"Take all the enemies, throw them down! Throw them all down, no need to save money!" Accompanied by a tiger roar, more than a dozen bright red flags shook desperately and raised their flags. Then, countless Ming soldiers with brightly armored armor showed their bodies from behind the arrows, threw the ten thousand enemies installed in the wooden frame one by one, and threw them down the city walls and into the dense crowd of thieves. In an instant, the orange-red flames formed a huge sea of ​​fire under the city walls.

One by one, thousands of people covered with waterproof and fire-proof black asphalt, spewing orange flames over one meter away with a whimpering sound, and spewing the scorching flames in all directions like a gyro. The interwoven and sprayed flames swallowed and covered the land under the city walls that were already stained with blood, forming a sea of ​​flames and smoke. Countless soldiers of thieves screamed and cried in the ocean, rolling and struggling in the sea of ​​fire with flames, and the smell of barbecue and hair burning, the people were dying.

The thieves who were crowded with wolves under the city of Kelan were also screaming and crying. The tide retreated, retreating outside the sea of ​​fire to avoid momentum. They lost the reinforcements of the rear army. The thieves who were climbing on the ladder like ants also completely lost their courage to attack. They were either knocked down and overwhelmed by the Ming soldiers who were like wolves and tigers, or jumped off the ladder, rushed out of the sea of ​​fire with flames, fled outside the sea of ​​fire to meet with their companions. The bloody battle of siege that lasted for a day and a night also temporarily fell into a brief calm.

"How is it possible? How can there be so many ten thousand enemies in Kelan City?" Seeing the raging fire wall composed entirely of ten thousand enemies, almost surrounded by three sides of the east and west north of Kelan City, Wang Jiayin, who was born in a border soldier, couldn't help but scream loudly: "In a Great Wall border castle controlled by the government, there are only fifty or sixty thousand enemies at most. How can there be so many in Kelan City? Just now, at least more than a thousand were thrown down!"

"What's strange about this? When Zhang Gouguan withdrew his troops, all the food, supplies were thrown into the city of Kelan. It was not surprising that there were tens of thousands of enemies in the city." Liu Jiusi, the monkey on the thief, was smart and replied carelessly. Unexpectedly, Wang Jiayin immediately shouted: "Idiot, tens of enemies are weapons for defending the city. Zhang Gouguan went to Shaanxi to attack us is attacking. Why do you bring so many weapons for defending the city?"

"Stop talking, let's go." At this time, Fan Wencheng finally spoke and said with a dark face: "If you can trust Fan, then withdraw your troops immediately! Let's go now, maybe you can leave something else."

"Why?" The thieves present screamed. Before they finished speaking, the horns suddenly roared in the city of Kilan. With the sound of thunder, two big flags suddenly appeared at the top of Kilan. Seeing the two flags, the exhausted thieves suddenly all looked pale, and they felt like they were scattered. Among the two flags, one of them was the general flag of the Tunu Army with a white background and a vermilion-colored Ming Army.

There is a row of small white characters: Governor Xuan Da, Shanxi and other departments have military affairs and food and salary! There is also a large white character: Zhang! Under two big banners, a handsome young man wearing a python robe, a jade belt, a black official hat with wings and a sword in his hand, laughing, "Hahahaha, listen to the thieves under the city, Zhang Haogu, the governor of Xuan Da of the Ming Dynasty, is here. He is smart, get off the horse and surrender quickly, Rao Er will not die!"

Four or five miles apart, Wang Jiayin and other thieves could not hear Mr. Zhang’s arrogant statement, but these thieves were considered people who had seen the world. Seeing the python robe and jade belt on Mr. Zhang, just thinking with his toes, you could guess that this young man was the notorious mad dog Mr. Zhang. So almost in an instant, all the thieves roared wildly, "Zhang Gouguan! It's Zhang Gouguan! I'm fooled, Zhang Gouguan is in Kelan City!"

With the wave of the flag, the main force of the rioters attacked for a day and a night but could not shake the four gates of Kelan City opened. The four generals each led a cavalry and rushed out of the city with full spirit. The general of the Ximen shouted: "Wu Liuqi is here, the rioters are dismounted and died quickly!" The general who left the city on the main battlefield was young and was actually a half-year-old child, and his shouting was quite sharp, "Wu Sangui is here, the rioters are killed, he died!" Zhao Lun, who walked out of the city by the north gate, did not sign up for himself, but waved his knife and shouted: "Jiqi team, come with me!" The general of Zhenwu was Ma Dengyun, who walked out of the city by the south gate. Because Kelan City was surrounded by rivers in the south, the rioters were the fewest soldiers. It was precisely because of this that Ma Dengyun couldn't wait to yell as soon as he left the city: "Brothers, don't let anyone go! Kill me!"

"Dongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdong" More than two hundred cowhide drums were ringing wildly. Amid the sound of war drums that shook the sky and the earth, the four Ming soldiers were like four dragons going out to sea, and like four rushing torrents of steel, shouting and rushing towards the dense thieves outside the city. In the blink of an eye, the thieves soldiers in front of the four iron cavalry were torn into pieces by the torrent and stepped into meat sauce! Although the number of thieves soldiers who were exhausted after the siege of one day and one night was large, no organized army dared to come forward to stop them. The first reaction of each thieves soldier was to throw down the cloud ladder and cloud platform, holding his head and running. In a panic, countless thieves soldiers collided and trampled on each other, knocking countless companions to the ground, and then trampled to death. The crying and despair shouts immediately echoed on the battlefield.

"Run quickly, it's Zhang Gouguan, Zhang Gouguan's soldier!"

"Officer Zhang is here! Oh my god, help me!"

"Here you come, you are here, Zhang Gouguan's soldiers are here! We're done! Run quickly, who will pull me-!"

Although they are almost all illiterate, relying on verbal rumors alone, Mr. Zhang is a famous man of murder. No one of the traitors present has ever heard of, and no one is afraid of this despicable dog official from the heart, a cold-blooded murderer, who slaughtered millions of Jiannu and Tatars rebirth Bai Qi! So when he saw his own defeated army running down like a tide, he heard the news that Mr. Zhang, who was extremely afraid of his own leader, appeared.

The first reaction of a traitor soldier was - run! The faster you run, the better. The farther away from the legendary Zhang Gouguan who ate human flesh and drank human blood, the safer. The front team rushed to the squadron. The squadron had not had time to retreat, and the rear army had already collapsed on its own. No team could remain calm under this situation, and no traitor soldier dared to dream of taking the legendary Zhang Gouguan head worth ten thousand gold. Every traitor had only one thought left in his mind, run!

It is not without the thief heads who want to save the situation. At least Zhang Xianzhong and Gao Yingxiang organized their own teams to fight, trying to stop the charge of Xuanda's army and win time for the reorganization of the team. However, Master Zhang's plan to consume the enemy was very successful. The soldiers of Gao Yingxiang's troops and Zhang Xianzhong's troops, who were relatively strong in the rioters, were exhausted and their morale collapsed. Even if they rushed forward, they were dispersed by the Slaughter Army just after just one encounter, and were cut from it. The best

The sabers of the slave army made of steel shone brightly in the morning sun, rising and falling, bringing waves of bright red blood, and one after another of the treacherous soldiers fell down like cutting wheat. The storm soldiers swept through the grassland and chose a divine war horse with iron, and each hoof could bring a dark red blood wave. Countless treacherous soldiers died under their hooves and were trampled into meat paste. In less than three incense sticks of incense, the 70,000 treacherous soldiers had completely collapsed.

"Kill--!" After Wu Sangui, who was very lucky in the lottery, rushed out of the west gate, the target was always pointing at the main position of the rioters behind the main battlefield. He led the three thousand wolf riders to a sharp weapon to unsheathed the sheathed, and rushed straight towards the flag gate of the main formation where Wang Jiayin and other thieves were. Wherever he went, blood splashed, people were raised and horses were turned over. The rioters team, as dense as an ant colony, were invincible. Like waves and waves, they were slashed out by the wolf cavalry team. Wu Sangui, who was always rushing in the front, roared like thunder and waved his sword like crazy, "Wang Jiayin, dog thief, die, die!" The wolf cavalry soldiers behind him were even more motivated when they saw the main general so fierce, and their morale was greatly boosted. The man whipped the horse and hooves, and the charge was so fast that they immediately became the leader of the four gates.

