If the peasant rebel army entered Henan, Henan also became the hardest hit area of the banditry, then Nanyang Prefecture, which borders the three provinces, is the hardest hit area among the hardest-hit areas.

The peasant rebel army, the encirclement and suppression of the Ming army repeated and fierce battles, so that Nanyang Mansion is completely out of control, although so far no city has been broken, but the government has completely lost control of the vast area outside the city.

Seeing the actions of the peasant rebels, the displaced people in the countryside of Nanyang Mansion immediately gathered into a group of bandits to wreak havoc in Nanyang Mansion. They also imitated the model of the 36th and 72nd battalions of the Shaanxi peasant rebel army, and the bandit leaders in Nanyang Province also formed an alliance -- a small joint camp.

Moreover, the bandits in Nanyang Prefecture are composed of a large number of Nanyang iron mine miners and convicted miners, and compared with the bandits composed of peasants, these bandits are more ferocious and have stronger combat effectiveness.

Therefore, after the main force of the Ming army that encircled and suppressed the peasant rebels left Henan, the area of activity of the small joint camp became larger and larger, and their behavior became more and more arrogant.

At this time, in Nanyang Mansion, except for the two northeasternmost county towns of Ye County, where the Nanyang Army was located, the Ming army in the rest of the region only had more than 2,000 soldiers led by Sun Wei, the general of Nanyang.

And most of the military households in Nanyangwei have fled and become bandits, and they must not be able to rely on them. Sun Wei's soldiers were actually only in the early 1,000s at most because they were paid empty salaries.

Relying only on these soldiers, at most they can only hold Nanyang Mansion City. In the face of the urgent calls for help from the four counties, Sun Wei, who is self-aware, can only be like an ostrich, burying his head in the sand and turning a deaf ear.

Of course, the Nanyang prefect and Sun Wei also had some actions, and they wrote to the Nanyang Army in Ye County one after another, hoping that they would send troops to solve the crisis in Nanyang Mansion. However, the Nanyang Army used the reason that "Li Guerrilla led the main force out to encircle and suppress, and the remaining troops could only ensure the safety of Yexian". kicked back the Nanyang prefect and Sun Wei's request for help.

Therefore, the courage of the small joint venture also began to grow, and they were like the tiger in the poor donkey skills, constantly approaching the county town of Nanyang Mansion to provoke, trying to test the depth and shallowness of the donkey of the official mansion.

However, in the face of provocation, all the Ming troops retreated into the city, allowing the small joint camp to operate outside the city. Seeing that the government did not react, and the settlements outside the city were richer than the wild after all, and the small joint ventures had really gained a lot, their confidence began to burst. The fear of the government has gradually turned into contempt.

If the situation continues to develop like this, the small joint camp may be bold to attack the city, and it may be difficult to attack the city of Nanyang Prefecture with the defense of soldiers, but it may be no problem to attack those county towns with only a few hundred young and strong defenses.

But at this moment, a sudden change disrupted the steps of the small joint venture. He Fei led 1,500 cavalry across Nanyang Mansion to meet Li Lu and Zhou Xun's troops.

In the face of the large Ming army that has become formed. The small joint venture certainly did not dare to stand in its way. And He Fei's cavalry was mainly to respond, so except for a few unlucky people who didn't open their eyes and blocked the way, He Fei's cavalry didn't kill a few people in the small joint camp, and they didn't bother with anything at all and went across Nanyang Mansion.

But the sudden military action of the Ming army made the small joint battalion very nervous, and they judged whether what they did had attracted the attention of the government, and the Ming army had gone out to bring rescue troops to encircle and suppress themselves. Therefore. The small joint battalion sent a large number of spies in the direction where He Fei's cavalry left, to inquire about the movements of the Ming army.

As expected, a Ming army of more than 5,000 soon drove over. The small joint battalion didn't know that this was He Fei and Li Lu's troops rushing back to Ye County, and they thought that the Ming army was going to encircle and suppress their own bandits.

And the nature of the bandits determines that the small joint camp will not fight hard with the Ming army that encircles and suppresses them. They will adopt the guerrilla warfare tactics of the enemy advancing and retreating, and seek out areas where the government is weak to operate.

It is very strange that although the leaders of the small joint camp are basically Nanyang locals, they don't know the relationship between the Nanyang Army and the Runing Army at all, and they all think that this is the Yexian guerrilla Li Lu's troops. However, it is not possible to blame too much for the leaders of the small joint camp, in fact, even the officials of the Ming Dynasty court and the local government do not know much about the relationship between the two forces.

However, after all, Li Lu once created a great victory in Ruzhou, and because of Li Lu's prestige, in the past, the small joint venture did not dare to approach Yexian to carry out activities.

But now the situation is different. At the critical moment of life and death, I knew through local spies that the "famous general" Li Lu had gone out to suppress bandits again, so this time the small joint venture had the courage to flee towards Yexian.

