stubborn thief

Chapter 191 Mysterious Colors
On June 28, Gao Yingxiang sent a letter asking Liu Chengzong to help him find a boat on the Yellow River.

He snatched another one, because there were too many grain trucks in his hand, and the army was blocked by the Hancheng, so the large group of trucks and horses couldn't get through.

Liu Chengzong made a choice, originally wanted Gao Yingxiang to come over from Yanshui Pass, and by the way asked Fu Renxi why he couldn't come here for a while.

After sending two guards to Yanchuan, they found out that the pontoon bridge was gone and was destroyed by Gao Yingxiang.

It happened that the wounded soldiers could walk, so Liu Chengzong ordered his men and horses, and led the troops out of Shiziwan to the southeast.

Yang Dingrui ran out when he heard that he was going to lead soldiers to Hukou to see the waterfall.

Passing through Yunyan Town, let the Gansu soldiers take a look at the battlefield where they defeated the Fuzhou soldiers, as well as the ruins of the ancient city in the east of the town, and the cliff carvings carved with emerald clouds and rocks.

Even though a group of wounded soldiers crossed the border, the people in the east of Yichuan County were still terrified. Liu Chengzong hurriedly asked the Han brothers to go to comfort the people along the way.

Otherwise, according to this posture, all the people will run away when they run to the Yellow River, and borrowing and renting a boat can only become a boat grab.

When the soldiers arrived at Hukou, Liu Chengzong looked at the majestic mountains and the mighty rivers, and he had only one feeling in his heart.

angry.

I was angry why I was not on the other side of the Yellow River, and I was also angry that the drought caused the Yellow River to not have so much water.

The place of Hukou looks spectacular from the other side of Shanxi, but it almost makes no sense when viewed from Shaanxi.

But this scene is quite interesting to the Ningxia recruits among the wounded soldiers: Hey, amazing!The Yellow River still has this thing!
After watching for a while, Liu Chengzong asked the Han brothers to race along the river from the south of the waterfall to collect civilian boats.

He asked Yang Dingrui, "Sir, why doesn't this place build a bridge?"

"There used to be a bridge here. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Mongolian soldiers captured Shanxi. In order to send troops to cross to the west, they recruited peasants to build a chain bridge. The bridge was destroyed in the early years of the Kingdom of China. Later, it was used as a ferry, so it was not built again."

Now bandits are everywhere, and boats are hard to find. There are only six boats in Shaanxi, but there is a Hukou Ferry in Shanxi, but there are more boats.

Eight miles south of Hukou, there is Xuanwan. The river is wide and the water flows slowly. It is called Chuanwo, and it is a ferry operated by Shanxi merchants.

But Yang Dingrui: "The mulberry trees on the other side become forests in spring and autumn, so it was called Caisangjin in ancient times, and Chuanwo is what the common people call it recently."

After searching a few miles south, Gao Yingxiang still couldn't find a suitable boat, so Gao Yingxiang was so anxious that he directly took a boat to cross over.

I haven't seen Master Gao for a long time, he looked excited and anxious, and said: "How long will my people have to cross with just these thirty-odd boats!"

Liu Chengzong asked with a smile: "Master Gao, how many people do you have? Thirty boats are not enough?"

"not enough!"

Gao Yingxiang waved his hand, his face was full of pride: "Now we have 1 soldiers, [-] donkeys and mules, and more than [-] two-wheeled carts alone. Think about it, how long will it take to get there?" ?”

As he said that, Gao Yingxiang showed complacency, and whispered to Liu Chengzong: "There is more food, these trucks can't finish it in three trips."

Liu Chengzong did the math, Gao Yingxiang got at least [-] to [-] stone grains, so he dared to say that so many trucks could not be transported in three trips.

Gao Yingxiang saw that he bowed his head to count, his face could not help being proud, but more of it was boring, and said: "It is also thanks to your proposal to scribble and collect food in Qingjian, Zuo Guangzi and Hun Tianwang did not enter Shanxi, you Came back to beat Ai Mu again, half of Shanxi's landlord Hao family..."

