The first wind and rain drifted away

Anhui Dingyuan, since ancient times, there are eight provinces, Qutong nine provinces, is the reputation of the north and south of the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Chongzhen's mouth has been driven by King Lu Yan and has wandered to the Dingyuan area.

Now, they are facing a difficult choice.

In front of them was Sun Chuanting's army of 40,000, blocking their way to merge with King Gaochuang.

Behind them, there was an army of 40,000 of King Luyan, who went mad and pursued them relentlessly.

There are many fierce generals in the army, Zuo Liangyu, Zu Kuan, He Madman, Chen Yongfu, Hu Dawei and others are all cattle people they are afraid of.

Of course, to their bewilderment, King Lu Yan's Tianxiong army actually expanded to 40,000 people, which was the most fatal.

That's still a hair, when did Daming have the money to expand the army?

So, the result is tragic.

For nearly a month, King Lu Yan commanded his generals to chase them like mad dogs.

I don't mention a lot of sad things, and I will cry when I mention them.

However, there is one thing that lacks virtue that has to be mentioned, that is, King Lu Yan asked the special forces Yang Lukai to use the mobile cavalry to set fire to the food they had looted, which was completely crippled.

To tell the truth, they are not afraid of the dead, and if there is food, there are people.

That is to say, there must be no one without food.

King Luyan is hateful!

This is a deliberate attempt not to let people live.

If you want to run, you can't run away, you can't beat if you want to, Lao Huihui and Scorpion Block have no choice, the whole army is in front of you, and you can't stand it.

If you can't stand it, then you have to use a killer feature.

To be precise, there are two kinds of killer features for them, one is surrender, that is, surrender.

Unfortunately, this road is currently impassable.

Because, they've already tried.

In the past, Zuo Liangyu, who fell in love with them and killed each other, as long as he was willing to pay a lot of money, begged others to let go of the matter, and tried it repeatedly.

But this time, people are hard-hearted, or they can't help themselves, and they say that they are sorry, and my brother will be guilty of meritorious service.

Otherwise, King Luyan will behead him.

There's no way around it, it's just one last killer - desperate.

Over the years, in critical moments, they have also survived by desperate efforts.

Dingyuan Qianqiu Township, the hometown of a generation of famous handsome Qi Jiguang.

There is a mountain in the township, Hengjian Mountain, which is about 70 miles away from Dingyuan.

Because the east-west direction of this mountain is the boundary between the south mountain and the north mountain of the Fengyang mountain range, it is called "horizontal".

Because on the mountainside on the north side, there is a flowing water stream ditch formed by nature, the stream spring often stores water, long, deep, from the east side of the main peak to the west to the middle peak Jiuhua, very peculiar, so it is called "Hengjian Mountain".

In the past, Ming Taizu rebelled at the beginning of the uprising, took Hengjian Mountain, and then entered Chuyang.

In other words, this is one of the main roads leading to Chuzhou.

Now, the person in charge of the defense of this mountain is the old enemy of the old Hui Ma Shouying, Zuo Liangyu.

What a sin!

On Qianqiu Mountain, Lao Hui with a little white hat stood on a small hill, moving his palms that had been blown numb by the wind.

The wide, powerful hands, covered with thick calluses, had been blown by the cold northwest wind, crisscrossed and crisscrossed with cracks.

Between the diastrosis, there was a faint tingling pain.

However, this feeling made him feel slightly happy in his heart.

It's good that it hurts, and the pain means that the hand is not completely stiff, and you can still hold the reins of the horse and hold the knife.

In the cold wind, there is a small forest behind him, and on a cold day, there are still some trees with green leaves, which makes people happy to see it.

It's better to be in the south, no matter how cold the day is, the trees will not lose their leaves, unlike the high and distant northern Shaanxi, when it comes to winter, the eyes are full of withered yellow, and people's eyes are dry.

This small and small forest is suitable for cavalry ambushes.

In the woods, all the horses were on their bridle and lay on the ground.

Four thousand cavalrymen took off their big hats and covered them on their horses to keep these beasts warm.

People can freeze, but horses can't.

It's up to them to fight and escape.

These 4,000 cavalry are the lifeblood of Lao Hui, and they are in charge of his brother Ma Shoucheng, who are the most elite warriors in the whole clan and have rich combat experience.

If it weren't for the time to fight hard, Lao Huihui would categorically refuse to use it.

This is the essence of the Hui people, and it is the most precious belongings that the old Hui Hui has accumulated little by little over the years.

He said to his brother Ma Shoucheng, who was in charge of this team, "Don't look at King Gao Chuang, who seems to be very majestic, there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command, and there are even 100,000 at the peak."

But what?

When encountering the officers and soldiers, they did not rush away.

Why?

It's not that there is not enough faith, there is no cohesion, and it is just a plate of scattered sand!

