The soldiers of Zuozhen turned around, and tens of thousands of troops suddenly withdrew. Jin Shenghuan, who was storming Nanshuimen, also withdrew the navy to the siege camp. At that time, Bai Wang was carrying a knife to settle accounts with He Jin, who had mobilized troops against the order.
, suddenly heard that the officers and soldiers were withdrawing from the siege, and everyone turned to look at him.
It took a while for Bai Wang to react, and he said in surprise: "Jie Shuai must have succeeded in copying the attack!"
However, the actual situation was not as optimistic as Bai Wang expected. Zuo Liangyu discovered the whereabouts of the ambush in the north in advance. The Zuo army significantly adjusted its front line and formed a formation facing the north. A strong force of nearly 20,000 people was fully deployed in the north of Suizhou City.
On the horizon above, a mighty wave formed, crashing towards Li Laiheng.
The first person to discover Zuozhen's movements was a general under Zhang Pizhu's personal army. His mission was to lead dozens of cavalry southward to investigate the siege of Suizhou. However, he did not expect that he would be in the south of Yingzi Mountain.
Not far from the foot of the mountain, a group of nearly a thousand left-wing troops was suddenly discovered. The cavalry team of the Chuang Army fought and retreated, but was still forced into a tight siege. The general of the team fought hard and killed nearly 1,000 soldiers.
It took a hundred people to break out.
The news he brought back almost caused Li Laiheng to suffer from intracranial ischemia and his eyes went dark: "How could Zuo Liangyu find our traces!?"
Zhang Pizhen was also very nervous. He grabbed the general's hand and repeatedly confirmed the details of the battle situation. He repeatedly asked whether the officers and soldiers he encountered were just a partial division that was scattered to collect food.
"General! I can give you two eggs as a guarantee. They must be the main force of the Zuogou thieves! There are nearly a thousand fucking vanguards, and there are more than 300 cavalry alone. I also saw cannons. Who doesn't have eggs?
Can this thing collect food like this?"
Li Laiheng was supported by Fang Yiren and managed to maintain his mood. But Gu Junen was much more panicked. The rough plan for using the army this time was his, and now there is something wrong. If the army is defeated, most of the responsibility will be on him.
On your body!
Gu Junen was originally a crazy student with no manners and image. At this time, he simply rushed in front of the department manager, widened his eyes and questioned:
"You only have a few dozen cavalry, but when you encounter nearly a thousand vanguards with cavalry and artillery, how are you going to kill them? Don't talk in vain!"
Gu Junen's doubts about the combat effectiveness of his personal soldiers made Zhang Pizhu frown, and the young general couldn't help but retort:
"Mr. Gu, all the standard cavalry are trained by the commander himself, they are not comparable to ordinary troops. Wang Zamao is the most brave general under my command. With Wang Zamao's ability, he can break out from a crowd of thousands of people."
It’s a difficult thing. Mr. Gu, don’t judge others by yourself!”
Some time ago, Li Laiheng forced all the main generals of each army to give lectures at the camp school. Zhang Pizhu was the youngest, and he had no money in his stomach. How could he give lectures? But Li Laiheng insisted on putting him on the shelf. Zhang Pixu
I had no choice but to go to Fang Yiren overnight for help. I memorized a lot of the contents of the military book in a hurry, and now I no longer speak like an irritable child like before.
Li Laiheng's eyes lit up when he heard the name "Wang Zamao", and he waved his hand to stop Gu Junen and told him to stop talking nonsense: "Wang Zamao? Are you Wang Deren? I heard Pi Ru talking about you, and I heard that you were attacking
During the Anlu period, he went out and entered three times, killing a guard and a guerrilla?"
Although Wang Deren 1 is also a veteran of the Chuang Army and an old brother from northern Shaanxi, he was originally a subordinate of Bai Wang and not a direct descendant of Li Laiheng. It was the first time he spoke face to face with the Commander-in-Chief, and he could not help but feel nervous.
