On the seventh day of the first month of September, at the urging of Yang Wenyue, Ding Qirui passed on all officials and generals to hold the seventh meeting in Kaifeng City's superintendent. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

All kinds of vulgar or angry voices in the hall of the meeting were still echoing in the hall, but it was Hu Dawei, Jiang Mingwuren and others who had a fierce quarrel with Zuo Liangyu and others, but Ding Qirui could only sit and occasionally persuade a few words.

Although he is a supervisor, he actually has no power, and there seems to be no martial artist who takes him Ding Qirui in his eyes, and the position of supervisor has become a joke.

Ding Qirui is secretly angry with the current martial artists, all of whom are unruly, and can only persuade him gently, and there is nothing else to do.

He looked at everyone slowly, the first on the left, of course, was Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding, and then Gao Mingheng, the governor of Henan, Su Jing, the governor of Zuo Buzheng, Liang Bing, Su Zhuang, the guard, Guo Zaijiao, the prefect Wu Shijiao and others, all of these civil officials were frowning.

Sitting at the head of the right, Baoding General Soldier Hu Dawei is respected, then Zuo Liangyu, the General Soldier of Pingjiao Town, Chen Yongfu, the General Soldier of Henan, Yang Dezheng, Fang Guoanren, etc., and the rest of the generals, or Zhang Wurui, Ren Zhen, Su Jianle and others of Kaifeng Metropolitan Division only stand in the back row.

However, the deputy commander of the left battalion of the original Tongzhen Xiaocai, at this time Jiang Mingwu, the governor of Baoding Town, was also in the position, Jiang Mingwu was quite brave, and he was quite unpleasant to the yin and yang weirdness of Zuo Liangyu and others just now, and he scolded him, and the two sides almost quarreled.

Of course, Hu Dawei was helping Jiang Mingwu, and at this time, his Chinese army general Hu Zichen was standing behind him. With Zuo Liangyu's deputy general Wang Yuncheng and his son Zuo Mengeng glaring angrily, the two sides were all tense.

Chen Yongfu persuaded the two sides to be harmonious, and Yang Dezheng and Fang Guoan were also in harmony, but the two of them were openly and secretly, and they still faced Zuo Liangyu more.

Earlier, the two towns were ambushed by thieves several times, and all the soldiers and horses under his command were lost, so they had to coerce some homeless people and hungry soldiers to fill the number, on the other hand, Zuo Liangyu defeated the thieves in Shangcai, collected tens of thousands of troops, and his prestige became more and more powerful.

In addition, Zuo Liangyu's handling of things is very much in line with their appetite. Don't say anything else. In terms of killing good and risking merit, the two sides have a common language, and then watching the stubbornness of Tiger Dawei, the two naturally try their best to get closer to Zuo Liangyu. Faintly formed an alliance.

The towns are not in harmony. Zhong Wenchen had a headache. But the battle had to be fought by them, and when the general soldiers quarreled earlier, Yang Wenyue naturally joined in the persuasion. He remembered that the thieves were getting closer and closer, and he persuaded Zuo Liangyu bitterly.

His official dialect with a Sichuan Nanchong accent echoed in the hall: "The general Wei Zhenhai, the country favors Youlong, and now the big thief is in danger, if you sit and watch, the thief is trapped, how can the general thank the court?" ”

Yang Wenyue's outstretched fingers were still trembling, indicating the pain in his heart, seeing that Yang Wenyue was agitated with righteousness, Zuo Liangyu only said lightly: "The officers and soldiers are weak, and the thieves are sharp, if you rush out of the city to fight, I am afraid that you will lose, then Bianjing has nothing to rely on, and the meaning of this town is also for the sake of stability!" ”

Yang Dezheng and Fang Guoan also echoed each other, and Yang Dezheng said: "What Zuo Zhen said is extremely true, it is better for us to wait for the troops to fortify the city and the camera to suppress the thieves than to rush into battle, this is the best policy!" ”

Looking at the three of them, Jiang Mingwu just sneered, and Yang Wenyue persuaded him again and reasoned with the facts.

