Chapter 167

Song county is close to Funiu Mountain in the south, Ruzhou in the East and Luoyang in the north. It is only more than 200 miles away from both places.

Since Qin Huan attacked Song County, he had been planning his next stop. Hong Chengchou was chasing in the West and mountains in the south. Now there are many people, he must take the official road, so he can only go north or East.

Going north to take Luoyang is the way to win the world. King Qin thought about it and thought that most of his small arms and legs could not lift the big tripod. He forced to lift it. He estimated that he would learn from King Wu of Qin and be crushed alive in the end.

Finally, you can only choose to go to Ruzhou in the East. There is no way. Ruzhou is located in the middle of Henan Province, among the mountains, but it is flat to the north.

Before Cao Bianjiao's 3000 guanning cavalry is solved, it will never be good to go to the plain.

You defend the city, people besiege the city, you run away, people keep harassing you, you fight a decisive battle, you win, you can't expand the results, but you lose, you will be killed by cavalry. How can Qin Huan do this kind of blood loss?

But if he didn't go to the plain and always wandered around the mountains, he would always be a wandering bandit and couldn't become a leader. Therefore, Cao Bianjiao's 3000 guanning iron cavalry was like a stem in Qin Huan's throat.

However, he met Hong Chengchou, who was as stable as an old dog. Even if Qin Huan played with flowers, he was not fooled, but looked like a clown.

This let King Qin know that he should be more cautious and stable than the old dog. He was afraid that he was not the opponent of the old dog. If he continued to compete like this, he had to make mistakes before the old dog didn't make mistakes, and finally decided to take risks.

At the same time, Qin Huan understood why all kinds of anti thieves had been beaten by Chongzhen eleven years ago, but then the situation turned sharply downward.

It's not a natural or man-made disaster or the slogan of whether to accept grain or not. Which year does Henan have no natural or man-made disasters?

The real reason is that Guan Ning's cavalry have been transferred outside the pass, which makes Chuang Wang dare to wreak havoc in the Central Plains and attack Luoyang for Kaifeng.

If there is an elite iron cavalry with more than 3000 people, even if you have a million mobs, you will still end up dead on the plain, because people will stare at you and kill the old thief.

If you don't run, you can't fight again. As soon as the king runs, everyone else has to follow. The more mobs, the better.

In the early stage, both sun chuanting and Hong Chengchou used this move, often killing all the rebel armies to abandon their armor and dare not fight face-to-face.

After staying in Song County for only six days, Qin Huan waved his troops eastward, but at this time, the team grew.

The number of people reached more than 40000, with more than 20000 mules and horses. The light industrial barracks and rear barracks were close to 15000, and the five hero camps were expanded to 3000 people and horses per battalion.

There are 2000 Pro guards, 2000 women soldiers, and five young firearm battalions, which have increased from 800 to 1200. The three infantry battalions have not been expanded, but are still 6000.

This was the result of Qin Huan's control. Otherwise, it would be really easy to pull 100000 people out.

The more you go to the north, the more refugees there will be. As long as you have a steamed bread every day, countless people are willing to follow you.

Qin Huan moved, and Hong Chengchou immediately led a large army to catch up. He wondered why the rebels took the initiative to run this time.

But six days later, when he arrived in Song County and learned that the anti thief had bypassed Yiyang and directly attacked Ruzhou City, old dog Hong immediately noticed an unusual smell.

Anxious at the same time, he didn't dare to neglect, and immediately caught up with him. Ruzhou is no more than an ordinary state or county, but Zhili state. Once attacked by anti thieves, it is bound to have a bad impact.

At this time, under Ruzhou City, more than 10000 heroes are frantically besieging from all sides, and the sound of killing has not stopped from morning to afternoon.

Ladder after ladder butted against the wall, and hundreds of stone throwers desperately threw stones at the head of the city.

The wounded were carried down all the time, and more than 1000 female soldiers were busy for the first time.

The female soldiers who had just joined were at a loss when they looked at a wounded man who was crying and screaming.

Ruzhou is worthy of being a big city. Its walls are tall and strong, and there are moats and urn cities. In addition, the defenders and big families in the city have been on guard for a long time. For three days in a row, more than 5000 people were killed and injured, but they can't attack it.

"Brother, you can't attack any more. Don't say that the brothers can't eat. I'm afraid old Hong dog will catch up. Let's go."

"Yes, it's too hard to eat Ruzhou. You'd better go to another county. Don't you always say that persimmons should be picked up and pinched soft? Why do you have to knock hard under Ruzhou this time?"

In the past three days, Niu Er has been advised many times, but king Qin is always indifferent.

This time, even the red warbler felt that he was a little confused. He didn't fight in so many counties. He just wanted to fight in Ruzhou, but he had to fight hard. He completely lost his previous style.

"Don't worry, old Hong dog will arrive in two days at the latest, enough for us to capture Ruzhou city."

Qin Huan waved his hand, then said with an expressionless face, "send orders. If you don't capture Ruzhou city today, swear not to withdraw troops. If you dare to retreat without authorization, you will be cut off!"

"Yes!"

Qin tie didn't care about the ghost like expression of the two people. After hugging their fists and agreeing, he went down with his pro guards to order the war.

"Ah! Unexpectedly, my brother insisted on conquering Ruzhou city. My brother can only go out and lead the team in person. He must kill the city before dark. "

Seeing Qin Huan's resolute attitude, Niu Er didn't say any more. As soon as he bit his teeth, he hugged his fist.

The red warbler looked at his back, then gathered around King Qin and whispered, "don't you think they have too many people, waste food and want to deliberately consume some?"

"Nonsense, smelly girl. Don't blame me for disturbing the morale of the army in the future."

Qin Huan flew into a rage. How could he do such a waste of resources now?

"Then why do you have to capture Ruzhou city? You used to fight if you could win and run if you couldn't win. You would never bite such a hard bone. "

Although the red warbler was startled, she still stared at him. She couldn't understand if she wanted to break her head.

"It's not easy for us to fight in Ruzhou city. At that time, the old Hong dog will be equally difficult to fight, and Ruzhou is a state city."

After Qin Huan said this without a clue, he didn't explain any more, but focused on the war ahead.

At this time, the people in the city were also miserable. I don't know what crazy the anti thieves were. They didn't fight in so many counties and insisted on holding them. They were really anxious.

Finally, King Qin organized a wave of death squads, promised to promote each person to two levels after entering the city, and commander Niu personally took the lead, which finally conquered Ruzhou city at dusk.

In this battle, more than 4000 heroes were killed and as many as 3000 people were seriously wounded. If it were not for the siege, I'm afraid the five hero camps would have collapsed.

This time Qin Huan did not recruit troops to recuperate, but decided to divide his troops.

Let Niu Er and Hong Ying stay in Ruzhou with recruits from the rear camp, engineering camp, war camp, pro guard camp and firearms camp.

He rushed to Nanyang with infantry and firearm soldiers, as well as a small number of engineering and female soldiers.

Until then, all the people understood why Qin Huan was fighting so hard against Ruzhou city.

The next day, when it was still dawn, Qin Huan took 6000 infantry, 4000 firearm soldiers, 500 female soldiers, 500 personal guards and 500 engineers and rushed south.

Niu Er and Hong Ying did not dare to neglect, so they immediately set about arranging urban defense.

After all, Hong Chengchou's army will arrive as soon as tomorrow afternoon or noon the day after tomorrow.