Shaving one's hair is a prerequisite for surrender.
Wang Wu saw the braids, which meant that Ma Tengyun, the former general of the Dashun Army, had rebelled.
It was undoubtedly a heavy blow to Ma Sizhong, Xu Deyi and others who came from Laoshun Army.
Before this, although many Ming generals surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, there was no one like Ma Tengyun who had been a senior general in Dashun.
In the past two years, most of those who have been demoted are general soldiers and deputy generals with official seals.
The person with the highest title is Fu Ping Bo He Daoning, who is the son of He Zhen.
He Zhen was a general in the Ming Dynasty in his early years. Later, he surrendered to Li Zi and became the chief general in Hanzhong.
After Li Zicheng withdrew from Beijing, He Zhen surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Hanzhong, and blocked Li Guo and Gao Yigong's troops from northern Shaanxi. He also defeated Zhang Xianzhong's 30,000 troops, making great contributions to the Qing government.
However, only a few months later, He Zhen raised the banner of resistance to the Qing Dynasty again in Hanzhong, and joined forces with Liu Tichun in southern Shaanxi. After that, he continued to resist the Qing Dynasty until he died of illness in Daning, the base area four years ago.
In short, He Zhen is a very complex character.
Probably the same as Li Chengdong, who was the vanguard of the Qing army massacred in the south of the Yangtze River, marched all the way to Fujian and Zhejiang, and then repented and resolutely resisted the Qing in Guangdong, and finally died for his country.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were countless such complex characters.
As He Zhen's only son, He Daoning lacked the courage of his father. When he saw the Qing army approaching Daning, he was frightened and lost his mind. He surrendered to Li Guoying, the Qing governor of Sichuan, without any resistance.
As a result, not only did more than ten thousand of Hezhen's old troops become surrendered, but the Ming army in Kuidong lost its only salt-producing land, making the Ming army generally short of salt in the past two years.
Yuan Zongdi's general Xinhua Bo Feng Qifeng was not from the Laoshun Army. He was a general who was originally appointed by the Ming Dynasty to assist Du Yinxi, and he followed Yuan Zongdi after Du Yinxi.
Therefore, the rebellion of Ma Tengyun, the former Dashun general Guoyi, was a heavy blow to the Laoshun army and even the entire Zhongzhen camp.
In front of Wang Wu, he saw many officers who came from the old Shun Army. Although they were still determined, their eyes were inevitably a little desperate, and their spirits were obviously poor.
Whether to fight or retreat became a matter that the Ming army generals on the slope had to decide immediately.
Because Ma Tengyun's troops also discovered the Ming army that was staying ahead.
A reconnaissance team of about ten people was approaching along the mountain road, obviously trying to find out the number and details of the Ming army.
While Ma Sizhong asked Zhang Tianwang to inform Zhang Tianwang of the rear team, he looked at Wang Wu who returned the telescope to him.
Before he could speak, Wang Wu had already said one word: "Hit!"
"good!"
Ma Sizhong is also decisive. No matter what Ma Tengyun's identity was in the past, he only has one identity now, and that is the enemy of Ming Dynasty!
Since we are enemies, we can only fight with swords and guns.
After Zhang Tianwang, who was in the rear team, learned that Ma Tengyun's troops had rebelled and were blocking the front of the Ming army, he did not panic. Instead, he asked his second brother Zhang Tianfang to lead more than 200 people to the front to participate in the battle.
These more than 200 people are the elite of Zhang Tianwang's department. They can be said to be the most important troops in Zhang Tianwang's department. They are also equipped with the best equipment in Zhang Tianwang's department. They not only have more than 50 fire blunderbuss, but also more than 30 sets of bows and arrows.
About half of the soldiers were armored.
Wang Wu was also allocating manpower to participate in the battle, choosing two teams commanded by Zhao Jinzhong and Zhang Pengyu, and the other was the personal team directly commanded by himself.
Altogether there were less than three hundred people.
In order to ensure that Ma Tengyun's tribe could be defeated in one battle and open the road to Laomukong, Wang Wu asked the mute Zhu San to distribute all the dozen pairs of iron armors brought out from Wu Jiayuanzi's arsenal, together with more than a hundred pairs of cotton armors.
I received the iron armor myself, put it on with Wansi's help, picked up the sword and walked a few steps. I felt that the armor was a bit heavy, but it did not hinder physical activities.
What he held in his hand was still the large knife with the long edge of his thumb curled up in the middle of the blade.