Zuo Liangyu was silent, he stroked his luxurious raccoon dog skin thick velvet cloak, as if he had moved, Yang Wenyue was overjoyed, and he tried his best to persuade him, and all the civil officials in the hall joined in the persuasion, and a smug smile appeared on Zuo Liangyu's face.

In fact, in the past few days, he has thought about it repeatedly, and feels that Yang Wenyue's strategy is also good, the number of officers and soldiers is 400,000, although there are none, but there are still hundreds of thousands, although these soldiers and horses dare not say that they can defeat the thieves, but at least they can be invincible, if they win......

Thinking about it, he was just as moved, and the reason why he didn't agree for a long time was just a posture and a shelf.

And the 10,000 bird guns in the imperial court, a large part of them are allocated to his camp, and the money to buy them has not cost much, these guns Zuo Liangyu can be said to love it, although he hates Wang Dou, but it is undeniable that the weapons he made are still very good.

For cost reasons, Zuo Liangyu rarely equips the army with firearms on a large scale, but if there is a cheap and sophisticated supply of firearms, he will naturally not refuse.

In addition, from the superintendent to the governor to the local governor in the hall, he was given enough face, Zuo Liangyu's face was extremely bright, and finally he finally relented, and agreed to push the boat down the river, and immediately the hall was full of joy, only Zuo Liangyu secretly disdained in his heart, what is the governor of the division, Lao Tzu has soldiers is everything.

Seeing that Zuo Liangyu finally agreed categorically, no longer afraid to avoid war, Jiang Mingwu had an embarrassed look on his face, although he was born in poetry and books from Rong and Wujinshi, but he was a person with clear grievances and a bold personality, I only felt that I had misunderstood Zuo Liangyu before, and I was a little bit of a villain's belly.

He got up and apologized to Zuo Liangyu sincerely: "The last general was disrespectful before, please also ask Zuo Zhen to punish him!" ”

Zuo Liangyu stroked his luxurious thick velvet raccoon dog skin cloak, he took a step forward, raised Jiang Mingwu's arms, said in a stern tone, and said, "My brother Yang, do you think that this town is such a chicken-bellied person?" ”

His eyes were majestic and his expression was sincere: "In the previous disputes, the towns were just military disagreements, but they were all right things and not people, a public heart, just for the Ming court, this is not a personal grudge, a conflict of will, why should my brother Yang be like this?" ”

"Good!"

"Zuo Zhen said it well!"

The officials and generals in the hall applauded one after another, Yang Wenyue laughed, seeing that the persuasion moved Zuo Liangyu, there was also a trace of pride in his heart, Hu Dawei and Chen Yongfu looked at each other and smiled, and they both felt that although Zuo Liangyu did not deal with it, he could still stand on the big joint.

Ding Qirui was also very happy, all the towns were united, and they were united, this battle would definitely defeat the thieves, he said loudly: "We are loyal to the autumn of crisis, a piece of liver and sausage, and the rivers and mountains are immortal!" ”

Next, there was a group of harmony, Ding Qirui and Yang Wenyue, you and I said a word, and then the generals occasionally interjected, gave the strategy one by one, and decided to do their best to fight to the death with the thieves in the area of Zhuxian Town, Ding Qirui even got up and bowed to everyone: "It is about the rise and fall of the emperor and the safety of the country." Please, gentlemen! ”

Yang Wenyue and the others looked serious, Hu Dawei, Zuo Liangyu and others also stood still, and everyone shouted: "I am willing to die for the imperial court!" ”

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On the ninth day of the ninth month of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Ding Qirui led more than 100,000 Ming troops in several towns, with a crowd of 400,000, to gather and camp in the area of Zhuxian Town, erect a high village, and decided to confront the thieves in this vast plain area, and lined up with guns and halberds to meet each other.

