"Cao Cao! The official dog has been lured out of Dangtu by us. You're going to bite him here. Zhang Xianzhong said as he put a large stone on the ground.

On the ground, a few lines and circles have been roughly drawn, and there are still a few broken bowls and teacups. Although most of the leaders of the peasant army were illiterate, under the influence of the long-term war, they had mastered a set of general methods for drawing sketches and making marks, so although the ground was chaotic, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai knew it in their chests.

"I'll go from Langxi and go around the left flank of the official dog. So you have to bother more, at least drag Dangtu's official dog for two days, otherwise, I may not be able to catch up. Zhang Xianzhong continued.

Luo Rucai held a large bowl full of tea, looked at the ground carefully, nodded and said, "There is no problem." This time I brought all my belongings, and the soft-footed crabs in Jiangnan couldn't help me. ”

Since Luo Rucai's recruitment has always been rather lacking than indiscriminate, his core Liliang has not risen much. Therefore, his soldiers are becoming more and more skilled in cooperating with each other, and the cohesion is also getting stronger and stronger. In addition, Luo Rucai's battalion had few peasant soldiers, and those soldiers were also allocated more looted property, so Luo Rucai's battalion has always been the strongest field combat ability among the peasant army. Just count the Ming army, and his troops are also first-class.

And this time, Luo Rucai brought all his 15,000 old battalion soldiers and horses, and there were fierce generals like Yang Chengzu, so Luo Rucai was really not afraid of Lu Jiude's 20,000 Ming army.

"I'm not afraid that you won't be able to beat you, I'm afraid that you will fight too hard." Zhang Xianzhong said with a smile, "We finally lured the official dog out, if they saw your ruthless appearance and shrank back in fright, then we would have to spend a lot of time." ”

This time, the goal of the Zhang and Luo coalition army was to annihilate Lu Jiude's army, and the selected battlefield was also far away from the city. Zhang Xianzhong was afraid that Luo Rucai would defeat Lu Jiude with three strikes and five divisions. Frightened, he fled the battlefield and hid in the city, and the combat goal of the Zhang and Luo coalition forces could not be completed. You must know that in the end, Luo Rucai's soldiers are small, and it is impossible to encircle and annihilate Lu Jiude's troops. Therefore, Zhang Xianzhong asked Luo Rucai to wait until he arrived, and then encircled and annihilated the two armies together.

In fact, at the beginning, Zhang and Luo Lianjun did not want to go to Hangzhou and Huzhou. They didn't open their eyes to the sky, and they didn't know that the Ming army in Hangzhou was nothing. So the Zhang and Luo coalition forces will definitely not gnaw on that hard bone.

Besides, if you go to Hangzhou, you will be blocked by Taihu Lake. It's hard to go north again. In addition, there are Lu Jiude and Zuo Liangyu's officers and troops in the west, so they may not go to Fujian, which is poor and bad?

Not to mention the land of the two wides. Not like modern times, Guangdong is a rich place. In the Ming Dynasty, it was a wild place, and the northerners went there. They often do not adapt to the water and soil, and die of plague and miasma. It's a modern infectious disease. So for Shaanxi people like Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai. It's hell out there. As a last resort, they will never choose to enter the two Guangzhous.

Therefore, the combined forces of Zhang and Luo chose to encircle and annihilate Lu Jiude's department, and then bypass the heavily fortified city of Nanjing to the area of Zhenjiang. After that, whether it was crossing the river to invade Yangzhou, or then eastward to Suzhou, it was a place where oil flowed with wealth.

And there is no mobile corps of Lu Jiude. As long as they don't fight Jiancheng, the combined forces of Zhang and Luo can be happy in this area. When the rest of the officers and soldiers arrived, they could also turn back to the west and return to the Huguang area again.

"Straight sissy thief!" Luo Rucai scolded with a smile. "In the past, we tried our best to win, but now we can win but we can't, is this going back the more we live?"

Zhang Xianzhong also hahadaxiao: "It's not that the more you live, the more you go back, but the more you live, the happier you are, which shows that we are stronger." But if you go back, it must be the Dog Court. It's okay to send Jiangnan soldiers, even the eunuchs who didn't have hair were sent. They really don't have anyone left. ”

"Aren't all singing on the stage, only eunuchs are used in the faint king! When the time comes, we will fight in the city of Beijing and kill all the people in the palace, big and small, and also breathe a sigh of relief for us poor soldiers. As he spoke, Luo Rucai picked up a big bowl of beef and drank it.

"Don't kill them all, those mothers and princesses, but you have to stay!"

"Poof!" Luo Rucai squirted out a sip of tea, coughing while laughing and panting. Zhang Xianzhong hurriedly stepped forward and patted Luo Rucai's back, and after a while, Luo Rucai relieved his breath.

"Eight kings! You want to laugh at me! Luo Rucai complained with a smile.

"It's my brother's fault! It's my brother's fault! Zhang Xianzhong also smiled "hehe", "When the time comes, I will divide half of you." ”

"That's pretty much it!"

The laughter of the two wafted through the wilderness, startling a few birds in the trees. The leaders of the peasant army looked at their leader jokingly. They were all very relaxed, because Jiangnan soldiers were too weak to win.

August 10, New River Town.

Liu Liangzuo held his chin in his hand and carefully looked at the dozen or so war horses brought over by his own soldiers. This is also a habit of Liu Liangzuo. He did not have a fixed warhorse, but chose one before each battle.

