what they brought back was not news from Ruzhou, but from Baofeng County, which was fifty miles to the south.

The two scouts who had returned returned had learned from the homeless that just yesterday a bandit had plundered all the way from the north.

At this time, they had arrived at Baofeng County, and there were thousands of people, which attracted Li Zixiao's attention.

"Baofeng can't be lost."

Li Zixiao made this decision.

Once Baofeng is lost and occupied by bandits, they are so far away from Jiaxian, they will soon have the idea of Jiaxian.

Moreover, on the way here, after Li Zixiao thought about it carefully, he planned to take advantage of this crackdown on bandits to control the three counties of Jiaxian, Baofeng and Lushan in Ruzhou.

These three counties are not rich counties, suitable for Li Zixiao to secretly start, Ruzhou is a state capital after all, and the goal is a bit big.

As for Luoyang in the north, Li Zixiao gave up directly, Luoyang is too eye-catching.

There was no way, Li Zixiao had to modify it temporarily, and from Xu Wei's 'iron-blooded camp', he transferred a team of men and horses to the south to aid Baofeng, and he must not let the bandits capture another county town.

The White Dragon Army had a team of nearly 400 people, and after only practicing for less than half a day, they restarted.

Among them, among these four hundred, there were more than one hundred and fifty musketeers, and the rest were mainly sword and shield soldiers and pikemen.

Rushing to aid Baofeng, Li Zixiao only sent a team of men, which felt that it was enough, and the rest of the large army continued to go north to Ruzhou tomorrow as planned.

This time, Li Zixiao was sent to rush to Baofeng, and it was the third team of the 'Iron Blood Battalion', and the team was named Cao Chengheng.

After a day's march, the four hundred white dragon soldiers led by Cao Chengheng quietly drove into Baofeng County in the evening of the next day.

At this time, Baofeng County did not know that a bandit was coming towards them, preparing to attack and capture it.

Cao Chengheng's arrival, the bandits didn't know, which made Cao Chengheng also have a mind, planning to fight against the Yin this chaotic bandit, and then Baofeng County will be safe.

When it was dark, on the tower of the north gate of Baofeng, there were sharp-eyed officers and soldiers behind the tower, and when they saw the sneaky figure in the distance, they shouted loudly: "The thief is coming!" ”

The guards on the upper floor of the north gate of Baofeng made a frightened report.

Wang Luoren, the county magistrate of Baofeng, stroked the battlements, looking at the firelight outside, and his legs were even weaker.

He finally believed Cao Chengheng's words in the afternoon, tonight these rogues really came to attack the county seat!

At this time, on the side, compared to the panic and fear of Wang Luoren and other Baofeng officials and people.

Cao Chengheng, the general of the third team of the White Dragon Army's iron-blooded battalion who had just moved into Baofeng and was in charge of sitting in the city, looked calm, not only did not panic and be nervous, but even a little excited and happy.

"It's finally here, let Lao Tzu wait for a while, I'm about to doze off." Cao Chengheng said.

Thousands of bandits, with torches, like stars in the sky, are heading towards the county seat of Baofeng.

"These bandits, are they here to attack, or are they going to attack!"

Cao Chengheng was full of disdain and said to the officers around him.

In his opinion, if the bandits want to sneak attack, then try to be careful, don't make such a big move, it is best to sneak up in the dark, so that it will be more successful to sneak attack.

"A thief is a bandit, and he just relies on a drum of courage to avoid the real and attack the false." An officer of the White Dragon Army, replied.

If Li Zixiao hadn't sent them to Baofeng City this time, maybe with these thousands of bandits tonight, there would really be no need for these thieves to be sneaky against a small county town without soldiers.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that these bandits are so arrogant, and they are not afraid to expose their intentions and move forward with torches.

"The battle is not fought like this, even if it is a lion and a rabbit, it is still full strength, and even if the thieves are powerful, but such a swarm of swarms of attacks is only an increase in vain, unnecessary losses."

Cao Chengheng retorted that he really despised this tactic of thieves.

