Chapter 12: The ruthless and ruthless Master Lian

When he learned that Jia Lian had more than 10,000 troops and horses, killed Luo Rucai, annihilated more than 10,000 enemies, and achieved unparalleled achievements, his regretful heart was blue.

If I had known that the thief was vulnerable, why would I have to run away overnight?

If you choose to fight one big battle and annihilate the trespasses, what a powerful military achievement.

However, after receiving Hou Xun's letter, he became happy again. Although Luo Rucai was gone, Li Zicheng was still there.

Now that Hou Xun is here, how could he miss such great achievements?

So Zuo Liangyu organized more than 60,000 troops that he had finally collected, captured more than 10,000 strong men in the local area, gathered 80,000 troops out, and set off north.

What he didn't know was that among the more than 10,000 strong men he captured, there were scouts sent by Jia Lian.

It was to keep an eye on Zuo Liangyu's actions and then find a way to reveal it to Li Zicheng.

Jia Lian wanted to use Li Zicheng's hands to eliminate Zuo Liangyu, the "thief general", and to kill someone with a knife.

This bad sheep, as long as he lives for one day, can harm the Ming Dynasty. First, he killed the Governor Fu Zonglong, and then killed the Governor Wang Qiaonian. This time, Zhuxian Town killed nearly 200,000 Ming troops in the battle.

According to historical development, after Chongzhen Coal Mountain hanged himself, Zuo Liangyu once dreamed of an emperor. Under the banner of "clearing the king's side", he led hundreds of thousands of troops to Nanjing eastward and fought with Huang Degong and other troops of the Southern Ming Army in Nanzhili.

Because of the need to mobilize troops to deal with Zuo Liangyu, a huge loophole appeared in the Jiangbei defense line, which was not solid. Then Duoduo drove straight into the south Ming Hongguang court.

Zuo Liangyu died of illness on the middle of the way, and his son led hundreds of thousands of troops to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, becoming the vanguard of the attack on the Southern Ming Dynasty.

This thief general who was harmful to the Ming Dynasty but had no benefits must be eliminated.

After three days of marching, Zuo Liangyu finally arrived at the Weishi County, which was occupied by Li Zicheng's troops.

After learning that there were only 3,000 defenders in the city, Zuo Liangyu ordered the attack on the city without thinking.

It is more than twenty miles away from Zhuxian Town. Even if Li Zicheng gets the news, he has already defeated Weishi City.

Using this as a stronghold, you can directly attack Zhuxian Town when you advance, and retreat to Yancheng.

The attack was quite smooth. In less than two incense sticks, Zuo Liangyu's troops attacked the city, and the rebels in the city scattered from the north gate.

"What a pity, these bandits ran too fast and only cut more than 400 heads!"

"Send the order, enter the city!"

Immediately, Zuo Liangyu's tens of thousands of soldiers rushed into this small county town.

However, in less than half an hour, a messenger rushed over in panic, "General, it's not good, there are many bandits outside the city!"

Zuo Liangyu was shocked and hurried to the top of the city. Looking around, there were enemy soldiers everywhere.

Zuo Liangyu also saw that the rebel army pushed up hundreds of Folang machine cannons and rows of soldiers holding bird guns.

Zuo Liangyu realized that he had been plotted against the rebel army, who had gathered around and had no less than 100,000 people.

Seeing more and more rebels appear, Zuo Liangyu felt a suffocating feeling.

So many rebels could only be ambushed around them early in the morning. Li Zicheng was waiting for him to come and was sure that he would attack this small town.

"fire!"

Outside the city, at the order of Li Zicheng, more than 130 Folang machine cannons gathered together opened fire one after another.

These Folang machine cannons were seized from the Ming army after all major wars.

At this moment, the Folang machine cannon, which was concentrated, showed its powerful power, with more than a hundred large iron balls roaring towards the top of the city.

Under the bombardment of these iron balls, Zuo Liangyu suffered heavy losses and had no power to resist.

There were originally more than 30 Folang machine cannons in his army, but Zhu Xianzhen was abandoned in order to escape in the battle and seized by Li Zicheng. Now he is roaring outside the city and bombing Zuo Liangyu's team.

After the artillery bombardment that lasted for half an hour, two bird gun troops, commanded by Liu Zongmin and Li Guo, also attacked the city from the south and north sides of the city respectively.

The equipment rate of the border troops was about 10%, while that of the Ming army in the mainland was only half a century. But even so, the Ming army defeated by Li Zicheng had a total of 700,000 to 800,000, and the bird guns seized at least 30,000 to 40,000 bird guns.

Equipping two bird gun troops with ten thousand people was easy.

In addition, Li Zicheng also learned to attack three times, and three rows of bird gun soldiers fired in turn, continuing to output firepower to Zuo Liangyu's troops on the city.

Seeing Zuo Liangyu being beaten without any resistance, Li Zicheng was in a good mood. No wonder Jinxi Town was so powerful. It turned out that it was just a powerful firearm.

Zuo Liangyu at the top of the city was in a state of being beaten unilaterally. Although there were still two thousand musketeers in the army, he was suppressed and could not raise his head at all in front of Li Zicheng's 20,000 bird guns.

Zuo Liangyu yelled hysterically, "Please help, please ask Chief Hou for help!"

If you continue to fight like this, your morale will collapse soon. Once the city is broken, Li Zicheng will never let him live.

A thought flashed in his mind, "As soon as the troops from Kaifeng arrived and Li Zicheng relaxed the encirclement, he immediately rushed out with his elite troops and ran all the way to Xiangyang. Oh no, run to Wuchang. The life and death of others have nothing to do with him."

