stubborn thief

In fact, Yongchangwei does not have the conditions to be attacked by force.

It is true that Wang Ziyong is a frequently defeated general in the Marshal's Mansion, but those defeats are often due to active choices, not invincibility due to conflicts.

Having fought so many defeats and having the most extensive experience and experience, Wang's own military talent is actually not much worse than other generals. He basically knows everything he needs to know, but sometimes he can't use it flexibly. I got out of habit when I was defeated in battle, and I didn't have the will to fight and rush.

People can't teach others, but if you teach them once, you will understand everything.

People are cultivated by experience. A very good young man went into battle with a knife by accident. He was so frightened that he was covered in cold sweat and his legs were weak. He retreated from the battlefield and found that he had chopped off a few heads. I also built it, my mother-in-law and aunt got married, and I got the official position of a small captain.

With positive motivation, this kind of experience will feed back his self-confidence, and also create a brave and invincible power. Next time he goes into battle, he will risk his life, cut out a centurion, cut out a garrison...he will Has been desperately cut down.

It's nothing more than some people were chopped down before they became centurions, and some people were chopped down all the way to the commander-in-chief—like Juniper.

A person's way of death has no meaning to the person itself, it will only affect other people who survive; Generals also have ways of living as generals who are often defeated.

Wang Ziyong traveled from northern Shaanxi to Gansu, lost time and time again, and was still alive and kicking. Among the various anti-kings in northern Shaanxi, Wang Ziyong is the most special one. Others are border soldiers. Only he is the real leader of the peasant army. , all benefiting from the useless people of mainstream society.

He can recruit a large and impressive peasant army on the familiar land. People will come in response to the robbery. They only need a little superstition and rituals, and they don't need to consider supplies, so they can have extremely high morale and loyalty.

But it is difficult for them to use muskets and artillery, and they have not received much formal military education. Most importantly, an 'expedition' across the county border and a sudden rain from the sky can make many soldiers under his command disappear.

This in itself determines that it is easy for Wang Ziyong to lose battles, and he has managed to save some family property, and he can lose everything in a single defeat.

In the Zhenjing Mayi in the east of Yongchang County, since he received Cao Yao’s order to station here, Wang Ziyong led the Banner Army of Sanjiewei and recruited a large number of soldiers to dig trenches and pits, build low walls and mounds. , while presiding over the membership ceremony, turning Yongchangwei into a fortress with strong hearts.

Thousands of remnants of the army, under the call of Wusheng Laomu, Ming Wang Maitreya, and Generalissimo of Qinghai, went to battle together. The progress of the soil work was extremely fast, and three heavy trenches were dug in the flat terrain between the two mountains in a blink of an eye. , directly cut off the road from Yongchangwei to the east.

After finishing all these intensively, Wang Ziyong finally felt relieved, and started training for the Sanjie Camp and Yongchang Army Yu.

In the final analysis, his defense line is not for defending and fighting, but just to make this place look difficult to attack, and to create a feeling for the enemy that attacking here is not worth the loss. The purpose is to make the enemy daunting and give up attacking.

Right now Cao Yao has an army in Ganzhou, and Liu Chengzong also has an army in Gulangxia, with Liangzhou City where Li Hongsi is located in the middle. It was difficult for Li Hongsi to make up his mind to attack him.

But if it came, Wang Ziyong would have to escape with the rest of the army, so training was necessary.

After all, Yongchang Guard is also considered a frontier. Although the Yongchang Banner Army is the old, weak, sick and disabled who look down upon many generals in the Marshal's Mansion, for Wang Ziyong, even if it is a surplus of troops, it is also a good source of soldiers.

He thought well, the trench between Yongchangwei and Liangzhouwei was indeed a position that was not worth the loss for Li Hongsi, the deputy general of Gansu in Liangzhou city.

But before Li Hongsi from Liangzhou came out, an old acquaintance of Wang Ziyong, Cao Wenzhao, emerged from the mountains.

Cao Wenzhao was already very careful. First, scouts and scouts scouted around Wang's own position for several days, and drew out the defense map of the entire defense line. Lead out from the mountains.

The first thing he did when he left the mountain was to send troops to contact Li Hongsi in Liangzhou City, inviting him to send troops to recover Yongchangwei and attack Liu Chengzong's grain road defense line.

Li Hongsi in Liangzhou City was anxious when he received the news, and quickly wrote a letter to invite him to enter Liangzhou City... He didn't mind sending troops. Most of Ming's Gansu was lost, and every general in Gansu had to do it for this Responsible, whenever there is a chance to return to the horse to fight to the death, they should give it a try.

