stubborn thief

Chapter 345
The ninth day of March.

The Spring River Plumbing Duck Prophet, no one knows what the battle will be like, but the nineteen coffin shops in Lanzhou City are open every day, and the business is booming.

People who have old people in their homes have already ordered coffins. There is no such shop after passing this village. It will be difficult to buy coffins when the officers and soldiers meet Xi Kou in a big battle.

As the saying goes, there are many people with mixed mouths, Lanzhou City has the most people, and Lanzhou City has the most mixed mouths.

The imperial governor of Shaanxi and the border commanders of the five towns discussed the battle for several days, and the entire Acropolis was rumored to have a reply letter from the commander of Gansu, Yang Jiamo.

Marshal Yang said in his letter that even if Wang Xingshan's army was infected with smallpox, the five towns in Guanzhong and Gansu town could only be fought by them.

Yang Jiamo also wanted to fight in Lanzhou, but the tiger rabbits from the Han tribe were watching outside the side wall, and tens of thousands of Mongolians were so hungry that their eyes glowed green.

The Ganzhou frontier army just fought with them in the north. They threw out more than 30 lives and recovered more than 400 heads. Even the poorest banner army complained after fighting this battle. The army's ragged jacket is still torn.

Yang Jiamo was born as a hereditary Liangzhou guard. He served in the four towns. He spent half his life competing with the Mongolian soldiers. He had never seen the Northern Tartars destroy the side wall and form an infantry to rob the fort.

And he only cared about the livestock and the rice and noodles, and didn't even take away the corpses of his troops... This is so hungry that he even ate the war horses. This kind of vigor made Yang Jiamo dare not mobilize his troops anymore.

The reason why the battle defense was discussed for a few days was because although the national affairs training set a general policy of expediting the march of troops and directly attacking Hehuang, the commanders of the various towns could not reach a consensus on the specific combat ideas.

The roots lie in He Huchen.

The border commanders of the five towns, Lintao commander Wang Chengen, Guyuan commander Yang Qi, Gansu deputy commander Wang Xingshan, Ningxia commander He Huchen, Yulin deputy commander You Shilu, among them only He Huchen had fought head-on with Liu Shizi.

People value his advice, but he is viewed as unreliable.

Because his suggestion is to let these tens of thousands of horses squat in Lanzhou. Liu Chengzong will not cross the river, and they will not cross the river. They squat until the end of summer and rush into Hehuang to destroy as much as possible.

Lintao general Wang Chengen, whose old mother was deeply trapped in the enemy's territory, became anxious when he heard this: "Could it be that He Shuai scared Liu Thief and stayed there until the end of summer, or I will write to the imperial court together to repair the side wall in Lanzhou?" gone."

Hitting people didn't slap people in the face, He Huchen's face was so dark at that time, his face was black, he couldn't turn red, it just turned black and purple like a pig's liver. Bing, I don't know if he can fight?"

Wang Chengen was already ready to quarrel with He Huchen, but when he heard this, he opened his mouth and refused to say anything.

On the contrary, Yang Qi, the commander of Guyuan, who was holding a celadon pipe, was blushing. He is a native of Lanzhou. Tobacco has been planted here many years ago. He also has the habit of smoking pipes. , When King Qin came back, this son of a bitch abducted all the soldiers from me."

After finishing speaking, Yang Qi slapped the pipe on the table, clasped his fists to everyone and said, "You can decide how to fight, the soldiers from Guyuan Town will not go anywhere until the soldiers and horses dispatched by the imperial court arrive in Lanzhou."

Yang Qi especially wanted to ride alone to Hehuang and live and die with Liu Chengzong one-on-one. He hated Liu Shizi to the bone.

The surname Yang in the world has never provoked Liu Chengzong. Originally, the Guyuan Army mutinied once, and many elite soldiers ran away; Guyuan replenished his troops, but he didn't expect that there was a bare Guyuan waiting for him.

