The white porridge and pickled mustard is enough, why am I wearing a royal robe?

Chapter 136 Four provinces are going to surround me
In the past, an army of ten thousand people fought in front of the gate of Yanchuan City. It was almost the same situation. Yang He's army was defeated.

Now, if he didn't know that the Kitchen King was ambitious, if he left it alone, it would be like a minor illness turning into a serious illness. Yang He really didn't want to take care of the Kitchen King.

After all, the two brothers Shen Yiyuan and Shen Yikui plus Wang Jiayin and other thieves are obviously easier to deal with than the Stove King.

The governor of Shanxi is willing to cooperate with him to annihilate the Kitchen King. This is a rare opportunity. After all, Shanxi is also an important border town, and the governor's soldiers entrenched in Datong Mansion are also elite.

It was much stronger than his army of ten thousand people in the past.

It is an absolute fact that the Kitchen King's troops are divided into two groups. Unlike the false shot last time, they have every chance to cut off the Kitchen King's retreat, just as the Shanxi governor envisioned.

Under the pincer attack, some of Stove King's troops were annihilated, and the rest would be easier to deal with.

Yang He summoned Du Wenhuan, the commander-in-chief, and Hong Chengchou, who participated in politics, to discuss it. It is worth mentioning that during this period, Hong Chengchou had solved the siege of Hancheng and had already demonstrated his military talent. Therefore, Yang He focused on Hong Chengchou. .

Hong Chengchou made a calculation in his mind. He had long been dissatisfied with this trilateral governor, but after all, he still wanted to work together. The other party was willing to accept his suggestions, and he did not hesitate to make suggestions.

"The bandits occupy Qingjian, Yanchang, Yonghe, and Yanchuan," he said slowly. "Three counties defend Yanchuan. If you attack Yanchuan from any direction, you must first break through one of the three gates. And now the Kitchen King is stationed in Yonghe. "The governor of Shanxi is willing to bring five thousand soldiers to cooperate with us in suppressing the bandits. This is a good opportunity for us to send troops south."

"Divide the troops into three groups, one to extend the attack, one to block reinforcements from Yanchuan, and the other group, under the cover of the enemy's blocking troops, to cooperate with the Shanxi governor's soldiers to attack the enemies of Kitchen King Yonghe's tribe."

"Okay, just do it!"

Yang He was overjoyed. This time it sounded more reliable. The Kitchen King vaguely looked like the leader of Shaanxi thieves. If he attacked the Kitchen King once, his recruitment policy would be better implemented.

And it can also buy him more time. After all, the governor of Shanxi will also participate in this battle. When the governor of the three sides and the governor of Shanxi jointly report the victory of Shanxi, the emperor will be happy to believe his words.

"I heard that Kitchen King Yonghe's soldiers have two hundred cavalry. These two hundred cavalry should be all of Kitchen King's elite cavalry."

"I can mobilize five hundred cavalry, five hundred against two hundred. The advantage is obviously with us," Yang He said. Last time, he had already suffered some losses in terms of troop quality and equipment. This time Yang He wanted to boost morale for a great victory. Now that he's done it, he wants to allocate part of the gold and silver to mobilize troops.

Hong Chengchou had nothing to say. Five hundred cavalry against two hundred was already a huge advantage. What's more, the Kitchen King's cavalry should be more appropriately called horse bandits. These horse bandits have always been unorganized and had no way to deal with the imperial army. match.

Hong Chengchou did not participate in the last battle and did not know how Du Wenhuan was defeated. After returning from that battle, the commander seemed to have lost his fighting spirit and was extremely depressed all day long.

Yang He glanced at Du Wenhuan, who was still sullen and didn't know what he was thinking. Seeing this, Yang He didn't expect Du Wenhuan to have any suggestions.

"If there are no other objections, the matter will be settled."

Yang He said while stroking his beard and looking at the people present.

No one replied. Du Wenhuan, the commander-in-chief, said nothing, and a brilliant political general had no objections after he finished speaking. What else could they say.

Yang He nodded with satisfaction and ordered the matter, and the Yan'an Mansion began to prepare for war again.

The Kitchen King's spy who was hanging around Yan'an Mansion immediately learned of the news and hurriedly passed the news to Liu Zhenhua in Yonghe County.

In recent times, Yan'an has often sent troops and horses to the north to suppress the main bandits many times. Those bandits have always fled. The news coming from them is "big victory, great victory", and how much food and money have been seized.

However, Liu Zhenhua knew that these were just stage words and things to save face. In fact, the bandits were not affected at all. Instead, they ran more and more happily. The bandit trouble was also developed at this time.

"But this time there is something unusual. In the past, we mobilized troops and horses to go out, but this time we mobilized troops into Yan'an."

