Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 239 The Story of the Tianxiong Army Suppressing Bandits 1
Something is not right.

Looking back at the small group of cavalry circling around the edge of his camp, Hui Hui felt a little uneasy for no reason.

He can be regarded as a senior bandit. He started making troubles in the first year of Chongzhen, and has been making troubles until now. He has fought around Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia.The Hui infantry army led by him has a strong internal cohesion and is brave in combat. It has always been the elite of the peasant army. The department is the vanguard, come here to try the reality of the Central Plains.It should be said that everything went smoothly when they first entered the Central Plains. The Central Plains had been in peace for a long time, and the military equipment was not repaired, and the local guards were vulnerable. grow.But when they started targeting Daimyo who had just had a bumper harvest, they started to run into trouble.

The troublemakers are precisely these red knights who look like dog skin plasters.

These knights in red are of course the Ming army, but they are different from any Ming army they encountered. They all ride good horses that travel hundreds of miles a day, and the strong bows and sabers they use are all exceptionally sharp. They come and go Like the wind, the aggregation is uncertain, always appearing in the area where the peasant army is active like a shadow, when it encounters a small group of troops, it immediately sweeps over, harvests life with strong bows and sabers, and immediately disperses when encountering a large group of peasant troops Well, if the peasant army goes after them, they won't gain anything other than a meal of horse arrows, or they might be taken into an ambush circle by them, two or three hundred horsemen roaring in, and then there will be a massacre.The cavalry of the Peasant Army also tried to eliminate or drive away these nasty ranger squads, but such efforts were useless. The nutrition, equipment, training, and technical and tactical levels of the two sides were too far behind. Not their opponents, the cavalry sent to expel the officers and soldiers of the cavalry squad were either meat buns beating dogs, never returning, or cucumbers beating dogs—more than half of them were lost, and after losing more than a hundred horses, they always gave up. If you like to follow, let you follow, just you people, dare to fly horses to kick my camp of tens of thousands of troops!

But the taste of being bitten by a pack of wolves is really not very good. Most importantly, the outstanding combat effectiveness of these red knights also makes the peasant army not very optimistic about the "Qiantu" who looted the Daming Road. Thousands of such cavalry, they are not going to get rich, but to die!
More than a dozen horses galloped beyond the range of the peasant army's bows and arrows. They tied tree branches behind the horses' tails. They all thought that a large group of cavalry was coming towards them, and panicked.Hun Tianwang stared at the yelling rangers, and gritted his teeth: "Aren't these guys tired? They've been tossing around for a day! Even if they're not tired, the horses should take a rest, right?"

Old Hui smiled wryly: "Their horses are really not tired... My men saw them feeding the horses when they were chasing. Guess what they feed the horses?"

King Hundian said: "What else can it be besides fodder?"

Old Hui shook his head, pointed his fingers and said one by one: "Oats, eggs, salt beans, sugar, and spirits!"

Every time Lao Hui said the same thing, Hun Tianwang's Adam's apple twitched. Hearing that there was still wine, he swallowed loudly and murmured: "Good guy, I'm really willing to spend money! With such fine ingredients, it's no wonder their The horse won't get tired... Even if I see such horse feed, I still have to drool!"

Lao Hui agreed: "That's right, the landlord's food is not so good!"

Those guys played with the mud and sand for a while, and seeing that the peasant army didn't respond, they were very disappointed. They untied the branches from the horse's tail to let the horse rest, and stood on a high place, with their hands clasped into a trumpet shape, and rushed towards the peasant army's camp. The radio started: "I was wandering around right under your noses, but you came out to beat us! You bastards, a bunch of shrunken turtles, are less courageous than women! Go back to your hometown as soon as possible and eat the bark, just you How dare you still want to rebel? You're not afraid of making people laugh!"

The peasant army shouted in confusion: "Don't be proud! You are the cowards. You will run away as soon as we get out! If you have the guts to ride a horse, come over and challenge us. We will beat three of you one by one. Whoever runs away will be your grandson!"

