Qi Yanming led 20,000 rebel forwards from Huaxian County in the early morning to Baima Ferry. His mission was to occupy Baima Ferry, observe the enemy's situation nearby, build fortifications across the river, and search for boats to cross the river in nearby villages.
The strategy of going south to occupy the fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River and compete with the imperial court came from Qi Yanming's suggestion. Qi Yanming was a man who had seen the world. He had stayed in the south for a period of time and witnessed the wealth and luxury of the south.
He knew that it was the rice in the south that supported the entire Ming Dynasty. Occupying Nanjing not only meant ruling across the river, but also controlled the land where the Ming Dynasty produced rice and was rich in money and food. For the Ming Dynasty court, losing the southeastern land meant that they
It will only become weaker day by day.
Qi Yanming was very happy that this suggestion could be adopted. He was even more happy that it could be accepted by Liu Liu, Liu Qi, Yang Hu and others. For him, this was a sure blessing if he survived the catastrophe. Back in Zhao County, he accidentally missed
He was caught. The gangsters from the village came to attack the county town and rob the prison, but were beaten to a pulp by a group of Beijing cavalry that appeared on the way.
After the Marquis Zhang of Jianchang questioned him, he was taken to Zhending Mansion for trial. Qi Yanming thought he was going to die, but to his surprise, the inmates in Zhending Mansion Prison told him,
Even if Qi Yanming is a thief, no matter how big the deeds he has done, as long as he is willing to pay the money, he can survive.
Qi Yanming didn't believe it at first. He observed secretly and found that someone really spent money to get him out. There were many people in prison. Ordinary people asked their families to pay twenty taels of silver to be released. Those who committed crimes paid more.
Some.
Qi Yanming saw it clearly and was overjoyed. It turned out that these government officials had communicated with the jailers and used this method to make money in a naked way. All the laws of the court and the prisoners could be clearly marked with a price.
Qi Yanming immediately asked the jailer if he could redeem his freedom with money. The jailer scolded him and whipped him twice. Qi Yanming was very puzzled. Could it be that because he was a thief, he could not be redeemed?
Any chance?
But that night, the jailer called him out and talked to him alone in a small room. He told Qi Yanming that such things should not be made public. He asked Qi Yanming in front of so many people, but the jailer could only scold him and beat him.
Pause. Otherwise, how could it be spread out?
Qi Yanming suddenly realized. Because he was the military advisor of the thieves in Xifengzhai and a prisoner on death row who wanted to lose his head. So he wanted to redeem himself and was worth a lot. The prison officer told him that if a person like him wanted to get out, he had to go to
Up and down
He got the advantage and blocked everyone's mouths before he could get out. Finally, he was given a huge price of 3,000 taels of silver. He said that if he could come up with 3,000 taels of silver, he could leave the prison and fly free from now on.
, the vastness of the sea depends on the leaping fish.
To be honest, three thousand taels of silver to buy a life is actually not high. But it depends on the life of the person. If ordinary people were asked to hand over three thousand taels to buy their lives, they would definitely tell the government and they would still kill them.
They are so good. Even if you squeeze them dry and squeeze out their flesh and blood, you won't be able to squeeze out so much money.
This amount of money is also a huge amount of money for Qi Yanming. Everyone is poor these days, and life is not easy for thieves. It is just a legend that they eat large pieces of meat and divide the gold on large scales. It is also common for thieves to eat a full meal and go hungry.
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However, Qi Yanming didn't have it, others did. The jailer told Qi Yanming that he could ask his brother to help him, and also hinted that there were many rich people in Zhending Mansion.
Qi Yanming immediately sent the news. The brothers in Xifeng Village were so loyal. When they learned that they could buy Qi Yanming's life with money, they secretly entered the city. A few days later, Ma Xiaoyun, the son of Ma Dayun in the west of the city, was kidnapped. The kidnappers did not
More or less, just three thousand taels. If you don't give it within three days, or report it to the official, the vote will be taken away.
Ma Dayun was so panicked that he hurriedly paid the money. The kidnappers got the money, and Ma Xiaoyun also regained his freedom. Also regaining his freedom was a gang leader named Qi Yanming who was in prison.
After Liu Liu, Liu Qi, Yang Hu and others in Wen'an County started an uprising, Qi Yanming and others responded immediately. They also formed a team in Zhending Mansion. When Shenlong Zhongwei went to Baoding Mansion to put down the rebellion, Qi Yanming and others started a rebellion behind them.
The Xifeng Village, which had about a hundred people, quickly expanded to more than a thousand people.
However, the rebels in Wen'an County were obviously more powerful. They gathered tens of thousands of troops, occupied Baoding Prefecture, and eliminated the Shenlong Central Guards and the Three Guards of Hejian Prefecture. Their reputation became increasingly famous. In this case, Qi Yanming negotiated with the village leaders.
If you want to do something big, you must go to Liu Liu, Liu Qi and the others. Otherwise, with their thousands of people, they will not be able to capture the big city.
Eventually we have to break up.
In this way, Qi Yanming went to defect with thousands of people.
The reputation of the horse thieves in Zhao County is resounding, and Qi Yanming's name, Liu Liu, Liu Qi, is also known to them. They are both good men on the road. Although they have never met, their deeds have been spread for a long time. What's more, Qi Yanming has also read books and is a wise man.
Yes, we also brought more than a thousand people to serve as candidates. This is much better than recruiting people ourselves.
