Chapter 289

Only the people who have suffered from war will know what it is better to be a peaceful dog than a man in troubled times.

In those days, Daming overthrew the rule of other nationalities and successfully won the imperial power. Therefore, Daming successfully ruled the Central Plains for more than 200 years. They are also the official legal system recognized by the people of the Central Plains. two

Because the people always admit and submit to the Ming Dynasty, Fengyang, the capital of China, was captured and the royal tombs were destroyed. For the people, this is a great thing, which is equivalent to the collapse of the sky. Their sadness is no less than that of the royal family.

Because there are many people, they all find and know one thing, that is, their peaceful days may be coming to an end.

Every knowledgeable people knows one thing, that is, if they turn into troubled times, no one can have a peaceful life, and no one can be at ease. Everyone is a duckweed struggling in troubled times. It's hard to think of a good life.

There is nothing wrong with this idea. After Fengyang, the capital of China, was captured, other state capitals of Fengyang prefecture were swept one by one. They also fell into the hands of the exile bandits, were directly enslaved and bullied by the exile bandits, and lived a miserable and inhuman life.

Now the officers and soldiers are finally strong and ready to recover the lost land, which is a very good thing for the people and a matter they welcome with joy, so they praise and respect Liu bu one after another.

In fact, Liu Bu shouted slogans to attack Fengyang at the beginning, but his goal was not necessarily to attack Fengyang. Anyway, he made up his mind that he would take advantage of it when he saw it and run away when he didn't.

As a result, they occupied three big cities like marching. He saw through the essence of the roving bandits, that is, they were still very powerful when fighting with the wind, but if they fought against the wind, their morale would be lost, the trees would fall and the monkeys would scatter, which was like a plate of scattered sand.

Their Liu family army has to deal with more than 100000 well-trained armed personnel, which is a very dangerous thing. It is simply to give heads. However, if they deal with more than ten thousand loose sand, they still have a chance of winning. They are an organized and trained army. Their training is to defeat the enemy with more and less, defeat the enemy with excellence, defeat mediocrity and defeat the enemy.

There is a difference between the officially trained officers and the untrained people. There is no problem for 10000 strictly trained soldiers to defeat 100000 untrained people.

Now Liu Bu regarded the other party as a hungry farmer without training. Although there were more than 100000, he was not his opponent. That's why he dared to stay in Luzhou and led his main army to Fengyang.

Liu Bu's army is actually small, only about 3000 people, but they are known as 100000, and they sailed to Fengyang to recover the lost land.

3000 people dare to claim 100000. If someone knows about it, they will laugh to death, but it is different here. They have no special intelligence department, only some intelligence collectors who claim not to collect at night, which can be regarded as collecting military intelligence.

The way they collect military intelligence is also very simple and primitive. That is, they inquire about and look at each other's dust, smoke and flags. They can also see the details of Liu Jiajun through a variety of verification methods at ordinary times, but now there is one difference: the roving bandits are in great disorder and have no intention to consider and verify whether each other's words are true or false. In their eyes, It is normal to have 100000 troops to defeat and capture Zhang Xianzhong alive, and 100000 troops must be. If three or four thousand people defeated them, even the rogue bandits would not believe it and would not admit such a result.

So when I heard that there was an army of up to 100000 people heading for Fengyang, these people were completely disordered and had no fighting spirit. They were ready to run away.

The imperial army came from the south. The wandering bandits didn't want to face them, so they broke through to the West in the direction of Suzhou in the north. After highlighting the encirclement of the officials, they reached the Yangtze River along the foot of Dabie Mountain, and then entered Sichuan along the west of the Yangtze River to escape the encirclement of the officials.

Although the elite Zhang Xianzhong army was destroyed, they were still known as the 36th battalion, and there were still many troops. Therefore, after they decided to flee, they began to deploy troops immediately. Some people stayed to attack to cover the advance troops. After the main force protruded from the encirclement, they retreated.

Their retreat seems to be organized and disciplined, but there is no doubt that since the main force has lost the heart of resistance, no one is willing to fight with the officers and soldiers. Everyone wants to break away from the contact with the officers and soldiers first, which means that their retreat is easy to collapse and let the officers and soldiers follow, A fatal blow to them.

