: Going to be poor

Yang Ling and Zhao's men confront each other in Hebei. You often come and go. There are no small battles. When the officers and soldiers are in a hurry, they will avoid the crisscrossing mountains and escape before they can get in the siege of siege. So there is no big victory or defeat between the two sides.

Zhao Fengzi seemed to be content with the status quo and did not attack the big cities of Nanyang, Runing, Ruzhou, Guide, Kaifeng, etc., and only wandered around small counties, focusing on intercepting some copycats.

These bacages are not villages of robbers, but temporary bacages where landlords and gentry gather together as soon as they encounter wars, bring all their property into the mountains to avoid disasters, and establish themselves in armed forces. Such places are easy to fight and have a large amount of available materials.

The rich and rich man can easily organize a team of servants to protect the hospital with thousands of people. The wealth they amassed is unimaginable. If you only need to break a copycat, the food you get is enough to support Zhao Sui's team of 15,000 people in the past month.

As always, the officers and soldiers were still mainly chariot camps and intra camps, with very few cavalrymen. This made Zhao Crazy feel very relieved. As long as the officers and soldiers did not have a large group of cavalry and did not take the initiative to seek a decisive battle, he would not be able to deal with his own tactics of coming and going like the wind.

Yang Ling was also calm. Before the White Army made a final move, he temporarily combined the main force of the cavalry training in assault training and never showed up. His trump card would not be revealed until the last moment. He was waiting for Zhao Crazy, but Zhao Crazy was waiting for Yang Hu and Liu Liu, which was almost the date they agreed upon.

Yang Hu and Liu Liu finally decided to move. They went south and became less suitable for their cavalry to fight. The road was rugged and uneven, either mountains or rivers or paddy fields, and their combat advantage completely disappeared.

They were unable to capture the city with abundant food and grass. The supplies could not keep up, resulting in exhaustion and thinness of the horses. Now only half of the war horses were left in the army, which seriously affected the army's mobility and the morale of the army began to shake. They were eager to find a way out. Therefore, after Mu Yun and Liu Hui brought Zhao Fengzi back to attack him in separate ways and marched together to obtain Nanjing by land and water, several people immediately nodded in agreement.

On September 25, Yang Hu and Liu Liu suddenly divided their troops into two groups to attack Hukou. Yang Hu led a army to collect ships along Fanyang Lake, and Liu Liu Qi rushed straight to Hukou County. This is the dangerous place that guarded the river from Fanyang Lake.

The cities along the river were stationed in heavy troops as Yang Ling ordered. The six ministries of Nanjing sent officials to supervise the battle. The Nanjing Imperial Envoy Peng Ze guarded Hukou. The shouts of killing have been heard from the early morning, and blood has covered the dilapidated city walls. Although the white-clothed army's siege equipment was simple, the Hukou County was not big. The city walls were low and the bricks and stones were aging, making it difficult to resist the crazy attack of the horse army.

The two sides were raining arrows and the sky was shuttled, and teams of white-clothed bandits shot at the same time. The officers and soldiers in the city had three relatively backward cannons, which sprayed roaring flames from time to time. However, such a slow firearm had far more intimidation than the actual effect.

The white-clothed soldiers repeatedly organized attacks with ladders, flying hooks, and chariots. People hiding under the emergency creation ground were pushing towards the city wall under the cover of riding and shooting. The huge and sturdy arches of the archery buzzed loudly by the rolling wooden stones of the defenders on the city, but the dense pillars below still held the heavy roof.

There were eight to ten people under each squirt. They all chose strong warriors. Once they rushed under the city wall, they smashed them with hammers, crowbars, and picks, smashed them desperately, digged them, and digged them. The bricks and stones of the ancient city wall shattered down.

A spray car was burned by boiling oil. The escaped horse soldiers were immediately shot to death by sharp arrows on the top of the city, but the even more crazy arrow rain of the white-clothed army also shot onto the city wall. Then they covered a new spray car and opened up. The ground spray car had a strange shape, and there was no shape at all. They were made of temporary nails of the beams and bed boards of the houses.

Although Peng Yuen was a literati, he saw that the white-clothed army was aggressive in attacking the city, and he stood on the top of the city with a long sword in his hand, but his face remained unchanged.

"Report~~~. Lord Peng. Yue Guard was killed in battle."

