Chapter 328 Cutting meat with a small knife

Luotian County is not big, so Zhang Xianzhong cannot put all refugees into the city, which leads to a large number of people stationed outside the city. Bandits are the type that never takes human lives seriously. They have no food to eat in the Ming Dynasty, and human lives are not worthwhile.

When fighting, he used strength as the front drive. If he was not good at fighting, he used the old and the weak as bait to attract officers and soldiers and ran away by himself. This trick was very skilled in the thief leader. Zhang Xianzhong dared not to station in Luotian. One was to bully Chen Xie's few soldiers, and the other was to lead a large number of people and really couldn't walk fast. Chen Xie was all cavalrymen, but he couldn't catch up before because Zhang Xianzhong left behind a large number of elderly and weak women and moved south quickly. Now he has enslaved a large number of people, so he naturally slowed down. Another point is that the terrain is unfavorable. Huguang has many paddy fields and hills, which is not suitable for large-scale cavalry combat.

Zhang Xianzhong has not fought with Chen Xie in a real sense, and is a type that is not aware of its power.

After dark, the troops were ready, Chen Xie made the final deployment: "With the cavalry brigade as the combat unit, first invest four brigades, mainly disturbing the enemy, fight if they can, and run away if they cannot. The other troops are ready to respond. The four brigades that fought in advance retreated and immediately invested in four brigades. The 12 brigades were divided into three groups, taking turns to fight, not asking for a single kill, but only asking for constant bleeding. In short, there is only one requirement to make the bandits rest day and night.

After the meeting, the four brigades began to take action, and under the guidance of local guides, they walked the path and walked around Luotian. They each found a loose camp where refugees were stationed as their target, and then lurked down, eating dry food, drinking water, and resting.

Chen Xie led the main force of the eight brigades to walk on the official road with a torch, and crossed the Yingshan River under the eyes of the bandits, and started camping in a dignified manner. Zhang Xianzhong sent a large number of scouts, so he could naturally notice Chen Xie's movement. To be honest, he didn't understand, so there were no one who marched at night and even camped across the river. Who would tell me if he had a letter? But Zhang Xianzhong didn't dare to be careless at all. After all, Dengzhou Camp is famous. If Chen Xie was a fool, he had been chopped up by Huang Taiji and fed the dog, so how could he have the chance to show off his power here?

After struggling for a while, the camp of Dengzhou Camp was settled and quiet in the second half of the night. Zhang Xianzhong felt that Chen Xie was planning to fight with him after dawn. Since that was the case, he was relieved. He ordered to be on guard and go to Macheng early tomorrow morning to leave the old and weak women. He delayed Chen Xie's speed and waited for Chen Xie to chase him to the Guifeng Mountain and attack him.

Just now, Zhang Xianzhong had just planned to take a moment, when a noise suddenly sounded outside the city. He got up in his clothes and waited for a while before his subordinates came to report that Dengzhou Camp attacked the camp outside the city at night, and the west of the city was already in chaos. Dengzhou soldiers took advantage of the situation and slashed and killed. The four camps that were attacked were completely in chaos. The mountains and fields were filled with refugees who were fleeing in the dark.

Zhang Xianzhong quickly climbed up to the city wall to see the situation. In the dark night, the two camps in the west were attacked. One was next to the hills and the other was against the woods. Dengzhou Camp did not know how to set fire, and the mountains and forests were lit. The refugees fled everywhere. Small groups of Dengzhou cavalry were chasing like ducks, constantly dispersing the gathering crowd.

This is the first time Zhang Xianzhong has seen people fighting like this. The two camps have no less than 50,000 refugees, mainly elderly and weak. They are attacked at night, and no one can stop the chaos. When the driven people flock to those camps that have not been attacked, Zhang Xianzhong felt a sudden shock and said in his heart: It's broken!

Night blindness is very common in this era. In fact, the casualties caused by the Dengzhou camp are not very large. The main reason is the casualties caused by escaping and trampling in chaos. People instinctively follow the people in front of them, or run in the direction of their own people they know. The camp that was not affected was instantly rushed to a mess by the people who fled. The number of cavalrymen in the Dengzhou camp was not large, but they kept running back and forth behind, driving away refugees to attack their own camps, resulting in greater chaos.

At this moment, the main force of Dengzhou camp, which had been quiet for a while, was launched again with open fire. In front of a flying eagle flag, a young general approached Luotian with an orderly Dengzhou cavalry. The scout looked at the night. There were torches on the official road, and the long fire dragon could not see the end. Who knew how many people came. There was a mess behind him, and the soldiers in front of him were in a hurry. Zhang Xianzhong did not dare to leave the city at all. At this time, there were not only an advantage, but a disadvantage. It was originally a mob, but it was night, so he did not dare to attack. Ten thousand people, in front of two thousand cavalry, ran away in all directions, some ran towards Macheng, some drilled into the mountains, and some begged outside the city to open the city gate.

Four cavalry brigades galloped at night and met a large thief. They left with a crossbow arrow and turned around to drive away the small thief. After a while, they turned around and another crossbow arrow came over, and they broke up the large thief in three or five strokes. Similar battles were repeated countless times in the second half of the night. The cavalry, in units of tyrants, voluntarily withdrew from the battlefield before dawn.

Zhang Xianzhong watched the excitement in the city for two hours and never dared to send troops. When it was dawn, he looked at the camp outside the city and was so miserable that he could not see it. There were refugees who were dying from the ground, and some survivors who could not run crawled out of the grass or ditches on the side of the road, staring blankly at everything that happened.

