Blood from Daming

Chapter 817 Friction Continues
Hong Chengchou stopped talking, and was escorted by Du Wenhuan and Ai Wannian to return to the formation. Gao Yigong and Wang Ping also returned to the formation. Wang Ping advocated a battle with Hong Chengchou's Yansui Town official army. , Chaganbari’s Mongolian army returned to the support of the king’s own rebel army, which was enough to fight Hong Chengchou. If the Mongolian army in Jirasi and Chaganbari missed today’s return to the north, the king’s own rebel army would go away, and Gao’s army would face Hong Chengchou alone. I’m afraid There is no such opportunity anymore.

Gao Yigong hesitated for a while and asked, "Old Ma, what do you mean?"

Ma Ming said: "Let's fight, it looks like we will fight sooner or later, today we will take the initiative to attack."

Gao Yigong said: "At first I wanted to wait for my brother-in-law's order, but now that the arrow is on the string and I have to fire, then I will fight. It's just that when we start the war, the Xue family troops in Datong and Hangzhou have to rise up to fight against the imperial court."

Wang Ping said: "Our Xue family army lost the business in the capital and burned Xuezhuang, which has been in business for many years. Brother agreed that it is possible to do things cheaply."

Gao Yigong was silent for a while, and ordered to sound the horn of attack. More than 1000 horses and horses slowly marched towards the Yansui Town official army. The left wing of Hong Chengchou was approaching, and now Hong Chengchou's Yansui Township officers and troops had a small disturbance.

Hong Chengchou's original intention was to press Gao's army to fight against the bandit king's own troops, or to take the opportunity to defeat the Gao family's army. How could he know that the strength of Gao's army far exceeded Hong Chengchou's imagination, and the bandit king's own use also came to join in the fun. You must know that last year the Fugu bandits and Gao's army fought for Zhangjiazhai There was only one battle, and now the two armies are actually close. Sure enough, there are no eternal enemies in the world, only eternal interests.

Now there are two tables of people at one table, and the generals of Yansui Town have different opinions on the elimination of the Gao family army. They think that Hong Chengchou is unreasonably worried about the Gao family army. Du Wenhuan, Chief Soldier of Sui, You Shilu, Chief Soldier of Yansui East Road, Deputy General Ai Wannian, General Chen Hongfan, and Du Si Wang Zhongning discussed countermeasures.

All the generals were unwilling to face the double attack of the Gao family army and the Fugu bandits. Hong Chengchou, who was very cowardly, had no choice but to follow the good example. The whole army retreated to the camp and stood firm. In the big camp, only Du Wenhuan, the general of the Yansui General Soldier at the back of the palace, was shot and killed by Wang Zhongning's department, who was shot and killed by Wang Ziyong's rebel army, and lost more than a hundred officers and soldiers.

After that, Gao Jiajun and Wang Ziyong's rebel army entered into a stalemate for nearly a month against the Yansui Township army led by Hong Chengchou. In the conflict, Yan Zibin, the magistrate of Mizhi County, even sat in the Chinese army with Gao Yigong to mediate.

On July 2000th, Hong Chengchou launched a night attack on the Gao family army, and was ambushed by the Gao family army who had been prepared for a long time. As the main forces, Du Wenhuan, the general soldier of Yansui East, and You Shilu, the second army of Yansui East Road, lost more than 1000 people. After more than [-] officers and soldiers were captured, Hong Chengchou dared not invade Gao's army after this battle.

It rained heavily on July 24, and it didn't clear up until the 29th. Gao Jiajun and Fugu Rebel Army discovered that the camp of the Ming army was empty. It is not known when the official army led by Hong Chengchou withdrew. With the retreat, the Fugu Rebel Army firmly occupied a large area of ​​Suide Prefecture, which was regarded as an unstable base area, but the Gao Army did not gain much. Instead, Shaanxi Governor Hu Tingyan and Yansui Governor Yue Hesheng kept asking the Gao Army to release Wang Zhongning After the officers and soldiers were captured, Gao Guiying finally agreed to hand over the Ming army prisoners to Shaanxi governor Hu Tingyan, so that Gao's army camp survived inexplicably, at least superficially ignored by Shaanxi officials.

In August of the third year of Chongzhen, Wang Ziyong used Wang Zhaoxi to stay in Suide Prefecture. He led an army eastward to Shanxi, and went to Daning, Yonghe, and Puxian. His strength has far surpassed that of Wang Jiayin, the king who led Hengtian.

Now Gao Yingxiang, who was active in Ansai and Hanzhong, took advantage of the emptiness in the interior of Shaanxi to rapidly expand his strength, with more than 3 troops, becoming the leader of the 36th Battalion of the Shaanxi Rebel Army; other stronger Baishui Wang Er and Hannan Wang Daliang were defeated, but the development of Qingjian Zhao Sheng and the rest of Baishui Zhongguang Dao was relatively smooth.

Qingjian Zhao Sheng, nicknamed Diandengzi, was originally a hard-working scholar who lived in the Shiyou Temple to study books day and night. He was described by the enemy as Huang Chao who made military books and conspired against him, and rumored that the government was about to arrest him.Zhao Sheng had no self-evident, worried about being falsely imprisoned, so at the beginning of the third year of Chongzhen, he gathered a crowd to revolt in Huaya Temple in Xiejiagou, and moved to various places in Shanxi and Shanxi. He planned to defeat Zhang Yingchang, the guard of Fenzhou in Shanxi. There are more than ten thousand soldiers.

