Win the Ding 1617

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It was nearly the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and it was already autumn, but the mountains in western Henan began to rain heavily.

The cold rain and autumn wind drifted into the camp of the Ming army, which stretched for tens of miles, and the atmosphere in the barracks became more and more dull and depressing.

From Sun Chuanting's Supervising Biao Zhongjun camp to Gao Jie, Niu Chenghu and others' military camps in various towns in Shaanxi.Among the tents of the tens of thousands of new soldiers in Shaanxi, there was no end in sight. In the past, all the people who went in and out were high-spirited, but these days they were downcast, as if they had died.

A terrible news spread among the camps and towns at the speed of a plague outbreak, "Do you know! Our grain road was cut off by a tiger Li Guo!"

"Lingbao, Lushi, Lushan and other places have a large number of elite bandits haunting! Lingbao and Lu's counties have been taken away by bandits. Right now, bandits everywhere are coercing good people, repairing fortifications, digging up roads, and Completely cut off our way back to Shaanxi!"

Lingbao, Lushi and other counties were recaptured by bandits, and the back road of the grain road leading to Tongguan was cut off by the bandits. How can these people not be disturbed?Since ancient times, the army will collapse without food. This is a famous saying through the ages.What's more, not long ago there was an example of Liaodong Governor Hong.

Gao Jie, Niu Chenghu and others were a little flustered.

All the soldiers couldn't believe it when they heard it at first. Didn't they say that we came out of Tongguan to copy the escape routes of the thieves?Didn't it mean that the big bosses of the bandits, Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai, Liu Zongmin, Lao Huihui and others were all in Huguang, fighting against Zuo Liangyu, and vying for the territory of the Four Mansions of Chengtian in De'an. Isn't there any main force of the bandits in Henan?Why all of a sudden there is a troop of tigers behind us?And cut off our food road?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!This must be a rumor!This must be because I drank too much last night and am still awake!

However, bad news followed one after another.

Zuo Liangyu was defeated from Xiangyang to Wuchang, Yuan Zongdi led tens of thousands of elite riders to kill him obliquely, Zuo Liangyu was killed by surprise.De'an, Chengtian, Zhongxiang, Jingzhou and other rich and rich lands have all fallen into the hands of the rogues.Right now, the leader of the bandits, the traitorous scum Tian Jianxiu, Li Yan, Li Mo, Wu Xing and others.They are sending thieves and fake officials to various cities to manage the cities and force the good people to follow the thieves.

The Han River has become an inland river for thieves!All kinds of food, equipment, soldiers and horses can come and go like flying with the help of water transportation!Calling is even more convenient!

Such news keeps coming, and people have to accept such a cruel reality. "We originally came out of Tongguan to beat others by surprise. But we rushed out of Tongguan excitedly, but fell into the trap dug by others!"

Right now, it has been found out that the soldiers and horses led by Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai and others are the ones who are holding sharp knives at the edge of the pit!

People in the camp became more and more panicked!

Zuo Liangyu, who has always been known to have many generals in his army, who is used to fighting, was beaten by a partial division of the bandits and fled.What we are facing is the elite soldiers led by the leaders of the bandits, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, how can we be opponents?!

In desperation, in order to restore morale, Sun Chuanting had to call the generals to discuss matters.

Whether to continue to stay in Henan to defeat the bandits, or to return to Shaanxi as soon as possible before the bandits formed a siege is the purpose of Sun Chuanting's convening of the generals to discuss.

However, Sun Chuanting was very disappointed, but got another result as expected.

"Minister, right now our army is alone among the thieves. The whole army only has seven or eight days of food and grass. If we don't return to Tongguan as soon as possible and open up the food road, I'm afraid the collapse of Liaodong will happen again in Henan!"

"That's right! Even if I save food and grass in the barracks, I can only eat it for eight days! This terrible weather, in the past, there has been a drought in Henan for years, and there may not be a rain in a few years. When we are here, the rain They also followed! The transportation of food and grass is difficult, so there is no food and grass in everyone's camp!"

The generals chattered about the problem of food shortage in their camps.I hope that Sun Chuanting can distribute food and grass to relieve it for the time being.If there is no food that can supply the army to defeat Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, then we should return to Shaanxi as soon as possible, so as not to be made dumplings in Henan.