"It's...it's me. Jie, Jie, Jie, the commander actually knows the little one's name...what, what should we do?"
Li Laiheng had some impression of Wang Deren's name, and he didn't believe that anyone in his personal soldier list would lie at such a critical moment. What's more, Wang Deren was not the only one who broke out, but there were dozens of other soldiers. If everyone was lying,
What kind of army did Li Laiheng rule?
"You did very well."
Li Laiheng first praised Wang Deren. When he saw that Wang Deren's armor was in pieces, he ordered his soldiers to get his spare armor and put it on Wang Deren. Wang Deren was essentially a "reckless" person, and he was very fond of Li Laiheng's attitude.
Trust shed tears of gratitude and said in a choked voice:
"The commander-in-chief treats me like this, I, I will definitely kill more enemies for the commander-in-chief!"
"Hahaha, very good, very good. We are about to face a big war, and we need you to take on more responsibilities." Li Laiheng's laughter diluted the tense atmosphere, and he teased Hao Yaoqi by the way, "Waving the flag,
This Wang Zamao's skills are no worse than yours, but his mind is much simpler than yours, unlike you who only think about eating and drinking all day long."
Hao Yaoqi chuckled twice and said, "Wang Zamao and I also know each other. This guy is very lucky. If he behaves like this in front of the commander today, he will have a bright future in the future."
Li Laiheng nodded and snorted. Wang Deren's bravery was very extraordinary, but his reputation was far less than that of Hao Yaoqi. Hao Yaoqi was not only brave, but his greatest strength was his ability to organize cavalry to rush into battle.
Extremely strong, this kind of person can be called a cavalry general, not a sudden cavalry or a fighting general.
"Wang Zamao, I have a task for you."
Seeing the Zuo army forming towards the north, Li Laiheng knew that an encounter was inevitable. Compared with Zuo Liangyu, his own strength was very limited, but Li Laiheng also had another back-up man, Gao Yigong and Guo Junzhen's soldiers and horses.
Hongshan cuts into the rear of the Left Army. As long as he can hold on, the Left Army's offensive will never last.
What he was most worried about was that He Jin and Bai Wang sent the defenders out of the city to assist out of concern for themselves, but they might have fallen into Zuo Liangyu's plan and given the Zuo army a chance to break through the city. So Li Laiheng ordered Wang Deren to follow the pro-army
A hundred hussars were selected from the bidding, managed to break through the blockade of the left army, rushed back to Suizhou City, and told He Jin and Bai Wang that the defenders only needed to hold on to Yingcheng and close the city gate tightly, and never go out of the city to help.
"Now that the matter has come to this, we can only prepare our formation to meet the enemy as soon as possible."
After Wang Deren left with his selected cavalry, Fang Yiren emphasized: "Yingzi Mountain has an abrupt peak, surrounding cliffs, and water flowing in the mountain. Master, as long as the intruders hold Yingzi Mountain, I will wait for the high deputy to attack."
After the left army, we can break the situation."
Gu Junen also nodded hastily and analyzed:
"The mountains in this area are high and the ravines are deep, and the rock walls spread out on both sides, like an eagle about to spread its wings and soar. The intruders only need to form their formation along the ridge, and the officers and soldiers will attack all the way. They will never be able to break our formation in a short period of time."
"Um……"
There is some truth in the suggestions of Fang Yiren and Gu Junen, but what Li Laiheng is worried about is not the water source, but that the invaders carry very little food, and it is extremely difficult to fight a protracted war. However, what he is most worried about is not the food problem, but the food problem.
Yingzi Mountain is a stone mountain with rugged rocks and numerous rock walls. It is impossible to dig trenches and it is extremely difficult to set up camps.
Li Laiheng thought to himself that he had really walked into a Meng Lianggu-style pit this time.
"Water has no permanent shape, and soldiers have no permanent momentum." After careful consideration, Marshal Shaohu still felt that there was a big problem in setting up the formation on the ridge of Yingzi Mountain. "Yingzi Mountain is full of rocks, making it difficult to set up camp, build strongholds, and dig trenches."
