The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 72
Outside the city of Chunhua, the Chuangjun camp was brightly lit.

The Chuang army set up a bright camp in the west of the city. The beacon fires were connected, and the lights were like daylight.

All kinds of simple horse-repelling obstacles were piled up outside the camp, forming a simple camp wall.

The patrolling troops were all holding weapons, bows and arrows, staring nervously at the dark distance.

The Ming army was especially good at attacking camps, often marching at night.

During the years of fierce battles, they suffered too many losses.

Even if he got the news that there were not many defenders in Chunhua City, he dared not ignore it.

Looking through the gate, you can see that the troops are outside, supported by the horse army, and cavalry in the middle army as a defense, layer upon layer, orderly.

In the middle of the army, a huge green tent was surrounded by many tents.

In front of the tent stands a big black flag which is connected with the night sky, as if they are one.

There are many armored soldiers outside the tent, all wearing burqas and belts, high helmets, iron arm shields, and rivet cloth face armor.

With a sword and a bow, soap boots and clean clothes, they are almost the same as the elite costumes of the Ming army.

But this is not the camp of the Chinese army of the Ming army, but the camp of the Chinese army of the Chuang army.

In fact, the armor worn by the Ming army, the Qing army, and the Chuang army among the three parties fighting at the end of the Ming Dynasty were all Ming-made armor.

Some changes were made in the shape of the Qing army, the helmet flag was removed, and the color was changed to distinguish the two armies.

In the beginning, Chuangjun only changed some colors due to limited conditions.

This is why there are often rogues who pretend to be officers and soldiers and can still cover up the past.

The lights outside the tent are brightly lit, and the inside of the tent is also like outside the tent.

Although it was midnight, the tents of the Chinese army were still full of military academies.

Li Zicheng sat at the head of the tent, and the military academies in the battalion were arranged on both sides according to their rank in the army.

In the middle of the military tent, a man was half kneeling on the ground. The man was dressed in rags, had a net scarf on his head, and had a disheveled face. He looked like an ordinary refugee.

"There are about 3000 soldiers in Chunhua City, and they are stationed in three camps. They are also dressed in different clothes, and they are not in the same camp."

"The first battalion is the Liao soldiers encountered in Sanshui City, the other battalion is the eight or nine hundred infantry soldiers who came to the city later, and the other battalion has very little armor and looks the weakest. It seems that they are all recruits who have never been in battle."

The half-kneeling person was not a real refugee, but an internal agent who had sneaked into Chunhua City.

"When talking with some yamen servants in Chunhua City, they seem to mention that they seem to be the guards of Xi'an Prefecture."

During several days of investigation, they have already felt the situation is not much worse.

"Guards?"

A bright light flashed in Li Zicheng's eyes, and his expression was slightly gloomy.

The third battalion has 3000 people. The Liao soldiers are naturally the defeated Ming army in Sanshui City, and the other battalion is the infantry who entered the city later. Only the last battalion of Xi'an guards is left.

He understood what was going on in an instant. Tang Jiuzhou hadn't been in Chunhua City from the beginning.

The big banners of Tang Kyushu and the flags of his army are all fake, it's all Hong Chengchou's bluff.

The city of Chunhua was relying on almost a thousand guards, which frightened him so much that he dared not go south.

The guard army was extremely weak, and the few artillery pieces in the army were obtained from the arsenal of the Qingyang guard army.

If he took advantage of the situation and went south from the beginning, Chunhua would have only a thousand guards and remnants of the Liao army, and he could easily be defeated.

But now it is too late to know, the reinforcements of the Ming army have arrived, although there are only eight or nine hundred infantry.

But the point is that that army sent a lot of ordnance, and the Liao cavalry in Chunhua City were already armed.

Not only Li Zicheng has a deep understanding of the powerful combat power of the Liao army, but all the leaders are the same.

The generals of Cao Wenzhao Liao Town, You Shiwei, and Zhang Waijia were also generals of Liao Town.

Those Liao cavalry are fully equipped with armor, and no one can match them in charging and breaking through the formation.

If it was an ordinary encounter, if you saw Liao cavalry among the officers and soldiers, your aura would be a little lower first.

Although Zhang Waijia himself had already been beheaded by Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng still didn't take it lightly.

Those Liao cavalry fought one after another in the daytime today, and they have obviously recovered their fighting power.

Li Zicheng knew very well that the reason he was able to kill Zhang Waijia and defeat all the Liao cavalry in Sanshui City was not because his generals were stronger than those Liao cavalry.

It was because of mental arithmetic and inadvertence that when they first entered the city, many of those Liao cavalry did not put on their armor, and some of them did not even take up their weapons.

But even so, more than 900 people were still run away even though they were encircled by many sides.

After the city was broken, the Liao soldiers in the city resisted stubbornly. It was not until three days later that they completely captured Sanshui City.

For three days, the corpses piled up in the Liao barracks almost formed a hill before finally killing Zhang Waijia.

"Is there any news about the new battalion who will succeed Liao Qi?"

Li Zicheng's eyes were slightly fixed, he was most concerned about who the new battalion general was, and he never raised the banner.

"But Cao Bianjiao?"

After fighting for such a long time, Li Zicheng, the commander-in-chief and deputy general of the Ming army in Shaanxi, has almost all figured it out.

The defeat in the ambush in Qiutou Town eventually caused him and Prime Minister Whedon to part ways.

After breaking through Sanshui City, Li Zicheng learned about it from the captives.

In that ambush on the mountain road, they were not ambush by anyone else, but Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao.

Li Zicheng's question is also the question of most of the Chuangjun generals. They all cast their eyes and waited for the answer with bated breath.

"The new battalion general is called Chen Wang, not Cao Bianjiao."

Hearing that it was not Cao Bianjiao, everyone in the army tent was also relieved.

"I heard people say that this person used to be a servant under Cao Wenzhao's command."

It's just that when they finally heard that it had something to do with Cao Wenzhao, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and raised it a little bit.

Li Zicheng waved his hand, stopped the noisy camp, and asked the last question.

"How about the officers and soldiers' city defense?"

Li Zicheng's voice fell, and the commotion among the battalion commander disappeared completely.

This question is the most important focus today.

The only thing blocking them now is the city wall outside Chunhua City.

As long as there is no part of the city wall, they have nothing to fear whether it is street fighting or field fighting.

"Officers and soldiers set up heavy defenses on the walls of Dongcheng and Beicheng. The government conscripted many of us to transport supplies for the defense of the city, but we were not allowed to go near the two cities. The people transported there were all county citizens in Chunhua County. "

"but……"

The soldier kneeling in the center paused for a moment, then continued.

"The officers and soldiers only put a hundred officers and soldiers in the east city and the south city, mainly controlling the city gates. Most of the city guards are temporarily recruited from Chunhua County, and the defense is quite lax..."

"How sure are you of that?"

Li Zicheng stared at the soldier in the tent with lightning-like eyes.

The soldier raised his head, and his aura suddenly changed.

"Sixty percent..."

The soldier looked solemn, his eyes were solemn, and he replied in a deep voice.

"After three days, there is a [-]% chance of winning Nancheng."

(End of this chapter)