According to Luke Dehun's estimate, as long as Duoduo leads his troops as soon as possible, he will not be afraid of the counterattack of the 60,000 or 70,000 Ming troops in Shaoxing Prefecture.

Luke Dehun's idea is correct.

The Ming army was low at this time and its combat power was completely incomparable to the Qing army before entering the pass.

Three thousand elite Tartars were enough to defeat the Ming army ten times more.

If we don’t talk about the national battlefield, just look at the battles along the Qiantang River.

Before the fall of the Hongwen Dynasty, Ma Shiying, the Grand Secretary of the Hongwen Dynasty, and General Fang Guoan, led an army of 50,000 across the Qiantang River to invade Hangzhou, and once wanted to restore Hangzhou Prefecture.

After Luke Dehun learned about it in Jiangning, he immediately sent 6,000 cavalry to Hangzhou to rescue the siege. With the Qing army in Hangzhou, the strength comparison between the two sides was 50,000 to 16,000. However, Ma Shiying and Fang Guoan were afraid of the great power of the Qing army and retreated to the Qiantang River.

On the way to withdraw the siege, the two captured Yuhang and Fuyang in the southwest of Hangzhou respectively.

Lukedehn sent Meerezhenzhumalahehetu, leading three thousand cavalry, six thousand infantry, a total of nine thousand men to attack the Ming army in Yuhang and Fuyang. The two armies jointly camped dozens of miles outside Hangzhou city.

The Qing army's offensive was fierce and unstoppable. There was no suspense that Ma Shiying and Fang Guoan were defeated by the Qing army.

Just as the Qing army was celebrating their merits, Ma Shiying and Fang Guoan led the remnants of their troops across the river to surround Hangzhou City, but they were defeated by Melezhzishiha, and countless people drowned.

The treacherous minister Ma Shiying, who was ill of his later generations, can be said to have been defeated repeatedly and repeatedly.

But because of this, the two of them consumed Can Ming's vitality and sacrificed in vain.

This battle was the day when Wu Zheng broke through from the Jinshanwei Port and returned to the bank of Shaoxing Prefecture. Zhao Shi told Wu Zheng that in the Battle of Fuyang in the Qiantang River, 30,000 Ming troops fought against 6,000 Qing troops, and killed more than 500 Tartars, but the Ming troops suffered more than 3,000 casualties.

So the Ming army, whose morale was already low, collapsed quickly, like a river of spring water flowing eastward.

After the war, because Ma Shiying's reputation was so bad that the Lu governor refused to accept him, Ma Shiying was wandering in eastern Zhejiang and gradually lost news.

Fang Guoan led his troops to the command of the Lu Jianguo, annexed with Wang Zhiren, and absorbed the remnants of the Ming army and the rebels in eastern Zhejiang. The momentum became increasingly powerful and was awarded the title of Duke of the Lu Jianguo.

Therefore, Lukedehon did not think his decision was a risk, and he left very happily.

He left behind three thousand elite Tartars and 30,000 surrendered Ming troops in Hangzhou.

....

Wu Zheng is already deploying to suppress bandits.

No matter how strong a bandit is, it cannot compete with the army.

Even if the other party is a rookie army.

What bandits want is wealth and what they seek is survival.

But the army is different, and it does not need to consider survival itself, because it is a legal killing machine.

With this, bandits cannot have better training time and conditions.

Of course, there is another key point that the leader’s ability is foresight.

Wu Zheng's bandit suppression was extremely powerful.

It's so troubled that everyone knows about neighbors.

Almost everyone in the eight counties of Shaoxing knew that Lianghuwei was going to suppress bandits.

It’s not that Wu Zheng didn’t understand the unexpected tactics.

But Wu Zheng believed that the wealthy businessmen in the eight counties had raised more than 9,000 taels of funds to suppress the bandits, and they had to be worthy of the money.

There is a way for those who are in charge of the way, while those who are in charge of the fun.

