Chapter 453: The Choice of the Later

Li Zicheng's main force was replaced by the old camp, with more than 30,000 people under his command. Other leaders, such as Hao Yaoqi and Yuan Zongdi, each have thousands of soldiers who can fight. However, they are not as good as Li Zicheng's elite. Li Zicheng's little property is in the old camp.

Song Xiance had recruited everything, so Chen Xie asked someone to bandage him and signaled to be imprisoned first and then take turns to take turns. Chen Xie never had a good face for such a charlatan. No good thing was there for those who turned around and made fun of him.

In the night, the two armies confronted each other dozens of miles, which looked quiet on the surface, but in fact, they could constantly hear vague gunshots and even the explosion of grenades. Chen Xie came out of the camp and looked in the direction of the sound and said, "This is Ye Buguan in anti-reconnaissance. Fighting in the dark, the brothers have little advantage. I wonder what the casualties are?"

Han Shan said in a deep voice behind him: "I'm so young that I'm watching you, and I'll report it whenever there is any news. The master should go back and rest, and then it's just that. The thief was in front of the master, but he was like a native chicken and a tile dog. He didn't even see the master caring so much about the Qing army."

Chen Xie smiled and shook his head: "You don't understand. It was a war against the Qing army, it was a civil war. The dead people were all the people of the Ming Dynasty."

Han Shan seemed to think about it and hesitated for a moment: "Master, I have something unknown to me. With the strength of Dengzhou Camp, it is not difficult to destroy the thieves. Why did I send troops until today?" Chen Xie did not expect that he would ask this. I can't tell him, I know that the drought this year is very serious, and I plan to borrow Li Zicheng's hand to clean up the power of the civil gentry to the greatest extent. At the same time, due to the drought, it is also convenient to immigrate.

"The war is against logistics, we are officers and soldiers. It is not difficult to simply suppress the thieves. The difficulty is to settle the people after suppressing the thieves." After Chen Xie gave such an answer, Han Shan smiled honestly. This time, the Dengzhou Camp fought and brought a large amount of supplies, which is the evidence of Chen Xie.

When he returned to the tent, Hongmao was still waiting. When he saw Chen Xie coming, he sat up and said, "Master, what happened?" Chen Xie explained with a smile. The two continued to sleep. Chen Xie could sleep. Li Zicheng couldn't sleep anymore. He had been discussing all night and finally decided to move south. How to go? People must be left to break the rear. How to arrange the order? Li Zicheng was quite troubled.

"Dengzhou camp is not an ordinary Ming army. If we want to leave, we have to leave people to cut off the rear. Tomorrow morning, Zhongmin will take the troops of our headquarters to get on the road first. I will lead the old camp and then follow. Now people need to cut off the rear. I wonder who volunteers for you?" It's really fucking to say that Li Zicheng said. Liu Zongmin left first. The old camp left first. How many generals can there be left? Only those outsiders have cut off the rear. What's the need to take the initiative? Just make the arrangements directly.

Looking around, no one talked. Li Zicheng was so cruel that he was ready to make a mandatory arrangement, Hao Yaoqi said: "I'll stay."

Li Zicheng nodded and continued to look around. At this time, Tian Jianxiu said, "I'm the one who broke the back." Li Zicheng was stunned and wanted to say something but didn't say anything. He would say that you should not stay. That would be a bad character. After thinking about it, Li Zicheng said, "Yuan Zongdi must be one, Liu Tichun also stayed. The latter was led by Yuan Zongdi." The two bowed silently and expressed their order.

"That's it. Everyone will prepare and leave tomorrow morning." Li Zicheng announced the end of the meeting. It was already early in the morning. Yuan Zongdi and others led their men to move first and set up camp on the official road to block Dengzhou Camp. When arranging the camp, Hao Yaoqi's face looked ugly. He was the first to stand up and cut off the back. As a result, he had to obey Yuan Zongdi's command. If there was not a Tian Jianxiu, he would have to throw his face.

At the fourth update, Liu Zongmin took the vanguard troops first. The plan was to go south and go to Nanyang Prefecture through Xiangyang to Huguang. At the fifth update, Li Zicheng also set off. With his family and civil servants, he could not see Song Xiance at all, which made him feel very uncomfortable. The old camp was all horse teams and the movements were quite fast. It was said to be 500,000 people, but in fact, only 50,000 or 60,000 people could actually fight at this time. The others were all the people, and the people who had never seen the formation were still a good match as a support. It was useless to fight.

At the time of destiny, 70,000 to 80,000 people left, and the remaining people were scattered in various camps. How much they could be removed depends on luck. Yuan Zongdi called Tian Jianxiu, Hao Yaoqi, and Liu Tichun and discussed: "I won't say the power of Dengzhou Camp. I can't fight hard and can only defend the camps across the Huiji River. I don't say anything about fighting to the end. If you can't stand it, you can just scatter with your people." If you can't beat it, you can run away. This is the characteristic of a thief, and you're used to it. Everyone knows in their hearts that no one has ever thought of leaving their lives. As for those people, who can take care of it? They didn't even notify those people to leave, right?

