Luo Zhixue's strategy of elite troops was also recognized by Sun Chengli. He was in charge of the baggage, but he knew very well how much baggage it would take to bring thousands of refugees. He also understood that the reason for their ability to break out this time was because of their decisiveness before. He dismissed the refugee soldiers and took only more than a hundred elite cavalry with him, so that he could escape from the encirclement and suppression by the official army.
If it had not been possible to hold on to those more than a thousand refugees and soldiers, they would have been wiped out by the army as early as Yiyang.
The only solution now is not to recruit refugee soldiers while running as in the past to strengthen their momentum, but to find a place to take a breath and then find a way to expand the size of the elite army.
Of course, before that, we must first win over the sentries of the Guards Corps. With their support, we can better launch the follow-up plan. Otherwise, Sun Chengcheng and the dozen or so people can do it alone. Nothing happened.
After Sun Chengli and Luo Zhixue discussed in detail, they tentatively finalized the plan, and then Sun Chengli took Luo Zhixue directly to find the sentry officers in the guard team.
If you want to rise to the top, it is very important to obtain the support of the sentries in these personal soldiers.
In the process of persuasion, Luo Zhixue actually didn't put in much effort. It was mainly Sun Chengli who persuaded people to confide in him, from his past experiences to his current escape, and then made various promises.
Moreover, Sun Chengli also maintained a relatively low profile, looking for talents and treating everyone as real brothers. Every bite is an elder brother, and every bite is a brother. If I eat with one bite, I will definitely not be without the brother's bite. meal.
"I, Sun Mazi, don't have much ability, but I, Sun Mazi, know that we are all brothers, and we share the blessings and hardships together. Now I have no other ideas. I just want to lead my brothers to survive and have enough to eat. !”
Seeing Sun Chengli's appearance, Luo Zhixue almost thought that Li Tonglin had come back from the dead.
This style and tone are obviously a replica of Li Tonglin.
Obviously, Sun Chengli is now learning, or deliberately imitating Li Tonglin's approach.
Not to mention, several sentry officers of the Guards still did this.
If Sun Chengcheng comes over and acts like I am the boss and you all have to listen to me, I am sure they will turn around and vote for Fei Bingcai or Dao Scar.
But now Sun Chengli looks like we are all brothers and we will enjoy hot and spicy drinks together in the future. This reminds these sentry officers of Li Tonglin.
When they followed Li Tonglin before, they didn't dare to say they were rich and powerful, and they even went hungry sometimes. But just like what Li Tonglin often said, Li Tonglin's food was never less than theirs.
Now Sun Chengli is also doing this, but at least he has a lot of goodwill among these people.
As for Sun Chengcheng, he is deliberately pretending now. After becoming the leader, he turned against others and refused to recognize others. He enjoyed the popular food and drank spicy food, but left his brothers hungry.
There's nothing to worry about. Sun Chengli really dares to do this. It's not like he doesn't have a knife in his hand. He just goes back and chops him randomly and then chooses a leader.
These days, no one should take themselves too seriously.
After Sun Chengli pulled through all the drama about how they were all brothers, Sun Chengli revealed the follow-up plan he had discussed with Luo Zhixue, saying that now he had to adopt a strategy of elite troops and not coerce a large number of young refugees. That set.
After getting rid of the officers and soldiers completely, we were going to take everyone to find a remote village to catch our breath.
Just listen to Sun Chengli say: "Brothers have been fighting in the north and south in the past few months, running from Shanxi to Shanxi and then to Henan. They have been chased by the army."
"In the past, it seemed that I had recruited a thousand people at the most, and even went to Luoyang City to enjoy the scenery for a while. But have you ever thought that before, the big guy had almost two hundred brothers, but now, the full number is only seventy There are so many people!”
"If we continue to do what we did before, we old brothers may all die in the future..."
"Why did we mutiny in the first place? Why did we go against the officers and soldiers? It was not just to survive. What can we do in the future if our lives are gone?"
"So, you still have to be steady!"
"First find a place to hide and avoid the current limelight."
The sentry officers nodded frequently after listening to these, and among them the older, middle-aged sentry officer Lin said: "Brother Sun is right!"
At this time, Luo Zhixue also spoke at the right time: "Looking at the land of Shaanxi, Henan and Chu today, there is Chen Qiyu, governor of the five provinces, and Hong Chengtao stationed troops in Shaanxi, practiced state affairs and stationed in Shangnan, Lu Xiang advanced to Yunyang, Xuanmo guarded the Lu family, Tang Hui garrisoned Nanzhang, with more than 100,000 officers and soldiers."
"Under the encirclement and suppression by more than 100,000 officers and soldiers, the Northern Chu Rebel Army has become a trapped beast. It may take at least ten months or more than a few months for the Northern Chu Rebel Army to be defeated and flee, and be forced to return to the Qinling Mountains."
Luo Zhixue took out a simple hand-drawn map as he spoke.
Looking at this map from the perspective of future generations, this so-called map cannot be regarded as a map at all, but more like a child's graffiti.
There was no way, Luo Zhixue was not a living map, nor was he a good painter. He could only memorize a rough map and draw it.