General Tang Shen, who commanded the Beijing camp and acted as Sun Chuanting's supervisor of the Chinese army, kept aloof from such debates.You have to fight.I'm not afraid, anyway, I am the supervisor of the Chinese army, and I belong to the last team to play.If you want to leave, I will accompany you.And my team has more horses, so I'm not afraid to walk.Even if it is a war, you may not be able to fight better than me!

General Tang Shen quarreled with these general soldiers about the lack of food in the camp.The reason why he had to leave immediately was also clear in his heart.According to the regulations of the Ming army's battalion system, when going out to fight, field rations such as rice and coal frying must be enough for more than seven days.In his camp, he didn't like the dry rice that was boiled, put it in water, exposed to the sun several times, and then soaked in hot water to soften it before eating. As for those hard salt blocks, vinegar cloth and the like He sneered even more.What they kept in the camp were coal-fried, fried rice, a large amount of dried meat, meat pots, etc. that were fried with sesame oil.At least it can supply the whole army for five to ten days.

Originally, when Sun Chuanting was in Shaanxi, he also prepared seven days’ worth of fried coal as dry food for the army according to the number of people. The general soldiers naturally felt that those fried coals and rice dishes were useless cumbersome things. Disposing of them would not only bring in a lot of money, but also free up vehicles and horses to transport the things obtained by the bandits in the future. Got it!

As a result, several generals of Shaanxi soldiers and horses sold all the field rations such as fried coal they carried in their battalions.As for the buyer!Although it is said that they are squires from various places in western Henan to protect themselves, but how can there be any reason why squires in western Henan speak a dialect of northern Shaanxi?I don't care about this, as long as they give real money!

"Nowadays, because of the rain, the roads are muddy and difficult to walk. It is difficult to carry food and grass, but wild wolves only eat sick lambs. The bandit Li Guo's troops have cut off our food roads. In order to preserve the hard work of the lord, to save the emperor. For this last store of capital, please wait for the governor to order decisively, and the whole army will return to Shaanxi. After the cool autumn, our soldiers will be full, and it will not be too late to go out and fight the bandits!"

Seeing that everyone unanimously supported Niu Chenghu's proposition, Sun Chuanting had no choice but to agree.

"General Gao, your cavalry has always been capable, so I ordered you to be the vanguard. Open the way for the army. Be sure to kill the bandit Li Guo's troops!"

Gao Jie had a sad face on his face. As a newly promoted general, most of his generals were former relatives of He Renlong, the lunatic He Renlong, and they treated him politely and respectfully.But the mind is full of positive and negative.But to lead such a team to head-to-head with a tiger on the opposite side?This is obviously sending me, Gao Jie, to the tiger's mouth!

Sure enough, after walking not far in the direction of Lu's, there was a message from the forward scouts that they encountered the thief sentry cavalry!

In the past, He Guoying and others, who were known as brave and brave, were in front of thousands of cavalry rushing out of the mountain woods and behind the mountain road silently.It also became timid.

Shouting: "Withdraw!" The more than 1000 elite cavalry of the Shaanxi Ming Army turned their horses' heads and galloped back and forth on the road together.

The rebel cavalry didn't pounce, nor shouted loudly to charge, but just urged the horses under their crotches, and pounced slowly.If there was a small group of Ming army cavalry who fell behind, or if someone tried to stop the momentum of the rout and turn around to counterattack, they would send out several small groups to eat up these scattered troops.

The whole situation is like a pack of wolves slaughtering lambs, not in a hurry, but to create chaos and timidity before swallowing them mouthful.

Several small troops were wiped out one by one, which intensified the rout speed of the thousand cavalry.If it wasn't for Gao Jie to see the opportunity quickly, he formed a large formation in the rear as soon as possible, with thousands of soldiers and horses forming a formation, with more than a thousand cavalry patrolling on both sides to guard. Gathering the troops slowly, observing from a distance of several miles, He Guoying and others secretly called out "I am destined!" They turned the horse's head around Gao Jie's army formation, and barely caught up with the defeated soldiers.

