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Chen Ting stood on the mountain and used a telescope to observe the military situation at the foot of the mountain.

He is still confused. Why did the landlords and farmers become thieves together?

The imperial court pays insufficient wages, the reward money is delayed, and the soldiers loot and make money on their own. This is a truth that applies to all countries. He didn't go too far. Most of the officers and soldiers in the north were encircling and suppressing the rogue bandits, otherwise they would have been unable to fight.

Even Sun Chuanting, who was appointed governor of Shaanxi this year, had already loosened the constraints on his generals because the court had been underpaying him.

There is no way, we can't raise troops without grabbing food.

Once the restraints are relaxed, military discipline will be like water that breaks a dam and cannot be recovered even if you want to. Sun Chuanting may have been a better model, but he was only better. Since he led troops in Shaanxi, he has been impeached and his military discipline has been corrupted.

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

What can Sun Chuanting do?

He came on the scene too late, and when he became governor and commander of the army, the government's finances were on the verge of collapse. If he did not acquiesce to the robbery by his subordinates, the officers, soldiers and generals under his command would dare to show him what it means to rebel and raise wages!

Among all the governors in the late Ming Dynasty, only Lu Xiangsheng was kind to the people, and his military discipline was very strict. Tianxiong's army once went without 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 accompanied the soldiers to starve for three days.

Therefore, Chen Ting found it difficult to understand. People all over the country were doing this, so why was he the only one to get hit?

Because someone is connected!

A missionary from a poor scholar background went to connect with the landlords and gentry. Missionary officers and farmers' association cadres who came from poor backgrounds went to connect local farmers and tenants.

As long as there are people organizing and taking the lead, and Fei Ruhe leading the troops to back them up, what is there to fear? In just a few days, an army composed of landowners and farmers was mobilized.

"Lord Taishan," Huang Hanliang put down his telescope, "our army is condescending, so we can send the main force to defeat the local militia. They are all a mob, and they don't even have a formation. They are in a mess in the east and in the west. They are bound to flee after a volley of fire cannons. Once these people are defeated , it is likely to cause the defeat of the old thieves from Luling, and then our army can take advantage of the victory to pursue them."

Chen Ting sighed and said, "That's all we can do."

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

He risked crossing the river to set up an ambush, but it was a helpless move because the rebels formed a peasant association and trained peasant soldiers outside the city. The longer time passes, the stronger the rebels will become, and Chen Ting must take risks.

Immediately, Chen Ting spent a lot of time to defend the weak brigade and sent out elite troops to attack the landlord and peasant coalition forces.

"Bang bang bang!"

The officers and soldiers fired a volley from the cannon battalion, causing more than 3,000 militiamen to flee in an instant.

Several Fujian generals took the opportunity to cover up the killing, and nearly 10,000 militiamen collapsed. Most of them fled in all directions, and a few rushed towards Fei Ruhe's main force.

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

Fei Ruhe learned this tactic from Zhao Han.

You hit yours, I'll hit mine.

Fei Ruhe was too lazy to rescue those friendly troops. He didn't even leave a reserve team behind, and went all-out to kill in the direction of the commander's flag.

More than five thousand troops began to rush towards the mountain.

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

"Boohoo!"

The officers and soldiers were still hiding their bow and arrow troops. Fei Ruhe was halfway through the charge and had already been shot with six arrows. Some arrows fell to the ground, and some were still stuck in his body, but they could not stop Fei Ruhe's charge. Anyway, he was wearing cotton armor and a bamboo helmet with iron pieces embedded on his head. As long as he didn't get shot in the face and neck.

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

The elite officers and soldiers were sent to fight against the coalition of landlords and peasants. Those who stayed behind to defend were relatively weak, but Fei Ruhe's timing to attack was just right.

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

When Fei Ruhe led his army to attack the mountain, the moment the two sides came into contact, the weak brigade of officers and soldiers immediately opened a hole.

"Fill it in with me!"

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

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

Coach bumps into coach!

"Bah!"

Chen Ting suddenly slashed down with his sword, using the power of the charge from above to kill Fei Ruhe on the spot.

"when!"

Fei Ruhe hurriedly blocked with his sword, but was so shocked that his jaw went numb, and even half of his arm was numb.

This guy is so strong!

Chen Ting showed no mercy to the opponent and struck him with another sword. Fei Ruhe could not change his move and could only block in panic again.

"when!"

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

Go back in the physical sense. Fei Ruhe has never been so embarrassed.

"kill!"

Chen Ting still wanted to pursue him and stabbed him head-on with several wolf spears. This thing is not only vicious, but also insidious and can obstruct the view.

At this moment, several spearmen crossed the shield wall and stabbed Chen Tingdui in the throat and calf.

Chen Tingdui hurriedly dodged the vital point, and his calf, which was not well protected by the armor, was stabbed. Chen Tingdui was so frightened that he quickly retreated into the formation.

The coaches and soldiers of both sides started fighting like this, and it was difficult to tell the winner for a while.

However, the troops fighting next to them quickly determined the winner.

Those who attacked this time were all elite Datong soldiers, but those left by Chen Ting to defend were troops with weaker combat effectiveness. To put it bluntly, they were all Fujian warriors recruited two years ago. They defeated the peasant army at the border of three provinces. Other than that, they only trained once every eight days.

Chen Ting's opponent's two-wing front collapsed bit by bit. When he saw this, he shouted: "Put another half of the incense, if you hold another half of the incense, we will win!"