But you, Cao Wenzhao, don't know what's going on outside the city of Liangzhou, and don't I, Li Hongsi, know?
Liu Chengzong's Marshal's Mansion has been disintegrated. The central part of Gansu is counted as one part, Hehuang is counted as one part, and Gulang Gorge is counted as one part. , but the front line.

Your [-] troops have entities, so how could they slash into nothingness with their swords.

Is it difficult to attack Yongchang?There is one point, but Li Hongsi believes that the difficulty is limited. As long as Liangzhou sends troops, there is a high probability that Yongchangwei can be brought back.

But does it make sense to attack Yongchang?Li Hongsi didn't think so.

The gains and losses of Yongchang are meaningless to the situation in Gansu as a whole. From Yongchang to Liangzhou, there is a piece of white land. Taking down Yongchang did not allow the soldiers and civilians to survive the entire winter. Except for a few thousand more mouths to eat, yes The big picture doesn't help.

It would be better for his troops to enter Liangzhou to rest for a while, and try to fight against the marshal army who came to collect grain under the city of Liangzhou two months later. That is the battle that can increase their winning chips.

But Cao Wenzhao replied quickly, saying that he had no intention of entering Liangzhou City to escape, and would march westward.

Li Hongsi's mood was very complicated. On the one hand, he admired Cao Wenzhao's spirit of returning to the horse and fighting to the death, but on the other hand...he felt that Cao Wenzhao was a bit arrogant, as if he was acting on his own will.

For this reason, he ventured out of the city and went to the front line of Yongchang, and persuaded Cao Wenzhao to enter Liangzhou City with reason and emotion.

Military affairs will inevitably bring death, which is unavoidable by any tactics, weapons, or strategies, but human life is precious, and people can die, but it is meaningful to die.

When you entered the mountain, the situation outside was that Liu Chengzong had a grain road. You attacked his grain road and caused chaos to the entire army.

Desperate is just an adverb, it is not the purpose, but to work hard for the purpose, or to achieve this purpose.

Sending death is different. It is a verb, and it just describes an action.

At this time, people threw away the Liangdao themselves. If you attack the Liangdao again, you will not be able to achieve the goal of disrupting the entire defense of the enemy. If you break through Yongchang, and even rush into Ganzhou, even if you are a world-class hero, you will kill Gansu like a god of war. , It’s not worth it as long as one or two hundred people die on the way from the Suzhou Pass and come back.

Li Hongsi said, you are really willing to work hard, I will send you three thousand troops, supply food, grass, and artillery, and you march towards Gulangxia to attack Liu Chengzong's rear.

Cao Wenzhao was almost persuaded.

The reason why he froze here was not all because he was irritable or overly superstitious about his own force, but because he kept agitating the soldiers along the way, telling them the importance of this trip, and he became a bit superstitious by talking too much.

When I came out, I suddenly found that the situation had changed. Deep in my heart, I couldn't accept it, and I couldn't step down.

But Cao Wenzhao accepted Li Hongsi's persuasion, and it was not a bad thing to steal Liu Chengzong's ass.

But at this time, Cao Wenzhao's generals came out safely and broke the big event.

Cao Wenzhao and Li Hongsi were having a secret conversation in the military tent. His subordinate Qian Zongping reported from the outside. When he came in, he saluted Li Hongsi first, and then Cao Wenzhao. He gritted his teeth and said, "General, my humble position is in the trenches of the Yongchang enemy camp. Before, I saw Wang Ziyong!"

Pingan is the general Cao Wenzhao brought into the customs. He was already the governor when he entered the customs. After fighting with him for so many years, his official position is getting lower and lower, because he lost his official position in the Pingliang war in the early years. , and started from the small soldiers again.

As for the battle in Pingliang, the most important reason was that Wang Ziyong and Yang Yanchang, the forwards, threw Cao Wenzhao outside and took away all their weapons.

Ping An later tried to sue Yang Yanchang and Wang Ziyong, but it was useless and no one listened.

They are guest generals. In the eyes of the local governor, Yang Yanchang's troops are the only model army that Shaanxi can take out, and it is the only model army that can take it out. This is unmatched by anyone.

They absolutely abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty. What they did was what the Ming army did 30 years ago. Even when friendly troops did not abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the Yang Department would take the initiative to stop them... Anyone who is a governor must have such a facade.

Because of the existence of Yang Yanchang's department, it can prove to the governor that the situation in Shaanxi is not bad.

This emotional value is unmatched by any guest, army, or general. The key people take advantage of it. If you rob the people, the governor doesn't know, or no one complains. The world is difficult, so you just turn a blind eye.

