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Chapter 520 Shuntian Saves the People
To the south of Gulang Gorge, there is no dangerous barrier after Wushaoling.

Liu Chengzong left behind Feng Ru's car battalion to station troops at Gulang Mountain North, and Zhang Tianlin's battalion stayed behind in Gulang Gorge. He personally led the Huben Camp, Gansu Liangsan Battalion, and Wei Qianer's Battalion with a total of more than [-] soldiers. Drive into Zhuanglang Valley.

Originally, according to what Jiangbing said, the Ming army still left more than a thousand soldiers in Zhuanglangwei. Liu Chengzong planned to hand over half of the Liangzhou battalion to the newly established Liangzhou battalion as the main attack, and the second Gansu battalion as a peripheral force to fight the final battle in Gansu .

Before the others left the Gulang Gorge, the forward of Wei Qian'er's troops had already rushed to Wusheng Station, which was less than forty miles away from Zhuang Langwei.

Since the establishment of the camp, Wei Qian'er's Ministry has not yet won a decent feat, and is galloping forward to win Zhuang Lang's first victory, but he is destined to be disappointed. At this time, it is not the Ming army stationed in Zhuang Langwei, but the Ming army. rebels.

Zhuanglangwei encountered many wars after Liu Chengzong entered Qinghai. The Marshal's Mansion and the Ming army repeatedly saw each other in the Zhuanglang River Valley.

However, because of Hong Chengchou's strong walls and clean fields, many Liangzhou people moved into the valley. The defender here earlier was Lu Yunchang, the chieftain of Liancheng who was sent from Gulangxia.

The hatred between the two had been accumulated as early as the Hehuang War. At that time, in order to prevent the Gansu town frontier army from going south, Liu Chengzong sent his elder brother Liu Chengzu and his partial teacher Li Wanqing to seize Datong River and occupy the hometown of Lu Tusi.

Later, Lu Yunchang withdrew to Zhuanglangwei, and his hometown was gone. Fortunately, there were still followers of Maya Mountain who were loyal to his orders, and he was still the chief chieftain ruling the Zhuanglang River Valley.

As a result, with the war in Gansu, the war potential of the Maya Mountain tribes was also emptied, and Lu Yunchang could no longer squeeze troops from this land.

Even when he withdrew from Gulang Gorge to Zhuanglang River for defense, many of the thousand soldiers he led were Yang Jiamo's pacesetters.

Just when the defense line of Gulangxia was breached, Bai Guangen was beaten by Zhang Tianlin so that the stragglers fled into the river valley. The news of the front line's defeat spread throughout the Zhuanglang River, and the morale of the thousand soldiers who stayed behind at the Zhuanglang Weicheng was shaken.

Many of the soldiers led by Lu Yunchang were pacesetters from Gansu, and pacesetters were usually the best soldiers, but no matter how good the soldiers were, without proper management, placement, and compensation, they would be crippled after a few defeats.

Because there is no medical treatment for injuries, no compensation for death, and the retreat can only be farther and farther away from home. In this case, if they lose a few battles in a row and there is no hope of winning, they will no longer be an army. But only a thousand soldiers who mastered force.

A thousand people, a thousand ideas.

Lu Yunchang couldn't do anything about this army, he couldn't offer anything to encourage the soldiers, only the terrain of the Zhuanglang River Valley could slow down Liu Chengzong as much as possible, plus a little resignation to fate.

But resignation to fate in this day and age usually doesn't end well.

On the fourth day of July, Lu Yunchang had just learned from the rout of the army that Bai Guangen was defeated, and the army was shocked; at noon on the fifth day of July, another bad news came from the Wild Fox Fort in the south... A rebel army of more than [-] people was on the way to the north. Enter.

It is 110 miles away from Zhuanglang Acropolis.

After receiving this news, Lu Yunchang was not very shocked. Hehuang was the hinterland of the Marshal's Mansion, and he had expected that there would be a rebel attack there sooner or later. Army crushed.

In the next six hours, soldiers at all levels forcibly broke into Zhuanglangwei Yamen three times, and put forward their own opinions on the next transfer.

Some people hoped that Lu Yunchang would lead them to withdraw to Maya Mountain, where there were enough ravines and ravines for them to hide; some hoped that Lu Yunchang would lead them to retreat to Songshan New City; some even hoped to evacuate to Qinwangchuan, 140 miles southeast.

In short, these people were unwilling and agreed that Zhuanglang Acropolis could not be defended.

Lu Yunchang also believed that the city could not be defended... the soldiers thought so, of course the city could not be defended, but even if it was a retreat, he could not directly order the army to retreat for the time being.

When the morale is high, the generals can do whatever they want. It is no problem to lead the team out and run for [-] miles every day and then come back. Sleeping in a camp outside the city may cause camp noise.