Peng Yuzeng was stationed in Jian and said in a sequel: "The garrison is dead and the deputy garrison is dead. The deputy garrison is dead and the general is Qian. What kind of funerals are coming to report? To hold the funeral, you must first defend the city. Go back and tell the soldiers who guard the city that if the city is there, the city will die together, and you must defend the city!"

The school responded and staggered back. Blood was flowing from his thighs. I don’t know if he had been shot or was stabbed by the bandits who attacked the city with a flying hook, but he never had the time to get injured.

The envoy Peng sighed secretly, "The Yangtze River is thousands of miles away, and the city passes are countless. The white-clothed army came from Fuliang. Since they chose this place, they were responsible for defending their territory. Although this small county may not be able to stop them, they have no time to blame the world. They can only die in battle and not escape from Pengze, and fulfill the responsibility of loyal ministers and martyrs.

Several guards stood like a javelin beside Peng Ze, all of whom were silent. They had seen many deaths this morning. No matter whether he was a soldier or a general, their lives are equally worthless. Whether he was a garrison or a soldier, they were no longer touched.

Another heavy rain-like arrow shot up the city, and immediately rushed up to two soldiers holding shields. The arrows were nailed to the shield.

A man dressed in a man rushed over: "Mr. Imperial envoy, County Magistrate Wang was hit by the ravage arrow, and I don't know the situation!"

Peng Ze snatched over and saw that County Magistrate Wang was hit by the wall, and he was shot in his shoulders and chest. The arrows were so deep that he could not live. "Please go!" Peng Ze gritted his teeth and looked down secretly from the bush. Suddenly, he saw a man standing in the distance and pointing fingers, followed by several people following him to his orders.

Occasionally, arrows shot to the city, or blocked by his subordinates, or were swung by the knife in his hand, and then they flew away. Peng Ze's eyes lit up and he hurriedly said, "Come! Come on! Come on the power crossbow, hurry up, transfer all the power crossbows for me!"

After a moment, more than a dozen crossbowmen and assistants fighting on their own were fighting on the top of the city carrying large crossbows and snatched them up panting. Peng Ze pointed to the man under the city: "This person must be the leader of the thief. You gather all the crossbows and shoot him alone. I want to see how he dodges!"

The crossbowmen rushed to the arrow entrance according to orders, opened the long crossbow, stepped on the strings and arrows, and aimed at the people who were not concerned about the defenders on the city and became closer and closer to the city wall.

With a command, more than ten long and featherless arrows made a faint sound of ghost crying, and at the same time left the string...

The horse army that was sieging the city fell down one by one. In order to prevent the officers and soldiers of nearby prefectures and counties from coming to help after hearing the news, they must seize Hukou as soon as possible without regard to casualties and release the ship into the river.

The commander Liu Liu led his son Liu Zhonghuai to attack the city himself. Liu Qi was in a hurry to sway around in the central army. Yang Hu walked with a sharp single sword on his back, and the sword tassels fluttered on his shoulders, which looked very ferocious with his majestic body and one eye.

"How is it, Brother Qi, haven't taken Hukou yet?" he asked anxiously.

Liu Qi gritted his teeth and grinned, saying, "Don't worry! The officers and soldiers can't stand for half an hour, and the south city wall has been dug almost all. How are you there?"

"Hehe, don't worry, the two sides of the Taiwan Straits are heading together, and there are no less than 500 ships of all sizes, which is enough for our brothers who have no war horses to ride."

Liu Qi was happy when he heard this. At this time, Liu Hui stumbled back and said in a crying voice: "Brother Seven, Brother Seven, something is wrong, Brother Six and Xiao Huaizi are dead in battle."

Liu Qi and Yang Hu were shocked. Liu Qi was shocked for a moment, and rushed up, grabbed his clothes and shouted: "What are you talking about? How could Brother Six die? How could he die?"

Liu Hui burst into tears and said, "My sixth brother went to Xicheng to supervise the battle. He was hit by a crossbow on the top of the city. Xiao Huaizi went to save him, but he was also shot to death by arrows."

Liu Qi let go of his hand, roared, and pulled out the knife. He shouted: "My mother, wait for me to attack the city and kill the dog official in the city..."

As soon as he said this, there was a cheer in the distance, and then a loud bang, dust and smoke splashed for a long time, and countless horse thieves cheered.

Liu Qi held up the knife, looked at the direction blankly and said suspiciously: "What happened?"

"The city wall has fallen. The city wall has been dug down." As soon as the vague cheer came, Liu Qi jumped up suddenly and said happily: "The city wall has fallen, follow me into the city, kill all the dog officials, and avenge my brother!"

