The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 107
"Woo——"

Chen Wang let out a low drink, lightly pulled the rein in his hand, and stopped the advancing horse.

When the riders behind saw Chen Wang's movements, they all stopped together.

Chen Gong and Zhao Huailiang took a step forward, one on the left and one on the right, standing behind Chen Wang's side.

Immediately on a mound at the foot of the mountain, Chen Wang had a panoramic view of the entire Xishan camp.

Chen Wang looked calm, and his eyes scanned from the foothills of the Xishan camp to the top of the mountain.

I don't know why, every time he was about to fight, he didn't feel nervous at all, but his thoughts became clearer.

Although my hands tremble a little every time, my heart can't stop beating.

But once the rein or the weapon is grasped, everything can quickly stabilize, which is an instinctive reaction of the body.

Trembling is not fear, the beating heart and boiling blood are all signals from his body, telling him that he is ready to fight.

The new wind was blowing, and the flags were flying, Chen Wang's originally calm eyes were a little turbulent.

The camp of the bandits was built near the mountain, and the three camps set up defenses from the foot of the three mountains, and then to the halfway up the mountain, until the top of the mountain was layered on top of each other.

There are layers upon layers, thousands of ravines, surrounded by horses and horses, and there are thousands of defenses.

After practicing archery for a long time, Chen Wang has excellent eyesight. It is precisely because of his excellent eyesight that he found the flying bird outside Qiutou Town that had not landed because of the ambushes among the mountains.

The place where the array was formed was only [-] steps away from the Xishan Camp, and Chen Wang could almost see the general layout of the camp.

Chen Wang stared intently and frowned slightly. This banditry was much trickier than expected.

This kind of arrangement seems to come from the military at this time in memory.

After being promoted to guerrilla, when Hong Chengchou sent people to escort him with ordnance and military supplies, he also sent him a lot of information about the bandits.

For example, the names of thirteen rogues from the 72nd Battalion, some independent rogues, and some situations in various states and counties.

Climbing King Lin Shengquan was originally a private salt dealer. He was born in Pingliang Prefecture. After he was arrested and imprisoned, he escaped while the bandits broke through the county seat. With his original savings and connections, he became the leader.

But the Four Heavenly King Li Yangchun came from the army around him, launched a mutiny, and then joined forces with Wang Jiayin to cross northern Shaanxi for a while, and all the prefectures in northern Shaanxi suffered from it.

If the 72nd Battalion was within the Ming Army, it would be divided into the Upper 24th Battalion, the Middle 24th Battalion, and the Lower 24th Battalion.

Li Yangchun belongs to the 24th Battalion and ranks eighth in the Upper Battalion.

The climbing king Lin Shengquan belongs to the 24th battalion, ranking No.18 in the middle battalion and 42nd overall.

Li Zicheng's ranking in the upper camp was originally listed as sixth.

But after Ai Wannian, Liu Chenggong, and Zhang Waijia were strangled by him, they jumped to the top of the camp.

It's just that after Chunhua's defeat, its strength has been greatly reduced, and its ranking will naturally change.

However, Chen Wang didn't pay attention to these. What he knew was that among the three departments of Gongchang Mansion, Li Yangchun must be the main one.

Rogues have been around for many years, and they already have their own set of codes of conduct.

Although the upper, middle and lower battalions were originally listed by the Ming army internally, after the news leaked, the rogues also began to implement a three-level sub-battalion system.

The lower battalion obeys the middle battalion, the middle battalion obeys the upper battalion, and the upper battalion obeys the thirteen families.

Of course, there is no ranking among the rogues. If the battalion is the same level, the priority will be determined according to the size of the troops.

However, if there is a huge difference in strength, then even if the strong one has a lower battalion level, the other must obey. This is an unspoken rule.

When the two battalions meet, the strong are respected.

When he was in Qingyang Mansion, the reason why Guo Tianxing Hui Dengxiang, one of the thirteen families, obeyed Li Zicheng was because Li Zicheng's military power was at its peak at that time, but he was greatly damaged by the pursuit of him, and the disparity was too great. Abandoned command authority.

Then after Li Zicheng suffered a disastrous defeat, Prime Minister Hui Deng directly abandoned Li Zicheng and fled without hesitation, which did not violate the rules, after all, he was one of the thirteen families.

Chen Wang led the horse back and forth on the mound, inspecting the bandit camp in Xishan.

Almost all the rogues who went to the 24th Battalion were hard stubble, and their characteristics were marked in the list.

Li Yangchun was marked with only a few words "steady and kind".

And now the layout of the camp is indeed worthy of these four words.

Chen Wang saw it clearly, he saw a lot of Franc cannons arranged in the camp of the rogues.

If you just attack with a sea of ​​people, you will inevitably suffer heavy casualties.

The rogues occupy a favorable location and are condescending. Not only are the camp walls used as shelters, but they also have gun towers and archery towers, which are stacked and three-dimensional. Even the camp walls are not wallpaper, and many sections even have recessed parts.

Attacking the recessed wall will only suffer more long-range blows, and there will be many casualties if they have not touched the camp wall.

No one is immortal in a war, but Chen Wang doesn't want his soldiers to die for nothing.

Li Yangchun was more troublesome than he imagined. These rogues might not be from a professional background, they didn't have a prominent family background, and they didn't read any decent military books.

But they are better at fighting than those generals who were born in generals.

Because all of their experience is bought in blood, acquired through the lessons of blood and tears.