"Stop it, block it for me!" Wang Jiayin was also an old military service. He knew that in this case, the army would definitely be more chasing by the wolf-like slave-slaughtering army, and there would only be more elite soldiers. So Wang Jiayin yelled from beginning to end, commanding his own army to meet the enemy and blocking the enemy's charge momentum. Unfortunately, the exhausted thieves team had already been scared by the sudden appearance of Master Zhang. Not only did no team delay the Wolf Cavalry team's charge, even if it was half a stick of incense, they fled faster and farther, allowing the Wolf Cavalry team to rush closer and closer to the thieves' formation.

Seeing this, most of the thieves who were used to being unable to fight and could not even bother to beat him. They turned their horses and ran westward. Even Gao Yingxiang, who was famous for his bravery (and famous for his running), was in the lineup. He brought a small number of cavalry to meet with the retreating Li Zicheng's troops, then turned around and ran south, back to Xingxian, which he controlled, to meet with other subordinates. Soon, the only big thief leader Wang Jiayin was left in the formation, roaring, "Sweeping King, your army has not eaten, Zhang Gouguan's cavalry is at least one hundred steps away from them, why did they run away? Crash the sky pillar, your army is the most (the most rags that Xuanda army doesn't want. Now it depends on yours! Crash the sky pillar! Crash the sky pillar... Forget it, the whole army retreats! Run!"

On July 11, the eighth year of Tianqi in the Ming Dynasty, Xuanda Governor Zhang Haogu personally led an army of 20,000 to fight with 70,000 rioters in decisive battle at Jilan, defeated him, and killed six thieves, and injured Wang Jiayin, the general thieves. The thieves collapsed all over the line. Xuanda's army took advantage of the situation to cover up and chased for more than 30 miles, killing the remaining 20,000 enemies. The thieves were corpses everywhere and blood flowed all over the canal.

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"Send the order immediately, let the Slaughter Army return to the city to rest, replenish dry food and ammunition and prepare to stand again, let the cavalry of Madengyun monitor the movements of the thieves, and I will send his supplies to him in person later." Despite the great victory, Master Zhang still did not dare to take it lightly. While adjusting the team, he shouted: "Where has Sun Chuanting's army arrived? Have you arrived at the scheduled battlefield?"

"Just received a letter from Sun Futai. His 10,000 troops dispatched from Shanxi Town have arrived at the scheduled battlefield this morning. They have blocked the eastward road of the thieves' families and drove them back to the bank of the Yellow River." Shi Kefa replied quickly. Master Zhang was a little relieved and ordered: "Give Mangui another order to prepare his army. Once the defeated thieves' soldiers are driven to the predetermined location by us, they will immediately send troops to reinforce. Others, prepare food, supplies, and the Slaughter Army will come back to replenish the supplies and ammunition, and set off to pursue them immediately. He Renlong, the task of cleaning the battlefield is left to you! Also, the scouts who monitor the movements of the Shaanxi-Gansu army will be sent out to me and keep in touch with me at any time."

When it was slightly dark, the Slaughter Army, which had supplemented the baggage and ammunition, took a break and immediately left the city again under the leadership of Master Zhang, chasing the west of the main force of the rioters who retreated. After a night of march, the Slaughter Army caught up with the defeated rioters 70 miles west of Kelan City. The army that Sun Chuanting, who was heading south from Shanxi Town, had already fought with the defeated rioters, and fought the main force of the rioters from north to south to south. The Madun Yun army attacked from west to east and cooperated with it to attack. The rioters army struggled to death, the battle was extremely fierce, and the battle was temporary

The stalemate was in a state of stalemate. Master Zhang did not rush to join the battle, but first asked the war horses to rest for a while, and then ordered Wu Liuqi and Zhao Shulun's army to detour to the north and joined forces with Sun Chuanting to attack the rioters' army in the north. After several rounds of muskets, the rioters' army collapsed again, and the defeated soldiers were forced to move south. Master Zhang commanded the slaughter army to pursue calmly, and asked Sun Chuanting's infantry chariots to advance westward, and rushed back to Shaanxi with the family of the rioters and the elderly, weak and women and children who fled to the bank of the Yellow River to return to Shaanxi, so as not to rush to eastern Shanxi to rage.

