Late Ming Dynasty: Oops, I am surrounded by the Donglin Party

Both father and daughter are very capable people and they do what they say.

In order to completely put his worries aside, Ma Xianglin pulled out two thousand men and ordered them to escort the people of Shiqu and set off tomorrow, heading first to Jiannansi, which was relatively close to here.

Ma Xianglin originally wanted to ask Ma Lingqi to evacuate with him and leave himself to fight guerrilla warfare in the mountains, but Ma Lingqi insisted on staying.

After discussing countermeasures, Ma Xianglin selected a general who was more familiar with the mountain road to stay behind, and he and Ma Lingqi led the remaining 6,000 people to go down the mountain overnight.

The next day, Zhang Xianzhong began to attack the city as usual, still following the routine. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it was completely monotonous.

But just after noon, the rear military camp was attacked.

A group of guys who came out of nowhere took advantage of the fact that his main generals were attacking the city and launched a sneak attack on the rear military camp.

These guys came and went like the wind, and when he and his men rushed over, they had long disappeared.

The tents in the military camp were set on fire and hundreds of soldiers were killed. Fortunately, soldiers from the surrounding military camps arrived in time and put out the fire in the granary that had just been set on fire.

Zhang Xianzhong asked his subordinates who saw those people, and they said there were only a thousand or so of them. He was so angry that he immediately sent out a team of 2,000 people to follow the trail.

But Zhang Xianzhong didn't receive any news until mid-afternoon, when he was about to forget about the matter.

Suddenly, dozens of soldiers fled back from the mountains and forests in a panic.

"Why are there only so few people back? Where are they?"

"My king! They are all dead... There were thousands of them, and... and they were jumping around in the mountains and forests, making it impossible to defend against them!"

"Fuck you! Even after being defeated you still say that the enemy is strong, do you have any shame?" Zhang Xianzhong slapped the man in the face, knocking the defeated soldier around in a circle.

We are all human beings. If I can't jump up and down, why can my enemies?

He didn't believe what his subordinates said. Thousands of people? If there were so many people, why didn't they all go to Shiqu to defend the city?

He thought these deserters were just excuses, excuses for incompetence.

The battle was intense and he could only order the rear camp to guard it strictly. He had no time to take care of the affairs of thousands of people.

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In the forest, Ma Xianglin looked at his subordinates who were counting the spoils with excitement.

For this raid, in order to be safe and take care of the feelings of the new recruits, he deliberately sent out only more than 800 people, half of whom were veteran soldiers, and he led the team personally.

They rushed into the enemy camp, hacked anyone they saw, burned any tents they saw, and killed many people in less than two quarters of an hour.

Although the results were not great, once these recruits saw blood, their whole spirit and energy became different.

This was undoubtedly a successful attempt.

He looked at his daughter with great satisfaction and felt that she had great potential.

The Tujia soldiers who did not participate in this operation were somewhat envious because Ma Xianglin kept talking during the training.

If a recruit does not see blood, kill people, or go to the battlefield, he will never become a veteran.

"Dad, how about we launch a large-scale night attack?" Ma Lingqi blinked and said again.

At that time, most people suffered from severe night blindness due to hunger and lack of meat, and even in the army, it was rare to launch night attacks.

But the Tujia people have long been accustomed to the mountain and forest environment, and can travel safely in the mountains and forests even at night.

Ma Xianglin looked at the eager eyes around him and finally agreed to Ma Lingqi's suggestion.

They chose the time for the night attack around 3:30 pm, which is the time when most people are most sleepy.

Thousands of people were lying in ambush in the dense woods surrounding the camp. At Ma Xianglin's command, six thousand white-flag soldiers rushed towards Zhang Xianzhong's temporary military camp.

They howled in words that only the Tujia people could understand, and holding white spears in their hands, they first killed the scouts on duty at lightning speed, and then formed into teams of ten people.

One of them used a spear to lift open the military tent, and the others rushed in and stabbed fiercely. Many bandits died in the tent.

In addition to killing people, they also set fire to everything that could be ignited in the general camp.

However, Zhang Xianzhong was still cautious last time and moved the convoy that stored grain to another place.

Ma Xianglin was not interested in fighting, and when he saw a large number of soldiers rushing towards him, he decisively chose to retreat.

Zhang Xianzhong was woken up in the middle of the night and heard that they were attacked again. He immediately ordered his subordinates to chase them all night.

However, since the soldiers were not used to fighting at night, as soon as they entered the dense forest, they were beaten and retreated by the white-spear soldiers, crying.

This chaotic situation continued until dawn.

Zhang Xianzhong finally realized that he could no longer ignore this army that always launched surprise attacks.

After it was completely light, he ordered Zhang Nengqi to temporarily withdraw from the siege sequence and lead 10,000 troops into the deep forest to wipe out the damn white-pole soldiers.

Zhang Nengqi was very glad to be able to withdraw from the siege. The old woman in the city really knew how to defend a city.

Last October, he came to play with the stone, and that experience left him with a trauma.

Now we can retreat and wipe out the enemy in the mountains, which is much better than attacking the city.

He kept this idea in mind until he went deep into the jungle and engaged the enemy in close combat, only then did he realize how outrageous it was.

Some of those guys holding white spears jumped down from the trees to attack, some attacked from the bushes, some threw spears, and some shot arrows, and the feathers of those arrows were even poisoned...

When he finally chased a part of the white-flag soldiers to a slope that was two or three meters high.

He watched with his own eyes as the group of people connected the white spears in their hands end to end and climbed up the slope very easily and quickly like climbing a ladder.

Then the group of people stood on the slope and took advantage of the terrain to start shooting arrows...

Zhang Nengqi was led by the white-flag soldiers in the dense forest for a whole day, and finally escaped from the forest with more than 6,000 listless subordinates.

This is damned, even more thrilling than a siege. He even has a phobia for dense forests.

After Zhang Xianzhong learned the truth, he immediately scolded Zhang Nengqi.

But after learning that the White Spear Soldiers were particularly good at mountain warfare, he no longer easily sent people into the mountains.

In the next two days, the White Spear Soldiers launched many attacks and gained victory every time. Even if Zhang Xianzhong defended himself strictly, they could always find loopholes.

In three days, the White Spear Soldiers killed more than 8,000 bandits, burned countless tents, and even burned several grain depots stored by Zhang Xianzhong.

The loss of food made Zhang Xianzhong even more angry than the loss of manpower.

With 120,000 soldiers and horses to feed, the amount of food consumed every day is a huge number.

In preparation for this expedition, he requisitioned almost all the grain that could be requisitioned from the several prefectures under his jurisdiction, but the grain was still only enough for one month.

The original plan was to capture Shiqu and then go to Huguang to steal food.

He had already calculated everything for this expedition. It would take at most seven days to capture Shiqu. If he failed to capture it within seven days, then even if he captured it later, the food would not be enough to support his subsequent march out of Sichuan.

But those damned White-Pole Soldiers burned up half a month's worth of food in just three days.

"Fuck it! I'm not going to leave Sichuan this time, I'm going to capture Shiqu!"

Zhang Xianzhong roared angrily.