stubborn thief

Chapter 481
Liu Chengzong took advantage of the momentum of breaking through the barriers in the west of Gansu, but won one of the three oases in half a month, with great momentum and ease.

For Hong Chengchou in the east of Gansu, the battle to regain the Zhuanglang River Basin was like a nightmare.

It's not that the enemy is so difficult to deal with. Xie Erhu and Basang's Mengfan coalition forces are slightly weaker than the Ming army in all aspects, and it is already very difficult to deal with the Gansu generals like Chai Shihua and Ding Shaoyin.

For Hong Chengchou, the root of the nightmare was that Zhuang Langhe's Marshal's army was obviously vulnerable, but there were always people making trouble inside and outside the battlefield, making the front line stalemate in Gulang Gorge, unable to advance an inch.

On the battlefield, the generals Chai Shihua and Ding Shaoyin fought steadily, no one was willing to take risks if the mud couldn't stick to the wall; the resistance outside the battlefield came from Pingliang City, King Han.

As early as this battle had just taken shape, Han Wangfu sent someone to look for Hong Chengchou, saying that the Ningxia giant Jin Chanzi had come out to make trouble again, and asked him to send troops to defend Pingliang City.

When Hong Chengchou heard the nickname Jin Chanzi, his mother's mind was buzzing.

From the point of view of Hong Chengchou's heart, he is not willing to talk to King Han, and he can't reason with the kind of stuff that doesn't know how to serve the country. Is there any coward who is bigger than Liu Chengzong right now?
But Hong Chengchou can't help it. No one can afford the crime of the fall of the feudal kingdom. The example of King Su's escape from the fall of Lanzhou is shown in the front. It has nothing to do with him. It is the responsibility of Chen Qiyu, the governor of the five provinces. The courtiers discussed internally and externally, and there was no one who could replace him, so Chen Qiyu was allowed to take the blame for the time being...he was not allowed to make meritorious service.

Ordinarily, Han Fan in Pingliang has nothing to do with Hong Chengchou, but Han Wangfei said that this generation of Buddhist scriptures came from Ningxia, so he threw the blame on Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides.

Hong Chengchou was so angry that his teeth were itchy, but he had nothing to do with King Han, so he sent Ningxia General Zhang Dechang to lead troops to guard Liupan Mountain.

Zhang Dechang was also born in the general family. His grandfather was Zhang Chen, a famous general. He was the commander-in-chief of Ningxia in the Wanli year, and his prestige was as high as a tiger.

Back then, An Da Khan led his troops to fight against the tiles in front of Helan Mountain, but Zhang Chen refused to let him pass. An Da Khan was very angry and said a few nasty words. Who knew that Zhang Chen was even more angry, and dug up the Han and Tang Er Canals overnight to flood the road. Now, Chen Bing Chishuikou, I have no temper at all, and no one in the Ningxia Mutual Market dared to make any noise in the next three years.

In the old Zhang family of this generation, there were three brothers Zhang Yingchang, Zhang Quanchang, and Zhang Dechang as generals. Hong Chengchou thought it would be a good idea to transfer Zhang Dechang there. Who knew that he had just led the soldiers to Liupanshan, and he was played by Han Wang as a rascal and left. .

The envoy of the King of Han said that this is not what His Highness wants. If Cao Bianjiao does not come, His Highness will not provide military rations to anyone who comes.

Moreover, the envoy also told Cao Bianjiao that he had to taste the taste of his hometown, Datong's sliced ​​noodles, and Shanxi's old mature vinegar were all enough.

It's hard not to make Hong Chengchou doubt Han Wang's intentions.

First, Pingliang Mansion was robbed by bandits, and last year was plagued by locusts. The magistrate Jiang Yingchang had no food in his treasury, so he looked forward to Han Wang's mansion. If Han Wang's mansion did not release food, Pingliang really had no food for soldiers.

Secondly, Cao Bianjiao had been to Pingliang, and the report he brought back to Hong Chengchou was that Pingliang City had been beaten to pieces, but the newly built palace was like a fortress, not afraid of bandits at all.

