stubborn thief

On the day when Suzhou General Zhao Zhirui led his army to the Golden Buddha Temple Fort, the water vapor on the snowy mountain finally evaporated into a light rain and sprinkled on the oasis.

The cold wind at the border has not yet receded, and both sides of the Liusha River are already full of misty and rainy apricot flowers. The Jinfo Temple Fort, which is solid as a golden soup, does not look like it has been severely attacked. It is just that the miners who mine the sand in the Liusha River have disappeared, making the Jinfo Temple not as lively as it used to be.

There is no smoke and rain in the south of the Yangtze River, and even the Xing'er planted in the border is called Li Guang.

In the sparse light rain, the [-] Suzhou frontier soldiers who had traveled [-] miles in a hurry stood in the apricot forest and flower sea in the desert oasis. Their cold clothes and armor made them tremble non-stop. Dripping down heavily on a cloudy day.

Zhao Zhirui realized that he had been deceived.

Participating generals are the backbone of the senior generals of the Ming army and have a complete promotion system.

Generally speaking, magistrates and garrison are ideal official positions that normal people can achieve in their civil and military careers, and they strive for ability; but if they go higher, they may not be able to achieve merits, and they strive for luck.

After all, the most important thing in China is talents. One Pei County supports the huge Han Empire. Whoever organizes a funeral will put five tables on it. Those who drive horses, kill pigs, blow mourning, watch prisons, The hawker should eat and drink, and no one would have imagined that the foolish boy who brags about himself will become the god of war in troubled times.

What people lack most is the opportunity to exercise.

Zhao Zhirui is a lucky person. In the past ten years, he has been given enough training opportunities, served as a garrison in Shaanxi, and served as a guerrilla general in the Xuanda line of defense in Shanxi. Senior martial arts.

As a qualified senior general, he knows how difficult the situation Suzhou is facing right now.

In fact, Jiayuguan in the west and Jinfo Temple in the east, the news of the request for help was sent to Zhao Zhirui at the same time.

He hoped that a quick decision would be made to quell the rebellion in the pass, and then he would march westward to assist Jiayuguan, so as to avoid the army being blocked in Jiayuguan, which would be a dilemma.

Before the guards of the Golden Buddha Temple went out of the city to fight the horses, they rolled their saddles and dropped their horses and reported: "General, three hours ago, the enemy used two hundred cavalry to deceive the Red Temple Fort, and then came across the Liusha River with five or six thousand cavalry, and the beacon fire was hurriedly set off. The enemy army encircled the fort and persuaded to surrender for half an hour, and plundered the surrounding area for a while, just as it was raining lightly, they captured the workers who were mining gold sand and led the army to the north."

The thieves are fighting with him, this is what Zhao Zhirui does not want to see: "How about their strength, weapons, formation, and discipline?"

"There are more than a thousand fine cavalry and hundreds of strong soldiers. The army is neat and orderly. The weapons and equipment are all good things. There are still holes, like they were plucked from a dead person, discipline... it's hard to say for a humble job."

Zhao Zhirui nodded slowly, which was basically what he expected. As early as the day before yesterday, the military situation in the east had been known to him through Tang Bao, and it was no secret that the Qinghai rebel puppet general Zhang Tianlin defeated Bai Guangen.

Bai Guangen's standard battalion was equipped with excellent equipment. Anyone who saw it would cry with greed. Who knew that he would be bombed with rockets before he even walked down a round before the thief.

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He asked: "Discipline is hard to say, what do you mean?"

"Their military discipline seems to do whatever they want. They say their military discipline is good. They dig in when they see big families along the way. They don't distinguish between good and evil. The water tank will also be smashed."

The guard said, the scene of big families lined up to borrow water tanks in the fort after Zhang Tianlin left, and then shook his head: "But they say that their military discipline is not good, and the places where these soldiers marched did not enter the homes of ordinary people. On the east bank of the Liusha River, three rebels were stripped naked and beheaded to the public, all with guilt written on them."

"deserter?"

The guard shook his head and said, "It's not a deserter, there is one who is in charge of the baggage, and if he buys ten jins of ink, he should give five taels, but only one tael of silver, and he will be executed for buying them; the other two are soldiers, and one kills the people and cultivates them. The ox and the other stole a gold earring from the people and were beheaded for public display."

Zhao Zhirui took a step back, frowned for a long time, and filled with righteous indignation: "They actually give money to buy things, which is deceiving!"

Comparing heart to heart, Zhao Zhirui's army also pays money to buy things. Anyone who dares to kill other people's cattle will also be executed. They are local troops, but if they enter Qinghai, it will be different. Who cares about these when they enter the enemy's territory?
Obviously, the Qinghai Marshal's Mansion attacked this time, the purpose is not to loot, they want to take root here.

Shan Chong this, he estimates that there are at least [-] troops outside the customs.

The enemy army has a large number of troops outside the customs, which is a bad thing and a good thing. If there is an army of [-], it will be a protracted war in Suzhou, because the Marshal's House has the ability to provide baggage for the [-] army for a long time.