A broken city wall collapsed, and the horse army cheered and swarmed into the city along the collapsed city wall. The defenders in the city also rushed towards the collapsed city wall. Thousands of soldiers crowded in the broken city wall and fought bloody battles, and the frequent attacks of weapons were heard.

Liu Qi and Yang Hu opened their bows left and right, and wherever they went, they were like waves, heads, broken limbs, broken flesh, broken swords and broken spears flying in the sky. The officers and soldiers were defeated and began to retreat into the city.

When Peng Yuzhi arrived, he could no longer control the retreating officers and soldiers. He was squeezed and shaking by the retreating officers and soldiers with his sword. His roaring orders had already changed hoarsely.

No one paid attention to him. He wanted to kill the generals and establish his authority, but he was defeated everywhere. Who would he kill him? In his insanity, a man with white robe splattered red with blood had rushed to his ground. He raised his single sword full of blood foam. The moment Peng Yu flew up his head, he saw clearly that the man had only one eye, as ferocious as evil!

"Who can drive the boat? Who can drive the boat? Who can drive the boat stands up for me!" Liu Hui wrapped her head in white cloth to show her filial piety.

He shouted at the top of his lungs for a long time before some soldiers stood up hesitantly, and some even whispered: "Seventh Master, we are all northerners, and few of us can sail boats. I know a little bit. When I was a child, I followed my grandfather to row in the bay in my hometown and caught fish."

Another said: "I have been hiding by the Yellow River and know how to take the helm."

Liu Hui was overjoyed and said, "That's fine, you can drive the boat. It doesn't matter. The river water is just going upstream. As long as the rudder is straightened, it doesn't matter. The officers and soldiers do not have the inland water naval division patrols. Let's go downstream and fight to Nanjing City."

Everyone on the lake could water. Yang Hu was blindly thinking about robbing the boat. He didn't expect that his men were all northern landslides. The boatmen saw the plane and slipped away into the water early. They were all sacrificed by Yang Hu's subordinates before they could leave. There was no boatman available.

This group of half-baked temporary boatmen were driven to the shelves and assigned to the sailor's task. Liu Hui said to Yang Hu: "Huzi. The entire army's war horses are left for you. I will take these 20,000 people on the water, and you will take the rest of the people on the land to ride horses.

There are many passes on land, but you don’t have to pay attention to them. The officers and soldiers have always divided their troops to guard them, and they swept the snow in front of the door. There is no need to fight. As long as they rush over, they will not be entangled. You must arrive at Nanjing City as soon as possible and cooperate with the city to seize..."

In a car behind, Mu Yun coughed loudly, Li Yeyin frowned, and saw that there were no outsiders around, and then quietly said: "Big Li, your condition is more serious, and you will follow the army again. It is very dangerous."

Mu Yun stroked his heart and gasped, "Uncle, I know, and... they didn't listen to my advice and abandoned Shaanxi and took Jinling. That was asking for trouble. Even if they really took Nanjing City, they wouldn't be able to stand it. I think they couldn't last long.

Yesterday I received news from my father that King Ning had obtained the power to control the troops in Jiangxi. Our incense army in the north has also been organized, and the value of Liu Liu and Yang Hu is almost the same. Let's go to Nanjing first. If the situation is not good, I will leave first when I see an opportunity on the road and ask my father to treat me. I will leave here to you. If it is not done, I will leave it and leave it. Let them clean up the mess by themselves."

Li Yeyin nodded slightly while scanning around alertly.

On the shore, Yang Hu smiled slightly after hearing Liu Qidi's orders, and said to himself: "Just as soon as Liu Liu died, Lao Qi ordered me as the boss, hey. After all, marching and fighting requires horsepower. Now all the horses belong to me, and when we take down Nanjing City, we still have to see whose fists are hard. Now the disaster is coming, I will endure you for a while."

He bowed his fists and said respectfully: "Yes, Brother Qi, don't worry, I will start on the road. I will immediately rectify my troops and rush to Nanjing!"

Liu Qi nodded with satisfaction, carefully stepped on the trembling pedal, boarded the largest ship, and shouted loudly: "Drive the ship! Start the ship!"

In this chaos, I saw boats of all sizes, including merchant ships, cruise ships, pleasure boats, building ships, flat sand boats, and small fish boats. They were fiddling with these water-free land ducks and swaying in the water, and finally slowly left the shore and swam towards the middle of the river.

