The old miscellaneous Qian Zuozheng mentioned by Zhang Xianzhong is not a simple person.

Qian Zuozheng was a juren. Before he passed the Jinshi, he was able to become the leader of a state. This was an exception in the late Ming Dynasty, where there were many Jinshis. Ruzhou was not a small prefecture, but a Zhili prefecture. Liang County was the prefecture's capital, and the four counties in Baofeng, Jia County, Lushan and Yiyang were under the leadership of the four counties, with a population of more than 600,000.

It’s okay. The most important thing is that Ruzhou is located on the tunnel from Shaanxi to southern Henan. The bandits must swim around Ruzhou from east to west or from west to east.

In other words, the risk of becoming an official in Ruzhou is not an average high. Perhaps, because Qian Zuozheng was not a Jinshi and was excluded in the officialdom, he was driven to Ruzhou as the governor.

After Mr. Qian arrived in Ruzhou, he was not discouraged, nor did he hide in Ruzhou City and shivered. He first recruited more than a thousand heroes, trained strictly, and had a good manner. After training for a month, Qian Zuozheng targeted the local bandits outside Ruzhou City.

Mr. Qian did not use his brute force to attack the Tube Bandits, but instead comforted the Tube Bandits leader and persuaded him to surrender. At midnight, he personally led more than a thousand heroes to attack the Tube Bandits' nests. He succeeded in a battle and wiped out the Tube Bandits completely.

Can courage and wisdom be a simple person?

It’s better not to mention it. Mr. Qian is also a good at handling political affairs. Based on his own experience, he personally created the "Security and Soldiers Training Method" and required localities to build villages and protect themselves. Every thousand families built one village and every ten families made one guarantee, and jointly invested in training militia to guard the villages.

Although the strategy is simple, the difficulty lies in the implementation. Mr. Qian worked hard in Ruzhou and promoted the training method of the village soldiers, which made Zhang Xianzhong suffer a lot.

The reason why Zhang Xianzhong was entrenched near Luoyang and was unstoppable was closely related to the fact that Ruzhou blocked his way. If it weren't for this, Henan now was full of famine, so it would be no difficulty for Zhang Xianzhong to go around in Henan, take a walk around in Henan, and pull up a large army of 500,000.

After hearing about Qian Zuozheng's incident, Lin Chunhong greatly appreciated it and regarded it as an important help to this battle. He also sent someone to inform Qian Zuozheng of Zhang Xianzhong's movements in a timely manner.

It was just a sharing of intelligence. Lin Chunhong had no intention of interfering in Qian Zuozheng's command. He wanted to see how much energy Qian Zuozheng could burst out.

Qian Zuozheng did not disappoint the audience. He took advantage of Sun Kewang's slackness and took the initiative to attack, beat him up to pieces and his morale was depressed.

However, what was not good is that Qian Zuozheng also angered Zhang Xianzhong. Zhang Xianzhong gave up Yichuan County and led nearly 100,000 people, and rushed towards Ruzhou like locusts passing through the border.

For a moment, Ruzhou was covered with clouds and a war was about to break out.

When the situation in Ruzhou was tense, Sheng Kunshan was leading the cavalry army to gallop between Gongxian and Yanshi, wantonly reaping the lives of the bandits.

"kill……"

At the 11th hour of the 10th month of the 10th year of Chongzhen, Shengkun Mountain divided the cavalry army into three divisions and launched an attack on Ainengqi's troops from the east. It was like yellow sand all over the sky, covering the sky and rolling around. The sound of killing and horse hooves were like heavy hammers hitting a big drum, making people shudder.

The spring sun has long abandoned the shyness of winter and generously spread the sunshine on the Central Plains, illuminating golden light on the running knights. Therefore, the "Sheng" banner with black characters on white background appears more vivid; the black and shiny armor is like a layer of light, which looks more ferocious; the shiny slashing saber reflects dazzling bright light, which looks more cunning!

The sun is warm, but no matter how warm the sun is below Ai Nengqi, I can't feel any warmth, I just feel the coldness.

What made the bandits even more frightened was that Sheng Kunshan chose to attack from the east, and thousands of knights were as if they were rushing over from the sun, with their momentum being particularly terrifying. Moreover, the bandits were shook their eyes by the sun, and their vision was greatly affected, and their reactions and speed were not as good as usual.

What a great Ainengqi, his strictness and caution saved the thieves' army.

When the Cavalry Army was still ten miles away, thick wolf smoke soared into the sky, giving the bandits nearly a quarter of an hour of preparation. With this quarter of an hour, not only did Ainengqi's core troops prepare, hiding behind the village wall, bowing and arrows, pointing to the direction where the Cavalry Army rushed, but even the civilian army that did not have a variety of weapons were barely arranged in an array.

What is even more surprising is that in a short period of time, Ainengqi actually commanded the bandits to set up the horse-rewarding horses and sprinkled caltrops around the chaotic civilian army! It was these horse-rewarding horses and caltrops that gave the civilian army a little courage and maintained the formation without collapse.

Array without fighting is an iron rule that cavalry must abide by, and the cavalry is no exception.

The cavalry barely rushed to a distance of 150 steps from the civilian army, loosened the Ji Ku, and after a round of crossbow arrows, he penetrated diagonally to the northwest.

Ainengqi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, only to feel a chill behind his back, and cold sweat had already wet his back.

Ainengqi understands the morality of the civilian army better than anyone else. If the cavalry army keeps shooting arrows on the periphery and does not take a cup of tea, the civilian army will collapse and become cattle and sheep to be slaughtered.

However, before Ainengqi finished vomiting, he took another breath.

The Cavalry did not run far northwest, but turned southwest, without stopping for a moment, disappearing into the yellow sand in the sky like a torrent.

In the southwest direction, there is also Feng Shuangli, a subordinate of Ainengqi!

At the beginning, Ainengqi ordered Feng Shuangli to form a camp thirty miles away, and to fight against the threats of officers and soldiers together. Now, the wolf smoke has been burning for nearly two quarters of an hour. As long as Feng Shuangli was not blind, he must have known that Ainengqi's camp was attacked.

According to the agreement, if one side is attacked, the other side will save each other. If nothing unexpected happens, Feng Shuangli will hurry to Ainengqi's camp. How could Feng Shuangli's troops in the marching be the opponent of the Cavalry Army?

If the Cavalry Army had been entangled with Ainengqi, Feng Shuangli would naturally have the effect of a surprise weapon; but now, the Cavalry Army abandoned Ainengqi and ran straight towards Feng Shuangli, and Feng Shuangli would likely collapse the entire army!

Ainengqi's hands and feet were cold. He finally knew that the cavalry army was making such a huge noise, not to scare him, but to lure Feng Shuangli to support him.

In desperation, Ainengchi roared hysterically: "Set the fire, set the fire, burn everything that can be burned!"

Ainengqi reacted very quickly and tried to remind Feng Shuangli to pay attention through the inexplicable fire.

However, it was too late. When Feng Shuangli saw the fire in the sky, he was suspicious and just ordered his subordinates to stop advancing for the time being. How could he think of the Cavalry Army being about to rush under his nose?
Chapter completed!