The pursuit battle personally commanded by Master Zhang is very distinctive. It is obviously all cavalry have the advantage of maneuverability, but Master Zhang never lets the army rush into the thieves and kills the thieves. He just sent Zhao Lun's Ji cavalry team to the east of the thieves and goes south side by side with the main force of the thieves. The main force led by Master Zhang bit the butt behind the main force of the thieves and maintains a distance of about ten miles. He only cuts and kills the soldiers who fell alone and never advance lightly. Only when the main force of the thieves stops moving south and tries to reorganize the troops, Zhang Da

The young master ordered the general attack of the army, dismantling the thieves just sorted out, and forcing them to flee south; or when the thieves attempted to turn eastward, Zhao Lun's army would rush up to block the attack, and at the same time, the eldest son Zhang also rushed to attack and beat the thieves to flee south. To be precise, the thieves army was like an official escort who escorts the prisoners. As long as the prisoners did not stop and did not run eastward, the official escort would never take action. Once the prisoners planned to rest or go east, the official escort's whip would fall.

"Zhang Xiantai, what are you doing?" Not to mention the thief head driven by Master Zhang to run south, even Shi Kefa, who firmly demanded to go to the army to fight, was confused by Master Zhang's tactics, and he couldn't help asking: "Zhang Xiantai, the thief is not the opponent of the Tu Nu Army at all. He can't beat us, and he can't run away. Why don't you let the Tu Nu Army chase after him and fight directly? According to the students' opinion, it is absolutely no problem for us to chase him and win a big victory."

"It is easy to win a big battle, but what about our own losses? The south is already ruined and deserted. When we get ammunition, we go to replenish it? After eating food, we go to replenish it? Have you forgotten the principle of killing one thousand enemies and losing 800 yourself?" Master Zhang's expression was gloomy and explained with a depressed expression: "The Tianxiong team of the Slaughter Army is in Xuanfu. Now there are three teams left. There are only nine thousand new and veterans in total, and 3,000 of them have to be rescheduled and escorted food, grass and supplies. This means that

, I can only invest 6,000 troops on the battlefield. I can only fight the remaining 40,000 thieves with 6,000 troops. Even if I can win, I will not be able to wipe out all of them. Moreover, our soldiers will suffer a lot of casualties. You don’t know the situation of the Slaughter Army. How much money and effort does it cost to train a qualified soldier? It is impossible to count at all, so even if I buy a Slaughter Army soldier to exchange for ten thieves soldiers, I will definitely not be able to bear it. So there is no way, so I have to fight slowly and eat it in one bite."

"Then why did you fight so hard when you conquer the grassland?" Shi Kefa asked in confusion. Master Zhang smiled bitterly and replied, "Because at that time, I had 60,000 or 70,000 Tatar cavalry as cannon fodder. I don't feel sorry for how many they died. What cannon fodder army do we have? rush forward to waste one, and the life of the Tunu Army soldier will be less. If the loss is too great in this pursuit battle, what else can I use to Xuanfu to clean up Lin Dan?"

Speaking of this, Master Zhang sighed and said with a slight sigh: "Warning seems simple, but in fact, the knowledge in it is more complicated than anything else. In addition to the two basic foundations of weapons and equipment and soldier training, there are also military morale, soldiers' fighting spirit, terrain, climate, roads, water sources, logistics supply, friendly cooperation and enemy will, etc., which can all influence the victory or defeat on the battlefield. Consider less, it may lead to the wasted success and defeat of the army. Everyone says that I am the God of War in the Ming Dynasty, invincible and invincible, but who knows that the more I fight, the more I am more careful, and the more I fight, the more I am more frightened by my previous tactics, the luck of victory, the more I experience, the less I dare to be careless, because the knowledge of war is endless."

"Zhang Xiantai has given great advice. When students receive teachings, the more students learn from you, the more they discover their ignorance, and the more they know that they used to be watching the sky." Shi Kefa was fooled by Master Zhang and couldn't help but say seriously: "I hope Zhang Xiantai can let students stay by your side, learn more from you, and ask more for advice."

On July 14, after three days of pursuit, the exhausted main force of the thief fled to Xing County, Taiyuan Prefecture, Shanxi, where Gao Yingxiang occupied, and naturally asked Gao Yingxiang to temporarily avoid the city. However, Xing County was too small to accommodate so many troops, and there was not so much food and grass to provide supplies to Wang Jiayin's troops. Gao Yingxiang naturally refused Wang Jiayin's request. After the scout of the Slaughter Army discovered that the defeated thief army had not entered the city, Master Zhang's eyes turned and decisively ordered: "Tell the entire army to station on the spot to rest, free up time and space for Gao Yingxiang and Wang Jiayin to bite the dog!"