The river flowed eastward, and the boat entered the middle of the river and drove along the river. The speed became faster and faster and more stable. Liu Qi was very happy and led 20,000 horse thieves to walk along the river and went in a mighty manner.

Yang Hu also got on his own and led less than 20,000 cavalry to kill Nanzhili along the land.

The fast horse report said that Yang Ling was in Runing. After hearing the news from both the water and the land, there was no need for Yang Ling to say that Miao Kui, Xu Tai and others had already said in unison: "So bold, they want to take Nanjing City!"

Yang Ling looked at the map carefully based on the news and said, "I thought they would rush to Shaanxi, but I didn't expect that they would take Jiangnan. In the short term, the benefits of taking Jiangnan are indeed higher than those of Shaanxi, but can they gain a foothold there?"

Xu Tai frowned and said, "Duke, Zhao Fengzi is not playing tricks of striking things again, right?"

Yang Ling also pondered this and thought for a while. He clicked on the map and said, "Go to the south, they suffered a lot and would never go down again. Where is the way out? First, take the Xutu, the land of Guanzhong, Shaanxi, the second is to return to Hebei north, and Shandong survived; third, take the Jiangnan east, the most risky move, but the impact is the greatest.

Judging from Zhao Fengzi's performance in Zhongtiao Mountain, Shanxi, this person likes speculation and adventure, and his temperament will inevitably have a great impact on his decision. Especially the reality of successfully breaking through with Zhongtiao Mountain on all sides has greatly increased his confidence, so he may not dare to take Nanjing. If he loses, it is possible to go west and go to Guanzhong."

Yang Ling sighed and said, "In order to prevent the white-clothed army from rushing to Jiangdong, destroying the grain and rice warehouse of Daming. In the south of Zhili and Zhejiang, there were already heavy troops gathered in the area of ​​Zhili and Zhejiang to deal with their attacks. There is no need to worry too much. The officers and soldiers in Henan, Shaanxi and other places must guard the fortress and prepare for war at all times to prevent the sudden attack of Zhao Crazy.

The white-clothed army advanced to Nanjing along the water and land routes, and sent orders to summon naval warships to go up the river to block Liu Qi's army who was taking the boat. On the land, they gave up their own defense and each made their own battle strategies. When Yang Hu passed by, the bridges were immediately demolished and blocked the roads as soon as his army passed. All the troops gathered, followed step by step, set up defenses step by step, and formed a tight encirclement."

Yang Ling closed his hands and said, "Let the tiger enter the cage! Waterway takes advantage of their characteristics of being not good at water battles, and gives full play to the strengths of officers and soldiers, defeating them in one fell swoop. Landway encirclement and force him to fight a head-on decisive battle."

Xu Tai bowed, and Yang Ling announced his intention to fight, and the specific implementation measures must be formulated by him, the general officer who has experienced many battles. Yang Ling said again: "The order is Zhou De'an, deputy commander of the Southern Zhili, and the general general of Nanjing Defense, guards the city with heavy troops and is unmoved. He just needs to defend the city. Not giving the white-clothed army an opportunity to take advantage of it is a great achievement."

"Crazy Zhao..." Yang Ling nodded and said with a smile: "Whether it is a feint or a real attack, he will definitely cross the river to the east. Xu Tai, Jiang Bin, your cavalry will play a big role this time. Let's cross the river with him and destroy them in Jiangdong.

I will order all ships on the other side to sail over, and all the water surface but the stored plates must be sunk. At the same time, the navy was summoned to patrol the river, but now the imperial court's taxes rely mostly on sea and city trade. They have to be responsible for the safety of the sea and borders. The navy warships that can be drawn are limited, and the Yangtze River water surface is too large, so they can only patrol important cities and areas, and it is impossible to take full care of them. Eunuch Miao. The defense of the outer area of ​​Jiangbei will depend on you."

The Yangtze River is like a snake, how long can it be? It is really difficult to defend the Yangtze River as if it is as high as the sky, but all the ships on the other side are moved here, and the imperial army is entangled, so they still have time to build ships?

Miao Kui’s task is the simplest. There is no great contribution to this matter. Compared to Xu Tai and Jiang Bin crossing the river with Yang Ling, it is naturally incomparable. So Miao Kui was disappointed. He did not dare to show it, so he had to bow down to say it.

Yang Ling finished his orders. He sighed and said slowly: "The White Army is responsible for the troops of the four provinces of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Huguang. We... just keep a close eye on the Crazy Zhao! Let him cross the river, and then... close the door."