It looks a little flawed, but still usable.
It's not that there is no knife for Wang Wu to replace, it's actually that he has some feelings for this big knife.
It works fine, so I don't want to change it.
Seeing that Wang Wu's team had more than a dozen pairs of armors, Zhang Tianfang couldn't help but be a little jealous, because their brothers only had four pairs of armors in their hands.
Iron armor can be said to be an important weapon. There is a saying that "one armor can carry three crossbows, and three armors can enter the underworld."
Dynasties and armies have always attached great importance to iron armor because it not only protects the wearer from arrows, swords and guns, but also plays a decisive role in war.
Hundreds of armored soldiers can serve as thousands or even tens of thousands of soldiers!
The reason for such lethality couldn't be simpler - I have armor and you can't kill me; if you don't have armor, I will kill you with one strike.
It is a pity that the Ming army's iron armor holdings in the Kuidong area are extremely low. In addition to the reason for the depletion of armaments since the late Ming Dynasty, it is also because of the continuous blockade of the Ming army in Kuidong by the Qing army for twenty years that they have been unable to obtain iron armor replenishment from the outside world. It is difficult to manufacture iron armor on your own in the base area.
In this era, the technical content of making iron armor was very high.
Wang Wu did not give the armor to officers such as Zhao Jinzhong and Zhang Pengyu, but gave all the armor to the soldiers under his direct command.
It's not that he favors one over the other, but that the number of armors is limited and must be used together to achieve breakthrough power at critical moments.
If we just divide it up and give each officer a set, it will make the armor meaningless.
In this way, he would not be pretentious and give up a few more pieces of armor to Zhang Tianfang and the others.
The soldiers who were assigned to the armor all knew that they were going to risk their lives.
No one was afraid or complained, and silently put on the armor with the help of his companions, and then kept wiping the long knife.
Even though the long knives had been polished to a sharp point, they still wiped them mechanically.
From time to time, he pointed his long knife toward the sky, watching the cold light flash above.
Ma Sizhong of the Laoshun Army was dispatched in full force. There were only more than a thousand people from the three parties, but he was the most capable person in this Ming army.
The remaining manpower is used as a reserve team.
It’s just that everyone knows that Ma Tengyun’s troops cannot be defeated in the first wave, and it doesn’t matter whether there are reserves or not.
Because they have no way out.
The team that came to investigate stopped about two to three hundred meters away from the Ming army. From their hiding place, it could be seen that this team was also an elite team.
On the Ming army side, Wang Wu and Zhang Tianfang jointly recommended Ma Sizhong as the commander. It was not that Wang Wu had no command ability, but that he did not want to make any noise because of the command right at this time, thus affecting the unity of the parties.
At this time, nothing is more important than unity!
Thinking about fighting for power and profit in the early days is no different from being a fool.
How many people in history have suffered this kind of loss.
Not to mention that the current situation of the Ming army can be called a hellish situation!
Ma Sizhong has been using a telescope to observe the mobilization of Ma Tengyun's department.
After discovering that a Ming army appeared in front, the Ma Department quickly made military deployments, seized the commanding heights on both sides of the mountain road, and constructed a simple defense line based on this.
It seemed that Ma Tengyun had no intention of launching an attack.
Wang Wu didn't think it was because Ma Tengyun felt guilty and felt embarrassed to attack his former colleagues, but because Ma Tengyun couldn't figure out how many people there were.
"I will personally lead the troops to attack Ma Tengyun's central army later, and the fifth brothers Wang and General Zhang Qian will attack their two wings respectively..."
Ma Sizhong began to deploy an offensive strategy. He used his unit to be responsible for the main attack of the Chinese army, so as to attract the main force of the Ma Department, so as to reduce the pressure on Wang Wu and Zhang Tianfang.
If the two men can successfully capture the commanding heights on both wings, they can cooperate with Ma Bu from top to bottom to attack Ma Tengyun, thus achieving a complete victory.
On the contrary, it will definitely fail.
"So be it."
Ma Sizhong looked up at Wang Wu and Zhang Tianfang. He had nothing to say at this point.
The two nodded in unison and headed to their respective headquarters.
In the distance, there was a "woo woo" horn blowing. It was Ma Tengyun's troops who were blowing the horn.
This made Wang Wu frown: Is there another rebel army here?
In his mind, he suddenly whispered to the mute Zhu San who was holding the flag: "If I fail, you will chop off my head. Don't let me be captured by the enemy."