What's even more strange is that those war horses are not of the same color, and the hair on their bodies is all colorful, so Liu Liangzuo has a very strange nickname in the Ming army, called "Flower Horse Liu". However, any general who licks blood on the edge of the knife has some special habits, which is nothing more than a superstition.

"That's it!"

Liu Liangzuo pointed to a red, yellow and white mixed war horse, and the personal soldier leading the horse immediately stepped forward. Liu Liangzuo took the reins and turned over on the horse, and after sitting down, he casually said to the captain of the pro-soldiers: "It's Cao Cao!" This battle is not easy to fight! ”

When Lu Jiude learned that Hangzhou was in danger, in addition to sending Liu Yuanbin to help, he himself also led the remaining 19,000 soldiers and horses to chase after the combined forces of Zhang and Luo, and wanted to entangle them and prevent them from rushing to Hangzhou.

But when he arrived here in Xinhe Town, Lu Jiude suddenly encountered Luo Rucai's department. He reacted suddenly, it turned out that he had encountered an ambush. Therefore, Lu Jiude's first reaction was to garrison on the spot and send a large number of detectives, first of all, to find out the surrounding situation.

It took too long to set up a camp from the flat ground, so Lu Jiude immediately seized the nearby town of Xinhe and built his own army camp on the basis of the houses and the town wall.

And Luo Rucai did not engage in the battle at the first time. Because Xinhe Town is located at the intersection of Wuhu, Xuancheng and Dangtu. To the east of Xinhe Town, there is the South Lake (not the Jiaxing South Lake), which is difficult for the Ming army to move. On the retreat road back to Dangtu, there is also a Shijiu Lake, the terrain is very narrow, and the Ming army cannot be used on the retreat road. If the Ming army retreated, it would be easy to turn the retreat into a rout under the pursuit of Luo Rucai.

So the only way for the Ming army to retreat was Wuhu County. Therefore, Luo Rucai had to cut off the road to Wuhu County as soon as possible. It wasn't until he saw the Ming army enter Xinhe Town that Luo Ru relieved his heart, and he also placed his troops here in Zhuqiao Township and confronted the Ming army.

According to the Jihua of the combined forces of Zhang and Luo, Zhang Xianzhong's troops will pass through Langxi County, circle around Nanhu, and then attack Lu Jiude's troops from the east. So now Luo Rucai is very patient, just waiting for Zhang Xianzhong's arrival.

But Lu Jiude is not a puppet of Zhang and Luo, so they can pull it as much as they want. Because of the distance from Nanhu, it was impossible to find out the dynamics of Zhang Xianzhong's department, so after a circle of scouts, Lu Jiude found that there was only Luo Rucai's peasant army nearby.

So Lu Jiude judged: This is a trick used by the peasant army. There are two possibilities: one possibility is to scare yourself back into being painted; Another possibility is to use Luo Rucai to break off. But no matter which possibility it is, as long as his army defeats Luo Rucai's troops, all tricks will disappear. So Lu Jiude immediately prepared to take the initiative to attack.

Unlike Zhang and Luo's judgments, Lu Jiude's troops were not the winning weak soldiers in Jiangnan at all, and even the rookie soldiers in Nanjing Jingying were very few. This is also after Lu Jiude ate the losses of the rookie soldiers in Nanjing's Jingying, he grew wiser.

Lu Jiude's main force was the Yongwei Battalion. Although the soldiers and horses of this battalion belonged to the Beijing camp, like the warrior battalion, they were all personally trained by the royal horse supervisor and the nobles of the admiral Beijing camp. The officers and enlisted men of this battalion were also carefully selected from among the various armies. And there is only one selection criterion, that is, the outstanding performance of the various armies when they are fighting. Therefore, the Yongwei Battalion is completely the Imperial Forest Army of the Ming Dynasty.

And the origin of Liu Liangzuo's troops is more complicated. Liu Liangzuo rebelled with Li Zicheng back then, but he defected to the Ming court very early. By the way, there was also a Gao Jie who defected to the Ming Court at about the same time as him at that time. That Gao Jie was even more amazing, and when he surrendered, he also abducted Li Zicheng's wife Gao Shi together. It's really a little white face. Therefore, the old foundation of Liu Liangzuo's army is also a peasant army.

But at that time, the Ming court was still very large, and for these leaders of the peasant army who surrendered to Chengcheng, they often sent a general manager and a thousand generals, and if they were given a garrison, then your ancestral tomb would definitely be smoking.

It was under such circumstances that Liu Liangzuo was able to rise step by step, and now he has accumulated merit to the general army, which shows the strength of his command skills and the fierceness of the troops' combat.

Liu Liangzuo fought at the border pass and put down the rebellion at Denglai, but his most brilliant achievement was the battle against the peasant army. Because he was quite familiar with the fighting style of the peasant army and knew the advantages and disadvantages of the peasant army, he soon became a sharp blade for the Ming Dynasty to exterminate the peasant army. And in today's battle, Lu Jiude arranged for Liu Liangzuo to take the lead.

"Godfather! I can't win, I have to draw it, I won't do it? Or, you can change people! Yang Chengzu said aggrievedly.

"Bunny! Do you still dare to make conditions with me? Tell you, it's much harder to draw than to win. Get out of here! Luo Rucai yelled.

"Then I'll try?" Yang Chengzu had a hippie smile on his face.

"Get out!" Luo Rucai raised his hand to fight, and when he saw Yang Chengzu running away with a smile, he couldn't help laughing.

At this time, Luo Rucai and them didn't know the true strength of Lu Jiude's department. (To be continued......)