stubborn thief

Chapter 155

Master Gao was very suspicious, why did he come to Xizhou.

Looking for a job?
The news told Liu Chengzong that he became a laborer.

Going back to the stone building quickly, Gao Yingen, who was besieging the city, learned of this.

He stared blankly for a long time, and then slowly said: "Liu Shishi is so rampant. It's too late for everyone to hide from the Shaanxi army. He's fine, he wants to go back and fight with them."

Gao Yingxiang was noncommittal about this.

Crazy may be a little crazy.

But if Gao Yingxiang was 20 years old, would there be [-] frontier heroes willing to work for him?

Even if a mosquito bites him, he will be bombarded, not to mention that the officers and soldiers are going to deal with his parents.

"It's useless to say these things. If Liu Shizi wants to go back to Shaanxi, let him go back. We entered Pingyang Mansion through the road he drove. He disabled both guards. The guards here can't stop us."

As he said that, Gao Yingxiang thought about his work, and said: "When you see the bronze statue on the road, remember to take it away. Liu Shizi asked me to take the craftsman team with him, and asked me to do two things for him."

"What's the matter?"

"The artisan team went to Pingyang Mansion to cast cannons. If the flag army of Pingyang Guards surrenders, Hu Sanhuai will take them with them."

Gao Yingen scratched her head anxiously: "This Liu Shizi is a ghost, why doesn't he recruit soldiers himself, and asks you to recruit for him... Soldiers need food!"

Soldiers need food, and everyone needs food.

The better the soldiers, the more cost-effective food for the leader.

And the Pingyang Guard Banner Army is the best source of soldiers for Pingyang Mansion.

"This business is not a loss. We are the only ones left in Pingyang and Fenzhou. When Liu Shizi returns to Shaanxi, how much food is there? He set up a stockade in Luliang Mountain."

Gao Yingxiang didn't care about it at all, and just said: "I am the leader of the work post in the Lion Camp. I am a person who can make red barbarian cannons. He Xin can shoot bird blunderbusses. Take this opportunity to let us stupid craftsmen learn from others. .”

"A knife can hit the sinker."

On the other side of Yan'an Mansion, Luo Rucai is trying to find ways to advance to Shanxi.

Last year, after the battle of Li Bei, Luo Ru received a lot of armor from Liu Chengzong, armed the core members of the team, and then began to recruit troops frantically.

Beggars from all over the world, wandering robbers, all comers will not be rejected.

The team once swelled to nearly 4000 people in the winter.

For many leaders, winter is a rare opportunity to train troops.

But this is not the case for Luo Rucai.

Many of his subordinates froze to death and died of illness. Food and grass were limited and unevenly distributed. His subordinates were full of complaints, abused and even attacked each other every day.

In the end, Luo Rucai was really upset, so he took his mother-in-law and aunts to hide in another fort that he captured, and asked Fa Xiao Yang Chengzu to lead him a team.

Later, the team had internal strife, and I fought three consecutive battles with myself.

There are only 400 people left in the spring.

Luo Rucai was very happy. He looked at the remaining 400 fat and strong troops, and praised Yang Chengzu for his ability to lead the troops. He went out and snatched a beautiful wife and aunt to warm the bed for Yang Chengzu.

For him, since he feels that this matter is very annoying and he entrusts it to his friends, no matter how the friend handles the matter, it is his own problem, no wonder the friend.

Seeing the fall of frost and the reduction of production after the beginning of spring, when others said that Liu Chengzong had entered Shanxi, he wanted to follow him to Shanxi.

But he felt that it was a bit too shameful to bring only 2000 brothers to join the fourth-ranked leader, so he went around northern Shaanxi again, and it took almost a month to re-stretch the team to more than [-] people.

But then he discovered a problem.

Why is the mobilization of the thieves in northern Shaanxi so strange?

Waves of bandits lined up from Yichuan to Yanchuan, and from Yanchuan to Qingjian.

I asked what they were doing, but they didn't say anything, and someone handed me a small iron plate.

I asked the literate people in the team, and they said that the above two words are to avoid death.

Luo Rucai was terrified. He wondered what kind of cult it was, and he could not die by holding a sign. Isn't this a lie to a fool?

He tried his best to restrain his subordinates on the spot and forbid the brothers to have any contact with these Xin Bailians.

Winter has just experienced internal strife, so Luo Ru doesn't want the newly formed team to have another internal strife because of the cult.

The White Lotus Sect is too terrifying. His peasant army is much worse than those professional rebel leaders in agitating the people.

Luo Ru didn't dare to go to Yanchuan to find Liu Chengzong, so he had no choice but to look far away and go south, where he ran into the defeated King of Heaven and Ai Mu, the general of Yan'an who was behind them.

In a hurry, the team was rushed to pieces, Luo Rucai led the remnants of the defeated soldiers and fled all the way west, he just wanted to escape back to Yan'an Fucheng.

Unfortunately, Ai Mu also only wanted to go to Yan'an Fucheng to take office.

It was already the end of March when Liu Chengzong left Yanshui Guanxi. He bid farewell to General Fu Renxi who sent him out of the country.