As they were discussing, a scout came to report: "There is some movement in Dengzhou camp." Yuan Zongdi immediately said: "Everyone will go back, everyone will prepare to take the battle. Let's agree first, I really can't stand it. I'll call you and leave." Everyone nodded and dispersed.

The camp chosen by Hao Yaoqi was right next to a bridge. The Huiji River was not wide, with a river channel of dozens of meters. This was the only barrier. While there was still time, Hao Yaoqi's command built obstacles around the river to prevent the enemy from crossing the river. He had never fought with Dengzhou Camp, and when he was in Chuzhou, he had no chance to show up. Everyone scattered and he ran away.

A red flag appeared in the distance, and Hao Yaoqi climbed to the tower. He could see clearly. He couldn't help but squint his eyes slightly and looked carefully at the torrents rolling in the distance. Dengzhou Camp did not hit the troops as he expected. Just in his sight, he saw five platoons approaching Huiji River from five directions, with one of them coming towards his camp. Looking closely, it was like more than 4,000 people.

When the area was less than six or seven miles away, the soldiers of Dengzhou Camp began to dismount and then prepared. Hao Yaoqi had a good look. He saw the soldiers of Dengzhou Camp slowly moving forward like dark green tofu blocks. When he entered the range of Sanli, he could roughly see clearly. These Dengzhou soldiers were calm and dragging cannons and lined up in a square formation. When they approached the other side of the river, Hao Yaoqi came down from the tower and told his personal soldiers: "Let the old brothers prepare horses. I'm afraid this battle won't last long." Hao Yaoqi knew the cannons very well, especially when he saw that there were many cannons on the opposite side. How many were there? Hao Yaoqi didn't count carefully, there were twenty or thirty gates.

Chen Xie had planned to fight Li Zicheng again, so he did not launch an attack overnight. With the A-shaped battalion as a combat unit, the two battalions walked along the way and prepared to cross the river from five sections. The order was to try to gather refugees as much as possible. If there were enemies in front of him, they could defeat them. There were hundreds of thousands of people, not one or two. The whole of Henan was drought and flooded, and it was like a soup pot, and the people's hearts were like boiling. No matter how hard they were, the situation was, the situation was very serious. In a province in Henan, there were a fewer than six or seven million people. No matter how much they were tortured, there were still three or four million people, how many people could immigrate, and the budget was one million.

It was clear from the telescope that there was a big flag with the word "Hao" floating on the camp across the river. Chen Xie passed by his mind slightly and smiled: "It's Hao Yaoqi. He specializes in the role of Li Zicheng in doing this kind of work. Let the artillery prepare, cover the hot air balloon, and build bridges for the engineers."

The horse infantry did not carry large-caliber artillery, and the farthest range was the six-pound rifled gun. The artillery team of the A-shaped battalion was equipped with two rifled six-pound rifled guns, four smoothbore guns, and six three-pound smoothbore guns. They were all light versions, and the disassembly and assembly speed was very fast. In just twenty minutes, the artillery was ready, and the two artillery teams were four six-pound rifled guns began to scream.

The black shells hit the fence outside the camp, making a rustling sound and debris flew. The water in the river was almost bottoming out, but the bridge had to be built. The engineers started to move slowly, while the artillery kept firing, and for about an hour, the simple bridge on the river was almost on the other side.

Lin Ya found Chen Xie and said, "The thief camp has not been very disturbed." Chen Xie nodded and said, "Hao Yaoqi kept calm and let the hot air balloon float over. Be careful when crossing the river. Once a bandit soldier goes to fight, the hot air balloon will be bombed immediately to warn. Hao Yaoqi's abacus was very good. He probably waited for our army to cross the river and did not firmly launch an attack."

Lin Ya looked at Kaifeng City and smiled bitterly: "At this time, if an army comes out of the city, just stab it from the flank."

Chen Xie smiled: "Don't count on others. Our army always relies on itself in wars. Friends are more unreliable than the other, and you are not afraid of being dragged down." Lin Ya smiled, saluted, ran away, returned to the river, pulled out her battle knife: "Follow me and cross the river!"

The two character A camps walked down the river channel, and the river was shallow and the bottom of the river could be seen. When crossing the river, the biggest enemy was mud, so the officers and soldiers had to take off their shoes, tie them around their necks, and walk across the river through the mud.

Hao Yaoqi really didn't expect that just a few thousand people would dare to cross the river so sway. The bridge seemed not to be prepared for the soldiers, but had other purposes. Sure enough, cannons appeared on the bridge, and while repairing the bridge, the three-pound cannon was moving forward. The three-pound cannon that two people could push. Once an emergency occurs, they would immediately open fire to suppress the enemy.

These A-character battalions are all veterans from Liaodong, soldiers who have fought wars and have seen blood, and are very confident in their combat effectiveness. Think about it carefully, the powerful Qing army has been beaten into dogs, let alone thieves?

There are more than 30,000 people in Hao Yaoqi's camp, and he wants to take people out and fight for melee. But looking at the four hot air balloons floating above his head, even the veterans around him look like they are all over, and you will know that you will be finished when you rush out. No need to fight, as long as the guys in the sky lay eggs, the team will disperse. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!

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