Blood from Daming

Chapter 606 Wuping Pass

After Xue Yun figured out the origin of Chaganbari, he was very sympathetic to what happened to Chaganbari, but he and the Horqin tribe kept cutting things off, so how could he recruit Chaganbari, the enemy of the Horqin tribe, as his subordinates? Xue Yun regretted that Chaganba Ri, a fierce general, could not be used by him.

Xue Yun thought for a while and said to Zhao Riman: "I would like to trouble General Zhao to pay tribute to General Chaganbari. This general is willing to help him find the survivors of the Horqin tribe. If possible, this general can assist him in rebuilding the land of Jianlu." Shaping the glory of the tribe."

Zhao Riman said: "If General Xue gives Cha Ganba a day, he will definitely bring it with him."

Xue Yun said: "Well then, General Zuo will take a good rest in Zhizhou Mansion."

Zhao Riman shook his hand and said, "No, General Xue, please allow the last general to live with his soldiers."

Xue Yun nodded and said, "Okay, let's do what you want. Feel free to ask for anything."

Zhao Riman shook his head, and then Zhao Riman was carried away by his own men. More than 100 people, under the escort of Xue's soldiers, went to the barracks where Zhao Riman's remnants were located. Respecting and wooing, he ordered Wang Erwa to get a batch of wine, meat, gold, silver, cloth and silk for the military camp where Zhao Riman was.

On the day of May 27th, which was the fourth day after Jiangzhou City beheaded the captives, Xue Jiajun Li Xiaoyong arrived at Wuping Pass in the west of Jiangzhou City. Li Xiaoyong received a letter from the young master on the 23rd. Returning to Datong from Suidezhou, Shaanxi, after receiving Xue Yun's letter, he immediately went south along Yanchang and entered the territory of Pingyang Prefecture, Shanxi.

After three days of rapid march, Li Xiaoyong of the Xue Family Army came to Jiangzhou from the north of Wuping Pass, and bumped into more than 1000 officers and soldiers who had thrown themselves into Wuping Pass from Pingyang Mansion. People, all wearing the uniforms of the Xue family army, a total of 500 people, suppressed the Shanxi Ming army.

Li Xiaoyong wondered, Jiangzhou Wuping Pass has been abandoned for many years, now there are only some old guards in the pass, the young soldiers either went to Jiubian important town, or were recruited by the Shaanxi Metropolitan Command Division, the Shanxi Metropolitan Command Division What is the purpose of sending more than 1000 Ming troops to Wuping Pass.

The Ming army, who was blocked, carefully monitored Xue's army. Li Xiaoyong looked at Jiangzhou City, which was more than 20 miles away, and felt that letting these more than 1000 Ming soldiers live in Wuping Pass was a very big threat to Jiangzhou City. If you don't do anything and keep talking, you can't overturn the gourd and you can't sprinkle oil. Let our Xue Jiajun occupy Wuping Pass first.

So Li Xiaoyong sent 500 old and new soldiers each to Wuping Pass to receive defense. Wuping Pass was led by a hereditary thousand households named Wen Cunyang. When the army arrived, they didn't even dare to close the door, and let Xue's army take over the defense of Wuping Pass.

Li Xiaoyong didn't talk nonsense with the Shanxi Ming army, so he buried pots and cooked food on the road, and blocked the north of Wuping Pass early in the morning, and now the Shanxi Ming army was in a hurry, knowing that he had met Xue Jiajun People and horses, so they planned to go around to Wuping Pass from the east, but the Xue family army who blocked the road sent thousands of cavalry to intercept, and a large amount of dust was also raised in the direction of Jiangzhou City. Obviously, a large group of cavalry came towards Wuping Pass.

The Ming army who came from Pingyang Mansion in Shanxi saw that they were facing a pincer attack from east to west. They only hesitated for a while, and then retreated towards the north. Only then did I see the young master and Wang Erwa leading the army.

Li Xiaoyong rode a horse and rushed forward. Xue Yun saw Li Xiaoyong and said: "Xiaoyong, I thought you would reply to your letter in the next two days, but I didn't expect the messenger you sent yesterday to say that you must go to Jiangzhou today. It’s the speed of soldiers.”

Li Xiaoyong smiled and said: "Master, when we finally arrived in Suide Prefecture, we received a secret letter from the diving guard, so we turned around and went south to Jiangzhou, otherwise we would have returned to Datong from Taiyuan Mansion."

Xue Yun asked, "How is the drought in Shaanxi this year?"

Li Xiaoyong said: "Master, the drought is very serious throughout Shaanxi, especially from the north of Xi'an Prefecture, there is also a large-scale locust plague. It’s all gone, I heard that people in some places are fighting to eat dead human flesh.”

Xue Yun looked at the troops led by Li Xiaoyong, and they were all strong and strong Shaanxi Lengwa. This made Xue Yun very puzzled and asked, "Xiaoyong, why didn't the soldiers you recruited have their families with them?"

