I want to be emperor

Chapter 91

Before leading his troops out of the mountain, Luo Zhixue had already pulled Lushan County into his bowl.

Although Luo Zhixue had no plans to attack Lushan County in order to avoid overly stimulating the main force of the Ming army, Luo Zhixue was determined to win the vast rural area of ​​Lushan County.

As long as they can attack a few large manors in the countryside of Lushan County, even if the grain and other materials harvested from them are not as much as those harvested in Songjiazhuang, it is still enough for the rural protection camp to develop and grow for a period of time.

This is also what Luo Zhixue has been doing recently. After taking Songjiazhuang, he organized manpower to transport supplies, and at the same time continued to send small-scale troops to the surrounding villages to recruit soldiers, collect food from the local masters, and attack those who did not Landlords who are willing to pay grain.

Luo Zhixue and the others did not collect food from the poor, but it did not mean that they did not treat the landlords and gentry opponents.

Otherwise, what are they going to do with great fanfare?

Recently, the Baoxiangying Camp has recruited soldiers and food from the western area of ​​Lushan County headed by Songjiazhuang, including some eastern and back areas, and has gained a lot.

According to estimates, the food and various resources they obtained in this operation are enough for them to expand by 2000 people and last for more than a year and a half.

In response to this situation, Luo Zhixue has instructed Ernst Young of the General Staff Office to increase the expansion scale of 2000 people previously set to [-].

And increased the scale of high-tech arms such as artillery and cavalry.

When the officers and soldiers in Lushan County could only hide inside and could not control them, and the main force of the officers and soldiers in the north was dragged back, the Baoxiang Camp could have had fun in the rural areas of Lushan County, but they did not expect Chuang Potian and his group suddenly ran over.

He said that he wanted Luo Zhixue to be his adoptive son, but he sent people to plunder him.

Such behavior is tantamount to directly grabbing food from Luo Zhixue's rural protection camp, and even if the robbery is not counted, these people want to directly smash the bowl of Lushan County.

After understanding the situation, without any hesitation, Luo Zhixue sent Wang Xiazi to lead the cavalry to go north first. At the same time, Luo Zhixue also personally led hundreds of infantry and artillery to the north.

No matter who it is, whoever dares to destroy the overall situation of Baoxiangying in Lushan County and the expansion plan formulated by Luo Zhixue is the enemy of Baoxiangying and Luo Zhixue.

Ever since, the current scene appeared. Chuang Potian's nephew Ding Potian led the army south to about eight miles away from Songjiazhuang, but was intercepted by the cavalry sentry led by Wang Xiazi.

And Ding Potian even regarded blind Wang and his cavalry as officers and cavalry.

Because blind Wang and his cavalry are so neat, not to mention wearing all gray military uniforms, and advancing and retreating independently, the formation is neat, and all of them are carrying infantry bows and riding bows, one can tell that they are playing riding and shooting elite.

Such cavalry is very rare in the rebel army, even if there are, only Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and other big bandits have a few under their command.

But Ding Potian is very sure that there is absolutely no such elite cavalry among the rebels who have entered Ruzhou.

Facing this "soldiers' elite cavalry" that could not come out of nowhere, Ding Potian was terrified. While ordering the army to line up for defense, he quietly gathered all the elite subordinates so that they could fight against the enemy when the situation was not good. Run away anytime.

But unlike Ding Potian's expectation, the cavalry of the army on the opposite side did not launch an attack immediately, and they didn't even attack those cannon fodder youths who seemed to have no fighting power at first glance.

Instead, it stayed on the side, and at the same time went around to the north.

This is not right!

Intuition told Ding Potian that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure out why it was wrong for a while.

He didn't expect that Luo Zhixue's task for Wang Xiazi was to hold them back and prevent these thieves from turning around and running away.

This is why blind Wang didn't launch an attack, but went directly to the north of them, in order to imitate them turning around and fleeing north.

As for the south, the infantry and artillery army led by Luo Zhixue is already on the way, and the distance is not far away. According to the itinerary, it is estimated that they will be able to reach the combat position in about half an hour.

So, amidst the fear and anxiety that pierced the sky, he saw a group of flags appearing one after another from the south, and when he looked again, he could see one group after another of soldiers approaching.

These soldiers were all in gray uniforms like the cavalry who had arrived and held them back.

Seeing the soldiers approaching from the opposite side, Ting Potian came back to his senses at this time: "They are not officers and soldiers, they are troops from Funiu Mountain."

Although these people from Funiu Mountain looked similar to the officers and soldiers he influenced in other aspects except for the military uniform, the color of the uniform was not right.

In Lushan County, apart from the officers and soldiers and their Chuangpotian troops, the rest of the troops are the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp.

But Ting Potian came back to his senses and couldn't affect the current situation in the slightest.

The soldiers of the Baoxiang Battalion on the opposite side were still advancing step by step, and after entering a distance of 500 meters, they had gradually changed from a column to a horizontal line, and began to form a standard dense formation.