The food is gone, the soldiers are gone, and the horses are gone.

There are no soldiers at hand, and the imperial court enlists him to suppress bandits and chaos, what can he do?Recruited a bunch of hungry thieves from Liupan Mountain, equipped them sloppily, and went to suppress the thieves.

The problem is that his soldiers are thieves from the hungry. What about the thieves?

A thief is a frontier soldier.

In the first battle of the new Guyuan Army, the [-] officers were stared at by six thieves for a quarter of an hour, and eight of them were shot dead. Yang Qi led [-] men to support them, and launched an attack against them with [-] people. After chasing, the six thieves turned back and rode to charge, forcing him to be defeated.

It was all thanks to Yang Qi slapping horses and wielding knives, shooting and hacking two people to death, that he won this difficult battle.

Commander-in-Chief, the old man is talking about being a teenager, charging ahead and retreating, suddenly it seems to have returned to 20 years ago.

He was too embarrassed to tell others what kind of life he had this year, where the hell was suppressing thieves and calming chaos, the whole adventure of Yang Qi.

The last few people looked at You Shilu who bowed his head and said nothing.

You Shilu has been guarding northern Xinjiang for more than [-] years, and has fought hundreds of bloody battles with the Mongols, with wounds all over his body. In recent years, the frequency of battles has been extremely high, and the peasant army is especially good at mobile warfare.

Last year, he was wounded by an arrow in the war against bandits in Shanxi. He had just recovered from his injury. The eldest son You Renlong, who took the lead in the battle, died of a sore on his foot due to an arrow wound in his foot, which dealt him a severe mental blow.

This fierce general who once whipped to death a naive and scolded boy with an iron whip outside the side wall, is now skinny and scorched when he is sick, and he has been concentrating on love and sex, and has long lost the heroic spirit of the past.

Even when entering the hall to discuss matters, You Shilu didn't wear armor, but took his nephew You Yangkun to sit sickly at the end of the hall. Seeing everyone's attention, he said: "Liu Chengzong is a soldier of Yansui. Sui's soldiers are all good soldiers."

Wang Chengen couldn't bear it anymore.

"Master Governor!"

With a gloomy face, he sighed heavily with his mouth and nose, and clasped his fists to Lian's state affairs: "I am humble, please transfer Di Dao Chieftain Zhao Shifan, Hezhou Chieftain He Yongji, Minzhou Chieftain Ma Guoji, Taozhou Chieftain Hou Chengqing, and lead Hezhou to command Han Wanbu, Minzhou commander Zhao Yingchen, Minzhou local official Hou Xikui, Shengfan Hongji, Taozhou chieftain Yang Chaodong, Taozhou Zanpan Zan Chengfu, etc.

Lian Guoshi frowned and said: "The commanders of the five towns have gathered their troops here, and there are also my two standard battalions. Are the troops not enough?"

"The general is the courage of the soldiers, please take a closer look at the commanders in town."

Wang Chengen stood up, looked around at all the generals, named them one by one, and said: "He Huchen in the tortoise city, Yang Dashuai, the leader of the peasants and soldiers, You Shilu who is old and sick, and Wang Xingshan, the smallpox poisonous man in the Hebei garrison, what, what, win!"

For a while He Huchen stood up, Yang Qi also pointed at Wang Chengen and cursed, You Shilu looked down at his waist, got up and asked his nephew to go to the door to get the sword, and there was a great chaos in the hall.

You Shilu was pissed off, and Wang Chengen said it as if he was willing to come. If the leaders of the Forbidden City hadn't approved the resignation letter, he would have returned to Yulin to enjoy Qingfu, and dragged his sick body to your unlucky place to fight?

Last year in Liaozhou, Shanxi, Li Zicheng conquered the city of Liaozhou, hoping to use it as a place to rest and recuperate, and to set up a list to calm the people.