However, although Luo Zhixue's hand-drawn map is relatively crude, it still briefly draws the Shaanxi, Henan, and Chubei areas, and also briefly marks the general directions of big cities such as Luoyang and Xiangyang...
Luo Zhixue, who pointed at the map, continued: "Generals, let's take a look at Henan where we are. After many days of collecting information from students, we have initially determined that there are heavy troops led by Xuanmo himself to garrison the Lu family in the west, and there are Lu in the north. Zuoliangyu garrisoned Xin'an and Yiyang, Dongchenzhibang garrisoned Ruzhou, and Nanchen Yongfu garrisoned Nanyang. Looking around, there are officers and soldiers everywhere!"
At this point, Luo Zhixue raised his head and looked around: "Let's not talk about the overall situation of the world, let's talk about us. In fact, we have already been deeply surrounded by the government and the army."
"We have been trapped in a tight siege for a long time? How is this possible?" Immediately, the sentry officer Wang Dazhuang shouted softly.
Because they don't seem to be surrounded now. They have been running to Luoyang for half a month. Now they are a little down, but they can't be said to be surrounded by the army. If they die, they will be chased by the army. Just running.
As for Zuo Liangyu, Chen Zhibang, Chen Yongfu and others all know it, and in recent times, their group has basically been fought by the officers and soldiers from Henan.
Even a few hours ago, they were still fighting with the cavalry under Chen Zhibang's command.
However, when he followed Luo Zhixue's instructions and confirmed the locations of these groups of officers and soldiers and himself on the map, he remained silent for a long time.
Sun Chengcheng, who was on the side, looked at the positions of the surrounding officers and soldiers on the map. As he looked at their positions, his face gradually became unsightly.
Short and thin sentry officer Wang Dazhuang looked at Luo Zhixue, then at Sun Chengli and couldn't help shouting: "Are we really surrounded from all sides?"
Even people who don't understand military affairs can easily see from the map that their group has been surrounded by government troops on all sides.
Subsequently, Zuo Liangyu sent troops south to pursue, but only to compress the encirclement step by step.
And I have to say that Zuo Liangyu was quite successful. He directly forced Li Tonglin to lead his army south. He was also forced to actively demobilize the refugee soldiers on the way, and finally forced Li Tonglin and his group to Ruzhou. At this time, Chen Zhibang was well prepared. Intercept while waiting for work.
In this way, there was a breakout battle a few hours ago and the death of Li Tonglin.
According to this situation, if Sun Chengli and Luo Zhixue do not make changes in the future and continue to recruit troops and plunder food and land like Li Tonglin, they will be trapped by the army sooner or later, ranging from ten days and a half to a few months. He died in Ruzhou area.
What's even more interesting is that what Luo Zhixue didn't say was that the officers and soldiers really didn't mean to surround them...the officers and soldiers were all staring at the large-scale rebel army led by Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and other thieves.
This series of military deployments are also aimed at encircling and suppressing large-scale rebels.
As for their group, there were only a thousand people at their peak. At their most prosperous, they did not go around Luoyang City and robbed a few farms.
A small-scale rebel army like theirs could be easily found in hundreds or eighty groups. They were one of the countless rebel armies in the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty.
It is impossible for the Ming army to mobilize tens of thousands of main troops just to encircle and suppress a few thousand bandits.
The strategic goal of the officers and soldiers is huge. They want to besieged on all sides and directly encircle and wipe out all the rebels in this area.
And this group of them is just one of the countless miscellaneous fish caught in the net by the army.
But, there is no need to say these words to them, at least it can give people some confidence...
Luo Zhixue nodded immediately: "Yes, in fact, I was deeply surrounded by the army a month ago..." At this point, Luo Zhixue slightly turned his head and glanced at Sun Chengli: "And Brother Sun discovered this incident of the army. After the conspiracy, we decided to stop all activities and try to hide it for the future."
After hearing this, Sun Chengli glanced at Luo Zhixue, then nodded slightly and said: "There are officers and soldiers around here. We must not be stupid and fight head-on with the officers and soldiers. Our brothers' lives are precious, how can we throw them away casually?" In the wilderness of the barren mountains, even if I die, my grandson will have to fight back to Yulin and lie down in his ancestral grave in the future, but he cannot die outside."
"So, it's better to avoid the limelight and stay steady."
One of the three sentry officers, the short and thin Wang Dazhuang, said: "It seems that our situation is not good. There are Zuo Liangyu's elite cavalry in the north, Chen Zhibang is entangled with them on the side, and Chen Yongfu is in the south. Their subordinates The soldiers are not easy to deal with. According to me, it’s still the same as what Brother Sun said. Let’s avoid the limelight first.”
Xu He, who looks majestic and strong and looks like a middle-aged honest man, also has a heavy expression: "Steady, steady, good!"
The slightly older sentry officer Lin Dongsheng even said: "There are not many of us now anyway. Just finding a village in the mountains later is enough for us to eat and drink. We don't have to go out to fight with those big cities and the officers and soldiers." , let’s just hide in the ravines for a while, those officers and soldiers can’t ask for trouble and go all the way into the mountains to surround us.”
Listening to the words of these three people, Luo Zhixue and Sun Chengli looked at each other, and they both saw joy in each other's eyes.
These three people obviously agreed with their plan, which made it much easier to win over them.
