Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 494
Yang Chao couldn't get away from such a big mess, and the war had already begun in full swing.

As soon as Song Kun arrived in Guangdong, he couldn't wait to fight and make meritorious deeds. The past two years in the Mekong River had suffocated him. Fighting with those cunning bandits all day made him feel dizzy. At the same time, he felt very useless. Those bandits never Don't pay attention to any frontal combat, just hit and run.

So Song Kun's combat experience is actually very rich. In the past two years, he has fought as many times as any other general in the country, but the scale of the battle is too small. There are almost no battles with more than a thousand people, and most of them are three to five hundred people. The siege, pursuit, lure and ambush, etc., although the scale is not large, but the frequent battles caused at least 500 bandits to die in his hands.

This time Song Kun has 10 troops in his hands, and Xie Fei has 15 troops in his hands. Together, the two have [-] troops, which is enough for a large-scale decisive battle with the Qing army in Guangdong. To fight, Song Kun was extremely eager.

But Xie Fei was too prudent, and was very afraid of Hong Chengchou's deployment. Obviously he had suffered too many losses, and his memory improved.

This made Song Kun very annoyed, and asked for battle many times, but Xie Fei refused to allow it. He just said that he must make all preparations before attacking Guangzhou.

And Xie Fei's preparations include finding out the enemy's situation, sweeping the surrounding area, stockpiling military resources, and step by step. He should be considered mature and prudent, but Song Kun just thinks that he is too conservative, so how can he fight without being guessed at every step of the battle? win.

In addition, Song Kun's qualifications are actually much older than Xie Fei's. He is in the same group as Wang Pu, and he is one of the first dozen people recruited by Yang Chao. He is the first batch of officers from Xiaolingwei. Therefore, a quarrel broke out between the two very quickly, and the lawsuit was brought before Yang Chao. After reading the letter between the two, Yang Chao immediately sent his own soldier Li Liang to deliver the order and beat Song Kun up. The guy who has been dealing with bandits for two years recalls that there are rules in Yang Chao's army.

After being beaten, Song Kun became more honest. This time the main general is Xie Fei, and he must obey.

Then he lowered his face to discuss with Xie Fei, actively cooperated with Xie Fei, and at the same time sent his scouts to actively investigate.

I have to say that Song Kun's sentry detectives do have two skills. The skills developed in the wilderness of the Mekong River Basin are a piece of cake in Guangdong. His sentry detectives can go out for two or three days, and when they come back It can clearly describe the specific situation, and even use the sand table to pinch out important terrain.

After everything was ready, in May, Xie Fei's army started to fight, advancing step by step to Huizhou Mansion.

At this time, Song Kun's subordinates got room to display again. Hong Chengchou's combat methods were very cunning, or full of strategies, using high-density tactics such as luring the enemy, ambush, detour, and sneak attack. Xie Fei was confused by this tactic before. His head was so big that he started to calm down after being burned with food and grass three times.

But at this time Song Kun dispersed his men, with 1000 more and 100 less, and most of them acted in units of [-].

Only then did Xie Fei discover that Song Kun's subordinates had a quality that his subordinates did not possess at all, that is, flexibility. We can accurately find out the enemy's position, combat objectives and methods, and even be able to counter sneak attacks, counter ambushes, and so on.

What he didn't know was that this was completely forced out by the bandits from Cambodia, Vietnam and even the sea in the Mekong River Basin. Although Song Kun's old subordinates were few, only 4000 people were brought back, but among these people, the officers, needless to say, Many soldiers even have the ability to make independent judgments, and can make their own analysis and judgments according to the situation. Not to mention Xie Fei's subordinates in terms of flexibility, even Yang Chao's most elite soldiers are inferior.

It was precisely because of Song Kun's assistance that Xie Fei reached the city of Huizhou safely, which had never happened before in the previous attacks here. At this time, Xie Fei also had to look at Song Kun with admiration, and he was more accepting of Song Kun's opinion up.

Huizhou was hit without any suspense. At this time, Zhang Huangyan, the supervisor of Xie Fei's army, also came back, but his face was a little bad. He went out this time to coordinate and lobby Chen Qice and other remnants of the Ming army who were fighting guerrillas in the south and the sea, and even the peasants. Jun Wangxing and other ministries have lobbied and recruited, and his political activities are still very successful, but it is a pity that he heard a very bad news.

Guangxi was captured by Kong Youde, and his favorite emperor Zhu Cihuan is currently unknown.

"Master Zhang, don't worry. Your Majesty has his own destiny, and he will be able to escape safely. When our army recovers Guangdong and Guangxi, we welcome your Majesty to return to court!"

Xie Fei comforted Zhang Huangyan.

Zhang Huangyan nodded. He also knew that it was useless to worry. Although the emperor did not know his whereabouts, there were several theories. Some said he fled to the Lianshan area on the border between Huguang and Guangxi, and some said he fled to Guizhou. As long as he was not captured The news, this is the best news.

However, Zhang Huangyan preferred that the emperor fled into the deep mountains, because Yunnan had already been occupied by Sun Kewang and his gang of western thieves a few years ago, and all the borders were sealed off. The prisoner of the army is even more miserable.