The officers and soldiers fought the battle very well, and You Shilu led his troops to drive Li Zicheng away after only six days after setting up the list to reassure the people, but he himself was seriously injured and his son went to heaven.

The rebel forces in Shaanxi are already very strong, so You Shilu didn't want to provoke Liu Chengzong, who was more powerful than Li Zicheng.

Yang Qi is even more angry than You Shilu. You Shilu is not in good health anyway, and it is a problem to get on a horse. Yang Qi is in good health, but what others are facing is owed wages. Horses, no armor, no soldiers.

Just like this, I saved a Guyuan army for the old Zhu's family and came out, and you are here to be scolded!
In fact, there is no personal relationship among these generals, they have fought side by side many times, but this time Wang Chengen's mother is deeply in enemy territory, and he is very anxious.

One day later, the old mother is more likely to be discovered and killed by the rebels.

Lian Guo hurriedly appeased the commanders, and finally made the three of them calm down. He Huchen clasped his fists again and taunted him: "Marshal Wang, you keep saying that you don't want to make a Sarhu, but let me tell you, sending troops is Sarhu."

Before Wang Chengen could open his mouth, Lian State Affairs frowned and said, "He Shuai, what do you mean?"

"The Huangshui River Valley is much narrower than that of Liaodong. He wants to rush into the nest and demand success in the first battle. Whether the army in the valley can be deployed is a problem. How do you encircle, and how can you succeed in the first battle if you don't?"

"Dividing troops is even more of a joke. Chieftain Lu of Yongdeng Liancheng in the northwest asked for help several times. He had already fought with Liu Chengzu, a rebel general in Xining. Wang Xingshan's Gansu frontier army came from there. Who would dare to go that road except the Gansu army?"

"For the remaining four towns, the troops can only be divided into two groups. If Liu Chengzong gathers heavy troops in the river valley..."

He Huchen asked questions one after another, and finally couldn't continue talking about this. The more he talked, the more he felt that the result of this battle was either Saarhu or Huanglongshan.

"Assemble heavy troops and fight him!"

Wang Cheng'en said: "Is it possible that I am waiting for the frontier army, but I can't defeat him, a rebel army?"

He Huchen sniffled, what a coincidence, he thought the same way three years ago, and later Liu Shizi's armed forces liked to mention the Ningxia Frontier Army.

In fact, when the five towns in Guanzhong gathered here, many people have discovered the problem. The biggest problem for the imperial court and frontier troops at the moment is not the lack of food and salaries caused by the drought.

Instead, under the influence of mutiny and rogue bandits, the troops were changed.

Their coaches and senior generals have not changed, mid-level generals have changed slightly, and low-level generals and soldiers have all changed.

Right now, Gansu and Lintao must be the most able to fight. Otherwise, why is Wang Chengen's waist so hard? It is because there are not many mutinies and bandits here, and he will be in the army without being affected.

Needless to say, Yang Qi, the title of leader of peasants and soldiers is very appropriate; You Shilu's Yulin soldiers have been changed almost all over, but there are many people on the side of the guard, and after a little training, it is a brave and capable army.

He Huchen didn't feel much better. Although he reorganized his army after the defeat and returned, he was still able to beat Huduntu violently, but he always felt that the formation of this new Ningxia army was too hasty and not as powerful as the previous one.

In the Huanglongshan camp, the scene of the wounded soldier with a broken leg leaning on crutches, flicking and flicking to defect to Thief Liu left a deep impression on him.

The psychological shadow of his son He Zan has not healed until now, and he has become a staunch anti-war activist. He always feels that it is an unjust war for the government and the army to suppress thieves for the court.

He Huchen really didn't want to lose again, otherwise he felt that one day, the Qinghai Marshal's Mansion would use the bronzing letters on the letter of commission to comment on his life.

He Huchen, chief military training officer of Ningxia and other departments of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Qinghai Marshal's Mansion.

He Huchen retreated into the city, not because he was timid to fight without thinking about anything, but after considering all possibilities, he believed that guarding the Yellow River in Lanzhou was the most appropriate way.

