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Huang Hanliang's tonsils seemed to be inflamed after catching a cold, and his eyes kept tearing. He said in a hoarse voice: "The bandit army's enemy is mixed with ground pepper, and my eyes and throat have been affected."

Chen Tingdui picked up the binoculars and observed the arrow towers of the rebel camp.

Those arrow towers did not release arrows at all when the officers and soldiers attacked for the first time.Thinking about it now, I'm afraid there are tens of thousands of enemies hiding, and when the main force of the officers and soldiers attacks, they will throw them out and blow up a large area.

Chen Ting began to curse Shen Youlong in his heart, that bastard governor of Guangdong and Guangxi took away all the artillery in the army, otherwise he could blow down the anti-thief arrow tower first.

Huang Hanliang said: "Master Taishan, retreat, this battle cannot be fought. It's okay to say that the rebels are out of the camp for a decisive battle. These rebels are all turtles, huddled inside the camp, and occupy a favorable terrain. How can our army break through?"

Chen Ting turned around and looked back at the river. The water battle had come to an end, and all the officers, soldiers and sailors were gone.

"withdraw!"

Chen Ting issued a military order to grit his teeth.

Inside the rebel camp, Fei Ruhe smiled and said, "Ready to pursue."

It's not chasing, but following from afar.

This approach made it impossible for the officers and soldiers to retreat safely. They could only step on the paddy fields and barely maintain their formation and retreat slowly.

Once the officers and soldiers came out of the paddy fields, they all left along the ridge. Under the pursuit of the rebels, the officers and soldiers could easily flee.

Huang Hanliang said: "Continuing like this is not an option."

Chen Ting sneered at him: "I know, I just want to lure the rebels out of the camp for a decisive battle. The terrain just now made it impossible to fight. Let's fight in another place where we are comfortable."

The scene became very strange.

Among the paddy fields by the river, more than 5000 rebel troops marched slowly in formation, and more than 1 officers and soldiers also retreated slowly in formation.

Finally, the officers and soldiers stopped, because the terrain was open and the officers and soldiers could take advantage of their strength.

"stop!"

Fei Ruhe also stopped the pursuit, and the two sides faced each other across several paddy fields.

Chen Ting gave orders to the flag commanders to expand the formation of the officers and troops, trying to rely on the superiority of troops to conduct a semi-surrounding attack on the east side-the west side is the river.

"withdraw!"

With a bright smile on Fei Ruhe's face, he took advantage of the time when the officers and soldiers were in formation, and suddenly ordered the entire army to withdraw to the camp.

Just one meaning, I won't fight you, and I won't let you go.

Under such repeated pulls, the morale of the officers and soldiers will inevitably drop, because they cannot return to Ganzhou City, but can only retreat to Xingguo County or Yudu County further back.

Moreover, the training speed of the officers and soldiers is definitely not as good as that of the Datong Army, and they may collapse after repeated pulling.

"Shuzi bullies me!"

Chen Tingdui's lungs were about to explode. He wanted to fight a decisive battle, but the rebels withdrew to the camp to defend.He ordered the withdrawal of the troops, and the rebels followed. How can there be such a reckless fight?

Moreover, there are paddy fields all around, and both sides can advance or retreat calmly, even if one side wants to charge suddenly.

"kill!"

On a mountain behind the officer's army, there was a sudden shout of killing that shook the sky.

Many of the looted goods by Chen Ting were transported back to Ganzhou City.However, a lot of food and grass were left behind, and camps were set up by mountains and rivers, and more than a thousand officers and soldiers were left to guard the camp and food and grass.

"Where do the rebels still have the strength to go around and attack our barracks?" A Fujian boss was shocked.

All the Fujian soldiers turned pale with fright, because the shouts of killing came from behind, at least tens of thousands of troops.

Can rebels turn beans into soldiers?

"Go into the mountain, go into the mountain!"

Chen Tingdui immediately ordered that the main force of the rebels was in the northwest, and a large number of rebels appeared inexplicably in the southeast.

As soon as the officers and soldiers withdrew, Fei Ruhe followed slowly.

There are paddy fields everywhere, if you can't charge and chase, then chase slowly.

Soon, more than a dozen defeated officers and soldiers ran frantically along the field ridge, shouting in horror: "General Town, our army camp has been attacked!"

"The battalion guards, are there only a dozen of you left?" Chen Ting asked.

The defeated soldier said: "Fleeing in all directions, the others don't know where to flee?"

Chen Ting asked again: "How many rebels attacked the camp?"

The defeated soldier said: "Thousands of people, maybe tens of thousands of people. Most of them are farmers, holding kitchen knives, hoes and the like. There are also some village warriors, and the gentry brought the village warriors to attack the camp."

