Of course, these more than 100,000 Yu family troops no longer need Yu Xiaotian to feed themselves, and now he can order the household department and the military department to directly allocate food and salary to the soldiers and horses under his command, and nominally these Yu family troops have changed into a Ming army vest.

In order to control the situation of the entire Ming Dynasty more quickly, Yu Xiaotian stationed three elite mixed brigades in the vicinity of Gyeonggi, except for one brigade of the Beijing Division, the remaining two mixed brigades were stationed in Huairou, Jizhou, Tianjin Wei, Tongzhou, Baoding and other places with the establishment of independent battalions, forming a defensive trend for the Beijing Division.

As for the remaining more than 70,000 Yujia troops, after Yu Xiaotian took control of the situation in Beijing, he began to be gradually sent to various places to garrison.

The Yu family army is different from other old-style armies, they are very dependent on logistics, especially the weapons and ammunition they use, almost all of which have to be supplied by the Fujian side, and the 100,000 troops are concentrated in the north to garrison, which will cause a heavy logistical burden to the Yu family army.

Therefore, while expanding the army, Yu Xiaotian transferred his troops and horses to the south and stationed them in Shandong, Nanzhili, Huguang, Henan and other places, and the main force was basically resettled along the Yangtze River.

In this way, when the logistics department supplies these soldiers and horses, they can first go to Songjiang Province by sea, and then turn to the Yangtze River and go upstream, and use ships to maintain the needs of these soldiers and horses.

In October, Shaanxi Hong Chengchou sent back a pretty good news, with the cooperation of Sun Chuanting, they attacked from the east and west, and drove Luo Rucai's troops from Huguang to Nanyang, Sun Chuanting led the troops to Nanyang to sit in the town, forcing Luo Rucai to give up continuing to stay in Nanyang and lead his troops to flee back to Luonan, Shaanxi.

As a result, Hong Chengchou had already arranged an ambush in the Luonan area in advance, and when Luo Rucai led his troops to escape into the Luonan area, he was immediately blocked by Hong Chengchou and his troops in the area of Bali Bridge south of Luonan.

Hong Chengchou sent the main force of the Yu family army with two battalions given to him by Yu Xiaotian, and also mobilized thousands of newly recruited Shaanxi soldiers to attack Luo Rucai's troops.

As a result, Luo Rucai was hit in the lower abdomen by a Mine bullet on the spot, and he was captured with heavy injuries, and the more than 30,000 rogue troops led by him were immediately disintegrated by Hong Chengchou's ice, capturing nearly 20,000 rogue soldiers.

Hong Chengchou really had a lot of murderous intentions, and immediately after the victory, he ordered the slaughter of all the more than 2,000 core personnel and leaders in Luo Rucai's department, and the rest were dismissed and returned to their hometowns for resettlement, or simply resettled on the spot, and turned them into peasants, so that Luo Rucai's group of exile troops was completely wiped out, and there was no possibility of resurgence.

This news was of course quite good news for Yu Xiaotian, so he immediately ordered the Zhongshu Province to draw up a decree, praised Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, and allocated 30,000 taels of silver as a reward.

At this time, the wandering army from all walks of life knew the strength of the Yu family's army, it turned out that they had not dealt with the Yu family's army, and they didn't know where the Yu family's army was at all, but after this period of time and Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, they found that the old methods they used to deal with the officers and soldiers in the past didn't seem to work.

No matter what tricks they resorted to, no matter how capable their generals were, as long as they ran into the Yu family army under the command of Hong Sun and the others, which were all armed with muskets, they would only be slaughtered by one side.

Li Zicheng just breathed a sigh of relief, and was targeted by Hong Chengchou again, Hong Chengchou did not take Li Zicheng first this time, but first concentrated on killing the mixed 100,000 Ma Jinzhong, the neat king Zhang Fatzi, the starry Zhang Dashou and other rogue army, forcing them to disperse or surrender, and then he and Sun Chuanting killed Luo Rucai, so that although Li Zicheng's department kept their main force, but also lost the cooperation of several other rogue army.

At the end of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong fled into Hanzhong under the pursuit of Sun Chuanting, and Hong Chengchou sent a battalion of Yujia army, accompanied by his fierce general Cao Bianjiao to lead 5,000 new Shaanxi soldiers, and began to pursue Zhang Xianzhong's department in the Hanzhong area.

Zhang Xianzhong was forced to lead the remnants of more than 20,000 people in the Hanzhong area, and Cao Bianjiao's department had a decisive battle, at first Cao Bianjiao led the troops to fight with Zhang Xianzhong and did not take advantage, Zhang Xianzhong personally led the army to attack Cao Bianjiao's department, Cao Bianjiao's troops were relatively small, and he could not withstand the onslaught of Zhang Xianzhong's department, so he had to retreat.

Zhang Xianzhong saw that Cao Bianjiao was repulsed, and he was very interested, so he immediately waved his army to cover up, but when Cao Bianjiao led his troops to escape more than ten miles into a narrow valley, he stopped at one end of the valley, turned around and carried Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates, and introduced the six or seven thousand soldiers and horses under Zhang Xianzhong's command into this valley.

Zhang Xianzhong was an old fritter, and after the striker entered the valley, he felt that something seemed to be wrong, so he ordered the remaining soldiers and horses not to enter the valley again.