Indeed, if you hold up half a stick of incense, you will win.

Because his son-in-law Huang Hanliang had defeated the coalition of landlords and peasants, and led his elite troops back to the mountains, trying to attack the rebels from both front and rear.

By then, the rebels will be defeated!

However, there was not half a stick of incense, and even a tenth of the stick was not held up.

"Kill!"

A Datong army commander named Liu Erliang, who was born as a tenant farmer, took the lead in defeating the enemy in person. He immediately led his troops to help the friendly forces and launched a flank attack on a sentry Fujian soldier. It was like smashing tofu with a hammer, instantly smashing the enemy's formation.

Like dominoes falling, the Fujian soldiers collapsed one team after another.

Seeing that the situation was not going well, Chen Tingdui, who had been so brave before that he had beaten Fei Ruhe and fled in embarrassment, immediately fled with his own soldiers.

"Pursue the enemy from one to ten posts. Be sure to chase the enemy until they are scattered and flee for their lives. The rest of the troops must unite to defend the enemy!"

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

This knife was about to be scrapped. Chen Ting made two big cuts. Wu Zhuangyuan was really not an ordinary person.

"Listen to the order and wind up!"

A thousand archers bent their bows and set arrows, and fired a volley at the elite officers and soldiers attacking from the bottom of the mountain.

"Come back, come back quickly!"

Huang Hanliang led a camp with a thousand fire guns and wanted to continue the attack. Unexpectedly, the other officers and generals all fled with their troops. Seeing that the commander on the mountain had been defeated, how could they have the courage to continue fighting?

"Follow me to pursue the enemy!"

"Dududududu da da da da da..."

Fei Ruhe ordered the charge again, the suona sounded the charge horn, and four thousand Datong soldiers descended from the mountain like tigers.

"Bang bang bang!"

Huang Hanliang had one last chance. He asked all the fire gun battalions to aim in the direction of Fei Ruhe's handsome flag.

However, before the Datong soldiers entered the effective shooting range, the Fujian gun soldiers opened fire in advance, then turned around and fled regardless of Huang Hanliang's military orders.

Huang Hanliang had no choice but to flee, but he escaped late and was quickly overtaken by Datong soldiers.

This man still wanted to fight desperately, but was stabbed to death by several spears.

A man who was born as a child prodigy and had both civil and military skills. In history, he recruited soldiers to fight against the Qing Dynasty and died for his country. At this moment, he was dying on an unknown hillside outside Ganzhou City. He had never fought a bloody battle with the rebels from beginning to end.

"The Fujian soldiers lost, the Fujian soldiers lost!"

The missionary officers and backbones of the peasant association who were among the defeated militiamen suddenly cheered with joy when they heard the charge horn coming from the mountain.

They collected their defeated troops along the way, turned back, and beat up the drowned dogs.

As for those Fujian elites who fled, they didn't have a single wound on their bodies. Facing the super weak peasants and soldiers, they simply couldn't muster the courage to fight.

The battlefield at the foot of the mountain was a mess, with peasant soldiers armed with hoes, poles, kitchen knives and bamboo guns. They had no formation to speak of, a group in the east and a group in the west, chasing Fujian's elite soldiers to chase them.

Whenever Fujian elites fell down, they would immediately rush up and beat them.

Sometimes, a small group of Fujian elites fought back, frightening several times the peasant soldiers and fleeing.

The mountains and plains are full of deserters and pursuers. Sometimes it is even unclear who is running away and who is chasing.

Chen Tingdui, the commander-in-chief of Fujian, rushed down the mountains from the north and fled into the mountains further north. After entering the mountain, he finally saw no more pursuers. He quickly counted the number of people and his eyes suddenly turned black with anger.

There are only about forty people left around him...

The other troops, including his own soldiers, had completely fled, and there was no way they could reunite in a foreign land.

Chen Ting did not dare to delay. He rested for a while and continued to escape in the mountains. He had to quickly find a nearby county. As soon as he entered the county seat, he immediately wrote a letter to complain and put the blame on Zou Weilian.

The content was all thought out. Fujian Governor Zou Weilian's whole family was caught by the rebels, so he secretly followed the thieves and gave blind orders. Zou Weilian first stood still and watched the rebels occupy the Wan'an natural danger. Then he directed the navy to send the rebels into a trap, causing the main force of Fujian officers and soldiers to be surrounded by the rebels.

It's all the governor's fault!

Fei Ruhe spent a day and a night cleaning the battlefield and captured more than 3,000 officers and soldiers.

In fact, more prisoners could be captured, but the local gentry and farmers vented their anger by beating prisoners to death. Many Fujian soldiers would rather jump into the river and escape than be caught by the local villagers.

Only six of the dead boatmen who were responsible for luring the enemy died, and more than eighty people were missing. It is not known where they were washed ashore, or their bodies could not be found after drowning.

Just when Fei Ruhe moved across the river and planned to surround Ganzhou City, Gu Jianshan suddenly received a military order: the navy immediately went north to fight!

Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of the five southern provinces, could not sit back and watch Ganzhou's friendly troops besieged.

His idea was very correct. Zou Weilian only needed to hold Ganzhou City until the autumn harvest on his side was completed. As long as there is autumn food and enough food, Zhu Xieyuan will send troops to attack Fengcheng County and force the main force of the rebels to withdraw from Ganzhou.

In this way, the rebels can be exhausted and Ganzhou City can be saved.

Maybe Zou Weilian can send troops from Ganzhou and take the opportunity to knock down Wan'an County!