However, Liu Bu's troops are too few to take advantage of this opportunity to make a greater blow to the enemy, because after all, they only have more than 3000 people and control so many places, and their troops are very weak.

If they pursue the other side, they will easily be counterattacked by the other side. There is a saying in the art of war that don't stop them when they return to the division. When these people flee, they are also the most crazy and desperate.

Moreover, Liu Bu's main goal is to recover Fengyang. If he recovers Fengyang, he will draw a complete end to his personal military career and make him a new favorite of the emperor and a famous general in the world.

This is a great honor and credit. He will never let others pick up this leak. He must pick up this honor himself.

Moreover, Liu Bu's luck is great. He just fought a few battles casually and won such an honor, which many other famous generals can't have. You know, Liu Bu has only fought with the rogue bandits several times, but he has achieved such fame and prestige. Many other officials and generals have fought with the rogue bandits for many years and have been scarred, But they didn't get such glory.

Therefore, opportunities are very important. Liu Bu knew that if he could not seize this opportunity, he would not stand out. Therefore, his army is known as 100000 and marched to Fengyang. He did not send his army and cavalry to attack the fugitives. He would explain to the emperor, That is, his strategic goal is to subdue Fengyang as the first core goal, not to pursue and suppress the roving bandits.

According to the strategic objectives and the actual situation of the battlefield, Liu Bu's elite cavalry is used to raid the fugitives, but Liu Bu did not send his elite cavalry to raid the fugitives, but to raid Fengyang.

This time, Liu Bu personally led 1500 elite cavalry of his headquarters to Fengyang, and the remaining 2000 people followed closely from behind with their luggage.

They will recover Fengyang as soon as possible. He will not give this credit to others and this honor to others.

Even Wang Zhiwen, the governor of Anqing, understood this, so he also pressed a batch of grain and grass, and then closely followed. He must also be the first batch of people stationed in Fengyang.

Because Fengyang has fallen for more than a month, they don't know the specific situation here. The only way is to take a batch of grain and grass into Fengyang first. Now one of the most afraid things for soldiers is to cut off grain. In fact, Liu Bu asked him to take a batch of grain and grass. He must have another intention. That is, Liu Bu made sure that he must be the first to enter Fengyang, The first batch can have Wang Zhiwen.

So when Liu Bu led several of his generals and cavalry to the foot of Fengyang City, the troops there became a mess after the bandits were broken.

In fact, Gao Yingxiang made a strict plan for this retreat. There are clear regulations on who will withdraw first, who will withdraw later, and who will be cut off.

If it is a normal strategic transfer, there is nothing wrong with his regulations, but the problem is that when they fall into collapse and escape, such a setting is very problematic.

The first group of people who can escape first must be happy. Those in charge of the end are worried that they will be wrapped with dumplings and executed by lingchi.

They didn't worry about this before, but because the most powerful Zhang Xianzhong among them was caught, since they were caught, it is estimated that they will inevitably end up with thousands of cuts. They don't want to learn from Zhang Xianzhong.

Therefore, the troops in charge of the rear of the hall have no fighting spirit at all. In particular, they expect that the officers and soldiers will arrive in two days as soon as possible, but the elite cavalry of the officers and soldiers appear here, which makes them afraid.

Moreover, they saw that there were more than 1000 elite cavalry of the other party. The cavalry of the Ming Dynasty were all elite troops, and they were all at the level of the chief General's family.

The servants of Lord Ming's generals account for one tenth of the army, which means that the military strength of this army is at least between 15000 and 20000, which frightens them. The army has sent so many people and follow-up troops.

A little carelessness will make their dumplings, so Gao ruowang, the senior general in charge of staying in Fengyang, immediately opened the door and retreated from the other side when he saw the arrival of the officers and soldiers.

Liu Bu saw that the other party was very knowledgeable and retreated directly. He didn't pursue and kill. Instead, he directly ordered people to open the city gate and enter Fengyang City majestically.

Fengyang city is an important town in the west of Huaihe River. It is the hometown of emperor Taizu and the place where they started their troops. It is one of the three most advanced sections in the political ecology of the Ming Dynasty. They successfully arrived at the foot of Fengyang city.