Liu Qi led five or six hundred ships of all sizes, all kinds of ships, all along the river. The navy, who received the emergency order, sent six warships, led by veteran Peng Shark himself, went up the river and met with great momentum.

Although there are no large pirates on the East China Sea, small pirates will never be killed. In order to encourage coastal people to communicate with each other, especially in the Ming Dynasty, merchants from the small countries of the four barbarians were somewhat suspicious, worried that danger would occur after rushing thousands of miles away. The navy's escort task was very arduous.

Peng Shark is old and never sends him to sea shipping. The old man was so idle that he was uncomfortable. When he heard that the bandit suppression mission was greatly boosted, he immediately volunteered to lead the fleet to help. In order to show that he was not old, the old shark had some idea. He carried a pair of tiger claws and carried a large bucket of rice to the commander, and prepared to perform live on the scene for the commander of the capital. "Liang Po is old and can still eat" in the finale, which made Bai Chongzan laugh and cry, so he had to send him out.

Liu Qi went east along the river and went up the river. Peng Shark went up the river and was walking with the wind. The boats were very fast. Although a land fast horse probe reported news that Liu Liu had five or six hundred ships, when he heard about the types of ships, Peng Shark just laughed:

Now the Ming Navy is the most powerful. Looking at the world, the most formal navy team is not their opponent. The white-clothed army is like a wolf or a tiger on the shore, and when it gets into the water, it is a native chicken and a tiled dog. What are you afraid of?

The old man was excited and was about to practice with the white army, and to reminisce about the happiness of robbing the house and robbing the house. However, Liu Qi had a leak, and Peng Laosha was so excited that he rushed upstream, trying to give him a few shots and smash these gangs of mob ships. Unexpectedly, when he was about to arrive in Taiping Mansion, he saw a corpse floating sampan in the river and a broken ship that had overturned the bottom, and the expected opponent was gone.

It turned out that Liu Qishun passed Anqing smoothly. The fleet had just arrived at Taiping Prefecture but it was not peaceful. The wind stormed on the river, causing surging waves. Some small boats collided with each other and capsized first. As soon as the mighty generals entered the water, they sank faster than lead blocks. There was no support for resistance at all.

The wind was getting stronger and stronger, the waves on the river were surging, and the huge waves were surging. Liu Qi's big ship was almost blown over. By the time the half-baked sailors rushed to the shore in panic and abandoned the ship to land, half of the five or six hundred ships had been overturned, drowned in the river and countless horses were robbed.

Some boats saw huge waves. They were stunned for a moment and actually raised their sails. As a result, the boat was swept upwards by the strong wind, and the bigger ones were also blown away by the strong wind. They either smashed other people's ships or smashed their own ships into leaking water. The bandits on the boat watched the ship sink little by little, and there was no way to pull the boats into the gang.

Some of them were scattered and were close to the river when the ship sank. With good physical strength, they actually scattered up. Liu Qi finally gathered the remaining soldiers scattered ashore and hurriedly counted them. The remaining 20,000 troops were less than 8,000. Some of them did not even have weapons. Most of the siege equipment carried on the ship and the three cannons brought from Hukou County were sunk into the river.

Liu Qi was sad and cried. Wangjiang cried, and Liu Hui and others were trying hard to stop. But at this time, the officers and soldiers of Taiping Prefecture, Minzhuang and the Anqing Prefecture who were chasing along the river were attacked. How can the morale and morale of the army fight now? Liu Qi disheveled his hair, held a big sword, and led the remaining soldiers to defeat him.

Li Taibai once lamented here, "Life is not satisfactory, and the Ming Dynasty was radiating small boats." However, Liu Qi dispersed his head and rolled over the boat. He had never fought such a cowardly battle. He fled and left, and finally escaped to Cuiluo Mountain, close to the Yangtze River. It was close to Nanjing, and there were heavy troops everywhere. After hearing the news, the officers and soldiers rushed to the ground and took the opportunity to beat the dogs in the water, gradually compressing the horse army with no morale to Caishiji on the western foot of Cuiluo Mountain.

The river was suddenly flowing north of Caishiji, with rugged cliffs, and he was leaning against the dangers of the officers and soldiers. Liu Qi had just recovered and was ready to revitalize the morale of the army, and rushed out of the encirclement of the officers and soldiers in one go. The rumbling behind him was loud and the sky-high price sounded, and the explosions in the forest were screaming.
To be continued...