593 Bewildered, Ambition

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More than ten miles south of Kaifeng City, the boundary of the new city.

"Kill!"

At this time, there were two large numbers of Ming troops and Chuang soldiers, who were fighting fiercely.

Poof!

On the battlefield, a Ming sergeant slashed with a knife, and a sergeant wearing a tattered cotton jacket.

The blade sliced through the soldier's padded jacket, opening a gaping hole in his chest, sending blood out.

The Ming sergeant immediately stopped care, and the soldier who was slashed by him turned around and pounced on a sergeant in the other direction.

Because even if this kind of injury can't die temporarily, it won't be long before this soldier will die due to excessive bleeding, and there is basically no threat.

Most of these soldiers were homeless people coerced by Li Zicheng, and they did not have any armor except for a shabby cotton jacket to protect them from the cold.

In addition to their large numbers, they were almost inferior to these Ming soldiers in almost all other aspects.

These Ming soldiers who were killed from Kaifeng were also carefully trained by Kaifeng guard Chen Yongfu for a long time, and their combat power was still very strong.

It's just that the Ming soldiers who came out of Kaifeng City at this time and escorted this batch of grain and grass to Zhuxian Town added up to only about 3,000 people in total.

After all, Chen Yongfu didn't dare to send too many troops to Kaifeng, in that case, Song Xiance, who was still attacking Kaifeng, would probably have a chance to break Kaifeng.

But at this time, there were more than 20,000 soldiers and horses surrounded by more than 3,000 Ming soldiers and soldiers, and they were surrounded and engaged in a tragic battle.

"Kill!"

A Ming army commander roared angrily, the spear in his hand danced, like a dragon going out to sea, and the sharp spear tip stabbed one after another soldiers, bringing up a series of blood beads.

The general name of this Ming army is Yang Tianqi, and he is also the commander of this Ming army who went out of the city to transport grain and grass for Zhuxian Town.

It's a pity that they quietly went out of the city, but they still couldn't hide from the intruding army, and Song Xiance immediately sent a team of men and horses to pursue them, and they were caught up at the boundary of the new city.

At this time, Li Zicheng and the main force of the Chuang army were still in the Wei area, but Li Zicheng never gave up the attack on Kaifeng City.

And Li Zixiao's candidate for the general who stayed in Kaifeng was Song Xiance.

At this time, Song Xiance was outside Kaifeng City, commanding 5,000 elite soldiers and 80,000 co-affiliated troops, and surrounded Kaifeng.

This time, Song Xiance sent a capable general under his command, with 1,000 elite soldiers and 20,000 assistants, to pursue the Ming army's grain delivery team.

Poof!

Yang Tianqi stabbed a soldier to death with one shot again, but was attacked from behind by another sergeant, and the sharp tip of the spear pierced into Yang Tianqi's lower back, sending out a sharp pain.

"Ahh

However, the soldier did not survive, and was slashed by another Ming soldier who rushed over.

"Mr. Yang Qian, are you okay?" Zheng Hou felt that he was holding Yang Tianqi and asked with concern.

"It's fine!"

Yang Tianqi held on, pulled out the spear on his waist, covered the wound, and said in a trembling voice.

"Ahh

At this time, there were still soldiers rushing towards the two of them, but fortunately, with Zheng Hou by his side, he cooperated with the injured Yang Tianqi to kill the soldiers who rushed over.

"Mr. Yang Qian, it can't go on like this, there are too many thieves like this, we can't kill them at all!"

Zheng Hou hugged Yang Tianqi and said helplessly.

"I know, this is a mission to die, the thief army that surrounded us is at least 20,000 people, and it is impossible for us to escort this batch of grain and grass to Zhuxian Town."

Yang Tianqi's face was pale at this time, and he said unwillingly.

"Why hasn't the people sent by Zhu Xianzhen yet? Didn't Mr. Chen say that Lord Ding would send cavalry to meet us? What about people! ”

Zheng Hou kicked down a rushing sergeant and roared angrily.

"No, we can't wait, if we don't break through, we will be consumed alive by these thieves."

Yang Tianqi looked at the battlefield at this time and found that the three thousand Ming soldiers he brought out had almost half killed at this time.

And the rest of the Ming soldiers were also facing the siege of two or three soldiers, and the situation was very bad.

If this drags on any longer, they will probably be killed by this intruding sergeant.

"We can't deliver food and grass, but we can't let all our brothers put their lives here.

Zheng Hou, carry out the backup plan, burn all the food, break through the siege of the whole army, and kill one by one, and not let the brothers all die here. ”

"Yes, Mr. Yang Qian, I'll take someone to burn the grain." Zheng Hou turned and left.