Before he had gone far, he heard a report from his subordinate Tang Qi that there were dozens of corpses in the valley ahead, as well as weapons and armor scattered around.

This immediately made Liu Chengzong feel unusual, and hurriedly led a team to see it, and asked all the posts to do a good job of defense around them.

Weapons and armor scattered all over the place?

Whether it is Shaanxi or Shanxi this year, this situation will not happen after the war.

Regardless of whether it is the peasant army and the landlord regiment practicing combat, or the internal strife between the peasant army, no matter which side wins, it will clean up the battlefield, and it must be cleaned extremely clean.

Not even a piece of armor or a cotton shoe will fall.

They can use everything.

After investigation, along the valley to the south, there is another battlefield, and the battle took place yesterday.

These fallen are being hunted.

Many people are not dead yet, but they are all seriously injured and unable to speak, and they are not far from death.

Only two of them were able to be rescued. They were wearing frontier armor and bled a lot, but their wounds were not fatal. In other words, they collapsed from exhaustion.

Li Wanqing said, "That seems to be Yang Chengzu."

Liu Chengzong recalled the name carefully, without the slightest impression, and asked, "Who is Yang Chengzu?"

"Cao Cao's friend, that guy was too lazy to lead the team, so he threw the team to Yang Chengzu." Li Wanqing shook his head, his brows were full of caution: "They will not separate, general, this should be Cao Cao's team."

The medical craftsman removed Yang Chengzu's armor, and even Liu Chengzong, who was standing beside him, couldn't help but yelled, "Hero!" '

The man's upper body was covered with wounds, the blood was wiped off, the skin was bruised and purple, and there were small wounds everywhere, and it was unknown how many times he had been hit by weapons through the gaps in the armor.

There were only two major wounds, one was on the head, the helmet was dented by the bones, and the skin of the head was injured; the other was on the inside of the left arm, which was not protected by the full body armor and iron armbands. A wound was cut by a knife.

The doctor said that the injury on the arm was older than other places, and it had been bandaged, so it should have been two days.

Liu Chengzong's medical craftsman doesn't know whether he can be rescued. The only thing he can confirm is that Yang Chengzu's chest still rises and falls, and he is not dead yet.

But soon, Liu Chengzong knew who was chasing and killing Luo Rucai.

Yang Yao, who was guarding the valley, sent someone to report: "General, come on the official road to the west with dozens of pacers, and the flag is the official army."

officer army.

The officers and soldiers who appeared here immediately reminded Liu Chengzong of Ai Mu, the new general in Yan'an Prefecture.

This means that the official army ranging from a thousand to as many as three thousand is within a hundred miles.

"Surround them, none of them can let them escape."

The outpost immediately deployed a frontal ambush, and the left and right sentries were like two fists, slowly spreading from the two wings, while the left sentry continued to move forward, and the rear sentry filled the position of the left wing, and then completed the encirclement.

Not knowing the location of the officers and soldiers, Liu Chengzong did not allow them to use artillery, and directly surrounded them with infantry and cavalry assaults in the middle.

The officers surrounded inside quickly formed an formation, and then realized that there were so many bandits and soldiers, they used the Qin opera to give orders to try to break out of the siege, but failed to break through four times, and the soldiers under their command were captured one by one, and finally had no choice but to surrender.

Before the auxiliary soldiers escorted the surrendered soldiers over, Yang Yao came back on his horse and reported, "General, they are soldiers from Guanzhong!"

When Yang Yao said this, there was an indescribable hatred on his face.

He is jealous.

This group of Guanzhong soldiers were well-fed, well-fed, armored and well-armed, and they stationed near the Xi'an mansion all day long.

Why are they in the Guyuan camp so hungry that they can't rebel and can't live?

There were a total of 44 officers and soldiers. During the battle, two of them were hit in the cheek by feather arrows and died, and the remaining 42 surrendered.

Liu Chengzong let people watch the surrendering soldiers, and called the leading management team to question.

It was a man in his thirties, with a big beard like Wang Wenxiu, he looked like a veteran, with a scar on his mouth.

His name is Ma Maoguan, and he is the management team of the Dusiying.

At first, I was quite unconvinced, and yelled that there were too many people bullying the few people.

After being escorted for a few steps, he found that the group of people were all veterans, which made his heart pound.

It is not that he has never fought against the peasant army in northern Shaanxi.

Just last year at this time alone, Wang Zuohang attacked Sanyuan, and the court transferred him to follow Chen Dusi to guard Sanyuan.

Although he felt quite useless in that battle, he saw the Peasant Army anyway.

At that time, Wang Zuogua's peasant army advanced to Fen Village, [-] miles north of Sanyuan County. Hong Chengchou mobilized tens of thousands of local peasant soldiers from all over the country, and blocked all places far away.

I thought it was time for a big war.

But they didn't expect that they followed Chen Dusi to receive the military rations from Sanyuan County, and the Dusi battalion ordered them to be transferred to Yaozhou in a blink of an eye.

Avoid war.

It is said in the army that Chen Dusi took bribes from Wang Zuohang.

