Chapter 435: Falling into the Rhythm of the Runing Army
"Shopkeeper Li, shopkeeper Li! You must tell Boss Xue about the slave family's requirements!" Tang Mei begged bitterly.
"Got it! Got it!" Shopkeeper Li waved his hand impatiently, "You'd better go out quickly. Don't arouse the suspicion of your servants at the door."
Seeing the veiled woman reluctantly leaving, Shopkeeper Li was in a state of confusion.
Shopkeeper Li was one of the first batch of local veterans recruited by Wu Shigong after he arrived in Henan. He was injured on the battlefield and was not suitable to stay in the army. But he was quick-witted and loyal to Wu Shigong, so he was selected by Xue Zhinong
Shanchuan Si became the leader of the spies in charge of Kaifeng City.
Externally, shopkeeper Li opened a grocery store in Kaifeng City, which had no connection with Runing Army or even Runing Army's industry, Sihai Trading Company. But internally, he had everything to deploy spies from the Shanchuan Division in Kaifeng City and collect intelligence.
that power.
However, shopkeeper Li also has another mission, which is to contact Tang Mei through a single line. If it is general information, Tang Mei may contact another point through her illiterate maid. But for important information, she will go directly to shopkeeper Li’s grocery store.
Come to the shop.
So shopkeeper Li was shocked when he saw Tang Mei today. He knew that there must be an emergency. But even though he was mentally prepared, shopkeeper Li still stayed calm on the spot after hearing Tang Mei's information. This news really made your decision.
Ning Jun's life and death hangs in the balance!
So when Tang Mei begged to leave the Shanchuan Division, shopkeeper Li had no intention of getting entangled. He thought of sending Tang Mei out earlier, and then arranged for people to send this important information back to the Runing Army as soon as possible.
"Zhuzi!" Shopkeeper Li shouted loudly.
A young man looking at the counter at the door immediately responded and ran into the back room. This was shopkeeper Li's nephew, and they were the only two people who took care of the grocery store on weekdays. Shopkeeper Li didn't have any children, so he thought about it in the future.
The errands of his Yamakawa Division were handed over to his nephew to take over, so now he takes his nephew with him to train.
Shopkeeper Li took out a piece of paper and wrote a dozen people's names on it. He handed it to Zhu Zhu and said, "Go and run around quickly. If you find all these people, call them over. Those who are not here will be ignored."
Yes, don’t waste time.”
Half an hour later, Zhu Zhu, sweating profusely, led six people to the grocery store. When they entered the back room, they were surprised to find shopkeeper Li putting two blunderbuss and some short blades on the table in the back room.
Seeing the arrival of these people, Shopkeeper Li didn't waste any time and immediately made arrangements: "There is an urgent letter to be delivered to my home. Let's divide into groups of five people. I will lead the group and go straight home through Kaifeng Mansion.
"A group of three people," shopkeeper Li hesitated for a moment, then said, "led by Zhu Zhu. We will take a detour to Guide Mansion to go home. We all know that there are Shaanxi bandits on the road, so everyone must take care. Get them all. We will be there soon.
Pick up horses from the carriage shop outside the city."
Shopkeeper Li then gave each person a small bamboo tube with a note, and then said: "You can walk together or separately. As long as one person spreads the news home, he will have made a great contribution."
The eight people in the room silently took the small bamboo tube, and then followed Shopkeeper Li out of the grocery store. When they walked out, Zhu Zhu asked: "Second uncle! Isn't the door of the grocery store closed?"
Shopkeeper Li smiled bitterly, shook his head, and said, "Why do you still care about this grocery store?"
Shopkeeper Li knew that this trip was quite dangerous. Because he was in a hurry, he needed to ride a fast horse. But through the area where peasant rebels and bandits were rampant, the small group of people on horseback were like beacons in the dark night.
Same.
Shopkeeper Li could only take the more dangerous straight path by himself and let his nephew take the safer detour. As for those handguns and short blades, they were just to embolden the courage. Tang Mei had already asked her to take care of her.
Shopkeeper Li left him behind.
On November 25, the seventh year of Chongzhen, the spies arranged by the Shanchuan Division in Kaifeng City learned of the three-pronged attack by the peasant rebel army. They sent eight messengers, each taking different roads.
Among them, Shopkeeper Li and the other five were all missing when they passed through Kaifeng Mansion. Only two of them, including Li Zhu, survived and took a detour to Guide Mansion and sent the news back to the Runing Army headquarters.
Deng Qifan and Xue Yongli, who stayed at the headquarters, were shocked when they learned the news. They immediately sent messengers to deliver this important news to Wu Shigong, who was leading the army to fight in Ruzhou. However, six days had passed and it was already the twelfth lunar month.
It's the second grade of junior high school.
The gate of the camp was opened. A group of cavalry roared into the camp. The cavalry flaunted their heads and captured bodies on the ground, causing a burst of cheers and whistles from the cavalry and the soldiers in the camp.
"Sir! The morale is very high!" Zhou Xun looked at the cavalry who were still juggling on horseback and said to Wu Shigong happily.
"These bastards!" Wu Shigong also laughed and shook his head.
Now this battle has completely fallen into the rhythm of the Runing Army. It has been eight days since the encounter with the peasant rebels on the South Road, and the Runing Army has completely entangled them.
The reason why the peasant rebels are called wandering bandits is because their power is reflected in the word "flow". If they cannot flow, then the peasant rebels, who have no base and relatively low combat effectiveness, will immediately abandon their martial arts.
This is why the peasant rebels fled to the mountainous areas whenever the situation went bad, because after entering the mountainous areas, it was difficult for the Ming army to entangle the peasant rebels.
The Ming Dynasty court also knew this, so no matter who was in charge of the encirclement and suppression of the peasant rebels, he would come up with an encirclement and suppression strategy similar to the one proposed by Wu Shigong before - regional defense and full-court press.
Peasant rebellions broke out.
Moreover, this strategy was also a panacea, and it was easy to deal with refugee rebellions. This strategy was still adopted until the end of the Qing Dynasty when the Hunan Army encircled and suppressed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Although the strategy is good, it still needs good commanders and troops to implement it. This also shows that everyone can change the tricks, and each one has his own ingenuity. For example, last time Chen Qiyu forced the peasant rebel army into a desperate situation, but
In the blink of an eye, there was a change in the carriage gorge, so he managed to pull off the trick.
The main reason why the peasant rebel army on the South Road cannot move forward is that they are now in the great plains in the hinterland of Henan, and they are facing a powerful army like the Runing Army. (To be continued, please search
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