Hong Chengchou didn't know what this bastard wanted to do, and finally he suddenly thought that Cao Bianjiao seemed to have mentioned to him that King Han wanted to recruit him as a guest of honor in the palace.

If he talked about the confused King Han, Hong Chengchou would ignore him. As a result, King Su, who had taken refuge in King Han's mansion, was given some kind of ecstasy soup, and asked Cao Bianjiao to go there, but Hong Chengchou couldn't help it.

In fact, King Han didn't bother to infuse King Su with ecstasy soup. He said that the generals in the court are neither incapable of fighting nor loyal, and they are all bastards like Shi Xiang. They surrendered.

Cao Bianjiao is good, very good.

After all, Su Fan is a virtuous king, and he has a different gold content from Han Fan's fool.

In this way, Cao Bianjiao was sent to Han Fan to garrison, and Master Hong lost a general.

Little Han Wang looked at the strong Cao Bianjiao from ear to ear, and said in his heart that the great cause of breeding is just around the corner.

Among other things, now that there is a big battle in Qinghai, Gansu, there are not many people in the world who can be happy, and he, Prince Han, is one of them.

Even though it was a year of war in the west and plague in the east, King Han seemed to be the happiest person in the world. At this juncture, he had a reason for everything he did in Pingliang, and he was very enthusiastic about recruiting talents.

Cao Bianjiao, who can lead the army to fight, was brought here by him, and King Su, the wisest in the clan, also ran away from him. The two foreign devils who were supposed to be sent to Liu Chengzong by the Shanxi Han family who could make cannons were also let him stay. He even wrote a letter in reverse, trying to trick Dong Sanhan into teaching him Taijiquan.

For King Han, war in the west?Let's fight, anyway, whoever wins won't hurt him; plague in the east?Let me make a fuss, this Xiaowang has King Liu's book on famine relief and epidemic prevention, who is afraid of whom!
But for Hong Chengchou, if there is a ranking for the people he hates, Liu Chengzong can only be ranked third, and King Han is second.

The person he hates most now is Chen Qiyu.

Because the biggest resistance to regaining Zhuanglanghe came from Chen Qiyu. From Hong Chengchou's point of view, it is said that the army gathered in the east of Lanzhou, and Zhuanglanghe involved the troops of the Marshal's Mansion. They should have beaten Lanzhou back long ago.

Even if you don't talk about bringing Lanzhou back, at least you should beat Lanzhou, right?
However, in the past two months, the siege of Lanzhou on the front line has been calm, while the garrison has been flying around. Up to now, Lanzhou City has not lost a single city brick.

Chen Qiyu also has difficulties.

A large group of thieves ran over from Qinzhou, ransacked Gongchang Mansion under the noses of the garrison, broke through Ningyuan and Fuqiang counties, and then disturbed the two military and civilian divisions of Gongchang Mansion and Minzhou Taozhou.

The rogues have become popular, knowing that the main force of the army is here, and dare to come from Qinzhou, they are the best among the big thieves, their organization is no longer as chaotic as in the past, and their troops are no longer scattered all over the mountains and plains, but battles The barracks go hand in hand, so that the officers and soldiers can easily know the names of the various ministries.

Not counting those stragglers, Chen Qiyu alone knew that there were more than 20 battalions of bandits running around in Hanzhong and Qinzhou.

If there were eight battalions, it would be Gao Yingxiang's Eighth Battalion of Chuangwang; if there were five formations, it would be either the Fifth Battalion of Chuangjiang led by Li Zicheng and other five leaders, or the Fifth Battalion of Zuojun led by He Jin and other five leaders.

If there are two camps that seem to be isolated by others, don't even think about it, the soldiers of the Eighth King Zhang Xianzhong.

The government's garrison in Gongchang Mansion is all Shaanxi generals, Zhang Yingchang, the commander-in-chief of the governor's standard battalion who practiced state affairs, general He Renlong, and the general Yang Yanchang and commander Ren Quan'er sent by Chen Qiyu. The intimate generals have a very serious tendency to internal strife.