You quietly suppressed the bandits. People were not satisfied with the view, and they had to come and ask for money if they had no money. That would be more than worth the loss. Shining Town is the base that Wu Zheng wanted, and he had to take into account his reputation.

The six hundred cavalry battalions are in hard training.

It is not useful to suppress bandits.

Except for the cavalry battalion stationed in Lianghu Guard, each one was all sent out by Wu Zheng.

The army stocked up on the small village where Wu Zheng ambushed a thousand Tartars across Pinggang Mountain - Laohuai Village.

It is impossible for the bandits on Pinggang Mountain to say that they don’t know about this kind of momentum.

But they did not escape or surrender, they were all waiting and watching.

Is the wait-and-see government troops going to take ruthless actions and do things in a good manner?

It was even more like waiting and watching the reaction of "Three Swords Broken Mountain".

"Three Swords Broken Mountain" is not a trick, but a person's bandit.

His name is Liu Laosan, and he is the largest bandit in the Pinggang Mountain area. He has nearly 500 bandits under his command.

He is robbing his family and robbing people, and he is in a state of arrogance.

Wu Zheng has carefully considered it.

The main reason for leading troops out to suppress bandits is to get money.

The key is to be able to die less.

If you eat soft first and then hard, the casualties will accumulate, which will definitely be quite large.

It’s better to kick the biggest one directly, so that the small one can defeat others without fighting.

But the problem is that Liu Laosan’s nest is indeed a terrain that can only be used as a pass and cannot be opened by ten thousand people.

Before suppressing the bandits, Wu Zheng sent several waves of scouts to reconnaissance on Pinggangshan, and also found many local villagers and hunters in the villages along the mountain.

Draw a detailed map of entering the mountains.

However, according to the oral statements of the hunter and the rewards of the reprimand, Wu Zheng could not make up his mind to fight this battle.

Win is definitely a victory, but the cost is too high.

Liu Laosan's nest is in the central area of ​​Pinggang Mountain, in a large valley.

There are cliffs dozens of feet high on all sides of the valley, which cannot be captured from above.

The only corridor connected to the outside of the mountain is only three or four feet wide, and there are cliffs dozens of feet high on both sides.

It is not suitable for a large army to charge at all.

This is not the key, the key is that this corridor is too long, five or six miles long.

This length is enough to bury the lives of all the soldiers under Wu Zheng's command.

With such a dangerous situation, there is probably only a way to siege.

But it is obviously impossible to siege. Although there are fields in the valley, although they cannot be compared with paddy fields outside the mountain, planting some mixed grains like sweet potatoes and potatoes will not starve to death.

There are not three or five years, and this bandit can never be destroyed.

As the saying goes, "Wu Zheng retreats when he sees difficulties, but Wu Zheng really retreats."

After only three days in Laohuai Village, Wu Zheng led his army back to Lianghu Guard.

This withdrawal formation is even greater than sending troops.

For a time, wealthy businessmen who paid money from eight counties in Shaoxing came to ask for an explanation.

Wu Zheng posted a notice in front of the garrison gate, and after five days of preparation, he returned the silver according to the original number.

....

It's noon.

There were crowds of people in the huge valley that Wu Zheng feared.

As a bandit, drink wine in a big bowl and eat meat in a big mouthful.

Hundreds of bandits in the village were celebrating, and the government retreated in order to achieve the difficulties.

In the hall behind them, four people sat on both sides of a stone table that was three feet long and eight feet wide.

The person in the main position looks ferocious.

A pair of big leopard-like eyes, pear-shaped faces surrounded by fluffy and colorful hair.

The nose and mouth protrude forward, as if they can open their mouths and bite and swallow them at any time.

Sharp teeth were exposed in the mouth, and two deeply exposed arc lines at the corners of the mouth made the tight upper and lower lips of the gums look like two bulging shells.

In addition, he did not sit like other people, but squatted on a stool.

The whole look is like a leopard waiting to be eaten.
Chapter completed!