He looked at a relatively flat rock wall in the distance, and after looking into the distance for a while, he made up his mind:
"We are not guarding the mountain. We have three cavalry badges, Hao Yaoqi, Ma Bao, and Aizhuo, and Zhang Pizhu, a pro-military badge. Almost all the cavalry from the Huguang Chuang Army are here. Our number of cavalry may be more than Zuo Liangyu.
Why do we have to defend the mountain? Let’s defend the mountain with our backs!"
Although the Chuang Army was at a disadvantage in terms of military strength, Li Laiheng led almost the entire elite of the Huguang Chuang Army, with a very large number of cavalry. Although Zuo Liangyu deployed nearly 20,000 troops, the number of cavalry was really impossible
Not as good as Li Laiheng.
Since the advantage of the invading army was the cavalry, Li Laiheng was naturally unwilling to stick to Yanshan and put the cavalry in a useless situation.
He decisively decided to form a formation in front of Yingzi Mountain, but even if he did not leave reserve infantry and put all the infantry of Miao Lichen and Lin Cheng into the front line, the infantry of the invading army still could not fill the front line. In desperation, Li Laiheng
We had no choice but to reluctantly let some of the cavalry dismount and act as infantry.
It was Ma Bao who took the initiative to take on this unlucky task. Because he had not dealt with the traitor issue well before, he had been worried about whether Li Laiheng would have any grudges about it. So this time he took the initiative to join the army, giving up the cavalry army, which was more likely to gain military exploits.
Position, take the initiative to lead the cavalry to dismount and fight on foot.
Li Laiheng was quite pleased with this and praised: "The city wall knows the overall situation and is a good general!"
Chengbi is Ma Bao's nickname. In the past, he only had nicknames such as "Ma Sanbao" and "Two Skins" in the army. Since joining the army, his officialdom has grown bigger and bigger, and now he has even become a cavalryman.
As for the position of general, Xie Zheng specially looked for some ideas about academic affairs and gave him a pseudonym.
The generals of the Chuang Army were carefully observing the terrain at the foot of Yingzi Mountain. They knew the Suizhou area far better than Zuo Liangyu. As a local, Gu Junen had been to Yingzi Mountain many times and knew the terrain of this area well.
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Wang Deren, a native of Mizhi, Shaanxi Province, joined the Peasant Uprising Army at the beginning of Li Zicheng's uprising. He was nicknamed "Wang Zamao" in the army. He was brave and good at fighting. He later joined the Wangti Zhongying Camp and was incorporated into the Baiwang Army.
In 1645, Li Zicheng retreated to Huguang and mobilized troops from Xiangyang, Chengtian, Anlu, and Jingzhou to march eastward. In May, Li Zicheng died. At that time, Wang Deren was following Bai Wang to conquer Jiangxi. When he heard of Li Zicheng's death, Bai Wang's troops broke into chaos.
, Wang Tizhong took the opportunity to assassinate Bai Wang, forced his people to surrender to the Qing army, and cooperated with Jin Shenghuan to occupy Nanchang.
Soon, Jin Shenghuan was at odds with Wang Tizhong, and Wang Deren looked for an opportunity to kill Wang Tizhong and recapture Bai Wang's army. Later Wang Deren said that Jin Shenghuan had raised troops in Nanchang to rebel against the Qing Dynasty, and under the banner of Nanming, Wang Deren took advantage of the bamboo situation to take Jiujiang, negotiated to take Wuchang, and went to Nanjing.
No, turn around and encircle Ganzhou.
Later, when the Qing army surrounded Nanchang, Wang Deren "repeatedly fought to the death, with no supplies of food and grass, and the city collapsed." Jin Shenghuan committed suicide by drowning in despair. Wang Deren refused to accept it, and led his troops to break through, entering and exiting three times, killing hundreds of Qing soldiers, and died in a street battle.
In the formation, Nanming presented it to Duke Jianguo.