Win the Ding 1617

At the end of the school grounds is a small dry river bed. The continuous half-month autumn rain has filled the ditch and leveled the river. This river has a very obvious seasonality. Whenever there is a lot of rain in summer and autumn, it becomes a river, and it drips when it is dry. No, there are countless rocks, large and small, on the river bed.

There has been a lot of rain recently, and the riverbed is located on a low terrain, and the nearby rainwater has flowed in, so now there are no rocks in the riverbed, and only the dim river water is slowly flowing eastward.

When the drillers marched to the end of the field in a horizontal line, Li Guo waved the command flag in his hand, the drums stopped suddenly, and the gong sounded instead, the line turned around and went back.

Li Guo waved the command flag twice again, and the column became a horizontal line again; with another wave of the command flag, the horizontal line quickly turned back.When the horizontal team entered the school field again, Li Guo was about to wave the command flag, but was stopped by the Chuang Wang Li Zicheng who had just rushed here with his hand gestures, so the small school who played the gong did not dare to play the gong, and the small school who played the drum had to continue. Beat the drum.The Banner and Drum Officer was panicked, and frequently peeked at Li Guo.Li Guo understood what his uncle meant, and cast a stern look at the flag and drum officer, and said, "Beat the drum hard!" The flag and drum officer immediately grabbed the drumstick from the drummer's hand, and beat the drum with all his might until the sound of the drum shook the sky.

Gu Kecheng, who was one of the eighteen cavalry who followed Li Zicheng to break out of the siege, was the leader of the three hundred recruits, walking in front with a small order flag in his hand.When he faced the general platform, he commanded the troops according to the banner in Li Guo's hand at any time; when his back was facing the general platform, he commanded the troops according to the sound of gongs and drums.At this time, they heard the sound of drums urging them to move forward, he and the soldiers wondered whether Li Guo had not noticed that he had reached the edge of the school field and could not move forward.People look at each other.Some people looked back and stood still, waiting for Kecheng's order.Kecheng looked back twice and saw Li Guo's command flag raised towards him. He suddenly understood, raised the command flag as well, and shouted the command: "Go forward! Don't look back!" The horizontal team held up bright weapons Step down the river bed and into the water.The depth of this river is half a person's depth, and the shallow part is also knee-deep. Below are rocks of various sizes.It was quite difficult for this team of recruits to walk over.People keep falling.But when they fell, they immediately got up and continued to move forward, and soon the formation became chaotic.

Because the drums were beating one after another, and Gu Kecheng walked in front holding the order flag high, none of these recruits dared to look back or look left and right.Just grit your teeth and trudge forward in the water with one deep foot and one shallow foot.The line crossed the riverbed.Form up while walking.Continue to move forward into the uneven muddy water, and only turn back when you hear the sound of the gong.When you come back.No one hesitated to cross the river any more, they just followed Gu Kecheng's command flag, and the formation was much more orderly than before.Following Li Guo's order to wave the flag, the horizontal team turned into a three-way column again, until Li Guo's command temporarily stopped in front of the stage.

King Chuang's expression was stern, he stepped down from the general platform, first called Gu Kecheng out of the team, kicked him hard, ordered Gu Kecheng to kneel down, and then ordered several of Gu Kecheng's subordinates to kneel down together .He glanced at Gu Kecheng and other generals who were punished, then looked at all the soldiers participating in the drill and said:

"Since ancient times, the victorious division has relied on temperance orders. If temperance orders are not strict, how can we win against the enemy? In normal military training, you must not only practice martial arts, but also practice obeying orders. Everyone obeys orders, and 1 people have one heart. The heart of 1 people is the heart of the general. In this way, you can win more with less and be invincible. The Yue family army and the Qi family army are invincible because everyone obeys orders. If the drums keep beating when facing the enemy, there will be water in front Fire, you have to jump into the water and fire; if the gong does not stop, there will be mountains of gold and silver in front of you, and you have to retreat immediately. When the drum is beating forward, if someone looks back, he must be beheaded immediately. No forgiveness. Why do you want to behead immediately? Because when the sound of killing is loud and the arrows and stones are raining like rain, if one person looks back, it will make everyone suspicious and fearful, and it is the easiest to shake the morale of the army. Especially you leaders, the brothers will look at you Looking at you, the relationship is more important, so it must be cut." He looked at Gu Kecheng and others and said, "Today is just a drill, not a battle in front of the battle. Besides, I didn't make repeated orders beforehand, so I won't take heavy responsibility. In the future when you practice As long as you keep beating the drums, and if anyone looks back, you will definitely hit the military stick. Get up and continue practicing!"

