nanming man

Chapter 95 The Battle of Zhongzhou Eleven
Faced with the large formation laid down by the officers and troops, Li Zicheng decided to use crowd tactics to consume the officers and troops.

As long as the refugees and infantry in the front can break through the formation and open a gap, the old battalion Jingqi he left behind can pour into the formation of the official army through the gap, and defeat the official army by virtue of their superiority in numbers, so he doesn't care How many people died.

In this way, his casualties will inevitably be very heavy, but as long as he defeats Sun Chuanting, he will be invincible again, and the sacrifice is worth it.

Now his troops have to start regularizing. After defeating Sun Chuanting, the Ming Dynasty has no more elite soldiers in Henan and Shaanxi, so he doesn't need these refugees and miscellaneous soldiers to consume the officers and soldiers and consume his food and grass.

In the square formation of the Ming army, a watchtower was erected. Sun Chuanting put his hands on the edge of the watchtower, and looked at the Chuang army on the opposite side.

In the 15th year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty failed again and again, whether it was suppressing bandits internally or defending barbarians externally. The officers and soldiers lost a batch and then lost a batch. The vitality of the Ming Dynasty had long been exhausted.

This time when he came out of Tongguan, although he defeated the Chuangjun one after another, each time he was actually not head-to-head, but a tricky design. After obtaining enough information, he defeated the Chuangjun in a row. Great victory, but the intruders seem to be endless.

Every time he defeated Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng always recovered quickly and brought out more troops.

This made him seem not to be fighting within the territory of Ming Dynasty. It seemed that everyone in Henan was an enemy, which made him exhausted physically and mentally.

At this time, in the bandit formation in the distance, there was a sudden sound of war drums and thunder, and a crowd of people in front of them was noisy, and some of them were chaotically driven forward by an intruder cavalry.

Sun Chuanting, who was standing on the watch car, looked down and looked down at the soldiers under the watch car. Seeing that all the soldiers were silent and ready for battle, he was still a little uneasy.

"Order the front army to prepare to meet the enemy, and then order Hao Shangren in the left front and Zuo Yi in the right front. If the rebels attack the central governor's army directly, the two formations should attack left and right, pinching the rebels. If the rebels pull out the left front and right front first, The two formations will move closer to the main formation immediately, and then the artillery and archers of the former army will give reinforcements to the two formations!" Sun Chuanting raised his arms and then clenched into fists, "In addition, let the left rear and right rear formations be on standby at any time, Gao Jie When the cavalry and other infantry repel the bandits, go out to cover up and kill the defeated army, but remember not to go deep into the enemy's formation, and immediately retreat to the large formation to take shelter when encountering the enemy's cavalry."

Sun Chuanting's large formation, although it is a defensive formation, does not blindly defend. Except for the main formation, the four small formations can move, attack and defend.

On the watchtower, the flag of the Ming army was waving, the drums were beating, and the cavalry carrying letters passed between the ministries to convey Sun Chuanting's military orders.Gao Jie, Sun Shoufa, Zuo Yi, Hao Shangren and other generals raised their flags and returned to the main formation.

At this time, the crowd driven by the Chuangjun had reached a mile in front of the Ming army's formation, and Sun Chuanting, who was on the watchtower, finally saw the appearance of the army.

They have no queues, no armor, no banners like a forest, and no signs of any kind.There are old and young soldiers in the team, and there are uneven numbers of people and horses. Some even need the support of people around them to move forward.

This is not a bandit army at all, but the people of Zhongzhou!
A middle-aged man at the front of the line held a rake in one hand and supported an old man with white beard and hair in the other, and a child about ten years old was beside him.

This is obviously three generations of father, son, grandson and grandson. They all wore only a ragged cotton jacket and walked ahead in the mud.

The appearance of the other people is not much better, they are all dressed in rags, and they hold all kinds of farm tools as weapons. They heard that King Chuang is free of grain in the fields, so they bring farm tools to cast, and they rarely have weapons such as knives and spears. .

