The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 80 The Battalion System
No cheering, no celebration.

After the Chuang army was defeated, the atmosphere in Chunhua City was very strange.

Many people have not reacted yet. What happened in just a few hours is like a fairy tale, which is unbelievable.

Hu Zhili finally returned to Chunhua City safely.

At the first moment when the tide of routs rolled back, Hu Zhili immediately ordered to evacuate to the edge.

And it was this evacuation that made Hu Zhili bump into two important people—Gao Yigong and Gao Shi.

Gao Yigong is from Mizhi, Shaanxi. He has been following Li Zicheng since Li Zicheng's uprising, and he is Li Zicheng's right-hand man.

The Gao family also has another identity, which is Li Zicheng's official wife.

When Hu Zhili led a group of cavalry to the edge, he happened to see a group of more than ten people, but the well-armored cavalry team was leaving the camp and wanted to flee into the forest.

At that time, Hu Zhili had already guessed that it might be a big fish, so he immediately sent his cavalry to intercept it, and quickly captured all of them.

However, after being captured, Hu Zhili questioned him several times, but still no one explained his identity.

Until Hu Zhili met Gao Jie and Xing Shi who were led down from the mountain by the sentry, Gao Jie recognized the identities of Gao Yigong and Gao Shi at a glance.

When Gao Yigong saw Gao Jie, he immediately realized that the fire in the back camp was set by Gao Jie.

He saw the Xing family beside Gao Jie again, Gao Yigong didn't know the reason for this.

If it wasn't for being tightly bound, Gao Jie might have been torn apart by Gao Jie's hands on the spot.

On the other hand, Gao's expression didn't change too much from being bound to seeing Gao Jie and Xing, and he remained calm all the time.

Sitting at the head of the tent, Chen Wang looked at Gao Yigong and Gao Shi who were kneeling on the ground, then glanced at Gao Jie and Xing Shi who were sitting on the side, and finally his eyes rested on Hu Zhili.

Chen Wang felt that the relationship between him and Li Zicheng should be truly endless now, not the enmity between officers and soldiers and rebels, but a real personal enmity.

Li Zicheng's two current wives, together with Gao Yigong, are all in his hands now.

The Xing family is okay, after all, she said she was a wife, but she was actually just a concubine.

But the Gao family is Li Zicheng's true wife. If the process does not change, when Li Zicheng breaks through the city of Beijing and ascends the throne as emperor, the Gao family will also be established as the queen.

But obviously, the current Gao family has no such opportunity.

Not to mention whether Li Zicheng can break through the Beijing city in the future, it is not easy to pass Liu Chenggong's level.

In the Battle of Xiangle, Liu Chenggong and Ai Wannian joined forces and were ambushed by Li Zicheng. Because of this, Liu Chenggong lost his position as lieutenant general and was made a general.

The enemy was extremely jealous when they met, and Li Zicheng had to shed his skin to escape if he didn't die.

"Take them down, lock them up in the barracks, and send a flag of soldiers to guard them strictly."

Chen Wang raised his hand and ordered.

He didn't want to talk nonsense with Gao Yigong and Gao Shi.

Gao Yigong's face turned red, his eyes were red, and he couldn't ask any questions at all.

As long as he removes the rags that blocked his mouth, he is guaranteed to hear the purest national quintessence of this era.

As for Gao, it is useless to ask. What Gao knows, Xing also knows, and what Xing knows, Gao does not necessarily know.

In Li Zicheng's camp, Gao did not manage anything too important.

The noise and neighing of people outside the tent did not stop.

Although the main battle is over, the normal battle has not yet completely ended.

Chen Wang ordered Chen Gong to lead the remaining cavalry from Liao Town to pursue them all the way.

Li Zicheng led the fine cavalry to flee south, and a group of defeated soldiers also bypassed Chunhua and headed southeast.

The noise outside the tent was the sound of rearmament, Chen Wang did not personally lead the troops to pursue, and now there are many affairs to be dealt with inside and outside the city.

Matters are prioritized, the affairs in Chunhua City are the most important, but Li Zicheng and the rout soldiers are now the least important.

Li Zicheng was as slippery as a loach, not to mention that now there was another obstacle in the way of chasing troops.

Even if there were no rout soldiers blocking the way, most of them would not be able to catch up with Li Zicheng.

In history, Li Zicheng was defeated in an ambush by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting in Tongguan Nanyuan, Weinan, and almost his entire army was wiped out.

But even so, Li Zicheng still escaped from birth, but took Liu Zongmin and other remnants with a total of 18 people to hide in Shangluo Mountain in southeast Shaanxi.

The various atmospheres of fighting in battle can easily make people's blood surge, and they make some reckless actions.

Now back in the camp, Chen Wang has completely calmed down.

In this situation, no matter whether Li Zicheng escaped or not, he has already gained enough military exploits, enough to make a big mark in the hearts of Hong Chengchou and Chongzhen.

What's more, Gao Yigong is also a big fish, and his status is not inferior to that of a bandit leader.

Defeating [-] rogues with [-] battalions in a field battle, such a feat was rarely achieved even in the early years of the rogues' rise.

With such a great feat, it is not impossible to become a general in one step.

With Cao Wenzhao's relationship, how can he be promoted to a guerrilla, and he is justifiably leading the first battalion and officially becoming a battalion general.

But this is not the biggest gain of this battle.

The biggest gain of this battle is the armor and weapons left behind when the Chuangjun fled. These are the most important things at this stage.

"After all the routs outside the city have dispersed, let Tang Guizhong send out all the sergeants under his command, and send out the auxiliary soldiers recruited in the city to clean up the battlefield."

Chen Wang turned his head and ordered to Hu Zhili.

"Remember, don't miss a piece of armor or a piece of weapon."

There are really two different things on the battlefield with armor and without armor.

Even a cloth face armor with less than a hundred pieces of armor on it can resist light arrows shot from a riding bow.

Waiting for idle knives and guns can't be chopped or pierced.

Now Chen Wang is wearing a mail armor under the fish scale armor, and a cotton armor under the mail armor, lined with silk, a solid three-layer armor.

Even if a strong man comes with a long spear as a chest stab, he will definitely not be able to break through the defense.

Thirty or forty steps away, even a bird gun can't completely break through the armor.

As a battalion soldier, armor and weapons are not easy to get.

When the Wei army reaches the level of Qianhu, there are craftsmen who specialize in making ordnance in Weizhong.

But the battalion system and the guard system are completely different. The battalion is only responsible for fighting, and all the money, food, weapons and armor are allocated by the imperial court in order to restrict them.

In the Ming Dynasty, as a battalion soldier, it can be said that it was difficult to succeed in the rebellion.

Even Zuo Liangyu occupied a place and became a warlord only when various systems were corrupted in the late Ming Dynasty.

The difficulties to be overcome during the transformation from battalion to warlord are continuous and one after another.

Zuo Liangyu had been away for more than ten years before barely completing the transformation.

Now that Ming Ting's prestige is still there, many things can only be accumulated slowly.

　There is too much difference between the battalion and the guard, so the road that Lao Chen is going to take is a completely different route from other novels

　　
　
(End of this chapter)