Most of the recruits recruited among the nearby mountain people are holding old miscellaneous equipment replaced by the old battalion soldiers in their hands and bodies.However, in this year and month, it is enough to have a knife in hand, a piece of clothing to cover your body, and enough food in a bowl to satisfy your hunger.

Now the number of troops entering the camp has quietly expanded to more than 3000 people. Although they have not yet returned to the peak period of the camp, the generals who entered the camp are very clear about the reason why soldiers are expensive and not many.

While taking advantage of the rare peaceful time in the mountains of Fangxian County, they drilled the troops well, and at the same time, together with Chen Guoxi's guards, they swept all the nearby villages one by one. In addition to obtaining food, gold, silver, cloth and other precious In addition to supplementing yourself with materials, you can also use these materials to help the nearby mountain people, and earn yourself a good reputation for helping the rich and the poor.

In this way, Li Zicheng led the whole battalion to lurk safely in Yunyang Mountain, expanded the army to train troops, recuperated soldiers and horses, and sent many secret agents to inquire about the news, just waiting for Yang Sichang to chase Zhang Xianzhong into Sichuan or the official army was dragged in the east of Sichuan. When he was exhausted, he rushed out of Yunyang Mountain immediately after breaking into the camp.

All kinds of news from all directions were continuously collected, some were gossip circulating in the government, some were rumors in the market, and some were found in seized pond newspapers.

Numerous sources gradually pieced together a picture of the situation outside the mountain for Li Zicheng.

He constantly summoned his generals to discuss matters, and based on the situation between the official army and the peasant army, combined with the contradictions between the various officials and the army, and the little filth between Yang Sichang and the officials everywhere, he continued to deduce on the map and calculated The next possible development of the situation.

As soon as Yang Sichang started to supervise the army, he planned to use the dangerous land of Shu to trap the bandits. It is to concentrate forces to suppress the bandits.Forced them to enter Shu.If you can keep the rules in Shu, if you can't keep it, you will abandon Fuzhou, Wanzhou, Yazhou, Songzhou and other areas to make the enemy go deep. (This tactic was used by someone hundreds of years later. He planned to push an army into this desperate situation, either by becoming Shi Dakai's second, or by using the snow-capped mountains and grasslands to destroy this army. However, Before this army of heroes. His wishful thinking miscalculated.)

His arrangement is to cut off the plank road with Qin soldiers from Shaanxi.The soldiers came to guard Baishui; the Yunnan Dian soldiers were stationed in Qujing to guard the Baishi River;Yang Sichang was also afraid that the gates of Shu would be strong.In desperation, the enemy turned around and fought a decisive battle with the officers and soldiers.So all the elite soldiers of Shu were sent to the brigade.They were all transferred to other places for defense; Shao Jiechun, the governor of Sichuan, had only [-] weak soldiers under his command, guarding Chongqing.

And such an arrangement, of course, will not get the cooperation of Sichuan.Governor Shao Jiechun once said angrily: The law says that if a city is lost, the governor will be convicted. Now that the entire Shu land is given to the bandits, the governor is trying to kill me by doing this!In order not to make Sichuan a victim of Yang Sichang's achievements, the officials and gentry in Sichuan tried their best to fight for it from Shao Jiechun down, but without the slightest result.

Therefore, there were such rumors that Yang Sichang was from Changde, Huguang. Out of selfishness, he didn't want the bandits to invade and ravage Chu.So he thought of taking the river as a beggar.

With such intrigue among the generals to undermine each other, it is no wonder that the war against bandits was successful!

Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai took advantage of the weakness of Sichuan governor Shao Jiechun's scattered troops to defend many passes. On the sixth day of September, they suddenly attacked the Sichuan government army with all their strength. , approaching Dachang.Shao Jiechun panicked, and handed over the responsibility of defending Dachang to his lieutenant general Shao Zhongguang, while he quickly transferred to Kuizhou, calling on Zhang Ling and Qin Liangyu to help.These two men are the most experienced and most prestigious Sichuan famous generals, and their troops have supplemented training in a summer without any damage.In particular, Qin Liangyu's white-armed soldiers have received a large amount of military equipment and armor from Ning Yuanbo for more than a year, and their morale and combat effectiveness are no less than those of the white-armed soldiers during the Battle of Hunhe.