Lu Yunchang estimated that there were still two days left for him. In the two days, he would first send people to walk the road leading to Songshan New City, set up stations along the way to pick up the soldiers, and at the same time arrange for the soldiers in the back to supervise them. Only in this way can the entire army be brought to Songshan.

As for bringing it to Ningxia... Lu Yunchang didn't have that much confidence.

But before he could make a decision, only six hours later, the Fanbingdun army at Nancheng Pass ran back to the city, stammering and reporting to the city: "South, the southern rebels have arrived!"

"Here? Impossible!"

As night fell, Lu Yunchang, who was frightened, only wore single clothes, and ran all the way up to the south gate with his family members, and his face was ashen immediately.

In the south of the Zhuanglang Acropolis, from the valley to the mountain, first a little spark quickly approached the distant pier, and it was soon possible to distinguish that it was a horse army riding high with torches, spreading across the valley like stars.

In the farther river valley, it was reflected by the sky-high fire as if it were daytime. The six cavalry marching in parallel raised the fire, the front of the team was immersed in galloping, and the rear of the team was scattered and illuminated at intervals of ten steps, forming six broad marching routes.

The six thousand-man teams marched forward in great strides in silence.

Their approach caused commotion in the unprepared Zhuanglang Weicheng. In the huge chaos, Lu Yunchang held a telescope and saw the brightest place in front of the enemy's formation. There were two military flags and generals with green background and yellow border. The flag, the banner system is different from that of the Ming Army and the Marshal Army.

The military flag has the word Xiying, and the general flag has the words "Eight Kings".

On the other side of the flag, Lu Yunchang saw Guan Yu.

This man was wearing an iron head, wearing golden fish scale armor, and a green shirt with bare shoulders. He was also looking in the direction of Zhuanglang City with binoculars.

In addition to the lack of beard length, there is even a person beside him who holds a knife for him.

The northern army's cloth face armor uniformly worn by this army is also all green.

The knife is newly made, the armor is newly forged, and the north side of each armor leaf is nailed with the seal of the Military Bureau of the Marshal's Mansion. This serious fan of Guan Yu imitation just doesn't like the green Zhang Xianzhong.

Red is the military uniform. Few who served in the Ming army did not like red, and Zhang Xianzhong was no exception. His favorite color was red.

But there is no way, the only dye left for him on this land is green.

Liu Chengyun of Hehuang could easily obtain red dye for him, but the troops in the Marshal's Mansion were almost all red armor, blue armor, or even khaki plain armor. With such dyes, it was as if his West Camp was the Marshal The two battalions under the government are the same.

Because their similarity is too high, wearing the same armor, using the same equipment, coming from the same place, and speaking the same dialect will bring confusion to the identity of soldiers.

What is partisanship?

When everyone is a scholar, and they all agree that they are scholars of the emperor's family who learn martial arts and sell goods, they will have a recognized leader, and it is difficult for party disputes to arise.

Only when someone is dissatisfied with the leader and recruits a group of people, such as the division of provinces such as Qin, Zhejiang, and Chu, instills in them a will that we are fellow villagers and should take care of each other, forming a new subdivided identity under scholars, The faction started.

Zhang Xianzhong obviously didn't want to be assimilated by the Marshal's Mansion, but the problem was that they had too many similarities. They had the same identity, came from the same region, occupation, and fellow countrymen, which were not enough to form a new identity.

It is dangerous for Liu Chengzong to be close to him.

For this reason, he could only use the name of helping the Marshal's Mansion to fight the war, and stationed in the southern section of Zhuanglang, letting the Xiying Army collect dyes there.

Fortunately, the south section of Zhuanglang River flows into the Yellow River. From Yehubao to the mouth of the river, a large area of ​​land is at an altitude of about 500 meters. This environment is rich in a green dye plant called frozen green, also known as rat plum.

Compared with Lu Yunchang's efforts to defend Zhuanglang Acropolis, Zhang Xianzhong's preparations for attacking Zhuanglang Acropolis were much more adequate.

As early as Hong Chengchou moved the people of Liangzhou to the Zhuanglang Valley in Liangzhou, Zhang Xianzhong set his sights on Zhuanglang Weicheng, which was obviously a better place for him to recuperate than Hezhouwei.

But Zhang Xianzhong also believed that Liu Chengzong would not give him this piece of land... They are not relatives or relatives, who would throw a city to others for nothing.

Therefore, his opportunity is to take down Zhuang Langwei controlled by the Ming army before Liu Chengzong goes south. In this way, first, the Ming army is the weakest at this time, and second, even if Liu Shishi is unwilling, he can only pinch his nose to let him go. He has been stationed here for a while.