Zhang Heizihui reported that he had to deliver the news, and he was worried about others coming.

"Oh?"

Liu Zhenhua knew a truth, if something went wrong, there would be a monster. Zhang Heizi's words were undoubtedly saying that Yang He was struggling with his troops again, and there was no one nearby who could make him do this.

In recent days, all the well-known thieves in Shaanxi have been beaten by Yang He's soldiers, and they have turned into rogues and fled everywhere. Now the only one who is stuck in place like a nail - and has expanded a lot, is He is the Kitchen King.

Capture Yonghe and capture Qingjian.

"He's trying to attack me again. Who gave him the confidence?"

You must know that the Battle of Yanchuan can almost be regarded as a great defeat for the imperial court. In ancient times, battles were basically tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, but when it comes to real fighting, annihilating thousands of enemies can be regarded as a great victory. Of course, those who saw the fight Except for fighting to the death.

That battle made Yang He retreat to Yan'an for dozens of days, making the Yan'an soldiers dare not look eastward.

Liu Zhenhua looked to the east, then turned to the west. It had been two weeks since he captured Yonghe. His horses were nearly a thousand, and a large number of cavalry had begun training, but Shanxi also There was no movement for many days.

He once sent a cavalry team to explore Xi County, Shilou County, and Taining County. If the Shanxi governor wanted to attack Yonghe, he could only come from these three directions, but now there is no news from there.

The other party did not respond as quickly as Liu Zhenhua imagined.

No governor could bear to have a rogue bandit take root in his own territory. The governor of Shanxi, Geng Ruqi, was so jealous that he immediately led five thousand soldiers when he learned that the capital was besieged. The governor personally went into battle to support the capital.

It is impossible to ignore Liu Zhenhua at the moment.

It was obvious that he was planning something. Looking at the activities in Yan'an Fucheng, the two were immediately connected by Liu Zhenhua, just like when he used to play top lane and saw that the middle lane was missing, he knew that he was definitely coming to mess with him.

These two people were probably ready to attack him from both sides.

"This time I am going to be driven out to death," Liu Zhenhua secretly thought. With a governor of the three sides and a governor of Shanxi Province, it can almost be said that Liu Zhenhua is facing encirclement and suppression by four provinces.

It is almost comparable to Gao Yingxiang who was besieged by five provinces in the late Ming Dynasty, but the latter had a full 20 troops.

That was a figure who wanted to imitate Zhu Yuanzhang's attack on Nanjing when Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown was hit.

At present, Liu Zhenhua's soldiers and horses can't support more than 10 people, and the total number of people on the territory does not exceed [-]. It actually led to encirclement and suppression by four provinces.

Liu Zhenhua called Zhao Shitong and Yang Lichao and told them about the incident, hoping to see what they thought about the matter.

"King Stove, we already have thousands of cavalry. The surrounding area of ​​Yonghe is flat, which is convenient for cavalry to charge. Even if there are tens of thousands of people coming, a thousand cavalry can still go in and out seven times."

Yang Lichao said, although he had never commanded cavalry in combat, as a gun boy in the past he had heard his master describe the pros and cons of cavalry. Now he had fought several battles and had an intuitive understanding of the battlefield.

The cavalry is a crushing blow to the infantry in the plains. Of course, the premise is light infantry. Most of their opponents at the moment are light infantry, and they are too vulnerable to a large-scale cavalry charge.

The front of Yonghe County is flat, and they can greatly utilize the mobility of the cavalry.

"Indeed," Liu Zhenhua nodded. Although their cavalry did not wear armor, the horses exchanged for them were all fat and strong. Liu Zhenhua did not hesitate to buy feed for them with his reputation. Almost all of his daily reputation was spent on here.

Thousands of horses are enough to attack ten thousand people on the plain outside. Moreover, there is a high probability that the opponent will not have ten thousand people in one direction, and Liu Zhenhua's cavalry will increase.

The heavenly soldiers were training their horses to fight every day, and some of the militiamen were also pulled out.

The four-province encirclement and suppression campaign sounds unprecedentedly massive, and it is true, but the time it takes starts from months. The two sides go from reaching an agreement on the purpose, to starting to struggle with troop preparations, to communicating with each other to agree on a time, and then to Both sides mobilized their troops to attack, which required a lot of time.

If the opponent delays for one day, Liu Zhenhua will have more than 40 more horses. For every day of delay, Liu Zhenhua's cavalry team will become more elite.

This was also the reason why Liu Zhenhua did not choose to retreat to Yanchuan.

Maybe when the other party is ready, Liu Zhenhua will already have two thousand riders, two thousand!