However, it's not that simple.

Bad start.Return in defeat.Naturally, Sun Chuanting wanted to find someone to step down.However, this step down naturally cannot be undertaken by the chief soldier Gao Jie.First, he was the person Sun Chuanting sent to take over He Renlong's former troops, so he naturally wanted to protect him.both.He was calm in front of the battle, commanded and dispatched well, prevented the intruders from continuing to expand the results of the battle, and prevented the entire forward from being defeated by the intruders.

Pulling and pulling, only a few officers in the vanguard are the right size, wide, narrow, fat and thin.But.He could only pull out He Guoying, who was defeated first, and beat him with [-] army sticks as a warning to others. "If there is another time, I will definitely kill your head and set it as an example for the whole army!"

After defeating He Guoying, Sun Chuanting would naturally discuss the current military situation with Zheng Jiadong, Niu Chenghu, Gao Jie and others.

Now that the explorers from all walks of life have returned, the military situation is quite unfavorable to Sun Chuanting. "To the east are Cao Cao's 2 cavalry, and the number of infantry is unknown. To the north is Li Zicheng's 3 cavalry. The leader is Li Guo, a tiger. The thieves who broke into the camp are in the capital. Li Zicheng is behind him. The number of infantry artillery is unknown. In the south, it is said that the thief general Liu Zongmin also led Lao Huihui, Ge Liyan and other troops to go northward starry night, and more than 1 Qingqi have arrived in Luoyang."

"Governor, our 10,000+ people are confined in two or three counties in the western part of Henan. Let alone the soldiers and horses, we have been here for a long time, and it is hard to find firewood, oil and salt. Now it is raining for days, There is a lack of firewood, and the soldiers can't even eat a meal, so how can they fight when they are hungry?!"

"Exactly! Duchen, in the end, let's just fight eastward. The terrain in that area is open, and Cao Cao is a cunning ghost, and he will never fight us head-on! Moreover, to the east, there are many states and counties along the way." Food and army supplies are also very easy!"

"Xiangdong? Our soldiers are all from Shanxi Guanzhong! If you take them east, is it possible that you are going to lose your hometown in Shaanxi to Li Chuang? If this word gets out, the morale of the army will be completely ruined overnight. You can only go west! Make a way and enter Tongguan! Go back to Shaanxi!"

Gao Jie and other general soldiers expressed their opinions in front of the supervisor Sun Chuanting, arguing with each other, their faces were flushed, they were all leaders of the army, and it was on a battlefield where life and death were at stake, so naturally dirty bits and pieces came out of their mouths, what " All kinds of swear words, such as "you ancestor", "donkey ball", "your sister's day", etc., came out of their mouths again and again. , hit hard.

There was a loud "pop" that immediately quieted down the several generals present.

"Going east is not feasible." Sun Chuanting first vetoed the idea of ​​marching east.

"Although Cao Cao is a cunning man, the governor has dealt with him for many years. This man's use of troops is like a gambler at a poker table. Once he sees the opportunity, he will put all his capital on it without hesitation. You can Think about it, over the years, how many generals and ministers of the imperial court were defeated and killed by Cao Cao?"

"Not to mention that our army is all descendants of Sanqin, and our homesickness is serious. It means that the whole army can go to the east of Henan with one heart. The states, counties, villages and towns along the way, Li Chuang and Cao Cao have been operating for several years, and the people only know that there are Marshal Fengtian Advocating Justice, Marshal of Civil and Military Affairs and General Wei De, Daitian Fumin, when will we know that there is an emperor and Ming Dynasty? I'm afraid we won't go far to the east, and the people along the way will attack us."

"So, at the direction of the governor, the whole army is heading west, entering Tongguan, and returning to Shaanxi!"

"The governor is wise!"

Amidst a series of praises, Sun Chuanting also showed a long-lost smile.

"Which part of the bandit army guarding the road leading to Tongguan? Which bandit chief?"

A Zan Hua who was in charge of the military aircraft hurriedly reported to Sun Dushi: "Duchen, it is said that he is one of the adopted sons of the intruder, and his name is Luo Hu. He is just a yellow-mouthed child with a weak crown. Zhenshan Camp has less than 2 horses."

