Chapter 97 Singing Forward

Of course, these 100,000 Yujiajuns no longer need to support Yu Xiaotian himself. Now he can order the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of War to directly allocate food and salaries to his soldiers and horses. Nominally, these Yujiajun have been replaced with the vests of the Ming army.

In order to control the situation of the whole Ming Dynasty, Yu Xiaotian stayed in three elite mixed brigades in the Gyeonggi area. Except for one brigade in Beijing, the other two mixed brigades were stationed in Huairou, Jizhou, Tianjinwei, Tongzhou, Baoding and other places, forming an arch guard against Beijing.

As for the remaining 70,000 more than the family army, after Xiaotian took control of the situation in Beijing, he began to be gradually sent to various places.

Yu's army is different from other old-style armies. They are very dependent on logistics, especially the weapons and ammunition they use, which are almost all supplied by Fujian. 100,000 troops are concentrated in the north, which will cause a heavy logistical burden on Yu's army.

Therefore, while expanding his army, Yu Xiaotian transferred his troops to the south and stationed them in Shandong, Nanzhili, Huguang, Henan and other places. The main force was basically resettled along the Yangtze River.

In this way, when the logistics department supplies these soldiers and horses, they can first take the sea to Songjiang Mansion, and then turn to the Yangtze River against the current to maintain the needs of these soldiers and horses by ship.

In October, Hong Chengchou from Shaanxi sent back a pretty good news. With the cooperation of Sun Chuanting, they attacked both sides and drove Luo Rucai's troops from Huguang to Nanyang. Sun Chuanting led his troops to Nanyang to sit in the town, forcing Luo Ru to give up staying in the Nanyang area. , led the troops to escape back to the area of Luonan, Shaanxi.

As a result, Hong Chengchou had arranged an ambush in the Luonan area in advance. When Luo Ru led his troops to escape into the Luonan area, he was immediately blocked by Hong Chengchou's troops in the Bali Bridge area south of Luonan.

Hong Chengchou sent the main force of the Yujia army of the two battalions given to him by Yu Xiaotian. In addition, he mobilized thousands of newly integrated Shaanxi soldiers to attack Luo Rucai's troops.

As a result, Luo Ru was hit in the lower abdomen by a Minee bullet on the spot and was captured. More than 30,000 civilians led by him were immediately disintegrated by the ice hit by Hong Chengchou and captured nearly 20,000 soldiers.

Hong Chengchou was really murderous. After the victory, he immediately ordered the slaughter of more than 2,000 core personnel and leaders of Luo Rucai's troops, and the rest were dismissed and returned to their hometown for resettlement, or simply resettled directly on the spot, transforming them into peasants, so that Luo Rucai's group of exiles were completely eliminated, and there was no more The possibility of a comeback.

Of course, this news was quite good news for Yu Xiaotian, so he immediately ordered Zhongshu Province to draft a decree, praised Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, and allocated 30,000 taels of silver as a reward.

At this time, all kinds of the civilian army knew the strength of the Yu family army. It turned out that they had never dealt with the Yu family army and did not know where the Yu family army was. However, after this period of time of fighting with Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, they found that the old methods they used to deal with the officers and army before. It doesn't seem to work.

No matter what tricks they use, no matter how many of their soldiers can fight, as long as they meet the Yu family army equipped with fire-guns under the command of Hong Sun, they will only be slaughtered on one side.

Li Zicheng just took a breath of his breath and was targeted by Hong Chengchou. This time, Hong Chengchou did not take Li Zicheng first, but concentrated on it and killed several exiles such as 100,000 Ma Jinzhong, the neat Wang Zhang Pangzi, and Zhang Dashou, forcing them to disperse or surrender, and then he would kill them with Sun Chuanting. Luo Ru was only one, which made Li Zicheng's troops save their main force, but also lost the cooperation of several other civilian troops.

At the end of Chongzhen's 12th year, Zhang Xianzhong fled to Hanzhong under the pursuit of Sun Chuanting. Hong Chengchou sent a battalion of Yu's army. In addition, Cao Gengjiao led 5,000 new Shaanxi soldiers to enter the Hanzhong area and began to pursue Zhang Xianzhong's troops.

Zhang Xianzhong was forced to lead more than 20,000 civilian troops in the Hanzhong area and fought a decisive battle with Cao's headquarters. At first, Cao's troops and Zhang Xianzhong did not take advantage of the battle. Zhang Xianzhong personally led the army to attack Cao's headquarters. Cao's troops were relatively small and could not withstand the fierce attack of Zhang Xianzhong's headquarters. You have to retreat.

When Zhang Xianzhong saw that Cao Bianjiao was repulsed, he was very interested and immediately waved his division to cover it up. However, when Cao Xianzhong escaped more than ten miles into a narrow valley, he stopped at the end of the valley, returned to carry Zhang Xianzhong's troops, and introduced 6,000 to the valley under Zhang Xianzhong's command.

Zhang Xianzhong was an old fried dough stick. After the striker entered the valley, he felt that something seemed to be wrong, so he ordered the rest of the soldiers and horses not to enter the valley.

