Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 204

When Taichang was receiving foreign envoys in the capital, Cao Wenzhao finally led the cavalry from the Shenwu Battalion to Baode Prefecture opposite Fugu.

Although they only traveled more than 3000 miles from Liaodong, they spent more time than foreign envoys. What's going on?
Cao Wenzhao has no choice, because the road from Gyeonggi to Xuanfu Town to Datong Town to Baode Prefecture is almost all mountainous, and the passages in the mountains are narrow. Moreover, his men are still armored cavalry, and the horses pack It is quite hard to run with them, and it is impossible for them to gallop all the time.

Tens of thousands of armored cavalry shuttled through the mountains, and it was quite good to reach Baode Prefecture in more than [-] days.

After Cao Wenzhao led his army here, he still encountered a headache, that is, crossing the river and the Yellow River.

At this moment, there is no bridge on the Yellow River. If the cavalry want to cross the river, they must build a pontoon bridge.

The so-called opening a road in the mountains and building a bridge in the water, building a pontoon bridge at this moment is a necessary subject for marching and fighting, and Cao Wenzhao still has corresponding preparations.

Moreover, at this moment, the ferry in Baodezhou is still under the control of local officials, so it is not difficult to find some boats to serve as the base of the pontoon bridge.

The only thing that bothered him was that the thief was in Fugu County on the other side of the river, and he could see the river from the city wall. He built a pontoon bridge here, and the thief could see it at a glance. If the thief ran away when he saw him, that would be terrible. It's troublesome.

At the moment, he can't go to another place to build the pontoon bridge, because this side is full of mountains and there are few roads. If he builds a pontoon bridge in another place, he will not only have to detour here for a few days, but also have to detour a few times after crossing the river. Only then did the genius arrive at Fugu County.

In that case, the delay would be too long. If the rebel ran away during this time, he would be too flattered to catch up.

He was just afraid that the rebels would run away, but he wasn't afraid at all of blocking arrows from the opposite side and hindering him from building the pontoon bridge.

Because his subordinates are all armored cavalry, ordinary bows and arrows can't hurt them at all, and there are many archers under him who are good at shooting. He is not afraid of facing each other, but he is afraid that the rebels will escape while he is building a floating bridge.

So, will the rebels escape?
At this moment, in Fugu County, the leaders of the anti-thieves are also suffering from headaches.

Fugu King Jiayin, Huntian King Zhang Yingjin, Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang, Zijin Liang Wang Ziyong and others all sat there with panicked faces and frowning.

The officers and soldiers are here, what should they do?

Wang Jiayin frowned and pondered for a long time, then asked helplessly: "Everyone in charge, do you think we can keep Fugu?"

Zhang Yingjin was the first to shake his head and said: "We must not be able to defend. Didn't we have already checked if we don't accept it at night? The officers and soldiers on the opposite side are covered in iron armor. What should we use to fight them? Even if the officers and soldiers stand there and let us chop , we can't cut it!"

But Wang Jiayin was lucky and said: "Yebu took it back and said it, the officers and troops on the other side are all cavalry, it should be impossible for cavalry to attack the city, right?"

He really doesn't want to leave Fugu, because this is his home, and his foundation is all here, if he leaves here, he will lose his foundation.

But Zhang Yingjin continued to shake his head and said: "King Fugu, don't you know the pioneers? The tens of thousands of cavalry are the pioneers, and I don't know how many infantry are behind them. Once the infantry of the official army arrives, we It becomes a turtle in a urn!"

Oh, I know this!

Wang Jiayin said helplessly: "What do you mean, run?"

Wang Ziyong nodded without hesitation and said: "Yes, we can't do without running. With our current strength, we are no match for the official army at all."

really want to run?
Wang Jiayin looked at Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang, who had been silent all this time, with some reluctance, hoping that this guy would support him in guarding the valley.

Unexpectedly, Gao Yingxiang said solemnly: "Not only do we have to run, but we must run quickly. The officers and soldiers on the opposite side are all cavalry. If we really wait for people to cross the river before running, we will not be able to run away."

This!
Hearing this, Wang Jiayin asked in despair: "Where are we going? Even if we run now, we can't run as fast as he has four legs. What's the difference between running a day later and running a day earlier? His cavalry can run at least two hundred miles a day. , we can run a hundred miles a day, it’s not bad!”

This is indeed a big problem.

