The two armies in front were fighting, with cannons rumbling, shouts and neighing.
Luo Zhixue was still sitting on the horse, looking at the battle ahead with a calm expression.
There were no surprises in today's battle, and even Luo Zhi's students couldn't take it too seriously.
These thieves seemed to be numerous, but in fact, the two thousand people who rushed over to fight with our own army were clearly cannon fodder at a glance.
Many of them don't even have official weapons!
After the battle broke out, the opponent wanted to take the initiative to rush over at first, but after receiving a round of artillery fire, the opponent did not dare to move forward. Later, Luo Zhixue simply let his army press forward, and the light artillery was pushed up and fired.
Musketeers and archers also pressed forward under the protection of spearmen.
When the light artillery pressed forward and musketeers and archers pressed forward,
The two thousand thieves on the opposite side were defeated by the attack of about 500 of our own troops. They didn't even have the courage to resist. They either turned around and ran away, or knelt down or lay down and shouted words such as surrender and spare their lives.
The frontal battlefield here was nothing interesting to watch from the beginning, let alone the garbage time for capturing prisoners now.
On the other side, the battle between the bandit camp and Wang Xiazi's troops was a bit interesting.
Why is it interesting? Because they have been running, and until now, the two sides have not actually had any actual contact.
Faced with these two hundred people, it was clear that they wanted to stall for time, and their equipment was not bad. Several dozen of them were armored soldiers. Blind Wang had no intention of fighting them head-on, so he left a cavalry team behind. Staring at them from a distance, forcing them to continue to maintain a dense battle formation and move slowly.
And he simply led two teams of cavalry to chase the escaped bandit leader.
Because they had temporarily left the battlefield here, Luo Zhixue did not know the details of the follow-up situation, but he believed that Wang Xiazi could not annihilate the escaped enemy cavalry, but there was still no problem in self-protection.
In fact, this was indeed the case. As soon as Ding Potian saw Wang Xiazi dividing his troops, he immediately fled with more than 20 personal soldiers.
Although they are not professional cavalrymen, their riding skills are quite good as the soldiers of Ding Po Tian.
If you don't have it, you won't be able to join the Guards Corps.
Because every time he broke through the siege and escaped for his life, Ding Potian always escaped on horseback with his personal troops.
While galloping on his horse, Ding Potian would occasionally say: "What are these people from Funiu Mountain doing!"
"Why are you chasing us so hard!"
"We have no grudge against them, and we are both rebels. Why did they suddenly come to attack us?"
To be honest, Ding Potian didn't really understand why Baoxiang Ying suddenly came out to intercept and kill them so far.
In his opinion, there is no hatred between the two parties. Even if Luo Zhixue is unwilling to join his uncle Chuang Potian, he will not turn against him. Everyone can attack Lushan County in a cooperative way.
But the uncle and nephew of Tian Potian simply couldn't understand the thoughts of Baoxiangying and the others.
No one in the Baoxiang Camp regarded themselves as outcast thieves. Luo Zhixue did not regard themselves as outcast thieves. The same was true for Wang Xiazi and others.
They never think that they are the same as the bandits outside!
Before the mutiny, Wang Xiazi and others were still serving as officers and soldiers to suppress bandits everywhere.
Later, even if they mutinied and rebelled, they still called themselves rebels and rebels, but they never regarded themselves as outlaws.
Now, they even have a considerable amount of hostility towards these bandits.
For people like Wang Xiazi and Anyongduo, the government and the landlords and gentry are not a good thing, and the thieves who burn, kill and loot are also not a good thing.
They all deserve to be killed!
Under such circumstances, Chuang Potian and the others came to Lushan County to burn, kill and loot. Naturally, this was not allowed by the Baoxiang Camp, which had already regarded the local population and food as meat in the bowl.
Naturally, Ding Potian didn't know these reasons, and he didn't even have time to guess. He could only keep galloping.
But even so, he could not escape Wang Xiazi's pursuit.
After all, Ding Po Tian and the others were not professional cavalry. They had some riding skills, but they still couldn't compare with the elite cavalry under Wang Xiazi.
Even the horses on both sides have some differences.
Ding Po Tian and their horses are ordinary horses plundered from the folk.
The mounts of Wang Xiazi and his companions were the war horses of the elite cavalry of the frontier army, and their speed and durability were different.
After such a chase and escape, Wang Xiazi naturally caught up with Ding Potian and others.
After catching up with them, Wang Xiazi and others bent their bows and shot arrows directly on the bumpy horses!
As arrows were shot out one after another, some of Ding Po Tian and others in front fell down one after another because they or their horses were shot. At the same time, Ding Po Tian and others were unable to fight back effectively.
And when Ding Potian's mount was also shot by Wang Xiazi's strong bow and arrow, and then went crazy and threw Ding Potian down, breaking Ding Potian's neck, all but a few of the remaining rebel cavalry A few ran very fast, and the other eight cavalrymen all chose to surrender.
There were no accidents in this pursuit.
When Blind Man Wang took in the prisoners and horses and returned to the battlefield, the battle on the frontal battlefield was already over.
Baoxiang Camp is cleaning up the battlefield and collecting prisoners of war.