At the same time as they broke out of the camp, the rebels leaped straight to the Minzhuang camp, and charged eleven times at the township soldiers, killing more than a hundred of them.

Du Siying just watched from a distance, and the army strictly ordered him not to issue a single shot.

If they fight, Wang Zuojia won't be able to escape.

Later, when a thunderstorm broke out, Wang Zuogua fled from the siege, and things became even more chaotic afterwards.

Many officers and soldiers went to rob the Min Zhuang of war profits. Many Min Zhuang did not die in Wang Zuogua's hands, but were killed by the officers and soldiers, and some officers and soldiers were killed by the loyal township soldiers.

For Ma Maoguan, as long as he has served in the army long enough, all sorts of bizarre things will happen in this world.

Du Siying was ordered to protect the people of Sanyuan, and as a result of a battle, most of them just stood on the ground in Sanyuan County, while a few dozens of people saw blood, but they killed the people they were supposed to protect.

Obviously it was the loyal gentry armed to turn the tide, but the final credit was credited to Hong Chengchou who did not appear on the battlefield throughout the whole process.

Maybe this is life.

Ma Maoguan was removed from his pocket, and his arms were bound. Two soldiers in red cotton armor pushed and shoved him, and brought him to Liu Chengzong.

He looked up at the young thief general, wondering if he should scold him first, then he heard the man laughing and said: "It's really interesting, the soldiers from Guanzhong went to northern Shaanxi to seek death, your general is Ai Mu?"

When Ma Maoguan heard this, he became angry and spat on the ground next to him.

If the wind and rain are good in Guanduanguan, the bastard wants to come to northern Shaanxi.

"It's not easy to be a soldier. Everyone wants to kill you for their own reasons. If you don't say it, someone will say it. There are more than 40 people, and you are not missing."

Liu Chengzong put his hands on the leather belt around his waist, and persuaded him persuasively: "My name is Liu Chengzong, and I have sent troops to northern Shaanxi. I have never heard of it, have I?"

In Shanxi, no one has heard of him, but when he returns to the land of northern Shaanxi, Liu Chengzong feels that no one will not know him.

Especially the soldiers of the generals in Yan'an Mansion, after all, the last general was in his hands.

Unexpectedly, when Ma Maoguan heard this name, his eyes widened: "You, you are Cai Zhongpan's nephew?"

Liu Chengzong frowned: "Do you know my uncle?"

Shouldn't it be that Cai Zhongpan is Liu Chengzong's uncle?People should not only know that Liu Chengzong is Cai Zhongpan's nephew!

And he is a nephew!

Ma Maoguan shook his head: "I saw him in Sanyuan."

Last year, he was still in command of the Dusi Battalion, but he couldn't restrain the soldiers.

Although the weather in Guanzhong is good, it is nothing more than a full meal. Whether the military pay should be owed or owed, this matter is the same in Shaanxi.

There is no way for soldiers to go out to work for landlords when they have nothing to do. No one can restrain them.

It stands to reason that the commander cannot restrain the soldiers, and it is difficult to be promoted without military exploits.

But his management team, because he took his cronies to rob the common people of Sanyuan, killed a village soldier, and was shot to death with a musket by a man named Cai Zhongpan.

At that time, Ma Maoguan was standing next to him, with a complicated state of mind, so he gave an order to let everyone protect the capital.

In the end, except for the two confidantes of the management team who rushed up and were knocked down by Cai Zhongpan, everyone else was very obedient, so Cai Zhongpan really ran away.

Later he inquired and found out that Cai Zhongpan's brother-in-law was a Juren of the Yan'an Mansion. After a while, he heard that the Juren was arrested by the government.

Saw the real thing today.

The shadow of the famous tree, this group of veterans gathered in the valley, and the word Liu Chengzong are golden signs in northern Shaanxi.

The resistance in Ma Maoguan's heart disappeared without a trace. He shook his head and sighed: "General Ai is camping near Wen'an Station in the west. There are 700 people, all of whom are soldiers from Guanzhong."

Ma Maoguan said: "We didn't expect to come to Yan'an Mansion either. The general let us go home after the battle. No one will continue to fight against the general."

Liu Chengzong didn't expect that his name was so easy to use, he sighed and said: "Let you go, let the imperial court re-arrange troops and horses to attack me?"

Wen'an Station, Liu Chengzong did the math, Ai Mu was only twenty miles away from them.

The battalion soldiers in Guanzhong were well-nourished and well-trained, but these people drove Wang Zuogua and King Huntian all the way from Hancheng, and experienced several battles and long-distance raids.

It's getting dark now, if all goes well, the possibility of total annihilation is unlikely, but it may not be impossible to defeat them in one battle.

"Which places are they camping in Wen'an Station? Tell me all of them."
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Note:
For the Battle of Yunyang, officers and soldiers retreating, refusal to send troops, and the battle process, refer to "Zhongtong Rilu" and "Zhongtong Gentleman Armed Forces and Local Society in Sanyuan, Shaanxi in the Late Ming Dynasty"

　good evening friends!

　　
　
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