At this time, Li Zicheng and other three family horses. Claimed to be a million. At the same time, they forced Chen Liu, Zhu Xian Town, and the two sides set up camp at a distance of ten miles, and Ding Qirui set up a big tent in Zhu Xian Town. Li Zicheng set up an old camp near Tongxu. On the edge of the Sand River. Nest camp endless.

At this time, the thieves were arrogant, but the morale of the officers and soldiers was not weak, and a bloody battle was inevitable.

Countless people are paying attention to this battle of life and death. If the officers and soldiers win, not only to break the siege of Kaifeng, but also to eliminate the main force of the thieves, for the imperial court to remove this major trouble, Li Zicheng and others if they win, then can defeat the main force of the Ming army, the thieves in the Central Plains no longer have an opponent, Kaifeng City is even more in the bag.

On September 11, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the two sides went to war, arranged the troops, and all put on a decisive battle posture, the Ming army, with Ding Qirui supervising the standard battalion, Yang Wenyue Baoding car battalion as the middle army, Zuo Liangyu, Yang Dezheng, Fang Guoan three towns as the left wing, Hu Dawei, Chen Yongfu, Jiang Mingwu three towns as the right wing.

This is because Ding Qirui took into account that Zuo Liangyu and other soldiers were more and miscellaneous, so he put more soldiers and horses on the left flank, and Hu Dawei and others had fewer soldiers, but the elite men and horses were enough to live on one wing, and there were cavalry from various towns, and the local miscellaneous soldiers were in the rear, as the garrison reinforcements of the entire large array.

In order to encourage the soldiers, Ding Qirui personally beat the drum and shouted: "Kill the thief, kill the thief!" ”

Li Zicheng is still the same old-fashioned, charging the battle with a steady stream of hungry people, but only attacking the Chinese army with hungry soldiers, and attacking with cavalry on both wings, the momentum is like a tide.

As an observer, Wen Shiyan lived in the Chinese army and watched the battle, and beside him were some praise paintings and military attachés of the observation group, and the team of Jingbian soldiers also accompanied the rear guards.

The thieves advanced forward one after another, the front was the hungry people who were pressed by the black, and then one after another spear army formation, and the position of their own Chinese army, 10,000 Baoding chariot soldiers were waiting for the battle, and they were lined up one by one, loaded with all kinds of Franc machines and exterminating cannons.

The war drums on the opposite side sounded, countless hungry people shouted, the whole line marched like a wall, the crowd was surging, the Baoding car battalion was outstandingly trained, Yang Wenyue poured countless efforts on it, and the pro-general Ding Hu was the same as a veteran of the battlefield, they were strict and immovable, even if the thieves forced into a mile, they still waited for orders.

Suddenly, there was a sound of the horn cannon in the middle formation, and all the soldiers looked at the place where the flag was pointing, and a swan sounded, and the officers and soldiers of the middle formation all shouted: "Tiger!" ”

Ding Hu pulled out his war knife and pointed forward, the sharp swan sound sounded again, and the thunderbolt cannon roared in an instant.

Yang Wenyue built a large number of chariots, and even used different heights of chariots to fire firearms, and his battalion of chariots was divided into three chariots, the first one was two feet five inches high, the second was in the latter, three feet five inches high, and the third chariot was four feet five inches high, and these chariots were arranged in three layers.

The trombone first put the number one car cannon, the trombone two times, and then the second car cannon, the first car was filled with medicine for later use, the trombone sounded three times to release the No. 3 car cannon, the second car was filled with medicine, and the number one car gun was replayed, the three armies calmly settled down, and the sound of the cannon was inexhaustible.

In the sound of swans one after another, the cannons were fired like a rainstorm, and the hungry people who rushed into the formation were killed and wounded, many of them collapsed before they could rush closer, and many of the cannons also shot into the infantry formation in the rear, and the infantry of the camp who followed the hungry people collapsed one after another.

Even if sometimes the density of the cannons was insufficient, and some crazy hungry people rushed up, but behind the chariots in the front layer, each chariot had four chariot men, who were divided into two shifts, two guns per shift, and put their three-eyed guns on the chariot.