The other way is the rebel army led by Zhong Guangdao and Mingjiao Yang Hufa. After leading Wang Er to sacrifice, he traveled to the southern Shaanxi area and joined forces with the elder Mingjiao Wang who was lurking in Shangluo Mountain. After obtaining a large amount of property, food and livestock, the rebel army also developed rapidly. The three forces of Zhongguangdao, Wang Elder, and Yang Hufa each had 4000, 2, and [-] troops, and the total number of dependents in their respective old camps exceeded [-].

When Gao’s army clashed with Hong Chengchou’s officers and soldiers in Yansui Town, the same scene happened in Daming Mansion. Lu Xiangsheng returned to Daming Mansion to form the "Tianxiong Army" after rectifying the military preparations of Daming, Guangping, and Shunde.

Lu Xiangsheng, styled Jiandou, nicknamed Jiutai, also known as Douzhan and Jiezhan, was born in Yixing County, Changzhou Prefecture, Nanzhili. The "Tianxiong Army" has been trained to be one of the strongest armies in Ming Dynasty, so it is composed of fellow villagers, friends, brothers, and family members. Often when one person dies in battle, it can arouse the anger of most people. The fighting spirit is extremely strong. Once you encounter an enemy Just bite and fight to the end, and you can't run without peeling off your skin. The overall combat ability is very strong.

Not long after Lu Xiangsheng returned to Daming Mansion, according to the summary of intelligence from all parties, he spotted a group of people lurking on the border between Daming Mansion and Zhangde Mansion. Carry out large-scale expansion, but stay quietly at the border between Daming Mansion and Zhangde Mansion.

After careful investigation by Lu Xiangsheng, the true colors of Lushan Mountain were still the same. It turned out to be the troops of Xue Wu, the general manager of Cangzhou, Beijing. Lu Xiangsheng said in his heart that it was Xue's army. However, although Lu Xiangsheng has sympathy for the Xue family's army and the emperor's grievance dispute, Lu Xiangsheng believes in the clear statement that the minister does not say the king's mistakes and the father's mistakes, and he does not take Xue's army to fight the current emperor with a tooth for a tooth.

In Lu Xiangsheng's eyes, the Xue family army is already a rebel army, but for some unknown reason, the Emperor Chongzhen did not issue an order to punish the Xue family army. In Lu Xiangsheng's mind, maybe the emperor was waiting for the attitude of Xue Yun, the leader of the Xue family army, but what the emperor did made the Xue family army go away. At this point, Lu Xiangsheng felt that there was no other way to contain this cancer of Ming Dynasty except to take advantage of Xue Yun's absence to take advantage of the opportunity to exterminate or recruit security.

On the third day of July in the third year of Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng led 2000 "Tianxiong Army" and [-] military and civilian troops from the three prefectures of Daming, Guangping, and Shunde. Xue's army besieged near Hanling Mountain in Anyang. Xue Wu avoided conflict with Lu Xiangsheng's team and withdrew all the troops into Hanling Mountain.

Hanling Mountain, when the Chu and Han dynasties were fighting for hegemony, the general Han Xin passed by Hanling Mountain, and saw a strange scene in the distance "a snake wrapped around a rabbit". At that time, there was a legend that "a snake wrapped around a rabbit makes generations rich".Han Xinxin thought that this is a good cemetery, if someone from my ancestors is buried here, but he has no parents to bury, when he was thinking, an old lady came from a distance.Han Xin dismounted immediately in a flash of inspiration.When he came to the old lady, he knelt down and said, "Mother, please accept the child's worship." The old lady obviously had an extra son without realizing it.After Han Xin worshiped, he could not help but hold a funeral immediately, and buried the mother here; from then on, this place was called "Han Ling", and the mountain was called "Han Ling Mountain". Han Xin's mother was buried alive on the mountain, so it was named Han Ling.

The reason why Xue Wu is still staying at Hanling Mountain in Zhangde Prefecture is that the Xue family army everywhere is waiting for Xue Yun's decision, and the second reason is to take care of the hidden forces of the Xue family army in Beizhili, and to protect the stronghold of Hongjiazhai , if the Xue family army abandons the Hong family village, the north of the Yellow River basically has nothing to do with the Xue family army. If the young master is killed, he will swear to the north from Zhangde mansion, which can have the effect of reaping extraordinary achievements.

On the fifth day of July, Xue Wu lined up the whole army at the Hanling Pass, and Lu Xiangsheng also led the army to confront him; In his eyes, Lu Xiang has more troops and more generals, three times the strength of Xue's army, and he has a lot of confidence in his heart.

However, Lu Xiangsheng ignored Xue's army's leading force, Hongjiazhai. The troops of Hongjiazhai were lurking on the south bank of the Zhanghe River last night. If he neglected this group of people, he would have no chance of winning at all.

Lu Xiangsheng hesitated again and again. Knowing that Xue Wu would not recruit, he decided to give it a try. He really didn't want to fight a bloody battle with Xue Wu's troops who were also in the Ming army. No matter how many people he killed, they were all the blood of Daming. He said that Lu Xiangsheng, the prefect of Daming Prefecture, the right to participate in politics and deputy envoy, Daming, Guangping, and Shunde, will meet with President Xue Wuqian.

After Xue Wu responded very freely, he went out of the formation alone. Although Lu Xiangsheng devoted himself to the classics and history, and entered the official career as a Jinshi, he was extremely talented and powerful. He is also good at riding and shooting. He is the No. 130 of both civil and military skills in the Ming Dynasty. He also learned from Guan Yunchang and went to the meeting alone.

Lu Xiangsheng said: "The coming general is General Xue Wu of Cangzhou."

(End of this chapter)