When Yang Tianqi and the others left Kaifeng City, they had already thought in advance that if they were discovered by the intrusive army after leaving the city, they would be surrounded.

They would never leave the grain for the soldiers, so they kept a large jar of fire oil on each cart of grain.

Once they are surrounded by soldiers and cannot be killed, they will burn the food.

Now, Yang Tianqi knew that in the direction of Zhuxian Town, if reinforcements were not sent for a long time, it was impossible for them to escort this batch of grain and grass out.

Therefore, Yang Tianqi could only make the decision to burn the grain and lead people to break through.

Bang bang bang!

As Zheng Hou led people to the dozens of carts, he asked them to break all the oil canisters carried on the cars, and then ignited them with fire breakers.

The raging fire was on these dozens of carts, blazing fiercely.

When Zheng Hou came back again, he found that Yang Tianqi had died in battle, and several blood holes had been poked out of his body.

"Brothers, follow me out and kill!"

Zheng Hou roared angrily, and took the remaining seven or eight hundred Ming soldiers to kill towards the east.

On a hillside not far from this battlefield, there was a thousand soldiers at this time, but they had been standing quietly here and had not participated in the battle until now.

This army of more than 1,000 soldiers, all wearing armor, with cold eyes, was silent, just looking at the battlefield not far away.

This team of more than 1,000 soldiers is the elite men and horses under Li Zicheng, and it is not comparable to those coerced co-operatives.

"General, the Ming army burned the grain cart and wanted to escape."

In front, there was a general of the army on horseback, and at this time, a guard pointed to the remnants of the Ming army such as Zheng Hou who was breaking through under the hillside, and said.

"Well, I see it, it's time for us to play. Everyone obey the order, kill me, don't let go of a Ming army, kill! ”

The general of the invading army also roared at this time, rode his horse and rushed down the hillside, and rushed to the direction where Zheng Hou wanted to break through, preparing to lead this thousand elite of the invading army to intercept them.

As the general of the invading army rode down, the thousand elite soldiers of the invading army who followed him also rushed down.

Half a day later, Zheng Hou finally took the remnants of the Ming army with 500 Lai, killed out of the encirclement of the invading army, and fled all the way to the east.

Fortunately, the combat power level of these soldiers in the Chuang Army Association is far inferior to that of Zheng Hou, the Ming soldiers, and they killed two or three thousand soldiers in this battle.

After all, in the end, Zheng Hou really succeeded in killing the encirclement.

However, they didn't escape far, but they were intercepted by the 1,000 elite of the invading army led by the general of the invading army.

As soon as the battle started, the Ming soldiers on Zheng Hou's side suffered a big loss.

Zheng Hou and the other Ming soldiers thought that the enemies they encountered were similar to those who broke into the army before!

But as soon as the meeting began, the Ming soldiers and soldiers on Zheng Hou's side, who had been fighting to the point of fatigue, were killed one after another, and there was a one-sided battle situation.

Poof!

More than half an hour later, as Zheng Hou was pierced through the chest by the general who broke into the army, he fell straight to the ground and lost consciousness.

This battle is finally over completely.

Three thousand Ming soldiers were killed, and in the end, all of them were killed, none of them broke through, and most of the grain was burned.

The invading army also paid the price of more than 3,600 casualties, of which only about 40 elite soldiers were killed or wounded, and the rest were all casualties of the co-affiliated army.

"Let's go, go back." The general then led the army back.

Until Yang Tianqi and Zheng Hou died in battle one after another, they did not see a single so-called reinforcement sent from the direction of Zhuxian Town.

Because, the reinforcements they have been hoping for, in fact, did not exist from the beginning.

From the beginning to the end, Ding Qirui of Zhuxian Town did not plan to send reinforcements to meet the Ming army's escort of grain and grass.

Yang Tianqi was right, they were a mission to die, they were just used as a chess piece by Ding Qirui to confuse Li Zicheng's smoke bomb.

Ding Qirui has been sending news to Chen Yongfu in Kaifeng City, saying that the supply of grain and grass here is insufficient, and Kaifeng Cheng needs to escort a batch of grain and grass.

But in fact, although there were nearly 200,000 Ming troops gathered in Zhuxian Town at this time, there was not much shortage of food.

On the one hand, before Ding Qirui came, he had already asked the imperial court to urgently allocate a batch of grain for them.

What is even more surprising is that after Ding Qirui led the army into Zhuxian Town, in order to reserve more food, he ordered to raid the homes of more than a dozen large households in Zhuxian Town.

As a result, this search allowed Ding Qirui to find more than 50,000 stone of grain, enough for their army to eat for nearly a month.