Liu Chengzong was amused by the way he said this.

The Gao Yingxiang he knew was unsmiling and taciturn. He had never seen so much talking and complacency.

rare.

Gao Yingxiang came across from the Yellow River, looked at the group of wounded soldiers around him, even Liu Chengzong himself was wounded, and said in his heart: Lion Camp is facing He Huchen with heavy casualties.

Wanting to comfort him, he asked, "How many soldiers are there in the Lion Camp? Don't worry, you don't have to worry about food supplies, there are plenty."

"Ugh."

Gao Yingxiang sighed, patted Liu Chengzong on the shoulder and said, "Next time, next time the government and army will attack again, I will go to fight, and you will go to collect food."

Although food is a good thing, goods are also good things.

But this time Gao Yingxiang was really disgusted, he didn't want to collect food anymore in his life.

Liu Chengzong sighed: "Many good men died in the Lion Camp, and when the sentries return, there will be less than [-] soldiers."

"Ok?"

Gao Yingxiang looked sideways at him, blinked and asked: "I remember, you led the army back to Shaanxi to attack Ai Mu. You brought more than [-] people and recruited new soldiers? You recruited quite a few."

As he spoke, he shook his head. In the current environment in northern Shaanxi, it is already difficult to recruit another 3000 to [-] people.

If it is said that other leaders recruit thousands of people, it is still possible that they are not taboo about meat and vegetables.

But according to his understanding of Liu Shizi, Liu Chengzong, who has always pursued the policy of elite soldiers, would not be able to recruit thousands of soldiers in northern Shaanxi as long as the conditions for recruiting troops were not changed.

Even under normal circumstances, out of [-] hungry people, there are [-] who meet the recruitment standards of the Lion Camp.

But now south of Suide and north of Jinsuoguan, where are there still tens of thousands of refugees in the sphere of influence of Lion Camp?

Those who could escape escaped long ago, those who couldn't escape deserved to die, and those who didn't deserve to die died, and the rest were under the command of the leaders.

Not the first two years of the drought.

Gao Yingxiang was full of doubts, why did he defeat a strong enemy twice, and the soldiers of the Lion Camp continued to fight more and more?
The answer to his doubts was Liu Shizi's understatement: "He Huchen's Ningxia soldiers, less than two thousand, have surrendered."

Following these words, Gao Yingxiang temporarily exited the chat room.

He just said it lightly, but in fact he fought a lot in Shanxi.

When he entered the Jin Dynasty, he had tens of thousands of troops, but they were scattered by a hailstorm. Later, he gathered troops one after another, recruited along the way, and there were many mutinies.

Before he grabbed the food, the officers and soldiers didn't want to talk to him very much, and only fought a few battles.

But after he robbed a lot of food, officers and soldiers appeared from various places endlessly, and instead of fighting him, they just robbed supplies.

Even some troops did not line up with him, and the horse soldiers rushed forward to grab the luggage, and carried more than 100 catties of grain and threw it on the horse's back before leading the horse and running.

As a result, Gao Yingxiang fought several foolish battles.

He can't go, so much food and goods, where can throw it away.

What's more, even if he throws it into the Yellow River, he can't throw it to the officers and soldiers, so he knows it's stupid to stand still and fight, but he can only do that.

As for Liu Chengzong, he just defeated the chief officer of the Ningxia frontier army lightly, and even surrendered 2000 people. How many people came to beat you in total?
After a while, Gao Yingxiang adjusted his mood, nodded and asked: "Lion, I have a question for you, tell the truth to the master."

Liu Chengzong asked: "What?"

Turning his head, Gao Yingxiang frowned very seriously: "When you were born, was there any vision from heaven?"

He confused Liu Chengzong's question.

In fact, Gao Yingxiang was not as serious as he appeared to be, but it was really difficult to adjust his emotions just now. After taking too long, he was afraid of appearing embarrassed, so he asked this question as a joke.