The red knight laughed loudly: "Is this what I call running away? Are we running away? We are walking the dog. We will run you out of breath and then turn around and hum a ditty while chopping each one!"

The peasant army roared: "If you have the guts, don't run away!"

The red knight said: "If we don't run away, why don't you come and beat us?"

The peasant army shouted: "You think we are stupid, you run away as soon as we pass by, come here if you have the guts!"

The red knight is not stupid: "Do you think we are stupid? There are only a dozen of us, and you have tens of thousands. We passed by, and each of you can drown us with a spit! If you have the guts, come here!"

The peasant army shouted: "If you have the seeds, come here!"

Red Knight: "A bunch of trash, bah!"

Peasant Army: "A group of cowards who are less courageous than rabbits, bah bah!"

The red knight: "Bah, bah, bah!"

Peasant Army: "Bah, bah, bah, bah!"

Everyone didn't want to suffer, and everyone didn't want to go over and get beaten, so they spit from the air.At this time, another ranger arrived and joined the ranks of spouting, and the scolding war further escalated.Seeing that gang of knights in red were so arrogant, Hun Tianwang was very angry: "If I catch these grandsons, they must drink two liters of saliva!"

The old Huihui was a little helpless: "Can we catch it? If our cavalry goes too much, they will run away without a trace, and if they go too little, let them gobble it up..."

Hun Tianwang shouted angrily: "Then we just watch them being arrogant?"

Back when I saw more and more people joining the scolding war, everyone was very angry, and knew that this could not go on, so they said: "Forget it, just send someone to drive them away. Everyone, hurry up and rest. Tomorrow Go to attack Julu, I heard that there is a big grain depot there, if you can take this big grain depot, this winter will be easier..."

The gate of the camp opened, and about [-] cavalrymen riding northwest warhorses brandished machetes, rushed out howling, and rushed straight at the group of red-clothed cavalrymen who were spitting vigorously.This group of red-clothed cavalry was straightforward. When they saw the other party opening the door and charging out, they mounted their horses immediately. When they saw three hundred people coming out, they ran away without saying a word. Be well trained.The returning cavalry chased for a mile without even picking up a human hair. They reined in their horses helplessly and yelled at the backs of the red knights, cursing all eighteen generations of red knight ancestors.The red-clothed knight did not show any weakness. Seeing that the opponent stopped chasing, he immediately reined in his horse, hid outside the range of the bow and scolded the Hui Hui, and sent warm greetings to the female immediate relatives of the Hui Hui, which made the Hui Hui very angry. There is smoke from the seven orifices, but there is nothing they can do... They have been running around and fighting. The horses are hungry and full, and they have no fat at all. No matter what, they can't outrun the tall ones under the red knight's crotch. Even the hair follicles are rich in oil Liaodong steed.Horses are not as good as people, and no matter how brave the cavalry is, there is nothing they can do.

After scolding each other for a while, the Hui Hui returned to the camp angrily, and the red knight immediately made a comeback, and surrounded the peasant army camp wantonly mocking the Hui Hui cavalry for their embarrassing performance just now.What makes people feel bad is that there seem to be more and more red-clothed knights, circling around the camp of the Peasant Army, jumping up to create a little chaos whenever they have the opportunity, and even rushing over under the rain of arrows to light a string of firecrackers Throw it into the peasant army camp, make the camp run wild, and then walk away.This little trick is of course useless to the peasant army who has been fighting for a long time, but the dense explosions and bursts of smoke and fire are quite useful to the new recruits who have just joined the camp and the old and weak women and children in the camp. Lethality, they mistakenly thought that officers and soldiers had come in, shot at them, and made a mess.In desperation, Lao Huihui had no choice but to send more cavalry to drive these rangers a little further, lest they make their own camp fly, and at the same time send more archers to each camp. If those guys come again, He greeted them fiercely with bows and arrows.

