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Chapter 1172 Luo Hu

Luo Hu, also known as Zhenshan, is an orphan from Yulin Prefecture, Shaanxi Province. He surrendered to Li Zicheng's army when Li Zicheng's army passed through the border. Now he is the flag-bearing officer of the Children's Camp in the Chuang Army.

  According to historical records, Luo Hu was seven feet and five inches tall when he grew up. He had a handsome appearance, was resolute and rigorous, calm and magnanimous. Thanks to his experience as a bandit since childhood, he had acquired good martial arts skills, and was particularly good at cavalry combat and archery. He was accustomed to using a horse lance, and whenever he galloped into the battle line, it was common for him to kill dozens of people with his own hands. He was well-known for his bravery among the bandit army and was called "the enemy of ten thousand men"!

Because Luo Hu was an orphan since childhood, he knew the suffering of the people very well, so when he grew up he was able to love the people like his own children. The troops he led also had strict military discipline. Wherever they went, they did not harm the people and maintained strict discipline.

Because he liked to read Sun Wu's military books and listened to the deeds of ancient heroes and famous generals, he was quite knowledgeable in military strategies and tactics. He also prided himself on being loyal and righteous in the Chuang camp. Although there were many brave and fierce people in the Chuang army, no one could match him in terms of wisdom and courage.

Luo Hu was very disciplined in controlling horses and artillery in the Chuang army. Although he led only 3,000 troops, he was a strong army known as the "Shock Mountain Camp". When facing battle, they were as immovable as mountains, a rare elite force in the Chuang army.

The most outstanding battle fought by Luo Hu was undoubtedly the one in which he defeated the last pillar of the Ming Dynasty - Sun Chuanting - in the decisive battle of Tongguan!

At that time, in order to create conditions for defeating Sun Chuanting, he hid in the city of Tongguan and held his ground with the help of deep trenches and high fortifications. He refrained from fighting, thus exhausting Sun Chuanting's Ming army, and used a part of his light cavalry to bypass the enemy and cut off the Ming army's grain transportation route, causing the Ming army to run out of food.

At this time, it had rained heavily for seven days in a row. The Ming army was starving and exhausted due to lack of food, which led to unstable morale. He then sent his elite troops to attack in one fell swoop. The two sides engaged in an extremely brutal and fierce battle, which ended with the Ming army's complete retreat.

Luo Hu personally led the cavalry of the rebel army in a fierce pursuit, galloping for more than 400 miles, annihilating more than tens of thousands of elite Ming troops, and finally annihilating the last elite division of the Ming Dynasty.

Since Sun Chuanting died in the battle of Tongguan, the Ming Dynasty finally lost all possible opportunities for counterattack. From then on, there was no military force that could resist Li Zicheng's attack, which directly led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

  As the saying goes, "If Chuan Ting dies, the Ming Dynasty will fall!"

The most rare thing is that after the rebel army entered the capital of the Ming Dynasty, all the generals in the army thought that the situation was settled and the whole world could be conquered, so they let their soldiers plunder and the people of the capital suffered greatly.

At that time, only the rebel army led by Luo Hu and Li Yan could be said to have strict military discipline. The soldiers in their camp did not dare to take anything from the people lightly, and they did not torture the scholars and officials. This made them deeply feared by other rebel generals.

  It is a pity that such a talented general died young!

The cause was that Wu Sangui, the general of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, surrendered and then rebelled again. Li Zicheng wanted to order Luo Hu to lead a light army across the sea to cut off his food supply. At the same time, considering that Luo Hu was still unmarried, he chose the palace lady Fei Zhen'e and gave her to him as his wife to show his favor.

Unfortunately, Fei Zhen'e witnessed the brutality of the rebel army after they entered the city. In addition, she was loyal to and missed her former master, the Ming Emperor Chongzhen. So she took advantage of Luo Hu's drunkenness that night and stabbed him to death in the bridal chamber with a hidden dagger.