"A mere child with a yellow mouth. Commanding 2 horses, how can I stop my more than [-] troops from returning home?~!"

"That's right! The so-called poor bandits don't chase after their masters, and Li Chuang uses this person as his leader to block the way of our army. Isn't it ridiculous!"

There was joyful laughter in the tent, only General Tang Shen, who supervised the Chinese army, sneered, hum!A group of guys who know neither themselves nor enemies!If you want to die, go to die!Don't drag me on!

In consideration of keeping the trump card in their hands secret, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai did not vigorously spread the fighting power of the Longhu Battalion, but just secretly collected high-quality guns for them and supplied them with horses, mules and donkeys.to ensure their mobility.At the same time, a strict order was issued to prohibit the two senior generals who knew the news from spreading their mouths.

Therefore, Sun Chuanting is concerned about the two names Luo Hu and Wang Long.It's just a situation that feels familiar and unfamiliar.It's no wonder that even if the Four Heavenly Kings, Qiu Zhitao and others had told him that there was such a team in the rebel army, I'm afraid he might not believe it.After all, the people in Kaifeng Mansion and Zuo Liangyu's subordinate who had dealt with this team would not say that they were defeated by such two brats.

Based on Zuo Liangyu's character, he would only say that he was surrounded by elite rogues who were several times or dozens of times larger than himself in Zhuxian Town, and they were constantly attacking the good people with crowd tactics.After a huge killing with the Liu thief, he turned to Yunyun with tears in his eyes.

I would never say that my army of 10,000+ was beaten up by more than 2 people led by two brats.Then I was frightened by the flags of these two boys by others pretending to be tigers, and fled for hundreds of miles!

But.Tang Shenjiang is different.He walked around Shandong as Chief Qian, and then he was promoted to the rank of general because he personally beheaded more than ten heads of Liao thieves and his subordinates fought bravely.He knows better than anyone else the combat effectiveness of the old comrades who fought the Liao bandits together, broke through the stockade together, and implemented Mr. Li's New Deal together.

"More than 1 people from Luo Hu are blocked on the main road from Lu's family to Tongguan. The terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. You want to fight back to Tongguan from his hands? Chih! How are you compared to Abatai?" For this group of people General Tang Shen, the emotional Shaanxi general, scoffed in his heart.He was just there to carefully calculate what he should do.

"That's it! General Tang, how many fried coals and meat are there in the barracks of this governor? Take them all out! Distribute them to the soldiers of each battalion in each town! After a full meal in the next day, the army will return west to Tongguan!"

Looking at a group of generals and lieutenants around him staring at him with wolf-like greedy eyes, General Tang Shen dug up Sun Chuanting's ancestral grave seven times in his heart!

"You deaf son of a donkey! If you want to buy the hearts of the soldiers, just use yourself to buy it! Why do you want to use Lao Tzu's luggage!?"

In fact, most of the so-called Chinese military camps are filled by soldiers from the Beijing camp.Sun Chuanting still doesn't trust the fighting power and discipline of the tens of thousands of Shaanxi soldiers and horses newly trained and trained by Niu Chenghu, Zheng Jiadong, Gao Jie and others.Although the soldiers of the Beijing camp were more flashy, their combat effectiveness was real. Those hundreds of leaders of Liao thieves did not come for nothing.

Walking around Shandong, not only learned how to run with Luo Hu and others, but also learned how to cavalry march like a wall with Liao Dongzhi and others, how to bombard the enemy with platoons, and the Jingying also learned how to protect themselves during marching and fighting diet level.These sons and sisters are originally people who pay attention to life. Now that they have the conditions, how can they give up?

so.Whether it is fried coal or meat in the Chinese military camp, they are all collected by the soldiers of the Beijing camp. Basically all the meat comes from porcelain pots, wind chicken, salted duck, bacon, etc. in Nanzhong. .

In order to buy these meats.The rich and powerful men of the Beijing camp almost wiped out all the shops of Shanxi merchants in the city of Xi'an. Relying on the hard and white silver dollars in their pockets, those Shaanxi soldiers who had been beaten could only drooling and complaining.