As a result, the six or seven thousand Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates who entered the valley were cut off in the valley by a Yu family army, and with Cao Bianjiao at the other end, the more than 6,000 Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates were blocked in the valley.

Zhang Xianzhong found that there was an ambush in the valley in front of him, and he didn't dare to stay at all, so he led the remnants to turn around and run, Cao Bianjiao and the battalion commander of the Yu family army immediately began to lead the troops to chase Zhang Xianzhong after solving those Zhang Xianzhong's men in the valley.

Zhang Xianzhong abandoned Hanzhong and broke into the Baoning Mansion in Sichuan, trying to repeat the old tricks to stop the army in Sichuan for a period of time, and then seek to leave Sichuan and enter Huguang.

But it's not a year ago, and Sichuan has a new governor, who is Yu Xiaotianqin's old acquaintance Xiong Wencan Xiong.

Xiong Wencan was implicated because of Yu Xiaotian's affairs, but he was not able to take office as the governor of the five provinces as in history, but was dismissed from his post and reduced to serve as the people, and rushed back to his hometown in Sichuan to retire.

Now that Yu Xiaotian is in power, of course, he has not forgotten the old acquaintance of Xiong Wencan, so in the name of Chongzhen, he revived it and temporarily stayed in Sichuan as a governor to preside over the suppression of thieves in Sichuan.

Xiong Wencan was very grateful to Yu Xiaotian for being so nostalgic, and after taking office, in Sichuan, he drastically implemented various new policies in accordance with Yu Xiaotian's instructions, and used the 200 families allocated to him by Yu Xiaotian that year as the backbone to train 15,000 new troops in Sichuan.

Basically, all of these new army officers in Sichuan were born in the old department of the Yu family army, and they were professionally trained by the military hall of the family army, and most of them were good at mountain warfare; although the number of this new army trained by Xiong Wencan was not large, and the equipment did not reach the level of the Yu family army, but the combat will was not much weaker than that of the Yu family army.

This time, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting jointly attacked Zhang Xianzhong's department, and informed Xiong Wencan in advance, Xiong Wencan learned the news, and immediately sent troops to strengthen the defense around Kuizhou Mansion and Baoning Mansion, and most of the more than 10,000 new troops newly trained were sent to the area of Baoning Mansion to deploy defense.

As a result, Zhang Xianzhong did not know it, led the remnants of the army into the territory of Baoning Mansion, and before Zhang Xianzhong escaped into the mountains and forests, he encountered a strong resistance from the Sichuan army in Lizhouwei.

The new army of the 3,000-Sichuan Army, under the leadership of dozens of old units of the Yujia Army, blocked the way of Zhang Xianzhong's headquarters in Lizhouwei, and the two sides immediately started a fierce battle.

Although the quality of the equipment of the new army of the 3,000 Sichuan Army is far inferior to that of the regular army of the Yujia Army, it is very good at mountain warfare, and what kind of officers it has, what kind of soldiers it will bring out.

Although they are mainly equipped with cold weapons, mainly knives and spears and bows and crossbows, but when they blocked Zhang Xianzhong's department, they still fought very resolutely, in the case of limited troops, they blocked a mountain pass, fighting to the death and not retreating, dozens of officers of the old army of the Yu family, each leading the soldiers to the front, so that the remaining soldiers did not retreat, going to the death battle.

Zhang Xianzhong had chasing soldiers behind him, and there was interception in front, and seeing that these Sichuan soldiers were not sharp, he launched a fierce attack, and even put his most trusted soldiers and horses into the battlefield at any cost, and launched dozens of attacks in a row.

However, these 3,000 Sichuan soldiers and new troops are like a dam, no matter how they attack, they still do not move, and the two sides kill in the dark of the mountain pass in Lizhouwei.

Because the weapons were not very powerful, the casualties of this group of Sichuan soldiers were also very large, but they used phalanx tactics, the effective cooperation of sword players and pikemen, coupled with the cooperation of the archers in the back, carried out a slightly long-distance launch, so that Zhang Xianzhong's troops could not attack repeatedly, but suffered heavy losses at the mountain pass.

Zhang Xianzhong's three fierce generals were all folded in front of this group of Sichuan army formations, and the two sides fought for a day, but Zhang Xianzhong was never able to break through the interception of this group of Sichuan soldiers, so he had to order the troops to retreat, preparing to make a detour to give up entering Lizhouwei, and flee to other places instead.

But what he didn't expect was that these Sichuan soldiers, who had been exhausted, still did not give up, and the officer led the remaining 2,000 Sichuan soldiers to bite Zhang Xianzhong's department, shouting that Zhang Xianzhong was dead, while chasing and killing.

Zhang Xianzhong's department itself has been beaten enough during this time, the soldiers have become frightened birds, when they retreated at this time, it was even more chaotic, and suddenly heard that the Sichuan soldiers shouted that Zhang Xianzhong was dead, and many of Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates did not know whether it was true or false, and suddenly the army's heart collapsed, and they began to scatter and flee all over the mountains.

Zhang Xianzhong shouted wildly, trying to restrain his rout, but those Sichuan soldiers were like hungry tigers, constantly rushing and beating, which aggravated the chaos of the soldiers and horses under his command.

Zhang Xianzhong was like a lost dog, with dozens of personal soldiers turned around and ran wildly, but fortunately, the Sichuan soldiers had no cavalry, allowing him to escape.

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