However, after all, they were afraid of the Ming army led by the "famous general" Li Lu, so the escape route of the small joint camp avoided the Luojia Town camp of the Yexian County and Nanyang Legion, and they came in the direction of Longyan Village.

From this incident, it can be seen that sometimes the most annoying thing is not the enemy army with military experience, because their military actions always follow military laws, so the actions of these enemy troops are also traceable.

And the bandits who have no military experience, their actions are completely arbitrary, if they are not careful, they may have some unexpected actions, if they are no longer prepared, they may be in the state of being punched to death by the master.

At this time, Wu Shigong's Runing Army was in such a defenseless state. To tell the truth, the eyes of officials like Wu Shigong in the Runing Army were completely attracted by the peasant rebels who had escaped from the Carriage Gorge, and they did not notice the sudden action of the small joint camp.

For the current Runing Army, although bandits are rampant around their control area, they simply disdain these itchy skin mosses. As long as those bandits don't provoke themselves, the Runing Army will not take the initiative to encircle and suppress them. Otherwise, if the Runing Army felt that the small joint camp was threatened, they might have already exterminated the small joint camp like a leopard's head.

But such disdain caught the small joint venture off guard against the Runing Army. When he knew that the more than 30,000 bandits of the small joint camp were approaching Longyan Village, which was only defended by more than 700 people, Wu Shigong was shocked, and the troops of the large battalion in Yexian County and Luojia Town could not move, so Wu Shigong immediately sent the remaining regiment of the cavalry corps to rush to the rescue.

But it took three days for the cavalry to arrive at Longyan Village, so at this time, Wu Shigong could only pray that the soldiers of Longyan Village supported it. But Wu Shigong didn't know that at this time, the two deputy commanders of the Nanyang Legion, Shumo and Zuge, were trapped in Longyan Village.

On the 21st day of July in the seventh year of Chongzhen, it was difficult to wait for the sky to clear and the road surface was dry for a few days, and Shumo and Zuge came to Longyan Village with the unique chariot of the Nanyang Legion to the tactics of the Shiyan chariot in Longyan Village.

We already know that Longyan Village is a small basin surrounded by mountains. This small basin is about ten miles long and three or four miles wide, with a river passing through it, and the whole shape is like a cashew nut. Longyan Village and the Green Ridge Pass are the two ends of this small basin, guarding the road in and out of this small basin.

Because this small basin has rivers passing through, and the proximity to Longyan Village is protected by the Runing Army, tens of thousands of acres of fertile land in the small basin have become one of the few places in the vicinity that have not been affected by natural and man-made disasters in recent years.

And because the interior of the small basin is flat, there are few people in and out, and it is easy to hide, so Shumo and Zug used this place as a training ground for chariot training.

But just a few laps after Zug had run a few laps with twenty chariots, the scouts hurried over to report that tens of thousands of bandits were coming towards the small basin, and they were only half a day's way from the Green Pass.

"Chu Fox, you go back to Luojia Town to host, here I am!" After years of building fortified city walls, Shumo is very confident in the defense of Longyan Village.

"Fart! I can't afford to lose this face! Zug's advice to Shumo was to scoff at it.

"What about Luojia Town?"

"There are head Xue and head Zhang presiding over them, and there are more than 1,000 gentry in Ye County, and there are no big waves there."

"Alright! Stay as long as you want. But let me tell you, you have to listen to me in this village, and if you dare to disobey the military order, I will punish you with military law. I'm sure I won't be soft-hearted, and looking at your lard-filled head, I'm already a little ticklish! Shumo looked at Zug's head and laughed a few times, which made the surrounding soldiers a little creepy.

"You've got all lard in your head!" Zug scolded loudly, "I know that with your reputation as a 'book turtle', it is absolutely no problem to defend Longyan Village. But do you think you can hold on? They are bandits, as long as they bypass Longyan Village and stir up our iron ore, saltpeter mine and iron workshop, then the adults will not skin us alive? ”

"Huh!?" Shumo was shocked, "Do we still want to attack and fight those bandits?" ”

"It's not that you want to fight in the field, you definitely need it! It is that those bandits can't break through the line of our Longyan Village. And we want to beat those bandits so that they no longer dare to approach the territory of our Runing Army. ”

"You've lost your mind!" Shumo felt incredulous, "Haven't you read the battle report of the Battle of Ruzhou?" Our four infantry regiments, facing more than 10,000 Shaanxi bandits, lost more than 700 people in one battle. And we only have more than 700 now, and in the face of tens of thousands of bandits, we have only lost 2 or 300 people, maybe our Longyan Village will not be able to keep it! ”

"So you don't understand that." Zug began to teach Shumo a lesson, "The battle of Ruzhou was fought by us at the beginning, and then we were beaten up by the Shaanxi bandits, so our losses will be so great. So this time we're going to strike first! ”

"What's the law? A few hundred people go out to fight in the field, at most 200 firearms, how many people can be killed? ”

"Then you don't understand. This time we have a new weapon! (To be continued......)