Ming Dynasty: I, Emperor Chongzhen, swear not to go to Meishan

In order to help the newly formed Royal Second Regiment form an army as soon as possible and improve its combat effectiveness, Zhu Youjian transferred a group of officers and soldiers who had participated in the battle, including Lu Yiming, into the Royal Second Regiment to serve as company squad commanders.

Considering that the First Royal Regiment only participated in one large-scale battle and needed to participate in more actual battles to improve the overall combat effectiveness of the unit, he did not dare to deploy too many people, lest the First Royal Regiment have too many recruits and cause overall Combat effectiveness decreases.

Therefore, he only transferred more than thirty wounded soldiers, including Lu Yiming, who were wounded in the battle and transported back to the headquarters of the Jingshi Field Military Hospital for treatment and rehabilitation to serve as grassroots officers of the Second Royal Regiment at all levels.

As the commander of the Royal First Regiment, Xu Yu was unaware of this. He was leading his troops on the march, following Sun Chuanting's main army to pursue the retreating remnants of Li Zicheng.

According to the scouts' report, in the other direction, the Red Lady was also marching with her five thousand rebels. She was hanging leisurely on the flank of Li Zicheng's remaining troops, which made Li Zicheng feel great pressure and grit his teeth with hatred.

After Li Zicheng killed his most capable general and military advisor Li Yan and forced away military advisor Song Xiance, he seemed to be running into bad luck.

While playing scout battle, snipers killed many experienced scouts and military masters. In a decisive battle with Sun Chuanting, he was first defeated due to heavy losses. Then he gathered his troops and returned to fight. He killed the officers and soldiers by surprise, and saw victory in sight. , but the Royal First Regiment, which was participating in the battle for the first time, resisted his crazy attack. At the critical moment, the Red Lady led the strange army to fight out, and finally fled in defeat.

When the troops arrived at Xiangyang City, he made up his mind to separate two partial divisions to block and contain Sun Chuanting's tribe and Hong Niangzi's tribe, and when he led the main force to attack Xiangyang City, heavy rain suddenly fell, drenching everyone.

There is a vast expanse of white between the sky and the earth, and the key point is that the north wind is blowing, and the cold air is biting, making people shiver from the cold.

Rain will make the gunpowder damp and the muskets and artillery will not fire. It also means that the Royal First Regiment, the most powerful fighting force in the army, has become a display, and the muskets in hand can only be used as fire sticks.

Li Zicheng wanted to risk a big battle with Sun Chuanting, but military advisor Niu Jinxing, the most powerful generals Liu Zongmin, Yuan Zongdi and other generals strongly opposed it.

Let's look at the weather first. It's raining heavily. There's a vast expanse of white between the sky and the earth. It's hard to see far. The ground is muddy and slippery. It's really not a good weather for starting a war.

The rebels had just suffered a disastrous defeat, and their morale must have been low. Because of the large-scale retreat, the entire army was in a hurry. In order to replenish food, grass and other military supplies, the rebels burned, killed and looted along the way. They used up a lot of physical strength and could not get a good rest. It was really not suitable to fight.

Furthermore, there are only more than 30,000 rebels left in the rebel army, while the official army has more than 300,000. The strength of the two sides is too disparity, and the officers and soldiers are both elite, and they still have the vigor to win. This battle is really impossible to fight. Continue. Running away is the right choice.

Li Zicheng had no choice but to give up his idea of ​​​​taking a big gamble and risk running away. Because of the inconvenience of marching in the rain and muddy roads, tents and other things could only be abandoned to reduce the burden.

Niu Jinxing was quite powerful. Before leaving, he suggested a plan and asked Li Zicheng to play a strategy of condensing troops to cover the safe retreat of the army. The later the officers and soldiers found out, the more time they could buy for the rebels to retreat safely.

Sun Chuanting led his army to catch up, stopped three or four miles away from the rebel camp, and sent scouts to scout out the enemy's situation.

Several teams of scouts took advantage of the cover of heavy rain to quietly sneak close to the rebel camp. Through the white rain, they discovered that the rebel camp was extremely guarded, with soldiers patrolling everywhere, and they hurried back to report.

Sun Chuanting immediately ordered the camp to be set up. All the soldiers set up tents to take shelter from the rain, made fires to ward off the cold, and buried pots to make rice for the exhausted soldiers.

Judging from the intensity of the rain, it is estimated that it will not stop for another three to five days, and it is almost evening, so Li Zicheng would not be able to start a war even if he wanted to. However, Sun Chuanting did not relax his vigilance and ordered to strengthen the vigilance to prevent the rebels from stealing the camp.

Xu Yu also sent a reconnaissance platoon to conduct reconnaissance. It was not that he did not believe Sun Chuanting's scouts, but to confirm the accuracy of the intelligence.

Half an hour later, a reconnaissance team that was soaked by the rain hurried back and brought back news that shocked Sun Chuanting, Gao Jie, Hu Dawei, and Zuo Liangyu.