Now not only Shao Jiechun pinned his hope of reversing the situation in Eastern Sichuan on this pair of veteran men and women and the main force led by them, but almost all the gentry in Sichuan had the same hope.Zhang Ling's men were in front of Shi Jiebing, more than a day's journey away.While urging the army to advance, he flew to Shao Zhongguang, the defender of Dachang, saying that he was rushing to help tonight, and he asked Shao Zhongguang to stick to it for three days.

The three crossings of the Daning River, namely Shangmadu, Zhongmadu and Xiamadu, are the only way to attack Dachang.Shao Zhongguang originally divided his troops to guard the three ferries. On the shore of each ferry, he quickly built a fortress with stones, dug pits, arranged deer villages and caltrops, and placed firearms and crossbows in the fortresses.Although he was very afraid of Zhang Xianzhong, he hoped that with the rapid flow of the Daning River, steep banks, and these defensive arrangements on the bank, he could hold out until Zhang Ling's reinforcements arrived.

.He thought, as soon as Zhang Ling came, Zhang Xianzhong would never want to seize the ferry and attack Dachang; even in the worst case, even if Dachang fell by then, the responsibility would be on Zhang Ling, not Shao Zhongguang.Unexpectedly, when Zhang Xianzhong's outpost was still more than 20 miles away from the Daning River, the defenders crowded together, unwilling to obey the command of the chief, let alone fight for the court. The reason was that the payment was too long. In fact, the chiefs at all levels deducted the food and salaries of their subordinates and soldiers to enrich themselves. As for stealing and selling food, grass and weapons, it was commonplace.

Shao Zhongguang heard a lot of gossip from the soldiers, and immediately shook his mind to stand by and wait for help.Seeing Zhang Xianzhong's men and horses coming to the Daning River, beating drums and clamoring to rush across, he sent people to Kuizhou to lie to the governor that he was supervising and leading the soldiers to resist desperately, killing hundreds of "thieves" and causing the river to become red. , while throwing away the fort and fleeing with a few cronies.When the generals of the Sichuan army defending the Daning River heard that the general had fled first, they collapsed without a fight. Most of them broke up into small groups and fled for their lives. Only a few chased Shao Zhongguang and fled to Kuizhou.The Zhang and Luo coalition forces succeeded in crossing almost without a fight, divided their forces and broke Dachang, and then the whole division moved towards Kuizhou.

Sichuan General Soldier and veteran Zhang Ling was rushing to help Dachang. When he heard the news of Dachang's fall, he immediately stopped advancing.I intend to make great contributions in this battle. , Zhang Ling was a general who followed She Chongming in the past. He was over 70 years old and could use the five-stone crossbow immediately.However, Zhang Ling's temperament underestimated the enemy, and Qin Liangyu's white-armed soldiers were also rushing towards here, which made Zhang Ling even more courageous.

On the morning of the second day when he arrived at Zhujunping.Two thousand cavalry from the front team of Zhang and Luo's allied forces arrived.He immediately looked up for a while.I saw Zhang and Luo's combined forces were neat and orderly, with a clear banner and strong troops, especially the troops of the West Camp under Zhang Xianzhong.It is even more powerful.He made up his mind in his heart.He ordered the generals not to leave the stronghold.If the enemy comes to attack, just shoot back with guns, cannons and strong crossbows.After finishing the order, he went back to the stronghold to rest.The left and right generals suggested to him one after another: take advantage of the first arrival of the "thief soldiers".One is tired, and the other is unstable. Hurry up and attack to win.But Zhang Ling said confidently: "You are all talking nonsense and playing the piano! This town has lived for more than 70 years, and has fought more battles than you have traveled in your life. Don't you know how to fight the enemy? You don't understand, Zhang Xianzhong is here today, not just a Luo Rucai! Zhang Xianzhong's son is a cunning thief, but also a thug. In Kejiaping this spring, I almost suffered a big loss because I underestimated his son. This group of thugs recently You broke Tutu Ridge, defeated Shao Zhongguang the day before yesterday, broke Dachang, and your vigor is in full swing. Go out to fight with them immediately, there is no bargain for you to pick. You just guard the pass and don't fight. A day or two goes by until they relax Well, the spirit is gone, let's punish them severely. The eyes of all the elders in Sichuan are looking at us. We must fight this battle well and win a complete victory before we can face the imperial court and the elders of Quanchuan!"

