"Xu————"
Chen Wang gave a low drink, gently pulled the reins in his hands, and stopped the advancing horse.
When the riders behind him saw Chen Wang's movements, they all stopped in unison.
Chen Gong and Zhao Huailiang each took a step forward, one on the left and the other on the right, standing beside and behind Chen Wang.
Standing on a mound under the foothills, Chen Wang had a panoramic view of the entire Xishan camp.
Chen Wang looked calm and glanced from the foothills of the Xishan Camp to the top of the mountain.
I don't know why, but whenever he faces a battle, he doesn't feel nervous at all, and his thoughts become clearer.
Although my hands will tremble a little every time, my heart can't stop beating.
But once you hold the reins or the weapon, everything can quickly stabilize. It is an instinctive reaction of the body.
The trembling was not fear. The beating heart and boiling blood were all signals sent by his body, telling him that he was ready to fight.
The wind was blowing, the flags were fluttering, and Chen Wang's originally calm eyes were slightly disturbed.
The rogue camp was built near the mountain. The three camps were set up for defense at the foot of the three mountains, and then halfway up the mountain, all the way to the top of the mountain.
There are layers upon layers, thousands of ravines, surrounded by horses, and numerous defenses.
Chen Wang's eyesight has been very good after practicing archery for a long time. It was with his excellent eyesight that he discovered the flying bird outside Qiutou Town that had not fallen because of the ambush in the mountains.
The place where the formation was formed was only four hundred steps away from the Xishan camp, and Chen Wang could almost see the general layout of the rogue camp clearly.
Chen Wang's eyes were fixed and he frowned slightly. This bandit was much more troublesome than expected.
This arrangement seems to have come from the military at this time in my memory.
After being promoted to guerrilla, when Hong Chengchou sent people to escort him with weapons and military supplies, he also handed him a lot of information about rogue bandits.
For example, there are names of 13 families and 72 camps of bandits, as well as some independent bandits and some situations in various states and counties.
Lin Shengquan, the Climbing King, was originally a private salt dealer. He was born in Pingliang Prefecture. After being arrested and imprisoned, he escaped when the bandits broke into the county town and became the leader by relying on his original savings and connections.
Li Yangchun, the Four Heavenly Kings, came from the side army and launched a mutiny. Then he joined forces with Wang Jiayin and spread across northern Shaanxi for a while, causing all the prefectures in northern Shaanxi to suffer.
If the 72nd Battalion is within the Ming Army, it will be divided into the Upper 24th Battalion, the Middle 24th Battalion, and the Lower 24th Battalion.
Li Yangchun belonged to the upper twenty-fourth battalion and ranked eighth in the upper battalion.
The Climbing King Lin Shengquan belongs to the 24th Middle Camp, ranking 18th in the Middle Camp and 42nd overall.
Li Zicheng's ranking in the upper camp was originally only listed as sixth.
But after Ai Wannian, Liu Chenggong, and Zhang Waijia were strangled by him, they jumped to the top of the camp.
It's just that after Chunhua's defeat, his strength was greatly reduced, and his ranking would naturally change.
However, Chen Wang did not pay attention to these. What he knew clearly was that among the three departments of Gongchang Mansion, Li Yangchun must be the dominant one.
The rogue bandits have been around for many years and have developed their own set of codes of conduct.
Although the upper, middle and lower camps were originally listed internally by the Ming army, after the news leaked, the rogue bandits also began to implement a three-level camp system.
The lower camp obeys the middle camp, the middle camp obeys the upper camp, and the upper camp obeys the thirteen families.
Of course, there is no ranking within the rogue bandits. If the battalion level is the same, who will be the first and second will be determined based on the size of the troops.
However, if there is a huge difference in strength, then even if the stronger party has a lower battalion level, the other party must obey. This is an unspoken rule.
When two camps meet, the stronger one is respected.
When he was in Qingyang Mansion, the reason why Prime Minister Guo Tianxing Hui Deng, one of the thirteen families, obeyed Li Zicheng was because Li Zicheng's military power was at its peak at that time, and he was pursued and his strength was greatly damaged all the way. The disparity was too big, so he could only gave up the authority to command.
Then after Li Zicheng suffered a disastrous defeat, Prime Minister Hui Deng abandoned Li Zicheng and fled without hesitation, which did not violate the rules. After all, he was one of the thirteen families.
Chen Wang led the war horse back and forth on the mound, inspecting the rogue camp in the west mountain.
Almost all of the bandits in the twenty-fourth battalion are tough, and their characteristics are marked in the directory.
Li Yangchun's characteristics were labeled with only four words: "steady and well-preserved."
And the current layout of the camp is indeed worthy of these four words.
Chen Wang saw clearly that he saw a lot of Fran cannons deployed in the rogue camp.
If we just attack with a sea of people, we will inevitably suffer heavy casualties.
The rogues occupied a favorable location and were at a commanding height. They not only had camp walls as shelter, but also built gun towers and watchtowers, which were stacked three-dimensionally. Even the camp walls were not made of wallpaper, and many sections even had recessed parts.
If you attack the recessed camp wall, you will only suffer more long-range attacks. Even if you don't touch the camp wall, you will suffer a lot of casualties.
There is no immortality in a war, but Chen Wang does not want the soldiers under his command to die worthlessly.
Li Yangchun is more troublesome than he imagined. These bandits may not have a professional background, have no prominent family background, and have not read any decent military books.
But they are better at fighting than those generals who were born as generals.