With a hint of exhaustion and holding the horse that almost ran out of strength, Blind Wang came to Luo Zhixue:
"To report to the general, my subordinates have killed the bandit leader Ding Potian and seven other horsemen, and captured eight people. There are still ten horsemen and bandit soldiers who have escaped. My subordinates have not done well in their work. Please ask the general to punish them."
Luo Zhixue stepped forward with a smile on his face and said: "Brother Wang, what crime did he commit? Being able to catch up with and annihilate the enemy leader is already a great achievement. A few thieves are not worth mentioning!"
"Today we were able to successfully annihilate the invading bandit army. Brother Wang is the first to do so!"
Blind Wang also grinned after hearing this: "There, my subordinates dare not take credit. The fact that we were able to annihilate the bandit army today is all because of your good leadership, the general. Your subordinates are just following the orders of the general."
Luo Zhixue laughed after hearing this: "Brother Sun used to say that Brother Wang is a fierce general, but now it seems that Brother Wang is not only brave and good at fighting, but you are also very tactful in your words!"
"Come on, we are all brothers. You don't need to flatter me. I flatter you. After setting up camp tonight, we brothers will have another drink!"
After that, he turned sideways and said to Zhang Malin and other generals beside him: "I will give my brothers extra meat tonight, and I will eat them all for my general pleasure!"
"We all do business with our heads in our waistbands. In the past, it was a little difficult, and it was a little harder to eat meat. Now that we have made such a big deal in Songjiazhuang, we can't eat more if we don't I’m so sorry for my own temple of five internal organs!”
As soon as these words came out, everyone around Luo Zhixue burst into laughter!
After everyone laughed for a while, Luo Zhixue stretched out his hand to make some virtual pressure, and then said: "We will continue to go north tomorrow and completely destroy those Chuang Po Tian, so that the bandits in the north know that Lushan County belongs to us. This territory is not a place where they can come whenever they want!”
"Since they dare to stretch out their claws to compete with us, we will chop off their claws!"
When Luo Zhixue said these words, the old farmer also looked at Luo Zhixue in front of him and thought to himself: "I knew such a day would come!"
"Now that we can control the Lushan countryside, we can control Ruzhou and even more places in the future."
The old farmer has long recognized that Luo Zhixue is not an ordinary scholar.
However, in the past, Xu He's impression of Luo Zhixue was still limited to being a knowledgeable and resourceful military advisor.
At that time, he felt that Sun Chengli would be able to do something big with Luo Zhixue's assistance.
The later months in Funiu Mountain also proved this. With the assistance of Luo Zhixue, Sun Chengli occupied Sanshui Village and then controlled most of Funiu Mountain, allowing their team to expand from dozens to hundreds. human scale.
I can't say that Luo Zhixue's role is 100%, but it is at least 60-70%.
This is also the reason why when Sun Chengli pushed Luo Zhixue to the position before he died of illness, no one had any objections. Even Blind Wang finally obeyed Sun Chengli's instructions and respected Luo Zhixue as the leader.
Because everyone has seen Luo Zhixue's talent and ability, and believes that under Luo Zhixue's leadership, they can save their lives, have enough to eat, and even do something big.
Now it seems that their original choice was not wrong!
Under the leadership of Luo Zhixue, Baoxiangying has entered a more rapid development stage.
First, they blocked the attack of officers and soldiers, and then completely controlled the entire Funiu Mountains, including the peripheral hilly areas in the south and east. They obtained more soldiers and food, making the Baoxiang camp's size exceed a thousand.
Immediately afterwards, Luo Zhixue took advantage of the opportunity when the main force of the rebel army left Henan eastward and the main force of officers and soldiers was contained, and personally led the army out to attack Songjiazhuang.
Countless grains and other strategic materials were seized, and they continued to collect grains and recruit troops from villages in the western part of Lushan County.
If this continues, as long as these new recruits complete their training, the size of the Baoxiang Camp will exceed 3,000.
The old farmer Ming Xuhe was very clear about the potential of the Baoxiang Battalion, which had a size of 3,000 men, cavalry, artillery, and all soldiers.
Such a 3,000-person rural protection camp can chase down 20,000 to 30,000 bandits if it encounters ordinary bandits.
If they encounter officers and soldiers, if they want to defeat them, they must mobilize at least two to three thousand soldiers. Even if they cannot defeat the main force of officers and soldiers, they can retreat to Funiu Mountain and rely on complex terrain to fight, and they can also move in through the mountains at any time. Lushi and other areas.
If the officers and soldiers wanted to completely encircle and suppress them, they would probably have to mobilize tens of thousands of soldiers.
In Xu He's view, the future prospects of Baoxiang Camp have become better after Luo Zhixue led them to conquer Songjiazhuang and control a large rural area in the western part of Lushan County.
Maybe, if they fight all the way with the general, they might be able to fight back to their hometown in Shaanxi.
By then, he should also be a real general, with thousands or even more troops under his command.
If one day, he will return to his hometown and kill all the people he didn't kill back then...
The old farmer Xu He has some visions for the future, and others more or less have the same idea.
Even Luo Zhixue himself has greater ambitions for the future.
This time, through the conquest of the countryside of Lushan County, Baoxiang Camp has obtained a large number of people, food and other resources.
Later, he would send troops south and replicate a similar operation in Nanzhao County to obtain more food and recruit more soldiers.
And by that time, I should also find a real territory for Baoxiang Camp.
Funiu Mountain is small after all!