After all, standing in this position, how Liu Chengzong treats him has nothing to do with Zhang Xianzhong himself. He is the bones of a thousand-mile horse, and the [-] rebels in the Qinling Mountains all look at Zhang Xianzhong's treatment.

On Zhuanglang Weicheng, looking at Zhang Xianzhong with binoculars, Lu Yunchang was not the only one, but soon Lu Yunchang shifted his attention from Guan Yu's imitation fan to behind him from the exclamation of the officers around him .

Silence is often more deterrent than shouting. In the western camp where Silence marched, torches swaying in the night wind illuminated the long ladders carried by soldiers on their shoulders—the visitors were not kind.

Lu Yunchang did not hesitate, and ordered to the left and right: "Gather the troops quickly, and go out of the city to beat him while his camp is not stable!"

Although the color of the flag and uniform of this rebel army is different from that of Liu Chengzong, Lu Yunchang can tell that this army also has a strong combat capability, because he can see the organization of this army clearly at a glance while marching.

This means that the army is marching neatly, and most of the regular troops have this ability, but the situation facing the West Camp army on the battlefield is different. Just six hours ago, they were still in the Wild Fox Fort a hundred miles away. .

After only six hours, they traveled a long distance of hundreds of miles. If they were walking on two legs, it almost meant that they never stopped for six hours.

And in such a high-intensity fast march, it can still maintain a strict formation. Even if it is empty-handed, such an army is undoubtedly a strong army.

With a six-fold difference in troop strength, Lu Yunchang was convinced that if they were given time to rest in camp, the next siege battle would almost certainly be defeated for him, so if he wanted to win, he had to send troops immediately so that this army...stopped down.

Lu Yunchang also has ample experience in marching. The trained soldiers have great endurance during the march, but they can't stop. After a long march, after a long march, people get up and continue marching after stopping for rest, which will bring great harm to the army. Great pain.

At the same time, they were very tired at this time, and their fighting spirit was very low. If the purpose was only to force the enemy to stop, in Lu Yunchang's opinion, the chances of winning this battle were great.

After all, it is very easy to stop the enemy army. Even if there are only two or three hundred people, a little confrontation in the front can stop the army behind... No one wears armor during a hundred-mile march. The tired soldiers are suddenly attacked, and at night, Easily frightened.

It's a pity that the soldiers led by Lu Yunchang didn't think so, they ran away.

As soon as he led the army out of the city, the [-] troops were divided into three groups, one to the Songshan New City in the east, and the other to the Maya Mountains in the west, leaving only a hundred or so people to follow Lu Yunchang.

In desperation, Lu Yunchang simply returned to the city, gave the 400 people left behind an order to retreat, turned around and left through the east gate, and ran all the way to Songshan New City surrounded by mountains.

Zhang Xianzhong took over Zhuanglangwei City smoothly, and when Wei Qian'er under Liu Chengzong led his army to approach Zhuanglangwei, the city's top was filled with green flags belonging to Xiying.

Wei Qian'er received a report from the forward Tang Bing, and heard that the green Xiying flag was tied on the Zhuanglang Guard City, so he looked around in his mind wonderingly, first thinking about Luo Rucai and Li Wanqing's group in the Marshal's Mansion, and wondering if it wasn't them ; and thought about the rebels transferred from the Central Plains, but most of them should have broken into the camp.

Thinking about it, Wei Qian'er didn't know who was coming, so he slowed down his marching speed. The main force of the battalion began to recruit people after thirty miles. Prepared for the siege.

The battalion set up by Liu Chengzong in Gansu, the actual combat personnel were similar to other standard battalions. The biggest reform was the addition of many non-front-line combat auxiliary personnel, with the purpose of enhancing the generals’ ability to fight independently.

For example, in this case, Wei Qian'er does not need to call three thousand headquarters, and can find out the matter by relying on the Chinese army alone, and can also submit a very decent report.

Soon this report was handed over to Liu Chengzong who had just left Gulang Gorge. Wei Qian'er said in the report that the Xiying currently occupying Zhuanglang Acropolis is a division of benevolence and righteousness.

Their banner was Shuntian to save the people. They expelled the Ming army stationed in Zhuanglang and wiped out the bandits entrenched in the mountains. For the people who moved from Liangzhou, Xiying also did very meticulous work according to their status.

For the high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty and the gentry with a lot of family property, they were brutally tortured, plundered and killed; ordinary students and low-level officials were recruited and hired, and rewarded with silver.

As for ordinary people, Zhang Xianzhong's approach is to register all of Zhuang Langwei's fields, pastures, forests, and ponds, distribute them to the people, and promise to exempt them for three years.

Of course, there is another unavoidable point, that is, although the Xiying soldiers don't kill people, they will grab horses wherever they go.

To be honest, Liu Shizi became anxious when he saw the report: You bastard came to me to be the master, no wonder others don't want to play with you!

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)