In the White Dragon Army, the officers have become accustomed to Li Zixiao's method of leading troops, that is, every time they fight, they must try to achieve the greatest victory at the lowest cost.

In any battle, there must be precise deployment, detailed calculations, in short, casualties must be minimized.

On the other hand, on the other hand, they don't care about losing their opponents, as long as they can capture a county town and get enough food, they can replenish more manpower at any time.

"Thieves are all the same, there are a few thieves who are willing to value the lives of their subordinates, anyway, as long as they keep their subordinates, those elite thieves will not die, and the others are cannon fodder.

As long as they are given one or two cities, they can raise another army and horses at any time, and they will not feel distressed about how many people they die in order to achieve their goals. ”

Cao Chengheng also had to admit that what his subordinates said was very reasonable.

In fact, those bandits didn't want to make torches, the main thing was that they didn't light torches, they didn't believe it at all, and they couldn't rush at night.

Because most of those thieves have night blindness, and if they don't light torches, they will all become blind at night.

In addition, this time the thieves thought that Baofeng County was still the original small county town where no soldiers were stationed, and their thousands of people could easily capture it.

Those torches, a few miles away, Cao Chengheng stood on the city wall and saw them, enough time for him to prepare.

So much so that he is still there, chatting calmly with his subordinates, but Wang Luoren, the commander of Baofeng County, can no longer be calm.

He brought his officials and the big families in Baofeng City to come over, but Cao Chengheng's soldiers stopped him and didn't let him go.

"Don't pay attention to these fools, they dared to be unreasonable to us before, and guarded us like thieves, for fear that we would ask them for a bag of food.

If it weren't for the captain's permission, I would have wanted to go up and smoke them. A small county order dares to be so arrogant. ”

A white dragon officer and soldier beside Cao Chengheng glanced over there and said in a cold voice.

The officers of the White Dragon Army of the third team of the iron-blooded battalion all had a good impression of Wang Luoren, the commander of Baofeng County.

"These **** people, we rushed to save their lives, and they were stingy.

If we hadn't arrived in time, if these thieves broke through Baofeng County tonight, they would have been able to slaughter Baofeng City. ”

Taking advantage of this little effort, the bandits outside the city quickly approached Baofeng County, and they carried a lot of bamboo ladders over, intending to rob the city directly.

"These bandits, they are still in such a hurry to send them to death, then we will fulfill them." Cao Chengheng sneered and said.

Then he turned to his officers and said again, "Go back to your divisions and prepare for battle." ”

The bandits that appeared outside Baofeng City were indeed out of order, and many of them were holding torches and making a noise.

The siege of these bandits is more like a child's play, the people in front rush to the city, and they don't wait for the people behind to arrive, and they don't form a whole team, and they directly start to climb the ladder to the city.

The city wall of Baofeng City, although not too high, is only less than three zhang high, and there are no trenches, urn cities, sheep and horse walls and other defensive facilities, and there are no enemy towers on the city.

Even in the city, except for the team of the White Dragon Army, there was not a single soldier, and Baofeng County did not get the news of the bandits in advance.

Let Baofeng County Ling Wang Luoren not even have the opportunity to recruit young and strong.

If this were to be the past, no matter how bad these thieves were, Baofeng City would be broken tonight.

"Open the cannon, why don't you fire the cannon yet, fire the cannon quickly!"

Wang Luoren and other officials in the city and the heads of large families were stopped on the side of the city at this time, unable to get close to Cao Chengheng and other officers of the White Dragon Army.

All they had to do was climb the nearby wall and observe the situation.

At this time, these people saw that the soldiers of the White Dragon Army had many firearms and artillery in their hands.

But until the bandits outside the city calmly rushed to the city and began to set up ladders, the white dragon soldiers at the head of the city did not fire a single shot.

At this moment, the big families in Baofeng City were anxious, and Wang Luoren, the commander of Baofeng County, was also anxious, and he jumped and yelled.

It's a pity that none of the soldiers of the White Dragon Army paid attention to him.

(End of chapter)