Strange to say, since the garrison of the Gongchang Mansion, the three armies have cooperated closely in the matter of harming the place.

He Renlong's soldiers did not rob poor families, because they would pretend to be bandits at night to attack rich gentry; Zhang Yingchang's soldiers did not rob rich gentry, but they set up cards during the day to collect food.

Yan'an God of War Yang Yanchang's military discipline is better. First, they don't rob poor families, second, they don't rob rich gentry, and third, they intercept He Renlong's fake bandits in the early morning, and attack Zhang Yingchang's card-setting team in the evening. ... insisting on confiscating the illegal gains of colleagues with full enthusiasm.

As the rogues ran into Gongchang Mansion, the behavior of the three armies was even more ruined, and each of them had ulterior motives. As long as one rogue appeared in Gongchang Mansion, it would attract the three armies to attack the friendly army uninterruptedly.

Zhang Yingchang was very angry. I spent a lot of effort to find and defeat the thieves, but let you bastards steal the spoils?
He Renlong was also very angry. I spent a lot of effort to sell your garrison map to General Li Chuang for some money, but just after his mother brought it over, I told you bastards to intercept it?
Yang Yanchang was even angrier. King Gao Chuang knew that he felt sorry for his brother, so he gave me some money, food and flowers. Why are you bastards so close to each other?
As for Ren Quan'er, Mr. Ren is not angry, he should work harder for the officer.

While reporting to Chen Qiyu, he said that he really couldn't persuade General Yang, who was so jealous; he wrote letters of thanks to King Gao Chuang and General Li Chuang, and at the end he wanted to wrap a small red envelope for He Yong, the leader of He Renlong's family soldiers, with everything covered.

Chen Qiyu and Lian Guoshi tried their best to stop their internal strife, let alone attack Lanzhou City.

Seeing that nothing can be done by joining forces with Chen Qiyu and the gang of insects, Hong Chengchou felt that the court had to rely on him in this war, and relying on others was not to be relied upon.

And he has the ability to break the ice.

The method is very simple, release Cao Wenzhao and Bai Guangen.

The soldiers led by Cao Wenzhao and Bai Guangen are actually not worth mentioning. In terms of soldier quality, they are not the same as the Mongolian-Fan coalition army commanded by Xie Erhu and Basang.

Cao Wenzhao has some veterans under his command, but most of them are recruited from Gansu and Ningxia, and there are also some Mongolian barbarians who joined after the Monan chaos.

Not to mention Bai Guangen, the soldiers he led in the past were really elite, but Zhang Tianlin fired rockets at those elite soldiers to reduce their dimensionality. The brave defeated soldiers fled back.

Hong Chengchou transferred Lu Yunchang, the chieftain who had lost Liancheng, as his deputy, and recruited troops from various tribes in Maya Mountain to rebuild the army.

The Ming army in the Zhuanglang River was not unable to advance an inch because there were no good soldiers. On the contrary, the Ming army in the Zhuanglang River Basin were all good soldiers. Yang Jiamo took out all his standard battalions, and the army could not be broken.

Hong Chengchou believes that the generals on the battlefield are looking forward and backward and dare not fight. He wants Bai Guangen and Cao Wenzhao to solve this problem.

He doesn't need to say the specific solution, as long as these two people are sent to the battlefield, the problem will be solved - these two are old paper kings.

They have a different way of thinking about war from hereditary generals like Chai Shihua and Ding Shaoyin. For Ding Shaoyin, the commander of Liangzhou Guards, he knew almost every soldier and every soldier's parents. According to others, Chai Shihua led Yang Jiamo's pacesetters, and Yang Jiamo had to explain the loss of soldiers.

Cao Wenzhao and Bai Guangen are different, these two people only need to be responsible to the superior, not to the inferior, just fight.

As soon as the two battalions went south from Gulang Gorge, they were detected by Basangbu's Sifan hunters in the mountains, but sometimes it was useless to detect properly, and the information was not as fast as the army.

The hunters ran to the Acropolis of Zhuanglang, and Basang sent Bu Chi and his troops to set up an ambush outside the city, but the ambush soldiers had just left the city and walked seven or eight miles before they were kicked away by the Ma Yashan cavalry led by Bai Guangen.