Most of their subordinates are disaster victims who have been starving for several years. Although these days they open warehouses to release food and let their subordinates have enough food for ten days, the body does not mean that it will grow back when it grows back.

At this moment, with the physical strength of their subordinates, let alone comparing their speed with four-legged horses, they couldn't run even the infantry of the army.

Could it be that they are left to die?
of course not!

Gao Yingxiang thought for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "If not, we'll hide in the nearby mountains first, and then send out Ye Bu Shou, let them create the illusion that we are fleeing to Yansui Fucheng, and wait for the officers and soldiers to chase us. Cross the pontoon bridge at night and go to Shanxi and Henan to recruit troops!"

I have to say that these brainy rebels are really hard to kill.

Because they run away if they can't beat them, and hide in the mountains if they can't run. The northern part of Shaanxi, the whole of Shanxi, including the northern part of Henan, are all vast mountains. They scatter and flee into the mountains. How do you suppress them?
Moreover, people will also feign surrender. They have agreed to surrender, but they will not rebel, and they will rebel when they get the chance.

Therefore, in history, Chongzhen could not be suppressed no matter what, no matter how much he was suppressed, he was forced to hang himself by the rebels in the end!
No way, suppressing thieves at the end of the Ming Dynasty is not a serious confrontation between the two armies. These so-called heroes in troubled times are shameless and disrespectful of martial arts, and they are especially able to escape. Headache, and Li Zicheng is the best at running, so Chongzhen was played to death by him in the end.

Of course, there are also many rebels who are not very smart, and they have to fight if they can't beat them!

These are not heroes in troubled times, but stunned youths. They are destined to be cannon fodder and will die soon.

Cao Wenzhao had already had a premonition that the rebels would probably run away. After all, his men were all armored cavalry. Unless the rebels were stronger than Jiannu, they would definitely not be able to defeat him.

However, he did not expect that the rebels in Fugu County would run so fast.

The next morning, he led his men across the hastily built pontoon bridge, and went to Fugu County to see that there was no one on the city wall, and the city gates were opened by the people in the city, and there were not many people in the city. The common people are basically old and weak women and children!

Obviously, the rebels have run away.

How to do?
He could only send scouts to Yulin Town and Yansuifu City to find them.

As a result, the scouts he sent to the direction of Yansui Fucheng were still covered by the bridle ropes laid by people on the narrow mountain road. The horses fell and limped, and the people fell unconscious.

When Cao Wenzhao heard the news, he immediately led his army to chase after him.

It's a pity that after chasing them until night, they still didn't find any trace of the rebels, and behind them, the rebels had already crossed the pontoon bridge in the dark and headed towards Shanxi!

Of course, this group of rebels is the most special. It can be said that they are the best among the rebels. It is normal for him not to be able to catch them.

Immediately afterwards, news of success in the northwest continued to spread to the capital. Cao Wenzhao, who arrived first, was invincible in Yansui Mansion.

After Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng led their infantry to arrive one after another, the imperial army swept across Yansui Mansion, Qingyang Mansion, Pingliang Mansion, Gongchang Mansion, Fengxiang Mansion and other places with the momentum of autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves.

The rebels seem vulnerable, and the Northwest Rebellion seems to be about to be put down soon.

However, Taichang was not happy at all.

Because the rebels that Cao Wenzhao, Sun Chuanting, and Lu Xiangsheng wiped out were all unknown little characters, such as Yang Laochai, Du Laosan, such a lone wolf, a dragon, and so on.

He had never heard of these things at all, but those who were really famous in history, such as Fugu King Wang Jiayin, Zijin Liang Wang Ziyong, Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang, Chuang General Li Zicheng, Eight Great Kings Zhang Xianzhong, Cao Cao Luo Rucai, etc., they didn't catch any of them. arrive!

What is going on here?
Cao Wenzhao, Sun Chuanting, and Qi Jin have basically wiped out all the state capitals where rebels appeared. Why haven't a single important person been caught?
Where have all these guys gone?

Soon, urgent reports came from Pingyang Mansion, Lu'an Mansion, and Zezhou in the south of Shanxi Province, and Zhangde Mansion, Weihui Mansion, Huaiqing Mansion, and Kaifeng Mansion in the north of Henan Province, and the rebels went to these places , and the number is astonishing, each share can range from a few thousand to tens of thousands, I don't know how many shares there are!
When Taichang received the news, his face turned livid.

This is really a big trouble!

(End of this chapter)