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Chapter 116 Liu Guoneng and Shen Shuren

After receiving the news that the bandits had retreated due to internal strife, Shen Shuren was still not in a hurry.

After a full day of preparation and repair, on the morning of the fifth day of May, he led his 9000 troops steadily and slowly chased He Yilong who was retreating.

The reason why there are 9000 troops is because he recruited and transformed some of the relatively reliable rogue troops.

The first batch of captive bandit soldiers fell when Erhe took the initiative to attack Zuo Zixiong's camp on April 600th. There were about [-] soldiers, and many of them were elite veterans of the bandit camp equipped with Tieza cotton armor. It has been more than half a month so far.

Shen Shuren asked Zuo Zixiong to identify and confirm that there were few bad deeds. It was indeed the former officers and soldiers who had rebelled because of the imperial court's arrears of payment and forceful suppression of payment two years after Chongzhen, so he tried to brainwash them.

Instill the idea that "Shen Bingbei is different from other civil servants in Ming Dynasty today. Shen Bingbei never despises martial arts with civility, and often helps military generals, especially surrendered generals, by discussing matters. That's why Liu Guoneng is so willing to work for him."

Then feed these prisoners enough, and do some heavy physical work every day, such as repairing camps and transporting food. After half a month of transformation, they can already be incorporated into the army.

As for Shen Shuren's original 5000 troops, in the previous two small battles, about [-] people were killed or seriously injured.Therefore, there are only four thousand elite veterans who can be mobilized.

Among He Jin's confidants who came to vote recently, Shen Shuren picked and picked, and gathered more than 1000 people, plus He Jin's 2000 people, a total of five garrison battalions with 9000 people.

The newly surrendered soldiers will be broken up and expanded to the original troops to ensure that the number of newly surrendered soldiers is less than one-third and can be controlled.

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In the early morning of the fifth day of May, after the troops set out, it went very smoothly from the beginning.

Although chasing He Yilong is not very close, but this is the effect Shen Shuren wants, he is not in a hurry to fight He Yilong at all, what he wants is to force He Yilong to move, and drive the enemy to the battlefield he wants Let's talk later.

The distance from Xiaogan County, Suizhou Prefecture to Tongbai County, Xinyang Prefecture is not short. After all, Xiaogan County is located in the southeast corner of Suizhou Prefecture.

When He Yilong planned to withdraw his troops, it was tantamount to abandoning the entire mountainous counties along the Weishui River in Suizhou Prefecture.

Therefore, in the initial five-day pursuit battle, the two armies did not break out large-scale conflicts, at least they were biting at a distance of nearly a hundred miles.

On the seventh day of May, after two days and more than 70 miles of marching, the officers and soldiers took the lead in arriving at Anlu County, the first county seat along the Weishui River.

When He Yilong retreated, he failed to take away all of He Jin's old troops, and there were always some stubborn ones who made excuses to delay and insisted on staying there.

He Yilong didn't completely force it, because he realized that these people were willing to help him cut off his back, which in fact played a beneficial role in him, so he threw these hard bones to the officers and soldiers to clean up.

Even if they were wiped out by the officers and soldiers in the end, at least it would have been delayed for a few more days, right?

On the officer's side, because Jin Shenghuan had seized the opportunity to be a vanguard, he rushed directly to Anlu County in high spirits, and randomly arrested a few civilians to question him.

It was learned that there were less than 2000 guards in the city, and they were all local strongmen who were arrested on the spot after He Jin came to Suizhou, and there were some even lower-quality patchwork personnel.

Jin Shenghuan directly sent people to the gate of the city to shout with satisfaction, demanding that Anlu County surrender directly anyway, and accept the recovery of the heavenly soldiers from the imperial court.

What I didn't expect was that maybe it was because I heard that the soldiers in the vanguard's garrison came from Jingzhou Mansion, they were guest troops fighting in different places, and the military discipline was not as strict as Shen Shuren's troops before.