Although the idea of ​​destroying the farmland is very vicious, in He Huchen's view, this is the only way to completely annihilate Liu Chengzong, otherwise, if they use their five towns in bulk to fight against Liu Chengzong, who is extremely capable of execution, there is little chance of winning.

We can only procrastinate, destroy Hehuang’s food, defend the south bank of the Yellow River, and force Liu Chengzong to invade Gansu. Gansu’s grain production is not enough. At that time, Liu Chengzong will either do the opposite, or suppress the Ministry, which will lead to civil strife, and then the trouble will be solved.

But this is like knowing that it is wrong to destroy food, and you have to think in this direction; sometimes people know what to do, and it doesn't make sense.

Hehuang can't afford it, and Lanzhou can't afford it.

Liu Shizi can integrate manpower at will in Hehuang according to his own ideas, collect fields and register household registration, but they can't, they have no way to take away the merged fields, and they can't rob those who have a lot of food.

The most important thing is that practicing state affairs cannot be delayed.

Because Yang He was coming, it was Yang He's political achievement that Liu Shizi received the edict. It was by recruiting Liu Chengzong, who was the strongest in Shaanxi at that time, that Yang He entered the Ministry of Rites.

Now that Yang He is going to come over, Lian Guoshi believes that he will definitely avoid labeling Liu Shizi as a rebellion, and it is even possible that he came here to persuade him to make peace. Lian Guoshi can't wait for him to come, he must send troops.

It is Yang He's contribution to persuasion of Yang He, and the loss of Hehuang is the responsibility of Shaanxi. Lian Guoshi clearly distinguishes this matter in his heart.

Last year, he was condemned by the imperial court as a scapegoat for fighting the chaos, and he was exonerated only by leading the army back and forth to quell the chaos.

If it happens again, I am afraid that Lord Chongzhen will directly ask Emperor Taizu to take him away.

Lian Guo did not want to be taken away, so he had to find a way to let Emperor Taizu take Liu Chengzong away.

In the end, Lanzhou's heavy soldiers adopted Wang Chengen's tactics, practicing state affairs and urging Lanzhou Wei to prepare some weapons and horses for the Guyuan Army, and then promulgated the expedition regulations.

Take Wang Xingshan of Gansu Province and transfer it to Yongdeng to support Lu Tusi in Liancheng.

The army of He Huchen, You Shilu, and Yang Qi, together with Taozhou native soldiers, marched westward from the front of the river mouth.

Wang Chengen, the chieftain of Tiaohe Prefecture, with the strongest combat effectiveness, traveled westward from the south bank of the Yellow River, waited for an opportunity to cross the Yellow River northward from Jishiguan, Sacizhan, Guidesuo and other places, attacked Xining and Nianbo from the rear, and cut off Liu Chengzong's retreat. Attack the belly and back.

Lian Guoshi personally led the deputy generals Zhang Quanchang and Zhao Dayin to advance to Hehuang with the main army, and led the Lanzhou Guard Banner Army to organize supplies and strive to win the First World War.

On March [-]th, the five towns in Guanzhong, which had been prepared for a long time, set off to slaughter sheep and slaughter pigs, crossed the Yellow River mighty and mightily, spread lime and sulfur for ten miles, and set foot on the land of Hehuang.

He Huchen rode his horse to the west surrounded by sergeants, took a deep breath, looked around the marching line of the Ningxia army in the river valley, he was a little relieved, it seemed that the soldiers were quite relaxed.

It's just that what he didn't know was that in this new Ningxia frontier army formed by [-] Huanglongshan survivors, the veterans took special care of the recruits.

"Go quickly, don't be afraid, fight when you have to fight, surrender if you can't fight, and throw away your weapons if you don't have time to surrender. Let me tell you, Master Liu Er never kills prisoners, and even pays for the travel expenses!"

　good evening!

　　
　
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