As usual, as soon as the cavalry came out of the camp, the knight in red immediately ran away. After escaping two or three hundred steps, he turned back to count the number of people, and found that the opponent's number was far greater than his own. Without saying a word, he ran away!In short, if you want to hit them, there is no door.Huihui cavalry was so angry that his seven orifices were filled with smoke, but there was nothing he could do.

Finally, it was finally dark.This is good news. It's getting dark, which means that the damn cavalry will stop for a while.Sure enough, after dark, the knights in red lit a bonfire 300 meters away from the camp of the peasant army.But they still have a way to continue to torture the peasant army.I saw these guys took out pieces of dried meat and roasted them on the bonfire. Soon, an extremely tempting fragrance floated down the wind to the camp of the peasant army. Looking at the buns made of bran and wild vegetables, the eyes of the Peasant Army involuntarily glowed green. He kept sniffing, drooling, and became even more hungry.Don’t think that being a rogue is so majestic. In fact, most people can’t eat enough. Even if they can barely fill their stomachs, the food is not good. Wowotou made of bran and wild vegetables is the staple food. If you can get some beans Add some salt and boil it, and it will be a delicious meal. There is no oil or water in the stomach, and the smell of meat is unbearable to anyone.Even Hun Tianwang couldn't take it anymore, he threw away the half-eaten bun, and cursed angrily: "Damn, I've been eating this stuff for months, and the shit I pull out doesn't smell anymore! I want to eat meat! "

Let him say this, and Huihui couldn't eat anymore, put down the hard and dry bun, rolled his eyes, and said, "Who doesn't want to eat meat? But where does the meat come from?"

Hun Tianwang was discouraged, and said bitterly: "These damned officers and soldiers have been tossing around all day without talking, and they don't even let us eat safely!"

The old Hui Hui said: "You can just plug your nose!"

Hun Tianwang said: "Fuck you! They'd better finish eating early and leave early. If they continue to make trouble there, I will catch them and roast them!"

Lao Hui didn't bother to tell him, so he ate the remaining half of the steamed bread in a few mouthfuls, and drank a large bowl of soup cooked with wild vegetables and grass roots, barely stuffing his stomach full, and went back to the camp to sleep.

In the middle of the night, a more intense smell of meat woke up Lao Hui from his dream, and his stomach started growling again.He murmured and cursed: "These officers and soldiers don't even allow them to sleep peacefully... Just keep showing off and see how much meat you have to show off!"

Needless to say, there are not a few people who were awakened from their dreams by this aroma. They were not full at first, and they were even more hungry when they were lured by the aroma.At this time, a sentinel came to report that many officers and soldiers had come, and they were eating overnight!Lao Huihui, Hun Tianwang and other leaders put on their clothes and climbed up to the fence, wanting to see what the officers and soldiers were doing. Sure enough, they saw that two miles away, there were as many bonfires as there were stars, people were buzzing, and they didn't know how many pots were cooking. Soup, and I don't know how many people are receiving the meal, anyway, it is very lively.The gang of red-clothed knights got excited again, ran to a place only a hundred meters away from the camp, first set off two strings of firecrackers to refresh everyone, and then shouted at the top of their voices: "The army led by our lord has arrived. These gangsters, wait for death!" Some felt that this was not good, and they would sin if they frightened the children, and sent out a kind invitation: "We are eating, and we have cooked dozens of pots of broth and fried a lot of cabbage. , are you guys not full for dinner? Would you like to come over and have dinner together?"

The latter was more lethal than the former, which accelerated the peasant army's gastrointestinal motility and made the hunger more intense.

Hun Tianwang stared at the huge star-sea-like fire, his face was not very good-looking, he touched it and replied: "You have good eyesight, can you tell how many of them there are?"

Old Hui Hui counted the bonfires in piles, but he couldn't count them clearly after counting several times.He sighed and said, "I'm afraid there are a lot of troops, there must be several thousand."

Huntian King asked: "How many thousand is it? Three thousand or five thousand?"

Laohui shook his head: "I'm afraid it won't stop!"

King Hun Tian took a breath of cold air.So many officers and soldiers came silently, it's trouble!

(End of this chapter)