Unexpectedly, Liu Chengzong nodded naturally: "Yes, I am one month older than the emperor. He was born on the fourth day of the twelfth lunar month in the 38th year of Wanli. I was born on the first day of November."

"What kind of vision is this... Wait a minute, the 38th year of Wanli."

Gao Yingxiang thought for a while, then suddenly widened his eyes and said, "You're talking about Tiangou's day?"

"Master Gao, do you know?" Liu Chengzong laughed, and said, "Yes, my mother said that before she gave birth to me, it was dark for an entire hour, and Mrs. Wen was so scared that she couldn't find her way. It wasn't until I cried that it was dawn."

Gao Yingxiang looked at Liu Chengzong and nodded one after another. He was very impressed by that solar eclipse.

It was already winter at that time, and Gao Yingxiang had just entered the horse smuggling business, walking south through the desert.

The officer on the side wall had already been bribed, and he was only [-] miles away from safely entering the fortress, but he was unlucky, and he caught up with a team of Yebu who was outside the exit and did not take back the side wall.

Getting caught in this kind of thing is death, and when all thoughts are lost, it's dark.

The reason why Gao Yingxiang was impressed was not only because the solar eclipse saved him.

It was also because Gao Yingxiang was kowtowing to God around the time Liu Chengzong was born.

Gao Yingxiang summed up four known conditions.

First of all, regarding the hailstorm in Yonghe County, he felt that Liu Shizi was most likely the son of God.

Secondly, on the day God gave birth to his son, he was kowtowing to God.

Again, God made him the master of his son.

In the end, Liu Chengzong ate his head off.

After he cast a layer of mystery on the master-student relationship between himself and Liu Shizi, Gao Yingxiang felt that he was also a person under the protection of God.

It might be a little hard to think about death in this life.

After thinking about it, Master Gao was in a good mood: "I'll just tell you, in the future, you should tell people about this kind of thing earlier."

"What's the best way to tell people about this?"

Facing Liu Chengzong's rhetorical question, Gao Yingxiang waved his hands, inscrutable: "You don't understand."

What is the surrender of Ningxia soldiers?
People who were born with visions from the sky, right? They didn’t drop meteorites to kill you all. That’s why God has the virtue of being good at life.

Gao Yingxiang cheered up and saw more than 30 small boats transporting soldiers and supplies back and forth on both sides of the Yellow River, and clapped his hands relaxedly: "When will you go to Shanxi next time? I have made arrangements. The wealthy places in the south of Taiyuan have arranged for their own people."

"Next time we go to Shanxi, we will have an internal response."

Now his [-] troops are mainly the hungry people in Shanxi, and there are less than [-] Shaanxi people in them.

The mountain people in the western part of Shanxi almost repeated the situation of people starving to death in northern Shaanxi in the past two years, which was horrible.

Almost everything is the same.

Poor places are afraid of death, so hundreds of thousands of thieves follow; rich places are afraid of thieves, so they do everything possible to suppress thieves.

Shanxi has experienced a lot of hardships in northern Shaanxi, and it is even more sad than Shaanxi. After all, there were not so many mature old thieves running around in Shaanxi when there was a drought.

Gao Yingxiang thought to himself, that is, Liu Chengzong divided the territory in Qingjian, otherwise he would not know what kind of chaos Shanxi will be this time.

But he didn't expect that Liu Chengzong said: "I don't plan to go to Shanxi anymore, I plan to go to Guyuan."

"Guyuan? I'm familiar with that place, what are you doing there, hunting food?"

Gao Yingxiang ran back and forth in the military town of Shaanxi when he was young, and he was very familiar with all the places. He said: "Although there are Wangzhuang and pastures everywhere, it is a military town after all. It is not as rich as Shanxi, and you have no shortage of horses." .”

"What's more, the Trilateral General Mansion is there. In the past, the imperial court was not allowed to send soldiers to suppress you?"

"Suppress."