When Ding Potian looked at the Baoxiang camp on the opposite side, he directly pulled out several cannons, and even two of them were [-]-jin long cannons that he knew were big guys at a glance.

Ding Potian knows that today is impossible to win, and the only solution for now is to run away.

However, he looked at the more than a hundred Baoxiang battalion cavalry at the side and rear and frowned.

If it weren't for this cavalry of more than 100 people watching from the sidelines, Ding Potian would have led the army to retreat long ago.

However, if he retreated regardless, the entire army would be doomed for sure, and he didn't care about it. The key point was that even if he wanted to escape with more than 200 soldiers, it would be impossible.

After all, two legs cannot run on four.

How to do?
Ding Potian watched as the bandits in front continued to approach, and even the first two long-barreled cannons had arrived at a distance of only more than 100 feet from their array and began to untie the horses for the final deployment.

He knew that he couldn't drag on any longer and had to evacuate immediately, otherwise his little life would be here.

He is not an ordinary bandit who knows nothing, but a bandit leader who has fought against officers and soldiers many times. He knows very well that once the artillery on the opposite side is deployed, what awaits them is unilateral casualties.

And they don't even have the means to fight back.

Because they have no artillery and no large-scale cavalry.

"The array rushes over, we can't let them complete the deployment, hurry up, launch an attack immediately!"

"The Chinese army fell into the camp and put on armor to attack, and formed an array to stop their cavalry."

At this last juncture, Ding Potian finally gritted his teeth and made a decision. He ordered a full-scale attack, not only for those cannon fodder and ordinary thieves to launch the attack together, but also for the center with two hundred soldiers. The army camp also launched an attack.

But after giving this order, he ordered to his confidants: "After the trapped camp attracts the attention of the bandit cavalry, we will leave immediately!"

These confidants of Ding Potian have also experienced many big scenes, and they have escaped from the siege of the government army many times together with Ding Potian, so they are very familiar with the scene in front of them.

It is more clear what to do directly.

About [-] soldiers surrounded Ding Po Tian, ​​making final preparations, tightening the saddles, and checking whether the bows and arrows were placed in the most convenient places.

They are about to abandon the two thousand troops and break out alone to escape!

At the same time, an army of [-] ordinary rogues and young and strong cannon fodder, along with [-] rogue fighters from the trapped camp, had already launched an attack.

At this time, wearing a winter military uniform and black leather gloves, Luo Zhixue was riding on a tall horse, looking at the bandit soldiers rushing chaotically in front of him.

There was no change in expression on his face, he just said calmly: "It's fine if they come by themselves, it will save us from going there."

"Order the artillery to send out the teams, fire freely."

"The first whistle, the second whistle!"

Not long after Luo Zhixue's order was issued, the guns of the artillery post, which was still commanded by Zhang Malin himself, started firing one after another.

In the sound of rumbling cannons, solid shells and a large number of shrapnel from cannonballs flew horizontally, causing pieces of bandit soldiers to fall down. Just one round of shelling made the opposite side seem to have a huge momentum, and the entire army of nearly 2000 people was attacking. Many people knelt down in fright on the spot, or simply turned around and fled.

On the other side, the [-] soldiers of the bandit camp also lined up and charged towards Xiazi Wang's cavalry post!
There are quite a few infantry soldiers among these bandit soldiers, just as blind Wang is hesitating whether to retreat temporarily, to consume their physical energy first, and then wait for the infantry to encircle and suppress this bandit soldier.

The subordinate next to him reminded Blind Wang: "Something is wrong!"

"Look, Sentinel, they have assembled at least twenty cavalry."

Blind Wang looked in the direction of his subordinates' knowledge, and sure enough, at least twenty cavalry had quietly gathered behind the bandit army.

What do these bandit cavalry want?

Take the initiative to kill it?
Impossible, even though today's battle really lasted only a few tens of seconds, the outcome of the two sides has actually been decided long ago. Even if the opponent invests another twenty or thirty cavalry, it is impossible to reverse the situation.

So why did the enemy gather a cavalry of 30 men?

Also, why did these thieves not choose to break out of the encirclement when they were obviously at a huge disadvantage, but launched an attack on their own initiative?
They even sent two hundred soldiers with some armored soldiers to sentry towards their cavalry.

None of these tactical options look normal.

But now, blind Wang felt that he had found the abnormal willingness of the other party: "They are trying to escape."

"These gangsters, every time they are faced with a difficult situation, their means of escape will not change. They abandon the ordinary gangsters and only take a few elite horsemen to escape."

"Flag flags to report to the general, the thief is the first to escape alone, and my cavalry post is ready to divide the troops to intercept."

After a while, the messenger received an order from Luo Zhixue in the Chinese army camp: "Yes."

Blind Wang immediately ordered: "The first team stays and walks these bandit soldiers, and the second and third teams come with me!"

"Today, none of these thieves will try to escape!"

(End of this chapter)