"How dare a gentleman follow a thief?" Chen Ting asked in horror.

Yes, the gentry have also become thieves.

In the past few days, the missionaries have been contacting the landlords, and the peasant associations are mobilizing the farmers.

Because the Fujian soldiers killed too hard, the landlords in Ganzhou would rather follow the bandits and help the rebels defeat the Fujian officers and soldiers.Otherwise, once the rebels were defeated and fled, the Fujian soldiers would be able to kill the landlords in Ganzhou.

This kind of thing happened a long time ago. 100 years ago, soldiers from Guangdong, Guangxi and Huguang encircled and suppressed Southern Jiangxi, burning, killing and looting all the way.

Guangxi wolf soldiers are the most ruthless, killing Nangan to the nines!

Even sages such as Wang Yangming also used the method of continuous shooting when suppressing bandits.One family followed the thief, and ten families were punished by the law. The heads were rolled, and the people reported each other to their neighbors.

Fei Ruhe chased the officers and soldiers into the mountains, it was not a rolling mountain.

Soon, the local militia also came to meet up.The domineering landlords and gentry, and the oppressed tenant farmers, under the tandem of missionaries and peasant associations, worked closely together to besiege and kill Fujian officers and soldiers!

Chapter 198 [Fei Ruhe Rolling All over the Floor]

Chen Tingdui stood on the mountain, using binoculars to observe the military situation down the mountain.

So far, his mind is still very confused. Why did the landlord and the peasant become thieves together?

The imperial court did not pay enough, and the rewards were delayed, and the soldiers robbed themselves to make a fortune. This is a universal truth.He didn't do too much. Most of the officers and soldiers were like this in encircling and suppressing the rogues in the north, otherwise the fight would have been impossible.

Even Sun Chuanting, who became the governor of Shaanxi this year, has already loosened the constraints on the generals because the imperial court has been insufficiently paid.

There is no way, you can't raise soldiers without robbing food.

And once the restraint is relaxed, military discipline is like water breaking a dike, and it can't be taken back even if you want to.Sun Chuanting's pacesetters may be better, but they are only better. Ever since he led troops in Shaanxi, he has been impeached and his military discipline has been corrupted.

The tribes burned, killed and looted the people, but Sun Chuanting pretended not to see them, neither encouraged nor punished them.

What can Sun Chuanting do?

He played too late, and when he became governor and commander of the army, the court's finances were on the verge of collapse.If he didn't acquiesce in the robbery of the troops, the officers, soldiers and generals under his command would dare to demonstrate to him what it means to be a mutiny and make a fuss!

Among the supervisors in the late Ming Dynasty, only Lu Xiangsheng treated the people kindly, and his military discipline was very strict.The Tianxiong Army once ran out of food for three days without collapsing, making noise, or looting, and finally won the battle.At that time, Lu Xiangsheng distributed the last rations. As the coach, he starved for three days with the soldiers.

That's why Chen Tingyu found it hard to understand that all over the country did this, why was he the only one who got kicked?

Because someone connected in series!

The missionary officer who was born as a poor scholar went to connect with the landlord and gentry.The missionary officer and the backbone of the peasant association who came from a poor background went to connect with the local farmers and tenants.

As long as someone organizes to take the lead in tandem, and Fei Ruhe leads the troops as the backing, what is there to be afraid of?In just a few days, an army composed of landlords and peasants was pulled out.

"Master Taishan," Huang Hanliang put down the binoculars, "our army is condescending, and we can send the main force to defeat the local militia. Those are all mobs, and they don't even have a formation. There is a mass in the east and a mass in the west, and the gunfire salvo will surely flee. Once these people are defeated , It is likely to cause the old bandits from Luling to be defeated, and then our army will be able to take advantage of the victory and pursue."

Chen Ting sighed and said, "That's the only way to go."

In fact, this series of battles seemed particularly weird, completely beyond Chen Ting's cognition.

It was also a helpless move for him to risk crossing the river to set up an ambush, because the rebels formed a peasant association outside the city and trained farmers and soldiers.The longer the time dragged on, the stronger the anti-thieves' strength became, and Chen Ting had to take risks.

Immediately, Chen Ting sent an elite force to attack the landlord and peasant coalition army, which cost a lot of money to defend against the weak brigade.

"Bang bang bang!"

A round of volleys from the firecracker battalion of officers and soldiers caused more than 3000 militiamen to flee in an instant.

Several Fujian generals took the opportunity to cover up the killing, and nearly ten thousand militiamen collapsed across the board.Most of them fled in all directions, while a few rushed towards Fei Ruhe's main force.