Li Xiaoyong said: "Where does the final general dare to recruit troops in Shaanxi? As long as there is a recruiting flag, there will be a sea of ​​young and strong people who will immediately join the army. , the vast majority of the soldiers here were privately recruited by Ma Ming and Gao Yigong, and they all have relatively small families, and the families of these recruits stayed in the Gaojia Military Village in Lushan, Mizhihu."

Xue Yun asked: "Xiaoyong, the chaos in Shaanxi is just around the corner. You leave the families of these recruits in Gaojiajunzhai. Is the defense of Gaojiajunzhai stable? How to solve the food problem?"

Li Xiaoyong said: "Gaojiajunzhai originally had nearly 8000 soldiers and civilians, and now with the addition of more than 3000 families of recruits, the Gaojiajunzhai has more than 1 people. There is no problem in defending the cottage, but the food shortage is very large. The eldest sister estimated roughly Let’s see, the grain in the entire village is only enough for three months, and if the autumn grain cannot be harvested this year, the Gao’s military village will also face starvation, so the elder sister proposed to buy grain from the Datong Mansion.”

Xue Yun was silent for a while. Now that the whole of Shaanxi is suffering from famine, it is not easy for the Gao family army to raise food in Shaanxi. Not to mention whether there is food in Datong Prefecture, but the food is transported to Mizhi through thousands of mountains and rivers. The food consumed on the way out, and the remaining food is just a drop in the bucket. This has not considered the risk of being robbed by refugees and bandits along the way.

Xue Yun didn't mention anything about Shaanxi anymore, but asked about Li Xiaoyong's conflict with the Ming army in Pingyang Prefecture: "Xiaoyong, why did you block the officers and soldiers of Pingyang Prefecture and prevent them from going to Wuping Pass?"

Li Xiaoyong said: "Master, this Ming army is clearly coming for our Xue family army, why should we give them good looks, not to mention that Wuping Pass is less than [-] miles away from Jiangzhou City, how can such an important military location fall in Shanxi?" In the hands of the Ming army."

Xue Yun said: "Xiaoyong, we have not broken faces with the imperial court. Although our Xue family army secretly stationed troops in Jiangzhou City, we did not do anything to the three counties of Jishan, Yuanqu, and Jiangxian under the jurisdiction of Jiangzhou. Intervene, if you mess with our Xue family army like this, I'm afraid you'll be on the back of a tiger."

Li Xiaoyong suddenly lost his confidence and said with a guilty conscience: "Young Master, what should we do then?"

Xue Yun said: "Forget it, if you occupy Wuping Pass, let them occupy it. Shanxi can do whatever they want. Anyway, this seat is not itchy and debts. It is not a matter of Jiangzhou City, but this Wu Pingguan you, Li Xiaoyong, can be taken care of by this young master, if you lose it, you will look good."

Only now did Li Xiaoyong feel relieved and said, "Don't worry, young master, the final general will definitely guard Wuping tightly, and he and Jiangzhou City will fight against the Ming army in Shanxi as each other's horns."

Xue Yun shouted: "You guys are all troublemakers. Don't keep thinking about fighting with the imperial army. We can't go over the wall as brothers. It's cheaper for foreigners like Jianlu to use the tactic of delaying the court. Only when you can’t drag it on any longer will you consider using force, and don’t become a scapegoat for other forces on the spur of the moment.”

Li Xiaoyong quickly nodded in agreement, Xue Yun ordered to go to Wuping Pass to have a look, Li Xiaoyong said: "Master, Gao Yigong is also in the army."

Xue Yun was taken aback when he heard this and said, "Why don't you invite him over to meet you?"

Li Xiaoyong smiled, turned around and waved his hands behind him. A young man riding a brown BMW galloped over. Xue Yunxin said that this was Gao Guiying's younger brother Gao Yigong. He looked handsome and tough, with a shrewd expression on his face. Xue Yun's aggressive appearance made Xue Yun feel good about it.

Gao Yigong came to Xue Yun and said: "The last general, the vice president of Shaanxi Yan'an Prefecture Gao Yigong has met the general.

Xue Yun said: "General Gao has worked hard all the way. When we arrive in Jiangzhou, we should take a good rest. I am going to visit Wuping Pass. Let's talk while walking."

Gao Yigong quickly nodded in agreement, so Xue Yun and Gao Yigong galloped on horseback, Li Xiaoyong took the opportunity to leave the horse two horses behind, and stopped Wang Erwa's horse's head, so that Xue Yun and Gao Yigong could have a good talk , and Gao Yigong, who rode alongside Xue Yun on horseback, kept looking at Xue Yun's whole body, making Xue Yun's hair stand on end.

When Xue Yun was on Changtu Island, he knew more or less about the misunderstanding of Gao Guiying by the Datong Army. Xue Yun has almost forgotten about this incident. After meeting Gao Yigong today, let's take a look at Gao Yigong's performance Xue Yun suddenly felt troubled, and wondered if the time and space of Daming was really messed up. In the future, Li Zicheng's wife will soon become his own woman. Who is he? To take her or not to take her.

(End of this chapter)