On the eighth day of September, Cao Bianjiao led his army to walk in the valley of the central county.
After the great victory over the Chuang army in Yanzhou, Li Zicheng no longer dared to come forward to fight. One hundred thousand officers and soldiers rushed directly towards Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, with great momentum.
As long as Xi'an is occupied, there will be no place for the invaders. If Li Zicheng flees into the mountains, the rebels will definitely break away from Li Zicheng's command. By then, the 200,000 invaders will be defeated, and Shaanxi will be pacified.
Already.
It was too easy to win the battle of Yanzhou, and the whole new army was filled with excitement. After training hard for several years, it is indeed more exciting to be so overwhelmed on the battlefield for the first time. Cao Bianjiao did not pour cold water on the soldiers.
He actually felt that this excitement could improve the morale of the entire army.
In fact, Cao Bianjiao was also very excited.
In the past, Cao Bianjiao was dumbfounded when he saw Li Zhi's Tiger and Ben army killing all directions. At that time, Cao Bianjiao only worshiped the combat effectiveness of the Tiger and Ben army. He never thought that one day he could lead such an army of firearms. However, today, Cao Bianjiao
Indeed, he has captured a troop approaching the Tiger Army.
Like the Huben Army, the Beijing New Army has firecrackers and cannons, and can defeat enemies several times their own.
It seems very easy to lead such a force to wipe out the intruders. When the time comes to defeat the intruders and then go south to attack the thieves, you really want to be granted a title!
After the Ding thieves were also wiped out and Huguang was controlled, the size of the new army would be expanded. Which civil servant in the south would dare to disobey the emperor's order?
Cao Bianjiao was riding a horse through the valleys of Shaanxi Province, and there was a sense of pride in his movements.
Even the three general soldiers picked out by Cao Bianjiao were equally excited.
Having been singled out in Shanxi before, the three generals were still a little uneasy, worried that this trip would be a disaster. After all, Li Zicheng's army of thieves numbered more than 200,000, and they were on defense. And Cao Bianjiao's new army plus the three generals
There are only 100,000 soldiers in the main barracks. If 100,000 people fight against more than 200,000 people, there is no chance of winning.
Over the years, the Chuang army has absorbed a large number of deserters from the border army, and its combat effectiveness is even stronger than that of the official army. The bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty have become increasingly corrupt, and the treatment given to soldiers in the towns of the border army is extremely poor, but among the Chuang army, the strong are respected.
The atmosphere places great emphasis on truly capable soldiers. Under such circumstances, a large number of veterans from border towns defected to thieves.
Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands of cavalry were almost all veterans from border towns, but the real official army was full of recruits who lacked training, had never seen blood, and had low morale. Under such circumstances, who has the combat power of the official army and the invading army?
Who is strong and who is weak is self-evident.
The three generals of Xuanfu, Datong and Jizhen Dongxie were very upset that they were selected by Wu Jinglue Cao Bianjiao.
However, after the First World War in Yanzhou, the attitude of the three generals changed completely. They discovered that the combat effectiveness of the emperor's new army was so incredible that it could rival the legendary Tiger and Ben Army. Following such a new army, they defeated more than twenty people.
Wan Chuangjun found it easy.
This trip to Shaanxi was simply to gain military exploits.
Furthermore, since the emperor's new army is so powerful, it will become inevitable for the emperor to fully control the situation in the future and purge officials from the Donglin Party in the local area. If you can keep up with Cao Bianjiao at this time, you might be able to become the emperor.
Direct lineage, escaping the great purge in the future.
The three general soldiers seemed to have changed in the past half month. They rushed to flatter Cao Bianjiao and pushed Yang Guozhu and other general soldiers of the Beijing camp to the back.
Yang Guozhu and others naturally despised this.
However, people like Yang Guozhu were the commander-in-chief appointed by the emperor, and their future prospects were immeasurable. Naturally, they would not compete with Wei Dazhong and others for the opportunity to flatter Cao Cao.
Yang Guozhu was riding in the middle of the army, and suddenly five scouts came galloping in front of him. The scouts rode all the way to Yang Guozhu's side and said loudly to Yang Guozhu: "At the military gate, there are a large number of intruder cavalry gathered thirty miles southwest, and they are hanging all the way.
If we don’t advance or retreat in front of us, we don’t know what we want to do.”
Just as Yang Guozhu was about to speak, Cao Bianjiao, who was standing next to him, had already ridden over.
"How many cavalry are there?"
The scout loudly replied: "As I said, the thieves gathered in the valley. Everyone has a horse. We can't see everything with telescopes on the top of the mountain. We don't know how many thousands of people there are. We only feel that it is boundless and heaped.
The whole valley is filled.”
After hearing the scout's words, Cao Bianjiao and Yang Guozhu looked at each other for a while, becoming somewhat alert.
From what this scout said, it seemed that the main force of the intruder's cavalry was thirty miles away.
This distance is very delicate, because most of the new soldiers in the Beijing camp are infantry, and they can only walk thirty miles a day, and cannot kill the rebels. However, the horse army and Xiaoqi of the Chuang army all have horses, and even one person has two horses.
It only takes half an hour to advance thirty miles. In other words, the main force of the Chuang army is hanging thirty miles away from Cao Bianjiao, and can launch an attack at any time, fully grasping the initiative.
Yang Guozhu asked in surprise: "What does Chuang Jun want to do?"
Cao Bianjiao didn't understand what the intruders wanted to do. The insurgent army's hundreds of thousands of cavalry troops were about the same size as the official army of one hundred thousand people. There was no chance of winning against the new army. Last month in Yanzhou, the entire intruder army was routed and fled. Could it be that
The Chuang Army wants to win with hundreds of thousands of troops this time?
The two of them were thinking when they suddenly heard a muffled thunder from the sky.
"boom"
It is going to rain.
The soldiers of the New Army took out the oilcloth according to the daily training regulations. The soldiers wrapped the gunpowder bags and Lumi guns in the oilcloth and put them into the lower layer of the nearby baggage truck to prevent the gunpowder from getting wet. The cannon
The artillerymen also sealed the powder barrels and muzzles of the artillery vehicles with oilcloth.
When Wei Dazhong, the commander-in-chief of Xuanfu, saw Cao Bianjiao parked beside the official road, he rode over and shouted: "Master Jinglue, it's going to rain. I'm afraid this gunpowder will get damp. No matter how tightly it is packed, it may not work in the rain."
There’s no way to fire a cannon!”
Cao Bianjiao's heart skipped a beat.
The New Army has also practiced countermeasures when it rains many times during training. For a force like the New Army that relies on firearms, there is only one countermeasure when it rains, which is to stay away from the enemy!
Cao Bianjiao suddenly shouted at the messenger: "The whole army obeys the order and turns around and marches to the northeast! March at full speed!"
The ordering soldiers were roared by Cao Bianjiao and did not dare to neglect them. They scattered in all directions, rode their horses to the front and rear of the team, and spread Cao Bianjiao's order to the entire army.
But before the team could finish turning around, the rain began to fall.
One drop, two drops, it was just a few raindrops at first. But soon, the raindrops turned into pieces. The rain was fluttering back and forth in the air by the wind, and it became heavier and heavier.
Soon, Cao Bianjiao's hair, which was tied with a turban, got wet. Raindrops accumulated on his temples and flowed down in streams.
Cao Bianjiao watched anxiously as the officers and soldiers changed their direction of travel and fled toward the northeast.
Suddenly another group of scouts rushed over from the front.
"In summary, all the rebel cavalry has been dispatched and they are charging over!"