The battle went on so quickly that Basang had no time to get out of the city to rescue them, and they were surrounded and wiped out.

The battle to determine the ownership of Zhuang Langhe broke out.

On the evening of March 28, after receiving Basang's request for help, Xie Erhu led a team of [-] Mongolian cavalry to the Hexi of Zhuanglang Weicheng. In the afterglow of the evening, he saw a fortress being built by the Ming army in the east of the river.

The camp had just started to be built, and there were wooden military tents piled up all over the place. The trenches had not been dug, the horse barriers had not been opened, and the general's guns had not been placed in the preset artillery positions. Many soldiers dispersed to carry earth and rocks.

First of all, Xie Erhu came to avenge Bu Chi.

Second, there is no doubt that this is a good opportunity to attack.

In the end, he believed that this camp belonged to Bai Guangen mentioned in Basang's letter of appeal for help.

He knew that Bai Guangen, although the generals in the Marshal's Mansion had long since ceased to regard themselves as rogues, still did not prevent them from looking down on Bai Guangen, who sold out his friends and begged for glory, and regarded him as a negative teaching material for educating military officers.

These three elements got together, Xie Erhu and A Haidaiqing discussed for a while, and then they made a battle plan, using the fast to attack the slow, the thousand riders were divided into three sides and charged on three sides, wrapping the three thousand Ming troops who had not yet formed a battalion. die.

But this is not Bai Guangen's camp, Bai Guangen was scared away.

Bai Guangen annihilated Bu Chi's Thousand Headquarters, not relying on military quality, both sides were fan soldiers, and the marginalized Ma Yashan fan organizations under the centralized power of the Ming Dynasty were loose and basically did not have any force.

On the other side, the state of Marshal Fanbing is completely different. To a certain extent, Liu Chengzong pulled the entire Kangning Mansion out of the feudal slave era, but only left behind the product of Xifanying, which was still stuck in the slave era.

They are different from the Fanmin who stayed in their hometown. In fact, they have not enjoyed the happiness of being free people for a long time. The freedom of just a dozen days is not worth mentioning. Many people have not even figured out the concept of private property. He was conscripted into the army, crossed the snow mountains and the Yellow River, and appeared on the battlefield of Hehuang.

They didn't know what freedom was, but they knew that Liu Chengzong gave them something, something that didn't belong to slaves who could take nothing away but their shadows and leave nothing but footprints.

For example, a suit of clothes that are not extravagant but clean and warm, a well-made chain armor, a ring knife that is enough to kill people, a simple musket, and a meal of tsampa that can last for half a month. In short, Liu Chengzong gave Everything they should have as a soldier besides their military pay.

Bai Guangen used three thousand to fight one thousand, attacked suddenly, surrounded and wiped out, and won easily.

In his opinion, there was nothing special about these fan soldiers except that they would be stubborn. He had seen a lot of stubborn resistance. How many peasant soldiers would rather die than be captured by the government army. What's the use?Surround and kill half of them, and the rest are basically exhausted. It is a victory of killing 400 enemies and capturing more than [-] enemies.

But what happened after the victory was beyond his expectation. Only more than 200 of his soldiers were killed in the battle, but more than 50 were killed and wounded by the captives after the battle. These captives regained their strength a little, and they were able to grab knives as soon as possible, but could not grab weapons. When people are not prepared, headbutt and bite with teeth, in short, it will kill people.

The soldiers under Bai Guangen were also Fan soldiers. He said that he would kill all the prisoners, but Lu Yunchang was unwilling. Chief Lu wanted to recruit these Fan soldiers, which made the captives a hot potato. Throwing it to the friendly army, he hid behind the excuse that there were too many wounded soldiers.

So the army that Xie Erhu wanted to hit was not Bai Guangen, Lu Yunchang, Ding Shaoyin or Chai Shihua.

It was Cao Wenzhao, Cao Wenzhao who was never afraid of captives being hot.

　good evening!

　　
　
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