Because all their experience was gained with blood and gained through the lessons of blood and tears.
Chen Wang withdrew his gaze. He was too far away and couldn't see many of the arrangements clearly. I'm afraid it would take a lot of effort by then.
Chen Wang's eyes narrowed slightly. If he had a pair of telescopes now, he would undoubtedly have more advantages.
It's a pity that if you want to buy a telescope now, you can only send someone to the coast or big cities such as Beijing to buy it.
Chen Wang looked at Li Yangchun's arrangements and his eyes gradually became serious.
Li Yangchun's arrangement was definitely not to guard against him.
Because he had been chasing Li Guo all the way, and with the help of military reports from the post station, he had recently received news that bandits had broken into the Gongchang Mansion.
How did Li Yangchun know that he would chase Li Guo all the way? Meeting Li Guo was completely a coincidence.
It was impossible to build such a strong camp in just four or five days. A camp of this size took at least a month to build.
Li Yangchun and Lin Shengquan led their troops to Gongchang Mansion and set up heavy defenses at Jujizhong Mountain, but they did not follow Gao Yingxiang and Hong Chengchou to fight in Sanyuan. This was unusual.
Gao Yingxiang is now the leader of all camps, and even Zhang Xianzhong, Ma Huihui and others have obeyed.
Li Yangchun was placed under Gao Yingxiang's command in the directory. How could he disobey Gao Yingxiang's orders?
Chen Wang speculated that Li Yangchun's arrival was definitely under Gao Yingxiang's order.
"Yan'an Prefecture, Gongchang Prefecture, Fengxiang Prefecture, Hanzhong Prefecture, Xi'an Prefecture..."
Most of the rogue bandits were led by Gao Yingxiang in the decisive battle in Sanyuan, but a small number of rogue bandits fled to the five prefectures of Shaanxi.
"Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan..."
The range of rogue bandits is extremely wide. There are wars and disputes everywhere.
Chen Wang felt like he had caught a very thin thread and discovered something extremely important.
Gao Yingxiang seemed to be planning something.
It's just that based on the existing information, it's impossible to know Gao Yingxiang's true purpose.
Chen Wang exhaled a sigh of relief and laughed to himself.
Now he is just a small guerrilla. Even if the sky falls, he will not be the first to be hit. Naturally, someone will have to bear it first.
All he needs to do is fight this battle now.
After winning this battle and sending the good news to Xi'an Mansion, he retained his position as a guerrilla.
Then they drove Li Yangchun and other troops into Hanzhong, followed them, and gradually developed.
Living in an unstable place without a foundation, no matter how strong you are, you are just a duckweed in the water. You cannot control your own destiny and can only drift with the tide.
"After the close inspection, no enemy ambushes were seen between the mountains on both sides. Our troops have already occupied important positions without closing in at night."
"There are seven gun towers and thirteen arrow towers in the attack on the west side of Xishan. There are also Franco machine gun ports behind the village wall. Most of the Franco machines seen are small and medium-sized, and there are no thousand-jin Franco machines."
"The enemy's infantry formations gathered behind the village wall, and the elite cavalry stood on the high ground to support them. There were strange movements in the three mountains."
"A large number of horse troops have gathered in the Dongshan camp, and the rogue bandits have dispersed their elite cavalry. They seem to want to capture our rear camp."
Ye Bushou, carrying the command flag on his back, galloped from a distance and reported the intelligence coefficient from nearby exploration.
"The enemy has set up three walls. There are many ravines along the road, but most of them are not too deep. The soldiers in the middle have been ordered to dig out soil and sand."
Chen Wang nodded slightly, indicating that he knew, and then ordered.
"All the front rangers are withdrawn from the front to protect the flanks. We just need to prevent the enemy's scouts from breaking into the circle."
When the military order was issued, Ye Buqian, who had come with the news, responded with a loud voice and left immediately without any delay.
Chen Wang naturally expected that Dongshan Camp would send troops to attack the camp he had placed in the rear.
After all, he had gone through hundreds of battles. As the general's personal guard, Cao Wenzhao had told him many things he needed to pay attention to, so he would naturally be on guard.
Chen Wang went out to fight this time with almost his entire army, but that didn't mean there was no one guarding the camp.
The camp is now guarded by more than two thousand soldiers from all over Gongchang Prefecture. These soldiers cannot fight in the field, but they are more than enough to guard the camp.
Chen Wang turned his attention back to the stacked camps. If he was leading the Changping soldiers under Zuo Liangyu and there were a large number of auxiliary troops, he would choose to attack by force.
If he was leading the Datong soldiers under Cao Wenzhao, with 500 cavalrymen under his command, he would choose to break through the camp gate and lead the army to advance.
But he is now leading a group of new recruits who have just been trained for a month, and the Liao cavalry under him is a small one, so he does not adopt either plan.
Chen Wang has a more secure method that is better than the first two plans, and it is also a method that Zuo Liangyu'e and Cao Wenzhao will never use.
"Raise the red flag."
Chen Wang raised the riding whip in his hand and ordered in a deep voice.
The messenger on the side immediately raised a red flag and waved it suddenly.
"Woo————"
The low horn sounded slowly behind Chen Wang.
Chen Wang reined in his horse and turned to his side, and everyone's eyes followed Chen Wang.
On the right side, eight huge artillery carts were slowly pushed onto the mound.
Times have changed, why should we still use stupid methods to attack a city?
Caliber is justice, range is truth.
The wind is blowing, the clouds are flying, and the cannons are firing!
(End of chapter)