"Although the city wall of Yonghe County is low, being short also has its advantages. We can attack the enemy with weapons from a condescending position," Zhao Shitong said. The red tassel guns in their hands, including the arms holding the red tassel guns and the bodies leaning forward, are almost three meters tall. A lot of attack distance. Although when standing on the city wall and attacking from top to bottom, one's own height must be taken into account, but it can still reach the heads under the city wall.

It is always inconvenient for the opponent to attack with his head raised.

Liu Zhenhua listened to what the two of them said. There was no doubt that both of them meant war, and they did not advise Liu Zhenhua to 'withdraw to Yanchuan'.

If you want to fight, then fight. After developing with the plug-in for so long, although it will not directly swallow the entire Ming Dynasty, it is not afraid of the encirclement and suppression of these so-called provinces. The governor of Shanxi, who knew that he was loyal to serving his country, would not let Liu Zhenhua retreat in a hurry and abandon the territory he had already acquired.

The current plot is very similar to the original Yanchuan Yanchang, except that there is an extra soldier from Shanxi.

However, Liu Zhenhua is no longer what he used to be. The increase in reputation becomes more and more outrageous. Liu Zhenhua once only had a double-digit increase in one day, but now he has [-] reputation a day.

In such a short period of time, Liu Zhenhua already had [-] more cavalry and [-] more crossbowmen.

There will only be more to come.

Why are you afraid of a war?
"Send manpower and ask Ren Hongli to organize five hundred militiamen and rush to Yanchuan with crossbowmen." If the other party wants to attack Yonghe, they will definitely not be able to avoid Yanchuan.

They must have known that Yanchuan Yanchang would send troops to assist Yonghe, so they would send some troops to block Yanchuan Yanchang's enemies.

They still think that those who block the attack can stop the soldiers and horses of these two parties.

Liu Zhenhua has already seen why the Shaanxi bandits in the late Ming Dynasty could not be killed. On the one hand, it was because there were too many people affected. The rebels were like cancer. If one group was eliminated, another group would appear. In the end, it was his own body that was injured - In the Ming Dynasty, on the other hand, in the early stages of the civil uprising, the local soldiers in Shaanxi had almost no effective combat power to kill these rogue bandits.

Only when Chen Qiyu, Hong Chengchou and others were dispatched later did they wipe out a large number of rogue bandits in Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi and other places.

At present, as long as the person in charge is Yang He, Liu Zhenhua will not have to worry about the officers and soldiers of Shaanxi.

"Cooperating with the militiamen who stayed behind in Yanchuan, some of them were pulled out to form a team of 2000 people, and another 2000 people from the rural brave regiment were mobilized." When he first fought against Yang He, Liu Zhenhua's team almost reached tens of thousands.

But now there are only 3000 militiamen and [-] heavenly soldiers. The hidden [-] people have another name, the Township Warriors. When the militia is called, these people have priority! This was also the award given to them in the first place.

At present, the three counties of Yanchuan, Yanchuan and Qingjian have basically been depleted of their military strength. The total left behind is only [-] trained militiamen and [-] rural warriors who have fought in the First World War, plus some young people from each county. strong.

However, Liu Zhenhua is not worried about these counties. The opponent's main troops have already focused their attention on Liu Zhenhua. Why are there still troops attacking Qingjian and other counties.

"Destroy the enemies that Yanchuan Yanchang intends to block, and then rush to the aid of Yonghe."

According to Liu Zhenhua's estimate, he should have 3000 cavalry by then. Together with the [-] soldiers in the city, plus the [-] temporarily mobilized rural warriors, the total number will be [-], which is enough for him to lead the troops to destroy the enemy when Hongli defends Yonghe. Rush to help this place again.

Liu Zhenhua said in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

Yang Lichao looked excited, the battle was about to begin! His cavalry finally came in handy. With one thousand cavalry, he could almost be regarded as a cavalry general!

He could almost imagine how enjoyable the fighting on that day must have been.

Yang Lichao sent one of his men to send the news to Qingjian.

"You will select another [-] militiamen these days and ask them not to train for fighting. Those horses will be used for rotation training so that these people can practice their ability to fight immediately."

"Those who are well trained and outstanding will be directly promoted to heavenly soldiers. Those who are not well trained and cannot ride a horse will be eliminated. All those who participate in cavalry training should train to death. Tell them to enjoy two or three meals a day for heavenly soldiers these days and participate in the cavalry. The Heavenly Soldiers in training enjoy two Heavenly Soldier meals in the morning and evening.”

Liu Zhenhua was also very aggressive. Since he decided to fight, he had to push all the chips up.

There must be brave men under the heavy reward, and the heavy reward will also arouse their enthusiasm for training. They will enjoy a meal of heavenly soldiers in advance, and the gap after the war will make them work harder in the next battle!

(End of this chapter)