At this time, looking at the main force of Dengzhou camp in front, I don’t know when the main force of Dengzhou camp had withdrawn for more than ten miles. At this time, Zhang Xianzhong took the initiative to attack and killed him, but he was unwilling to do it. Helplessly, Zhang Xianzhong had to suffer the bitter fruit and ordered the mess to clean up the fleeing people. The main horse team first left the city to go to Macheng, leaving more than 20,000 refugees in the city in Luotian City, allowing them to hold the main force of Dengzhou cavalry.

There was really no good way for Chen Xie to deal with Zhang Xianzhong. Letting the cavalry attack the city may be the stupidest military thing. In response to this move, Chen Xie's way was to bypass Luo Tian. This move knocked Zhang Xianzhong out of nowhere and prepared the ambush in Guifeng Mountain. Zhang Xianzhong had no choice but to gather the remaining troops in Macheng, but he was reluctant to throw away Luo Tian's 20,000 people, and waited to gather and continue running westward. The purpose was to find an opportunity to fight back to Shaanxi.

At this time, Huguang was empty. The troops in Shaanxi were just leaving Tongguan and were still blocking the bandits led by Gao Yingxiang. The Dengzhou soldiers led by Su Haochen did not abandon Hong Chengchou's order to march into Ruzhou after entering Henan, and remained in Guide Mansion. Shandong Governor Zhu Dadian received the order to go to Dengzhou to take office, so he naturally would not be in charge of Dengzhou camp. Henan Governor Yuan Mo had only one Zuo Liangyu in his hand and could fight. He hoped that Su Haochen could be in Guide and hoped that he would go north to Kaifeng at any time, so he naturally would not speak.

It was not until the end of February that when Su Haochen received an order from the Ministry of War, he gave face and led his troops to Ruzhou. This is all a story.

After Zhang Xianzhong left Luotian, he still had 100,000 people under his command, and the main force he could fight was 50,000. The cavalry could also make up a 10,000-plus. At this time, Zhang Xianzhong saw that Chen Xie was missing, and the scout could not find any trace, so he pinched his nose to attack Macheng. There were so many people, what would he use to fill his stomach if he didn't attack Macheng?

Just as Zhang Xianzhong was about to attack the city, the scout found that Chen Xie was catching up with him. He was in Elan Town forty miles away. Now Zhang Xianzhong was in Ma. Should he continue to attack Macheng? Chen Xie was all cavalry and could not get rid of it at all. This is so annoying.

At this time, the happiest person was Wuchang Prefecture. The famous Dengzhou Camp chased from Nanzhili to Huguang and appeared directly in Elong Town. Wuchang Prefecture was safe. At least Hankou was safe, so there was no need to worry about being defeated by Zhang Xianzhong. He quickly sent people to deliver food and chickens and ducks. There was no need to mobilize the government, and the local gentry took the initiative to do this.

Zhang Xianzhong still decided to fight. Relying on the favorable terrain of this area, the cavalry was inconvenient to move. He transferred 10,000 infantry and cavalry to set up defenses in the Zhongguanyi area. He never thought that Chen Xie led his troops to the northeast, cross the water, and appeared in the southeast of Macheng. He played a night attack again, dispersed the 20,000 refugees who were behind, and acted as an active attack. Zhang Xianzhong had to adjust his defense, give up the siege of Macheng, and turn around to attack Chen Xie. Unexpectedly, Chen Xie retreated directly and headed towards Luotian. At this time, Luotian was an empty city, and Zhang Xianzhong couldn't catch up, so he had to let Bai Wenxuan take more than 10,000 infantry to set up defenses in Guifeng Mountain.

When Zhang Xianzhong was found in the direction of Macheng, he naturally knew that reinforcements had arrived. The county magistrate mobilized the gentry to fight to the death. Zhang Xianzhong fought for a day but did not fight. He rested at night and waited for another battle tomorrow. Unexpectedly, Chen Xie attacked Guifeng Mountain at night, and shot out all the remaining rockets in one breath, and fired all the fires on Guifeng Mountain.

Bai Wenxuan could not hold back at all and was chased by two thousand cavalry led by Chen Xie himself, and was defeated and fled. He fought fiercely overnight, beheaded 3,000 people and fled countless times. There were less than 500 people returning to Zhang Xianzhong's headquarters. Bai Wenxuan hugged Zhang Xianzhong's thigh and cried, which was considered to have saved his life.

This is not the end. After cutting two knives in a row, Zhang Xianzhong was really terrified. He was determined to capture Macheng and run away. He asked Feng Shuangli to bring 5,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry to hold his back and command the main force to siege Macheng. Unexpectedly, at the beginning of this, the Zhongguanyi was killed by He Xian and two,000 cavalry.

The troops at Zhongguanyi were drawn 10,000, leaving only 3,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantrymen. It was said that they were soldiers, but in fact, these bandits had extremely poor equipment and there were not many guys at all. Wooden sticks were the mainstream weapons.

Such an opponent could not stop the iron cavalry of Dengzhou camp like a wolf or a tiger? He Xian didn't make much impact. The four brigades stepped forward one after another, shot crossbow arrows and flashed back and forth for an hour. The infantry in Zhongguanshi could not withstand it, so they just left and ran away. When the remaining three thousand cavalry saw this formation, I would run away too. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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