In the formation, there was a gold strike, and the first squad of soldiers put three eyes and one hole, one eye sounded, two gold shots, two holes, the third gold shot, and the third hole, and then the first squad retreated, and the second squad stepped forward, and the three-eyed guns couldn't stop fighting, knocking down a wave of hungry people in front of the battle.

Sometimes swans are blowing, and the artillery on the chariot fires a shotgun......

The Jingbian army next to him saw the smoke billowing in front of him, and the thieves were killed countless by the artillery firecrackers, wailing all over the field, and then another wave of thieves was defeated, and the cavalry rushed out of pursuit after the formation, and couldn't help but praise: "Yang Du's car battalion has practiced really well, and the thieves want to attack me in the middle of the battle, I'm afraid it will be in vain." ”

The smoke emitted by the Franc machine made Wen Shiyan feel that his vision ahead was blurred, and he shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's not that simple." ”

He looked at the two wings, the right wing Hu Dawei, Chen Yongfu, Jiang Mingwu lined up in a strict formation, their 6,000 new troops in front, about 7,000 cavalry behind, in the face of the attack of thieves and cavalry, the large array was cleaned, and he saw the crackling rows of guns over there, and the rogue horsemen were knocked to the ground, and the horses neighed continuously, and then Hu Dawei and Chen Yongfu's cavalry attacked, and gained a lot.

Although Jiang Mingwu only had 2,000 men and horses, he tried his best to arrange the three-eyed gunners and archers in the battalion to supplement the firepower of the new army in the second town, and then personally led the remaining 500 cavalry, repeatedly fought in person, fought fiercely with thieves, and the right flank was also as stable as Mount Tai.

There is also the left wing, although the towns have been allocated a lot of firearms on the east road, but their shooting seems to be a little messy, and there have been several times when the thieves have not been close to the range, and there are firecrackers who can't bear to open the guns, but they have a lot of generals, this time Zuo Liangyu also fought very tenacious, and his son Zuo Mengeng personally led the family to attack several times.

Under the encouragement of Zuo Mengeng, Yang Dezheng, like Fang Guoan, led his family to fight several battles, defeated several thieves and cavalry attacks, and the left flank stood tenaciously one by one.

Although Wen Shiyan was a little annoyed that Ding Qirui and others did not pay attention to his suggestion to strictly guard against thieves and artillery, but at present, the performance of the officers and soldiers has exceeded his expectations, and he hopes to continue to behave like this.

"Kill the thief, kill the thief!"

In the earth-shattering sound of killing, Ding Qirui has been beating the drum desperately, insisting on it for several hours, the battle in the morning, has been fought from the hour to the hour, the plains are full of dead and wounded, and the eyes are full of dense dead people, near noon, the thieves took the initiative to collect the troops, and the Ming army was jubilant.

The officers and generals looked at each other with joy, Ding Qirui and Yang Wenyue were even more emotional, and the two believed that the strategy of fighting with the thieves was right at the moment, and the officers and soldiers were backed by a strong city, and the grain and grass were constantly - even if it was sometimes intermittent, but at least it was generally stable.

On the other hand, it is extremely difficult for the thieves to supply the grain and grass of a million-strong army.

"The goal of our division is to persevere, and persist until the thief is defeated and defeated, and then the original matter can be decided with one drum!"

In the early afternoon, the Liuying launched another attack on the Ming army, this time they did not use horsemen, only attacked the center and the two wings with a tide of hungry people and foot soldiers, and a dense horse team assembled, wandering around the outside of the large array to snoop, looking for the flaws of the Ming army.

The two sides are inseparable, the Liuying is better than the crowd, the officers and soldiers are stronger than the firearms, and the strong bloody atmosphere envelops this plain, Ding Qirui dispatches troops and constantly replaces the tired men and horses, and replenishes the cutting-edge army, and the same is true for the Liuying side. (To be continued.) )