In addition, He Jin had been in this place for two years, and he was more or less gaining power. The defenders of Anlu County refused to surrender directly, and they still wanted to fight the officers and soldiers.

Jin Shenghuan was very annoyed, he directly hit the wooden ladder with some flying ladders and started attacking the city, but his soldiers were no more than the defenders, and he was a little tired from a long distance. After dozens of people died and Bailai was injured, he had to stop being reckless Try it, prepare to raise other better siege weapons, and wait for the rear army to arrive together before making a long-term plan.

Half a day later, Zhang Mingzhen from the Second Battalion also arrived. After hearing about the situation, he couldn't help but frowned, and taught Jin Shenghuan a few words in a neither humble nor humble way:
"Jin Shoubei, since you are a reinforcement guest general invited by our soldiers, you must also be subject to the military discipline of our soldiers. Your troops have traveled all the way, collecting food on the spot, and the ignorance of the people, which has deepened the situation. Their 'soldiers are like a comb' fear!

Mr. Shen's soldiers are teachers of benevolence and righteousness. The people of Suizhou will be the people under his rule in the future, and they have to write to raise food!I think you are the first offender, this time it is just admonishment, take a good look at how we attacked the city, and you will cooperate from the sidelines—but after the city is broken, looting and slaughter are not allowed, this time it is considered that those who do not know are not guilty. "

Jin Shenghuan became more and more submissive after being dismounted, and was about to see how Zhang Mingzhen would attack the city.

However, Zhang Mingzhen's performance really surprised him: he didn't have any bells and whistles at all, just let the troops rest for a day, and wait for the cannons in the rear to arrive the next day.

Then directly six Hongyi cannons directly bombarded the south gate of Anlu County.

The accuracy of the cannon was not very high, and the shells were hit high and flew, and fell on the tower.

Finally, after five or six rounds of salvo, the city gate was completely smashed, and even the walls and pillars on one side of the city tower were smashed and collapsed.

Zhang Mingzhen rushed into the city gate with his troops and quickly ended the battle. Jin Shenghuan was dumbfounded watching the whole process.

In a county-level place like Anlu, how strong are the city walls and gates?This is all about Hongyi Cannon? !
After entering the city, since the city was broken after resisting the official army, the fate of the rogue officers in the city can be imagined.

Zhang Mingzhen directly re-announced Shen Bingbei's treatment standards for surrendering, anyway, following the bandits, and resisting bandits at all levels.

According to the law, all the bandit army officers above the "head of the department" in the city were captured, taken to the cross street in front of the county government office, and beheaded. .

After the main forces of the thieves have retreated and the king of thieves no longer exists, the county still sticks to it, and the rear part of the city must be destroyed in principle!

Above the whistle, if you surrender immediately after contacting the enemy, you don't need to be cut.Those above the head of the department who want to make an exception must arrest their chiefs, or behead their chiefs and surrender to the officers and soldiers in order to avoid death.

After announcing these laws, the officers and soldiers strictly enforced military discipline and did not rob the people. However, within a day, the local people realized that Shen Shuren's troops were different from before, and there was no more friction.

After completing Liwei in Anlu County, he can be regarded as sharpening his knife and chopping firewood by mistake.

Two days later, when the troops marched to Suizhou County, many of the bandit defenders and ordinary people left here had already heard about Anlu's fate.

So as soon as Jin Shenghuan arrived, he directly raised the banner of Shen Shuren, imitating Zhang Mingzhen's rhetoric and shouting, and after only a few hours of discussion in the city, he opened the city without blood.

There were more than a thousand local strong men who chose to stay and did not want to go with the bandits, and joined the ranks of the army anyway.

Seeing this scene, Jin Shenghuan fell into more and more self-doubt: I knew why he didn't pretend to be Shen Bingbei a few days ago?Why did he insist on playing the banner of the Jingzhou government army given to him by Governor Fang?
Among the common people, Shen Bingbei's reputation is so much better than that of other Ming army guest troops!

