The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 54
Sanshui City was occupied by rogues, and some rangers even appeared outside Binzhou City, scaring the people in Binzhou City into panic all day long.

The Zhizhou of Binzhou said nothing to let Cao Wenzhao and Zuo Liangyu go again. In the past two months, Binzhou has been attacked by three or four waves of bandits one after another.

There are only a few thousand strong men in the city, but there are tens of thousands of rogues.

If you really want to fight, you can break through Binzhou City in a few days.

The bandits broke the city, although the people in the city will be affected by the war.

But most of the people may not be safe, and some of them may be beheaded and killed in the riots when they entered the city, but most of them survived and were coerced by the thieves.

But for rich households and officials, rogues hated them deeply, and they almost always wanted to be exterminated, with rare exceptions.

Furthermore, even if the rogues were willing to spare his life, how could he bear the responsibility of losing the land, both left and right would die.

In fact, Cao Wenzhao was not prepared to abandon Binzhou from the beginning, not only because of Hong Chengchou's military order.

Also because Binzhou has functions together with Pingliang Prefecture and Xi'an Prefecture, naturally it cannot be easily given up.

Once Binzhou was lost, the bandits once again connected to the three prefectures. They could either go directly southward and threaten Xingping from the north, or they could go north again to poison Pingliang mansion again.

However, seeing that the prefects of Binzhou were terrified, and they were still pretending to be magistrates, they asked them to guard Binzhou.

Cao Wenzhao felt that he would be sorry for the sincerity of the governor of Binzhou if he didn't slap a large amount of money and food.

Ever since, Cao Wenzhao simply revealed that his army lacked supplies, and the morale was low after the lack of military pay.

That night, a large amount of rice, grain and fish were sent to Binzhou City, and even a lot of money was sent.

To be precise, it should not be called salary silver, but comfort army silver.

There is not much silver in the Wei army, there are only a total of two thousand taels, so it must not be much to distribute to everyone's head.

However, this is just a rhetoric and will not be distributed. Both parties know it well and have not let others know.

The two armies led by Cao Wenzhao and Zuo Liangyu are the main force, and most of the time, both of them are able to receive the full amount of salary, and rarely lack it.

The Weijun silver will be used on the servants in the future. To support four or five hundred servants, the expenses are huge, and some gray income is often needed.

Of course, rice, grain and fish meat were not deducted, and all these things were distributed, and the morale of the army was also greatly improved due to the increase in supplies.

Zuo Liangyu led the Changping Army to continue to garrison Binzhou. Although Zuo Liangyu only had more than [-] men under his command, they were more than enough to defend the city. After all, the bandits had no weapons to attack.

Cao Wenzhao led the troops to continue southward, and stationed in Qianzhou to block Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong's path to the north, just like the military order issued by Hong Chengchou.

However, Chen Wang did not follow Cao Wenzhao all the way forward. Hong Chengchou's military order asked him to go to Chunhua immediately to integrate Chunhua's army and resist the attack of the bandits.

Naturally, it is impossible to go northeast to Sanshui City now, from Binzhou all the way south to Qianzhou, which is more than 180 miles.

From the Guanzhong Plain to the north to Chunhua, there are more than 180 miles all the way, a total of 360 miles.

When the army is marching, even if there are enough supplies and auxiliary troops to transport armaments and luggage in the inland, it will only travel at a speed of seventy or eighty miles a day.

And if it is necessary to maintain physical strength to prepare for emergencies at any time, then the distance traveled in a day needs to be reduced to forty or fifty miles.

Combat with cold weapons requires a lot of physical strength, not just the power to load and fire is enough.

But Chen Wang doesn't need to consider these things, the only thing he needs to consider is how to speed up.

The horse army and fine cavalry of the rogues turned into Rufeng, and with the old and weak, the troop speed would slow down a lot.

It has been a while since the rogues captured Sanshui. According to the report from Yeburen, most of them are still stationed in Sanshui. The purpose is naturally to wait for letters from the other two routes to agree on the time for the general attack.

Li Zicheng is not a fool. He naturally knows that he will be crushed against the main force of the Ming army only by relying on the strength of the Qingyang Mansion. The city defense of Sanshui.

Every time the rogues attacked a place, they would take the opportunity to destroy the city defenses of the place, because they could not defend the city because the officers and soldiers gathered together.

Even if the city can be defended, but it has been stationed in one place, there is simply not enough food to support such a large population.

In order to survive and forage for food, they must constantly move and move.

Destroying the city defenses that captured the city can weaken the strength of the Ming army to a greater extent.

Chunhua was not surrounded, and according to reports, only a small number of rogue horse troops were operating outside the city, posing a threat, and the main force of the army did not step out of the sphere of influence of Sanshui City.

Li Zicheng's psychology and arrangements, Chen Wang has already estimated at all.

Soldiers are expensive and fast. After receiving the military order, Chen Wang did not hesitate, and directly chose to take the order and rush to Chunhua.

Cao Wenzhao sent another fifty cavalry to Chen Wang from among his servants.

However, these fifty riders were not given directly to Chen Wang, but were borrowed temporarily, only as guards along the way, and to better control Chunhua's soldiers in the future.

Counting Chen Gong, Hu Zhili, Hu Zhiyi, and the nine servants who turned to follow Chen Wang after the general's death, there were more than sixty people in the entourage.

Tang Shiping did not follow, he led the team from the original fourth game and followed Cao Wenzhao to the south.

After all, there are not some people who can use it, and it is really difficult to control the troops from all walks of life by relying on seals alone.

There are many bandits and bandits along the road. After leaving Qianzhou and entering the Guanzhong Plain, it is impossible to encounter rogue cavalry wandering around, and when entering Chunhua, you also need to face rogue horses.

There are many dangers along the way, and naturally they need guards.

Chen Wang naturally did not reject Cao Wenzhao's arrangement. Although his martial arts belonged to the upper class, he never regarded himself as a fierce general.

After all, in this era, the role of martial arts is constantly weakening.

Even the white armored soldiers wearing three layers of heavy armor couldn't withstand the close-range bombardment of tiger crouching cannons.

Under the sound of guns and guns, even the canned knight in the best plate armor will fall down.

Within the range of the Hongyi cannon, all living beings are equal.

Chen Wang led more than [-] cavalry all the way in a hurry. The standard equipment of all the servants is one man and two horses, and they turn very fast.

Holding the document with Hong Chengchou's seal in hand, no official dared to disobey, and all of them quickly handed over the supplies.

If it weren't for the post stations along the way that had already been burned by the rogues passing through the border, the speed of supply could be faster and better.

Traveling all the way south with light clothes, except for encountering a small army of rogue horses when leaving Qianzhou, Chen Wang never encountered any other bandits after that.

After all, there are more than sixty cavalry squadrons full of murderous intent, all on two horses, and carrying the army banner. If any thief dares to snatch it, it is because it has the heart of a bear and the courage of a leopard, or because it has no brains in its head.

(End of this chapter)