Even historians can't figure out how many people there were in the peasant uprising army in the late Ming Dynasty. The more popular saying is the 13th family, the 72nd Battalion. These 13 families refer to giant bandits, at least tens of thousands of people, and the 72nd Battalion is a big bandit, at least thousands of people. As for those small bandits, it is estimated that there will be hundreds of bandits.

As the saying goes, there are all kinds of birds in the forest. It is natural that so many leaders of the rebel army cannot be a solid one. Among them, there are those who are determined to be strong, some are those who are determined to be unstable, and even those who are in charge of the enemy want to become officials.

Like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, they are the kind of people who are stubborn to the end. There is no way. They rebel because they can't make a fuss. Even if the court does not care about their crimes of rebellion, it is a death sentence when they investigate what they did before the rebellion. They only have one way, that is, they are stubborn to the end. Of course, the court may also be willing to blame the past. This possibility is not without, but it is more likely that they should be told to be well and do it when the situation stabilizes. Only fools will do this purely gambling thing.

If you want to say that those who are determined will must be Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai. They really want to overthrow the rule of the Ming Dynasty, but they all died as they thought about it.

There are many people with unstable will. The characteristic of such people is that they have a grass on the wall, and the wind blows both sides. When the court is in great power, they surrender to the court. When the rebels are in power, they immediately rise up again. You will never guess whether they want to rebel or surrender, because they have no idea.

If you want to become an official with the bandits, some people here may not understand it. Thieves are thieves, and officials are officials. You say that thieves rebel to become officials is a bit unreliable? This statement is a bit unreliable, but some people are even more unreliable. The most unreliable one is Song Jiang. No one can understand why he surrendered to the court. Even the brothers in Liangshan couldn't understand it. Later historians studied it carefully and found that this guy just wanted to become an official!

There were also such people in the peasant uprising army in the late Ming Dynasty. The representatives were Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing. Maybe they were not well-known in history, but they were quite famous at that time. They were all one of the thirteen giant bandits, and they could scare people when they said their names. Liu Guoneng was nicknamed "Chuangdaitian" and Li Wanqing was nicknamed "Shootingaitian". It seemed that they all wanted to collapse the sky, but they ended up in order to surrender to the court. It was really unreliable.

Whether this will and whether the idea is reliable or not can be seen without several tests. At least Luo Rucai doesn't know that the leaders of the rebel army who followed him to Fengyang are very unreliable. Now the young emperor personally led an army of 200,000 to encircle and suppress it. He had to discuss countermeasures, so he summoned all the leaders together and let everyone tell me what to do.

Why do you use the word "六" instead of "来"? As mentioned in the previous article, the rebels were not afraid of the Ming army's encirclement and suppression. They could not defeat them, but they had run away. It might be possible to take the Ming army around for a few laps, but they might be able to take Fengyang. At least that's what Luo Ru thought.

He didn't know that many people were sitting there and didn't think of going with him.

Like the old Hui Ma Shouying from the fifth camp of the Left, Geli was attracted by He Yilong, Zuo Jin Wang He Jin and others were thinking about what they were afraid of, and if they could not fight, they could not escape, then surrender. If the officers and soldiers did not kill the prisoners, they would be sent back to their hometowns. They would look at them when they went back and rebel again.

Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing, the Chuangcaitian, were already considering whether to send someone to surrender to the court. They were more thinking about how big the official they would need after surrender!

Of course, whether you want to surrender or become an official, you have to show off your muscles first, that is, to prove your ability in front of the officers and soldiers. Otherwise, you may have lost the opportunity to surrender and will be destroyed directly. If you want to become an official, you will have no chance of being an official.

Although everyone had their own ulterior motives, the minimum goal was to run first, so the conference that Luo Rucai held was quite successful. Everyone agreed that the tactic of scattered siege of the little emperor was no big deal. As long as you concentrate on attacking them all the way, everyone could escape the siege.

Is it really as they thought? Of course it is impossible. If they went to Zhu Cijiong's camp, they probably wouldn't think so.

Zhu Cijing's current camp is not much different from the past in terms of appearance. It is a large army stationed on the periphery, followed by a circle of Jinyiwei and a guarded by the masters of the East Factory, and then the camps of eunuchs and palace maids who served with him, and a super tent of hundreds of square meters in the middle.

However, if you look closely, you will find that there are dozens of colorful lines that are as colorful as camouflage, gathered from all directions into the super tent in the middle. Uh, this camouflage color was not specially painted on, mainly because the coloring problem of the rubber insulation layer is not mature. I originally wanted to make it black, but various pigments cannot be completely integrated into the rubber particles, so it becomes a colorful camouflage color. But just right, if you put this camouflage thread on that, if you don’t look carefully, you won’t have a thread on the ground. When Zhu Cijiu saw the effect, he simply made a decision and it was just like that. Anyway, it was not sold for sale. As long as it was practical, it would be fine.

Of course, this line is not the key. The key is in the super big account. The imperial account was originally arranged in an extremely luxurious manner, just like a palace, but now it has been changed by Zhu Cijiu.

He ordered people to divide the imperial tent into two sides. On one side were telegraph machines. Dozens of correspondents sat in dense rows on the table, constantly receiving and sending telegrams, and from time to time ran to Zhu Cijing to report the latest situation. On the other side, there was no luxury arrangement, only half of them were separated into bedrooms, and the other half was a large round table. The table was covered with sand forms around Fengyang Mansion, and small flags representing the positions of various Ming troops were densely packed.

Now all Ming troops have entered Fengyang Prefecture, and the nearest route is less than a hundred miles away from the camp of the Rebel Army. The Rebel Army may launch a surprise attack at any time, so Zhu Cijiong issued an order to order all Ming troops to camp on the spot, move forward alternately, and prepare for defensive and counterattack.

He was standing by the round table, holding a baton and pointing on the sand model, adjusting the positions of various Ming troops, and trying to arrange the encirclement more tightly. Shi Kefa and Qin Gongming on one side pulled up the flags according to the position indicated by Zhu Cijiong, and inserted them. They were very busy. There were correspondents and messengers running around behind him. If it weren't for Cao Huachun standing on the side, he was still wearing the eunuch's service, the unified military uniform and the shining generals would be completely a command room for modern warfare, which was not like in the Ming Dynasty!

At this moment, a correspondent suddenly ran in with a telegram decoding paper, held the decoding paper to Zhu Cijiu, bowed his head and bowed, "Report to the Emperor, the First Army, the Third Division, and the First Regiment of the Dingliao Army discovered that a large number of thieves were rushing towards their camp."

Zhu Cijiu also changed this military division battalion according to modern people's habits, mainly for the convenience of command. As for the position, he did not change it. The admiral was the commander of the army, the general was equivalent to the commander of the army, the general was equivalent to the commander of the division, and the guerrilla general was equivalent to the commander of the regiment.

He took the telegram, looked at it hurriedly, and immediately asked loudly: "Qin Gongming, the location of the first three groups."

Qin Gongming quickly lay on the sand model and looked carefully among the blue flags. The red ones were all from the Second Corps of the Imperial Guards, and Shi Kefa was responsible for him. He didn't have to look at them at all. This saved half of the time. Soon he found the small flag with the words Dingliao 131.

A siege and suppression battle started like this. Can the rebels escape like before? Let's see the next breakdown.
Chapter completed!