Capturing the king first is always the easiest and most effective method.

Each soldier in the Northwest Camp had a very precious life. He gave him a lot of soldiers to the ten garrisons, and Ma Shilong didn't change it, so he chose to go to Hequ first instead of going straight to Zhenxi Acropolis.

Ma Shilong was not a politician, but a general who was a famous general who commanded the army and fought. He could not guess what the purpose of Zhu Youxiao’s imperial edict was. He only knew that he would do it.

If you can capture and kill the highest-level commander in Zhenxiwei in one fell swoop, you can block the leisurely mouths inside and outside the court and the country, and you can also prove your ability.

Ma Shilong is still worried about the defeat in Liaodong. He must do a beautiful job in the Xiwei battle this time.

One afternoon, a fully armed official army slowly came outside Hequ City with clear flags.

As soon as Ma Shilong raised his hand, the entire team stopped in batches, and the army was moving in an orderly and distinct manner, like a few people.

Because it was advancing in the inland and the northwest army marched, it used the standard Ming army three-stage style.

That is, the outpost is a cavalry equipped with handguns, and the middle section is a long-range and logistics army that is mainly a fired bird gun soldiers and a baggage battalion, which is vulnerable to attack.

As the backbone, infantry wearing iron armor was in charge of the rear of the palace. They were equipped with sufficient gunpowder and marched in a vast plain.

Looking around, the scale of the Northwest Army's southward journey this time was approximately 20,000.

Hequ County is a military town at the intersection of Shanxi and Shaanxi.

According to the content of the general Shan Shijian of Hequ in the second year of Tianqi, the permanent troops stationed in the city should have more than 8,200 soldiers.

Because the situation in Zhenxiwei is unclear and the enemy is unclear, Ma Shilong dared not enter the city at will, so he had to treat all the towns in Zhenxiwei as enemy troops.

He motioned to stop moving forward, turned to ask the deputy general:

"How is the message blockade?"

The deputy general was named Hu Dawei, and he was powerful and had a beard on his face.

He was originally a surrendered soldier from Outer Mongolia. He was brave and strategic. He served in the army for several years and followed Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng to fight. He was promoted to the deputy general of the Northwest Daying due to his military achievements.

Like the great power of the tiger, it has been a lot of generals in the army in various places due to their merits. From the 47th year of Wanli to the fifth year of Tianqi, there have been many.

"When returning to the Governor, the news cannot be completely closed, but the generals have tried their best to let the Zhenxiwei know the news of our army's southward later."

After hearing Hu Dawei say this, Ma Shilong nodded and waved his hand:

"Look for the highland cannons!"

......

The battle of "attacking" Hequ went very smoothly. The Northwest Army won the so-called military camp in northern Shanxi at the cost of zero casualties.

In fact, it is called a battle, it is more like a one-sided crush.

The Northwest Army first bombarded the city gates with heavy artillery, and cavalry equipped with new handguns entered the city gates, and then the infantry entered the city to clean up the battlefield.

After a normal battle, it was done in one go, just like those martial arts that were always numerous times.

The troops stationed in the Weishou, which had not been farmed for a long time, almost hadn't reacted, and Hequ County was already filled with infantry and cavalry soldiers of the Northwest Army.

Of course, many people may not have expected that the court would come here first.

When Hu Dawei led his personal guards into the city, Hequ general Shan Shijianshang was still sleeping soundly in the commander's mansion until the killing in the city suddenly woke up.

At this time, Ma Shilong stood on the white stone slab in the commander's mansion, quietly looking at General Hequ and more than 30 servants who were tied up and kneeled on the ground, and said coldly:

"Shan Shijian, do you know your guilt!"

Shan Shijian kowtowed like pounding garlic and shouted quickly: "Governor General, I will be wronged!"

"This is all my deputy general Yang Wang, who is not aware of it, let alone concealing it or not reporting it."

"Please give the Governor a chance to make meritorious service with guilt!"

Upon hearing this, Ma Shilong sneered:

"Look at what you have led to these soldiers in Hequ County and made meritorious service? As the general, the deputy general is completely unaware of his actions, and he is a corpse and ignores military affairs."