The next day, at Chenpai time, the defenders at Zhujunping Village saw that the Xiying troops who attacked the village were replaced by Caoying troops, and the troops were not as organized as Xiying.Around the beginning of the morning, people reported to Zhang Ling that Luo Rucai's men and horses were very slack and scattered.He went to the village and watched for a while, and saw Luo Rucai's soldiers sitting and resting, some were playing leaf games, some were eating, some were waiting to eat, and some had taken off their saddles. Let the horses graze freely.After Zhang Ling saw it, with a very contemptuous smile in his eyes, he turned his head and asked a group of generals and generals who were following him, "How is it now? Is it time for you all to follow me and make contributions?"

The generals were excited and asked to go to battle immediately.Zhang Ling smiled arrogantly again and said: "As I expected, after noon, Luo Rucai, the son of a bitch, became slack in the army and became a mob!" He asked the Chinese army, "When will the Shi Jie soldiers come?"

The Chinese army replied: "My lord, the front team of 2000 people is only ten miles away from here. Qin Shuai led the brigade behind, and it is less than 25 miles away from here. Qin Shuai is urging the army to come to help, and he will arrive soon."

A general asked: "Sir, do you still have to wait for the Shi Jie soldiers?"

Zhang Ling chuckled lightly through his nostrils, and said, "Forget it, there's no need to wait! This victory is ours alone! Aren't you already envious of the equipment and property in Cao Cao's camp?"

Hearing Zhang Ling's words, the officers around him burst into laughter.

"Who is General Zhang? General Zhang please speak alone!"

After arranging the combat deployment, Zhang Ling led his subordinates out of the stronghold to meet the enemy, preparing to defeat Cao Cao's troops in the first battle, and then take advantage of the chaos to cover up and kill the coalition forces of Zhang Xianzhong and Cao Cao.

After beating Cao Cao's subordinates who were scattered all over the place and fleeing, Zhang Ling and his subordinate generals, guerrillas and other officers suddenly saw a single person jump out of the fleeing army horses in Cao's camp and run towards them. When I came, I felt strange in my heart and waited attentively.They all guessed that it was probably Luo Ru who sent his cronies to convey his willingness to surrender.

But he didn't know that this young man in white horse brocade was Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son, the famous Zhang Yuer Zhang Dingguo.After Zhang Dingguo was stationed in the horse, he was facing the southwest, and the setting sun of late autumn shone on his face.Although he fought bravely, he was very handsome. A 20-year-old man looked only seventeen or eighteen.Zhang Ling had always heard that Luo Rucai was greedy for wine and sex, and thought that he must also be "masculine". Looking at this "beautiful boy" with a beautiful appearance and brocade clothes, a white horse with a silver saddle, he couldn't help showing a knowing smile from the corner of his mouth.Before he had time to speak, he heard the "beautiful boy" shouting loudly again on the white horse: "General Zhang please come to the front of the battle and speak!"

"This general is Zhang Ling, the commander-in-chief of Sichuan, you thief, speak up when you have something to say!"

Surrounded by dozens of family guards, Zhang Ling, a 70-year-old veteran, rode out on his horse. With his white beard and hair, his long beard was blown by the cold wind in late autumn, which was quite majestic.

Zhang Dingguo smiled slightly on the horse and said: "I heard that the general is good at shooting. Today, I respectfully repay him with an arrow. I hope you will accept it."

At the sound of the bowstring, a steel three-edged arrow was shot out quickly. Zhang Ling yelled in his heart that it was not good, but it was too late. The arrow hit his neck and passed through it.

"kill!"

Zhang Dingguo hung up his copper-tired and iron-armed bow, pulled out the Juehu knife hanging on the saddle, shouted and fought fiercely, and led dozens of his own soldiers, and rushed straight to Zhang Ling's family guards. Behind him was Thousands of Zhang and Cao coalition forces had already ambushed in the bushes and bamboo forests.

Zhang Ling's troops were defeated! (To be continued..)

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