This ironic scene is similar to what Gao Jie, one of the four Jiangbei towns, wanted to lead his troops from the north to Huainan three years later in history—

In history, Gao Jie wanted to join Nanming after the death of Chongzhen, but he was originally stationed in Shandong, and he had to pass through many fortified city defense zones to go south.In the beginning, he held the banner of the Ming army, but everywhere was afraid of him like a tiger. He was clearly marching on the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but he couldn't move an inch.

Later, Gao Jie remembered that he had followed Li Zicheng back then, and he still had the banner of Chuangjun (Gao Jie was originally a general of Li Zicheng's army, because Li Zicheng lost his X function after being injured, his wife Xing ran away with Gao Jie, and had the hatred of taking his wife, so Can't go back) Then he used the Ming army to pretend to be a Chuang army, and traveled unimpeded from Shandong to Huainan.

Of course, Shen Shuren is a man of morality, and it is definitely not the same thing as Li Zicheng who robs and distributes spoils to attract people.

Li Zicheng's economic routines are purely similar to pyramid schemes to attract people. They need to rely on external snowballs for blood transfusions, and there is no sustainability of economic self-operation at all.

"Shen Bingbei is benevolent and the people love things. Today we will know. If the world can be like Shen Bingbei's rule, and the four peoples are safe, how can the world be in such chaos!" Standing in Suizhou County that night, Jin Shenghuan drank and drank Drunk, deeply saddened.

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After passing Suizhou County, further north, until entering the territory of Xinyang Prefecture, there is no county seat anymore, only some towns and checkpoints.

Those villages and towns are even less likely to resist the official army, and they just pass by and receive them.

Shen Shuren also acted like he didn't take He Yilong seriously at all. While taking over the territory, he transferred Yan Yingyuan and Zhang Huangyan from the rear to let them take the time to stabilize the people and resume production in the counties of Suizhou.

At the same time, in the busy schedule of the battle, he did not forget to allocate part of the Shen family's fleet to transport the surplus potatoes from Huangzhou and Xiaogan, so that the counties in Suizhou could strive to grow summer grain in May. , to replant a part of the suitable land with potatoes, so that the reproductive area of ​​potatoes at the end of the year can be doubled faster than that only in Huangzhou.

As for corn, there is no other way. It can only be planted once a year, and it is impossible to plant it again in May.

And other excellent animal species have also been used to promote to the local gentry while fighting the war.Relying on this benefit, the people quickly reunited.

The soldier who was originally captured by He Jin as a strong man, saw that his father and fellow villagers had a better life anyway, and his morale increased, and he was willing to fight for Shen Bingbei.

These tasks of persuading farmers to organize production will always take a busy month. Shen Shuren has no time to worry about it himself, and he will just listen to Zhang Huangyan's report when the time comes.

On May [-], after repairing in Suizhou County, the officers and soldiers continued northward and finally left the Weishui River Basin.

Further north from here are the three dangerous passes in Tongbai Mountain. The source of the Weishui ends here. There are no large-scale agricultural settlements in the north, only poor mountains, and there is no bad water.

After so many days of delay, Liu Guoneng had long since given up attacking Xinyang County, but was blocked outside Pingjing Pass at the northern end of this mountain road.

There are defenders left by He Yilong at Pingjing Pass, and the terrain is steep and easy to defend and difficult to attack, so Liu Guoneng can't get in, so he can only surround the northern pass.

According to the trend of the marching route, He Yilong will soon lead the army to retreat to Pingjingguan, and Shen Shuren will soon chase to the south of Pingjingguan and encircle him.

In the evening of the same day, when it was time to set up camp again, Shen Shuren spread out the map, and under the guidance of the scout officer, updated the latest location information of the enemy and us.

Seeing this step-by-step advancement, he also became more and more confident: "This He Yilong is indeed reckless. He really doesn't know the art of war or history at all. He dares to escape even this kind of road. It seems that this Pingjingguan That's where he died."

(End of this chapter)