"Flip through the military list and pick a few charges on your own. Killing you ten times is not enough! What's the use of keeping a useless general like you who eats blood in soldiers?"

"Come"

A soldier from the Supervisor Battalion left the line and said loudly:

"exist!"

"Pull it down and kill it!" Ma Shilong narrowed his eyes and looked around at the panicked guards, signaling the Northwest Army battalions to control the situation, and said with a loud voice:

"Those who put down their weapons will not be killed!"

Then he turned his head and looked at the servants who were staring at them, "As for you, it would be a disaster to keep them, so he pulled them down and chopped them down!"

After saying that, more than ten burly soldiers from the Super Biao Battalion immediately stepped forward and divided these usually arrogant servants into rows and pressed them on the ground in batches to behead them.

Seeing this scene, the soldiers of the guards looked at each other and were a little shaken.

"The garrison system has been a long-standing problem, and it is difficult for military households to cultivate, and it is difficult for them not to cultivate! Now Your Majesty knows the hardships of you and others, and is determined to rectify them!"

"You don't have to be cannon fodder for these thieves!"

Ma Shilong continued: "As long as you put down your weapons and stop causing trouble, I will ensure that you are safe and sound. In the future, the court will reorganize the garrison station and have a new life!"

While the head was talking, Hu Dawei held his hand tightly on the hilt of the knife.

Genius knew what these guards were thinking. It was always good to prepare for everything. Since the Northwest Army had entered the city, it was naturally capable of suppressing rebellions anytime and anywhere.

But soon, his hanging heart gradually relaxed.

Most of the soldiers in the garrison were miserable and were the targets of being exploited. With a crack, the fishy smell in the air told them that the matter here was over.

"Call..."

As the first sound of the spear being thrown to the ground came, the sounds became more and more, and gradually gathered into a symphony.

The soldiers of the whole city gave up resistance, and their resistance was meaningless in this major change of the century.

Just as Ma Shilong said in his words, he can only become cannon fodder.

Ma Shilong felt relieved. At this time, a soldier from the Supervisor Battalion ran over quickly and immediately clasped his fists and said, "Report to the Governor, Yang Wang and at least ran away from the South Gate with a dozen people!"

"Governor, ask me to lead the Xiaoqi camp to chase him!" Hu Dawei immediately stepped out, "It just happened to try out what the pistol was issued by the Military Arts Department!"

Ma Shilong thought about it and said that the three-eyed pistol transformed by the Military Equipment Department can be fired three times at once. This time, the latest pistol is said to have been equipped with sightseeing and sighting, which greatly improves the accuracy.

However, there was no time to test in actual combat. Compared to Shan Shijian who was shot while lying, Deputy General Yang Wang of Hequ was the wolf's ambition and was one of the culprits this time.

If you run, he can't escape, and it's just right to try a hand gun.

......

Yang Wang rushed out of the south gate, wearing a coarse cloth jacket snatched from a house, and his head was covered with blood, but he didn't care about so much now.

The court deliberately blocked the news of suppressing the rebellion. By the time he found out, the Northwest Army had already arrived at the city gate, and the marching speed was astonishing.

Without even time to mobilize his subordinates, Yang Wang could only escape with a dozen of the most trusted servants.

I just thought I had escaped from heaven, but I didn't expect that I could hear rumbling sounds from behind.

When he turned around, Yang Wang's soul was almost lost. Smoke and dust were rising behind him, flags fluttering against the wind, and flicking.

Under the flag are more than a thousand brave and warlike frontier cavalry.

The cavalry of the Northwest Army was a high-quality Mongolian horse traded by border tea horses. Their footwork and strength were much better than the inland horses that Yang Wang sat down. No matter how desperate they ran away, they found that the distance between the two sides was gradually getting closer.

A brave general led by the Northwest Army cavalry, holding the modified three-eyed magic gun, pointed straight forward, shouting: "Don't run away, your Hu Grandpa is here!"

"Even if you chase it to the ends of the world, Grandpa Tiger will definitely kill you!"
Chapter completed!