But if the force exceeds [-], you don't need to worry that the war will last for a year and a half. With the size of the Qinghai Marshal's Mansion, it is unable to support the huge supply of [-] troops on a thousand-mile front. It can hold for two or three months and wait for its teachers to get rich. Exhausted will strike out.

Correspondingly, the more troops and the shorter the time, the greater the pressure on the defenders of Jiayuguan.

He instructed Tang Qi to move to the north, while facing the guards of the Golden Buddha Temple: "Where are those corpses still hanging east of the Liusha River? Hurry up and have them take them down, so that the people can see them?"

Looking at the back of the garrison sending troops to the east bank of the Liusha River to bury the corpse, Zhao Zhirui sighed in his heart. With military discipline like a thief, he can still fight flexibly, so I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with.

He cursed secretly: "Damn these thieves, they ran to Lao Tzu's defense area to be the king's teacher."

After all, the frontier army of Suzhou Camp led by Zhao Zhirui turned north, and tracked Zhang Tianlin's figure through the Tangqi and the defense lines of five miles and one pier, ten miles and one beacon, and thirty miles and one fort in the Suzhou defense area.

In fact, things are not as complicated as Zhao Zhirui thought. Zhang Tianlin's military discipline is indeed very good, but his moral level and political awareness are not that high, and the execution of the soldiers is not for the purpose of demagogic.

It was simply because the three violated the military order.

He has only one battalion of troops under his command. When he enters the enemy territory, the entire army will be annihilated if he is not careful. He also has people who are used by Wang himself. Those people are not many professional soldiers.

Of the three officers and soldiers who were executed, the first one was entirely for corruption. He needed to write a notice to Gansu and send someone to buy pen and ink.

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The other two, the one who robbed the earrings, died not from robbing the people, but robbery without authorization; the one who killed the ox, the cause of death was not the killing of the ox.

It's one thing that the military law does not allow the killing of the cattle, so a big cow was told to kill him secretly, and he didn't dare to tell others if he couldn't finish eating, so he took a knife and stabbed five and a half catties of beef from the ox's leg, and he didn't talk to Paoze. Share, wasting food is another story.

To put it rudely, the army is in the hands of Liu Chengzong, and all kinds of supplies are available. It is no problem to be a teacher of benevolence and righteousness; Zhang Tianlin knows that she is not so good at being trapped in the enemy's situation, and to the point of last resort, in order to complete the mission, let the army become savage. , there is no way.

But even if it is brutal and barbaric, it has to be organized and disciplined brutality, not disorderly military discipline corruption, then it will be impossible to fight.

Zhang Tianlin was not hiding from Zhao Zhirui, he just saw the two beacon fires in the north asking for help, so he led his troops to volunteer as reinforcements.

They are all border troops, and no one can understand a beacon.

There were two beacon fires in the north. It was obvious that an army of more than [-] and less than [-] was attacking the fort. No matter who attacked the fort on the northern wall, it was Zhang Tianlin's friendly army.

Zhang Tianlin and Wang Ziyong set off on the afternoon of the eighth day of March, took them away for two nights and one day, crossed 120 miles, ransacked the pasture of Suzhou Wei near Xidianzibao, and set fire to the two Shankou camps. In the afternoon, driving herds of cattle and sheep appeared near Jintasibao, where they were asking for help.

The Jinta Temple is outside the border wall in northern Suzhou.

Inside the side wall are the two mountain pass camps. Zhao Zhirui, the general of Suzhou, led the troops all the way to the south from here, and then eastwards to reach the Jinfo Temple Fort, which is [-] miles away.

Zhang Tianlin went all the way to the north from the Jinfo Temple Fort, and then went west to the Liangshankou Camp. Seeing that the camp was empty, she took what she could take away, set a fire to clean it, and went north out of the side wall to the Jinta Temple.

This section of the side wall is only a nominal side wall because there are too many gaps along the way. The Great Wall itself passes through the Beida River and Yuanyang Lake, and there are gaps. The Great Wall in the western section of the Dahe River is deserted inside and outside. Although the terrain is not flat, There are too many sand nests, and when the wind blows outside the pass, the sand will often bury a certain section of the Great Wall.

Zhang Tianlin led the army out without disturbing others. Hundreds of sandbags were spread to the base of the city wall, even people led horses and carts, and even little lambs could jump up the city wall.

The person besieging the fortress outside the Jinta Temple Fort was Luntu Taiji, who was wholeheartedly and single-mindedly, and formed a mixed cavalry of a thousand people. From Liu Chengzong, he led the order to break into Suzhou from the North Road, and when he arrived at the Jinta Temple, he was dumbfounded.

His more than 120 cavalry consisted of 240 cavalry, [-] medium cavalry, and [-] light cavalry. There were [-] war horses with strong impact and collision capabilities.纛, walking outside the customs is very rampant.

Speaking of which, he was also unlucky. He did recognize the way, but he never approached the side wall of the Jinta Temple.

The desert is divided into two types, one is called Gobi and the other is called Shawo. The former is the coarse gravel close to the hard road, which is easy for cavalry to pass. Many places outside Jiayuguan are such roads.

The latter sand nest is fine sand, the terrain is soft and ups and downs, and it is not easy for people and horses to walk on the sand nest.

