Qiming 1158

Chapter 1029 The peasant army is now strong!

Zhou Yun was very moved by this proposal, and for a moment, Zhou Yun even wanted to initiate a strategic transition immediately.

But he quickly realized that doing so might not end well.

"I am guarding Jiujiang, and I have the responsibility of defending the land. Now the main force of the army is still there. If I flee without a fight, I will be questioned in the future. , isn't it a shame?"

All the generals remained silent.

They are not civil officials, and they can be exiled if they make mistakes, so they will not be killed. There is no such preferential treatment as military generals.

And it is true that the main force of the army is still there, and there is a city and a relatively solid city defense. If you flee without a fight, it will be really ugly.

Besides, the peasant army won because they took the initiative to attack, and the Song army was not prepared. Now that the Song army was prepared, how could it be easily defeated?

Who do they think they are?

Ming army?
If the Ming army came, Zhou Yun would definitely turn in immediately, without even thinking about it, because he knew that he would never be able to defeat the Ming army.

But these guys are not the Ming army, what's there to be afraid of?

Several generals around Zhou Yun also reacted at the same time, and refuted the suggestion of escape, and instead suggested that Zhou Yun defend Dehua, and then wait for the opportunity to counterattack and destroy the arrogance of the peasant army.

"The reason they won before was mainly due to the discord within our army and the improper use of people by the court. Now that the generals are brave, the generals are using their lives, and the army still has more than [-] people. It is not a problem to stand firm and wait for help.

Our army only needs to immediately send people to ask for help from the Ezhou army, and when their reinforcements arrive, we will be able to defeat the bandit army by working together inside and out!And then recover the lost ground on Jiangnan West Road, and kill the thieves! "

A confidant will provide Zhou Yun with very good tactics.

After Zhou Yun heard this, the panic in his heart gradually subsided, replaced by calm.

The action of the peasant army this time was indeed unexpected, so he was a little surprised, but thinking about it carefully, the peasant army has been suppressed and beaten several times in the past. Otherwise, the peasant army would have been abolished long ago.

He also heard that in the previous battle, before Wu Gong retreated, he was fighting against the peasant army, and the peasant army was unable to breathe.

The peasant army has always been passively beaten, and it is always a bandit army. Even if they occasionally have a beautiful record, they cannot change their status as a bandit army.

In this way, Zhou Yun re-established his inner superiority over the peasant army, and felt that as long as the Song army had the courage to fight back, the mud-legged peasant army would definitely be useless.

Zhou Yun then made a decision to persevere.

He immediately ordered the army to climb the city for defense, quickly set up the city defense, and formed a corner with the barracks outside the city.

Then he quickly sent people to Ezhou, asked the Ezhou army for help, and asked the Ezhou army to send troops to come to help, stop the enemy in the Jiujiang area, and avoid the war from burning to Ezhou.

After doing these things, Zhou Yun felt that he was stable.

Therefore, when he learned that the vanguard of the peasant army was approaching Dehua County, he decided to send troops to advance to prevent the peasant army from approaching Dehua County, so as to buy more time.

He felt that there was still a gap between the peasant army and the regular army under his command. As long as there was a head-on confrontation, as long as the army reacted, the peasant army would definitely have no chance of winning.

Zhou Yun arranged for Chen Chao, the bravest subordinate of his subordinates, to lead [-] soldiers to take the initiative to fight against the peasant army. Chen Chao swore in front of Zhou Yun that he would definitely defeat the peasant army and give them some color.

On March 4000th, Zhang Xiaohu's [-] Peasant Army Pioneer Army and Chen Chao's [-] Song Army led an encounter battle.

Zhang Xiaohu immediately ordered the vanguard army to meet him head-on, forming an army formation to attack forward, and confronting the Song army head-on.

From crossbow shooting to hand-to-hand stabbing, the peasant army was very brave and tenacious. Zhang Xiaohu personally led a small number of cavalry and the same small number of cavalry of the Song army, killed three Song army cavalry with his own hands, and led his subordinates. to win.

The victory of Zhang Xiaohu's cavalry was a sign of the victory of the peasant army. Because of the defeat of the cavalry, Chen Chao was personally led by Zhang Xiaohu to attack the central army. He was frightened by the shock, so he left his troops and fled.

Originally, this Song army was still fighting with the peasant army, and the battle between the two sides was not over yet. As a result, when the main general ran away, the soldiers stopped fighting, and they ran together, and soon the army was defeated like a mountain.

Chen Chao fled, the Song army collapsed, Zhang Xiaohu led the vanguard army to win again, the road for the peasant army had been completely opened, Zhao Yucheng led the army westward, and the front of the army pointed directly at Dehua County.

Zhou Yun didn't expect that Song Jun's face-to-face confrontation with the peasant army's vanguard would actually fail. Facing Chen Chao, who was kneeling in front of him to plead guilty, he was furious, and immediately ordered Chen Chao to be taken down and put in prison to wait for the sentence after the war.

Chen Chao was captured, but the war continued. According to reports from the spies, the Peasant Army quickly marched towards Dehua County after defeating the Song Army. The number of them was at least 4, almost twice that of the Song Army. .

This was an exact number, more credible than the vague number before, so Zhou Yun was surprised.

In just a few short years, how did this army, which was once beaten into the mountains, develop so quickly?

Although the Song army also tried to collect military intelligence of the peasant army, but because of the strong anti-reconnaissance awareness of the peasant army, the spies sent by the Song army often suffered heavy casualties and could not bring back accurate information. The news brought by business is more accurate than the news brought by spies.

Moreover, the peasant army's army structure was completely different from that of the Song army, and he did not understand it very well.

Zhou Yun only knew that the Peasant Army was the bugle name of an army, and it had four divisions under it, but both the army and the division were the ancient titles of the army, and it seemed to be used more frequently in the pre-Qin era, while the Song army was organized as The army, the army, the general and the team are completely different.

Therefore, Zhou Yun did not know how many people in a peasant army, how many people in a division, or the specific number of peasant army.

So that when the main force of the peasant army came to take the initiative to attack, he realized that he was at an absolute disadvantage.

He took a deep breath and realized that if he hadn't decisively asked the Ezhou army for help, he would have fought alone against the peasant army far ahead of him.

That would be very bad.

He completely lost the courage and idea of ​​continuing to send troops to fight against the peasant army. He only wanted to shrink his troops, engage in defensive operations in Dehua County, rely on the defensive advantage to resist the peasant army, and wait for reinforcements to come to help him.

He believed that he could get the help of the Ezhou army.

First, he and Wang Shun had a private relationship. Both of them had served in the Lin'an Forbidden Army. No matter how much the relationship was, they were considered acquaintances.

Second, if he falls, Wang Shun will have no good fruit to eat. Wang Shun's Ezhou army has a higher proportion of recruits than him. The number of recruits is huge, and there are only 3. What against the peasant army?

These two reasons are enough to make Zhou Yun believe that he can get help from Wang Shun, so he did not run away, but sat in the city, trying his best to let the soldiers strengthen the city defense and prepare for defensive battles.

Zhao Yucheng was overjoyed when he learned that Zhang Xiaohu had directly defeated the Song army field troops. Now he was sure that the peasant army had made great progress in the past year or so, while the Song army had not made any progress.

At the beginning, seeing Lin Xun Zhan die in front of him and he was helpless should never happen.

The peasant army is now strong!

(End of this chapter)