Where is like us, even if all the teams are wiped out, as long as this cavalry is there, it will still not hurt the skin. ”

That's right, as Lao Huihui said, it is precisely by using religious beliefs that his cavalry team and the 3,000 cavalry in his son's hands are Lao Huihui's greatest reliance.

This is also the capital that he can compete with Gao Chuangwang, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, who will grow in the future.

Because, this is a group of fanatical religious elements.

Fighting a tendon, for the sake of the master who screams in his mouth, he can be as fierce as a fool and not afraid of death.

In his eyes, as long as this cavalry is there, it can calmly break through and transfer at every critical moment.

As for the scorpion block's foot pawn homeless, if you lose it, you will lose it, as long as it is still there at all, there are homeless people everywhere in this world.

As long as you throw out a large piece of bread, or flash a knife, you can have as many people as you want.

And this is also the reason why he and the scorpion block, Gao Chuangwang, Zhang Xianzhong, and other homeless marshals are interdependent and huddle together for warmth.

Out of sight, the 50,000 or 60,000 horses left in the scorpion block were also preparing to launch a suicide attack on Zuo Liangyu's headquarters.

To be precise, it is to be cannon fodder, creating opportunities to defeat Zuo Liangyu for Ma Biao, the son of Lao Huihui on the left, and the Lao Huihui brothers on the back.

Then the question is, how can the scorpion block have such a high consciousness, listen to the words of the old Huihui, and use his own people as cannon fodder?

It should be said that we must know that although Scorpion Block is a thief and has not read a book, he is not a fool either.

There are two reasons, the first is that at this time, any idea of preserving strength is self-defeating.

There is no way, the current rebel army seems to have a large number of soldiers on the surface, but in fact, it has reached a critical juncture of life and death.

From the original high-spirited to the present like a lost dog, it was compressed by King Lu Yan to a narrow area at the junction of Henan and Nanjing.

Especially since the grain was burned, there was no way to feed so many soldiers, and it was necessary to converge with the Gaochuang King in the Chuzhou area to the east.

If you don't fight hard, there will be enemy troops all around, and the momentum of the big encirclement has been achieved, so you can only sacrifice a good head.

This man is always willing to give it a go, especially for those of them who are rebellious.

The second, and most important reason, is that the scorpion block trusts the old back.

Not only him, but also Gao Chuangwang, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and other homeless marshals, all trust Lao Huihui.

There's a reason for that.

Because, people don't want outcasts, to be exact, people don't want non-religious outcasts.

In their eyes, as long as there are non-religious outcasts, they are heretics, and they must be killed.

And in the eyes of Scorpion Block, Zhang Xianzhong, and King Gao Chuang, what are the homeless?

It is the soldiers, and it is the tool for them to compete for hegemony with the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, an old returnee who does not want to be a displaced person naturally wins the love and trust of these rebels.

Of course, then again, it's not stupid for people to come back to the old age, don't they want anything.

Naturally, it is not.

The old people return to ask for food, wealth, and religious refugees.

In troubled times, there are always homeless people who want to survive, and they will take the initiative to believe in religion under the sword and gun.

It's just that this is a minority after all.

King Gao Chuang, these homeless handsomes, didn't care.

Or rather, I didn't think it was so far-reaching.

They don't know the idiom of accumulating sand into a tower, and they are not in power, so they don't need to think about it, that's the matter of Emperor Laozi.

The cold wind suddenly blew, and the scorpion block stared at the dense Zuo Liangyu military camp in front of him with fierce eyes, and waved down the arm representing the attack.

"Brothers, rush me, after this battle, everyone can follow King Gao Chuang to eat and drink spicy food."

Ahead, the leader of the rebel army drew his waist knife and responded to the order of the leader of the scorpion block to launch a charge.

"Chong, follow King Gao Chuang to eat and drink spicy."

Suddenly, the shouts of fifty or sixty thousand people, led by the rebel army, began to charge towards Zuo Liangyu's military camp.

There are no impassioned slogans, only the simplest and most unpretentious requests, to eat.

However, this is the most effective means and slogan.

If there is no food to eat, it is natural to rebel.

A good man, with hands and feet, how can he starve to death in vain, isn't that a joke?

The peasant army has been revolting for so many years, and I don't know how many relatives, friends and brothers died under the saber of the imperial court, and the two sides can be said to have a deep hatred like the sea.

In this battle, they have no way to retreat, only to rush over, and maybe there is hope to live.

If you lose, there is only one dead word.

On the top of the mountain, Lao Hui listened to the sound of shouting, a cruel smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and the battle began.

Turning his head to look at the battlefield that he couldn't see at all, there was endless smoke.

"Are you all ready?"

At this moment, wearing a little white hat was like an old farmer in northern Shaanxi, straightened up and shouted in a low voice.

In this war, Lao Hui really spent a lot of money, and even this kind of elite troops were willing to take it out to fight with Zuo Liangyu.

You know, people are also cavalry, and they are not so easy to deal with.