You plundered the people and were beaten up by Yang Yanchang's soldiers. If you go to sue, can the governor help you?You set up a card privately and got beaten up, can the governor help you?
Can't even help.

But Wang Ziyong is not so big, he is a transporter of soldiers and rations, and it is your problem that the supply of military rations is not enough. As a result, Wang Ziyong was dismissed from office. Even so, the anger in Ping An's hearts did not disappear.

They knew better than anyone that the Pingliang war was caused by these two people. They were traitors who hid behind their backs and shot cold arrows.

Cao Wenzhao couldn't bear it anymore, and he didn't care about Li Hongsi after hearing the words. He directly set out to hit the horse and ran all the way to the front line. , saw that familiar figure.

In an instant, the past was vivid in his mind, and the figures of Paoze who died in the Pingliang Battle flashed through his mind like a marquee, making Cao Wenzhao's blood pressure higher than a horse's head.

Let alone Li Hongsi this time, even if Yang Jiamo crawled out of the cemetery, he couldn't persuade Cao Wenzhao.

Three thousand soldiers suddenly pulled out their battalion and mounted their horses in the military music. In a moment, smoke and dust stirred up on the Gobi, and the soldiers were divided into five sentries and set up the Wang's own defense line rushing to the southeast of Yongchangwei.

Wang Ziyong had no idea that checking the defense line on a whim would bring disaster to the army.

It was because his subordinates reported that the army in the east was camping a few miles away, so he came out of the Zhenjing Mayi and ran to the edge of the trench defense line to burn incense with the soldiers and do rituals to boost morale.

Wang Ziyong is actually a very scientific person. Although his practice of burning incense and chanting mantras is better than anyone else, the reason why he uses these things is that others believe in them, but he himself does not believe them at all.

If a person really has mana, the master who raised him is much more powerful than him, but he can't make food and starves himself to death.

But superstition cannot be said to be useless. As long as one person really believes in Wang Ziyong's research, it will have a corresponding effect, but it is not quite the same as what others think.

Wang Ziyong has never told anyone about his research, and many superstitions complement each other for him.

Others believe in him, believe in the Sanjiehui, believe in the Sanjiehui with others, and then believe in him, or others lose confidence in the world, believe in him and the Sanjiehui, it is the same, one belief will strengthen the other belief.

And the faith of a disciple is his strength.

Zhu Youshu can bring people back to life, because this person really believes in Zhu Youshu and Dr. Zhu You, and believes that rituals and spells will bring the dead back to life.

When a person is injured and sick, the person who truly believes that he will not die may not be able to live, but the person who truly believes that he will die will definitely not survive.

The function of Zhu Youshu is to make people firm in their beliefs, and the same is true of Wang Ziyong's ritual practice.

As long as a person truly believes, he can make people invulnerable. If this person truly believes in invulnerability, he is really fearless, and fearlessness often brings victory.

This is a frightening spiritual force.

Convincing soldiers that they are blessed by the gods strengthens the line, boosts morale, and strengthens soldiers.

Wang Ziyong even thought that he could form a group of dead soldiers, tell them that burning incense can make them invulnerable every day, and when the battle is stalemate, he will go to the battlefield and charge forward to turn the tide of the battle.

However, this requires too much cost, and it is easy to overturn if you are not careful. He has not yet figured out how to implement it.

But it is indeed very feasible... After all, a true believer was not shot to death by a musket, it was the invulnerable mother who made him invulnerable to a gun, and strengthened this belief; There is nothing to explain.

After finishing a ceremony, Wang Ziyong found that the morale of the soldiers in front of the battle was even higher, which made him feel refreshed, but just as he was about to ride back to the real scene horse post, on the moat in front of the battle, there was a white lotus from the Sanjiehui The Beidou flag waved crazily, and the cavalry from a distance, divided into five groups, brought up smoke and dust.

The soldiers were divided into five groups, and the three cavalry were straight forward, and the left and right wings spread out to the mountains without trench protection, a standard outflanking formation.

In an instant, two options flashed through Wang Ziyong's mind. The first was to occupy the trench and defend to the death. However, in just an instant, he could not even confer the posthumous title of "Repeatedly Defeated and Repeatedly Fighting Bailian Miaofa Zhenjun" to him by Liu Chengzong after his death. Think it over.

Wang Ziyong immediately decided to lead his army to retreat. His mages who only existed in his mind and believed that they were invulnerable hadn't been trained yet, so he had to use Liu Chengzong's mortal soldiers who believed that he was invincible first.

He immediately summoned a messenger and said, "Go and tell Gao Yingdeng at the back that the enemy is attacking on the front line, let him prepare to defend against the enemy!"

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