When the sound of gunfire came from the friendly army, it meant that the elite officers and soldiers were not in sight, Fei Ruhe immediately ordered the whole army to attack.

This tactic was learned by Fei Ruhe from Zhao Han.

You hit yours, I hit mine.

Fei Ruhe didn't bother to rescue those friendly troops, he didn't even stay in the reserve team, he put all his eggs in one basket and headed in the direction of the officers and soldiers Shuaiqi.

More than 5000 troops began to rush up the mountain.

Fei Ruhe, who was a wise general before, has now turned into a fierce general, rushing to the front with his own soldiers.

"Shhhhhh!"

The officers and soldiers were still hiding the bow and arrow troops, Fei Ruhe was halfway through the charge, and had already been shot with six arrows.Some arrows landed on the ground, and some arrows were still stuck in his body, none of these could stop Fei Ruhe's charge.Anyway, he was wearing cotton armor and a bamboo helmet with iron plates embedded on his head, as long as he didn't get shot in the face and neck.

The main general charged forward, and the morale of the whole army was greatly boosted.

The elite officers and soldiers were all sent to fight against the coalition of landlords and peasants, and the defense was relatively weak, but Fei Ruhe's attack was at the right time.

If he hesitated for a moment and all the friendly troops fled, Fei Ruhe would be attacked from both sides.

When Fei Ruhe led the army to attack the top of the mountain, the moment the two sides came into contact, the weak brigade of officers and soldiers immediately broke open.

"Follow me to fill in!"

Chen Ting is worthy of being the champion of martial arts, and he has no idea what it means to be afraid.

Seeing a gap in his own front, he immediately led the Chinese army to fill it.

Coach meets coach!

"Bah!"

Chen Tingdui slashed down suddenly, relying on the power of charging from top to bottom, he wanted to hack Fei Ruhe to death on the spot.

"when!"

Fei Ruhe hurriedly blocked with his sword, his mouth went numb from the shock, even half of his arm went numb.

This guy is so strong!

Chen Ting was not forgiving when he gained power, and he slashed at him again. Fei Ruhe couldn't change his move, so he could only block in panic again.

"when!"

The saber in Fei Ruhe's hand was chopped off by Chen Tingdui.Regardless of his appearance, he hurriedly took advantage of the situation and threw himself down, then rolled back into the formation along the slope.

Going back in a physical sense, Fei Ruhe has never been so embarrassed.

"kill!"

Chen Tingdui still wanted to chase him down, so he stabbed him with a few wolf sticks.This thing is not only fierce, but also insidious, it can block the line of sight.

At this moment, several pikemen jumped over the shield wall and stabbed at Chen Tingdui's throat and calf.

Chen Tingdui hurriedly dodged his vital points, and his calf, which was not well protected by the armor, was stabbed, so scared that Chen Tingdui also hurriedly retreated into the formation.

The coaches and soldiers of the two sides fought like this, and it was hard to tell the winner for a while.

However, the troops fighting next to them quickly decided the winners and losers.

This attack was all elite Datong soldiers, while Chen Ting stayed behind to defend, but they belonged to troops with weaker combat effectiveness.To put it bluntly, they were all Fujian Xiangyong recruited two years ago, who defeated the peasant army at the border of the three provinces, and other than that, they only trained once every eight days.

Chen Ting's two-winged front collapsed bit by bit. Seeing this, he shouted: "Hold half a stick of incense, and hold another half stick of incense, and you will win!"

Indeed, another half stick of incense will win.

Because his son-in-law, Huang Hanliang, had defeated the coalition forces of landlords and peasants, and brought his elite back to the mountain, trying to flank the rebels back and forth.

At that time, the rebels will be defeated!

However, there was not half a stick of incense, and even a tenth stick of incense could not withstand it.

"Kill!"

A general of the Datong Army named Liu Erliang, who was born as a tenant, took the lead in defeating the enemy in front of him.He immediately led troops to help the friendly army, and flanked a sentry of Fujian soldiers, just like smashing tofu with a hammer, smashing the enemy's formation in an instant.

As if the dominoes were falling, Fujian soldiers collapsed one after another.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Chen Tingdui, who was brave enough to beat Fei Ruhe and fled for his life, immediately fled with his own soldiers.

"Chasing the enemy from one post to ten posts, be sure to chase the enemy to scatter for their lives. The rest of the troops, the whole army defends against the enemy!"

Fei Ruhe finally picked up his steel knife and began to give orders calmly.

This knife was about to be scrapped, and Chen Tingdui cut two big cuts. Wu Zhuangyuan is really not an ordinary person.