Zuo Liangyu sent hundreds of messengers for help, but only six people arrived in Kaifeng in the end.

However, he finally delivered the letter of help to Hou Xun.

When Hou Xun learned that his "little baby" was besieged in the Wei family, he didn't care so much. After discussing with Yang Wenyue, he took Zheng Zhijun, Hu Dawei and other tens of thousands of troops to rush to help Zuo Liangyu.

After a long journey for a day, at noon the next day, Hou Xun finally led his troops to Weishi.

When Li Zicheng heard the news, he had to divide some of his troops to block Hou Xun's reinforcements.

Zuo Liangyu has been trying every means to escape. Seeing the mobilization of the tide of the treasury army, he seized the opportunity and took three thousand elite troops to break through regardless of the situation.

After paying the price of more than a thousand casualties, he finally ran out of the encirclement and ran south without looking back.

After Zuo Liangyu shot, Hou Xun became embarrassed.

I imagine that Zuo Liangyu is inside and outside, and the situation of defeating the thieves is no longer there, so I can only bite the bullet and fight against Li Zicheng.

"Brother, Li Tai sent a message back and you will arrive in Yancheng tomorrow!"

"Very good, let him catch Zuo Liangyu in Yancheng!"

As early as when he learned that Zuo Liangyu had set out from Yancheng to the north, Jia Lian arranged for Li Tai to lead 3,000 cavalry out of the city, and detoured to attack Yancheng, and confiscated Zuo Liangyu's nest.

This time Zuo Liangyu escaped, and Li Tai was able to wait for the rabbit in Yancheng again, waiting for Zuo Liangyu to come to the door.

At this time, the Ming army from Kaifeng also fought with the rebel army.

The one who took the lead was naturally Zheng Zhijun's Beijing Camp.

This guy has been unhappy when he sees Jia Lian, thinking that Jia Lian can defeat Huang Taiji and annihilate Luo Rucai is just because of his luck. He can do it, but he doesn't have a chance.

This time he faced Li Zicheng, he was confident that he would easily defeat him.

"Shenji Camp, array!"

With Zheng Zhijun's order, the Shenji Camp took action. Hundreds of artillery were lined up in three rows, aiming at the more than 40,000 rebels responsible for blocking the attack.

"Open fire!"

"Boom boom boom..."

As the artillery roared, a large iron ball shot out and smashed towards the battle formation of the rebel army a mile away.

Wherever you go, people are overturned, which is the power shown by hot weapons.

Under Zheng Zhijun's command, the rebel army suffered continuous blows.

I have to say that although the Beijing camp is a bit idiot, the artillery soldiers of the Shenji camp can barely see it.

The scene was quite impressive, even if these artillery guns were not as good as those of Jinxi Town, the power of the artillery guns was there, and hundreds of large iron balls were smashed in one round, and the body could not stop them.

The rebel army responsible for blocking was hit by the artillery shells of the Shenji Camp so hard that they could not raise their heads.

Looking at the chaos of the bandits being bombed, Zheng Zhijun excitedly shouted, "Shenji Camp, bomb me hard! Kill these bandits!"

At this moment, he had the illusion that victory was about to come, and he felt that after another bombardment, the rebel army would collapse.

Ten miles south, under the city of Weishi, listening to the constant sound of cannons in the north, Li Zicheng said hatefully, "Let them be arrogant for a while first, we will deal with the remaining soldiers in the city before we will deal with them!"

Although Zuo Liangyu ran away with more than a thousand elite soldiers, there were still tens of thousands of troops in the city. When they learned that reinforcements had arrived, they were all fighting desperately.

Li Zicheng was organizing the final attack, first attacking the city of Weishi, destroying tens of thousands of Zuo Liangyu troops in the city, and then turning around to fight against the Ming army.

The artillery bombardment of the Shenji Camp lasted for two incense sticks, and the rebel army responsible for blocking suffered a lot of casualties. It was estimated that four or five thousand casualties were suffered.

This includes some of Luo Rucai's remnants. He was brave enough to break the battle in the east of Kaifeng City, but now he is constantly attacked by artillery fire and has no courage to continue fighting.

As a result, these rebels fled in scattered places, and the morale of the remaining more than 30,000 rebels became even more sluggish.

Seeing this, Liu Fangliang, the general of the rebel army, who was responsible for blocking, knew that it was not a solution to hold on. He would soon be defeated like Luo Rucai's remaining troops.

He could only order to retreat first, at least to escape from the range of the Folang machine cannon, so as not to be beaten in vain.

In Zheng Zhijun's eyes, the retreat of the rebel army and the escape of the remaining troops of Luo Rucai became a vulnerable force and fled with great defeat.

Seeing this, he loudly ordered, "The bandits have been defeated, and the entire army is pursuing!"

Hou Xun and Yang Wenyue quickly tried to stop them. They knew that there were less than 50,000 thieves here, and the main force of the thieves was still besieging the Wei family. If they pursued them rashly at this time, they would easily fall into siege.

But Zheng Zhijun could not hear it at this time. He had long felt that the crusade army was vulnerable. The current situation confirmed this point again. He only believed in his own judgment.

What he wants now is the unparalleled achievements of annihilation of the thieves.

In order to monopolize the creditor, he did not even let the 10,000 soldiers and horses around the capital, as well as the great power of the tiger, Chen Yongfu and other troops follow.

When Zheng Zhijun led his army to pursue him for more than two miles, he encountered another thief army of nearly 10,000 people.
To be continued...