"How could Yu Zhizhou be so confused?" After hearing the urgent report, Wu Shigong could no longer take pleasure in others' misfortunes. He was only thinking about how to face the bad news brought back by the messenger.

Facing the rampaging Ruzhou Army, the defeated peasant armies were afraid of running away, so they all avoided this mad dog-like Ming army. However, after hiding for a while, the leaders of the peasant armies finally

Come back to think about it.

In fact, from the beginning to the end of the battle, despite the fact that the Ruzhou Army was always aggressive and had the upper hand, their battles were carried out wherever they went, with no rules at all.

Although the leaders of the peasant army have never learned military skills, after so many years of rebellion, they are somewhat familiar with battle formations. Therefore, after several battles, they have some understanding of the combat characteristics of the Ruzhou Army.

Facing the enemy head-on is definitely not as good as the Ruzhou Army, but entangling them from a distance on the periphery and attracting the Ruzhou Army to pursue them will prevent them from forming a formation and then take the opportunity to counterattack. This is what the leader of the Peasant Army came up with to deal with the Ruzhou Army.

method.

So the Ruzhou Army fell into the quagmire like a bull surrounded by wolves. At this time, Yu Zilian also saw the signs, and he made a prompt decision, gathered the Ruzhou Army together, and returned to Ruzhou City.

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Anyway, those peasant armies did not dare to confront the Ruzhou Army head-on, and the Ruzhou Army's results this time were also very brilliant. As long as there is a threat from the Ruzhou Army in the future, the peasant army will not dare to enter the hinterland of Henan. It should be said that Ruzhou Army

The purpose of the army's attack was also achieved. Afterwards, just as Yu Zilian expected, seeing the departure of the Ruzhou Army, no peasant army dared to block their return.

But at this time, the peasant army ushered in a powerful force. Lao Huihui Ma Shooying led more than 40,000 troops into Henan first.

Because it was difficult to find food in Shaanxi, Gao Yingxiang decided to make two preparations after discussing with the leaders. The first preparation was that Gao Yingxiang would personally lead the main force to stay in Shaanxi and fight Hong Chengchou's tribe. If he won, he would take advantage of the opportunity to occupy the entire territory of Shaanxi and use this as a foundation to build a new empire.

On the road to conquer the world.

The other preparation is that if the war situation is unfavorable, the peasant army will enter Henan and Huguang again. Because the food supply in Shaanxi is too difficult, they can't even grab much. So Lao Huihui Ma Shouying entered Henan as a vanguard.

Lao Huihui Ma Shouying first raised the banner of rebellion together with Gao Yingxiang, Luo Rucai and others as border soldiers. Among the rebellious border troops, there were not only Han, but also Hui and Mongolian members, so Gao Yingxiang and Ma Shouying were

This team is composed of the so-called "Yi Han surrendered to the Ding", a "strong armored cavalry and disciplined soldiers" composed of Han, Hui and other ethnic groups.

Therefore, Ma Shouying has very senior qualifications and a high status in the peasant army, and his subordinates from the old battalion are also very capable in combat. In addition, Ma Shouying himself is also known in the peasant army for being resourceful and capable of fighting. Therefore, when Ma Shouying is a member of the army,

Entering Henan, the leaders of the peasant armies who entered Henan first immediately took him as their leader.

So Ma Shouying immediately learned that there was a Ming army like the Ruzhou Army in front of him. This surprised Ma Shouying. Unlike those leaders who were like minions, Ma Shouying knew which Ming armies in the world could be called strong.

, who are the generals who lead the army? In which area are the Ming armies distributed and active?

Originally, when Ma Shouying entered Henan, he only had to guard against Xuanmo's tribe and Wu Shigong's Runing army, but now an unknown and powerful army suddenly appeared out of thin air, which added considerable variables.

Ma Shouying couldn't help but shook his head. Last time the peasant army entered Henan, a Runing army suddenly appeared; this time it entered Henan again, another Ruzhou army suddenly appeared. Could it be that the officials in Henan know magic? They have all learned it.

Spreading beans and making an army? Of course Ma Shouying didn't know either. Until now, even Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers of the DPRK didn't know that the Ruzhou Army suddenly appeared in their own country.

And the most annoying thing is that the combat style of this Ruzhou army is quite a headache for the peasant army. For the peasant army, as long as the Ming army huddles around the city, it will not matter even if it has 100,000 troops, but this Runing army

But the army likes to take the initiative to attack. Don't you see, in the past, Cao Wenzhao could kill tens of thousands of peasant soldiers by taking the initiative to attack with thousands of troops, right?

But Ma Shouying asked about the entire battle process, and he also understood the characteristics of the Ruzhou Army. He keenly discovered that the Ruzhou Army can only be described in two words - immature.

The tactics are immature, the command is immature, the battle is very brave, but the morale is incredibly high. Such an army, if it wins a few more great victories, may be fully integrated and indeed become a strong army.

What needs to be considered more is that because the Ruzhou Army is quite immature, in other words, it is not playing according to common sense. If the peasant army is fighting against other Ming armies at the most critical time, such an offensive force will

The Ming army suddenly appeared and would probably beat the old master to death with random punches.