Chen Wang withdrew his gaze, the distance was too far, and many of the arrangements could not be clearly seen after all, and I am afraid that it would take a lot of effort.

Chen Wang's eyes narrowed slightly. If he had a pair of binoculars now, he would undoubtedly have more advantages.

It's a pity that if I want to buy a telescope now, I'm afraid I can only send people to the coast or big cities such as Beijing to buy it.

Chen Wang looked at Li Yangchun's arrangement and his eyes gradually became serious.

Li Yangchun's arrangement is definitely not to prevent him.

Because he came chasing Li Guo all the way, with the help of the post station military newspaper, he received the news that there were bandits in Gongchang's mansion not long ago.

How did Li Yangchun know that he would come chasing Li Guo all the way, and the rendezvous with Li Guo was purely a coincidence.

Such a strong camp cannot be built in just four or five days, and it took at least a month to build a camp of this size.

Li Yangchun and Lin Shengquan led their troops to Gongchang Mansion, and set up heavy defenses on Juyizhong Mountain, but they didn't follow Gao Yingxiang and Hong Chengchou in the decisive battle in Sanyuan, which is unusual.

Gao Yingxiang is now the leader of the battalions, even Zhang Xianzhong, Ma Huihui and others have obeyed.

Li Yangchun was placed under Gao Yingxiang's command in the directory, so how could he disobey Gao Yingxiang's orders.

Chen Wang speculated that Li Yangchun's arrival was definitely under Gao Yingxiang's order.

"Yan'an Mansion, Gongchang Mansion, Fengxiang Mansion, Hanzhong Mansion, Xi'an Mansion..."

Most of the rogues were led by Gao Yingxiang in the decisive battle in Sanyuan, but a small number of rogues fled to the five prefectures of Shaanxi.

"Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan..."

The distribution range of the rogue bandits is extremely wide, there are beacons everywhere, and disputes everywhere.

Chen Wang felt that he had grasped a very thin thread and discovered an extremely important thing.

Gao Yingxiang seemed to be planning something, planning something.

Only relying on the existing information, it is impossible to know Gao Yingxiang's real purpose.

Chen Wang let out a foul breath, and laughed self-deprecatingly in his heart.

Now he is just a small guerrilla who can't be smaller. Even if the sky falls first, he will definitely not be the first to hit him. Naturally, someone has to stand up first.

All he needs to do is to fight this battle now.

After winning this battle and sending the victory report to Xi'an Mansion, he will keep his position as a guerrilla.

Then chase Li Yangchun and other troops into Hanzhong, and then follow them away, developing slowly.

There is no fixed place and no foundation, no matter how strong your strength is, you are just duckweed in the water, unable to control your own destiny, you can only drift with the tide.

"After the close inspection, there are no enemy ambushes between the mountains on both sides. Our troops have already occupied an important place if they don't close at night."

"There are seven gun towers and thirteen archery towers in the attack on the west side of the western mountain. There are also Frang machine muzzles behind the wall of the village. The Flang guns seen are mainly small and medium-sized, and there are no thousand Jin Flang guns."

"The enemy's infantry gathered behind the wall of the village, and the fine cavalry stood on the high ground to support them. There were changes in the three mountains."

"A large number of horse troops have gathered in the Dongshan camp, and the rogues have already scattered their fine cavalry. It seems that they want to attack the rear camp of our army."

Ye Bushou, carrying the command flag, came galloping from a distance, and reported the intelligence factor of the nearby investigation.

"The enemy army has set up three walls. There are many gullies along the road, but most of them are not too deep. The soldiers in the middle have been ordered to dig the soil and sand."

Chen Wang nodded slightly, indicating that he knew, and then ordered.

"All the rangers in the front withdrew to the front and protected the flanks. It is only necessary to prevent the enemy's scouts from breaking into the circle."

When the military order was issued, Yebu Accept, who had reported the letter, answered the order loudly, and immediately left without any delay.

Chen Wang naturally expected that Dongshan camp would send troops to attack the camp he had placed in the rear.

At any rate, he has gone through hundreds of battles. As the general's personal guard, Cao Wenzhao also told him a lot of things that need attention, so he will naturally guard against it.

Chen Wang went out with almost the whole army this time, but it didn't mean that no one was guarding the camp.

There are now more than 2000 soldiers from all over the Gongchang Mansion guarding the camp. These soldiers are not good for field battles, but they are more than enough to guard a camp.

Chen Wang turned his attention to the layers of camps again. If he led the Changping soldiers under Zuo Liangyu's command and had a large number of allies, he would choose to attack by force.

If it was the Datong soldiers under Cao Wenzhao he led, and there were [-] Ding cavalry under him, he would choose to break through the camp gate and lead the army to charge forward.

But now he is leading a group of recruits who have just trained for one month, and the Liao cavalry under his command is one of the few, so he does not adopt either plan.

Chen Wang has a safer and better solution than the previous two solutions, and it is also a method that Zuo Liangyu'e and Cao Wenzhao will never use.

"Raise the red flag."

Chen Wang raised the whip in his hand, and ordered in a deep voice.

The messenger at the side immediately raised a red banner and shook it suddenly.

"Ugh——"

The deep horn sounded slowly behind Chen Wang.

Chen Wang reined in his horse and cast to the side, and everyone's eyes followed Chen Wang.

On the right side, eight huge gun carriages were slowly pushed up the mound.

The times have changed, why use stupid methods to attack the city?
Caliber is justice and range is truth.

The wind is blowing, the clouds are flying, the cannons are firing, and his mother is being bombarded!

(End of this chapter)