There are many refugees under Li Zicheng's command, and some of them were coerced by the Chuangjun.This kind of person has resentment towards Li Zicheng, so he will be consumed quickly, and Li Zicheng will not stay for long.

These people are mainly people from the prefectural capital plundered by Li Zicheng in the relatively affluent eastern Henan area. People like Gao Erge and his group belong to this group. There are more than 100 men in the whole village, but only ten of them are exhausted.

In addition, there are also some refugees who cannot survive, and are called to "equal the land and exempt from taxes" and take the initiative to come to seek refuge with Li Zicheng.

This group of people is mainly composed of relatively poor people in western Henan. Affected by natural disasters and government taxation, they could not survive in their hometown and became refugees on their own initiative. They were attracted by Li Zicheng by opening warehouses and releasing grain.

Most of Li Zicheng's old battalion soldiers also came from this group of refugees. They were more supportive of Li Zicheng, thinking that Li Zicheng could keep them alive and give them fields and land.

There are also some refugees, who were coerced by Luo Rucai, Yuan Shizhong and others, and there were quite a few of them, about a hundred thousand.

At this time, these refugees mixed together and approached the Ming army formation together.They have been tortured by hunger for a long time, and they are used to seeing the people around them die. There is no fear on their faces, and their expressions are already a little numb. Even death is a relief to them.

Seeing this scene, Sun Chuanting couldn't help but looked up to the sky and sighed. The people were supposed to be on the side of the government and the army, but natural disasters and man-made disasters caused the court to lose heart. The people followed the thieves one after another. Let him fall into a situation where there are enemies on all sides.

The Ming army in front of the formation saw the rogues approaching, and they looked like a mob, but the soldiers did not laugh at them, but looked at each other with some anxiety.

At this time, the cavalry cavalry behind the refugees began to gallop to drive away the refugees. The people of Zhongzhou immediately let out a roar, like a flood, like a Ming army.

The fighting power of these people is not worth mentioning, but Sun Chuanting frowned and punched the watchtower.

It's not that he couldn't bear to kill people. In fact, since he entered Zhongzhou, he killed a lot of people. In Tang County, he killed tens of thousands of family members of thieves, and also killed many refugees.

He wasn't worried that these rogues would disrupt his line, he had confidence in his men, and he believed that the army could easily block these vagrants.

What he feared in his heart was that he would not be able to kill them all. He was afraid that one batch would be killed and another batch would come. In the end, the army would be exhausted and be defeated by the elite soldiers of the old battalion of thieves.

Chuangjun did not send elites to confront him, but drove the refugees ahead, which made Sun Chuanting a little worried.

He understood Li Zicheng's motives. Driving the low-level refugees to their deaths would not only consume his military strength, break through the formation, but also reduce the food consumption of the intruders. Maybe it could also consume dissidents like Luo Rucai and Yuan Shizhong. Very vicious.

It's just that his big formation and the troops he brought out are so easy to be exhausted?
Sun Chuanting's face turned cold, and he waved his hand to order, "Order all the ministries, those who come close to the formation will be killed!"

"Come on! Kill it!"

The trespasser general who was driving away the refugees screamed loudly, and the refugees followed suit, rushing towards the Ming army wave after wave.The formation of the officers and soldiers was like a lump of sugar falling on the ground, while countless refugees swarmed up from all sides like ants.

Looking down at the earth from the sky, on the battlefield with a radius of more than ten miles, countless figures surged, and the scene was magnificent~
On the official road in the south of Yancheng County, the battle is still going on and getting more intense!After all, the Zuo Army was a well-tested team. Gao Yihuan blocked their escape route, which was equivalent to cutting off their way of life, and stimulated their potential.

The Zuo Army tried desperately to escape, but Gao Yihuan, Liu Heizi, and Zhao Yingyuan mustered all their strength and insisted on annihilating the Zuo Army here!
The sound of killing on the official road is loud, and the battle is in a state of fierceness~
(Two updates today, nothing tonight.)
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