"Dog bites a dog? Zhang Xiantai, do you think the thieves will have internal strife?" Shi Kefa asked in surprise. Master Zhang smiled slightly and replied, "The thieves' food and grass have been cut off long ago. I asked Sun Chuanting to return to Shaanxi. I wanted to eat human flesh and there was no need to eat it. Gao Yingxiang was entrenched near Xing County and had more or less farmed some fields. Now that the autumn harvest has just passed, there is a little food in the city. Will Wang Jiayin's thief heads who are about to starve to death still not be moved?"

The crowed master Zhang has always been arguing with his words. Wang Jiayin and other defeated troops who were about to starve to death were ruthlessly rejected by Gao Yingxiang, and found that the Slaughter Army had stopped pursuing. In a hurry to starve, they indeed launched an attack on Xing County. Gao Yingxiang fought back and started fighting with the rioters coalition forces while the Slaughter Army was looking at Dandan. As a result, after a night of bloody battle, the rioters coalition forces, with a large crowd, finally broke through the city gate and entered the city to rob.

After robbing the food, Gao Yingxiang was outnumbered and was forced to lead the defeated army and his family to Mengjiayu and cross the river to escape back to Shaanxi. However, after the rioters entered the city, before they had time to be happy, Master Zhang's slave army had already followed him, and there was no need to attack the city. He went directly into the city from the northern gate destroyed by the rioters. The rioters had no choice but to abandon the city with the food he had finally stolen, and continued to flee to the south by the rioters.

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Not to mention Mr. Zhang personally pursued and killed the thieves coalition forces, but the main force of the Shaanxi-Gansu army led by Sun Chengzong rushed to Fugu and Shenmu day and night to set up defenses. After six days and six nights of forced marching, Sun Chengzong's army finally arrived at Shenmu County. However, the one who greeted Sun Chengzong was Hong Chengchou's army, which had been out of food for two days, and there were more than 100,000 yellow-faced, weak and weak women and children. Hong Chengchou explained with a wry smile: "These are all hungry people in Shaanxi who were hanging with the thieves. Zhang Haogu sent Sun Chuanting to cut off their ties with the main force of the thieves and drove most of them across the Yellow River. Only a small number of young women were left on Xuanda. Sun Chuanting said that these were hungry people in Shaanxi. Xuanda's poverty could not support them, so they could only take care of a small part for us. Please deal with the rest in Shaanxi."

"What about the main force of the thief?" Sun Chengzong suddenly had a bad premonition. Hong Chengchou replied with a wry smile: "Running to the south of Shanxi, Zhang Haogu is personally taking his slave army to chase him."

"What?" Sun Chengzong's body shook and almost fainted. After a while, he shouted: "I'm fooled! Zhang Haogu's little slut, he retreated the front line and deceived the thieves to cross the river and annihilate it. The real purpose is to deceive our main force to go north to deploy defense!"

"Zhang Haogu lied to us?" Hong Chengchou did not wake up for a moment. Sun Chengzong shouted: "Zhang Haogu's little slut, drove the main force of the treacherous thieves to the south. Man Gui sent troops from Taiyuan to respond. When he arrived in the Linxian area, two Xuanda troops met and fought together. If the main force of the treacherous thieves wanted to not be annihilated, he had to cross the Yellow River to return to Shaanxi! Our main force was deceived by this little slut to Shenmu again. The rear was extremely empty, so there was still the power to stop the treacherous thieves from crossing the river? Even if we go back now, it would be too late. The treacherous thieves had already rushed into the hinterland of Shaanxi. If we want to rush back to Xuanda, we don't know how much time and effort it will take!"

"And!" Sun Chengzong became more and more angry as he spoke, and almost all the white bearded stood up. "There are also the rioter Gao Yingxiang entrenched in Xing County, and the rioter Shen Yiyuan brothers entrenched in Lin County. They were already preparing to take root in Shanxi, but this time they would definitely be affected by the war. In most cases, not only Wang Jiayin, the more than 20 thieves, will be driven back to Shaanxi by Xiao Huatou, but Gao Yingxiang and Shen Yiyuan will also run back to Shaanxi!"

After being dumbfounded for a long time, Hong Chengchou jumped up and shouted: "Okay, Zhang Haogu is a little slippery person. The Yin thief is in chaos, Shaanxi and Gansu. After a long time, your real purpose is to drive all the chaos back to our Shaanxi!"
Chapter completed!