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Of course, Yu Xiaotian no longer needs to support these more than 100,000 Yu Jiajun. Now he can order the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of War to directly allocate food and salary to his troops. In name, these Yu Jiajun are all dressed in uniforms.

It's just the vest of the Ming army.

In order to control the situation of the entire Ming Dynasty more quickly, Yu Xiaotian stationed three elite mixed brigades in the capital area. In addition to one brigade stationed in the capital, the other two mixed brigades were stationed in Huairou in the form of independent battalions.

, Jizhou, Tianjinwei, Tongzhou, Baoding and other places formed a defensive trend towards the capital.

As for the remaining more than 70,000 Yu family troops, after Yu Xiaotian took control of the situation in the capital, they began to be gradually sent to various places for garrison.

The Yu Jiajun is different from other old-style armies. They are very dependent on logistics, especially the weapons and ammunition they use. Almost all of the weapons and ammunition they use must be supplied by Fujian. A hundred thousand troops concentrated in the north will cause harm to the Yu Jiajun.

A heavy logistical burden.

Therefore, while Yu Xiaotian was expanding his army, he also transferred his troops to the south and stationed them in Shandong, South Zhili, Huguang, Henan and other places. The main force was basically placed along the Yangtze River.

In this way, when the logistics department supplies these soldiers and horses, they can first take the sea route to Songjiang Prefecture, and then turn up the Yangtze River and use ships to maintain the needs of these soldiers and horses.

In October, good news came back from Hong Chengchou in Shaanxi. With the cooperation of Sun Chuanting, they attacked from the east and west and drove Luo Rucai's troops from Huguang to the Nanyang area. Sun Chuanting led his troops to Nanyang to take charge, forcing

Luo Rucai had to give up his activities in Nanyang and led his troops to flee back to Luonan, Shaanxi.

As a result, Hong Chengchou had already arranged an ambush in the Luonan area in advance. When Luo Rucai led his troops to escape into the Luonan area, he was immediately blocked by Hong Chengchou and his troops in the Bali Bridge area south of Luonan.

Hong Chengchou sent out the main force of the two battalions of the Yu family army given to him by Yu Xiaotian, and also mobilized thousands of newly recruited Shaanxi soldiers to attack Luo Rucai's troops.

As a result, Luo Rucai was hit in the lower abdomen by a Miner bomb on the spot. He was seriously injured and fell off his horse and was captured. The more than 30,000 refugee troops he led were immediately defeated by Hong Chengchou, and nearly 20,000 refugee soldiers were captured.

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Hong Chengchou was really murderous. Immediately after the victory, he ordered the massacre of more than 2,000 core personnel and leaders in Luo Rucai's department. The rest were sent back to their hometowns for resettlement, or simply resettled on the spot, transforming them into

The peasants made Luo Rucai and his group of refugee armies completely wiped out, and there was no possibility of their resurgence.

This news was of course quite good news for Yu Xiaotian, so he immediately ordered Zhongshu Sheng to draw up an edict, highly praise Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, and allocate 30,000 taels of silver as a reward.

At this time, the various refugee armies finally knew how powerful the Yu Jiajun was. It turned out that they had never dealt with the Yu Jiajun, and they had no idea what the Yu Jiajun was so powerful. However, after this period of fighting with Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting,

Only then did they realize that the old methods they had used to deal with the army no longer seemed to work.

No matter what tactics they use, no matter how capable their soldiers are, as long as they encounter the Yu family army under the command of Hong and Sun, all equipped with guns, they will only be massacred one-sidedly.

As soon as Li Zicheng took a breath, he was targeted by Hong Chengchou again. This time, Hong Chengchou did not attack Li Zicheng first, but concentrated his energy first and killed the gangster Ma Jinzhong, the neat king Zhang Fatty, and Mantianxing Zhang Dashou.

After waiting for several groups of refugee armies, they were forced to disperse or surrender, and then Hui and Sun Chuanting killed Luo Rucai's group. Although Li Zicheng's troops retained their main force, they also lost the cooperation of other groups of refugee armies.

At the end of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong fled into Hanzhong under the pursuit of Sun Chuanting. Hong Chengchou sent a battalion of Yu Jiajun, and in addition, his fierce general Cao Bianjiao led 5,000 new Shaanxi soldiers to Hanzhong and began to pursue Zhang Xianzhong's troops.

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Zhang Xianzhong was forced to fight in the Hanzhong area and led the remnant of more than 20,000 refugee troops in a decisive battle with Cao Bianjiao's troops. At first, Cao Bianjiao's troops did not gain an advantage in the battle with Zhang Xianzhong. Zhang Xianzhong personally led his troops to attack Cao Bianjiao's troops.

, Cao Bianjiao's troops were relatively small and could not withstand the fierce attack of Zhang Xianzhong's troops, so he had to retreat.

When Zhang Xianzhong saw Cao Bianjiao being repelled, he became very interested and immediately sent out his troops to cover up the attack. However, when Cao Bianjiao led his troops to escape more than ten miles and entered a narrow valley, they stopped at one end of the valley, turned around and killed Zhang Xianzhong's troops.

Six to seven thousand soldiers and horses under Zhang Xianzhong were introduced into this valley.

Zhang Xianzhong is an old man. After the forward entered the valley, he felt that something seemed a little wrong, so he ordered the remaining troops not to enter the valley.

As a result, the six or seven thousand Zhang Xianzhong's men who entered the valley were intercepted in the valley by a Yu family army. Together with Cao Bianjiao at the other end, these six thousand or seven thousand Zhang Xianzhong's men were blocked in the valley, causing chaos.