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Adjacent to the northern border wall of Suzhou for [-] to [-] miles is the Gobi, but most of the [-] to [-] miles near the border wall are sand nests.

In this terrain, the armored cavalry of Lundu Taiji can't rush up!
There is no other way but to first find a way to attack the Jinta Temple Fort outside the side wall. There are [-] elite soldiers in Pantutaiji, and only [-] frontier troops in the fort, but this matter is suppressed by blood. The cavalry and the Mongolian soldiers were mentally shorter by half.

The defenders of Jinta Temple Fort were not only not panic, but also eager to try.

There are more than 700 Mongolian soldiers and more than 500 war horses. Anyway, there are sand nests all around, and no one can run away in a fight. What does this mean for the Gansu frontier army who are used to living a hard life?
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The brothers in Baozi all counted with their fingers, and calculated that the gunpowder was used up after the cannonballs were fired, and half of the opponents died in hand-to-hand combat.

Before Pantutaiji was close to the fort five miles, a group of reckless men in the fort responded in a group, and expressed their desire to start a business to Li Junen, the guard of Jinta Temple Fort.

That is why Li Junen is a stable person. He was worried about the emptiness of the generals behind the buttocks to lead the army to guard the border wall, so he stopped his soldiers from wanting to carry small cannons out of the city for field battles.

Li Junen also has entrepreneurial enthusiasm. His idea is to lure the Mongolian soldiers to attack the fort first, and then kill them when they can't attack it, which is safe.

But this made Landutaji very unhappy.

Not to mention attacking the fort, as soon as I walked two miles outside the fort, I was bombarded by two minions behind the dunes, and several mines were blasted into the sky. More than ten light cavalry went to chase the two minions, and they were bombarded by Fran machine guns near the fort. .

When the army was spread out one mile outside the fort, the soldiers dismounted and planned to fill the trenches, but they were bombarded by stone cannons and artillery for a while, and the horses were shocked, and a soldier was trampled to death.

Pantutaiji gave up, led the troops to withdraw from the encirclement, and turned to inducement, telling the defenders that I have lambs, surrender and eat together.

The defenders ignored him, thinking that if we kill you, a little tartar, what is not ours?

After two days of standing around like this, both sides were beating drums. What Pattutaiji thought was that if he didn't come out to fight with me, the military situation would be delayed; what Li Junen thought in the castle was that the generals went to the south and didn't come back, shouldn't he? Is something going on inside?
At this juncture, Zhang Tianlin came.

More than 5000 people came across the Great Wall, scaring Ji Tutaiji so much that he packed up his clothes and fled.

230 people, only one janitor was left.

When Li Junen was captured, his face was full of sullenness. Who would have thought that the enemy who was killed in the Great Wall would actually be an enemy?

When Pantutaiji led the army back, he only saw that the defenders of Jinta Temple had been disarmed. Before he was happy, he found that Zhang Tianlin's soldiers were not only about to drop the armor of the Jinta Temple defenders, but a group of wolves like wolves. The tiger-like veteran of the Marshal's Mansion also disarmed his men.

Seeing Zhang Tianlin put her arms around him, she couldn't help sighing: "The marshal is really clever, I knew that the marshal would definitely send someone here to meet me. Defeat the mission."

The Han people of Lantutaiji are very good at speech, and their words are round and round, but they will stutter in a hurry.

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After a long pause, Gantutai said: "No, the commander asked me to lead the army into the sand..."

Before he finished speaking, he was stared at by Zhang Tianlin as if he was about to kill, but in just a moment, his expression became soft and peaceful, full of Buddha light, he smiled and shook his head as he walked away: "No, Taiji I still need to practice this Chinese, I Guo Tianxing is a rough person, I really don’t understand what you are saying.”

"Tang Qi was caught up behind. I won't accompany you for now. I'll invite you to drink after the battle."

After speaking, Zhang Tianlin turned over and got on the war horse, and gave orders to the left and right: "Lead the horse and put on the armor!"

Following the military order, more than [-] horsemen wore other people's armors and led other people's horses to find their positions in the messy sand nest.

I heard Zhang Tianlin say: "There are horses, grab your spears, and clean up the Suzhou General who knows the sky and the earth behind me!"

They came and went faster. In the queue that was getting farther and farther away, Luntu Taiji was outside the Jinta Temple. Looking left and right, he saw Wang Ziyong standing next to him, his soldiers followed him. The soldiers are almost the same, and there is no decent equipment on them.

"Wang Huishou, this..."

Wang Ziyong sighed, waved his hand and said: "His army has stolen everything except soldiers, Taiji relax, we will have the equipment when he wins, it's fine, if the stars can fight, we will kill them. Eat only sheep."

Pattutaiji took off his helmet, scratched his head ignorantly, and asked again, "But I don't think they have spears. My cavalry team keeps spears. They didn't take them."

Wang Ziyong paused in the action of looking for a sheep, turned back to look at the desert where he could not see the edge, and shook his head: "Hold it, Guo Tianxing said that the musket is his cavalry spear, Zhang Yide has a snake spear, Zhang Tianlin has a [-]-foot spear. Snake spear."

stubborn thief