In Zhang Huangyan's eyes, he believed that Zhang Xianzhong's remaining Daxi army was still a rebel, and would still catch the clans as before, kill them immediately, and even cook them.

Zhang Huangyan believed that the emperor must also know this, so he would never flee in the direction of Yunnan.

Zhang Huangyan's guess was not unreasonable. In fact, Zhu Cihuan was also very worried about this, so he fled to Guizhou instead of Yunnan.

Anlong, in the south of Guizhou, is a place of thousands of households. The terrain is dangerous, but the population is small, only about a hundred households.

At this time, it was still under the control of the Ming army, but there were only more than 1000 troops under it, half of them were old and weak soldiers assembled in Anlong, and the rest were Jinyiwei soldiers in Ma Jixiang's hands.

After escaping from Guangdong, Zhu Cihuan first fled to Nanning, where he spent a month of training. As a result, Kong Youde chased him and he had to flee to Guilin. Qu Shixu, who stayed in Nanning to stop him, fought against his generals Jiao Lian and Hu Qingniu. die.

Kong Youde soon caught up with Guilin, and Zhu Cihuan ran to Liuzhou again, but Kong Youde pressed on every step of the way, so he could only flee westward. On the way, he even had the idea of ​​fleeing to Annan for refuge. Unfortunately, it was impossible to judge the political trends of the Annan people. , give up at last.

Until now, after fleeing to Anlong Institute in the southernmost tip of Guizhou, Zhu Cihuan felt that he was at the end of his rope.

The whole of Guizhou is under the rule of divided warlords. The most important thing is that the mountains here are continuous. The so-called land is no three feet flat, and the sky is no three feet high. It has always been a barren land with many chieftains.

At this time, the Daxi Army, which suddenly ruled Yunnan, sent people to contact Zhu Cihuan, hoping that they would enter Yunnan.

"Hong Chengchou is not in Guangzhou!"

The spies Song Kun sent out to find out brought back news that Hong Chengchou had left Guangzhou and was in Zhaoqing.

Obviously Hong Chengchou was not only concerned about the defense of Guangdong, but also concerned about Kong Youde's offensive. He controlled the Guangdong, Guangxi and Qing troops in Zhaoqing.

"General Xie, I believe that our army should first attack Dongguan along the Dongjiang River, and then attack Guangzhou. At the same time, if the Zheng family's water army is asked to attack from both sides of the waterway, Guangzhou will not be difficult to break through."

Seriously speaking, nothing unusual, Xie Fei nodded, feeling that there is no other good way.

Zheng Chenggong also has no objection. The Zheng family has gained a lot during this time. With the support of Yang Chao, he swept up the pirates in Chaozhou, and he has already set his sights on the pirates who have surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in the Pearl River Estuary. He wiped out the Guangdong pirate group. In the future, the sea will still belong to the Zheng family.

Zhang Huang said: "I have made an appointment with Chen Qice and other troops to attack Guangzhou."

Chen Qice is in Shangxiachuan Island, Wang Xing and other troops are in Enping, Xinning and other places, which are about the same distance from Guangzhou and Huizhou. If the march goes smoothly, they should be able to encircle Guangzhou.

Song Kun nodded reluctantly, which made Zhang Huangyan feel a little uncomfortable. Obviously, he could see the meaning on Song Kun's face and looked down on the fighting power of Chen Qice and others. Although Zhang Huangyan knew that Yang Chaojun was invincible, but this kind of pride He still doesn't like it, especially the disdain for the local army he recruited, it's his face.

Song Kun went on to say: "I believe that General Xie led the Chinese army to advance to Guangzhou, and our army responded. Mr. Zhang will stay in Huizhou."

Xie Fei nodded again.

But Zhang Huangyan did not agree: "As a supervisor, I should follow the army to watch the battle."

Song Kun said with a sneer: "Master Zhang is weak, if the battle is unfavorable, he may not be able to protect him well. If the battle is tight, even I and the general soldiers will charge forward. Who will protect Master Zhang?"

Anger was already rising in Zhang Huangyan's heart. Song Kun had underestimated the army he recruited just now, and now he was directly ridiculing and despising himself.

But Zhang Huangyan suppressed the anger in his heart, he knew that it was not the time to conflict with these Wu Bian, he had to bear the humiliation for the great cause.

"I don't need protection, just give me a knife!"

Song Kun smiled sinisterly, and asked someone to bring Zhang Huangyan a waist knife.

Zhang Huangyan straddled his waist with a cold face.

"Master Zhang, you can't fight with a knife."

The army had already set out, Song Kun rode a horse, and walked beside Zhang Huangyan inadvertently, and walked parallel with him.

Zhang Huang said: "Then how can we be able to fight?"

Song Kun sneered: "Master Zhang, look at our soldiers."

After finishing speaking, he pointed to the soldiers who were marching forward one by one. The soldiers who had trained in footwork, tens of thousands of people walked together, there was a silent momentum, which fully demonstrated the collective beauty. A great torture.

Zhang Huangyan snorted, Yang Chao's soldiers are different from others' soldiers, you can tell it just by marching.

Song Kun said again: "Which of these soldiers has not been able to look like this after years of hard training, even the military's scholars have also undergone hard training, and they are the ones who know how to fight."

After finishing speaking, he chased his troops on horseback.

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