Liu Liu and others believed that they must treat Qi Yanming kindly and set an example for the heroes in the village, so that they can also bring their own troops to defect. In this way, the team will be much stronger. Therefore, Qi Yanming was named a general and was promoted by Liu
The sixth class people attach great importance to it.
Especially after Qi Yanming proposed the general strategy of going south and conquering across the river, Liu Liuyang Hu regarded him as a very strategic person, and he trusted him even more.
This time they were exploring Baima Ferry and preparing to cross the river. Liu Liu was worried about no one, but he believed that Qi Yanming could handle the matter. So Qi Yanming was appointed as the general of the vanguard army and came with more than 20,000 troops.
The afternoon sun made people drowsy, and the army marched very slowly. Qi Yanming kept reminding the rebel soldiers to speed up. However, the continuous marching made the rebel soldiers very tired.
After experiencing a series of fierce battles and siege, the mental and physical exhaustion was very severe. They fought and marched almost non-stop from Baoding Mansion to now. They spent nearly a month in this state. It was very difficult.
It's hard to cheer up again.
The soldiers and horses bypassed a mountain ridge, and in front of them was an open wilderness. This is the alluvial land of the old course of the Yellow River. The terrain is flat and open, and it looks very comfortable. When we reach this kind of terrain, it means that the White Horse Ferry is not far away. The White Horse Ferry is not far away.
As an ancient ferry on the Yellow River, it was chosen to build a ferry where the terrain was open and the river was gentle. The terrain conditions were a prerequisite for the establishment of the ancient ferry.
Qi Yanming also breathed a sigh of relief. We were finally here. The ferry of the Yellow River should be just a few miles away. Soon we could seize the ferry and get boats to cross the river. From then on, the rebel army spread across the world and galloped wildly.
At this moment, someone felt the earth tremble slightly. At first, they thought it was the vibration of many soldiers and horses marching around them, but soon they discovered that it was not the case. It was a kind of shaking that made the whole ground shake, and they heard it in their ears.
To the sound of rumbling and rumbling noises.
"Don't move, listen to what the sound is?" Qi Yanming also felt it and ordered loudly.
The soldiers stopped one after another. Although the soldiers and horses in the rear were still moving forward, the footsteps of the stopped soldiers disappeared, and you could more clearly feel the shaking of the earth and the dull roar coming from your ears.
"What is that?" someone suddenly shouted pointing forward.
Everyone looked up and saw on the distant horizon, under the clear sky, a barrier of smoke and dust rising in the air. The flying smoke and dust were very eye-catching under the clear sky, just like the feeling of a sandstorm coming.
"What's going on? Is the sky going to change? Where did the dust storm come from in Hebei?" Everyone thought in shock.
"It's the cavalry!" A rebel soldier murmured in a low voice.
"What?" the person next to me asked in surprise.
"Cavalry, that's cavalry. Lots of cavalry." The rebel soldier shouted angrily.
Everyone reacted at once, and they soon discovered a row of dense black spots under the sand and dust approaching. The south wind was blowing hard, and the roar brought by the wind was mixed with the neighing of horses.
Those were indeed cavalry. They charged like a strong wind. The horses' hooves stepped on the dry wilderness, stirring up smoke and dust and rising into the air, like a storm coming.
"Every unit defends in place! Archers are ready! Spearmen are ready! Form a horse formation!" Qi Yanming shouted again at the top of his lungs.
What kind of formation is the Horse Rejection Formation? The rebel soldiers did not know this. They stood at a loss and were at a loss.
"The shield is held up, the spear is stabbed behind the shield, and the archer shoots from the inside! Hurry up, these idiots." Qi Yanming had to curse and explain.
It’s no wonder that the rebel soldiers had no formal training and didn’t know what a cavalry formation was. They didn’t even know how to face a cavalry charge.
Even though Qi Yanming explained clearly, it was too late to form a formation at this moment. He barely forced the shield soldiers to hold up the big shield, the archers hurriedly prepared their arrows, and the spearmen were barely in place. In the chaos, the opponent's cavalry had already
It surges forward like a convolution of a strong wind.
"Fire the arrow!" Qi Yanming roared.
"Swish, swish, swish!" The arrows from the front team shot out, forming a moving dark cloud in the sky, and shot towards the charging cavalry.
Qi Yanming called for advance. He estimated the original speed of the opponent's cavalry, so he called for arrow release in advance. In this way, when the arrow fell, the opponent just entered the shooting range of about a hundred steps.
The purpose of this is to add one or two rounds of shooting, allowing the archer to be more effective.
However, what he didn't expect was that the opponent's cavalry began to cut across one hundred and fifty steps diagonally. The entire cavalry was divided into two, one running diagonally to the left and the other. A rain of arrows was barely avoided.
In other words, it was not avoidance, but failure. Because the opponent had no intention of hitting the rebel formation head-on.
They passed diagonally from the flank to avoid the horse-rejecting formation in front of the witness.
When the second round of arrows was fired, the two cavalry teams had already rushed towards the east and west flanks of the rebel army. After running hundreds of steps, they were like a steel knife cutting diagonally into the flank of the rebel army.
The flanks were unobstructed and there were no means of defense. The torrent of war horses rushed in with an unstoppable force. The rebel formation was cut off by the lazy waist and divided into three parts.
Amidst a series of screams of war horses and pitiful cries of people, the cavalryman was like a butcher's knife, cutting into the flesh with extremely smooth silk.
The roar of firecrackers, the whine of bows and arrows, and the screams of men and horses resounding instantly echoed through the mountains and fields.
The fierce fighting reached its climax from the beginning.