So now we take advantage of this opportunity to nip the seeds of this strong army in the cradle. This will also be of great benefit to the future actions of the peasant army.

Ma Shouying first directed the peasant troops behind the Ruzhou Army to approach and entangle the Ruzhou Army. Then he sent a large number of reconnaissance cavalry to detect the movements of the Ming Army in the surrounding areas, and first determined that the Ruzhou Army was a lone army.

Then, Ma Shouying gathered more than 4,000 elite cavalry from each battalion to go ahead. He personally led more than 38,000 infantry and quickly approached the direction of the Ruzhou Army.

When the Ruzhou Army realized that the peasant army behind them was approaching, they immediately stopped and made a resolute countercharge. They won another great victory, beheading more than a thousand people and capturing a thousand and a half thousand people, fully demonstrating that they were not afraid of tigers as newborn calves.

But after such a delay, at dusk on August 13, the vanguard cavalry of Ma Shouxin's Department arrived.

After the two sides met, they started fighting without saying a word. Without any probing at all, the peasant army's cavalry formed a good formation and immediately launched a general attack, hoping to completely defeat the Ming army in front of them before sunset.

At this time, the soldiers of the Ruzhou Army also admired Yu Zilian to the extreme. So under Yu Zilian's instigation, they broke out with astonishing fighting power, and even blocked the general attack of the peasant army's cavalry with infantry and cavalry.

In this confrontation, the Ruzhou Army suffered more than 1,000 casualties, while the Peasant Army's cavalry suffered more than 500 casualties. From the scene, it looked like a draw. But in fact, the mentality of the coaches of both sides was completely different.

When the Ruzhou Army set out, its number was only over 5,000, but now even after suffering the loss of these 1,000 people, the strength of the Ruzhou Army still exceeded 10,000, so Yu Zilian was completely indifferent to this loss.

But Ma Shouying was different. Although there were more than 4,000 cavalrymen in the Peasant Army, most of them rode horses to make up the numbers. It was okay for them to fight with the wind, but they were not capable of charging in formation.

Therefore, the cavalry that Ma Shou should lose were basically the front row soldiers riding war horses. This loss made Ma Shou so distressed that when he rushed to the battlefield with his main force in the evening, he immediately cursed the cavalry general who led the team.

Had a meal.

Indeed, the Ruzhou Army did not go through any battle formations at all. If the cavalry of the Peasant Army were not so impatient and focused on shooting arrows from a distance to disrupt the Ruzhou Army's formation before charging, the Ruzhou Army might not be able to maintain the formation at all.

The cavalry that resisted the peasant army must have been defeated by the peasant army long ago!

At this time, the peasant army had gathered more than 70,000 people, and its momentum seemed to be huge. So some generals of the Ruzhou Army proposed to retreat, for fear that the peasant army in front of them would cut off their retreat.

But Yu Zilian was so arrogant that he ordered the entire army to camp on the spot, not caring about the peasant army in front of him, because the Ruzhou Army's previous victory with a small number made Yu Zilian look down upon the peasant army's combat effectiveness.

This first shows a shortcoming of the Ruzhou Army. Their spies were very ineffective and did not detect that Ma Shouying's troops had entered Henan, nor did they detect that the combat effectiveness of Ma Shouying's troops was completely different from that of the previous peasant army.

Of course, this cannot all be blamed on Yu Zilian. Because the army was formed in a hurry, it was not easy for Yu Zilian to ensure that these soldiers had weapons. It was completely impossible to form a huge and expensive cavalry.

However, Yu Zilian also has his own confidence. Due to the seizures along the way and the requisition of gentry, the current Ruzhou army has no shortage of food and grass, and can fully support it for more than two months.

And Yu Zilian was even more prepared to build a strong camp on the spot, just to let the peasant army on the opposite side attack. You must know that the Ruzhou Army fully learned from the Runing Army, so the use of firearms in their army is also very common. Although the Ruzhou Army

The firearms of the state army are not as sophisticated as those of the Runing army, but they are completely enough to deal with the peasant army who have no armor and stomach.

Moreover, Yu Zilian also had two preparations. One was to rely on the camp to take the initiative to attack, and if successful, he would defeat the peasant army in front of him again; the other was to defend the camp. The Ruzhou Army, which had many people and sufficient food, was not afraid of the peasant army attacking.

As long as we delay the peasant army in front of us and wait until the Ming army arrives from everywhere, wouldn't it be another great victory? So Yu Zilian sent fast cavalry towards the Runing army, Kaifeng City and other Ming armies overnight.

You must use yourself as bait to attract the peasant army in front of you, and then launch a major encirclement and annihilation battle.

This battle plan is quite grand! It cannot be said that Yu Zilian was at fault. If Yu Zilian's vision was followed, the success rate of this encirclement and annihilation battle would be quite high.

But at this time, Yu Zilian made another mistake. He chose the wrong place to set up camp in the night. There was no problem elsewhere, except that the water point for the Ruzhou Army was a creek next to the camp.

The creek is not a river, it can be easily cut off. Sure enough, in the early morning, Yu Zilian discovered that the peasant army was starting work on the upper reaches of the creek. Yu Zilian immediately made amends, using all the containers to fill them while there was still running water.
Chapter completed!