Liu Chengzong said: "Master Gao stayed in Shanxi for a long time, and he may not know what happened during this time. Wang Zuohang was recruited by the army, and Wang Jiayin captured Fugu. Earlier, Du Wenhuan came to suppress me. Because of Wang Jiayin's affairs, Transfer back north."

"That's why you beat him with a cannon at Yanshui Pass for a while."

Even though Gao Yingxiang hadn't received any definite news about Wang Zuohang's surrender, he still had expectations in his heart, but he really didn't know about Wang Jiayin.

As soon as he heard that Wang Jiayin was surrounded, Gao Yingxiang immediately wanted to lead his troops to break out of the siege.

But after thinking about it: "No, Du Wenhuan was stationed at Yanshui Pass at that time. If he went north, he would have to garrison Yanchuan. Why would he go to Yanshui Pass?"

"He did it on purpose. If you fight him, it just falls into your arms. He probably doesn't want to go to Fugu to beat Wang Jiayin."

Gao Yingxiang said: "Then what are you waiting for? It's not too late. You and I will join forces and go to Fugu to help him."

Liu Chengzong waved his hand and said, "No way, Master Gao, it's not a big deal for Wang Jiayin to be besieged for a short period of time, but my friend who aided Liao in Jizhen sent a message, saying that the imperial court seems to be preparing for the entry of the Guan Ning Army to suppress the rebellion."

"Guan Ning Army..."

The shadow of the famous tree of the people, the officers and coaches composed of elites from all over the country, and the troops stationed at the front line with the highest military pay, everyone is shocked when they hear it.

Gao Yingxiang was no exception. He asked, "Then what do you mean by going to Guyuan, regardless of Wang Jiayin?"

"Come on, beat up Gu Yuan, isn't this just helping Wang Jiayin?"

Gao Yingxiang understood, besieged Wei and rescued Zhao.

The court's troops are limited, and there is no way to deal with everyone at the same time. As long as Liu Shizi hits Guyuan, the generals on all sides will first rescue the governor of the three sides, Yang He.

Wang Jiayin didn't say that the pressure was emptied, at least it was the right medicine.

"Then what about the robbing of Guyuan? That place looks quite big from the map, but it's actually a valley along the Qingshui River. The frontier soldiers only mutinied last year. Guyuan won't have a chance to make up for it for a while."

"Xiao Guan, you remember, you must carry Xiao Guan in your hand when you go to Guyuan."

It was self-evident to Liu Chengzong that Xiao Guan was on the river valley road in Liupan Mountain.

If you go to Guyuan, if you don't take Xiao Guan in your hand, isn't it for nothing?
He asked, "Is the gun easy to use?"

"It's easy to use, although it's not very useful against enemies that don't form a formation, and it's always inaccurate."

This was Gao Yingxiang's own disadvantage that Gao Yingxiang discovered later in the battle. He finally knew why Qi Jiguang had to promote the bursting of Flang machine guns instead of salvos in the north.

Concentrated use of artillery can indeed achieve great results in battle, but when dealing with skirmishers, only a single shot can be fatal.

"As long as it is easy to use, we don't have a chance to build a cannon for a long time. We must have an ordnance department, otherwise the cannon will not be repaired if it breaks."

"So, I plan to lead troops into the Lintao and Gongchang areas, occupy them, and raise troops in the fields."

Hearing what he said, Gao Yingxiang shook his head and said, "Before going to Gongchang in Lintao, we should attack Guyuan first. I'm afraid it's not a sign of recuperation."

"I definitely want to recuperate, too."

Liu Chengzong said: "However, Lintao is as big as the General Soldier Yamen. No matter what, you have to beat him to survive. But defeating another General Soldier, I don't think it is much less than directly robbing the north and south of Guyuan to make a mess."

"So it doesn't matter how you fight. It's better to make a big fight before Guan Ning's army comes. I guess when I go to Guyuan, the Guan Ning army will come."

Gao Yingxiang also felt the same reason, so he asked: "Then when do you plan to leave?"

"Next month, when the injury is healed, we will set off!"

　Not only writing until midnight, but good morning...good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)