As a result, the 6,000 Xianzhong's men who entered the valley were stopped and cut off in the valley by a family army. With Cao Bianjiao at the other end, they blocked more than 6,000 Xianzhong's subordinates in the valley. They fired randomly and detonated mines. As a result, more than 2,000 people under more than 6,000 Xianzhong's men were on the spot. Killed, all the rest abandoned their weapons and surrendered, becoming prisoners of the officers and soldiers.

Zhang Xianzhong found that there was an ambush in the valley in front of him and did not dare to stay at all. He led the remnants to turn around and run away. After Cao Changjiao and the battalion commander of Yu Jiajun solved Zhang Xianzhong's men in the valley, they immediately began to lead their troops to chase Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhang Xianzhong abandoned Hanzhong and broke into Baoning Mansion in Sichuan, trying to repeat his old skills to rest in Sichuan for a period of time, and then plan to get out of Sichuan and enter Huguang.

But this is not a year ago. Sichuan has been replaced by a new governor, who is Lord Xiong Wencan, an old acquaintance of Yu Xiaotian.

Xiong Wencan was implicated in the matter of Yu Xiaotian. As a result, he could not become the governor of five provinces as in history. Instead, he was dismissed and removed from his post for the people and rushed back to his hometown in Sichuan for retirement.

Now Yu Xiaotian holds great power. Of course, he has not forgotten the old acquaintance of Xiong Wencan, so he restored him in the name of Chongzhen and temporarily stayed in Sichuan as a governor to preside over the anti-thieves in Sichuan.

Xiong Wencan is quite grateful for Yu Xiaotian's nostalgia. After taking office, he boldly implemented various new policies in accordance with Yu Xiaotian's instructions, and used the 200 Dings assigned to him by Yu Xiaotian as the backbone to compile 15,000 new troops in Sichuan.

These new army officers in Sichuan are basically all from the old army and have been professionally trained in the military martial arts hall of the army, and most of them are good at mountain combat. Although the number of new army trained by Xiong Wencan is not large, the equipment is not as good as that of the family army. The level, but the will to fight is not weaker than that of the family army.

This time, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting jointly entered Zhang Xianzhong's headquarters and informed Xiong Wencan in advance. When Xiong Wencan learned the news, he immediately sent troops to strengthen the defense around Kuizhou Prefecture and Baoning Prefecture, and most of the newly trained more than 10,000 new troops were sent to Baoning Prefecture.

As a result, without Zhang Xianzhong's knowledge, he led the remnants of his troops to the territory of Baoning Mansion. Before Zhang Xianzhong turned into zero into the mountains and forests, he encountered the strong resistance of the Sichuan army in Lizhou Wei.

The new army of the 3,000 Sichuan Army, led by dozens of old troops of the Yu family army, blocked Zhang Xianzhong's way in Lizhouwei, and the two sides immediately launched a fierce battle.

Although the equipment quality of this 3,000 Sichuan army is far inferior to the regular army, it is very good at mountain warfare, and what kind of officers are brought out. These new armies are all honest mountain people, with a strong sense of obedience and a very brave battle.

Although they are mainly equipped with cold weapons, mainly with knives, spears and bows and crossbows, they still fought very resolutely when they blocked Zhang Xianzhong's troops. In the case of limited strength, they blocked a mountain pass and fought to the death. Dozens of officers in the old army took the lead. The crowd was at the forefront, so that the remaining soldiers did not retreat and went to the next battle.

Zhang Xianzhong had a pursuer, and there was a block in front of him. He saw that this batch of Sichuan soldiers' firearms were not sharp, so he launched a fierce attack, and even threw his closest soldiers and horses into the battlefield at the cost of his blood, and launched dozens of attacks in a row.

However, these 3,000 Sichuan soldiers and new troops are like a dam. No matter how they attack, they still remain motionless. The two sides killed in the dark at this mountain pass of Lizhouwei.

Because the weapons are not very powerful, the casualties of these new Sichuan soldiers are also very large, but they used phalan array tactics, the knifemen and the long spearmen effectively cooperated, and the archers behind them cooperated to carry out a slightly long-range launch, making Zhang Xianzhong's troops unable to attack repeatedly, but suffered heavy losses at the mountain pass.

The three fierce generals under Zhang Xianzhong were folded in front of this group of Sichuan army. After a day of fighting, Zhang Xianzhong was unable to break through the interception of this group of Sichuan soldiers, so he had to order the retreat and prepare to make a detour to give up entering Lizhouwei and flee to other places.

But what he didn't expect was that these Sichuan soldiers who had been exhausted still did not give up. The officers led the remaining 2,000 Sichuan soldiers and bit Zhang Xianzhong's troops to death, shouting that Zhang Xianzhong was dead while chasing and killing them.

Zhang Xianzhong's unit itself was beaten enough during this period, and the soldiers had become frightened birds. At this time, when they retreated, they were even more chaotic. Suddenly, they heard the Sichuan soldiers shouting that Zhang Xianzhong was dead. Many of Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates did not know whether it was true or false. Suddenly, the army collapsed and began to run all over the mountains. Escape.