Now, the world is turned upside down, and the meat is bought out of his own pocket.But you want to give it to these dicks with both hands?How can this make Tang Shenjiang swallow this bad breath?However, the bachelor does not suffer from the immediate disadvantages. There are only a few thousand troops in his battalion. How can he turn his face against the entire Shaanxi general group?What's more, this is Sun Chuanting's military order!

In a blink of an eye, the fried coal and meat that Jingying painstakingly collected and purchased were divided up by the towns and camps. Just to save some face, they left enough food for 3000 people in Beijingying.

"Okay! Anyway, if we take these dry rations and meat, we can only eat one meal for the whole army, but you can eat several meals!" Several supply officers in the Shaanxi military town were still making sarcastic remarks there. nature.I'm afraid that a single sesame seed won't be left behind by this group of playboys in Beijing who don't fit in with them!

"Your grandma is a grandson!" Several officers of the Beijing camp gritted their teeth with hatred as they looked at the towns soldiers who were triumphantly escorting their chariots and horses away. "My lord! These thieves are greedy for gold and silver, and secretly sold the rations! Now they come to grab our dry rations and meat!"

"That's right! My lord, we did it with them!"

The officers were eager to fight, and they wanted to mobilize soldiers and horses to fight with the towns. No, the soldiers who received the dry rations and meat were about to fight, but they were stopped by General Tang Shen.

"Get the hell out of here! You, you, you, and you. Come to my tent!" Looking at the horses and chariots going away in the rain, General Tang Shen smiled grimly, "I'm not sure what my things are. It’s not that easy to eat for free!”

"You want to vent your anger? Want to return to the capital early?"

"Yes! My lord, we don't want to do this shitty place for a long time!"

"My lord. In Shandong, we were poor and miserable, but the brothers were happy! It's not like today! All kinds of aggrieved!"

"Okay, listen to me." General Tang Shen pointed to a boss and asked in a low voice, "Is your brother near here?"

"My lord! This...!" Mr. Na Qian was taken aback, his brother was one of Wang Long's bannermen in Shandong.

"Don't be afraid! I have my brother over there too! If he is stationed near here, I still need to ask you?"

"My lord means. Shall I go for a walk?"

"That's right, if you want to vent your anger and return to the capital early, you have to do this!"

Taking advantage of the cover of the increasingly dense autumn rain, Mr. Qian put on an oilcloth poncho and led several cavalry out of the camp to look for his allies in Luo Rucai's army.

It is no coincidence.

In the camp of Chief Soldier Gao Jie, in the outermost camp that bears the brunt, the relatives of the He family children shouted and cursed loudly in the big tent in the camp.

On the bed, He Guoying grinned and asked the doctor to apply medicine to the sore on his buttocks, and kept yelling and cursing Fanshan Yaozi Gao Jie, a thief, for being so vicious.

"Brother Guoying, tell us all, when did our family suffer this kind of loss! After our second father was killed by them, we became motherless children! Charged into the battle to suffer hardships and suffer, and mother is also a scapegoat." Ours. But when the rations and the army are paid, they can’t think of us!”

This group of He family members excitedly went to the Gaojie Army to collect their share of dry meat rations, but the military commander sent away the dry rations of hundreds of people and dozens of people who were smashed to pieces. The meat china jar is back.

It was like throwing a gunpowder bag into an oil barrel, and the anger of Madzi He's old group was immediately ignited.

While the crowd was clamoring and cursing, the general banner outside the camp, who was on guard outside the camp, happily led a person into the camp.

"Brothers, do you still know the He family in Kelaoli?"

"You!" Someone recognized the person, "Didn't you follow the thief? How did you get here?"

"Why, don't mention the soldiers and thieves. Here are all Mizhi people, all of whom are surnamed He. When this rainy day comes to your door, why don't you give me saliva?"

The visitor looked at the He clan with a smile.

"Brother Seven," He Guoying struggled to jump up from the head of the bed, and grabbed He Laoqi's hand, "Please sit down, come and serve tea!"

"Tea will be skipped first, any brother, please go outside and say hello, and bring in the twenty brothers I brought in, as well as the wine, meat, and medicine from the livestock, all brought in!" (~ ^~)