Ding Qirui was also shocked when so much grain was confiscated, but then there was ecstasy, which directly solved Ding Qirui's biggest worries.

Even, Ding Qirui decided to make a fuss about their lack of food and give Li Zicheng a set.

Therefore, Ding Qirui kept sending people to urge Chen Yongfu in Kaifeng City, and asked Chen Yongfu to find a way to send them a batch of food as soon as possible.

In fact, Ding Qirui just wanted the news of 'they lack food' to reach Li Zicheng's ears.

Ding Qirui believed that if Li Zicheng knew the news of their lack of food, he would definitely try his best to prevent Chen Yongfu from sending them food.

And when the time comes, Ding Qirui will let the Ming army in Zhuxian Town make a lack of food and the army's morale is unstable, and trick Li Zicheng into taking the initiative to attack them.

At that time, Ding Qirui waited for his work, dug a big pit for Li Zicheng, and asked him to jump down.

I have to say that Ding Qirui's opportunity is indeed insidious enough, and this old thing is ruthless enough, the three thousand Ming sergeants, said that when the bait was thrown out, he threw it out.

For such an inside story, not to mention Yang Tianqi and Zheng Hou, these generals don't know until they die.

Even Chen Yongfu, the Kaifeng guard at this time, is now kept in the dark and knows nothing.

If Chen Yongfu knew about Ding Qirui's plan, he would not have sent so many men and horses from the 3,000 Ming Army to escort that batch of grain and grass.

You must know that at this time in Kaifeng City, there were only 20,000 Ming troops in total, and 3,000 people were sent out at one time, which had already made Chen Yongfu feel distressed for several days without sleeping.

If Chen Yongfu knew that Ding Qirui was just letting the 3,000 soldiers and the more than 10,000 stone of grain be used as bait, he would let the army kill.

It is estimated that when the time comes, Chen Yongfu will hate Ding Qirui to death.

Soon, Song Xiance received the news that the grain delivery team sent by Kaifeng City and the entire army were wiped out, and then Song Xiance quickly transmitted the news to Li Zicheng of the Wei family.

After Li Zicheng received the news, he couldn't help laughing, and said to his lieutenant generals: "Everyone, I just received the good news of advice.

They had successfully intercepted and killed the Ming soldiers and horses who were transporting grain and grass from Kaifeng City to Zhuxian Town, and most of the grain was burned by the Ming army.

However, we have no intention of asking for their food.

We just need to guarantee that in this way, Ding Qirui in Zhuxian Town can not get a grain of grain. ”

After Li Zicheng's subordinates heard this, they were also in ecstasy.

Liu Zongmin, who had a violent personality, couldn't wait for a long time, stood up and asked loudly: "King Chuang, just say when we can fight over."

When the time comes, I will be a pioneer, and no one will rob me. ”

"What do you mean to be a pioneer, don't rob you, you were the pioneer last time, and it's my turn to say it this time."

Gao Guiying on the side stared at Liu Zongmin and said unhappily.

"Brothers, this pioneer, I also have to fight, it's better for you brothers, let the younger brother once." Gao Yigong also spoke.

Seeing that his subordinates would not give in to each other in order to compete for the vanguard, and their morale was high, Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing next to him glanced at each other, and they both showed joy.

"Generals don't worry, this battle has just begun, and there are many opportunities to fight in the future, and who to let be the vanguard has to listen to King Chuang.

Besides, we can't immediately launch a full-scale attack on Zhu Xianzhen's generals.

Now, the Ming general of Zhu Xianzhen, it is estimated that there is not much food, let's consume them for a while and let them mess up the battle first.

Wait for the end of the past year, let's go all out again and defeat the Ming army in Zhuxian Town.

As long as the nearly 200,000 Ming troops under Ding Qirui are eliminated, then when the time comes, it will be difficult to find a Ming army that can compete with us.

When the time comes, we will attack the seal again, and there may be hope for defeat.

As the saying goes, 'Those who want to get the Central Plains must be opened, and those who get the Central Plains must win the world'.

When we lay Kaifeng, we will get a large number of sophisticated ordnance and sufficient grain and grass like we did in Luoyang.

At that time, we can follow King Chuang, kill all the way to the north, kill the capital of the Ming Dynasty, kill the dog emperor, and overthrow the world of the old Zhu family. ”

At this time, Niu Jinxing stood up and said this, and in the end, he himself was full of blood and roared loudly.

"Whoa! Kill the dog emperor and overturn the world of the old Zhu family! ”

Many of the generals present also shouted and raised their wine glasses to drink.

(End of chapter)