  Upon hearing the news, Li Zicheng, the King of Rebellion, was also greatly shocked, so he ordered a grand funeral for Luo Hu. It was also because of Luo Hu's death that he gave up the plan to cross the sea and cut off Wu Sangui's food supply!

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However, at this time, Luo Hu was only the flag bearer of the young soldiers of the Chuang Army. His reputation had not yet been established, and his status was not much different from that of Zhang Nai. Both of them were the best of the younger generation, and had not yet attracted enough attention from Li Zicheng, the King of Chuang.

But even so, his ferociousness and fighting ability should not be underestimated. Although he had only a dozen child soldiers around him, he did not show any fear when facing hundreds of government troops. They swung hoes, shovels and pickaxes in their hands, and forced back the government troops time and time again. He was not at a disadvantage at all. It was just that he could not escape the siege of the government troops for a while.

But “two fists cannot beat four hands, a good man cannot stand against a large number of people, and even a vicious tiger is afraid of a pack of wolves”!

No matter how brave the children soldiers led by Luo Hu were, the difference in numbers was an irreparable flaw. Facing soldiers who outnumbered them by more than ten times, defeat was inevitable. Just when they were feeling exhausted, they suddenly heard shouts of killing from the west, and then saw soldiers retreating to both sides. Before Luo Hu could react, he heard a loud shout: "Brother Luo Hu, follow me and kill!"

Zhang Nai, Luo Hu and Li Shuangxi were all young generals in the rebel army, so they were naturally very familiar with each other. So he recognized Zhang Nai's voice at once, and he followed the voice. Before Luo Hu had time to speak, Zhang Nai had already broken through the encirclement of the government army and appeared in front of Luo Hu on horseback.

"Brother Zhang Nai, you came just in time. If you were any later, I'm afraid you would have been killed by the bad soldiers."

Zhang Nai knew that this was not the time to speak, so he shouted to him, "Luo Hu, follow me to the west. Hui Qiong will meet us there."

Zhang Nai led the cavalry to charge in the front, while Luo Hu led the child soldiers to follow on foot from behind. They soon broke out of the encirclement of hundreds of government troops. Not far ahead, they saw Huiqiong and other female soldiers in red tights, less than eighty steps away.

However, the cavalry of the left army that had just rushed in the front counterattacked at this moment, and happened to block Luo Hu and his group of infantry bandits.

This is really like "escaping from the cage, but putting shackles again"!

Luo Hu was helpless in this matter and could only call on his brothers to fight hard. It was fortunate that he was not destined to die, as there happened to be a small fort about thirty steps to their left, which contained more than a dozen bandits from the Firearms Battalion.

On weekdays, Luo Hu was very interested in firearms, so he often went to Zhang Nai's firearms camp to watch them practice firearms, and as a result he became very familiar with the bandits in the firearms camp.

Therefore, these bandits of the Firearms Battalion who were hiding in the small fort naturally knew Luo Hu. They had just planned to rush out of the small fort to fight side by side with Zhang Nai, but in a flash Zhang Nai rushed to another place, while Luo Hu was intercepted by the government cavalry.

They had just loaded their firearms with ammunition, and at this moment they all shouted together, rushed out of the small fort, and fired a burst of "crackling" shots at the government cavalry.

Taking advantage of the chaos in the government cavalry, Luo Hu led the child soldiers around him to hide in the small fort...

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On the other side, the left army guerrilla Xu Yong led more than a thousand cavalrymen to bypass the areas of both sides and rushed towards the enemy camp like a gust of wind.

Zuo Liangyu saw that the two sides had been fighting for the artillery position for a long time, but no enemy soldiers came to the rescue from the camp. It was obvious that the defending force must be insufficient, so he sent a cavalry to steal the camp.

He simply thought that as long as his troops rushed into the enemy's camp, the enemy would collapse immediately. If he captured the enemy's camp, the artillery positions and watchtowers over there would naturally be easy to seize.