Guns were fired, and landmines were continuously detonated. As a result, more than 2,000 of Zhang Xianzhong's more than 6,000 men were killed on the spot, and the rest abandoned their weapons and surrendered, becoming prisoners of the army.

Zhang Xianzhong discovered that there was an ambush in the valley ahead, and did not dare to stay at all. He led the remaining troops to turn around and run away. After Cao Bianjiao and the battalion commander of the Yu Jiajun eliminated Zhang Xianzhong's men in the valley, they immediately began to lead their troops to pursue Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhang Xianzhong abandoned Hanzhong and broke into Baoning Prefecture in Sichuan, trying to repeat his old tactics. He first stopped his troops in Sichuan for a while, and then planned to leave Sichuan and enter Huguang.

But it is no longer the time a year ago. Sichuan has a new governor, Yu Xiaotian's old acquaintance Mr. Xiong Wencan.

Xiong Wencan was implicated because of Yu Xiaotian's incident. As a result, he was not able to take office as the governor of the five provinces as in history. Instead, he was dismissed from office and reduced his position to serve the people, and rushed back to his hometown in Sichuan to retire.

Now that Yu Xiaotian holds great power, of course he has not forgotten his old acquaintance Xiong Wencan, so he revived him in the name of Chongzhen and temporarily stayed in Sichuan as governor to preside over the suppression of bandits in Sichuan.

Xiong Wencan was very grateful to Yu Xiaotian for being so nostalgic for the past. After taking office, he vigorously implemented various new policies in Sichuan according to Yu Xiaotian's instructions, and used the 200 servants that Yu Xiaotian allocated to him as the backbone to establish a new business in Sichuan.

Fifteen thousand new troops were organized and trained.

Basically all of these new army officers in Sichuan came from the Yu Jiajun's old department and received professional training from the Yu Jiajun Army Lecture Hall, and most of them are good at mountain warfare. Although the number of the new army trained by Xiong Wencan is

There are not many, and the equipment is not up to the level of Yu Jiajun, but the fighting will is not any weaker than that of Yu Jiajun.

This time, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting jointly attacked Zhang Xianzhong's headquarters. They notified Xiong Wencan in advance. When Xiong Wencan learned the news, he immediately sent troops to strengthen the defense in Kuizhou Prefecture and Baoning Prefecture, and more than 10,000 new troops were newly trained.

Most of the troops were sent to the area around Boryeongbu to set up defenses.

As a result, without knowing it, Zhang Xianzhong led his remaining soldiers and was defeated into Baoning Prefecture. Before Zhang Xianzhong could break up into pieces and escape into the mountains, he encountered a strong blockade from the Sichuan Army at Lizhou Guard.

Three thousand new Sichuan troops, led by dozens of old Yu Jiajun troops, blocked the path of Zhang Xianzhong's troops at Lizhou Guard, and a fierce battle ensued.

Although the quality of the equipment of these three thousand Sichuan Army's new troops is far inferior to that of the regular Yujia Army, they are very good at fighting in the mountains, and they can bring out what kind of soldiers they have as officers. These new troops are all from honest mountain people.

, has a strong sense of obedience and is very brave in combat.

Although they were mainly equipped with cold weapons, mainly swords, spears and bows and crossbows, when they blocked Zhang Xianzhong's headquarters, they still fought very resolutely. With limited troops, they were blocked in a

At the mountain pass, they fought to the death without retreating. Dozens of officers from the Yu Jiajun's old department took the lead and led the troops at the front, so that none of the remaining soldiers retreated and continued to fight to the death.

Zhang Xianzhong was pursued by soldiers behind him and blocked in front of him. Seeing that the firearms of these Sichuan soldiers were not sharp, he launched a fierce attack, even throwing his most trusted soldiers and horses into the battlefield at all costs, and launched several consecutive attacks.

Ten attacks.

However, these three thousand new Sichuan soldiers were like a dam. No matter how they attacked, they remained unmoved. The two sides fought at the mountain pass of Lizhouwei in darkness.

Because their weapons were not very powerful, these new Sichuan troops also suffered heavy casualties. However, they used square formation tactics. The swordsmen and spearmen effectively cooperated, and the archers behind them cooperated to launch a slightly longer distance, which made Zhang Xianzhong

The troops were unable to attack repeatedly, but suffered heavy losses at the mountain pass.

Three of Zhang Xianzhong's fierce generals fell in front of this group of Sichuan troops. The two sides fought for a whole day, but Zhang Xianzhong was still unable to break through the blockade of this group of Sichuan troops. He had to order his troops to retreat, preparing to take a detour to abandon the Lizhou Guard and flee to other places.

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But what he didn't expect was that the exhausted Sichuan soldiers still didn't give up. The officer led the remaining two thousand Sichuan soldiers to bite Zhang Xianzhong's troops, shouting that Zhang Xianzhong was dead, and chased and killed them fiercely.

Zhang Xianzhong's troops themselves had been severely beaten during this period, and the soldiers and generals had become frightened. When they retreated, they were even more confused. Suddenly, they heard the Sichuan soldiers shouting that Zhang Xianzhong was dead, and many of Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates

Not knowing whether it was true or not, the morale of the army suddenly collapsed, and people began to flee across the mountains and plains.

Zhang Xianzhong yelled wildly, trying to gather his defeated troops, but the Sichuan soldiers were like hungry tigers, charging and beating continuously, which aggravated the chaos of his troops. In the end, Zhang Xianzhong was still unable to turn the tide.

The entire army was scattered by the Sichuan soldiers.

Like a lost dog, Zhang Xianzhong turned around and ran away with dozens of soldiers. Fortunately, the Sichuan soldiers had no cavalry, so he was able to escape.

(Special thanks to Brother Xiaomi Rice Yolk for the generous reward!)

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